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Murph
January 31st, 2011
5:49 pm
Anders, sweet Anders, Oliver Perez and his contract are funny and all, but jokes about them don’t make me pee myself. Sure, calling Perez a “specialist” in anything other than losing is funny, but not that funny.
I had a trickle fall down my leg after reading about the financial troubles the Mets are finding themselves in, but after a quick glance at their roster, well, let’s just say my bladder is empty. Nothing left for any Oliver Perez jokes.
David O'Brien
January 31st, 2011
5:52 pm
To repeat, Braves signed Rodrigo Lopez for rotation depth. Minor league deal. Minor/Beachy remain primary 2 candidates for No. 5 starter
Trey
January 31st, 2011
5:54 pm
DOB, Rodrigo Lopez going to the Braves for any reason doesn’t surprise me. I was hoping he would have gone to another team.
Snotboogie
January 31st, 2011
5:58 pm
Wow – Schafer looks really funny in that Chipper-Delta gate video.
nolie
January 31st, 2011
5:59 pm
And at some point you have to have the balls as a GM to make tough decisions. N8
aah. no balls huh? how ’bout Glavine and Smoltz? sigh
Murph
January 31st, 2011
5:59 pm
Just read an article about Chipper having some tendinitis in his knee that’s being treated with a cortisone-alternative.
Hmmmmmm….
VaBravesFan
January 31st, 2011
6:02 pm
DOB
I like the move. The guy’s a veteran pitcher who could fill in if a youngin struggles or if a starter goes down. With Medlen out for most of the season its a good signing. Someone who can give us some innings if needed.
MikeInFl
January 31st, 2011
6:03 pm
Great depth move, Lopez. If things get tight due to injuries, it could keep us from rushing a youngster up and into the rotation before he’s ready.
McFann O O
January 31st, 2011
6:08 pm
Bat M. Hey, that was all I could find.
Egad! Don’t say that! That doesn’t sound good, know what I mean?
Here’s another one:
http://atlanta.braves.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20081120&content_id=3685688&vkey=news_atl&fext=.jsp&c_id=atl
VaBravesFan
January 31st, 2011
6:09 pm
I think the signing means Kawakami will be traded for sure during spring. It makes absolute no sense to not trade him if we have no plans of using him. Trade him and save a few mil. Why pay him almost 7 mil to do nothing when u can give him to another team and only pay around 3 mil.
McFann O O
January 31st, 2011
6:09 pm
P-Town Brave BMac is gonna look a whole lot different come April…
Why do you say that?
nolie
January 31st, 2011
6:11 pm
so much for logic and stats, all we really need to know is if the guys bats left or right I guess….
nolie
January 31st, 2011
6:17 pm
I’m curious why you say that nolie. Robert
because that’s exactly what he is. didn’t say he wasn’t a great competitor, in fact his compulsive competitiveness with everybody and about most everything is most of the jerk part.
The 10 Commandments of the Religious Zealot Shaun Payne
January 31st, 2011
6:18 pm
I am OBP, the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of triple crown stats, from the house where fans watch games. You shall have no other stats besides OBP.
Do not make any image or any likeness of anything related to baseball. It will be a waste of your time to draw pictures or write poetry and songs about baseball. OBP on a spreadsheet is all you need.
Do not swear falsely by the name of OBP. Rather, swear completely by the name of OBP.
Remember the OBP and keep it holy.
Honor your OBP and walk rates.
Do not murder OBP by not avoiding outs.
Do not commit adultery with any other stats.
Do not steal bases.
Do not bear false witness. The best way to never bear false witness is to never witness a game.
Do not covet your neighbor’s stats.
CB
January 31st, 2011
6:22 pm
I hope he or she did not spend all day on that.
Bay Area Steve
January 31st, 2011
6:25 pm
Give ‘em an A for effort, CB?
LTBF
January 31st, 2011
6:27 pm
Jordan is really a lttle guy. I mean he is really small.
McFann O O
January 31st, 2011
6:30 pm
CB—
Me, too…seems slightly offensive…
Murph
January 31st, 2011
6:31 pm
Do not worship false baseball gods. You will be sent to baseball hell when you die and come back as a beer-bellied Mets fan with bad facial hair and a proclivity for gold chains and loose women named Marie.
CB
January 31st, 2011
6:31 pm
I guess so,BAS. I’m sure not everything we post gets an A for quality either.
keylargo
January 31st, 2011
6:31 pm
Especially his head, not including his ears.
nolie
January 31st, 2011
6:34 pm
but I wonder how much of a disadvantage that is for Heyward’s speed if Chipper is on in front of him? MF04
Chippers baserunning stats were one of the best on the team and in the top 20% or so of all baseball last year. Granted we do not know what it will be like with the injury, but he has always been a very good baserunner even as he has lost some of the early speed.
nolie
January 31st, 2011
6:44 pm
wasn’t particularly funny 10 comm
CB
January 31st, 2011
6:45 pm
nolie,I might be the only one on the blog that feels this way but I would like to see Heyward as our cleanup hitter. I believe,barring injury he will really take the next step in his development.
richbrave
January 31st, 2011
6:53 pm
CB:
A prayer for your wife’s speedy recovery.
LEW,ERIC in ALBANY, TOM O’:
Go get milk, bread, and food in general. Set up the aux. power generator with lots of gasoline, flashlights with good batteries, or lots of cured wood if you have a wood-stove. Getting out of your home in about 18-24 hours is going to become problematic at best for a few days. Thank god, we’re being spared.
richbrave
January 31st, 2011
6:55 pm
LTBF
January 31st, 2011
6:27 pm
Jordan is really a lttle guy. I mean he is really small.
He’s small, ha, how about MATT Y?
nolie
January 31st, 2011
6:55 pm
If Nate and Chipper hit for a decent average I have no problem with that CB.
McNate
Prado
Chipper
Heyward
Uggly
McCann Can the dancing catcher
Freeman
Gonzo
CB
January 31st, 2011
6:56 pm
Thanks,rich.
David O'Brien
January 31st, 2011
6:56 pm
Just going through Lopez’s day-by-day stats last year, and was really surprised to see that he had 15 quality starts. For a guy with his record and ERA last year, that’s hard to believe.
nolie
January 31st, 2011
6:58 pm
kinda why it’s not an official stat I guess.
CB
January 31st, 2011
6:59 pm
100% agree with that lineup to start with,nolie.
Bat Masterson
January 31st, 2011
7:03 pm
Conceding the if you and nolie can count me in on that lineup, CB.
Glord1
January 31st, 2011
7:04 pm
Nolie – We were all getting along so well. I will summarize what I said.
1. Chipper has been a great player
2. When healthy he has been great until the last two years but has been dinges up for parts of 7 years.
3. When you take in account his missing almost 25% of games the last 7 years his production has gone down. Started a big discussion on triple crown stats vs new advanced stats.
4. I think Chipper is aloof and could be a better leader.
5. I said I understood the reason Wren offered the fours years with all that went on that off season but that it was not necessarily a good business decision.
6. I said hitting third this year should have nothing to do with performance form the distant past.
7. I compared his HRs, RBIs and AVE to Pedro Feliz to show they were not a lot better than a journeyman because of injuries.
8. After DOB basically said that was rediculus I used Lance Berkman.
My point about a strong left fielder was if Chipper had retired we would have had 14 mil to go get that guy and I would feel better about the line up.
CB
January 31st, 2011
7:05 pm
Bat,now if we were only the manager,lol.
nolie
January 31st, 2011
7:05 pm
aye, obviously if McNate caint get on base at a 340+ rate that needs to change.
I’d move him to 7th or 8th and just let all the others move up one
Bat Masterson
January 31st, 2011
7:10 pm
Yeah CB_
I’d let Heap keep his beard too. Need to keep McFann happy.
VaBravesFan
January 31st, 2011
7:18 pm
If Nate can bounce back and be solid enough to be our lead off hitter our lineup would be very deep.
Nate
Prado
Chipper
Uggla
McCann
Heyward
AGon
Freeman
There could be alot of ways to work the middle of that order too. I just dont like having 3 LH hitters in a row.
CB
January 31st, 2011
7:18 pm
Wise move,Bat.
nolie
January 31st, 2011
7:27 pm
no way in the world do I want Heyward with his OBP being wasted in the 6 slot, nothing above 4 should even be considered. didn’t have 3 LHed hitters in a row
McFann O O
January 31st, 2011
7:28 pm
Thanks, Bat! Now if he could just do something to regrow the hair up top…
I’d like to issue a search-warrent for Jeff Bennett’s arrest. BMac had plenty of hair until JB “accidentally” shaved it all off at the end of the 2008 season…
Frumpy
January 31st, 2011
7:28 pm
My lineup for the 2011 season would be:
McLouth
Prado
Heyward
McCann
Uggla
Chipper
Gonzo
Freeman
If chipper shows any form, that is a pretty destructive 3-6, plus gonzo and prado have a little pop
McFann O O
January 31st, 2011
7:30 pm
nolie—
Not a bad lineup…BMac in the sixth-hole, eh? Actually, I wouldn’t take offense at that…wouldn’t bat him any lower, though.
But “dancing catcher”? Hmm…sometimes. But Marteen’s got more of the monopoly on that…
nolie
January 31st, 2011
7:35 pm
cac can is a dance , thus McCann can
nolie
January 31st, 2011
7:36 pm
can can is a dance , thus McCann can
nolie
January 31st, 2011
7:37 pm
hmmm wonder how that happened
nolie
January 31st, 2011
7:38 pm
again Frumpy you are wasting a high OBP/low out maker in the 6th slot
Bat Masterson
January 31st, 2011
7:39 pm
Where does McCann fit in?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVljWHTKjNs
nolie
January 31st, 2011
7:50 pm
kinda slow tonight. we need a megatrade to get excited about. maybe Lowe and Beachy and Conrad for Pujols.
VaBravesFan
January 31st, 2011
7:57 pm
lol
Trey
January 31st, 2011
8:00 pm
Nolie, damn. It is really slow tonight.
richbrave
January 31st, 2011
8:01 pm
My take on BRAVES thinking in regard to RODRIGO LOPEZ:
Starting off the season, AAA SP is pretty thin. None of REDMOND, GUSTAFSON, ORTEGANO, REYNOSO looked that great last season, or in winter ball. And the one best up and comer we had was lost in the rule 5 – DIAMOND. We need proven depth down on the farm in AAA temporarily. And there’s always…….well maybe the kinks are finally worked out of his arm after three years of rehab and work [ineffective work primarily]. Let’s take a chance. Maybe something’s there we can use right now.
One-Eyed Mac
January 31st, 2011
8:03 pm
I think they cut off the Delta video a little early. After Chipper’s gate announcement he also got to take a turn at losing DOB’s luggage.
David O'Brien
January 31st, 2011
8:18 pm
I wrote a new story about the Lopez signing, not anything long, but has some quotes from Wren and salary (he’s getting about $900,000 on prorated basis for any time in majors, but far less while in minors)
keylargo
January 31st, 2011
8:55 pm
Bat Masterson – I’m pretty sure I be out of control laughing if I saw BMac in Garter Belts and Hose doing the CanCan. Please don’t suggest that again. I could get hurt.
Bat Masterson
January 31st, 2011
9:04 pm
key_
No doubt it would be hilarious. I should point out I was only following nolie’s lead, however. Blame him.
keylargo
January 31st, 2011
9:11 pm
Rodrigo Lopez’s agent is “You Know Who” (Boras).
keylargo
January 31st, 2011
9:15 pm
Bat – somebody needs to be blamed. One could only hope his feet are too big for high heels. Or that he would exceed the weight limitation on the heels.
Bat Masterson
January 31st, 2011
9:16 pm
A 1950’s metal peddle car on Pawn Stars. Holy Moly.
One of my first real memories as a little kid was in one of those.( not during the fifties though)
A couple of bigger kids were pushing me down the sidewalk when I hit a broken spot and the car stopped suddenly, knocking out my two front baby teeth on the steering wheel. Damn
Frank from KS(now livin in CO)
January 31st, 2011
9:18 pm
Glord – I grew up a Royals fan (George Brett & Company). George is, was and will always be my all-time favorite player. I would say Mike Schmidt was his NL equal.
I have George’s stats for the last 7 years of his career. He won the batting title in 1990 at a .329 clip. While I’m not positively sure when he went to full-time DH..which I think was like either 87, or 88, or 89…he played 1st base for some time, after being the Royals 3rd baseman.
Year/Games/Avg/RBI/HR
87 – 115/.290/78/22/
88 – 157/.306/103/24
89 – 124/.282/80/12
90 – 142/.329/87/14
91 – 131/.255/61/10
92 – 152/.285/61/7
93 – 145/.266/75/19
Tom O'Hawke
January 31st, 2011
9:18 pm
Go get milk, bread, and food in general. Set up the aux. power generator with lots of gasoline, flashlights with good batteries, or lots of cured wood if you have a wood-stove. Getting out of your home in about 18-24 hours is going to become problematic at best for a few days. Thank god, we’re being spared.
richbrave
Thanks, buddy, but I always keep an eye on the forecast. My “necessity supply list” was a smidge different than the one you suggested, however. I just unloaded 4 cases of beer.
Frank from KS(now livin in CO)
January 31st, 2011
9:20 pm
Glord – my 9:18 post was in reply to all your comments about Chipper in the second half of HIS career
keylargo
January 31st, 2011
9:20 pm
Bat – have you seen Hard Core Pawn about a downtown Detroit pawn shop?
Bat Masterson
January 31st, 2011
9:23 pm
key_
No, what is that, some kind of pay per view show?
Bat Masterson
January 31st, 2011
9:24 pm
I just unloaded 4 cases of beer. _ Tom O’Hawke
Not expecting any guests?
cabravesfan
January 31st, 2011
9:26 pm
I just unloaded 4 cases of beer.
Nice to see someone’s got his priorities straight
Frank from KS(now livin in CO)
January 31st, 2011
9:30 pm
LOL…cab @ 9:26 p.m.
Tom O'Hawke
January 31st, 2011
9:30 pm
Let it snow, let it snow (hic), let it snow.
keylargo
January 31st, 2011
9:30 pm
Bat – If you like Pawn Stars, you’ll like Hardcore Pawn. It’s just a lot rougher store in downtown Detroit. It’s also real close to a casino and run by a Jewish family. (Don’t think the Jews would claim Chumley). It’s on TruTV channel 246 Directv.
tiger297
January 31st, 2011
9:33 pm
I actually had this conversation on another blog with some friends in Dallas. They were complaining about the run on bread/milk which I like since it leaves the chips/beer/liquor aisles wide open.
cabravesfan
January 31st, 2011
9:33 pm
all you people with your snow and your weather don’t know how lucky you have it, with your “it’s snowing too hard to leave the house so I’ll take a Snow Day” excuses to lay on the sofa and drink all day
Bat Masterson
January 31st, 2011
9:35 pm
key_
I don’t know if it is available on my cable provider (from hell, media com) but I’ll look. Thanks for the tip.
Bravefaninok
January 31st, 2011
9:37 pm
tiger297
January 31st, 2011
9:33 pm
I actually had this conversation on another blog with some friends in Dallas. They were complaining about the run on bread/milk which I like since it leaves the chips/beer/liquor aisles wide open.
P'cola Brave
January 31st, 2011
9:42 pm
key
TruTv is one of the best channels available. Love almost all their shows. Good tv.
Bravefaninok
January 31st, 2011
9:44 pm
tiger297
I am about 3 hrs north of Dallas,It is absolutly nuts here ….Took me 2 hrs to go to Wally world and buy a few extra Groceries…….there was not a single loaf of bread in the whole store!
Being from Michigan I always forget that a snowstorm shuts everything down in the south……5 or 6 inches of snow in michigan is not even an excuse to be late for work,Down here they give you a day or 2 off.
Tom O'Hawke
January 31st, 2011
9:44 pm
“it’s snowing too hard to leave the house so I’ll take a Snow Day” excuses to lay on the sofa and drink all day
Actually, cabravesfan, this promises to be a two-day sofa & suds. Supposed to get 4-8 inches tomorrow. Then after a 6 hour lull, the BIG one hits. Depending on the sleet, another 8-12 or more inches.
You may want to add a few more emoticons.
cabravesfan
January 31st, 2011
9:45 pm
Tom-
cabravesfan
January 31st, 2011
9:47 pm
Tom-
I also noticed you changed my evil face to a smiley evil face…
tiger297
January 31st, 2011
9:49 pm
bravefaninok – I spent 5 years in Cleveland so I understand. Thing is down here normally it melts in 2-3 days so nobody has plows/salt trucks. I know I don’t want to pay taxes for something that would get used once every 10 years.
Tom – I am so proud of myself for not typing what I really wanted to in response to your post….so tempting to be inappropriate. You gotta mention snow somewhere in that post please.
Playoffs!!!!
January 31st, 2011
9:49 pm
Getting Lopez is a good pick-up. His American Leauge ERA of 5.00 translates to about a 3.80 in the N.L. And didn’t he pitch against a lot of ALEast teams. He’s a good #4 starter for a lot of teams.
cabravesfan
January 31st, 2011
9:51 pm
tiger297-
That is soooo not right!
Tom O'Hawke
January 31st, 2011
9:51 pm
Funny, cabravesfan @ 9:45
Yeah, I didn’t look close enough. I made your guy “twisted”, instead of “evil”. Sorry about that.
cabravesfan
January 31st, 2011
9:53 pm
So you weren’t just rubbing it in?
Tom O'Hawke
January 31st, 2011
9:54 pm
I don’t know, tiger297. You’re as bad as Lew. A few weeks ago I asked him, a Vermont resident, if he got 20 inches.
The next thing you know, he was about to change his moniker to tripod.
Tom O'Hawke
January 31st, 2011
9:56 pm
No, cabravesfan, an honest goof. Maybe too many beers?
Nahhhhhhhhhhhhh
cabravesfan
January 31st, 2011
9:57 pm
Tom-
I thought you just unloaded those cases…unless you have a very impressive ability to shotgun beer…
Trey
January 31st, 2011
9:58 pm
Hm, a Ward going to prison for seven years.
Hopefully not the Ward we know. 
tiger297
January 31st, 2011
9:58 pm
and you didn’t learn from that?
cabravesfan
January 31st, 2011
9:59 pm
boys will be boys…
Tom O'Hawke
January 31st, 2011
10:02 pm
cabravesfan, you’re right, on number one.
tiger297, I thought I might be safe with it being too late for Lew. I promise to be more careful in the future.
Snotboogie
January 31st, 2011
10:02 pm
His American Leauge ERA of 5.00 translates to about a 3.80 in the N.L. And didn’t he pitch against a lot of ALEast teams.
He pitched for the D’backs last year and he was equally bad home and away. He reminds me of the Mark Redman acquisition, except that we arent depending on him for anything and this guy probably will spend the majority of the season at AAA. Happy if that happens.
cabravesfan
January 31st, 2011
10:05 pm
why do people feel the need to stock up on bread and milk in the event of a storm? The bread’s only going to last a few days and the milk will spoil if you loose power…I’d go with the chips and salsa and beer and snack foods that won’t go bad…can anyone explain that to me?
Kat
January 31st, 2011
10:10 pm
Tom O’Hawke… enjoy the snow too. I was just getting use to seeing the road with no ice or snow on it..and now an additional 1-2ft over the next two days (I live in Albany like Eric). cabravesfan, I’d love to take a snow day every time it snowed but it takes about a foot of snow to actually make it a snow day…
I’d love it if every time it snowed 6 inches I didn’t have to work! 
Grass is always greener haha. Is it spring yet?!
Bat Masterson
January 31st, 2011
10:10 pm
children?
Bravefaninok
January 31st, 2011
10:11 pm
cabravesfan
January 31st, 2011
10:05 pm
why do people feel the need to stock up on bread and milk in the event of a storm? The bread’s only going to last a few days and the milk will spoil if you loose power…I’d go with the chips and salsa and beer and snack foods that won’t go bad…can anyone explain that to me?
The kids are off school….they eat cereal w/milk and make sammiches with the bread.
If the power is out put the milk in a cooler outside with the beer..it will not spoil.
Trey
January 31st, 2011
10:12 pm
Bat, I don’t know. My buddy sent me the article about the guy only getting seven years in the slammer for it and I saw his last name saying Ward.
Bravefaninok
January 31st, 2011
10:12 pm
Chips and salsa was on my grocery list as well…that is adult food…..lol
tiger297
January 31st, 2011
10:12 pm
cabravesfan – I know we’ve talked about the blond thing before right. If you lose power due to snow/ice storm you probably wont have much issue keeping your milk from spoiling.
Kat
January 31st, 2011
10:12 pm
cabravesfan.. milk won’t spoil if you lose power.. you just have to put it outside in the snow haha.
cabravesfan
January 31st, 2011
10:13 pm
Kat-
It’s still a Snow Day! We don’t even have real seasons!
P'cola Brave
January 31st, 2011
10:13 pm
Any thought that Rodrigo Lopez could compete for the long relief and possible spot start?