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Eric In Albany N.Y.
October 20th, 2009
7:28 pm
JJ gives me reason to think he will be just as good if not better because as he did in 08, he was just as good and not only that but better!!! and for what its worth… the reason to think javy will be just as good is 2 fold… he is playing for a team and a manager and a team that likes having him there and he also pitches in the NL for those of you who believe that makes a difference!!!
give me a braves pitching staff even if no deal can not be made with huddy over the mets staff any day till 2011
P. W. Hjort
October 20th, 2009
7:28 pm
Didn’t Santana have surgery recently? There’s a chance he’ll never be the same.
Soph
October 20th, 2009
7:29 pm
McFann –
You’re welcome!
McFann Ô –[brr!]
October 20th, 2009
7:32 pm
P. W. Hjort Didn’t Santana have surgery recently?
I think he did…so if Timmy has to prove he’s healthy, than Santana has to, too, right?
Soph–
Eric In Albany N.Y.
October 20th, 2009
7:37 pm
i guess no one has an answer to my question:
who on the mets pitching staff they would rather have than Kawakami? (aside from Johan Santana)
Soph
October 20th, 2009
7:37 pm
Oh, Manny. Ay-yi-yi…
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/10246996/Manny:-I-was-in-the-shower-when-Phils-came-back
Eric In Albany N.Y.
October 20th, 2009
8:00 pm
Hey mets fans! its great your team is faster than the braves on the bags, but you cant get on base from the DL!!!
TnBrian
October 20th, 2009
8:04 pm
Mets Fans:
You want me to tell you why your Mets choke & fall apart? When a team has no farm system & tries it’s hardest to compete with a better, way more successful franchise across town, you FAIL. Reason being is that these overpaid, arrogant FA ya’ll sign just don’t bring chemistry & desire like your own young, homegrown talent will. Wright & Reyes do, but they obviously can’t do it alone. Oh, & management is a damn joke.
Prediction: Look for the Mets to suffer another very disappointing, laughing stock of a season in 2010 regardless of what high priced FA they buy this winter.
Mixxo
October 20th, 2009
8:05 pm
Go Y-Y-Y-Y-…..you know who!!!
Winterville
October 20th, 2009
8:05 pm
I think MetsWSChamps2010 is DOB just trying to generate page hits and stir people up. There is no way that can be a real person is there? This has to be a figment of someone’s imagination. What an absolute moron.
Mixxo
October 20th, 2009
8:09 pm
Y’all see DJ snag that liner?
Eric In Albany N.Y.
October 20th, 2009
8:12 pm
TnBrian
A-MEN!
Mets Are A JOKE!
Soph
October 20th, 2009
8:12 pm
Go Y-Y-Y-Y-…..you know who!!!
Mixxo, you’re only my friend when the Falcons play. Other that that, we are not on speaking terms.
Mixxo
October 20th, 2009
8:15 pm
Soph –
I’m totally honored to be your friend too. :love:
TnBrian
October 20th, 2009
8:16 pm
That Mets fan got those names of guys Atlanta might go after from a chat script on mlbtr from earlier. I read it & a question was asked who the Braves might go after as their big bat. Willingham/Fox/Dye/Cantu was the his answer. Well, no, I just don’t see any of those, besides maybe Dye if he can somehow rebound, as serious targets unless all else fails which I doubt because the team has plenty of parts to trade that other teams would lineup for.
Paul Lentz
October 20th, 2009
8:19 pm
Good riddance, Buddy Carlyle. One less BUM for Bobby Cox to be tempted to use in the bullpen for the 2010 season. I hope that I never see his career 5.61 ERA and 40 homers given up in 245 career innings A$$.
If Jorge Campillo can show that he has recovered from his injuries, then he would be the ideal candidate for the long relief, spot starter in the bullpen. He’d be cheap and expendable (in other words, if his arm falls off due to overuse, it wont hurt the Braves financially). However if he can excel as the rubber arm in the bullpen, then it helps the Braves.
Eric In Albany N.Y.
October 20th, 2009
8:31 pm
shake it up!!!
Long Live Scott Ferrall!
Chipper Career Year 2010!!!
War Jim Rome and his joke of a radio show with all his rookie comic caller/ e-mailer fans and their stupid inside jokes that get in the way of a sports talk radio show.
PS Romie! we heard the joke the first time… its not funnier when you repeat it slower and more monotone right after the listeners just heard the canned version of the punch line the first time!
Lets Go Braves!
TnBrian
October 20th, 2009
8:44 pm
Teixeira is such a geek. A rich geek, but still a dork in my eyes. He really is a puppet to his master, Boras. It’s a shame what that guy’s doing to the game, but Selig allows it.
I wonder how much just one of Sabathia’s legs weigh?
Eric In Albany N.Y.
October 20th, 2009
8:51 pm
Does Anyone out there fault me for being in Yankee/Mets country
bravefaninok
October 20th, 2009
9:07 pm
Eric In Albany N.Y.
October 20th, 2009
8:51 pm
Does Anyone out there fault me for being in Yankee/Mets country
I don’t but hey I live in Oklahoma(cardinals/Astros country)
Braveheart
October 20th, 2009
9:09 pm
Good riddance, Buddy Carlyle. One less BUM for Bobby Cox to be tempted to use in the bullpen for the 2010 season. I hope that I never see his career 5.61 ERA and 40 homers given up in 245 career innings A$$.
There’s better reason to hate Buddy Carlyle. If Buddy Carlyle had pitched like Buddy Carlyle in June & July of 2007, perhaps the Braves never would have made the Tex deal. The Braves were 7-3 in his 10 starts those 2 months, and he averaged 6 IP per start while having a 3.86 ERA. Maybe his performance over those 2 months left them too wishful that he could continue pitching like that over the last two months after getting Tex, but it wasn’t meant to be. They went 4-5 in his last 9 starts, and he had a 7.09 ERA in those starts. If you’re going to hate him, hate him for that.
But I can’t hate Buddy. I’ll remember him as a guy that came out of nowhere, who had little reason to keep fighting for a career as a big leaguer, and who nobody but Gil from Mechanicsville was mentioning after seeing him in Richmond during the first 2 months of 2007.
I’ll remember Buddy as the fella who helped the Braves win 9 of his first 12 starts, and kept their hopes for contention alive in 2007 after Davies and Redman fell on their faces, Larew went down with an injury, and while Cormier and JoJo were doing the Davies/Redman faceplant themselves. Everyone believed in those 5 guys more than the journeyman minor leaguer named Buddy that season, but Buddy was hungrier than all of them combined.
Buddy then went on to have a decent showing in 2008 as a reliever, demonstrating growth under the sinkerballer McDowell, showing an increased ability to strike out batters while inducing more groundballs and keeping more balls in the park than he historically had been. He gave his team many respectable innings in a season where there wasn’t much respectable about the Braves.
Then the diabetes hit, and, well, we’ll, and more importantly Buddy Carlyle, will never know how much he could have continued his moderate level of success, or whether he was just pitching way over his head and was doomed to regress to the pitcher he was once was.
I certainly wouldn’t label Buddy a BUM. That’s ridiculous. The guy kept pushing, chasing and working towards achieving the dream we all had but didn’t have the talent or work ethic to chase, never mind achieve. He dragged his family all around the globe for years chasing that dream.
I’d perhaps label Jeff Bennett a bum because he turned himself into a serviceable major leaguer by finally getting his fat arse in shape, but then once he tasted a moderate level of success, he took it for granted and let himself get fat again, and he went back to sucking.
That wasn’t true whatsoever of Buddy. Dude busted his arse, and maximized every last ounce of his ability, but got screwed by diabetes, and maybe also the deal he made with the Devil inevitably being revoked.
Mixxo
October 20th, 2009
9:13 pm
Eric In Albany N.Y. –
Fault you ?!?
Not in the least. You live where baseball fans are passionate about their ballclubs. We can’t even sell-out a freekin playoff game down here! It’s embarrassing if you want to know the truth.
Not that there’s anything that can be done about it. It is what it is……..sad.
We won 14 straight division titles and STILL couldn’t sell-out a P.O. game at the end of THAT run.
We’re the laughingstock of baseball and I don’t like it!
:facepalm:
Quisp
October 20th, 2009
9:14 pm
Looks like my Dodgers – Red Sox prediction was way off.
When did Torre start managing like Bobby Cox?
Eric In Albany N.Y.
October 20th, 2009
9:15 pm
bravefaninok… ok now its time to fault me… when i went to see the braves last yr in STL the cardnal fans knew our scrubs we had out there… basically the AAA richmond team… but the cards fans knew who they were… not only that but the same fans started rooting on the braves when the braves were down by more than 10 runs, all cus they liked me! i truly had a hell of an time there and the fans treated me well. i respected the baseball knowledge they had!
once had a good time hanging with cubs fans too in the upper deck of wrigley field. they shared peanuts and cotton candy with my ex and i! but i think it helped that the cubs won that game too!
Braves fans from all over are “OK” in my book!
flange1
October 20th, 2009
9:16 pm
Braveheart,
Bravo at 9:19!
Mike S
October 20th, 2009
9:20 pm
Ditto flange1, Braveheart!
Eric In Albany N.Y.
October 20th, 2009
9:22 pm
Mixxo… If you saw what i saw every year when i go to different parks… you would feel better about the fans.. our fans are all over.. if we moved all the die hard fans around this fine country you would have to make a football stadium just to fit the fans in every day.
example. the braves V rockies this summer… i walked into coors field as the braves scored 2 runs… from the sound of the cheers from the crowd you would think the rox just scored the runs… our fans travel and they have the same stories of being a kid in 92 sneaking peaks to see who was winning and what was going on in the game after mom and dad told us to go to bed!
braves fans get a bad name cus you always look at home games
Eric!
Soph
October 20th, 2009
9:23 pm
Ump blows another call. Swisher was out at second.
rico carty
October 20th, 2009
9:26 pm
Nolie, you are the Furman Bisher of the blog. Great once, but way past your prime, and dripping negative. Next time I’m in Atlanta I’ll visit the Braves Hall of Fame and see the Justice exhibit. You were probably one of the fans he called out before Game 6, booed him during the game, and cheered wildly after his heroics. If you ever see him make sure to thank him for our one and only ring.
Nolie
October 20th, 2009
9:27 pm
When did Torre start managing like Bobby Cox? (Quisp)
they are the same guy with different names. They get ripped byfans for the same things on their corresponding team boards. Anybody who has played for both will tell you they are twin sons of different mothers.. Torre had the advantage of a proven closer in NY year after year but was still tough on the pen.
Soph
October 20th, 2009
9:27 pm
And, they blow another one – I don’t think Swisher tagged too early.
Rock On........
October 20th, 2009
9:29 pm
Baseball must get instant replay!!! The umps are missing calls by the boatload. Again. This is a joke. Take a minute to get the call right.
Steve from OH
October 20th, 2009
9:31 pm
Great post, Braveheart.
Mixxo
October 20th, 2009
9:34 pm
Soph -
Make-up for the missed call at second maybe.
McFann Ô –[brr!]
October 20th, 2009
9:35 pm
Soph I don’t think Swisher tagged too early.
Neither do I, but pff! I’m not gonna complain…
That’s one of those “makeup calls” that the Braves never got!
Nolie
October 20th, 2009
9:37 pm
Next time I’m in Atlanta I’ll visit the Braves Hall of Fame and see the Justice exhibit (Rico)
all you gotta do is look at the numbers my man. If you’re too infatuated with the myth instead of the facts, that’s your problem not mine.
230 slugging percentage in 2-out RISP AND late/close absolutely sux. You do realize that they are much of that ‘clutch’ you keep braggin’ about right? If there is some way that you can convince yourself otherwise, you have a promising future as a fantasy writer.
Soph
October 20th, 2009
9:39 pm
Yeah, I figured it might’ve been a make-up call but that’s a pretty big make-up call to wipe a whole run off the board. Oh well.
Eric In Albany N.Y.
October 20th, 2009
9:40 pm
Anyone here been to SF att park? im going on march 8-10 to see the braves… i hope i dont freez my tomahawks off! any suggestions of bars and what to while im there please feel free to add input!
jim
October 20th, 2009
9:42 pm
Does anyone know why Heyward left the game early last week and hasn’t played since?
Mixxo
October 20th, 2009
9:43 pm
AROD = $$$
Bank on it!
Mixxo
October 20th, 2009
9:44 pm
Haven’t been to AT&T Eric, but it looks like a great park.
cabravesfan
October 20th, 2009
9:44 pm
Just a thought but maybe they should stop pitching to A-Rod…
Steve from OH
October 20th, 2009
9:45 pm
jim–according to DOB, mild glute strain. Day-to-day.
cabravesfan
October 20th, 2009
9:46 pm
Mixxo-
AT&T Park is fantastic- good food, great feel to the park (it’s one of the smallest, size wise, in the majors) and the location is beautiful- definitely get to a game there if you have the chance. Just bring a jacket because when the wind picks up it gets very cold
Eric In Albany N.Y.
October 20th, 2009
9:48 pm
Mixxo .. ive heard its a nice park on tv but isnt as nice in person… my fav is fenway and pittsburgh. cant wait to check out the city tho! PS they paid too much for the new yankee stadium.. not 1/2 the park pnc park, camden yards and the new busch stadium are! but i do agree they did need an updated place to play
chuckw/deadjournalist
October 20th, 2009
9:49 pm
i really don’t have anything interesting to say – just wanted to drop in and say hello to some of the old regulars – lew, richbrave, et al
Eric In Albany N.Y.
October 20th, 2009
9:51 pm
cabravesfan the smallest park in the majors was built not long ago. although it was not the smallest park when it was built… it was made the smallest when fenway added seats to the roof and the monster… the smallest park seating wise is PNC park.
Dont worry ill have my braves “outerwear” on fo-sho!
Eric In Albany N.Y.
October 20th, 2009
9:52 pm
chuckw/deadjournalist Hi!
Oh just thought of another nicer park than the new yankee stadium… Petco Park In SD!
Soph
October 20th, 2009
9:53 pm
What the heck is going on in Anaheim? That was bizarre-o.
They’re both out right? I mean neither was on the base when the catcher tagged them! This is crazy.
Mixxo
October 20th, 2009
9:54 pm
They’re both out!
Napoli – brilliant play
Cano – dumba$$
cabravesfan
October 20th, 2009
9:54 pm
Eric-
I didn’t mean in terms of seating- I meant it terms of actual “footprint” or acreage of the park
That may have been the worst call I have ever seen in an MLB game
Winterville
October 20th, 2009
9:55 pm
No harm no foul but how do you screw that up?
Soph
October 20th, 2009
9:56 pm
The umpiring in this game is ridiculous.
chip off the ol block
October 20th, 2009
9:56 pm
i’ve gotta say this is some of the worst umpiring i’ve seen in a long time in this bankees/Angels game
there’s been atleast 3 blown calls just in the game!
you’d think this was a Braves game and Bill Hohn was the ump
chuckw/deadjournalist
October 20th, 2009
9:57 pm
that is seriously one the worst calls i’ve ever seen. how can you miss that call? how can you not ask for help if you were daydreaming? worst call since … hrbek/gant?
chuckw/deadjournalist
October 20th, 2009
9:58 pm
chip – or that MLB cloned angel hernandez and put him at all positions
Couch Tater
October 20th, 2009
9:58 pm
That (non)call at third base was horrible.
McFann Ô –[brr!]
October 20th, 2009
10:00 pm
Soph that’s a pretty big make-up call to wipe a whole run off the board.
Yeah, but look at it this way: If that guy woulda been called out at second, as he SHOULD have been (and believe me, I know about those kinds of plays
), then that fly out woulda been out 3 anyway–still no extra run.
And those TWO guys were SO out at third! Dangit…poor Napoli makes a brilliant play, and that’s the thanks he gets!
Night, all!
Eric In Albany N.Y.
October 20th, 2009
10:00 pm
5-0 who cares if the call was bad… does it matter if its 6-0 or 5-0?
McFann Ô –[brr!]
October 20th, 2009
10:00 pm
chip off the ol block you’d think this was a Braves game and Bill Hohn was the ump
McFann Ô –[brr!]
October 20th, 2009
10:01 pm
does it matter if its 6-0 or 5-0?
Not unless the Angels cann score 6 unanswered runs…
Eric In Albany N.Y.
October 20th, 2009
10:04 pm
if this was a braves game we would all be yelling to save some runs for the next game when we will really need them!
1 yankee run doesnt matter considering how many free runs they get when the ball bounces their way and when the calls constantly go their way.
who cares the yanks are a joke. if i were a fan i would not enjoy the world series when i expect them to win and do better and better every yr… its like a cartoon team anyway… go phills… i dont care if they are in our divition… beat the downfall of baseball i mean beat the yankees
Soph
October 20th, 2009
10:08 pm
That was an awesome AB by Aybar.
This is where it might matter whether the Yanks are up 5-0 or 6-0. Not saying the Angels are going to make a big comeback but you never know.
Wayne in Utah
October 20th, 2009
10:11 pm
Great post Braveheart on Buddy.
I guess I jinxed the blog earlier when I wondered out loud where Paul the azzhole was, huh.
jeffrey d
October 20th, 2009
10:11 pm
You gotta feel a little bad for Loaf. His former team is in an exciting ALCS game while he sits at home and glares at a picture of Francoeur, Schafer, and Norton
Roman Gal
October 20th, 2009
10:12 pm
you’d think this was a Braves game and Bill Hohn was the ump chip
That bad, huh? I’m glad I’m not watching then…
Wayne in Utah
October 20th, 2009
10:12 pm
Yeah, the call at third definitely looked like a makeup call. I guess that is better than not getting it at all…..
Soph
October 20th, 2009
10:13 pm
Hmmm, I was thinking about Loaf earlier in the game too.
jeffrey d
October 20th, 2009
10:13 pm
Well, maybe not that exciting, but they are in the ALCS
jeffrey d
October 20th, 2009
10:15 pm
K-Rod too
Soph
October 20th, 2009
10:17 pm
K-Rod & Loaf have WS rings. They’ll be okay.
jeffrey d
October 20th, 2009
10:23 pm
Loaf probably fell asleep watching the 6:00 news anyway
Flat Bill Kid
October 20th, 2009
10:24 pm
I would love to see the Dodgers have to sell off players. I would love to get RH power hitter/base stealer Kemp. Dude is legit.
Soph
October 20th, 2009
10:25 pm
A belated g’night, McFann.
Soph
October 20th, 2009
10:26 pm
Are we allowed to say fuzzy on here yet?
jeffrey d
October 20th, 2009
10:27 pm
Yes we can…we’re regular pioneers on here.
Why? Who’d you see that was fuzzy?
Goldenglove002
October 20th, 2009
10:29 pm
Eric- ATT park is nice, but pretty different from everything else. The best place to sit is probably upper deck behind home plate (I took the park tour and saw just about every vantage point before I bought tickets). As for whether or not you are going to freeze, I went there in mid June and needed a pretty heavy coat. But I think they said that was abnormal weather.
Soph
October 20th, 2009
10:30 pm
Yay for fuzzy!
I didn’t actually see a fuzzy person. I was just checking since we’re the official blog pioneers. I said ridiculous earlier and it was great!
jeffrey d
October 20th, 2009
10:32 pm
This must be how Lewis and Clark felt.
Soph
October 20th, 2009
10:33 pm
Rally monkey sighting!
Nolie
October 20th, 2009
10:33 pm
As for whether or not you are going to freeze, I went there in mid June and needed a pretty heavy coat. But I think they said that was abnormal weather. (Gold)
doesn’t seem to be as cold most of the time as the old park and much nicer. I like it a lot.
Soph
October 20th, 2009
10:35 pm
Ugh, Rivera. You’re not my favorite Angel anymore.
MetsWSChamps2010
October 20th, 2009
10:39 pm
And another thing you heard here first. Jason Heyward is going to be a huge bust for the Braves. He’ll wind up just like another overhyped Braves prospect named Jeff Francouer. He’ll wind up just like Jordan Schafer and wind up being demoted to your AAA team because he has a “wrist injury”, instead of flat out saying he sucks. Man how you guys overvalue your prospects!
MetsWSChamps2010
October 20th, 2009
10:40 pm
Holliday A Met in 2010. Done deal. Mets vs Yankees in 2010 world series. Mets win it in 4. You heard it here first!!
Soph
October 20th, 2009
10:42 pm
I see our psychic friend is back.
Steve from OH
October 20th, 2009
10:42 pm
He’ll wind up just like Jordan Schafer and wind up being demoted to your AAA team because he has a “wrist injury”, instead of flat out saying he sucks.
Yeah! In fact, it was so fake that they actually went and did surgery on it! Oh wait…they’re not allowed to do that. Hmm…
jeffrey d
October 20th, 2009
10:44 pm
I love how the news was supposed to start at 10:30 (15 minutes ago) and we’re only in the top of the 7th inning of a relatively normal scoring game. It’s like Fox doesn’t even try
MetsWSChamps2010
October 20th, 2009
10:44 pm
He sucks. They didn’t even do surgery on it till the season was half over. Why didn’t they catch this when the season first started since he supposedly hurt it in one of the first few games of the season. A steriod cheater who sucks. Without his steriods he couldn’t do squat. He blows.
jeffrey d
October 20th, 2009
10:45 pm
He’s been here before?
MetsWSChamps2010
October 20th, 2009
10:45 pm
You guys should come over to the other side, and start rooting for a team that actually spends money to improve their team. Forget the Braves, go with the Mets!!!
Steve from OH
October 20th, 2009
10:46 pm
He blows.
As opposed to…the 2009 Mets?
Soph
October 20th, 2009
10:46 pm
They didn’t even do surgery on it till the season was half over. Why didn’t they catch this when the season first started since he supposedly hurt it in one of the first few games of the season.
Kinda like what happened with Jose Reyes, right? Surgery at the end of the year.
jeffrey d
October 20th, 2009
10:47 pm
Have you seen Jordan Schafer? I can guarantee you he’s not on roids.
jeffrey d
October 20th, 2009
10:47 pm
Unless they all went to his ears.
Soph
October 20th, 2009
10:47 pm
He’s been here before?
Yup, page 19 – lots of stupidity. You should read it when you have time and a lot of patience.
MetsWSChamps2010
October 20th, 2009
10:48 pm
As opposed to …..the 2008 Braves.
MetsWSChamps2010
October 20th, 2009
10:49 pm
Guarantee he is not on roids. He was suspended for 50 games for being busted with them!
Soph
October 20th, 2009
10:50 pm
CC Sabathia was recruited to play tight end? Cool. And, he had an imaginary friend named Danny! Nice.
MetsWSChamps2010
October 20th, 2009
10:50 pm
What’s the point on Reyes. He didn’t continue to kill the lineup for half a season before getting sent down. He may have been misdiagnosed, but he wasn’t allowed to continue to be a huge black hole strikeout machine on the team either. Mets 2010 WS champions baby!!
jed
October 20th, 2009
10:51 pm
jeff d–you still rolling your eyes?