Braves glad to be home, where they’ve won 14 of 15
Wouldn’t you know, the Braves get a couple of high-profile newspaper stories written about them in the New York Times and USA Today, and they come just as they absorb their first series loss in 14 and are swept for the first time in two months.
Speaking of photos of Troy Glaus, if Bravos fans allow themselves to wonder what he might look like in a convertiable headed down Peachtree....
At least they’re finally getting noticed though, right? I mean, they’ve had the majors’ best record for nearly two months, at 34-17 even after being swept in three games by the White Sox this week.
Still, the timing of today’s USA Today cover story must look odd to anyone who isn’t aware of how long ahead such stories are usually planned. That’s the problem that editors run into when they try to plan baseball stories well in advance. Because unlike football, where a team only plays one game per week, in baseball they play six or seven games a week and a lot can change in the week to 10 days that a story is put on a newspaper’s budget.
Bob Nightengale, the fine scribe who wrote today’s USA Today story, was out in Arizona doing the reporting on that when the Braves were there June 7-10.
If you haven’t seen the USA Today story, it’s accompanied by a posed shot of Martin Prado and Troy Glaus, each with a bat over his shoulders, both guys looking up toward the camera above them. It’s an odd shot, and I barely recognized Prado beneath the bill of his cap.
Anyway, to take the whole unfortunate-timing thing a step further: Glaus went 4-for-5 with two homers in a June 13 game at Minnesota. Since then he’s 4-for-28 with one homer in nine games, the first semblance of a slump for him since the end of April. It should be noted, he does have six RBIs and eight walks in the past nine games, including three two-RBI games.
As for Prado, he was 0-for-8 with four strikeouts in the last two games of the White Sox series, his first back-to-back hitless games since May 22-23, and only the third time he’s had consecutive hitless games all season (or fourth time, if you count his three straight hitless games May 6-8 as two occurrences of back-to-back — know what I mean?)
Again, it’s all relative. Prado had a triple and a home run in the series opener against the Sox, and he’s been on one of his hottest stretches for the past four weeks.
Between his hitless games May 22-23 and Wednesday-Thursday, Prado hit .392 (47-for-120) with eight doubles, one triple, three homers, 22 runs and 11 RBIs. He had .956 OPS in that span, including a .550 slugging percentage.
♣ Georgia on their mind: After being swept by the streaking White Sox (Ozzie’s guys have won nine in a row), the Braves talked about how glad they were to be headed back home instead of on to another city.
Which is understandable, considering they’ve already had four road trips lasting seven games or more, and only one homestand that long.
Today’s game against the Tigers starts a nine-game homestand, two games longer than their previous longest this season.
Medlen's on the hill tonight against Tigers lefty Andy Oliver, who's just up from Double-A and will make his major league debut.
After finishing up their interleague schedule with Detroit, the Braves will host division foes Washington and Florida. Monday’s series opener against the Nationals promises to bring a whole lot of buzz and a big crowd to Turner Field to witness the fifth start by Washington rookie sensation Stephen Strasburg.
Even more than being tired of the road, the Braves were excited to get home for another obvious reason: They are 14-1 in their past 15 home games, and 8-10 in their past 18 road games.
They’ve averaged nearly six runs at home during that stretch, more than a run higher that they’ve averaged in that road stretch. And their 3.40 home ERA in those 15 games is nearly a half-run below their road ERA in the past 18 games.
The Braves have scored two or fewer runs in four of their past eight road games, while they’ve scored fewer than three runs just once in their past 15 home games.
Jim Leyland’s Tigers came to Atlanta after losing two of three to the hot Mets in New York, but Detroit is 9-3 with a .300 team batting average in its past 12 games.
The Tigers won the series finale last night to prevent the Mets from overtaking the Braves in the NL East standings. The Braves, still a half-game ahead of the Mets, haven’t slipped from first place during June.
♣ Saito’s return: Appearing in his second consecutive game since returning from the DL, Takashi Saito gave up a decisive two-run homer by Paul Konerko in the eighth inning Thursday at Chicago.
It was the second homer allowed by Saito in his past eight appearances, and the second time he was charged with multiple runs in his past 10 appearances.
He has a 5.59 ERA and .263 opponents’ average in those 10 appearances, with 10 hits and six earned runs allowed in 9-2/3 innings.
In his 17 previous appearances, Saito had a 2.12 ERA and .133 opponents’ average, with eight hits and four earned runs allowed in 17 innings.
The Japanese veteran’s strikeouts/walks and strikeouts-per-nine-innings have been outstanding all season, and have actually improved in his past 10 games. Saito has 14 strikeouts and two walks in 9-2/3 innings in that period.
♣ Diaz update: After taking full batting practice a couple of times in Chicago, Matt Diaz could begin an injury-rehab assignment within the next several days, with a goal of returning before the All-Star break.
The outfielder’s been recovering from thumb surgery to remove a splinter that had caused an infection. The Braves hope he’ll be able to help improve their anemic .244 average and .349 slugging percentage vs. lefties.
In the NL, they are tied for lowest average vs. lefties and have the second-lowest slugging percentage.
Against righties, the Braves’ .269 is the NL’s third-highest, and their .415 slugging percentage ranks eighth, 14 points above the league average.
♣ FYI: Yunel Escobar is one of five qualifying major leaguers with a slugging percentage under .300. The homerless shortstop is slugging .298, second-lowest in the NL and better than only four lineup regulars in either league: Gordon Beckham (.251), Juan Pierre (.277), Chone Figgins (.277) and Pedro Feliz (.290).
♣ Alright, let’s close with a underrated gem from Mike Doughty, former frontman of the defunct (and largely underappreciated) band Soul Coughing. They were great. But his solo stuff’s also real strong. Oh, and I found this pretty cool video to accompany the tune. Check it out.
“YOUR MISFORTUNE” by Mike Doughty
When your faith in life is gone
Come and speak to me
When you’re down and all messed up
Seek my sympathy
♦
When everybody says no, no, no
Well it’s
Your misfortune and none of my own
Wrong, wrong, wrong
Well it’s your misfortune that sweetens my song
♦
I can be the friend you want
I can be your confidante
I can be the right reminder at the right time
Throwing out the lifeline
♦
When your face is caked with mud
Come and speak to me
When the chill creeps in your blood
Seek my sympathy
♦
I can be the air you drink
Every single thought you think
I can be the right notion in the meantime
Warm you like the sunshine
♦
Stand in the light. Stand in the light. Stand in the light
1,518 comments Add your comment
Rhino
June 25th, 2010
3:07 pm
I’m so glad the Braves are back in Atlanta. Let’s go Medlen!!!!
http://www.rhinorant.com
Nate from NCState
June 25th, 2010
3:07 pm
Welcome home.
David O'Brien
June 25th, 2010
3:10 pm
Bravos LINEUP: 1. Prado 2B, 2. Heyward RF, 3. Chipper 3B, 4. Glaus 1B, 5. McCann C, 6. Escobar SS, 7. Infante LF, 8. Cabrera CF, 9. Medlen RH
McFann Ô Ô
June 25th, 2010
3:10 pm
Thanks for the new Blog, Chief.
…only the third time [Prado’s] had consecutive hitless games all season.
That’s amazing.
Rhino
June 25th, 2010
3:11 pm
DOB, is this the picture you were reffering to?
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/nl/braves/2010-06-25-atlanta-braves-cover_N.htm
Rhino
June 25th, 2010
3:11 pm
Prado looks terrified in it haha.
http://www.rhinorant.com
McFann Ô Ô
June 25th, 2010
3:11 pm
Thanks for the lineup, too!
Thrillhouse44
June 25th, 2010
3:13 pm
Good to see a pitcher batting again.
McFann Ô Ô
June 25th, 2010
3:14 pm
Thrillhouse–
Haha! Yes, it is.
Chip Caray's Eyebrows
June 25th, 2010
3:14 pm
The problem with those stats against lefties is that it seems like they face A LOT of lefties.
Thrillhouse44
June 25th, 2010
3:15 pm
Glaus looks constipated in his posed shots.
O.J.
June 25th, 2010
3:16 pm
each with a bat over his shoulders, both guys looking up toward the camera above them. DOB
Rhino, in your pic, they are looking down at the camera and have their bats off their shoulders. Yeah, i would imagine its the same shot.
BamaDude @ CowCollege AL
June 25th, 2010
3:19 pm
thanks DOB …I really really like Soul Coughing’s “Ruby Vroom” …great debut …Doughty has a unique vocal …I saw them at The Point in L5P way back ..
flangeeeeeee1
June 25th, 2010
3:22 pm
Afternoon all,
Don’t know if this was discussed on the last blog, by Ken Rosenthal is suggesting that the Dodgers trade Matt Kemp.
I have been wanting Matt Kemp for a couple of years.
Interesting story. He even throws in a Braves reference.
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/los-angeles-dodgers-should-trade-matt-kemp-062510
Fred
June 25th, 2010
3:25 pm
Wow, DOB, I can’t believe you are covering tonight’s game after that early flight from Chicago. Thanks for the great coverage!
Mr. Turnip-Green Jeans
June 25th, 2010
3:26 pm
I like interleague less with each passing year. Wish they’d scrap it.
StingerSplash
June 25th, 2010
3:26 pm
Damn. I’d thought we’d get Motley Crue’s “Home Sweet Home” with the masterful fretwork of Mick Mars.
And those last five words of the preceding sentence have never been and will never be uttered again.
onebravosfan
June 25th, 2010
3:27 pm
I sort of like interleague but I think it should be capped at 12 games.
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
3:28 pm
19th!!!!!!!!
Nick in PA
June 25th, 2010
3:29 pm
Matt Kemp for Melky and some prospects…sign me up!
adam
June 25th, 2010
3:30 pm
i hate the mets and the phillies. i work with a guy from philly and i swear he was not a baseball fan until the phillies started winning the past few of years. does anybody else know anybody like this?
GTSteve
June 25th, 2010
3:30 pm
Mr. Turnip-Green Jeans
June 25th, 2010
3:26 pm
I agree
Mr. Turnip-Green Jeans
June 25th, 2010
3:30 pm
A WS is just not the same when the teams have already met during the regular season. Dulls the anticipation a bit.
Coach
June 25th, 2010
3:30 pm
Cabrera and Kawakami for Kemp
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
3:31 pm
Glaus before McCann, yes we can! Yes we can!
Okay, that’s too easy of a ryhme. I don’t think that counts.
But boy, why would you ever want a guy with 14 homeruns ahead of a dude with 6? That’s just crazy. Bobby finally got my memo.
Okay, he has 7. Whatever.
adam
June 25th, 2010
3:33 pm
raining in birmingham. i am sure this storm should hit atlanta about game time.
Bartholomeeeew (Bat) Masterson
June 25th, 2010
3:35 pm
Thanks for the link, Rhino.
ippississiM
June 25th, 2010
3:38 pm
Halfway to Atlanta from the cradle of Elvis, stopped for gas and checked the blog. Got seats for Sunday and Monday, me, Mrs. Ippi and the little ippsters will be on hand for what will hopefully be some outstanding pitching all around. I’ll hit town tonight, but we’d rather not have to sit through the agony of a KK start!
Tim
June 25th, 2010
3:39 pm
Is nobody else concerned abt JJ?
http://TwitPWR.com/L6y/
McFann Ô Ô
June 25th, 2010
3:45 pm
Mitchell–
A) There’s a lefty pitching tonight. That’s why Bobby put Glaus 4th and BMac 5th…he’s been doing that for close to two months now, I think; and
B) McCann has 8 home runs.
bravofan
June 25th, 2010
3:45 pm
People Medlen is pitching tonight not KK!!!!!!!!
Bruce Chen
June 25th, 2010
3:50 pm
interesting placement of the bats… “crossing swords”
adam
June 25th, 2010
3:52 pm
trade jj at some point maybe this off season and get somthing for him. he is a third starter at best and he is a scott boras agent so it will be impossible to sign him long term. get him healthy,get his stock a little bit higher and trade him. plus the braves have a surplus of young arms to replace him with.
.576
June 25th, 2010
3:54 pm
I’m nekkid.
Deal with it.
15
June 25th, 2010
3:54 pm
A WS is just not the same when the teams have already met during the regular season. Dulls the anticipation a bit.
you only say this because you think you are supposed to say this. did the giants playing the patriots in the regular season dull the anticipation of the super bowl that year? did the lakers playing the celtics this year during the regular season dull the appetite for the finals? stop saying and thinking what you think others want you to say and think
Crazy Trades McGee
June 25th, 2010
3:54 pm
melky, resop, kawakami, lowe, james parr, jo jo, todd redmond for Matt Kemp…
richbrave
June 25th, 2010
3:56 pm
5 G, .375 (6-16) AVG, 1 HR, 2 2B, 3 RBI, 3 R, 2 SB, 0 CS, 3 BB, 7 SO, .421 OBP, 19 PO, 0 A, 0 E..
TennesseePaul
June 25th, 2010
3:56 pm
USA Today
adam
June 25th, 2010
3:57 pm
how about escobar and resop for kemp?
Playoffs!!!!
June 25th, 2010
4:00 pm
15, i sense a lot of anger inside you. Relax a little. As for the Dodgers trading Kemp, that ain’t happening.
Chop Chop
June 25th, 2010
4:03 pm
Hey, it’s a picture of Glaus at Disneyland celebrating a World Series title, complete with a reference to a parade down Peachtree!
Anybody here expect Glaus to break a bone soon?
adam
June 25th, 2010
4:06 pm
yep. probably in his foot.
Rhino
June 25th, 2010
4:12 pm
No problem, Bartholomew!
O.J.- I read the description but that is the only picture USAToday.com had with that article. If he had the other one somewhere else, I was just interested in seeing it. And I’m sure the description from USAToday getting confused with the other article’s description is outside the realm of possibility. Thanks for the analysis.
http://www.rhinorant.com
Conrad Johnson
June 25th, 2010
4:13 pm
The braves need to stay in first, they got lucky with the mets losing yesterday. I don’t think they can make it back to first if they lose it. AS TRADES GO, I WOULD LOVE THE BRAVES TO TRADE KK AND MCCLOUTH FOR AN OUTFIELDER WITH POWER! YOU GUYS KNOW OF ANY AVAILABLE?
Rhino
June 25th, 2010
4:14 pm
you only say this because you think you are supposed to say this. did the giants playing the patriots in the regular season dull the anticipation of the super bowl that year? did the lakers playing the celtics this year during the regular season dull the appetite for the finals? stop saying and thinking what you think others want you to say and think
In those sports, teams always meet in the regular season every year. In baseball, part of the anticipation of the world series used to be two teams meeting that otherwise never would. It’s a fair analogy but not completely level. For the record, I don’t necessarily think meeting before the world series dulls it, but it’s a reasonable argument.
http://www.rhinorant.com
Mets Stink
June 25th, 2010
4:15 pm
Conrad, there might be some available, but not for those two.
SoDak Brave
June 25th, 2010
4:16 pm
Conrad Johnson; You are not gonna get a serviceable outfielder for those two.
Thrillhouse44
June 25th, 2010
4:16 pm
Conrad Johnson, so had the Mets won yesterday and the Braves slipped a half-game back, you don’t think they could make it up with over half a season left?
Rhino
June 25th, 2010
4:17 pm
The Braves lost 9 games in a row earlier this year. I don’t think their confidence would be so low they couldn’t rebound if they ever fall out of first place.
http://www.rhinorant.com
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
4:18 pm
DOB, do you do any announcer work on the tv?
Glen W
June 25th, 2010
4:18 pm
The Braves would have to give up two top prospects just to get a team to take those two contradcts, at this point.
adam
June 25th, 2010
4:19 pm
kawakami for ubaldo and mcclouth for josh hamilton. then i woke up at my desk.
Conrad Johnson
June 25th, 2010
4:21 pm
Thrillhouse44, i was actually talking about taking back the lead before the all star break. YOU GUYS MAY BE RIGHT ABOUT KK AND NATE NOT BEING ENOUGH FOR A POWER BAT BUT AFTER THE SWEEP IT’S OBVIOUS WE NEED A SERIOUS LONG BALL THREAT BESIDES GLAUS. ONE MORE WOULD DO WONDERS
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
4:23 pm
adam, those 2 trades are definately….in your Dreams
Travis
June 25th, 2010
4:24 pm
Gonna take a starting pitcher to LA to get Kemp. JJ and Melky at least.
.576
June 25th, 2010
4:24 pm
adam
June 25th, 2010
3:57 pm
how about escobar and resop for kemp?
I’m good with that. As much of an Esco fan as I am, I’m about tired of his lack of hustle lately. Looks like he’s slowing down before he makes it to first these days. I gotta problem with that.
Travis
June 25th, 2010
4:25 pm
LA needs pitching now not next year.
.576
June 25th, 2010
4:26 pm
Leeeeeee -
I’ve heard DOB has a face for radio. I dunno, that’s what I’ve heard.
Travis
June 25th, 2010
4:26 pm
So what do the Dodgers do with Furcal if Escobar goes to LA?
WATCH OUT NATIONAL LEAGUE
June 25th, 2010
4:27 pm
When Jones hits 3rd and McCann 4th, is this the weakest 3 & 4 in baseball? What they got, about 10 HR?
ncscoots
June 25th, 2010
4:28 pm
I’m good with that. As much of an Esco fan as I am, I’m about tired of his lack of hustle lately. Looks like he’s slowing down before he makes it to first these days. I gotta problem with that.
What if he smiles while he does it? That make it any better for you?
Maybe he could throw his helmet, or break a bat over his knee, or something?
Conrad Johnson
June 25th, 2010
4:29 pm
WATCH OUT NATIONAL LEAGUE, I WOULD SAY YES. I BELIEVE CHIPPER NEEDS TO BAT 6TH OR 7TH.
Crime Dog
June 25th, 2010
4:30 pm
I say we DFA Esco and sign Robdawg to a one-year deal. Robdawg not only hustled, but threw his equipment after he got out. That’s how you know he cares.
Deez Troy da Feel Ease Sand Dumbettes
June 25th, 2010
4:30 pm
.576,
Concerned about lack of hustle, but you want Kemp?
.576
June 25th, 2010
4:30 pm
ncscoots -
You’re hilarious.
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
4:31 pm
.576, the reason I asked is, I saw on espn site where it said David O’ Brien would be on the Monday night broadcast. Just wondering?
Travis
June 25th, 2010
4:31 pm
Watch out NL…Braves have survived without stereotypical 3/4. That happens when 1 thru 8 produce. When they don’t and 3/4 struggle it’s bad. Braves will have big ups and downs without more of a threat than Glaus. How long do you think it will be before they just pitch around the only power in the lineup?
.576
June 25th, 2010
4:32 pm
I don’t necessarily “want” Kemp, but he’s right-handed power. You hit bombs……you don’t need to run.
adam
June 25th, 2010
4:33 pm
leeeeeee, its hypothetical but i am tired of escobar. i think he is still got alot to offer but his attitude has to go. more so since he is not producing and i feel like maybe L.A feels the same way about kemp.
Deez Troy da Feel Ease Sand Dumbettes
June 25th, 2010
4:34 pm
.576,
Why don’t you check out the banner at the top of the blog and you won’t have to go by hearsay.
.576
June 25th, 2010
4:34 pm
Is this the Romper Room ver. of the blog?
*waits on some knowledgeable baseball fans*
Glen W
June 25th, 2010
4:34 pm
Did you guys see the plays Escobar made in the whole yesterday? Kept us in the game and no other player on the 40-man roster comes close to making those plays.
ncscoots
June 25th, 2010
4:35 pm
Crime Dog, if only the Braves had a Latin version of robdawg, he could translate some of that caring to Escobar, no? Then, Yunel could be be everybody’s favorite scrapper, LOL. Might even register on the CBI meter, for all I know.
Or, I guess we should let him continue to be one of the top SS in the league, instead. Either way.
Crime Dog
June 25th, 2010
4:35 pm
Kemp’s OPS this year is less than McCann’s. McCann, according to popular blog opinion, “can’t hit.” Makes sense.
.576
June 25th, 2010
4:36 pm
Deez Troy da Feel Ease Sand Dumbettes -
Whaddaya want me to say? He’s cute?
Have no idea, what do you think sailor?
Conrad Johnson
June 25th, 2010
4:36 pm
I LIKE JOE SIMPSON ALOT BUT I AM GETTING TIRED OF WHENEVER CHIPPER DOES SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE HE ALWAYS JOKES, THAT THE PITCHERS ARE FINDING THAT HE IS HARD TO RETIRE! ONE TIME WOULD BE FINE, BUT HE HAS SAID AT LEAST THREE TIMES!!!!
Jo-Bu
June 25th, 2010
4:36 pm
Braves glad to be home, where they’ve won 14 of 15
C’mon, man — don’t jinks that record, too
.576
June 25th, 2010
4:37 pm
See y’all a bit later…….after the Tigs take us to skool.
Feeanch
June 25th, 2010
4:37 pm
DOB, love the Mike Doughty post. What prompted that? Hear a tune on the ride back? He’s great live. Played a killer Sunday afternoon set at Bonnaroo a few years back.
Regarding that awful pic in USA Today…totally looks like they’re crossing swords. Sure hope that’s never happened before lol.
Crime Dog
June 25th, 2010
4:37 pm
I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU MEAN CONRAD IT’S LIKE WHEN SOMEONE TYPES IN ALL CAPS ON A BLOG! LOL ROFL SO ANNOYINGZ!
Crime Dog
June 25th, 2010
4:38 pm
Later Mixxo! We all know it’s you!
Renegator
June 25th, 2010
4:38 pm
Braves facing a lefty they’ve never seen before. Sounds like another shut out is brewing.
Deez Troy da Feel Ease Sand Dumbettes
June 25th, 2010
4:40 pm
.576,
You do if you play CF.
Rhino
June 25th, 2010
4:40 pm
Feeanch, that’s what I thought too! lol. Did you see the one DOB describes in his article? I haven’t been able to find it.
http://www.rhinorant.com
Steve from OH
June 25th, 2010
4:41 pm
Kemp is 26.
Ok. That still means he’d be entering his prime in 2011-12
Kemp is among the worst center fielders in the majors. He ranks well beneath McLouth… and many don’t think McLouth is all that special.
Which is why I’d put him in left.
McLouth cannot be counted on for this season.
Schafer, from what I have seen, should not be counted on for quite some time if at all.
I can reasonably expect McLouth to be back before August, and I am certainly not ready to put any nails in Schafer’s coffin for 2011 yet.
I’d take all that in with me to the bargaining table, then pull a proposal straight from the pages of the MIB Blog: Cabrera and Kawakami for Kemp.
And you’d hear a resounding “click.” Kemp IS a good player. He’s young, and under club control for two additional seasons. You’re looking at Cabrera and Medlen plus a prospect or another big-leaguer to get him. No way I’m giving up a Freeman/Teheran/Vizcaino/Schafer/Delgado in that deal, though. I’d give up a Minor or Hoover, or something like a Spruill/Bethancourt combo or the like.
Why would they take Kawakami? He’s not any good and he’s due a lot of cash. They’re looking to cut payroll, not take on payroll.
ncscoots
June 25th, 2010
4:42 pm
Later Mixxo! We all know it’s you!
’cause there couldn’t be TWO guys like that drawing breath, could there, LOL?
Steve from OH
June 25th, 2010
4:43 pm
Ok, gotta run again. Later dudes.
Lew
June 25th, 2010
4:43 pm
Stinger-Not sure I’d call Mick Mars guitar work masterful Actually, kind of surprised he’s still alive. Must use the same clinic that transfuses his blood as Keith Richard.
David O'Brien
June 25th, 2010
4:45 pm
Just talked to Ken Burns for about 15 minutes, taped the conversation. Don’t know if you all have heard, but he’s got a four-hour two-part miniseries on the modern era of baseball (as you know his longer series on baseball in the early and mid-center was phenomenal). The new one is a little more warts-and-all, discussing the steroid era, the strike, all that. But it’s also going to focus on the great baseball played in the last 20 years or so, and the Braves are featured prominently. He said the thing will start with the Bream slide, with Barry not being able to throw him out, and it ends with Barry’s steroid scandal. At least that’s what I think he said. I’ll have to listen again. Anyway, part of the series will focus on the Braves’ Big Three pitchers and Bobby Cox.
I’ll probably just transcribe the whole thing and run it on the blog soon. He’s a really sharp dude, quite cerebral.
Oh, and we talked about music later, since he did the great mini-series documentary on jazz. Turns out his next one is going to be about country music. Real country music. So I had to show him my Johnny Cash tattoo. He dug that.
Shaun
June 25th, 2010
4:46 pm
I know what you mean Conrad, i’m tired of hearing it to. But Joe Simpson is a pretty good broadcaster. I think the j hey kid needs to move up closer to the plate. it looks like he’s so far away and its hard for him to see if the ball is staying over the plate or falling off
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
4:47 pm
Crime Dog, what do you mean McCann can’t hit? Better not let McFann hear you say that.
Steve from OH
June 25th, 2010
4:47 pm
Stinger–yeah, don’t think I’ve ever seen the phrase “Mick Mars’ masterful fretwork” before and I don’t think I’ll see it again. I mean, he’s a lot better than me, but c’mon, he ain’t EVH or anything.
Ok, out for real this time.
summer of 91
June 25th, 2010
4:49 pm
can’t wait.
summer of 91
June 25th, 2010
4:49 pm
gotta keep hinske in the lineup IMO
monty
June 25th, 2010
4:50 pm
Heywards scared of getting jammed and hurting his thumb further. Just an opinion. Plus he sort of dives in when he swings.
Crime Dog
June 25th, 2010
4:50 pm
Leee-
I said many on the blog think he can’t hit. I even put “can’t hit” in quotes.
CB
June 25th, 2010
4:52 pm
I don’t know how you guys know that is Mixxo, you must be able to hack into computers. We need to watch you two (cough Crime Dog and ncscoots- cough). Really bad people
GTSteve
June 25th, 2010
4:52 pm
Quentin homered
AGAIN
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
4:52 pm
Wait- DOB, you have a Johnny Cash tattoo? Really? Or is my brain still mush from the car ride home yesterday?
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
4:53 pm
Crime Dog, ok, sorry dude. I didn’t notice the quote marks!
Crime Dog
June 25th, 2010
4:55 pm
No problem man.
ncscoots
June 25th, 2010
4:56 pm
DOB, please, please get a quote from Heyward about any changes he’s made about how far he stands from the bleepin’ plate. Jeebus, if I see one more poster make the superficial (and wrong) observation that he needs to close on the plate, I’m gonna hurl all over the forum.
And nobody wants that. So, please ask Heyward. Thanks.
Playoffs!!!!
June 25th, 2010
4:58 pm
DOB- Will the Ken Burns’ series be on PBS and if so, when? By the way, saw an interesting show last night on Fox Sports South called the ” Golden Years of Baseball” and last night that had a feature on the “Three Lost Teams of Baseball”–the Philadephia A’s, the St. Louis Browns and Boston Braves. All 3 teams from cities that used to have 2 major leauge teams. They all moved to new cities right around the same time ‘52-’54. Good old film clips, too
adam
June 25th, 2010
4:58 pm
do any of your wives or girlfriends know y’all do this? mine found out the other day and called me a looooooser. did’nt know if i was alone?
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
5:00 pm
ncscoots, don’t hurl but, I think JH needs to stand closer to the plate. So he can get plunked more! Just kidding! lol
bravesgrl4lifeeeee
June 25th, 2010
5:03 pm
Can we please have a little positive thinking on this blog this afternoon? So, we got swept on the road on a 3-game road trip. We’re still in a winning season at this point, and I really think the boys were somewhat demoralized over the last few days for some reason. Hopefully whatever it was has been “swept” out by the Sox and we’ll get back on the winning track.
StingerSplash
June 25th, 2010
5:04 pm
DOB,
Burns’ Civil War documentary remains holy crap good and riveting stuff. Didn’t see his music one and have seen a lot of the baseball one. Like an army of steam rollers … oh, wait, that’s Terence Mann.
Didn’t realize that was Frank Whaley as young Archie Graham. His second-best role, right behind being told “Say ‘what’ again. I dare ya.”
Rhino
June 25th, 2010
5:07 pm
I agree bravesgirl. It was only a 3 game series. Braves will get right back on track.
http://www.rhinorant.com
bravesgrl4lifeeeee
June 25th, 2010
5:08 pm
Adam, that sucks that your wife called you that for blogging. I am a girl who’s been married for 13 years. I sit here and blog while my hubby is watching a movie a lot of nights. I support his love of cars – drag racing and restoration. He somewhat supports my love of Braves baseball. He doesn’t mind me blogging while I sit here with him, and he bought me a jersey and ticket package for Christmas. Now, he doesn’t go so far as to go with me to the games, but he doesn’t mind me going.
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
5:10 pm
I don’t seem to have any issues with my guy and blogging…unless you count fighting him for the computer when I want to comment on something
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
5:11 pm
bravesgrlforlifeeeee, I agree, we need to be positive. We are still in 1st place. We WILL be in the playoffs, and win the WS in BC’s and maybe CJ’s last year!!!
Couch Tater
June 25th, 2010
5:14 pm
Playoffs!!!! – Premieres September 28 – 29 on PBS.
http://www.pbs.org/baseball-the-tenth-inning/
bravesgrl4lifeeeee
June 25th, 2010
5:16 pm
I sure hope so, Leeeee. I mean, hck, we’re not even half way thru the season yet.
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
5:17 pm
Cab, you need to get your own puter. Then you and your hubby(Jim) can be blogging at the same time!
bravesgrl4lifeeeee
June 25th, 2010
5:17 pm
Don’t get me wrong, I get bummed by losses, but still ♥ my Braves!
Feeanch
June 25th, 2010
5:19 pm
DOB, was this interview live at the ballpark or was this via web chat or something? How did he see your tattoo? Where is your Cash tat?
The absolute best part of Burns’ Civil War series was the music as well. There is a haunting fiddle tune called “Ashoken Farewell” that runs throughout that series and every time I hear it I get choked up. Just dug this up and it’s pretty neat background on Jay Ungar, the composer, and how he wrote it. Can’t wait to see Burns’ new piece. Love that it starts with “The Slide” and Barry’s weak ass arm. That was when he was about 190 lbs and his hat size was probably only a 7 not an steroid-induced 8.5.
http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/film/music.html
CB
June 25th, 2010
5:21 pm
cab and VJ got married ? And I didn’t get an invite.
Nate from NCState
June 25th, 2010
5:21 pm
Say what you want to about Chip Caray, but he’s not nearly as annoying as the guys for the ChiSox… Chicago on their way to number 10 in a row thanks to an ‘opening day-esk’ performance from Big Zzzzzzzzz
McFann Ô Ô
June 25th, 2010
5:21 pm
Crime Dog Kemp’s OPS this year is less than McCann’s. McCann, according to popular blog opinion, “can’t hit.” Makes sense.
Of course it does.
(ITS)
bravesgrl4life Don’t get me wrong, I get bummed by losses, but still ♥ my Braves!
Same here. I used to get really bummed/violent to doors after serious losses and/or when BMac went throw a bad stretch. Made it my “New Year’s Resolution” to tone that down a bit…so far it’s worked pretty well…the doors don’t get it quite like they used to.
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
5:22 pm
Bravesgrl, I know, not even halfway thru! I have a good feeling about this season! Not like I’ve had in yrs!!!!
richbrave
June 25th, 2010
5:22 pm
DOWN ON THE FARM:
DSL still lead the league by a half a game at 12-7, but lose big last night to the DSL-ANGELS 11-5. DH RON LUNA (.393) has a 2-5 evening and scores two runs. The two position players we’ve been watching, SS SALCEDO (.270) and 1B ALCANTARA (.278), are coming along. Both have 1-4 nights at the plate. ARIS has an RBI and a walk also.
Six BRAVES hurlers were cuffed arounf pretty good with only reliefers ELVIN GARCIA (2.0) and ELIAS VALDEZ (1.1) turning in unearned run stints.
GCL BRAVES are winners last night 5-2 and have the early league lead with 3 wins and a single loss. The team pounds out 10 hits including two doubles and a triple. 2-11 with RISP. C COREY BROWNSTEN has a 3-4 night with that triple, drives in an RBI, and scores a run himself.
Four pitchers combine for 9.0 IP, 8 H, but limit the opposition to 2 ER, while striking out 11 and walking only three.
DANVILLE finishes their three game set in PRINCETON, WEST (by GOD) VIRGINIA by winning 7-3, and sweeping the series. Still a bit too early to go into individual performances. Some trends will develop in a few more games.
ROME is crushed by LEXINGTON, N.C. last night as three BRAVES hurlers are dismembered by the home team. Starter ROBINSON LOPEZ lasts only one inning while surrendering five earned with a walk and zero SO’s. The big hurt, ouch! His record falls to 3-4.
DH RIAAN SPANJER-FURSTENBERG has a 1-3 night with a walk. Team is 1-11 with RISP and leaves 9 stranded.The offense………………..practically silent.
MATT CRIM continues his JEKYLL and HYDE act last night. Yesterday, he played the good guy, but to no avail as the BIRDS fall 2-1 to POTOMAC. CRIM goes 7.0 IP, with 6 H, 2 ER, 0 BB, and 3 SO. Gopher balls prove his undoing however, and the two solo shots are the only two runs scored by either side in the game. Too bad this isn’t golf. If it were, we might request the assistant greens-keeper to eradicate the furry problem. TYRELL HARRIS pitches a perfect eighth, but to no avail.
Only MIKE JONES has a multi-hit night going 2-3 with a walk and the PELICANS lone RBI of the evening.
3B DONEL LINARES is 2-3 as the PEARLS of MISSISSIPPI best the MOBILE club 2-1. No extraordinary batting performances last night. WILLIE CABRERA goes 1-4 but it’s a double and he later dents home plate with the winning run. C JESUS SUCRE has another hit (1-3) and a walk while maintaining a lofty .391 BA.
JUAN ABREU gets his third win of the year with two innings of three hit, one run ball with three SO’s. But a superlative performance by BRANDON BEACHY was wasted in the process. He goes 7.0 IP with TWO hits, 2 BB, and 7 SO. What a shame he couldn’t pitch a complete game.
JAIR JURRJENS is a winner last night leveling his record at 1-1 going 6.0 IP, 7 H, 1 HR, 4 ER, 1 BB, 1 SO. VLAD the IMPALER stakes out all three he faces to dry in the sun. MARIANO GOMEZ and STEVE MAREK finish up with a spotless inning of work apiece.
A veritable plethora of base knocks last night as the G-BRAVES fete a hit-fest for the home team. 17 hits and 9-21 with RISP. That’ll fatten up the old individual stats a bit. An unlikely candidate leads the evening’s festivities as SS DIORY HERNANDEZ has a rare 4-5 night while raising his BA to ,333. His hits plate 2 RBI and 2 R’s. 2B-LF MATT YOUNG continues his torrid hitting with a 3-5 night and 2 R scored. 3B OLD MAN RIVER is 2-5 last evening with a double, 2 RBI and 2 R’s scored. The FLAILING CUBAN is 1-1 with an RBI in a pinch-hit role. But the two young men we want to here from most SCHAFER (1-5) and FREEMAN are a combined 1-8. JORDAN’s double ultimately allows him to score. FREDDIE is 0-3 with a BB, and RBI.
Playoffs!!!!
June 25th, 2010
5:22 pm
Interesting fact–the Saint Louis Browns, in their last year in St. Louis (1952,I think) drew an attendance of only 85,000 fans that year–for the entire season! They moved to Baltimore and became the Orioles.
adam
June 25th, 2010
5:23 pm
braves girl – you sound like the perfect women!
Playoffs!!!!
June 25th, 2010
5:24 pm
Thanks, Couch Tater
Crime Dog
June 25th, 2010
5:24 pm
Ok folks I have an hour and a half left of work and the boredom is starting to drive me insane…any suggestions?
cricket
June 25th, 2010
5:25 pm
How’s the whether today? Hope there’s no rain today.
McFann Ô Ô
June 25th, 2010
5:25 pm
I am kinda in a bummed-out mood right now, though…Braves got swept, BMac K’d twice yesterday…but the real kicker is that “The Great Mouse Detective” refuses to load unto my computer!
Guess they’re makin’ the movies tougher these days…
Hey, I wasn’t gonna do anything illegal! I payed for the movie, and I want it on my iPod! The innocent always suffer…
CB
June 25th, 2010
5:25 pm
work?
bravesgrl4lifeeeee
June 25th, 2010
5:25 pm
Adam, tell my husband that, would ya?
Tim
June 25th, 2010
5:26 pm
Who cares abt Diaz???
What abt JJ: http://TwitPWR.com/L6y/
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
5:26 pm
cab, sorry, I should have said fella, not hubby!!!
Crime Dog
June 25th, 2010
5:26 pm
CB-
Yeah, the thing where I sit at a desk and get paid enough to pay my rent/bills/MLB Extra Innings.
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
5:29 pm
Lee-
I have 2 computers, but one is in my office in the backyard so I can’t really use it during night games…
CB-
NO! We DID NOT get married!!!
CB
June 25th, 2010
5:31 pm
Crime Dog, you can get bored in retirement too. Nice to have this blog to share with fellow Braves fans.
.576
June 25th, 2010
5:33 pm
White Sox all over the Cubbies 5-0 top 5th.
No Sireee folks, they’re not a fluke.
Awesome ballclub…..love their cockiness!!!!
Carlos Zambrano is an Idiot
June 25th, 2010
5:33 pm
Carlos Zambrano with another meltdown in the Cubs dugout this afternoon. He got lit up by the White Sox in the first when Derick Lee misplayed a ball. He gets in Lee’s face in the dugout, they have to be separated and Lou takes him out after the 1st.
Zambrano is an embarrassment to the Cubs. The Cubs are a screwed up organization. Thank goodness the Braves aren’t that disfunctional!
CB
June 25th, 2010
5:34 pm
cab,I figured you would have told your other family.
.576
June 25th, 2010
5:35 pm
Dang! McFann Ô Ô is a door slammer and y’all think I’m “angry???”
:facepalm:
ok, I slam doors too.
bravesgrl4lifeeeee
June 25th, 2010
5:36 pm
Newer blogger that didn’t know VJ and CAB too well?
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
5:36 pm
I heard Ken Burns was working on his follow-up to Baseball kind of a long time ago and then recently I saw that it’s coming out in November I think. I’ve been really looking forward to that thing forever but I read it’s only going to be four hours.
I’m like, four hours? Are you kidding me? Everything that’s happened in the last twenty years? I mean, I think it originally came out in ‘94 but it hardly covered anything from the ’90s.
He does the longest freakin’ documentaries. Four hours seems a little short to me. I could go double that easily.
I imagine at least some portion of it will be devoted to all those effete journalists and baseball historians pondering how Bobby Cox could have the best pitching staff ever assembled and lose four World Series. In fact, it’s a shame they didn’t push it back till next year so they could end it with a bit about Bobby losing for a fifth and final time. Missed opportunity right there.
It’s amazing how things come full circle sometimes. Wasn’t Atlanta dubbed “Losersville” by Sports Illustrated in the late ’80s for all of our God awful pro sports teams? Then Bobby takes over as Braves manager for a second time in the summer of 1990, turns an abysmal team into perrenial World Series contenders for more than a decade but loses four times out of five and finishes no better than third over four of his last five years and Atlanta again ranks highly as one of America’s most miserable sports cities.
It’s awesome.
Go Braves!
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
5:36 pm
CB, I agree, I’m retired on disability. If it weren’t for the blog and my puter, I would be a blathering idot!!!
McFann Ô Ô
June 25th, 2010
5:37 pm
.576–
Of course I’m a door slammer! I’m a teenage girl! It’s goes with the job…
Playoffs!!!!
June 25th, 2010
5:37 pm
The Cubs need to trade or release Zambrano and eat his contract. They”ll be better for it—addition by subtraction.
McFann Ô Ô
June 25th, 2010
5:39 pm
Thunder alert…
OK, we cann get rain outside of the city (Dad needs it for the fertilizer, anyway), but how ’bout let’s not have any rain-delays…
Tommeeee O'Hawkeeee
June 25th, 2010
5:40 pm
Is TnBrian around?
Hi cab & VJ. Hey cabravesfan, what’s up? You told me that Vegas wedding was supposed to be a secret. Some secret.
CB
June 25th, 2010
5:41 pm
Lee,you’re fine. I doubt you are and idiot but if you hang around long enough you will see plenty of And Idiots.
bravesgrl4lifeeeee
June 25th, 2010
5:41 pm
McFann, I am hoping for some rain up my way. My poor herb plants are drooping something awful. My original sage plant looks like it’s dying. I hope not. I really like sage.
unbelievable
June 25th, 2010
5:42 pm
braves should consider JJ and Melky for Kemp, if in fact Kemp is available
Lawton
June 25th, 2010
5:43 pm
Mitchell:
Maybe Atlanta ranks high as a miserable sports city because of fans like you. After all, you seem pretty miserable just about all the time. Food for thought.
McFann Ô Ô
June 25th, 2010
5:43 pm
bravesgrl4life–
Aw! How sad!
Hope you get some rain.
Daybed Wagmoe
June 25th, 2010
5:43 pm
DOB — You’ve got a Johnny Cash tattoo? Is it the one where he’s flicking off the camera?
I posted a link to a video on “Chicken In Black” over on the last blog. Don’t know how I’d never seen that before, but it’s hilarious.
bravos2249
June 25th, 2010
5:44 pm
Last time I checked the Cubs suck…so it’s no surprise the White Sox are beating them.
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
5:47 pm
CB-
Of course! Wouldn’t want y’all to feel left out
Ease® in Woodstock
June 25th, 2010
5:47 pm
Hi CB!
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
5:47 pm
Hi Tom!
sorry ’bout that
didn’t want to mention it right away 
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
5:49 pm
Tom-
By the way, I can think of many reasons why California is better then New York, but I wouldn’t want to hurt your feelings
Carlos Zambrano is an Idiot
June 25th, 2010
5:50 pm
Don’t know if anyone noticed or not, but I think Heyward needs to move up on the plate a bit. Seems like he’s changed where he is in the box since he was hot.
)
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
5:51 pm
McFann, it’s thundering in my town in SC. Someone said bad storms were headed for Hotlanta! Here’s hoping they miss!!
Tommeeee O'Hawkeeee
June 25th, 2010
5:54 pm
Hey, I wasn’t gonna do anything illegal! I payed for the movie, and I want it on my iPod! The innocent always suffer… (McFann)
You’re safe regarding the movie, but if the blog police come around, they may write you a ticket for the way you spelled ‘paid’.
McFann Ô Ô
June 25th, 2010
5:54 pm
Leeeeee–
Ick! I hope they miss, too…like, they don’t have to make a detour through our neckathewoods, but they still need to miss Atlanta!
Carlos Zambrano is an Idiot
June 25th, 2010
5:54 pm
BTW…..Phillies are getting hot again. We knew it was gonna happen. Wonder if the Braves can stand the heat?
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
5:55 pm
I do find it ironic and annoying actually when the people at Forbes magazine for example (why they feel compelled to make such a list, I don’t know) place the blame on Bobby and the Braves for being a miserable sports town. I mean, the Falcons, Hawks and Thrashers never won $&#%.
But I guess nothing makes a person more miserable than getting their hopes dashed year after year.
I mean, I certainly wouldn’t want to be a Cubs fan carrying on like my team’s ever won a damn thing. I’d rather have been there and lost but still when you have arguably the best team for fourteen years and you lose the last game of every season except one, you’re bound to be a little cynical.
Or maybe it’s just getting swept by a .500 team.
Ease® in Woodstock
June 25th, 2010
5:55 pm
Looks like there is a nice gap in the weather between here and Alabama, so GAME ON!
bravesgrl4lifeeeee
June 25th, 2010
5:56 pm
Yeah, rain is not a good thing for the Braves, apparently.
Daybed Wagmoe
June 25th, 2010
5:56 pm
Atlanta radar not looking too good…
I’m trying to sign into Buster Olney’s blog from today, in which he apparently discusses the Braves’ trade needs, but ESPN isn’t letting me sign in…arggh. Would anyone that’s an insider (and can sign in) mind copying and pasting here? Please?
McFann Ô Ô
June 25th, 2010
5:56 pm
Tom O’Hawke–
You’re safe regarding the movie
Yeah, except that I still can’t get it to rip…
McFann Ô Ô
June 25th, 2010
5:57 pm
bravesgrl4life–
No, it’s not…
Ron in Mobile
June 25th, 2010
5:58 pm
DOB Speaking of your Johnny Cash tat. I just finshed Cash written by Johnny, sure that you’ve probably read it. I’m somewhat of an autobiography buff and that one is by far the best i’ve come across. Picked it up on a discount shelf for $4.50!
bravesgrl4lifeeeee
June 25th, 2010
5:59 pm
well, guys and girls, I am signing off for probably the weekend.
Going to Alabama tonight with the hub for his diving cert. Not sure I’ll have any internet access. I’ll miss hanging with you for the games this weekend. Here’s to the Braves eating up some tiger this weekend 
Glen W
June 25th, 2010
5:59 pm
here you go.. Buster on the Braves trade situation (doesn’t really say much).
There are only 36 days remaining before the trade deadline, and the Braves appear to be in an excellent position — they have no glaring needs and are one of the few teams that aren’t scrambling for pitching, given that the return of Jair Jurrjens is now imminent. Matt Diaz will be back soon, and in the weeks thereafter, the Braves will determine what kind of role the surprising Eric Hinske will play down the stretch. Hinske was brought in primarily to be a weapon off the bench for Bobby Cox, and if Hinske figures to play at least semi-regularly, the Braves will probably look for another hitter to come off the bench.
By the way: The Braves are well aware that if they hire Fredi Gonzalez in a support role during the season, they’d set up an expectation that Gonzalez is the heir apparent to Cox without having gone through the process of exploring their managerial options. So there would seem to be a good chance that the Braves won’t hire Gonzalez during the season.
Carlos Zambrano is an Idiot
June 25th, 2010
5:59 pm
Phillies are hot as I said……..it’s up to the Braves to decide if they can play with the big boys.
Why didn’t I mention the Mets? Simple. Mets are a freak situation. A perfect storm of performance. They have too many weak links. They will be lucky to finish ahead of the Nats and Marlins!
Tommeeee O'Hawkeeee
June 25th, 2010
5:59 pm
You’re just lucky I was here to inform you.
David O'Brien
June 25th, 2010
6:00 pm
Johnny Damon making just his third start in CF for Tigers tonight, and batting leadoff for only the fifth time.
Glen W
June 25th, 2010
6:00 pm
Buster also posted this link re: BC’s reaction to the Fredi firing:
http://blogs.sun-sentinel.com/sports_baseball_marlins/2010/06/florida-marlins-braves-manager-cox-unloads-on-loria-over-gonzalez-firing.html
McFann Ô Ô
June 25th, 2010
6:02 pm
We’ll miss you, too, bravesgrl4life! Have fun and drive carefully!
Tom O’Hawke You’re just lucky I was here to inform you.
Oh, I’m thanking my lucky stars for this…
Tommeeee O'Hawkeeee
June 25th, 2010
6:03 pm
Tom-
cabravesfan
By the way, I can think of many reasons why California is better then New York, but I wouldn’t want to hurt your feelings
Are you alluding to my post about VJ’s birthday? That was 3 days ago!
I thought you guys were only 3 hours behind.
David O'Brien
June 25th, 2010
6:05 pm
Playoffs!!: Yes, Ken Burns’ new mini-series, “Baseball: The 10th Inning,” is going to be on PBS Sept. 28-29.
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
6:06 pm
Tom-
In case you missed it, I have been a little busy the last 3 days
Besides, you keep saying you are going Caveman soon, so I never know if you are going to be around… 
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
6:07 pm
I hope the Bravos jump on the Tigers early, because my college team goes up against those other Tigers(Clemson) tonight. The winner goes to the finals!! Go Cocks!
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
6:08 pm
DOB-
I know I posted this already and I hate to be one of “those” bloggers, but I really have to know- do you really have a Johnny Cash tattoo? And if you do, what are the odds of getting a photo of it?
bobby's cox
June 25th, 2010
6:08 pm
What’s the over-under for Escobar hitting a homer before the All-Star Break??
BravesFanChris25
June 25th, 2010
6:10 pm
DOB
“Playoffs!!: Yes, Ken Burns’ new mini-series, “Baseball: The 10th Inning,” is going to be on PBS Sept. 28-29.”
29th is my B-Day
Glen W
June 25th, 2010
6:10 pm
What’s the over-under for Escobar hitting a homer before the All-Star Break??
I guess if you word it like that, the over would be 1 and the under would be 0.
Crime Dog
June 25th, 2010
6:11 pm
I guess if you word it like that, the over would be 1 and the under would be 0.
I would have guessed “blue.”
David O'Brien
June 25th, 2010
6:11 pm
cabravesfan: I do, indeed. Upper left arm. Johnny smoking a cig, white spread-collared shirt and blazer, slick-backed hair, from an iconic photo of him taken backstage in ‘58, I believe it was.
bobby's cox
June 25th, 2010
6:12 pm
DOB, Has Bobby considered flipping Escobar and Heyward in the lineup. Heyward is really struggling hitting the ball to the right. Even Joe Simpson has stated that he is considrably further off of home plate and rolling over pitches. How bad is Heyward’s thumb at this point? Would he be better off NOT playing in the All-Star game and resting his hand?
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
6:14 pm
DOB-
Nice
I’ll be waiting for the facebook pic… (What can I say, I’m a fan of tattoos 
)
.576
June 25th, 2010
6:16 pm
Look at a Yes album cover (Yessongs).
You’ll see my tatt.
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
6:19 pm
.576-
The image of the girl on the rock thingy coming out of the water with the winged animal thing coming toward her?
.576
June 25th, 2010
6:22 pm
cabravesfan -
Similar to the fish on the “mushroom”-looking thing, but with a bit extra. Big Roger Dean fan.
http://tradingboundaries.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/yessongs_arrival.jpg
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
6:23 pm
.576-
I like
WATCH OUT NATIONAL LEAGUE
June 25th, 2010
6:24 pm
Joe Simpson keeps telling the tv audience that Heyward is standing too far from the plate. So why doesn’t he stand closer? Simpson could be right.
.576
June 25th, 2010
6:25 pm
cabravesfan-
Thanks!
David O'Brien
June 25th, 2010
6:26 pm
Barring any unexpected developments, Jurrjens will start on June 30 against Washington, according to Bobby Cox. He wouldn’t say who’s getting bumped, said he’d let us know when he’s ready to (but me and everyone else I’ve talked to would be surprised if it’s not K.K.)
In the Braves game notes, Medlen is down to pitch the 30th, but that was before Cox said Jurrjens would start that day. The next day, July 1, is an off day, so if it’s Kawakami that gets moved to the bullpen, I wouldn’t be surprised if Medlen is available to pitch once out of the bullpen between now and his next start, which would presumably be July 2, unless the Braves skip his turn with the off day in there.
But this is all just me speculating, educated-guessing if you will. All we know for sure, per Cox, is that Jurrjens is scheduled to pitch June 30 barring any setback between now and then.
Furman Bitcher
June 25th, 2010
6:29 pm
COME ON EVERYBODY ON THIS BLOG NEEDS TO VOTE FOR MCCANN, PRADO & HEYWARD FOR THE ALL STAR GAME. DO IT NOW. DO IT 25 TIMES!
WATCH OUT NATIONAL LEAGUE
June 25th, 2010
6:31 pm
Let’s set a date midway between now and the end of the season. Escobar’s 1st homer under will be before that date and his over will be after that date. For the record I am taking the over.
Rhino
June 25th, 2010
6:31 pm
You said it Furman Bitcher! And Glaus too!!!!! He’s leading the NL in RBIs.
Can’t wait to see Jurrjens back…..if he’s healthy that is.
http://www.rhinorant.com
Escobar Estimate
June 25th, 2010
6:32 pm
Believe it or not, it’s almost the all-star break. Yunel has gone from a guy last year who looked like he was flirting with becoming elite to a guy who is at best a very average role player on a major league team.
Does everyone here actually realize the Braves are where they are now due to the performance of people NOT named Escobar, Jones, McCann?
It’s not like anyone is waiting in the wings to replace Escobar, but he shouldn’t be untouchable in the trade market. I mean c’mon, the season is almost half over and Escobar hasn’t even gone deep once!
David O'Brien
June 25th, 2010
6:33 pm
I saw Frank Wren while ago talking to a handful of what looked to be Japanese executives or consulate types, had ‘em down on the field. Don’t think the relationship that the Braves have established with the Japanese is not important, because it is.
Furman Bitcher
June 25th, 2010
6:33 pm
DO IT NOW. MCCANN IS SOO CLOSE!!
Escobar Estimate
June 25th, 2010
6:42 pm
“Furman Bitcher
June 25th, 2010
6:29 pm
COME ON EVERYBODY ON THIS BLOG NEEDS TO VOTE FOR MCCANN, PRADO & HEYWARD FOR THE ALL STAR GAME. DO IT NOW. DO IT 25 TIMES!”
In a word, NO!
I watched McCann get jobbed by the Cubs catcher. I watched him get jobbed by Martin. I watched him get jobbed by Molina. I was really ticked every time. So am i agoing to vote for him or Heyward so they can JOB some other more deserving player this year? Hell no! Mac and Heyward are undeserving.
On the other hand, Prado, should be an all star and deserves as many votes as we can cast!
David O'Brien
June 25th, 2010
6:43 pm
Jason Heyward’s past 23 games: .179 (17-for-95) with 3 doubles, 1 homer, 7 RBIs, 13 BB, 32 K, .284 OBP, .242 slugging percentage
Escobar Estimate
June 25th, 2010
6:43 pm
Glaus also is deserving.
David O'Brien
June 25th, 2010
6:44 pm
There were a lot of people in line at the advance-ticket window while ago, and most of them were buying tix for Monday: Strasburg vs. Hudson
Escobar Estimate
June 25th, 2010
6:45 pm
“Jason Heyward’s past 23 games: .179 (17-for-95) with 3 doubles, 1 homer, 7 RBIs, 13 BB, 32 K, .284 OBP, .242 slugging percentage”
not someone deserving of all star consideration.
jesse james
June 25th, 2010
6:46 pm
ncscoots – Look at highlights from Heyward’s first at bat and see his location in regards to the plate. He is closer and I don’t mean to beat a dead horse but the bottom line he doesn’t look comfortable. Maybe it is like they say because of his wrist.
Bubba G
June 25th, 2010
6:46 pm
Maybe they are informing them that they plan to trade kk. Just wishful thinking. whatever happened to Scot Thorman? Is he in the Braves minor league system?
jesse james
June 25th, 2010
6:46 pm
I meant his thumb.
McFann Ô Ô
June 25th, 2010
6:55 pm
For the record, McCann also got jobbed by Paul Lo Duca.
Rhino
June 25th, 2010
7:03 pm
Yeah, he has had a tendency of getting ripped of at All-Star games.
http://www.rhinorant.com
Rhino
June 25th, 2010
7:06 pm
In 4 All-Star games, McCann has a total of 3 ABs. One year Russel Martin got 3 in a game and McCann got 0.
http://www.rhinorant.com
Change Turner Field to Aaron Stadium
June 25th, 2010
7:08 pm
So Heyward struggles for 23 games, and everything he’s done before that doesn’t make him worthy of All-Star consideration? Wow, talk about fairweather!!
Furman Bitcher
June 25th, 2010
7:09 pm
Hey Escobar Idiot, vote for your boys or get lost. I want to see my boys. You can drop your loser “get jobbed” holier than thou crap. Loser.
Rhino
June 25th, 2010
7:10 pm
I do think anymore the all-star game is about who the fans want to see more than anything. And the fans want to see Heyward. There are always a couple bad all-stars voted in but the manager’s picks are usually a lot worse. Besides, think about how many games Heyward has won for the Braves almost single-handedly?
http://www.rhinorant.com
Furman Bitcher
June 25th, 2010
7:10 pm
Hey Dave I got mine for monday night. I have to see this guy live!!
Furman Bitcher
June 25th, 2010
7:11 pm
I am with you Rhino!
Rhino
June 25th, 2010
7:11 pm
p.s. I kind of like the Aaron Stadium idea. That would be pretty sweet to see a major league ballpark named after a player.
http://www.rhinorant.com
Rhino
June 25th, 2010
7:12 pm
Nice Furman! Should be a great game. I’d love to be there!!
http://www.rhinorant.com
Furman Bitcher
June 25th, 2010
7:13 pm
Aaron Stadium at Turner Field. Keep em both.
Rhino
June 25th, 2010
7:14 pm
Haha. Pull an LA Angels of Anaheim
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
7:14 pm
Of course, not getting a start in the All-Star game has put him in position to get a big hit late in the game, something he has yet to do. I don’t think Brian has any hits in any of his All-Star at-bats.
Frankly, I don’t know if he really deserves to make the team this year but he gets the benefit of the doubt.
I’d like to see Jason get a start but the longer the game goes the more one of our guys has the opportunity to be a hero a la McGriff in ‘94.
And for the record, I’ve voted 50 times so I’ve done my part.
Change Turner Field to Aaron Stadium
June 25th, 2010
7:15 pm
@ Furman, I like the idea of keeping them both…
Rhino
June 25th, 2010
7:16 pm
I agree with you on this year Mitchell. McCann is not having a ‘McCann’ year. I’ve just hated in past years when he gets thrown in the 8th just because the manager wants to get everybody in. Feels like he’s being overlooked.
http://www.rhinorant.com
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
7:16 pm
Rhino, why you gotta keep pushing your blog on us? Give it a rest.
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
7:17 pm
Sorry. Didn’t mean that in a bad way. It’s just always right there.
Escobar Estimate
June 25th, 2010
7:17 pm
“Change Turner Field to Aaron Stadium
June 25th, 2010
7:08 pm
So Heyward struggles for 23 games, and everything he’s done before that doesn’t make him worthy of All-Star consideration? Wow, talk about fairweather!!”
Talk about an idiot fan! Thats you!
The fact is Heyward isn’t the most deserving for starting in the outfield. I won’t even waste my time going into ALL the other NL outfielders who are having better years than Heyward.
Hey Pal. Educate yourself, then come back an argue who should be in the starting outfield.
Geez what a putz.
Roman Gal
June 25th, 2010
7:18 pm
i think he is still got alot to offer but his attitude has to go.
Why are people so hung up on Escobar’s “attitude”? And even if you have a good reason, I haven’t heard anything about his attitude this season, so why are y’all still making a big deal about it?
Furman Bitcher
June 25th, 2010
7:18 pm
Nice blog Rhino.
Rhino
June 25th, 2010
7:19 pm
It’s cool man. You don’t have to click on it though. I just like getting some traffic and comments. Most blogs have it so you’re website is linked to your name in a comment and you don’t have to put the link as a salutation.
Escobar Estimate
June 25th, 2010
7:19 pm
It’s idiots like you and old dummy Furman who are the reason the fan vote has gotten a bad name!
Rhino
June 25th, 2010
7:19 pm
Thanks, Furman!
Furman Bitcher
June 25th, 2010
7:20 pm
I think that Escobar just has yet to get into a good rhythem because he keeps getting hurt
Rob from SC
June 25th, 2010
7:21 pm
ncscoots
Terry Pendleton has said numorus times that because of Heyward’s thumb he can’t extend to reach pitches on the outer third of the plate. He can’t hit that pitch with authority.
If that is true, why not move closer to take that location away from the pitcher. Once he is healthy he can move back to his comfort spot.
Baseball is about adjustments. If he doesn’t move closer, that pitch is all he will see
Tomas
June 25th, 2010
7:21 pm
Ken Rosenthal thinks the Dodgers need to trade Kemp for pitching and suggest the Braves as the best trade partner.
What would it take to get Kemp?
Furman Bitcher
June 25th, 2010
7:22 pm
I dont see how the fan vote is not working out. It is for who the fans want to see and if someone gets the most votes then he is one people want to turn on the tv to see. Pretty simple to see but for a fool like you maybe not so much. It isnt always for this years stats but for a few years or a career.
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
7:26 pm
Frogs 3, Bruins 1. Bottom of the 7th inning.
jesse james
June 25th, 2010
7:27 pm
Glaus should definitely be considered for the All-Star game.
Bubba G
June 25th, 2010
7:28 pm
whatever happened to Scot Thorman?
David O'Brien
June 25th, 2010
7:29 pm
Braves having first alumni weekend, about 15 players introduced before game. Dale Murphy got by far biggest ovation. Should be noted, however, that Hank’s not here. Not sure why.
Javy Lopez, Sid Bream and Otis Nixon also got big ovations. And Marquis Grissom.
braveslifer
June 25th, 2010
7:29 pm
What would it take to get Kemp?
Someone on an earlier page had what I would consider a resonable proposal for Kemp.
Braves get Kemp. LA gets Melky, Medlin, and either Hoover or Minor.
You know the saying you have to give something to get something…
Escobar Estimate
June 25th, 2010
7:29 pm
“Furman Bitcher
June 25th, 2010
7:22 pm
I dont see how the fan vote is not working out. It is for who the fans want to see and if someone gets the most votes then he is one people want to turn on the tv to see. Pretty simple to see but for a fool like you maybe not so much. It isnt always for this years stats but for a few years or a career.”
yeah and some idiot fans like you and some idiot media types who are so much flavor of the week people want Strasburg to be in the AS game. Why? Because he’s a big story! Doesn’t matter if he won’t have 7 games by the AS break. Doesn’t matter if there are guys who’ve been pitching since spring training and having great years. Doesn’t matter because it’s a pop culture society and pop culture fans. Stupid fans like you have voted for all star starters that have been on the DL for all season.
Furman, fans like you are who kept Mac from being a starter when he deserved it! I have no respect for your kind. You’re a fool.
Furman Bitcher
June 25th, 2010
7:31 pm
Hey Dave no Fransico Cabrerra? Shame.
McFann Ô Ô
June 25th, 2010
7:31 pm
Rhino I’ve just hated in past years when he gets thrown in the 8th just because the manager wants to get everybody in. Feels like he’s being overlooked.
He’s been way overlooked in the ASG. Like last year when Manuel left Molina in for 8 innings because he was the “hometown hero”. Puke city…
And don’t get me started on the 2008 ASG…Why should we have to revisit that nonsense?
Change Turner Field to Aaron Stadium
June 25th, 2010
7:31 pm
@ Escobar, coming from you, I take that as a compliment. Thanks!!
Jeff321
June 25th, 2010
7:33 pm
The game is on MLB Network tonight in my area.
Furman Bitcher
June 25th, 2010
7:34 pm
Sure thing Escobar Idiot. I think evedryone on here knows who the fool is. Keep talking you just keep building your case for Douche Bag of the day. LOL.
Sopheeeeee
June 25th, 2010
7:35 pm
Smoltzy, come back to Peachtree TV!
jesse james
June 25th, 2010
7:35 pm
If we are going to put Heyward in the All-Star game, somebody tell me how in the heck Dale Murphy is not in the Hall of Fame? You talk about an injustice. Dale Murphy is what America is all about. Lawrence Taylor and OJ still in NFL Hall of Fame and Murphy can’t get into Baseball just because he didn’t hit 2 more HRs.
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
7:35 pm
Roman Gal, I agree, about attitudes. Remember when John Rocker was our closer? There were a lot of people hated him cause of his “tude” but, the dude could pitch!!!
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
7:36 pm
Hi Soph!
Furman Bitcher
June 25th, 2010
7:36 pm
COME ON EVERYBODY ON THIS BLOG NEEDS TO VOTE FOR MCCANN, PRADO & HEYWARD FOR THE ALL STAR GAME. DO IT NOW. DO IT 25 TIMES! If your name is Escobar Idiot you can vote for everyone else.
jesse james
June 25th, 2010
7:36 pm
Dale Murphy’s picture is by the word character in the Dictionary.
Escobar Estimate
June 25th, 2010
7:36 pm
Furman, you’re not capable of making a knowledgable baseball argument so you come back with that last post?
That’s pretty weak, dumbo! lol You and “Change Turner Field to Aaron Stadium” should share seats at the Ted….. then you could ask each other every inning what the score is. lol
Sopheeeeee
June 25th, 2010
7:37 pm
I see Carlos Zambrano went berserko again.
Furman Bitcher
June 25th, 2010
7:37 pm
I am with ya Jesse James on that
BravesFanChris25
June 25th, 2010
7:37 pm
K’d Damon
VaBravesFan
June 25th, 2010
7:37 pm
Hey Folks happy friday, hopefully the Braves make it a even better weekend!
McFann Ô Ô
June 25th, 2010
7:38 pm
Sweet…
Sopheeeeee
June 25th, 2010
7:38 pm
Hi cab! Heard you got married. I would say congrats but I’m pretty disappointed that I wasn’t invited. How could you?
Rhino
June 25th, 2010
7:38 pm
so true, McCann O O (Sorry, can’t get your name exactly right haha)
@escobaridiot- there are bigger problems with the all-star game than fan vote. also, if the NL wants to win so they have homefield advantage in the world series, shouldn’t their best pitchers be there? This would certainly include Strasburg.
http://www.rhinorant.com
Dee
June 25th, 2010
7:38 pm
Fantastic way to begin the game, Meds!! Strike 1,2,3…you’re out!
Brava
June 25th, 2010
7:38 pm
Johnny Damon, meet Kris Medlen.
Jeff321
June 25th, 2010
7:38 pm
Yeah, apparently he’s been suspended indefinitely.
McFann Ô Ô
June 25th, 2010
7:38 pm
Sopheeeeee</strong.–
Where have you been?
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
7:39 pm
Where is Smoltzie? Have they said on Peachtree? Vacation maybe, or other commitments?
jeffreeeeeeeey d
June 25th, 2010
7:39 pm
Was that Raphael Belliard??
VaBravesFan
June 25th, 2010
7:39 pm
I seen somthing about Kemp should be traded to the Braves pretty interesting. I’m expecting Wren to do somthing considering its Bobby and possiblys Chippers last year, let go for it right now
McFann Ô Ô
June 25th, 2010
7:40 pm
Mah dang…is Ease around?
Thanks, Rhino!
(Sorry, can’t get your name exactly right haha)
Haha, that’s OK!
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
7:41 pm
Soph-
Apparently I should have invited the entire blog…Tom O’Hawke was supposed to pass the message along, but clearly he forgot
We can blame him…
Sopheeeeee
June 25th, 2010
7:41 pm
Hiya McFann! Just one of those weeks – didn’t have much time to get online. This is the first game in a while where I can actually sit down and watch. I guess I didn’t miss much in the Sox series though.
jeffreeeeeeeey d
June 25th, 2010
7:41 pm
Where have you been?
She jumped off the bandwagon when we started losing and started rooting for the Yankees
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
7:41 pm
Jeffreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey d-
Who do you think she is- Roman Gal?
jeffreeeeeeeey d
June 25th, 2010
7:41 pm
Did y’all really get married?
Dee
June 25th, 2010
7:42 pm
jeffreeeeeey d — Yep, you bet it was Rafael Belliard.
I remember when he played for ATL…back in the good ole days.
Sopheeeeee
June 25th, 2010
7:42 pm
Darn cab, I’m pretty unhappy about this. I mean I coulda been a bridesmaid or something, ya know?
Rob from SC
June 25th, 2010
7:42 pm
Look at the cast like thing Heyward has on his thumb on his glove hand
Sopheeeeee
June 25th, 2010
7:42 pm
Ew, jeffrey – don’t start rumors.
Tomas
June 25th, 2010
7:43 pm
Tight zone so far.
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
7:43 pm
jeffreeeeeeeey d -
NO WE DID NOT GET MARRIED!
Soph-
Should we start sharpening the pitchforks and searching for a “Tom O’Hawke” in New York? I
Tomas
June 25th, 2010
7:44 pm
Tough lineup.
bravos2249
June 25th, 2010
7:44 pm
Come on Meds…don’t let them score!
Sopheeeeee
June 25th, 2010
7:44 pm
Of course it’s gonna rain and make my dish go out so I can’t see the game now.
Tommeeee O'Hawkeeee
June 25th, 2010
7:45 pm
I stopped to see what’s going on with the blog, and I see that ncscoots ralphed all over it.
Sorry, cab. I took your invitation money and bought beer.
‘Later
jeffreeeeeeeey d
June 25th, 2010
7:45 pm
I didn’t know Belliard was coaching with the Tigers….good for him. Dude was a wiz with the glove.
Rob from SC
June 25th, 2010
7:45 pm
Medlen desperately needs a third pitch.
jeffreeeeeeeey d
June 25th, 2010
7:45 pm
Soph – we already got the storm here. All I missed was the evening news
Dee
June 25th, 2010
7:46 pm
Ah, dang..did we just have to let them score first?
Is that so they don’t feel sooo bad when we come back to whoop their butts?
Rob from SC
June 25th, 2010
7:46 pm
Sopheeeeee
June 25th, 2010
7:44 pm
Of course it’s gonna rain and make my dish go out so I can’t see the game now.
You are not missing much right now. THey are sitting on Medlen’s changeup
Escobar Estimate
June 25th, 2010
7:46 pm
“NL wants to win so they have homefield advantage in the world series, shouldn’t their best pitchers be there? This would certainly include Strasburg.”
Best pitchers? Strasburg? After less than half a dozen games and never tested by REAL major league pressure, for example an all star game with something really riding on it??
Sorry, I can’t agree that he’s one of the best pitchers in the NL…….YET. Will he be? Looks like it. Barring injury, he could he be a great pitcher for a number of years? So why rush him this year?
I know why. Because the media wants him to be there. The fans listen to the media and they jump on the band wagon. What do the players think? The majority don’t think he deserves it. I’ll side with the players on that.
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
7:46 pm
Tom-
Hope it was a good microbrew at least! Bye for now!
Nick
June 25th, 2010
7:46 pm
ballgame!
Tomas
June 25th, 2010
7:47 pm
What is happening to Braves starters. They all seem to be struggling, with the exception of Hudson and Lowe.
Steve from OH
June 25th, 2010
7:47 pm
Rob–he’s got it. I just don’t know why he doesn’t throw the curve. When he first came up he threw it a bit and I thought it was pretty sharp.
Dee
June 25th, 2010
7:47 pm
Hey jeffreeeey d — I read that Belliard was an “Auxilliary coach” for Detroit…whatever that means.
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
7:47 pm
and right on cue, here’s Nick!
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
7:47 pm
Jeff, I started that mess! Didn’t know they weren’t married. Should have, I’ve been lurking on this blog for yrs. Just recently got up the nerve to post.
Steve from OH
June 25th, 2010
7:48 pm
By the way, you don’t sit on a changeup. That’s a terrible approach to take as a hitter.
BravesFanChris25
June 25th, 2010
7:48 pm
Nice catch Melky
Nick
June 25th, 2010
7:48 pm
Melky looked like a newborn giraffe on that play.
Jeff321
June 25th, 2010
7:48 pm
Melky, eh?
Escobar Estimate
June 25th, 2010
7:48 pm
Outta here!
Gonna go cast my All Star Votes for Nate McClouth and other deserving Braves! Geez!
.576
June 25th, 2010
7:49 pm
What in nee HECK is going on?????!!!
I go to load the dishwasher, come back and Meds is getting creamed!
Melky saves us or it’s “ballgame” again!!
Dee
June 25th, 2010
7:49 pm
WOW!!!
What a catch, Melk!! You almost let it get by. Whew!!
VaBravesFan
June 25th, 2010
7:49 pm
looks like were gonna continue our bad play
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
7:49 pm
Cabrera really starting to impress me!
Big Papa
June 25th, 2010
7:49 pm
Medlen looks like he is scared to throw fastballs.
Big Jake
June 25th, 2010
7:49 pm
all those screaming about KK/Medlen need to take a look at Medlen’s stats as a starter. They are not nearly as good as when he relieves
.576
June 25th, 2010
7:49 pm
Unbelievable!
jeffreeeeeeeey d
June 25th, 2010
7:49 pm
Seriously, this is like 7 games on PTV in a row without Smoltz. I thought him and Ernie were going to alternate
jeffreeeeeeeey d
June 25th, 2010
7:50 pm
Cabrera really starting to impress me!
Melky or Miguel?
.576
June 25th, 2010
7:50 pm
Medlen’s scared period. Through with him.
J-Hey
June 25th, 2010
7:50 pm
now don’t struggle to much in this game Meds, Bobby could still be easily influenced
Coach (2011 or Bust)
June 25th, 2010
7:50 pm
Medlen threw too many change up’s in the first inning. B-Mac’s gotta mix it up better with the pitch calling.
Big Jake
June 25th, 2010
7:50 pm
Medlen looks like he is scared to throw fastballs Big Papa
huh? 4 of the 5 pitches to Guillen were heaters.
Bob horner pulled the ball
June 25th, 2010
7:50 pm
Great catch by Melky….if he had fallen down it would have made the Sportscenter highlights…..we need some runs…Go Braves!!!!
bravos2249
June 25th, 2010
7:50 pm
Fans don’t get to vote in pitchers anyway. So it’s a pointless argument.
McFann Ô Ô
June 25th, 2010
7:51 pm
Sopheeee–
Yeah, you didn’t miss a thing in the White Sox series…yuck…Good to have you back, though!
Of course it’s gonna rain and make my dish go out so I can’t see the game now.
Oh man…that stinks. I was about to type that you’re just in time for McCann’s 100th career homer…Well, maybe he cann wait till your TV comes back on.
Sopheeeeee
June 25th, 2010
7:51 pm
Yeah, Smoltz was in Atlanta today too. I saw on the news earlier that he was playing basketball with the Atlanta Dream today so I thought he’d be doing the game.
Flat Tire
June 25th, 2010
7:51 pm
What’s up with the Braves staff? Medlin looked like batting practice after out one!
Hope the history of Braves struggling against young, unseen, callups doesn’t continue tonight. Uggg a lefty to boot!
VaBravesFan
June 25th, 2010
7:51 pm
ok come on Bats! lets put a big number up!
Sopheeeeee
June 25th, 2010
7:52 pm
Marteen looks taller today.
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
7:52 pm
I swear, if we don’t kill this guy I’m going to be p***ed.
BravesFanChris25
June 25th, 2010
7:52 pm
Prado
Sopheeeeee
June 25th, 2010
7:52 pm
Marteeeeen! Vote for him.
Nick
June 25th, 2010
7:52 pm
M-V-Prado
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
7:53 pm
Let’s get a run here Braves.
jeffreeeeeeeey d
June 25th, 2010
7:53 pm
Man we’re a fickle bunch here
Sopheeeeee
June 25th, 2010
7:53 pm
That was weird.
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
7:53 pm
Damn. Might have been a hit.
Nick
June 25th, 2010
7:54 pm
Please retire.
David O'Brien
June 25th, 2010
7:54 pm
Were it not for the terrific catches by Heyward and Cabrera, that inning would really have gotten ugly for Medlen. Wow.
And again, it’s a reminder why Cox almost never makes announcements such as who’s getting booted from the rotation, until he has to. Because things can happen.
Bob horner pulled the ball
June 25th, 2010
7:54 pm
Bsaeball ISSS a game of “inches”….crap that should have been a hit
Dee
June 25th, 2010
7:54 pm
Let’s rough this sucker up in his ML debut tonight. COME ON!!!
David O'Brien
June 25th, 2010
7:55 pm
That last fastball was 96. From a big ol’ lefty.
.576
June 25th, 2010
7:56 pm
horrible
Nick
June 25th, 2010
7:56 pm
This team is a double play machine.
Dee
June 25th, 2010
7:56 pm
Craptastic!
I hate freakin’ DP’s!!!
Brava
June 25th, 2010
7:56 pm
Ugh!
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
7:57 pm
Trouble is that the players read this blog and after reading hundreds of posts each day about how terrible they are it erodes their confidence. They start pressing and play defensively cause they are scared to make a mistake that will get them raked over the coals again.
Steve from OH
June 25th, 2010
7:57 pm
Heyward hit that one on the button. Shortstop just in good position. Good hustle, though.
Tomas
June 25th, 2010
7:57 pm
Damn DP’s sure are rally killers.
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
7:58 pm
Classic.
Rhino
June 25th, 2010
7:58 pm
@Escobar Estimate- I think that’s a totally fair estimate. I don’t necessarily think strasburg deserves the all-star game either actually. I was just bringing up how people would justify it. I don’t think every fan that wants him is just blindly following the media. I’m sure some are, but not most.
http://www.rhinorant.com
Bob horner pulled the ball
June 25th, 2010
7:58 pm
The Braves will see this guy one time and then they’ll be fine….wait till the 4th inning…the Braves will be eating this guys lunch….(I hope…(.but he also could shut us out….) I’m a Braves fan..!!! so I know
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
7:59 pm
nolee, you’re kidding right?
VaBravesFan
June 25th, 2010
8:01 pm
not a good sign…. give up a early run, Prado has a good AB and lead off with single but then just nothing… We really hit into 2 Double Plays that inning really, Heyward hit the ball so hard his speed wouldnt have made any difference, but they didnt have a good flip and turn, Chippa hits it hard right at 2b for the dp…. Medlen looks scared…
McFann Ô Ô
June 25th, 2010
8:02 pm
I bet not too many American League pitchers get to make their Major League debuts and record their first ML at-bat in the same game.
Bob horner pulled the ball
June 25th, 2010
8:03 pm
Medlin is settling down….but can we get some FREAKING hits..??!!
Dee
June 25th, 2010
8:03 pm
At least that was another quick inning by Meds.
Coach (2011 or Bust)
June 25th, 2010
8:03 pm
That’s better. One-two-three.
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
8:03 pm
OH MY GOD PEOPLE CALM DOWN! It’s the 2nd inning!!!
Rob from SC
June 25th, 2010
8:04 pm
Big Jake
June 25th, 2010
7:49 pm
all those screaming about KK/Medlen need to take a look at Medlen’s stats as a starter. They are not nearly as good as when he relieves
BEcause you can be a great reliever throwing only 2 pitches
Bob horner pulled the ball
June 25th, 2010
8:04 pm
McFann Ô Ô ….ummmm nope…you should bet somebody on that…you’d “rake” the cash
VaBravesFan
June 25th, 2010
8:04 pm
Just to let everyone know my game feed is like 2 batters behind whats really going on lol, so some comments could be late or uncalled for lol
Rob from SC
June 25th, 2010
8:04 pm
Avery looks like he could still pitch
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
8:05 pm
Mitchell, I don’t think he’s kidding about the players reading the blog! How about it DOB? How many players read the blog?
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
8:05 pm
Javy Lopez…still hot
Rob from SC
June 25th, 2010
8:05 pm
It is a shame because newer fans really don’t realize that if it wasn’t for Steve Avery against Pittsburgh we never make the WOrld Series in 91 and 92. He was outstanding
McFann Ô Ô
June 25th, 2010
8:06 pm
Sopheeee–
They just showed Steve Avery! [wink wink]
BHPTB–
Hmm…good idea.
Rob from SC
June 25th, 2010
8:06 pm
Really not much difference between the Bobby COx of the early 90’s and now. He still knows how to over use the great young players
Bob horner pulled the ball
June 25th, 2010
8:07 pm
Leeeeeee hopefully Chipper doesn’t……if so he’s crying in his pillow…
Sopheeeeee
June 25th, 2010
8:07 pm
McFann – I saw!
sigh
Still looks good.
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
8:08 pm
Steve Avery is the man. Definitely one of my favorite players from back in the day.
He was absolutely every bit the pitcher any of those guys were from ‘91 to ‘95. Well, ‘94 at least.
McFann Ô Ô
June 25th, 2010
8:08 pm
Walks are good…glad we’re taking pitches.
Steve from OH
June 25th, 2010
8:08 pm
Leeeeeee hopefully Chipper doesn’t……if so he’s crying in his pillow…
Um, he definitely does. He’s posted here before.
McFann Ô Ô
June 25th, 2010
8:08 pm
Sopheeee–
Good thing your TV came back on!
David O'Brien
June 25th, 2010
8:09 pm
Getting windy here, like a storm’s brewing….
jeffreeeeeeeey d
June 25th, 2010
8:09 pm
Medlin is settling down….but can we get some FREAKING hits..??!!
For real!! We’ve already played 1 1/3 and we’ve only had 2 baserunners!
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
8:09 pm
nolee, you’re kidding right? Mitchell
I hear they are particularly scairt of you Mitchell. Just the mention of your name starts some of them quaking with fear.
and mention Robert to Bobby and he just cowers under his desk picking his nose and too shaky to move..
Y’all have these guys gun-shy fer shur.
RHR
June 25th, 2010
8:09 pm
yunel hustled but wasn’t smiling.
McFann Ô Ô
June 25th, 2010
8:09 pm
Dude! Another fielder’s choice?? Least it wasn’t a DP…
Dee
June 25th, 2010
8:09 pm
Wow, almost another inning ending DP. Geez.
Steve from OH
June 25th, 2010
8:09 pm
Huh. Says on B-R that Avery made 21MM in his career. Wouldn’t have guessed that much…
McFann Ô Ô
June 25th, 2010
8:10 pm
DOB Getting windy here, like a storm’s brewing….
That storm being, of course, the Braves bats.
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
8:10 pm
Bob Horner, Chipper has posted on the blog in the past. DOB confirmed it!
BravesFanChris25
June 25th, 2010
8:10 pm
OMAH!!!!!!!
McFann Ô Ô
June 25th, 2010
8:10 pm
See?
jeffreeeeeeeey d
June 25th, 2010
8:11 pm
yunel hustled but wasn’t smiling.
I noticed that too. I’m not too sure how I feel about that.
jeffreeeeeeeey d
June 25th, 2010
8:11 pm
Maybe Yunel’s just self-conscious about his smile
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
8:13 pm
noticed that too. I’m not too sure how I feel about that. jeffrey
you’d rather he didn’t hustle but smiled ?
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
8:14 pm
The thought that a single Braves player would ever read any part of this blog, on purpose, at any time for any reason is about a thousand times more pathetic than any piece of trash talk by a Met fan.
Bob horner pulled the ball
June 25th, 2010
8:14 pm
Leeeeee I love Chipper…but the haters are more aggressive/boisterous than the “silent majority…” kinda like Vietnam….just sayin….
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
8:14 pm
Mitchell, I totally agree with you about Avery! Great pitcher and very underrated!!! Career ended too soon!
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
8:14 pm
Come on Melky.
Don’t blow it.
Steve from OH
June 25th, 2010
8:14 pm
Smiles are contagious, nolie.
Sopheeeeee
June 25th, 2010
8:15 pm
Go ahead, Melky.
Bob horner pulled the ball
June 25th, 2010
8:15 pm
SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!
Dee
June 25th, 2010
8:15 pm
NICE job, Melk!!!
BravesFanChris25
June 25th, 2010
8:15 pm
MELKAMANIA IS RUNNING WILD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Steve from OH
June 25th, 2010
8:15 pm
What’s up with Melky? Not screwing up as much. I like it.
BamaDude @ CowCollege AL
June 25th, 2010
8:15 pm
Melky !! …tie game
.576
June 25th, 2010
8:15 pm
Mel comin’ around folks!
Brava
June 25th, 2010
8:15 pm
“Mel” to the rescue!!
jeffreeeeeeeey d
June 25th, 2010
8:16 pm
I was kidding nolie…people harp on Yunel or Chipper because they don’t play with emotion or excitement
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
8:16 pm
Melk-man!!!!
Crime Doggieeeeee
June 25th, 2010
8:16 pm
Whew. After that first inning, I thought we might never score again!
RHR
June 25th, 2010
8:16 pm
haters to the left. melky has been better in the field and at the plate than anything i ever saw out of the leprechaun.
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
8:16 pm
Great at bat by melky!
Dee
June 25th, 2010
8:16 pm
I’m actually glad Meds gets to bat here. Maybe he’ll help himself out.
.576
June 25th, 2010
8:17 pm
Squeeze and make the rook make a play!
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
8:17 pm
Perhaps Nick would like to retract that “ballgame” for the time being?
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
8:17 pm
Melky obviously forgot the kid is a rookie. If he’d been here for more than a couple months, he’d know to hit a weak ground ball to the second baseman.
Steve from OH
June 25th, 2010
8:17 pm
“haters to the left. melky has been better in the field and at the plate than anything i ever saw out of the leprechaun.”
[Moves to left. Un-hides pot o'gold]
David O'Brien
June 25th, 2010
8:17 pm
Lot of mid-90s fastballs from this big lefty. Braves starting to figure him out already.
.576
June 25th, 2010
8:17 pm
Pathetic Meds.
BamaDude @ CowCollege AL
June 25th, 2010
8:17 pm
and D Wright ties up the Twins …1-1
Dee
June 25th, 2010
8:17 pm
RHR — LOL!! “the leprechaun”
VaBravesFan
June 25th, 2010
8:17 pm
Melky has definitly improved and is playing around what was expected, but a huge bounce back like this makes him a trade piece if we decide to upgrade the outfield.
Crime Doggieeeeee
June 25th, 2010
8:18 pm
Squeeze and make the rook make a play!
Yes, because squeezing with two outs is brilliant.
McFann Ô Ô
June 25th, 2010
8:19 pm
Well, at least we got one run back!
Nova Scotia Steve
June 25th, 2010
8:19 pm
Well i still have a hell of a lot more confidence in Medlen – a couple of nice catches earlier or not. Sometimes a pitchers need the guys to make a nice play behind em.
A few hard hit balls in one inning isn’t going to change 13 starts where it looked like i was watching the home run derby every 5th day.
Kenshin KawakamiLeprechaun
June 25th, 2010
8:20 pm
Always after me sucky charms!
.576
June 25th, 2010
8:20 pm
Crime Doggieeeeee -
You make a rookie field the ball……..things happen Chief. You never know.
2 outs or not.
Scared? Say scared!
Steve from OH
June 25th, 2010
8:20 pm
Hmm. I was under the impression that leprechauns steal pots o’gold. Says on wikipedia that they make shoes. Interesting.
Leprechaun
June 25th, 2010
8:21 pm
Yes, I make shoes. Some of us make flip-flops. I just make flops.
Bob horner pulled the ball
June 25th, 2010
8:22 pm
Yunel has a flair about him…..I like that…just sayin
Crime Doggieeeeee
June 25th, 2010
8:22 pm
I would be scared if our manager called for a bunt with our pitcher with two outs. I would fear he was having a stroke and thought Kris Medlen was Otis Nixon. Chief.
Steve from OH
June 25th, 2010
8:22 pm
I really enjoy watching Yunel play as well.
Bob horner pulled the ball
June 25th, 2010
8:24 pm
Nova Scotia Steve……Do u really live Novia Scotia.??
VaBravesFan
June 25th, 2010
8:24 pm
Yunel has a cannon, just a touch under Furcal’s arm
JC from DR!
June 25th, 2010
8:24 pm
What’s the score?
BamaDude @ CowCollege AL
June 25th, 2010
8:25 pm
nice inning again Meds
McFann Ô Ô
June 25th, 2010
8:25 pm
That foul ball coulda hurt…
Dee
June 25th, 2010
8:25 pm
WooHoo Meds!! How many K’s is that so far tonight? Keep it up!
Nova Scotia Steve
June 25th, 2010
8:25 pm
Bob Horner: I was born and raised there. But haven’t lived there for 2 years. I’ve been working out of Province.
Nova Scotia Steve
June 25th, 2010
8:26 pm
3 K’s for Medlen
Nova Scotia Steve
June 25th, 2010
8:26 pm
3-1 Mets over Twins
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
8:26 pm
alright Mitchell. you’ll learn when some player retires citing all the pressure of the AJC DOB board. Your careless anger has the power to inflict great harm on our team.
You should be much more careful with your insults and disdain. After all Chipper posted here several time as Diaz and others were here too. You wield much more power for destruction than you know.
Leprechaun
June 25th, 2010
8:26 pm
Y’ all know you miss me and can’t wait till I come back to strike out three times a game.
.576
June 25th, 2010
8:27 pm
lol
Love the bi-plane sound effects with the jet in the air.
David O'Brien
June 25th, 2010
8:28 pm
Prado hit that one about as far as you can without getting it out in left. Towering fly to the wall.
Crime Doggieeeeee
June 25th, 2010
8:28 pm
Man Avery still looks 22.
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
8:28 pm
highway robbery
Sopheeeeee
June 25th, 2010
8:29 pm
He has that baby face.
Dee
June 25th, 2010
8:29 pm
3 K’s for Medlen
NSS — Thanks for the info!
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
8:29 pm
Great story on my guy Vin Scully in the NY Times today if anyone is interested…
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/25/sports/baseball/25scully.html?ref=baseball
Dee
June 25th, 2010
8:30 pm
Man….Avery is NOT hard to look at at all~! Cutie pie.
.576
June 25th, 2010
8:30 pm
noleeeee -
“U Know Who” is one of the few that gets my sarcasm. That’s right, he knows me. All that matters.
McFann Ô Ô
June 25th, 2010
8:31 pm
Sopheeee He has that baby face.
Those are the best.
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
8:32 pm
Nice to see Steve A. He doesn’t look much older to me!
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
8:32 pm
hey what happened to that 6 in front of your moniker?
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
8:32 pm
I’m relieved they’re going to have Avery in the booth for another I guess just another half-inning, no thanks to Chipper.
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
8:33 pm
Steve Avery has a 16 year old son?????
JC from DR!
June 25th, 2010
8:33 pm
What’s the score…?
Nova Scotia Steve
June 25th, 2010
8:33 pm
Avery looks like he could still pitch. But then again he wasn’t around that long….Only had 3 or 4 good years and 11 season as a pro…but yeah he looks good.
Coach (2011 or Bust)
June 25th, 2010
8:33 pm
Avery hasn’t aged a day. Dude was a dominant lefty back in the early nineties, and I personally believe he would have been the fourth horseman of the apocalypse, had he not gotten hurt early on. Great to see Steve again.
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
8:33 pm
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
8:32 pm
I’m relieved they’re going to have Avery in the booth for another I guess just another half-inning, no thanks to Chipper.
Wow. I majored in English.
Dee
June 25th, 2010
8:33 pm
Wow, Avery does not look old enough to have a 16yr old!
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
8:33 pm
When are they going to get Javy in the booth???
Bob horner pulled the ball
June 25th, 2010
8:34 pm
Nova Scotia Steve….I met some folks from there in Cancun several years ago….they were nice and could out-drink me (I swear)….(and they were worried about Bears going through their garbage at night…..) NUTS!!
bravos2249
June 25th, 2010
8:35 pm
cabravesfan
Someone’s got a crush.
.576
June 25th, 2010
8:35 pm
You ladies calm down. He’s hooked up.
Dee
June 25th, 2010
8:35 pm
JC — Score is tied at 1-1.
Crime Doggieeeeee
June 25th, 2010
8:35 pm
Easy ladies! Haha.
RHR
June 25th, 2010
8:35 pm
when is smoltzy coming back?
Dee
June 25th, 2010
8:36 pm
What. a. catch. Glaus!
bravos2249
June 25th, 2010
8:36 pm
Dee
Well he is only 40. Which means he had a kid at 24. Which is sorta young…sorta not.
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
8:37 pm
bravos2249 -
If you mean on Javy….umm, have you seen him????
JC from DR!
June 25th, 2010
8:37 pm
Nobody can tell me the score.
I bet if I post something like: ”F You all”… EVERYBODY answers inmediately!
RHR
June 25th, 2010
8:37 pm
Wow, Avery does not look old enough to have a 16yr old!
Huh? Guess you don’t see many parents of 16 year olds.
Dee
June 25th, 2010
8:37 pm
cabravesfan — Now that (Javy) is what I’m talking about. Woohoo, I’m definitely a fan of that!
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
8:37 pm
Don’t remember who wrote it, but Kris has three pitches, not two. unless you were being facetious about his curve.
JC from DR!
June 25th, 2010
8:37 pm
Ah… thanks Dee!
.576
June 25th, 2010
8:37 pm
Man, I wanna see that celeb game.
Dumbfound
June 25th, 2010
8:37 pm
I love David Justice !!
RHR
June 25th, 2010
8:38 pm
its 1-1 jc
didnt see you ask
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
8:38 pm
Noleeee, your comments to Mitchell should apply to all of us. We don’t realise the power the blog truly has. No, I’m not just tootin our horn! Ask DOB, if yall don’t agree.
Dee
June 25th, 2010
8:38 pm
Dee
June 25th, 2010
8:35 pm
JC — Score is tied at 1-1.
Excuse me, but I answered you!!
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
8:38 pm
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
8:26 pm
alright Mitchell. you’ll learn when some player retires citing all the pressure of the AJC DOB board. Your careless anger has the power to inflict great harm on our team.
You should be much more careful with your insults and disdain. After all Chipper posted here several time as Diaz and others were here too. You wield much more power for destruction than you know.
WTF
.576
June 25th, 2010
8:38 pm
JC – Somebody just told ya.
David O'Brien
June 25th, 2010
8:39 pm
Medlen retired nine in a row before that Guillen double
Dee
June 25th, 2010
8:39 pm
JC — No problem!
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
8:40 pm
Chipper posted as Diaz.
I wonder what that was like.
.576
June 25th, 2010
8:40 pm
U Know Who has never asked me what you guys post here….ever. Talk all the mess you want.
RHR
June 25th, 2010
8:40 pm
mets up 3-2
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
8:41 pm
Dee, Javy was always one of the ladies faves.
Dee
June 25th, 2010
8:41 pm
No way….Avery is 40 yrs old???
I wouldn’t have guessed that.
BIOMASS
June 25th, 2010
8:41 pm
Doggone American League. They used to suck. That’s been a while ago, and maybe it coincides with the arrival of the DH. I’d like to see the NL go with the DH too, only to even things out.
BamaDude @ CowCollege AL
June 25th, 2010
8:42 pm
Murph in the booth !!!!!!!!!
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
8:42 pm
Javy was always one of the ladies faves
Gee, I wonder why? (OK, I’ll stop now
)
.576
June 25th, 2010
8:42 pm
Murph!!!
BravesFanChris25
June 25th, 2010
8:42 pm
Dale Murphy is in the booth!
RHR
June 25th, 2010
8:42 pm
doesnt mixxo live in like canada or something? does chipper hunt caribou with him or something? lol
Dumbfound
June 25th, 2010
8:42 pm
Don’t Dale Murphy have 8 kids !?!
Dee
June 25th, 2010
8:42 pm
Javy was always one of the ladies faves
Oh yea!
JC from DR!
June 25th, 2010
8:42 pm
Cm’on Twins!!
Runnin
June 25th, 2010
8:42 pm
Omar almost made a great bare-handed catch and throw to nail Guillen at 2nd.
Coach (2011 or Bust)
June 25th, 2010
8:43 pm
Murph, the mole man!
.576
June 25th, 2010
8:43 pm
Can’t Ernie say BELTED!?
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
8:43 pm
Chipper posted as Diaz. Mitchell
Chipper posted and Diaz etc etc
BamaDude @ CowCollege AL
June 25th, 2010
8:43 pm
don’t care what anyone says …Dale Murphy is a HOF’er !!!!!!!!!!
Bob horner pulled the ball
June 25th, 2010
8:44 pm
Dale Murphy could knock a homer to RF when the ball was in the dirt…dude had POWER…!!!!
BravesFanChris25
June 25th, 2010
8:45 pm
McCann!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
8:45 pm
MAC!!!!!!!!
.576
June 25th, 2010
8:45 pm
RHR -
We’ve done a little “huntin’,” not in Canada though.
BamaDude @ CowCollege AL
June 25th, 2010
8:45 pm
2-1 Bravos …thanks BMac !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dee
June 25th, 2010
8:45 pm
MAC!!!!!!!! THERE IS #100!!!!
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
8:45 pm
Oh, thanks for clearing that up because I had no idea.
braveslifer
June 25th, 2010
8:45 pm
B-MAC!
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
8:45 pm
#100 for the kid!
.576
June 25th, 2010
8:45 pm
Mac???? U kiddin’ meee?
Crime Doggieeeeee
June 25th, 2010
8:45 pm
Mac!
Bartholomeeeew (Bat) Masterson
June 25th, 2010
8:45 pm
100 for Mac
RHR
June 25th, 2010
8:45 pm
mama there goes that heap
Steve from OH
June 25th, 2010
8:45 pm
Nah, Murph just doesn’t have enough to be HOF, for me. I’m a small-Hall guy, so IMO his resume just isn’t impressive enough. Not to take away from what he did–he was a helluva ballplayer.
adkbravo
June 25th, 2010
8:45 pm
There you go McFann!!!
Rob from SC
June 25th, 2010
8:45 pm
I wish Heyward was healthy again. It is making me depressed seeing all these K’s
bravos2249
June 25th, 2010
8:45 pm
NUMBER ONE HUNDRED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
8:46 pm
Chipper leading the regulars in OBP I think
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 25th, 2010
8:46 pm
AAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! His 100th!!! You guys are never gonna guess this…
richbrave
June 25th, 2010
8:46 pm
RUN HEAP RUN
JC from DR!
June 25th, 2010
8:46 pm
Bob horner pulled the ball – A la Canseco and Vlad?
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
8:47 pm
How about that McFann? #100!!!!
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
8:47 pm
DOB-
Just saw your twittter about Mac’s intro music- what song is he using right now?
Leprechaun
June 25th, 2010
8:47 pm
McFann, you must be ecstatic right about now!
David O'Brien
June 25th, 2010
8:47 pm
That was the 100th homer of Mac’s career.
Came to the plate to Run-DMC’s “It’s Tricky,” as he has a lot lately.
RHR
June 25th, 2010
8:47 pm
Mac???? U kiddin’ meee?
yeah an allstar cleanup hitter taking a rookie making his ML debut yard. shocking ain’t it?
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 25th, 2010
8:47 pm
BTW–I called it at the beginning of the week!!
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
8:47 pm
McFann-
You didn’t miss Mac’s 100th HR did you??
richbrave
June 25th, 2010
8:48 pm
Let’s see, as time goes on, that caffeine has less and less of an effect on your body. But it takes about two weeks to gert out of your system. How long has it been now McFANN???????
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 25th, 2010
8:48 pm
cabravesfan–
It’s my fault…it’s my fault…
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
8:48 pm
DOB-
Thanks
(even if that wasn’t directed at me…)
bravos2249
June 25th, 2010
8:49 pm
McFann
Let me guess your po’d that it came at HOME and you weren’t at the game?
CB
June 25th, 2010
8:49 pm
McFann,bathroom?lol
jeffreeeeeeeey d
June 25th, 2010
8:49 pm
McFann-
You didn’t miss Mac’s 100th HR did you??
And I hope Soph didn’t miss Avery in the booth
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
8:49 pm
McFann–
SHAME! SHAME ON YOU AND THE TURTLES!!
RHR
June 25th, 2010
8:49 pm
mac stole troy’s walk up song?
richbrave
June 25th, 2010
8:49 pm
McFANN:
There’s light at the end of the tunnel.
METS MADNESS
June 25th, 2010
8:50 pm
Since I’m not allowed to give the Mets score I’ll just give you the braves score…..2-1
cricket
June 25th, 2010
8:50 pm
That was an absolutely great story about Mac.
VaBravesFan
June 25th, 2010
8:50 pm
McFann
McCann 100th Homer!!!!! To be honest he should sign it and send it to you!!! Your his biggest fan!!
Steve from OH
June 25th, 2010
8:50 pm
Hey–Jordan “Ears” Schafer with his 1st homer of the year tonight!
Vizcaino went 5 for Myrtle, 1ER and 4K against no BB.
Coach (2011 or Bust)
June 25th, 2010
8:51 pm
Had Dale Murphy not been a catcher early in his career, his knee’s would have held up longer, and I think maybe Dale would have accumulated the numbers necessary for Cooperstown.
.576
June 25th, 2010
8:51 pm
Meds….just got crushed!
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
8:51 pm
I’m a small-Hall guy, so IMO his resume just isn’t impressive enough. Not to take away from what he did–he was a helluva ballplayer. STEVE OH
the interesting thing is that Murphy led the league 31 times in one category or another. Average HOFer was 27. Chipper is 4 and only one of those is a traditional stat.
jeffreeeeeeeey d
June 25th, 2010
8:51 pm
Hey–Jordan “Ears” Schafer with his 1st homer of the year tonight!
He must’ve switched to a hat that would allow him to see the ball
David O'Brien
June 25th, 2010
8:52 pm
McCann has eight homers in 145 at-bats vs. righties, but that was his first in 62 at-bats against lefties this season.
Steve from OH
June 25th, 2010
8:52 pm
Coach–yeah, maybe. It’s always too bad to see someone achieve less than their best because of injuries. Wish we coulda seen more of Murph at his best.
Tomas
June 25th, 2010
8:52 pm
Yunel Escobar on the block. Sad, who would replace him.
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 25th, 2010
8:52 pm
Bravos2249–
Haha, no, I’m happy as heaven!
cabravesfan–
How could I let them have the TV on another channel? But if I woulda yanked the remote away he would have K’d…
CB–
No…but I almost wet my pants when I saw the Gameday.
richbrave–
How long has what been? I’m too excited/t’d at myself to think straight…
JasonInFL
June 25th, 2010
8:53 pm
have to get those .238 hitting, 8th place batting, backup catchers out
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 25th, 2010
8:53 pm
AAAA! What was a great story about McCann?? Help me! Help me!!
VaBravesFan–
He really should, shouldn’t he?
Did he get the ball??
bravos2249
June 25th, 2010
8:54 pm
McFann
No worries it’ll defiantly be on mlb.com and espn.
jeffreeeeeeeey d
June 25th, 2010
8:54 pm
Are the multiple McFann’s now?
jeffreeeeeeeey d
June 25th, 2010
8:54 pm
Oh wait, nevermind…it says 100
.576
June 25th, 2010
8:55 pm
No…but I almost wet my pants when I saw the Gameday. – McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
Family show here…..jus sayin’
BamaDude @ CowCollege AL
June 25th, 2010
8:55 pm
Enter your comments here
Steve from OH
June 25th, 2010
8:55 pm
nolie–he was great when he was at his best, but unfortunately that timeframe was just too short. And he was just so bad at the end of his career because of his knees…he had 5 superb seasons and 3 more good ones, but had 6 (of his 14 seasons in which he played in more than 100 games) seasons in which he OPSed below .750.
VaBravesFan
June 25th, 2010
8:55 pm
McFann
I would hope so… I’m sure someone went and exchanged something for it with the fan, 100th homer is a milestone for any hitter.
bravos2249
June 25th, 2010
8:55 pm
Dale Murphy has grandkids.
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 25th, 2010
8:56 pm
bravos2249–
It will? You know that for a fact??
jeffrey d–
Yep…spells 100! There’s only one “McFann”…thank heavens.
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
8:56 pm
McFann-
Just take the batteries out of the remote and put them in the bottom of the Bird’s cage…
bravos2249
June 25th, 2010
8:56 pm
:O
jeffreeeeeeeey d
June 25th, 2010
8:57 pm
No worries it’ll defiantly be on mlb.com and espn.
So they’ll play it, but they won’t be happy about it. Typical ESPN
David O'Brien
June 25th, 2010
8:57 pm
This speech is my recital, I think it’s very vital
To rock (a rhyme), that’s right (on time)
It’s Tricky is the title, here we go…
BravesFanChris25
June 25th, 2010
8:57 pm
So are they gonna have Braves Alumni in the booth for two innings a piece?
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 25th, 2010
8:57 pm
.576–
Aah…
VaBravesFan–
So a fan did catch it? I mean, it didn’t go down there behind the wall?
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 25th, 2010
8:58 pm
cabravesfan–
I should have…man, I’m so t’d I didn’t say something.
bravos2249
June 25th, 2010
8:58 pm
McFann
ESPN…maybe…they been known to not even freaking show Braves highlights…grr
But mlb.com always has those highlight plays from each game. A team could lose 12-1 and they’d have a video of a guy hitting a homer for the losing team. SO yeah, it’ll be there.
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
8:59 pm
Noleeee, thanks for the info on Murph!! I always knew he was good when he was playing!
VaBravesFan
June 25th, 2010
9:00 pm
McFann
Idk, my game feed is really really blury lol i’m sure he got the ball either way.
.576
June 25th, 2010
9:00 pm
MLB TV > BSPN
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 25th, 2010
9:00 pm
bravos2249–
Oh! I thought you were talking about the great story somebody told about him.
Sorry…
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
9:00 pm
Apparently DOB is a fan of Run DMC…
Are you sure you don’t want to move to California?
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 25th, 2010
9:01 pm
VaBravesFan–
I’m sure they’ll show a replay of it when he comes up to bat next…we’ll soon find out!
Steve from OH
June 25th, 2010
9:02 pm
What does “BSPN” stand for again? I forget all of Tomahawkin’s little sayings sometimes…
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
9:02 pm
Medlen is gonna get a hit!!!
Pameeeeeeeeeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
9:03 pm
McCann walk up?
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
9:03 pm
Or just strike out!
jeffreeeeeeeey d
June 25th, 2010
9:03 pm
I gotta think “BSPN” is just Bull S*** + ESPN
bravos2249
June 25th, 2010
9:04 pm
I used to get mlb TV FOR FREE…..darn greedy cable company
David O'Brien
June 25th, 2010
9:05 pm
Or maybe that was Glaus that came up to “It’s Tricky,” since he’s been coming up to it most or all of the season. But I seem to remember it being McCann this time. Anyway, made for a good excuse to use the song lyrics.
.576
June 25th, 2010
9:05 pm
Steve from OH –
Honestly Steve, I have no idea.
I’ve just heard people use it. I’m guessing….b&llsh%it, but I dunno.
Also, Chipper and I aren’t “tight.” We’ve just had a couple of adult beverages together, but a good friend IS tight with him.
Pameeeeeeeeeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
9:05 pm
MLB TV free on comcast
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
9:05 pm
Can we just hold this one run lead?
cheshire
June 25th, 2010
9:06 pm
is watching this game making anyone else feel really old? they just showed old pics of Bobby Cox from the 1992 World Series and he looks so young… Dale Murphy has grandkids… and Steve Avery actually looks like an adult now!
David O'Brien
June 25th, 2010
9:07 pm
Medlen has allowed only two baserunners in the four innings since his rough opening inning.
METS MADNESS
June 25th, 2010
9:07 pm
Is Detroit winning?
bravos2249
June 25th, 2010
9:07 pm
OHHHH LIVIN ON A PRAYER
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
9:07 pm
“BSPN” is just Bull S*** + ESPN jeffrey d
thats my understanding
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
9:07 pm
.576, Do you think he is stuck up?
RHR
June 25th, 2010
9:08 pm
LOL Jeff…I was trying to think of something clever. You beat me.
bravos2249
June 25th, 2010
9:08 pm
PAMeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I have Charter used to get it for free…but I haven’t scanned the tv in awhile.
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
9:08 pm
.576 talking bout Chipper!
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
9:08 pm
Doesn’t Glaus have some metal song play when he comes up?
Always kind of sounds like Ozzy or somebody. But it’s not Crazy Train.
jeffreeeeeeeey d
June 25th, 2010
9:08 pm
It’s not like Tomahawkin’s sayings have some deeper meaning
RHR
June 25th, 2010
9:08 pm
what does run dmc have to do with california? or mccann for that matter…
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
9:09 pm
Chipper stuck up? I don’t think so but like many stars he can seem a little cocky sometimes especially if you are looking for that kinda thing. Smoltz is way more full of entitlement than Chipper is.
RHR
June 25th, 2010
9:09 pm
mitchell – glaus uses its tricky, been using it all year.
Coach (2011 or Bust)
June 25th, 2010
9:10 pm
Good pitching so far, on both teams.
David O'Brien
June 25th, 2010
9:11 pm
This lefty Oliver is the fourth player from the 2009 draft to reach the majors. Two of the others were Mike Leake and some cat named Strasburg.
jeffreeeeeeeey d
June 25th, 2010
9:11 pm
But I think it’s Hinske that comes out to Pantera
cheshire
June 25th, 2010
9:12 pm
Miguel Cabrera is one of those guys who is gonna weigh about 300 lbs. after he retires
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
9:12 pm
Every game I’ve been to it’s always metal of some kind. Hinske usually plays “Walk” by Pantera and I originally thought they both did.
I’ve never heard “It’s Tricky” play when Glaus has an at-bat. That’s all I can say about that.
Steve from OH
June 25th, 2010
9:12 pm
Hinske looks like a Pantera kinda guy.
RHR
June 25th, 2010
9:12 pm
why has mixxo never said he knew chipper before? or i just missed it? is mixxo also the flatbill kid?
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
9:12 pm
but they claimed Minor was sooo close
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
9:13 pm
Do yall remember Chipper’s music when he came up to bat? It was AC/DC. Cain’t remember what song.
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
9:13 pm
Come on Meddy.
Get him.
VaBravesFan
June 25th, 2010
9:14 pm
Leeeeeee
Chippers’ music is Ozzy “Crazy Train”
.576
June 25th, 2010
9:14 pm
Leeeeeee -
Not at all….to me. Pretty humble dude really.
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
9:14 pm
Mixxo is .576??
Bartholomeeeew (Bat) Masterson
June 25th, 2010
9:14 pm
flatbill kid, I was trying to remember the rumor guys name.
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
9:14 pm
Leeee-
Chipper uses Ozzy’s Crazy Train- has for years
jeffreeeeeeeey d
June 25th, 2010
9:14 pm
Do yall remember Chipper’s music when he came up to bat? It was AC/DC. Cain’t remember what song.
You’re not talking about Crazy Train are you?
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
9:15 pm
Nice.
Braves fans in attendance clearly appreciative of the effort by Medlen. Or not.
Coach (2011 or Bust)
June 25th, 2010
9:15 pm
Ozzy Osbourne’s “Crazy Train” plays when Chipper comes up.
.576
June 25th, 2010
9:16 pm
RHR -
He mentioned it before. Must have gotten lost in the shuffle. Mixxo hates name droppin’ anyway. He knows a lot of celebs, come with his territory I ’spose.
Bob horner pulled the ball
June 25th, 2010
9:16 pm
Chipper = Crazy Train by Ozzie..??? Yes !!??
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
9:16 pm
Crazy Train by Ozzy Nelson. Er, uh, Osbourne.
Roy Hobbs
June 25th, 2010
9:16 pm
Anyone else think Medlen needs to find a way to sit down and pick Gred Maddux’s brain? Seriously, this kid is so much fun to watch.
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
9:16 pm
their 3-4-5 guys are having pretty decent years
RHR
June 25th, 2010
9:17 pm
lee – is this your first day as a braves fan? lol just kidding but … chipper has used some version of crazy train…forever.
here’s the team intro song list, by a girl who knows her stuff.
http://braveslove.blogspot.com/2010/04/2010-braves-intro-songs.html
Bob horner pulled the ball
June 25th, 2010
9:17 pm
Coach whipped me…..he knew who didn’t..?????
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
9:17 pm
You saying one of my favorite Braves thinks too highly of himself? Huh Nolie?
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 25th, 2010
9:17 pm
Well, hey, four years from now, he’ll be hitting his 200th homer…Now that, I am NOT missing!
cheshire
June 25th, 2010
9:18 pm
*sigh*
well, at least Heyward hit the ball this time
Rob from SC
June 25th, 2010
9:18 pm
see the cast on his hand
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
9:18 pm
You saying one of my favorite Braves thinks too highly of himself? Huh Nolie? Leee
???. If you mean Smoltzy, yeah I guess i am
Tomas
June 25th, 2010
9:18 pm
Toronto playing at home in Philadelphia. Is that fair, come on.
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
9:19 pm
Chipper, come on. This guy’s a nobody.
David O'Brien
June 25th, 2010
9:19 pm
Melky Cabrera has hit .377 with 10 RBIs in his past 17 games, after hitting .226 with 11 RBIs in his first 54 games.
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
9:19 pm
There we go.
BravesFanChris25
June 25th, 2010
9:19 pm
Chipper just extended his streak
METS MADNESS
June 25th, 2010
9:20 pm
Ozzy,,,,,,Crazy Train
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
9:20 pm
CHIPPA!!!
Bob horner pulled the ball
June 25th, 2010
9:20 pm
Does Chipper hit “meaningless singles”……just asking..?????
jeffreeeeeeeey d
June 25th, 2010
9:20 pm
Well Chipper comes out to Crazy Train, but for awhile he used a mix between the Ozzie version and the rap version by Trick Daddy.
I think he’s only doing the Ozzie version this year, though
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 25th, 2010
9:20 pm
If the Braves hold on a win this, maybe iTunes will put it up as a Game Of The Year. They put A-Rod’s 500th homer as a GOTY.
VaBravesFan
June 25th, 2010
9:20 pm
Heyward needs a day off, why wont they just give em a day off!
RHR
June 25th, 2010
9:21 pm
9 game streak = eff yo rockin chair.
for future reference….anyone know about the tigers pen? is there a cy hiding in there somewhere?
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
9:21 pm
RHR, No this was 7 or 8 yrs. ago. I know it weren’t Crazy Train.
Trey
June 25th, 2010
9:21 pm
7 or 8 years ago, Chipper used Ozzy Osbourne’s Crazy Train.
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
9:22 pm
no such thing as a meaningless hit at the time it occurs. strictly a silly armchair manager idea
RHR
June 25th, 2010
9:22 pm
yeah jeffrey that one is called let’s go
VaBravesFan
June 25th, 2010
9:22 pm
There ya go Chipper 9 game hitting streak!!
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
9:22 pm
How about number 101 BMac?
jeffreeeeeeeey d
June 25th, 2010
9:23 pm
I don’t remember Chipper coming out to AC/DC. LaRoche and Moylan have…but I don’t think I’ve seen Chipper
Jerry
June 25th, 2010
9:23 pm
I love how the announcers continue to make excuses for Jason Heyward looking like dog sheot at the plate. He should be sat down, especially against lefties, or at least dropped down in the order to 7th until such time as he gets a clue. I would much rather have Hinske bat against lefties than Heyward.
jeffreeeeeeeey d
June 25th, 2010
9:23 pm
How bout an inside-the-parker for HR 101 here?
RHR
June 25th, 2010
9:24 pm
101 would be sweet
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
9:24 pm
jeffreeeeeeeey d -
Smoltzie also used AC/DC, at least when he was closing
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
9:24 pm
Probably the most recognizable song in the Majors, Chipper has come out to “Crazy Train” for several years now. However, that almost all came to an end. At the start of the 2002 season, Chipper decided he’d had enough of “Crazy Train.” So, he told the music guys that he wanted to come out to Kid Rock’s “Cowboy.” The Braves fans were destroyed. They hated “Cowboy” and demanded the return of “Crazy Train.” After months of fan mail over the change, he felt obligated to go back to the Ozzy hit. “Crazy Train” is still his song today. Every now and then he mixes in a Kid Rock song, but at least twice a game you’ll hear “du-du. du-du. du-du. Eye, Eye, Eye …,” and you know that Chipper is coming up to bat ESPN
Trey
June 25th, 2010
9:24 pm
Jeffreeeey d – I remember every time I have been to a game, even as a child, it was Crazy Train. I don’t remember an AC/DC song for him, either. It may have been another player.
jeffreeeeeeeey d
June 25th, 2010
9:25 pm
Heyward vs. lefties: .225
Hinske vs. lefties: .222
I’d rather see Heyward work things out. Although I agree that he should be lower in the order
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
9:25 pm
Noles, well I kinda suspected it. Hoping I was wrong!
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 25th, 2010
9:25 pm
Oh, sure, you save your K’s with RISP/2 outs when I’m watching.
(ITS)
cheshire
June 25th, 2010
9:25 pm
Jerry, i couldn’t agree more – i feel like too many people are turning a blind eye to what seems to be an growing problem with Heyward. I’m not saying send him to AAA or anything, but if you keep a guy hitting as badly as he is in the #2 spot, it’s gonna start costing you games. If this thumb thing is really an issue, give him some rest until it heals. At the very least, move him down to the 6 or 7 hole where he’s not quite as much a liability.
METS MADNESS
June 25th, 2010
9:26 pm
Sandra Golden looks like a man……
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 25th, 2010
9:27 pm
*for when I’m watching…
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
9:27 pm
Ban McFann from watching the games!!!
jeffreeeeeeeey d
June 25th, 2010
9:28 pm
What’s ITS?
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 25th, 2010
9:28 pm
cabravesfan–
Seriously…
Sandra Golden
June 25th, 2010
9:28 pm
MET MADNESS
Well then that makes me manly than you!
Tomas
June 25th, 2010
9:29 pm
Anyone saw the Zambrano incident. Just awful.
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 25th, 2010
9:29 pm
jeffrey d–
Ignore The Smile (he’s smiles at the end of the eyeroll.)
RHR
June 25th, 2010
9:29 pm
i despise leadoff walks
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
9:30 pm
Musta been Roachy I was thinning about.
braveslifer
June 25th, 2010
9:30 pm
This is retarded. Why is Medlin still in there? His pitch count is at a 100 and we have a great bullpen. Lets use it…
RHR
June 25th, 2010
9:30 pm
hee. zambrona at it again.
VaBravesFan
June 25th, 2010
9:30 pm
MLB Trade Rumors has a bit on the Braves and possibly dealing Yunel. Saying it would take a attractive package to aquire him. Wonder how much he could possibly get us in return for a trade?
Jerry
June 25th, 2010
9:31 pm
Cheshire, personally I think the whole thumb issue was another excuse for him to do bad. Not once have I seen him favoring any digit on either hand, or wince in pain. Not once. Smokescreen!
cheshire
June 25th, 2010
9:31 pm
lol – leadoff walks are the worst. especially when you are only up 1 and your offense looks anemic.
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
9:31 pm
M E D L E N!!!
jeffreeeeeeeey d
June 25th, 2010
9:32 pm
Medlin?
RHR
June 25th, 2010
9:32 pm
might as well be talking to a tree, cab.
cheshire
June 25th, 2010
9:32 pm
Jerry, i’ve wondered the same thing, only because if everyone knows an injury is killing his numbers, why would you keep batting him #2 and putting your offense at risk??? that doesn’t make sense to me.
Kris
June 25th, 2010
9:33 pm
So typical – a rookie completely shuts us down. Anyone else not looking forward to Strasburg on Monday…. He’s going to have like 15 K’s after 7 innings
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
9:33 pm
RHR-
I know, but I have to try! He’s my boy, after all
The bad guy on Scooby Doo
June 25th, 2010
9:34 pm
and i woulda gotten away with it if not for you medlin kids!
jeffreeeeeeeey d
June 25th, 2010
9:34 pm
Bobby must have read your comment, braveslifer
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 25th, 2010
9:34 pm
Why are we taking Medlen out?
Roy Hobbs
June 25th, 2010
9:34 pm
Another great night for Meds!
cheshire
June 25th, 2010
9:34 pm
hats off to Medlen… another outstanding start
Dumbfound
June 25th, 2010
9:34 pm
I think chipper just said with his eye, “Welcome to the rotation kid”.
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
9:34 pm
Well done Meds! Here’s hoping we can hold on and get him the win!
Jerry
June 25th, 2010
9:34 pm
No way would I trade Escobar unless we were completely overwhelmed by an offer.
Feeanch
June 25th, 2010
9:34 pm
I don’t know how you send Medlen back to the pen after his gutsy performances. KK must get sent to the BP. I totally agree with DOB’s tweet from yesterday about Saito…”gotta question that call of putting Saito in back to back games after coming off DL.” That cost us the game. I’m not as big of a Bobby hater as most on here, but I think an excellent example if one wanted to pile on…
Rhino
June 25th, 2010
9:35 pm
Kris, Strasburg is a rightie. I’m more scared of Oliver Perez lol
http://www.rhinorant.com
Efrim
June 25th, 2010
9:35 pm
Why are we taking Medlen out?
Venters would be my guess…..but I just got here…..
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
9:35 pm
Good job by Medlen. Maybe would have liked to see him get out of the inning but whatever.
jeffreeeeeeeey d
June 25th, 2010
9:35 pm
a rookie completely shuts us down
7 baserunners and 4 Ks in 6 innings isn’t exactly shutting us down.
Oh and uh….we’re winning
cheshire
June 25th, 2010
9:35 pm
Kris, a couple of weeks ago when i found out we were facing Strasburg i was excited. Now i’m terrified.
Dee
June 25th, 2010
9:35 pm
There goes Meds….here comes EOF.
Dumbfound
June 25th, 2010
9:35 pm
eyes !
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
9:35 pm
Efrim-
EOF in
RHR
June 25th, 2010
9:36 pm
trade yunel for somebody who smiles. hey…jeff francoeur smiles a lot.
Rhino
June 25th, 2010
9:36 pm
I agree Feeanch. Well said
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
9:36 pm
Get him EO.
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 25th, 2010
9:36 pm
Efrim–
That’s true…nope, O’Flaherty…
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
9:36 pm
USC 2, Clemson 0 in the bottom of the 2nd.
cheshire
June 25th, 2010
9:36 pm
i’d have no problem trading Escobar, especially for a quality centerfielder. i’d package him with a pitching prospect and see if PIttsburgh would part with McCutchen.
Dumbfound
June 25th, 2010
9:36 pm
I also heard that Yunel is on his way out.
braveslifer
June 25th, 2010
9:37 pm
Great show by meds! Now its up to you pen to get the win…
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 25th, 2010
9:37 pm
YEah, “completely shuts us down”? You’re forgetting about those two runs…? One of which was a milestone Homer…
Thomas
June 25th, 2010
9:37 pm
DOB: Whats the crowd look like numbers wise?
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
9:38 pm
and why would Pittsburgh part with McCutchen?
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
9:38 pm
Come on Eric.
cheshire
June 25th, 2010
9:38 pm
guys, 2 runs on 5 hits isn’t exactly a solid performance for an offense. the Detroit pitcher has shut us down.
jeffreeeeeeeey d
June 25th, 2010
9:38 pm
Andruw smiles a lot too
RHR
June 25th, 2010
9:38 pm
ugh
Kris
June 25th, 2010
9:38 pm
Chesire – we have 2 runs. That’s not exactly lighting up the scoreboard.
bravos2249
June 25th, 2010
9:39 pm
EOF WTF…Vulture Venters should be in.
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 25th, 2010
9:39 pm
Come on, now!
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
9:39 pm
The guy made two mistakes all night. He didn’t not shut us down.
cheshire
June 25th, 2010
9:39 pm
cabravesfan – because they’re Pittsburgh
omg, did O’Flaherty just walk a guy he had an 0-2 count on????
RHR
June 25th, 2010
9:39 pm
there you go. andruw. you’re a genius, jeffrey.
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
9:39 pm
So if giving up 2 runs is “completely shutting us down’ what, exactly, did Meds do to them?
Roy Hobbs
June 25th, 2010
9:40 pm
Throw strikes for goodness sake.
Kris
June 25th, 2010
9:40 pm
Sorry Cheshire – that was meant for Jefreeeeey d
Bartholomeeeew (Bat) Masterson
June 25th, 2010
9:40 pm
He murdered ‘em ……
jay dubu
June 25th, 2010
9:40 pm
Damon is a professional hitter. Down in the count 0 – 2, and he works a walk out of it.
Roy Hobbs
June 25th, 2010
9:40 pm
Guess I just needed to ask. Love to see Meds get so excieted in the dugout.
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 25th, 2010
9:40 pm
Whew!!
OK, let’s score some more runs, here! Wish BMac would have K’d there…Why does he always have to follow up a FUN hit with a K with RISP?
cheshire
June 25th, 2010
9:40 pm
Medlen shut them down too… no one is criticizing him.
RHR
June 25th, 2010
9:41 pm
eof just wanted to make it interesting so he could come to the blog and go back and laugh at the histrionics after the game.
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
9:42 pm
He’s making his first appearance and we’re eleven games over .500 and scored two runs off him.
He pitched very well.
If KK was starting tonight he’d probably be looking at career win numero uno.
braveslifer
June 25th, 2010
9:42 pm
Who replaces Escobar if we trade him? The majority will say Omar Infante but is that really a adaquate fill in at SS? Omar is a great utility player and maybe more but if we trade Escobar we lose our a huge part of our bench if Omar fill in. In my opinion its just not what a playoff team does. Unless there is another ML SS coming back to us in the deal.
Kris
June 25th, 2010
9:42 pm
cabravesfan – you cant have two pitchers shut each team down?
jay dubu
June 25th, 2010
9:42 pm
Who pitches the eighth? Pete or Venters?
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
9:43 pm
Yes, Medlen was better.
Way to be patient Yunel.
Come on Braves. Let’s get some base runners.
Efrim
June 25th, 2010
9:43 pm
I wouldn’t trade Escobar at this moment. Still have him under control through 2013. Still gets on base at a great rate for a SS, plays fantastic D. Sure, he doesn’t have too much pop and probably never will given his age, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t a well above average player.
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
9:43 pm
Kris-
I was just curious…
Steve from OH
June 25th, 2010
9:44 pm
Efrim–yeah, it would take a lot to give up Esco if I were Wren.
RHR
June 25th, 2010
9:44 pm
we have more pitchers (in bigs and minors) than infielders. my guess is, if the braves do any trading it will be a pitcher – which almost every team is looking for.
VaBravesFan
June 25th, 2010
9:44 pm
cheshire
Lol Dude i’m with you there! I dont see the Pirates trading McCutchin until 2013 lol. He is right now there main man that there building around. McCutchin will be a 20 homer 30+sb guy for a long time. no way he gets traded. But as far as Yunel goes, i wouldnt mind the braves trading him as long as we recieved a SS in return along with others. He hanst impacted the lineup the whole 1st half, and his attitude i dont like.
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 25th, 2010
9:44 pm
PS–That’s 8 go-ahead hits for BMac. He like like…2 or 3 at the beginning of June, IIRC.
cheshire
June 25th, 2010
9:44 pm
braveslifer, it depends on who you get back for him. if you can get a big upgrade in center, you can offset whatever you’ve lost in Escobar (which so far this season, wouldn’t be much). and i think Infante would be a great starter… his numbers are much better than Escobar’s.
our bench is fine – this is a very deep team. and i think we should be willing to sacrifice a little depth if it means a big improvement in the starting lineup
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
9:44 pm
RHR, now you’re getting the hang of it!
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
9:45 pm
I’ve taken Bonine. Especially on long flights.
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
9:45 pm
Argh.
Jerry
June 25th, 2010
9:46 pm
Exactly cabravesfan. Pittsburgh has no reason to wanna make that kind of deal.
RHR
June 25th, 2010
9:46 pm
nobody is going to trade for nate or brooks conrad. the braves would be dumb to trade yunel. who plays in his place? omar? really? brandon hicks? double really?
Kris
June 25th, 2010
9:46 pm
Cabravesfan Ok – not sure what your point was though. I mean obviously Meds shut them down. What does that have to do with the Braves inability to do some damage off these rookie pitchers.
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 25th, 2010
9:46 pm
i like the way Bonine spits.
cheshire
June 25th, 2010
9:46 pm
agreed, i don’t think the Pirates would part with McCutchin… that was more of a fantasy situation.
i think what bothers me about Escobar is that he just seems so clueless and mentally checked out. his numbers haven’t been great but i think they’ll get better… i just feel like the guy isn’t that smart, and it’s hurt us a few times this year already. players like that just drive me up the wall.
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 25th, 2010
9:47 pm
EGAD!! Peter Moylen??
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
9:47 pm
RHR, sorry I was refering to your 9:41 post.
bravos2249
June 25th, 2010
9:47 pm
Dear God…Moylan in a one-run game. YIKERS
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
9:47 pm
Boy, I’d love to see Saito come in to pitch the 8th if only he hadn’t been used the last two days and gave up a bomb to Konerko.
Bartholomeeeew (Bat) Masterson
June 25th, 2010
9:47 pm
Man, it’s like a broken F’in record………………………..
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
9:47 pm
That’s gross.
bravesfanlm
June 25th, 2010
9:48 pm
DOB,
Do you think the braves should trade Yunel Escobar?, and if they do who would the braves get in return?
Thanks
VaBravesFan
June 25th, 2010
9:48 pm
I would be fine with Infante sharing SS with someone, Infante is a role player. A good one at that. Making him a everyday player would show u why he’s a role player.
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 25th, 2010
9:48 pm
What’s the word on Jurrgens?
braveslifer
June 25th, 2010
9:49 pm
cheshire- I disagree. Right now this team does not have major holes. If you trade Escobar for a centerfielder then you create a major hole at Short and fix an issue at centerfield. Not to mention selling low on Escobar due to his less then stellar performance this year. Dont forget he was one of our best hitters last year. So convince me. Who fills in for escobar if he is traded?
RHR
June 25th, 2010
9:49 pm
smoltz not coming back til july 5-6-7 and then after that not again til august!
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 25th, 2010
9:50 pm
Yeah, Bonine has that kind of micro expectorate going.
keylargo
June 25th, 2010
9:50 pm
Edwin Jackson going for a no no in the ninth for the DBacks.
Choppinmama
June 25th, 2010
9:50 pm
Jerry:
So, you ‘ve been keeping a pretty steady eye on Heyward, have you? No signs of thumb pain, eh? No wincing, either? And, you say you’re also ignoring common knowledge about his injured digit, right?
OK, just wanted to be sure we all understood your 9:31 smokescreen analysis.
RHR
June 25th, 2010
9:50 pm
its pretty good lotion, woody. i prefer baby lotion myself.
Roy Hobbs
June 25th, 2010
9:51 pm
I thought we would see Venters here, but great to see Moylan get off to a good start.
VaBravesFan
June 25th, 2010
9:51 pm
braveslifer
The Braves wont trade em unless they get top return… I’m sure they know they dont have a replacement at SS if he leaves. My question is what would be top return for Yunel?
LuisG
June 25th, 2010
9:51 pm
Chokers win, virtually tied with the Braves for first place.
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 25th, 2010
9:51 pm
Now RHR, don’t be tellin’ your tales out of school. This is a family show!
BravesFanChris25
June 25th, 2010
9:52 pm
The Vulture
keylargo
June 25th, 2010
9:52 pm
Jackson gets a K for the first out in the ninth. He’s also at about 138 pitches.
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
9:52 pm
USC 3, Clemson 0, 3rd
Runnin
June 25th, 2010
9:52 pm
Bobby and Roger did a good job letting Medlen stay in there.
RHR
June 25th, 2010
9:52 pm
moylan lookin good. bring on johnny vegas.
Roy Hobbs
June 25th, 2010
9:52 pm
Wow, Bobby must have been pretty worked up over the sweep. Pulling out all the stops here with the pitchers.
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 25th, 2010
9:52 pm
Are the expectations too high for Jurrgens? Is it a guaranteed thing that he’ll be ready to go this year?
.576
June 25th, 2010
9:52 pm
Marteen always has his nose in the game. I love that.
RHR
June 25th, 2010
9:53 pm
ew woody…i wasnt even thinking of anything like that. how embarrassing.
braveslifer
June 25th, 2010
9:53 pm
VaBravesFan-
My point is that you wont get “top return” for Escobar because he is worth more to us then to just about any other team. We are in the heart of a playoff run and SS is one of those postion that we dont have depth on. Lets see there is Escobar then Omar then Hicks… Cant do it unless you want to sacarfice this season.
keylargo
June 25th, 2010
9:54 pm
Fly out to LF for out #2.
RHR
June 25th, 2010
9:54 pm
i’m gonna cut joe if he jinxed venters
LuisG
June 25th, 2010
9:54 pm
142 pitches thrown by Jackson, 1 out to go. No-hitter still in order.
cheshire
June 25th, 2010
9:54 pm
braveslifer, it depends on what you mean by “holes”… there aren’t any positions where you are getting horrible production (although lately RF has been rough, but hopefully that works itself out), but you have a couple of positions where you could significantly upgrade, and i think CF is chief among them. the Mets are probably going to go and get someone like Cliff Lee, and the Phils already have an insane amount of talent, so i don’t think we should just sit on our hands.
i don’t see why Infante couldn’t fill in for Escobar. his BA and slugging % are higher, and his OBP is just slightly lower. the only question I have about Infante is whether he could be a full time starter and keep it up over a year, but i heard people saying a couple of years ago that Prado was just a utility guy and couldn’t be a starter, and we know how that turned out.
again, i’m not saying the Braves should be pushing to get rid of Escobar… i’m just saying that if the right deal came along, he shouldn’t be considered untouchable.
Roy Hobbs
June 25th, 2010
9:55 pm
AL Rookie of the year at bat?
RHR
June 25th, 2010
9:55 pm
Ho, sit down.
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 25th, 2010
9:55 pm
HECK yeah! Let’s do this…
.576
June 25th, 2010
9:56 pm
That’ll work Johnny Veee!
Roy Hobbs
June 25th, 2010
9:56 pm
Great work Venters!
Efrim
June 25th, 2010
9:56 pm
Edwin Jackson with a no-no?
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
9:56 pm
Venters did his job now get some RUNS!!!!!
keylargo
June 25th, 2010
9:56 pm
NO NO for Edwin Jackson. Wins 1 – 0. 149 pitches.
Coach (2011 or Bust)
June 25th, 2010
9:56 pm
Edwin Jackson, his no hitter is in the books. D-backs 1 Tampa Rays 0.
LuisG
June 25th, 2010
9:57 pm
Edwin Jackson completes the no-hitter against Tampa Bay. 149 pitches thrown, 8 walks issued.
Choppinmama
June 25th, 2010
9:57 pm
McFann: Congrats to your/our boy for a HUGE milestone achievement! An absolute HUGE moment in his career! I know I was paying close attention to this at-bat, with my television on the game channel just in case this HUGE milestone was actually reached AND it would put us ahead in this game. #100 WOW!!!
How did you enjoy it ?
(you’ll probably have to have a family member help with that knife removal from your back!!!! Rest easy, I won’t mention this terrible thing again.)
BravesFanChris25
June 25th, 2010
9:57 pm
Edwin Jackson has just thrown a No Hitter.
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 25th, 2010
9:58 pm
Let’s score 2 here…
Change Turner Field to Aaron Stadium
June 25th, 2010
9:58 pm
Is tonight the night that Wagner gets 400?!
Tomas
June 25th, 2010
9:58 pm
Another No hitter. This is just too much unhittable stuff from pitchers.
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
9:59 pm
Is Wags closing tonight?
BamaDude @ CowCollege AL
June 25th, 2010
9:59 pm
good for Edwin …
VaBravesFan
June 25th, 2010
9:59 pm
If we could some how involve McLouth in the same trade that would help the Braves as well. Take that 7 mil off the books for next year
bravesfanlm
June 25th, 2010
9:59 pm
How bout this trade scenario:
Orioles get: Escobar, Dunn, and possibly Hoover
Braves get: Markakis or Adam Jones
RHR
June 25th, 2010
9:59 pm
another no hitter and its not even the asb! 149 pitches (only 79 strikes!) against his former team. props to him.
BravesFanChris25
June 25th, 2010
9:59 pm
RAW DOG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BamaDude @ CowCollege AL
June 25th, 2010
9:59 pm
WOW ..Brooksie !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Feeanch
June 25th, 2010
9:59 pm
Cheshire–
I totally agree about Escobar. Pirates aren’t going to part with MCC and I don’t necessarily think we should get rid of Esky, but like you, I get so pissed about his attitude and lackadaisical performance. I’m sure he cares, but he plays like he doesn’t really. And perception is reality. He seems to lack accountability and is basically just missing the ‘X Factor’ or “it.”
Contrast that with Jhey who does have “it.” Smart base runner, creates his own opportunities, is accountable to his ups and downs, doesn’t blame injuries or others.
Escobar reminds me of Sergio Garcia in golf. Huge potential. Natural talent. But Sergio loves to blame everyone else, the golf course, his equipment etc for his failures. It sure would be nice if Esky would at least ATTEMPT to learn English and foster a relationship with the press. It would undoubtedly help the perceptions of him.
BROOKS CONRAD JUST RAWDAWGGGGGGEDDDD it out of here folks!
Trey
June 25th, 2010
9:59 pm
Good job, Connie!
.576
June 25th, 2010
9:59 pm
Raw………Dawg!
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
9:59 pm
Raw Dogeeeeeeee
Tomas
June 25th, 2010
10:00 pm
Brooks is the clutchest hitter in the team.
Nick
June 25th, 2010
10:00 pm
Scrappy Doo!
cheshire
June 25th, 2010
10:00 pm
Conrad continues to rule
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
10:00 pm
Brooks!!!
Choppinmama
June 25th, 2010
10:00 pm
Announcers: “you can’t stop the Raw Dog!”
Bartholomeeeew (Bat) Masterson
June 25th, 2010
10:00 pm
HaHa gritty…
Dee
June 25th, 2010
10:00 pm
“You cannot stop the Raw Dog”
Way to go, Connie!!
gdubber
June 25th, 2010
10:00 pm
If the Braves plat the Rays in the World Series will it be the first time both teams in the series were no-hit during the season
Coach (2011 or Bust)
June 25th, 2010
10:00 pm
Brooksy loses one in the seats! Yea baby. Breathing room. 3-1 Bravos.
.576
June 25th, 2010
10:00 pm
Prads……..flirtin’
RHR
June 25th, 2010
10:00 pm
MEOW.
Love it chipper 1st one out to greet him.
Brava
June 25th, 2010
10:00 pm
Woot! Brooksie bringing the insurance!!!!
braveslifer
June 25th, 2010
10:00 pm
“i don’t see why Infante couldn’t fill in for Escobar.”
Maybe he could. So in the best case senerio he does. With Infante at SS and Escobar traded. Who fills in for Chipper when/if he goes down? Who fills in at SS if Infante goes down? What I think is a more logical situation is to deal from our pitching surplus or our farm team to upgrade our talent at CF.
tristan
June 25th, 2010
10:00 pm
BROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKKKKSSSSSSSSSSSSSssss
Roy Hobbs
June 25th, 2010
10:01 pm
Atta boy Brooks!
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 25th, 2010
10:01 pm
Choppinmama I know I was paying close attention to this at-bat, with my television on the game channel just in case this HUGE milestone was actually reached AND it would put us ahead in this game.
Thanks a lot.
Nah, I enjoyed it!
Story of my life following his career. I was too friggin’ nice to ask for the channel to be changed back. I don’t know how long it’s gonna take me to forgive myself…
Rest easy, I won’t mention this terrible thing again.
It’s OK. It’s my fault…I deserve it.
tristan
June 25th, 2010
10:01 pm
Best 3B the Braves have is a guy who doesn’t get to do it often
LuisG
June 25th, 2010
10:01 pm
Conrad with a pinch-hit Solo Shot! 3-1 Braves!
.576
June 25th, 2010
10:02 pm
‘Lil kid’s gonna have a nice shiner from Connie’s blast.
RHR
June 25th, 2010
10:02 pm
are you the world’s most computer literate infant, tristan?
Jerry
June 25th, 2010
10:03 pm
Choppinmama, so you think I should be seeing something that I’ve not seen? Have you seen him favoring his thumb? If you have, then more power to your ability to observe, but I haven’t seen it. This is what I do. When I see Heyward struggling the way he has and knowing that his thumb has been mentioned as the culprit, I tend to watch for signs of it bothering him. I honestly haven’t seen it. And if he truly does have a thumb injury, why on God’s green earth would you continue to play him and make the condition worse? Doesn’t make sense.
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 25th, 2010
10:03 pm
AHG!! I can’t believe I didn’t change the channel!!!!
I didn’t know they were taping what they were watching!! They didn’t know BMac was coming up! WHY DIDN’T I SPEAK UP??? WHY?? WHY???
Tomas
June 25th, 2010
10:03 pm
Brooks just tied Chipper in homers this year.
keylargo
June 25th, 2010
10:04 pm
Looks like Adam LaRoche hit a solo HR for the DBacks to provide the only run Jackson needed.
Feeanch
June 25th, 2010
10:04 pm
I think Chipper’s average is now above Jhey’s .252…
RHR
June 25th, 2010
10:04 pm
what was zambrano mad about anyway? why’d he go off on lee like that?
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
10:05 pm
Man, no way did I think that would be a homerun. Seems harder and harder to hit it out of this damn place.
I mean, I like that you don’t get any cheapies at the Ted but lately they all seem to be hanging up right at the warning track.
Well, that’s a homerun in a siloh.
RHR
June 25th, 2010
10:05 pm
over a play not made? WOW!!
.576
June 25th, 2010
10:05 pm
Z-Man with another meltdown today. Suspended indefinitely.
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
10:06 pm
RHR-
Apparently he felt Lee didn’t make a play that he should have- led to a double down the line…
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
10:06 pm
Or is it just “silo”?
I’d love to see a silo homerun derby.
Rob from SC
June 25th, 2010
10:06 pm
Heyward’s bat is SLOW. DL him and let him rest his hand
VaBravesFan
June 25th, 2010
10:06 pm
BravesFanIm
I’m not a Adam Jones fan at all. Nick Markakis was suppost to be the main man with the O’s signing a 6 year 66 mil contract, but it was reported that they expected more from Markakis, he isnt a leader, he hasnt been hitting for power, more of a doubles line drive hitter. Plays excellent defense, and runs well. But hasnt been the number 3 hitter they hoped for. idk… I do know they Said they wanted a Shortstop in return for Wiggington.
cheshire
June 25th, 2010
10:06 pm
i see what you’re saying braveslifer and i’m not denying the importance of infield depth… i just think that if you have the opportunity to upgrade a starting position, that’s more important. but agreed, you can’t do it without making sure you answer the questions you are asking. i would just hate not to upgrade a starting position because someone in the infield “might” get hurt.
tristan
June 25th, 2010
10:06 pm
no RHR the world’s most realist that isn’t hanging on to the past
Efrim
June 25th, 2010
10:07 pm
Damn. Heyward at .251. Really gotta think about resting him just one game. Just one. Problem is, who bats second?
cheshire
June 25th, 2010
10:07 pm
Heyward, you are officially killing me
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
10:07 pm
I think you can safely say J-Hey did Zambrano in.
That had to suck for him, but what do I care? He’s an @-hole.
Feeanch
June 25th, 2010
10:08 pm
Efrim…Hinske baby! He’ll hit wherever the hell he is…
VaBravesFan
June 25th, 2010
10:08 pm
Efrim
How about Yunel bat 2nd??
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
10:08 pm
Now why can’t Chipper have at-bats like this in the first inning?
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
10:08 pm
Chippa’s on!!
Rob from SC
June 25th, 2010
10:09 pm
Bobby Cox is an idiot
Plays Schafer with a broken wrist
Plays Heyward with a really bad thumb
Keep wearing them into the ground
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
10:09 pm
I don’t care if he makes and out or gets a hit. Just be a little more patient.
Damn. Nice play.
bravos2249
June 25th, 2010
10:09 pm
COME ON we already got 100…now for 400!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
.576
June 25th, 2010
10:09 pm
Big-league pick right there.
Rob from SC
June 25th, 2010
10:10 pm
COx should sit HEyward against Stradburg or he will k 5 times again
Coach (2011 or Bust)
June 25th, 2010
10:10 pm
Here comes Wags! 400 on the way!
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
10:10 pm
Yes indeed Ernie, “time for Wags!”
Nick
June 25th, 2010
10:10 pm
Glaus is the slowest guy in the majors.
RHR
June 25th, 2010
10:10 pm
Is he also an idiot for playing Marteeeen with all his injuries? Or Glaus with all his? Or McCann with his eyes and oblique injuries?
bravos2249
June 25th, 2010
10:11 pm
Nick
Atleast he doesn’t run like a horse like Tex.
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 25th, 2010
10:11 pm
RHR–
Quad injury.
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
10:11 pm
Let’s go Billy. Get ‘em.
tristan
June 25th, 2010
10:12 pm
you want to know the answer to that question? You have to ask “the most interesting man in the world” during a dos equis commercial.
bravos2249
June 25th, 2010
10:12 pm
If Heyward bats 5 times…then I don’t see how we don’t win…lol
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
10:12 pm
Don’t hit em Wagsy!
Venice Jim
June 25th, 2010
10:12 pm
RHR – are you trying for logic?
bravesfanlm
June 25th, 2010
10:13 pm
VaBravesFan
I didn’t know that about Markakis. There are plenty of other teams that need a shortstop. The orioles were the only non-contender I could think of. A list of teams would be the orioles, royals, indians, tigers, angels, mariners, astros, pirates, giants, and padres. What do you think escobar is worth?
keylargo
June 25th, 2010
10:13 pm
CJ seems to have reverted his hitting approach back to 2008 when he just seemed to make good contact and not try to hit the ball out of the park. Hopefully he can get the average back up to the .300 level and might be a good #2 hitter if that is going to be his approach.
BravesFanChris25
June 25th, 2010
10:13 pm
1 Down
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
10:13 pm
K!!!
Choppinmama
June 25th, 2010
10:13 pm
Jerry: I was being sarcastic, really meaning that what little you see of him during game footage won’t tell you anything about his thumb situation. The guy is being stoic. He’s not gonna whine about the pain and ask to sit out. And we all know the mangers are just like the players, unless the hurting part is about to fall off, or you actually can’t run out onto the field, you’re NOT giving up your spot on the roster.
Nobody said anything in baseball has to make sense.
RHR
June 25th, 2010
10:14 pm
oh yeah, my bad, mcfann. quad injury.
Rob from SC
June 25th, 2010
10:14 pm
RHR
He didn’t know about McCann’s eyes, Glaus’s leg doesn’t affect his hitting, and Prado is not as injured as Heyward.
BravesFanChris25
June 25th, 2010
10:14 pm
2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
10:14 pm
2 gone
cheshire
June 25th, 2010
10:14 pm
i don’t care if he plays Heyward or not, but you can’t keep him in the #2 hole. the guy’s batting average has fallen 50 points in the past 6 weeks, OBP 40 points, and slugging % over 100 points. put him in a less pivotal spot in the order until his thumb and his head get back to where they need to be.
BamaDude @ CowCollege AL
June 25th, 2010
10:14 pm
two milestones for the Bravos tonight …BMac and Wags WTG …congrats !!!
BravesFanChris25
June 25th, 2010
10:15 pm
I bet the no hitter will over shadow Wagner’s 400th save >_>
bravos2249
June 25th, 2010
10:15 pm
FOUR HUNDRED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
10:15 pm
Mac #100
Wags #400
Braves Win!
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 25th, 2010
10:15 pm
BALLGAME!!
I called it!!
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
10:15 pm
Yessssss!!!!!
Rob from SC
June 25th, 2010
10:15 pm
cheshire
June 25th, 2010
10:14 pm
i don’t care if he plays Heyward or not, but you can’t keep him in the #2 hole. the guy’s batting average has fallen 50 points in the past 6 weeks, OBP 40 points, and slugging % over 100 points. put him in a less pivotal spot in the order until his thumb and his head get back to where they need to be.
That right there tells you he needs to go on the DL
.576
June 25th, 2010
10:15 pm
400!!!
Congrats Wags!
Efrim
June 25th, 2010
10:15 pm
Can we really assume that struggles like these are all because of the thumb? I mean, I’m not doubting he’s hurt, but I don’t think you can blame a .500 OPS for a month on his thumb. Guy is just really slumping, period. And he’s 20, so it’s really to be expected……but that doesn’t mean that you have to continue to bat him second…..and not rest him…..even once.
BamaDude @ CowCollege AL
June 25th, 2010
10:15 pm
YES !! …Bravos WIN !!!!!!!!!!
BravesFanChris25
June 25th, 2010
10:16 pm
400
braveslifer
June 25th, 2010
10:16 pm
400
cheshire
June 25th, 2010
10:16 pm
Rob from SC, you may be right. i just think of the thumb thing were THAT big a factor, they wouldn’t have him in the lineup.
RHR
June 25th, 2010
10:17 pm
nice win. congrats, wags.
heh. tough crap, mets.
BamaDude @ CowCollege AL
June 25th, 2010
10:17 pm
like the love for Billy there …
Brava
June 25th, 2010
10:17 pm
Totally awesome for Wags!!!
LuisG
June 25th, 2010
10:17 pm
Congratulations Billy Wagner!
400 saves and counting!
Daybed Wagmoe
June 25th, 2010
10:17 pm
Congrats Billy!!
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
10:18 pm
AWWWW, Wags got hugs from everybody!
Venice Jim
June 25th, 2010
10:18 pm
We come home, Braves win… ’nuff said…
cheshire
June 25th, 2010
10:18 pm
Wagner is so awesome. what a huge pickup for us. very big, much needed win.
Feeanch
June 25th, 2010
10:18 pm
Wags may be 5′8″ in heels… SHORRTYYYYYYYYYY! how the hell does he throw gas like that being that damn small?
RHR
June 25th, 2010
10:18 pm
Prado is not as injured as Heyward.
Says who?
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 25th, 2010
10:18 pm
OK, iTunes!! You could make at least one big sale with this one!
Roy Hobbs
June 25th, 2010
10:18 pm
Great win. 100 and 400, have to love it.
Kris “Mad Dog” Medlen?!
richbrave
June 25th, 2010
10:19 pm
100 – 400. Love those nice round even bench-mark numbers.
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
10:19 pm
See, this is what’s going to make the difference. Billy Wagner sets us apart from the Phillies and Mets.
How shocking that the Phillies would start scoring runs again. They still can’t get people out in the 9th inning. What did they give up, 8 runs to the Twins in the 9th-11th innings last Saturday?
Wagner is the man.
RHR
June 25th, 2010
10:19 pm
aw. glad wags got it in front of his kids.
VaBravesFan
June 25th, 2010
10:19 pm
bravesfanlm
I think Escobar is worth more to us than anyone else. I think the most he could fetch in return is a comparable player that just plays OF instead of SS, Or he could fetch a few Prospects. What makes him valuble is you know your getting for sure defense, and a Ok bat thats controlable for like 3 more seasons. Will he return to his great hitting and will he grow up is the questions.
BamaDude @ CowCollege AL
June 25th, 2010
10:19 pm
Wags …”I was young and dumb” …great !!!
cheshire
June 25th, 2010
10:19 pm
i’ve got Suntrust seats for tomorrow’s game… Kawakami better bring it or else i’ll have to yell at him while he’s in the on deck circle.
Bartholomeeeew (Bat) Masterson
June 25th, 2010
10:20 pm
Rob from SC …. cheshire …..Jerry….. Do you guys even bother to read the stuff DOB writes?
Dumbfound
June 25th, 2010
10:21 pm
@METS MADNESS, Clap ! Clap !
Rob from SC
June 25th, 2010
10:21 pm
cheshire
June 25th, 2010
10:16 pm
Rob from SC, you may be right. i just think of the thumb thing were THAT big a factor, they wouldn’t have him in the lineup.
He has a soft cast around the fat part of the thumb. I think that means it is a big deal. He is being a little stubborn not adjusting by moving up on the plate.
Remember last year they kept mentioning Schafer’s wrist and it turned put to be broken.
Feeanch
June 25th, 2010
10:22 pm
Cheshire…who you know @ Suntrust? Do me a favor and tip your cap in the top of the first to us all. My buddy is a broker there and we’ll be hitting a few games towards the end of the year…Have fun!
Rob from SC
June 25th, 2010
10:22 pm
Bartholomeeeew (Bat) Masterson
about no having anyone else to play there. That is not an excuse. THat is dumb
Leeeeeee
June 25th, 2010
10:22 pm
4 to 1, USC ahead! Later people!!
keylargo
June 25th, 2010
10:22 pm
I’m telling you guys that if Wagner pitches this well and does not get injured, he won’t retire. I can’t think of anyone who retired after a season when they were absolutely in the top 10% of their position.
The way he has pitched was reflected by the Tigers announcers who I quote said “man, that’s a closer!”
bp
June 25th, 2010
10:23 pm
Looks like Wags gave Bobby the game ball.
Steve from OH
June 25th, 2010
10:24 pm
Man, can’t believe Wagner is gonna retire with that much left in the tank. Losing him, Bobby and maybe Chipper next year? That’s a huge blow. Saito would be a free agent, too. Wonder how the ‘pen will shape up next year.
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
10:24 pm
The Mets better win tomorrow or they may never have a shot at first place.
I mean, is KK seriously still pitching for us? Unless we can get a little help from the M&M boys, we’re going to be in second place before sunset.
I can’t believe he’s getting another chance to start. We’re trying to win the damn division. That is not going to help matters.
Steve from OH
June 25th, 2010
10:24 pm
Can it, Rob. If I hear you whine about Heyward’s wrist one more time…
What are you, his mother or something? LOL!
Choppinmama
June 25th, 2010
10:25 pm
What a great, historic Braves game we all just watched. Not every day a closer gets 400 saves. And, 100th homer/game-winning run for BMac.
Everybody back on the bandwagon that left after the Chicago run.
RHR
June 25th, 2010
10:25 pm
keylargo – he reiterated that he wanted family time in his post game interview. I don’t see him going back on that.
Steve from OH
June 25th, 2010
10:26 pm
Wrist…thumb…same difference.
Bartholomeeeew (Bat) Masterson
June 25th, 2010
10:26 pm
Sandy Koufax
RHR
June 25th, 2010
10:27 pm
Everybody back on the bandwagon that left after the Chicago run.
Not so fast my friend. KK is pitching tomorrow.
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 25th, 2010
10:28 pm
Ah! That was a great win!!
cheshire
June 25th, 2010
10:29 pm
Feeanch, my company has 4 seats in the second row right behind the home team’s on deck circle. Will definitely tip my hat – assuming it hasn’t melted off my head
Enjoy the games you go to – i’ve done Suntrust one other time and it’s amazing.
Rob from SC
June 25th, 2010
10:30 pm
Steve from OH
We won’t win SHI# without a healthy Heyward. YOu know that steve
.576
June 25th, 2010
10:30 pm
D-Backs’ Edwin Jackson throws a 149 pitch no-no against the Rays.
monty
June 25th, 2010
10:30 pm
For me personally Medlen stays as the 4th starter, KK to the pen when they bring JJ back, and JJ becomes the 5th starter as they ease him back into the rotation and build his strength back. At some point you may flip flop Medlen and JJ depending on how well each one does.
Playoffs!!!!
June 25th, 2010
10:31 pm
Heyward just needs a few days off–especially against left-handers. We need Matt Diaz to get back in the lineup. If the can take batting practice already, then he go to Gwinnet and get 4 ABs a night and start his rehab and be back in the lineup in a week. Let’s go!!
Hey, where’s Mets Madness. I have a few things to say to him.
monty
June 25th, 2010
10:32 pm
Wagner seems set to retire. Go out on top Billy.
Choppinmama
June 25th, 2010
10:32 pm
Cheshire: wave one of those bacon-wrapped shrimp kebobs at us in the 1st inning, ok, you lucky son-of-a-gun?
keylargo
June 25th, 2010
10:32 pm
Bat – I think Koufax had a choice. Retire or his arm was going to fall off. That’s why I said if Wagner pitches like this and stays healthy.
Me and you might be the only ones old enough to have seen him pitch, but I think of Randy Johnson’s best day ever and compare it to Koufax’s average performance as far as “stuff” goes.
cheshire
June 25th, 2010
10:33 pm
monty, totally agree. i don’t think there is any doubt that KK will be the odd man out.
although i just read an article where Cox is saying Jurrjens will be scheduled to pitch Wednesday, which would be Medlen’s start. so apparently Medlen will be the 5th starter. that’s a pretty awesome 5th starter to have.
Steve from OH
June 25th, 2010
10:33 pm
Yeah, we’re not as good without a healthy Heyward, but posting 20 times per day about his thumb gets us nowhere, Rob.
cheshire
June 25th, 2010
10:34 pm
haha, will do Choppinmama. maybe if i get really daring i’ll run out on the field just to impress you guys.
Feeanch
June 25th, 2010
10:34 pm
Cheshire, anytime you have extra seats brotha, find me!
todd.finch@medtronic.com
Choppinmama
June 25th, 2010
10:35 pm
RHR: wellll, they can at least climb up the first couple of steps………not too far, though………you’re right……….that jump back down after the KK start could prove injurious.
Mitchell
June 25th, 2010
10:38 pm
I’d rather see JoJo Reyes pitching tomorrow than freakin’ KK.
To paraphrase Mitch Williams, only Bobby Cox would keep a guy with an 0-9 record in the starting rotation.
Mitch Williams of all people! Talking trash about Bobby Cox. Ridiculous.
Sopheeeeee
June 25th, 2010
10:39 pm
And I hope Soph didn’t miss Avery in the booth
Oh, I didn’t. ♥
Choppinmama
June 25th, 2010
10:39 pm
Chesire: don’t you dare!! If you do, I’m not contributing to your bail fund.
monty
June 25th, 2010
10:40 pm
I don’t know how much weight BC puts on rehab start stats, obviously not much considering JJ’s. But it wasn’t pretty down there and the last I heard, guys up here hit a little better. This could get interesting on Wednesday. Seems like he wouldn’t tamper with success, but what do I know.
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
10:40 pm
If you have, then more power to your ability to observe, but I haven’t seen it. This is what I do. When I see Heyward struggling the way he has and knowing that his thumb has been mentioned as the culprit, I tend to watch for signs of it bothering him. I honestly haven’t seen it. Jerry
I think it bites him some when he tries to hit a ball to left so he is not doing that as much or nearly as well in the last month
bravefaninok
June 25th, 2010
10:41 pm
The Jackson no-no is the second no-no against the Rays the Dallas Braden perfecto was also against Tampa…..has a World series team every been no hit twice in one season and went on to win a ring?
monty
June 25th, 2010
10:41 pm
What? No Met trolls tonight?
Bartholomeeeew (Bat) Masterson
June 25th, 2010
10:41 pm
keylargo_ Yeah, I just threw that out there on a lark. If the Braves were to win it all I could see Wagner giving it up. If not, but look good for next year, it seems that would be hard to walk away from.
Sopheeeeee
June 25th, 2010
10:42 pm
I just saw the link RHR posted for LT’s blog with the intro songs for all the players. Yeah, I’m mad at Lowe for using the song he does. Ew.
Steve from OH
June 25th, 2010
10:42 pm
I’d rather see JoJo Reyes pitching tomorrow than freakin’ KK.
I really don’t think you do.
TnBrian
June 25th, 2010
10:43 pm
Congrats to Wagner on 400 and Carroll Rogers for the shoutout she got from Ernie Johnson.
Oh, and to the Bravos who are still dominant at home!
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
10:44 pm
I didn’t know that about Markakis. BFIM
I’ll take a career 835 hitter most days anyway.119 OPS+ ain’t a star but ain’t bad
monty
June 25th, 2010
10:45 pm
I’m diggin that Johnny Venters.
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
10:47 pm
That right there tells you he needs to go on the DL Rob SC
it has been said many times that a stint on the DL is probably not gonna fix his thumb unless you wanna lose him for 60 days, and if so who in the hell are they gonna play out there?
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 25th, 2010
10:47 pm
Sopheeee Oh, I didn’t. ♥
Yeah, yeah, yeah…
richbrave
June 25th, 2010
10:48 pm
DOWN ON THE FARM:
27 year old LF MATT YOUNG has done it. Tonight he goes 3-5 with a double and RBI. In the process, he lifts his BA to a tidy .300. On May 1, it was a miserable .237. In the middle of the month he began to stir, and for the month of June he’s hit .337 not including tonight. Way to go MATT. 3B WES ‘OLD MAN RIVER’ TIMMONS is 1-4 with a BB and run scored (.284). DH FREDDIE FREEMAN goes 1-4 also with a walk and an RBI (.273). !B BARBARO ‘THE FLAILING CUBAN’ CANIZARES is 2-5 goes yard (4) has 2 RBI (30), a run scored, and lifts his BA to .310. JORDAN SCHAFER breaks the fences with a yard shot as well (1) and raises his BA to .219. SS LUIS ‘THE LIBERATOR’ BOLIVAR has a multi-hit night (2-4), scores two runs and his average rises to .229. Despite all these long flys and multi-hitters, GWINNETT loses 7-5 to the COLUMBUS CLIPPERS.
Pitching is not so good. JOSE ORTEGANO, SCOTT PROCTOR, and CORY GEARRIN combine to allow 10 H including a round tripper, 6 ER, 5 BB, and only 7 SO. Yuck, ’nuff said. Everybody stunk it.
Sopheeeeee
June 25th, 2010
10:49 pm
McFann, I’m sad to say that I did miss Mac’s 100th live. Luckily, I left the channel and rewinded back to it though.
TnBrian
June 25th, 2010
10:49 pm
You saw what the Tigers did to Medlen in the 1st and he wasn’t off his mark by much. He settled in and pitched awesome by changing speeds and throwing K’s.
KK needs a miracle!
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
10:49 pm
Me and you might be the only ones old enough to have seen him pitch KL
I doubt that seriously
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 25th, 2010
10:51 pm
Sopheeee I’m sad to say that I did miss Mac’s 100th live.
Cool! Now we have our own little club…
Luckily, I left the channel and rewinded back to it though.
I got to see the replays…
Sopheeeeee
June 25th, 2010
10:53 pm
Noooo, McFann. Say it ain’t so? You missed it too?
Venice Jim
June 25th, 2010
10:55 pm
noleeeeee – you are correct – I saw Sandy pitch on numerous occasions…
Sopheeeeee
June 25th, 2010
10:55 pm
Congrats on your wedding that I wasn’t invited to, VJ.
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 25th, 2010
10:56 pm
Sopheeee Say it ain’t so?
Well, I don’t wanna lie…but if you insist…
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 25th, 2010
10:57 pm
There should be a
at the end of that post, BTW.
I’ve done enough rotten things to deserve that punch in the gut…
Roman Gal
June 25th, 2010
10:58 pm
Who do you think she is- Roman Gal? cabravesfan
If anything, I stay on the bandwagon until everyone else is gone or dead, clinging to the edges and screaming bloody murder at anyone who tries to pry my cold fingers from said wagon.
J-Hey
June 25th, 2010
11:00 pm
“Bowman suggests that “some members of the Braves organization” wouldn’t mind parting ways with Escobar, due in part to his approach to the game”
as sub-par as his hitting has been this year, if they don’t have a suitable replacement they shouldn’t even think about trading him
monty
June 25th, 2010
11:01 pm
BC at the very least may have to start platooning Jason, use him against RHP mostly. Get Diaz back, see what’s cookin with him. Jason against RHP, Diaz against LHP.
Venice Jim
June 25th, 2010
11:01 pm
Soph – I’m sorry that I missed it too…
richbrave
June 25th, 2010
11:01 pm
DOWN ON THE FARM:
The PEARLS tied in the top of the ninth 3-3 tonight against the MOBILE BAYBEARS. MIKE MINOR has a solid outing, too many hits (9), but well scattered over 7.0 IP. Only 2 ER with 1 BB, and 8 SO. BENINO PRUNEDA gets to the last strike and then walks the hitter in the top of the ninth. TOMMY PALICA comes on gives up the tying run, and a blown save for PRUNEDA. A waste of a nice outing for MINOR.
LF MIKE DANIEL has a multi-hit night 2-4 with a double and RBI. RF WILLIE CABRERA is 1-2 with a double, two walks, and raises his average to .a strong .312.
Bartholomeeeew (Bat) Masterson
June 25th, 2010
11:01 pm
Well, truth be told, I was a little kid when Koufax retired.
cabravesfan
June 25th, 2010
11:02 pm
RG-
I was referring to the Yankees part of that comment
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 25th, 2010
11:02 pm
I’m thinking we’re looking good for the second half. Let’s see how Jurrgens does in this start–he’s got the All-Star break to further rehab. Chipper, too. Jason may not see much time in the All-Star game either. Diaz coming back. KK might even think of the second half as a new season. We’ve also got a home heavy schedule in the second half.
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
11:02 pm
youngster
Bartholomeeeew (Bat) Masterson
June 25th, 2010
11:03 pm
Roman Gal _ Did you see that
EarsSchafer hit a homerun?Venice Jim
June 25th, 2010
11:04 pm
Saw Drysdale in person at Shea one night…Sandy only on TV…
Sopheeeeee
June 25th, 2010
11:05 pm
149 pitch, 8 BB, no-no. Nice.
monty
June 25th, 2010
11:05 pm
Richbrave
“MIKE MINOR has a solid outing, too many hits (9), but well scattered over 7.0 IP. Only 2 ER with 1 BB, and 8 SO”
Hey, that sounds like Tommy Glavine type numbers.
Bartholomeeeew (Bat) Masterson
June 25th, 2010
11:06 pm
nolie, was it you that said, we should be able to tell a lot more about Schafer after he hit his first homerun?
monty
June 25th, 2010
11:06 pm
Cliff Lee has walked 4 batters all year!
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 25th, 2010
11:07 pm
Would LOVE to see Cliff Lee in a Braves uni.
Roman Gal
June 25th, 2010
11:11 pm
cab-
I know, just chose to make my own interpretation is all.
keylargo
June 25th, 2010
11:11 pm
Here’s a trivia question:
What are these numbers?
.875 / .928 / .855 / .985
RHR
June 25th, 2010
11:12 pm
wait. I thought KK was Mitchell’s “boy”. I know he said that.
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
11:12 pm
we should be able to tell a lot more about Schafer after he hit his first homerun? Bat
nope, t’weren’t moi. gonna take a lot longer than that IMO
keylargo
June 25th, 2010
11:13 pm
Trivia answer
Sandy Koufax’s WHIP the LAST four years of his career.
His record and ERA during those last four years?
25 – 5 / 19 – 5 / 26 – 8 / 27 – 9
1.88 / 1.74 / 2.04 / 1.73
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
11:13 pm
I thought KK was Mitchell’s “boy”. I know he said that. RHR
he renounced any future support about two starts ago. amazing he backed him as long as he did considering his luv of instant gratification
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
11:15 pm
Sandy Koufax’s WHIP the LAST four years of his career. KL
kinda amazing since he started out so wild. Big Unit did much the same over his career. startred wild but ended with very good control.
Roman Gal
June 25th, 2010
11:16 pm
Bat-
Actually, I hadn’t seen that! But that’s awesome!
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 25th, 2010
11:16 pm
Nolee–
Do you think a good outing for KK will do anything to save his place in the rotation?
richbrave
June 25th, 2010
11:17 pm
DOWN ON THE FARM:
Now we’re talking – ARODYS VIZCAINO starts and goes 5.0 with only three hits and one earned, 0 BB, 4 SO. SWEET. YELIAR CASTRO comes on in relief and almost immediately gives up a string of 3’s – three hits, three runs, three earned runs, three base-on-balls and a strikeout in only 1.1 IP. Despite the putrid effort, he gets the win raising his record to 4-2. ANGELO PAULINO gets a hold (3) with 1.2 innings of shutout ball. LUIS AVILAN has a one walk shutout bottom of the ninth for his third save.
Finally away from the BIRDS home field, they bust out with 12 hits and go 6-13 with RISP. Lead-off hitter CF LEE WARE is 2-5, a double, 2 RBI, and a run. RF CORY HARRILCHAK has an exact duplicate 2-5 evening with a double, 2 RBI and run scored. LF CORY MILES is 3-4, a double, one RBI and a run.
MISSISSIPPI blows the game in the ninth. BENINO PRUNEDA tagged with the loss.
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 25th, 2010
11:17 pm
OK, I’m out…but, not to be a pest here (little late for that, I know), if anyone remembers/cares to share that story told told about BMac after the Home Run, I would REALLY appreciate. It may even be one I’ve read before, but prob’ly not. Anyway, thanks in advance!
Night, all!!!!
Fan since 1977
June 25th, 2010
11:17 pm
DOB – was Frank Wren trying to get KK a good deal on a Toyota with those fellas?
Well, it would free up payroll……
J-Hey
June 25th, 2010
11:19 pm
Would LOVE to see Cliff Lee in a Braves uni.
http://tinyurl.com/36bjz9a
I think it fits him
Roman Gal
June 25th, 2010
11:19 pm
McFann-
The one that Dale Murphy told?
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 25th, 2010
11:21 pm
j-Hey–He a bad mofo
David O'Brien
June 25th, 2010
11:23 pm
Great quotes from Wagner, McCann, Medlen coming shortly to a blog near you.
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 25th, 2010
11:24 pm
DOB–Is KK beyond redemption at this point?
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
11:24 pm
no real idea Woodeeeeee. Meds helped his cause tonight. I’ve already said that I’m not sure KK in the pen and Kris in the SR is a good idea. I don’t have strong feelings either way, but I do worry about Meds IP total for the year a bit.
richbrave
June 25th, 2010
11:25 pm
DOWN ON THE FARM:
BRETT DeVALL goes 6.2, 9 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 4 SO and gets the win to go to 4-5. DAVID BERRYHILL on for his fourth save with 2.1 IP of shutout ball.
C KEN ‘TOP GUN’ SCHLEHUBER is 2-4 tonight, a double, 2 RBI, 1 R, the only R-BRAVE with multi-hits. 1B RIAAN SPANJER-FURSTENBURG is 1-3 with a BB, and run scored.
abwright
June 25th, 2010
11:28 pm
noleeeee, June 25th, 2010, 11:15 pm … “kinda amazing since he [Koufax] started out so wild. … startred [sic] wild but ended with very good control.
Maybe his arm hurt so bad on every pitch that he figured he needed to make them all count.
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 25th, 2010
11:28 pm
Nolee–
Thanks. Is Bobby thinking that far down the line? Would we see a switcharoo again should Medlin falter in late August?
abwright
June 25th, 2010
11:30 pm
I think I supported KK up til his last start. If he repeats the very poor outing, his next should be his last.
On the other hand, if he throws a perfect game, how could you remove him from the rotation?
unbelievable
June 25th, 2010
11:31 pm
DOB, can we find out why Chipper was laughing so hard on the field?
Roman Gal
June 25th, 2010
11:31 pm
Riaan Spanjer-Furstenburg’s bones must be made of some kind of supernatural material, because it took them extra-long to heal.
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 25th, 2010
11:33 pm
It seems a bit ludicrous to look at good outings and bad outings from a guy who is 0-9, but who else thinks that KK just had a bad game in his last start? I didn’t see him go after hitters as he has in his best games this year. Maybe I’m all wet, but I’m not ready to send him to Siberia yet.
richbrave
June 25th, 2010
11:34 pm
DOWN ON THE FARM:
Scatterings:
DANVILLE bombs BLUEFIELD 9-4. Five doubles and a triple. Four pitchers combine for 9.0 IP of 4 H ball. Nice!!!!!!! 9 BB – 8 SO, not nice. Rookies !!!!
GCL and DSL nothing new. Must have had a day off.
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
11:37 pm
I hope they are thinking of his IP totals for the year.
Just commenting here, His K rate is down a good bit this year but his walk is so improved that his SO/BB ratio has improved.
cricket
June 25th, 2010
11:38 pm
Great quotes from Wagner, McCann, Medlen coming shortly to a blog near you.
This sounds like 11 O’clock local news teaser
McFann
Murphy story about Mac went something like this – Knucksie, Murph were filming an add where Knucksie says ‘It takes a great man to throw a knuckleball’ to which Murph replies ‘It takes a greater man to hit a knuckleball’. In 2nd part of filming, Knucksie repeats his line and Mac is supposed to reply ‘It takes greater man to catch a knuckleball’. Mac declined saying his line because as he put it, he would never say he was a greater man than the greatly respected legend Knucksie.
TnBrian
June 25th, 2010
11:39 pm
J-Hey, except that Cliff Lee is a lefty.
What we need is a RH hitter with some thump, not another pitcher.
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 25th, 2010
11:40 pm
Is management keeping close track of Meds pitch count then?
keylargo
June 25th, 2010
11:42 pm
I don’t know how many innings Medlen is limited to this year but he has apprx. 74 now. If he starts 18 more games and averages 6 innings per, that’s 108, for a total of 182. It would be bad news for the Braves to make the playoffs and have a burnt out pitcher for the playoffs. That’s a lot of innings for a young arm.
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
11:42 pm
we could use a lefty starter for later series against Phil and I’d take Lee in a heartbeat if they could re-sign him. Not a big fan of giving up much for three month rentals. never know how that is gonna work out
Bartholomeeeew (Bat) Masterson
June 25th, 2010
11:42 pm
Mac should have said, it takes a crazy man to try to catch it.
monty
June 25th, 2010
11:43 pm
IMO there is something a little off with KK’s mechanics this year. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but his delivery is slightly different than last years. Just going on memory.
Brave4life-1995 all over again
June 25th, 2010
11:43 pm
Good game
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
11:44 pm
182 would be too much IMO KL. 150ish outta be tops.
WW I don’t know how much they are paying attention at this point, I just hope they are, especially as it progresses.
Steve from OH
June 25th, 2010
11:44 pm
Meds threw 105 last year and 120 in ‘08. 180 is a big jump.
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 25th, 2010
11:44 pm
TnBrian–
Is power the medicine we need, given the kind of game Bobby has been playing this year? We’re already third in runs scored in the NL this year.
Bartholomeeeew (Bat) Masterson
June 25th, 2010
11:45 pm
120 innings is Medlens max, that was 2 years ago. Last year, majors and minors, I think it was 105. One might think his ceiling would be around 150.
TnBrian
June 25th, 2010
11:46 pm
They aren’t trading Escobar this season, imo. I believe that because the Braves aren’t dumb enough to take an offer that doesn’t justify what they probably believe, and will, do in the future. He’s been bad at the plate for the most part, though his defense has been really good.
Then again, some team could blow them away with an offer they can’t refuse. I do think they’d trade him if the offer was right. He looks like a downer to be around from my view.
Steve from OH
June 25th, 2010
11:46 pm
Woody–yeah, I think we do need some more pop. We walk a lot and hit for good average, but we need that ability to put multiple runs on the board with one swing. Right now, we’re stringing hits and walks together for runs. It’s been working great, but sometimes you need that big blast, you know?
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
11:46 pm
they coulda worked in the old Uecker joke about the best way to handle it is to run quickly to the backstop and pick it up.
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 25th, 2010
11:46 pm
OK, so say Bobby goes with Medlin the rotation once Jurrgens gets back. What happens if he falters in late August? Can we bring back KK into the rotation then? I think the long run is a very interesting question.
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 25th, 2010
11:49 pm
Steve–
I’m playing the “waiting for Esco” game. Hopefully, he can supply the pop. Dangerous, I know, but if he heats up after the all-star break, is the power question moot?
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
11:51 pm
my thoughts don’t have much to do with whether he falters or not. Even if he pitches great there is no way they should pitch him more that around 150 innings. Sure they could bring KK back, or if Kris continues well they could skip some starts and limit him to 6 IP or so each time. Lots of options to keep his workload within reason.
If he does falter they have KK and perhaps Minor though with his salary you would think they would give KK the first shot.
Steve from OH
June 25th, 2010
11:51 pm
Yeah, if Esco starts hitting, we’re dangerous. But still, how dangerous would we be with Esco and another power bat? I don’t think it’s imperative we get one, but it would be huge if we did. Without one, we probably don’t get to the WS, but with one we’re a threat to win it all.
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
11:52 pm
Esco’s mechanics are gonna preclude a whole lot of homers from him, but he sure needs to start with the doubles again like previously.
Choppinmama
June 25th, 2010
11:52 pm
DOB: ok, I’ll stay up thru BB Tonight, waiting on the post-game quotes.
Any alumni anecdotes or quotes you’d care to share from today? Not meaning you have to post them tonight, of course.
Going to the softball game tomorrow? I would so love to attend that one. Did you ever go to any of the 99X Celebrity softball games? Don’t remember you on anyone’s roster. I can remember thinking if Clark Howard can get out there and play, anyone can!
cricket
June 25th, 2010
11:52 pm
Pitch count should be watched but Med is not going to be a starter in playoffs.
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 25th, 2010
11:53 pm
Steve–
Do you think the Nats would part with Adam Dunn, for instance?
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
11:53 pm
whatever the get they have to be able to pay for it which IMO is gonna limit the quality of a pick up.
Bartholomeeeew (Bat) Masterson
June 25th, 2010
11:54 pm
Yeah nolie, the Uecker joke would have been good.
If the Braves brass reads the blog they will be up to speed on Medlen’s innings pitched, and where to cut him off.
David O'Brien
June 25th, 2010
11:54 pm
The promised quotes:
http://blogs.ajc.com/atlanta-braves-blog/2010/06/25/wagner-braves-quotes-after-fridays-win/
noleeeee
June 25th, 2010
11:54 pm
not talking about the playoffs cricket. steady starting during the rest of the season will produce to0 many IP. He will be counted on in the pen if they get to the playoffs.
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 25th, 2010
11:55 pm
nolee–
What do the you think the asking price is? Farm? Or someone on the current roster?
Steve from OH
June 25th, 2010
11:56 pm
Oh, I definitely think they would, but I don’t think the Braves would be interested, and I have my reservations as well. He’s definitely the bat, but he’s not a good defensive player and our bread and butter in the long run will be pitching and defense. He doesn’t fit into that scheme at all. Plus, an OF with Melky in center and Dunn in left is gonna cost a lot of runs.
Like I said, I don’t think it’s a move we absolutely have to make, but it would be a great move to make us a really complete team. I just don’t think Dunn is the right fit.
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 26th, 2010
12:00 am
What about Diaz coming back? He may not have the power that we would like, but he’s a live bat. And not a liability in the field. You know, the chemistry is so good on this team right now, I would hate to mess with it. It’s a bunch of gamers. Garret Anderson, for example, was just so out of place, even though he had some timely at bats last year. He was awful in the field and a real dud in terms of energy.
Choppinmama
June 26th, 2010
12:01 am
DOB: you forgot to ask Mac “What do you think about your biggest fan missing your milestone 100th tonight?”
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
12:02 am
thank you for the quotes David. I think that is a great addition to the blog and i enjoy it very much every night…more so with a win though
Pameeeeeeeeeeeeee
June 26th, 2010
12:03 am
Great Quotes, Thanks
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
12:05 am
maybe I wasn’t paying enough attention. I was championing Cliff Lee not Carlos. you know what happens when you are old as dirt
Steve from OH
June 26th, 2010
12:06 am
Diaz will be good, I agree. I think ultimately the Braves will want Hinske to revert back to the bench, and he can do that some days if he’s platooning with Diaz. Diaz ain’t the answer, but he murders lefties, that’s for sure. Sure doesn’t hurt to have a guy like that on the team.
Jordan Schafer–get your act together, son.
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
12:09 am
Diaz/Hinske could remind of the Klesko/Ice platoon that was so helpful to an earlier team. Though Williams was a better defender than Matty
Steve from OH
June 26th, 2010
12:10 am
Diaz/Hinske makes for a good platoon, though. Together they’re a good LF. Not much defensively, though, and with Melky in center that’s a bit shaky. Like I said, Schafer–get it together!
Choppinmama
June 26th, 2010
12:10 am
I’ll let the overnight shift get started on this…………….caption this Smoltz photo:
http://projects.ajc.com/gallery/view/sports/dream/smoltz-dream-practice/#sldr
The A Bomb
June 26th, 2010
12:10 am
How about Jim Edmonds? He’s 40, but he would come cheap and can still play in a platoon role. Guy’s been through it before. Low maintenance for Cox… good for the stretch run.
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 26th, 2010
12:12 am
Steve–
I would like us to stand pat until August–see what happens when everyone gets healthy. If we still need the stick, pick up a veteran who can be energized by the spirit of this team, then ride off into the sunset–next year. We’ve had those kind of pick ups in the past. Nothing like winning to revitalize a player. (I notice that the prospects of a Chipper resurgence has not been mentioned.)
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
12:13 am
why would we want another lefty? Hinske is fine for that.No matter what some say on here about not needing a righty, I believe we do since as a team we do not seem to handle them well
Bravefaninok
June 26th, 2010
12:15 am
The old Hoss has a 9 game hitting streak and was wearing a super sized smile tonight!
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
12:16 am
Chipper’s BA is still coming up, have questions about his power doing the same, but his OBP sure helps the front of the lineup
The A Bomb
June 26th, 2010
12:17 am
Edmonds could platoon with Diaz and give us another excellent outfielder with postseason experience. I have to believe Cox and Co. are not interested in any more “projects” — leave those to the new guy.
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
12:22 am
don’t need Edmonds they have Hinske and do not as a rule carry all that many OFers.nothing against Jim as a part timer but i seriously doubt they are interested in another LHed hitting OFer. Ya never know fur shur though I gotta admit.
The A Bomb
June 26th, 2010
12:26 am
We all love Hinske but the threat we bring with our tremendous bench needs to be defined for the rest of the season…
We need a guy like Matt Stairs was to the Phils and Hinske seems best suited to fill that role down the stretch. Edmonds is much more polished than Blanco and would add another vet guy.
You’re right — you never know.
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 26th, 2010
12:27 am
Fellers–I think we got a dang good team right now. We have good players on the DL and we don’t have to give up anything for them. Again, my biggest concern is Jurrgens. If there is a fantasy deal, Cliff Lee would be it for me.
TnBrian
June 26th, 2010
12:27 am
Heyward must be stubborn or something. They HAVE to be telling or at least suggesting he move up a bit in the batters box. Joe Simpson said it perfectly tonight …. he’s rolling over pitches on the outer part of the plate in large part because he’s too far back in the box to begin with.
TnBrian
June 26th, 2010
12:30 am
Yunel is pulling outside pitches again.
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
12:33 am
well I looked it up and Edmonds would be cheaper than I thought he would be so the question becomes who the Ms would want and who we would be willing to give. Would he really be worth giving up a real prospect for?
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 26th, 2010
12:35 am
Was anyone else impressed with Putz and Jenks in the CWS series? Got to be one of the best one-twos in the majors at the moment.
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 26th, 2010
12:36 am
Nolee–
Would Edmunds get any cheaper late in the season, in terms of who they would take?
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
12:38 am
Putz and Jerks, whot kinda names are them for ballplayers?
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 26th, 2010
12:39 am
Enter your comments here
The A Bomb
June 26th, 2010
12:40 am
Edmonds would probably cost a low-level prospect IMO. He’s a 2-month rental who’s looking for another shot at the postseason.
Probably a good return if you look at it that way.
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 26th, 2010
12:40 am
Nolee–
Just the kinda names for ballplayers! Would you want them as your law firm?
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 26th, 2010
12:41 am
A Bomb–
How’s his bat speed?
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
12:42 am
If they traded him I would guess it would be end of July at the deadline. Maybe not but the odds would be of that happening. Certain that we could afford 300some thousand which is what he would cost salary. More important is what they want. My guess is that he would not come too cheap prospect wise since there might be other teams wanting him, but he isn’t likely to bring a great prospect. Like I said though I’m not convinced he would be what this team needs and I wonder if Wren would think so? Speculation is the name of the game though
Tomahawkin
June 26th, 2010
12:43 am
“Get Out The WAYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!
Pretty Boy Coming Through!”
I had a ticket to tonights game but had to work, damn it!
I will be at the ChopHouse tomorrow “Bank on it!” I have a free ticket for next Saturday’s game to give away there for any braves fan that is going to the game…Just meet me at the Chophouse and drop me a few lines…
The A Bomb
June 26th, 2010
12:44 am
Edmonds had a 3-hit game the other night…. One of the few left-handed hitters I’ve seen who likes the high pitch…. drives the ball to left center a lot. Not a pull hitter at all. Never has been.
Plus, he’s still a very good outfielder — not what he was — but very, very solid.
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 26th, 2010
12:46 am
A-bomb
what about the chemistry? How would he fit in on this team?
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
12:46 am
I always liked Jimmy. I wanted him years and years ago from the Angels.
The A Bomb
June 26th, 2010
12:48 am
Edmonds is a true pro and always has been…. Played with Glaus and I think he’s that “Cox guy” that we always seem to get when we’re contending… Plus, again, he comes with a glove.
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 26th, 2010
12:50 am
I can’t believe I’m saying this–maybe it’s the wine talking–but this being Bobby’s last year and all, we’ve got a special thing going on. I’m wondering if Chipper might have a surge in him that would satisfy the need we’re talking about. Again, I’ve not been a Chipper fan, but I’m wondering if this is a closed shop right now. How might a new guy fit in?
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
12:53 am
I think most players would fit in, it’s not like Cox and Wren are gonna get a Manny type guy.
Chemistry is nice but Physics is a lot more important in the long run.
Whole lotta teams that did nothing but fight with each other have been very successful.
Tommeeee O'Hawkeeee
June 26th, 2010
1:01 am
Tom O’Hawke, that’s awesome! I remember Powell and Sutton did something like that last year. MAN, I wish I could’ve heard that. (TnBrian)
Brian, I contacted the program director at 680 The Fan, and he was nice enough to put that audio segment on the web and then said me the link. (Hi nolie)
http://www.stationcaster.com/player.php?s=87&c=699&f=523790
…..and then, the one-post-wonder disappears into the darkness…..
uga-brave
June 26th, 2010
1:03 am
jim edmomds are you guys serious?
uga-brave
June 26th, 2010
1:08 am
nice win tonight. bobby made the moves. funny how nobody ever says that after a win.
really nice to have two lh’s out there before wags.
gives bobby a little flexibility.
venters is nasty against left handed hitters.
uga-brave
June 26th, 2010
1:12 am
little fuel to the fire for the kk guys. kk and saito have 39% of the losses on their record.
that said, i would not be shocked if kawakami throws a good one tmmrw.
no pressure. i think he knows his fate.
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
1:13 am
UGA, if you read what I wrote you know that I am not advocating acquiring him, but he is still a decent player especially part time. If he was a RHer I’d think seriously about him.
Tomahawkin
June 26th, 2010
1:19 am
UGABrave
“jim edmomds are you guys serious?”
You took the words right out of my mouth…
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 26th, 2010
1:25 am
How ’bout Jermaine Dye?
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
1:25 am
look at the guy’s stats T’Hawk and compare them to any of our OFers
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
1:26 am
Dye is done
Drawyeh_Nosaj
June 26th, 2010
1:26 am
Jim Edmonds brings nothing to the table the Braves don’t already have. How many left handed, limited pop, center-but-I’d-be-better-in-left fielders to we need?
Tomahawkin
June 26th, 2010
1:26 am
Everyone and They Mama on here is saying that we need more pop in the lineup…
I agree but since the steroid era is over there arent that many guys in the league who can hit 30 plus homers now w/o striking out over 150 times, not to mention who will not cost you your minor league system…
I think the braves lay low, and stick with the same offense…
With that said, we really don’t have the Power Threat that scares opposing pitchers…I guess it works both ways…
I’d rather settle in trading for someone who can steal bases in close games against a dominating pitcher (Santana, Halliday, Lee, etc…)
I hate to say it but our power bat that we need to trade for is probably already here…and that is number 10
uga-brave
June 26th, 2010
1:28 am
nolie, i am up for all options, but at this point i shudder to say this melky is a better option.
josh willingham would interest me. .900 .ops. has walked 46 times and has 13 dingers in a big ballpark,
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 26th, 2010
1:28 am
Just joshin’ about Dye, Nolee. His name was prominent on these pages early in the season. I’ve always said “nurtz” to that suggestion.
Tomahawkin
June 26th, 2010
1:30 am
Nolie…
I will Co-Sign on the fact that Production from our OF’s has been Garbage the last two years…But the problem is we have a logjam of OF’s, and with Matty-D coming back, he may be the bat we need if he comes out in the second half playing like he did in last years second half…I’m i’m not mistaking he is a better second half hitter?
But what worries me is that he may struggle with MLB pitching from being out so long, and add to the fact he wasn’t Clowning at the plate when he got injured…
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 26th, 2010
1:30 am
Wondering if the Nats would be “willing” to deal to anyone in the division.
Tomahawkin
June 26th, 2010
1:31 am
W Wooodard
Jermaine Dye’s Name has been thrown around on the phillies forum, so it’s just not us that are talking about him…
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
1:32 am
’d rather settle in trading for someone who can steal bases in close games against a dominating pitcher (Santana, Halliday, Lee, etc…) T’Hawk
least efficient strategy arouind. teams that have a lot of stolen bases are as likely to be low scoring teams a not. When you consider the options are Gregor and Nate I fail to see how you can turn your nose up at a guy who is currently OPSing 937.
Tomas
June 26th, 2010
1:35 am
Shorstops all around the Majors have really awful numbers, compared to previous years.
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 26th, 2010
1:36 am
Tomahawkin-
I’m with Nolee on Dye. Stick a fork in him.
Tomahawkin
June 26th, 2010
1:37 am
Nolie…
There are gonna be games where you need someone who can get themselves in S. Position via a SB (especially in the postseason)
Look at the Phils last year, they had 4 guys with 20 plus stolen bases, and we all know where they ended up….
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
1:37 am
Dye already refused a Nat’s offer. he says he will not come east. The fact that he is mentioned on other boards pretty much means nothing in real life. He really really sucked the last 4 months of last season. Interesting to see if he changes his mind, but I wouldn’t touch him at all
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 26th, 2010
1:38 am
Nolee–
You’ve said before (if I’m correct) that Blanco is not an everyday player. What’s his downside?
Tomahawkin
June 26th, 2010
1:39 am
Not to mention Gregor and Nate…Don’t scare opposing pitchers when they get on base…Nate Stopped running and G. Blanco isn’t that good a base-stealer (Awareness-wise)
The days we had nixon and deion …Those two would run at will on pitchers, especially in close game to put themselves in S. Position… thats is one of the many reasons why the 91-93 braves won som many close games in which the offense scored 3 or fewer runs…
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
1:40 am
Look at the Phils last year, they had 4 guys with 20 plus stolen bases, and we all know where they ended up T’Hawk
baloney. nothing but coincidence. the Mets led the Braves a few years ago 200 SB to 65 and we outscored them. Very inefficient. and Bobby would not run all that much anyway. They are not gonna waste a roster space on a guy who can only run.
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
1:42 am
thats is one of the many reasons why the 91-93 braves won som many close games in which the offense scored 3 or fewer runs… T’H
that statement makes no sense at all. we won so many games where we scored three or less because of out pitching. If all those steals you remember meant much of anything they would have caused the Braves to score more than three runs. sigh
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 26th, 2010
1:46 am
Again, we’re third in the NL in runs scored. Is that our problem?
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
1:47 am
speed is great to have given skills that compliment it, but by itself is of limited value.
uga-brave
June 26th, 2010
1:49 am
willingham is making $4.6 this season. probbly have to give up a decent pitching prospect and another position player.
pretty sure he is on their radar.
gonna be interesting to see what kind of flexibility wren has when it comes to adding payroll.
i have been one of liberty media’s biggest detractors, but in all fairness it could be a LOT worse.
just look across town at the atlanta spirit group.
i really thought the hawks, with their first round pick were going to draft a big bag of cash.
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
1:50 am
I think offensive inconsistancy is a bit of a problem. The score a lot when they walk a lot which they often do, but in Chicago they walked very seldom and only had one again tonight. Pitchers who pound the plate can hamper them. If I added anything it would be some RHed pop if not too expensive in trade cost
Drawyeh_Nosaj
June 26th, 2010
1:51 am
I think you guys are missing his point in that adding a CF would not help that much, as the top ones wont be traded by their respective teams, and anyone else doesn’t upgrade enough to waste prospects. However, take someone like an ace like Oswalt or Lee, move Medlen back to the pen (for the rest of the year), KK goes into pen when JJ comes back. That way, your staff consists of:
Oswalt/Lee
Hudson
Hanson
JJ
Lowe
CL: Wagner
8th: Saito
7th: Moylan
MR: O’ Flarhety, Venters
LR: Medlen, KK
Nobody in the majors could match that
NO MORE BOBBY
June 26th, 2010
1:53 am
Just saw the catch dude made for Washington against the Orioles. Very Otis Nixon and the Baltimore player gave a real tip of the cap for the catch.
Tomahawkin
June 26th, 2010
1:53 am
Nolie
Sorry I should’ve worded that better
Agreed, The pitching carried the team for those seasons, but when the offense went through slumps back then it was our speed at the top that made the difference in winning 1-0/2-0/2-1 games
Not to mention during the stretch run and playoffs those years, the guys at the top of the order who were threats on the bases made the difference in lot of game…
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 26th, 2010
1:54 am
Nolee–
Is there a staff in the NL would present the sort of problems that Chicago did? Or did we just run into a hot team whose pitchers were on a roll?
TnBrian
June 26th, 2010
1:54 am
When Diaz comes back, that’s him, Cabrera, Hinske, Heyward and Mclouth when he returns. 5 OF’s, so one has to be traded and I’m thinking Melky is the one that goes since nobody would want Nate with his dollars and barely legal production.
If I were Wren, I’d go after a full time CF and platoon Hinske/Diaz in LF. Willingham can barely play LF, so there’s no way he’d play CF. A Hinske/Diaz platoon would put up as good, if not better numbers than a Willingham would.
The Brewers don’t look like they’ll deal Hart and DeJesus is another LH gap guy. We really need a RH slugger more than anything, imo.
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
1:55 am
sure give me Lee and I’m thrilled, but Oswald sure ain’t much anymore for his cost and NWIH can they afford Lee. Gotta be realistic, they are not gonna pick up that kinda salary not do they have enough upper level prospects to do so. Great lower level pitching no doubt, but other teams are gonna say that A level pitchers no matter their promise are not worth a star and who wants to give up a couple of them for 10 weeks rental? Not me. I’d love Lee if they could re-sign him but otherwise nope.
Tomahawkin
June 26th, 2010
1:57 am
Nolie
“They are not gonna waste a roster space on a guy who can only run.”
Thats whats its going to buckle down to…If we trade for anyone (which I don’t think will happen) its gonna be someone who can hit and possess speed…Gone are the days were we can trade for 30 homer mashers, because since the roid era is over they are few and far between
Not to mention…Edmonds would be a liability at the plate…this isn’t the Edmonds from 10 years ago…
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
1:57 am
Not to mention during the stretch run and playoffs those years, the guys at the top of the order who were threats on the bases made the difference in lot of game T’H
well I guess we can agree to disagree T. hey man I’m talkin’ in rhyme
flatFork
June 26th, 2010
1:58 am
DOB, here in the Age of the Internet, we link to stories we discuss in our blogs. Kinda like how you did with the irrelevant music video at the end of the column, but not with the two articles in prominent publications about our boys. C’mon, dude, get with the program. Otherwise, keep up the good work.
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 26th, 2010
1:58 am
TnBrian–If now is the moment, why not just waive Nate and eat the money? I mean, if you’ve got to dump an OF, shouldn’t performance dictate who goes? It may not be in Liberty’s profile to do such a thing, but, hey, strange things happen.
uga-brave
June 26th, 2010
2:00 am
we have ridden prado and gluas hard. watching three starting lefhanders in the last four games limit our offense should cause concern.
macc hit his first dinger tonight against a soutpaw and heyward has looked lost against lefty’s.
need to find another rh hitter. the elephant in the room, everyone knows it.
TnBrian
June 26th, 2010
2:00 am
uga, again, what do you do with one or two of the guys if they get a guy like Willingham who is strictly a LF and not a very good one? I wouldn’t want to take any at bats away from Hinske and if Diaz comes back strong, that’s one hell of a righty/lefty platoon.
Nobody besides Melky can play CF and I don’t see Nate as anything more than a bat off the bench when he returns unless they can find a sucker to take him, which I highly doubt.
Tomahawkin
June 26th, 2010
2:00 am
TnBrian
“We really need a RH slugger more than anything, imo.”
Not Happening…Especially for the fact that there are so few RH sluggers who are available on bad teams as opposed to 10 years ago, The Braves F.O. will stand Pat at the Deadline
Not to mention Most sluggers now who hit 25 homers or more, strikeout 150+times
That would be a detriment to our offense…
Like I said earlier Our only Pop in the lineup that we will get will have to come from #10 if this team is gonna go far into October or make it for that matter…
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
2:01 am
…Edmonds would be a liability at the plate…this isn’t the Edmonds from 10 years ago T’H
are you kidding? the guy is hitting 937 right now, that is better than anyone on this entire team by a fair amount. He might not keep that up of course but right now he is a bigger force than anyone we have and would cost between 300-400 thou. Like I said to begin with I’m not saying to get him but I think y’all are dissin’ him a lot.
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 26th, 2010
2:03 am
Jury’s out on Jurrgens. Let’s see if he comes back in good form. If not, by the end of July, the most pressing need may be a starting pitcher for the stretch run. Boy, Lee would be a great story if we’re going to the wire with the Phils. Too rich for Liberty’s blood? Probably, but wouldn’t it make for some ral thrills. Our staff needs an ace.
flatFork
June 26th, 2010
2:04 am
From the USA Today article:
“I’ve seen some of the best hitters walking back to the dugout, like someone killed their dog,” Wagner says.
Can somebody make sure Wags is miked at all times? He’s a riot. F-ing quote machine.
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
2:04 am
WW they are very very very unlikely to dump Nate with his year and a hald salary, nor should they. Lots of guys have a stinkin’ year and bounce back great. Reggie Sanders totally bombed for us but had several decent years after he left.
Tomahawkin
June 26th, 2010
2:05 am
Nolie
“well I guess we can agree to disagree T. hey man I’m talkin’ in rhyme ”
Co-Sign Its a very moot debate…
It wasn’t uncommon for Nixon and Deion to steal 2nd and 3rd off an opposing pitcher during games…That is Something Rollins has done to us in recent years and it kills us, especially in close games during the stretch run
I just got done reading a braves diary book from the 1992 season where the ajc beat reporter followed the team and did a daily diary about what happened in the games during that season and I was suprised in how much running Otis and Deion did…that is why I brought up that point in that the braves should trade for an OF who can get on base and run…
TnBrian
June 26th, 2010
2:05 am
As Chipper says, “It’s slim pickens” as far as who’s out there that fits exactly what we need. At least from my view and the Matt Kemp idea sounds fine, but I’d be scared to find out what that would cost the Braves. It would have to start with Medlen and probably one or two real good hitting/pitching prospects.
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
2:06 am
didn’t Kemp just get set down or something?
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
2:07 am
you can steal second and third and still not score.
uga-brave
June 26th, 2010
2:07 am
tnbrian, pretty simple. hate to say it matt diaz would be the odd guy out.
melky, willingham, nate, and heyward.
melky is the swingman because he can switch hit.
sorrry, matt but we really have not missed you.
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 26th, 2010
2:08 am
Nolie–Do you think they keep Nate on the DL then? Can we make use of his roster spot? I like Nate’s glove, but at the plate we all know he’s a basket case.
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
2:08 am
oh I think we have missed Matt, just cause you ain’t a fan doesn’t mean he would not have been a help
Drawyeh_Nosaj
June 26th, 2010
2:11 am
I think some of you are overlooking what we have been getting from Hinske. A .900+ ops is pretty dang good. Short of Ryan Braun, there aren’t a lot of LFers that would represent an upgrade over what we have been getting.
The A Bomb
June 26th, 2010
2:15 am
I brought up Edmonds because he’s the type of vet guy we ALWAYS get when we’re in contention…. a good, solid, low-maintenance guy who brings a lot in…
If we make the playoffs, who would you want out there…. McLouth? Blanco? …..Edmonds? I’ll take Edmonds — or someone like him — a guy who’s been there before. And… he comes cheap.
There is no reason to make a blockbuster deal at the deadline… we don’t need it. And we’re still rebuilding the system from the Tex debacle.
Tomahawkin
June 26th, 2010
2:15 am
“you can steal second and third and still not score.”
Yeah, That happened a few times in the 1992 WS and we still lost…
uga-brave
June 26th, 2010
2:15 am
nolie, great example with regards to reggie sanders.
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
2:16 am
Hinske’s OPS in June is 788 . he has been a big help and I think he should platoon with Matty when he returns,
pfunkatl2
June 26th, 2010
2:17 am
let’s DRINK to Micheal Jackson tonite…no matter WHAT you think of him, he made some GREAT music
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
2:17 am
but I think Erik is coming back to earth some. I do not expect him to end the season @ .915, though we can hope
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
2:18 am
Michael Jackson? who is he?
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
2:20 am
edmonds is so cheap that they are unlikely to want to trade him unless they get a pretty good return A Bomb
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 26th, 2010
2:21 am
Nolee–
Michael Jackson = Sammy Sosa
uga-brave
June 26th, 2010
2:21 am
nolie, the matt diaz of last year, okay. the matt diaz this season not so much he of the .477 .ops.
nor the matt diaz of 2008 with a .568 ops.
i know injuries have played a huge part.
The A Bomb
June 26th, 2010
2:23 am
Do not agree Noleeeee…. He’ll not be with Milwaukee next year anyway…. Brewers will be looking to unload so they can bring up some guys for the future….
I don’t think he would cost that much — he’s a backup with them as well. Maybe an A prospect.
Drawyeh_Nosaj
June 26th, 2010
2:24 am
Another benefit of acquiring Lee is that it keeps him from the Mets & Phillies.
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
2:24 am
I think injuries are the main culprit. he often starts kinda slow and both of those years he got hurt early enough that he was still struggling. Course I gotta stick up for him some since he is a Criminole
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 26th, 2010
2:24 am
Sammy’s been looking a little pale lately.
uga-brave
June 26th, 2010
2:27 am
nolie, they would give edmonds away for a decent mid level middle reliever, just as long as he has a pulse. milwaukee is 32-40.
pfunkatl2
June 26th, 2010
2:28 am
ANYONE who grew up in the late 70’s or 80’s should appreciate Micheal…he taught a WHITE BOY like me to DANCE…and I mean DANCE
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
2:28 am
as cheap as he is they have no incentive to trade him unless they get a guy with at least a shot at making the bigs, and we have almost nobody but good pitchers who fit that bill. plus it is not a vacuum, you hafta consider what other teams who need a LHed hitter more than the Braves do might offer. Otherwise why not just pay him the other 400K, that’s dirt cheap even for a part time player who is producing at his level. Not saying you are, but too many folks here only look at one side of the trade equation.
Tomahawkin
June 26th, 2010
2:29 am
P-FunkATL
I always have to bump that Thriller on Halloween…Its Man Law!
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
2:29 am
not so sure UGA
Tomahawkin
June 26th, 2010
2:30 am
Coolin to Some Michael Jackson…”Human Nature” That song was so good it was sampled by Nas and SWV, among others…
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
2:30 am
yeah Thriller is cool
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
2:31 am
if they are 32-40 how does a reliever help them more than a cheap Edmonds?
The A Bomb
June 26th, 2010
2:31 am
No matter what I see the Braves bringing in a vet for the stretch run as they did with Polonia, Devereaux, etc….
They just cut payroll this year so I cannot see any blockbuster on the horizon despite rumblings of Yunel, Kemp etc…
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
2:31 am
maybe a guy like Dunn would do it
Tomahawkin
June 26th, 2010
2:32 am
pfunkatl2
“ANYONE who grew up in the late 70’s or 80’s should appreciate Micheal…he taught a WHITE BOY like me to DANCE…and I mean DANCE”
LOL, You need to start hanging out with me more often, I will take you under my wing…
I will be at the ChopHouse Tomorrow for the game, getting my Swerve On…If you need a lesson or two…
pfunkatl2
June 26th, 2010
2:32 am
“Man in the Mirror” did it for me…as well as “Gotta be Startin Something” and MANY others
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
2:32 am
no they are not gonna get a guy like Lee or any of the other expensive guys being mentioned AB
uga-brave
June 26th, 2010
2:33 am
nolie, diaz reiminds me a little of derosa. when the braves told derosa he was the starting 3b he grinded himself to death. when derosa played all over the field for the rangers and cubs he excelled.
same for diaz. when thought he was gonna start from the get go, he struggled. when he was played in situations he excelled.
both good guys that put extreme pressure on themselves to excel.
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
2:33 am
don’t even know why I am arguing about Edmonds since he is not my guy anyway
pfunkatl2
June 26th, 2010
2:34 am
Tomahawkin
LOVE to come see you, but I work tomorrow nite:(
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 26th, 2010
2:34 am
Nolee
I mentioned Dunn earlier. Someone observed Dunn’s liability in the field. Boy, he’s a big ‘un though.
The A Bomb
June 26th, 2010
2:35 am
Agreed Noleeee… but Hinske was brought in to be our Matt Stairs… and that’s the role he needs to settle into at some point. He’s a weapon off the bench that forces other managers’ hands from the 7th inning on…. he needs to be in that role. Plus, he’s not that good an outfielder, although he’s pretty decent at 1B.
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 26th, 2010
2:35 am
I’ll take James Brown over MJ, by the way.
Tomahawkin
June 26th, 2010
2:36 am
That Michael Jackson “You Are Not Alone” Still goes Hard! And that video is dope as well as “Black or White” and “Jam”…
That was Elementary School for me (1992-1993) back then. When all V-103 used to bump was M-Jackson,TLC,2pac, Kris Kross and Boyz II Men
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
2:36 am
I see Diaz as a part timer too Uga, but I think he would have helped some if he had been platooning with Hinske.
as for DeRosa, lets not forget that those two parts are much better hitting venues than the Ted too.
Drawyeh_Nosaj
June 26th, 2010
2:36 am
let’s DRINK to Micheal Jackson tonite…no matter WHAT you think of him, he made some GREAT music
I look at it the opposite way: no matter how good the music, he was freak that messed with kids.
Tomahawkin
June 26th, 2010
2:38 am
My dad was on that old James Brown, George Benson, Ohio Players, Rolling Stones, etc Hard…When I was young…
pfunkatl2
June 26th, 2010
2:39 am
LOVE those songs too Tomahawkin…Taught a Vietnamese to dance on those songs…couldn’t find a BEAT before”Beat It” LOL
Drawyeh_Nosaj
June 26th, 2010
2:39 am
There is a presumption that acquiring Lee as a rental is a bad thing. I could argue it is just the opposite, as long as you don’t give up too much talent. You are getting the use of a quality pitcher for about half the season, one who is making a very reasonable salary, and there is no contractual commitment. To top it off, there is virtually no risk in offering him arbitration. Either way, if he accepts or if he rejects, it is a win-win. And if he rejects, you get two top draft picks. At worst, you are trading prospects (young talent) today for future prospects (in the draft).
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
2:39 am
maybe I am misreading that last post WW, but I meant our Dunn might be enough to get Edmonds. I am not a big fan of The Big Donk nor could they afford him…
Tomahawkin
June 26th, 2010
2:40 am
I am Dinking Bacardi…
I don’t care what MJ did in his personal life…His music is still da bomb…! Just like R. Kelly, I don’t care what he does in his personal life, but chicks love some old/smooth R. Kelly…
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 26th, 2010
2:40 am
OK, gotcha. My misread. E-WW.
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
2:41 am
They can not afford Lee, neither his salary nor what it would cost in trade. Just is not gonna happen no matter how nice it would be to have him.
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
2:42 am
and I would absolutely love to have him
pfunkatl2
June 26th, 2010
2:44 am
Debbie Allen tonite said “michael jackson WAS the beat…GET IT STRAIGHT!”
Drawyeh_Nosaj
June 26th, 2010
2:44 am
Noleeee-
at the deadline Lee will be owed roughly 3 million.
Drawyeh_Nosaj
June 26th, 2010
2:46 am
Let him get us a World Series, then let him walk & collect draft picks
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
2:49 am
yeah between 3 and 4 mil. don’t see it happening and others will be interested enough to make it cost a fair amount in personnel. Ok… you can never say never in baseball, but I would be willing to place a substantial bet on it not happening. guess that’s the best way to put it
If you can talk them into it I will sure back you up
uga-brave
June 26th, 2010
2:52 am
would be shocked if cliff lee does not end up a met.
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 26th, 2010
2:53 am
Oh, UGA! Banish the thought!
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
2:54 am
Mets can afford him a lot better than we can IMO
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
2:56 am
Reality can be SUCH a bummer
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 26th, 2010
2:56 am
If you’re the Mets, would you move soon on a such an acquisition?
uga-brave
June 26th, 2010
2:57 am
they are in it. for sure.
you guys realize ike davis was the compensation pick we gave the mets for signing tom glavine?
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 26th, 2010
2:57 am
I mean if they can afford it, why wait?
Drawyeh_Nosaj
June 26th, 2010
2:59 am
It’s go big or go home time for the Braves. Half measures won’t do. It might not be Lee, but I feel something big is on the horizon for the Braves. Just a gut feeling I have. Time will tell.
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 26th, 2010
2:59 am
Didn’t the Mets draft Davis in 2008?
uga-brave
June 26th, 2010
3:00 am
woodeee, the way we stuggle against lh’s and the fact the phils have utley, howard, and ibanez, for me makes it a no brainer.
uga-brave
June 26th, 2010
3:01 am
same year we signed glavine.
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 26th, 2010
3:02 am
My gut says Bravos stand pat till end of July and then evaluate based on Diaz, JJ returns. See if McLouth can bounce, too. Maybe Chipper and Yunel can begin to light it up. I think we’ve got some time.
pfunkatl2
June 26th, 2010
3:03 am
Tomahawkin
Holla at me…pfunkatl2003@yahoo.com
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 26th, 2010
3:03 am
UGA–what’s the connection? Did we give up that spot in the draft?
uga-brave
June 26th, 2010
3:04 am
compensation pick for a type A free agent.
uga-brave
June 26th, 2010
3:05 am
gave them our first round pick.
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 26th, 2010
3:05 am
So we would have chosen Davis?
And you think Ibanez will bounce back this year?
Drawyeh_Nosaj
June 26th, 2010
3:06 am
Yes. We gave the Mets the pick they used to select Ike Davis.
http://nysportsdog.blogspot.com/2010/04/like-ike-davis-thank-braves.html
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
3:08 am
true but doesn’t mean we would have picked him so that’s kinda meaningless IMO.
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 26th, 2010
3:09 am
My point, too, Noleeee
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
3:09 am
good discussions tonight with no rancor, I’ve enjoyed it. Gonna hit the sack I guess. Nite y’all
uga-brave
June 26th, 2010
3:10 am
18th pick of the 2008 draft. that was the price for signing glav. stings a little does it not.
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 26th, 2010
3:10 am
Aloha, Nolee.
Drawyeh_Nosaj
June 26th, 2010
3:10 am
Night Noleeee, headin’ that way myself
noleeeee
June 26th, 2010
3:11 am
yeah I did not want them to sign him to begin with and hindsight proves it was a poor decision, but that’s baseball life . OK really goin’ this time.
uga-brave
June 26th, 2010
3:11 am
nolie, i agree. he looks like a keeper though for those guys.
uga-brave
June 26th, 2010
3:12 am
i am out too.
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 26th, 2010
3:12 am
yeah, that Glavine move was bad all the way. Worst part was we had to cut him loose in an ugly fashion.
Woodeeeeee Woodward
June 26th, 2010
3:14 am
Someone check in on Mitchell before you hit the hay.
Tomahawkin
June 26th, 2010
3:22 am
P-Funk
I got you “On Deck”
Tomahawkin
June 26th, 2010
3:24 am
Gotta Take My Narrow A..s to bed as well…I gotta get some sleep, because I know I’m gonna get F’d up in the Sun tomorrow…I made that mistake last weekend, but “These Are The Days Of Our Lives!” old song from Bone Thugs N Harmony…
Tomahawkin
June 26th, 2010
3:36 am
Where Has Mitchell Been…
He worries me sometimes…I have described him as the “Blogs Most Dangerous Man!”
Now you talk about a passionate poster…I sometime wonder does he tear up stuff when he watches the games…especially since I did a lot of throwing my remote/shoes/empty beer cans at the TV last year….
Bay Area Steve
June 26th, 2010
6:07 am
Rhino:
Dude, enough already. Plug it in your screenname, or plug it occasionally, or plug it elsewhere… Seriously. What kind of ego can a guy have to spew that thing eight times a page? Not a single contributing idea, just a one-line post to troll for page hits…
I don’t know why I bother, ’cause guys like you don’t have the time to read others’ comments. That would only take away from another chance to advertise. I suppose it’s two things. First, you made me agree with Mitchell. That, sir, is unforgivable. Second, I miss PWH. He stopped pushing his blog, but I wish he’d return, and mention it once in a while. It’s a great read. Capitol Avenue Club, people. Find it, folks.
Bay Area Steve
June 26th, 2010
6:13 am
What else can I rant about?
Let’s go with baseball announcers calling pitches by looking from the press box. People, you can’t. It makes you wrong. A lot. Look at the damn telecast to call pitches. Look at movement, and velocity, and you’ll be right every time. How many times did Simpson say Lowe threw slider the other night when it was the change? I think Quentin got five or six straight, and Joe kept saying slider. And then today, saying McCann hit a fastball… McCann took the most beautiful hack I’ve ever seen at a hard curve, outer-third, from a guy that had 97 in ‘im. Stayed on it, and went the other way, AND supplied his own power. Saying it was fastball takes a lot away from that swing, and changes the reality significantly, to me. All you have to see is the radar gun to know what happened.
Bay Area Steve
June 26th, 2010
6:18 am
Ok, some good:
Thank you to Fox for this ridiculous 4:00 PM Saturday window, so that I may see tomorrow’s game. As often as the Saturday day games mess with us out-of-towners, at least this week we’ll see our boys.
KK, have a day, sir. And, I’ll try not to keep thinking, since seeing him in the booth, that Steve Avery could out-pitch you right now. I mean, I know his arm is done, but maybe Moyer could teach him the cutter at 74 mph?
Bay Area Steve
June 26th, 2010
6:24 am
RHR,
I know you caught the Garret Anderson quote in ESPN magazine about clubhouse music:
“I never worry about who’s going to be the DJ, or what he’s playing. If it’s on, it’s on. If it’s off, it’s off. I really don’t care.”
How good is that? And you had nothing? No Loaf bit, at all? I mean, you could have used this thing nine different ways. Just for starters, about balls hit to left field: “If I catch it, I catch it. If I don’t, I don’t. I really don’t care.” Something like that, but funny.
Bay Area Steve
June 26th, 2010
6:32 am
Steve from OH,
Medlen’s curve is a show-me pitch at best. It is not sharp enough to get swing-throughs, when finishing below the zone (excepting the Francoeurs). So to get strikes, it has to be thrown a bit higher. And then it hangs. Often. He needs to use it minimally. Sort of how Huddy uses his, the third time through line-ups. Maybe it was better when you saw it before, or maybe I’m wrong (again), but I think he’s usin’ it just right.
Oh, and I also have to disagree with not sitting change up. Strongly disagree. Many, if not most hitters are guess hitters. Medlen has two pitches. Before two strikes, if a hitter thinks change is coming, he most certainly should be sitting on that pitch. No way you can call that bad hitting.
Bay Area Steve
June 26th, 2010
6:40 am
I want to watch the early World Cup match, to see who the US would play were they to win. But, that feels like a jinx, because under any other circumstance, I’d rather see Rhino push his blog another 752 times than watch a South Korea – Uruguay soccer match.
Ruling?
Coach (2011 or Bust)
June 26th, 2010
7:51 am
Kawakami vs. Scherzer, sounds like a mismatch on paper. But it’s why the game is played because baseball is unpredictable. Go Bravos!
dawgsbreggeeee
June 26th, 2010
8:17 am
We trade KK and Esky to the Cubs for the big Z and a psychiatrist !
richbrave
June 26th, 2010
8:19 am
Stop with the racist crap coward. Use you regular handle so we can all see who you really are as a blog regular.
dawgsbreggeeee
June 26th, 2010
8:20 am
BAS – Uruguay have been playing some of the most entertaining footy at Copa Mondial !
USA will win easily today and then win their next match (whoever they play)… they are playing great and have an easy run to the semis
dawgsbreggeeee
June 26th, 2010
8:22 am
rich – just ignore the morons, they cannot even get their racist terns correct !
dawgsbreggeeee
June 26th, 2010
8:42 am
Dave O’Brien or someone at ajc.com, can you ban this morn, or trace the IP and freeze it please
I have reported his comments
THE NAME IS IVAN................
June 26th, 2010
9:37 am
Don’t worry, JJ will remove the problem soon enough. Coxie messed up not bringing in Moylan in the 8th inning against the White Sox Thurs., am not sold on Saito,either.
And what ever became of Mc Out??
The Melk Man solved that problem…………….
J. Hey average going down quick.
Moving closer to plate may help, then he will start swinging at down and in pitches. Hope he can adjust. He still needs to stay away from TP…….
Lew
June 26th, 2010
9:39 am
Damn.
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 26th, 2010
9:41 am
cricket–
Thanks! That’s great, I love it!
Ah…BMac’s a humble guy.
Choppinmama DOB: you forgot to ask Mac “What do you think about your biggest fan missing your milestone 100th tonight?”
Gee, you really lay it on thickly, don’t you?
[sigh]…I still can’t believe it. Sorta wish I could have those few seconds back. I didn’t realize they were recording what they were watching, and they didn’t realize McCann was up to bat. So who’s at fault, here? All fingers point to me! (At least, all mine do.) Grrr…
Not like it’s gonna keep me out of Heaven someday, but it’s still so aggravating. Every other phrase outta my month (or off of my keyboard) for the past couple days was, “BMac’s 100th career Homer”, and then those few big seconds arrive, I miss it, and it’s over but for the replays…
Some day I’ll look back on this and laugh…or cry! But, ya know…
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 26th, 2010
9:42 am
Lew @ 9:39–
How true…
THE NAME IS IVAN................
June 26th, 2010
9:42 am
Lew, how’s the wheels, havent been here in 2 weeks?
Lew
June 26th, 2010
9:42 am
McFann-What? You weren’t there to catch that HR ball? What were you thinking?
Lew
June 26th, 2010
9:43 am
Ivan-Thanks for asking. Moving slow, but doing OK.
Horry Cow!
June 26th, 2010
9:43 am
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McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 26th, 2010
9:45 am
Lew What were you thinking?
No idea…
bobbymahlon
June 26th, 2010
9:46 am
Any team that would take Zambrano had better be prepared for actions like this. He is a absolute nut and the worst thing that could happen to any clubhouse harmoney.
THE NAME IS IVAN................
June 26th, 2010
9:47 am
Lew, at least you’re movin……..
Braves need to get Wags to come back one more year, I don’t think he can be replaced………….
And how about Brooks Conrad, a true gamer……..
Lew
June 26th, 2010
9:50 am
Ivan-That’s how I’m looking at the situation. Mobility helps.
Lew
June 26th, 2010
9:51 am
NewCars-Maybe Godzilla jammies.
unbelievable
June 26th, 2010
9:52 am
doesnt seem like it would be difficult to remove a few comments and they should be
VaBravesFan
June 26th, 2010
9:53 am
man they really need to block that guy
CB
June 26th, 2010
9:57 am
Gutless is all it is. Hiding behind a false moniker is a scum bag – come on out you trash.
LJ
June 26th, 2010
10:00 am
Braves win, Mac hits 100th, Sandman gets 400. All is good.. If you saw Wagner’s interview, you found out that there is crying in baseball—-but folks, there is no hate in baseball, so if you must hate just go somewhere else and leave this fin blog to baseball fans.
JaxBrave
June 26th, 2010
10:05 am
DOB, any update on Proctor and when he might be in line for a call up?
TnBrian
June 26th, 2010
10:05 am
LJ, yeah man, you could tell it meant the world to Wagner having all his teammates and coaches hug him. His hands were shaking a little bit. That guy really seems touched to be a Brave and to get to go out the same time as Bobby. Big time respect right there.
Andrew
June 26th, 2010
10:05 am
The Bravos better figure out how to win on the road, The Phillies are geting hot again!
THE NAME IS IVAN................
June 26th, 2010
10:11 am
DOB————- Check out Purveyor……. May be one in the same as H. Cow…………………
TnBrian
June 26th, 2010
10:11 am
Andrew, have the Phills figured it all out and are heating up, or are they just beating up on teams like the Indians and a guy like Jesse Litsch? I’m not convinced at all that their pitching outside Halladay can handle the full season, but there’s no doubt that offense of their’s will light up the scoreboard on any given night. I just don’t know if their hitting slumps are over until they face some real pitching.
THE NAME IS IVAN................
June 26th, 2010
10:13 am
Look back on KK……………. He pitched well enough early on to have a couple of wins, got no support …
Still no need to vent hate at him.
J@ps are $h!t
June 26th, 2010
10:17 am
Old, tired argument. “He pitched well enough to win.” He didn’t win. He is what he is: A crap pitcher from a crap country that makes crap cars.
CaptainMudderland
June 26th, 2010
10:18 am
A little bit of info for ya….those Asian cats aint going away…nor should the thought cross your mind, Mr. Blogga…wow, I don’t think this stuff belongs on here with us “Heywards,” embarrassment for sure…leave the darned folks alone!
Voice of Harold
June 26th, 2010
10:24 am
I know, I know….
“Don’t feed the trolls.” Words to live by.
BravoMan
June 26th, 2010
10:27 am
Check that when JJ comes up Wed.
BravoMan
June 26th, 2010
10:28 am
“He should be.”
Whatever dude
THE NAME IS IVAN................
June 26th, 2010
10:28 am
DOB………Where you at dude…………
TnBrian
June 26th, 2010
10:29 am
KK would probably do well to throw that curveball and splitter out the window today because those two pitches have been terrible for him lately. His splitter especially. Just go with the fastball and changeup and the ocassional cutter in on righty’s. But damn, he still seems to find a way to lose no matter what, so like I said last night, he needs a miracle.
CaptainMudderland
June 26th, 2010
10:29 am
I am trolling the good ship Atlantis….and I still have my hands on the wheel….although I understand the “others” who troll and make ‘goofy’ on the web….to those a hearty octopus sandwich!!!
westgadave
June 26th, 2010
10:32 am
Come on guys this is a baseball blog–leave the hate mongering somewhere else. My dad was a WWII vet in the pacific and even he didnt fellt that way after the fact–especially 60 freaking years after the fact…….KK has had tough luck for sure but he has pitched better than his record.
Voice of Harold
June 26th, 2010
10:32 am
“Your”
BravoMan
June 26th, 2010
10:36 am
Getting Jurrjens back is like acquiring a top of the rotation guy at the deadline. I really like the chances of this team this year as long as the offense remians steady. Maybe one more small addition at the deadline wouldn’t hurt to help the offense.
VaBravesFan
June 26th, 2010
10:40 am
Kawakami does have 2 starts in which he threw 6 innings of shutout ball, and still never recieved a lead in the game. I believe KK could be better for another ballclub. He’s shown he can strike people out, so he could be valuble in the pen. 7 mil for a non closer reliver is alot, but if he can be effective out of the pen he’s helping the team and salary shouldnt even matter there’s nothing we can do about it. Hope for the Best.
Voice of Harold
June 26th, 2010
10:41 am
I’m a little concerned about JJ, though. Velocity was down before the hammy. Was shaky at Gwinnett, according to reports. If he’s on, then you’re exactly right, BravoMan. We’ll have 5 quality starters. Even D-Lowe seems to have turned a corner. This might be the year we get back on top.
Mr. Turnip-Green Jeans
June 26th, 2010
10:42 am
Blogs are nut-magnets. Unfortunately.
CaptainMudderland
June 26th, 2010
10:42 am
There are giants out there in the canyon….oh OK….am I going to get some Hinske this afternoon? Go Bravos!!!
N Nine
June 26th, 2010
10:45 am
Getting Jurrjens back is like acquiring a top of the rotation guy at the deadline
We all love JJ, but that might be a stretch. Careful about assuming he’ll pitch like a top of rotation guy, as he struggled this spring. He’s not exactly blowing the minor leaguer away either. You might be disappointing yourself if your expectation is this high for JJ for the next couple months.
VaBravesFan
June 26th, 2010
10:46 am
Voice of Harold
I agree, we really dont know how Jurrjens will do, pitchers coming back from injury’s is very random, some come back to normal, some are even better, and some never recover and reach there once great potential. With so much young talented Starting pitching i dont see JJ on the braves for years to come. I kinda see a trade within 2 years involving him something simaler to the Odalis Perez for Sheffield trade that we did years ago.
Lew
June 26th, 2010
10:49 am
Harold-Don’t blame it on drugs, Dude. They have nothing to do with this person being a reprehensible a hole.
Tomahawkin
June 26th, 2010
10:49 am
“Get Out The WAAAYYYYY! Pretty Boy Coming Through!”
Whats Up all?
Bout to Roll to the game…Catch me at the Chophouse I will be Rocking My J-Hey Shirt!
Do I need to take Jobu with me to reverse KK’s Luck?
FXBGSteve
June 26th, 2010
10:50 am
Good morning everyone. Long time reader of the blog here, but I almost never post.
Last night I was fortunate enough to attend the Pelicans vs. Potomac Nationals game in Woodbridge, VA, about 30 miles from my home. As richbrave reported last night, Arodys Vizcaino was looking good. I counted 3 well hit balls off of him, two of which were caught. The most impressive thing I saw was was in the 5th when he got in a jam with runners on 2nd and 3rd and no outs. He then promptly got a strike out, pop up, and strike out to get out of the inning. Luis Avilan, who got the save, also looked to have pretty good stuff. Oh, and I also got Randall Delgado to sign my program before the game. Very cool.
The Potomac Nationals’ stadium is about as ugly as they come in the minors, and is as expensive or more expensive than AA and AAA games in nicer stadiums (this is a well-to-do DC suburb after all), but the atmosphere was fun (minus a few vuvuzelas) and you are right on top of the action. If you live in the area and are a Braves fan it’s worth the effort to see the Pelicans and their pitching staff. Their next series at Potomac is August 13-15.
Go Braves and go USA!
Steve McP
June 26th, 2010
10:51 am
I can pretty much ignore the racist stuff, what really annoys me is that people cannot spell the names of players on the team that they support, it grates to have to see posts where our injured pitcher is called Jurrgens, now for that people should definitely be banned.
Voice of Harold
June 26th, 2010
10:51 am
VaBravesFan,
It’s inevitable, really. We have so much depth in the minors, someone is bound to be moved. Lowe isn’t going anywhere for 2 more years with that contract. Same with KK. You might be right that JJ is the one to go. Being a big fan, I hope it’s not the case…
Tomahawkin
June 26th, 2010
10:51 am
The AJC IT Posse needs to Bozo these racists from the blog NOW!
I get tired of the drivel they post on here when KK starts…I know they don’t have the balls to say that crap in front anyone from Asia…
Lew
June 26th, 2010
10:57 am
Harold-Yeah, let’s not give drugs a bad name.
VaBravesFan
June 26th, 2010
10:58 am
Voice of Harold
We have 2 more season’s of Huddy and Lowe, I could see the Braves resigning Huddy again if he continues to be good. Lowe is pretty much toast after the contract. KK only has 1 more year and he’s gone. Chipper could retire… so it will be a exciting next few years with the Braves cause will have alot of Payroll coming off the books, so look for some New Contracts, Extentions, and Free Agent Signings. Gonna be pretty interesting.
Lew
June 26th, 2010
10:58 am
Now, Clueless Punk? Think that’s got it.
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 26th, 2010
10:59 am
Wonder what today’s lineup will be…it’s a DGANG, but it is a later one…
westgadave
June 26th, 2010
10:59 am
Dude take ur racist BS elswhere would
VaBravesFan
June 26th, 2010
11:01 am
McFann
why did you add a 1 to your name?
Steve from OH
June 26th, 2010
11:02 am
BAS–we were taught never to guess against a good FB/CH pitcher. Once you start trying to guess what he’s gonna throw, you’re gonna get chewed up. Hit the FB, foul off the CH.
haggardeeeee
June 26th, 2010
11:02 am
McFann
I winced more than a few times–and said more than a few “doggone-its”–while reading the varied comments relating to last night’s most unfortunate episode. But, as your personal bodyguard here on the blog, I must leave the razzing to the rest.
I will ask, though; speaking of “episodes”, what could your family have possibly been watching that was more important than last night’s game.
Today is a two-ICEE day for you !
Voice of Harold
June 26th, 2010
11:03 am
Lew,
Hah, yeah, drugs have a place. I’ll be hopped up on goofballs Monday. I’m having ACL reconstruction. The drugs will be needed, I’m sure.
Voice of Harold
June 26th, 2010
11:03 am
The point is, coward, you’re a punk and a moron.
haggardeeeee
June 26th, 2010
11:07 am
Lew
It’s been two weeks to the day, hasn’t it? How are you ?
Voice of Harold
June 26th, 2010
11:07 am
VaBravesFan,
Agreed. I think our core will remain young, but we should have some flexibility to go get a big bat somewhere, and add veterans. Good times, good times…
bravesgirlnc
June 26th, 2010
11:09 am
JaxBrave,
RichBrave posted an update last night on Proctor. If I recall he did not pitch well.
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 26th, 2010
11:10 am
haggardeeee as your personal bodyguard here on the blog, I must leave the razzing to the rest.
Thanks, I appreciate it.
what could your family have possibly been watching that was more important than last night’s game.
I better not answer that–no politics on the Blog.
Lemme just say that, IMHO, it was in no way more important than the game–but I just didn’t realize that thing was being recorded, and I didn’t shout out, “HEY, McCANN’S UP TO BAT! FLIP THE CHANNEL!!” so it’s my big blunder–one of the biggest of my young career…I’m still sorta kickin’ myself for it. But I guess I did a good deed in letting them watch what they wanted to watch…but when it was all said and done, Mom told me I shoulda said something…
I missed his 50th career home run, too, but I had a better excuse that time–we weren’t home. I saw his Playoff Homer, though!
Today is a two-ICEE day for you !
I’ll be sure and tell my parents that one!
This calls for a little Rock and Roll Music, don’t ya think??
.576
June 26th, 2010
11:10 am
“Get Out The WAAAYYYYY! Pretty Boy Coming Through!” – T’Hawkin’
Love it!
Tomahawkin’ never fails to put a smile on my face. One of my favorite bloggers w/o a doubt!
Man, if I could make it today, I’d take you up on that free ticket. We’d be large n’ in charge at the Ted….after we get thrown out of the chop House.
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 26th, 2010
11:11 am
Have fun at the game, Tomahawkin!
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 26th, 2010
11:13 am
This from foxsports.com:
McCann’s homer was his ninth of the season, but the slugging catcher is still hitting just .261 with 31 RBI on the year. As recently as last year he was widely thought to be the best offense catcher in the National League, but has tailed off considerably.
Boy, thanks a lot, y’all.
(ITS)
TnBrian
June 26th, 2010
11:13 am
N Nine, that’s true because JJ is more of a sinkerball pitcher and if that 2-seamer is flat and stays up then he’ll get hit pretty hard. It could take him a while to get the feel for it all again as opposed to a flame thrower who can blow hitters away with fastball/sliders.
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 26th, 2010
11:15 am
I bet the National Media is gonna go crazy when Mauer hits his 100th home run…my luck, the Braves will be playing the Twins when it happens, and I’ll see that one.
N Nine
June 26th, 2010
11:15 am
Tomahawkin
That’s what i was thinking too. Either I see the first 0-10 or we jinx him a win ^_^
Come out and support your first place Braves!!
NEW CARS
June 26th, 2010
11:15 am
DOB,
Do we have any idea on a time line for Diaz and McLouth….It’ll be interesting to see how those get worked back in the lineup…If we don’t make any trades, I think Matt can be very valuable the second half with all the lefties that we’ll be facing…I, for one, could live with Melkie and JJ (once he makes a good start or two) for Matt Kemp…Say what you want, but I think the guy can be big time and may just need to get out of the bright lights of LA…I would deifinitely be happy with him in CF and batting 5-6 in the lineup…Hate to less JJ, but between money, time before arbitration and everything else, I think he would be the one most likely to bring that kind of return
TnBrian
June 26th, 2010
11:16 am
McFann, I still hold my prediction that Mac will heat up in the second half. Real good sign last night that he hits a HR off a lefty, now if we can just get him stay more consistant which has been his problem this season.
DAP
June 26th, 2010
11:17 am
i think the mets or phils should pick up zambrano. both could really use a pitcher. (wink wink)
haggardeeeee
June 26th, 2010
11:20 am
McFann
Ah, that’s great ! I watched it all the way through for the fourth time since its’ debut
By the way, you may have missed the question ; VaBravesFan wants to know why you added a “1″ to your name. I think it’s because the turtles look sorta like “0″ “0″’s. Am I right?
VaBravesFan
June 26th, 2010
11:20 am
McFann
McCann is fine… we still have a whole 2nd half to play. And right now McCann is playing good. He just hit his 100th homer, the Braves are in 1st, all is well.
Also i wanted you to see McCann’s K/BB splits Huge improvement
in all of 2009 49 walks with 83 k’s
by mid 2010 36 walks with 39 k’s
McFann 1 ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 26th, 2010
11:21 am
TnBrian–
I’m holding to that, too! Hey, I said that the Chicago roadtrip would be the start of something good for him…more often than not, I’m wrong on those kinda of things, but I really believe he’s coming around this time! He may have 3 K’s in his last 2 games, but he’s also hittin’ those homers…the Doubles are gonna come, too! And the hits with RISP…it’s gonna be great!!
haggardeeeee
June 26th, 2010
11:21 am
TnBrian
I think you’re right about McCann. He seems much more sure of himself at the plate compared to a month ago.
GTSteve
June 26th, 2010
11:22 am
Tomahawkin…whats up, and yes take Jabu with you
unbelievable
June 26th, 2010
11:23 am
Jair Jurrjens has a career ERA+ 124. If he’s healthy, big if, it’ll be like acquiring a #2 SP at the deadline. Either way he’s an upgrade over KK and KK moving to the pen will give us a good long relief guy when needed. Id still try to move his salary if any team would trade for him. A good outing today could make that happen
NEW CARS
June 26th, 2010
11:24 am
MCFANN,
Don’t get down…What do those clowns know…Even with a terrible start, BMac is third in the NL in OPS..The two guys in front of him, barely, play less and play in better hitters’ park, Coors Field and Wrigley Field…I think that if you asked every NL GM, the only reason they wouldn’t take McCann over every other catcher in the league would be if they had a concern about his vision…That and his propensity to call for the wrong two strike pitches from Hanson..
I wouldn’t trade him for anyone not named Mauer and he’s making $15 M less per year
Qualified | Non-Qualified CLEAR Batting StatsExpanded Batting StatsSabermetric Batting StatsSortable Batting
RK PLAYER TEAM AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS
1 Rod Barajas NYM 191 26 47 10 0 11 30 0 0 7 27 .246 .283 .471 .754
2 Miguel Olivo COL 186 31 55 4 4 10 33 4 3 18 56 .296 .357 .522 .879
3 Chris Snyder ARI 164 19 36 7 0 9 27 0 0 31 51 .220 .345 .427 .772
Brian McCann ATL 207 33 54 11 0 9 31 3 1 36 39 .261 .378 .444 .822
5 Geovany Soto CHC 163 24 43 7 0 8 18 0 0 39 40 .264 .404 .454 .858
6 Ryan Doumit PIT 215 18 57 13 1 6 27 1 0 21 35 .265 .343 .419 .762
7 Nick Hundley SD 150 22 40 8 1 5 24 0 5 18 34 .267 .347 .433 .780
8 Russell Martin LAD 237 35 58 9 0 4 17 4 2 36 40 .245 .351 .333 .685
9 Bengie Molina SF 193 17 50 6 0 3 17 0 0 13 18 .259 .313 .337 .650
Ramon Hernandez CIN 157 13 45 7 0 3 16 0 0 21 28 .287 .374 .389 .763
RK PLAYER TEAM AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS
Ronny Paulino FLA 189 24 59 14 0 3 28 1 0 12 29 .312 .351 .434 .785
Humberto Quintero HOU 144 9 35 7 0 3 9 0 0 4 37 .243 .268 .354 .623
Yadier Molina STL 221 15 53 9 0 3 30 6 3 22 28 .240 .319 .321 .640
14 Carlos Ruiz PHI 153 16 42 8 0 2 13 0 0 30 25 .275 .398 .366 .764
15 Ivan Rodriguez WSH 170 17 53 12 1 1 22 2 2 7 26 .312 .339 .412 .751
Glossary
AB: At Bats
R: Runs
H: Hits
2B: Doubles
3B: Triples
HR: Home Runs
RBI: Runs Batted In
SB: Stolen Bases
CS: Caught Stealing
BB: Walks
SO: Strikeouts
BA: Batting Average
OBP: On Base Percentage
SLG: Slugging Percentage
OPS: OPS = OBP + SLG
Statistics Glossary »
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