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David O'Brien
June 29th, 2011
7:48 pm
Link to QUOTAGE
http://blogs.ajc.com/atlanta-braves-blog/2011/06/29/braves-quote-after-sweep-of-mariners/
MIBravesFFFFFan
June 29th, 2011
7:51 pm
Thanks, DOB
Bat Masterson
June 29th, 2011
7:53 pm
Tom O’
Its unfortunate you did not have Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, looking out for you with cab.
Bat Masterson
June 29th, 2011
7:56 pm
Anyway Tom O’, I thought it was clever of you.
Veer
June 29th, 2011
8:00 pm
come on red sox
Tom O'Hawke
June 29th, 2011
8:02 pm
Tom O’
Its unfortunate you did not have Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, looking out for you with cab.
You’re not kidding, Bat. Here I am, all proud of myself for the literary comparison, and then, whoooooosh. The cyclone known as “Cab”, sweeps me away and puts me in a freakin’ doghouse with nolie.
cabravesfan
June 29th, 2011
8:05 pm
Not helping your case Thomas…
Bat Masterson
June 29th, 2011
8:07 pm
cab_
I’m not sure you are helping yours. You have heard of The wizard of Oz?
Tom O'Hawke
June 29th, 2011
8:08 pm
Thanks, Bat, I appreciate that.
The next time I make any literary comparisons, however, I’ll pick something less obscure.
Bat Masterson
June 29th, 2011
8:09 pm
Tom O’
Now thats funny!
cabravesfan
June 29th, 2011
8:11 pm
Bat-
umm, yes. I’m just giving Tom a hard time. After all the bitching about west coast games…
Heath
June 29th, 2011
8:11 pm
Great start to the second half of the season for the Braves. If the Braves have the same record in the second 81 games as the first… I think we can live with that, no?
Tom O'Hawke
June 29th, 2011
8:11 pm
Here, LAdy. Listen to my favorite version of the song, from the original artist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXJ2Q0F8H80&NR=1
I picked it out just for you.
jeffrey d
June 29th, 2011
8:14 pm
West Coast games are pretty annoying
cabravesfan
June 29th, 2011
8:16 pm
Tom-
Of course I have heard that version
Many times! It’s lovely
Heath
June 29th, 2011
8:16 pm
jeffrey d
June 29th, 2011
8:14 pm
West Coast games are pretty annoying
Not if they start at 3:40pm et, I work 5am – 3pm
Bat Masterson
June 29th, 2011
8:17 pm
cab_
Okay I was a little concerned about you. You know there are 4 questions about The wizard of Oz on the USA Citizenship test.
ray k.
June 29th, 2011
8:18 pm
DOB, I cant say that I understand Fredi’s answers to your question about Venters. Was it your inquiry that made the light bulb go on in his head and realize he has trotted Venters out there near every game for the last couple weeks? Has to do a “better job of managing” him? Then why didn’t he do that very damn thing today? Was the home run his first clue? Did his moniker, every day Johnny, escape Fredis notice? His league leading number of innings pitched?
This guy is talking as if he just returned from a desert island. Just idiotic.
Tom O'Hawke
June 29th, 2011
8:19 pm
cabravesfan
That’s not the original version from the ‘39 movie. She did that live in 1955. Can you hear her crying at the end.
The story of her life appears every once in a while, on TV. That’s where I first saw it.
Gone Viral
June 29th, 2011
8:21 pm
Gonzalez’ situation with Venters reminds me of that movie, The Box. Gonzalez knows the downside if he pushes the button, but the temptation is so strong. I’ve been watching Braves baseball since the days of Biff Pocoroba and I have -never- seen a Braves relief pitcher go on a streak like that, not even Smoltz. When you don’t use Venters, you are giving the opposing team a much better chance of scoring runs yet if you use him too much, he could burn out or get injured. There needs to be moderation but the temptation is irresistible.
jeffrey d
June 29th, 2011
8:23 pm
I love that song, Tom. But I think I like younger Judy Garland singing it better.
cabravesfan
June 29th, 2011
8:26 pm
Bat-
Good thing I don’t have to worry about a citizenship test
Tom-
You know, I saw the “1955″ in the title and never even thought it was not the original- sounds just as good as when she was younger
Tom O'Hawke
June 29th, 2011
8:29 pm
This is the original from the movie soundtrack, jeffrey.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhzbzwPNgXA
As much as I’ve liked that since I was a little kid, I preferred her live stage version, better. I think it was her emotion.
ray k.
June 29th, 2011
8:29 pm
I can’t stop watching the trailer for Moneyball. Gives me chills every time. There’s a shot of the team standing side by side that includes David Justice (well, an actor playing David Justice). I had forgotten he played for Billy Beane the final year of his career.
The song in the trailer is by This Will Destroy You. They are of the Explosions in the Sky ilk. Very effective accompaniment in sports movies.
jeffrey d
June 29th, 2011
8:31 pm
I can agree to that Tom. I like the innocence of young Judy singing it.
Tom O'Hawke
June 29th, 2011
8:37 pm
If you told me one day I’d be on a public forum posting show tunes, I’d say NO FREAKIN’ WAY!!!!!! Nope, no way, no how, never gonna happen.
(Not that there’s anything wrong with that)
Kirby Smart
June 29th, 2011
8:38 pm
Not gonna lose any sleep if Chipper lands on the DL. He’s become a .250 hitter with little or no power. This team can get it done without him.
D man
June 29th, 2011
8:44 pm
Braves looked good today. Make that 12 over 500.
jeffrey d
June 29th, 2011
8:46 pm
This team can get it done without him
You know he’s second on the team in RBI’s? You know that – even though some make him out to be horrible – his replacements (Lugo…Diory) are nowhere near as productive as Chipper?
jeffrey d
June 29th, 2011
8:47 pm
“Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and the theme from The Office start off with the same interval.
nolee
June 29th, 2011
8:48 pm
Not gonna lose any sleep if Chipper lands on the DL. He’s become a .250 hitter with little or no power. This team can get it done without him. Kirby
pretty silly thought. he is still one of the highest OPS on the team, he is near the league lead in doubles and intentional walks and RISP, and he is second in OPS among all qualified NL third basemen. There is nobody on the team that can
replace him
D man
June 29th, 2011
8:49 pm
Kirby, I’ll tie Chippers 250 BA any day over the rest of the team…he makes everyone around him better…
nolee
June 29th, 2011
8:50 pm
damn. I actually agreed with jeffrey d, how embarrassing….
D man
June 29th, 2011
8:51 pm
How do I turn auto correct off? Take not tie…
TnBrian
June 29th, 2011
8:51 pm
I don’t want to spew negative garbage after we just swept a decent team on the road and I think Fredi’s done very good work with just about everything but the pen. The pen …… I don’t get it. He says they need to watch Venters’ work load, yet, he ran him out there again today with a 4 run lead AFTER he had Linebrink already warming up. If he’s just now realizing Jonny might just be getting a tad tired than I have to wonder about him some. He was showing definite signs of fatigue against SD. DUH!
Nice to see he now gets it. Venters and back-end pen guys are huge for this team down the stretch. HUGE
Tom O'Hawke
June 29th, 2011
8:51 pm
Really? I’ll have to remember to check that out, jeffrey.
I don’t watch too much TV, and I rarely see the office. But it’s on all the time in syndication.
I suppose that theme song is easy to find on the old net?
jeffrey d
June 29th, 2011
8:52 pm
About Chipper or SOTR?
jeffrey d
June 29th, 2011
8:54 pm
Tom, it’s no big deal…just the first 2 notes in SOTR and The Office are the same interval – an octave – apart. Just a small little thing I noticed when I started fiddling around on a piano. It’s the harmonica part that’s right after the piano intro.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9GilKnpiv0
Tom O'Hawke
June 29th, 2011
8:55 pm
damn. I actually agreed with jeffrey d, how embarrassing….
nolee, your biggest problem, IMO, was admitting it.
I think this may take a while to live down. Maybe a moniker change? I’m sure Lou has a few he hasn’t used yet that he’ll let you borrow.
nolee
June 29th, 2011
8:55 pm
Chipper…
I wasn’t really paying much attention to the SOTR talk, I was too excited about Tom coming back to visit Stanley and me…
and J/K anyway
George
June 29th, 2011
8:56 pm
Good evening y’ll
Any win is a good win. I did not see game so cannot comment on it. Very good we are done with west coast trips[sorry cab]we did end it on a high note. So outta here, have a good one or two y’ll.
richbrave
June 29th, 2011
8:57 pm
Life is good we go 46-35 in the first half, then a win to kick off the second. A 47-34 second half is a 93 win season. I’ll take it, considering where the offense is at this point. You’ve got to believe the pitching will slow up in the second half, so the offense has got to come around soon. HEYWARD and UGGLA need to step it up a notch. With CHIPPER, McLOUTH, SCHAFER, and SEABASS, what you see is what you get I believe. Having PRADO back may help. McCANN can’t stay this hot forever. He needs serious help. FREEMAN is certainly holding up his end of this deal.
McFann ;Ô; ;Ô;
June 29th, 2011
8:59 pm
richbrae McCANN can’t stay this hot forever.
Says who?
jeffrey d
June 29th, 2011
8:59 pm
Yes, because my thoughts are so loony and irrational that you’d have to be a fool to ever agree with m.
Tom O'Hawke
June 29th, 2011
8:59 pm
TnBrian
I haven’t said it, but I’ve been thinking EXACTLY the same thing you just posted @ 8:51.
jeffrey d
June 29th, 2011
9:00 pm
Bat – I told you he’s always in a hurry.
smits
June 29th, 2011
9:04 pm
can you tell us what was discussed between Schafer and Mclouth after the incident in LF…
Tom O'Hawke
June 29th, 2011
9:06 pm
jeffrey – You must have a great ear. Not in a million years would I have ever noticed that.
nolee – I’ve been wanting to see what you’ve done to the place (doghouse) since I was last there.
Hugo Z Hackenbush
June 29th, 2011
9:06 pm
Somebody guessed right…Kawakami lasted two innings, allowed seven earned runs.
jeffrey d
June 29th, 2011
9:10 pm
Tom – That’s just how I learned some intervals by knowing what they sound like. Like a 4th is Amazing Grace. A 5th is the old NBC jingle. An 8th (octave) is SOTR.
And now that I’ve bored everyone, let’s go back to discussing Venters’ usage.
Tom O'Hawke
June 29th, 2011
9:10 pm
That would be Murph, Hugo.
Earl Williams
June 29th, 2011
9:13 pm
Fredi should realize that steroids and other crap are basically out of the game. He should just assume he is now managing guys who are not receiving the benefit of Mother’s Little Helpers. Venters should be watched more closely. He is too valuable of a commodity to be entrusted in the hands of a guy who probably thinks “Verdi” is a misspelling of the Spanish for Uggla’s “verde.”
Frankie Wren
June 29th, 2011
9:14 pm
No doubt great series and good momentum coming home and going into the break. Have to say though, Fredi’s remarks are puzzling. Linebrink or really why not Proctor to start the 7th. Up 4 runs what is the comfort level using these guys 6,7 runs ahead? That’s not going to present itself very often obviously with the offense right now. He’s going to have to show a little more confidence in both of these guys. If you don’t trust Proctor, bring the sidearmer back up from Triple A. Venters and Kimbrel both have been outstanding but need to be careful. EOF can certainly pitch the 8th and not sure why he can’t be trotted out there for setup in until Moyland gets back to ease off on the dynamic dual.
richbrave
June 29th, 2011
9:15 pm
DOWN ON THE FARM
DSL
BRAVES best TIGERS 6-5 today.
ROBERTO ‘Star’ ESTRELLA [ND,4.72 ERA] 5.0 IP, 2 H, 0 R/ER, 2 BB, 0 SO.
JESUS ‘Spontaneous’ CAMBUSTON [H 1, 4.91 ERA] 2.0, 4 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 SO.
JO ROSARIO [BS 2, 4.15 ERA] 0.2 IP, 2 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 0 SO.
RICKY MEDINA [0.93 ERA] 2.1 IP, 0 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 SO. Sa-weet!
ORIEL R. CAICEDO [1-0, 6.14 ERA] 2.0 IP, zeros, 1 BB, 1 SO. Nicer than his past two outings.
Lead-off 2B DAN CASTRO [.221 BA] 2-6, 1 R.
1B IBRAHIM McKENZIE [.192 BA] 1-5, 1 3B [3], 1 BB, 1 SO.
CF SALMERON [.269 BA] 2-3, 1 R, 1 SO.
MIBravesFFFFFan
June 29th, 2011
9:15 pm
“richbrave
June 29th, 2011
8:57 pm
Life is good we go 46-35 in the first half, then a win to kick off the second. A 47-34 second half is a 93 win season. I’ll take it, considering where the offense is at this point. You’ve got to believe the pitching will slow up in the second half, so the offense has got to come around soon. HEYWARD and UGGLA need to step it up a notch. With CHIPPER, McLOUTH, SCHAFER, and SEABASS, what you see is what you get I believe. Having PRADO back may help. McCANN can’t stay this hot forever. He needs serious help. FREEMAN is certainly holding up his end of this deal.”
I don’t believe the pitching will slow up the second half (if Jonny isn’t worked into the ground) – the team was built around pitching and it shows. I agree Jason and Dan need to step it up, but at least Dan is providing the power part of what he was signed for, despite the awful other numbers. Having Prado back “may” help?! Having Martin back being Martin makes this team run offensively, IMO. And McFann is right about Brian – Brian is Brian, year in and year out, and he’s actually getting better! I agree about Freddie – I’m sure you’re shocked!
Tom O'Hawke
June 29th, 2011
9:17 pm
Interesting way to do it, jeff. You’ve never learned to read music? Or was that the method you used in the early days?
tiger297
June 29th, 2011
9:19 pm
after all the blogging sunday talking about how far back we would be after getting swept by the mariners I haven’t been catching much baseball…anybody tell me where we stand
tiger297
June 29th, 2011
9:20 pm
ok maybe I’m kidding and still watched the games…so where the hell are they
Tom O'Hawke
June 29th, 2011
9:21 pm
Earl Williams
I gave you a reply to an earlier post of yours to me. I believe it was yesterday. If you didn’t see it, I saved it and can re-post it if you’d like.
jeffrey d
June 29th, 2011
9:23 pm
Yeah I can read music. But when I was first learning theory it helped to know what it would sound like.
Soph
June 29th, 2011
9:25 pm
Good job again, boys – come on home. No more late games!
jeffrey d
June 29th, 2011
9:25 pm
Tiger – here’s Mixxo on Sunday
Mixxo
June 26th, 2011
7:06 pm
Oh……and we’ll get “owned” in Seattle……mark my words
Earl Williams
June 29th, 2011
9:26 pm
Not really.
I’m now going to read the nasty New York Times and watch the Marlins try to go 3 For June. I can’t spend the amount of time that you OCD guys utilize here.
Good Night
Thing Uggla is still getting to .215? The decline has been very strange!!!!! to say the least.
tiger297
June 29th, 2011
9:27 pm
yawp…one of the folks I was referencing..
Tom O'Hawke
June 29th, 2011
9:27 pm
tiger297
The ol’ blog is always slow after a win, much less a sweep.
I’ve even resorted to talking about show tunes.
tiger297
June 29th, 2011
9:30 pm
well I can use an easy night…enough going on on the home front
Soph
June 29th, 2011
9:31 pm
Maybe if you read a few posts instead of saying the same thing 50 million times, you’d be able to keep up.
Tom O'Hawke
June 29th, 2011
9:32 pm
Ahh, MAN! Earl! Do you really have to leave so soon?
The guy is so much fun to have around.
Chastity Bono
June 29th, 2011
9:33 pm
Uggla is probably into some Barry Manilow stuff. Very performance appropriate. He probably listens to my mon’s material while working out.
jeffrey d
June 29th, 2011
9:34 pm
I thought Early got the boot?
Red Barber
June 29th, 2011
9:37 pm
Does anyone believe that Chip ever looks into the mirror and thinks–”I don’t really deserve this gig.I’m only here because of gramps and dad.Maybe I’ll just resign.”
phil
June 29th, 2011
9:38 pm
No on Chip, but we can hope…
phil
June 29th, 2011
9:39 pm
It’s clear that Venters is overrated….pathetic effort today.
Sybil
June 29th, 2011
9:40 pm
jeff d–If Earl goes so do at least 2 other regulars. We don’t want that. DOB recognizes what Earl brings to the blog. Of course he is no Nolee!!!
jeffrey d
June 29th, 2011
9:40 pm
Red – I don’t think so. Chip genuinely seems like a great guy…he’s just a little abrasive and annoying behind the mic.
Tom O'Hawke
June 29th, 2011
9:41 pm
I thought Early got the boot?
If you are referring to the idiot that kept stealing monikers, jeff, I’m quite certain that wasn’t Lou Vales, or anyone in his stable of monikers. Not his MO.
Dumbfound
June 29th, 2011
9:42 pm
In about 5 minutes, the crew of baseball tonight is going to discuss is the braves a threat to the phillies ? Tune in.
Sybil
June 29th, 2011
9:42 pm
jeffrey–That is why you can’t have Earl leave. We need him on this wall.
bravesgrl4life
June 29th, 2011
9:42 pm
Good night folks. Enjoy the day off tomorrow.
MIBravesFFFFFan
June 29th, 2011
9:43 pm
“Tom O’Hawke
June 29th, 2011
9:27 pm
tiger297
The ol’ blog is always slow after a win, much less a sweep.
I’ve even resorted to talking about show tunes.”
Some of us appreciated that!
jeffrey d
June 29th, 2011
9:43 pm
Well that guy was always around the same time as Lou. And he kept siding with him. I just figured Lou went over the edge (you know…even more)
Bat Masterson
June 29th, 2011
9:43 pm
Bat – I told you he’s always in a hurry.
jeffrey_
So you did and now I believe it. When I see George blow through here I’ll just throw out an a for him.
Tom O'Hawke
June 29th, 2011
9:44 pm
jeff d–If Earl goes so do at least 2 other regulars. We don’t want that. DOB recognizes what Earl brings to the blog. Of course he is no Nolee!!!
C’mon, Lou. You’re being modest. Only 2 other regulars???? That’s funny.
jeffrey d
June 29th, 2011
9:44 pm
Who’s off tomorrow? I’m not off tomorrow.
richbrave
June 29th, 2011
9:44 pm
GCL
No game today.
DANVILLE
Free baseball in the first of a double-header make-up game 1-1 against PRINCETON, W.VA. BRAVES two on, two out in the bottom of the eighth.
ROME
‘LOS PEREZ [4-7, 5.01 ERA] comes up short tonight 2-5. 8.0 IP, 6 H, 3 R.ER, 1 BB, 4 SO.
17th round AUGIE SCHLOSSER [18.00 ERA] 1.0 IP, 2 H, 2 R/ER, 0 BB, 0 SO. Rough first outing since his promo from DANVILLE.
3B ED SALCEDO [.274 BA] 1-4, 1 2B [16].
DH CHRIS GARCIA [.351 BA] 1-4, 1 R, 1 HR [6], 1 RBI [27], 2 SO.
C ‘Big’ JIM GATTIS [.336 BA] 1-3, 1 R, 1 HR [9], 1 RBI [19].
Sybil
June 29th, 2011
9:44 pm
Tom–I believe that Earl is improving at this stuff. He tells me that he NEVER steals others names because that is wrong and he would not like it done to him. I think that was Earl. I’m kinda sad that he only spends about a half hour a day here.
cabravesfan
June 29th, 2011
9:46 pm
I’m off most of tomorrow
Tom O'Hawke
June 29th, 2011
9:46 pm
Good night, bravesgrl4life.
Thanks, MIBravesFFFFFan
phil
June 29th, 2011
9:46 pm
The espners seem fairly keen on us….we’ll see!
Sybil
June 29th, 2011
9:48 pm
I meant that Red Barber was Earl and not the other guy, the one who steals names. DOB can verify that Earl does not steal names, is not a racist or any other kind of “ist.”
Soph
June 29th, 2011
9:48 pm
Dang, long LONG weekend for you then.
Tom O'Hawke
June 29th, 2011
9:49 pm
Well that guy was always around the same time as Lou. And he kept siding with him. I just figured Lou went over the edge (you know…even more)
Can’t say that you are wrong, jeffrey, for certain. I just doubt it. The guy that was stealing monikers was acting like a very immature kid.
Vales acts like a very immature old guy.
Dumbfound
June 29th, 2011
9:50 pm
The pudits are still saying the phillies have the best rotation. The braves rotation 1-5 is getting no Respect !
cabravesfan
June 29th, 2011
9:50 pm
Soph-
off tomorrow through Wednesday (even though I am coming home on Tuesday
)
jeffrey d
June 29th, 2011
9:50 pm
I got 2 more days of work then I’m off for 3 weeks. Suckas
Soph
June 29th, 2011
9:50 pm
Well, thought Kruk would totally dismiss us but he said we have a shot when ‘teeen comes back.
Soph
June 29th, 2011
9:52 pm
Nice cab, can’t complain though – work through Friday then I’m off all of next week.
cabravesfan
June 29th, 2011
9:52 pm
jeffrey-
I could be gone for the next 2 months and I’d still get paid
Dumbfound
June 29th, 2011
9:52 pm
phil
June 29th, 2011
9:46 pm
The espners seem fairly keen on us….we’ll see!
You think ?!?!
Only Kruk seems to like the braves. 
Gene Siskel
June 29th, 2011
9:54 pm
Why don’t we just appreciate Earl or Lou or whoever he goes by and just be thankful he injects some much needed humor into this blog. I certainly would not be here without him.