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David O'Brien
November 30th, 2010
11:57 am
nyyankees are the best
But their blogs obviously aren’t. Either that, or you don’t have anything to add to the conversation there or just don’t get enough attention, so you come beating your chest like a kid to a blog that’s focused on the Braves, a team in the other league. And then insult the fans of that team, in the other league. Makes sense to me.
And for the record, the Yankees were the best one time in the past decade. They won one World Series in that span, while outspending all other teams by ridiculous margins.
In that 10-year span, the Boston Red Sox won two World Series, so they probably have more of a claim to being the best of the most recent decade.
The Yankees have won the same number of World Series titles in 10 years as the Marlins, Angels, White Sox, Phillies, Diamondbacks, Cardinals and Giants.
P-Town Brave ©
November 30th, 2010
11:58 am
DOB-
Do you think there’s a figure out there that adds up how much more the Yankees have spent in that last 10 years while winning 1 World Series?
nyyankees are the best
November 30th, 2010
11:58 am
Arkansas Transplant
when was the last time we won a world series and when was the last time yall tasted one
unbelievable
November 30th, 2010
11:59 am
“I demand excellence” – Richard Dawson
laughable, just laughable. Are you the best at what you do? Im guessing that you are not.
timthebrave
November 30th, 2010
11:59 am
The Yankees could afford a good rotation but they will have to really overpay because the pitchers wives have to put up with classless fans spitting on them
P-Town Brave ©
November 30th, 2010
11:59 am
DOB-
Can you just block this guy’s IP…?
Eventually its just going to be more annoying than anything…
Too bad this isn’t like a regular board and we can individually block people…there are two or three that would be on my list.
Hillbilly
November 30th, 2010
12:00 pm
Are you from Tennessee?
No, reagan, I hail from the oil fields of South Arkansas.
raleighbravefan
November 30th, 2010
12:00 pm
B Blunders and .Don are the same person. (by the way, Don who is Medlin? Do you mean Medlen?)
R Dawson – Chipper is under contract for 2 more years ( I thought $14M per) If he retires, there will be some sort of buyout of that contract, which will still cost the Braves significant $$, although not considered part of payroll. Merits vs problems with this situation have been debated ad nausium. Wishing it different won’t make it so. I think he deserves it, but it doesn’t matter what either of us think. This isn’t the NFL. MLB players have a real union. You might as well deal with it.
Murph
November 30th, 2010
12:00 pm
The Yankees are going with a 2 man rotation this year. Sabathia might get under 400lbs with that work load.
Braveheart
November 30th, 2010
12:00 pm
But seriously, Mr. Dawson: After careful consideration, you have shown you are deserving of our Most Bitter/Negative Blogger award, without question. Congrats. It’s in the mail.
This is DOB’s way of saying:
I be tossin’, enforcin’, my style is awesome
I’m causin’ more Family Feuds than Richard Dawson
And the survey said — ya dead
Fatal Flying Guillotine chops off your friggin’ head
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvY6DU-uEiw
Arkansas Transplant
November 30th, 2010
12:01 pm
Well Dick, keep telling yourself that. Actually keep telling us that too, that line of yours, “I demand excellence” cracked me up. You might want to get that chip off your shoulder and drop that grudge. What a sorry miserable life you must live that a ball player not taking the time to stop and give an autograph has caused you this much remorse and hardship.
timthebrave
November 30th, 2010
12:01 pm
nyyankees are the best…..at treating women poorly at a baseball game
David O'Brien
November 30th, 2010
12:02 pm
What a joke that an MLB team would be dumb enough to send him out there at any position given his record late in the season and in the first playoff games. That was an atrocity. I have been a Braves fan for 35 years, and I don’t drink the cool-aid like you. I demand excellence. — Richard Dawson.
Yeah. Dammit.
Arkansas Transplant
November 30th, 2010
12:03 pm
nyyankees are the best
When exactly did you play on the team? or is that a collective us ?
timthebrave
November 30th, 2010
12:04 pm
nyyankees are the best….at blowing a 3 game lead to their rival
GTSteve
November 30th, 2010
12:05 pm
Can someone tell me why Jamie Moyer is having Tommy John surgery tomorrow??
timthebrave
November 30th, 2010
12:05 pm
nyyankees are the best….at having a team win their first playoff series against them
Arkansas Transplant
November 30th, 2010
12:05 pm
Speaking of cool-aid, I need mix me another pitcher.
Arkansas Transplant
November 30th, 2010
12:06 pm
nyyankees are the best drama queens of MLB.
Bat Masterson
November 30th, 2010
12:07 pm
I have been a Braves fan for 35 years, and I don’t drink the cool-aid like you. I demand excellence. _ Richard Dawson
This guy does not come close to filling Mitchell’s clown shoes. yawn
Murph
November 30th, 2010
12:07 pm
Can someone tell me why Jamie Moyer is having Tommy John surgery tomorrow??
Shuffleboard
David O'Brien
November 30th, 2010
12:07 pm
You sure he beat out .Don and Robert for the award? — P-Town Brave
Oh, I’m sure. This is a whole different level of bitterness this guy is bringing to the table.
I went back and checked out all his posts over the past year. Wow. Let’s just say, there weren’t any commending anything about the Braves when they had the best record in the league or led the division for a long stretch of the season.
timthebrave
November 30th, 2010
12:09 pm
nyyankees are the best….at getting steroids from a cousin
CraZyTRaDeMaN
November 30th, 2010
12:09 pm
P-Town Brave ©
I’m about 95% sure Booby’s Blunder is .Don!!!
His concern about the rotation was word for ward exactly what .Don use to say DAILY!!! Apparently .Don is finally out of the hospital. Next time maybe he’ll pick a higher bridge to jump off of!!!
Follow me off the cliff – Oh wait, you already jumped.
Arkansas Transplant
November 30th, 2010
12:09 pm
DOB, is Dick Dawson the same person as .Don and Robert maybe?
David O'Brien
November 30th, 2010
12:10 pm
Braveheart at noon: Now that was funny.
gcs
November 30th, 2010
12:10 pm
More 2010 stats on Matt Diaz for you:
Before DL: .178, 0 HR, 5 RBI, 3 2B, 1 3B, .246 Slugging, 73 AB
After DL: .285, 7 HR, 26 RBI, 14 2B, 1 3B, .576 Slugging, 151 AB
.
nyyankees are the best
November 30th, 2010
12:10 pm
braves suck they really really suck
David O'Brien
November 30th, 2010
12:10 pm
Arkansas Transplant: No, he’s not.
timthebrave
November 30th, 2010
12:12 pm
nyyankees are the best…..at talking like 5 year old kids
Michael from Macon
November 30th, 2010
12:12 pm
must resign EH noncommital on MD
Arkansas Transplant
November 30th, 2010
12:14 pm
nyyankees are the best
That was original. How long did it take you to come up with that?
Murph
November 30th, 2010
12:16 pm
The Yankee fan is now pulling lines from “The Waterboy” and making them about the Braves. That’s awesome.
Ease™ in Sandy Springs
November 30th, 2010
12:16 pm
Richard Dawson sounds a tad bit like Christopher Chance…
Booby’s Blunders, if not Dot-Donkey, has a similar copy paste/spelling style.
And CraZy – LOL
timthebrave
November 30th, 2010
12:20 pm
nyyankees are the best….at making Scott Boras a rich rich man
D.J.
November 30th, 2010
12:21 pm
This is the Ultimate Yankees Fan: http://www.myyesnetwork.com/fanoftheyear/go/video/view?vid_id=1273268 (Thanks to Deadspin for bringing this up multiple times this season)
I’m pretty sure that’s the guy commenting on here today. He has the same superb command of the English language.
Doc Holiday
November 30th, 2010
12:22 pm
nyyankees are the best………….are we talking about the same yankees that we pounded by the rangers? Im confused.
Arent the Giants the best in baseball right now?
Murph
November 30th, 2010
12:23 pm
Some interesting numbers about the player we Braves fans are “crying for our gm to sign” vs. the player that Yankee fans are crying for their GM to sign:
Jeter: 739 PA, 10 HR, 67 RBI, $22.6mil
Hinske: 320 PA, 11 HR, 51 RBI, $1mil
nyyankees are the best
November 30th, 2010
12:27 pm
i love reading hillbilly imbread comments
gcs
November 30th, 2010
12:29 pm
Something has got to be said for the kind of players Hinske and Diaz are beyond the stats. If you look at the 2010 Giants, they were basically a bunch of blue-collar veterans, journeymen and “cast-offs” with no real superstar beyond Tim Lincecum (and he is not your average superstar) and a break-out rookie in Posey. Sounds kinda familiar, huh?
Hinske and Diaz are bargains compared to some prima donnas the Braves have had in the past who had great numbers but no chemistry (Kenny Lofton, Gary Sheffield, JD Drew to name a few).
As for adding a veteran reliever, he’s 43 and did not have a good 2010 campaign but what about Trevor Hoffman?
.
bravofan
November 30th, 2010
12:30 pm
DOB: your 11:57 high five!!!
So what does everyone think about the Rockies signing Troy Tulowitzki to a 7 year $134million deal? I think they will regret that maybe not I dont know.
So Javy Vasquez going to the Marlins??
VOR
November 30th, 2010
12:30 pm
imbread
gcs
November 30th, 2010
12:30 pm
“imbread”?
.
Hillbilly
November 30th, 2010
12:30 pm
i love reading hillbilly imbread comments
……nevermind.
Murph
November 30th, 2010
12:30 pm
What is imbread?
bravofan
November 30th, 2010
12:30 pm
timethebrave: Nice one!!
timthebrave
November 30th, 2010
12:33 pm
nyyankees are the best….imbread? You can’t make this stuff up. When your parents told you not to drop out of the 8th grade you should have listened
P-Town Brave ©
November 30th, 2010
12:33 pm
Ease-
i sure hope he’s the same guy…
Anyone taking tips from .Don would have to be mentally deficient in many ways…
P-Town Brave ©
November 30th, 2010
12:34 pm
?
What kind of bread are you…? Wheat? White? Honey Oat?
Bat Masterson
November 30th, 2010
12:35 pm
i love reading hillbilly imbread comments _ nyyankees are the best
In the sixties we put a man on the moon. Today we produce people that are functionally illiterate and damn proud of it.
Nova Scotia Steve
November 30th, 2010
12:35 pm
Someone need to calm “nyyankees are the best” down – and really there’s only one way to do it…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0GW0Vnr9Yc&feature=related
In honor of Leslie Nielsen and one of the funniest movies ever made…and fitting for this situation…
dpelfrey
November 30th, 2010
12:37 pm
Hey, if you picture Richard Dawson as Charles Barkley, he’s not that annoying.
Terrible…that’s just terrible. I love to use the word terrible…ain’t that just terrible.
dpelfrey
November 30th, 2010
12:37 pm
Geez, did I just steal a bit from Frank Caliendo. I’m embarrassed.
RC
November 30th, 2010
12:38 pm
Wow, I come back from lunch and find that Richard has somehow twisted my post to say I was “making his points for him”? And yes Richard, Chipper’s $13 million IS contractually owed to him. He has stated that he doesn’t plan to retire, and that’s completely within his rights. Please go back on wikipedia and look up the definition of the term “contract”.
Murph
November 30th, 2010
12:38 pm
The prefix “im” means “not” when it’s followed by the letters b, m, or p.
imbread = not bread
Makes perfect sense to me. Immature. Imbalanced. Imbread.
Doug
November 30th, 2010
12:39 pm
It should read “inbred hillbilly”…so not only can you not spell…you do not know how to constuct a sentence. What level of frustration must you have when year after year your teams mind numbing spending spees yield such paltry fruit???
RC
November 30th, 2010
12:39 pm
In the sixties we put a man on the moon. Today we produce people that are functionally illiterate and damn proud of it.
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
Arkansas Transplant
November 30th, 2010
12:40 pm
nyyankees are the best
You do realize, ignorance is bliss, right? You might want to just keep your comments to yourself. Your giving away all too much!!
Murph
November 30th, 2010
12:41 pm
I love a good grammar fight. Spending spees? You had him against the ropes and then whacked yourself in the nuts.
Smitty
November 30th, 2010
12:41 pm
I really think if McLouth doesn’t perform, Matt Young and Jose Costanzo really need to be given a legit shot. Both are killing it in Winter Ball
RC
November 30th, 2010
12:43 pm
I really think if McLouth doesn’t perform, Matt Young and Jose Costanzo really need to be given a legit shot. Both are killing it in Winter Ball
I’m sure they will be, primarily due to lack of other options. However, the ideal plan is that McLouth actually plays well.
dpelfrey
November 30th, 2010
12:45 pm
Easy there Smitty, more than likely you never heard of Jose Constanza before today. Let’s see him in spring training first.
TommyP
November 30th, 2010
12:47 pm
Interesting the characters we’ve seen over the years on the blog.
I basically become an offseason poster on the blog ’cause the regular season primarily consists of bashing every move Cox made or didn’t make. I just don’t see the point. With football, it’s a bit more enjoyable to debate things a coach should or shouldn’t have done. With baseball, there’s a game daily. You’ll go crazy if you fixate on daily moves/non-moves.
I think the Javy signing by the Marlins was a great move.
I also like Hinske coming back on a 1 year deal with maybe a slight raise but not two years. For reasons DOB already stated, just not wise to give those types of players multi-year deals at this age.
While I love Diaz, I think you can find that type of player for less money. Aaron Cunningham of SD is a non-tender candidate and he seems to be a younger, cheaper version of Matty D. The $ saved there could be used on either a MI utility guy or veteran reliever.
So far, love what Wren has done. (that’s a far cry from my tone last offseason….gotta give credit when it’s due)
Doc Holiday
November 30th, 2010
12:49 pm
nyyankees are the best
November 30th, 2010
12:27 pm
i love reading hillbilly imbread comments
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Im not from the south, not even from the USA, but if I were you, I would try to think (even if it is hard for you) about what Im saying. And try to show a little class (even if it is hard for you). I understand you are from the north and a yankee fan……….but you can be better than “I love reading hillbilly imbread comments”. Trust me, it just shows what you are made of.
wide right
November 30th, 2010
12:51 pm
Could Smoltz come back and close? Or setup guy to Kimbrel? I anticipate your wrath, fellow MIB blog denizens. But i ask…is it that crazy? Okay…its pretty crazy. He is retired. But this is my hero we are talking about. I am at my desk staring at this little shrine i have built to him and just thinking about it. And i didn’t like the way things ended. I bet he’d be a top 10-15 closer, would take little money. Cheaper than JJ Putz at least and just as effective i bet. a few nostaligists on this blog keep pining for Andruw to come back. I never see anything about Smoltz. This is the most popular Braves blog in America. We could at least put the thought in his head.
Matt Diaz = class act and while i would hate to see him in a division rival’s uniform i would get over him being a Philly simply because the fans would welcome him after his attack of Spiderman.
DOB, I heard a CD recently from a band called Gaslight Anthem. It rocks – if i have any sense of your taste from years on this blog i can tell you’d like it.
Bat Masterson
November 30th, 2010
12:51 pm
This is the Ultimate Yankees Fan: _ D.J.
The self esteem generation: You’re special little Johnny just for being you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA6YXuagiuU
Skeeterleg
November 30th, 2010
12:56 pm
Of course Boobys Blunders is .Don. He has been posting that diatribe about the Braves having only four quality major league players and one dependable pitcher over and over since the season ended. He didn’t even bother to make it five after the Uggla trade. Just keeps posting the same mess to see if someone will believe him.
GeorgetownKid
November 30th, 2010
12:59 pm
It has been quite a while since I last posted here, but I always read the entire blog. Some of the comments today are hilarious (for different reasons).
Someone should compile a top-10 list of DOB’s funny retorts to stupid comments. That would be awesome!
For my 2 cents on the topic of this blog – I very much hope the Braves keep Diaz and Hinske. I don’t see how Mather adds any more value on the field than Diaz (how many 3rd-string corner infielders do we need).
Diaz and Hinske are big reasons why the Braves are such a fun team to cheer for. Great guys who play the game the right way.
dpelfrey
November 30th, 2010
12:59 pm
One of the guys I’m intrigued by this year is Scott Proctor. The Braves need a been-there-done-that guy at the back end of the pen, and I think Proctor could be a quality contributor now that he’s 2 years removed from TJ surgery. I was glad to see they resigned him earlier this month.
Creepy Tom O'Hawke
November 30th, 2010
1:00 pm
If you want beef, then bring the ruckus…
David O'Brien
November 30th, 2010
1:00 pm
wide right: Gaslight Anthem’s CD The ‘59 Sound from a couple of years ago, or this year’s American Slang? I loved the former and liked the latter a lot, just not as much.
wide right
November 30th, 2010
1:03 pm
American Slang…brother bought it for me last week and I’d never heard of them before. I need to check out ‘59 Sound.
VOR
November 30th, 2010
1:04 pm
a few nostaligists on this blog keep pining for Andruw to come back. I never see anything about Smoltz
Smoltzie is one of my all time faves, but his right arm is basically held in place by a handful of staples, a half roll of duct tape, and a couple of pieces of Bazooka bubble gum. While I do love me some Bazooka Joe – how did he lose that eye, anyway? – it would appear that Johnny has found his post-MLB niche in broadcasting.
ncscoots
November 30th, 2010
1:07 pm
While I do love me some Bazooka Joe – how did he lose that eye, anyway?
Played next to Melky in the OF, is my guess.
TnBrian
November 30th, 2010
1:07 pm
To say the Braves suck means you don’t know much of anything about baseball. I’m not saying that because this is my team or whatever, I just think it’s true. What team since ‘91 – 2010 has had as much or more success than the Braves? The Yankees and …….?? And even the Yankees have humiliated themselves, imo, the last decade outspending all other teams and still having only one world title. So don’t come on here talking shi* about things you don’t know. I seriously see now what they mean when they say the best teams don’t always win it all. SF is the most recent example. So much luck is involved and I can remember in some of those World Series/playoff games where a ball missed by a foot or less going fair or we win the game and maybe that series. Luck.
Crockett
November 30th, 2010
1:08 pm
Am I missing something? Troy Tulo had a great month of September and is a solid player by all means, but to essentially give him a 10yr $160 million contract with $20 million plus paid in each of the last 5yrs is crazy. Especially when he was not a free agent for 3-4 more years. This for a guy who has hit more than 28hrs once and has never driven in 100 runs…. BETTER SIGN UGGLA QUICK if that is the going rate for middle infielders.
P-Town Brave ©
November 30th, 2010
1:10 pm
Don’t worry…
Constanza will be in your head by the end of the season…
Its like “By Mennen”
Also, maybe he’ll do something to help the team be more comfortable on the field…maybe all cotton unis
TnBrian
November 30th, 2010
1:12 pm
I seriously don’t want to think I roam this blog with such stupid people like ???? (you know who they are). I’d like to think they’re only trying to get a rise out of us as their hobby. I also don’t know why some of you fight with them over and over. You only feed their need. Stop, ignore them. It doesn’t mean shi* anyways what they think. We know the truth. The Braves have flaws like every other team in baseball has.
MaconBraves (RIP)
November 30th, 2010
1:13 pm
Richard Dawson— It’s “kool-aid”, not “cool-aid”….. but you’re from wherever the heck your from.
timthebrave
November 30th, 2010
1:13 pm
Smoltz is one of my all time favorites but at this time he can contribute more from giving us insight into what pitchers are thinking from the booth
TnBrian
November 30th, 2010
1:15 pm
Crockett, Uggla might not want to sign anything right now. I wouldn’t either if I’m him to be honest.
nyyankees are the best
November 30th, 2010
1:16 pm
just trying to stoop down to yalls iq and typing skills idiots all of you
nyyankees are the best
November 30th, 2010
1:17 pm
just wait till heyward is in the pin stripes gonna look so good
DS1
November 30th, 2010
1:18 pm
Too bad I am now Da Sensitive blogger, as the field is ripe for the pickin’ today!
timthebrave
November 30th, 2010
1:19 pm
nyyankees are the best…..you get funnier and funnier…You should have stopped while you were behind
Bat Masterson
November 30th, 2010
1:21 pm
just trying to stoop down to yalls iq and typing skills idiots all of you
nick
timthebrave
November 30th, 2010
1:21 pm
nyyankees are the best….at butchering the english language
Ease™ in Sandy Springs
November 30th, 2010
1:22 pm
Shoot, Wayne…Release the Hounds…
P-Town Brave ©
November 30th, 2010
1:22 pm
TnBrian-
Thus why I stated how nice it would be if this were a regular message board so there would be an ignore button…
Ease™ in Sandy Springs
November 30th, 2010
1:24 pm
Istanbul was Constanzanople
Now it’s Istanbul, not Constanzanople
Been a long time gone, Constanzanople
Now it’s Turkish delight on a moonlit night
MaconBraves (RIP)
November 30th, 2010
1:24 pm
nyyankees are the best…..at being Trolls and underachieving.
Bat Masterson
November 30th, 2010
1:26 pm
but you can be better than “I love reading hillbilly imbread comments”
Yeah, I doubt it. I’m thinking Yankee boy fraud peaked in pre-school.
Bat Masterson
November 30th, 2010
1:27 pm
Ease_
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4phHwSSing
timthebrave
November 30th, 2010
1:28 pm
“nyyankees are the best, just trying to stoop down to yalls iq and typing skills idiots all of you”
“just wait till heyward is in the pin stripes gonna look so good”
Fix half the grammar in that sentence before the blog hits page 12 and we might believe you. This might end up being the first productive day for you in a long time
Buckeye Brave
November 30th, 2010
1:32 pm
NYYankee if you can’t hold an intelligent conversation here consider going back to your yankee blog.At least Anders has something to contribute when he comeson.Never thought I’d compliment a Mets fan. FYI Ohio State has been in how many national Championship games in the last 10 years.Name a New York college that has been in one in the last 30 years.There are none!! And if it wasn’t for Syracuse you wouldn’t have been in any in basketball in the last 10 years. Oh that’s right, New Yorkers don’t consider Syracuse part of NY.
Ease™ in Sandy Springs
November 30th, 2010
1:35 pm
Bat – Saw that “live” and was pretty friggin’ hilarious…I am smiling now…
jeffrey d
November 30th, 2010
1:36 pm
I think it’s pretty obvious by the name, grammar, and retorts (”just trying to stoop down to yalls iq and typing skills idiots all of you”) that he’s just a kid
Arkansas Transplant
November 30th, 2010
1:36 pm
nyyankees are the best I think has a crush for men in pinstrips.
Travis
November 30th, 2010
1:36 pm
nyyankee fan…Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt”
Ease™ in Sandy Springs
November 30th, 2010
1:37 pm
So he’s not really “stoopin” then?