For about the Decade, the Angels briefly became the top Baseball team in California. The Dodgers were relegated to 2nd place thanks to Frank McCourt...
It funny how bad they (thr angels) screwed it up the next decade... If anyone said a decade ago "the Angels are going to sign Alvert Pujols. And bring up the best player in decades named Mike Trout. And will make one playoff series in the next decade" Nobody would believe it Especially when you add "and then this guy named Ohtani will come along, as a Cy Young caliber pitcher and MVP caliber hitter. And it won't make a difference" Lol.. Hoping 2023 is the turnround...
@SmoothCriminal12 it's obvious Ohtani was the problem! So we can only get better from here! (Also. I waited a week after the news to believe it... I kept waiting for a failed physical like Correa last year. ... but no... Shohei I'd a dodger...)
As an Angel fan o obviously live this (who doesnt). I remmeber clinging to games on my radio at work for years... you knew around July this year was different. Ill poont oit here to younger fans, everyone obviously knows how the playoffs went. But one thing thats great in this time capsul is the battle with Oakland heading sown the stretch. Oakland was amazing that year. I remember having drinks witn Adam Kennedy one night and i brought that up. I told him I was glad they drew the Yankees in the first round instead of Oakland. And he said they felt the exact same way. Its too bad most fans dont remember that era... when the Angels and Oakland were two powerhouse teams...
Ohhhhh My....We had Dick Enberg before anybody!!! He was one of us....An Autry Angel. Glad I found this and to hear Dick once again. Also to hear Rory once again will always be the voice of our first WS.....Erstad Say's He's Got It!!!! Alway ectched in my mind.
Among them, there was no genius like Shohei Ohtani or Mike Trout. But they were a great team and the Angels won. In other words, no matter how many big stars you line up, if you don't have a good team, you won't win.
Not to mention that almost that entire team was home grown... For the younger fans, you probably can't appreciate how satisfying it was to watch the group you saw come up in the 90s, constantly "close but no cigar", to watching it all come together. This org used to a freaking player factory.... rolling out solid ballplayers year after year.... .... hopefully they figure out how to do it again some day soon...
In 2002, 16 years after losing a heartbreak to the Red Sox in 7 games in the 1986 ALCS, the Angels beat the Giants in 7 games to win their 1st ever World Series title.
If nick adenhart didnt get killed by a drunk driver, if kendrys morales doesnt shatter his ankle. We were a powerhouse of a franchise that got derailed by tragedy
Sometimes, to reach baseball heaven, you have to go through hell. From 6-14, potentially having 41 games back in the AL West. It was truly a magical year for the Angels to reach baseball heaven. 43 comeback wins, and it was truly magical when they came back in game 6.
Not a huge Scioscia fan but he did have them peaking at the right time. Not any superstars just a real team that played well together when they had to. I went to one play-off game against Minnesota and it was fun! Strange how most are hardly even known now (Fulmer, Glaus Kennedy) only Salmon and Anderson are visible.
Talk about lightning in a bottle. The fact that none of these guys, besides Eckstein, went on to any post season play on the teams they ended up with shows how the collective was greater than any one guy. The closest thing we had to a "star" was Salmon.
@@TrainScottYou forgot after the Mariners, he went to the Cardinals and was on the 2006 team that won the World Series. He was a big part of that championship team.
