Braves postgame quotes after Sunday’s loss to Baltimore
CHIPPER JONES
On how they played this homestand:
“I like the way we’re playing certain facets of the game. We’re pitching it pretty good right now and playing pretty good defense. Just not swinging the bats. It’s tough sledding right now. We’re running into some pretty good pitching, and that combined with some pretty bad hitting, it’s a formula for not scoring a ton of runs.”
On if being overaggressive:
“I can only speak for myself. I’m not putting in play balls I should be hitting hard and when they do make pitches on me, I’m putting them in play just good enough to hit into a double play. Probably that sentiment echoes to a few guys in here, but we’ve just got to show up tomorrow and play better. We’ve seen Sabathia and we’ve seen Kuroda in the last week. We didn’t fare real well, I guess OK against Sabathia. But running into a hot Yankees team and it’s a tough part of our schedule, so we’ve got to batten down the hatchets.”
On if you say played well against a couple teams, or we blew chances:
“I think we blew a couple four-run leads, one against the Blue Jays, one against the Yankees. That could have gone a long way towards having people not take a loss such as today so hard. But when you don’t close out games late, then you run into a little streak where your offense is scuffling, all of a sudden you’re on a 3-6. You turn that around to 5-4, you can live with that. A lot of guys in here frustrated right now with the way things are going. Four-run leads turning into losses and getting shut out the last two nights, that breeds frustration.”
On if worries about that, if could go from playing well and losing to just losing:
“I don’t think that’s going to happen in here. There’s a lot of pride in here and we’re going to show up tomorrow looking to win a baseball game. It’s the only way to go about it. We’re professionals in here and we’ve got to play like it. We’re going to come out every day thinking today is the day we start a long winning streak.”
On last trip to Yankee Stadium:
“I always look forward to going to New York, especially an opportunity to play in the new stadium. The Yankees took it to us pretty good here, so we’ve got something to prove. It’s a big stage. I expect my teammates to step it up a notch.”
On if not having Freeman making a big impact:
“I don’t know. Obviously you’d rather have him in there but you still like to think you can go out and score three runs to win a ballgame, no matter who’s in there. For whagtever reason it just seems like we’re stubbing our toe. We’ll get something going early in an inning and we’ll hit into a double play. Or we’ll strike out with a guy on third. The only thing we need to avoid is pressing, guys going up there trying to do too much. A lot of good players on this team, guys who can hit for average, guys who can hit for power. Keep your nose to the grindstone and keep plugging away and hopefully we’ll hit a groove here pretty soon.”
RANDELL DELGADO
On if thinking windup on balk call, and trying to go stretch:
“I just have to step off and I didn’t. I didn’t pay attention to that and it was a big mistake and cost us a run.”
On bunt play:
“I think it was a bad pitch a little bit outside. I don’t know, maybe I was trying to put it on the line but it was straight to the pitcher. That can happen, just trying to forget about that and keep pitching and help the team win.”
DAVID ROSS
On spoiling good outing by Delgado:
“It’s a shame. You’ve got to give credit where credit is due. Their guy kept us off-balance. He got three double-plays in his first three innings. We were swinging the bats well. I thought we were seeing him really good, hitting some balls hard. It’s just one of those things. I feel bad for Randall. He threw the heck out of the ball. Three hits, he did a good job. And they did a good job of executing small ball for an American League team and AL East, you can see why they’re winning a lot of ball games. They do the little things that it takes to win a ball game. Bunting there wasn’t any question on them getting bunts down today from their pitchers or if they needed a bunt. They got guys over. They got a sac flies when they needed it. They played the game the way it’s supposed to be played and that’s why they took two out of three.”
On some consolation that they haven’t been blowouts:
“We’ve played well. And you’ve got to remember we’ve got some guys hurt. We haven’t been able to use Eric (O’Flaherty) out of pen in some key situations this homestand, Freddie Freeman is injured – that’s a key part of our lineup. When we were going really good, he was hitting in the No. 3 hole. We’re just looking for guys to get healthy. We need to get healthy to perform the way we’re expected to perform and expect to perform.”
On tough stretch of schedule:
“We knew this was going to be a tough part. The AL East is really good. We played pretty well when we’re not full strength. We feel like we can compete with anybody.”
On Delgado’s start given Beachy:
“We’ve got confidence in all these guys. Mike Minor and Randall Delgado are young guys on this staff that are growing and getting better every start. Sooner or later it comes a time when you’ve got to perform and they’re doing that.”
FREDI GONZALEZ
On Delgado:
“Bunting on a crash play instead of swinging the bat there, and the balk. Those are just the signs of a young pitcher, but other than that I thought we took a big step forward with him, coming in, competing, giving us eight solid innings, and terrific job. When he pitches like that, it’s nice to watch. And we made some unbelievable plays defensively this afternoon. Simmons at shortstop was a highlight reel by himself. I’ve never seen a shortstop make a play like that, live anyway. And him and Danny turned that double play ball. We played well, same thing we did with the Yankees series, but we’ve got nothing to show for it except one win. Get back healthy in the lineup and hopefully on this road trip, get this lineup going and score some runs.”
On need to get healthy in lineup:
“When the guy who hit third for most of the year is sitting next to you for three or four games, not healthy with the finger, it hurts. But he’s progressing towards that to hopefully get in the lineup Tuesday. It’s a little different lineup when he’s in there.”
On their pitching good vs. lack of offense:
“I think Chen today wriggled out of some situations and the night before Hammel you’ve got to tip your hat to him and the bullpen today did a helluva job matching up against our guys. So yeah it’s a combination. You’ve got to give them a little credit. We outhit them again today and got nothing to show for it.”
On the balk if going to windup, then wanted to go to the stretch:
“That’s exactly what happened. In baseball when you play the infield in, you don’t want to pitch from the windup. You want to pitch from the stretch. And for whatever reason he was in the windup set and we whistled from the dugout to say ‘Hey you’ve got to pitch from the set.’ And he didn’t disengage and that’s a balk. It’s a shame that they scored a run that way. It sure would have been interesting if we’d had a one-run game instead of a two-run game. But overall I thought his performance was real good.”
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84 comments Add your comment
Stuart
June 17th, 2012
6:19 pm
Sick. And. Tired. Of. Excuses.
Whiskey River
June 17th, 2012
6:24 pm
Duh Chipper you really think so. Go home.
iTiSi
June 17th, 2012
6:29 pm
FG sees nothing but “rainbows” on a cloudy, rainy day! Everything is minimalized, nothing is ever as bad with him as it actually is. It’s OK to be somewhat optimistic and upbeat, but when “THE OX IS IN THE DITCH’ you have to do something to pull him out! Everything is always “wait until tomorrow” but tomorrow always shows up the next day and it’s the same old thing!
shorty
June 17th, 2012
6:29 pm
Fire Fredi…He is not capable of managing little league much less our beloved Braves!
tennisbrave
June 17th, 2012
6:35 pm
It seems that all we here from these Braves are excuses, excuses, and more excuses.
When your get out played and out coached, just admit it.
Brandon
June 17th, 2012
6:39 pm
what excuses are y’all reading?
jharber
June 17th, 2012
6:40 pm
saw this coming in spring of 2011, but i was called every name in the book and a few thats not. but wren and fredi can never win nothing.
Fredi Will Screw It Up Somehow
June 17th, 2012
6:44 pm
“…get this lineup going and score some runs.”
LMAO
“…the night before Hammel you’ve got to tip your hat to him…”
I LOVE YOU FREDI
JNick
June 17th, 2012
6:45 pm
I don’t know why they keep talking about the balk – if Prado was in LF where he belongs, it’s a non-issue, because he makes that catch. Game is still 1-0. Delgado should have never been in that situation – but Diaz, the worst defensive OF in the game, just had to be in there since a lefty was on the mound. Whole lot of good that did…way to strategize, Fredi…
Big fan
June 17th, 2012
6:47 pm
Tired of people coming on here and posting thinking they know anything about baseball. We lose and you complain. We win and you don’t post anything or complain again. We’re the best team in the division it will work out in the end. Just he patient.
Preston Hannitized
June 17th, 2012
6:49 pm
Why always go to Chipper for comments? How about asking BMac how he felt sitting in the dugout and not getting a chance to PH late?
Fredi Will Screw It Up Somehow
June 17th, 2012
6:52 pm
“We’re the best team in the division it will work out in the end. Just he patient.”
Typical fan brainwashed by Bobby Cox — proud of themselves for those division flags until they get hammered in the first round again. Stay the course!
jim
June 17th, 2012
7:01 pm
Why whistle from the dugout? Why not call time out? Then you avoid the situation that caused the balk. Why does nobody ask Fredi why he doesn’t play hit and run with Bourn and Prado?
“The bullpen today did a helluva a job matching up with our guys.” You mean going left right to get Wilson up to hit instead of Francisco? And what did Fredi mean by saying when they’re charging like that Delgado should have swung away? Was that really an option?
double
June 17th, 2012
7:08 pm
Chipper has too much on his mind.Hard for him to concentrate.Wish all his troubles would resolve.
Hmmmm
June 17th, 2012
7:08 pm
“It’s a little different lineup when he’s in there”
Why is it that when one or two players are injured this team can’t overcome it? Take any combination of Chipper/F5/Mac out of the lineup and they just fall apart, the team is “hurting” or “the lineup is different”. They lose their confidence, everyone tries to hit a homer to compensate, what? 14 times in 5 weeks they’ve fell apart when one of their hitters was out of the lineup
74bravesjersey
June 17th, 2012
7:09 pm
People are looking for consistency in the midst of adversity, fans really support this team, just like any fan base, frustrations are on tilt. Some like me complain, why even though my complaining doesn’t do any good, still just to vent off at the product that you like to see do good, but has been let down so many times past. Like right now, no production, not even from the guys whom are filling in, believe it or not many other fan bases for the other teams complain when there teams hit funk also. People tend to knee-jerk reaction negatively when the team doesn’t perform to there expectations. The ones going good well they did more to prep up winning, everythings hunky-dory. Patience is a virtue, but don’t ask for patience, ask for endurance. I’m a die-hard braves fan. Love my team, & want them to win badly, & I believe it’s the same sentiments shared by most bloggers here. Some just react differently or quickly because it’s us against the rest of the baseball world, & like them we’re jockeying for position. The season is like a horserace or nas-car seeing what comes out at the end. SELAH! & God’s peace to all the Dad’s on this day. & especially you Whisk, because you still are one. God’s strong hand on you, man, don’t lose that thought.
double
June 17th, 2012
7:15 pm
Most games the Braves have more hits than other team.Just can’t get the runs in or get the hits together.
JNick
June 17th, 2012
7:18 pm
Call timeout? What, like in football?
Tom
June 17th, 2012
7:19 pm
not score a run in 2 games, i’d tip my cap too.
Formul8or
June 17th, 2012
7:21 pm
As long as Fredi tips his cap then the loss doesn’t hurt as bad
kevkat
June 17th, 2012
7:22 pm
“Four-run leads turning into losses and getting shut out the last two nights, that breeds frustration.”
You think?
stew
June 17th, 2012
7:41 pm
Good bye Fruti.
jd56
June 17th, 2012
7:59 pm
I have to agree with Big Fan, not only this blog site, but all of them on any team. If the team is winning the bloggers never come on and pat the team on the back and say how good people are doing. When the team struggles they castrate every player, Hall of Famer or not. They also give up before on a team at the drop of a hat. Most do not understand that pitchers can be over used and a pitcher especially the young ones easily over throws and throws too hard and the next thing you know, he is out with elbow issues.
The pitching coaches expect a pitcher to know his limitations and know his body enough that when he begins feeling something is not right he says something. The last thing they want is the kid to pitch himself into an MRI situation. As for Chipper, somebody shut all of you up. The guy is the only one who actually performs consistantly on the team. All the Durbin haters, are you done hating him yet. Seniority, Veteren, old players………they are who will get your team to the playoffs. Young guys are still trying to impress and will blow out their arm or mess up their knee rounding third.
I hate seeing the team fall apart too, but it happens to every team during a season. I would think you should be happy that the team actually has some talent on it.
Burgess
June 17th, 2012
8:09 pm
Freeman becoming another Chipper…….won’t/can’t play hurt
Burgess
June 17th, 2012
8:10 pm
jd56……really ?????? Chipper perform consistently….hell, he doesn’t even play consistently
Ralph
June 17th, 2012
8:15 pm
Why are so many people blaming Chippers play on his personal problems, what makes them think he isn’t the one who asked for a divorce, maybe he is happy to be free again to visit his friends at Hooters.
AtHomeGym
June 17th, 2012
8:16 pm
As long as Chipper wants to “batten down the hatchets”, that’s all he’ll be doing–except for hitting into double plays. Oh, just how does one batten down hatchets? Hatches, maybe?
tristan
June 17th, 2012
8:19 pm
At least tomorrow, McCann can show off his warning track power in a stadium known for warning track homers.
Le Fan
June 17th, 2012
8:20 pm
HOW MUCH MORE DO WE HAVE TO TAKE AS BRAVES FANS???
SOMEBODY MAKE A DAMN MOVE AND RID OF GONZALEZ NOW BEFORE HE TANKS ANOTHER SEASON..WE ARE SICK AND TIRED OF ALL THE EXCUSES, OF ALL FLUFF, ALL HIS CAP TIPPING…SICK OF HIM PERIOD!!
HE DIDNT DO A DAMN THING IN FLORIDA AND HES DOING NUTHIN HERE EITHER..
WHY DOES FRANK WREN STILL THINK HE MADE SUCH A STEAL SIGNING THIS FAT PIG TO FOUR YEARS???
ALONS ENFANTS DE LA PATRIE,
LA JOUR DE LA GLOIRE EST ARRIVÈ!!!
DOWN WITH THE BASTILLE!!!!
Ebenezer Snerdberg
June 17th, 2012
8:23 pm
Have they fired Havana Fats yet?
ncbravesfan
June 17th, 2012
8:25 pm
“I would think you should be happy that the team actually has some talent on it.”
I’m happy when they win, plain and simple. I’m not looking for moral victories or “attaboys”. I want enough wins to make the postseason and then, 11 victories once there. Anything less is not worth talking about.
This is a team on a downward spiral. Not long ago they were 10 games over .500 and in first place. Now they are only four games over .500 and after the Yankees had them their butts for a second straight week, they will be an impressive ONE game over .500.
They are mediocre, dull, and need a new manager and some leadership and accountability on the field as well as off of it.
Other than that, they are just fine.
Largo
June 17th, 2012
8:26 pm
All that crap that Chipper tries to explain away just means one thing. We’re don’t have a very good team.
Ken Stallings
June 17th, 2012
8:40 pm
Fredi is showing me a cowardly side! His post-game comments put the blame on the balk RBI on the pitcher, however Fredi said nothing about what Mark Bradley revealed in his column. That critical fact is that Fredi yelled out at the worst possible time, just as Delgado was starting his windup and the destraction of his manager yelling at him caused him to suffer a lapse of judgment.
Delgado is a rookie pitcher. A manager has to show better game situational awareness and appreciation for the needs of his players than to distract them like that. The Orioles were not going to attempt a suicide squeeze on the first pitch and there was also plenty of time to advise Delgado to pitch from the stretch well BEFORE he took the mound!
Managers with keen awareness and appreciation for the needs of his players would not wait until the windup to whistle and yell at his pitcher to change delivery modes, especially with a runner standing on third base! The situation was shocking to everyone including the three Braves announcers (including Tom Glavine) but I would love to know Glavine’s true view of the situation after he learned what happened to cause it!
Then you have light-hitting Matt Diaz pinch hitting at a crucial time while the best hitters (including clutch hitter Brian McCann) are sitting on the pine without being used!
Fredi Gonzalez’s inept actions certainly cost the Braves one RBI on the balk. His stubborn refusal to use his best hitters in reserve when the situation called for an RBI. This loss rests squarely on Gonzalez, and I though I have never called for his termination, if I were Frank Wren I would fire the manager right now!
Brave New World
June 17th, 2012
8:41 pm
Blah, blah, blah.
crashandburnedbraves
June 17th, 2012
8:46 pm
No wonder Chipper and his wife are splitsville…when you spend too much time at Hooters you don’t know the difference between a hatch and a hatchet.
HOF 10
June 17th, 2012
8:52 pm
By now, I think it’s pretty clear what the 2012 Braves are. The best team in baseball, and the worst team in baseball.
reckingball
June 17th, 2012
8:59 pm
Walgreens has Kleenex on sale this week.
cowdogit
June 17th, 2012
9:06 pm
Maybe it’s just a coincidence but every time Fredi sends Constanza to the minors , the team goes into a tailspin .To be fair to Fredi , he has an anchor around his neck trying to deal with Chipper an McDowell .
OTP
June 17th, 2012
9:40 pm
Face it. The manager of the team is actually doing things that are causing the team to lose games. He never does anything to cause the team to win games.
Tom
June 17th, 2012
9:41 pm
Fredi is already tipping his cap for the next loss
least of the east
June 17th, 2012
9:46 pm
everything is peachy
even without Beachy
wins and losses are just numbers. why worry about them anyway ?
so what if the Braves never win another pennant ?
if could be worse – we could be Pirates fans.
bring on the Yanks ! let me close my eyes.
can we tip our cap now or do we have to wait until late Wed. ?
the Red Sox must be looking forward to the end of the week
they finally will play someone they can beat.
Larry Parrish
June 17th, 2012
10:01 pm
No runs in the last 20 innings.
4 hits TOTAL in the last 2 games.
How’s that new hitting coach working out for ya?
PaulG
June 17th, 2012
10:12 pm
So we get a new manager & all of a sudden our hitters & pitchers latent, repressed skills will suddenly emerge?
Mister Frisky
June 17th, 2012
10:44 pm
Chipper you are done we don’t care about your lame ass baseball cliches and platitudes.How many years and different hitting coaches before everyone realizes its not the coaches fault Assemble a team with several 250 hitters in the line up.Throw in a bench that hits about 200 and this is what you get.Cant wait to see Fatske DH next week Yanks and Bosox will clown these heartless chokers once again.
Profiler
June 17th, 2012
11:14 pm
Fredi has to keep “tipping our cap”, because he has no other answer or he is a poor communicator or he is just not smart enough to come up with a different phrase.
Why don’t we stop tipping our cap and start demanding better management.
JAFO
June 17th, 2012
11:44 pm
Showalter vs fg. another lopsided mismatch. Your excuses are your own. This offenses rises and crashes linear. The Yanks and a Monday. That’s good news.
Georgia Pride
June 17th, 2012
11:53 pm
Fredi should go with the Obama line: “It’s all Bobby Cox’s fault”. Fredi inherited this mess!
Froggy
June 18th, 2012
12:19 am
From my perspective at the Ted today, the Diaz misplay of a line drive to left was something you expect to see in T ball. He can’t run, can’t field, can we really not afford a competent alternative? Look, we saw a team with high quality starting and relief pitching that we can’t match. They have a much better record than us for a reason. Their pitcher, who rarely bats, executes a sacrifice perfectly, and ours bunts into a double play. That was the game right there. Showalter is a quality manager. Tip the cap to somebody who knows what he is doing.
cowdogit
June 18th, 2012
3:08 am
We have Frankenstein Jones , Bowling Ball Francisco , Fire Plug Hinske and Pass me another biscuit McCann , an we wonder why we hit into so many double plays . Bring back Road Runner Constanza an go back to winning again .
cowdogit
June 18th, 2012
3:16 am
I’am sorry I forgot Lumber Jack Freeman ,an Running up hill Diaz .
David the Shepherd
June 18th, 2012
3:53 am
It is so easy for HomoSolo to call out armchairs & want to give them binkies. Where is he now? He calls out negative Nancy’s to show themselves when the club is winning. Where are you, sir? If you’re still willing to stick up for Fredi, show it. If we can’t criticize, tell me now. Show your baseball acumen and explain why we don’t have the “right” to complain because we’re not as good as the players or the “manager”. Please, defend one instance of this debauchery. Where are you?
NickB
June 18th, 2012
4:16 am
I agree, Fredi IS an idiot and should not be a MLB mgr.
That being said, I am of the opinion that Heyward needs to be hitting 2nd behind Bourn (at least against righties) as we need more speed at the top of the order, hit Prado 3rd then continue as usual down.
As far as all of the negative stuff goes, is it going to change anything? No , do you think that Liberty will all of a sudden open up the purse strings? No Will JS (and believe m, it’s his call) all of a sudden fire Fredi? No (in fact, my biggest fear is that if Beachy has TJ surgery, that it will buy Fredi another year because of all of the “injuries”…..)
True Hinske isn’t hitting, but you don’t release people who are earning over a million bucks when you are a mid market team. They might try and move him to the AL for cash considerations or something.
Francisco is still young and some AL team will give us a relief arm for him.
Wilson, that’s a guy you release, nobody will want him.
Chipper has had some lousy games since his return, but before his injury he was the 2nd best hitting 3rd baseman in the NL. he had a WAR of 1.1 in limited time!! He was solid. He’s always been solid, an I expect him to be solid again soon.
I still think much of the attitude on here (versus say the attitude on some of the other Braves blogs/forums I frequent is a lack of modern statistical knowledge and a “football mentality”. I will explain the latter as the former speaks for itself. if you know more sabre stuff, you understand the short term vs the long term.
Football Mentality means to react to losses as if they are the be all and end all of the world. In the NFL or NCAA losing ONE game can be 6% or 8% of your entire season, it sucks really bad. But since ,in MLB, losing 6% of a season is 27 games (NFL equivalent) and 8% is 20 games, you see how it’s an overreaction to be calling for everyon to be fired just because the team is slumping.
Yes they were once 10 games over .500, and now are only 4 games over .500, but there are 20 teams at or below the Braves record right now. It’s hardly a time to be screaming for GM’s to be fired or dismantling a team (or calling up useless 5th OF’er like Constanza)
However, that being said, Fredi is an idiot
Rowdy Garrett
June 18th, 2012
7:25 am
Has Chipper has even ONE meaningful hit since coming off DL? Plenty of DPs hit into to kill rallys.
jd56
June 18th, 2012
7:35 am
In response to Merideth, I mean Burgess. I did not say consistently with Chipper, or did not mean consistantly. What I meant is this team does not play without a leader and right now they do not seem to have one at all. Chipper is a presence for them, whether it be an injured one waiting to retire or a force on the good days.
This team acts like most young teams, when the leader is playing badly. so do they.
I guess my real point is that I get sick of reading the constant griping from fans and just wish once they would be happy that there team is at least making the season exciting. I am not a die hard fan though. So, I feel the Braves life long fans pain.
TnJacket
June 18th, 2012
7:58 am
Wren and FG should take a little money out of their own pockets and hire a BUNTING COACH! The Braves have not had a reliable bunter since Greg Maddux, and the inability to move runners has cost the Braves dozens of games in the past few years.
And if their only concern is to “help the team”, why aren’t the Double Play Twins (Jones & McCann) asked to occasionally bunt?
smallmouth6
June 18th, 2012
9:07 am
Nick B: Enjoyed and agreed with much of your comment down to Constanza. You are flat wrong about him. In fact and I would think your great understanding of sabre would lead to quite the opposite conclusion. He’s a 300 plus hitter and given a chance to perform here ad not be sent down everytime he gets into a slump, he likely would do well. Also, check the Braves the record out after t hey benched him last year and the record since they sent him down and replaced him pretty much, again, with Diaz. And, yes, he would have caught that ball yesterday.
bobby
June 18th, 2012
9:12 am
I remember when the Braves last scored a run. Of course I was much younger then.
hunter55
June 18th, 2012
9:15 am
FG “you have to tip your hat” really, how many times do we have to hear that crap. This guy gets out managed game after game, he has zero feel for the game. When the marlins canned this guy it was for that reason, bad in game manager. I said it the day the Braves hired this clown that we were in for bad baseball as long as FG was the manager, and add that to the fact that we have an idiot GM, the Braves fans are in for a lot of tip your cap days.
bill
June 18th, 2012
9:20 am
There is hope for us fredi haters. First the TV guys made ecuses and then said Fredi was in no danger and a real baseball guy and then the AJC local dipstick did the same thing. Obviously they are just making excuses and the bottom may soon drop out from under fredi.
Whiskey River
June 18th, 2012
9:21 am
Good Morning everyone. Its Monday and the Yankees. What does that spell? LOSE.
Charlie
June 18th, 2012
9:32 am
When you are a GM, with a group of PROVEN choke job losers in 2011, and you keep that group together for another year, what do you expect? Fredi is as big a baseball idiot, as anyone in baseball history. Not a brain in his head. That makes him a perfect partner to Franki Wren.
The Braves are an inept organization, from the top down.
The assembled team is a bunch of no-clutch losers. They proved it last September. They continue to play with the same pee down your leg style, that they were known for last September.
74bravesjersey
June 18th, 2012
9:32 am
There ya go, that’s what she said, all the above in a nutshell!
Whiskey River
June 18th, 2012
9:37 am
@74bravesjersey Just thought you would like to know. I am Ok now. Had a visit at cemetery and AA advisor. Will be OK thanks for everything.
Don
June 18th, 2012
10:17 am
Wonder if the Braves good have afforded to sign a good free agent – If they did not have to spend so much money on buying so many caps – from the caps wearing out from all the CAP TIPPING??????
Don
June 18th, 2012
10:31 am
This is AMAZING – UNBELIEVABLE – There is NO word STRONG ENOUGH.
How can the most SIGNIFICANT THING – perhaps in the HISTORY OF THE BRAVES Team or any major leage team BE IGNORED by the writers.
Almost EVERY STARTING PITCHER in the LARGE NUMBER of different Starting Pitchers that the Braves have had in the SIX or seven YEARS since Leo left as Pitching Coach – has ended up BEING INJURED – UNBELIEVABLE.
FOUR of the FIVE STARTERS from last season were comming off INJURIES.
And NOW BEACHY.
Recently most all of these have been YOUNG, GREAT, ESTABLISHED Starters.
For CRYING OUT LOUD – this has DESTRYED and is DESTROYING the chances for the Braves to have a CHAMPIONSHIIP team – FOR YEARS TO COME.
HOW CAN THIS BE IGNORED
Mister Frisky
June 18th, 2012
11:11 am
Another nationally televised embarrassment on the way tonight.This team has ZERO pride,ZERO heart,ZERO guts.Never seen so many girls miss games with hang nails,tummy aches,and pink eye.This team should be sponsored by a feminine hygiene product.
Kotex
June 18th, 2012
11:48 am
Watch your mouth Mr. … I am a useful product, the Braves are not!!!
Kotex
June 18th, 2012
11:49 am
and even a super plus absorbant me couldn’t stop the bleeding!!
74bravesjersey
June 18th, 2012
12:10 pm
I’ll say it now; The fan base is about to implode; Sorry product made from discount rate makes fans irate! I’m w/ everyone above make adjustments for winning, not adjustments to save money
SC Brave
June 18th, 2012
12:19 pm
By the end of this week the team will be under .500. Three more loses at NY and 3 at Boston.
nashvillewill
June 18th, 2012
12:41 pm
Yes, this is a mediocre team with a less than mediocre manager. So what to do? Team needs contact hitters and runners who are able/willing to steal bases and hit-run. So I say: you have some guys at AAA who are hitting over .300 and one who is stealing 20 plus bases. Bring those guys up. Release Wilson and Diaz, trade Hinske: these guys are liabilities. Play speed and contact guys and sit Uggla and Heyward til they show willingness to make contact. Tell them so. And hire a new management team, including pitching and hitting coaches and if Fredi does not wish to do so, fire him. Someone must show leadership and it starts at the top.
Goliath
June 18th, 2012
1:23 pm
Soooo, where are all the big mouth Braves fans that like to bad mouth anyone who dares question the great Braves? Still think these Braves are the greatest thing since sliced bread after the latest embarassing “homestand”? These Braves have ZERO chance of making a run for the playoffs. They cannot even COMPETE with decent teams, let alone beat them. Same collection of chokers and losers that collapsed last year.
Mister Frisky
June 18th, 2012
1:29 pm
Kool aid drinkers where are you?
alex
June 18th, 2012
1:42 pm
lobo is incarcerated and reckingball is enebriated(sp?) and I am incognito
Whiskey River
June 18th, 2012
1:44 pm
@Mister Frisky Good morning. Allthe Koolaid drinkers ran out and aren’t buying any more. They have finally seen the light hopefully.
Goliath
June 18th, 2012
2:05 pm
Obviously, Fredi doesn’t read the AJC or any of these posts. But PLEEEASE, someone tell this guy about the CAP TIPPING jokes that are being said about him. He just keeps saying it OVER and OVER and it makes him look like even more of an idiot than he already is.
Goliath
June 18th, 2012
2:11 pm
What’s the record for SCORELESS innings? Can we at least get one record this year?
Kotex
June 18th, 2012
2:21 pm
I got a box full of cousins that might be able to help…
Mister Frisky
June 18th, 2012
2:23 pm
@Whiskey River,Good afternoon.Even Lobosolo and his band of believers have run for cover.
NickB
June 18th, 2012
2:33 pm
@ smallmouth
ummm, I AM a Sabre person, which is why I don’t pay attention to a near useless stat like batting avg.
his OPS is terrible, he gets destroyed by pitchers now as they have him figured out, he is a worse defender than Prado and Heyward, he has a lousy stolen base %
go look at the numbers for this year, and go look at his numbers for the 12 games he played in sept. 2011, TERRIBLE
Whiskey River
June 18th, 2012
2:41 pm
@Mister Frisky I want you to call my AA counselor. This team isso bad that they want me to start drinking again.
Don
June 18th, 2012
6:05 pm
@smallmouth – Jose is a great defensive outfielder, but he is not hitting 300 in AAA. He came up last year and got on a hot streak, got hurt and cooled off. I agree he is much better than Diaz, but he it NOT a 300 major league hitter and never will be.
Don
June 18th, 2012
6:08 pm
I really do like Chipper Jones and all that he has done and will do for the Braves. However, batting him third yesterday was just too hard to believe. He still has not gotten his stroke back as it just takes him several games to work things out when he comes back from time off. He deserves to be give an opportunity to succeed lower in the batting order and not set up for failure this close to his return from a very nasty injury.
Burgess
June 18th, 2012
8:55 pm
Chipper is a leader ???? To be a leader, you have to play more than 100 games. Remember when Smoltz called him out about not playing hurt a couple of years ago ?