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Belisario arrested on DUI suspicion posted by Erick Pacheco

Ronald Belisario was arrested early Saturday morning on suspicion of possible DUI. I guess this guy hasnt learned that drinking and driving do not mix everyone knows how a human is put on jeoperdy when someone who is drunk steps into a car. Just this April we lost an Angel player due to a drunk driver. This guy lost my respect, hopefully he understands and does not allow this to happen again. 

Okay Lets talk about other teams posted by Erick Pacheco

Since I have a bunch of dodger haters requesting news on other teams i am going to give a rundown of todays activity

Yankees: Xavier Nady is done for the season he will need Tommy John Surgery maybe the yankees should trade for Mark Derosa.

Cardinals: Are making strong efforts in acquiring outfielder Matt Holliday from the A's expect a trade by the deadline. 

Angels: Are beating on the Rockies despite their wild pitches the other day. Maybe they should consider Pedro Martinez.

Boston: David Ortiz seems to be getting his grove on fantasy owners it wouldnt be a bad idea if you pick him up. John Smoltz should consider retirement give up old man. Your a hall a famer.  

The Yankees need to get it together against the Bosox posted by Cesar Valverde

The losing streak against the Red Sox continues. Yankee management needs to set up their rotation so that they have their best against against Boston. They need to come up with some kind of plan to keep the Boston offense in check every game. This losing is PATHETIC! Are the Yankees going to bow down to Boston all season, slide into the playoff picture via the Wild Card without beating them and spanking the other teams? It's been done before. During their World Series years (96, 98-2000), they were getting spanked by the Angels and they still won the World Series those years. Back to pitching, how can you set up a rotation where 2 opposing pitchers face off against each other back to back?  Every time A.J. Burnett takes on Boston this year so far, it's been against Josh Beckett. Are they going to do this again in their series against Boston in August and September? I hope not, Beckett seems to have A.J.'s number this year. How about putting in C.C. Sabathia against him? The Milwaukee Brewers worked him like a Hebrew slave in the time of Moses last year, pitching him on 3 days rest to win key games during the season. How come the Yankees can't do that? Unfortunately, Girardi's strategy is to keep the pitch count down on the rotation because he doesn't want to tire them out. Starting pitching needs to improve against the Red Sox. Mark Teixiera tried to get something going last night going 3 for 4, but the offense as usual fizzled out leading to a 5-4 Yankee lost. Oh well! Tonight, it's C.C. Sabathia against Brad Penny. Can even C.C. hold the Red Sox down in the early innings? Can Texieira, A-Rod, and the boys jump on Brad Penny's flamethrowing fastball? We'll find out tonight.

Breaking down your 2009 Red Sox (in context) posted by Charles Bisbee

The Sox are going to have a difficult time making the playoffs this year. I’m no sucker for the Jays quick start (they’ll start to slip once they deal Roy Hallady and realize Marco Scutaro is starting at shortstop) but I think the rest of the American League is better than most pundits allow.

The Royals are a dangerous team based not only upon the promise of their pitching (will Zack Greinke lose a game this year?) but also upon an underappreciated lineup that is dynamic at the top. Coco Crisp has reverted to his pesky former-self (he leads baseball with 4 triples). Alberto Callaspo, currently hitting a robust .378, follows in the two-hole and, if Jose Guillen, Alex Gordon and Billy Butler can at least hit their weight, Kansas City should challenge Detroit atop the under-appreciated AL Central.

Don’t sleep on the AL West either, where the Mariners pitch enough and field well enough to make up for a gawd-awful lineup. Ditto the Angels who, once Vlad returns, should muster enough O to put up a fight. The entire division, in fact, has potential. And if the Rays taught us anything last year, its that any team with legitimate talent can do serious damage given a little luck and some realized potential.

I see a lot of potential Rays throughout the American League this year. I really think if the Sox don’t take the division from the Yanks (or Rays, for that matter) they could be on the outside looking in come October. 

Los Angeles Angels will come together and win 100 games this year.. posted by Gary Cairns II

The Angels are one fo the most complete teams in MLB. They have Power, Speed, Pitching when all healthy, veteran leadership, and a tragedy they should all overcome to empower them and inspire them..

They have struggled to start the season but baseball is a marathon not a sprint.

Once Bobby Abreu gets his power numbers up and their pitching becomes healthy they will be back on top in their division.

Abreu is still playing well though without any homers. He has 8 stolen bases which is amongst the league leaders and he is getting on base almost twice a game.. Torii has been cleaning up in his at-bats! Kendry Morales is finally getting his daily oppurtunites while struggling for playing tme the past 2 seasons and he is coming alive.

Howie Kendrik is always a threat for extra base hits and seems to have added some pop in his bat this season.

It's just a matter of time before the angels start sweeping their series they play. I think it will be them and the Cardinals in the world series. Both have it all.

I forsee the Angels finding their inspiration through ADENHART and also their RALLY MONKEY and start playing dominate baseball. 

Beckett Simply Keeping with Tradition posted by Christian Mielcarek

A lot of people have their proverbial panties in a bunch over Josh Beckett’s high-and-tight pitch in the first inning of Boston’s game against Los Angeles on Easter Sunday. Pundits, fans of other Major League clubs and even some who root for the Red Sox have labeled Beckett’s "misfire" as dirty, dangerous and suspension worthy. I say, relax people, stop being so sensitive. Boston’s ace was doing what his pitching brethren have taught him through the decades. Beckett was sending a message. You can call it archaic, but it’s part of America’s pastime.

Hitting a batter in the head is clearly wrong, but throwing a baseball in that general direction isn’t. I think this is where people are missing the point. No harm, no foul, message sent. Yes, it could have led to something painful, but since the ball made its way to the backstop without taking off a chunk of Bobby Abreu’s face, all’s good in the hood. Let me make a pop culture reference to help you better understand. Remember the scene in Top Gun when Maverick buzzed the tower? Sure, it was dangerous, but since Maverick didn’t actually crash into the tower, it really wasn’t that big of a deal, now was it? Beckett didn’t hit Abreu. He sent a message that loosely translated into “Even though I took forever to deliver the pitch, if you wanted to call timeout, you should have done it before I began my motion. You had plenty of time.” If the bodies that rule baseball decide to disallow the pitchers’ right to brush a guy off the plate, which has been suggested by some, it will have a steroid-like effect. If a batter can stand in the box and hover over the plate with no fear of catching one with their body rather than their bat, offensive numbers will increase in a game where hitting already dominates its counterpart.

Nick Adenhart posted by Ralph Laughlin-Kalal

I begin with saddening news.  Los Angeles Angels have lost one of their best young prospects, Nick Adenhart.  Adenhart, who was only 22, had just come off a dominating perforce against the Oakland A’s.  He pitched six scoreless innings but received a no decision. 

Adenhart was draft out of Maryland High School in the fourteenth round by the Angels.  He suffered an injury at the end of his high school career that required Tommy John Surgery, but he impressed everyone with his stuffed and moved though the rankings very fast. He was 37-28 record with a 3.87 ERA in the minors and made in Major League debut on the first of May versus Oakland, where he also receive  a no decision.

Reports have said Adenhart and three others were driving around 12:30 a.m. when a minivan ran a red light and struck there Mitsubishi.  Adenhart’s car struck a light pole sending all four people inside the sports car to the hospital for surgery, where three including Andenhart died after surgery with one still in intensive care.  The driving of the minivan was arrest a short time later and book for a felony hit-and-run. 

At the beginning of the year Angels Manager, Mike Scioscia, was praising him about how he was such a great player and a great person.  Now a month later he Mike Scioscia has to tell his players that having heard, that this great kid won’t be playing for them anymore.   Players have said how he was a great, funny, helpful guy. 

Moments of silence have been held before Twins, Mariners games as well as Rangers, Indians, and it has been just announced that the game versus Angels and Athletics has been canceled. 

The Sports Don's 2009 AL West Preview posted by Christian Mielcarek

The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim won the American League West by 21 games in 2008, a margin 13 1/2 games wider than the next largest difference which was the Chicago Cubs’ 7 1/2 game lead over National League Wild Card winner Milwaukee. With the departures of some key Angels and the acquisitions of some big name players by the other teams in the West, the race will tighter, but don’t expect Texas, Oakland or Seattle to leapfrog Los Angeles who should capture their fifth division title in six years.

To read Monday’s AL East Preview, click here.

To read yesterday’s AL Central Preview, click here.

1. LOS ANGELES ANGELS (100-62, first place and lost in the ALDS in ‘08)

The golden prize of free agency left the West Coast when Mark Teixeira signed a megadeal with the New York Yankees rather than returning to the Angels which has left a gapping hole in the middle of Los Angeles’ lineup. Kendry Morales will step in at first base but will only put up half the power numbers Teixeira did. The Angels signed Bobby Abreu late in the offseason to aid the offense, and a lot of people think this will be the year Howie Kendrick will display his potential. Vladimir Guerrero produced the lowest numbers of his career last season and is perhaps showing his age despite hitting 27 homeruns and driving in 91.

Francisco Rodriguez saved a major league record 62 games in ‘08 and departed for the New York Mets as a free agent. He has been replaced by former Colorado Rockie Brian Fuentes, and although Fuentes’ name may not have the same cache as K-Rod, he did save 88.2% of his chances which was only 1.7% less than Rodriguez last season. The bridge to Fuentes, who has been awful this spring, will be Jose Arredondo (10-2, 1.62 ERA, 1.05 WHIP in 61 innings pitched in ‘08) and Scot Shields, perhaps the best setup man in the game. The starting rotation is hampered by injury, but assuming John Lackey, Ervin Santana and Kelvim Escobar return in late April and early May and pitch effectively, the Los Angeles staff, front to back, is a fearsome bunch.

What’s in a name, anyway? posted by David

Last week the Cleveland Indians announced that Jacobs Field, their home since 1994, will be renamed Progressive Field.  Does anyone else find it annoying that over the last few years, more than half a dozen ballparks have been renamed disgustingly commercialized names?  While the rotoworld.com writers point out the irony in the fact that the team playing in Progressive Field has a Native American nickname, I can’t get over the ridiculousness of the never-ending changes of the names of baseball parks.  I know it’s about money, but it takes away from the game.  If a name is good enough for the stadium’s first name, it should never need to be replaced (except in the case of Enron Field).

What about teams changing names?  I bet some baseball fans don’t even know that the Tampa Bay Devil Rays are no longer – they are now the Tampa Bay Rays.  And don’t get me started on the California Angels turned Anaheim Angels turned Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.

In just the last five years, these seven stadiums have changed names:

Jacobs Field to Progressive Field (Indians)

Comiskey Park to U.S. Cellular Field (White Sox)

SkyDome to Rogers Centre (Blue Jays)

Edison International Field to Angel Stadium of Anaheim (Angels)

Bank One Ballpark to Chase Field (Diamondbacks)

Pacific Bell Park to SBC Park to AT&T Park (Giants)

Pro Player Stadium to Dolphins Stadium to Dolphin Stadium (Marlins)

Believe it or not, the ballpark where the Marlins play their home games has held five different names since its opening in 1993.  Before being renamed Pro Player Stadium, it was Pro Player Park.   And before taking on the name Pro Player Park prior to the 1996 season, it was called Joe Robbie Stadium.

Off-duty officer shoots 2 in lot after Angels game

An off-duty police officer shot and wounded two men who had assaulted him in the crowded Angel Stadium parking lot after Wednesday night's Colorado Rockies-Los Angeles Angels game, authorities said.The officer, who was walking to his car with his wife and small children about 25 minutes after the game, was hit in the head with an object, police Sgt. Tim Schmidt said.The off-duty officer then shot the men with his duty weapon, Schmidt said. [read full article]

From FOXSports.com News for MLB

Padres ace Peavy out for at least a month

San Diego Padres ace Jake Peavy is expected to miss a month because of his injured ankle.He was scratched from Saturday's start against the Los Angeles Angels after an MRI showed that the tibialis tendon behind his right ankle was torn.The right-hander will remain in a walking boot for approximately four weeks and re-evaluated in two weeks before it can be determined how much time he will eventually miss.Peavy, the 2007 NL Cy Young winner, is 3-1 with a 4. [read full article]

From FOXSports.com News for MLB

Man pleads not guilty to murder in Adenhart case

The man charged with killing Los Angeles Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart and two others in a drunk-driving crash is preparing to enter a plea in the case.Andrew Thomas Gallo will appear in Orange County Superior Court in Santa Ana on Monday morning.The 22-year-old is charged with three counts of murder and three other felonies for the April 9 crash that left the rising Angels star dead. [read full article]

From FOXSports.com News for MLB

Angels end Yankees' title hopes

The Los Angeles Angels beat the New York Yankees 5-3 to advance to the American League Championship Series. [read full article]

From BBC Sport