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jeffrey d
August 31st, 2009
12:04 am
Doc – I agree with you there.
Doc Holiday
August 31st, 2009
12:05 am
RHR
August 30th, 2009
11:55 pm
DOB – is something wrong with infante? Or is it just that geico kid has more OF experience (to offset his zero mlb hitting experience??) Its an injury, right?
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Sure……….its an injury………….in Cox head.
Soph
August 30th, 2009
11:57 pm
Did you guys want Mac to bunt before he hit into the double play? I wasn’t paying attention to the blog then.
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I did, this is the 2nd time this season I have called for this call and Cox keeps making it his way. I also called once when chipper was on a similar situation. Sometimes you just have to take what the other team is giving you and forget about whos in the batters box.
After Mc bunts, you have 2 RISP and 3 very good RBI guys back to back to back (in case an IW was to be strategy for the phillies).
CaliChopper
August 31st, 2009
12:05 am
Infante doesn’t cover ground in center the same way Reid does, they tried Infante in center it wasn’t pretty, people howled about that. So take your pick better bat or more fielding speed.
sid bream's saddle sore
August 31st, 2009
12:05 am
BRAVES LOSE!!!
BRAVES LOSE!!!
David O'Brien
August 31st, 2009
12:06 am
Doc Holliday: How many teams ask their cleanup hitter to bunt in that situation? Mac scorched it, just right at someone….
RHR: No, Infante’s not hurt. Bobby likes Gorecki’s D and, when I asked about him before game, he also mentioned that Gorecki has hit some balls hard.
The A Bomb
August 31st, 2009
12:07 am
Would Cox have ever asked Fred McGriff to bunt?
Would Cox have ever asked Andres Galarraga to bunt?
You get the point.
Chop Chop
August 31st, 2009
12:07 am
Note to self (and others):
No team can suffer like the Braves. No worse fate can befall any other team than the Braves. It is pointless to assert otherwise. If it’s bad and it happens to the Braves, it is undeniably the worst thing to ever take place to a baseball team.
Jake W.
August 31st, 2009
12:07 am
Doc Holiday
Seriously though, how creative can you get with this team? Sounds like some of you guys think bobby cox is working with another lineup. Got one of your best hitters up in a band box trailing late on the road and you want a bunt?
Jurrjens4NLCY {Knoble.MLBlogs.com}
August 31st, 2009
12:07 am
Joke’s on you, I’ve never been to Disney World and neither has my mom!
Lol, that hockey team floors me!
Ok.
Yo momma so fat that when God said, “Let there be light,” he told her to move her fat ole ass over!
Chop Chop
August 31st, 2009
12:08 am
Switch out “take place to” (which makes no sense) with “crush the soul of.”
That sounds better.
MiaBchBravesFan
August 31st, 2009
12:08 am
cracky otis: you were funnier earlier on; you’ve lost it.
Swamp retards was rich!
Jurrjens4NLCY {Knoble.MLBlogs.com}
August 31st, 2009
12:09 am
Doc Holliday: How many teams ask their cleanup hitter to bunt in that situation? Mac scorched it, just right at someone….
How many clean up hitters bat .286 with 17 homeruns?
Or a .218 average against leftys?
Soph
August 31st, 2009
12:09 am
JJ -
Still not impressed. I gave you the whole day to prepare too!
The A Bomb
August 31st, 2009
12:09 am
Stuart Scott on ESPN just called the Braves-Marlins series GI-NORMOUS.
Yup — 2 teams that just lost 2 of 3 to San Diego.
Huh?
Yunel's Frosted Tip's
August 31st, 2009
12:10 am
I really hate Bobby Cox(brain dead nose picker) more than anyone in professional sports, and that includes Brett Favre(drama queen) and Michael Vick ( dogkiller)
high school ballpark
August 31st, 2009
12:10 am
Another let-down at $hitizens Bank Park! SEASON OVER!!!
Mitchell
August 31st, 2009
12:11 am
I love Chipper’s comment about certain games being one’s they would have lost last year or the year before.
Oddly, I think this was a game the Braves would have won last year. After all, some might remember the game in which JJ threw 8 scoreless innings in Philly last July but had only a one run lead on a Brian McCann homerun. The Phillies bullpen came in in the 9th and we scored seven runs, four of them on a previously mentioned McCann grand slam off Lidge.
I really thought we’d have a similar fate tonight.
I guess we should consider ourselves lucky that in spite of a few injuries we’re still somewhat alive in the wild card race.
Of course, the day after the Jurrjens game last year we blew a six run lead, Brian got a concussion on a play at the plate and the season was pretty much over.
Could be worse, but we’re still good enough to beat the Phillies. That shouldn’t happen.
God knows what’s going to happen in Florida.
Yunel's Frosted Tip's
August 31st, 2009
12:11 am
I kinda wish Lou Vales would come on here and make fun of us again, this team deserves it.
Lou Vales
August 31st, 2009
12:11 am
Dear Tn Brian, How can anyone EVER tell what they could do to someone who they have never met/ I know physical monsters who Blog and I know people who fit the streotypes of Bloggers who Blog. It’s very similiar to the BIG Dudes who work out at the sports club I go to. Everyone of these guys insists he can beat the Hell out of everyone in the Western Hemisphere. Someone has to be wrong.Even 40 years ago when i was in my 20’s I would have never assumed I could “Destroy” someone i had never met. As the heroic, war hero George Bush said “It wouldn’t be prudent.”
Lou Vales
August 31st, 2009
12:13 am
Yunel, How is that for karma??
Jurrjens4NLCY {Knoble.MLBlogs.com}
August 31st, 2009
12:13 am
*Cough*
Jair Jurrjens, Jordan Schafer, Bradon Hicks, Jo Jo for Carlos Quintin, Chris Getz, Josh Fields and Dayan Viciedo…
Ahem *Cough*
Soph
August 31st, 2009
12:13 am
Spoke too soon. Here come the crazies.
N8
August 31st, 2009
12:14 am
“Would Cox have ever asked Fred McGriff to bunt?… Would Cox have ever asked Andres Galarraga to bunt?…. You get the point.”
No. Because back them, Bobby played for the 3-run HR. Not to mention that those lineups were DEEP with power. Usually the 5, 6 and 7th place hitters had more power than we’ve gotten out of Chipper and Mac this year. So if the Cat and Dog didn’t do it, it was likely that somebody behind them would have done it.
Different teams. Different lineup. Different situation. Not one has anything to do with the other.
Cox also wouldn’t have had Javy Lopez batting cleanup either (129 total career ab’s in the 4-hole), and Javy had more power than Mac does, (28 HR per 162 game average for Javy vs. 24 per 162 game average for Mac).
So you see. The lineup is just different. Thus what is asked of them should be different too.
That all being said, I wouldn’t have bunted with Mac in that situation. LOL
But with how he had been hitting and considering the rest of the lineup, I understand why some would want Bobby to play for one run.
phillies fan with a large ass
August 31st, 2009
12:14 am
OMG!!! GREG NORTON IS MY BFF!!!
Jurrjens4NLCY {Knoble.MLBlogs.com}
August 31st, 2009
12:14 am
Still not impressed. I gave you the whole day to prepare too!
Shut up. I don’t have to impress you. When both have to decide a winner, soooo those tricks won’t work!
Soph
August 31st, 2009
12:15 am
Jair Jurrjens, Jordan Schafer, Bradon Hicks, Jo Jo for Carlos Quintin, Chris Getz, Josh Fields and Dayan Viciedo…
JJ – and you wonder why Roman Gal resents you…?
Doc Holiday
August 31st, 2009
12:15 am
MiaBchBravesFan
August 31st, 2009
12:02 am
Doc, if they would’ve flashed McCann the bunt sign, they would’ve needed a defibrulator for Brian.
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Bingo, thats why this team zux, cause chipper and mc just wont bunt if needed (among other things).
jeffrey d
August 31st, 2009
12:15 am
Spoke too soon. Here come the crazies.
Here COME the crazies? When did they leave?
The A Bomb
August 31st, 2009
12:16 am
N8…. yes, team is different, but the role Cox thinks a cleanup hitter needs to fill has not changed.
Jurrjens4NLCY {Knoble.MLBlogs.com}
August 31st, 2009
12:16 am
Doc Holliday, N8, or me for manager!
(SoFla) Swamp Retard
August 31st, 2009
12:16 am
U-u-u-u-h, I’s gotta git my moskeeter net and snooze.
Bye y’all. Cracky Otis, the swamp it still better than Philly. The only crime in the swamp is that its too hot. In Philly, there’s only crime.
the crazies
August 31st, 2009
12:16 am
Hey, don’t blame us! We’re no match for Atlanta sports fans!
Suckers.
Chop Chop
August 31st, 2009
12:17 am
I would have replaced McCann with Javy so Javy could have bunted those guys over and then I would have had Heyward pinch-hit for Loaf and then he would have hit a 550-foot broken-bat homer because he is a beast and then all of you haters would have to suck it.
Soph
August 31st, 2009
12:17 am
Here COME the crazies? When did they leave?
Ok, ok let me rephrase that. Here come even more crazies.
Jurrjens4NLCY {Knoble.MLBlogs.com}
August 31st, 2009
12:17 am
JJ – and you wonder why Roman Gal resents you…?
Because I think shes old? Idk, why?
(SoFla) Swamp Retard
August 31st, 2009
12:18 am
Enter your comments here
Lou Vales
August 31st, 2009
12:18 am
By the way, I actually think 90% of you guys are very intelligent and you make this the best sports Blog in America. I only “make fun of” you know who, unbridled fanatacism, and hero worship.
Soph
August 31st, 2009
12:18 am
Chop Chop, you have a brilliant mind. I vote Chop Chop for manager!
Javy Lopez
August 31st, 2009
12:19 am
Hey, where’d I leave that sandwich?
Jurrjens4NLCY {Knoble.MLBlogs.com}
August 31st, 2009
12:20 am
he would have hit a 550-foot broken-bat homer because he is a beast and then all of you haters would have to suck it.
Soph, this is a brilliant mind???
Javy Lopez
August 31st, 2009
12:20 am
Oh, there it is! Mmm, nom nom nom nom!!
Ebenezer Snerdberg
August 31st, 2009
12:22 am
Subs for ‘Thank God I’m A Country Boy’ by John Denver in the 7th! ‘I Gotta Get Drunk’ by Willie Nelson or ‘Cocaine’ by Eric Clapton!
And that’s the way it is. Good night and good luck!
Soph
August 31st, 2009
12:22 am
Don’t hate JJ. Chop Chop’s effin awesome. He’s got all the answers!
The Bird and Indian
August 31st, 2009
12:22 am
Jurrjens4NLCY {Knoble.MLBlogs.com}: Please stop with the JJ trades thing. Let’s get real now.
Roman Gal probably hates you because of stuff like that last trade proposal.
Brian Snitker
August 31st, 2009
12:23 am
Actually, we do not have a bunt sign. Uh, anyone know where we’re headed next?
Jurrjens4NLCY {Knoble.MLBlogs.com}
August 31st, 2009
12:23 am
Not to saw a dead wh0re in half but… (Whats that expression?)
Why didn’t Javy Lopez make the team in 08??
Doc Holiday
August 31st, 2009
12:23 am
David O’Brien
August 31st, 2009
12:06 am
Doc Holliday: How many teams ask their cleanup hitter to bunt in that situation? Mac scorched it, just right at someone….
The A Bomb
August 31st, 2009
12:07 am
Would Cox have ever asked Fred McGriff to bunt?
Would Cox have ever asked Andres Galarraga to bunt?
You get the point.
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As someone pointed out, Mcs numbers are not numbers of a cleanup hitter, not even in AAA. Second of all, Mc is not our best power hitter……….. LaR is much better. 3rd of all, Mc was chosen as our cleanup hitter because we had no other option, but since Cox is our manager, he still is. 4th, if any other manager in the world came up and managed the braves, LaR would have become our cleanup hitter about 3 weeks ago.
Please, dont ever try to compare Mc to McGriff and Gallarraga again. Mc is a great hitter, but he is not the slugger those 2 guys were.
At last but not least…………if your cleanup hitter is not having a good year and not putting cleanup hitter type numbers, as a manager, you just ask whatever you want out of him……….thats why you are the boss………but it seems in atlanta, players are the bosses.
RHR
August 31st, 2009
12:24 am
Chop Chop is clearly the best armchair manager alive.
Damn DOB, I guess I need to pay more attention because I have most certainly missed all that great D and hard hit balls from the geico kid. I remember he got a hit when he was brought in late in that blowout, impossible to lose game with the mets but thats about it. I bet Chop Chop wouldnt play him over Infante.
Jurrjens4NLCY {Knoble.MLBlogs.com}
August 31st, 2009
12:24 am
Roman Gal probably hates you because of stuff like that last trade proposal.
RG doesn’t hate me…
Soph
August 31st, 2009
12:25 am
RG doesn’t hate me…
No, no guy. She resents you, not hate. Cheer up.
Jurrjens4NLCY {Knoble.MLBlogs.com}
August 31st, 2009
12:25 am
Don’t hate JJ. Chop Chop’s effin awesome. He’s got all the answers!
I’m not familar with Chop Chop, perhaps I should introduce myself to him, or vise – versa…
N8
August 31st, 2009
12:26 am
Though the power has come on a bit lately, with our pitching, if I’m Cox, I play for 1 run at a time wherever I get a chance. This team (and most teams) has done extremely well when scoring 4 or more runs (60-14), and 8-47 when scoring 3 or less (1-11 when scoring EXACTLY 3 runs – weird).
So to me, the goal should be to get to 4 runs or higher. Seems simple. But just gotta scratch and claw and try and make it happen anyway possible. It’s the magic number.
Our pitching is REALLY good. The odds are in our favor, when scoring 4 or more.
That’s the little things that Bobby could do. If we’ve got 3 runs, go out of the way to get to 4, rather than sitting back and waiting for the action to happen.
The Bird and Indian
August 31st, 2009
12:26 am
I’m sorry, resent.
Geronimo!!!
August 31st, 2009
12:27 am
Wow, suddenly Chipper Jones is completely over the hill!!
Who knew?
The A Bomb
August 31st, 2009
12:27 am
Wait a second Doc — McCann is a 4-time All-Star… and regardless of how things are going RIGHT NOW, what I was saying was how I perceive Cox’s interpretation of what a cleanup hitter is supposed to do.
He hit the ball hard and it didn’t work out.
And by the way, McGriff and Galarraga both played in the PED era so I don’t know how to compare any stats.
Chop Chop
August 31st, 2009
12:27 am
I’d play Gorecki over Infante.
People are scared to run on this guy.
Jurrjens4NLCY {Knoble.MLBlogs.com}
August 31st, 2009
12:27 am
Soph,
GUY!?! I’m reduced to guy? By the by, are you Sophi on my blog?
Ebenezer Snerdberg
August 31st, 2009
12:28 am
The best ‘little’ thing Blobby could do is go missing!
jeffrey d
August 31st, 2009
12:29 am
I could go for Chop Chop as manager
Jurrjens4NLCY {Knoble.MLBlogs.com}
August 31st, 2009
12:29 am
Ok:
Doc Holliday, Chop Chop, N8, or Me for Manager!
WOOO!
braves suck
August 31st, 2009
12:29 am
hard.
Soph
August 31st, 2009
12:29 am
lmao Chop Chop.
Jurrjens4NLCY {Knoble.MLBlogs.com}
August 31st, 2009
12:30 am
Doc Holliday, Chop Chop, N8, or Me for Manager!
Doc Holliday, Chop Chop, N8, orMe for Manager!I fixed it…
jeffrey d
August 31st, 2009
12:30 am
Sounds like we’re as unanimous as we’re ever gonna get. Chop Chop is the new manager of the Atlanta Braves effective tomorrow.
DOB – Could you please inform Bobby?
Soph
August 31st, 2009
12:31 am
GUY!?! I’m reduced to guy?
I say it with affection…
By the by, are you Sophi on my blog?
By the by…am I who?
Jurrjens4NLCY {Knoble.MLBlogs.com}
August 31st, 2009
12:31 am
Bobby should retire, NOT DIE. Anyone who wants him dead is sick minded and should be checked in to their local mental hospitals… Soph will show you…
Jurrjens4NLCY {Knoble.MLBlogs.com}
August 31st, 2009
12:33 am
I say it with affection…
Like sexy affection?
By the by…am I who?
Sophi, on my blog.
Bobby Cox's recipe for success
August 31st, 2009
12:34 am
1) Start Gorecky at CF
2) Leave McCann at cleanup spot
3) Leave Chipper at 3F
4) Bring in Norton in key situations
5) …
6) WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS!!!
jeffrey d
August 31st, 2009
12:35 am
3) Leave Chipper at 3F
So that’s Chipper’s problem….he’s play 3rd field
RHR
August 31st, 2009
12:35 am
Chop Chop just needs to retire. He’s terrible. All he does is just sit there and pick his nose. And you people defend him because of that ONE great move he made. HOF my ass. He sucks. Fire Chop Chop!
Chop Chop
August 31st, 2009
12:35 am
Soph…………………RHR…………………jeffrey d…………………….thanks for the props
Soph
August 31st, 2009
12:35 am
JJ -
Question 1 – No.
Question 2 – Who’s Sophi?
Bobby Cox's recipe for success
August 31st, 2009
12:36 am
Zzzzzzz…
Uh, wha? October already??
jeffrey d
August 31st, 2009
12:36 am
Hey, you earned it chief
Soph
August 31st, 2009
12:37 am
No, RHR. Chop Chop’s a HOF’er! How dare you disrespect him? Look at all he’s done for us…oh nevermind.
Sorry Chop Chop. You’re welcome for the props though.
Chop Chop
August 31st, 2009
12:38 am
RHR……………………….if you understood how “hard” it is to work for half of the previous manager’s salary, you might not be such a MORON. It is not “easy” to “make it” on $1.5 million. I “pick my nose” because I have allergies that cause dry boogers to build up in my nostrils. If I can’t “breathe,” I can’t “think.”
I remember when you used to give me props. Those were the good ol’ days.
Jurrjens4NLCY {Knoble.MLBlogs.com}
August 31st, 2009
12:38 am
Soph,
Are you posting on my blog?
Find me one flaw in that trade…
Chop Chop Apologist
August 31st, 2009
12:38 am
Give the guy a break! We almost had that game! We just kept hitting the ball hard right to outfielders, that’s all. We’ll break out of this slump, any day now.
Doc Holiday
August 31st, 2009
12:39 am
The A Bomb,
What does being an ALL STAR has to do with bunting a ball? Its the other way around……….Thats how an ALL STAR player shows he is an AS player, by doing what is needed to be done………please name me any catcher in the league (besides mauer) that would have not bunt that ball?
Bunting was a must do………..we didnt and as result, we lost. I can guarantee you that if Mc bunted that ball, we would have tied that game….. you know that. So it all goes down to the fact that it worked against us to have Mc in the batters box at the wrong time.
If he is sooooooooo damn good and as the slugger he is, why couldnt he hit a sac fly to RF and advance the runner to 3B? That would have worked as good as a bunt.
Jurrjens4NLCY {Knoble.MLBlogs.com}
August 31st, 2009
12:39 am
Fine: Chop Chop for Manager, then Me for Assistant GM and Jeffrey D for Jester… Doc Holliday for…? Jester #2!
Soph
August 31st, 2009
12:40 am
Hmmm, I see a sophi is posting on your blog. You know more than one Sophi/Sophia, huh?
The A Bomb
August 31st, 2009
12:41 am
“I was making a throw to a guy on the run. I thought I made a good throw. I guess I didn’t. I guess it tailed a little too much.”
Words I hope we NEVER hear from Matt Ryan.
No More Chop Chop 2.
August 31st, 2009
12:41 am
CHOP CHOP NEEDS TO GO!!!! HOW MUCH LONGER IS HE GOING TO BAT JURRJENS CLEANUP AND USE USE NORTON IN MIDDLE RELIEF??!!!
NO MORE CHOP CHOP
August 31st, 2009
12:41 am
Chop Chop’s got to go. And, all you people are too stupid to realize it. What has he done for us lately?
Jurrjens4NLCY {Knoble.MLBlogs.com}
August 31st, 2009
12:41 am
Soph,
Thats not you?? Or is this a joke.
Find me one flaw! You can’t, its a beautiful trade for both sides.
dog team
August 31st, 2009
12:41 am
Whoaaaa! Jeter over Cal Ripkin as best SS?!
Just imagine had the Bravos won all the World Series they got to!
jeffrey d
August 31st, 2009
12:41 am
How’d I end up at jester??
Jurrjens4NLCY {Knoble.MLBlogs.com}
August 31st, 2009
12:42 am
I love the Anti Chop Chop movement!
No offense, its all professional…
Jurrjens4NLCY for Manager!
jeffrey d
August 31st, 2009
12:42 am
wow…that No More Chop Chop and No More Chop Chop 2 thing was not planned, fyi.
(I was 2)
NO MORE CHOP CHOP
August 31st, 2009
12:42 am
Go away No More Chop Chop 2. You’re not needed here. I think I made my point.
Soph
August 31st, 2009
12:43 am
Poor Chop Chop…
Jurrjens4NLCY {Knoble.MLBlogs.com}
August 31st, 2009
12:44 am
How’d I end up at jester??
Because your a silly goose! :p
"Paul Lentz" d
August 31st, 2009
12:44 am
Chop Chop, regarding your 8:25 decision to “pinch hit” for Vazquez, you did so with no PASSION like the typical MORON you are.
NO MORE CHOP CHOP
August 31st, 2009
12:44 am
No, but I saw him picking his nose. When is Frank Wren going to realize that Chop’s got to go…IMMEDIATELY.
The A Bomb
August 31st, 2009
12:44 am
Again Doc, I’ve never seen Cox have a cleanup hitter bunt. I wasn’t defending it, just the facts.
If he drives a 2-run double down the line, no one cries. Cox won’t bunt with certain guys, even Chipper at 4 for 45. Just the facts.
Will
August 31st, 2009
12:45 am
that was fun tonight to watch the bravos once again follow up a blowout win with horrible run support for their pitcher. Jurrjiens has gotten an F-you from the lineup repeatedly this year and nothing changed tonight. That guy should be approaching 20 wins and he is 10-9 purely because of his offense.
"Paul Lentz" d
August 31st, 2009
12:45 am
Poor Chop Chop…
kind of looks like pork chop chop
Robert
August 31st, 2009
12:45 am
Heehaw.
Give another sugar cube to that donkey in the dugout.
Chop Chop is the worst manager in the history of baseball.
jeffrey d
August 31st, 2009
12:45 am
oops…
Soph
August 31st, 2009
12:46 am
Thats not you?? Or is this a joke.
You’re confoozing me, kid! What are you talking about?