Judging by the record amount of comments in last night's game thread, most of AN watched the game, so you know it was great! (And obviously AN didn't miss the 80+ people that were with us last night at Angels' Stadium!)
This game was fun, if not a wee bit stressful, as young Cahill made his major league debut in front of a sold-out crowd in Southern California.
I was at the game Monday night as well, and I obviously was wearing the wrong shirt; so I called up a little mojo from up north, and last night wore the shirt I literally stole off a random fan's back during a Coliseum visit. (That random fan turned out to be Wes7, whom I met years later!)
(I will let other ANers label themselves in this thread).
This picture was right about when we learned that Holliday would not be starting the game, and we wondered if we could muster up more than three hits, and actually score a run. Three innings into the game, we were still wondering.
Before the game, I wanted to find Cahill and show him my patented K-Hill cheer, but it looks like he already knows it! Give me a "K"!
Game tonight 7:05 in Anaheim, click read more to continue...
Here is a shot of K-Hill on the mound. As you know, he never looked overly comfortable out there, but he does get points for holding the Angels to single runs, and avoiding the big innings.
The game was going along swimmingly, if not a little stressful, when this happened:
Yeah. He was heckled.
But somehow the A's made it to the ninth inning with a lead, even after this:
The Angels didn't stand a chance against our closer, and the nasty stuff he showed during his last two batters:
And now...what you've been waiting for. Let's meet some SoCal AN fans!
(These are pictures from the first group; note to self: when planning an event in the future, it is good to be able to a) know where your other group is by not leaving the seat map at home and b) have a game that you can actually travel around the stadium without worrying that your starting pitcher will give up four runs at any time, so you can't take your eyes off him for an instant!)
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That shirt is fantastic.
Does the other one say “Chicks dig the longball”
Also fantastic.
mikev - April 8, 2009
It did! Both shirts are awesome :-)
baseballgirl - April 8, 2009
That *is* a damn nice shirt, BBG :-)
And Zigfan’s is pretty great too. Giambizombie should recruit the two of you to help design the next round of AN swag.
Wes7 - April 8, 2009
I LOVE the shirt...thank YOU!
baseballgirl - April 8, 2009
Its Fantastic!
“Shut up shirt” – Jose Mourinho
gdub171 - April 8, 2009
I wondered where the Left field AN group was
just not enought to wander around and ask the A’s fans scattered throughout the section who was part of the group and who wasn’t.
buddahead9 - April 8, 2009
the TV telecast Monday night focused on
an A’s fan with a full black beard — obviiously not one of the fans you took photos of…
OaklandSi - April 8, 2009
Great game, I'd love to do this again.
Between the “Let’s go Oakland” chants and heckling Bobby Abreu, I had a great time meeting everyone. I think Jack smirked a bit when I yelled out that he was my fantasy sleeper pick this year, haha.
spottedstomper - April 8, 2009
Cool pics BBG
We kicked some Halo butt last night!
mrod - April 8, 2009
Where's RevHalo?
DCinWC - April 8, 2009
Yay BBG!
WaddellCanseco - April 8, 2009
Just added the scoreboard pic...thank you anon user! :-)
baseballgirl - April 8, 2009
I see me!
1st pic, wearing a jacket, a thumb, and a smile :)
Thanks so much for your time and hard work to set it all up BBG! It was awesome getting to sit in a big group of green and gold to cheer on our A’s.
Even if I jinxed things by yelling out to Cust that he was a Gold Glover after he made that sweet catch in the 1st… my bad!
Let’s do this again soon guys… and don’t forget about San Diego in June!
Sixto - April 8, 2009
Great Pics, especially the 'Special K' one
gdub171 - April 8, 2009
Of all the cool things to read on a scoreboard
A’s 6, Angels 4 after nine tops it, but… “Athletics Nation” on the Anaheim Stadium jumbotron/diamondvision is priceless.
jeffro - April 8, 2009
But the Carlson Clan bugs me..
..didn’t know we had a clan and worse that we attended Angels games, or worse still that we went to an out of town A’s game and no one told me.
DCinWC - April 8, 2009
Awesome pix
Thanks for representing and the great photos. “Let’s Go” cheers are much better in large groups
geogrman - April 8, 2009
Looks like a great group!
Now I’m really bummed that I couldn’t go. I’ll definitely try to take a day off to go to the next so-cal event.
Go A’s!
The Next Big 3 - April 8, 2009
WOOHOO! thanks for organizing all of this (again!) I look forward to more socal AN meet-ups :D
drmmerchk - April 8, 2009
Nice pics
I’m jealous i couldn’t have been there to join everyone who went.
TheGreenGoldCrush - April 8, 2009
Awesome stuff here
Even if the close-up shot only serves to further emphasize my enormous head.
CurveballKing - April 8, 2009
REPRESENT!
BBG is always smiling! Thanks for wearing the green and gold in enemy territory
OptimistPrime - April 8, 2009
Of course she is,
She’s at an A’s game…or something A’s baseball related!
Thanks for getting so many SoCal A’s fans together…hope you do it again and again.
I may join you for the last weekend road trip in September.
Deja vu all over again.
LongTimeFan - April 8, 2009
Very very nice!!
Athletic - April 8, 2009
Carlson may have brought a clan, cornerstone, a church, and Corona, a whole city,
but the Athletics brought a Nation!
Good job of reppin’, BBG!
oaklandSMASH - April 8, 2009
The shirts are really awesome.
We heard you, last night, you know. On the television.
Leopold Bloom - April 8, 2009
Really!?!?!?
baseballgirl - April 8, 2009
I'd have to say yes....
assuming you guys were responsible for the, “Lets go Oakland” chant in the background. I’m surprised that Ray didn’t send you guys out some love from the broadcasters booth. He’s a hometown sort of guy, so I’m going to assume he didn’t know that there was an AN contingent present.
By the way, he would make an excellent AN interview. Why don’t you use your considerable influence and see if that can be arranged? Blez lives close by to you, and it would be so much easier for you to stalk him down rather than have Nico or Taj drive from up north. Couldn’t hurt to have Ray giving AN some props from the booth on occasion.
alox - April 8, 2009
drK and me heard you in the eighth,
when the Slegna was very quiet, for some reason.
Leopold Bloom - April 8, 2009
It was after Ry hit one out their way,
wasn’t it?
lynnzgal - April 8, 2009
yuppers.
sho nuff.
(locals are wearing off on me…must…think about…the Saag’s…think…about the…Saag’s…with the peppers and…the onions…)
Leopold Bloom - April 8, 2009
For some reason
I always think about Saag’s.
jeffro - April 9, 2009
Excellent
Flashfire - April 8, 2009
The entire city of Corona went to the game?
UncleLeo - April 8, 2009
There's an entire city of Corona!?
oblique - April 8, 2009
Will Be at entire San Diego series..
Go A’s
ryanmoser - April 8, 2009
Bummed to have missed it,
but it looks like y’all had a great time. It was a great game to see on TV in LA (NO HUDLER!). Let me point out my bud Insomniac (with his brother?) in the 3rd pic from the bottom. I’m moving to Ithaca, NY this summer — a true geographical oddity — exactly 5 hours drive from all the closest ballparks (Toronto, NYC, Philly, etc). So I’ll be IthacaXile.
LAXile - April 8, 2009
Not only do I have trouble remembering stuff
but now I cant sleep either? lol
Amnesiac - April 8, 2009
Ithaca:
Where fun goes to die.
I applied there once. They rejected me a little less quickly than Vanderbilt. I blame my essay.
Leopold Bloom - April 8, 2009
So, I guess I'm either dead, or not much fun...
oblique - April 8, 2009
one might guess both.
I dunno, oblique—every conference I’ve ever been to, the Ithaca crowd always seems straight off the set of a Ingmar Bergman film. It’s cold and bitter and there’s lots of silent, sullen stares and cigarettes.
Leopold Bloom - April 8, 2009
Is this the place...
that manufactures the shotgun by the same name?
alox - April 8, 2009
no, that's Cedar Point.
Leopold Bloom - April 8, 2009
Somehow,
I’m disappointed that the people you describe aren’t the ones making the shotgun.
alox - April 8, 2009
It seems like they should, huh?
agrd.
Leopold Bloom - April 8, 2009
Not a bad guess
Are we talking specifically about Ithaca College, or the whole town and Cornell as well? The IC crowd, I can see that — I always just figured that they fancied themselves the downtrodden artist type.
oblique - April 8, 2009
Actually, I was talking about Cornell only.
I don’t know that I’ve ever met anyone happy to be at Cornell. Could’ve been my field, perhaps.
Leopold Bloom - April 8, 2009
and it might also be sour grapes.
As I said, they basically could not reject me fast enough.
Leopold Bloom - April 8, 2009
It's a good point
When I was there it seemed like I was the only one who chose to be there, rather than it being a backup school for Harvard or MIT.
Well, I guess I’m an outlier. I thought it was great and loved my time there!
oblique - April 9, 2009
bummer -- I was hoping to find another ANer out there...
LAXile - April 9, 2009
Sorry! I'm a bit stoopid. At least I got the -iac part right
LAXile - April 9, 2009
Fatality at game
Sorry for the bum news but according to the paper a few fans got into a fight last night and one of them died in the hospital from head trauma this afternoon.
Two 25-30 year old men were in a fight last night after the game (somewhere in RF bleachers) and a friend of one of the men hit one of the combatants in the back of the head. The man later died in the hospital.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/angels_blog/2009/04/man-dies-during-fight-at-angels-game-police-are-asking-for-witnesses.html
apilgrim - April 8, 2009
correction
fight was on Monday night (during the game)
apilgrim - April 8, 2009
And happy birthday Beverly Gallardo....
Just Kidding…that was freakin awesome seeing y’all at the game and getting AN up on the big screen….Makes me proud to blog along with so many good looking A’s Fans!! Go Oakland!!
wacchampions - April 8, 2009
And the poor timing award of the year goes to....!
Leopold Bloom - April 8, 2009
LOL!!
wacchampions - April 8, 2009
Overall great game
had fun cheering along with all of you although I didn’t put any faces to names… I’ll be at the next one as well!
dtownmbrown - April 10, 2009
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