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TnBrian
August 28th, 2009
11:35 pm
RHR, I guess you don’t feel frustrated watching your “best” hitter swing at the first pitch against a guy struggling…it wasn’t even a strike for cryin out loud! Not to mention him chuckling with a Phillies player afterwards.
Soph
August 28th, 2009
11:35 pm
Enter your comments here
Ross
August 28th, 2009
11:35 pm
I don’t care if CJ bats 500 every year – I detest that slack-jawed hick and his blank-faced buddy LaRoche. I will not watch a team with these buzz-killers on it any more.
Chop Chop
August 28th, 2009
11:35 pm
Mitchell,
How about F the Braves? They’re the ones putting you through this. It’s their fault. F ‘em.
Lou Vales
August 28th, 2009
11:36 pm
I’ll know you guys FINALLY accept it’s over when I start reading about all the “free agents who are headed to Atlanta and all the trades that can be made(ramirez and Johnson for Escobar, Johnson, Diaz and Jurrjens).
At least I have the good grace and common sense to admit I’m sick of it!! Totally sick of it!!
Hopefully Hudson will just concentrate on not requiring surgery after this start and leave all journalists alone>
Soph
August 28th, 2009
11:36 pm
My bad. Rough night.
JayDubu
August 28th, 2009
11:36 pm
The Braves are going to stay just close enough in the playoff hunt to keep everyone saying they still have a chance. That chance is mathmatically only…the Braves have been done since the last Philly series.
Philly is just a better team. They have pitching that is equal to the Braves, defense that’s better than the Braves, and hitters that are far better than the Braves.
Supes
August 28th, 2009
11:36 pm
How did Hanson get the loss? He didn’t go the 5 innings tonight and it wasn’t a shortened by rain game anyways, just delayed by rain.
Steve from OH
August 28th, 2009
11:38 pm
Lou Vales, don’t you have some editorials to write?
Soph
August 28th, 2009
11:38 pm
Gotta go 5 to get the win but for a loss, doesn’t matter. If you give up the lead, you get the loss.
Jurrjens4NLCY {Knoble.MLBlogs.com}
August 28th, 2009
11:38 pm
Chipper does need to retire and it REALLY pains me to say that….
Lou Dobbs
August 28th, 2009
11:38 pm
Ryan Howard sucks. Has anyone even seen his birth certificate?
O'Brien
August 28th, 2009
11:38 pm
What would the Braves power numbers be if we had signed a Raul Ilbanez or Adam Dunn to play left field?
Unfortunately, they were too expensive, and Adam’s defense is bad (like GAnderson is that much better), and Ilbanez is old etc.
The problem is the Braves do not have many clutch hitters, and we still need a big bopper in our lineup. Hopefully, Frank Wren can fix our offense like he fixed our pitching.
Soph
August 28th, 2009
11:39 pm
Chipper does need to retire and it REALLY pains me to say that….
HATER.
TnBrian
August 28th, 2009
11:39 pm
RHR, you are a HYPOCRITE! Don’t be, it makes you look like an “idiot”.
Lou Vales
August 28th, 2009
11:40 pm
How many times did Boog utter the “HUGE” word?? If you would have seen him a decade ago, you would understand the fixation.
Simpson appears worse than what he is because that VOICE??? makes him sound as if he does not believe a word he is saying.
what happened to Caray?/ Did they revoke the Nepotism Clause??
braves70
August 28th, 2009
11:40 pm
Supes, you only have to go 5 to get credit for a win. You can get a loss at any point.
Jurrjens4NLCY {Knoble.MLBlogs.com}
August 28th, 2009
11:40 pm
HATER.
Not now… I’m going to bed, Lets go Giants!
Supes
August 28th, 2009
11:41 pm
Philly is just a better team. They have pitching that is equal to the Braves, defense that’s better than the Braves, and hitters that are far better than the Braves.
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Sorry, their pitching is not better than the Braves. They may have similar stats, but looking at the kind of pitchers they’ve gathered…esp. the starters after Lee and Hamels you have a bunch of mediocrity (that’s pitched above their heads and benefited from lots of run support resulting in a nice shiny wins/loss record), and J.A Happ…a rookie with a relatively middle of the road seiling (who could be benefiting from teams having never faced him, wait to see if he does it again in year 2).
Look at Moyer/Pedro, Blanton and J.A Happ…they are not better than Javy Vazquez, Kawakami/Hudson (using that b/c he’s taking his slot in the rotation) and Tommy Hanson.
I’ll go one better…looking at the 2010 rotation…top to bottom Braves are a deeper and more talanted starting pitching rotation.
Numbers be dammed. Phillies have a washed up Pedro who nobody wanted, a 47 year old (next year for Moyer) and Blanton (who’s got 2 pitches and relatively unimpressive won/loss record career wise with a high ERA).
Sorry To Say But...
August 28th, 2009
11:41 pm
Steve, speaking of original statements, perhaps you’ll recall mine when all I said was that the notion of exploring a trade for Chipper should no longer be off the table. In other words I began were you seem to have ended…with exploring all trade possibilities. You have basically agreed with my original statement. Nice discussion, thanks.
Lou Vales
August 28th, 2009
11:41 pm
Steve From Ohio, I just did.
Soph
August 28th, 2009
11:41 pm
JJ -
I win today then. You forfeit.
Count Chocula
August 28th, 2009
11:42 pm
We have no power and it REALLY showed us this season why is it pretty important to have in a playoff contending team..
Yunel's Frosted Tips
August 28th, 2009
11:42 pm
DOB,
Hustle on down to the clubhouse and get us some more generic quotes from Cox and Chipper about how “we hit em right at em” and “tomorrow’s a must-win game” for the 72nd time this season.
Thanks in advance……
ssiscribe
August 28th, 2009
11:42 pm
All I can say is this:
If Ryan Howard played against the Braves for a full 162-game season, then Hack Wilson and his single-season RBI record would be rolling over in the grave.
And just when it looks like the undertaker will start pushing the dirt down upon us, we see this: the Giants just took a 1-0 lead against the Rockies … even when we should be bashed out of our misery, we’re given a sliver of light to keep hope alive (hope that likely will be painfully bled away over the next week or so).
It’s almost torture, knowing that we’re THIS freaking close, and yet, so far away.
OK, good people, I’m out. Time to pour a good Scotch and decompress.
The Scribe abides.
–30–
Jurrjens4NLCY {Knoble.MLBlogs.com}
August 28th, 2009
11:43 pm
I win today then. You forfeit.
Sure, whatever. You can win. I give up. Good night. :’(
RHR
August 28th, 2009
11:43 pm
Excuse me, Brian?
Steve – I know who it is via Random’s blog expertise he shared with me today LOL.
Roman Gal
August 28th, 2009
11:44 pm
Poor Tommy! He needs a hug.
DOB, you gonna give him a hug for us?
Steve from OH
August 28th, 2009
11:44 pm
It should be explored, buy my point was that it’s not going to get far. That only creates another hole at third and doesn’t give us enough cash to address that and LF and 1B. You can explore it and find it untenable. That’s my point.
Nice discussion. Name?
Supes
August 28th, 2009
11:44 pm
Gotta go 5 to get the win but for a loss, doesn’t matter. If you give up the lead, you get the loss
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Long day at work and rain delays made me forget about that rule
Well, darn…Hanson did not deserve to lose this game and maybe there goes ROY, unless Happ starts to fraking lose some games. He’s benefited from a lot of run support as of late (or so it seems to bail him out)
Lou Vales
August 28th, 2009
11:44 pm
Tell the truth. How many of you will wake in the middle of the night to see if the Giants won to keep it at 4 1/2? If the answer is “yes”, I have a suggestion, but the office won’t be open until Monday and it does not really qualify for a 911 call. Does it??
Steve from OH
August 28th, 2009
11:45 pm
RHR–yeah, Random is always teachin’ us somethin…
Soph
August 28th, 2009
11:46 pm
Sure, whatever. You can win. I give up. Good night. :’(
Night JJ!
Steve from OH
August 28th, 2009
11:47 pm
So what were your findings, anyway?
Hakuna Matata(Wait 'Til next year)
August 28th, 2009
11:47 pm
When you go into the season expecting a 37 year-old to be your main power bat this is what you get. How the heck can you expect Chipper to carry this team at this point in his career. Wren never addressed the issue in the offseason..and counted on Frenchy and Kelly to have career year..LOL..what do you think was going to happen to the offense…suddenly get better..Frank needs to step up a level and fix this damn team this offeseason…
Roman Gal
August 28th, 2009
11:48 pm
Chop Chop-
Jordan Schafer doesn’t have floppy ears. He’s still young. He’s got at least another 10 years before they start flopping…
Supes
August 28th, 2009
11:49 pm
It’s clear that this inconsistant and FLAWED team offensively will keep the Braves out of the 2009 playoffs.
I have faith in Frank Wren, (after seeing how he addressed all the pitching issues last off-season), that he’ll do the same with the offense.
Gotta get Nate McLouth out of the leadoff spot, get a true lead off hitter or bat someone else there like Prado or Infante (who works the count and gets on base).
McLouth can bat 3rd in the order, drop Chipper down to 5 and get a legit POWER hitter to hit 4th in the lineup. That will move B-Mac down to 6th, taking the pressure off him and having your catcher hit cleanup in general. Adam LaRoache (if he resigns here) hits best for his career 7th in the order. You can then move Diaz or whoever in that 8th slot.
groundfog
August 28th, 2009
11:51 pm
There are other players producing at 37 that don’t bitch about it-geez-let’s not put all 37 year olds in the old folks home .look at Ibanez
Supes
August 28th, 2009
11:51 pm
Oh, and the curse of losing the 1st game of a series continues…what is that 8 series in a row now that the Braves have lost the 1st game of each set of games?
Roman Gal
August 28th, 2009
11:51 pm
Shamus-
You should know that I have an Anti-Schafer Radar and it works especially well within 100 miles…
Lou Vales
August 28th, 2009
11:52 pm
I can’t even enjoy football season. There will be no sense of joy. If Florida doesn’t reach the National Championship Game with the schedule they play and the talent they possess the season will be a HUGE disappointment. And IF they don’t win their 3rd in the last 4, it will still be a letdown.
I’m not one of those people who would think it is some great accomplishment to get a BCS bid 14 years in a row and only win one Championship. I would say that stinks. Of course I don’t cover the Braves.
TnBrian
August 28th, 2009
11:52 pm
Ron Gant is looking at that woman like, ‘better shut yo mouth, ho!”
groundfog
August 28th, 2009
11:52 pm
Medicority is so frustrating-because it always seems your close when your really not lol
Roman Gal
August 28th, 2009
11:53 pm
Who is this “Cassidy” character and why is she tweeting at us?
Chop Chop
August 28th, 2009
11:53 pm
That’s correct, Roman Gal.
Here’s a more accurate pic of a young Jordan Schafer.
Supes
August 28th, 2009
11:54 pm
It’s going to take a magical act tomorrow night to derail the Cliff Lee Express.
This Braves team to have a shot will need Derek Lowe to repeat his 1st start of the year against Philly or else.
Yunel's Frosted Tips
August 28th, 2009
11:54 pm
Yall are witnessing the demise of a first ballot hall of famer but ignoring the 10,000 pound gorilla in the room. The testing for P.E.D.’s and especially amphetamines hurt 37 year old players more than the younger guys. MLB is a grind and I think the amphetamine ban is underplayed in the wearing down of the older players. They should be allowed amphetamines if you ask me.
Lou Vales
August 28th, 2009
11:54 pm
Does Ron still have that real good looking wife. Saw her at Palm Beach International in the 90’s.
Jake W.
August 28th, 2009
11:55 pm
Well, looking at the positive Tommy looked pretty good in his limited rain-delayed two innings. Other than that pitch to Howard that was either a mistake or a bad waste pitch. Like the fact that kid wanted to be out there and face this team knowing whats on the line. I have a feeling Jojo Reyes would have been praying for the rain. Kids got good stuff and a good makeup in terms of attitude.
Oh and for all the people screaming were done and this team is a failure and yada yada yada. At the beginning of the season all we wanted was the braves to be in the mix for the playoffs. You’re playing in the division with the defending champs and a mets team who everybody had picked to beat the phils for the division this year. I know injuries put a cramp in what they were trying to do but I still don’t know if they would have won it if they were healthy. Marlins are seemingly dangerous every year. Your top free agent signing is struggling and your best hitter also is putting together a different kind of career year and you still have a chance to be only 4 1/2 out in the wild card. Didn’t have a chance last year and all you wanted was a chance this year. If we don’t make the playoffs I won’t be shocked but I will like the improvements we’ve made pitching wise and hope for some more this offseason with the offense. Its not like we are the Yankees and can go drop whatever they did on CC, Burnett, Teix, and move in the walls and turn it around in one year. Nope its usually slower for most others.
Mitchell
August 28th, 2009
11:55 pm
I haven’t been this mad in a long time.
I’m pissed at the Braves but this was a f***ing rip off.
I’m listening in my car, they play an inning and a half and then they cut off the Mark Lemke and that retard guy rain delay show and go straight to Project 96.1’s horrible playlist of god-awful, stale, derivative modern hard rock bull**** and I assume they called the game off.
Then, ten minutes later they’re playing again but then another delay five minutes later. Back to the sh***y middle of the road, unoriginal, misogynistic riff rock of Nickelback and the like.
Another rain delay and I’m all but convinced the game has been postponed.
We should have killed those 54 year old arthritic mf-ers Pedro and Moyer but we get robbed of our starter who’s better than both of them combined and they go to their guy who got sent to the pen but who still has 12 wins anyway.
Braves can’t keep coming up short on offense. Too many damn chances but the homeplate umpire was horrible and the f***ing umps f***ed up the f***ing game by not just delaying the start time.
It’s sickening. Bobby, who the F do you manage for any damn way? You’re killing this f***ing team!
Roman Gal
August 28th, 2009
11:56 pm
Chop Chop-
I have it on good authority that he has more than 8 teeth.
RHR
August 28th, 2009
11:56 pm
Steve – my findings were kind of inconclusive. LOL maybe Random will get on the case. I wasn’t following the back and forth between you two enough to even know what to look for.
NotAgain
August 28th, 2009
11:56 pm
well football seasons will be in full swing soon and a lot of the mouth-breathing trailer-trash, angry haters can go rant about that sport. Can’t wait. What a group of azzwipes.
NotAgain
August 28th, 2009
11:58 pm
I will not watch a team with these buzz-killers on it any more. ROSS
well that’s good news, if you stick to it one more moron gone. Only a few dozen left to go.
TnBrian
August 28th, 2009
11:59 pm
Jake, good to read that 11:55. Very true, but when you see first hand what needs to be fixed and what guys are capable of and they aren’t doing it, you tend to go a little loony. Like the Braves, we’ll bounce back, if not this year, 2010 should be a good one for sure.
Lou Vales
August 28th, 2009
11:59 pm
Supes, I’ll try to help. They have NO real SHOT. I understand that mathematically they definitely have a shot, BUT that would only be if you have not watched about 125 games. The Braves are tied with a VERY!!!!!! FLAWED Florida marlins team, and I mean very!!!!!! FLAWED!! I look at the Marlins and must avert my eyes and YET this team is tied with the Braves. I don’t care if “Hoss” Radbourne comes back to life along with Pie Traynor at the peak of their abilities—-The Braves are DONE!! Teminado!! bastante!! Al Fin!1 Muerto!! Como Mi Suegra!!Basta!!
Steve from OH
August 28th, 2009
11:59 pm
Posters who want Chad Qualls and use good spelling and grammar, RHR.
NotAgain
August 29th, 2009
12:02 am
Sorry, their pitching is not better than the Braves. They may have similar stats, but looking at the kind of pitchers they’ve gathered SUPES
if the stats are similar and the results are better then they are better no matter what you think about it on paper. Paper is for wiping your butt with not playing baseball with. Stick to the fantasy leagues
Roman Gal
August 29th, 2009
12:02 am
RHR-
So you liked my Milligan pictures? I have to say that I was quite proud of them. I was mostly proud that I didn’t start foaming at the mouth when I had to talk to him, though…
Lou Vales
August 29th, 2009
12:03 am
Is tomorrow a HUGE game?? Does he realize how often he says that?/ Does he not care?/ Does he not realize how hackneyed it is??
JayDubu
August 29th, 2009
12:03 am
Supes,
The comment was that the Phills pitching is equal to the Braves. Hanson is benefitting from the same situation as Happ. KK/Hudson vs Pedro, who knows on Hudson and Pedro, but KK is good for 5 most games, but has 4+ era.
So it boils down to JJ & Vasquez vs Lee & Hamel (who’s been dealing with an early injury all season).
Lowe vs Blanton/Moyer is a wash.
When you have the lineup that Philly has, their pitches have lees pressure, bcause they feal that the team can score runs.
If the Braves get down by three, the game is pretty much over “Ballgame”.
monty
August 29th, 2009
12:04 am
Everyone knows you beat a guy like Moyer by going the other way, I don’t recall anyone taking that approach. You have to wait him out and single him into submission then you may get a mistake when he knows you are sitting on the changeup. Everyone was jumping at the changeup trying to pull the change. It’s what made Glavind a HOF. Taking advantage of over aggressiveness. Charlie Manuel couldn’t help but get tickled when he went to pull Moyer probably said something like, “You had em eatin out of your hand didn’t you?”
Steve from OH
August 29th, 2009
12:04 am
RG–you got Milligan pics? Tell me you got Hoover too…
Hakuna Matata(Wait 'Til next year)
August 29th, 2009
12:06 am
nice touch at the end of your 11:59 post Lou Vales…”Muerto como mi suegra” LOL..
JayDubu
August 29th, 2009
12:07 am
There are still 30+ games left, and this is baseball. So, even though the Braves haven’t looked good in 3 of the last 4 games, a lot can happen in a short period of time. Remeber the Mets from the past two seasons. Don’t think the Phills will spit the bit, but I think the Rockies are catchable.
Roman Gal
August 29th, 2009
12:07 am
Steve-
Yes, I did.
JayDubu
August 29th, 2009
12:08 am
The Braves need to win 5 – 6 in a row, and 10 – 13, to put pressure on the Rockies.
Steve from OH
August 29th, 2009
12:08 am
Nice…did I miss that you posted them earlier?
groundfog
August 29th, 2009
12:09 am
Anybody think Diaz must stay #1 when Mclouth returns-they have to move Chipper to 5 imo-shake things up
Roman Gal
August 29th, 2009
12:12 am
Steve-
No, but I guess I could be a nice person and post them on Photobucket or something…
Jake W.
August 29th, 2009
12:13 am
TnBrian, It does suck when guys don’t live up to their potential but at the same time maybe we expected to much from these guys. So far, KJ, Francoeur, and Schafer didn’t turn in the kind of offensive seasons you hoped for but good thing is we aren’t going to go into next season relying on those guy again. We know what needs to be fixed. Can’t rely on an aging Chipper and Mac who is a catcher and playing a position that wears you down to be the offensive stalwarts.
On a good note, you got McLouth who has major league experience in over Schafer who didn’t seem ready yet. Escobar keeps getting better. Martin has shown he can give you something at second and Mac is still a good hitter. Chipper will hopefully bounce back and give us at least good average and maybe not the same power numbers. We know where we need upgrades and whether we fill those spots from within or thru trade or free agency I feel like we at least have a good nucleus.
JayDubu
August 29th, 2009
12:16 am
We all know that Cox is going to put McLouth right back in the leadoff spot, and Matty in the 8 hole.
He’s stubborn to a fault. He manages 162 well, but lacks in series by series.
Jake W.
August 29th, 2009
12:17 am
JayDubu
I must say that must be our rallying cry,
“Remember the Mets”
If there is one thing they have shown us the last few years. You’re never really out of it. Have we learned nothing from them.
Just saying....
August 29th, 2009
12:29 am
Look out– the towel is sailing into the ring! We’re beyond the put up or shut up stage. Tonight, it really became just “shut up.” Yeah, sure, the Phils and Rocks could melt down, and it could snow on Peachtree tomorrow. But it’s not going to happen. As sad as I am to type this, I now return to my fair-weather-fan status…. Take care.
Just saying....
August 29th, 2009
12:30 am
… one last point — at least I’m free of Paul Lentz…. That guy should get his own blog and see how many folks show up!
RHR
August 29th, 2009
12:35 am
RG – I’m sorry…what? Do….I….Milligan? Is this something you put on your facebook? LOL I guess I’ve had a long day or something.
Steve, only a handful of regulars have mentioned Qualls, I had the search results up but my chitty laptop shut itself off and I lost it. kirkginga or whatever his name is? and Wayne?
David O'Brien
August 29th, 2009
12:37 am
You could tell Cox wasn’t pleased about the way the rain delays were handled and losing Hanson so early, but they bit their tongues and didn’t use it as any excuse. (Besides, any pitcher they throw out there these days is getting abused by Howard.)
Medlen said he’ll make adjustments, now he knows you can’t get away with a changeup at the knees and away against Howard, even though that’s the pitch he was trying to throw him. Said he should have stayed down, the way he got ahead with those pitches in the dirt or at the shins.
Anyway, here’s the game story with quotes, unedited:
By David O’Brien
dobrien@ajc.com
Philadelphia – When Tommy Hanson and Kris Medlen return to their Buckhead apartment next week, the Braves rookies will have one more thing to talk about.
How to pitch to Phillies slugger Ryan Howard. Or, how not to.
The Braves’ nemesis hit homers off Hanson and Medlen in his first two at-bats Friday, driving in three runs to power Philadelphia to a 4-2 win in a series opener delayed twice in the second inning by rain at Citizens Bank Park.
“He’s got so much power, and this is a high school field,” Braves catcher Brian McCann said of Howard, who has four homers and seven RBIs in his past two games against the Braves, including a two-homer game Aug. 16 at Atlanta.
The seventh loss in 14 games for the Braves – including three in four games against Philadelphia – dropped them to eight behind the division-leading Phillies in the National League East.
Hanson (9-3) pitched only two innings because of rain delays seven minutes apart in the second. He was charged with one run and two hits with four strikeouts, and snapped a four-start winning streak.
The rookie sensation was frustrated over the start-and-stop second inning and not being able to pitch more in a game he was excited about, his first against Philadelphia. But he knew it was the prudent call to not have him keep pitching.
“You don’t know what’s going on; you’ve just got to go with it,” he said of the soggy day and night in which no one was sure until about an hour before the first pitch whether the game would be postponed.
He returned after the first delay (1 hour, 3 minutes), striking out two of the last three batters to complete the second inning. Then play was halted again.
“It’s a tough call,” Cox said of the decision to restart after the first delay, when radar showed more rain on the way. “It’s not our ballpark…. If someone knew it was going to rain six minutes after we started playing again, then yeah, you wish we would’ve waited.”
Hanson gave up an opposite-field homer to Howard to the nearby left-field bleachers, an easy poke for the left-handed slugger.
“I don’t even think it was a strike,” Hanson said. “It was a slider, up. I was trying to make a quality pitch. Left it up a little bit.”
McCann said: “With a guy that strong, he doesn’t even have to come out of his swing. Playing here, he can wait as long as he can and just flip ‘em to left.”
After aging Pedro Martinez pitched two scoreless innings in his fourth start for the Phillies, already-aged lefty Jamie Moyer (12-9) pitched 4-1/3 strong innings (four hits, one run).
Medlen, pitching for the second night in a row, made two mistakes to the first batters in his second inning – Utley’s leadoff single in the fourth, followed four pitches later by Howard’s mammoth homer to center on a change-up.
Medlen had gotten ahead in the count 1-2 on three pitches at the shins or lower, but the changeup was near the knees, on the outer half of the plate.
“Howard, he beat me,” Medlen said. “He just likes getting [his arms] extended…. It’s my first time facing him. I’m make adjustments.”
Howard’s homer off Medlen gave him four homers in a span of five at-bats against the Braves. He drove in all the runs with homers in a 4-1 win Aug. 16.
He’s ravaged Braves pitching throughout his career, batting .339 with 29 homers and 82 RBIs in 79 games, including 18 homers and 50 RBIs in his past 41 games.
Hot-hitting Matt Diaz had the first three-double game of his career, but the rest of the Braves produced just five singles, including two by Martin Prado.
The Braves had two on with one out in the second and again in the third, and failed to score. With runners on the corners against Moyer (12-9) in the third, Chipper Jones popped out and McCann struck out to end the inning.
Diaz drove in a run in the fifth and scored on Jones’ groundout in the eighth, but the Braves left the bases loaded in the latter inning.
“We just didn’t swing the bats tonight,” McCann said. “Jamie Moyer came in and pitched a great game.”
NO MORE BOBBY
August 29th, 2009
12:38 am
Diaz is not a leadoff hitter.
LaRoche should be hitting cleanup.
Chipper should sit.
Bobby should quit.
RHR
August 29th, 2009
12:38 am
OHHH RG…I logged in to FB to see lol … yeah, I had no idea who that was, I just liked that you went and were that close LOL
RHR
August 29th, 2009
12:39 am
and the name of the album you have them in hahaha
Count de Monet
August 29th, 2009
12:39 am
How is it they couldn’t hit a 75 year old soft tosser?
ChurchMan
August 29th, 2009
12:42 am
“He’s got so much power, and this is a high school field,”
May be a small field Mac but this team is playing on the same one as he is, and this team has to fight and scratch for just 2 runs
David O'Brien
August 29th, 2009
12:42 am
Oh, and Howard leads all active players with 29 homers vs. Braves. Only team he’s hit more against is 30 vs. Washington, in five more games and 33 more at-bats.
He has 29 homers in just 283 at-bats vs. Braves, and 30 in 316 at-bats vs. Nationals.
Dude’s killing everyone, though. He’s hit .339 with 11 homers and 29 RBIs in his past 15 games.
curtis jones
August 29th, 2009
12:43 am
Jamie Moyer’s so old, his Social Security number is 4. And he still beat the Braves.
ChurchMan
August 29th, 2009
12:44 am
*boo to the Rockies for getting a win, come on guys help a team out would ya?
David O'Brien
August 29th, 2009
12:44 am
Just saying… Thanks for the pleasant sendoff at 12:29. Take care now, you hear? Just saying…
Count de Monet
August 29th, 2009
12:45 am
Remember when Philly was in town last and the Braves hit all those shots to the warning track that would have been HRs in the bandbox?
Where were all those HRs tonight?
RHR
August 29th, 2009
12:47 am
So DOB, you didn’t pass along TnBrian’s message to Chipper? I’m astounded!
David O'Brien
August 29th, 2009
12:48 am
ChurchMan (12:42): McCann meant it as a compliment to Howard more than anything, but you’re right, Braves played in the same field and only got two runs, and no extra-base hits by anyone but Diaz.
Mitchell
August 29th, 2009
12:48 am
Frank Wren has to do something about Bobby at the end of this season. It’s gone on way too long. I am so tired of it.
There’s reason for optimism for 2010 but the more you think about it, it shouldn’t have ended this way.
The starting staff has been good all year and gave us a chance to win many a night. The back end of the bullpen with Moylan, Gonzalez and Soriano is one of, if not the best in all of baseball, but we threw away the first half of ‘09 with Schafer whiffing at everything he saw, Kelly missing every pitch he should have hit, popping them up, grounding out, and Francoeur who’s best days are far behind him.
This could have been our year to get back to post-season baseball. I don’t know how to say it without insulting the man anymore than we already have countless times. He’s just not assertive. He’s not perceptive. He doesn’t respond to a problem with any sense of how to solve it or that it needs to be solved.
He seems to have lost touch with reality. Why the F is Greg Norton still on this team! When will he be concinved that the guy isn’t getting the job done? What more did he need to see from Brooks Conrad to be convinced that he was a better option than Norton?
The unbiased observer would have to think that the guy isn’t capable of making informed decisions. Or any f***ing decisions. I mean, is he really satisfied with Greg Norton’s performance this year?
How in the world do you compare Derek Lowe’s 9 run meltdown in New York to a “Greg Maddux inning”?
This was a lost season. You hope we’ll end up with roughly 84 or 85 wins and if so it will be an improvement from last year. But the improvements Frank Wren made for this team did not yield nearly the results they should have. Bobby Cox has underperformed as the Braves manager. It’s as simple as that.
Yunel's Frosted Tips
August 29th, 2009
12:49 am
My high school field was bigger than the Phillie’s field, no lie
David O'Brien
August 29th, 2009
12:50 am
Supes, you have to go 5 in a regulation game to get the win, but not to get the loss. What if a guy gave up 20 runs in the first inning and only pitched that one inning in a 20-0, nine-inning loss. You don’t think he’d get the loss?
Braves trailed the whole way after Hanson gave up the homer. Thus, he got the loss.
The A Bomb
August 29th, 2009
12:50 am
“We just didn’t swing the bats tonight,” McCann said.
DOB — admit it. You have that in a saved “quick key” in your laptop.
David O'Brien
August 29th, 2009
12:52 am
A Bomb: Now that was funny.
Jake W.
August 29th, 2009
12:52 am
“May be a small field Mac but this team is playing on the same one as he is, and this team has to fight and scratch for just 2 runs”
Think the point Mac is trying to make is that the guy is so strong that even when he doesn’t get a good swing like the homerun he hit off Medlen its going to fly out and not just be a long out. Howard is strong, stronger than a lot of people. He could hit it out anywhere but even if he just misses it a little, with his strength he can still hit it out at that joke of a field. I like Mac’s quote. If Philly fans are tired of hearing it I could care less because truth is truth. Most of their players have the type of power where they can hit it out anywhere, they don’t need to have the short fences but when they get a homerun like that you can’t help but thinking about it.
The A Bomb
August 29th, 2009
12:54 am
DOB — I need funny after the attack on Diabetes last night. That guy… forget it.
Good story.
Mitchell
August 29th, 2009
12:56 am
“He’s got so much power, and this is a high school field,” Braves catcher Brian McCann said of Howard
Oh snap. I can’t believe he said that. It’s the f***ing truth though. I’m glad to hear someone finally say it.
The guy has to feel just the slightest bit of guilt about those bloop shots into the first row in left field. We’ve seen him hit them out that way much deeper, there’s no doubting he can do it but when he just scrapes the wall, it’s embarrassing.
We should have won this f***ing game anyway. That was such a sickening feeling watching that. I can’t believe Adam didn’t get a hit or at least a walk in that situation.
“He just hit it off the end of the bat,” says Bobby Cox. Yep, and he made an out and we f***ing lost.
Yunel's Frosted Tips
August 29th, 2009
12:58 am
In true DOB fashion, let’s take out another frustrating loss with a little Jimmy Eat World:
Sweetness
If you’re listening
Whoa…
Sing it back
Whoa…
String from your tether unwinds (echo)
Whoa, Whoa
Up and outward to bind (echo)
Whoa, Whoa
I was spinning free
Whoa..
With a little sweet and simple numbing me
Are you listening?
Whoa…
Sing it back
Whoa…
So tell me what do I need? (echo)
Whoa, Whoa
When words lose their meaning? (echo)
Whoa, Whoa
I was spinning free
Whoa…
With a little sweet and Simple numbing me
Stumble till you crawl
Whoa
Sinking into sweet uncertainty
oooooo, oooooo, oooooo, oooooo
ahhhhh, ahhhhh, ahhhhh, ahhhhh
Are you listening(echo)
If you’re listening
Whoa…(If you’re listening, are you listening?)
Sing it back
Whoa…(If you’re listening, are you listening?)
And I’m still running away (echo)
Whoa, Whoa
I won’t play your hide and seek game (echo)
Whoa, Whoa
I was spinning free
Whoa…
With a little sweet and simple numbing me.
What a dizzy dance
Whoa…
Ah, ah, ah
This sweetness will not be concerned with me.
(oooh)
No, the sweetness will not be concerned with me
(oooh)
(oooh)
No, the sweetness will not be concerned with me
bravefaninok
August 29th, 2009
12:58 am
Jeeze i thought Matty D has done fine in the leadoff spot…he seems to be working the pitcher and raking…he isn’t the fastest, but nobody hustles any harder(everytime out of the box).
nolie
August 29th, 2009
1:05 am
Man o man, between Howard and Chipper where the heck is Tonya Harding when we need her?