This is not good news? People really want to A's to move to Fremont or San Jose? I honestly have no clue about the popularity of the move.

Shredder is a fan of a team desperate to move to a larger urban sprawl just down the road, too. Thanks for caring!

Though I'm definitely rooting for them today.

I don't have a preference for either team, but I'm rooting the battle to last 25 innings before the loser gets on a plane to Baltimore.

Interesting opinions here with respect to the A.L. West rivalries. I've been an A's fan since the 60s but I don't have any dislike for the other teams in the division.

I don't have a preference for either team, but I'm rooting the battle to last 25 innings before the loser gets on a plane to Baltimore.

the classlessness (or perhaps cluelessness) of their manager

What do you have against Wash?

The win did nothing to take the sting out of relinquishing the division title the Angels held five of the previous six seasons -- particularly when Rangers manager Ron Washington played to the home crowd with several in-game substitutions.

After the fifth inning, the Rangers' starting lineup took the field for the sixth. Washington then sent out replacements for four players (Elvis Andrus, Michael Young, Nelson Cruz and Ian Kinsler) so that the PA announcer could trumpet each substitution, triggering ovations from the crowd -- and some grumbling in the Angels' dugout.

"You have some guys who thought it was maybe a little over the top," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "It's their party and they certainly deserved and earned the right to celebrate however they want to and push their way on to the playoffs."

Scioscia dismissed it as "a non-issue," but he did acknowledge that it was not something he had ever done after the Angels clinched a division title.

"It was a little weird," Angels starter Dan Haren said. "The thing is, I didn't know if there was any history. I was just wondering if this was something we had done before to them.

"It seemed like a bit out of the ordinary. I feel bad for their pitcher. He had to stand out there for like five minutes. Then he gives up a home run to the first batter he faced (a tie-breaking solo home run by Peter Bourjos) and ends up taking the loss."

There is plenty of history between the Angels and Rangers -- including Kinsler's ill-advised taunt ("Get off our field") caught on camera after an early-season sweep of the Angels in 2009.

"It doesn't matter if it bothers me or not," Angels outfielder Torii Hunter said of watching the Rangers revel in their first division title since 1999. "What are we going to do? Cry?"

When Vladimir Guerrero came up in the bottom of the sixth with no one on and one out, Haren made his distaste for the dramatics obvious.

Washington waited until Guerrero was at home plate before pulling him for a pinch hitter, giving the DH a chance to take his bow. Haren's first pitch to pinch hitter Matt Treanor was behind him.