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reason
March 8th, 2012
8:53 pm
Who cares if he love or doesn’t Atlanta. Just have Michael Bourn play the game that he get’s millions of dollars to play, if not get rid of the jerk. The Braves aren’t doing a good job at anything, they are doing, they can’t hit, don’t can’t score runs, since last year, etc. Fredi, at this pace, at sometime at mid-season will not be the manager of the Braves.
The Braves need to get rid of Chipper Jones , once and for all………
cabravesfan
March 8th, 2012
8:54 pm
And here we go with the “get rid of Chipper” comments… sigh
Jerry
March 8th, 2012
8:55 pm
Well, I can’t speak for those people. I am not them. Not once have I said we will be one of the worst teams. I do firmly believe that we will be a lot like we were last year and will fall apart much the same way because the pitching staff will have a huge load to carry. Offensively, the only person that I really see coming back stronger will be Prado. He has that “eye of the tiger” mentality that I wish some of the others would show. I Heyward not doing much better. And whereas I’m enjoyed watching Chipper for a lot of years, he is past his contributing days. I hope I’m wrong because it sucks to watch a legend go out broken down. If I were the Braves, I might look more into Simmons breaking camp just so we’ll at least have a good defensive shortstop.
phil
March 8th, 2012
8:57 pm
No, blog doof, they are relatively sporadic actually. The negative stuff isn’t constant either but is seen more than the former frankly.
So what, though. Isn’t there something else with which to be concerned? I don’t know. Basketball? The last time you went to chick fil a? The price of gasoline? What Rufino Linares is doing these days?
Something?
cabravesfan
March 8th, 2012
8:57 pm
So you don’t think Mac will hit better than he did at the end of the season? Or Uggla won’t hit better?
Simmons will not break camp with the team. No way. He has not played above A ball yet.
phil
March 8th, 2012
8:58 pm
Chipper is one place you won’t normally hear me spouting off. I love the guy.
phil
March 8th, 2012
9:01 pm
As for hitting better, yes, i think we’ll hit better but mainly because we have to.
That said, i have no idea if uggla, mccann, wayward or prado will hit better or not. I truly suspect that uggla and wayward won’t do much better.
Blog Monitor
March 8th, 2012
9:06 pm
Phil, just commenting on the redundancy of some posts..
let’s see,
Basketball, don’t much care for it anymore..
don’t believe I have ever eaten at a chick fil a
premium gas is getting too high and p1ss’n me off..
Rufino Linares is no longer with us..
my concerns,
healing..
cabravesfan
March 8th, 2012
9:08 pm
Chick fil a just opened a bunch of new restaurants out here…drives me crazy that they are closed on Sundays.
Jerry
March 8th, 2012
9:10 pm
I know Simmons won’t beak camp with the team. I just stated that I would prefer him and his defense over Pastornicky’s suspect bat and shaky defense. As for McCann? I don’t see him any better than last year. He has hit .200 and .221 respectively over the last 2 seasons in September. He still is almost Piazza-like with his throws to second, but I will admit that the pitchers have to hold the runners closer than they have. And as for Uggla, I can only hope he doesn’t disappear for a half season like he did last year. And even though he got hot as hades for a while, he still only hit .238 in September.
brian
March 8th, 2012
9:15 pm
how many games did Furcal play above High A before he started with Atlanta Braves??
Tomahawkin
March 8th, 2012
9:16 pm
@Jerry,
Co-Sign, You called it, I’m not Drinking the Kool Aid for B-Macc, but in regards to him throwing runners out…Our Pitchers Absolutely suck (Especially Big Red and Double J, look it up) at holding opposing runners and keeping them honest at 1st
cabravesfan
March 8th, 2012
9:18 pm
how many games did Furcal play above High A before he started with Atlanta Braves??
3. Which is 3 more than Simmons. But Furcal was not anywhere near the norm…
Tomahawkin
March 8th, 2012
9:18 pm
You Can’t compare The Rev to Furcal…One would be dumb to do that…Furcal had all kinds of hype because he stole 90 bases in A ball If I’m not Mistaking? Bobby C. was quoted on old TBS as Furcal having the Best IF arm he had seen as Shawon Dunston…
Tomahawkin
March 8th, 2012
9:19 pm
And I meant to say You really cant compare any young SS that we have to Furcal…
Jerry
March 8th, 2012
9:19 pm
closing down shop for the night. later on.
Kwajbraves
March 8th, 2012
9:22 pm
Oh yeah. BMac would have to do something really bad in order to break my alliance…
Like hitting 189 again???
McFann :Ô: :Ô: :ô:
March 8th, 2012
9:25 pm
Kwajbraves—
No no…I’ll still stand by him if that were to happen again. I mean he’d have to like, kill somebody or something…something immoral…
Tomahawkin
March 8th, 2012
9:27 pm
In speaking abt Furcal…
If You Wanna Talk abt Bad head first slides…Furcal Dislocated his shoulder from doing that in 2001 trying to beat out Rob Beck (Who was with the Red Sox in 2001) on a play at 1st
It was brutal, it cost him the season…
phil
March 8th, 2012
9:28 pm
I did not know Linares had died. He stunk but is fondly remembered.
Insert Chopper Campbell instead.
phil
March 8th, 2012
9:29 pm
Rob beck is deceased now too, right?
phil
March 8th, 2012
9:30 pm
Rod beck isn’t it?
Kwajbraves
March 8th, 2012
9:30 pm
No no…I’ll still stand by him if that were to happen again. I mean he’d have to like, kill somebody or something…something immoral…
Glad that you clear that up. Would you still stand by him if he was found guilty of using PED?
old man
March 8th, 2012
9:31 pm
What a disappointment to be a weak hit team again this year.
old man
March 8th, 2012
9:33 pm
Prado, Heyward, Uggla, Chipper, Freeman, McCann, all 2011 redux.
cabravesfan
March 8th, 2012
9:35 pm
Freddie Freeman hit .282 with 21 HR last year.
Mac hit .270 (which included that .189 September) with 24 HR
I will take that
old man
March 8th, 2012
9:40 pm
cabravesfan:
Will you take the whole package? That’s my point.
old man
March 8th, 2012
9:41 pm
Bourn is extra. He does not add enough.
McFann :Ô: :Ô: :ô:
March 8th, 2012
9:42 pm
Kwajbraves—
Umm…that would be quite awkward and very disappointing. But we don’t have to worry about that.
cabravesfan
March 8th, 2012
9:42 pm
old man-
Yes. Chipper was among the league leaders in OBP (if I remember correctly) and Uggla hit 36 HR. I would take the whole package. In a second.
cabravesfan
March 8th, 2012
9:43 pm
And Marteen will not have to be dealing with a Staph infection this season…
McFann :Ô: :Ô: :ô:
March 8th, 2012
9:43 pm
cabravesfan Mac hit .270 (which included that .189 September) with 24 HR…I will take that
Minus the .189 in September…
cabravesfan
March 8th, 2012
9:47 pm
From April to August (before he got hurt), Mac hit .305
After that he hit .173
McFann :Ô: :Ô: :ô:
March 8th, 2012
9:50 pm
cabravesfan—
Yep. Can’t really say he had a bad year…just a bad month.5…
cabravesfan
March 8th, 2012
9:51 pm
McFann-
Pretty much- he only played 13 games in August…
Furman Bitcher
March 8th, 2012
9:53 pm
The Braves are going long term with this guy with all the other commitments coming up. He is done after 2012 season with us and he knows it. I wouldnt go longer than 5 yrs with this guy and he will look for 7.
cabravesfan
March 8th, 2012
9:54 pm
which guy?
Bat Masterson
March 8th, 2012
9:56 pm
Bourn
nolie
March 8th, 2012
9:56 pm
I am very concerned about all the folks drinking all that kool aid, it rots your teeth and can help bring on diabetes. please witch to sumthang else asap.
B-F_52
March 8th, 2012
9:57 pm
Bravos vs B bombers tomorrow on MLBN @1:00
DS1
March 8th, 2012
10:04 pm
Dang, I missed a lot of excellent guitar talk earlier. And from the sounds of it, I am WAY below you guys in guitar knowledge and probably in skill.
Guitars are kinda like baseball. I love hearing/watching and playing both!
And nolie, you’ll be happy to know that I have given up kool aid for water.
Fandom
March 8th, 2012
10:04 pm
Kawakami will not be traded
Fasterkinky
March 8th, 2012
10:06 pm
I played the guitar a time or two, but i prefer the banjo
cabravesfan
March 8th, 2012
10:09 pm
Enrico Palazzo!
don sutton's poodle perm
March 8th, 2012
10:09 pm
Bourn ain’t exactly the most illuminating fella.
cabravesfan
March 8th, 2012
10:09 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyCc1DzRAgQ
cabravesfan
March 8th, 2012
10:10 pm
I love that the California Angels (I miss that name so much) are playing in Dodger Stadium…
cabravesfan
March 8th, 2012
10:11 pm
With all of the skyline and other defining features edited out…
don sutton's poodle perm
March 8th, 2012
10:12 pm
Kool Aid is okay. I prefer Tang though. But not the kind of Tang Buzz Aldrin prefers
phil
March 8th, 2012
10:12 pm
Bourn is, um, less than forthcoming…
don sutton's poodle perm
March 8th, 2012
10:13 pm
Bourn is more boring than the new comiskey park
don sutton's poodle perm
March 8th, 2012
10:14 pm
Who talks less? Jason Bourne or Michael Bourn?
cabravesfan
March 8th, 2012
10:15 pm
And now I am annoyed they are playing “I love LA” for the Angels…
don sutton's poodle perm
March 8th, 2012
10:16 pm
Does Bourn give all the reporters the silent treatment? Or does Bourn reserve the silent treatment for Vivlamore?
abeeewright
March 8th, 2012
10:17 pm
“And apparently, the other teams practices are better than ours. Could also equate to what could happen when the season begins.”
Other than the 11 spot that Detroit put on Teheran and Delgado, Braves have been tied or ahead in every ST game before the major leaguers went out.
phil
March 8th, 2012
10:22 pm
Stumbled on an nba game from 20 yrs ago. Can’t believe reggie lewis has been dead nearly that long. Hitting everything he’s thowing up there.
don sutton's poodle perm
March 8th, 2012
10:22 pm
I was shocked George W Bush never bombed Tehran. The Tigers didn’t hesitate to bomb Teheran
cabravesfan
March 8th, 2012
10:24 pm
Reggie Lewis was going to be a special player…so sad, him dying so young
phil
March 8th, 2012
10:26 pm
I’m no celtics lover but it was a terrible thing. This is an old playoff game against Indiana and lewis scored 20 in the first quarter.
cabravesfan
March 8th, 2012
10:27 pm
I was never a Celtics fan either…grew up a DIE HARD Lakers fan, so naturally…
But I always liked Reggie
phil
March 8th, 2012
10:28 pm
Of course Bird retired that year.
Wow. I really am creeping up on old.
ncgary
March 8th, 2012
10:29 pm
well lets go put some direct tv systems in
cabravesfan
March 8th, 2012
10:30 pm
Hey, I remember the day Magic retired like it was yesterday. Of course, I was 12 at the time…
phil
March 8th, 2012
10:30 pm
Magic, kareem, worthy, ac, wilkes, scott, rambis, cooper, etc…..i would say those 80s teams were average at best….lol
phil
March 8th, 2012
10:31 pm
That day was terrible too. At the time, AIDS was considered a death sentence, so i remember just being so sad about it all.
Thankfully, 20 yrs on, he’s here and doing well.
phil
March 8th, 2012
10:32 pm
I should say, a sure death sentence.
cabravesfan
March 8th, 2012
10:32 pm
phil-
That has a lot to do with why I find today’s NBA almost unwatchable. I grew up watching those guys play beautiful basketball…was never about “ME” but always about the TEAM. And OMG watching Magic work that ball and feed Kareem, Worthy, Perkins, Scott, AC… (and with the incomparable Chick Hearn calling the plays)
cabravesfan
March 8th, 2012
10:34 pm
I remember, I walked home from school and when I got there, the phone was ringing. A friend was calling asking if I had heard…I turned on the TV and sat, stunned, for a long time, listening to Magic make that announcement. What a shock.
tiger297
March 8th, 2012
10:34 pm
ok somebody help me out do I need to read today’s blog?
phil
March 8th, 2012
10:35 pm
And Kevin McHale…
The youth of today missed a great, great player in him.
phil
March 8th, 2012
10:36 pm
Tiger – no, unless you want to read me whining and griping now and then….
Bat Masterson
March 8th, 2012
10:39 pm
Yep, and the Hawks were never quit good enough.
phil
March 8th, 2012
10:39 pm
I was actually a fan of both teams after the hawks….enjoyed watching them head to head and when playing others…fan isn’t the right word but something like that.
No team was ever better than the ‘86 Celtics. Could they pass the basketball.
cabravesfan
March 8th, 2012
10:39 pm
For those that were not privileged to get to hear Chick Hearn, he was the Vin Scully of the NBA…just check out the terms that are still used today that he is credited with coining…among them: Triple-Double, Slam Dunk, Dribble Drive, Air Ball, and Charity Stripe…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_Hearn
phil
March 8th, 2012
10:40 pm
The Hawks…..
Decades of disappointment.
B-F_52
March 8th, 2012
10:40 pm
Chris if Bourne gets a “bug” and passes it around the club house someones gonna have some splainin to do
cabravesfan
March 8th, 2012
10:41 pm
I was a Lakers fan pretty much until Shaq came and ruined them for me (and other circumstances caused an allegiance switch)- now I just watch players, when I actually can stomach watching for more than 2 minutes…
phil
March 8th, 2012
10:43 pm
Vin Scully…..
This is his 62nd season in the Dodgers booth.
62nd….think about that. Thank goodness he called games on NBC in the 80s or many of us would have no idea what we miss on a regular basis. A terrific announcer and apparently one you just can’t kill off!
Bat Masterson
March 8th, 2012
10:44 pm
Yeah, Hawks fan first, other than that I always pulled for the Celtics, of course the Lakers were great, too.
phil
March 8th, 2012
10:45 pm
The NBA isn’t much to watch anymore.
In fact, I have yet to go to a game at Phillips Arena. Not one. Used to go to games at the Omni fairly often yrs ago.
cabravesfan
March 8th, 2012
10:46 pm
phil-
Baseball season is not baseball season for me until I hear Vin’s wonderful greeting “Hello again everybody and welcome to another season of Dodger baseball”
Even now…his voice is a part of my childhood. There is nobody better. He no longer does road games outside the division, and doesn’t seem to be at spring training this year…I will be crushed when he passes on.
phil
March 8th, 2012
10:47 pm
My 9 yr old son is reading a Larry Bird book.
Think he’s becoming a sports fan? Lol
cabravesfan
March 8th, 2012
10:48 pm
phil-
I like your son
B-F_52
March 8th, 2012
10:48 pm
Now I miss Skip and Ernie
cabravesfan
March 8th, 2012
10:50 pm
The only thing I miss about not following the Dodgers anymore…
Bat Masterson
March 8th, 2012
10:50 pm
I saw Spud Webb dunk on ManUte Bol at the Omni one night. Pretty funny
phil
March 8th, 2012
10:51 pm
I understand with Vin…
I felt that way about ernie johnson. Skip’s sudden death has been the worst of all personally because it was basically unexpected. I liked pete least of all but hearing him again recently somewhere sure made me appreciate once again what we’ve lost in our booth. I miss all three and always will.
phil
March 8th, 2012
10:52 pm
Manute Bol.
May he rest in peace but stil lol at that memory!
cabravesfan
March 8th, 2012
10:54 pm
Now I really need to hear Vin…
phil
March 8th, 2012
10:54 pm
My son already knows more meaningless college basketball stuff than i do….he’s too funny.
phil
March 8th, 2012
10:56 pm
Spud webb.
3 feet tall. Wins the slam dunk competition. Go figure!
cabravesfan
March 8th, 2012
10:56 pm
I was like that when I was young
phil
March 8th, 2012
10:57 pm
Fire Vin!!
Just kidding. Good night all…
Tom O'Hawke
March 8th, 2012
10:57 pm
Now I really need to hear Vin…
Hello, there, LA Woman!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJdli-ONL-8
cabravesfan
March 8th, 2012
10:57 pm
Night phil!
cabravesfan
March 8th, 2012
10:58 pm
Hi Tom!
Bat Masterson
March 8th, 2012
10:59 pm
Yeah he could jump. Spud Webb, Spuds McKensie, 80’s icons……….
Bat Masterson
March 8th, 2012
11:00 pm
See ya, phil
cabravesfan
March 8th, 2012
11:00 pm
Good Lord, Vin sounds EXACTLY the same… I love it
Tom O'Hawke
March 8th, 2012
11:02 pm
I have never heard this, and I’m enjoying it, but you’re right about his sounding the same, cabravesfan.