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MFin04
April 21st, 2009
10:52 pm
When you are going this bad…i think you have to squeeze or something.
Epinephrine
April 21st, 2009
10:52 pm
How can we not advance these runners. My soul is being crushed.
PWHjort
April 21st, 2009
10:52 pm
Wow. Escobar, be a hero.
OMG
April 21st, 2009
10:52 pm
EPIC FAIL
Run Heap Run
April 21st, 2009
10:52 pm
It’s all up to you, Yunie. We’ll never laugh at your frosted tips again. Swear.
Chop It Up All-star
April 21st, 2009
10:52 pm
Wow…pathetic.
Richard
April 21st, 2009
10:52 pm
COME ON YUNEL!!!!!!
KP #55
April 21st, 2009
10:53 pm
We suck sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo bad
Doc Holiday (But its early......is it?)
April 21st, 2009
10:53 pm
Great job by super slugger KJ………..and yes ill keep complaining about him and his play.
sullyzz
April 21st, 2009
10:53 pm
I hate St. Claire! He does this crap all the time! Hanrahan does not need the distraction of the coach coming out!
LuisG
April 21st, 2009
10:53 pm
Flyout to center and no advance? How far dit it fly?
bgvt
April 21st, 2009
10:53 pm
Wow. Hard to believe not getting a run in from 3rd in that situation. Come on, Yunel, pick them up.
alsim
April 21st, 2009
10:53 pm
GET RID OF GREG NORTON!!!!
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Huh?
April 21st, 2009
10:53 pm
Unbelievable!
TBrown
April 21st, 2009
10:53 pm
this is a bad dream
this is a bad dream
this is a bad dream
Richard
April 21st, 2009
10:54 pm
PUT a Fork in My Eye!!!
Jeremy
April 21st, 2009
10:54 pm
Great to see Bobby sticking with Norton there in that crucial spot. Hmmmm Infante hitting .310 or a 40-year old who’s 0-11 on the season? That’s right, 0-12…
OMG
April 21st, 2009
10:54 pm
6-8
EPIC FAIL=2009 Braves
sullyzz
April 21st, 2009
10:54 pm
Yay! Bang Zoom go the fireworks! Another Curly W in the win column!
N Nine
April 21st, 2009
10:54 pm
OMFG
Epinephrine
April 21st, 2009
10:54 pm
Another terrible offensive performance against the worst staff in the league. Pathetic.
Run Heap Run
April 21st, 2009
10:54 pm
And he swung on the first pitch right to the 2B.
We just lost a series to the worst team in baseball. I think I’ll avoid the blog for a day or 3.
mbatl
April 21st, 2009
10:54 pm
2nd and 3rd with no out… ace pinch hitter and top of the order coming up… and can’t get the tying run home.
Bad baseball team.
winterville
April 21st, 2009
10:54 pm
Take a F@CKING pitch.
ground_fog
April 21st, 2009
10:54 pm
that was as weak as it gets-horrible at bats
MFin04
April 21st, 2009
10:54 pm
If Infante hurt? I just dont get Norton up there…after being 0 for 10 on the year…and Infante hitting the ball well? anyone?
Eric from MO
April 21st, 2009
10:54 pm
Like I said they just dont know how to win.
Chop It Up All-star
April 21st, 2009
10:54 pm
You got to be kidding me…2nd and 3rd with no outs, and you don’t score. And the beat goes on…
KP #55
April 21st, 2009
10:54 pm
This is the worst team in baseball hands down.
LuisG
April 21st, 2009
10:54 pm
WOW! A-B-C baseball at its worse!!!
MurphyRules
April 21st, 2009
10:55 pm
unbelievable … here come the one-run losses. God this franchise blows, but maybe we can get another AJC story telling us how the players aren’t worried.
PWHjort
April 21st, 2009
10:55 pm
In other news, the Cardinals just took their first lead of the night against the Mets.
ground_fog
April 21st, 2009
10:55 pm
This roster is horrible. Good job Wren!
Doc Holiday (But its early......is it?)
April 21st, 2009
10:55 pm
1 run loss on the road
KJ……………..YOU ARE THE BIGGEST WIMP ON EARTH!!!!!!!
JEFF
April 21st, 2009
10:55 pm
2nd and 3rd no one out and not one single batter can do a darn thing……. great managing bobby cox……. and congrats… i am not watching another game..
Kurdt Kobain
April 21st, 2009
10:55 pm
I could have sworn it wasn’t long ago we were leading the league in average with RISP…
P-Town Brave
April 21st, 2009
10:55 pm
Greg Norton should be released by the time we hit the clubhouse tonight and Kelly Johnson should be demoted to bench duty.
HOW IN THE HE__ CAN YOU LEAVE RUNNERS AT 2nd AND 3rd WITH NO ONE OUT IN THE 9th!!
A team meeting needs to be held TONIGHT and DRASTIC changes need to be made…
I AM BEYOND EMBARRASSED!
winterville
April 21st, 2009
10:55 pm
This sucks so bad. Why does this keep happening?
kirkinga
April 21st, 2009
10:56 pm
Wow! Utterly awful.
Just horrible at bats.
See the problem isn’t necessarily power, it’s getting the clutch hits.
OMG
April 21st, 2009
10:56 pm
Don’t worry, they’ll get ‘em tomorrow!
Marlins lose two in a row, FINALLY, and this stupid team against the Nationals can’t gain even a single game. Pathetic.
abwright
April 21st, 2009
10:56 pm
LuisG, April 21st, 2009, 10:53 pm, “Flyout to center and no advance? How far dit it fly?”
It was to straight-away center, maybe 90 feet past 2nd base. Not very far at all.
Tony Almeida
April 21st, 2009
10:56 pm
Last year i ordered MLB TV to watch the Braves and cancelled it in April. I am cancelling it now, these jokers are not worth it. Let’s try this again next year, Later People!!
ground_fog
April 21st, 2009
10:56 pm
I’d like to know the percentages of having a runner at second and third with no outs andnot getting home lol
alsim
April 21st, 2009
10:56 pm
It’s beginning to look a lot like … 2008!
PWHjort
April 21st, 2009
10:56 pm
You know, this is a time when I sarcastically (but not really) say, “I hate the Braves”.
TBrown
April 21st, 2009
10:56 pm
Early or not, that one hurts. NO OUTS!
P-Town Brave
April 21st, 2009
10:56 pm
Where are you MORONS who claim Kelly is such a great player?!
MFin04
April 21st, 2009
10:56 pm
I think Bobby or TP has got to get the Ax soon. If you cant get your players to hit in this situation…you have got to go. At some point there has got to be accountability by the coaches/managers.
Eric from MO
April 21st, 2009
10:57 pm
Groundfog how in anyway was tonights Wrens fault. The GM was not at-bat.
Chuck James was Solid until the 6th!!!
April 21st, 2009
10:57 pm
Good thing there is no panic in these Braves!
Loaf Garret on a blackberry from the showers
April 21st, 2009
10:57 pm
KJ……………..YOU ARE THE BIGGEST WIMP ON EARTH!!!!!!!
About time someone took the title from me.
Ryan
April 21st, 2009
10:57 pm
wow what the hell was that…. can even make decent contact. were the worst team in baseball after that…..
mbatl
April 21st, 2009
10:57 pm
Jeff, what’s Cox got to do with it? He had 3 of his best hitters at the plate with the tying runs on 2nd and 3rd. Can’t bunt, can’t pinch hit (except putting Norton at the plate); somebody’s gotta hit a fly ball.
Sorry Cox haters… it ain’t Bobby’s fault. It’s the players.
Jim
April 21st, 2009
10:57 pm
aaaaarrrrrggggghhhhh!!!!!!
sometimes you get beat; sometimes you just lost the game. Tonight we did the later several ways in each of last few innings. If we can’t do the fundamental things, that’s pathetic.
LF a real problem. CF and RF performing better than expectations, but LF producing nothing. On most teams that’s a reall run-producing position. Not on Braves. And, Brandon Jones is not the answer. Wonder who else might be available. Any ideas.
Frank from KS
April 21st, 2009
10:57 pm
Well..Braves lose another heart-wrencher….
in other news…
LMAO
Huh?
April 21st, 2009
10:57 pm
So how can ANYONE have even one ounce of optimism about this team? This isn’t a small slump or anomoly. This team has played this way for 3 freaking years! What has changed? Nothing!
This team will find a way to lose. If they pitch, they won’t hit. If they hit, they won’t pitch!
Chipper’s pregame opener speech to the troops was indeed self fulfilling.
As Chipper feared (his words) The Braves are a joke!
McFann Ô Ô
April 21st, 2009
10:57 pm
AAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGG!! Dagnabit!
Tom O’Hawke–
Wow…yeah, I guess I shoulda mentioned it…
But that really makes me sad, we get all these rally turtles, and this is the thanks we get!
Night, all.
TnBrian
April 21st, 2009
10:57 pm
Lets pick who’s to blame for that joke of those two at bats:
a) Norton
b) Kelly
c) Bobby
d) Pendelton
MFin04
April 21st, 2009
10:57 pm
WHERE WAS INFANTE DURING ALL OF THIS. HE IS A LINE DRIVE HITTER!
zephyr 8
April 21st, 2009
10:57 pm
WOW.
brian
April 21st, 2009
10:58 pm
2nd and 3rd, nobody out with the tying run on 3rd base and cannot score pathetic. 2 errors in the Nats big inning. Pathetic. Getting thrown out at 3B for the 3rd base with Chipper at bat. Terrible. Allowing inherited runners to score – not good.
Not impressive at all Braves. Not impressive at all.
Again it is a young season and no reason to panic but we can only say it is a young season for so long.
JOE
April 21st, 2009
10:58 pm
i think I’d rather go through childbirth then watch the braves this season…at least that has a good ending
Original Jon
April 21st, 2009
10:58 pm
LOL, that was mother effin pathetic!!!!!!!!!!!! I am done watching this team for now, I think I will check back in July, see how they are doing then, but more than likely they will still suck big donkey ……………. The tying run was 90 feet away with nobody out and they couldnt hit a fly ball deep enough to bring him in, just pathetic. I mean, words cannot describe this team at all. They flat out suck.
PWHjort
April 21st, 2009
10:58 pm
Cardinals up on the Mets 6-4 now. Bottom 8 2 out bases empty.
N Nine
April 21st, 2009
10:59 pm
We lose close games all the time. Why?
Bobby Cox…why the ^%^$^$ would you bring in Norton and Boyer? Bad decisions over and over again. Blame goes to Bobby, yet again
ndbraves
April 21st, 2009
10:59 pm
norton is horrible and KJ… that was horrible. really disgusting we can’t get a runner when they are on 2nd and 3rd with no outs, absolutely ridiculous
Chop Chop
April 21st, 2009
10:59 pm
I’d hate the Braves if this had happened in a playoff series.
JEFF
April 21st, 2009
10:59 pm
where was david ross?.. i dont care david ross kills the baseball yet he sits… congrats to you and your pathetic of a joke coaching staff cox.. no guts no heart absolutely zip… get swept by the nationals and frank wren you dont deserve a job on any ball team…. i want a GM change and a manager change NOW… i bought tickets to see manny and the dodgers and the yankees and redsoxs now im selling them…. no wait im gonna come and watch those 3 teams put a whoopin on this pathetic braves team..
alsim
April 21st, 2009
10:59 pm
Get ‘em on. Get ‘em over. Ground out, pop out, ground out.
JF
April 21st, 2009
10:59 pm
Bobby won’t squeeze an orange…. I don’t think I have seen one of his teams do pull off a successful squeeze and I have been a Braves fan and watcher since the fifties…Yeah the fifties…
I give Bobby lot’s of slack, but not when it comes to situations like this. There is no excuse to not get that run in….try it with Diaz, and if he doesn’t make it then Schaefer is on third….that really isn’t hard is it?
bravefaninok
April 21st, 2009
10:59 pm
Eric from MO
April 21st, 2009
10:49 pm
God Damn. MLBTV just froze on me when Schafer hit the ball!
mine did the same…
N Nine
April 21st, 2009
10:59 pm
meant Bennett
Eric from MO
April 21st, 2009
10:59 pm
Well I dont feel like having my morale pulled down by all you fools. Not anyones fault but your own to not see the wholes in this baseball team before the season.
brent a.
April 21st, 2009
11:00 pm
Let’s be sure to ink Bobby to an extension ASAP!
TNJeff
April 21st, 2009
11:00 pm
this team has a will to lose and lost they will
what a pathetic defense in the outfield / what pathetic base running / and as usual choke when the games on the line – has Kelly gotten a hit since his boneheaded error dropping the out at second several games back. I knew he would go into a hitting slump when he did that.
Bunch of head cases
But remember – error boy in left field Diaz assured us before the game there’s “No Panic”
Team plays like there’s no panic & no pep
What A Joke
April 21st, 2009
11:00 pm
This team is a joke. Runners on 1st and 2nd with 0 outs and they can’t even get the tying run in. No wonder they are the laughing stock of baseball right now. They are on the verge of getting swept by the damn Nationals. What a pathetic team they are. It’s early, but this team has absolutely no chance of coming in anything better then 4th place in the division this year, and the Nationals may take that spot from them.
MFin04
April 21st, 2009
11:00 pm
iT’S THE PLAYERS FAULT…BUT WHO ULTIMATELY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PLAYERS? ANYONE? ANYONE? AND WHY WAS INFANTE NOT HITTING FOR GONZO?
ABravesFan
April 21st, 2009
11:00 pm
Good job Braves dont settle for just losing games. Go out there play horrible defense and do nothing in the clutch situations.
sullyzz
April 21st, 2009
11:00 pm
I would LOVE to go see the sweep tomorrow, but I have to take my son to baseball practice tomorrow evening. Plus, I do still have a soft spot in my heart for the Bravos and I hate it that I didn’t have tickets in my season ticket plan for this entire series.
gobravos004
April 21st, 2009
11:00 pm
thats it. i have been a braves fan for nearly 25 years. i live in alabama and i still make it to at least 10 games a year and have been doing so for the better part of two decades. if i am not at the game then im watching it. i am in know way a bandwagon fan as i have seen the teams in the 80s stink it up for years. but this….this is worse. i am not going to another game. i am not watching another game until bobby cox is gone. if that is 10 years from now than so be it. i wont be missing anything….im done with this choke job bullsh*t night in and night out. a bunch of overpaid wife beaters who could give two sh*ts about this game. while my blood pressure is going through the roof and for what? runners on 2cd and 3rd and 0 outs and you cant get the run in? i am getting to old for this sh*t. you all can take the reigns now. call me when booby is gone….
Efrim
April 21st, 2009
11:00 pm
Why should Kelly Johnson get benched?
Kurdt Kobain
April 21st, 2009
11:01 pm
You guys are super fans… “i’m just not going to watch anymore.” I’m still trying to figure how Bobby Cox is responsible for Norton, KJ, and Yunel’s at bats. Maybe he shouldn’t have put Norton out there, okay, but KJ and Yunel?
Another good pitching performance wasted. Our offense was on fire week 1! Where did it all go?
eman
April 21st, 2009
11:01 pm
eh .. i knew it
dont let us down Nats … SWEEP!!!!!!
Tony Almeida
April 21st, 2009
11:01 pm
mbatl – Norton and KJ are the best hitters???? what are you smoking??? because I want some!!!!
Ryan
April 21st, 2009
11:01 pm
we play likes its the minors or something , trying to steal 3rd with 2 outs and Chipper batting. cant even hit the damn ball out of infield to tie it up. I’m actually happy TBS doesnt show there games anymore cause i cant handle seeing this BS every night. its like there not even trying.
AndyC
April 21st, 2009
11:01 pm
That was terrible. I think Johnson and Escobar swung at the first pitch. I’m with Run Heap Run, I will skip the blog for a week or so. I don’t think I can take much more of it like it was earlier today. It’s only going to get worse now. Take it easy.
Rob in Mobile
April 21st, 2009
11:01 pm
This is pitiful, folks. The last few years, it’s the same thing, with a constantly changing cast of characters. Poor fundamentals. Not moving people over. Not driving them in in clutch situations. Getting their runs early, then coasting the rest of the way, only to have their pitching (or defense) let them down. Another one-run loss. A listless dugout, with a ho-hum approach to the game, despite what Matt Diaz says. The results speak for themselves. We need new blood in that dugout, and I’m not talking about Ned Yost. There needs to be some fire, and the only way to rectify this problem is not to look for old Braves alumni who think like Bobby Cox. Where the Braves look, I don’t know. But what’s there right now isn’t working, and unfortunately, this team is so attuned to the status quo I really don’t see any change. This could be another long year.
Tomas
April 21st, 2009
11:02 pm
Norton doesn’t have a pinch hit this season. I don’t understand, with runners on second and third with no outs in the 9th inning in a one run game, you need to score. Damn Diaz, why the hell didn’t you catch the damn ball…………..
TNJeff
April 21st, 2009
11:02 pm
did I hear announcers say earlier that the braves bench has a womping total of 1 pitch hit all year.
I thought the bench was pathetic when corky was kissing cox ass
Jake W.
April 21st, 2009
11:02 pm
Does Norton have a hit this year? Kelly Johnson is once again Mr. Hot and Cold. Starts off hitting everything and now well. Braves keep shooting themselves in the foot. Errors, bad baserunning, bad fundamental baseball. Recipe for disaster. Pitching wasn’t bad. I don’t think its the coaching. Mentally these guys just aren’t there as baseball players. There making mistakes that I don’t see in a little league game.
Kentavo
April 21st, 2009
11:02 pm
Hmm, now don’t count me as an Andruw fan, but can this team really expect to drive in runs by subtracting AJ and Tex and replacing them with Kotchman and Shafer?
Can Dave Ross play 1B or the outfield? At least he’s got some pop.
zephyr 8
April 21st, 2009
11:02 pm
Failure -Save on Failure
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–noun 1. an act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success: His effort ended in failure. The campaign was a failure.
2. nonperformance of something due, required, or expected: a failure to do what one has promised; a failure to appear.
3. The Braves
Kieran(Long Island Braves fan)
April 21st, 2009
11:02 pm
the one time Kelly doesn’t fly out to the warning track…
Also I was beginging after the double, please infante not Norton, please infante not norton, please… oh boy.
The lefty righty stuff gets silly, just put the best hitter up there.
By the way, who’s idea was it to make Joel Hanrahan a closer? This guy could be the most trusted god awful pitcher in baseball. When I heard he got named to the US Baseball Classic roster I almost vommitted and then thought about cheering for Canada… ugh, tough loss tonight.
Kurdt Kobain
April 21st, 2009
11:02 pm
On a positive note, glad to see Schafer come through in the clutch. He was in a nasty slump last week and he seems to have turned it around.
Choppinmama
April 21st, 2009
11:02 pm
Hey Carroll, you’d better chime in here and soothe the huddled masses, or there’s gonna be some major negative bloggage on here for the rest of the night. DOB usually starts the calming reportage as soon as that losing last out of the game is made on his watch. I’m sure he won’t want to take over a roiling blog in the a.m.
Please help us, Obi-Rogers!.
Tony Almeida
April 21st, 2009
11:02 pm
so this Rudy guy in Texas can fix Frenchy, and fix Andruw….so what the hell are we paying Pendleton for???
Smyrna Jim
April 21st, 2009
11:02 pm
Just got home from a night of tutoring (with a radio in my ear) – saw the last inning, and was not sure I wanted to pull up the blog, since it will prolong my anguish. I think a couple of shots are rum (okay, I admit it, a couple more) are necessary after that.
ABravesFan
April 21st, 2009
11:03 pm
Lets see nats get the sweep then dusty’s crew finish off bobby cox in cincy over the weekend.
Eric from MO
April 21st, 2009
11:03 pm
MFin04
April 21st, 2009
10:56 pm
I think Bobby or TP has got to get the Ax soon. If you cant get your players to hit in this situation…you have got to go. At some point there has got to be accountability by the coaches/managers.
I do agree with you that TP should go. Actually I thought that last season. Hell, none of his players listen to him. Andruw didnt, McCann goes to his papa, Francouer goes to the Rangers hitting coach, and Im sure there is plenty more. What has TP done? Either hitters figure it out on their own or they fail.
What A Joke
April 21st, 2009
11:03 pm
I can’t believe I shelled out the money for MLB Extra Ticket to watch a rerun of the 2008 season. Different players, same ending. What a joke.