I was at the Angel game Tuesday evening against the Boston Red Sox.  The Sox fans were out in full effect.  I had no idea there were so many Boston fans in Southern California.  The Angel fans did their best to feign diehard dedication by yelling amusingly angry epithets at the opposition.  It turned out to be a great game, but I’m a Dodger fan, so I don’t care too much about the Angeles, Red Sox, or American League baseball in general.

It’s a dark time right now for the Dodgers, coming off a 6-game losing streak, 4 of which were shut outs, and falling 5 games behind the Arizona Diamondbacks (or, “D’Backs”, as the team’s uniforms have been gangsta-fied to read).  As the Dodgers struggle to stay above .500, the Angels are soaring in the American Leage, 2 1/2 games ahead of Seattle.  As I lament the slow descent of my team, I’ve come up with an impromptu list of reasons why the Dodgers are better* than the Angels.  In no particular order, it is as follows:

1. Dodger Stadium’s All-You-Can-Eat Right Field Pavilion

2. OC fans + Disney-owned baseball team = rally monkeys

3. “The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim”?  Come on.

4. Angel Stadium has a minor rat problem.  And by “minor” I mean it’s been cited for vermin violations more than 100 times over the past two years (some perspective:  Dodger Stadium and Petco Park have had 9 citations combined over the same period).

5. If I’m going to choose between the upper-middle-class white guy talking on his Bluetooth in the front row at Angels Stadium, or the slightly intoxicated, but ever-so enthusiastic Mexican guy in the nose bleeds at Dodger Stadium, I’ll take the latter every time, hands down.

6. Angel Stadium parking: $8.  Dodger Stadium park: $15.  You know that extra $7 is paying the best damn parking attendants in the city.  You can’t put a price on vigilance.

*The word “better”, in this sense, in no way reflects the teams’ actual records.