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ncgary
November 18th, 2011
10:22 pm
another friday night and i aint got no money.
got no money cause i just got paid
or is that played.
gotta love fascism
Venice Jim
November 18th, 2011
10:23 pm
JoeBrave – break the lyrics down into smaller posts – that way you can get a leg up on the blog post list…
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
10:24 pm
VJ, not lookin for no champeenships , just enjoyin the night.
Obee
November 18th, 2011
10:24 pm
DOB:
Saw John Hiatt and the Combo last night. Excellent show if you get the chance.
Bill
November 18th, 2011
10:30 pm
Great Post Chief…
JoeBrave you rocking tonight!
Have no fear Wren will get his deal..
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
10:32 pm
Someone told me long ago There’s a calm before the storm
I know; It’s been comin’ for some time.
When it’s over so they say It’ll rain a sunny day
I know; Shinin’ down like water.
CHORUS:
I want to know Have you ever seen the rain?
I want to know Have you ever seen the rain
Comin’ down on a sunny day?
Yesterday and days before Sun is cold and rain is hard
I know; Been that way for all my time.
‘Til forever, on it goes Through the circle, fast and slow,
I know; It can’t stop, I wonder.
Bill
November 18th, 2011
10:34 pm
DOB did you read my 3:54PM blog Nov 18th? What about checking with Cuban?
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
10:35 pm
Anyone care to guess who this one is by?
I need love, the kind of love I’ve never know before
You need it too the kind that makes you feel so good
I want to give you all the love you need
Well I’m a loner and thats the way I want to be
As the sun climbs across the sky above
So your smile fill me with a stronger love
Just as you and I watchin’ the morning sky
Somehow I know it’s time for me to say goodbye
I cant make a deal with the preacher
And i can’t make a bargain in heaven
Angel you came to my window, angel you came to my door
I was a fool and I let you in, I sure ain’t no fool any more
As the sun climbs across the sky above
So your smile fill me with a stronger love
Just as you and I watchin’ the morning sky
Somehow I now it’s time for me to say goodbye
I can’t make a deal with the preacher
And I can’t make a bargain in heaven
McFann O O o
November 18th, 2011
10:36 pm
You guys are crazy…
Largo
November 18th, 2011
10:37 pm
Listen to Wren, he says the same thing every time he opens his mouth. We’re going to field the best team, etc, etc,Blah Blah Blah. 2012 will a repeat of 20ll. Basically, the same bunch, same injuries and same players that can’t cut it. It’s all a bunch of crap.
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
10:39 pm
Tonight,I wanna give it all to you
in the darkness
there’s so much I wanna do
Tonight, I wanna lay it at your feet
cause girl I was made for you
and girl you were made for me.
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
10:40 pm
I am the host of DOB’S Friday Night Blogaoke
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
10:41 pm
We need more blogsingers in here
Venice Jim
November 18th, 2011
10:41 pm
Bad Company…
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
10:41 pm
guess that should be blingers!
jb
November 18th, 2011
10:42 pm
McFann, “YOU” guys are JoeBrave.
Frank Wren
November 18th, 2011
10:42 pm
Listen to Wren,
Oh yeah??? Well listen to Largo! With his improper use of commas, his omission of words, etc.
I will not be insulted by some blogger!
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
10:42 pm
VJ, You are the winner of DOB blogaoke trivia, your prize …. the 2012 NL East title
David O'Brien
November 18th, 2011
10:43 pm
his .750 career OPS on the road is better than Prado’s .745 career road OPS…DOB
you are kidding, right? that is all but statistically meaningless. so is the 110 to 108 OPS+ — nolie
I guess nolie was so eager to get on and comment about the insignificance of those virtually identical OPS totals that he missed the next few paragraphs where I addressed precisely that:
Smith had 431 fewer at-bats than Prado in three years but had more homers, walks and RBIs than Prado and only 12 fewer extra-base hits.
While Smith’s career statistics are significantly better at hitter-friendly Coors Field (like all Rockies hitters), his .750 career OPS on the road is better than Prado’s .745 career road OPS.
Smith has 20 homers and a .418 slugging percentage in 677 road at-bats, while Prado has 23 homers and a .412 slugging percentage in 994 road at-bats.
Granted that’s not much of a difference, but keep in mind many Colorado hitters have traditionally struggled mightily in road games because of the differences from the hitting environment they get acclimated to at home.
Smith is a .296 career hitter with a .925 OPS in 235 games at Coors Field.
In his third season in 2011, the 28-year-old Smith narrowed the home/road disparity quite a bit, batting .285 with nine homers and an .848 OPS in 71 games at Coors Field and .283 with six homers and an .817 OPS in 75 road games.
Venice Jim
November 18th, 2011
10:43 pm
The magic of Google…
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
10:44 pm
We have no Rodney Carrington on file so please make your Blogaoke selections from authentic artists..
Venice Jim
November 18th, 2011
10:44 pm
It was raining hard in ‘Frisco
I needed one more fare to make my night.
A lady up ahead waved to flag me down
She got in at the light.
Frank Wren
November 18th, 2011
10:45 pm
I’m freaking Frank Wren! I traded an old guy for Jurrjens! I traded a utility player for a slugger! I don’t need the approval of bloggers!!!
…..but seriously, I need some more ridiculous trade proposals. I don’t know what to do! What about Linebrink and Hinske for Votto?
David O'Brien
November 18th, 2011
10:45 pm
DOB – any inclination if the Braves might be among the teams interested in courting Yu Darvish?
No, I get the impression that the Braves aren’t going for any of the current crop of foreign free agents that includes the Cuban outfielder and the various Japanese players who may or may not be posted.
Bill
November 18th, 2011
10:45 pm
Goodnight..had enough songs.
Venice Jim
November 18th, 2011
10:45 pm
Hope DOB’s ridicule doesn’t send nolie back to the hospital…
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
10:45 pm
this is a unique idea, bloggin mixed with karaoke=blogaoke!
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
10:47 pm
and ….a round of applause goes out to VJ.. the crowd goes wild…. Nice Job
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
10:48 pm
bet I get cursed out for creating Blogaoke!
ncgary
November 18th, 2011
10:49 pm
just an old fashioned love song
one im sure they wrote for you and me
Venice Jim
November 18th, 2011
10:49 pm
Oh, where you going to, my lady blue,
It’s a shame you ruined your gown in the rain.
She just looked out the window
and said Sixteen Parkside Lane
Venice Jim
November 18th, 2011
10:50 pm
I can ride Taxi for quite a while…
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
10:50 pm
nice job gary, VJ
ncgary
November 18th, 2011
10:52 pm
i just wanna be your one man band
ncgary
November 18th, 2011
10:52 pm
joy to the world
its a 3 dog night
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
10:52 pm
The times are tough now, just getting tougher
This old world is rough, it’s just getting rougher
Cover me, come on baby, cover me
Well I’m looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me
Promise me baby you won’t let them find us
Hold me in your arms, let’s let our love blind us
Cover me, shut the door and cover me
Well I’m looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me
Outside’s the rain, the driving snow
I can hear the wild wind blowing
Turn out the light, bolt the door
I ain’t going out there no more
This whole world is out there just trying to score
I’ve seen enough I don’t want to see any more,
Cover me, come on and cover me
I’m looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me
Looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me
Venice Jim
November 18th, 2011
10:53 pm
Random Wells, Negron, Hutton always good…
ncgary
November 18th, 2011
10:53 pm
and thats a pile of uriah heep
Venice Jim
November 18th, 2011
10:54 pm
JoeBrave bringing some Bruce to the table – where is MiBravesFan?
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
10:55 pm
This old highway seems so lonesome when you’re going where you’ve been
And the lonesome song will make you cry time and time again
If I had listened to a friend of mine ten years ago today
I’d have a better job than what I’ve got today
But the billboards on the highway and the brake-lights on the cars
Make me jump out on the highway with my bag and my guitar
If she comes or if she goes it doesn’t matter anymore
’cause I’m ridin’ my thumb to Mexico
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
10:56 pm
BARBEEQUE SAMMICHES and Blogaoke!!!
keyLargo
November 18th, 2011
10:57 pm
Any chance BMac’s got into Schafer’s stash of Schafer’s Peanut Butter Cups? You know he would have chowed down on 8 or 10 of them every time he saw them in Schafer’s locker.
Of course BMac would never had done that if he knew what was in them.
I
TennBravesFan
November 18th, 2011
10:58 pm
I have really wanted Swisher in ATL for a while. I think a Jurrjens/Swisher swap makes since for both teams (just talking about players not sure of Swisher’s contract situation. Then keep Prado as utility guy, where he will still get 450 AB’s and play in 120 games.
ncgary
November 18th, 2011
10:58 pm
haven’t heard any iron maiden
in a while
think i’ll go bang my head
or is that go head banging…..lol
Venice Jim
November 18th, 2011
10:58 pm
Something about her was familiar
I could swear I’d seen her face before,
But she said, I’m sure you’re mistaken
And she didn’t say anything more.
keyLargo
November 18th, 2011
10:59 pm
KeyLargo is of no relation to Largo by the way.
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
11:01 pm
April gave us springtime and the promise of the flowers
And the feeling that we both shared and the love that we called ours
We knew no time for sadness, that’s a road we each had crossed
We were living a time meant for us, and even when it would rain
we would laugh it off.
I’ve got pieces of April, I keep them in a memory bouquet
I’ve got pieces of April, it’s a morning in May
We stood on the crest of summer, beneath an oak that blossomed green
Feeling as I did in April, not really knowing what it means
But it must be then that you stand beside me now to make me feel this way
Just as I did in April, but it’s a morning in May.
I’ve got pieces of April, I keep them in a memory bouquet
I’ve got pieces of April, but it’s a morning in May
jeffrey d
November 18th, 2011
11:02 pm
Thanks for the new blog, DOB….great work as always
Venice Jim
November 18th, 2011
11:03 pm
More from Chuck Negron, Cory Wells and Danny Hutton (and, yes, I did not have to look 3 Dog Night up to know who they are)…
jeffrey d
November 18th, 2011
11:03 pm
Any chance BMac’s got into Schafer’s stash of Schafer’s Peanut Butter Cups?
Now normally I’m one to make a swift McCann/food joke, but I think Brian only eats regular Reese’s, not special ones
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
11:03 pm
I got my first real six-string: bought it at the five and dime,
Played it ‘til my fingers bled; was the summer of sixty nine.
Me and some guys from school had a band and we tried real hard.
Jimmy quilt and jody got married; i shoulda known we’d never get far.
Oh, when i look back now, that summer seemed to last forever,
And if i had the choice, yeah, i’d always wanna be there.
Those were the best days of my life.
Ain’t no usein complainin’ when you got a good job to do.
Spent my evenin’s down at the drive-in and that’s when i met you.
Standin’ on your mama’s porch, you told me that you’d wait forever.
Oh, and when you held my hand, i knew that it was now or never.
Those were the best days of my life.
Back in the summer of sixty nine
Venice Jim
November 18th, 2011
11:04 pm
Ward back onto his jeffrey d persona…
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
11:04 pm
DOB, is Friday night blogaoke okay with you kind sir, I appreciate you allowing us to play.
CB
November 18th, 2011
11:05 pm
What did I stumble onto?
jeffrey d
November 18th, 2011
11:06 pm
I wish I was Ward
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
11:06 pm
Day after day I’m more confused
Then I look for the light through the pourin’ rain
You know, that’s a game, that I hate to lose
I’m feelin’ the strain, ain’t it a shame
[CHORUS:]
Give me the beat boys and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
Give me the beat boys and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
jeffrey d
November 18th, 2011
11:07 pm
My band plays Summer of ‘69
And rocks it better than Bryan Adams
….if you’ve had enough to drink
Venice Jim
November 18th, 2011
11:07 pm
Don’t we all…
CB
November 18th, 2011
11:08 pm
No,but I have no problem with Ward.
Venice Jim
November 18th, 2011
11:09 pm
CB – what in the world are you doing here this late?
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
11:09 pm
Now Smackwater Jack, he bought a shotgun
‘Cause he was in the mood for a little confrontation
He just let it all hang loose
He didn’t think about the noose
He couldn’t take no more abuse
So he shot down the congregation
You can’t talk to a man
With a shotgun in his hand
Shotgun
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
11:10 pm
jefferyd cooooool
keyLargo
November 18th, 2011
11:11 pm
Jeffrey – to support an innocent McCann, if you’ll go back and look at the last sentence you’ll see where I said that he would never have eaten them if he had known what was in them.
But I bet you could not get them away from him after 2 or 3. Munchies kicking in and Mccann is eatin as fast as he can unwrap.
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
11:11 pm
Now Big Jim the chief stood for law and order
He called for the guard to come and surround the border
Now from his bulldog mouth
As he led the posse south
Came the cry, we got to ride
Clean up the streets for our wives and our daughters
You can’t talk to a man
When he don’t want to understand
No, no, no, no, no, no
Venice Jim
November 18th, 2011
11:11 pm
Rita was sixteen years… hazel eyes and chestnut hair
She made the Woolworth counter shine
Eddie was a sweet romancer, and a darn good dancer
They’d waltz the aisles of the five and dime
They’d sing, “Dance a little closer to me… dance a little closer now
Dance a little closer tonight
Dance a little closer to me… it’s closing time
And love’s on sale tonight at this five and dime
CB
November 18th, 2011
11:11 pm
My wife is cooking Thanksgiving dinner for our church Sunday. I’m helping her out by sampling and telling her how good it is.
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
11:12 pm
keylargo…. the late nite munchies, gotta have another one of them cups, he got the late nite muchies
Venice Jim
November 18th, 2011
11:12 pm
Carlle King – excellent
Steve Miller – not exactly my favorite…
jeffrey d
November 18th, 2011
11:13 pm
I’m helping her out by sampling and telling her how good it is.
Sounds like a rough gig
Venice Jim
November 18th, 2011
11:13 pm
CB – that seems plausible…
CB
November 18th, 2011
11:14 pm
Yes,but somebody has to do it.
jeffrey d
November 18th, 2011
11:15 pm
Sorry to hear that CB. You’re in my prayers
keyLargo
November 18th, 2011
11:15 pm
This kids got a left.
This kids got a right.
When he hits you, it’s good night.
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November 18th, 2011
11:15 pm
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JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
11:15 pm
My bills are all due and the babies need shoes,
But I’m Busted
Cotton’s gone down to a quarter a pound
And I’m Busted
I got a cow that’s gone dry
And a hen that won’t lay
A big stack of bills
Getting bigger each day
The county’s gonna haul my belongings away,
But I’m Busted
So I called on my brother to ask for a loan
‘Cause I was Busted
I hate to beg like a dog for a bone,
But I’m Busted
Venice Jim
November 18th, 2011
11:15 pm
Saturday night and you’re still hangin’ around
Tired of living in your one horse town
you’d like to find a little hole in the ground,
for awhile..
So you go to the village in your tie dyed jeans
And you stare at the junkies and the closet queens
It’s like some pornographic magazine
And you smile…
CB
November 18th, 2011
11:16 pm
I’m not sure, I am trying to decide between the banana nut bread or the Boston cream pie. I may be up awhile with this sugar high.
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
11:18 pm
I was searchin’ SEARCHIN’ on a one-way street,
I was hopin’ HOPIN’ for a chance to meet.
I was waitin’ for the operator on the line.
SHE’S GONE SO LONG What can I do?
WHERE COULD SHE BE? No no no,
don’t know what I’m gonna do,
I gotta get back to you.
You gotta slow down SLOW DOWN sweet talkin’ woman SLOW DOWN
You got me runnin’ RUN RUN you got me searchin’.
Hold on HOLD ON sweet talkin’ lover HOLD ON
It’s so sad if that’s the way it’s over.
I was WALKIN’ many days go by,
I was thinkin’ THINKIN’ ’bout the lonely nights.
Communication breakdown all around.
SHE’S GONE SO LONG What can I do?
WHERE COULD SHE BE? No no no,
don’t know what I’m gonna do,
I gotta get back to you.
You gotta slow down SLOW DOWN sweet talkin’ woman SLOW DOWN
You got me runnin’ RUN RUN you got me searchin’.
Hold on HOLD ON sweet talkin’ lover HOLD ON
It’s so sad if that’s the way it’s over
jeffrey d
November 18th, 2011
11:18 pm
CB – I (seriously) think the only thing that could’ve persuaded me against Banana Nut Bread would be Boston Cream Pie. Good luck with that, buddy.
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
11:20 pm
They knew my name
n every bar in town.
and they knew all the reasons
why I was coming round.
CB
November 18th, 2011
11:21 pm
Thanks jeffrey, I’ll eat a little extra for you and believe me it is good.
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
11:22 pm
I’m Mickey the Monkey the pride of the zoo
I make people happy with tricks that I do
I swing through the air with the greatest of ease
Just like the man on the flying trapeze
I hang by my tail all the children to please
Grown-ups enjoy watching me catching fleas
While you’re watching me I am watching you too
You’re as funny to me as I am too you
I’m Mickey the Monkey the pride of the zoo
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
11:23 pm
VJ, prolly the only one here that knows the artist for Mickey the Monkey
jeffrey d
November 18th, 2011
11:23 pm
Better send some to me for a 2nd opinion.
I’m in Gwinnett, GA. Just address it to Jeffrey D. The postmaster will know who it’s for
Venice Jim
November 18th, 2011
11:25 pm
Not even me…
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
11:25 pm
CB, i feel for ya brother, gotta do the same thing…….I will be El Gablo Fatso
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
11:26 pm
VJ? I am surprised at that, ….Artist Tiny Tim
CB
November 18th, 2011
11:27 pm
Ha! You better hope the smell doesn’t tempt him.
Rafael
November 18th, 2011
11:27 pm
WHY is Matt Diaz in the Braves’s plans for 2012???!!!!!!!!!!!
Diaz is a no-talent, washed-up, pig-in-a-poke, garage sale, bargain basement BUM who the Braves SEEM to love. Diaz COULD NOT make ANY other MLB roster. A ‘career year’ for Matt Diaz (”he rakes lefthanders you know”) is .240 batting avg. with 6 HRs. “Double Play” Matt Diaz.
Matty Diaz is the same stiff who (and I quote AJC) “Managed to keep his sense of humor after the Braves’s playoff collaspe.” Do we want a guy (who cannot hit anymore) that thinks the Braves playoff collaspe is FUNNY???!!!! NO Matt, you NO-TALENT BUM, it is NOT FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!
If the Braves get Seth Smith in a deal from the Rockies, that means Matt Diaz WILL get 300 ABs as the platoon OF against lefthanders. The Braves offense is “CHALLENGED” enough without having Diaz penciled in the lineup. “Double Play Matt Diaz.”
THANK YOU for pre-verifying what I knew in September…. there is NO WAY the Braves will sign Michael Bourn to an extension. I hope we all enjoyed seeing Michael in a Braves uniform for those few short months. Scott Boras and Liberty CHEAPIA DO NOT play well together.
Bourn was a guy who brought skills to the table the Braves hadn’t had in years, namely SPEED and a TRUE leadoff hitter. Sayanara Michael, we’ll miss you.
And the “Letter to the Fans” the Braves sent out after the playoff collaspe is turning out to be COMPLETE LIE!!! I knew the letter as just lip service and too good to be TRUE. The letter stated the Braves were going to do every effort possible to “improve the team.”
Is letting Michael Bourn go, giving that BUM Matt Diaz 300 ABs, salary dumps, and signing an “AFFORDABLE” SS IMPROVING the team???? NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I also knew in the end it always get down to “cheap-o-nomics” with Liberty CHEAPIA. The “good soldier” for the company Frank Wren (firefrankwren.com) is the PERFECT guy at the Braves helm. Frank’s great, great UNCLE prepared the navigational charts for the TITANIC. Frank’s great, great, great, great, Grandfather “rented” rooms to “gringos” at the Alamo.
Mark Cuban, can you here me callin’?????????? Braves fans need a hero.
The “letter to fans” was NOTHING but propoganda to get us rubes to come to Turner Field in 2012 and enjoy the “ambience.” All I know is that Matt Diaz is an EMBARRASSMENT to be a starting OF. Now that’s funny Matty, you having a job in the majors!!!!!!!
CB
November 18th, 2011
11:28 pm
Joe,I was just bragging today about losing 70 lbs this year.
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
11:28 pm
I can’t stop this feeling
Deep inside of me
Boy, you just don’t realize
What you do to me
Your lips are sweet as candy
The taste stays on my mind
You just keep me thirsty
For another cup of wine
When you hold me
In your arms so tight
You let me know
Everything’s all right
I, I’m hooked on a feeling
I’m high on believing
That you’re in love with me
jeffrey d
November 18th, 2011
11:29 pm
WHY is Matt Diaz in the Braves’s plans for 2012???!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s November, 2011, Fookie
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
11:30 pm
Oh My damn, here comes Rafael just peein allover the blogaoke! VJ you got that or should I?
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
11:31 pm
CB I found those 70 would you like me to return them?
CB
November 18th, 2011
11:33 pm
Nah,they probably look better on you.
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
11:35 pm
Ok, first off Matt Diaz, is not, will not, nor ever will be the Opening day starter in LF for the Braves, he is a backup, secondly 94 mill final 2011 payroll aint too shabby, hardly cheap….. lastly I apologize for the fact that the Braves owners would like a return on their investment, simple business tact f ya ask me, but then again I personally have been in business over 25 years, I dont exist to live on welfare so my employees can drive Lexus… so If what these guys spend bothers you try being a Rays, Reds, Padres, or Astros Fan there pally
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
11:36 pm
CB ummm NO they don’t …belly got that dikkadoo disease
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
11:37 pm
Oh! well I am rolling up the ol blogaoke machine for the night, think I will hit the bed, Wife’s sister is getting Married tomorrow.. sooo monkey suits for all, just wish their Mom was here to see it.
JoeBrave
November 18th, 2011
11:38 pm
Tonights Blogaoke Champ….VJ
DS1
November 18th, 2011
11:42 pm
4 posts in a row, and your talking to yourself. So I saved ya Joe.