Fans probably will love this trade: Angels give up Casey Kotchman and minor-league pitcher Stephen Marek … and get Mark Teixeira. Sounds sexy. Sounds wrong. The Angels have been consistent contenders in the American League West in this decade, and one of the biggest reasons is this one: They rarely make trades like this one.

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That at one moment, when the thing was amping up … I now recall thinking — and it flashed through my mind — “what will it feel like if this building collapses and I ride it down to the ground?” I mean, no building is immune to earthquake … if the quake is big enough. […]

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After the quake of some 20 minutes ago … traffic is going on the streets, the Metro Blue Line is running. No observable damage out the window. Not much in terms of sirens. No more than usual. We’re having trouble loading the L.A. Times website (too much traffic?) and phones seem to be down. Or […]

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Or it sure felt like one, here on the eighth floor of our building in downtown Long Beach. If the epicenter was here … it’s pretty serious. If the epicenter were some distance away … there could be serious trouble wherever that was. It occurred at 11:42 a.m. (PDT), by my watch, and seemed to […]

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