Top Ten Reasons Why It's Better To Be A Dodger Fan Than An Angel Fan
10. The Rally Monkey
Is there a mascot in all of sports more embarrassing to claim than the Rally Monkey? Some stupid f'n monkey that jumps up and down when the team is trying to rally from behind? Seriously? Every time I see that damn monkey, I wish it was the one from that infamous scene in Faces Of Death that gets it skull bashed open with a mallet. Remember all those stories in the 80s about AIDS coming to America from a monkey? I have seen the truth and the Rally Monkey brought AIDS to America. It's true. Reverend Wright told me so. And don't you Angel defenders say a damn word about the Dodgers gnome cause the gnome will kick the Monkey's ass every day of the week and twice on Sunday, daddy!
9. The only successful manager in Angels history is an ex-Dodger
The greatest move the Angels front office made was snatching Mike Scioscia out from under the Dodgers control because he was [rightfully] bitter that he didn't get the Dodgers job. In fact, the whole coaching staff is filled with ex-Dodgers - Alfredo Griffin, Mickey Hatcher, Ron Roenicke, Dino Ebel... you name it, they were all in Dodger Blue! And the "shocking" [to the AL] small ball approach that they take from time to time? Straight out of Branch Rickey's "The Dodger Way To Play Baseball!" But don't worry, Dodger fans, I guarantee the day will come when Soc looks down at the front of his jersey, feels pretty sick, and comes running home. Book it!
8. CHEAP SHOT ALERT: No Dodger relief pitcher ever killed himself
Yes, I admit it's a cheap shot. But come on... your team is so pathetic that the mere idea that you failed to get the out that would put them in the World Series forces you to become so depressed that you kill yourself? I guess we're lucky he didn't go through a sex change operation, become a police officer, and kidnap both the Rally Monkey and Vladimir Guerrero. Laces out, Donnie Moore. Laces out.
7. Our owner is better
That's right. I said it, I meant it, I'm here to represent it. Cue all the McCourt haterz saying how the Dodgers lost out on Vlad because of McCourt, cue the parking lot attendant jokes, cue the lack of money jokes. But we're the ones sitting in what is season-by-season essentially becoming a new stadium on the inside. We're the ones that have never had our stadium named after an energy company [and then embarassingly had that naming right revoked by the company holding it.] McCourt may not be the richest owner in baseball but I've never heard the Dodgers have to back off a player because the dollars didn't work out. The stadium is intact and wasn't razed to build condos. And every time you turn around, you hear a new story about McCourt doing something good for the community or the fans. Arte Moreno? He lowered the price of beer and left a giant pile of rocks in the outfield. Wooo! Go Angels! Oh, there is one other thing that Mr. Moreno's done which brings us to...
6. Our team actually wants to play in the city they're in
What a slap in the face that whole debacle should have been to Angels fans. But instead, they licked it up like a stray cat and kept running through the turnstyles. The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim? Even the city of Anaheim sued over it! Moreno wants the fans of Los Angeles so badly, he was willing to spit on their existing fanbase to make it so. By the way, Arte, the fans of Los Angeles don't want you either. Your actions would have Gene Autry rolling over in his grave. Speaking of which...
5. The Angels couldn't even win it for the Cowboy
Poor Gene Autry. He owned the wretched team for 38 years. 38 years! That's almost unheard of today in sports but he suffered through years of horrid teams and "oh-so-close" moments. Hell, even _he_ didn't kill himself after '86! If an owner deserved to win something for years of futility, it was the Cowboy but nooooo... the Angels couldn't be bothered to win until Disney ran the ship. At least they had the good sense to trot out Mrs. Autry during their celebration. By the way, I bet the Cowboy would have dragged the Rally Monkey out in the streets and stomped a mudhole in its' ass and walked it dry.
4. The Dodgers' history
When you compare the histories of the two teams, there's just no question. I mean... seriously... you've got the Dodgers with names like Drysdale, Koufax, Hodges, Campanella, Podres, Wills, Garvey, Cey, Baker... I could go on for days, you know. The Dodgers broke the color barrier with Jackie Robinson. The Dodgers have history and a legacy to die for. The Angels? Umm... well, I guess they had Reggie Jackson for a while. Nolan Ryan. Anything else? That fucker Bobby Grich that spiked Steve Sax during the Freeway Series in '86.
3. The stadium
Seriously? Can we even compare the two? Dodger Stadium is a treasure of baseball, something to be held up next to Wrigley and Fenway... and it looks better than ever thanks to the McCourts. Angel Stadium? Well, it's got a pile of rocks in the outfield. They have some nice food places... well, if they're not overrun by rats and bugs and lord knows what else like the Health Department shared with the class last year. Oh, people like to point out that they allow tailgating. I would let people drink in the parking lot too if I was going to make them watch the Angels play. They do have that hideous eyesore in the parking lot to make sure the idiots coming to the stadium know they're at the right place. And if you need one thing to make sure the Dodgers win this category hands down... The Dodger Dog.
2. Angel Fans? What are those?
One of the best reasons to be a Dodger fan and not an Angel fan is when it comes right down to it, true Angel fans don't really exist. I'll grant that there are a few... a very small few. But they're not the season ticket holders who decided it was a good idea to sell tickets to the playoff series with the Red Sox... TO RED SOX FANS! They're not the people who were in the stadium when I went to an Angel/Sox game last season and heard a "LET'S GO RED SOX!" chant fill the stadium without the Angel fans saying a single thing. Try that at Dodger Stadium and see how it works out for you. I still believe that if given an Angel trivia contest, odds are high I might beat nine out of ten people in that stadium on any given night. Figure out who Brian Downing, Doug DeCinces, Rod Carew, and the like are... then come talk to me.
And the #1 reason to be a Dodger fan over an Angel fan...
Ahhhh. It's nice that when one of your World Championship trophies gets bored, he's got a few friends to talk to. The Angels World Championship trophy... well, let's just say it's feeling awfully lonely down in the Los Angeles of Anaheim.
Game, set, match. Point. Blue. Game over. End of game.
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Too bad all the Dodger trophies are so old, they can't hear each other talk.
Man, if I was a Dodger fan I'd probably write a bitter piece like this too. I guess when your team hasn't had any success for 20 years, all you can do is look at the past and make fun of the crazy new kids and all of their success. Have fun with Joe Torre and your continued string of futility.
great list! I enjoyed reading every word of it. The Angels owner and their fans are faker than Pamela Anderson's boobs.
WEAK!
Dogger Stadium better than the Angels' Stadium?
You blowin' crack while on workers' comp?
You been on that hill and "freeway" lately?
History? The last 20 years?
Ah typical Dogger fan banter. You cling on to the past when your team hasn't done jack in the past two decades. I mean hey, your team sucks now, but it's alright because you USED to be good.
I'm a Dodger fan and even I'm smart enough to know those championships before my time doesn't count. It doesn't count for most Dodger fans, I don't understand why we keep using that argument. We've been complete crap the past 20 years. =\
1. Rally Monkey, for a crappy mascot, it seems every stadium now sells a Rally Monkey including yours
2. If the Dodgers that Scioscia was all that, why did they show him the door.
3. Cheap Shot Indeed
4. Arte did not name the stadium after an electric company, That was Disney and oh yeah, Arte lowered beer prices. Oh yeah, the Angels are hosting another AS Game. When was the last time it was at Chavez Latrine ? McCourt has a lot of flaws himself
5. Name thing...Oh ya got me there...even I don't like the LAA thing but it is only a name
6. If it wasn't for the Autry, we wouldn't have the Angels. And if it wasn't for you guys not letting Autry brodcast your games in 61' we wouldn't even exist. You Created US
7. History is one thing of the Doyyers side, but that is the past, the Angels are creating history now. Again, what have the Dodgers done since 88'?
8. Angel Stadium is for superior to the Latrine. I don't get how Dodger fans keep claiming that antiquated ass park is a "sparkling gem" Your movement is so restricted at that park might as well be in prison.
9. Put the Red Sux in the the Latrine, and WWIII would emerge, Sorry we don't shiv visiting teams fans....I don't condone of it but if selling tickets to a 3 game series will almost pay for next season's tickets cause some bandwagon BoSox fan will pay 100 dollars a piece for nosebleeds then more power to them. Bandwagon fans are everywhere no escaping that....
10. Thanks for reminding me the last meaningful playoff game you had involved Kirk Gibson when I was 13... LOL
Hahahaha. Wow. I've never read more bitter crap in my life. LOL, fine, everything you say is true, Blue. Swallow you're own trite, and keep on believing how good you're pathetic team is. The Angels will just keep going and going while the dogs have to trade off each of the "prized" youngsters in order to stay afloat. You're excuse for a team couldn't even keep Mike Scioscia. How embarassing is that?
Hey, how's Andrew Jones doing for you? What about that extension for Nomar? Schmidt (6.31) is looking good. So is Penny (5.88). Thank God they're on the DL, otherwise those might be seen as bad moves. But it's cool, the one good offensive player you have won't be back till after the all star break. Enjoy wallowing behind the Diamonbacks, losers. What a laugh your GM and owner are.
It's a shame such a second rate club and it's second rate fans have to feebly try to berate a superior team in order to feel better about themselves.
Typical, stupid dogs.
LMAO
The only thing you wrote that was correct was about the Dodgers history. Sadly for you and the Dodgers, that is all you have.
Dodgers = Team Of The Past
Angels = Team Of Now And The Future
BTW, who is winning the Freeway Series???
ROTFLMAO
The Anaheim Angels are a team with no tradition, a fake identity, and a gimmicky mascot. Not only does their stadium lack tradition, it lacks a janitorial service. Stealing your cross town "rivals" name, and winning one world series doesn't make you a legitimate franchise, it just means the Bandwaggoners will come out their holes in Orange County for a few more years until all the commotion dies down.
HAHA. typical dogger rant.
McCourt is a POS owner. Before bagging on Arte, take a look at your stadium and tell me which one has the better atmosphere, safer, and isn't a b*tch to get out of. You guys have to give out free hot dogs over there to attract those fatass fans you got.
History? Yeah okay, the Dogs WERE good. But uhh...wake up buddy, the Angels are making history NOW. The Angels have made it to the postseason 4 times this decade already (with another one this season). What have the Doyyers done lately? 1 win in the last what, 20 years? Have fun lagging behind Arizona for the next couple seasons buddy.
Game. Set. Match. Halos Red. Game over. I'll see you at Angels Stadium cheering us on one day.
Typical insecure Anyyel fans trying to convince themselves that their a better organization when their organization cant even find their own identity.
At least our WS trophies dont talk to themselves. Stay fake Anyyel fans. You organization cant even hold the Dodgers jockstrap. All your bandwagon fans know more about the Dodgers history than they do "their" own team. All those bandwagoners think Arte was owner when they won the WS in 2002.
"Is there a mascot in all of sports more embarrassing to claim than the Rally Monkey?" Rally Monkey embarrassing? I guess I have to explain Sports to you. Mascots are embarrasing if they are associated with failure. Does 2002 World Series game 6 mean anything to you? You know, where the Angels did what you never could in the Giants Bonds era...Beat them! " The only successful manager in Angels history is an ex-Dodger
" What PR spin. Dodgers are too stupid to retain Mike Scioscia but this somehow adds to the legecy? Dodger dogs washed down with Dodger coolaid. " CHEAP SHOT ALERT: No Dodger relief pitcher ever killed himself
" I saw what the Yankees did to you in the World Series late 70's. Somebody in the Dodger pitching staff SHOULD have killed themselves if they had any dignity left! "McCourt haterz saying how the Dodgers lost out on Vlad because of McCourt,cue the lack of money jokes. But we're the ones sitting in what is season-by-season essentially becoming a new stadium on the inside" Ummm... let me get this straight. You Dodger Fans are content to watch basicly a AA team,(I watched your last visit to Anaheim.Maybe I am insulting AA teams here!)as all the money is spent to repaint and refurbish? Why not just build a new park? Do it in typical LA fashion, kick Mexicans off their land again!! " What a slap in the face that whole debacle should have been to Angels fans" Does it ever occur to you that Brooklyn fans felt that way in the late 50's? Anyway, it is well known that the Angels started in LA and have a name relevent for the area.Unless you want to show me someone who DODGED a Metro line train!! " The Angels couldn't even win it for the Cowboy" Ahh.. your other cheap shot. Do you remember where Autry made his fortune to buy a MLB team? Right next to the Dodgers in Hollywood!! He is an LA icon!! Shame on you scumbag!! " The Dodgers' history" What is this history? Being in the shaddow of the Yankees and forgotten? Oh wait, you mean being the Yankees bitch in October thruout history. Angels are the only team to own the Yankees in postseason. Look it up!! "They do have that hideous eyesore in the parking lot" Admit it, you are jealous of the "Big A" because noone in LA can figure out how to put a scoreboard in a big D! Jerry Jones are you listening? Dodger fans,take the freeway series spanking without pulling out 10 lame reasons next time!!
All this talk about Dodgers and their history and how it's soooo much greater than anything the Angels have .... Well, how do you like that treasured "LA" on your hats? That's the old PCL Angels logo.. The colors were changed but, the fact remains -- you took the AAA Angels logo...
So basically, your single most identifying icon was stolen from the AAA Angels, your entire fanbase is guilty of supporting a franchise famous for having backstabbed it's fans in a manner that made Arthur Modell proud, and your Stadium was built on land stolen from everyday citizens..
Grats Dodger fans -- not only do you NOT know your history, you're guilty of clinging to it in order to make your present passable.
BTW -- Branch Rickey, he made his name while with the Cardinals.. So anytime you wanna talk up the Dodger Way and how the Angels' model was built by an ex Dodger -- just remember Branch Rickey was your Mike Scioscia, and your "Dodger Way" is nothing other than a repainted "Cardinal Way"
Check this Top 10 list out....
http://angelswinblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/top-ten-reasons-why-its-better-to-be.html
Your Pappy does make a good point. The Dodgers evicted poor people from their homes to build this place....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chavez_Ravine
The Battle of Chavez Ravine refers to approximately ten years of violence (1951-1961) over the Mexican-American community of Los Angeles' Chavez Ravine. The eventual result was the forced removal of the entire population, mainly Mexican-Americans, living in the community. The initial relocation was for the purpose of developing public housing. That public housing plan was then abandoned and ultimately followed by the dedication of Chavez Ravine as the future site of what is now Dodger Stadium.
Originally, the tight-knit Chicano neighborhood was slated for redevelopment under the National Housing Act of 1949 - which provided federal money to build public housing. The Los Angeles Housing Authority began condemning the land of Chavez Ravine in 1951. Using the power of eminent domain, the City razed nearly the entire community over the period from 1952 to 1953. The planned public housing development was entitled "Elysian Park Heights" and was to be designed by Austrian architect Richard J. Neutra.
In the midst of the Red Scare of the 1950's, a group calling themselves the Citizens Against Socialist Housing (CASH) in 1953 successfully spearheaded the election of Norris Poulson for mayor. Upon his election, the "Elysian Park Heights" development was quashed and a public referendum was passed barring all public housing in Los Angeles. Following Mayor Poulson's lead, the City negotiated a deal with the federal government to abandon the public housing project with the stipulation that the by then nearly-vacant land be used for a "public purpose." The City then used the potential development of a baseball stadium as a lure for Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley to move from Brooklyn's Ebbets Field to Los Angeles. The City ended up trading the Chavez Ravine site to the Dodgers in exchange for a much smaller parcel of land where the minor league stadium Wrigley Field was located.
Manuel and Abrana Arechiga (often cited as "Avrana"), with their daughter Aurora Vargas, were among the last residents to hold out. Forced removal by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) on May 9, 1959, resulted in the arrest of Aurora. Aurora Vargas was fined and briefly sent to jail for her resistance. Manuel Arechiga was the final hold out, living in a tent on the site of the demolished home for months. Stories are recounted of Manuel sitting in his tent with a shotgun, defending the ruins of his former home. Many Angelenos consider the siege of the LAPD on Manuel Arechiga as The Battle of Chavez Ravine. Arechiga eventually relented and accepted the city's offer of $10,500. After a decade, the battle was finally over.
does anyone get the feeling that the people who attend the doyyer games all look like parolees from LA County and fear that you will get shanked
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