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SRF
August 31st, 2009
7:55 pm
man – there must be 1000 people there !
Necromancer
August 31st, 2009
7:57 pm
This game’s attendance kind of reminds me of that game I went to a couple of weeks ago when the Braves played that makeup game against the snakes.
You could hear the players belching…well….almost….
TnBrian
August 31st, 2009
7:57 pm
Choppinmama, people don’t like Chipper outside of Atlanta, and us Braves fans of course, but they have never liked him. He was pretty arrogant when he was younger, but so was/is Jeter and many others and they LOVE those guys. It’s something I can’t figure out and probably never will.
Rafael
August 31st, 2009
7:59 pm
Hey Joe, You want to know what is Chipper’s proble? Just go into his wallet and look at his DOB on the driver’s license.
Jeff321
August 31st, 2009
8:00 pm
Not very impressive, Chipper.
Rob from SC
August 31st, 2009
8:00 pm
Another player on our team who can’t hit a fastball
SRF
August 31st, 2009
8:00 pm
Chipper is on fire tonight
No More Bobby 2.
August 31st, 2009
8:01 pm
We have a team full of old farts. The biggest of course is Bobby Cox.
SRF
August 31st, 2009
8:01 pm
Enter your comments here
Rodney Derrick
August 31st, 2009
8:01 pm
Johnson might strike out Chipper five times tonight. What is that? A Platinum Sombrero?
RHR
August 31st, 2009
8:01 pm
DOB is on Chipper’s drivers license?
Rob from SC
August 31st, 2009
8:02 pm
we need to get at least one hit
Chong
August 31st, 2009
8:02 pm
NMB2 – We have a team full of old farts
Now we know why they can’t run…they need to let those old farts out to make room for some new ones.
No More Bobby 2.
August 31st, 2009
8:02 pm
No hitter tonight. We have to win all four against the Marlins and what do we do? Nothing.
Chong
August 31st, 2009
8:03 pm
RHR
August 31st, 2009
8:01 pm
DOB is on Chipper’s drivers license?
I thought the same thing
JEFF
August 31st, 2009
8:03 pm
wow the attendance there is awful and of course the braves are losing to a team that has the lowest payroll in the majors… Bozo the clown is our fat fearless leader bobby cox. diaz leads off and we quickly give them out # 1 . first of all thats totally stupid. and second. i dont care if mccann needs a day off NOT when this series means everything, and the braves look pathetic. I will not be surprised the marlins put us out of the race. this lineup is a joke. we have players who are hurt taking up roster spots. just dont see it happenin this year folks. not with cox at the top. and Johnson has 5 k’s already. thru 4 innings.. just awful. way to leave the bats in atlanta.. braves lose 3 of 4 my prediction. no fire and too many excuses .. im tired whaaaaa mommy i want my bottle.
Rodney Derrick
August 31st, 2009
8:03 pm
Sorry, if it is a no hitter, likely only four Ks at most on Larry
SRF
August 31st, 2009
8:03 pm
Is it just me or do the Braves players look like they would rather be anywhere else ?
TnBrian
August 31st, 2009
8:03 pm
When did Dale Murphy start fizzing out? My guess was he was a year or two younger then Chipper is now, but I know he probably stayed around too long. Hope CJ doesn’t turn into that same story.
RHR
August 31st, 2009
8:04 pm
I can’t be socializing with all you low class Chipper bashers.
No More Bobby 2.
August 31st, 2009
8:05 pm
Chong. If we get rid of BC, then the problem will take care of itself. A new coach will not put washed up, over the hill players out there night after night. i.e. Chipper, Norton, Loaf.
Bravesfan54
August 31st, 2009
8:06 pm
Ok, Carroll has deservedly “b–ch slapped me” and the others who obsessed about Norton. I love this team, haven’t completely given up, but the numbers don’t lie about our chances. So…can we agree that our pitching is stellar (5 decent starters, some decent mid-inning guys, and two very good closers. Ok, we’re cookin’ with grease, you’re with me…so,…we got no speed (McClouth, yeah, but where’s he been, where’s he now)after McClouth – none! Agreed. Also, lack of speed has killed us? (no, you say, gees, wasn’t it a week ago, Loaf died an autumn leaf waiting for a wind on third base, without a saint or sinner to bring his slow azz home? yeah, I knew you’d remember. So-we need some speed. We need better defense at 3B. Chipper’s .933 won’t cut it. Personally, at 37 having played very hard for years, BC needed to give me more time off, but didn’t. He slumped, and his prayer “feets don’t fail me now” went unanswered. Loaf is liability. Class, can you repeat this: LOAF….! Do we have adequate position players yes, we even have exceptional ones, a few: Kotchman was, LaRoche is. Do we have all-star caliber, no – but it is a factor and should be (see, McClouth, good move). Moving on to power…ok folks I hear the bell…will talk tomorrow…O class, don’t forget to be positive, and be nice to Bobby and the team, let ‘em know you’re behind them. Don’t forget: DON’T BLOW UP THIS TEAM… more speed, more power, CJ rests, Norton goes (sorrrrrry, Carroll!).
R Rob
August 31st, 2009
8:06 pm
I say with all due respect “send my saddle home, my pony(Braves) is dead and gone to hell.
Goodbye my lover , goodbye!” Put a fork in em they’re done. I hope with all my being that this is the nose picker’s last year as the Braves manager.
ryan
August 31st, 2009
8:06 pm
might see a no hitter tonight. At least are hitting coach has time to suck on a lollypop. Fire Cox
McFann :Ô:
August 31st, 2009
8:06 pm
N Nine–
Yeah, really…
Choppinmama–
Haha, let’s hope!
JEFF i dont care if mccann needs a day off NOT when this series means everything, and the braves look pathetic.
Just FYI, BMac doesn’t hit the Marlins particularly well, anyway…
Chong
August 31st, 2009
8:06 pm
No More Bobby 2.
August 31st, 2009
8:05 pm
Chong. If we get rid of BC, then the problem will take care of itself. A new coach will not put washed up, over the hill players out there night after night. i.e. Chipper, Norton, Loaf.
Oh, I thought you meant they had gas dude.
No More Chop Chop 1 and 2
August 31st, 2009
8:06 pm
A new coach will not put washed up, over the hill players out there night after night. i.e. Chipper, Norton, Loaf.
Yes they would.
ChurchMan
August 31st, 2009
8:06 pm
- Losing 2 of 3 to the Padres was an eye opener
- Losing 2 of 3 to the Phillies afterward showed me they don’t have the desire to fight.
And finally tonight is showing me that I don’t even think they won’t to finish the season on a winning note.
Choppinmama
August 31st, 2009
8:06 pm
TNBrian: Yeah, hatin’ on a good player is easy. During his latest slump, all the opposition is too ready to have him ride off into the sunset so they don’t have to face him any more. Hope his Geritol kicks in pretty soon though. His play is looking middle-aged even to me!
Necromancer
August 31st, 2009
8:07 pm
SRF
Is it just me or do the Braves players look like they would rather be anywhere else ?
Yeah…looks like a team full of Loafs out there…..or is it “loaves?”
No More Chop Chop 1 and 2
August 31st, 2009
8:07 pm
Fire Cox
Buy a dictionary.
SRF
August 31st, 2009
8:08 pm
yeah I think there is a story about loaves and fishes…
semiballcoach
August 31st, 2009
8:09 pm
kawakami up for the cy a nara award
JEFF
August 31st, 2009
8:10 pm
yup braves i bet get no hit by johnson.
Necromancer
August 31st, 2009
8:11 pm
Good Lord…this game looks like a game from back in April or May.
1-0 is looking more and more like the final of this game…
No More Bobby 2.
August 31st, 2009
8:11 pm
OK. I’m outta here. Too many “I Love Bobby Cox no matter how stupid his moves are” people on the blog tonight. If these goofs come back to make the playoffs (ha ha) I will come back to apologize.
Numbers
August 31st, 2009
8:12 pm
If Lentz is right 99% of the time
and
Br4vezw4g0n is right 1% of the time
then
Lentz plus Br4vezw4g0n = 100% *#@ hole
Necromancer
August 31st, 2009
8:12 pm
Br4vezw4g0n
Is there a pointy white hat and a white robe in your closet?
TnBrian
August 31st, 2009
8:12 pm
Br4ezw4g0n, did an Asian boy beat you on a 4th grade spelling test today? Get off mama’s computer and do your homework, son.
MattyRoss
August 31st, 2009
8:13 pm
Right now this is in the running for most boring game of the year.
Paul
August 31st, 2009
8:13 pm
My god imagine that the braves are getting no hit!! suprise suprise
SRF
August 31st, 2009
8:13 pm
speaking of old farts – Brett Farve is on ESPN
Rafael
August 31st, 2009
8:14 pm
No Hitter will be gone after this 1/2 inning. Bets?
Gomer
August 31st, 2009
8:14 pm
Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!
Jay212033
August 31st, 2009
8:15 pm
I swear if I didn’t check the score myself one would think we were down 10-0! I hate reading this board when we are down, such a bunch of F’n crybabies!
Nova Scotia Steve
August 31st, 2009
8:15 pm
Adam trying to pull that ball = a ground out..
Never mind too late
JEFF
August 31st, 2009
8:15 pm
way to go braves. just pathetic.. 6 k’s and climbing..
McFann :Ô:
August 31st, 2009
8:16 pm
Ah, jeez…this not fun.
Good night for BMac to get the night off…he’d surpass last year’s total in K’s for sure against this guy!
Nova Scotia Steve
August 31st, 2009
8:16 pm
3 Walks = Time to take advantage and score on of em
SOS.
August 31st, 2009
8:17 pm
Jay212033. Then don’t read it. Wait till the game is over and go have a beer with your buddy Bobby Cox.
Nova Scotia Steve
August 31st, 2009
8:17 pm
No way
Heath
August 31st, 2009
8:17 pm
VJ?
Necromancer
August 31st, 2009
8:18 pm
I am resisting the urge to say anything else negative about this pathetic excuse of a game.
Choppinmama
August 31st, 2009
8:19 pm
jeffrey d: thanks for the kung fu panda answer. I could remember that it was a player with a definite un-Asian sounding name, it would always surprise me at the nickname.
I vote for “Poncho” as Carrol’s nickname. Like The Cisco Kid and his trusty sidekick “Poncho”. A little before lots of you young’uns’ times, I’ll bet.
Luke H.
August 31st, 2009
8:19 pm
Night of the double plays tonight. Everyone should say “No-Hitter” out loud, let’s jinx this 7-foot f**k early.
Rafael
August 31st, 2009
8:19 pm
I meant to say that the no hitter will be gone after the NEXT 1/2 inning.
Let’s look at it in a positively, at least it can not be a perfect game thrown against us.
bravefaninok
August 31st, 2009
8:19 pm
that mound has to be over 10 inches high…..looks like 18 inches on tv
Bravesfan54
August 31st, 2009
8:20 pm
Roman Gal at 7:11 – you are so right about the salary cap! The last time the owners tried to impose one, baseball lost a season. This is the “54/40 or fight”, “give me liberty or give me death” of the union.
My question to you is this: should the owners hang tough knowing that the union will absolutely not cave in, and a strike would last more than one season only to have the president (which ever a Republican president would eventually do, too) appoint first, a baseball czar (we seem to like “czar” don’t we, has an imperial ring to, even if they don’t win drug wars, ecomomic wars, trade wars…but, I digressed) then, when the baseball czar fails (as they all do, being creatures of the executive, with no budget, no power), the president appoints a mediator, and the rabble finding rope for the few, turn the tide against ownership.
Now, I understand, as a southern boy does, that I poked a stick into the hornets nest. So Carroll needs to impose MARTIAL BLOG LAW (a la’ Cesar Chavez) and FORBID discussion of this issue.
Hey, I really and truly am a 63 year old man who followed this team since a year after they moved to Milwaukee. I swear I could ace a test on the 50/60’s teams and pass one on the 70’s, before I lost a decade to decadence.
Just bloggin’, mind you!
Hugh Jazz
August 31st, 2009
8:20 pm
I called it in the 2nd. This will be a no-hitter. Bank on it.
Jay212033
August 31st, 2009
8:21 pm
SOS
If that’s why you come here to bitch and moan all game then that’s pathetic! Especially when we’re only down 1-0!
Necromancer
August 31st, 2009
8:23 pm
I think Carroll’s new nickname should be Mama.
Since DOB is the Chief, why can’t Carroll be Mama?
I can see McFann now.
Thanks for the new blog, Mama!
Necromancer
August 31st, 2009
8:23 pm
okay…entirely too much bold..
No More Chop Chop 1 and 2
August 31st, 2009
8:23 pm
You show ‘em, Loaf.
Rodney Derrick
August 31st, 2009
8:23 pm
A miracle play by Turbo
Carroll Rogers
August 31st, 2009
8:24 pm
That’s only 60 pitches for Johnson through five innings.
Choppinmama
August 31st, 2009
8:24 pm
Marlins announcers: “…………….Anderson swoops in on that fly ball.” That’s his one swoop a year allotment. But, gotta give him half a prop for that catch.
Necromancer
August 31st, 2009
8:25 pm
Thanks for the info, Mama!
No More Chop Chop 1 and 2
August 31st, 2009
8:25 pm
If DOB were here this no hitter bidness would be over with already. Maybe Carroll could text him and tell him to pop on and say “Johnson is the best pitcher alive. Sorry folks, but he’s gonna get a complete game no hitter vs the bravos tonight.”
Carroll Rogers
August 31st, 2009
8:27 pm
Necromancer I’m almost old enough to be McFann’s Mama!
DOB
August 31st, 2009
8:27 pm
Josh Johnson is the best pitcher alive He’s throwing a CG no-no tonight. BANK ON IT.
Jake W.
August 31st, 2009
8:27 pm
Lets see, Marlins have their number 1 on the mound, a guy who has turned into a bona fide ace. Braves have a guy whos been there number 5 for most the year. I don’t know, coming into the series if I had to pick a team that had advantage each game I would say the marlins have a big one this game. They are winning 1-0. If it was reversed and it was the braves number 1 vs the marlins number 5 you would be mad that the braves didn’t have more than one run facing a teams worst starter while your ace is pitching a gem.
McFann :Ô:
August 31st, 2009
8:28 pm
Me Ah, jeez…this not fun.
Seriously? “This not fun”?
What am I–a neanderthal?
Necromancer–
LOL!
Oh, mercy, ssoR! C’mon!
groundfog
August 31st, 2009
8:30 pm
KK giving a better at bat than most Braves tonight
Roman Gal
August 31st, 2009
8:30 pm
They fixed Schafer’s ears by Botoxing his entire tiny head. Now that his head is normal size, he has smallish ears.. Shamus Thacker
Saying that they fixed them would imply that something was wrong with them in the first place.
JEFF
August 31st, 2009
8:32 pm
this is awful. in the heat of a playoff race this teams decides to take the week off..
Andy
August 31st, 2009
8:32 pm
god some of the other guys have to show the sack the kk just did in that at-bat
who cares
August 31st, 2009
8:32 pm
Chipper Jones is a joke. He is toast. He cant field, he cant throw, and now that he cant take steriods anymore, he cant hit for average or hit for power. He is a prime example of a player that bulked up, and then stopped taking steriods and his body feel apart. He is worse than Mark Mcguire his last couple of years. This guy gets hurt everytime he walks fast, and his swing is pathetic now, if he ever does swing. So good job Wren, for signing another over the hill superstar to a hug contract, when u could have traded him before he stopped taking the juice and gotten something for him. Hey u can always make him a manager, he sits by cox enough as it is, cause he never plays. And one last thing, maybe management could grow some balls and get rid of cox, but that would mean the braves would have to do without the best pinch hitter cox has ever seen in Norton, and the best AAA player on the roster in kelly johnson. OPPSSSSS!! Chipper just took a 3rd strike with his heavy bat on his weak shoulders.
McFann :Ô:
August 31st, 2009
8:33 pm
BTW–What was the answer to the trivia Q? Anybody know?
Liked Boog “dissing” those of us who love the half-longball.
FEAR
August 31st, 2009
8:33 pm
this team took the year off
McFann :Ô:
August 31st, 2009
8:33 pm
Matty!!
RHR
August 31st, 2009
8:33 pm
Damn I’m good.
JEFF
August 31st, 2009
8:34 pm
thank u MATTTTTYYYY. FINALLYY leave it up to matt to do everything…
Chong
August 31st, 2009
8:34 pm
McFann :Ô:
August 31st, 2009
8:33 pm
BTW–What was the answer to the trivia Q? Anybody know?
Brian Roberts
Mitchell
August 31st, 2009
8:35 pm
Yeah, how bout that Matt Diaz?
Just tearin’ it up out there.
TnBrian
August 31st, 2009
8:35 pm
Can they clone Diaz?
Roman Gal
August 31st, 2009
8:36 pm
The Name-Thief finally got to me at 7:11. But, they didn’t say anything too out-of-the-box, so I’m not really upset…yet.
Just don’t let it happen again, pal!
RHR
August 31st, 2009
8:37 pm
You know what, who cares? You suck more. You suck at everything you do and you always have. And not only do you suck but you’re dumb too. Dumb and sucky. Take that.
SOS.
August 31st, 2009
8:37 pm
Hey Cox. Diaz is hitting too good. Maybe you could pull one of your good managerial moves and platoon him with Norton. Yeah that’s the ticket Yeah.
BIOMASS
August 31st, 2009
8:37 pm
who cares, you could be right about Chipper. Steroid powered, and all of that.
How do you explain last year, though? .364, Batting Crown.
McFann :Ô:
August 31st, 2009
8:38 pm
At Matty stealing that base…oh, that was so stolen off the pitcher! Haha…looked like something that would happen against us.
Chong–
Thanks!
Keeping It Real
August 31st, 2009
8:39 pm
I wonder if Simpson and that other boog in the booth are going to kiss Diaz. They sure have a love fest for this guy. I guess when you have a team this bad and boring, you have to look for something to salivate over.
Soph
August 31st, 2009
8:39 pm
Nice catch Omar!
Mitchell
August 31st, 2009
8:39 pm
That Braves outfield really knows how to go get ‘em.
Braves73
August 31st, 2009
8:39 pm
Cox/Norton will be on the 2012 ticket for Presidency.
Roman Gal
August 31st, 2009
8:40 pm
Roman Gal at 7:11 – My question to you is this… Bravesfan54
Was that you? I didn’t write that. As for a “baseball czar”…no. Czar’s make me think of Russia and Russia creeps me out.
18 Wheels of Love
August 31st, 2009
8:40 pm
Anyone ever stayed at The Wellington in NYC? Gracias.
SOS.
August 31st, 2009
8:41 pm
Dang who cares. RHR told you didn’t he.
Pendleton
August 31st, 2009
8:41 pm
I mean, shoot, these guys already know how to hit, right? So what the hell am I supposed to do, heh? I get paid for being a ceremonial figurehead, I don’t have to do any actual “coaching” or anything.
–Where’s my check?
Firearm
August 31st, 2009
8:42 pm
Sanshin #5 for Kenshin!
FEAR
August 31st, 2009
8:44 pm
KK is cruising……this boy has got a bum rap