Halos Heaven · Apr 21, 2019
The Angels are bringing buttercup back
Photo by Victor Decolongon/Getty ImagesIt may not have been a slugfest or a pitcher’s duel, but it was definitely a game. And rest your pretty little heads; for the Halos would storm back from a not-insubstantial deficit, building us all up just to let us back down. See, you may not hear it play at awkward moments in the stadium anymore when the Angels seem poised to break through with a game-tying knock, but “Buttercup” is making a comeback. Nay, it was inside of us all along!
Maybe it’s just a negative way of saying that a team is showing their fighting spirit or a flowery euphemism for “anti-climactic failure,” but it is what the 2019 Angels have come to embody. Let’s look at the facts.