Singles
Night at Angel Stadium AM830
morning host Roger Lodge hosted Singles Night at Angel Stadium on Tuesday night.
Winner of the Featured Single contest Jessica from Manhattan Beach eventually
picked Joel from Huntington Beach as her date for the evening live on the giant
screens. A fun time was had by all, topped off by the Angels' win over the Oakland
A's.
WHAT
IS A REAL FAN?
By David Saltzer - Angelswin.com
Columnist
You can hear it on the sports-talk radio. You can read it
on the internet. It’s that time of year again when the bandwagon fans come out
to catch a ride on the hot teams—much to the annoyance of the real fans. And with
the Angels presently sporting the best record in baseball, they are coming out
in full-force for our team.
For real fans, the bandwagoners create many
problems. They buy up a lot of merchandise. They buy up tickets and drive up the
costs for real fans. They act very self-important, as if they have been paying
attention to the team all along. They get into silly arguments about things they
don’t know or understand—like why Teixeira didn’t lay down a bunt in the 3rd inning
with 2 men on and 2 outs. Basically, they act like the whiny kids complaining
about low grades on book reports they wrote about books they didn’t even bother
to read.
At this time of year, the phrase bandwagoner gets bantered
about regularly. While luckily it doesn’t happen so much on Angelswin.com (maybe
due to the quality of the site and the posters), you can find it MORE
