Is this it?

Can we make up a definition for dractic? Some suggestions please.

Some of thos Braves fans on the AJC Blog are a bit dractic. Meaning they are not very knowledgeable about the subject at hand?

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I’m just “and idiot” I guess

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Gullable (adj) – 1. Able to be turned into a gull. When I went to the ocean on Tuesday, a magical gull bit me. I am now gullable.

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You just don’t forget how to hit, period, but your bat speed slows. Great hitters never experience these dractic declines, but of course you knew that.

LMAOAY

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Go Braves!

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McFann

What is the creepy thing living in your garden? Is it a spider? If it is, it’s probably a Writing Spider. They are normally yellow and black. You find them this time of year just before fall starts. They are big but are harmless. I have a big one in my yard and I like to go look at it. I think it’s kinda cool.

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The Truth: And Shamus, your a piece of s^&*.

Shoot, thanks Truth. That’s the next kindest compliment I’ve received today. Your and idiot, being first… I feel so appreciated….

Things keep going like this I’ll consider a political career…

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Hey Truth,
Been a Braves fan since they whuped the Damnyankees in the World Serious. In them days they put a TV in the school auditorium and we could all go in and watch if’un we’d been good boy’s and girls! Guess they figured if they din’t we’d cut school and watch or listen on radio anyhow! and they don’t teach too much in public schools anywhere anymore!

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Any update on game start time?

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Chop Chop

You caught my spelling error! No spell check on the AJC blog. Funny though.

Is there something with your and idiot that I don’t know about?

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Shamus, CaliChopper–

Thanks! Yeah, poor guy just doesn’t get much help.

CrimeDog, jeffrey d, faninva–

Thanks! He has received some grief in the past, but I think that was mostly just teasing on the part of the people dishing it out…

Maxwell–

I’m not sure. I found him again either the next day or two days later, fed him some juicy worms (LOVE feeding box turtles worms!), but haven’t seen him since. It’s very rare that we find turtles at our house. We’ve got some nice woods behind our house, but there’s no water real close to us. The day I found him was a wet, kinda muggy day–those are the kinds of days on which we’ve found turtles. But we’re lucky to find one a year.

I have some photos of him somewhere…I’ll look for ‘em so I cann post a couple on PhotoBucket and get the link on here.

Just realized I didn’t tell you how I got the head on him–”shift, option, J”. Our computer is a Mac, so I don’t know if that’s a “Mac thing” or not…but I was pretty proud of myself for finding that. After reading the late-night blogging about Rally McTurtle, I knew I had to come up with a “typie” that looked enough like a turtle to put next to my name.

It fits with my main theme as a Blogger, too, since most of my post center around BMac. I’ve always kind of compared him to a turtle in that he’s not the fastest guy out there (though I have seen some turtles that cann scoot!), and he always gives 100%. Turtles show a lot of fortitude.

AndyC–

Yes. It is a three-inch, big-reared, black and yellow spider, and it is the biggest spider I have ever seen outside of a petshop. My sister found it while looking for a whiffle-ball she had hit into the garden. And she found it the hard way–came with about a foot from sticking her face in its web! Needless to say, we still haven’t found that ball…

Thanks for the name. Their webs are kinda cool with that zig-zag action, but good-golly are they big!! This isn’t the first one we’ve ever had, but it’s totally the biggest…

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The Truth

Well just because he isnt earning his money right now doesnt mean he was on roids……..
I agree we gave him alot for the next 3 years, for a 37 yr old with lingering injury issues.
I’m gonna keep using YOUR cause i really dont care if its proper because i have somthing called COMMON SENSE and know what the word means regardless.
I admit you definitly know more about the game than me being a braves fan for 40+ years and thats great, but to say Chipper is roiding cause of a slump is wrong.
I’m gonna defend my favorite player of all time, Chipper is why i became i braves fan when i was a little kid, i cant help but to say hell no to someone mentioning Chipper and Roids together lol

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So to answer your question Maxwell, it’s a bit of an inside joke that keeps on giving

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McFann Ô

What’s this “us” and “our” and “we” stuff? You hooked up?

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Soph–

Yeah, it has. He hopes to be able to come out tonight…and that BMac will have a much better time behind the plate.

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Hudson back Monday, oh the great karma I feel lord.

Go Braves, let’s start a 20-2 run tonight (with one of the 20 wins please)

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Panic move to rush Huddy back. I hope he’ll be OK.

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Big Brother? He’s here? Watching us?

Oh boy…

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AndyC -

Showin’ us the knowledge…well done.

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Shidiot – I like it. You don’t have to censor it.

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McFann

You must be a teenager, from what I can determine. I think you have made a wonderful choice of Brian McCann to be a big fan of. He is a top notch young man, and maybe someday you can play some baseball with him? What position do you play?

My 12 year old son wants to be a shortstop, but he has his dad’s clumsiness to a degree. But he loves the Braves too!

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Maxwell–are you really new here?

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Jeffery, you are THE MAN. Not only is the rain pretty dractic, but it’s coming down like Katts and Dawgs, too. Thanks for your sense of humor.

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faninva

Props to you for giving me props about the spider info.

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That was pretty funny Jeff D

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AndyC That’s why they are called Writing Spiders, because of the zig zag designs in the webs.

Ah! That makes sense.

They better have no int’rest in coming in our house!! Oh my gosh…I know she’s gonna stay outside, but just the thought of that thing moving gives me the creeps.

They are good spiders, only eat insects.

Yeah…we did see something one time that said she will eat a hummingbird if one gets stuck in her web–that’s not what the spiders are out there for, but it cann happen…not very often, though. (I’d Google it, but I don’t want to see any pictures of the spiders…)

The first time we ever had at our house was a few years ago–she made a web in the window of Mom and Dad’s master bedroom. We watched her grow (creepy as she got bigger, but educational). Then one day, when she was fairly large, this giant bee-thing got stuck in her web. The bee bit the spider and she shriveled up. We were pretty sad about that, I have to say.

(We had one of those bees kill a baby bird in the nest around that same time, too. They’re really mean.)

Our cousins had some Writing Spider egg-sacs a few years ago. Pretty sure they did hatch the next year…wow…tons of spiders.

We’ve sent away for Praying Mantis egg sacs in the past. That is FUN to watch them hatch and then raise a couple of the Praying Mantises!

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Just trying to embiggen my vocabulary, Nova Scotia Steve.

Which reminds me…hope the Braves don’t play like a bunch of wooses tonight.

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Just a question… has anyone seen The Truth and Lentz together anywhere or could they be the same person?

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So, has the world ended for everyone on the ole blog yet?

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Praying Mantises!

McFann, you’ve been dying to use that in a sentence, haven’t you? LOL.

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So, has the world ended for everyone on the ole blog yet? – Heath

No not yet Heath. My boys are up against the mighty California team tonight in the LLWS semis. Everyone says California is unbeatable…..even though Texas beat ‘em.

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PWHjort

i see you asked Kieth Law a Q on his chats

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Heath – So, has the world ended for everyone on the ole blog yet?

Depends, are you BBQing?

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Maxwell Smart – “would you believe chief, missed it by that much”

your and idiot is a long standing joke about someone’s poor grammar from a while back, it is used quite often now by those in the know

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Charlie Morton pitching for the Bucs so I can kill some time before I have to drive back to the country… mlb.tv has its strengths afterall

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greg norton sucks

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They are signing the National Anthem. That is a good sign. Let’s hope the Braves prevail.

Must be a lot of hearing impaired persons in the crowd tonight.

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The Truth – Go away dude, there is no way Chipper has been tainted by drugs. Guy has virtually looked the same for the past 10+ years, never “bulked up” or “cut up”. His power is generated by bat speed and a combination of heavier bat.

Why is that some people will never stop with this sh*t. Chipper Jones has never failed a drug test, will never fail a drug test b/c he doesn’t use that stuff, never had to.

I guarantee if Chipper used ‘gear’ back in the day, with his frame of 6′4 he could have easily gotten up to 230-240lbs, and instead of hitting HR in the 30’s, he would have hit them in the 50’s as far as numbers.

That right there is your freaking proof.

Chipper Jones – Drug Free Player.

DEAL WITH IT “The Truth”.

Just damn, sounds like you want him to be “guilty of it”?

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Vinings JIm

LMAO!

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Soph–

Dangit! Really? I gotta steal the remote…

Maxwell–

Yes, I’m in my final years as a teenager (I’m gonna make it!). Actually, the only baseball I play is in the backyard…but obviously if I did play any organized baseball (well, guess it’d have to be softball), obviously I’d want to at least try out at catcher (think I’ve got the bat for it if I’m not going for the whole BMac, Mauer, Bench effect, LOL). Don’t know how my D would be…

But yeah, I’m liking the choice I made for favorite. It’s funny ’cause when he first came up (mind you I was just starting to really get into the whole baseball thing) I wasn’t a huge fan. But as the season progressed, I started to develop a liking for him. LOVED that homer off Roger Clemens!

Then Ms. Rogers wrote a story about him that was in the paper on March 5th, 2006. I read that, and I was like, “I like this guy…he’s seems like a good person and should be a good player.” Franco was gone to the Mets, so hey, how ’bout BMac for a fave? And we all know how his 2006 season went!

Now I’m all over his stats and everything…and I’m calling dibs on writing his baseball-ography someday!

My 12 year old son wants to be a shortstop, but he has his dad’s clumsiness to a degree.

Aw…

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Saw a stat today that kind of made my jaw drop…Greg Norton lead the National League in pinch hits AB’s this season…more than 10 more then Matt Stairs.

The reason it made my jaw drop is because I watch the games…I know he get an at-bat ALMOST every night.

What made my jaw drop is Matt Stairs is an awesome pinch hitter on a good team and has tons of pop.

Greg Norton has done absolutely nothing expect one big hit for an RBI late in the game that we held on for a 4-3 win last month.

How this man’s pay-cheques have Atlanta Braves on them is beyond the rhelm of understanding.

- egg sac -

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PS

Norton has 75 pinch hit AB’s this season

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Braves are running out of time. Every time it appears they are making headway, they lose ground again. This is simply a mediocre team from players to management. They are not good enough to go on an extended streak. They have 3 teams to pass for the wild card aside from the 5 1/2 games deficit. It is not going to happen.

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“Garrett Anderson ran the bases like he had an Egg Sac on his back”

five

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faninva–

Haha! Oh, of course…

AndyC–

It’s a lot of fun…think we’ve only ever gotten one that didn’t hatch. To be safe, we usually order two. And if they both hatch, all the better!

We got them from…”Insectlore.com”.

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I don’t follow that closely…is the world tournament that the Ripken’s just hosted different from the game (tournament) that is on tonight? Were they different and still running concurrently?

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maxwell smart – we are on the eastern end of Long Island, Quogue, and half the beach and 3/4 of the dunes were washed away by an earlier storm but there is a chance Saturday morning that the end of a type 1 (weanie) Hurricane will hit…. should be good for some “tasty waves” on Sunday… just hope everyone is okay further down the island as there is not a lot of protection in built up areas..

BTW – Your moniker is my favorite tv character ever, used to watch him every day after school downunder… they still play the show there to this day

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That’s not a beer belly on Bobby, it’s a big-ol’ egg sac..

six

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Arg!! Too late for Spotlight.

I’m gonna see that in it’s entirety one of these days…I’m not kidding!

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Shamus,Your 7:01:
You,never,Blobby not a bad idea!

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