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Jeff321
April 18th, 2009
2:06 pm
And the wheels come off the JoJo express!
To all the Cox fans: If he’s so damn smart.. Why can’t he demand his players work the count every single at bat? (And if they refuse, then cut ‘em loose?)
jjrfoster
April 18th, 2009
2:06 pm
Does anybody find it funny that 2 of or best hitters right now are bench players???? Prado and Infante
McFann Ô
April 18th, 2009
2:06 pm
Come on, BMac! Get a hit! Schnell!
Bravesfan–
Sorry I forgot to tell you how to bold stuff. I’ll get you the link in just a sec…
Frankie Knuckles
April 18th, 2009
2:06 pm
Schafer looked like a kid wathching that ball drop into the bullpen.
Blackbeard the Pirate
April 18th, 2009
2:07 pm
Two down, one to go for the sweep. You guys are pathetic, but I guess from reading the blog that you are already aware of that fact. Looks like a big Aarg! to me. See you tomorrow. We will have our cutlasses and brooms in hand for the sweep. Thank you for making my weekend so pleasant. Have a great day.
God
April 18th, 2009
2:07 pm
Sorry guys, June has come early.
N Nine
April 18th, 2009
2:07 pm
Tomahawkin I agree, he deserved better, but when gets back out after we get 3 outs on 5 pitches, doesn’t really help him out.
JasonInFL If I do, I’d be a poor dude. Can’t believe just one week changes this team so much…
NYCBrave
April 18th, 2009
2:07 pm
I though Jo Jo pitched OK and deserves to be left in the 5th spot. He got a tough break n the ball hit to Schafer and the one hit back up to him that hit him.
P-Town Brave
April 18th, 2009
2:07 pm
Has anyone else noticed that over the last few years there have been multiple changes to the lineup, rotation, and bullpen, but we still achieve the same results…?!
Yeah, thats right, I’m looking at you coaching staff!
Tom
April 18th, 2009
2:08 pm
I know everyone will think its crazy…but if that triple is not misplayed, Sanchez is on 1st with one out, the infield is not pulled in, then that hit off JoJo’s leg is a FC at best and with 2 outs we get out of the inning. JoJo would still be in the game down 1.
Chop Chop
April 18th, 2009
2:08 pm
You’re right, Frankie. That thought entered my head as I saw that.
Jake W.
April 18th, 2009
2:08 pm
I feel bad for our starters becuase they feel like they have to be perfect out there. The performance of this offense the last 3 games is just pitiful. We can’t do the little things which should have been something that was stressed for this team since we knew we didn’t have that big homerun hitter in the lineup. Their defense isn’t even moving. It’s to easy right now for other teams. I mean we can’t even get a hit accidently.
But its early.......right? (Doc H.)
April 18th, 2009
2:09 pm
2 sweeps in a row…………way to go bobby………keep your guys swinging for the fence……..embarrassing……………. Im so tired of this maybe it will be good for this franchise for the mets to win it all to give executives a wake up call………… if nats finish ahead of them in the standings…………they would deserve it………..at least they are beating the marlins……..not scared……….
BRAVES ZZZZZCK
Frankie Knuckles
April 18th, 2009
2:09 pm
This is tough to stomach
Chop It Up All-star
April 18th, 2009
2:09 pm
Hilarious that they are advertising for Braves season tickets after the team has just gone down five runs and have lost four games in a row and will most certainly lose a fifth in a row to go a game below .500.
This team has no fight in them, it’s truly sad to see.
P-Town Brave
April 18th, 2009
2:10 pm
Face it, we’re a pretty bad team either way DOB…
The entire coaching staff needs to go and we have needed that for some time now…
After this long its become impossible for me to say Bobby should get a free pass!
But its early.......right? (Doc H.)
April 18th, 2009
2:10 pm
P-Town Brave,
I just posted the same thing you did…….. guess we are on the same page
Smyrna Jim
April 18th, 2009
2:11 pm
3 quick outs (Mc, Kotch, Frenchy).
Salamander
April 18th, 2009
2:11 pm
Sorry guys, June has come early. God
Heh, this made me chuckle. Thanks big guy.
Russ
April 18th, 2009
2:11 pm
Boy those were some sad little outs – weak grounder to first, pop out to first and roller back to the mound. Tough to watch right now!
CC
April 18th, 2009
2:11 pm
This team is going nowhere. Assuming Chipper misses his usual 45 game, at best we’ll go 15-30 in those. So to get to 90 wins we’d need to go 75-42 in the others. Uh, no chance of that. Another year of looking up at the Phils, Mets and now Marlins. Can’t wait for Frank Wren’s spin on the young guys being close. Maybe we’ll have a shot in 2011.
A-ville Ranger
April 18th, 2009
2:11 pm
This is a record, it’s the earliest my only real interest is whether Cox will FINALLY retire and let the team move forward.
Loaf Garret on a blackberry jogging slowly to LF
April 18th, 2009
2:12 pm
Don’t worry guys, we got the night off tonight, you know what that means…time to bust some slumps!
P-Town Brave
April 18th, 2009
2:12 pm
Oh, and once again I will state how extremely sick of the ho-hum “its just another game” and there are plenty more attitude by Cox.
REALIZATION: This attitude rubs off on your players…they then don’t care about games in April, which then leads to the team not even being in the picture come All-Star break.
Great mindset and motivational tool there Bobby!
McFann Ô
April 18th, 2009
2:12 pm
FINE! Just BE THAT WAY!!!
N Nine–
Oh good. Not sure why it italicized. Yeah, BJ had a very good game.
Bravesfan–
Sorry I forgot this before! Hope you’re still reading the Blog and cann get this link:
How to make bold and italic words
Hope it helps!
jjrfoster
April 18th, 2009
2:12 pm
That because you would rather have KJ who is the worst 2nd baseman defensively in all of baseball to cost us 2 games a month because of the horrible defensive play. Do you remember the Phillies game?????? Do you remmeber the Marlins game????????? Lets just leave him at second and let prado ride the bench. And lets leave a rookie out in center field to break the all time strike out record for a rookie in his first month. DOB and DP to the C. Every thing is perfect lets not change a thing. LOLOLOL
Sam
April 18th, 2009
2:12 pm
Watch Bobby now make a pitching change and bring in another pitcher.
semiballcoach
April 18th, 2009
2:12 pm
7th inning retch
Boyer LOVES Cox
April 18th, 2009
2:12 pm
i dont know why everyone on this board thinks that 4th place is a given…. the nationals are off to a very slow start but they have a much better team than last year. if we lost 90 games this year that could be enough for last place.
Tomahawkin
April 18th, 2009
2:13 pm
This Team Looks like the AAA Braves of 2008 and not the Braves we saw in S. Training and the first 6 games…
10 hits through the last 16 innings ain’t gonna get it done…
Sam
April 18th, 2009
2:14 pm
Buddy Carlyle is the braves best pitcher at the moment
Smyrna Jim
April 18th, 2009
2:14 pm
Buddy fans Morgan.
McFann Ô
April 18th, 2009
2:14 pm
.206, I…I can’t…take this…it’s too…sad…
Efrim
April 18th, 2009
2:15 pm
“Braves are a pretty bad team without Chipper and Escobar in the lineup.”
Yup. It’s going to be tough to win a division considering the two best players on the team(in my mind) is Chipper and McCann. One, a catcher, and the other, an oft-injured third baseman. We’ll need some good luck. Haven’t had that in a while. 2005, to be exact.
N Nine
April 18th, 2009
2:15 pm
I hope Heyward and Hanson can grow up fast, We need new blood next season.(players&coaches)
Buddy is in, we have a chance!!
JasonInFL (Formerly ME)
April 18th, 2009
2:16 pm
a lefty that has been tough in his 1st two starts on the hill tomorrow…the braves better pray they have both escobar and chipper in the lineup…if they don’t, it could be two consecutive sweeps…how embarrassing would that be…to get swept by the Pirates?
This just in: Braves need an OF bat…
Sam
April 18th, 2009
2:17 pm
Just bring up the AA team here and sack these morons right now !!!!
Boyer LOVES Cox
April 18th, 2009
2:17 pm
sorry if someone has already posted this but lets say schafer starts 140 more games this season and he continues at the pace he is now.
he will have a 255 Ks by the end of the year.
Jake W.
April 18th, 2009
2:18 pm
Is it a rule when one struggles we all must? No one picks up anyone else. They all start to press. Really missing Escobar and although I know they play the same position it still would have been nice to have a professional hitter like Renteria. Don’t want Renteria bcak, just want someone like him. That guy almost never seemed to slump with us. Looks like the bullpen may be the least of our worries.
This sucks like an Electrolux
April 18th, 2009
2:18 pm
Oh Mommy…make it stop.This is sad and boring.It seems every year the team gets duller.
nolie
April 18th, 2009
2:18 pm
There is video of Wheeler pitching here. I think his curve is pretty nasty.
Also, here is Keith Law’s video on Tyler Matzek, a possible pick for us. (Steve)
thanks for the links Steve. Both look pretty decent though I liked Matzek better from those short videos.
Salamander
April 18th, 2009
2:20 pm
Just bring up the AA team here and sack these morons right now !!!! Sam
You would make an excellent GM. You should post your resume when a spot in the front office opens up IMO.
eman
April 18th, 2009
2:20 pm
Injuries or not, this is pretty much the team that will be on the field the rest of the year. Chipper and Escobar being in doesn’t matter one way or the other (they were in during the Marlin series and the final result was still the same).
And don’t give me this “The Marlins are a good team” stuff after it took them extra innings to beat the Nats in game 1 and are currently down 6-2 in game 2. The Nats have scored 8 runs in two games while it took the braves 3 games just to score 7 .. just saying.
No, their good stretches will be when they win 2-3 in a row but for the most part I figure most of their games will become losses. And denying it won’t make it any easier.
David O'Brien
April 18th, 2009
2:20 pm
To all the Cox fans: If he’s so damn smart.. Why can’t he demand his players work the count every single at bat? (And if they refuse, then cut ‘em loose?) — Jeff321
You mean, Cox himself should just release them and the Braves should pay off all their guaranteed contracts, then bring up guys from the minors to fill their spots?
bravesfan
April 18th, 2009
2:20 pm
McFann Ô
No problem for the wait. Thanks, I hope it (bolding your name) worked.
Cox's Post Game Press Conference
April 18th, 2009
2:20 pm
Its just another game, just another loss. There are 151 of them left and its a long season. I’ll be happy to run the same lineup out there tomorrow and hope the boys have it. I know some of our bullpen guys have had some troubles, but I’ll also keep pitching those same guys and hope for a change. We need to get Chipper healthy again so he can play for a couple weeks and then re-injure something, and we need to get Casey up in the order because he’s a terrifying power hitter. Oh, and before I forget…LOVE the defensive effort on the part of Kelly Johnson. He’s just a tremendous talent in the field.
I’ll be happy to take your questions now…
teabag manifesto
April 18th, 2009
2:20 pm
I’m tired of bloated baseball management wasting our precious resources.
BOBBY COX MUST GO!
FRANK WREN MUST GO!
Time to get these clueless doofusses out of office and get someone who will be more responsible and will represent the fans.
WE spend the money that they use to run this team. They do so on OUR DIME. Time for them to show us fans some respect.
Smyrna Jim
April 18th, 2009
2:21 pm
Long fly to Frenchy, followed by infield hit, which didn’t quite bounce up off the dirt.
nolie
April 18th, 2009
2:22 pm
Who was Marilyn Chambers? Movies, Music? (WT Sherman)
Ivory Snow boxes. purity personified.
Loaf Garret on a blackberry from LF
April 18th, 2009
2:23 pm
Like I said, aim for CF.
Smyrna Jim
April 18th, 2009
2:23 pm
Anothe double off centerfield fence for Doumit. 6-0.
Mitchell
April 18th, 2009
2:23 pm
FIRE TERRY PENDLETON. No exclamation point necessary. He should be fired. This is such a feel good, tearjerker organization. Why isn’t anybody held accountable for this s***?
Another great play by Schafer. Hey, retard… don’t run all the way to the wall you dumbass!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chop It Up All-star
April 18th, 2009
2:23 pm
And the hits just keep on coming…6-0.
BTW, Jordan might want to consider playing a little bit deeper.
Mixxo
April 18th, 2009
2:24 pm
Play a little shallower Schafe!
JasonInFL (Formerly ME)
April 18th, 2009
2:24 pm
Bring up Tommy H and let him learn his ropes on the Big Squad…if Tommy G retires, there is no reason to not let The Future start now. Arb clock be damned…
Geeze
April 18th, 2009
2:24 pm
Schafer looks like a high schooler, chasing one misplayed fly ball after another.
Tomahawkin
April 18th, 2009
2:24 pm
Schafer Must be playing to shallow…When your Struggluing on Defense the ball will always find you
I agree with D.O.B., Schafer is playing too Shallow…
Embarassing! We are Getting Clowned!!!
But its early.......right? (Doc H.)
April 18th, 2009
2:24 pm
P-Town Brave,
I dont know where my post went but I just mentioned that a few minutes ago…………
KJ………….swinging for the fence everytime up………..you are the freaking leadoff hitter………..you dumb head…………get thef_________ on base.
GA——– I dont care about your 2 doubles———you ssssssssss__________
Braves have changed player year in year out…………TEXEIRA, LAROCHE, ORR, WOODWAR, MILLER, BJ, HARRIS, THOMPSON, BOYER, DEVINE, SMOLTZ, GLAVINE, HAMPTON, KYLE, RAMIREZ, JAMES,………… AND SO ON…………… tons of player………..same spirit……….
the only thing in common is old bobby……..and his stooooopit philosophy……….wait for the HR. sickening patience on “promising” players……. Then they sent Devine away too early IMO.
Even Schafer is swinging for the fence……….thats because thats the smell on the club house…….thats bobby philosophy. He has infected Schafer with his stooooooopydyty…….
I have to confess ………when we were playing the nats……….even them looked more aggressive than we have against pitts.
We make every single pitcher…….no matter if it is the 5th in the rotation………look like Gregg Maddux.
Prado out like a mile on 2b………I suppose it was a hit & run, but, do you call a hit & run with a hitter with 11 K on his last 10 ABs?
JoJo and his 5 inning syndrome……..same as James. Just can complete 6 innings……..thats out of the question……….that epidemic from guys in our minor league system. I wouldnt be surprised to see Hanson walk that same path……..5+ and out of there.
Tomas
April 18th, 2009
2:25 pm
Schafer crushes into the wall again.
Smyrna Jim
April 18th, 2009
2:25 pm
3 run homer to center for Monroe. 136 – 0.
choozer
April 18th, 2009
2:25 pm
I agree with P-town … this team is poor even with Chipper and Escobar in the lineup. Their back-ups are two of the better hitters we have. The holes are in all the other places (LF, CF, 1B, in particular) plus McCann is slumping and KJ cooled off (not to mention that he should play LF).
Chop Chop
April 18th, 2009
2:25 pm
Ryan Doumit is a pretty good hitter, folks.
Craig Monroe isn’t, but HOLY MACKEREL! Two three-run jacks.
Tomahawkin
April 18th, 2009
2:25 pm
Man! This just Pains me to watch! Blow-pen getting Clowned now
N Nine
April 18th, 2009
2:25 pm
my jaw will not shut
JasonInFL (Formerly ME)
April 18th, 2009
2:25 pm
One last question: How can one team look so damn good through the first 5games and so damn clueless/awful/atrocious/pathetic through the next 6?
But its early.......right? (Doc H.)
April 18th, 2009
2:26 pm
Mitchell,
TP has nothing to do with our pitching………….which is not doing the job either. And he has nothing to do with our defense…………which looks like high school defense……..
Chop It Up All-star
April 18th, 2009
2:26 pm
NO HEART = 2009 ATLANTA BRAVES TEAM
Smyrna Jim
April 18th, 2009
2:26 pm
Another single for Andy L.
bravesfan
April 18th, 2009
2:26 pm
wow…
Tomas
April 18th, 2009
2:26 pm
man is this a replay?
Cox's Post Game Press Conference
April 18th, 2009
2:27 pm
DOB-
Same results since 05 w/ a ridiculously different cast of players each year since…How is it that Cox doesn’t get ANY of the blame?!
And while I type the merry-go-round keeps on going…Who put the last quarter in?!
This is flat-out EMBARASSING! Can’t Bobby just retire already and take his flunkies with him?!
TexasBrave
April 18th, 2009
2:27 pm
Oh yes lets walk Adam to get to the guy who has already hit one homerun today because he surely will not hit another.
Tomahawkin
April 18th, 2009
2:27 pm
This Is so Nasty it’s Funny…! I haven’t seen the braves so lackluster in awhile
There might be some changes in the lineup tomorrow
Mercifully This inning is over!
Loaf Garret on a blackberry jogging in slowly from LF
April 18th, 2009
2:27 pm
Holy $hit the score is 9-0?
N Nine
April 18th, 2009
2:27 pm
At least after today, we won’t go down in standing anymore. We found our home at 4th place. That’s what we are right now…….
Smyrna Jim
April 18th, 2009
2:28 pm
Foul pop to third – good inning for Buddy (if you don’t count all the balls off and over the centerfield fence).
Tomas
April 18th, 2009
2:28 pm
The Pirates are getting curtain calls…This is very bad.
semiballcoach
April 18th, 2009
2:28 pm
when showalter called the braves his sleeper pick, i didn’t know he meant DURING the game
MFin04
April 18th, 2009
2:28 pm
The bullpen still sucks…needs fixing Buddy aint getting the job done either. So we get rid of Boyer, Bennett and Buddy, and Gonzo….we need some pitching in the pen. We also need the guys to work the counts…and a power hitting bat in the lineup. This offense is only slightly better than our bullpen.
Jake W.
April 18th, 2009
2:28 pm
This is embarassing. I hope their all soaking it in because if they have any pride in themselves and want to continue being called a major leaguer their needs to be some changes quick. The only one who has a legitimate excuse is Mac and I hope they figure out what is wrong with his eye. Hope its nothing serious.
White Flag
April 18th, 2009
2:28 pm
Time to invoke the mercy rule.
NYCBrave
April 18th, 2009
2:28 pm
I am pulling for Schafer but like DOB said he might be playing (or is being set up) too shallow. It doesn’t matter of course when Monroe is hitting them over the wall.
But its early.......right? (Doc H.)
April 18th, 2009
2:29 pm
Is there a way to argue against mets fan in atlanta now? and anders? ………..NO………… our team is no better than the muts……..PERIOD.
lexbrave
April 18th, 2009
2:29 pm
who says baseball games are too long, i’ve not had to watch a braves game for more than 2 hours all week.
DirtyYuni
April 18th, 2009
2:29 pm
This team would make an awesome industrial strength vacuum cleaner. They suck that hard.
JasonInFL (Formerly ME)
April 18th, 2009
2:29 pm
I must be dreaming. The scoreboard doesn’t really read 9-0 in the favor of the Pirates. It can’t. This is the new and improved Braves. The one with a revamped lineup with the “professional hitter” GA in the 3 spot. It can’t read 9-0…
Boo
April 18th, 2009
2:29 pm
I hope neither team scores now. 9-0 is the official score of a forfeit, and this team forfeited trying.
Tomahawkin
April 18th, 2009
2:29 pm
Man I miss the days where we used to beatup on teams like the Pirates…
Karma is a B..tch, PNC Has been a house of Horrors for the Braves, I wonder what is our record there since it opened in 2001…?
It seems like the pirates always play us tough at PNC park since 2001…
Boyer LOVES Cox
April 18th, 2009
2:30 pm
DOB, we are all homers here but your homerism is blinding you my friend. if you dont know what a joke bobby cox is then you have no business covering baseball. he has lost it. you know it, i know it and by the teams play the last couple of years, even they know it.
choozer
April 18th, 2009
2:30 pm
This definitely isn’t a replay of last night … it’s last night-squared
P-Town Brave
April 18th, 2009
2:30 pm
I completely agree w/ you Doc…
Also Chop it up sums it up perfectly…this team has no heart and no desire…
And they get that from Old Man River in the dugout…
HANG IT UP BOBBY!
bravesfan
April 18th, 2009
2:30 pm
bravesfan
April 18th, 2009
2:26 pm
wow…
Where did you come from?
N Nine
April 18th, 2009
2:30 pm
Its all a fog, all I remember from this series is Schafer running wildly towards the centerfield wall…
Tomas
April 18th, 2009
2:30 pm
After a very good opening week, a terrible second week.
Frankie Knuckles
April 18th, 2009
2:31 pm
Hey guys, I have this game recording on my DVR. My question is; should I watch this game when I get home? Is it exciting?
eman
April 18th, 2009
2:31 pm
“One last question: How can one team look so damn good through the first 5games and so damn clueless/awful/atrocious/pathetic through the next 6?”
Identity crisis through the first 5? Nobody was picking them so they were out to prove them wrong but since then they have gotten use to the idea and have settled in nicely???
teabag manifesto
April 18th, 2009
2:31 pm
COX MUST GO!
Wake up ‘ol grandpop and give him a gold watch or something.
FRANK WREN MUST GO!
Clueless poser over his head. He couldn’t run a Mickey-D franchise.
SOS
April 18th, 2009
2:31 pm
Wren and Cox must go. But off course this is falling on blind eyes. It’ll be another year of the old fart BC talking about how “we played well today, you have to tip your hat to them”. I am so sick of the same old s— for now the 4th year.
Marc D
April 18th, 2009
2:31 pm
McCann is going to go on the DL to get a lasek eye surgery adjustment. He ran into an abrupt slump because he can’t see. Bowman has had it up on the blog for a little while
TNJeff
April 18th, 2009
2:31 pm
who is worse – the braves team or the braves announcers?
Announcers brag on adjustments Jordan is making in center only to watch him miss play a single into a triple and then once again run to the wall and misplay a double. Then the announcers note that the braves are doing a great job of preventing homeruns by the other team – sure enough 2 homers & counting (?) follow
This team has a will to lose & these announcers are such pathetic idiotic homers. Oh yeah, also noted that Jordan had tweaked his left wrist as an explanation for his not hitting anymore. What a bunch of wusses