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Dennis Reynolds
May 12th, 2011
7:47 pm
This has to be the worst blog site as far as commenters go.
Kinda ironic a guy who uses the name “Braves Rule” to type comments stating that they suck and are overrated.
YOU PEOPLE ARE WHAT MAKES ATLANTA A BAD SPORTS TOWN!!!
Bunch of nerds who probably never played past the age of 14 and sit on your CPUs and bash your own team.
VaBravesFan
May 12th, 2011
7:48 pm
Well atleast Lowe went down trying to hit the ball.
Tomahawkin
May 12th, 2011
7:48 pm
What Happened?
What Did I miss?
cabravesfan
May 12th, 2011
7:49 pm
phil-
Yes he is.
Dennis Reynolds
May 12th, 2011
7:49 pm
DOB,
You’re work as to feel all for naught after reading these comments from these stupid people. So uneducated as far as the game of baseball is concerned.
Why couldn’t I have been born in St. Louis???
At least I could discuss my team with ppl who know something about baseball.
Gil In Mechanicsville
May 12th, 2011
7:49 pm
Yes Dennis, it does get a little tiresome after a while doesn’t it?
Braves Rule
May 12th, 2011
7:49 pm
Four strike outs already way to go guys!!!
JasonInFL
May 12th, 2011
7:49 pm
Swept by the Nats. At home. With Huddy, Hanson, and Lowe pitching.
Um, not good.
T for Texas
May 12th, 2011
7:50 pm
Easy, Debbie Reynolds.
Rameses
May 12th, 2011
7:51 pm
I would love d wright but the only way it could be done is to trade d Lowe and his 15 million a year along with a boat load of our top prospects. I say it has .000000000001% chance, maybe less LOL
Mixxo
May 12th, 2011
7:51 pm
No intensity or urgency.
Quite lethargic.
Not good.
Tomahawkin
May 12th, 2011
7:51 pm
Dennis Reynolds
“This has to be the worst blog site as far as commenters go.”
No offense, but obviously you haven’t seen the Philly.com/Phillies Forum during games…We are Tame compared to those cats…
Braves Rule
May 12th, 2011
7:52 pm
Yea the morons from ST Louis that dont boo they clap for everything yea thats it!!! Go there now Dennis!!
Tomahawkin
May 12th, 2011
7:52 pm
T for Texas
“Easy, Debbie Reynolds.”
ouch
Snotboogie
May 12th, 2011
7:53 pm
The D’backs apparently looking for veteran pitchers for their rotation, possibly innings eaters. Wonder if their familiarity with Lopez will make him a preferred target. Possibly for bench players in return (eg.W.Bloomquist).
Rameses
May 12th, 2011
7:53 pm
So hit the road guy
Jake W.
May 12th, 2011
7:53 pm
YOU PEOPLE ARE WHAT MAKES ATLANTA A BAD SPORTS TOWN!!
I always thought it was mostly on the bad pro sports teams, if not for the braves 1 world series we would have no pro sports championships in this city. Besides, at least half of the folks on this blog are not even from Atlanta, which in its own ironic way represents one of the biggest problems we have in Atlanta. Everyone from everywhere…….
BravesFAN
May 12th, 2011
7:53 pm
It will be pathetic if we get swept at home by the Nats…
MFin04
May 12th, 2011
7:53 pm
No glaring weaknesses for the Braves, but this team has just been inconsistent and disappointing almost all season long.
David O'Brien
May 12th, 2011
7:53 pm
Danny Espinosa, him of the career .210 BA, .402 SLG just drove a pitch over the dead center field fence.
No wonder that Derek Lowe looked like he was in shock — Coach
You do realize he’s a rookie? That was his 10th homer in 225 at-bats over two seasons. Which, if my math is correct, projects to about 25 homers in a full season.
Dennis Reynolds
May 12th, 2011
7:53 pm
Yeah, Tomahawkin. Thats the problem.
You might be tame, but also show no intensity or passion. Say what you want about the classlessness of Philly fans, at least they sell out every night and are passionate about their team.
Braves Rule
May 12th, 2011
7:54 pm
wright is a head case because of that stadium in Queens..He Would love to leave that park.
Snotboogie
May 12th, 2011
7:54 pm
What Happened? What Did I miss?
The irony in this always gets me, dunno why.
Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
May 12th, 2011
7:54 pm
@ LEW- 4:45pm; what was wrong with my prognosis of the bullpen? Makes sense.
ncbravesfan
May 12th, 2011
7:54 pm
I love how people get all defensive but let’s face it, the Braves have brought on the criticism by a.) playing horrendous defense and digging themselves in a huge hole Tuesday, b) blowing a 2 run 9th inning lead and then imploding in extra innings last night, and c) blowing a chance to score early and then, giving up a HR to a .200 hitter tonight.
And all this against a Nats team without their best hitter. It’s inexcusable for a team that had supposedly turned it around in the early part of the month.
But it’s typical Braves baseball.
Bravefaninok
May 12th, 2011
7:54 pm
JasonInFL
May 12th, 2011
7:49 pm
Swept by the Nats. At home. With Huddy, Hanson, and Lowe pitching.
Um, not good.
The extra rest was a mistake,A day-off always takes the wind outta this team(seems that way anyhow),The pitchers have not been sharp.
David O'Brien
May 12th, 2011
7:55 pm
These guys don’t deserve any fans to come pay to watch them play!!! They are so overrated. – Braves Rule
Overrated? In what, the AP poll? The ESPN/USA Today coaches poll?
Tomahawkin
May 12th, 2011
7:55 pm
That effing Werthless has already been a pest to us!
BRAVO_FAN52
May 12th, 2011
7:55 pm
Blog on fire tonight funny stuff GO BRAVES and take hawks with you
Ralph
May 12th, 2011
7:55 pm
Espinosa homered before LaRoach (the turtle) got a chance to steal second, bad play Nats, should have taken a fed pitches.
BravesFAN
May 12th, 2011
7:55 pm
I agree with you ncbravesfan…
Tomahawkin
May 12th, 2011
7:56 pm
Ho Sit Down!
Werthless!
jeffrey d
May 12th, 2011
7:56 pm
His head is much too small for his body. Like a living Far Side Character.
haha! Good one, T
jeffrey d
May 12th, 2011
7:56 pm
Awesome…we’ve got the Leslie Nielson ump calling balls/strikes
Sons of Linebrink
May 12th, 2011
7:56 pm
Enter your comments here
Hey Dennis….perhaps you should go author a book and let the world know how intelligent you are–by the way….have you authored anything of value and significance to society?
Fredi yes
May 12th, 2011
7:56 pm
Dennis Reynolds – So what makes a great baseball town? Philadelphia/NY/Chicago who spit on players, yell constant obsecenities, spill beer on players and bitch about every player who has a bad day??? I’ll take good ole’ ATL anyday and deal with the occasional frustrated fan on a this blog. And I agree with Tomahawin… you need to visit the blogs of “baseball” towns…
bravesgrl4life
May 12th, 2011
7:57 pm
Maybe if we let them score first, we can take it away from them. Sure hope so.
Tomahawkin
May 12th, 2011
7:57 pm
ncbravesfan
co-sign on your 7:54 post
Braves Rule
May 12th, 2011
7:57 pm
Only reason Philly sells out because their team is good.. I live 45 min from there when they stink no one goes..
Powder Blue
May 12th, 2011
7:57 pm
I don’t understand why Linebrink is still on the roster. He’s awful. And, yes, I think it’s time for Venters to close.
Braves Rule
May 12th, 2011
7:58 pm
everyone picked them to battle the Phils or at least the wild card.. When really they will be battling the Mets for last…
Tomahawkin
May 12th, 2011
7:58 pm
Sons of Linebrink
“Hey Dennis….perhaps you should go author a book and let the world know how intelligent you are–by the way….have you authored anything of value and significance to society?”
ouch
ncbravesfan
May 12th, 2011
7:58 pm
DOB – does the headline “Braves Surging With Dominant Pitching, Clutch Hits” sound familiar?
There’s an overrating!
Gil In Mechanicsville
May 12th, 2011
7:58 pm
Well, that explains it then, Braves Rule is a Philly troll
JasonInFL
May 12th, 2011
7:58 pm
Well, I hope they get their heads out of their butts before tomorrow night.
BRAVO_FAN52
May 12th, 2011
7:58 pm
but seriously that was a good tune DOB
jeffrey d
May 12th, 2011
7:58 pm
C’mon, blog…if you keep putting my comments way up in the past, nobody’s going to see them
(Insert nolie joke)
Braves Rule
May 12th, 2011
7:58 pm
Thank you ncbravesfan
cabravesfan
May 12th, 2011
7:58 pm
Y’all know DOB doesn’t write the headlines, right? And that at the time that was written, it was true?
CB
May 12th, 2011
7:58 pm
Who is Proctor replacing?
Snotboogie
May 12th, 2011
7:59 pm
And all this against a Nats team without their best hitter. It’s inexcusable for a team that had supposedly turned it around in the early part of the month.
But it’s typical Braves baseball.
Yankees currently down 6-0 to the KC Royals (the team otherwise known as Braves AAAA) after losing last night. The difference in payroll and quality isnt negligible. Yet…
Dennis Reynolds
May 12th, 2011
7:59 pm
DOB,
See what I mean?
All for naught. You do such great work, but don’t have any true baseball fans with any knowledge of the game to critique your work.
The few of us out here in “Braves Country” (Yee Haw!) are thankful for your work.
jeffrey d
May 12th, 2011
7:59 pm
Yankees currently down 6-0 to the KC Royals
Then by blog logic it’ll be KC and Washington in the World Series
MFin04
May 12th, 2011
7:59 pm
Its always easy to blame pitching, but where the heck is the offense? We seldom score in extra inning games, and thus lose. We seldom blow out teams in the first 9 innings, and thus have late inning melt-downs occasionally.
Score some freaking runs and win some games for the pitchers for once.
Tomahawkin
May 12th, 2011
7:59 pm
Anyone going to the Game Saturday…?
I’m still debating and ovulating as to weather or not I should go…?
cabravesfan
May 12th, 2011
7:59 pm
OLD MAN!!!!!
BFChris26
May 12th, 2011
8:00 pm
Chipper
LAG
May 12th, 2011
8:00 pm
Well done, Chip. Punish the kid a little bit.
Braves Rule
May 12th, 2011
8:00 pm
No I hate the Phillies
Bravefaninok
May 12th, 2011
8:00 pm
The LH swing is looking good tonight…
Gil In Mechanicsville
May 12th, 2011
8:00 pm
A big payroll doesn’t guarantee success, it only improves your margin for error.
T for Texas
May 12th, 2011
8:00 pm
The irony in this always gets me, dunno why.
I was happy until I read that. Lol.
Tomahawkin
May 12th, 2011
8:01 pm
HOSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BOOM SHOT-LOCK-BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!
Snotboogie
May 12th, 2011
8:01 pm
does the headline “Braves Surging With Dominant Pitching, Clutch Hits” sound familiar?
Were they surging then? – Yes.
Were they doing it with Dominant Pitching, Clutch Hits? – Yes.
Then it is reporting a fact, not rating or overrating.
Dennis Reynolds
May 12th, 2011
8:01 pm
HAHAHA! WOW YOU PPL ARE STUPID.
Braves Rule
May 12th, 2011
8:01 pm
Chipper heard me say trade for David Wright LOL
BRAVO_FAN52
May 12th, 2011
8:01 pm
Chipper!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jake W.
May 12th, 2011
8:01 pm
Chipper said you ain’t fooling me twice
bravesgrl4life
May 12th, 2011
8:01 pm
CHIPPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rameses
May 12th, 2011
8:01 pm
Jake W- you ain’t gotta be from the Atl or Ga to rep the bravos bro. I’m a 26 year old new yorker from syracuse and I’ve been in love with the braves and the tomahawk chop and the war chant for 20 dedicated seasons. It is due in most part because when I was a young boy up till high school I could catch almost very game on tbs. I believe the braves truly are Americas team because of decades of tbs broadcasting. Nobody loves braves baseball than me…. They can only love it as much as me. I live and die with every pitch. I can name our starting lineup for the last 20 years and I know our farm system inside and out.
BravesFAN
May 12th, 2011
8:01 pm
why are we not swinging the bats when the balls over the plate w two strikes??? Jesus the 4-5 guy that’s struck out looking..so frustrating.
David O'Brien
May 12th, 2011
8:02 pm
Was just typing something about all the called third strikes — seven already for both teams combined — when Chipper went ‘yard.
MFin04
May 12th, 2011
8:02 pm
The kid in the stands was soo excited for the homerun he didn’t realize he could have run and caught the ball a few rows back. Good fan.
Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
May 12th, 2011
8:02 pm
agreed ncbravesfan- this is typical Braves baseball
Braves Rule
May 12th, 2011
8:02 pm
6 of the 9 outs for the Braves are strike outs.. But thats baseball now strike out for whole league are up..
JasonInFL
May 12th, 2011
8:02 pm
Gramps!
Dennis Reynolds
May 12th, 2011
8:03 pm
The only reason Joe and Chip have been commenting on how loud the ball is off the bat the past couple of days is because theres 12 people at the park. I heard Brooks Conrad fart in the 1st inning.
JasonInFL
May 12th, 2011
8:03 pm
This team Ks a lot. Gramps with the dinger. We need to pull this one out!
Huddy (or JJ) 4 Cy
May 12th, 2011
8:04 pm
Ole Zim is just one K away from his season high, safe to say he’ll reach that easily
Bravefaninok
May 12th, 2011
8:04 pm
ravesFAN
May 12th, 2011
8:01 pm
why are we not swinging the bats when the balls over the plate w two strikes??? Jesus the 4-5 guy that’s struck out looking..so frustrating.
This guy is NASTTTTTTTTYYYYY! When your looking 95mph heater and he lays in that 80mph change-up it has that effect on ppl …..you cant do anything unless your guessing off speed.
Jake W.
May 12th, 2011
8:05 pm
Number one Rule of the blog, don’t gauge its temperature by its in game blogging….
Frumpy
May 12th, 2011
8:05 pm
DOB, you were going to write something about the high number of called strikes? are you saying the umpire is calling balls as strikes and the players have picked up on this yet? Im at work in Australia, so am unable to watch it, cheers
BravesFAN
May 12th, 2011
8:05 pm
Hahahaha Dennis that’s hilarious!!!!
BRAVO_FAN52
May 12th, 2011
8:05 pm
we need a Brian Asselstine kind of OF-prospect
Tomahawkin
May 12th, 2011
8:05 pm
Just Imagine what our record would be if we had the homer toatal reversed and had homers hit with men on instead of all the solo shots
Come On D-Lowe!
bravesgrl4life
May 12th, 2011
8:06 pm
I’m really starting to hate Laynce Nix as much as I hate Werth.
BRAVO_FAN52
May 12th, 2011
8:06 pm
under the glove of Uggla said Don Sutton
Jake W.
May 12th, 2011
8:06 pm
Ole Zim is just one K away from his season high, safe to say he’ll reach that easily
Good, braves do well when they strike out a lot.
Huddy (or JJ) 4 Cy
May 12th, 2011
8:06 pm
“Number one Rule of the blog”
I always thought the Number 1 Rule of the Blog was .. well … don’t talk about the blog
Braves Rule
May 12th, 2011
8:07 pm
Way to give it right back,,
JasonInFL
May 12th, 2011
8:07 pm
Sweet, let’s give it right back. Holy sh!t. How can we not get Lance freaking Nix out?
Dennis Reynolds
May 12th, 2011
8:07 pm
I don’t know what annoys me more, you unknowledgable fans, or Chip Carey.
Carey by a Joe Simpson hair.
MFin04
May 12th, 2011
8:07 pm
If only Derek Lowe was suspended….
BravesFAN
May 12th, 2011
8:07 pm
wow cmon lowe..We really are about to get swept AT HOME BY THE NATE..No wonder NOBODY goes to the games. That’s a pathetic excuse for a series by the Braves…
Tomahawk Mafia
May 12th, 2011
8:07 pm
Let’s go ahead and welcome Laynce Nix to the Braves Killer Club and classic Derek Lowe with his inability to pitch a shutdown inning.
JasonInFL
May 12th, 2011
8:07 pm
lol
Braves Rule
May 12th, 2011
8:07 pm
Is it me or do the Brave hit a lot of solo Homers?
Jake W.
May 12th, 2011
8:07 pm
you ain’t gotta be from the Atl or Ga to rep the bravos bro.
Never said you did, just stating the facts to our friend here about maybe why Atlanta, a transplant city, doesn’t draw as well for all its pro sports teams.
Ralph
May 12th, 2011
8:08 pm
Why didn’t chipper do that his last at bat when he had 2 men on base, just wanted to add to the league leading total of solo hommers.
Huddy (or JJ) 4 Cy
May 12th, 2011
8:08 pm
Chipper’s homer quickly negated