Angels Fans + Postseason = Annoying
Don't look now, but the Angels are absolutely on fire and look to safely cruise into the post-season.
They are up by three games on a Mariners team that is seemingly incapable of catching the bats and arms of the California team. So just go ahead and kill me now, because I don't think I can stomach to see another World Series with Angels fans anywhere remotely near the game.
Hate me all you want, Angels fans, but the fan behavior at the Angels' home games during the Giants/Angels World Series in 2002 made me want to napalm the stadium.
I understand getting crazy-excited for your home team during the series, especially when you've had a long title drought in the area, but Angels fans were so annoying it simply blinded me.
Let's start with those stupid thundersticks, which need to be banned from all sporting events. When I watch a game, I want to hear humans getting excited, not the insane clacking that the stadium was filled with (How is anyone supposed to hit a 95-mph fastball with a morse-code supernova going off in your head?) It sounded as if all the crickets on the planet hijacked every train on the planet and drove them into Anaheim that week.
But that wasn't even the worst of it. Remember Reggie Sanders getting pounded by some idiotic fan while trying to field a critical right field hit? Well, I do. Did it cost the Giants the series? No, Barry Bonds' ego did that, since he couldn't shag down routine fly balls in left game after game after game. But watching that fan rail repeatedly on Sanders with that stupid thunderstick will forever stick in my head as the most asinine display of fan ignorance and idiocy I have ever seen (OK, maybe not as bad as that guy who plowed through the kid and his mom for the ball in Texas; so I guess it's No. 2 on the list). It's a singular moment of time that has completely tainted my opinions of Angels fans as a whole. Irrational? Absolutely, but it's my brain, and I'll do what I want with it.
So here we go again if the hot streak and inspired play for the Angels continue. Let's just hope they don't break out the rally monkey anymore. That animal made those fans scary-crazy.
