Dunno - sounds like garden variety paranoia to me.

What the hell is wrong with saying what I honestly think of the Angels. I'm tired of how many people tiptoe around this sight out of some unwarranted fear of affecting the standings.

The Angels aren't very good and that I'm sick of the way so many here feel this compulsive need to never, ever dare call them what they are: a mediocre team not worth fearing.

This particular diary just says -- in words that are much less inflamitory then HH -- that the Angels are just not good enough this year to be a threat to overtake the A's at this point.  Agree with it or not, but either way it is still a very interesting and viable diary topic for AN.  

Besides, if this was HH and one of the Rev's diaries, your post would have probably already been deleted by the Rev.

But, taking a larger sample size, like since the All-Star break the Angles pitching has a 4.17 ERA and their offense has a .302 AVG .358 OBP .458 SLG.

A's have a 4.02 ERA
OBP .360 SLG .425  AVG.276

What worries me is that with the stats that close since the All-Star break there is a bit of luck involved.  Although, it looks like the pitching in August is pulling away.  Definitely do not want to see any reversal of those pitching stats.

Look, they are not in good shape right now. Lackey has been scuffling. Saunders has gotten lit up lately. The offense and defense are the same as ever. When they only took 1 of 3 from Boston's B-team I thought they were toast. You can't do that when you're trailing by 5-6 games. If we do it; well, we do it with a 5-6 game lead.

Look at the Angels schedule and tell me they're going to bust off a 20-10 run. How the hell does that happen? I mean, if it does, it's not something we should have seen coming at all. They are not better than many of the teams that are on their schedule. So why should I expect them to win?

All year you've been thinking that the division was your own private little summer home that you were renting out. It wasn't.

Enjoy your month of meaningless .500 baseball.

as your colleagues here have said, you might want to wait a while to rub it in so much. it's not even September -- the A's most dreaded month.

If you'd bother to use your head instead of immediately responding with, "Oh no, someone said something bad about the other team. What will we do?" you might have realized that what I was trying to do was honestly point out that I disagreed with much of AN and their worry over and fear of the Angels.

What, I'm not entitled to that?

But you go ahead and be the site monitor. Get out your ruler and slap my wrist for daring to say to that I didn't think the Angels were a threat.