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Snotboogie
April 29th, 2010
3:44 pm
Laroche must like playing for the D’Backs. 2 HRs today.
ugaaccountant
April 29th, 2010
3:44 pm
Will – KJ could revert to a .250 hitter with 10 homers the rest of the year and he still would have been the best LF we could buy with our budget.
T for Texas
April 29th, 2010
3:44 pm
B from SC:
With as many pitches as they both take, and as many BBs, is there any merit in having Prado and Heyward in the top 2 slots?
Braves One
April 29th, 2010
3:44 pm
Is it proper to call Braves management team a”braintrust”?
Glen W
April 29th, 2010
3:45 pm
Mets Madeness – that’s cool… all good. Just not my style, but that’s just me. Nothing wrong with it. if that’s the worst thing you do… you’re a pretty good dude.
RHR
April 29th, 2010
3:46 pm
Bobby Cox on Blackberry in Dugout
April 29th, 2010
3:14 pm
I wish Kelly Johnson was still on this team so I could bench him against lefties like I did between 2007-2009.
Thank dog no one will think I wrote that.
And either I got bozo’ed by DOB or something is wrong with the blog. It keeps asking for me to enter my name and email to submit a comment but my name and email are already there.
CraZyTRaDeMaN
April 29th, 2010
3:46 pm
You have to love Mets fans! They win a few games and they act like they actually won something over the past 25 years. Most Braves fans hate Mets fans, I don’t. Quite frankly when I see those fat arrrsses at games with hair coming out from under the back of their tank-top and I’m talking about the women Mets fans they make me feel better about myself. Wow to be a Mets fan……. I’d rather stab myself in the eye with a soldering Iron.
Freeman
April 29th, 2010
3:46 pm
Yes it is Wren’s fault if the Braves truly wanted him as soon as he was about to sign a 1 year with AZ. We could of pulled a Furcal on them.. oh yeah only Frankie is foolish enough to fall for that one.
Rob from SC
April 29th, 2010
3:46 pm
what is wrong with Moylan
Brian from SC
April 29th, 2010
3:47 pm
Prado and Heyward in the top two spots wouldn’t bother me. But I can see why Bobby hasn’t done it (yet). Heyward is really the only power threat in the lineup right now, and you’re sort of neutralizing that when you bat him 2nd.
When you bat your two best hitters (perhaps) 1-2, you’re pretty much putting them in positions where they don’t have many guys on base when they’re at the plate. Since Chipper is getting on base, but not driving the ball, I think he’d be the ideal leadoff hitter right now. But I still wouldn’t do it if I was the manager…he’s earned that #3 spot, and he’s comfortable there.
brian
April 29th, 2010
3:47 pm
I do like the idea of Escobar hitting 2nd, Prado 3rd, Chipper 4th, BMac 5th, Heyward 6th, Hinske/Glaus 7th
I know Chipper feels more comfortable in the 3 hole but based on our personnel he needs to be cleanup
NEW CARS
April 29th, 2010
3:48 pm
Taken individually, the components of this team aren’t bad. We just seem to be jinxed right now….We can either go the Bull Durham direction and we run down to Turner Field tonight and turn on the sprinklers so we can have a rain day tomorrow…Or we can do the Major League thing and kill a chicken and offer it up to JOBU to change our luck….Which way do we go, DOB?
David O'Brien
April 29th, 2010
3:48 pm
Of Heyward’s five hits off lefties, two were homers.
BuckheadBrave
April 29th, 2010
3:48 pm
I will be at at least one game this weekend just to boo them, including Bobby Cox
gobravos
April 29th, 2010
3:48 pm
Mets fans are like Gators fans, except they never win. Let them gloat. Their Mets fans. This winning thing is new to them.
Bat Masterson
April 29th, 2010
3:49 pm
Braves One
April 29th, 2010
3:35 pm
I think the pitch under McLouth’s chin was intentional…I think some “chin music” is in order when we take the field.
Cox doesn’t like that Rob from SC
I remember a story about Maddux not long ago. Somebody drilled a Brave hitter and Cox said someone has to make him pay. The next time they met that team Maddux asked Cox if he meant what he said, Cox said yeah and Maddux went out and drilled the guy. But Cox does not go for that, right.
PDub
April 29th, 2010
3:49 pm
ChrisfromSacramento,CA (April 29th, 2010 3:35 pm EST): Kelly and Adam are doing well. TP just makes hitters worse.
Do you have any empirical evidence this is true? If not, could you stop saying it? I don’t mean to pick on you, everyone seems to be on this irrational management hate train right about now. Just because you’re frustrated with the team, though, doesn’t mean changes need to be made. And unless you have empirical evidence they do need to be made, you’re just talking out of your ass.
Nate cant see the ball at all.
Nate’s degenerative cornea disease is somehow TP’s fault? Good god, man.
Good for Kelly getting away from TP.
It wasn’t really his choice.
Chip
April 29th, 2010
3:49 pm
Don’t know about the rest of y’all, but with the 4 runs scored today, I’m gonna call this a moral victory.
McLouth tracker 0-3
Seen this one before...
April 29th, 2010
3:49 pm
Boy KJ is on fire this
yearmonth.Fixed.
usnavyvolfaninva
April 29th, 2010
3:50 pm
crazy trademan…
Nice Christopher Walken at the end….
I wish people wouldn’t resort to namecalling in reference to Cox. We can complain (maybe justifiably so) about how he’s running the team or whatever, but to say Cox is a retard. Really? Let’s grow up a little.
The Mets will be good for a month or two, then they’ll choke like they always do.. I am happy for Frenchy, though.
usnavyvolfaninva
April 29th, 2010
3:50 pm
KJ may be looking at NL player of the week.
David O'Brien
April 29th, 2010
3:50 pm
Pete has not been sharp his last couple of times out.
usnavyvolfaninva
April 29th, 2010
3:52 pm
BUckhead Brave…. but you’re still supporting the team by buying a ticket. So way support the team just to show you don’t support them?
Chris
April 29th, 2010
3:52 pm
I could not of said it better myself gobravos
gobravos
April 29th, 2010
3:52 pm
Hah, Kelly Johnson never put up these kind of numbers in a month when he was a Brave. So, no, I don’t think we’ve seen this before.
Space Monkey
April 29th, 2010
3:52 pm
Why is Chavez on this team. He sucked in the Spring. So he makes the team. WTF.
braves70
April 29th, 2010
3:52 pm
I remember Maddux drilled Jim Leyritz in (1998?) for the show he put on after hitting that HR in the 1996 World Series.
Soph
April 29th, 2010
3:52 pm
What the hell? I’ve been listening to the game the whole time through one of the links that was posted on here earlier and they just interrupted the Braves game to broadcast some middle school little league championship.
Haaaaaa.
Chris
April 29th, 2010
3:53 pm
On the bright side, we have Hansen and Heyward for years to come, or at least I hope mgmt locks them up,
lalalala
April 29th, 2010
3:53 pm
DOB — Know any good Cuban restaurants in or near Ft. Lauderdale?
Chip
April 29th, 2010
3:53 pm
10 runs for the Cards so far…Pujois must be putting on a show.
Soph
April 29th, 2010
3:54 pm
Ok, someone please be nice and give me another link where I can listen to the game online. I know we’re losing but what the hey.
ugaaccountant
April 29th, 2010
3:54 pm
So in perusing the game tracker, I noticed the words Rasmus scored 4 times. Anybody know the story on how we missed out on him in the draft? We have his brother as a pitcher in the minors and he’s from columbus. Given we’ve often been very lucky and good at drafting local kids I wonder how we missed on him?
David O'Brien
April 29th, 2010
3:55 pm
Adrian Gonzalez’s suddenly giddy agent John Boggs on the Ryan Howard contract: “I’m very happy for Ryan Howard. Obviously this bodes well for Adrian Gonzalez because it validates the fact that he’s worth that kind of money or more.”
Boggs noted that Howard was a controlled player not eligible for free agency until November 2011 — same as Gonzalez.
From our notes network correspondent Tom Krasovic: Obviously Howard is the more accomplished slugger, by far. Gonzalez, however, is 30 months younger than Howard. He’s also the better defender. The two play in vastly different ballparks. Gonzalez’s home yard is the worst in baseball for hitters.
The Padres, according to Boggs, haven’t approached him about an extension for Gonzalez. Padres players have framed it this way: If they can stay in playoff contention through the July 31st trade deadline, the Padres will be far more likely to keep Gonzalez..
So far, the players are doing their part to keep Gonzo around. The Padres (13-8) lead the National League West.
braves70
April 29th, 2010
3:55 pm
All right! The incredible Glob to pinch hit…. er pinch strike-out.
Rob from SC
April 29th, 2010
3:55 pm
why is Moylan even pitching in this game
MiaBchBravesFan
April 29th, 2010
3:55 pm
Memo to Frank Wren (and I paraphrase): It’s the philosophy, stupid.
This is not a great team that is having a slump. This is an average team that would’ve had to play B+ overachieving baseball in order to even win a W-Card spot. Like last year’s team, there were WAY too many answers going into the season, hitting-wise. Years of signing aging/failing/recovering bats that were once great for $2 million took its toll on a lineup that has not has a single All-Star caliber hitter string together two seasons of All-Star numbers since the heyday (yeah, I said it) of Chipper and Andruw back in the first third of this decade.
Since 1991, the Braves have been characterized by great pitching and passable hitting. Since Cox and JS took over – and with the exceptions of A. Jones, C. Jones, Javy Lopez, and, to a lesser extent, David Justice – there has been very little hitting development in the organization. Remember, we are talking about twenty years! Now, two decades of poor position player development, as well as putrid hitting evaluations, have led to the seeming demise of this once-proud franchise. What does it say to the average Braves’ fan that the only remnant left from the mid-decade “Baby Braves” is Brian McCann?
This failure rests on JS’s and Frank Wren’s heads. As I’ve said before, the mythology that was the greateness of the Braves was built exclusively upon three arms: Maddux, Glavine, and Smoltz. The further that memory seems to us all, the starker the truth becomes.
T for Texas
April 29th, 2010
3:55 pm
B from SC:
See your point. But it also seems like there have been many RBI sittuations for the top 2 spots in the order here early in the season. I don’t know. Would be nice if Chipper would realize that the power seems to have faded in the last 3 years. If he could come to grips with that and go back to spray hitting like he did when he won the batting title, he could be the kind of impact leadoff hitter that Jeter is for NYY. And with Esco limping off the field…. But, I know, Chipper will only bat 3rd.
BuckheadBrave
April 29th, 2010
3:56 pm
I have season tickets, already blew that cash might as well go vent my frustrations
Why
April 29th, 2010
3:56 pm
Chris
April 29th, 2010
3:53 pm
On the bright side, we have Hansen and Heyward for years to come, or at least I hope mgmt locks them up,
You can bet that there would be a riot if those two weren’t locked up!!!!!
Hugo Z Hackenbush
April 29th, 2010
3:56 pm
Interestingly, all of the teams that you’d think would be contenders in the NL this year (not including the Mets) increased their payrolls this year…except for the Braves, who sliced theirs by around 13%. Bucking a trend like that doesn’t guarantee that you’ll be left in the dust, but it increases the likelihood…
JC from DR
April 29th, 2010
3:56 pm
usnavyvolfaninva – read this and tell me he isn’t a retard:
“It’s hard to say we’re playing real good baseball, but we are.” – Bobby Cox.
So…
Todd
April 29th, 2010
3:56 pm
If Glaus was running, he could have beat that out. That would require hustle though.
BuckheadBrave
April 29th, 2010
3:57 pm
i said from the get go that we have the hardest April schedule but even i thought we’d be .500
braves70
April 29th, 2010
3:57 pm
ugaaccountant: I think Chip said on the TV that we selected Joey Devine just before Rasmus was taken.
Glen W
April 29th, 2010
3:57 pm
Gobraves, KJ’s OPS right now is 1.167. In April of 2007 its was 1.066. In Septemeber of 2008 it was 1.071.
Kawakami's Interpreter
April 29th, 2010
3:57 pm
Kenchin just asked me to give a shout out to all his homeys-
Red Sunday jerzeez 4 lyfe YO!
Nova Scotia Steve
April 29th, 2010
3:57 pm
….
T for Texas
April 29th, 2010
3:58 pm
On the Howard contract: Interseting article from FanGraphs. Caliing it worst contract ever. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/what-are-the-phillies-thinking/
Nate from NCState
April 29th, 2010
3:58 pm
Glaus is about as athletic as I am.
JC from DR
April 29th, 2010
3:58 pm
What happened to Escobar?
jay dubu
April 29th, 2010
3:59 pm
Not able to watch the game, but the box score looks hopeful. Escobar has a couple of hits, Heyward has a couple, and Hinske has a couple of RBI.
If Cox will play Hinske, and Heyward, Escobar, & Prado hit, withy Chippa & Mac, I think the Braves can get through this, and break out a winning streak equaling the losing streak.
I see the real Chavez suited up for the game today!
Chip
April 29th, 2010
3:59 pm
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usnavyvolfaninva
April 29th, 2010
3:59 pm
JC…. look, I’m not saying I don’t agree w/you that bobby is somehow off the mark; I don’t know why he has said some of the things he has said, but to call a guy who’s been managing for 30 years a retard seems a bit juvenile… but, hey, if you want to keep doing so, it’s a free country.
MamaDawg
April 29th, 2010
3:59 pm
Well, there goes Escobar…he’s outta the game now too. Anyone else?
McMauer Ô
April 29th, 2010
3:59 pm
Oh fine!! NOW you get a hit! Thanks a lot…
J-Hey
April 29th, 2010
4:00 pm
Mac avoids an 0-4 day
jay dubu
April 29th, 2010
4:00 pm
@T for Texas
I thought Soriano with the Cubs had the worse contract ever…
MiaBchBravesFan
April 29th, 2010
4:00 pm
lalalala: good Cuban restaurants do not exist in Ft. Laud. Gotta travel south, my friend. If you eat Cuban in FtL, you’ll think it sucks.
RHR
April 29th, 2010
4:00 pm
Translation:
Adrian Gonzalez’s suddenly giddy agent John Boggs on the Ryan Howard contract: “I’m very happy for
Ryan Howardme. Obviously this bodes well forAdrian Gonzalezme because it validates the fact thathe’s worthI’m going to make enough money to buy a small country with this guy!Nate from NCState
April 29th, 2010
4:00 pm
JC from DR… looks like a groin pull
Also, how about this. The trade with NY hasn’t worked for anyone. How about we just redo it? I would find it hard to believe the Yankee fans wouldn’t welcome Melky back at this point.
McMauer Ô
April 29th, 2010
4:00 pm
This hurts, people…this hurts BADLY!!
ronaldh
April 29th, 2010
4:00 pm
This is just a bad team. Why did anyone believe they would contend. Judging from the makeup of this team and the type of “deals” Wren has a history of making, it’s going to be quite a while before the braves contend again. I’m talking about several years. You can spin this piece of crap called a baseball team anyway you want. It’s still a piece of crap.
Chip
April 29th, 2010
4:00 pm
Will B-Mac steal?
Innocent Bystander
April 29th, 2010
4:00 pm
Yes, but now most of the “big market” ballclubs have 1B locked up for awhile. NYY have Tex, Philly has Howard, Boston has like 10 first basemen, etc. I wouldn’t be surprised if Gonzalez doesn’t get a whole lot, simply because the big market clubs won’t be bidding on him.
Soph
April 29th, 2010
4:01 pm
McMauer Ô
April 29th, 2010
3:59 pm
Oh fine!! NOW you get a hit! Thanks a lot…
AHHHHHH!
braves70
April 29th, 2010
4:01 pm
JC: Escobar pulled something making a play in the last inning.
Nova Scotia Steve
April 29th, 2010
4:01 pm
Escobar’s hurt like Jo Jo Reyes knee is “really bad”
faninva
April 29th, 2010
4:01 pm
McMauer –
so, am I to assume that Rally McTurtle was put on waivers?
usnavyvolfaninva
April 29th, 2010
4:01 pm
@RHR: LOL
bronkelliott
April 29th, 2010
4:01 pm
What the Braves need right now is to play against a team worse than them.. Any takers?
Frankie Knuckles
April 29th, 2010
4:01 pm
Freeman, did you see the offer from the Giants he turned down? Come on little guy. Grown men are talking.
RHR -_-
April 29th, 2010
4:01 pm
Yunel too!? OMG!
David O'Brien
April 29th, 2010
4:02 pm
Hinske’s at third now, Infante at short.
faninva
April 29th, 2010
4:02 pm
RHR – classic. well done.
Josh from NY (not NYC)
April 29th, 2010
4:02 pm
Its easy to bash TP right now with no one hitting, but he can’t be out on the field making them swing at pitches. These guys take more pitches in a game then some teams take in a week.
T for Texas
April 29th, 2010
4:02 pm
jay dudu: Read article–may change your mind.
Hat Land Dub Raves
April 29th, 2010
4:02 pm
Is Escobar injured?
Rawdog
April 29th, 2010
4:03 pm
Trade loser Melky back to the yankees for Vazquez. Leave Glaus in St. Louis. Give McClouth back to Pittsburgh. Find some winners that at least can hit .250. How many postseason teams have ever gone on a now 9 game losing streak. I bet none. Funny how Kelly Johnson is tearing it up. He alone has almost as many home runs as the braves entire team.
SC Ace
April 29th, 2010
4:03 pm
If I was Bobby Cox, I’d break out the “Send a Message” lineup: 1. Brooks Conrad (2B), 2. Martin Prado, (3b) 3. Omar Infante (CF) 4. Brian McCann (C) 5. Eric Hinske (3b); 6. Yunel Escobar (SS); 7. Jason Heyward (RF); Matt Diaz (LF)
Do Melky and/or mcLouth have options?
David O'Brien
April 29th, 2010
4:03 pm
Looked like a left groin strain for Yunel, but no word yet.
JC from DR
April 29th, 2010
4:03 pm
usnavyvolfaninva – That was my first time calling him a retard. I used to like him a lot, used to be my favorite manager. But seriously, the guy lost all of the brain cells that he had left, and i think it was around 2005.
Shaun
April 29th, 2010
4:04 pm
Ryan Howard’s career OPS+: 142.
Adrian Gonzalez’s career OPS+: 135
Howard, last 3 years: 131
Gonzalez, last 3 years: 154
Since Opening Day 2008, Gonzalez has clearly been the better player. I’d rather have had Gonzalez the last two seasons, I’d rather have him this season and I’d rather have him over the next 6 or 7 years…and it’s really not even close.
McMauer Ô
April 29th, 2010
4:04 pm
Soph–
Hey, I’m no welsher…but I wish I was.
faninva–
Nah, he’s still here. I need to have some piece of the old me…
Rob from SC
April 29th, 2010
4:04 pm
does this team care?
chucktown brave
April 29th, 2010
4:05 pm
Seriously what are you guesses for our record on this homestand?
W.Rodriguez (1-2, 3.65) vs Hanson (1-2, 2.14)
B. Myers (1-1, 3.81) vs Hudson (1-1, 3.28)
B. Norris (1-2, 5.60) vs Lowe (3-2, 5.79)
Any wins?
Mitchie-san (Chipper needs yoga)
April 29th, 2010
4:05 pm
Infante now too?
braves70
April 29th, 2010
4:05 pm
Alright! Another error.
McFann Ô
April 29th, 2010
4:05 pm
Hey! I just thought of something! Maybe they’ll have a big rally in the top of the ninth and BMac will—
Rob from SC
April 29th, 2010
4:05 pm
Kimbrel seems ready, switch out him with Chavez. We need pitchers with K potential
Jinx
April 29th, 2010
4:05 pm
Someone needs to talk me off of this cliff, and fast….
McMauer Ô
April 29th, 2010
4:06 pm
Yeah, yeah, I know, I know…
bravos2249
April 29th, 2010
4:06 pm
OMG hell has frozen over..”McMauer Ô”
jay dubu
April 29th, 2010
4:06 pm
What makes a schedule hard? All of the teams playing are major league, and all of the players are compensated. The Braves are playing the same teams that every other NL team has or will play.
Win the games, and don’t make excuses. “In order to be the man, you have to beat the mann!”
Kawakami's Interpreter
April 29th, 2010
4:06 pm
Kenchin said to tell everyone he’s laughing in Japanese…
had 50 billion Yen on the Cards today! DOMO ARIGATO TP!!
Soph
April 29th, 2010
4:07 pm
Yunel got hurt? Will someone please post a radio link online so I can listen?
Bat Masterson
April 29th, 2010
4:07 pm
How many postseason teams have ever gone on a now 9 game losing streak Rawdog
How much?
faninva
April 29th, 2010
4:07 pm
who do we lose to next?
Rob from SC
April 29th, 2010
4:07 pm
we found our new third baseman
bronkelliott
April 29th, 2010
4:07 pm
I can see the Houston Astros Salivating right now in preparation for this team. They must be fist pumping and saying bring on the Braves. Finally a team we can beat.. Wow our Braves are really sinking fast here.. I hope for a miracle somewhere down the line or these blogs will get worse each day.