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| I'm an Indians fan first and foremost, however I married a Villa Park girl. I moved here in the summer of '02, but didn't start pulling for the Angels until '05. We now have 2 girls, 3 yrs and 8 months, and I will raise them on the home team, just as my dad did with me. We're in our 2nd year with a 27-game pkg and will grab full season seats AS SOON as the kids can sit through 81+. As the saying goes 'Baseball is Life'.
Oh, and my first memory of the Angels was in either '81 or '82. I was 7 or 8 and we had front row seats at the old Cleveland Stadium. The Halos thumped the Tribe 14-0! I should have switched allegiances that night. |
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Arkansas Travelers
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Location: Anaheim | My dad was both an Angels and Dodger fan, but I always liked the Angels more. He used to take me to Angel games all the time. While I was in high school, the A's were the hot team, with Canseco, McGwire, and Rickey, all my friends started wearing A's hats,shirts, etc. But not me. It was hard going through the 90s, with the 1995 meltdown, to the periwinkle uniform, to the Mo Vaughn signing, but my loyalties have always been Angels. |
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| Growing up, I lived in a neighborhood at the top of Nohl Ranch Road. In the summer, it became a tradition for all of the neighborhood kids to meet in the cul de sac a little before 9:00, sit on the wall along Nohl Ranch Road and watch the Disney Fireworks. We could see the Big A from where we sat and many nights we would wait to see if the Halo would light up. My first boyfriend was from the neighborhood and he was a huge Angel's fan. We would sit together and he would tell me stories and stats about the team and baseball in general. I stopped liking him, but kept liking the Angels. When I had children of my own, they were busy athletes and I was constantly running somewhere or another with little time to devote to being a baseball fan. I went to a few games a year with my husband/kids, but didn't follow the Angels like I had when I was younger. Now that both my kids are away at college, my husband and I are avid fans. We watch/listen to every game and go to several games a year. |
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| I've attended quite a few games since I started truly following the team after their 2002 season. I love the excitement at the ball field. Every inning they have something exciting happening. Plus I was a huge Mike Soscia fan for the years he was on the Dodgers and he truly runs the team like an NL team with all the running and small ball.
Plus I've been to Dodger stadium and they don't do any of the fun in between inning stuff like they do at Angel stadium. Ok, so I might be a little bit of a dirty old man, but they've always got hot young girls shooting souvenirs into the stands. They don't do that stuff at Dodger stadium. That's so good for the kids and even old guys like me LOL.
I do bring my young children to the game, and they really love the rally monkey. Those videos are so hilarious. I love it, and so do my kids. They jump up and down and dance like a monkey when they see the videos. Sometimes they watch the game, but they really like to stick around and watch the monkey. |
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| Oh plus I loved the Angels in the Outfield movie. That movie rocked. |
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Location: Between a rock and a hard place | It's quite simple. My early childhood baseball memories involve games at the Big "A" - and I've been hooked ever since. |
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Location: prescott az | halosforevers - 6/23/2009 1:29 PM
Oh plus I loved the Angels in the Outfield movie. That movie rocked. ha - i was at the game a few weeks back when Palmer got rocked and we lost 11-1 and a few guys in the front row started doing the whole "wing flapping" thing - that was priceless |
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Rancho Cucamonga Quakes
Posts: 483
Location: Where ever Angels Baseball is | I am an Angels an born and raised... in my house, there was no option.... now i look back and see that, Angels Baseball isnt a choice, its a way of life |
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Orem Owlz
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Location: Ontario, Canada | Tim Salmon is why I'm an angels fan....I remember seeing him in a game back in 93 and that was it i loved the angels. I live in Blue Jays territory here in Cambridge Ontario so i was always made fun of for loving the angels..It's almost customary to love the jays...I hate them with a passion! |
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| I was 5 years old and I saw Jim Abbott toe the mound. I learned the joy of baseball and that you can overcome anything all in the same day. Plus Chili dog hit a monster shot to the orange bleachers in center field (remember those?) |
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| I wasn't an angels fan just until last year. my grandpa was watching a game and asked my to watch it with him. i've been watching every game i can since |
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Orem Owlz
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| My dad used to take me to the Ravine when they moved from Wrigley from 1962 on but I never really connected until the move to Anaheim in 1966. I was a 10th grader when the season began at the new stadium. The morning after my father took me a game (and we went to 6 that year all the way from LA) my classmates laughed because I was an Angel fan - that's all it took. Screw the lot of you and yeah I still remember the condescension by Scully pre '66 towards the Angels. Still remember watching Dick Radatz blowing a key game for the Red Sox from the upper right field deck - no arms raised that night. Don Mincher Jimmy Fregosi, Bobby Knapp, Albie, Leon 'daddy wags' Wagner - most of them at the Ravine but the one connection was Bill Rigney. Yeah gane do the math - yo soy el viejo. |
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Location: So. Cal. | I grew up eight miles from the Big A and saw my first game there in 1973 ( was a wee lad) when the Angels came from behind and beat the Indians. Great game. I have loved the team since that first game and now my wife and I are taking our kids there and hope to instill a love of them game in them. This organization has always been a special and now it is even more so. As long as this organization treats its fans the way it does now, it has a fan forever in me. |
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Orem Owlz
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Location: Easton, PA | I really became an Angels fan purely by chance. At age four my uncle brought home a huge bag full of baseball hats of all teams in MLB at the time. My cousins and I all got to choose a hat out of the bag to keep. So, I reached in and pulled out a hat with an "A" and a halo around it. I can even remember my older cousin saying "Oh, that's an Angels hat. They're a good team."
Over the past 24 years I've had many Angels hats, but it all started back then in 1985 with that one mesh backed cap. Thank God fate decided I would choose the Angels hat out of that bag and not a Yankees hat (or any other hat, for that matter). I live on the east coast and when people hear that story of how I chose the Angels as my team they generally think it's pretty cool.
And yeah, I shed a tear after Darin Erstad caught Kenny Lofton's fly to end the '02 World Series. I admit it! |
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Hall of Fame
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| Your cousin lied to you to get the better prize. |
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Hall of Fame
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Location: Minnesota | hahahaha. great story. |
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Location: Bakersfield, Ca | Parents had season seats since i was 18months old (1981) lived 3 min from stadium and would walk/stroller ride to the games. When i was 5 my Dad got leukemia, spent a lot of time at UCLA medical center. His doctor was great, gave us tickets behind home plate a few times and when my dad was recovering (which he fully did) his doctor got him a chance to hang out with the team before a game, he got pictures taken with all the guys and hung out in the dugout during batting practice.
i thought that was just coolest thing in the world. i have been and will always be an Angel fan for Life. Even today, now that i live far away in Bakersfield and can only make it to a few games a year (which i do every year) i watch all the games on TV since i am close enough that every game is televised.
Twitter has been a great tool to enjoy games even more - i have tons of angel fans that i follow and that follow me, and it is great to read some of the postings daily.
HALOS ROCK!!!!!!!! |
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| When my brother played little league baseball he ended up on the Angels for like 6 years in a row. I was just a little boy at the time but I got use to rooting for the Angels, even if it was a bunch of 11 year old kids playing. When I got old enough to start following baseball I chose the Angels even though my family were Dodger fans. I first started really following the Angels when I was like 10. My first memories are of Finley, Langston and being terrible almost every year. I have been hooked ever since.
Now I live in Virginia where the games are not televised, and they don't start until 10:00 at night. Needless to say I go into work very sleepy come October. I still try to make it to a couple of games a year in either Baltimore or if I am lucky DC during interleague play. |
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Hall of Fame
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| Being hooked on the Angels being terrible must make the last few years very dissapointing.  |
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| It has taken a while to get used to, but I think that I'll live. |
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| For my 9th birthday in 1981 my dad bought me an Angels batting helmet and have been a fan since that day. On a side note in "93" I coached my younger brothers little league team happily named the Angels at that time we had abandoned the A with the Halo for that horrible CA thing. My brother was 9 years old at the time and he has been a fan since then as well.
I live in Vegas, so for a long long time I could only follow them through the paper. Ever since the "Web-Age" it has been so awesome then in the late "90's" I don't remember what year exactly FSW started broadcasting the games. |
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Orem Owlz
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Location: Capo Beach | It was in 1991, when the then California Angels came to my school in San Juan Capistrano and held a baseball clinic for kids. Chilli Davis, Luis Sojo, and Jim Abbott were there teaching us how to play baseball. They were like supermen to me at 8 years old. Got some signatures from them and its the best day of my life. I never looked at another team after that. Loved the Halos from then on. |
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Orem Owlz
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| August 13, 1983. Mom takes me to my first game vs. Seattle. Geography probably played mostly into it, because I'd seen both Angels and Dodgers games on local tv, but we lived in OC. And I liked the Dodgers a little as a kid (before allegiances and territories become defining things), but there was just something about the Angels. I liked the red of the uniforms and stadium (not a blue person), and their players seemed to hang around longer. As a kid that plays a big part because of how you emulate these guys. Bob Starr and Al Conin I still regard as the "announcers of my youth". Don't have a lot of memories of Hendu's homerun, but very vivid are the last place finishes, the dive of '95, 2nd in '97 and '98, the utter implosion of '99, and being 22 games back in June of '01 because Seattle was 52-14. But all that made Erstad catching that ball in '02 all the more monumental. 19 years of dedication and heartache erased in one fly ball. You can't get that with some spoiled team that wins every year. And they will always be the California Angels to me. |
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Hall of Fame
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Location: OC | Because they're my home team. |
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Hall of Famer
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Location: AngelsWin.com: Where Angels Fans Are @ | Angels2004 posted a Blog entry as to why he became a fan of the team today. Actually, not today, but in April of 2002. http://angelswinblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/why-i-became-angels-fan.html |
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| OK, my 1st game was July 1st 1961 at old Wrigley field in Los Angeles. My dad was a PCL fan of the Angels and Hollywood Stars and we haven't looked back since. |
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Hall of Fame
Posts: 16910
| Hey coach, where have you been? Good to see you pop up here again |
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| Feeling nostalgic and ready for the playoffs, so I thought I'd chime in with my story...like some others, mine is also really by chance. There was a promotion back in 1987 or 1988 at a Baskins Robbins, I think, where they served ice cream in those mini plastic baseball helmets. It just so happened that I got an Angels one and I was hooked. Some of my favorite memories since then were: seeing Chuck Finley pitch a 1-hitter at Fenway Park in '89, and Jim Abbott threw a shutout there later in the season...taking a tour of the old stadium in '92 and having my picture taken making a leaping catch in the outfield...seeing a walkoff win against the Yankees when I went out for vacation a couple of years back...and of course, staying up late during the playoffs to watch the 2002 team win it all.
Of course, as one of the few (I believe) New Englanders on this board, I'm an Angels fan to prove that not all of us are in love with the Red Sox here (though I wish I didn't have to wade through all the garbage some of you post about my home and my friends sometimes).
Anyway, looking forward to the Angels finally getting past Boston this year and winning it all! I think we've got as good a chance as anybody else... |
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Cedar Rapids (Low-A)
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| I grew up in OC and my dad took me to games in the late 60's when I was a kid. My early memories are of Jim Fregosi, Rick Reichardt, Sandy Alomar Sr., Alex Johnson, Nolan Ryan, etc., etc. My all time favorite Angel is Bobby Grich, although I'm a huge fan of both Joe Saunders and Torii Hunter. There's nothing better than spending an evening at the ball park - with the friends my wife and I have developed in our season seat section. It's like the movie "Fever Pitch" - only we cheer for a much better team!
Edited by True Grich 2009-10-07 12:35 PM
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AZL Angels
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Location: AZ | I grew up in the OC and my dad was a big fan...so naturally I became one too |
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| Don't know why.....just feel it in my bones and that is good enough for me. |
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AZL Angels
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| Having been born and raised in OC, it seemed everytime my parents would take me out, we would drive pass the Big A on the 57. Most of my family were Dodger fans, but I knew that the Angels played just a few miles from us and I think the whole Wally World thing hooked me as well. |
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Hall of Fame
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| I'm an Angels fan because of Rex and Steve in the booth... |
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Location: San Diego | I'm not an Angels fan. I don't know how I got here. Where am I? |
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| They're my local team. |
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