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nolie
February 13th, 2012
2:04 am
well it’s my version of a fist, so there!
nolie
February 13th, 2012
2:12 am
fists are for, fingers are against. everybody knows dat
ccrider
February 13th, 2012
2:22 am
Bay Area Steve, I just got tired of all the disciples of doom and gloom, so I wrote it so they could read facts instead of them embracing the collapse of 2011 and wraping themselves in it for the 2012 season.
We could just have been the Cardinals and gotten red hot at the end of the season and win the World Series just as they did. But, instead we had injuries and went cold instead.
The margin between winning and losing is a fine line when teams are close in talent.
tiger297
February 13th, 2012
8:32 am
wow a 6 hour break in the blog…is my family all that survived…
nolie
February 13th, 2012
8:35 am
Walking Dead got most everybody on the blog last night it looks like
Lew
February 13th, 2012
8:47 am
cc – I agree, but it’s likely you’ll be called a blind homer and a kool aid drinker for your realistic outlook.
Tomas
February 13th, 2012
8:51 am
Man I was just looking at how Hanson pitched when he got called up, his delivery was so much better than what it was last year. He threw faster, and was quicker to the plate, what happened?
http://atlanta.braves.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=4926741&c_id=mlb
Look at him recently:
http://atlanta.braves.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=16393815&c_id=mlb
kenhotlanta
February 13th, 2012
8:55 am
The Walking Dead got off to a strong start and it will be interesting to see which direction it takes us. It appeared to me that by the look on Herschel’s face at the end, he has renewed respect for Rick.
VaBravesFan
February 13th, 2012
9:00 am
Good Morning Everyone, Walking Dead was awesome last night! Just sitting here having a few cups of coffee. Can’t go to work cause it so cold, only like 27 right now. I do masonry so it has to be above freezing and atleast 40 and rising most of the time..
Voice of Harold
February 13th, 2012
9:10 am
ha, glad you qualified that, VaBravesFan. My first thought was “27??” and then I recalled Dana Carvey’s Jimmy Stewart imitation (”Wussy. Little Girl”). I try not to think of Dana Carvey (ever!), but that was a funny skit.
Walking Dead was pretty good. Time to cut Shane loose, though.
ccrider
February 13th, 2012
9:12 am
Lew, I willing to bear that burden. I am sure the townfolk will soon be out with their Torches and Pitchforks.
I certainly understand the naysayers be down after the end of 2011, but the talent is still their and the young guns, Pitching and Hitting , are 1 year older and wiser.
So, they can just call me the Blind Kool Aid Drinker.
Tomas
February 13th, 2012
9:14 am
Hanson, has lived transformations on his delivery to be quicker to the plate, and that has screwed his delivery big time
Voice of Harold
February 13th, 2012
9:15 am
ccrider, care to share some of that? It’s baseball season, people. How can any baseball fan be pessimistic before the first spring training pitch is thrown?
richbrave
February 13th, 2012
9:17 am
Heh! Missed the WALKING DEAD thankfully. But DOWNTON MANOR was a serious tear jerker. And the WIZARDS won in the preamble.
kenhotlanta
February 13th, 2012
9:20 am
Lew: The Allman Brothers Band were supposed to be at the Grammy’s last night, but there was just a brief picture and acknowledgement of their lifetime achievement award.
I thought this was interesting: 3 of the 5 nominees for Blues Album of the Year were from the Allman’s:
Tedeschi Trucks Band: Revelator (Winner)
Gregg Allman: Low Country Blues
Warren Haynes: The Reflection
semiballcoach
February 13th, 2012
9:28 am
allmans got their grammy for lifetime achievement on friday. you can go to “hittin the web” and see the full 22 minutes acceptance speech
monty
February 13th, 2012
9:29 am
THomas
Take a deep breath.OK!
beekay
February 13th, 2012
9:29 am
DOB
Slowly watching the movies from your top 20 list the last few weeks. I really liked 50-50, Warrior,Bridesmaids, Moneyball. Drive was a different story, that movie was average at best. I looked up the reviews on it and most people agreed with me. What was it that you liked so much about it? So far 4 out of 5 aint bad and at $1.20 a pop at Redbox I can’t complain
Lew
February 13th, 2012
9:30 am
ken – Doesn’t surprise me. Seems to be kind of a lull in blues these days – or at least I haven’t been hearing of much movement in the genre.
Check out a cd by a friend and old classmate of mine – Dave Perkins, called Pistol City Holiness. It’s a year or so old, but pretty good stuff.
kenhotlanta
February 13th, 2012
9:31 am
semiballcoach: Thanks for that info.
kenhotlanta
February 13th, 2012
9:35 am
Lew: Thanks, I’ll look for that. Been listening to a lot of Gary Moore, I really miss him. Also 70s era Robin Trower.
Lew
February 13th, 2012
9:38 am
ken – been listening to a Thin LIzzy cd lately – one of their later ones – Black Rose. Great cd with Moore playing with the band he helped form as a kid. The title song is especially good.
Coach (2012 Fredi's beisbol fandango)
February 13th, 2012
9:56 am
Watched the Walking Dead last night. Unpredictable would be an understatement. You just never know what the writers of this show will drop on us next.
Back to baseball, Tommy’s revamped delivery is great news. Not only will he be quicker to the plate, I believe his velocity will benefit from the positive drive added by utilizing his legs.
Fifty-six players are on the spring training docket so far and there will be more, so sixty plus athletes makes for a busy grape fruit league for our Braves.
Tomahawkin
February 13th, 2012
9:59 am
The First time I have ever watch more than 5 minutes of the grammies last night…because the Hawks game was Brutal to watch….
Nuff respect for Adele, and the Foo Fighters
Nicki Minaj and Chris Brown are both Pop Tart Garbage!
Tomahawkin
February 13th, 2012
10:01 am
Manny Ramirez, Vladimir Guerrero, Maggs Ordonez, and Xavier Nady are all still available…
Pick your Poison…?
I’d take a Fyer on either Nady or Manny…
At least Manny would put people in the seats….
Lew
February 13th, 2012
10:12 am
THawkin – Nady sucks. He is shot and didn’t even have an OBP over .300 last year and barely the year before.
Ordonez also is about shot and barely had a .300 OBP last year.
Manny hasn’t even played for a year or so and has to serve a 50 game suspension IF he comes back.
Vlad? Maybe, but you seriously believe they can sign him for a mil or two? I’m not seeing it and he hasn’t hit against NL pitching for quite a few years now.
kenhotlanta
February 13th, 2012
10:13 am
I just watched The Allman Brothers Band Grammy acceptance speeches on their web site “hittin the web” (thanks semiballcoach). Very well done, everyone was there except Dickey and he wasn’t welcome by the other members of the band. I doubt they ever resolve that situation, but with Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks, who needs him?
Murph
February 13th, 2012
10:21 am
Manny, Nady, Vlad… all equally useless. Even if they were replacing another useless player in Diaz, still probably not much of an upgrade.
Nah, I’d rather go into the season with the team as it is than bring in some washed-up player just because he was once a big name.
Tomahawkin
February 13th, 2012
10:21 am
Marshmallow Fruit Loops are The Bomb!
Tomahawkin
February 13th, 2012
10:23 am
Lew
“THawkin – Nady sucks. He is shot and didn’t even have an OBP over .300 last year and barely the year before.”
Nady was a Hot Name on here as recent as 18 months ago…What in the Heck Happened?
Tomahawkin
February 13th, 2012
10:25 am
Word on the street is that The Phillies are interested in the Afore-mentioned players I just mentioned….
Manny or Vlad hitting at CBP scares me…
Tomahawkin
February 13th, 2012
10:26 am
The Eagles are going to be at the Verizion Wireless Ampitheature…If It wasn’t so expensive, I’d go….
I will just stick to the Free Postgame concerts at the Ted….
Murph
February 13th, 2012
10:30 am
Vlad and Manny are big risks for any NL team, especially with their gloves… that’s a lot of money to pay for a PH.
At this point in their careers I wouldn’t be very worried seeing them come up against the Braves.
DAP
February 13th, 2012
10:34 am
.252/.299/.356 in 570 PA’s over two years happened. OPSed only .702 vs. lefties last year. probably isnt our guy, though i wouldnt hate a minor league contract for the guy.
DAP
February 13th, 2012
10:35 am
the above post is in reference to xavier nady.
Venice Jim
February 13th, 2012
10:35 am
DOB just mentioned the “semi-newness” of the blog on Twitter – curious to see if we get any wise and clever commentaries in the next few minutes…
Venice Jim
February 13th, 2012
10:36 am
Of course, by “wise and clever” I do not necessarily mean “wise and clever”…
Tomahawkin
February 13th, 2012
10:36 am
Wow, Jose Canseco to try for a team in the Mexican league….
He just needs to come out with another book…
JJJ
February 13th, 2012
10:39 am
What ever happended to Yasser Gomez?
kenhotlanta
February 13th, 2012
10:43 am
nolie: Amazon Gold Box deal of the day: OCZ Technology Agility 3 SSD 3rd Generation SATA III 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive – $99.99 today only.
David O'Brien
February 13th, 2012
10:53 am
Slowly watching the movies from your top 20 list the last few weeks. I really liked 50-50, Warrior,Bridesmaids, Moneyball. Drive was a different story, that movie was average at best. I looked up the reviews on it and most people agreed with me. What was it that you liked so much about it? So far 4 out of 5 aint bad and at $1.20 a pop at Redbox I can’t complain — beekay
That surprised me when you said that about Drive reviews, since I thought it was a terrific movie. So just now I looked it up on the Rotten Tomatoes website, which compiles reviews from most major outlets around the country. Sure enough, Drive had 93 percent positive reviews, making it one of the highest-rated major releases of the year. Not sure which reviews you were looking at beekay, but here’s the site if you’d like a look at any of the 223 reviews they compiled on Drive or any other movie.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/drive_2011/
JJJ
February 13th, 2012
10:53 am
Clever like a post you have to explain a minute later in an additional post?
Lew
February 13th, 2012
10:54 am
THawkin – Nady hasn’t had a decent season since 08 and has made a career on having two decent years out of a ten year career. Never have figured what the attraction for the Dude has been.. He’s been injured for quite some time and has put up decreasing numbers for three years now. Not a good fielder, has a weak arm and like DAP said – his numbers for the past two years are pretty bad.
McFann O O o
February 13th, 2012
10:56 am
DOB—
Do you like singer Vince Gill?
nolie
February 13th, 2012
10:59 am
Thanx Ken but that is 90GB, I’m looking for at least 1.5 TB, 15 times larger. They don’t make solid state drives of that size as far as I know and if they did they would be hugely expensive
Jimmy
February 13th, 2012
11:03 am
Anyone hear if Brooks Conrad has had any offers?
JJJ
February 13th, 2012
11:03 am
I think he signed with the Brewers?
Venice Jim
February 13th, 2012
11:04 am
Clever like a post you have to explain a minute later in an additional post?
One can never underestimate the ability of people to read the words one types as being representative of what one actually means…
McFann O O o
February 13th, 2012
11:05 am
DOB Tweet Fredi mentioned last week how well Chipper hit in limited PAs there. RT In replay to: @jp_edu: @ajcbraves let’s be realistic they won’t bat [Chipper] 2nd.
Well, at least Fredi notices some lineup strengths or weaknesses…
nolie
February 13th, 2012
11:10 am
Is Fredi talking about Chipper hitting welll in the second slot last year?
McFann O O o
February 13th, 2012
11:14 am
nolie—
I guess…but I mean, he hit OK in that spot last year, but it wasn’t anything outstanding…
In 7 games, (33 PAs) .267 AVG, .273 OBP, .467 SLG 1 HR, 4 RBI, 3 2B, 1 BB (iBB), 8 K’s, 1 GDP, 2 SF, 1 ROE
beekay
February 13th, 2012
11:14 am
DOBhttp://www.redbox.com/movies/drive-2011
Here is where i saw the reviews only 2 out of 5 stars average with 1400 people reviewing.
McFann O O o
February 13th, 2012
11:14 am
I should have checked those numbers before I posted my 11:05…
Jimmy
February 13th, 2012
11:14 am
JJJ – right you are. Just pulled up their roster. He and Gonzo landed there.
nolie
February 13th, 2012
11:15 am
DRIVE was rated an 8.0 at IMDB,. That is pretty high but not super.
I thought it was good but i was surprised that DOB rated it that high too
beekay
February 13th, 2012
11:15 am
http://www.redbox.com/movies/drive-2011
McFann O O o
February 13th, 2012
11:16 am
His career BA in the #2 spot is .302 in 61 PAs (53 ABs), so that’s pretty good. And like Fredi said, limited PAs…
nolie
February 13th, 2012
11:16 am
he hit better almost everywhere else that he batted
McFann O O o
February 13th, 2012
11:19 am
nolie—
True that. Ah…poor Fredi…
I mean, we also saw how long it took him to take BMac out of the #3 spot after he came back from his DL stint and clearly was not…doing well…
nolie
February 13th, 2012
11:23 am
yeah, I’m not a manager basher but some of the things he says make me wonder a bit
McFann O O o
February 13th, 2012
11:25 am
nolie—
Ditto…
Arkansas Transplant
February 13th, 2012
11:29 am
Who’s all heading down to Florida to take in game this spring training?
nolie
February 13th, 2012
11:34 am
beekay you need to start reading IMDB. the biggest video site on the web. and their ratings are usually pretty close IMO. Certainly Drive was much better than a 2 outta 5.
nolie
February 13th, 2012
11:36 am
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780504/ DRIVE
nolie
February 13th, 2012
11:38 am
I’ll go if they come down and play the Rangers, but that is unlikely to happen
nolie
February 13th, 2012
11:39 am
Geeze….Rays not Rangers. living in the past
nolie
February 13th, 2012
11:40 am
old f@rts get a lotta brain f@rts
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February 13th, 2012
11:46 am
[...] Pitchers and catchers report soon, Hanson with no hitch “I like it a lot,” stated Gonzalez, noting that other byproduct of Hanson's new delivery. “He is going to be quicker to the plate, which really should assist him hold runners better.” Hanson permitted a National League-high 33 steals in 2010, and last year he had a … Read a lot more on Atlanta Journal Constitution (weblog) [...]
tiger297
February 13th, 2012
11:50 am
where are the rays?
nolie
February 13th, 2012
11:51 am
Port Charlotte
nolie
February 13th, 2012
11:53 am
useta was the rangers.Braves only came twice and most of the stars like Murph stayed up there. longer bus trip than most like
tiger297
February 13th, 2012
11:54 am
I’ll see what I can do
tiger297
February 13th, 2012
11:55 am
I’m almost positive it is nothing…
REEDBRAVES
February 13th, 2012
12:00 pm
I will be at the spring home opener on March 3, arriving friday March 2nd and staying the week in disney, Very excited!!!!!!!
Juan
February 13th, 2012
12:22 pm
Billy Beane did it again…sign the Big Cuban Cespedes.
Murph
February 13th, 2012
12:23 pm
I wish I could make it out for some ST games this season… unfortunately it just isn’t in the cards.
Going for a whole week next year, though. I’ll be dressing my kids up in Braves’ jerseys in the hope that they can sweet talk their way into a bunch of player autographs for daddy.
nolie
February 13th, 2012
12:23 pm
maybe you can fly the team down……
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……..0 (__)
nolie
February 13th, 2012
12:24 pm
oh man that sukked
nolie
February 13th, 2012
12:24 pm
…..|–\ _____
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……\=== ======) )+
…….\__________|/_____ / |
……..0 (_)
nolie
February 13th, 2012
12:25 pm
bah that too. I quit
Murph
February 13th, 2012
12:27 pm
Is that a shopping cart? Or an airstream trailer?
tiger297
February 13th, 2012
12:29 pm
nolie – my weight limit means I can only bring 1 player at a time…lotta trips
nolie
February 13th, 2012
12:29 pm
s’posed to be a plane like tiger’s
I can’t get it to space right on here
nolie
February 13th, 2012
12:31 pm
yeah I know tiger, I was just being facetious
Efrim
February 13th, 2012
12:33 pm
So the rebuilding A’s sign Cespedes? Another outfielder?
That makes their current outfield to be Seth Smith, Coco Crisp, Josh Reddick, Collin Cowgill, Michael Taylor, Johnny Gomes and the newly signed Cespedes. I’m sure Gomes will DH quite a bit, but that’s a serious logjam with Taylor and Reddick really needing major league at bats to show if they can stick there.
Is Beane just bored?
nolie
February 13th, 2012
12:35 pm
Cespedes prolly in the minors??
Hillbilly
February 13th, 2012
12:37 pm
I think nolie just told us the story of King Tutankhamun’s death, but my heiroglyphic translation may be a little rusty.
nolie
February 13th, 2012
12:40 pm
good’un Hillbilly. glad sumbody got sumthang outta it
Juan
February 13th, 2012
12:41 pm
Cespedes will be in the minor for a few months….I think he make a good business decision to sign with the A’s….no presure there…different in Miami with all the Cuban Fan want him to produce right away…this Guy has to face MLB pitcher for awhile until he’s ready.
Tomahawkin
February 13th, 2012
12:42 pm
6 years 36 Mill for Cespedes???
Are our Owners That Cheap to not even pursue Cespedes????
6 years 36 mill is a Bargain for a potential 20-20 player
Ray
February 13th, 2012
12:46 pm
It will be interesting to see if the A’s start Cespedes in the minors. Many believe that is where he should start. That came out of no where. It was all about the Marlins and maybe a few other teams. I don’t think anyone thought the A’s were in the mix.
Tomahawkin
February 13th, 2012
12:49 pm
“I don’t think anyone thought the A’s were in the mix.”
No, BSPN as well as MLB Network was way off point in saying that he was gonna sign with the Marlins….
Juan
February 13th, 2012
12:50 pm
Tomahawkin …you said it…”Potential”….this can be another Kawakami type of Player….this guy never face MLB pitcher…i saw some video and he got a big Hole in his swim.
Hillbilly
February 13th, 2012
12:50 pm
I bet Loria and company are getting tired of the AL West peeing on his rug all winter.
cabravesfan
February 13th, 2012
12:51 pm
It’s 4 years, $36M from what I saw- that’s $9 million a year for someone that has only played in the Cuban leagues. That is a HUGE risk for such a question mark of a player. It may pay off…it may be a total disaster…
Juan
February 13th, 2012
12:52 pm
If cepedes can hit MLB…Billy will trade him in a couple yrs…count of that.
Ease
February 13th, 2012
12:53 pm
6 years 36 mill is a Bargain for a potential 20-20 player
Sure would be, I wonder where we can find one.
cabravesfan
February 13th, 2012
12:54 pm
Also, apparently he really hurt his value while playing in the Dominican- scouts discovered he is still, basically, a work in progress. Teams like Oakland, with no real expectations that they will compete this season, can take a risk like that with little concern that it will cost them in the long run.
Tomahawkin
February 13th, 2012
12:54 pm
@cabravesfan
Where did you get the 411…?
@ Juan
Kawakami wasn’t that bad of a pitcher, give him the Yankees run support and he could win 15 games….
Juan
February 13th, 2012
12:57 pm
Tomahawkin ….agree about KK…i was refere to a big contract with a player never play in a MLB