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richbrave
March 4th, 2012
9:59 pm
MOE:
I’ll try your harmonica player on for size in a bit. DOWNTON ABBEY is about to show a new hour at 10:00 p.m. I assume you are an afficianado.
Moe Berg
March 4th, 2012
10:05 pm
richbrave–check out the harmonica player. Think you will like him. Occasionally, some of his music heads a little bit too much towards ‘world music’ but he is quite good. Yes, I do like Downton. Was a bit late coming to it, so I have seen the second season in a bit out of order, so just gave my wife season two this past week. So I can now fill in the gaps.
Disgusted
March 4th, 2012
10:12 pm
Teheran sucks.
Overhyped prospect bumb.
He deserves to be Booed if he actually makes it to the big club this yr which is doubtful.
B-F_52
March 4th, 2012
10:17 pm
Ahh free speech the gift that keeps on giving
Choppinmama
March 4th, 2012
10:20 pm
Gosh, are we going to have to refer to Chipper and BMac as the Lame Duck Two for the next couple of seasons?
And, I know it’s only spring, but why can’t these guys hit the ball? The opponents are working on their stuff too, they can’t be in top pitching form yet. Or is it harder to hit lousy pitching?
tiger297
March 4th, 2012
10:24 pm
mamma – takes a bit for hitters to get their timing down..
abeeewright
March 4th, 2012
10:26 pm
Perspective on hitting.
Most of the starting eight are 0-2 or 0-3. Prado is something like 2-6. The Rev is 0-8 ish, although he had a double ruled an error.
That’s like the standard 1/2 game of futility that we’re used to from the Braves.
Most of the 0-fers are from scrubs that won’t see a major league AB in. 2012.
The bench is looking pretty weak, but we already knew that it will be a liability.
ChattTownBrian (CTB)
March 4th, 2012
10:32 pm
Choppinmama, agree 100%. I have the same questions as you. Why are they not having these troubles like us?
Soph
March 4th, 2012
10:39 pm
The Walking Dead got me again. Great episode.
Venice Jim
March 4th, 2012
10:44 pm
Well, if we are going to judge offense already, our subs were as good as Texas, Milwaukee and the Giants combined today…
cabravesfan
March 4th, 2012
10:45 pm
Hi Soph!
Soph
March 4th, 2012
10:46 pm
Hi cab! New plan this season. Instead of banging my own head into brick walls this season, I’m going to throw it and see who it hits. More fun.
cabravesfan
March 4th, 2012
10:52 pm
Soph-
That does sound more fun
richbrave
March 4th, 2012
10:53 pm
Disgusted
March 4th, 2012
10:12 pm
“…….Teheran sucks.
Overhyped prospect bumb.
He deserves to be Booed if he actually makes it to the big club this yr which is doubtful…….”
Jeezus disgusted, you ARE a load.
richbrave
March 4th, 2012
10:58 pm
abeeewright
March 4th, 2012
10:26 pm
“……….Perspective on hitting………..”
Did you take note of the LOB stats from this game? I had cold chills remembering last season……..just sayin’
Venice Jim
March 4th, 2012
11:00 pm
richbrave – see that VCU jumped in front of Mason 22-0, then 32-4, and then withstood a great Patriot rally (they got within 6), and survived by 10?
richbrave
March 4th, 2012
11:00 pm
Soph
March 4th, 2012
10:39 pm
“………..The Walking Dead got me again………..”
Shouldn’t get so upset over one ST game SOPH, they’ll come around.
Venice Jim
March 4th, 2012
11:03 pm
richbrave with the POST OF THE DAY!!!
tiger297
March 4th, 2012
11:05 pm
soph – poor dale at least he got to see civilization last another night first
richbrave
March 4th, 2012
11:06 pm
Venice Jim
March 4th, 2012
11:00 pm
“……….richbrave – see that VCU jumped in front of Mason 22-0, then 32-4, and then withstood a great Patriot rally (they got within 6), and survived by 10?………”
VJ, correct. Saw the game. Fell asleep early. Woke up half-way through the second half. Got interesting about that time.
I like SMART. His team’s alwaysd come preparedc to play, at least the players are buying what he’s shoveling, and that makes all the difference in RICHMOND and VCU. Best coaching at VCU since J.D. BARNETT outside of ANTHONY GRANT.
David O'Brien
March 4th, 2012
11:08 pm
The Walking Dead got me again. Great episode. — Soph
Glad I finally gave up during the eternal stay at the farm. I feel liberated getting that hour back each week.
Venice Jim
March 4th, 2012
11:12 pm
richbrave – Dave Hobbs, who was a fellow coach of mine in my Lee-Davis days, became J.D.’s assistant – eventually worked with Wimp Sanderson and succeeded him for a time at Alabama…
tiger297
March 4th, 2012
11:14 pm
DOB – I’ve only been watching it about 5-6 weeks. My oldest son watches it and we sit down and watch it on sunday nights.
Maybe he will start going to baseball with me again this year but if not I’ll take what I can get…
richbrave
March 4th, 2012
11:28 pm
I remember DAVE H. well. Really good guy, and excellent coach.
BARNETT really knew how to run CHUCK NOE’s old ‘Mongoose’ offense [the four corners]. When the original 45-second shot clock came in the ‘85-’86 season, BARNETT couldn’t adapt. He moved on from VCU, but his winning record continued to tumble at TULSA, and the other schools where he coached. But there was no finer practitioner of the ‘mongoose’ than J.D..
richbrave
March 4th, 2012
11:32 pm
NYTOL
tiger297
March 4th, 2012
11:41 pm
night rich
Trey
March 4th, 2012
11:51 pm
Hey, everyone. Pretty disappointing loss, but at least it is only Spring Training.
Mitchie-sand
March 4th, 2012
11:54 pm
No way, DOB. I gotta disagree. This season of Walking Dead has been great. Not as much action, but the acting has been top notch.
VaBravesFan
March 5th, 2012
12:07 am
I’m a huge fan of The Walking Dead, but i’m a big fan of anything with zombies. But the show is so different than all the movies and such. I really like the story line and all the characters personalities and such, and the action and zombie killing isn’t over done. I remember playing Resident Evil on Playstation… I’ve played everyone that’s came out, and just really into the whole zombie survival theme.
By the Way….All the Resident Evil movies are complete crap tho, they did such a horrible job of making the game into movies, as nothing makes sense. I’ve put countless hours into the games and when I watched the movie I didn’t get what was going on… Just horrible.
VaBravesFan
March 5th, 2012
12:11 am
I also got hooked into the show from TNT Falling Skies… basically Aliens instead of Zombies.
VaBravesFan
March 5th, 2012
12:12 am
Well i’m calling it a night, have fun
David O'Brien
March 5th, 2012
12:19 am
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporting Andrew McCutchen and Pirates agree to terms on six-year, $51.5 million contract w/club option for $14.75 million.
tiger297
March 5th, 2012
12:29 am
when its sleepy time down south….
Ward
March 5th, 2012
12:37 am
Hello everyone! Let’s all say good bye to Dale on “The Walking Dead.”It’s finally getting better,but they do need to leave the Farm. I feel like there are on Gilligans’ Island,and going to be on the Farm for a long long time.Still it’s getting better though.
Ward
March 5th, 2012
12:42 am
VaBravesFan – If your going to own a Resident Evil Movie. I,and 2 or the best,and 3,and 4 suck.
Ward
March 5th, 2012
12:50 am
I predict tomorrow the Braves will get their first Spring Training win,the bats will score lots of runs,and it will shock ,and silence mixxo………Braves will win.
Ward
March 5th, 2012
1:16 am
Going to buy the first Season of “Sons Of Anarchy”,and looking forward to see it. Went to Walmart,and asked about Season 2,and they don’t have it yet. Going to enjoy the First Season though…….
Ward
March 5th, 2012
1:27 am
All is calm,and all is good. Excited to get my new Braves cap Friday………”Go!!!!!Braves.” It’s spring training ,so let’s all have fun!!!!!!!!! Peace My Friends………
haggard
March 5th, 2012
1:42 am
“When the sun is high in the afternoon sky
You can always find something to do
But from dusk till dawn as the clock ticks on
Something happens to you
In the wee small hours of the morning
While the whole wide world is fast asleep
You lie awake and think about the boy
And never ever think of counting sheep
When your lonely heart has learned its lesson
You’d be hers if only she’d call
In the wee small hours of the morning
That’s the time you miss her most of all
When your lonely heart has learned its lesson
You’d be hers if only she’d call
In the wee small hours of the morning
That’s the time you miss her most of all “– Preferably Frank Sinatra’s version, though Carly Simon’s will do.
Good morning blog
haggard
March 5th, 2012
1:43 am
“the girl”
haggard
March 5th, 2012
2:17 am
Just wondering if the first serious rumblings about a possible Brian McCann departure will cause some on the blog to reconsider the National League’s adoption of the DH,( since an AL team could well use it as a selling tool for a “last half of his career McCann”), or if the prevailing attitude will simply be “let him go”.
haggard
March 5th, 2012
2:48 am
One Saturday evening in 1984 I was visiting my folks in Conyers and we tuned into Austin City limits to view an excellent songwriter’s special featuring Freddie Powers, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard. Texas songwriter and fifties country music star Floyd Tillman was in the audience that night and the group performed his excellent tune, “This Cold War With You”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEfqMXvNH3Y
Couch Tater
March 5th, 2012
5:21 am
FYI from MyKitchen..
McCutchen – .365 OBP, SLG .458
Bourne – . .336 OBP, SLG .358
David O'Brien
March 5th, 2012
6:55 am
Sun rising, last of overnight fog burning off over Lake Bryan & Dark Star
http://twitpic.com/8sb1z8
… and look at this a few minutes later
http://twitpic.com/8sb2ui
richbrave
March 5th, 2012
7:00 am
Snowing
richbrave
March 5th, 2012
7:01 am
to
richbrave
March 5th, 2012
7:01 am
beat
richbrave
March 5th, 2012
7:01 am
the
richbrave
March 5th, 2012
7:02 am
band
richbrave
March 5th, 2012
7:03 am
Pristine
richbrave
March 5th, 2012
7:03 am
cheer
richbrave
March 5th, 2012
7:03 am
is
richbrave
March 5th, 2012
7:04 am
soon
richbrave
March 5th, 2012
7:04 am
at
Ted
March 5th, 2012
7:04 am
AVG HR RBI OBP
.305 14 65 .349 Molina
.270 24 71 .351 McCann
Molina is not chickenfeed
richbrave
March 5th, 2012
7:04 am
hand
richbrave
March 5th, 2012
7:04 am
Heh!
richbrave
March 5th, 2012
7:06 am
Quiet on the old blog this a.m. after yesterday’s waxing by the TIGERS. Really putrid stuff.
richbrave
March 5th, 2012
7:09 am
TED:
Is it BENJI or YADIER I can’t keep them straight? MOLINA is chopped liver compared to Mighty BRIAN McCANN…..just ask McFANN.
richbrave
March 5th, 2012
7:11 am
JJ on the bump today? Maybe we fare a bit better than DELGADO’s debacle. I assume he is still wearing the knee brace.
David O'Brien
March 5th, 2012
7:11 am
Can’t believe no one has asked me yet if Teheran is hurt. Because in the past couple of years, every other Braves pitcher or hitter who struggled drew the “Is he hiding an injury?” question on the blog.
richbrave
March 5th, 2012
7:13 am
Better get the paper while I still can. Later, fellow masochists.
richbrave
March 5th, 2012
7:14 am
Oops, sorry DAVE…….uh, is TEHERAN hurt? Heh!
richbrave
March 5th, 2012
7:15 am
Seriously, are they gonna’ get in a game today? Looks like an ALBERTA Clipper is headed through here going south.
richbrave
March 5th, 2012
7:19 am
Yhis is fun, but life becons. Later.
Ease
March 5th, 2012
7:39 am
Don will be around later to give us the 411 on pitcher injuries.
David O'Brien
March 5th, 2012
7:47 am
Seriously, are they gonna’ get in a game today? Looks like an ALBERTA Clipper is headed through here going south. — richbrave
Huh? It’s a gorgeous day here, sunny and high of 76 in forecast, ZERO percent chance of rain. Had to close curtains just now because the sun is so blinding on the lake.
Ray
March 5th, 2012
7:52 am
No DOB they are not going to ask if Teh is hurt. They are clamoring that he is overrated etc etc etc. How as Pastor looked in the field? Have you been able to get an idea of his ability on just 2 games and some workouts? There was questions by some about his arm and range.
Lew
March 5th, 2012
8:01 am
Don already told us that Teheran and every other Braves’ pitcher will be hurt – no need to ask, We’ve been informed.
Kat
March 5th, 2012
8:01 am
Mother nature is a tease… 50 degrees one week and right now it’s at the “feels like 9 degrees”…
Lew
March 5th, 2012
8:10 am
Kat – Yep, it’s going down to five below tonight and will be in the mid fifties by Thursday.
bill
March 5th, 2012
8:22 am
The Braves stream no games on the web. Worse than that I live in atown that has an affiliate and their signal is so weak I live 5 miles from the antenna and can not hear a night game. Last year I got MLB to listen to the Braves and they crapped on me and avery other fan. They make no improvements and spend little on payroll while Maima and the Nats got much better. To add insult to injury the Nats broadcasts are blacked out here.
Ease
March 5th, 2012
8:23 am
no need to ask,
That is what is so awesome about Don…Keeps us informed w/out having to ask…daily…
ncscoots
March 5th, 2012
8:23 am
Guillermo. I’m sorry, but this team isn’t showing any of us anything. It could be a coaching problem, or it could be the ghost of last season hanging over them. We don’t know yet. What we know is that our players are not performing.
In the second ST game, with two of the regular 8 starting and rookie pitchers who aren’t even yet on the 25-man, I see that some can make a determination as to potential success or failure for the coming season. When the games, you know, actually count. Geez.
I know that some here wanted the Braves to “start fast”, but I thought they meant April. I was obviously off in that reckoning. It’s not enough to go 162-0, you gotta have a perfect record in ST, too.
We got some tough crowd here, brother.
ncgary
March 5th, 2012
8:29 am
well you know scoots we need those 205 win seasons to quell the uprisings of the dissenters
ncscoots
March 5th, 2012
8:31 am
I have to admit, if the blog is going to be overrun with stuff like in-gaming frickin’ ST games and infantile commentary about the state of the team based on practice, I’ll find very little to make coming here worthwhile. Because that type of stuff, even for this place, is so bogus as to make the few readable comments not worth the search it will take to find them.
Bat Masterson
March 5th, 2012
8:40 am
It’s spring training for the commenters, too, ya know. Gotta give people a chance to pratice their positions…………. Hair on fire freaking out, or calm, cool and collected ………….. The weekend nuts got a head start, the office hour, weekday, folks get a shot today.
Should be fun.
CB
March 5th, 2012
8:42 am
scoots, anytime I read some of the negative comments I think of Lily Tomlin playing Ernestine talking. Works for me.
ncscoots
March 5th, 2012
8:46 am
Should be fun.
Bat, you are one sick, sick puppy, LOL.
Seriously, I figured even nimrods and numbletards knew about the concept of ST. Being the rose-visioned Pollyanna that I am, I guess.
ncscoots
March 5th, 2012
8:48 am
It’s spring training for the commenters, too, ya know.
so, you’re saying that these comments don’t actually count, and are totally meaningless?
Tomahawkin
March 5th, 2012
8:50 am
Dammit!
There goes My Coal X-Mas Present for A. McCutchen….
My lust is Gone!
“Live and Let Die! BAM, BAM, BAM!!!!!!!!
IVAN ...
March 5th, 2012
8:52 am
shout out to T-Hawkin and Lew………….
Bat Masterson
March 5th, 2012
8:56 am
scoots_
Ha, the ” the Braves didn’t make a move we’re doomed” crowd has been chomping at the bit to say, “I told you so”. You didn’t think they would wait until the season started did you?
Hitters need to work on their timing ….. Pitchers their breaking ball, command, whatever …….. And nut balls need to work on their crazy ……. Weeee
David O'Brien
March 5th, 2012
8:57 am
Braves lineup vs. Astros: 1. Bourn CF, 2. Pastornicky SS, 3. McCann DH, 4. Uggla 2B, 5. Hinske 1B, 6. Heyward RF, 7. Terdoslavich 3B, 8. Constanza LF, 9. Boscan C
MFin04
March 5th, 2012
8:59 am
Goals for today’s game:
1) Get more than 1 hit.
2) Give up less than 18 runs.
3) Win the darn game!
beekay
March 5th, 2012
9:02 am
So we lost a couple of meaningless spring training games…as Derrick “Shoelaces” Coleman used to say Whoopdy Damn Doo Julio and Randall understand that the stats don’t go on the bubble gum card and they will learn from their mistakes. No big deal
Bat Masterson
March 5th, 2012
9:04 am
Or champing at the bit………… I need some practice, too
RC
March 5th, 2012
9:05 am
MFin04,
Accomplishing #1 & #2 should go a long way toward #3. They are probably requirements for #3.
ncgary
March 5th, 2012
9:06 am
did anyone see what pitches julio was getting teed off on?
fastballs , breaking balls or a combination?
Bat Masterson
March 5th, 2012
9:08 am
Ross said fastballs, ncgary. They knew they were coming but he kept calling them because they need to work on their command. It was in the game blog.
ncgary
March 5th, 2012
9:12 am
thanks bat didn’t read that one
Bat Masterson
March 5th, 2012
9:12 am
Sure thing, gary.
MFin04
March 5th, 2012
9:17 am
“Did anyone see what pitches julio was getting teed off on?”
Nope. It happened so fast…
Pitch…homer
Pitch…homer
Pitch…homer
Pitch…homer
Pitch…homer
Pitch…homer
SteveInFXBG
March 5th, 2012
9:22 am
Heyward should get some pitches to hit with Terdoslavich (1.000 avg this spring) hitting behind him
Hillbilly
March 5th, 2012
9:24 am
so, you’re saying that these comments don’t actually count, and are totally meaningless?
These bloggers you’re referencing are wearing jersey #s 60-79. Their lefty-righty splits will be impossible to find a month or two from now, if you catch my drift.
ncscoots
March 5th, 2012
9:26 am
Win the darn game!
Good. Grief.
If it does you any good (I know it won’t, but maybe I’m just feeling a little Monday masochism, here), the correlation between ST record and regular season record is just about zero. Good, bad, indifferent, it’s all the same.
There, now don’t you feel better?
MFin04
March 5th, 2012
9:27 am
ncscoots – I actually could care less if they win the game…but they do need to get more than 1 hit…and give up less than 18 runs. How about that? Settled!?
ncscoots
March 5th, 2012
9:29 am
These bloggers you’re referencing are wearing jersey #s 60-79. Their lefty-righty splits will be impossible to find a month or two from now, if you catch my drift.
Definitely platoon posters, though. Can’t seem to put the bat on the ball against a good (Braves’) result. But they can absolutely hammer against losses.
VaBravesFan
March 5th, 2012
9:31 am
Ward
The Resident Evil movies are terrible, Most of the gaming community would agree. You’d have to play the games to understand why. The movie makers did a terrible job converting the story over to the movie. RE1 was so bad I left the theater in the middle of it… Only movie to make me leave…
Tomahawkin
March 5th, 2012
9:32 am
IVAN …
“shout out to T-Hawkin and Lew………….”
Back At’cha! Whats Happenin Chief?