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Tim
April 7th, 2012
4:19 pm
The ownership doesn’t care, folks. Liberty Media will spend no money on this team. They have already proved that. As long as they own this team, we are gonna be headed toward Kansas City territory. Welcome to the late 80’s, again……..
ray k
April 7th, 2012
4:19 pm
This team is as exciting as watching snails have intercourse on quaaludes.
stizz
April 7th, 2012
4:19 pm
Matt motherf***ing Diaz.Useless against anything not named Johan Santana.
Don’t worry though, he’s our “missing link”. And don’t let me for get about Raccoon Jack Wilson. The slickest fielder in the southeast.
Sparks
April 7th, 2012
4:19 pm
Perfect season still in tact…
The_Superhoo
April 7th, 2012
4:19 pm
If the Braves continue negative play, negative comments will continue as well. That’s how it works.
Kwajbraves
April 7th, 2012
4:19 pm
I meant opening day game not date. Although, you could bring your date because is going to be a plethora of seats available.
tiger297
April 7th, 2012
4:19 pm
nolie – come on 16th is a lock you koolaid drinker
Cholulu
April 7th, 2012
4:19 pm
Nothing New!!!!!!
Same BS!
smallmouth6
April 7th, 2012
4:19 pm
DetroitBraves: It does seem that way, but almost hard to believe with two guys at the top of the Rookie of the Year Award, a guy that has hit 30 plus homers for years, a catcher that has been an all start 5 times, a leadoff hitter that is expected to make a half trillion dollars next year, and a Hall of Famer with a 300 plus batting average. Still, you’re numbers are right. It’s just frustrating waiting on this team. As I said, the Braves need an infusion in whatever form that might take.
Jerry
April 7th, 2012
4:20 pm
no Pizza Hut agin today boys! Fredi gonna go get 2 Little Caesar’s, no meat. You guys, get your own….bostonbravo
That was funny. Props for you.
FSUBrave
April 7th, 2012
4:20 pm
I don’t care what DOB, frank wren, fredi or chipper say..this team is just not very good or talented..many of the supposed stars are busts..it is not the hitting coach either…they will finish in 4th place…i guarantee it…to win you have to spend some money by adding talent and well, FW has shown his hands are tied by management…who cares…spring football is more exciting anyway…plant the spear suckers!
J-MAN
April 7th, 2012
4:20 pm
Braves fans should boycott going to the games until Fredi is fired
Bravefaninok
April 7th, 2012
4:21 pm
tiger297
April 7th, 2012
4:11 pm
bravefaninok – who should he have used?
I think he had 3 lefty options
Medlen
O’Flaherty
Venters
which one would have been your choice?
C mart is a better hitter facing a RH pitcher……I am not bashing Diaz,just putting him in against Fransisco,Really just frustrated.
74bravesjersey
April 7th, 2012
4:21 pm
Hey DOB; It’s too early?, or is it too late?; It’s gettin’ hard not to(judge). The team plays like fredi G’s personality; Kinda like we’ll I don’t know, should I go pull him, what ah you think Roger? Hey constanza go pinch for livan hope you can lay one down for me lil’buddy. Hey matty, Hinske, rossy, pass da cracker jacks down here, my stomachs growlin’.
The A Bomb
April 7th, 2012
4:21 pm
The A Bomb
September 28th, 2011
11:48 pm
2012 NL East Standings
1. Philadelphia 102-60
2. Washington 88-74
3. Florida 83-78
4. New York 78-84
5. Atlanta 69-93
Went on record early — sticking with it. Sorry positive ones, THIS SUCKS!
tmc
April 7th, 2012
4:22 pm
what exactly is different about this team from last year?
cause i don’t see it.
MFin04
April 7th, 2012
4:22 pm
Matt Diaz against left handers…THAT IS HIS JOB. He hits lefties.
I don’t know why people complain about him not hitting righties, it isn’t what he does.
And I love how Dan Uggla and Brian McCann get off scott free, even though McCann is 0-fer the season and Uggla is at .143.
Cholulu
April 7th, 2012
4:22 pm
Where did McCann go..will the real McCann show up.
DetroitBraves
April 7th, 2012
4:22 pm
@ray k, that was a pretty insulting thing to say about the snails. Snails >>>>> Matt Diaz at-bat.
Tomahawkin
April 7th, 2012
4:22 pm
Whats Worse is That we are Going To see A Lot of “GAS CAN DURBIN” since our starters cant pitch past the 5th since they get garbage run support
Ralph
April 7th, 2012
4:23 pm
If we had any owner other than Liberty Media, Wren and Fruti would be fired but they don’t give a S#@t, I wonder if they have ever been to a braves game, probably Yankee fans
stizz
April 7th, 2012
4:23 pm
More technical difficulties huh.
DawgNole
April 7th, 2012
4:23 pm
Felix
April 7th, 2012
4:08 pm
I guess all those folks who said “it is only Spring Training” are now going to say “it is only April”.
Same crummy ownership and management, same crummy team, same crummy results.
________________
They will indeed. Always have. And when August comes, they’ll be saying “Whaddaya worried about; we still have XX weeks left.” And in Sept, “Whaddaya worried about; we still have XX games left.” And when it’s over, they’ll say, “Just wait til next year.”
Cholulu
April 7th, 2012
4:23 pm
Diaz and Mac suck
Technical Difficulties
April 7th, 2012
4:23 pm
Gant is saying JJ got squeezed. But I’m sure Dickey didn’t get the same calls. Those mean old umpires wanted the Braves to lose! Yeah! That’s it!
Durbin made everyone who was complaining here about Wren picking him up look like fools because he pitched so…..Whats that? Say he gave up a couple of hist and a long homer?
Never mind.
count_schemula
April 7th, 2012
4:24 pm
Why collapse late, when you can collapse now and get the pain over with early.
cabravesfan
April 7th, 2012
4:24 pm
Technical Difficulties-
Even the Mets announcers were commenting on the fact that JJ was not getting the same calls as Dickey.
Jerry
April 7th, 2012
4:24 pm
Gawdalmighty, I hope they don’t do that Twitter crap all year. That’s as lame as the multitude that keeps making excuses for this team.
panamajack
April 7th, 2012
4:24 pm
Release Diaz and Constanza.
William Smith
April 7th, 2012
4:25 pm
Chipper will come back and we will have a four game winning streak. That ia about how many games he will play before he goes back on the DL. The Braves are becoming the cheapest team in the league. Before long the Pirates will outspend the Braves. I am reconciled to lousy teams and lousy records. Go Braves to last place.
BosnianBaller
April 7th, 2012
4:25 pm
I’m sure the Braves players can perform, but the choke job from last year won’t go away b/c it’s all a mental thing with this team
The Bravenator
April 7th, 2012
4:25 pm
Well, that performance was marginally less pathetic than the opener, but it’s ST+2 with nothing to suggest in the body of work to date that this is a playoff team. The Mets don’t have much, but it will be a quest to battle even them to avoid oblivion. The Braves have no fire and FG is clearly not a motivator or even a first-rate baseball thinker. Wren is a Liberty Media stooge. Atlanta deserves better, but it is what it is.
Disgusted
April 7th, 2012
4:25 pm
The announcers are just as bad, they are covering tail for Jurjjens sorry half assed performance. One of the guys on the TV post game show said he looked good.
Yea, right.
This whole team is a discragce to the game, they are a bigger disgrace to their sport than the bounty gate people are to football.
stizz
April 7th, 2012
4:25 pm
“Matt Diaz against left handers…THAT IS HIS JOB. He hits lefties.”
Except he can no longer hit lefties, looks terrible against righties, and is a complete liability in the field. Its ok though, because he uses P90X.
nelson
April 7th, 2012
4:26 pm
0 -2 lost again ?? nice job wren.. juan francisco ? jajajja ..
DawgNole
April 7th, 2012
4:26 pm
tiger297
April 7th, 2012
4:12 pm
wow – Ron Gant “the braves have been horrible with RISP”
____________________
I did hear that, tiger297. Bout fell out of my chair. ATL “pro” announcers have never been known to be open/honest.
Tim
April 7th, 2012
4:26 pm
They didn’t have a lick of hitting, last year. And, they did not one thing to address that. Wren kept saying that all of these guys being healthy would be like getting hitters in trades. What nonsense that is. What will he say, now?
john
April 7th, 2012
4:27 pm
There are still alot of parts coming together for this team. This is not the finished product. I’m encouraged by Freeman, Heyward, Bourn and Prado today. It’s not enough yet, but I think better is coming. I think there is talent there and it will be a fun team to follow.
count_schemula
April 7th, 2012
4:27 pm
Thanks to this team, the MLB.com blackout is not going to bother me much this season.
Tomahawkin
April 7th, 2012
4:27 pm
Fredi and the Excuses…UGGGHHHH
He’s Wearing on me…!
74bravesjersey
April 7th, 2012
4:28 pm
I’m tellin you folks,B-macs visions blurried, gotta pull out da thick rimmed bi-focals again.
tiger297
April 7th, 2012
4:28 pm
easter egg hunt earlier today with little one and maybe another one this evening…so I’m off for some non-baseball things
noleee
April 7th, 2012
4:28 pm
I am officially resigning my position on the Pollyanna Braves Board and joining the Braves Pissymists Club
Steve
April 7th, 2012
4:28 pm
#FireFrankWren
MFin04
April 7th, 2012
4:28 pm
Are you talking about the Matt Diaz hitting .500 with slash line of: .500/1.000/1.500 against lefties?
74bravesjersey
April 7th, 2012
4:28 pm
Uggla might need some thick rimmed bi-focals too!
CaptainMudderland
April 7th, 2012
4:29 pm
Interview with Fredi is a waste of time….talking in circles….we need, we need…blah, blah–same old crapola.
DawgNole
April 7th, 2012
4:29 pm
Disgusted
April 7th, 2012
4:25 pm
The announcers are just as bad, they are covering tail for Jurjjens sorry half assed performance. One of the guys on the TV post game show said he looked good.
Yea, right.
__________________
I’m right with you on that, buddy. And if you think these boot-lickers are bad, you ought to give a listen to Rathbun and Nique of the Hawks. Their fawning will absolutely nauseate you.
stizz
April 7th, 2012
4:29 pm
If you think slopball pitcher Jair Jurrjens will have a good season posting 86-88 with bad location, I have some beachfront property in Kansas I want to show you.
VaBravesFan
April 7th, 2012
4:29 pm
Diaz is here to face LHP, so when it comes down to the final out we bring in Diaz to face a RHP…
Interested Bystander
April 7th, 2012
4:29 pm
Also, I would like to tip my cap to the mets pitchers they really kept our big money power hitters off the bases.
TN Jeff
April 7th, 2012
4:30 pm
After seeing the previous batter walk, why does Freeman come up and check swing hit a comebacker back to the pitcher for a double play. Next batter, Heyward then hits a meaningless triple. These guys go up to the plate with absolutely no game plan. Recipe for chocking. Mental Midgets.
VaBravesFan
April 7th, 2012
4:30 pm
Nationals win 7 to 5 over the Cubbies. They scored 5 runs in 1 inning (haha)
count_schemula
April 7th, 2012
4:30 pm
Mets 2-0
Braves 0-2
BRAVESOUL
April 7th, 2012
4:30 pm
It’s omly two game into the season, but this Braves team will have a problem scoring runs all year. McCann and Uggla are suppose to be our hitting leaders and they are in the middle of the lineup and not producing so far. Its hard to positive when all you hear about is how everyone has made adjustments at the plate, yet this team looks just like they did when they faded last year! they look lost! Now they are banking on a 40 year old Chipper Jones! It will take him three to 4 games to get going and the Braves will be 1-7 before they actually start hitting. Its going to be a long season Braves fans.
DetroitBraves
April 7th, 2012
4:30 pm
What’s discouraging is that they don’t really have any hitters coming along in the minors either. Bethancourt and Simmons are supposed to be plus-plus defenders but there are real questions about whether they will ever hit. Other than McCann, have the Braves developed a top hitter since the 90’s? Maybe I’m forgetting someone. I realize the jury is still out on Heyward and Freeman but it seems like they take a guy like Heyward, with patience and plate discipline, and make him as hacktastic as possible. They did the same thing with Kelly Johnson. There’s nothing wrong with taking a walk. In fact, the best thing for me from today’s game was Heyward working a couple of walks.
Interested Bystander
April 7th, 2012
4:31 pm
Last but not least tipping my cap to the mets manager (don’t know name) but he out coached Fredi – Wow
ray k
April 7th, 2012
4:31 pm
Preston,
I’m not sure a bat or two would be enough to change the culture permeating this franchise right now. These guys are professional hitters: we have rookie of the year candidates and winners and four previous all stars. For whatever reason, the whole is less than the sum of its parts. In my opinion, it’s not just a missing piece–it’s the passionless, drowsy identity they have somehow coated themselves with.
I think it’s time for a cleansing.
74bravesjersey
April 7th, 2012
4:31 pm
Hey, Greg Walker; send fletch out to get some dark thick rimmed BI-focals for everybody, then mabey, just mabey they’ll see whats in there zone for a change.
Tomahawkin
April 7th, 2012
4:31 pm
john
“There are still alot of parts coming together for this team. This is not the finished product. I’m encouraged by Freeman, Heyward, Bourn and Prado today. It’s not enough yet, but I think better is coming. I think there is talent there and it will be a fun team to follow.”
No offense, but Put Down The Damn Kool-Aid! Our AWFense was Garbage We Just Got Punked by The NY Mess! This Series is gonna Count a lot in the Standings in September when We lose out by one game or get upset in that Garbage 1 game Wildcard series
tiger297
April 7th, 2012
4:32 pm
VaBravesfan – same comment I made to BravesfaninOK
only batters from Left side on the bench were medlen/O/Venters
or leave c-mart to bat
Technical Difficulties
April 7th, 2012
4:32 pm
C’mon folks. Chipper is a HOFamer and is gonna help some when he returns but anyone who expects that Braves to turn around and be a completely different, productive team just because he’s back is nuts! If the Braves making the playoffs are dependant on the health and productivity of a 40 year old player, it is indeed over NOW!
start where they left off
April 7th, 2012
4:32 pm
Looks like that offseason of doing nothing was a great idea.
Sticking with that powerhouse offense they had last year…..wait wasn’t that supposed to be an abberation Mr. Wren and Mr. Jones?
count_schemula
April 7th, 2012
4:32 pm
Take the collapse team and just add water.
TN Jeff
April 7th, 2012
4:32 pm
What is the purpose of Spring Training? Why do our opening pitchers tire out after 5 and then 4 innings on successive games? Oh yeah, Mental Midgets.
JasonInFL
April 7th, 2012
4:33 pm
Last place this year, folks.
stizz
April 7th, 2012
4:33 pm
“Are you talking about the Matt Diaz hitting .500 with slash line of: .500/1.000/1.500 against lefties?”
Are you using stats from two games? Say hello to him at the family reunion for me.
VaBravesFan
April 7th, 2012
4:33 pm
I rather have seen David Ross in that spot
count_schemula
April 7th, 2012
4:34 pm
Ghost of Omar Minaya > collapse team
start where they left off
April 7th, 2012
4:34 pm
A season of excuses, mixed in with a couple of winning months just to tease us later.
cabravesfan
April 7th, 2012
4:34 pm
Are you using stats from two games?
Why not? Everyone else is…
MFin04
April 7th, 2012
4:34 pm
stizz – Are you just making baseless statements without any stats or facts? Thought so.
stizz
April 7th, 2012
4:35 pm
Yeah Jerome, because had JJ not been squeezed by the umps we definitely would have scored runs. Yeah, that’s it.
noleee
April 7th, 2012
4:35 pm
I agree that the whole does seem less than the sum of its parts all spring so far.
leftover heebie-jeebies from the collapse?
MFin04
April 7th, 2012
4:36 pm
Matt Diaz career vs Lefties:
329 .368 .507 .875
Or are we not using this years stats or career stats?
Tomahawkin
April 7th, 2012
4:36 pm
CaptainMudderland
“Interview with Fredi is a waste of time….talking in circles….we need, we need…blah, blah–same old crapola.”
Word…! Fans who had to witness the collapse last year are not subdued to that crap no more!
McFann :Ô: :Ô:
April 7th, 2012
4:36 pm
MFin04 And I love how Dan Uggla and Brian McCann get off scott free
Not many people let them off scott free…
even though McCann is 0-fer the season…
0-7—that’s like…2 games worth of at bats…
George
April 7th, 2012
4:36 pm
Ho- Hum— Ho-Hum ——— Same – O —- Same – O.
count_schemula
April 7th, 2012
4:37 pm
Somewhere Omar Minaya is laughing.
rc35
April 7th, 2012
4:38 pm
Postgame comment prediction–”Oh, man…you can’t blame us…a good hitter like Albert Pujols…I mean, Lucas Duda…I mean, look at what he did last year…10 home runs over a season. You gotta expect a guy like that to take you deep twice a game pretty regularly.”
KBB
April 7th, 2012
4:38 pm
2 runs in 18 innings.
Whens the next homestand, i have to see this exciting baseball team live!
Technical Difficulties
April 7th, 2012
4:38 pm
“Are you using stats from two games?
Why not? Everyone else is…”
Actually that is a true statement. “Everyone” IS using the stats from two games and those stats say Braves 0-2.
noleee
April 7th, 2012
4:38 pm
well they say that every team wins 54 and loses 54 automatically.
we might need to reconsider that old bromide….
start where they left off
April 7th, 2012
4:38 pm
They’ll tease us with a good month or two and collapse again with a season of excuses.
MFin04
April 7th, 2012
4:38 pm
Love this radio broadcast. Giving all the other teams pitchers credit.
Tomorrow’s game is pointless. Doesn’t matter if we win. 1-2 against the Mets is worthless. They still would have to sweep the Astros…to get to 4-2, the worst they should have done against these two teams.
Pathetic Fredi
April 7th, 2012
4:39 pm
Worst managing I’ve literally seen in my life of watching baseball and having a clue for 19 years… 2 guys on, your team cannot score and it’s a tie game. You just had an off day. O’Flaherty hasn’t pitched in days with multiple lefties coming up. Guy had the lowest ERA in baseball for relievers last year? What does Wizard Fredi do? Put in a 300 pound RH to face multiple lefties to blow the come back within minutes classic… Cristhian Martinex earned that spot after last years performance. And don’t give me the 4th inning is too early for EOF, the game was on the line, you have Venters and Kimbrel ready to go later. Martinex could’ve pitched 2 innings. But no, let’s let Chad Durbin throw straight 90MPH fastballs. I knew another Jack was in order…
This game was blown by awful managing and that fierce Mets bullpen! I’m not a fairweather fan, I just know when I see HORRIBLE managing!
count_schemula
April 7th, 2012
4:39 pm
Duda > Heyward
VaBravesFan
April 7th, 2012
4:39 pm
The reason I don’t mention McCann or Uggla is cause we know they are gonna produce, Diaz and Constanza complete opposite. 2 guys that most would agree shouldn’t be on the roster have already impacted us so much in just 2 games. It’s not like these guys earned the bench spots in spring training, definitely Constanza….
BRAVESOUL
April 7th, 2012
4:40 pm
Now Mike Minor was the best pitcher in the Spring!!!! WOW We cant hit the Mets pitchers wait until we play the Phillies or Marlins, or even the National who have better starting pitching this year.
noleee
April 7th, 2012
4:40 pm
if y’all are gonna keep bitchin’ over and over, at least try to be original and entertaining. otherwise you’re just like the Braves….BORING!!!!
74bravesjersey
April 7th, 2012
4:40 pm
Geez fredi, Hope the sound-man drowned out ur passin’ gas during the postgame talk. Ah no, I guess He didn’t, you can hear that one a mile away, hey where’s everyone runnin’ off to, awe fredi did it smell like rotten asparagus again?
stizz
April 7th, 2012
4:40 pm
cab, You are the only one who refuses to acknowledge that this team’s mentality is not that of a winning one. They are the same team from last year and have shown the same problems from last year. The best we can hope for is to lose out up past the home opener to force the front office’s hand on Fredi.
Mfin, I cited he’s only good for his stats against Johan. His stats vs lefties have been declining since his career year of 09.
tiger297
April 7th, 2012
4:40 pm
nolie – you advocating the 54 game season?
count_schemula
April 7th, 2012
4:40 pm
At least this team won’t tease. April collapse!
DetroitBraves
April 7th, 2012
4:41 pm
@MFin04, Diaz had a .692 OPS against lefties last year with no homers. I agree that he’s made a nice career for himself as a specialist against lefties, but I’m not sure he’s that player anymore in his mid-30s.
noleee
April 7th, 2012
4:42 pm
lucky to make 54 at this point tiger…
Juan
April 7th, 2012
4:42 pm
I don’t say FIRE FREDIE yet….But come to June…if this team is not in competition for First Place…he will be FIRE…count on that
I Gave Her Undertaker eyes
April 7th, 2012
4:42 pm
dont waste your money on this garbage team they made no changes whatsoever
stizz
April 7th, 2012
4:42 pm
Watching the new 3 Stooges movie > Having to endure Fredi’s management.
MFin04
April 7th, 2012
4:42 pm
Disagree, Diaz should be on this team. Especially since NO ONE can hit lefties. He is a lock to start every game versus lefties. He was very good against Santana. And especially since Heyward struggles vs lefties.
Constanza, I dunno, I would have gone with the hot guy Durango, or clutch guy Parraz. So agree there. Definitely wouldn’t have signed “Linebrink” to pitch for us again this year.