Monday, July 16, 2012

ESPN Makes Me Laugh

I am an Angels fan and have been for years. Since I moved from CA to DC, I have noticed a distinct lack of coverage of many teams on the west coast, especially the Angels, and not including the Dodgers. Part of it is that home games on the west coast begin at 10:00pm east coast time, and end at 1:00am. I think the other part of it is that ESPN doesn't care about certain teams, including the Angels. All that changed with the signing of Pujols (which I'm still on the fence about). Then when Pujols started the season sucking, the coverage once again was limited, and only really focused on Pujols and when he would finally hit a home run. The Angels turned it around, mainly because of our rookie Trout, but since he and Harper came up the same day, all the focus was on Harper, and no one on the East Coast, including ESPN, cared that the Angels were rocking it. Then came the All-Star break. All of the sudden people started paying attention to Trumbo, who hit some awesome bombs in the home run derby. But he had been hitting those bombs for the whole first half (20+ HR before the break), it was just that no one seemed to care beyond Angels fans. Then people got to see Trout play, and they realized he was awesome. He has the best average in the majors, is a great defenseman, and he hit a knuckleballer the first time he saw one in the All Star game. Now I'm watching ESPN Monday Night Baseball, which is Angels vs. Tigers, and the announcers are going on and on about how great the team is, and Trout and Trumbo in particular. It just makes me laugh because this isn't new. It's just new to ESPN because they didn't give a damn about the Angels before. Oh ESPN. Thanks for waking up and finally paying attention to my team.

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