Posted 11:54 AM by Sean
Something I didn't realize: the Angels lead the Majors in attendance. Right up there with "the Angels won the World Series" in terms of sentences I never thought I'd hear. Anyway, it's nice and all that the Angels might outdraw the Dodgers this year for the first time ever, but that's hardly going to matter in the long term if they can't get it in gear and put together a team that plays as well as they did in 2002. I'm not saying they need to win another World Series to make the kinds of fans-for-life the Dodgers have, but they at least need to be competitive and exciting, or we'll see one year of good ticket sales followed by diminishing crowds until the previous levels of disinterest are reached.

And I think that, despite the start they're off to, they'll get it done. They need Erstad back, but he's only one guy. What they really need is for Jeff DaVanon or Eric Owens to step up enough to allow Scioscia to play him every day and bring some stability to the lineup, and for the starting pitching to settle down. It'll happen. There's too much talent on this team for them to stay in last for long.