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JC from DR
May 31st, 2010
3:46 pm
If Chipper Retires, I want Glaus at 3B next year! (Chipper please retire and take TP’s job!)
Mr. Turnip-Green Jeans
May 31st, 2010
3:46 pm
NEW MCLOUTH-LINE ALERT!
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cbweatherman
May 31st, 2010
3:46 pm
when i think of McLouth… i wanna cry…
Sopheeee
May 31st, 2010
3:47 pm
Meeeexxo –
I love it!
Greg RN
May 31st, 2010
3:47 pm
If ignorance is bliss FEAR you a happy mofo
Colin
May 31st, 2010
3:47 pm
haha I believe it is so Dee..Its probably in a book somewhere.
Steve from OH
May 31st, 2010
3:47 pm
Why don’t we just call anything between .100 and .200 “Nate McLouth territory?”
Smitty
May 31st, 2010
3:47 pm
Venters is gonna strike Howard with gas
DJ
May 31st, 2010
3:48 pm
Greg RN: I don’t think you’re helping your cause.
Colin
May 31st, 2010
3:48 pm
maybe we ought to get Chippers dad for the hitting coach, he sure did a hell of a job with his son.
abwright
May 31st, 2010
3:48 pm
There’s another Phil that stood in the box and admired his weak pop out. I’m used to players standing in the box when they hit a foul out. But that ball was in play, and Utley just stood there. Chipper should have let it drop (not really) and thrown Utley out.
jeffrey d
May 31st, 2010
3:49 pm
lol, VJ…that sounds like something I’d say
Thanks
Greg RN
May 31st, 2010
3:49 pm
FEAR=AFRAID
BravesFanChris25
May 31st, 2010
3:49 pm
Venters is nasty
FEEEEEAR
May 31st, 2010
3:49 pm
nice there venters!
Roja
May 31st, 2010
3:49 pm
Hope Ryan Howard keeps his “warning track” power for the entire series
Sopheeee
May 31st, 2010
3:49 pm
Nice play, Omar.
N8
May 31st, 2010
3:50 pm
“After one swing, I’d give Blanco the keys to CF for at least a month. McClouth is that bad right now.” ray k.
I agree with you. The Blanco haters will disagree. But for me it has to do with how BAD McLouth has been, rather than what Blanco can offer.
Very similar to swapping Church for Francoeur last year. Obviously (or maybe not), Jeff has more upside than Church, but he was so damn bad, that simply the addition by subtraction was enough to make a difference.
Simly getting McLouth out of the lineup and replacing him with somebody capable of hitting .250 (Blanco is a .245 career hitter), will be an improvement. How sad is that?
Dee
May 31st, 2010
3:50 pm
Sweet play, Infante, over on the hot corner!!
Mr. Turnip-Green Jeans
May 31st, 2010
3:50 pm
when i think of McLouth… i wanna cry…”
Hmmm, make a good song.
I’m so McLouthsome I could cryyyyyyyyy.
Colin
May 31st, 2010
3:50 pm
3 outs away.
Trey
May 31st, 2010
3:51 pm
Fear, just keep ignoring the RN kid. He is obviously a troll who apparently had parents who abused him.
Sopheeee
May 31st, 2010
3:51 pm
jeffreeee(y) – did you win this morning?
shmoe
May 31st, 2010
3:51 pm
this is great! oh troy glaus……
Mr. Turnip-Green Jeans
May 31st, 2010
3:51 pm
Venters has future closer stuff.
Bartholomeeeew (Bat) Masterson
May 31st, 2010
3:51 pm
Pile on some more runs, the hell with the Phillies.
jeffrey d
May 31st, 2010
3:51 pm
At least we know if anybody on the Braves gets dehydrated, there’s a bunch of milk readily available
http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0WTb_sBEwRMuQ0A2BqjzbkF/SIG=12qvlj9ek/EXP=1275421825/**http%3a//www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2007/10/01-07/milkman.jpg
N8
May 31st, 2010
3:52 pm
But there is also a side of me that says leave this team alone right now. It ain’t broke, so don’t try and fix it.
FEEEEEAR
May 31st, 2010
3:52 pm
Trey – was someone talking to me>
FEEEEEAR
May 31st, 2010
3:52 pm
let’s get a few more off lidge here
Trey
May 31st, 2010
3:53 pm
Haha there ya go FEAR. Greg RN is just a moron.
Carroll Rogers
May 31st, 2010
3:53 pm
attendance is 42,543. Shoulda gone with my gut instinct which was 40,000s, not pushing 40,000. Always go with the gut instinct!
jeffrey d
May 31st, 2010
3:53 pm
Soph – I haven’t heard the official results, but I think I won because everybody in front of me started before the gun
Seriously though…considering that I’ve only started running again (since November) about a month ago I’m pretty happy with my time.
Jake W.
May 31st, 2010
3:54 pm
So all u dumasses think that they should have kept Hanson in after 110 pitches t hink i’m wrong?????????? Cause that’s J-Heys comment I was respondiong to
Well I don’t know about everybody else but I would not have minded if bobby would have kept him in for one more hitter given the work the bullpen has put in. And no I would not have bemoaned Bobby if Tommy too would have given up that run because I didn’t bemoan him yesterday when he left KK in because I understood what he was trying to do. Fact of the matter is these starters are doing good but we aren’t getting many complete games, I think we have one all year, so that hurts your bullpen. So many times the bullpen has to pick up the starters, doesn’t hurt every now and then to have the starters try to pick up the bullpen a little.
N8
May 31st, 2010
3:54 pm
If they hold on to win this game, they will be 13-3 since Prado and Heyward have been inserted into the 1-2 spots in the order. Just imagine how big the lead in the NL East would be, had Bobby done it 2-3 weeks earlier?
Trey
May 31st, 2010
3:54 pm
Greg, so your mother is not a woman?
shmoe
May 31st, 2010
3:54 pm
how about a heyward homer to make him wanna go back on the dl again
keylargo
May 31st, 2010
3:54 pm
Braves need to whack the he!! out of Lidge just for the future.
pryguy
May 31st, 2010
3:54 pm
N8,
I agree with your latter statement concerning Nate. He does cover quite a bit of ground in center and defends his position well. We can only hope his bat just starts to be average, not asking more than .250 average at this point with how other pieces in the line up are swinging right now.
Dee
May 31st, 2010
3:54 pm
Right on, GAYNURSE, I’m a bitch…and I own it!
Trey
May 31st, 2010
3:54 pm
Greg, I could have sworn your mother was a woman.
lwk321
May 31st, 2010
3:54 pm
omg…its been a long time since I have the chance to see a lefty like Jonny Venters…..from a 96mph fastball to a 84mph curveball…amazing
ray k.
May 31st, 2010
3:55 pm
N8
I, too, was concerned about Chipper for the simple reason that he looked so un-Chipper like, so amateurish, on about 5 specific at bats a couple weeks ago, I was hearing the knell of the death bell to his career. His slugging% coupled with his on base% was meriting consideration to drop him to the 2 hole.
I don’t think he’s going to pull a George Brett and win the batting title, but I think his slugging% will go up, if slightly. What concerns me is the mental aspect of this game–the superstitious elements that can wreak havok on some players. I wouldn’t mess with the current batting order until the other shoe drops, so to speak. If Chipper has but 3 HR’s on July 1st, and the offense has cooled significantly, I’d say try it.
Trey
May 31st, 2010
3:55 pm
Iwk321, Venters is amazing.
Greg RN
May 31st, 2010
3:56 pm
Enter your comments here
Trey
May 31st, 2010
3:56 pm
Sorry Greg, but my mother is not like yours. My mother actually has self respect.
Mitchell
May 31st, 2010
3:56 pm
I love how I get taken to task for making a comment expressing my concern about Tommy’s difficulties early in the game with a three run lead in one of the most important games the Braves have played in five years and I get no breaks about anything else I post.
I said last week that if given a chance, Gregor Blanco was going to get a big hit for us. If Glaus had made an out there, Blanco’s double would have driven in the two runs. It’s worth pointing out that that was his first at-bat since he’s been up.
I am a Gregor Blanco fan for crying out loud! Who else on here has been as possitive and supportive of Blanco as I have over the last two years? If anything makes me a non-hater, it’s that.
As much as he is capable of “killing” a ball, he did with that swing. Might have been out in Philly.
Colin
May 31st, 2010
3:56 pm
eff it I am picking up Glaus in my fantasy league.
JasonInFL
May 31st, 2010
3:56 pm
I would like to see Heyward hit one to the moon here off of Lidge…
Trey
May 31st, 2010
3:56 pm
You type like you are ghetto, but I bet you are some middle class suburban white kid who listens to Vanilla Ice.
Mitchell
May 31st, 2010
3:57 pm
I can’t believe how quite the crowd is.
Do they know what’s going on here?
Colin
May 31st, 2010
3:57 pm
of course someone has him..
Trey
May 31st, 2010
3:57 pm
Back to the game, let’s see what Heyward can do.
FEEEEEAR
May 31st, 2010
3:57 pm
oh well…..let’s shut em down and then first place in june since 2005!!!!
BravesFanChris25
May 31st, 2010
3:57 pm
3 Outs From 1st Place
Bartholomeeeew (Bat) Masterson
May 31st, 2010
3:57 pm
Young people on the blog…………..
Trey
May 31st, 2010
3:57 pm
Heyward can’t get ‘em all.
LuisG
May 31st, 2010
3:57 pm
Chavez???
DJ
May 31st, 2010
3:58 pm
Mitchell, you whine a lot.
Kurdt Kobain
May 31st, 2010
3:58 pm
Phillies better watch out tomorrow. J-Hey always comes back with a vengeance from an 0-5 game.
Trey
May 31st, 2010
3:58 pm
Okay, Greg.
shmoe
May 31st, 2010
3:58 pm
whats with this Greg? Where’d you come from Gregory?
Colin
May 31st, 2010
3:58 pm
HEY! Vanilla Ice was good for one song.
JC from DR
May 31st, 2010
3:58 pm
3 more outs and we’re in first place!
Trey
May 31st, 2010
3:58 pm
Probably got tired of dealing with you.
eric the elder
May 31st, 2010
3:58 pm
Trey, don’t go to bed tonight with this thought. You need surgery and are in the operating room, The OR nurse grins at you and says, “Hi, I’m Greg, RN.”
Dee
May 31st, 2010
3:58 pm
Oh well. Heyward can’t be perfect in every game!
The final 3 outs of the game coming up….:D
Trey
May 31st, 2010
3:59 pm
Which song was that Colin? The Ice Ice Baby? I was never fond of him, but I am not into rapping.
JasonInFL
May 31st, 2010
3:59 pm
Not that I want to see J-Hey ever go 0-5, but you have to like that fact that we have scored 9 runs today with him doing so. Doesn’t he come back with a vengeance after his rare 0-5s?
FEEEEEAR
May 31st, 2010
3:59 pm
did I see Chavez going out? uhhhhhhhhhh
N8
May 31st, 2010
3:59 pm
Enter your comments here
lwk321
May 31st, 2010
3:59 pm
Trey, If Venters keep going like this…he will become the best lefty in the league…
steve_97060
May 31st, 2010
3:59 pm
Mitchell, just out of curiousity, how old are you?
Trey
May 31st, 2010
4:00 pm
eric, that would suck, but at least he is not a doctor or a surgeon. I doubt he is even an RN. RNs are much smarter than him, lol. Also, at least he does not know what I look like, hahah, and at least we are in two different states, so he couldn’t keep me from getting better if he was a nurse.
N8
May 31st, 2010
4:00 pm
Ignore her people. She’ll go away.
Colin
May 31st, 2010
4:00 pm
haha yup Ice Ice Baby was mine and my buddies song during high school..senior year pretty sure we got pulled aside numerous occasions for singing it to loud while class was going on…that or Don’t Stop Believing.
N8
May 31st, 2010
4:01 pm
That was a frickin’ strike? WTF?
Nova Scotia Steve
May 31st, 2010
4:01 pm
I have an extreme case of nervous diarrhea now that Chavez is in the game
abwright
May 31st, 2010
4:01 pm
Chavez in the pitch. Hope he brings his good stuff. Otherwise, Wagner might get a save situation before we know it.
Trey
May 31st, 2010
4:01 pm
To everyone, I should not have bashed Greg RNs mother, especially because he claims she died, but usually people do that so they get sympathy, however, I can say the most f*cked up things like I did in regards to his rude comments.
FEEEEEAR
May 31st, 2010
4:01 pm
2 outs away!!!
Dee
May 31st, 2010
4:01 pm
One down….two to go!
BravesFanChris25
May 31st, 2010
4:01 pm
1 Down
Colin
May 31st, 2010
4:01 pm
2 more to go
.
Trey
May 31st, 2010
4:02 pm
Lol, he was the one hit wonder, Colin for sure.
Colin
May 31st, 2010
4:02 pm
99 percent chance we win this game, according to gamecast on ESPN.
keylargo
May 31st, 2010
4:02 pm
omg…its been a long time since I have the chance to see a lefty like Jonny Venters…..from a 96mph fastball to a 84mph curveball…amazing
It has been a long time. Almost 24 hours since Billy Wagner got a save yesterday.
Colin
May 31st, 2010
4:02 pm
haha no doubt..he was.. at least he admits it.
JC from DR
May 31st, 2010
4:02 pm
Bobby Cox trying to send a wakeup call to the Phillies offense sending Chavez out.
shmoe
May 31st, 2010
4:03 pm
First place comin up baby
FEEEEEAR
May 31st, 2010
4:03 pm
uh oh
Colin
May 31st, 2010
4:03 pm
well walks with a 6 run lead, Chavez go back to the Burgh, youd fit in.
Trey
May 31st, 2010
4:03 pm
This was the lead the Reds had on the Braves when we came back, hope the Phils don’t do it.
JC from DR
May 31st, 2010
4:03 pm
And he walks Carlos Ruiz… Wow…
noleeeee
May 31st, 2010
4:04 pm
Is Chavez gonna make even a 6 run lead an adventure? I certainly hope not..
N8
May 31st, 2010
4:04 pm
9-3 lead with 1 out in the 9th and you’re walking people? Throw some damn strikes and let the 7 guys behind you make some plays!
ray k.
May 31st, 2010
4:04 pm
I’d hate to be hasty with Nate and yank him prematurely, sit him/trade him (although I don’t see anyone picking up that, what is it, 10 mil thru next year?), but when the offense cools off–which, at some point, it will–his k’s and pop ups may become so glaringly debilitating to a team that will suddenly need to play small ball to manufacture runs, to have base runners via walk, or hard hit single–neither of which is his specialty.
BravesFanChris25
May 31st, 2010
4:04 pm
2 Down
FEEEEEAR
May 31st, 2010
4:04 pm
one away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Venice Jim
May 31st, 2010
4:04 pm
That was much better…