Rankings, Shmrankings - The Angels are #1

Check your calendars people and remember July 1, 2007 as a remarkable day in Angels Baseball history. At the end of the day, the California Angels (I still can't bring myself to write LAAoA) stand alone at the top of Major League Baseball with the best record in the league. I can't remember a time that the Angels held the best overall record in the league.
Despite overwhelming evidence that they've earned the #1 spot in the ESPN Baseball Power Rankings, the Angels still find themselves sitting behind Boston in the #2 spot. The ESPN.com writers claim that a week containing Frank Thomas' 500th home run (and ejection), Craig Biggio's 3000th hit, and Carlos Lee's walkoff grand slam, were enough dramatics for the baseball world to handle. There was no need to add further drama by rearranging what already seemed like a pretty accurate ranking... pretty accurate.

I love that the Power Rankings came out on the day that the Angels took sole possession of the best record in baseball by beating Baltimore, while Boston dropped a close one to Texas. Neither team played particularly well this week, but last week Boston jumped two spots to #1 by having one more win than the Angels that week. This week, Boston went 1-5 and held the top spot, while the Angels went 2-4, earning the best record in baseball. Boston is 4-6 in their last 10. The Angels are 6-4. The Angels have the same number of losses as Boston, but two more wins and find themselves sitting 20 games over .500 - talk about your east coast bias.

I know this could all change by Tuesday and that the Power Rankings (still) don't really mean anything, but right is right. What else could the Angels possibly do to earn their rightful place of #1 atop the Power Rankings list? Win the World Series?!?!?!?

They just might.