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DS1
November 9th, 2010
7:08 pm
Where have you gone, Joe Dimaggio the nation turns it’s lonely eyes to you…….
jeffrey d
November 9th, 2010
7:09 pm
How will Winona Ryder help the team?
DS1
November 9th, 2010
7:10 pm
brian
I would prefer to take my chances with Lowe (instead of Millwood) and a platoon of McLouth/Diaz (instead of Swisher) if I had to make that deal.
Braveheart
November 9th, 2010
7:12 pm
Where have you gone, Joe Dimaggio the nation turns it’s lonely eyes to you…….
Lonely Joe is stalking and beating on Marilyn
Snotboogie
November 9th, 2010
7:13 pm
How will Winona Ryder help the team?
I thought we were going to try for Natalie Portman in the OF last season. We are going for Ryder now?
DS1
November 9th, 2010
7:14 pm
Breath deep, the gathering gloom. Watch lights fade from every room. Pensitive people sit back and lament, another days useless energy spent. Impassioned lovers wrestle as one; lonely men cries for love and has none. New mother picks up and suckles her son; senior citizens wish they were young.
Cold hearted orb that rules the night; removes the colours from our site. Red is gray, and yellow white; but we decide which is right, and which is an illusion!
jeffrey d
November 9th, 2010
7:15 pm
If she can steal bases, yeah
Braveheart
November 9th, 2010
7:17 pm
Urban Myer wants everyone to know that Cam Newton stole the cookie from the cookie jar when Cam was in kindergarten.
jeffrey d
November 9th, 2010
7:18 pm
Urban Myer wants everyone to know that Cam Newton stole the cookie from the cookie jar when Cam was in kindergarten.
Good…hopefully he’ll be suspended for one game.
Tomas
November 9th, 2010
7:20 pm
And Swisher being a switch hitter, who hits evenly with both sides of the plate would certainly benefit the Braves. Defensively he is okay, playing LF should be no problem. His contract 11:$9M,
12:$10.25M club option ($1M buyout) for the kind of production he provides I’d say he is a bargain.
What would the NYY ask in return, well thats the big question, maybe Aroldys Vizacaino and tw mid-level prospects.
DS1
November 9th, 2010
7:20 pm
Beau knows! (LH or RH?)
Lew
November 9th, 2010
7:22 pm
Anyone who truly thinks replacing Lowe with Millwood is a good thing needs to refill their thorazine scrip. Soon. The voices are returning.
DS1
November 9th, 2010
7:22 pm
After the Melky experiment, getting a NYY outfielder might prove to be a tad bit scary!
Couch Tater
November 9th, 2010
7:26 pm
ooh, heard that colorado might be interested in hiring alabama’s offensive coordinator. can they please take him off our hands?
Kenny Rogers will make it happen for
$180,000.00$1000.00a car detail.DS1
November 9th, 2010
7:26 pm
Anybody else think that a good contingency starter beyond our top 6 guys might be Kenshin Kawakami?
What would it hurt the Braves to take him to Spring Training and give him a full shot to redeem himself. He’s not a bad pitcher. Just darned unlucky in many ways.
If he fell on his face, then the only place he could go would be home (to the J@p@nese league); which is realistically the only place we can send him right now anyway.
If he actually excelled, we’d have a nice problem on our hands. Pitch him or deal him to actually get something of value in return.
(OK, here comes the avalanche!)
DS1
November 9th, 2010
7:29 pm
Does Beau Torbert run through walls?
richbrave
November 9th, 2010
7:32 pm
Lew
November 9th, 2010
7:22 pm
Anyone who truly thinks replacing Lowe with Millwood is a good thing needs to refill their thorazine scrip. Soon. The voices are returning.
Oh yeah, echos all ’round.
DS1
November 9th, 2010
7:36 pm
What the heck happened to my uranium stocks today!! I thought I might be able to retire in another dozen years, but maybe not now………
David O'Brien
November 9th, 2010
7:38 pm
DS1, Torbert bats righty
richbrave
November 9th, 2010
7:40 pm
BTW we picked up a pitcher JASOM LOWEY and an OF’er whose name I don’t remember at the moment in July from an independent league in IOWA I believe. The org. really is going all out to bring in anyone who might have been overlooked by ML scouts.
They could try my grandson too if they’d give him a SALCEDO-type deal minus the cost of a guaranteed four year college education when he’s done with baseball. 6′ 1+ 180, 16 years old, GED ready.
richbrave
November 9th, 2010
7:41 pm
DS1
November 9th, 2010
7:36 pm
What the heck happened to my uranium stocks today!! I thought I might be able to retire in another dozen years, but maybe not now………
I thought that too until the crash of 2001. You need about 3.0 million taxes paid to be independent wealthy these days.
Couch Tater
November 9th, 2010
7:58 pm
What an offseason this is shaping up to be. (emphasis on “off”) Every message board of every team is discussing the “upside” of the broken down or “bounce back” of the deflated.
Go get’m Wren. lol
Stasch
November 9th, 2010
8:01 pm
The Braves have a history of sticking a body in left field to support the offense – Kelly Johnson, Chipper Jones – Ryan Klesko. Any idea of putting Canizares at 1B and Freddie Freeman in Left?
Braveheart
November 9th, 2010
8:01 pm
Yeah, Couch Tater, gimme your tired, your cheap, your crippled masses yearning to play for free
Big Jake
November 9th, 2010
8:12 pm
Very funny Braveheart
Secretone
November 9th, 2010
8:19 pm
Anyone will look good as our batting coach, after Pendleton. That is a bigger move than most realize. He is a great guy, was a strong player and has been a disaster as the batting coach. I feared that they would make him manager. The manager and coaching changes will prove significant. I hope Chipper doesn’t become a Farve. Retire while you still have great respect.
McFann O O
November 9th, 2010
8:20 pm
Jason Heyward isn’t even listed as a candidate for NL Silver Slugger. He has better stats than a few guys they did list. Like—Carlos Beltran? Really?? Aye-yi-yi…
keylargo
November 9th, 2010
8:28 pm
DS1 – with you being fairly new to he board, do you have an opinion on Ryan Freel and whether the Braves should try to lure him out of retirement?
Big Jake
November 9th, 2010
8:32 pm
Beltran was a great talent at one time, probably better than Crawford but that long expensive contract has bitten the Mets the last two years in a row. Teams never seen to learn though, I think someone will offer Crawford the same type of contract and talk themselves into believing that this time it will work out.
hank44
November 9th, 2010
8:39 pm
NEW CARS – I think you forgot an important person in your line-up for next year, Infante…. He played a great season and deserves to play everyday…. although where, is the question…
ray
November 9th, 2010
8:46 pm
this is one of the periods of the year when Braves’ fans should get nervous. Wren may misspend the little money he has or make an ill-advised deal.
he surely is unpredictable which, in his case, is not such a good trait.
he won’t even admit that JS’ deal for Teixeira was a fiasco.
he’s trying to come up with one that is worse, but even he may not be able to.
D.J.
November 9th, 2010
8:48 pm
Winona Ryder could probably steal a base or two.
-ZING-
Braveheart
November 9th, 2010
8:49 pm
Wow, that Dupree dude was damn good
brian
November 9th, 2010
8:59 pm
I really hope our LF is not a Diaz/McLouth platoon
brian
November 9th, 2010
9:01 pm
secretone – please don’t forget that Chipper was crushing the ball when he went down. I still think he really was planning on announcing his retirement until he noticed something on the videotape of his swing. He made an adjustment at the end of June and took off. Chipper will be key next year. If Chipper can pick up where he left off, Prado comes back healthy, and we address our OF, next year will be special
Bama Brave
November 9th, 2010
9:10 pm
I hope that the PLATOON crap is over!
richbrave
November 9th, 2010
9:12 pm
Bama Brave
November 9th, 2010
9:10 pm
I hope that the PLATOON crap is over!
Great war movie. What you got against it?
richbrave
November 9th, 2010
9:14 pm
Stasch
November 9th, 2010
8:01 pm
The Braves have a history of sticking a body in left field to support the offense – Kelly Johnson, Chipper Jones – Ryan Klesko. Any idea of putting Canizares at 1B and Freddie Freeman in Left?
I’m afraid ‘THE FLAILING CUBAN’ had his shot in ATLANTA in ‘09…………..and blew it.
richbrave
November 9th, 2010
9:16 pm
Braveheart
November 9th, 2010
8:01 pm
Yeah, Couch Tater, gimme your tired, your cheap, your crippled masses yearning to play for free
Hot damn, fall down funny BRAVEHEART – BRAVO!
Bama Brave
November 9th, 2010
9:18 pm
and im not talking about a movie wait the that has been going on for years with the breaves!
richbrave
November 9th, 2010
9:22 pm
Bama Brave:
Jus’ playin’ wit chu’ Bama Brave.
jt
November 9th, 2010
9:28 pm
what if the braves signed Bill Hall to play LF hit 247 last year and had 18 homers as well as 46 RBI
Bama Brave
November 9th, 2010
9:32 pm
I know lol.
richbrave
November 9th, 2010
9:37 pm
That independent league outfielder we acquired this past july was one KEENAN WILEY. Assigned to high rookie DANVILLE he performed reasonably well through the end of July and August. His line; 20 G, 67 AB, 7 R, 22 H, 4 2B, 0 3 B, 0 HR, 7 RBI, 4 BB, 9 SO, 3 SB, 3 CS, .384 OBP, .388 SLG, .328 BA, .772 OPS, numbers over his last ten picked up notably – .351 BA, .400 OBP, .405 SLG, .805 OPS.
richbrave
November 9th, 2010
9:40 pm
WILEY bats-throws left, 6′0″ 175, 23 years old.
richbrave
November 9th, 2010
9:43 pm
Independents RH/RP JASON LOWEY, OF KEENAN WILEY, OF BEAU TOLBERT, BRAVES of a feather who will for a time flock together..
Braves
November 9th, 2010
9:44 pm
Barry Bonds is available.
Braves
November 9th, 2010
9:44 pm
Barry Bonds is still available.
Kat
November 9th, 2010
9:45 pm
MLB Network’s Prime 9 series is going through their top 9 Managers of all time. They’re running their piece on Cox as number 5 right now.
Braves
November 9th, 2010
9:45 pm
Barry is now available for braves.
Braves
November 9th, 2010
9:46 pm
Barry Bonds and braves go 2gether.
Braves
November 9th, 2010
9:46 pm
U like BB!
McFann O O
November 9th, 2010
9:55 pm
What the……heck? NOW they’re saying the Silver Sluggers aren’t gonna be announced until Thursday at 6 pm?
What are they tryin’ ta do ta me, huh? I ask you…
nolie
November 9th, 2010
10:01 pm
trying prevent your disappointment McF ??
McFann O O
November 9th, 2010
10:06 pm
nolie—
Aaaaww……
Nah, really…who’s his real competition? Posey, in my mind, does not qualify, and the rest of the catchers in the league didn’t exactly have monster years…
nolie
November 9th, 2010
10:11 pm
it will be interesting to see how the 30 games at first for Posey affects the voting. I hope Mac wins
McFann O O
November 9th, 2010
10:17 pm
nolie—
Yeah, it will be int’resting. I mean, the guy only played 75 games at catcher. I know he wasn’t real far behind BMac as far as home runs and RBI go, but I think giving it to a guy that didn’t play a full season would be kind of unfair to those that did play the full season.
BMac may not have had his best year with the bat, but he oughta win it. I hope he does, too!
richbrave
November 9th, 2010
10:25 pm
Too much yard work, not enough rest for an old man. Gonna’ scan the south of the border leagues for BRAVES and call it a night.
keylargo
November 9th, 2010
10:30 pm
I just saw the “notable free agent first basemen” list on MLB TV and Derek Lee was not on it. Have the Braves offered him arbitration?
Glaus, LaRoche, Dunn, Berkman, Konerko, Huff, C. Pena and Cantu were.
MIBravesFan
November 9th, 2010
10:32 pm
“DS1
November 9th, 2010
7:14 pm
Breath deep, the gathering gloom. Watch lights fade from every room. Pensitive people sit back and lament, another days useless energy spent. Impassioned lovers wrestle as one; lonely men cries for love and has none. New mother picks up and suckles her son; senior citizens wish they were young.
Cold hearted orb that rules the night; removes the colours from our site. Red is gray, and yellow white; but we decide which is right, and which is an illusion!”
A smiley face would not be appropriate here, but I appreciate the lyrics. Thanks
cricket
November 9th, 2010
10:34 pm
Winona Ryder could probably steal a base or two.
-ZING-
she’ll definitely try but more likely get caught
richbrave
November 9th, 2010
10:35 pm
FALL BALL
DOMINICAN
3B DIORY HERNANDEZ 0-4, .295 BA.
1B MAURO ‘45′ GOMEZ 0-3, 2 SO, .286 BA.
RH/RP JAIRO ASENCIO 2.0 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 2 SO2.79 ERA. ASCENCIO was tagged with the loss in the ninth . Now 0-2.
MEXICAN
PUERTO RICAN
VENEZUELAN
richbrave
November 9th, 2010
10:36 pm
Sorry folks. Gotta’ go to dream-land. NYTOL.
Daybed Wagmoe
November 9th, 2010
10:37 pm
Anyone else here watching “The Walking Dead”? I just watched episode 1 on hulu.com. Dang — that show looks AWESOME.
MIBravesFan
November 9th, 2010
10:37 pm
“DS1
November 9th, 2010
7:26 pm
Anybody else think that a good contingency starter beyond our top 6 guys might be Kenshin Kawakami?”
No. .
nolie
November 9th, 2010
10:38 pm
that’s some funny stuff goin’ around about Winona and others today. some of our peeps have been on a roll
MIBravesFan
November 9th, 2010
10:38 pm
Sorry for the double .
nolie
November 9th, 2010
10:41 pm
could have had a triple iffen you had BMac’s speed MIBF
Soph
November 9th, 2010
10:43 pm
Edgar’s simply awesome.
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-renteria-colombia
Ronald Millsaps
November 9th, 2010
10:44 pm
Good article. No interest in the music reference, but good article otherwise.
Not sure if Liberty’s Malone is astute enough to realize it, but investing extra millions into the payroll wouldn’t be an altrusitic gesture but instead quite the–just that–investment. Signing a high-profile player like Jayson Werth or Carl Crawford would help Liberty intrinsically.
Ronald Millsaps
November 9th, 2010
10:44 pm
altruistic*
I hate typos.
MIBravesFan
November 9th, 2010
10:45 pm
“nolie
November 9th, 2010
10:41 pm
could have had a triple iffen you had BMac’s speed MIBF”
Now that’s a
!
MIBravesFan
November 9th, 2010
10:56 pm
Soph – no argument about Edgar. He’s one of the good guys. I remember how he worked out with Esco in Florida trying to help him even when the kid was replacing him here. Edgar is one of the good ones to play the game, on the field and off.
Jhony
November 9th, 2010
11:03 pm
I was dreaming in this lineup
Crawford
Prado
Chipper
MaCcan
kemp
heyward
gonzalez/infante
freeman
Braveheart
November 9th, 2010
11:08 pm
Hall of Famer Peter Gammons was a guest on the premiere of Red Sox Hot Stove Live on Tuesday and said that he’s heard that the Brewers may shop outfielder/third baseman Ryan Braun and that the Red Sox would likely be very interested.
http://www.nesn.com/2010/11/peter-gammons-speculates-boston-could-be-landing-spot-for-ryan-braun-if-brewers-shop-all-star.html
MIBravesFan
November 9th, 2010
11:16 pm
I’m starting to like this Ellsbury idea (speaking of the Red Sox). What are the chances of that happening?
nolie
November 9th, 2010
11:18 pm
Gammons isn’t right much more often than MLBTradeRumors.com over the years, is he?
also said that the Sox are firmly convinced that Salty can be their starting catcher, perhaps with some mentoring from Veritek returns. Good for Salty, hope it works.
nolie
November 9th, 2010
11:19 pm
They say they are not gonna trade him MIBF, but who knows how much of that is true and how much is posturing?
nolie
November 9th, 2010
11:21 pm
Like a lot of things, I think it is prolly getting more talk here than reality would indicate it should, but who knows?
Gerald Perry's mom
November 9th, 2010
11:30 pm
My plan would be
Acquire Jorge Cantu he can play 1b/3b and LF (I think Chipper and Freeman are going to need some bench time)
Sign Vlad Gurrero for 2 yr deal to platoon with Hinske
That leaves Mclouth and Infante to platoon in center (along with Infante’s other responsibilities)
or just trade for Rasmus
TnBrian
November 9th, 2010
11:33 pm
nolie, we still blog buds?
MIBravesFan
November 9th, 2010
11:34 pm
“nolie
November 9th, 2010
11:19 pm
They say they are not gonna trade him MIBF, but who knows how much of that is true and how much is posturing?”
No one knows at this point. If they get Werth, that may change.
Ryan
November 9th, 2010
11:38 pm
Hey, why not go for Mark Reynolds? He is coming off a down year, but he plays good defense at third and still hits for a ton of power, which is what the Braves’ line up badly needs. He may strike out 200 times, but if he manages to hit .250/.350/.500, I’m sure the Braves would gladly take that!
nolie
November 9th, 2010
11:51 pm
but if he manages to hit .250/.350/.500, I’m sure the Braves would gladly take that Ryan
I’m sure they would too, but I really doubt he would come all that close to those numbers playing half his games in the Ted.
My real objection personally is that I hate watching hitters who can’t hit 240. His career numbers away from the great hitting park in ‘zona are 235/323/461 with about 35% of his plate appearances being Ks. Not my idea of a fun guy to watch no matter how many homers he accidentally runs his bat into. That’s just me though, I’m sure there are others here who like him.
nolie
November 9th, 2010
11:54 pm
If I were Boston and added an outfielder there would be other spare OFers that I would try to trade B4 Ells, MIBF. But as you say, it’s too early to get a read, but like scoots said the other day, the way they worded their claim that they will keep him sounded like there was little wiggle room there. He’s still cheap and would make a great 4th OFer and if they add a big contract they might prefer to trade off Cameron or another who costs more than Ells. Just speculatin’.
nolie
November 9th, 2010
11:56 pm
Yeah Brian, but i gotta admit that one post kinda got to me. I love sarcasm and pokin’ fun, but that one was real stiff and no indication at all that I could see that you were kidding around. Be a little more gentle to an pld geezer, huh?
David O'Brien
November 10th, 2010
12:29 am
The Pacers hit 20 consecutive field goals in the third quarter against Denver. Twenty! They went 20-for-21 in the quarter, missed the last shot they took….
Only a few more episodes of Sons of Anarchy before another great season is over. How ’bout that scene tonight in the loft, with the traitor? Nasty stuff….
Infante for President
November 10th, 2010
12:48 am
DOB: Great post. Your blog is just about the best baseball one out there. No, it IS the best one out there.
No baseball comments for once. How are you liking The Walking Dead on AMC? Badass in my opinion. (Check it out if you haven’t seen it yet.)
Johnny Knoxville
November 10th, 2010
1:09 am
I’m already dead and nobody has noticed yet! WHAT THE F*** !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Johnny Knoxville
November 10th, 2010
1:16 am
Jorge Cantu to back at 1st and 3rd. PERFECTO!
I’m an evil genius, pay me B!TCHES!!!!
ward
November 10th, 2010
1:20 am
yeah: schafer probably will hit at least hit 15 homers. there’s a chance i think he could hit at least 20 to 25 if healthy, but i’ll take 15 homers thats for sure. Go!!! Braves!!!
nolie
November 10th, 2010
1:22 am
schafer probably will hit at least hit 15 homers ward
but not in Atlanta this year
ward
November 10th, 2010
1:30 am
yeah your right, but if schafer could bounce back by all star break. he would be a great help, but thats a big if?what we need is an out fielder with speed. what about corey pattreson for left field, he is a free agent? he’s from baltimore, and he can steal around 30 bases. Go!!!! Braves!!!!
DS1
November 10th, 2010
1:34 am
Did anybody notice that my Jazz kicked some dream team hiny tonight! Paul Milsap was a stud all over the court. Hit 3 consecutive 3’s at the end of regulation, his only 3’s shot all season.
keylargo
Yes, I think if Ryan Freel could be talked out of retirements, all would be well in Braves land! And if you don’t believe me, ask Farney.
ward
November 10th, 2010
1:35 am
what about coco crisp? could the Braves make a small trade for him? Go!!! Braves!!!!
ward
November 10th, 2010
1:38 am
i would like the braves to bring back otis years by getting somebody with speed. thats what wren should do. GO!!!! Braves!!!!
DS1
November 10th, 2010
1:42 am
ward
It’s a lot of fun to speculate and discuss certain players, but in the end, who knows what evil lurks in the heart of Frank Wren!!
(he says with ultimate fondness, since he is da sensitive one)
ward
November 10th, 2010
1:47 am
i agree: wren makes you think he going to get a good player, and then he breakes your heart. like getting melky c. or a player like that. wren never backs up what he’s going to do.i’ll believe him when i see him stand by his words. Go!!! Braves!!!
ward
November 10th, 2010
1:53 am
so far everthings been quiet with wren, and that bothers me. Go!!! Braves!!!!
ėJr
November 10th, 2010
2:10 am
Ells-CF
Prado-3B
Lee/Jones-1B
Big Mac-C
Infante-2B
Heyward-RF
Gonz-SS
Diaz-LF
What a versitle lineup! Plus with a fresh new hitting coach, there could be great years instore for gonz and mac not to mention rebound years for chipper and lee… Chipper helps at third but mainly
platoons at first. It’s a corner infeild position and with another aging vet, we can always have the
best of both worlds. I’ve got goose bumps!