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What once looked like an extremely difficult decision probably won't cause Manager Mike Scioscia to even flinch, not after veteran right-hander Jon Garland all but talked himself out of the Angels playoff rotation today. "If it was my decision, I wouldn't be a starter, not with what I've seen from Ervin Santana, John Lackey, Joe Saunders and Jered Weaver," Garland said before tonight's game against Seattle. Whatever Mike wants me to do, I will do. I'm not going to complain. I'll do whatever he wants me to do, the best that I can." The Angels, if they finish with the best record in the American League, will have the choice of starting the division series Wednesday or Thursday. They appear to be leaning toward the Wednesday start, which would spread the five-game series over eight days and allow them to use a three-man rotation of Lackey, Santana and Saunders.

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Jon Garland, AP Jon Garland, AP
September 26, 2008  08:52 AM ET

What an effin' competitor!!!!!!!!!!!

September 26, 2008  09:20 AM ET

i don't know a player in baseball that would ever talk his way out of a starting job... maybe they are there is something else going on???

September 26, 2008  11:01 AM ET

i try to talk my way out of work sometimes, but I am not a competitive athlete, i guess neither is he.

September 26, 2008  02:54 PM ET

Maybe he has a small ****. Let's hope the rest of the rotation talks their way out, so the Red Sox have an easier time in the playoffs...

September 26, 2008  06:34 PM ET

Maybe that is why he is not still in Chicago

September 26, 2008  08:36 PM ET

"I'll do the best that I can" is d0uchba6-ese for "Wow, I'm in way over my overpaid, geriatric head. Glad I stole all of that money from Arnie Moreno so that I can spend next year sitting around watching Golden Girls and Matlock reruns eating applesauce cups".

September 26, 2008  11:05 PM ET

how are these guys considered athletes?

September 26, 2008  11:48 PM ET

u can give him stick.... But hey, he answered the question as honestly as he could...
Better than the awful, "im just going to take it one game at a time", mickey mouse nonsense.

September 27, 2008  12:23 AM ET

I'd luv to see this guy flirt with a girl....
I'm a noice guy, but youre better? so im going to go home now, bye bye!

September 27, 2008  04:11 AM ET
QUOTE(#4):

Maybe he has a small ****. Let's hope the rest of the rotation talks their way out, so the Red Sox have an easier time in the playoffs...

Let's hope the Red Sox go the way of the Yanks...which they won't cause their not a franchise with the head up their royal **** so, meh. The current Angels team is better than the Red Sox. They'll prove the naysayers wrong this postseason.

September 27, 2008  05:08 AM ET

Remember, he's come up big in postseason too with those very White Sox. Remember those CGs those guys pitched in the fall classic? So maybe he's just calling a spade a spade.

September 27, 2008  01:46 PM ET

The guy has been pitching like crap for the last month... He would be good in long relief if we need him... And hopefully we won't

September 27, 2008  03:17 PM ET
QUOTE(#12):

The guy has been pitching like crap for the last month... He would be good in long relief if we need him... And hopefully we won't

Yeah, if u need him in long relief for the minors.

September 27, 2008  05:23 PM ET
QUOTE(#1):

What an effin' competitor!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe he is actually a real team player !!!

September 27, 2008  07:35 PM ET
QUOTE(#14):

Maybe he is actually a real team player !!!

A "real team player" competes and lets the manager make those decisions. Does Garland think that Scioscia hasn't noticed how badly he's pitched? What happens now if for some reason Scioscia HAS to put Garland in the starting rotation for the playoffs? There are going to be 8 other guys on the field thinking "Great, we have this guy on the bump who doesn't even believe in himself, why should we?". If he has doubts, address them in private with the manager or go to confession and cry to your priest, but don't create doubt in your teammates.

September 28, 2008  02:46 PM ET

john garlard is a wudge

September 28, 2008  10:58 PM ET

hmm.... just another sign of the appocalypse.

 
September 28, 2008  10:58 PM ET

how and why would you do this?

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