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Bravesman
July 3rd, 2009
8:58 pm
alright conrad, we have a problem now solve it
Salamander
July 3rd, 2009
8:58 pm
All right 29 year old rookie – what ya got.
Paul Lentz
July 3rd, 2009
8:58 pm
Good at-bat by Casey there. At least the pitcher’s spot is out of the way. Let’s see what our latest call-up can do.
Jurrjens4NLCY
July 3rd, 2009
8:58 pm
HR please conrad, or a single, or anything thats productive.
Steve from OH
July 3rd, 2009
8:58 pm
I’m a big fan of Hoover’s as well. My three breakout prospects in the spring were Hoover, Thompson and Milligan. Dunno about Thompson, but Hoover sure looks good so far…
Bravesman
July 3rd, 2009
8:58 pm
love his name
Heath (Cleveland)
July 3rd, 2009
8:59 pm
Morton pitching well for the Pirates tonight: 5.2 innings of shutout baseball.
Bravesman
July 3rd, 2009
8:59 pm
NO FING WAY
Salamander
July 3rd, 2009
8:59 pm
no sh!t
that works.
bigmacattack
July 3rd, 2009
8:59 pm
Welcome to the bigs
PWHjort
July 3rd, 2009
8:59 pm
That’ll do, Brooks.
BravesFanChris24
July 3rd, 2009
8:59 pm
BROOKS CONRAD!
Jake W.
July 3rd, 2009
8:59 pm
Wow, Welcome Mr. Conrad
FaninFaytown
July 3rd, 2009
8:59 pm
HAHA!!!!!
Chop It Up All-Star
July 3rd, 2009
8:59 pm
Brooks has already out performed Kelly Johnson!!
Vinings Jim
July 3rd, 2009
8:59 pm
That’s our Mr. Brooks!!!!!!!!!!
Gone Viral
July 3rd, 2009
8:59 pm
“I guess that would make sense since he’s like…12″
Exactly. He’s also new to the country, so we are probably working hard to get him comfortable. We want to avoid the issues that have plagued Escobar.
UGAFan
July 3rd, 2009
8:59 pm
wow.
Jerry Holcombe
July 3rd, 2009
8:59 pm
Son of a b!tch!!!!!!!!!!
Rob from SC (Please don't trade Escobar)
July 3rd, 2009
8:59 pm
Bye Bye KJ, you have been replaced.
jeffrey d
July 3rd, 2009
8:59 pm
Trade Yunel and KJ. Brooks Conrad is the real deal.
Hawk01
July 3rd, 2009
8:59 pm
HOLY COW !!!!!!!!! BROOKS WHO !!!
Tomahawkin
July 3rd, 2009
8:59 pm
Yeah! There We Go BC!!!!!
Paul Lentz
July 3rd, 2009
8:59 pm
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bye Kelly, lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Take notes Francoeur!!!!!!!!!!!!
Unknown
July 3rd, 2009
8:59 pm
CONRAD!!!!!!!!!!!!
bocabrave
July 3rd, 2009
8:59 pm
Are you kidding me??? Wow!
Heath (Cleveland)
July 3rd, 2009
8:59 pm
That is productive.
Steve from OH
July 3rd, 2009
8:59 pm
So far, so good on the Conrad signing, Mr. Wren…
abwright
July 3rd, 2009
8:59 pm
Good lord, Brooks Conrad comes onto the team today, pinch hits, and hits a 3 run home run.
Didn’t see that coming.
Braveheart
July 3rd, 2009
8:59 pm
BROOKS!
AndyC
July 3rd, 2009
8:59 pm
No Fu%king way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bgvt
July 3rd, 2009
9:00 pm
Kelly who?
Lamar Banks
July 3rd, 2009
9:00 pm
Welcome to the club Brooks Conrad
Gone Viral
July 3rd, 2009
9:00 pm
Okay, Frank Wren gets props for that particular roster move.
Tomahawkin
July 3rd, 2009
9:00 pm
Hell Yeah!!!!
BravesFanChris24
July 3rd, 2009
9:00 pm
Well, whoever said we needed to score 8 runs tonight was right ~_~
joe
July 3rd, 2009
9:00 pm
unbelievable!!!!
KJ+Frenchy=Garbage
July 3rd, 2009
9:01 pm
wow Brooks Conrad!!!!! He’s done more damage in 1 AB than Jeff has done in 2 months
Braveheart
July 3rd, 2009
9:01 pm
Bye Bye KJ, you have been replaced.
oh, that’s absolutely friggin’ silly
Jurrjens4NLCY
July 3rd, 2009
9:01 pm
OMFG
Bravesman
July 3rd, 2009
9:01 pm
Jeffery D
dont push it, Yunel is too good to be traded.
N8
July 3rd, 2009
9:01 pm
Kelly Johnson….. last 28 days: 0 HR and 1 RBI.
Brooks Conrad….. 1 AB, 1 HR, 3 RBI.
Enough said.
Carroll Rogers
July 3rd, 2009
9:01 pm
guess Bobby wasn’t kidding when he told me before the game the fans would like Brooks Conrad….What a gamer he is. ….there you have his first major league home run.
bigmacattack
July 3rd, 2009
9:01 pm
Back to back days with Braves pinch hit homers
AndyC
July 3rd, 2009
9:01 pm
Blanco was just standing there beating Conrad on the head. LOL!
Tomahawkin
July 3rd, 2009
9:01 pm
“wow Brooks Conrad!!!!! He’s done more damage in 1 AB than Jeff has done in 2 months”
Co-Sign!!!
mr baseball
July 3rd, 2009
9:02 pm
Why would a manager have a .300+ hitter bunt with a man on first with the worst offensive player on the team on deck? Because the Book for Managerial Dummies tells him to.
Bobby Cox is absolutely incapable of making an intelligent decision when he has to juggle more than one thought in his dense head. He took the bat out of Escobar’s hands early in the game, and that decision quite likely cost the Braves a run or 2.
His insistence of having his better hitters bunt with lesser hitters behind them makes no sense, but in Bobby Cox’s Plesantville universe, it makes all the sense in the world.
Once again, one of his players does something to overcome the manager’s cluelessness. Much better to be lucky than smart. Much better.
I’m sure that was Cox’s plan all along. Create an open base for Kotchman & have them pitch around him so Conrad could jack one out. Genius.
Chopper2Chipper
July 3rd, 2009
9:02 pm
Wow! That’s certainly worth a feather in the cap!
Paul Lentz
July 3rd, 2009
9:02 pm
By the way, didnt I say that we are just going to have to score at least 8 runs tonight? 3 run lead, 3 innings to go. Looks like Bobby gets to use his Moylan, Gonzalez/Soriano combo tonight.
What a BIG HIT. Dude has been in Triple A all year and comes up and TURNS on a fastball. We’d be up by 5 or 6 runs if Francoeur could do that.
Gone Viral
July 3rd, 2009
9:02 pm
The first career homerun is one of my favorite moments in the sport. The Braves got a couple of these this week. That’s wonderful.
Bravesman
July 3rd, 2009
9:02 pm
5 straight, longest win streak of the year
Chris from the Rock
July 3rd, 2009
9:02 pm
Lightning in a bottle! He’s the 2009 version of Willie Harris/Charles Thomas/Jorge Campillo.
Jurrjens4NLCY
July 3rd, 2009
9:02 pm
Well I seem to remember 2 Braves outfielders that Hit a homerun in their first MLB at bat….. Oh know. (Btw I was talking about Jordon and Jeff)
JasonInFL
July 3rd, 2009
9:02 pm
W.O.W.
That is freakin awesome…Brooks has half as many HRs as Frenchy had all of last month.
joe
July 3rd, 2009
9:03 pm
andyc,
gotta love the spirit of our ‘role’ players martin and gregor
McFann :Ô:
July 3rd, 2009
9:03 pm
Niiiice…
Roman Gal I knew you’d come around to Riaan Spanjer-Furstenburg…you left out that he’s got a homerun, though! Don’t worry, I’m sure you’ll catch on eventually!
Well, yeah, ya know, I figured it was about time I gave it a rest with uh…what’s his name?
Sorry about missing the homer–yeah, you just gotta keep in mind I’m new to this…
Bravesman
July 3rd, 2009
9:03 pm
Brooks is the 100th player in history to homer in his 1st AB
Braveheart
July 3rd, 2009
9:03 pm
The only thing I don’t like about Martin Prado is that he looks too much like Francoeur with that big cheesin’ smile he has on the video board at The Ted.
joe
July 3rd, 2009
9:04 pm
what do you all think of these red caps?
N8
July 3rd, 2009
9:04 pm
Bravesman, last time I checked, ML games go 9 innings. Not 6.5, LOL!
Please don’t jinx them by claiming victory only 2/3 through the game.
Unknown
July 3rd, 2009
9:04 pm
This game is far from over.
Bravesman
July 3rd, 2009
9:04 pm
lets preserve the lead
UGAFan
July 3rd, 2009
9:05 pm
Didn’t Brooks play a little for Oakland?
Chopper2Chipper
July 3rd, 2009
9:05 pm
I’m pretty sure Jeff struck out his first time up and then hit a HR in the 7th, or so.
Braveheart
July 3rd, 2009
9:05 pm
How do you know Escobar didn’t bunt on his own?
jeffrey d
July 3rd, 2009
9:05 pm
Bravesfan – I was definitely kidding. Brooks Conrad is a career minor leaguer
Goldenglove002
July 3rd, 2009
9:05 pm
Jurrjens4NLCY- thats exactly what I thought when he hit that
bocabrave
July 3rd, 2009
9:05 pm
Thank you, N8
The Bird and Indian
July 3rd, 2009
9:05 pm
That wasn’t his first MLB ab BTW.
Bravesman
July 3rd, 2009
9:05 pm
N8
i thought that moylan,Gonzo,Soriano was a lock to win
N8
July 3rd, 2009
9:06 pm
Jeff’s HR wasn’t in his first AB. It was a late inning HR to take the lead in his first GAME.
Chris from the Rock
July 3rd, 2009
9:06 pm
Hey Coach, I believe Brooks Conrad DID give us something to get excited about.
Paul Lentz
July 3rd, 2009
9:06 pm
Charlie Morton is helping us tonight. He has a 1 hitter through 6 innings. Pirates up 4-0 over the Marlins.
Looks like Francoeur is trying to stay in the good graces of Bobby. He went into the bullpen to get that home run ball that Conrad hit. Talk about brown nosing. Bobby just cant let go of his false belief that Jeff Francoeur will be a good hitter. Now I understand why people believe in religion. People need to believe in something that doesnt exist (Neither God nor the ability of Francoeur to DRIVE the ball exist).
Tomahawkin
July 3rd, 2009
9:06 pm
After Hearing Phils Collins “In Ther Air Tonight” I gotta bump that Shyt…That song is in my head, BTW That song is so good they had to remix/cover it 3 times….
Mitchie-san
July 3rd, 2009
9:06 pm
Let me be the first to say “runners on first and third for Furstenberg”.
Bravesman
July 3rd, 2009
9:07 pm
oh man
The Bird and Indian
July 3rd, 2009
9:07 pm
Man you just gotta love that. I was also very happy to see all the spirit from the players in the dugout lately. Things are starting to look a LOT better. Another 2 hit night so far from Prado. This guy is looking so solid. He is just spraying hits EVERYWHERE!
Tomahawkin
July 3rd, 2009
9:07 pm
Come On Petey-Pabb!!!! Shyt!!!
Rob from SC (Please don't trade Escobar)
July 3rd, 2009
9:07 pm
Good to see Morton pitching well. He has a bright future ahead of him
bigmacattack
July 3rd, 2009
9:07 pm
mr baseball: Why would a manager have a .300+ hitter bunt with a man on first with the worst offensive player on the team on deck?
Since we’re playing “here’s what might have happened” i’ll play along.
Escobar walks, Diaz is allowed to hit and flys out to the outfield somewhere, Jeff comes up and promptly hits into a double play on the 2nd or 3rd pitch.
Inning over, game still tied 5-5
Chop It Up All-Star
July 3rd, 2009
9:08 pm
Go up by three and you let the first two runners get on base…geez!!
Gone Viral
July 3rd, 2009
9:08 pm
“Brooks is the 100th player in history to homer in his 1st AB”
As a couple of other folks have pointed out, this wasn’t his first career at bat. He had a cup of coffee with Oakland last year. I think that was his 20th at bat.
Bravesman
July 3rd, 2009
9:08 pm
willingham dangerous bat
Heath (Cleveland)
July 3rd, 2009
9:08 pm
Moylan off tonight…why is he still in? We need the win.
N8
July 3rd, 2009
9:08 pm
“i thought that moylan,Gonzo,Soriano was a lock to win”,
WTF said that? Certainly not me. Our backend of the bullpen is strong as hell. But since there is two on and nobody out, I’m gonna go with the fact that you already jinxed em’.
Nicely done A-hole.
Roman Gal
July 3rd, 2009
9:08 pm
McFann-
Yeah, what was that guys name that you used to go on and on about? Oh, it was “Four-Eyes”, right?
jeffrey d
July 3rd, 2009
9:08 pm
Although I will say this. Brooks Conrad is slugging 4.000. KJ? .359. Just saying…
Bravesman
July 3rd, 2009
9:08 pm
Why does moylan struggle at nats park
KJ+Frenchy=Garbage
July 3rd, 2009
9:08 pm
Moylan always makes things interesting
Jerry Holcombe
July 3rd, 2009
9:08 pm
Damn Moylan, what exactly are you trying to do, give those runs back?
bigmacattack
July 3rd, 2009
9:09 pm
Offense on, Moylan off.
Some things never change.
joe
July 3rd, 2009
9:09 pm
Paul Lentz, this is no place to talk about religion
AndyC
July 3rd, 2009
9:09 pm
That was not Conrad’s first ML hit. He played a few games with Oakland last year. His first homer though.
Paul Lentz
July 3rd, 2009
9:09 pm
This is the reason why I dont like using Moylan in the 7th inning. He is too inconsistent. He has come into a number of games with a 3 or 4 run lead and simply given them up. Yet, Bobby “believes” in him. Just like he believes in Francoeur, Jeff Bennent, and Kelly Johnson. We are lucky to be only 2 games out, considering the players Bobby believes in simply SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Unknown
July 3rd, 2009
9:09 pm
Moylan in to blow it.
Bravesman
July 3rd, 2009
9:09 pm
N8
chill out bro
Braveheart
July 3rd, 2009
9:09 pm
Maybe you jinxed them N8 with your perpetually expressed pessimism
KJ+Frenchy=Garbage
July 3rd, 2009
9:10 pm
great play chip!!!
bigmacattack
July 3rd, 2009
9:10 pm
there’s the first, now get your double play!
AndyC
July 3rd, 2009
9:10 pm
Uh oh. Looks like “bad” Moylan is here tonight.