Angels Round-Up:Aybar Needs to be GONE.

I was never truly away, but I figured that every time I mentioned a winning streak this past year, something happened and it ended.

The Angels took 7 in a row from the NL West, so I wasn't about to blog about it to blow the whole thing.

They went and did that on their own, this time, losing the last 2 of a 3 game set in Anaheim against cross-town rivals (and best-record-in-baseball-holdin') LA Dodgers over the weekend.

I just..I'm dumbfounded.

I won't get into the hype about the Freeway series.

I won't get into the Dream Weaver match up comparisons.

I won't even talk about the anemic hitting of Bobby Abreu w/ the bases juiced.

I want to continue my personal mission.

Erick Aybar must go.

He is downright awful.

Is unclutch a word?

Oh my FREAKING god.

The guy swung at a pitch Saturday night, with RISP yet again no less, that fooled him so badly it was an embarrassment.

Halfway through the swing, it looked like he realized he was screwed, and by the time he was square to the pitcher in his swing, the ball actually hit him.

Not clipped him, not buzzed him.

Hit him- - almost in what looked to be "The tenders" no less.

If Kendrick and Arredondo are on short leashes and sent back down to figure it out, this guy should have been gone months ago.

Sure, he makes some "great" plays defensively, but they are totally negated by the botched routine plays. When any sort of "decision" needs to be made, he almost always overthinks then overthrows, and seriously, the guy has got a million dollar glove with a ten cent head.

Plus, he just flat out sucks in the batters box.

He's so bad, I'm actually trying to become more "sabremetrically enlightened" just so I can compare his awfulness to league average replacement numbers.

More on that to follow.

is ANYONE with me on this? Post it!