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Baba O'Riley
August 31st, 2009
2:40 pm
korean
Mid Town Joe
August 31st, 2009
2:41 pm
Shamus – spiking Norton’s Gatorade with ‘roids would be the story of the century. Can you imagine the talking heads and their storylines:
Career .125 hitter caught with PHD’s. Bonds and McGuire would welcome the story!
Serge
August 31st, 2009
2:42 pm
Norton has a total of 9 hits this season. I am stunned. Stunned we keep using him as the primary bat off the bench.
Do you think he will reach 10 hits by the end of the year?
Mike S
August 31st, 2009
2:42 pm
DOB: Please, please use that idea for your next blog!!
Serge
August 31st, 2009
2:42 pm
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Rock On......the denizen formerly known as Dadgum
August 31st, 2009
2:43 pm
F.Wren…also it was a legit post dude. So I am wrong, sue me. Don’t see you lighting into Lew because he was wondering if Hudson was available for the 40-man. Glad you have chosen me as your blog whipping boy. Man, get a life, please.
RHR
August 31st, 2009
2:43 pm
It’s four letters
oh well in that case, it has to be “LOVE”
David O'Brien
August 31st, 2009
2:44 pm
Hillbilly: Good catch. It was a mistake on my part. Hanson is starting the fourth game of the series, not Lowe. Just read by chicken-scratch handwriting too fast when I was doing the preview box, since it wasn’t on Braves game notes yesterday due to the late changes.
jeffrey d
August 31st, 2009
2:45 pm
You all are Cox apologists –
I “defend” Bobby because people like you accuse him of the craziest things:
Chipper threw the ball away? Bobby’s fault! Loaf dropped a catch? Bobby’s fault! He should’ve practiced running basket catches before the game! Jurrjens can’t pitch because of a torn nail? Bobby’s fault! He should keep the pitchers manicured! McCann K’ed? Bobby’s fault! He clearly slipped laxitives in the Gatorade!
RHR
August 31st, 2009
2:45 pm
The power of the blog curse is so immense,
Unless you’re Chipper or MFIKY. Chipper and MFIKY scoff at your silly little jinx attempts.
Rock On......the denizen formerly known as Dadgum
August 31st, 2009
2:46 pm
DOB…watch out for those mistakes. Better for Hillbilly to catch you than F.Wren. Hee hee.
jeffrey d
August 31st, 2009
2:46 pm
Finally! There it goes
McCann – what’s your idea for “Loaf at work”? Keeping in mind there’s a good chance they’re not talking about Garret Anderson
jeffrey d
August 31st, 2009
2:47 pm
Who the hell cares, Chinese, Japanese… they’re all the same, and they all suck at baseball.
Now there’s an open-minded approach
Baba O'Riley
August 31st, 2009
2:47 pm
Yeah, that Ichiro guy in Seattle has ZERO tools. What a disgrace he is.
Vinings Jim
August 31st, 2009
2:48 pm
jeffrey d – I think it’s ‘idle’
ncscoots
August 31st, 2009
2:48 pm
That’s setting the bar high…. Fraternities and Dockers-wearers everywhere thank you.
I’ve been party to both, and lived to tell about it, LOL.
jeffrey d
August 31st, 2009
2:49 pm
DOB – if you wrote a blog on how awesome reality TV is and how you hope the shows stay on the air forever, that’d be just fine.
I also wouldn’t be offended if you went to cover the Rockies for the rest of the season (but came back here in time for the playoffs)
McFann Ô
August 31st, 2009
2:49 pm
jeffrey d–
“Idle” was my thought, too.
(Nobody asked you, V. Jim!
)
jeffrey d
August 31st, 2009
2:50 pm
Yeah, that Ichiro guy in Seattle has ZERO tools. What a disgrace he is.
And Hideki Matsui? PEWWWWWWWWWWWWWW-EEEEE!
Baba O'Riley
August 31st, 2009
2:50 pm
And Hideki Irabu…er nevermind
Nova Scotia Steve
August 31st, 2009
2:51 pm
RE: Who the hell cares, Chinese, Japanese… they’re all the same, and they all suck at baseball.
WOW
Vinings Jim
August 31st, 2009
2:51 pm
Sorry, McFann – I couldn’t help myself – I picked up my trusty newspaper and found the clue, then got a couple of the across words
Baba O'Riley
August 31st, 2009
2:52 pm
nevermind Reeeeed. He’s a Cubs fan. miserable existence
Hillbilly
August 31st, 2009
2:52 pm
DOB,
Good deal. So Hanson-Thursday, Lowe-Friday, Jurrjens-Saturday, and Hudson or Kawakami-Sunday.
guy living in 1995
August 31st, 2009
2:53 pm
What about Hideo Nomo? He’s got Cy Young written on him for years to come.
Welp, I’m off to get a Caesar haircut and see Forrest Gump.
Tomahawkin
August 31st, 2009
2:54 pm
If Anyone other than me was seriously P’d after after that fiasco in Philly then “Give me a Hell Yeah”!!!
I’m conceeding the season. Our AWFense is just Wayyy Too Inconsistant to last even the first round of the Playoffs if we even get there…
Most would be good to know that I was nowhere near a computer when I had a(n) hour-long BF last night after watching us get Clowned in Philly
jeffrey d
August 31st, 2009
2:54 pm
“I picked up my trusty newspaper and found the clue, then got a couple of the across words”
(that was repeated by me in a nasally, mocking tone)
RHR
August 31st, 2009
2:54 pm
guy living in 1995 = DLowe
jeffrey d
August 31st, 2009
2:55 pm
Derek’s still got the 90’s hairdo, so it could be.
David O'Brien
August 31st, 2009
2:56 pm
That 2:53 comment was just funny. Period.
McFann Ô
August 31st, 2009
2:56 pm
V. Jim–
Haha, that’s OK…just busting your chops.
jeffrey d
August 31st, 2009
2:57 pm
Nice! That was me.
McFann Ô
August 31st, 2009
2:58 pm
jeffrey d (that was repeated by me in a nasally, mocking tone)
cabravesfan
August 31st, 2009
3:00 pm
jeffrey d-
I know you aren’t mocking my guy VJ just because he is a crossword puzzle geek are you?? Because that wouldn’t be very nice…
DAP
August 31st, 2009
3:00 pm
c’mon tomohawkin. were closer than we were when we started the philly series. thats right, we gained a game this weekend. all is not lost.
cabravesfan
August 31st, 2009
3:00 pm
and McFann?!? I expect more from you, young lady!
jeffrey d
August 31st, 2009
3:00 pm
Guess I should step away for awhile. I’ll maybe be back for the game tonight for Overreact Fest 2009, Edition 130.
RHR
August 31st, 2009
3:01 pm
cab! Where ya been? How’s the wildfires treating ya?
jeffrey d
August 31st, 2009
3:02 pm
CAB – I’m not ashamed…even if that does make me a geek
I was mocking him because I obviously hadn’t gotten any of the across words and then he’s all of a sudden “oh, I just picked up the ol’ newspaper and figured it all out.”
PWHjort
August 31st, 2009
3:02 pm
Who the hell cares, Chinese, Japanese… they’re all the same, and they all suck at baseball.
Just when you think we’re making progress as a society…..
Carroll Rogers
August 31st, 2009
3:03 pm
new blog should be up! sorry for delay!
Hillbilly
August 31st, 2009
3:03 pm
And for the blog music: Self-Destructive Zones is Cooley at his very best. One of my favorite lines of all time is “Caught between a generation dying from its habits and another thinking rock and roll is new.”
Some other good ones : (to the evil empire that is called American Idol) –The young ‘uns all turn to karaoke, hanging all their wishes up on disregarded stars.
– “Dead (Cobain), fat (Noveselic), or rich (Grohl). Nobody’s left to bitch…”
Piedmont Blues (ex-BFIR)
August 31st, 2009
3:04 pm
This is sheer speculation (not that it’s stopped me before), but I wonder if Norton’s lack of production as a pinch hitter in 2009 has anything to do with his lack of playing time in the field. This year he’s logged only two games at 1B. In 2008, he played 11 games at 1B, 25 in LF, 2 in RF, and 8 as a DH. Granted, when he wasn’t pinch-hitting last season, his offensive output was terrible (OPS in the .600s and .700s), but perhaps getting some time in the field kept him from rusting on the bench.
Before 2007, playing defense didn’t seem to help his hitting. But maybe he’s at an age where sitting on the bench all the time hurts him. Hard to believe such an effective pinch hitter could be overmatched so quickly.
Crazy Trades McGee
August 31st, 2009
3:04 pm
Man the craziness of the crazies on here at crazy times of night is just too crazily crazy for me to even get crazy about.
eyeball kid
August 31st, 2009
3:40 pm
Bobby’s theme song, lyrics by the late great Warren Zevon
Well, I went to the Doctor
I said “I’m feeling kinda rough”
He said, “I’ll break it to you son
Your sh#t’s f##ked up.”
I said, “my sh#t”s f##ked up?”
Well, I don’t see how—”
He said, “The sh#t that used to work—
It won’t work now.”
Dorothy Davis
September 11th, 2009
12:01 pm
gLAD TO HEAR CHIPPER DOES NOT WANT TO PLAY MEDIOCRE BASEBALL. NOW IF BOBBY WOULD REALIZE THAT AND MOVE HIM WAY DOWN IN THE LINE UP, WE COULD GET SOME WINS, BUT BOBBY IS “THE PLAYERS BUDDY”, NOT A GOOD MANAGER. PERHAPS IT IS TIME CHIPPER RETIRED TO THE HEAD OFFICE AND LET AN UP AND COMING STAR (PRADO) BECOME THE 3RD BASEMAN WE SO DESPERATELY NEED. WE DO NOT NEED A LEADER THAT CAN NOT LEAD. HIS BODY HAS GOTTEN OLDER BEFORE IT’S TIME, FOR WHATEVER REASON, AND HE HAS NOT BEEN “MENTALLY” IN THE GAME FOR SOME TIME. MOSTLY BECAUSE HE HAS WORRIED MORE ABOUT HIS OWN IMAGE INSTEAD OF THE TEAM. AND FOR ALL YOU CHIPPER LOVERS OUT THERE (AND I HAVE BEEN ONE FOR YEARS) IT IS TIME TO LET GO.