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bravesgrl4life
June 19th, 2012
3:54 pm
Sorry, phil.
Lew
June 19th, 2012
3:54 pm
Can’t even imagine why someone would get upset that a person sitting in seats near them got sick all over everything. Totally mystifying.
Tomahawkin
June 19th, 2012
3:54 pm
I will take that back, more like 80 bucks if you include food
64 year Braves fan
June 19th, 2012
3:55 pm
Chipper Jones want’s to help the Braves win. Here is what he should do. Quit today and forfeit his
salary for the rest of the year so the Braves could go out and make a trade for someone like Cargo.
Chipper’s hitting now makes you yearn for Gregg Norton.
phil
June 19th, 2012
3:55 pm
Thanks, usnavy!! I was just eating a red one….
excuse me for aminute or two…
Ward
June 19th, 2012
3:55 pm
Murph – I come on here, and don’t start any thing with anyone. I just come on here to post buddy.
benchwarmer
June 19th, 2012
3:55 pm
J Hay can’t hit well unless he is able to extend his long arms. I guess that’s why he sets up half way to 1st base when he bats. Question is how is he still so blasted poor at anything thrown on the in side of the plate. If he moved closer then I guess the outside of the plate becomes his inside and he can’t hit there either. Oh I have an idea, try learning an inside to out swing. At least that would help him make contact. Maybe even a few RBI or something. So far the guy just doesn’t cut it.
CrαZy
June 19th, 2012
3:56 pm
Tomahawkin…
It’s even worse at concerts… $100+ per ticket and you get so drunk you can’t even remember going!!
usnavyvolfaninva
June 19th, 2012
3:56 pm
About drinking at games….
Comes in handy if the game’s not going well, don’t you think?
Ward
June 19th, 2012
3:56 pm
I see see that Wren is in control, and calling the shots.
phil
June 19th, 2012
3:56 pm
I’m forced to admit that I would want to kill anyone who puked all over or near my seat….
flange1
June 19th, 2012
3:56 pm
How true nolie……
So many good folks run of by the negative nellies that could care less about the place or the people, they just want to vent!
StingerSplash
June 19th, 2012
3:58 pm
I know complaints aren’t your department DOB, especially since the entire desk operations have been moved to West Palm Beach (so do you have to call long distance or are they going to give you a 1-800 number to call if you want to fix something in a story or piece you’ve already sent?), but can someone fix the Clemons in the headline on the ajc.com front page in reference to Schultz’s column?
And Savannah a beer city? Old. News. For crying out loud, there are to-go cups here. Want to take you drink with you? You can! It’s Savannah! There are no rules!
phil
June 19th, 2012
3:58 pm
When you have to drive and have outgrown hangovers, what then? Jellybeans, I guess…
Bay Area Steve
June 19th, 2012
3:58 pm
Damn, I know I have a problem, but jeezaloo, bg4life. Thank goodness the drinking gods haven’t spread the “hot spits” out west, whatever they may be.
And, as a long-time drinker, I’ve always found beer better before. Maybe, it’s just me. I know folks differ on that one. Biggest issue for me is mixing liquors. I can’t tequila at the bar, and come home to whiskey.
And, finally, if somebody did a thing, other than sit, in my new Challenger, well, it wouldn’t be pretty. Upper-decker punishment would seem minor, in comparison.
bravesgrl4life
June 19th, 2012
3:59 pm
I understand that, Lew and phil, and I was more upset with my niece than anyone. I had told her to eat so this didn’t happen. But it was a prissy little girl who probably didn’t want to be there anyway.
Plus, the guest relations person told me that it would be a seat equal to what I had and it most certainly was not.
Guess I should have just gone and hung out with Tomahawkin> in the Chophouse, but of course, the niece might have wanted to drink more and I wasn’t having that. She, thank God, didn’t once we got to our various seats.
bravesgrl4life
June 19th, 2012
4:00 pm
Dang, mcfanned again
usnavy – that was the Friday game that went well for us – Jason stole third and took home on the errant throw.
Ward
June 19th, 2012
4:01 pm
You remember that article how Wren, was talking about his job, and what he liked about it a few months back. Well, that should say who’s in control. He says all he has to do is make the trades, and deals, and if he needs money ask Liberty Media for it. Basically he’s in charge.
Bay Area Steve
June 19th, 2012
4:01 pm
Me too, phil. I wouldn’t call an usher though. I’d be good for about five snide in-game comments. Come back from the concessions with the everything-on-em nachos, or the like. “How do these look? Would you like to try one?”
CrαZy
June 19th, 2012
4:01 pm
Lew…
You mean you don’t like the smell of Vomit?
phil
June 19th, 2012
4:01 pm
bravesgrl4life
June 19th, 2012
3:54 pm
Sorry, phil.
*******
No need!
The Red
June 19th, 2012
4:02 pm
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. it a shame when your offensive plan is for your pitcher to throw a perfect game.
How many of you groaned last night when Minor gave up the first hit.
And how bad is it to have the DH batting 9th?!
Efrim
June 19th, 2012
4:03 pm
So far the guy just doesn’t cut it.
Heyward vs. RHP: .285/.376/.518 – He’s cutting it against right handed pitchers, and holy hell, there is one going tonight…..
phil
June 19th, 2012
4:03 pm
Vomit is our friend…
Tomahawkin
June 19th, 2012
4:04 pm
CrαZy
June 19th, 2012
3:56 pm
Tomahawkin…
It’s even worse at concerts… $100+ per ticket and you get so drunk you can’t even remember going!!
Thats why I don’t Go, Even though I wanted to go see Keith Sweat and Anita Baker when they were here as well as The Eagles
Mitchell
June 19th, 2012
4:05 pm
And my guess is Heyward’s next 300 plate appearances is going to widen the gap.
Seriously, the man has to have more strikeouts at this point in his career than hits.
It’s sad watching him play because he sucks.
It’s worse listening to sports radio douches try to make MVP comparisons when he has a decent series.
Bay Area Steve
June 19th, 2012
4:05 pm
benchwarmer, I get your concern, brother.
But, Heyward got his hands inside an up-and-in corner strike, a 93 mph fastball from one of the best LHers in the game last night. Though he didn’t barrel it, that is real progress. Let’s hope all he needs is just a bit more time…
StingerSplash
June 19th, 2012
4:05 pm
Pretty soon, the Braves will be making a call for Mark Redman to come back and pitch.
(Dear God no.)
Ward
June 19th, 2012
4:05 pm
Let’s move the fences in at Turner Field. It’s working for the Mets, and what they did.
phil
June 19th, 2012
4:05 pm
The Red – I’ll admit that I did. Not loudly, mind you, but just a little disgusted groan, followed by an overwhelming sense of impending ballgame doom…
bravesgrl4life
June 19th, 2012
4:06 pm
But at the Glavine # retirement game, it was a different story. The ceremony and game were delayed for 2 hours. I had a guy and his little boy beside me (his wife and daughter were a row back but right behind us – I offered to switch, but they said not to worry about it). On the other side (the aisle side), there was a family with two girls. Those two kids were eating everything you can imagine. Keep in mind, it’s August, hot and muggy after the rain.
About the 7th inning (of what would be an 11-inning game), I got up to go to the ladies’ room. When I came back, I noticed about 6 staff members gathered around the row where I had been sitting. As I got closer, I realized that one of the girls had been very sick right in the aisle. There was no way I could get to my seat. The lady with the kid behind me, luckily, had an empty seat next to her (the kid’s seat as kid was on her lap), and she was kind enough to ask me to sit with her.
I didn’t make a big stink (no pun intended) about it, and it was a far worse “sick” than my niece. That kid had been eating non-stop since they sat down; my niece had eaten very little.
Murph
June 19th, 2012
4:06 pm
I don’t know what I’d do if someone puked on or near me at a ballgame. Probably depends on if my girls were with me. If they were there, I’d likely do the same thing and talk to an usher. If there weren’t there… maybe grab the person who puked and attempt to clean up said puke with their shirt… with them still wearing it.
RC
June 19th, 2012
4:06 pm
Seriously, the man has to have more strikeouts at this point in his career than hits.
290 hits to 280 Ks. So not quite there, but close.
TennesseePaul
June 19th, 2012
4:07 pm
Last 9 Starts of the Starting 9
_________AVG__OBP__SLG___OPS_wOBA_L9S9+
Bourn__ .351 .385 .459 0.844 .371 __154
Prado__ .211 .231 .211 0.441 .203 ___34
McCann_ .171 .256 .429 0.685 .274 __103
Uggla__ .143 .351 .286 0.637 .291 ___95
Freeman .278 .278 .417 0.694 .298 __107
Chipper .219 .286 .219 0.504 .242 ___54
Heyward .324 .343 .618 0.961 .402 __185
Simmons .367 .406 .600 1.006 .431 __200
Hinske_ .100 .156 .100 0.256 .129 __-21
Ward
June 19th, 2012
4:08 pm
Drop Hot Dogs prices to $2 dollars, and Hamburgers to $2.50, and more people would come to the game.
TennesseePaul
June 19th, 2012
4:08 pm
Heyward vs. RHP: .285/.376/.518 – He’s cutting it against right handed pitchers, and holy hell, there is one going tonight…
Very Francoeur-esque splits.
bravesgrl4life
June 19th, 2012
4:08 pm
I’d like to see you try it with my niece, Murph. I’d get thrown out for giving it back to you. Somebody messes with her, it gets my “mama bear” instincts riled up! And how would you feel if your kid was the one who threw up and you were in that situation?
Bat Masterson
June 19th, 2012
4:09 pm
Heyward vs. RHP: .285/.376/.518 – He’s cutting it against right handed pitchers, and holy hell, there is one going tonight….. _ Efrim
It’s sad watching him play because he sucks. _ Monsieur Bitchell
Swimming upstream is a real b*tch, Efrim
RC
June 19th, 2012
4:09 pm
I don’t know what I’d do if someone puked on or near me at a ballgame. Probably depends on if my girls were with me. If they were there, I’d likely do the same thing and talk to an usher. If there weren’t there… maybe grab the person who puked and attempt to clean up said puke with their shirt… with them still wearing it.
I’m not sure what caused this conversation to start up, but anyone remember a few years ago when a Philly fan INTENTIONALLY threw up on a little girl? Like, stuck his finger down his throat to make it happen. The little girls dad was a cop too I think, who according to all reports restrained himself and simply got security.
Fortunately, judging from the mugshots it did not appear that security restrained themselves. Dude’s face was messed up.
bravesgrl4life
June 19th, 2012
4:09 pm
And, BTW, the puke was not really that close to this chica. And I couldn’t even smell it sitting right next to her at that point.
TheOnlyBravesFan
June 19th, 2012
4:09 pm
those are some bad stats from the hitters…
RC
June 19th, 2012
4:10 pm
Very Francoeur-esque splits.
They would make for a pretty awesome platoon.
Plate Appearance
June 19th, 2012
4:10 pm
HINDSIGHT
It does now indeed appear that Wren should have kept D. Lowe.
phil
June 19th, 2012
4:11 pm
Lord, bravesgrl4life, you seem to have a real ability to attract these random pukers to your area at the games…
Of course a niece is hardly random, but a member of the McCann family eating non-stop?
I’m sorry. I know. I couldn’t help it. It’s a nice day out and here I sit working inside….and blogging senseless jibberish.
Bay Area Steve
June 19th, 2012
4:11 pm
“I’ll admit that I did. Not loudly, mind you, but just a little disgusted groan, followed by an overwhelming sense of impending ballgame doom…”
I did the same, but it was on the following walk.
I groaned much louder when he missed that 2-2 fastball to Jeter. AB was set up beautifully to get him with inside heat. Didn’t have to be a great pitch. Anything hard, inner third, and Minor would’ve got him. Instead, he overthrows, misses in, and has to throw a 3-2 strike. He goes to, what he always goes to, outer third. Jeter’s strength. Very, very irritated 2-2 groan.
cabravesfan
June 19th, 2012
4:11 pm
such a pleasant conversation as I contemplate what I want to eat for lunch today…
Hillbilly
June 19th, 2012
4:11 pm
Hey what’s up y’all? Thought I’d share a funny little story from a game I attended not to long ago:
My wife and I took my daughter and a couple of her church friends to their first ball game. They were having a good time, chatting it up about bullpen usage and on base percentages and everything was going fine until some drunk chick started raising hell behind us.
She ended up puking on my daughters dress that her grandmother sewed for her just before she died…(it’s the only thing we have left to remember her by.) I politely asked her to refrain, but she started screaming something about Old Yellering my narrow-azz. Security ended up asking them to re-locate and she moved to another section, still yelling and mumbling something about Bozo…[shrug] I don’t know.
Anyway, my daughter was really traumatized but we hung in there. Somewhere around the 6th inning or so, the puke had made its way under our feet. She stood up to cheer a sacrifice bunt and that’s when she slipped in the puke and smashed her head on the seat….we had to leave and she’s been in a coma ever since. I sure do miss her smile.
Ward
June 19th, 2012
4:11 pm
Anways, I hope the Braves can pull away with some thing tonight? We need a good game.
Mitchell
June 19th, 2012
4:12 pm
Anyway, now that Beachy is out for the remainder of the season our playoff hopes are out the window.
It’s not like a team has ever made the playoffs or won a World Series for that matter with their best pitcher on the disabled list.
Oh no, wait. That happened last year.
Nevermind.
The Braves could never do that though because their fans aren’t as passionate as Cardinal fan base, which is just the best there is even though Busch stadium sounded like a hospital library during the 8th inning of a tie game between the two teams in May.
But the point is they’re better than we are and we just don’t deserve it.
It’s only fair when you think about it.
tiger297
June 19th, 2012
4:13 pm
ward – with the season ticket holder discount that isn’t far off what it costs me now-that is a regular dog you can get the super duper loaded with stuff dog for around 4
MikeInFl
June 19th, 2012
4:13 pm
“We talk baseball, other sports, music, vomit, movies, BBQ and whatever (except politics or religion)”
phil
June 19th, 2012
4:14 pm
I think Murph was kidding, bravesgrl…..
I also think my impending dinner in a few hours has been ruined.
B_F 54
June 19th, 2012
4:14 pm
Go to work time for me and the hapless nine
Beat the d***m Yanks tonight
Bay Area Steve
June 19th, 2012
4:14 pm
I don’t think a fair comparison can be made from a kid getting sick, and a drunk getting sick, whatever the volume of sickness.
CrαZy
June 19th, 2012
4:14 pm
If someone ever puked on me at a game I sure hope I’m not sitting in the front row of the upper deck!!! They might end up with an upgraded ticket to the lower level!!
Murph
June 19th, 2012
4:14 pm
And how would you feel if your kid was the one who threw up and you were in that situation?
If the 4 year old goes to a game and gets lit and pukes, it’s her own fault.
I’m not very sympathetic of people who get drunk, act like idiots, and get a bit of a whoopin’ because of it. Know your limits or stay home where you can puke all over the place without ruining the experience for others.
Efrim
June 19th, 2012
4:15 pm
Very Francoeur-esque splits.
Was thinking the same thing RC was. Of course, Frenchy hit RHP for his career better than what Heyward is doing this year vs. LHP.
And on the flip side, Francouer on based .345 vs. LHP.
Ward
June 19th, 2012
4:15 pm
tiger – I hear you, and that’s what hurting the game. The management is never thinking about the fans.
Bat Masterson
June 19th, 2012
4:15 pm
Hillbilly _
TheOnlyBravesFan
June 19th, 2012
4:16 pm
Thank God the game isn’t at Turner Field…. I’d be afraid to go cuz bravesgrl’s niece might puke on me….;)
Ward
June 19th, 2012
4:16 pm
Yeah, if you puke stay home……agree.
phil
June 19th, 2012
4:16 pm
Mitchell – what the hell does your 4:12 have to do with vomit?
And Mike down in Fl? Funny!
jfreak13713
June 19th, 2012
4:17 pm
The Beachy injury is huge as their starting rotation was average on its best days. Without a trade or some of the other guys really stepping up I’d say the Braves will finish just a head of the Marlins and behind Washington, Philly, and the Mets. Hopefully, the can manage a trade and minor and delgado can continue to improve?? Hopefully?
The offense is the hard thing to figure out! They seem to have guys who can hit but never hitting together?? Heyward is an issue in this lineup and may need some time in the minors or TRADED while there is still some value? I love the guy but he hasn’t hit in nearly two years! Chipper is just old and can’t be viewed as a reliable producer and Uggla and Mac are both have ok years but nothing that would carry the team. Hopefully Freeman can get back healthy and the Braves can figure something out in Right Field but right now this team has a .500 feel to them.
bravesgrl4life
June 19th, 2012
4:17 pm
I totally agree,Murph, which is why I was pi**ed at my niece as much as anything.
Okay, that horse is dead now.
I just hope Hillbilly was kidding.
flange1
June 19th, 2012
4:17 pm
Good one Hillbilly!
CrαZy
June 19th, 2012
4:17 pm
4:14– If the person was sick from drinking too much!
B_F 54
June 19th, 2012
4:17 pm
Thanks Hillbilly I just smiled all over myself
Ward
June 19th, 2012
4:18 pm
New name for Truner Field. “The Dark Hole”…….All, have a good one! Peace my friends, and Let’s get a “W”…….It can happen…..”Go!!!!!Braves!!!!!”
Heisenberg
June 19th, 2012
4:18 pm
lunch at 4:11 in the afternoon?
bravesgrl4life
June 19th, 2012
4:18 pm
Nah, TOBF, I think (hope) she’s learned her lesson. But I don’t think I’ll be taking her to any more of the Thanks Bobby! tailgate parties. Tomahawkin’ can tell you, she was having a little too much fun.
Efrim
June 19th, 2012
4:19 pm
Reasonable expectations had Heyward plugged as having similar platoon splits to Jeff Francouer in his early career.
cabravesfan
June 19th, 2012
4:21 pm
lunch at 4:11 in the afternoon?
Nope. Not quite 1:30 here
nolie
June 19th, 2012
4:21 pm
NBD, we got fools puking all over our blog all the time
Lew
June 19th, 2012
4:21 pm
Crazy – No, not particularly.
I haven’t had alcohol since 1986 when they first started to medicate me for diabetes and the older glycemic inhibitors could throw you into respiratory failure and I just never started drinking again after they changed the medication.
I have no problem with others drinking, smoking dope or doing whatever they choose to do – it;’s their business and they can screw themselves up however they desire, but if you can’t hold your drink or drugs, maybe you don’t need to e doing them in public – and you definitely don’t need to be behind the wheel of a vehicle (not saying that was the case with Bravegirl’s neice).
No I don’t like the smell of puke – but I’m a Dad and have cleaned up my share – and I don’t wish anyone sickness in any way shape or form – but at a balgame, I’d prefer not to smell, anything except peanuts, popcorn or someone’s windblown, cheap perfume..
Jimmy
June 19th, 2012
4:23 pm
Heisenberg – Think timezones. California.
No. 1 Braves Fan
June 19th, 2012
4:23 pm
DOB: Why do your blogs differ from those of MB and JS? There seems to be an afternoon gathering of mostly chit-chat among a regular group rather than the normal posts on other Braves blogs.
Imagineer
June 19th, 2012
4:24 pm
Time to try some new things:
Lineup–
Bourn
Chipper
Prado
Uggla
Simmons
Mac
Heyward
Freeman
Pitcher
monty
June 19th, 2012
4:24 pm
Hillbilly- From the old blog- “Adam Sandler, though, not Chris Farley.”
Yeh, Adam sang the song but on the SNL skit Farley played the lunch room lady!
You can see it on youtube, it makes the song doubly funny.
cabravesfan
June 19th, 2012
4:24 pm
I did have some wonderful roasted garbanzo beans mixed with some hot salt, tabasco sauce, chili powder, & cayenne pepper…oh, and some cajun seasoning also
The Red
June 19th, 2012
4:24 pm
There we go! MLB Network just made fun of our DH batting 9th. Only 34th time it’s happened!
ncscoots
June 19th, 2012
4:25 pm
I get really tired of someone injecting a baseball post into a puke thread. Let’s try to stay on point, here.
Efrim
June 19th, 2012
4:25 pm
The top headline on mlbtraderumors.com: “Sugar Land Skeeters Expected To Sign Scott Kazmir”
Oh how the mighty have fallen.
bravesgrl4life
June 19th, 2012
4:25 pm
It’s the cost of being 24 years old (and 24 today is not what it was 20 years ago, I’ll tell ya!). And she was most defintely not driving – we were in my 2012 Challenger. Ain’t nobody by myself or my husband driving that thing! Tomahawkin saw it and she’s the prettiest car out there!
Kentavo
June 19th, 2012
4:25 pm
Yeah, but what would you call the Franceour-Heyward platoon? The J-French Kid?
tmc
June 19th, 2012
4:26 pm
**”Of the 184 runs Braves pitchers have surrendered this season, 122 have come with two out.”**
Where does this stat rank in MLB and NL?
Because this sounds like a horrible stat, but it needs to be put in context to fully understand.
Efrim
June 19th, 2012
4:26 pm
Time to try some new things:
Ah, Andrelton Simmons hitting in front of Brian McCann, Jason Heyward and Freddie Freeman …..
we’re in more trouble than I thought.
FEAR
June 19th, 2012
4:26 pm
whatever. it’s the same crap every year with the Brave’s hitting. The only thing different this year is the pitching blows.
phil
June 19th, 2012
4:26 pm
windblown, cheap perfume….
hmmmm
Jimmy
June 19th, 2012
4:27 pm
ncscoots – “I get really tired of someone injecting a baseball post into a puke thread. Let’s try to stay on point, here.”
Well, it kinda fits with the way the Braves have been playing lately.
Huddie on the mound tonight. We’ve got a chance.
Efrim
June 19th, 2012
4:27 pm
Yeah, but what would you call the Franceour-Heyward platoon? The J-French Kid?
I refuse to make fun of Jason – even though this has some potential…..
Murph
June 19th, 2012
4:27 pm
Yeah, but what would you call the Franceour-Heyward platoon?
I’d call it “throwing in the towel” and “time to find a new favorite team”.
Tomahawkin
June 19th, 2012
4:27 pm
S/O To FEAR!
Daniel Jones
June 19th, 2012
4:27 pm
excellent article and great read thank you.
Daniel Jones
http://www.ornamentsandmore.com/baseball-ornaments.aspx
Hillbilly
June 19th, 2012
4:28 pm
Thanks monty. Ease lined me out about that yesterday. I’ll check it out.
Lew
June 19th, 2012
4:28 pm
Hillbilly – In Roger Waters hands, that story could be a real rock show. I can envision the production and the touring company – maybe Snowy White on guitar for the band?
Tomahawkin
June 19th, 2012
4:28 pm
bravesgrl4life
June 19th, 2012
4:25 pm
“It’s the cost of being 24 years old (and 24 today is not what it was 20 years ago, I’ll tell ya!). And she was most defintely not driving – we were in my 2012 Challenger. Ain’t nobody by myself or my husband driving that thing! Tomahawkin saw it and she’s the prettiest car out there!”
Yes, Its a Nice Whip!
BravesfaninWis
June 19th, 2012
4:29 pm
Hard to stay cheering for a team that just doesn’t get it. I don’t call myself a Braves fan just to say it. I grew up in south Florida and was a Braves fan well before there were any teams in Florida. It would have been easy to convert to a Marlins or Rays fan, but I am a fan until the end. I am however sick of supporting a team that is cheap and can’t sign players, has a clueless coaching staff, a clueless front office, and a team that chokes away every opportunity they have in front of them. I will be a fan till I die, but I will not support this stale team until they make changes.
Jimmy
June 19th, 2012
4:29 pm
tmc – if that stat is accurate, it is pretty amazing.
Where is our stat man from SC??
Mitchell
June 19th, 2012
4:29 pm
What’s with all this vomit talk?
I don’t get it.
Please explain.
ncscoots
June 19th, 2012
4:30 pm
There seems to be an afternoon gathering of mostly chit-chat among a regular group rather than the normal posts on other Braves blogs.
I think the indicator here is describing the content of the Bradley and Schultz blogs as “normal”.