Halo Headlines – 9/9/09

The Story: Kendry Morales leads the Angels in average, homers and RBIs.  The Monkey Says: Those gaudy numbers will certainly earn K-Mo some MVP votes, but I suspect he’ll still come up short when compared to Joe Mauer’s ridiculous numbers for a catcher....

Game Rewind: Round 2 to the Angels – Angels 3, Mariners 2

Man, the Angels must really not like Scott Kazmir.  What did the new guy do, park in somebody’s space?  Hit on another guy’s wife?  Throw a bag full of puppies into a lake?  Whatever it was, the Angels seem hellbent on making sure his fine performances go...

Game Countdown – 9/8/09: So, We Meet Again – Mariners @ Angels

So, we meet again, Mr. Hernandez! Didn’t we just face you?  Can’t you please go away? After making his Angel debut last week against the Mariners and Felix Hernandez in Seattle, Scott Kazmir gets to show off for the home crowd for the first time, but must...

Halo Headlines – 9/8/09

The Story: Announcer Buddy Blattner passed away at the age of 89.  The Monkey Says: Blattner was one of the Angels’ first broadcast announcers back in the 1960’s. The Story: Scot Shields joined his teammates in Kansas City this weekend.  The Monkey Says:...

Weekend Countdown: Royal Treatement – Angels @ Royals

Got a slumping division leader?  We’ve got just the cure for you: a weekend series with the lowly Kansas City Royals!!!! I’ll take a series sweep to go, please. Beating up on the Royals might just be what this wavering Angel team needs to get back on track...

Halo Headlines – 9/4/09

The Story: Kendry Morales was named the American League Player of the Month.  The Monkey Says: Wow, the media is paying attention to K-Mo after all.  He might still get some MVP votes after everything is all said and done. The Story: Jayson Stark insists the Angels...

Seven Ways to Snap the Slump

The Angels picked an awfully bad time to drop 9 of 14 games.  Earlier in the season, Angel fans might have been content to sit back and wait out this little rough patch, but with a month left in the season, I think we might need to resort to some more extreme measures...

Halo Headlines – 9/3/09

The Story: Bobby Abreu’s agent says Abreu is even happier with the being an Angel than he could have ever dreamed.  The Monkey Says: The Angels have a big crop of impending free agents, but it sounds more and more like Abreu is the safest bet to return next...

Game Rewind: Scoreless in Seattle – Mariners 3, Angels 0

What’s the point of going through all that trouble to get a shiny new All-Star pitcher if you aren’t going to bother to score any runs for him?  A perfectly stellar start for the newest Angel, Scott Kazmir, was flushed down the toilet by the Angel bats who...