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Okay, it wasn’t Mick. He was in the clubhouse at the time, tipping the Olive Garden guy for Scioscia.
(Told the wife he was off to get a Frosty malt)
Jim Fergosi? Bobby Knoop? Doug Decinces?
Video after the jump. Read more…
Tweet from MLB Net’s Jeanne Zelasko immediately following the Yankees’ six-run seventh inning that gave New York a 6-4 lead over the Angels last night:
(Bless her heart.)
The Angels scored three runs in the bottom of the inning and went on to win, 7-6. (I wasn’t the only one to notice.)
Angels beat the Yankees 5-4 in 11 innings today in Game 3 of the ALCS.
(Source)
Yankees still lead the series 2-1, so ARod needn’t help Jeter keep his pants on.
Ross Newhan returns to pen an interesting piece today for the L.A. TIMES on the lengths former Dodger Owner Walter O’Malley went to prevent the Angels from ever existing.
(This close from never knowing the wonderment of Rex the Wonder Dog)
Newhan:
According to newspaper and book accounts supported by personal recollections and interviews, the late Walter O’Malley, who moved his storied team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles in 1958, never wanted an American League team in what he regarded as his new, private and lucrative territory or believed the AL had legal rights to it.
Son Peter O’Malley denies his dad’s sentiment, but based on the facts of how SoCal’s AL franchise came to exist, there’s no doubt O’Malley did all he could to block off L.A. and Orange Counties from baseball entrepreneurs. Read more…
One of the joys of living on the Pacific: Early morning playoff baseball!
Actually he probably is up. (Freeway trash detail always starts at dawn.)
• Smoking pot, partying with coeds, choking out assistant coaches - Percy Harvin sure knows how to sell the Florida Gators to recruits.
• Tiger Woods ends the Buick Open with a big bang - from his pants! And like Nike did with the LeBron dunk, the PGA tries to remove all video.
• Beer pong with babies & shotgunning brewskis with toddlers - now that’s good parenting!
• Time to go outside, as the Arena Football League is officially folding.
• Fergie Jenkins recalls the fun traveling with the Cubs during the days of segregation - such has having to sleep at funeral homes & bordellos.
In case everything surrounding the collision that killed Angels rookie Nick Adenhart and two others wasn’t depressing enough, it’s time to introduce another, different soul-crushing aspect to the mix: the protracted legal battle.
That’s because Andrew Thomas Gallo, the accused drunk driver, has pled not guilty to the three counts of murder, the one count of drunk driving, and the one count of fleeing an accident that he faces. So unless there’s a plea deal for something like three counts of manslaughter and DUI following closely behind, get ready for this case to be on the news. A lot.
• A very tough week for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim: Pitcher Nick Adenhart dies in a hit & run car accident caused by a drunk driver, just days after a fan dies from a post-game fight in an Angel Stadium stairwell.
(Left - Nick Adenhart; Right - Fight victim Brian Powers)
• Cheryl Miller wasn’t pleased that Scot Pollard was late for their NBA TV show, and she wasn’t afraid to use the airtime to air her grievances.
• ESPN reporter Shelley Smith takes a misstep at a Detroit bar during the Final Four.
• Fans fighting while their team’s championship banner is being raised, and booing while World Series rings are given out? Must be Philadelphia.
• A former Gonzaga women’s basketball star-turned-high school softball coach gets zagged for having sex with one of her 16-year-old players.
In the wake of Nick Adenhart’s tragic death, tonight’s game between the L.A. Angels of Anaheim and Oakland Athletics has been postponed.
After conferring with Angels owner Arte Moreno, MLB commissioner Bud Selig decided to cancel the game after Andrew Thomas Gallo allegedly ran a red light & slammed his minivan into Adenhart’s car, causing a crash that killed the 22-year-old pitcher & two other passengers.
Upon announcing the cancellation, Selig released the following statement:
“Major League Baseball is in mourning today upon the news of this tragedy that has taken Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart and two others. Nick was just 22 years of age, with a wonderful life and career ahead of him.
“On behalf of Major League Baseball, I extend my sincere sympathy to the families and friends of all three victims and to the entire Angels’ organization. I send my deepest condolences to Nick’s parents, Jim and Janet. The hearts of everyone in baseball are with them at this most difficult time.”
TMZ reports this morning that 22-year-old Angels Pitcher Nick Adenhart was killed in a hit and run accident last night:
Cops say someone driving a minivan blew through a red light, causing the Mitsubishi that Adenhart and three others were riding in to hit a light pole. Three of the four people in the Mitsubishi were killed in the crash — Nick, another man and a woman — while the fourth person remains in the hospital.
Cops say the person driving the van fled the scene — but was later caught and charged with felony hit-and-run. The suspect is also being treated for injuries in a local hospital.
Funny how it will be headlined as an “accident”. Certainly doesn’t sound like it to me.
Hopefully we’ll soon have a positive I.D. on the bastard who murdered Adenhart - with the culprit subsequently jailed for a good, long time.
*UPDATE*: In the wake of Nick Adenhart’s tragic death, tonight’s Angels-Athletics game has been postponed.
