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jeffrey d
January 24th, 2012
1:24 pm
You can make anything look true if it’s in italics
After winning sexiest person of the decade, Jeffrey D went on to fund, write, and publish educational magazines for the visually impaired.
reckingball
January 24th, 2012
1:25 pm
I hope that Freeman and Haywood can come out swinging and keep on developing into dependable hitters.
I believe that the Braves will hit better this year, especially with RISP(heck they almost have to, after last year), hoping so anyway.
I think that their young pitchers are going to develop into strong contenders, and that there will be more than just 3 0r 4 dependable bullpen guys.
I didn’t rate Wren, that was someone else, but I would give him a B to B+, for fielding a competitive team, and raising a good farm crop.
BravesFanSince80's
January 24th, 2012
1:26 pm
hey jeffrey d, didya wash the j i z z smell outta yer chearleader unifor yet? gonna go back to the spirit fingers this year or ya goin’ back to pom pom’s? don’t forget yer knee pads!
Ron Roberts
January 24th, 2012
1:26 pm
Raleighbravesfan; a tad dramatic, I dare say.
Listen, I’m not an economics teacher and I’m not going to spend my day explaining “supply/demand” to you or DAP. The numbers prove my point, and not just for 2011, but if I were to bother looking up prior years’ attendance figures, I’m sure I’d find much the same. Feel free, yourself, though:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/ATL/2011-schedule-scores.shtml
I’d be willing to bet the Mets are thinking they, too, built a stadium too large for their market – and they ARE in New York.
The more intimate fan experience (going to a game where people are actually in seats around you) is the more enjoyable experience. Painting the picture, through the televised game, that the stadium is rocking and that a Braves’ game is an event not to be missed, and that “seating is limited” (ever year that pitched in advertising? It’s done on purpose) creates more urgency to want to be there.
Bill
January 24th, 2012
1:27 pm
DOB, Thanks for link..On a day for Team–Thomas left them shorthand.
I have to agree Americans need to wake up.
jeffrey d
January 24th, 2012
1:29 pm
ahh, the high road.
DAP
January 24th, 2012
1:29 pm
jeffery d, i agree with you, the upper deck seating isnt bad, especially for the price. the skyline seats are pretty far away, but when you get those, you dont sit in your seats. the skyfield over in left field is a cool place to watch the game. i love turner field. actually, i think its underrated.
brian
January 24th, 2012
1:29 pm
Murph and McCann – my in-theater movie list is not much better for the year-
1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II
2. Breaking Dawn Part I
3. The Smurfs
4. Alvin and the Chipmunks – Chipwrecked
thanks for the list DOB for those of us who don’t get out much to movies due to kids – now I know which ones to look for on PPV or one of the movie channels
Bill
January 24th, 2012
1:30 pm
reckingball~~First time in months you have said anything except fans were cry-babies…good for you, Go man, I like the old reckingball.
Skeezix
January 24th, 2012
1:30 pm
Dave: Re: your response to Lee in S Ga
My comment is from a line in a Robert Heinlein book— “specialization is for insects”.
Efrim
January 24th, 2012
1:30 pm
Why, exactly, should Wren trade minor league talent that – obviously – he does not want to let go (likely cause we’ll need them in the future) to get an impact bat when they can get one next year with the extra payroll coming off the books and a much better free agent class to choose from?
Because paying prices for expensive free agents in their 30’s has never really been the Braves way? And because they will still need financial flexibility to pay several young players making arbitration dollars, as well as extending Brian McCann? I think we may get one bat from the free agent market next year, but quite a few guys may re-sign between then and now and the Braves aren’t the only team with a need in CF or LF. I think it’s likely that they go the trade route for a bat next winter.
beekay
January 24th, 2012
1:31 pm
DOB
I disagree with the author of the article regarding the Bruins player. If he showed up and voiced his opinion I think the press would have a field day on him “disrespecting” the President during a ceremony where the team is being honored….remember the Villanova player that was high and wanted to punch the President in the back of the head? That was a guy who should have stayed home…
abwright
January 24th, 2012
1:32 pm
jeffrey d, January 24th, 2012, 1:24 pm, … “After winning sexiest person of the decade, Jeffrey D …”
It’s a good thing you dropped the “doo doo” from your moniker for this post.
Bat Masterson
January 24th, 2012
1:32 pm
Listen, I’m not an economics teacher and I’m not going to spend my day explaining “supply/demand” to you or DAP. The numbers prove my point, and not just for 2011, _ Ron Roberts
Thats painfully f’in’ obvious Ron. Its not that your argument might not have some merit, its that you are adamant that you are right. It may be that fewer seats available might bring out more people. It also may be true that people that don’t come out during the week and can not get tickets on the weekend because of lass supply might not come at all.
Fund a study and get back to us.
reckingball
January 24th, 2012
1:32 pm
I enjoy having a little space around me when I go to games, it’s a lot more confortable than being packed in like little fish in a can. But that’s just me.
Murph
January 24th, 2012
1:33 pm
brian, that’s a sad list. My condolences.
Since all I watch are kids movies now I was very, very excited to see Rango get the Oscar nomination for best animated film. Loved that movie.
BravesFanSince80's
January 24th, 2012
1:33 pm
jeffrey d, you came outta nowhere immediately insulting me without entering the conversation with anything constructive and yet you are taking the “high road”, hmmmm…
Skeezix
January 24th, 2012
1:34 pm
Are those new jersey’s yellow? They look yellow to me, but my wife tells me I can’t identify colors well.
Anyway, I don’t want the Braves dressing out in yellow.
Jay Dubu
January 24th, 2012
1:34 pm
If the Braves are so tight on payroll, how could they allow KK to pitch at Double AA for 7 million, and this year pay 10 million for Lowe to pitch for Cleveland?
reckingball
January 24th, 2012
1:36 pm
Contracts, would be my thinking.
BravesFanSince80's
January 24th, 2012
1:36 pm
Jay Dubu, that’s a good question, DOB?
Murph
January 24th, 2012
1:36 pm
Supply and demand is an economic model of price determination in a market. It concludes that in a competitive market, the unit price for a particular good will vary until it settles at a point where the quantity demanded by consumers (at current price) will equal the quantity supplied by producers (at current price), resulting in an economic equilibrium of price and quantity.
The four basic laws of supply and demand are:
1. If demand increases and supply remains unchanged, then it leads to higher equilibrium price and quantity.
2. If demand decreases and supply remains unchanged, then it leads to lower equilibrium price and quantity.
3. If supply increases and demand remains unchanged, then it leads to lower equilibrium price and higher quantity.
4. If supply decreases and demand remains unchanged, then it leads to higher price and lower quantity.
Which do you think applies to the Braves?
brian
January 24th, 2012
1:39 pm
Murph – with you, obviously, on the kids movies. You know it’s bad when I come out of the Smurfs and think it is a cute movie!
Ron Roberts
January 24th, 2012
1:40 pm
Listen, “Bat Masterson,” nobody asked for your “attitude,” dude. That’s what sucks about this blog; all these keyboard jockeys with their penchant for feeling the need to the blog’s “bad-@ss” of the day/week/thread.
What’s “painfully f’n’ obvious” is that you can’t merely just disagree without being a jackass to try and solidify your thesis. Seen it plenty on TV debates of late; doesn’t make you more right, or me more wrong or vice versa. Just portrays you to be you and me to be me.
Drivel like that is what keeps me from chiming in on this thread very often, anymore; the inmates run the asylum too much for coherent discussion to carry the day.
Abwright
January 24th, 2012
1:41 pm
Murph that’s well and good, but which case leads to highest profits?
brian
January 24th, 2012
1:41 pm
I did enjoy The Adjustment Bureau on HBO!!
Not 2011 movies, but the run of Trading Places, 48 Hours, Beverly Hills Cop II, Lethan Weapon 1-1,000 have been entertaining lately.
reckingball
January 24th, 2012
1:42 pm
Jay Dubu…….Seems like they tried to trade KK, but no one in the USA wanted him, and he shot down a trade back to a Japanese team.
He wasn’t any use to the Atlanta Braves, and Wren wasn’t going to let him pitch in the Atlanta area at the AAA level,and enjoy, the big city lifestyle.
It was punishment for not going back to the Land of the Rising Sun.
They owed Lowe $15 million, period. Cut 5 of it off.
BravesFanSince80's
January 24th, 2012
1:42 pm
Murph, how could that possibly be the only four scenarios for supply and demand? where did you pull that up from? what if supply decreases and demand increases? it didn’t even address that and I think we can all agree that happens or ebay woulda been outta business years ago…
Finkerstein
January 24th, 2012
1:43 pm
Looks to me like another article trying to convince us that Sept. was just a fluke. That line is what FW has been trying to sell as an excuse for not buying us some more offense. Well I ain’t buying that BS.
We will find out soon in, but I think Sept 2011 will = April thru Sept 2012.
brian
January 24th, 2012
1:43 pm
Jay Dobu – they were paying KK $7 million last year no matter what. The Braves did not release him (and pay him $7million) or pitch him somewhere closer to Atlanta because KK blocked a trade back to Japan which would have gotten him off the Braves hands and saved a few million bucks.
The Braves have no room for Lowe in their rotation and they saved $5 million by trading D.Lowe. The Braves had no desire for a $15 million long reliever or even a $5 million/year non-closer
reckingball
January 24th, 2012
1:44 pm
I liked the Godfather I and II.
Murph
January 24th, 2012
1:45 pm
I got it from the interweb resource knows as wikipedia. Not a comprehensive guide to economics, but easy to copy/paste from.
Brian, I thought the same thing after watching Smurfs. My 5 year old loved it, but I don’t think it was hardcore enough for the 4 year old. She’s more into Kung Fu Panda and, her new favorite, Jurassic Park.
DAP
January 24th, 2012
1:46 pm
ron roberts im not an economist either, but i do know a little bit about advertising and media, and i also know alot about how things that work in places like new york, dont work in places like atlanta. the fact that the mets and phillies built smaller stadiums does not support your argument. that doesnt work here, is what im saying. very different cities, different customers, different culture, ect.
not to mention, the braves have had thier huge stadium for almost a decade and a half, and attendance wasnt always a “problem”. (it isnt really much of a problem now).
ncscoots
January 24th, 2012
1:46 pm
the inmates run the asylum too much for coherent discussion to carry the day.
Try posting something coherent, and let’s see if anything changes.
Bat Masterson
January 24th, 2012
1:48 pm
Listen, “Bat Masterson,” nobody asked for your “attitude,” dude. _ Ron Roberts
Sure they did Ron, it was you. When you decide to lecture people here about things you seem to know little about.
I’m not going to spend my day explaining “supply/demand” to you or DAP _ Ron
BravesFanSince80's
January 24th, 2012
1:52 pm
guys really what’s to argue about, the stadium is clearly too big for the size of the city, and it sits in a lousy location, last year, it has been a while since I’d been and my wife was driving and we followed Turner Field road signage and it led us right back out onto 85! we wound up adding like 20 more minutest to the drive getting back around from the other direction on 85 and all we had done was follow the signs pointing to Turner Field. The stadium being to big in relationship to the population size is perfectly legitimate and coherent, stop being so harsh just because you disagree…
DogsBrekky
January 24th, 2012
1:54 pm
Dobi – “The Trip” is very dry and has that classic English humor which my missus hated, but I found it to be a joy. I also liked 2 Kristin Scott Thomas movies, Sarah’s Key and a French “Hitchcock” type thriller which for the life of me, have forgotten “its name”
reckingball
January 24th, 2012
1:54 pm
Bill@1:30……..Thanks. There isn’t a lot of crying, bitching, moaning, and groaning going on today.
Mostly intelligent conversation by mostly everyone, excepting maybe myself.
DogsBrekky
January 24th, 2012
1:57 pm
Guys, if our SPs put up more than an average of 5.6 innings a game then we will have a great 2012 with that 4 headed bullpen (tail) and hopefully a stud hitting SS with RF and LF (back to 2010 levels)
BravesFanSince80's
January 24th, 2012
1:57 pm
attaboy Bill, tippin my cap here…
brian
January 24th, 2012
1:58 pm
Top 5 series on TV or cable for 2011?? Ones I enjoyed
1. Game of Thrones
2. Breaking Bad
3. True Blood
4. Spartacus: Blood and Sand
5. Boardwalk Empire
reckingball
January 24th, 2012
1:58 pm
I would say that the location, and a lack of good public transportation to it, really affects the attendance in a very negative way.
Murph
January 24th, 2012
2:02 pm
Top 5 TV shows? Man… that’s tough. My television viewing is about as controlled as my trips to the theater.
1. Modern Family
2. Boardwalk Empire
3. Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness
4. My Little Pony
5. Spongebob Squarepants
BravesFanSince80's
January 24th, 2012
2:04 pm
predictions: IF we see Heyward come out of spring with the same swing as last year, uh oh…IF Prado gets juggled all year long between 2-3 postions, uh oh…IF JJ doesn’t grow a pair and stop whining about a Barry Bondsesque “sore knee”, uh oh…IF Hanson comes out of spring with that same ridiculous arm motion, uh oh…IF Uggla has a typical year on D with a rookie of dubious defensive skills right next to him, uh oh…IF McCann has to catch more than 130 games and isn’t even skinnier than he was last year in spring training, uh oh…chances of all that happening: pretty good, results: well, let’s hope they finish ahead of the Mets…
David O'Brien
January 24th, 2012
2:09 pm
Murph, I dare say yours is the only top 5 TV shows list I’ve ever seen that includes both Boardwalk Empire and My Little Pony.
Abwright
January 24th, 2012
2:10 pm
What about Adventure Time?
A must see.
ABTCurt
January 24th, 2012
2:10 pm
Atlanta is not a mid-market. The only thing that makes it so is the words of the Braves’ front office and their approach to the team. This is the #8 or 9 media market in the country, depending on the week. That puts us with DC, Houston, and right behind SF and Boston. Now, Atlanta is a sprawl, and most people live in the suburbs, but in now way is it a mid-market. You want mid-market, go to Raleigh or Pittsburgh.
As to an individual owning the team changing the outlook, I’m not saying it would. Anyone who remembers the Ted Turner of the 80s or Rankin Smith can attest to that. What I am saying is that it might inspire people to renew their passion for the team. Seeing that an individual is committed to a franchise can make people commit as well. That wasn’t a comment about success, it was a comment about support.
I also think that the general perception of all the Atlanta pro teams right now is that they are built merely to make the playoffs, not win championships. And until people believe that the Braves, Falcons or Hawks have any chance of even competing for a championship, fans are going to stay away. Making the playoffs just isn’t enough anymore.
DAP
January 24th, 2012
2:11 pm
Drivel like that is what keeps me from chiming in on this thread very often
youre welcome, everyone.
Murph
January 24th, 2012
2:11 pm
Murph, I dare say yours is the only top 5 TV shows list I’ve ever seen that includes both Boardwalk Empire and My Little Pony.
I have limited resources to draw from.
Used to be a big fan of The Office, but this season has been terrible. So terrible that, even though I’ve been able to watch it, I can’t help but rate it lower than My Little Pony.
Besides, that Applejack is one funny pony.
David O'Brien
January 24th, 2012
2:12 pm
Are those new jersey’s yellow? They look yellow to me, but my wife tells me I can’t identify colors well.
Anyway, I don’t want the Braves dressing out in yellow — Skeezix
Your wife is correct. You can’t identify colors.
ABTCurt
January 24th, 2012
2:12 pm
Add Louie to any best of TV lists. Brilliant
DAP
January 24th, 2012
2:15 pm
bravesfansince80s The stadium being to big in relationship to the population size is perfectly legitimate and coherent,
its coherent, but not really legitimate. thats not something we agree on.
jeffrey d
January 24th, 2012
2:15 pm
jeffrey d, you came outta nowhere immediately insulting me without entering the conversation with anything constructive and yet you are taking the “high road”, hmmmm…
Here’s what I said, BFS80….
I sit in those seats all the time and love it. You can see the whole field. I’m not sure what you need binoculars to see, unless you’re wanting to get a close up of someone’s complexion. And they’re cheap
Whew…I sure ripped you a new one! I can completely understand why you’d say jazz with an I.
unbelievable
January 24th, 2012
2:15 pm
Well, it looks like the Nats are going to get Fielder. Apparently, they are willing to offer that 7th year to him. Thats wonderful!
Ease
January 24th, 2012
2:20 pm
we followed Turner Field road signage and it led us right back out onto 85! we wound up adding like 20 more minutest to the drive getting back around from the other direction on 85 and all we had done was follow the signs pointing to Turner Field.
Thee has some untruth to it…APD does an excellent job blocking and directing traffic around the stadium. If you are traveling I-85, you almost have to be a maroon to get lost. Exit, and let APD direct you. Not difficult.
BravesFanSince80's
January 24th, 2012
2:23 pm
jeffrey d, I apologize most humbly and ask for your forgiveness, I would never say anything that rude if it weren’t warranted, I got a little bit of an attack sequence thrown at me, which you were sort of a part of, but in reading back it was some idiot calling himself zwacky who insulted me, once again, sorry for the rude comment, it won’t happen again…
reckingball
January 24th, 2012
2:23 pm
I think that the Braves will contend this year.
Uggla did pretty good fielding his position last year, but the defense probably won’t be as good up the middle this year.
I believe that Prado’s infection hurt him more than anything last year, but his approach at hitting in the 2nd slot needs to improve(if he does bat 2nd).
Hanson’s arm motion isn’t going to change.
I can’t feel JJ’s pain, so I won’t say anything about that, perhaps he can pitch the majority of the year healthy(if he has a good 1st half, I think that he will be traded for a hitter).
McCann will most probably be worn down by the end of the season, but I think that he will contribute greatly, close to the end.
That’s just my opin., but whatever happens, I predict that the Braves will finish ahead of the Metros.
jeffrey d
January 24th, 2012
2:24 pm
No problem BF80
BravesFanSince80's
January 24th, 2012
2:25 pm
ease, total truth, for whatever reason, there wasn’t much of that done before that game, but plenty afterwards, on the way out, we had not trouble getting back through everything, but being from NC we’re not very familiar with the city anyway which I’m sure doesn’t help…
Ease
January 24th, 2012
2:25 pm
Don’t apologize…jeffrey is indeed a monster.
Murph
January 24th, 2012
2:25 pm
Oh man, I totally forgot about my new favorite show of 2011… Wilfred!
One of the funniest shows I’ve seen in a long time. The season had some up and down points, but overall, I thought it was a great US debut.
1. Modern Family
2. Boardwalk Empire
3. Wilfred
4. Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness
5. My Little Pony
Efrim
January 24th, 2012
2:26 pm
Well, it looks like the Nats are going to get Fielder. Apparently, they are willing to offer that 7th year to him. Thats wonderful!
Good team with Fielder added. Still holes in CF, SS, and the back end of the rotation isn’t great.
LF Morse, CF Bernadina, RF Werth
3B Zimmerman, SS Desmond, 2B Espinosa, 1B Fielder, C Ramos
SP Strasburg, Gonzalez, Zimmermann, Wang, Lannan
RP Storen, Clippard, Rodriguez, Gorzelanny, Burnett
reckingball
January 24th, 2012
2:28 pm
Anyone every seen the show “Southland”, comes on TNT on Wednesdays, I think?
Efrim
January 24th, 2012
2:28 pm
And by the looks of it, the Braves will have the lowest payroll in the National League East for this upcoming season – although we’re talking a few hundred thousand under the Mets and only a few million under the Nationals and Marlins, depending on how the Fielder situation ends up.
Ease
January 24th, 2012
2:28 pm
BF80, I am sure it doesn’t help too that Turner Field intersects the two major arteries into and out of the city. That, tackled with rush hour, can make for a confusing drive. I will concede that.
McFann O O o
January 24th, 2012
2:28 pm
Murph—
Hey, little kid shows cann be funny! When I had my wisdom teeth out, I saw an episode of PEEP and the Big Wide World and I loved it! Have been watching it on YouTube and even bought a DVD of it…now I’m working on knitting the three main characters…
BravesFanSince80's
January 24th, 2012
2:29 pm
where are they projecting Harper to play? Gammons said the other night he could see Harper staying with the club out of spring training…
74bravesjersey
January 24th, 2012
2:30 pm
Mabey they’ll come up w/ a celler dweller playoff championship, & we might just melt down from that.
Ease
January 24th, 2012
2:32 pm
Have been watching it on YouTube
Lew
January 24th, 2012
2:35 pm
Top Ten Media Markets with team attendance in ( ) -
1. NY Yankees (2), Mets (14)
2. LA Dodgers (11), Angels (5)
3 Chicago Cubs ( 9), White Sox (21)
4. Philadelphia (1)
5. Boston (8)
6. SF, Oakland Giants (3), A’s (30)
7. Dallas Rangers (10)
8. DC Nats (20)
9. Atlanta Braves (15)
10. Houston Astros (19)
Seems to me that media market position does not correlate to attendance.
McFann O O o
January 24th, 2012
2:35 pm
Ease—
Well, it is a kiddie show……
deep
January 24th, 2012
2:35 pm
Braves should have a throwback weekend where we wear the home jerseys from 81-86 seasons
Hillbilly
January 24th, 2012
2:36 pm
Sons of Anarchy
Justified
American Horror Story
The First 48
Intentional Talk
…And with the kids, it’s Phineas and Ferb.
Skeeterleg
January 24th, 2012
2:37 pm
What does too large of a stadium mean? I’m lost on this one. Stand up and move closer. End of argument.
BravesFanSince80's
January 24th, 2012
2:38 pm
I always thought the royal blue jerseys with redpiping around white lettering from the early 80’s were the coolest jerseys Atlanta ever wore, I have the hat from those uni’s and wear it more than any other…
CB
January 24th, 2012
2:38 pm
Anybody have an idea what Braves are being paid for TV rights?
Ease
January 24th, 2012
2:39 pm
The baby blues with the lower case A would be pimp as pie.
Ease
January 24th, 2012
2:41 pm
Prince to the Nats…8 years.
reckingball
January 24th, 2012
2:41 pm
BFS80s@2:25……..”there wasn’t much of that done before that game”(i.e. APD directing traffic), maybe they were all responding to a shooting or a robbery in the local neighborhood that day.
raleighbravefan
January 24th, 2012
2:43 pm
BF80’s – You’re actually using Lowe and KK as your argument. Were you watching the Braves in 2008. Did you want to continue with the likes of Buddy Carlyle, Chuck James, Charlie Morton, and JoJo Reyes? A MAJOR overhall of the pitching staff was called for. Lowe was the best pitcher available. (Mets signed Oliver Perez, the second best available). He had to overpay some for Lowe to get him, and we got 2 pretty good years out of him. KK was a reasonable gamble that didn’t work out. He got a great year out of Vazquez (who he also signed, but you didn’t mention), and then worked a pretty successful trade to the Yankees…Vazques had a terrible 2010, by the way.
AS for McLouth, that trade was universally praised. NO ONE, not even a genius like you, could have predicted that Nate would crash and burn.
I had chalked up your comments to a simple difference of opinion…Now I will disreguard your comments as drivel from someone who obviously doesn’t know what they are talking about.
DAP
January 24th, 2012
2:43 pm
bravesfansince80s, if you are talking about these, i agree. these are sharp.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_R5psDxCZPmg/TdAOi0JBbhI/AAAAAAAAC2c/Gn_eUnoFdvE/braves_away.jpg
BravesFanSince80's
January 24th, 2012
2:44 pm
skeeterleg, have you ever been to an MLB game? it ain’t like it used to be in old Fulton County Stadium, there are attendants and personnel EVERYWHERE and the days of slipping closer to the field are all but gone, you get busted pretty quick unless you get really lucky so most people don’t even try that anymore. the argument being made is that the stadium is unrealistically large for the population of the city and if it were x amount smaller, would project better attendance numbers in relation to stadium size…
Ken Stallings
January 24th, 2012
2:45 pm
What I would love far more is if this became the replacement for those ugly as sin blue tops on the road uniforms! And bring back the scarlet red billed caps on the road!
Efrim
January 24th, 2012
2:45 pm
Ease, do you have a link for that?
DAP
January 24th, 2012
2:46 pm
The Giants and Tim Lincecum have agreed to a two-year, $40.5MM contract extension, avoiding arbitration, Henry Schulman of the San Francisco Chronicle reports on Twitter.
BravesFanSince80's
January 24th, 2012
2:46 pm
DAP, the ones I’m talking about are just like that without white sleeves, they only wore ‘em for like two years I think, I’ll look for a picture of one and post it, those in your picture were used for a pretty good while in the 70’s, Hank wore those…
Lew
January 24th, 2012
2:47 pm
Big difference in moving closer when you have 3,000 in the stands as opposed to an average of 29,000.
Skeeterleg
January 24th, 2012
2:48 pm
Yes. I go to about 10 or so a year. I’d understand what you were saying if the seats were far away from the field(like Fulton County), but they aren’t. SO what does it matter if the stadium is 8 miles across as long as you can sit close and see well…which you can. I don’t get the logic that tearing a few seats out will make make more people come.
Lew
January 24th, 2012
2:48 pm
BFsince 80’s – My painting of Hank at LewHartman.com has the uniform shirt you mentioned.
Ease
January 24th, 2012
2:51 pm
Efrim…was paterno’d…Heyman first reported, then Tim Brown ran with it…sorry.
Murph
January 24th, 2012
2:52 pm
McFann, you should check out Wilfred. Great new comedy on FX.
It’s about a boy and his dog.
Efrim
January 24th, 2012
2:52 pm
jcrasnick Jerry Crasnick
I just got a text from Scott Boras on Prince Fielder: “No deals. Still working.”
JimBowdenESPNxm JIM BOWDEN
Let’s make it clear…there is no imminent deal for Prince Fielder….
Bay Area Steve
January 24th, 2012
2:53 pm
Lew,
Who’s the kid? Great job, man. I didn’t see that one last time I looked. That ain’t richbraves’ HOFer is it?
Skeeterleg
January 24th, 2012
2:53 pm
Lew, Is that Prince Fielder thing true?
Whatever happened to four year contracts? Teams have little control anymore. It seems like its either 7 or 8 years for a good player or they take one year for something astronomical.
Efrim
January 24th, 2012
2:54 pm
No prob, Ease. The good ole world of twitter.
I’m hoping Seattle swoops in at the last moment.
reckingball
January 24th, 2012
2:55 pm
I’m still sayin’ dance-floor.
unbelievable
January 24th, 2012
2:55 pm
Actually the Tigers are close with a 9yr deal w/ Fielder according to Brown
sjh
January 24th, 2012
2:55 pm
Nationals are now officially better than the Braves with the Fielder. I don’t like the guy one bit, but he is the definition of “run producer”. Phillies/Nationals/Braves is how I see the east. Marlins could be serious threats to the Phillies as well.
Efrim
January 24th, 2012
2:55 pm
The Tigers are nearing a nine-year deal with Prince Fielder, Yahoo’s Tim Brown tweets.
Or that…..Holy hell.
Skeeterleg
January 24th, 2012
2:56 pm
sorry I meant Ease about the Prince Fielder thing.
You’re right about Wilfred Murph.I love sitcoms and there aren’t many decent ones left. FX has two of them with Wilfred and Always Sunny.