by Amaury Pi Gonzalez

ANAHEIM–The Los Angeles Angels are in the middle of a six game home stand and are opening up a series Monday night with the Oakland A’s. The Angels just completed a series with the New York Mets. It’s been a little bit cold at Anaheim Stadium but they expect temperatures to get up in the mid 80s for the series.

The Angels just hit five home runs on Sunday against New York and the Angels blasted former A’s and Angels pitcher and now Mets starter Bartolo Colon who won 18 games last year for the A’s and was their All-Star pitcher. Colon got lit up for 11 hits, nine runs all earned, and walked a couple of batters in five innings of work.

The Angels went yard with three consecutive home runs in the first inning off Colon, hit by L.A.’s Mike Trout, Albert Pujols, and Raul Ibanez. It was the first time the Angels hit three straight homers since 2009. So the A’s and Angels get together and their rivals and it’s a big contrast between these two teams.

The Oakland A’s never had a big payroll and they have to face teams with big payrolls in the Western Division. The Angels have one of the largest payrolls in baseball and they haven’t won anything in a awhile. The A’s have a big contest in Anaheim and it all depends on the pitching and we know the A’s have good young pitching so this series could be one of the best yet this month.

49ers Aldon Smith update: I’m sure Dr.Harry Edwards who specializes in those social programs for the football teams like the 49ers and works in psychology might be one for this situation with Aldon Smith and what he did was very stupid.

You have to be intoxicated to make a bomb threat at the Los Angeles Airport and that is what Aldon Smith is accused of saying. After 911 and even before that the last thing you want to do is scream is “bomb.” This act is beyond stupidity of an imbecile, the 49ers have a lot of problems with players with off field conduct issues, Chris Culliver (hit and run and brass knuckles), Colin Kaepernick (suspicious conduct), and now Smith and the bomb threat.

Kaepernick was not indicted but this is not good publicity for the 49ers or the NFL and the team just paid over a $1 billion for the new stadium that opens this August. This is not good for the club and I don’t know what their going to do with all these off field problems and this is not just one player it multiple players. It’s a big problem especially in a sport that you don’t play everyday but the news keeps going about them everyday.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the Spanish TV voice for Angels baseball and does News and Commentary each week for Sportstalk radio