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Tom O'Hawke
January 17th, 2010
5:29 pm
Tom – I don’t know if I’m boring, or if it’s the game, but Nala and cabravesfan are both sleeping right now… — Venice Jim
zzzzzzz, zzzzz…. huh?
Venice Jim
January 17th, 2010
5:33 pm
We are also supposed to have rain starting this afternoon, and then lasting through the week – possibly a couple of inches of rain on some days – trying to keep me from missing Atlanta, I guess…
McFann
January 17th, 2010
5:33 pm
bravesgrl4life–
Sweeeeeeeet!
nolie
January 17th, 2010
5:35 pm
I don’t know if I’m boring, or if it’s the game, but Nala and cabravesfan are both sleeping right now… VJ
well I never wanted to say anything b4…
Venice Jim
January 17th, 2010
5:36 pm
Make that, rain starting about five minutes ago…only the third time since I’ve been here…
nolie
January 17th, 2010
5:37 pm
McFann talking of Nazis….John Banner of Hogan’s Heroes was really a Jew and served some time in a concentration camp during the war. maybe you already knew that.
Braveheart
January 17th, 2010
5:37 pm
Chargers owner Dean Spanos looks like a cross between Tom Arnold and Drew Carey
nolie
January 17th, 2010
5:37 pm
Chargers owner Dean Spanos looks like a cross between Tom Arnold and Drew Carey BH
damn good thing he has money then
Tom O'Hawke
January 17th, 2010
5:38 pm
Jim, I’m no expert on LA, by any means, but isn’t that much rain dangerous out there? Mudslides and stuff?
Heath
January 17th, 2010
5:40 pm
Rain in So-Cal is an event…kinda like the rest of us going out to the movies.
Venice Jim
January 17th, 2010
5:41 pm
It could be, especially in those hilly places where they seem to place houses in precarious positions (not an issue here) – I was told this morning that the relative lack of wildfires of late might help in that regard…
Frank from KS (now living in CO)
January 17th, 2010
5:51 pm
Tomahakin
I’ve been spending a lot of my time on Facebook, but been checking back-n-forth on the blog(s) when I can…..and btw….I’m not a kid…I am 34 years old, just so you know..(LOL).
Tom O'Hawke
January 17th, 2010
5:53 pm
Jim, I can see where the vegetation would help. I’m glad you’re safe where you are. (As long as you stay on her good side.)
Jurrjens4NLCY
January 17th, 2010
5:54 pm
And I’m no History buff in any way…but I thought Nazis were communists…
Haha, oohhh homeschooling in the south.
Jurrjens4NLCY
January 17th, 2010
5:55 pm
nolie,
If I remember correctly, the actors in Hogan Heroes were dominantly Jewish.
nolie
January 17th, 2010
6:00 pm
I don’t know about that JJ but I think Banner was the only one who was incarcerated in a camp during the war.
nolie
January 17th, 2010
6:08 pm
JJ that was a mean comment to McFann. Say you are sorry.
Tennbravefan
January 17th, 2010
6:08 pm
It will continue to rain in SoCal until Lane Kiffin gets fired!
cabravesfan
January 17th, 2010
6:10 pm
Wow…I fall asleep for an hour and everyone starts talking about me
(and rain out here really is an event- we are expecting close to 10 inches over the next 5 days and the local news people are telling everyone to “stay off the roads”- even I had to laugh at that one)
Jeff
January 17th, 2010
6:14 pm
Smoltz has been better than Glavine for his career, esp. considering the playoffs and what he did as our closer too. Smoltz should be a first ballot Hall of Famer, and I predict that he will be. Glavine probably will be too, but Smoltz is the greater pitcher and their careers show this, IMHO. Regarding Maddux, he was simply the best pitcher of his era, period.
Andy K.
January 17th, 2010
6:15 pm
OH MY! There actually is a CF named Logan Schafer….he is a Brewers farmhand. I guess we owe the Sunday Night Baseball boys an apology…well still, he doesn’t play for the Braves though.
http://mlb.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=502582
keylargo
January 17th, 2010
6:15 pm
Trivia Question (No googling)
Who was traded for San Diego quarterback Phillip Rivers?
Tomahawkin
January 17th, 2010
6:16 pm
Frank From KS
when I called you kid I was using slang…(Sorry Bro) but kid means man in the way I used it in that sentence….
Tomahawkin
January 17th, 2010
6:18 pm
KeyLargo
#7
Tomahawkin
January 17th, 2010
6:19 pm
KeyLargo
My bad, I thought you were talking about draft picks for L.T.
But I believe it was
nolie
January 17th, 2010
6:20 pm
but kid means man in the way I used it in that sentence…. T Hawkin
and bad means good etc etc etc
Jurrjens4NLCY
January 17th, 2010
6:22 pm
McFann,
I and sorry. [exhibits puppy dog eyes]
Tom O'Hawke
January 17th, 2010
6:23 pm
… and the local news people are telling everyone to “stay off the roads”- even I had to laugh at that one —- cabravesfan
“Stay off the roads?” …. In LA? Yeah, that is funny. That’s like telling Bobby Cox not to get ejected. (I wanted to be the first one to mention something about baseball, on this page, but Jeff beat me to it.)
joerochester
January 17th, 2010
6:23 pm
Eli Manning?
keylargo
January 17th, 2010
6:24 pm
JJ – I think you need to apologize to McFann’s Mom! That’s who you insulted. Be a good boy now.
keylargo
January 17th, 2010
6:25 pm
joerochester wins the prize! See DOB
CB
January 17th, 2010
6:25 pm
Eli Manning.
nolie
January 17th, 2010
6:26 pm
Thank you JJ. we can’t be mean to the fair sex
joerochester
January 17th, 2010
6:26 pm
What do I win? DOB’s typewriter?
cabravesfan
January 17th, 2010
6:26 pm
Tom-
Yeah…I wish it were that easy to stay home…believe me, if I could, I would
CB
January 17th, 2010
6:27 pm
A day late and a dollar short.
keylargo
January 17th, 2010
6:28 pm
Call it cultural differences, but Eli Manning refused to play in that He!! hole known as San Diego. So he was traded to NY, that lovely burrough in NJ.
joerochester
January 17th, 2010
6:28 pm
Here’s a good one…
Who had the best record in the MLB before the 1994 players’ strike shortened season?
Heath
January 17th, 2010
6:29 pm
N8 -
He is not allowed on here.
nolie
January 17th, 2010
6:29 pm
In the event of the apocalypse, there will be a prevalence of machetes, cannibalism, and white guys in dreadlocks and goggles. Things will be bleak, but at least you can follow Denzel Washington around as he wanders the parched landscape with floods of gravitas, occasionally engaging in awesomely staged silhouette-melees with bands of barbarian thugs.
http://blog.allmovie.com/2010/1/15/the-book-of-eli-the-amg-review/ allmovie.com review if interested
CB
January 17th, 2010
6:30 pm
N8,props.
Tomahawkin
January 17th, 2010
6:30 pm
Keylargo
I believe it was Eli Manning? No?
CB
January 17th, 2010
6:30 pm
joe. Expos.
Brandon from Warner Robins
January 17th, 2010
6:32 pm
N8,
Good call on the Vikes. Props to you, sir.
nolie
January 17th, 2010
6:33 pm
Major League Historical Totals (1876-present)
Years: 134
Games: 390,396
Runs: 1,771,730
At Bats: 13,341,865
Hits: 3,499,082
Home Runs: 255,616
Doubles: 585,605
Triples: 125,781
Stolen Bases: 280,465 Innings: 3,480,579
Strikeouts: 1,833,866
Walks: 1,239,903
Hit Batsmen: 17,536
Saves: 58,827
Errors: 489,691
Double Plays: 322,880
Players: 16,966
Managers: 640
Major League Historical Totals (1871-present)
There is dispute over whether to include the National Association as a Major League
Years: 139
Games: 392,568
Runs: 1,789,062
At Bats: 13,431,209
Hits: 3,523,619
Home Runs: 255,833
Doubles: 588,742
Triples: 126,876
Stolen Bases: 281,326 Innings: 3,500,057
Strikeouts: 1,834,281
Walks: 1,241,363
Hit Batsmen: 17,536
Saves: 58,859
Errors: 505,531
Double Plays: 322,880
Players: 17,294
Managers: 663
CB
January 17th, 2010
6:35 pm
nolie, you probably saw most of those games,right?
keylargo
January 17th, 2010
6:35 pm
Tomahawkin – joerochester beat you to it.
Jurrjens4NLCY
January 17th, 2010
6:36 pm
JJ – I think you need to apologize to McFann’s Mom! That’s who you insulted. Be a good boy now.
I’m sorry McFann’s mom too. Although I don’t think she is responsible, kids have an bigger role too. And how sexist of you to assume her mom is the teacher…
Jk.
Venice Jim
January 17th, 2010
6:36 pm
DOB – Christina Hendricks sighting on the Golden Globes pre-show on E!
keylargo
January 17th, 2010
6:38 pm
N8 – I want to know how much money that high rolling professional gambler lost today on the Cowboys. I bet if the truth was known it would not exceed $10.
Tom O'Hawke
January 17th, 2010
6:38 pm
Does anyone have baseball’s historical facts since 1871?
Oops! Damn this slow computer.
Tomahawkin
January 17th, 2010
6:39 pm
JoeRochester
thats easy the Expos…
And Remember we had R Kelly on that 1994 braves team
Brandon from Warner Robins
January 17th, 2010
6:39 pm
Anybody think the J-E-T-S have a chance to pull the upset. I’m really liking their chances right now….
nolie
January 17th, 2010
6:39 pm
Damn near all of ‘em CB
Jurrjens4NLCY
January 17th, 2010
6:40 pm
Sad Facts:
70% of adults think that WWE is real.
Section 412
January 17th, 2010
6:40 pm
N8 – props to you. If you really want props you should go back and document the page number and time of each prediction you made (and perhaps re-post them in italics as well). That would be fun.
N8
January 17th, 2010
6:40 pm
“He is not allowed on here. Heath
Yeah, and when MLB managers get ejected, they shower and go home, right?
As for the props from everybody? I was kidding. Not about predicting the sacks, but about wanting props for it. It’s hard to expect anybody to give you props for something that was that easy to predict.
keylargo
January 17th, 2010
6:40 pm
JJ – I knew McFann’s Dad was not qualified to teach. He went to Ga Tech.
joerochester
January 17th, 2010
6:41 pm
Jurrjens
What’s not real?
nolie
January 17th, 2010
6:42 pm
If you really want props you should go back and document the page number and time of each prediction you made (and perhaps re-post them in italics as well). That would be fun.
don’t cheat though, Pepridge(sp) Remembers will nail you to the wall iffen you cheat
Jurrjens4NLCY
January 17th, 2010
6:42 pm
Let me rephrase that:
70% of adults who watch WWE, think it’s real.
Bravissimo
January 17th, 2010
6:43 pm
Joe…Who hold the best and worst record for the ATL. Braves as manager?
Brandon from Warner Robins
January 17th, 2010
6:44 pm
WWE is real.
Jurrjens4NLCY
January 17th, 2010
6:45 pm
joerochester,
The storyline, writing, and the pre scripted matches.
Salamander
January 17th, 2010
6:45 pm
70% of adults think that WWE is real.
Yeah… I doubt that.
joerochester
January 17th, 2010
6:46 pm
Bobby Cox and I have no idea who else?
Heath
January 17th, 2010
6:46 pm
Salamander -
I’m with you…maybe 7%
nolie
January 17th, 2010
6:46 pm
WWE is real.
yup. reality TV at it’s finest ugh
joerochester
January 17th, 2010
6:47 pm
My dad told me pro wrestling was fake when I was like 12.
CB
January 17th, 2010
6:47 pm
Bobby Cox is answer to both?
Tom O'Hawke
January 17th, 2010
6:49 pm
70% of adults who watch WWE, think it’s real.
What mental health facility was that poll taken?
joerochester
January 17th, 2010
6:49 pm
After my dad told me it was fake I gave him a piledriver.
Jurrjens4NLCY
January 17th, 2010
6:49 pm
Yeah… I doubt that.
There was a survey in 2006 in the Sun Times when Wrestlemania 22 was in Chicago.
nolie
January 17th, 2010
6:49 pm
What mental health facility was that poll taken Tom
Ringside !
Bravissimo
January 17th, 2010
6:50 pm
1977…Vern Benson 1-0..1.000 Ted Turner 0-1 .000
The only thing I recall is that had to be the game where Ted went down in the dugout and took over. During the game a balk was called and he came running out of the dugout yelling “what the hell’s a balk?”
I didnt know he got credited with the loss till a few years ago. Dont know anything about Vern Benson.
Jurrjens4NLCY
January 17th, 2010
6:51 pm
What mental health facility was that poll taken?
LOL! The craziest city in the whole world… Chicago
joerochester
January 17th, 2010
6:51 pm
Bravissimo…your trivia question was a bit misleading.
Tomahawkin
January 17th, 2010
6:52 pm
WWE and John Cena Sucks!
Give me the old Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, DX and the old WWF!
Bravissimo
January 17th, 2010
6:52 pm
maybe so…but true…look it up..I won $100 on that one awhile back.
joerochester
January 17th, 2010
6:53 pm
Bravissimo… you’re a hustler!
McFann
January 17th, 2010
6:53 pm
Nolie–
I did. Robert Clary (Cpl. LaBeau) lost a lot of family members in concentration camps…really sad stuff.
JJ4NLCY Although I don’t think she is responsible, kids have an bigger role too.
A bigger role. Haha, ooohhh…public schooling in Chicago.
Keylargo–
That 6:40 had better be a joke, bub.
For y’all’s information my parents are great teachers. They can’t help it that I stink at history (I like some American history, but that World stuff…bo-ring! And that Government class? Eesh…). My thing is math, some English, that kind of stuff. I gotta be doing something–not just reading stuff.
nolie
January 17th, 2010
6:54 pm
My dad told me pro wrestling was fake when I was like 12. joe r
when did he tell you about Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny?
Heath
January 17th, 2010
6:55 pm
The only wrestling I like is….oh…wait….wrong blog ;->
Tom O'Hawke
January 17th, 2010
6:56 pm
nolie, “ringside”
Bravissimo, I knew Turner was 0 for 1, but who the hell is Vern Benson?
Bravissimo
January 17th, 2010
6:56 pm
lol…not really…I just like baseball.
Jurrjens4NLCY
January 17th, 2010
6:56 pm
A bigger role. Haha, ooohhh…public schooling in Chicago.
Oooohhhhh McFann…
N8
January 17th, 2010
6:57 pm
While pro-wrestling might be fake, those juiced up monsters shant be messed with. We once played a 4th of July jamboree type thing, and earlier in the night there was what I called the “D-squad” of pro-wrestlers (didn’t recognize any of the names) at the arena near by.
Anyhow, while we were playing many of the wrestlers showed up to party. One of them proceeded to start dancing with this girl (and dancing is a loose term). Well, like clockwork, this small town redneck decided that he had just the right amount of booze in him to challenge this dude for moving in on his girlfriend. I’ve never seen a man get punched that hard up close before (happened about 10 feet from the stage we were playing on).
Note to self. Wrestling might be fake. But getting punched by one of them is still REALLY going to leave a mark, and hurt real bad the next day.
Tom O'Hawke
January 17th, 2010
6:58 pm
Mulligan: Bravissimo, I knew Turner was 0 for 1, but who the hell is Vern Benson?
Andrew in PA
January 17th, 2010
6:58 pm
i dont know anyone who thinks WWE is real..thats why its called world wrestling entertainment
Bravissimo
January 17th, 2010
6:58 pm
Apparently he managed a game for Dave Bristol during the 77 season. I dont know the circumstances. Illness?..Bristol was 60-100 that year…ouch…and you thought we were bad now….lol
Jurrjens4NLCY
January 17th, 2010
6:58 pm
when did he tell you about Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny?
Santa IS real!
Rob, still sore, from (SC)
January 17th, 2010
6:59 pm
TnBrian
Are you going to go to the caravan in Columbia
Tomahawkin
January 17th, 2010
7:00 pm
McFann
‘Everything I’ve ever needed to know I learned in Kindergarden”
A Famous quote from old Beavis and Butt-head!
CB
January 17th, 2010
7:01 pm
Vern Benson was a pitching coach for several teams,Braves,Cardinals
Tomahawkin
January 17th, 2010
7:01 pm
Andrew in PA
I’d Take old Dubya-C-Dubya Rasslin over the crap that is on the WWE anyday!
Jurrjens4NLCY
January 17th, 2010
7:02 pm
I’ll admit, I liked WWE and WWF, but I knew it wasn’t real, the acting is pretty bad, I always considered it a man’s ballet and soap opera.
TommyP
January 17th, 2010
7:03 pm
I can’t believe the parents that take their young kids to those wrestling events today. There’s so much sex involved that a little 5th grader has no business seeing/hearing.
I’m sure 1,000s of elementary teachers have written kids up for yelling, “Suck it!”
Sorry but that just ain’t right.
Heath
January 17th, 2010
7:04 pm
The most important things I learned…oh wait….again, wrong blog.
Andrew in PA
January 17th, 2010
7:05 pm
gotta give vince his props man is a rich dude..and kicking brett hart in the nuts was classic vinny mac
Tom O'Hawke
January 17th, 2010
7:07 pm
So, Vern Benson is an undefeated MLB manager? I wonder what his plans are for 2011?