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J-MAN
April 8th, 2012
2:14 pm
I think we need to change the lyrics of the 1970s band Player song “Baby come back” to” Bobby come back”
Spending all my nights
All my money spent on watching this clown
Doing anything just to get him of my mind
But when the Bar Tab comes
I’m right back hoping they fire Fredi again
Trying to like him is just a waste of time
Bobby come back, any kind of fool could see
That you are better in everything you dooooo
Bobby come back, you can blame it all on me
Frank was wrong, and we just can’t live without you
All day long, he misuses Martin Prado
Trying to keep up the smile while I chug my beer
But as my team goes down
I get that empty feeling again
How I wish to God that you were here
Bobby come back, any kind of fool could see
That you are better in everything you dooooo
Bobby come back, you can blame it all on me
Frank was wrong, and we just can’t live without you
Now that hes put us in the cellar
Give me the chance to make a plea
Your a better manager with courage and a heart
Fredi is nothing worth to see
Ain’t there nothing left for me
Bobby come back, any kind of fool could see
That you are better in everything you doooooo
Bobby come back, listen, you can blame it all on me
Frank was wrong, and we just can’t live without you
We were wrong, and we just can’t live
LAG
April 8th, 2012
2:16 pm
7-5-6 DP. I’ll take it.
South ga boy in the ATL
April 8th, 2012
2:17 pm
Calling all car. Hey frank would u plz get us another left handed slap hitter We need the entire starting lineup to be left handed hitters. Of course, frank you couldn’t have, possibly, seen ahead that we had McCann and Chipper (I know he’s a switch hitter but he has no power from the right) with Freeman and J-Hey coming, all lefty’s. And don’t say Uggla. He’s one guy. Just keep sitting on all those Gwinnett pitchers that other teams would give a kings ransom to get. They are gonna win a lot of games this yr……for the Gwinnett Braves that is. Yea Frank we have enough offense… To win 80-85 games. And then we, as long time Braves fans, get ridiculed by other posters on DOB’s blog for not being willing to put up with mediocre, at best, offense while Wren sits on a plethora of young pitchers that he could trade for offense. Yea we Braves fans are the problem. RIDICULOUS.
count_schemula
April 8th, 2012
2:18 pm
Bobby was great. He made baseball a reality in Atlanta, but, the peaked in the early mid-90s. He gave us solid regular season baseball year in and year out though despite what people said about him not having to do anything due to the big 3. About redi [sic] for the Francona era actually.
count_schemula
April 8th, 2012
2:20 pm
Jack Wilson grounds out? No way!
count_schemula
April 8th, 2012
2:21 pm
Don Sutton beginning to tip his cap to Niese a little early on the radio side of things…
Ron in Vegas
April 8th, 2012
2:22 pm
Are you kidding me? How fast was that half an inning? I just turned to the Masters for what I thought was maybe five minutes and I come back to see another Brave player striking out to end the inning. WTF?
ray k
April 8th, 2012
2:22 pm
The manager is like a president: they get too much credit when they win, and too much blame when they lose. This goes way beyond Fredi. It’s a systemic problem now. It’s the post HOF pitching, post Bobby, post 100 million plus payroll era, and things are going to be different.
Raising our pitchforks and torches and demanding DOB storm the front office like the sheriff of righteousness, and asking questions like, “What were you thinking today? Diaz in the 9th? Why! WHY!” is very misguided. We think the reason we all clamor for DOB to tackle Fredi and start pummeling him about his head is we want some accountability–some fair minded journalism, damnit!–but if we stop and took a breath we’d realize we are giving in to a much more primal uncivilized emotion: revenge.
After the parade of division titles, we have become so conditioned to winning, anything resembling mediocrity becomes unacceptable.
And we want someone to pay for taking that euphoria away from us! We don’t have an access card, so we heave this grotesque responsibility onto DOB to make the pain go away under the pretense of asking hard hitting questions. This is the guy who has recently come to loggerheads with Chipper Jones and a slew of others over the years and still has to work with these people daily.
I get worked up almost daily watching these games, and I spew my share of sarcasm–mocking Diaz’s ineptitude is within the spirit of the blog, I think–but asking DOB to be our union representative and to take our demands to Fredi is when we become a bit unhinged, I think.
It’s not as though we aren’t armed with our own rebellions. We can NOT go to games. And the best part about that is it sends a message AND it restores our emotional balance.
J-MAN
April 8th, 2012
2:22 pm
I wish we would wear beanies just so we would have to “Tip our caps”
Ron in Vegas
April 8th, 2012
2:23 pm
Are you kidding me? How fast was that half inning? I turned the station to watch the Masters for what I thought was five minutes and I come back to see another Braves player striking out.
Fredi "Tip Your Cap" Gonzalez
April 8th, 2012
2:24 pm
Hey guys, we were going to get this ship righted. I have alot of work to do but guys aren’t going to hang their heads. There is no shame in being potentially swept by the Mets. They are helluva ballclub. A dynasty in the making. Well, guys, I gotta go. Looks like I need my get wrist ready to tip my cap in about a hour.
What we are being “no hit”. Well guys look, this isn’t some mediocre pitcher from a mediocre ballclub. This is a future Hall of Famer we are talking about. Its not like Jonathon Niese is some run of the mill pitcher with a career ERA over 4.00.
-Fredi TYC out!
J-MAN
April 8th, 2012
2:26 pm
Braves fans are pissed plain and simple.
0-162
April 8th, 2012
2:26 pm
Wow. This team is simply bad.
count_schemula
April 8th, 2012
2:28 pm
How can one of the teams that invented the TV revenue stream give themselves the shaft like this? The Braves own the Southeast. There are no other teams down here other than the Rays and Marlins. Braves Country is Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, both Carolinas and lot of Florida.
For a corporate team run by bean counters, a Media bean counting outfit too no less, it’s inexcusable to hamstring the team like this. As attendance dwindles the revenue stream will only continue to shrink. Enjoy Uggla, his modest signing is the last FA we are likely to see for a while. And, yes, that goes for McCann unless his hometown discount is some kind of extreme.
Busch Leaguer
April 8th, 2012
2:28 pm
How good a team do the Braves have? Could any Brave on this team make the Mets starting line up. I know it is an extreme thought ,but it may be true.
ChrisfromSacramento,Ca
April 8th, 2012
2:29 pm
I was watching the masters for an half an hour and foolishly clicked back to see how my Braves were doing. I realized the Mets already scored and we cant. Game OVER
J-MAN
April 8th, 2012
2:31 pm
I like how the Braveslive people are only showing thetweets of fans who say th same thin…..”Its only 2 games we have a whole season in front of us” Maybe I’ll put something like that up just to get my name on TV lol
Mister Frisky
April 8th, 2012
2:32 pm
J-Man,Love your passion and fire.Something this organization lacks top to bottom.
J-MAN
April 8th, 2012
2:33 pm
I like how the Braveslive people are only showing the tweets of fans who say th same thing…..”Its only 2 games we have a whole season in front of us” Maybe I’ll put something like that up just to get my name on TV lol
count_schemula
April 8th, 2012
2:33 pm
damn it
The Perfect Chop
April 8th, 2012
2:33 pm
4-0 sweet! Go Bravos
J-MAN
April 8th, 2012
2:34 pm
I said that the Mets would win 4-1…….well I got the 4 covered now if we can score 1
Ron in Vegas
April 8th, 2012
2:34 pm
well, that should do it boys and girls. Going to be a long season I am afraid.
Frediot
April 8th, 2012
2:35 pm
We need more bunts and to stop valuing OBP so much.
sirluciouscp
April 8th, 2012
2:35 pm
Did FREDI THE CLOWN REALLY SAY HE WAS “TRYING TO KEEP THE BENCH SHARP ALREADY”, MAN SEND THIS CLOWN BACK TO TEE-BALL WHERE HE BELONGS. We’ve two freakin runs and he wants to keep the scrubs sharp. Lololololololololololololololol.
jmo
April 8th, 2012
2:35 pm
SO much cap tipping after this game! Can’t wait–I’m ready. I’m grabbing two hats–two-fist the cap tipping.
South ga boy in the ATL
April 8th, 2012
2:36 pm
There is a lot of truth in what you say Ray. But the 90’s are gone and I think most long term fans realize this. Ted doesn’t own the team so the Braves have financial constraints now and that’s frustrating to most longerm fans. I think most of us realize this. The mind boggling issue for me is the shear blindness by Wren that we don’t have enough offense, we are way too left handed a lineup so we get totally handcuffed by good left handed pitching, and there is such a lack of clutch hitting. We may lose a game 1-0, then 2-1, and win the third game of a series 11-2 and if you add up the total runs it doesn’t look so terrible but we all know the utter lack of clutch hitting on this team the last 3 yrs or so. And yet Wren has trading chips in all of our young starter but he will not pull the trigger, and I think it’s because it would be an admission that he has failed to put a credible offense on the field to potentially win a championship, even though we have the pitching to do just that. It baffles me to know end
Mister Frisky
April 8th, 2012
2:37 pm
The Mets pitcher looks better at the plate then the 9 knobs Fredo has thrown out there.
G
April 8th, 2012
2:37 pm
Frank Wren is a joke!!
J-MAN
April 8th, 2012
2:38 pm
Maybe the Braves front office can give away 25000 Braves Caps for the 1st home game so everyone can “Tip their cap” at the end of the game
Frediot
April 8th, 2012
2:38 pm
Mets could have their franchise’s first no-hitter today.
The A Bomb
April 8th, 2012
2:39 pm
Definitely want to hear the ol’ PR machine saying it’s only one weekend of baseball.
This team will not play for this manager. Plain and simple. He doesn’t have the locker room, except maybe for his godson Uggla.
rugburn
April 8th, 2012
2:39 pm
i have followed the braves since 1969. i was 10. no band wagon jumping for me (on or off) and this team looks bad. it was so bad in the 70’s and 80’s that i was allowed to pick a 2nd favorite so i would have a team to cheer for in the 2nd half of the season. looks like we are about back to that point now. go braves…game is basically over but let’s at least get a hit.
count_schemula
April 8th, 2012
2:40 pm
New Braves cap should have a hinge built into the visor to facilitate E-Z tipping.
Ron in Vegas
April 8th, 2012
2:40 pm
The leaders about to tee off in Augusta. I believe that I will be checking out of the Braves game at this point. Hopefully that at least can break up the no hitter.
F. Wren
April 8th, 2012
2:40 pm
We didn’t need to get a power bat this offseason, oh no. Our offense is great.
J-MAN
April 8th, 2012
2:41 pm
No-Hitter through 6 innings
count_schemula
April 8th, 2012
2:41 pm
Collapse, followed by season opening sweep and a possible no-hitter? Riot mode in effect.
J-MAN
April 8th, 2012
2:42 pm
This is what happens when you dont fire your manager after having a historic collapse, and do nothing to improve your team.
Mister Frisky
April 8th, 2012
2:42 pm
The A Bomb is on to something.They don’t play for Fredo,plain and simple.I know this is a terrible offense but they have zero pride as men and so called elite athletes.It has to be the manager.
TBbravesfan
April 8th, 2012
2:42 pm
looks lik the saason ends in new york.
Ralph
April 8th, 2012
2:43 pm
J-MAN
Do you honestly think 25 thousans people will show up even for a free hat?
Reality
April 8th, 2012
2:43 pm
Whatever happened to the Braves in September 2011, it never left.
Dr. John Zoydberg
April 8th, 2012
2:43 pm
When is the last time the Braves opened a season by being swept by a bad team? After finishing the previous season with a losing streak? I know it’s a long season, but this is the same team, performing in the exact same way. The only thing that has changed is the pitching, and it has gotten worse.
Ralph
April 8th, 2012
2:46 pm
I hope he pitches a no-no, then maybe Front Office will wake up and do something, though I doubt it, they could care less.
4th place finish...bank on it
April 8th, 2012
2:46 pm
Pretty pathetic effort so far. Everyone looks like Cy Young and Rolaids Firemen Relief pitchers of the year against this lifeless, punch and Judy bunch.
J-MAN
April 8th, 2012
2:47 pm
Well DOB has been quiet since the 3rd inning…….Guess that proves my point about the Fredi Gonzalez Coddling of the Atlanta beat writers right.
Ralph
April 8th, 2012
2:47 pm
Leave him out there Fruti, save th.e bullpen
J-MAN
April 8th, 2012
2:48 pm
@ Ralph you do have a point
The A Bomb
April 8th, 2012
2:48 pm
Dr. John Z…..’87 Braves got swept by Chicago to open season — bad team. Went 0-10 to start.
Finished 54-106. The horror. But as a tribute Minor sort of has Zane Smith stuff.
Larry Parrish
April 8th, 2012
2:49 pm
Ha! Ha! And you rednecks thought I was the Braves hitters problems last year ? Greg Walker couldn’t hold my jock….
Braves have one good hitter, Chipper Jones. But he stays on the DL more than a drug addict stays on drugs. The rest of the hitters are just stealing money daily. They get paid to hit but don’t care.
Preston Hannitized
April 8th, 2012
2:49 pm
Next big idea … Four hitting coaches.
rugburn
April 8th, 2012
2:50 pm
sounds like the announcers are already making excuses for houston beating us next. “they will throw 2 left-handers in the series”
anonymous
April 8th, 2012
2:51 pm
DOB is in the tank fore Braves Management just like the AJC is in the tank for Obama.
count_schemula
April 8th, 2012
2:51 pm
Just play the hitting coaches. How bad could Walker and Pendleton be?
TBbravesfan
April 8th, 2012
2:51 pm
pathetic
TBbravesfan
April 8th, 2012
2:52 pm
you can’t judge a team on how they play the braves
jmo
April 8th, 2012
2:53 pm
and now they’re talking up how great the Mets are. When on earth is someone going to blame this team for its own failure? Nauseating.
Jay Dubu
April 8th, 2012
2:53 pm
Braves haven’t had a starter get to 5.1 innings pitched, and have 2 hits in 11 innings against left handed starters, yet Fredi has time to lend to worrying about basketball.
What a joke bot Fredi and the writers that were interested in that!
J-MAN
April 8th, 2012
2:55 pm
Bring yourself forward DOB and hold Fredi accountable
Matt from MN
April 8th, 2012
2:55 pm
This organization could not have imagined a more horrid start to the season.
Fire Wren, Liberty Media and Fredi!
TBbravesfan
April 8th, 2012
2:56 pm
braves slump stoppers and ralley starters.
Tip O' the Cap
April 8th, 2012
2:57 pm
When does the mercy rule kick in? Can you spell s-w-e-e-p?!
Mr. Met
April 8th, 2012
2:58 pm
We about to sweep your sorry Braves. But WE were supposed to finish last in East ? We’ve got minor leaguers better than Jason Heyward.
I see somebody bailed Christian Martinez out of jail for that DUI ? He is pitching like he is still hung over…
count_schemula
April 8th, 2012
2:58 pm
Diaz is gassed from chasing down balls in LF. We may need to rest him the rest of the season.
J-MAN
April 8th, 2012
2:58 pm
Well I was wrong I though the Mets would only score 4 points. I’m also wrong because I thought the Braves would muster up 1 run………See DOB thats how you admit your wrong. Now try it with Fredi Gonzalez. Trust me the TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE.
rugburn
April 8th, 2012
2:59 pm
chipper could be in the line-up for our first win. maybe we’ll run into a team that self-destructs….our hitting sucks and our pitching has gotten worse every day. only game 3 …
bustersonly
April 8th, 2012
2:59 pm
Does anyone have any question now as to wheather or not Medlen should be in the rotation?
Busch Leaguer
April 8th, 2012
2:59 pm
Looks like Cmart left his fastball in the Drunk Tank.
count_schemula
April 8th, 2012
2:59 pm
Mr. Met, nothing you could say at this point. And don’t be hatin’ just cuz’ we’re talking your spot in last place.
Brian "Boob" McCann
April 8th, 2012
2:59 pm
“Well we’ve had a few good swings today. And if we get one hit today I’ll be satisfied. But if we don’t thats okay too because the Mets obviously have at least 3 Cy Young contending pitchers. Like Coach Fredi always says: you gotta tip your cap to them Mets. We’ll keep trying and remain oblivious to the fact that are team is garbage.”
Dr. John Zoydberg
April 8th, 2012
2:59 pm
Done with this. Happy Easter, everybody.
J-MAN
April 8th, 2012
2:59 pm
Well I was wrong I thought the Mets would only score 4 points. I’m also wrong because I thought the Braves would muster up 1 run………See DOB thats how you admit your wrong. Now try it with Fredi Gonzalez. Trust me the TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE.
b
April 8th, 2012
3:01 pm
Fredi forgot to say his “you know what”.
Ralph
April 8th, 2012
3:01 pm
Everone knows Minor can’t go more than 5 innings, except fro Fruti that is.
The A Bomb
April 8th, 2012
3:01 pm
BETH: Yay Braves! Yay!
Jay Dubu
April 8th, 2012
3:02 pm
Dr. JZ, the Braves are a bad team. The starting pitching is suspect, and they have no offense to spek of. Can only score runs if they hit a HR.
Reality
April 8th, 2012
3:02 pm
Everyone keeps saying the Braves will finish fourth in the NL East. Who’s supposed to finish below them?
jmo
April 8th, 2012
3:03 pm
haha Joe “Braves need a hit.” Oh is that it? Just one hit and we can all go home happy.
Mister Frisky
April 8th, 2012
3:03 pm
DOB,You win a Pulitzer, if you can find anything besides the back of the bully that is major league on this team.
count_schemula
April 8th, 2012
3:03 pm
Should be interesting. Niese has 90 pitches and 3 innings to go.
rugburn
April 8th, 2012
3:03 pm
why do we have to have tweeting on tv. if you are going to do that, show some of the glass half empty tweets. only pollyanna tweets make it to tv.
J-MAN
April 8th, 2012
3:04 pm
We are the REAL BRAVE FANS. We demand better from our team and we are tired of “TIPPING OUR CAPS”
The A Bomb
April 8th, 2012
3:05 pm
Nothing more to watch. Except the post game PR machine.
Man. 69-93 with this talent.
LAG
April 8th, 2012
3:05 pm
And the Mets remain no-hitter-less.
J-MAN
April 8th, 2012
3:06 pm
@ rugburn. I pointed that out that they are only posting the “Fredi friendly” tweets. In fact if they posted some of the majority of tweets they would not like it
rugburn
April 8th, 2012
3:06 pm
tip your cap to freeman. mr. met, we have minor leaguers better than j-hey too.
The A Bomb
April 8th, 2012
3:07 pm
Wait Chip….we’re down 7-1 and THINGS ARE GETTING MORE INTERESTING IN NEW YORK????
J-MAN
April 8th, 2012
3:07 pm
Well theres some luck here maybe we can have a HR and get back in this game
LAG
April 8th, 2012
3:08 pm
Thank you, Lucas Duda, for preserving the no-out situation.
J-MAN
April 8th, 2012
3:09 pm
We need to pitch hit for Jack Wilson and Diaz now
Busch Leaguer
April 8th, 2012
3:09 pm
Not to rub it in Mr. Wren ,but DLowe just went 7 innings in Cleveland and left wit a 4-2 lead.
Ralph
April 8th, 2012
3:10 pm
Freeman is the only guy in this lineup batting more than .200
ChrisfromSacramento,Ca
April 8th, 2012
3:10 pm
This team sucks
J-MAN
April 8th, 2012
3:11 pm
Whats gonna be lame is if we do come back then all the “Happy go lucky” Braves fans will act like this comback was from design
Reality
April 8th, 2012
3:11 pm
Who else thinks the new social media Twitter thing is idiotic? #fsnbraves
4th place finish...bank on it
April 8th, 2012
3:11 pm
Got to love how during Spring Training….Minor Minor mows down a bunch of mostly Minor Leaguers and never will bees……..and Jason Heyward rips a bunch of last cuts to the Minor Leagues in the last few Spring Training….Freddie Freeman hits 6 homers in 3 days the last week of Spring Training…..however, against a Meta team many predicted to finish last…..they can’t do anything close to resembling replicating those results.
timbo2589
April 8th, 2012
3:11 pm
what has freddi g done to run his mouth. If the braves missing the playoffs(more than likely), he should join van gundy in the unemployment line.
Mister Frisky
April 8th, 2012
3:13 pm
Now Fredo can use the term “crooked number”. God help us.
LAG
April 8th, 2012
3:13 pm
With that SF, Jack Wilson has more RBIs than Brian McCann during this series.