This guy makes Mitch Williams look like Mariano Rivera.

I know the Giants can’t hit the ball but if they could have cashed in on any of the multiple opportunites to score we’d be looking at a 6-2 homestand.

Let’s just get some damn runs for F*s sake.

If Norton were to latch on to a team like the Rockies or Phillies, I’d love for him to come up and face us in an important pinch hitting situation. I felt that same way about the Jeff Francoeur trade. After the trade was announced I heard people saying “How could Frank Wren trade him within the division? We will have to face him 18 times a year and he will make us pay for it.

Hell, I want the Braves to face him 18 times a year. I’m looking forward to it. I see no downside to it.

I guess that it comes down to how you see things. Kind of like “is the glass half full…or….half empty”. 2 people can see the same thing, yet come to 2 different conclusions.

If not, I crammed all night crunching numbers to find a solution.

Here are my scientific results:

One solution stands-out as most logical, for you, Schafer, and the potentially huge auditory receptors of any lovechild. Ear-reduction surgery.

First, such surgery would eliminate obsessive ear-envy that wrecks lives and tears households asunder. Secondly, it would lighten the load and reduce aerodynamic drag on Schafer, transforming him from a medium-risk base-stealing threat to a full-blown base-swiping phenom. Thirdly, if tissue taken from one of Michael Jackson’s ears was sufficient to patch his teentsy little nose, just consider the benefit to mankind Schafers slabs could bring. If he were to donate all that ear meat, you’d never again see an ugly nose! Cosmetic surgeons would offer free nose-jobs to reduce ear-tissue inventory! The idea of global warming would be more readily accepted due to the loss-of-shade effect caused by Schafer’s earectomy!

As far as the child goes, well, maybe I’d just leave him/her alone. Maybe they too can change the world someday… Maybe there’ll even be a benefit concert in their honor; I can see it now!

“”LIVE EARS”", featuring the Lionel Richie song none of us will ever forget, “We Are The Ears.”

Hope this helps Roman-Gal, I gave it my all…

Sometimes a game comes down to who is available to pinch hit in a key spot. Saturday against the Mets was a CLASSIC example of that. Bases loaded, 2 outs, score 2-1 Mets, bottom of the 8th. Because of Bobby’s mismanagement of the pinch runners earlier in the game……..he only had Great “Mr. .111″ Norton available to pinch hit. I would have MUCH RATHER seen Brooks Conrad up there. He has delivered a couple of times already in his short time with the Braves as a pinch hitter. If he gets a hit there, it’s the ball game because Rafael Soriano comes in to pitch the 9th instead of Manny Acosta.

Brooks Conrad hit a pinch hit 3 run homer in his first at-bat with the Braves to help up win a game. Do you really think that we that game if Greg Norton had come to the plate in that situation?

So to answer your question, a move like that (demoting Conrad instead of cutting Norton) could very easily come back and cost the Braves BIG TIME.

It just isnt one move that is the issue here. It’s a PATTERN Bobby’s guys being given the nod over more productive players. In a few weeks, you are going to see it continue with Jeff Bennett and Buddy Carlyle. I’m only going by the EXTENSIVE track record of what has happened in the past.