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sportsmandh
August 27th, 2009
3:15 pm
I realize the last 2 days have been pitiful. BUT it is not time to lose all hope. Anything can still happen. We still have plenty of head to head games with the Marlins. First thing we can control is beating them for 2nd in the division. Then if we can over take the Giants, which is a strong possibility, we would be fighting whoever loses out between the Dodgers and Rockies for the wild card.
Whose to say LA or Colorado won’t go on a cold streak? LA has already had some drop off. And you think the Braves have a hard time scoring runs some nights, the Giants are much worse offensively. Also, the Giants, Dodgers, and Rockies are going to spend a lot of time beating up on each other over the next few weeks. And we have a lot of games in September against the Mets (who now don’t even have Santana) and the Nats.
Bottom line, the last 2 days have been really bad. But don’t knee jerk too much. There’s still time. I’m not saying it’s going to happen. But I think the Braves will have 88-90 wins at the end of the year at least and we’ll see if that’s good enough or not.
And if we miss the playoffs, at least we don’t suck this year, we’re gaining momentum, going to have a good winning season, and getting back on the right track.
Nova Scotia Steve
August 27th, 2009
3:16 pm
2-0 Dodgers…on a 2-run bomb
Nova Scotia Steve
August 27th, 2009
3:16 pm
Matt Kemp BTW
hem o'roid
August 27th, 2009
3:16 pm
Braves=chipper=fork=done. Pathetic, why can’t everyone admit it.
Nesquick Bunny
August 27th, 2009
3:17 pm
Anybody up for a squirt of some brown milk?
Piedmont Blues (ex-BFIR)
August 27th, 2009
3:20 pm
By the way, folks, it must be a fun summer if you’re a basketball fan in Kentucky.
RHR
August 27th, 2009
3:22 pm
scoots – I was going to give you props for your 2:44 but then I saw you propped yourself and got so disgusted I had to step away for a while.
Shamus Thacker
August 27th, 2009
3:23 pm
ncscoots: Shamus, were you giving me props at 3:04? Just asking, so I could thank you, if you were.
Yes I was scoots!
Bat Masterson
August 27th, 2009
3:24 pm
hem o’roid
August 27th, 2009
3:16 pm
you’re such a pain in the butt
Chong
August 27th, 2009
3:24 pm
Cheech
August 27th, 2009
2:03 pm
The Braves are done! Better luck next year.
Bro, how many times have I told you to lay off that wacky tobacky?
Tiger Woods
August 27th, 2009
3:25 pm
GO DODGERS!!!! only 4.5 out if they hold and we can get lucky tonight. What you all think about giving Chip a day off? Please give him one. He needs one bad.
ncscoots
August 27th, 2009
3:25 pm
Well, I think we should all remember that you can’t just pick up a crate of urgency at the local Wal-Mart. Nossir. They closed out that section of the store when they started selling food.
And props to Joe Posnanski! Just for the heck of it…
Nova Scotia Steve
August 27th, 2009
3:25 pm
Hem o’roid
LOL…intersting choice for a screen name
Nova Scotia Steve
August 27th, 2009
3:26 pm
Hem o’roid 3:16
Says I just whooped your ass
ncscoots
August 27th, 2009
3:26 pm
RHR, what was I to do? Wasn’t getting enough props from elsewhere, LOL.
Thanks for the props, Shamus!
Tiger Woods
August 27th, 2009
3:27 pm
O ya and at least we aren’t Cubs fans. Kind of like Carroll was saying. Cubs are losing to the Nats again. Kind of looks like us at the beginning of the year.
Nova Scotia Steve
August 27th, 2009
3:27 pm
Blogs gettin a little crazy…but I’m laughin man…lol
RHR
August 27th, 2009
3:28 pm
Psh. Everyone knows the classy people shop at Target and they still have lots of urgency for sale at Target. You need to move to a better neighborhood, scoots. I’m a little embarrassed for you.
Nova Scotia Steve
August 27th, 2009
3:28 pm
Vincent Padilla throwin 96 mph
brent a.
August 27th, 2009
3:29 pm
Piedmont, Personally, I find fellow KY basketball fans that take pleasure in the misfortunes of RP and BG to be more than a little “sick”.
I will say this, though, Gillispie was having problems at UK, and there were a lot of rumors as to what was behind them. Now, at least, with what he is accused of doing last night, there is more evidence to support the hypothesis that he wasn’t handling the stress of the UK job very well, and it was necessary for him to go.
RHR
August 27th, 2009
3:29 pm
I mean, you DID wash “your” hands DIDN’T “you”?
richbrave
August 27th, 2009
3:30 pm
Is this it….????
NO CARROLL, but………
We no longer control our own destiny. Now it will be necessary for the ROCKIES or DODGERS or both to go into a ten game swoon for LOS BRAVOS to become a contenda’ once again. “You was my brudda’ CHARLEY, you shudda’ looked out for me a little bit. ….I coulda’ had class. I coulda’ been a contenda’. I coulda’ been somebody instead of a bum, which is what I am….” So lets look to our brothers in the NL West and hope they do what TERRY’s brother CHARLEY didn’t.
Bat Masterson
August 27th, 2009
3:30 pm
Targets sense of urgency is overrated in my book, its just as good at the everything under a dollar store, snobs.
RHR
August 27th, 2009
3:30 pm
Translation?
richbrave
August 27th, 2009
3:31 pm
TIGER W:
Shush, we still have to play those guys – a bunch.
Chong
August 27th, 2009
3:32 pm
Rocky?
ncscoots
August 27th, 2009
3:33 pm
Psh. Everyone knows the classy people shop at Target and they still have lots of urgency for sale at Target. You need to move to a better neighborhood, scoots. I’m a little embarrassed for you.
Target carries urgency? Dang. I thought that would be a little down-scale for Tahr-zhay, LOL. Figured they were more the heart-and-passion type of retailer.
Props to you for being embarrassed for me! It’s great to be loved! And validated! And stuff!
TN Jeff
August 27th, 2009
3:34 pm
Has ANYONE else made mention of our Hall of Fame manager & his managing style & strategy of looking for a lucky spot to stand rather than actually managing the team. WHAT A FOOL! Rather than yanking ineffective pitchers & or replacing guys like Manny I’llCostya from the roster (when he is taking up a spot because he is ONLY used in runaway games – hey, he may get a lot more pitching time in the days ahead) the camera catches him in search of appeasing his superstitions. O’Flaherty says they lost their focus (which I thinks really ticked Chipper off) but seems to me Cox has lost his focus.
Piedmont Blues (ex-BFIR)
August 27th, 2009
3:34 pm
brent a.,
Hadn’t even seen the Gillispie story, although someone mentioned it on the previous blog. I was more interested in the Pitino meltdown and Calipari getting caught cheating … again.
Bat Masterson
August 27th, 2009
3:35 pm
Chong
August 27th, 2009
3:32 pm
Rocky?
Now thats funny.
Tiger Woods
August 27th, 2009
3:35 pm
Padilla is throwing a shut out through 1….just sayin
MiltonDawg
August 27th, 2009
3:36 pm
The only chance for the Braves is to go 26-10 for the remainder of season. Need to go a 10 game winning steak (i know its hopeless) but you never know. Thank Goodness CFB & NFL are about to start!!!!!
TN Jeff
August 27th, 2009
3:36 pm
Oh & Diaz, Big Heart, Great Hustle, NO GLOVE, & Small Brain
CrimeDog
August 27th, 2009
3:37 pm
Tonight is urgency night at the ballpark. The first (and only) 10,000 fans get a free sense of urgency as they enter the gates at Turner Field.
Nova Scotia Steve
August 27th, 2009
3:38 pm
De La Rosa does not look good today…
JASon
August 27th, 2009
3:39 pm
You rarely see a team go so long without a cold streak. So hopefully they are due for one. Unfortunately the braves have faced two incredibly hot teams here in the second half of the season (Rockies and Phillies) and there has just been no room for error. The good thing is that if the braves don’t make it to the postseason, you don’t get the feeling they would have been able to beat these two teams anyway. Oh well.
Doc Holiday
August 27th, 2009
3:39 pm
Wayne in Utah……..
.298 is an off month for a 2B?
with 10 RBI in 37 AB for the 1st 15 days of august before he was removed from the game on the 16th I believe?
Nova Scotia Steve
August 27th, 2009
3:39 pm
That’s ofcourse if we get 10,000 fans tonight Crime Dog
Steve from OH
August 27th, 2009
3:40 pm
CrimeDog–they just don’t give away senses(?) of urgency. You’ve gotta earn them. With heart. And grit. And funny handshakes so everyone knows that team chemistry is abound. But mostly heart.
Ben
August 27th, 2009
3:40 pm
Annnnnnd I’m done. I refuse to get sucked in like last year. I followed them down this path last year until they were mathematically eliminated. Fool me once, shame on you…..fool me twice, shame on me. There is nothing to make me believe that we’re just going to flip some switch and turn it on to go on a 10 game winning streak. I’m not even sure that would put us within striking distance. Also, does anyone really believe we could make a run if we somehow made the playoffs?? This teams needs to make some serious and tough decisions on what direction it wants to take in the off season.
TN Jeff
August 27th, 2009
3:41 pm
CrimeDog – the fans will be the only ones in the stadium with a sense of urgency & they better bring it from home cause it ain’t gonna be given out by anyone wearing an official Braves uniform. Well, Cox will have that sense of urgency while looking for his good luck spot to watch the game (rather than manage the team).
Ebenezer Snerdberg
August 27th, 2009
3:41 pm
Back to normal C-Arah. you musta took it to Miz Rudolph,the voodoo lady where Mudbone took Toodlums and got those ‘little-tiny-fonts’.
PS
If you dont go back about 30+ years to the late great Richard Pryor,you won’t have the foggiest idea what I’ talkin’ ’bout!
ncscoots
August 27th, 2009
3:41 pm
Tonight is urgency night at the ballpark. The first (and only) 10,000 fans get a free sense of urgency as they enter the gates at Turner Field.
Well, there you go, the season is eminently fixable! Just have the first 25 people through the gate be the players, LOL. Done. Fixed. Urgency galore.
Then, a Passion Bobblehead Night, and WS here we come!
Props to CrimeDog!
Rocky
August 27th, 2009
3:41 pm
Yo’ Adrienne
CrimeDog
August 27th, 2009
3:42 pm
I have to leave for a while, but I leave with this question:
Since the Padres are dominating this series, does that mean they have a far superior sense of urgency? And if a team that’s 22.5 games out of first in their division has more urgency than the Braves, does that mean Bud Black is the greatest manager in baseball history?
AZBravoFan
August 27th, 2009
3:42 pm
I see Jason Schmidt for just put on the 60 day DL, possibly ending his career. Great, yet one more sore-armed pitcher who couldn’t get anybody out…oh yeah, except for the 6 scoreless innings he managed to throw against the Braves. But you gotta tip your cap to him, right?
Steve from OH
August 27th, 2009
3:42 pm
This teams needs to make some serious and tough decisions on what direction it wants to take in the off season.
Well, instead of being all glass-half-empty and saying “I”m done” or whatever, you could start up an engaging conversation about what you think we should do in the offseason.
Just sayin’.
Doc Holiday
August 27th, 2009
3:42 pm
How can you consider 10 RBI in half a month and off month for a 2B? and a .298 BA? hellooo
Brightside
August 27th, 2009
3:43 pm
A day off? Watch how tired he looks sitting on the bench. I really hope he is OK. I can understand him feeling bad about his slump, but why doesn’t he seem excited when his team does well. Remember how hard he laughed when McCann slid in for his triple last year? Where is that Chipper? Seems like he’s MIA. I think he needs about 2 weeks off. Seriously. Doesn’t matter if Bobby thinks he should play just because he can walk or not. Do what is right for the team.
Ebenezer Snerdberg
August 27th, 2009
3:43 pm
Okay Rocky. Whad’jah do dis time!
Nova Scotia Steve
August 27th, 2009
3:44 pm
I don’t know if the Padres are dominating this series.
I think yesterday we kind of got put in our place…But a 2-1 12 inninger in Tuesday…I don’t really call that domination.
brent a.
August 27th, 2009
3:44 pm
Piedmont, Amazingly, Calipari has yet to be caught cheating – ever!
I’m not saying he’s clean; but, he has yet to personally have anything pinned on him.
Both of those issues (Camby, Rose) were identified as being outside of his realm of oversight, believe it or not.
Tiger Woods
August 27th, 2009
3:46 pm
Rockies announcers are talking about the Mets collapse of being up 7 with 17 to go. See anything can happen braves fans!!!!
flange1
August 27th, 2009
3:46 pm
The more of the blog I read the more I know I am a total idiot!
I have been following the Braves for years (since they got here) and always thought that I was supposed to pull for my team all the team, during good seasons and bad, and during winning and losing streaks.
Little did I know that I was supposed to cuss, then p!ss and moan about the team, then scream for everyone to be DFA’ed then STOP watching them if they played bad.
Well not just played bad, but lost a series to a bad team.
Props to all the “new age bloggers” that have taught me the real way to follow my team.
Give me a couple minutes and I too will come up with some FIRE BOBBY or TRADE CHIPPER posts. It might take me a bit of time because I am new at these things….
TN Jeff
August 27th, 2009
3:47 pm
Well, Chipper will have that sense of urgency to determine which part of his broken down body is hurting most
TN Jeff
August 27th, 2009
3:48 pm
Diaz will be urgently strategizing how to take his own bat out of his own hands when the game is on the line
MikeR
August 27th, 2009
3:48 pm
Don’t look now but Francoeur (61) has more RBIs than Chipper (55). Do we now dump Chipper for a marginal reserve player who will not pay hurt (Church)?
Mixxo
August 27th, 2009
3:48 pm
Brightside -
I say two weeks too….at least. He’s not going to strike any fear in opposing pitchers right now anyway.
ncscoots
August 27th, 2009
3:48 pm
CrimeDog–they just don’t give away senses(?) of urgency. You’ve gotta earn them. With heart. And grit. And funny handshakes so everyone knows that team chemistry is abound. But mostly heart.
Well, now, just wait a minute. It’s been made to sound as if urgency were an innate trait of the players, only needed to be turned on, tapped, ridden to he Glory Land, and so forth. Now you’re telling me the team has to pick up a six-pack of heart and a bag full of grit just to get urgent?!? I mean, jeez, that hardly seems fair. We might need a Dentz-gram (and some props) to get the true skinny here.
Hey, I do remember a couple of cool handshakes, if the team really needs them. I don’t care if I start, I just want to help the team in any way I can, LOL.
McFann Ô
August 27th, 2009
3:49 pm
Brightside Remember how hard he laughed when McCann slid in for his triple last year?
Ah! Who could forget that? That was great! (Though I wouldn’t say “slid”…more like “landed”
) I cannot believe the “Official Site” doesn’t have a replay of that…
I think Chipper needs some time off, too. He’s definitely hurting. Just looks awful at the plate…
Ric Flair
August 27th, 2009
3:49 pm
Who is this Joe Simpson and why does he keep saying I’m in the outfield? Wooooooooooo!!!
Steve from OH
August 27th, 2009
3:51 pm
Hey, I see TN Jeff is going right along with the joke! All right!
What’s that…he’s serious? Get the F out of here! No, really, he’s serious?
Um…
Carroll Rogers
August 27th, 2009
3:52 pm
Ok now I see no paragraph marks in the blog. yikes.
Infante in center. LINEUP:
1. Diaz RF
2. Prado 2B
3. Jones 3B
4. McCann C
5. Escobar SS
6. Anderson LF
7. LaRoche 1B
8. Infante CF
9. Vazquez P
Mixxo
August 27th, 2009
3:52 pm
flange1 –
Yes, I’ve followed this team since the early 70’s….faithfully. I knew this was going to happen in June. The writing was on the wall in May though. But hey, I don’t know anything right?
Sometimes you just “know.”
McFann =Ô=
August 27th, 2009
3:52 pm
Wow! Check out the weather system that’s headed our way!
That thing’s a little on the big side…
McFann Ô
August 27th, 2009
3:54 pm
Thanks for the lineup, Ms. Rogers.
Wayne in Utah
August 27th, 2009
3:54 pm
Doc
Semantics, my friend. I calculated my findings on his last month, which I had calculated since July 25th. Since he has returned, he has hit 117. Before he came back, and since July 25th, he has hit .260. So, for the past month, he has hit .241. with 12 RBI’s. Definitely a down month, compared to his first month of starts.
Hey, lets just hope he picks it back up, and even more important, let’s hope the headache thing goes away for good.
Brightside
August 27th, 2009
3:55 pm
Mixxo-
Agreed. There is not one minor leaguer that couldn’t contribute as much and probaly a lot more that Chipper is doing now. And anybody, please don’t take me wrong. I’m saying this because I want Chipper come alive again, and I know he can. I remember back this year before he started into this prolonged slump he was hitting everything thrown across the plate and all of a sudden, Bam. Something happened.
Steve from OH
August 27th, 2009
3:55 pm
For the life of me, I really don’t know why LaRoche has to hit behind GA all the time…
ncscoots
August 27th, 2009
3:56 pm
That thing’s a little on the big side…
Yeah, but no urgency to it. And gutless. It’s a gutless weather system.
Has no chance at the playoffs.
TN Jeff
August 27th, 2009
3:58 pm
Mr Lowe has a sense of urgency to quit impersonating a #1 or for that matter a major league pitcher in general
Mitchell
August 27th, 2009
3:58 pm
Senior Skip Day!
Hell yeah, we had one. My high school was in a bit of turmoil during my senior year. We had a new principal who was not particularly well liked and a college counsellor who replaced someone we all loved and respected and did not live up to her standard. We felt like the school was just waiting for us to leave so they could bring in their new agenda.
In the spirit of rebellion we had our skip day on a Monday knowing that the following Tuesday was a faculty day. Four day weekend baby.
We stuck it to the man, man. In retrospect, I’ve come to realize that we were actually just a bunch of spoiled, whiney bitches.
But then again so are the Braves.
OOOHHHHHHHHHH!!! That’s right, I said it.
Doc Holiday
August 27th, 2009
3:58 pm
Nova Scotia Steve,
You cant win a game = you are being dominated.
You lose big = thats total domination or being crushed.
Mixxo
August 27th, 2009
3:58 pm
ncscoots @ 3:56
Steve from OH
August 27th, 2009
3:58 pm
Marteen has OPSed .701 since July 16. Now are you saying that [gasp!] players sometimes go through–wait for it–hot and cold streaks!? I never knew…
Shaun
August 27th, 2009
3:59 pm
Don’t look now but Francoeur (61) has more RBIs than Chipper (55). Do we now dump Chipper for a marginal reserve player who will not pay hurt (Church)?
Does Chipper make outs 72 percent of the time he comes to the plate as Francoeur did? Who cares about RBI? You shouldn’t!
TN Jeff
August 27th, 2009
4:00 pm
Loaf Anderson has a sense of urgency for only God knows what
BravesfaninWis
August 27th, 2009
4:01 pm
Steve from OH
August 27th, 2009
3:55 pm
For the life of me, I really don’t know why LaRoche has to hit behind GA all the time…
Goes back to piss poor managing by Booby Cox.. Why on earth you are batting one of your best hitters 7th or 8th is beyond me. What is Cox doing, trying to get something for the pitcher to hit? Just another reason why Cox should hang em up after this season, and if he doesn’t do it willingly, then he should have to be humiliated by being fired by the Braves.. Just because he is a Atlanta Braves icon doesn’t mean he should have the right to be here year after year mismanaging a team.. He was a great manager, but he has lost it.. If another team goes 4-5 years without making the playoffs, they usually fire their MANAGER!! Time for Cox to leave IMO..
Shaun
August 27th, 2009
4:01 pm
Loaf Anderson has a sense of urgency for only God knows what
Garret Anderson and Griffey are having the same season. Yet, if Griffey was here, would we hear/read things like this? I doubt it.
Fat lady singing
August 27th, 2009
4:02 pm
La la la la Fa la la So Do la Fa
Just warming up….
The A Bomb
August 27th, 2009
4:02 pm
Tonight should be 70s throwback uniform night — the ones with the red pinstripes.
With all the people dressed as seats it would be the perfect complement.
Wayne in Utah
August 27th, 2009
4:02 pm
I was really hoping we would keep a real centerfielder in centerfield. Also, I was hoping Chipper would get a rest today.
Is Church ailing? Dude made some real nice catches last night. Last night we got to see the good and the bad that is Matt Diaz.
Count de Monet
August 27th, 2009
4:02 pm
Homer Simpson is right. Diaz is a hittin fool. The rest of the time he’s a fool.
N8
August 27th, 2009
4:03 pm
ncscoots, losing to “lesser” teams is a little more tolerable when you are ahead of teams in the “standings”, rather than chasing them.
The Marlins are in the same boat as the Braves. They are on the cusp of falling too far back with too few games to play, making the chase a bit tougher. If the Phillies, Giants or Rockies (or now the Dodgers) lose a couple of games to a loser team, yet maintain their lead in the division or WC standings, it’s not as tough for their fans to swallow.
Still not saying it’s impossible for the Braves to make a run. But with each loss (especially to teams like the Padres), it becomes less probable that they’l catch anybody and play October baseball.
Seems kind of elementary to me.
RHR
August 27th, 2009
4:04 pm
I laughed at the urgency night post. Hard. Props!
TN Jeff
August 27th, 2009
4:04 pm
Beyond the field – Chip Carey has a sense of urgency to annoy the entire Braves fanbase (and once a week the national audience)
Russell
August 27th, 2009
4:04 pm
It is ashame that the Braves did not have the team they currently have coming out of spring training. If we would have had this team as it is currently assembled with LaRoche, McClouth, Hanson, Prado at 2nd, etc. We would be in 1st place. This team has played .600+ baseball since July.
It is ashame that Wren did not have the foresight to see all of the holes in the lineup before it was too late. But at least he tried to plug them. too little, too late.
McFann Ô
August 27th, 2009
4:06 pm
ncscoots–
Good point.
And the rain has started here…hmm…wonder how little (well, BIG) Ms. Creepy in the garden is handling it…
Steve from OH For the life of me, I really don’t know why LaRoche has to hit behind GA all the time…
Me, neither…
As a matter of fact…
RHR
August 27th, 2009
4:06 pm
Oh that reminds me…
CB
August 27th, 2009
4:06 pm
Are you back BravesfaninWis ?
Count de Monet
August 27th, 2009
4:06 pm
TN Jeff
August 27th, 2009
4:04 pm
Beyond the field – Chip Carey has a sense of urgency to annoy the entire Braves fanbase (and once a week the national audience)
TN Jeff
Truer words were never spoken.
Shaun
August 27th, 2009
4:06 pm
Goes back to piss poor managing by Booby Cox.. Why on earth you are batting one of your best hitters 7th or 8th is beyond me.
You folks really think batting LaRoche higher than Anderson or vice versa would make any difference? Study up, folks.
Steve from OH
August 27th, 2009
4:07 pm
Eh, BravesfaninWis, it’s really a minor concern. Flip-flopping GA and Roachy won’t make much difference long-term at all.
Pete
August 27th, 2009
4:07 pm
sportsmandh: “I realize the last 2 days have been pitiful. BUT it is not time to lose all hope. Anything can still happen. We still have plenty of head to head games with the Marlins. First thing we can control is beating them for 2nd in the division. Then if we can over take the Giants, which is a strong possibility, we would be fighting whoever loses out between the Dodgers and Rockies for the wild card.
Also, the Giants, Dodgers, and Rockies are going to spend a lot of time beating up on each other over the next few weeks.”
If I understand correctly, basically youre saying 3 teams have to almost collapse, while at the same time the Braves will snap out of their funk. Also while you correctly point out those 3 teams yuo mention will be beating up on each other, that means one of those teams will be winning as well.
Good luck with that scenario.
The A Bomb
August 27th, 2009
4:07 pm
Speaking of Chip Caray –
It’s almost as if TBS doesn’t care or promote its Sunday baseball telecast anymore — is it still around?
Could it be going the route of Frank TV?
Why on earth would TBS get rid of its identity — the Braves?
What a lack of brains — throughout the last 30 years — the first thing anyone thinks of when TBS is mentioned is the Braves.
What a boneheaded move.
Mixxo
August 27th, 2009
4:08 pm
Here come the Rox…..right back.
ncscoots
August 27th, 2009
4:09 pm
Why, thank you, N8. I guess my poor attempt at humor blinded me to the contra-elementary foundation of my point, LOL.
Props to you, big guy! I know I don’t say it enough. How’s the search for the dog coming?
Mitchell
August 27th, 2009
4:09 pm
If only McLouth were healthy we could have Omar at second and put Martin at third and give Chipper a rest.
Didn’t Norton play left field last year some? Put him out there and let Church play center, Omar and Prado in the infield and save Chipper and GA for the bench.
GNorton is hardly any worse than Chipper at this point.
I can’t remember who brought up Brandon Jones’ name recently but he’s a genius. I completely forgot about that guy. He never really impressed me or made me believe he could be an everyday player but he’s got to be better than Gorecki.
I just don’t get why Norton, Gorecki, Manny and O’Flaherty are on this team.
Matt Diaz is pissing me off too. He gets hot and almost wins my respect and then immediately throws it away. Everybody has their “boy”, Matty is the opposite of my boy. He looks like a retard trying to catch those fly balls at the fence.
Count de Monet
August 27th, 2009
4:10 pm
A Bomb
You don’t think all those sitcom reruns are funny?
Daslied
August 27th, 2009
4:10 pm
I’m guessing this is why LaRoche hits 7th:
Career in the 7th spot (398 PA) – .325/.384/.605/.989
Compared to:
4th (928 PA) – .263/.333/.452/.785
5th (833 PA) – .260/.329/.486/.815
6th (613 PA) – .274/.355/.516/.870
Just for fun, in 48 PA in the 8th spot – .385/.479/.590/1.069