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ChattTownBrian
July 1st, 2012
4:17 pm
Thing is the bench is the exact same as it’s been all year. Nothing has changed. Not even an attempt to at least somewhat upgrade the thing. Diaz experiment needs to stop once and for all.
LAG
July 1st, 2012
4:17 pm
This is actually rare for us, to see temps this high for this long.
Tomahawkin
July 1st, 2012
4:17 pm
I’m Praying for Vennie-Macc Here
No, Damn that! I’m blowing in a Bag
Le Fan
July 1st, 2012
4:17 pm
All the braves quotes tomorrow will be how they came back, how they battled after being down four runs…blah,blah,blah….
Theres no such thing as a moral victory guys when u cant beat the team ahead of you
McFann :Ô: :Ô: :ô:
July 1st, 2012
4:17 pm
cabravesfan Currently 73 here…high for the week is 75 on Friday
SHOW OFF!!!
David O'Brien
July 1st, 2012
4:17 pm
Ugly again: 1-for-8 with RISP, 8 LOB (through eight innings)
cabravesfan
July 1st, 2012
4:18 pm
McFann-
Not my fault I live where the weather is perfect ALL THE TIME
Trey
July 1st, 2012
4:19 pm
For shame, Venters.
TNScott
July 1st, 2012
4:19 pm
This was on a church sign:
“It’s not hotter than Hell outside.”
jeffrey d
July 1st, 2012
4:19 pm
Except for the earthquakes
The A Bomb
July 1st, 2012
4:19 pm
Hand raised. Conrad has magic.
Our whole bench is a total cluster. Can’t believe a major league organization has this type of bench. In 2 years, we’ve gone from the BEST bench in baseball to the hands-down WORST. Horrible and embarrassing.
TheOnlyBravesFan
July 1st, 2012
4:19 pm
Raise your hand if you’d rather have Brooks Conrad back than Matt Diaz.
Wow.
Mark
July 1st, 2012
4:19 pm
DOB
You could change a couple letters and been accurate as well. Uggla again
McFann :Ô: :Ô: :ô:
July 1st, 2012
4:19 pm
I mean, I woulda thought they’d say something about BMac’s not making the team. Not that I want them to dwell on it, but I dunno…they don’t really talk about him much lately…
Mitchell
July 1st, 2012
4:19 pm
nolie
July 1st, 2012
4:16 pm
no you don’t Mitchell, you are thrilled beyond belief when you can claim that the Braves are embarrassing. why lie about it?????????
I’m going to assume that’s a joke.
MIBravesFan
July 1st, 2012
4:20 pm
“Tomahawkin
July 1st, 2012
4:17 pm
I’m Praying for Vennie-Macc Here
No, Damn that! I’m blowing in a Bag”
It has become stressful watching him, hasn’t it?
Sometimes I put my hand over my eyes and peek at the screen, myself! Good to see you on the blog, Tomahawkin
NickB
July 1st, 2012
4:20 pm
strikeouts don’t matter Mark, they just don’t
top 10 in career K’s
Reggie Jackson
Jim Thome
Sammy Sosa
Andres Galarraga
Alex Rodriguez
Jose Canseco
Willie Stargell
Adam Dunn
Mike Cameron
Mike Schmidt
lots of really crappy players on that list eh?
McFann :Ô: :Ô: :ô:
July 1st, 2012
4:20 pm
cabravesfan—
yeah, but you don’t hafta be so nasty about it!…
TBbravesfan
July 1st, 2012
4:20 pm
i just don’t get excited anymore with runners on 3rd with less than 2 outs. why is that?
TheOnlyBravesFan
July 1st, 2012
4:20 pm
Braves dropped another spot in total runs scored (for entire MLB)
MIBravesFan
July 1st, 2012
4:21 pm
McFann, I really think it’s a “not rubbing salt in a wound” kind of thing.
The A Bomb
July 1st, 2012
4:22 pm
Asleep at the wheel.
TBbravesfan
July 1st, 2012
4:22 pm
what was ross loking at?
NickB
July 1st, 2012
4:22 pm
Venters was squeezed twice on that at bat…..
MIBravesFan
July 1st, 2012
4:22 pm
Unlike cabravesfan and her beautiful temperatures/weather!
cabravesfan
July 1st, 2012
4:22 pm
McFann-
Sorry! Was just making conversation
Yogi Berra
July 1st, 2012
4:22 pm
Only Braves fan..is that a record 107 in Athens?
Ted
July 1st, 2012
4:22 pm
Venters will save the game for the Nationals.
Jerry
July 1st, 2012
4:23 pm
Uggla hitting .232 and McCann at .226. But those batting averages don’t mean a damn thing, do they apologists? You guys lose your credibility with each passing day.
ChattTownBrian
July 1st, 2012
4:23 pm
Venters will make sure no possible chance at a great comeback is in the makings. No way he says.
Tomahawk Mafia
July 1st, 2012
4:23 pm
Roger McDowell has to make an appearance to the mound every time Johnny Venters pitches. Venters needs to find his form quickly. As do everyone else on the Braves pitching staff.
TheOnlyBravesFan
July 1st, 2012
4:23 pm
I mean, I woulda thought they’d say something about BMac’s not making the team.
What’s there to say? He didn’t even come close to “earning” it, unfortunately.
ncbravesfan
July 1st, 2012
4:23 pm
One plus is that this helps the Nats. Would much rather see them win the division than the Mets, Phillies, or Marlins.
NickB
July 1st, 2012
4:23 pm
then McClellan calls the same pitch a strike ………..
Tomahawkin
July 1st, 2012
4:24 pm
Vennie-Macc!!!
COME ON
David O'Brien
July 1st, 2012
4:24 pm
Venters walked Harper after being ahead in count 0-2
NickB
July 1st, 2012
4:24 pm
Jerry
go play in traffic with your kids so they don’t pollute the gene pool for the rest of society ya nimrod
bravesgrl4life
July 1st, 2012
4:24 pm
cabravesfan, please don’t rub it in.
MIBravesFan
July 1st, 2012
4:24 pm
Jonny . . . .
ncbravesfan90
July 1st, 2012
4:24 pm
Fredi looking good with his managing skills again today.
Tomahawk Mafia
July 1st, 2012
4:24 pm
Venters just sucks so bad. He creates his own jams and then blows the game open.
Trey
July 1st, 2012
4:25 pm
Way to go, Jonny.
NickB
July 1st, 2012
4:25 pm
Venters’ luck on ground balls has been all bad this years
TheOnlyBravesFan
July 1st, 2012
4:25 pm
18-19 home
Braves home record. Not pretty.
Not doing good against NL east either.
Another run given up by JV, glad I cut him from my fantasy team
… those missed scoring oppurtunities hurt us.
Mark
July 1st, 2012
4:25 pm
Nick
Rest assured if Uggla can hang around long enough he’ll join some of those guys in the strikeout category just not the production one because most those guys didn’t hit .235
Mitchell
July 1st, 2012
4:25 pm
Why does this team bother to show up?
Oh wait, they didn’t.
MIBravesFan
July 1st, 2012
4:25 pm
If JJ needed to go down to get it worked out, then Jonny has clearly reached that stage, too!! It’s probably past time for that, in fact!
njbraves
July 1st, 2012
4:25 pm
Venters is just awful. This team has some real problems with its pitching.
BravesfaninAugusta
July 1st, 2012
4:25 pm
Send Venters down to AAA
BFChris27
July 1st, 2012
4:25 pm
That is ballgame.
And I’m usually optimistic.
ncbravesfan90
July 1st, 2012
4:25 pm
Leave him in now geeeeez. If you haven’t realized Jonny doesn’t have it this year then you wont realize it the rest of the year.
The A Bomb
July 1st, 2012
4:25 pm
GAME, SET and MATCH.
Tomahawk Mafia
July 1st, 2012
4:25 pm
While the Braves have few that are really better, I wonder if the Braves would consider demoting Venters.
ChattTownBrian
July 1st, 2012
4:26 pm
Thank you Jonny and Fredi.
David O'Brien
July 1st, 2012
4:26 pm
Venters being replaced by CMart. And that’s something we wouldn’t have imagined a year ago.
nolie
July 1st, 2012
4:26 pm
not raising my hand on that silly choice
Tom
July 1st, 2012
4:26 pm
Venters good for 1 everytime
TheOnlyBravesFan
July 1st, 2012
4:26 pm
9-14 against NL east if I did my math correctly…. 9-15 if this score holds up
ncbravesfan
July 1st, 2012
4:26 pm
18-20 at home. Pathetic.
tmc
July 1st, 2012
4:26 pm
Don’t be fooled…
When the Braves go to their bench and bring in the likes of Diaz, Wilson, Francisco and Hinski (this year), It gives the other team an out position. And those guys are usually brought in for a big AB.
And don’t for one second think the opposing team doesn’t know that and pitch accordingly to the players in the Braves lineup who might hurt them.
= very frustrating.
Jaded Braves Fan
July 1st, 2012
4:26 pm
The Nats came into Turner Field for the second time in a month and showed that they’re a better team than the Braves. They have a better rotation, a better bullpen, better managaer, and they execute better offensively.
The Braves will have to play significantly better in the second half and probably make a big trade or two if they hope to catch these guys.
Tomahawkin
July 1st, 2012
4:27 pm
I just Turned It off Again!
I’m bout to start Weeping like a Puppy!
Its Painful to see My Boy Vennie Macc Pitch Like This!
Oh well the Blue Brothers Comes on in 10 minutes…keep me updated
TBbravesfan
July 1st, 2012
4:27 pm
just better talent. and just think tomorrow is monday we don’t win on monday.
Tomahawk Mafia
July 1st, 2012
4:27 pm
NickB
You are correct. Venters can has the ball bounce his way.
Mark
July 1st, 2012
4:27 pm
Nick
You have a bad day or something? Real rude to Jerry and Tina!
BravesfaninAugusta
July 1st, 2012
4:27 pm
This team is so inconsistent
Aaron
July 1st, 2012
4:27 pm
Venters needs to go to AAA
Jaded Braves Fan
July 1st, 2012
4:27 pm
ncbravesfan, when this game is over I’m going to post some home numbers that will absolutely appall you.
TheOnlyBravesFan
July 1st, 2012
4:27 pm
Only Braves fan..is that a record 107 in Athens?
Think so…
Rico
July 1st, 2012
4:27 pm
Its time to send Venters to the minors to work out his problems. It was good enough for JJ.
ChattTownBrian
July 1st, 2012
4:27 pm
Fredi just doesn’t get it. Zimmerman is right handed, Venters has been terrile just about every time out there. He is really clueless and stubborn.
NickB
July 1st, 2012
4:28 pm
batting avg doesn’t matter ya boob, OBP is much more important…
ya know what, believe whatever you want, but you are wrong, and as you old farts die off and the new more educated fans take over, these arguments will become less and less prevalant, just as the belief in a flat earth went away over time, and how we believe in smart things like evolution now
NickB
July 1st, 2012
4:29 pm
it looks like Chipper gave him a lousy throw
BFChris27
July 1st, 2012
4:29 pm
Definitely ballgame.
ncbravesfan
July 1st, 2012
4:29 pm
It’s a wonder anyone spends their hard earned money and endures 100+ degree temps to go to the Ted. I certainly wouldn’t.
Tomahawk Mafia
July 1st, 2012
4:30 pm
This team does nothing correctly anymore. Bad throw from Chipper and more inherited runners score. Such a bad team. It is a wonder that the Braves are above .500. How long can they keep Fredi Gonzalez around?
Tomahawkin
July 1st, 2012
4:30 pm
@NickB
OUCH on that 4:04 Post! lol
That was Brutul!
LAG
July 1st, 2012
4:30 pm
TOBF – You’re in Athens too?
Jaded Braves Fan
July 1st, 2012
4:30 pm
“batting avg doesn’t matter ya boob, OBP is much more important…
ya know what, believe whatever you want, but you are wrong, and as you old farts die off and the new more educated fans take over, these arguments will become less and less prevalant, just as the belief in a flat earth went away over time, and how we believe in smart things like evolution now”
Could you be any more of a know-it-all? The reason a lot of the SABR crowds ideas are being slowly accepted is because they’re presented with such smarter-than-thou condescension.
Shame, too, because a lot of their ideas have merit.
nolie
July 1st, 2012
4:31 pm
hey!!! lets watch that dead old F@rt talk
Yogi Berra
July 1st, 2012
4:31 pm
Braves can us All-Star break. Hope Wren can spin some majic and get a pitcher and maybe a RH hitter.
JC Brave
July 1st, 2012
4:31 pm
Best team in the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hmmmm
July 1st, 2012
4:32 pm
“9-14 against NL east if I did my math correctly”
fortunately for the Phils they get the Braves next weekend. Swept by the Fish and with the Mets coming in, they’ll be glad to face someone they can actually beat
Tomahawk Mafia
July 1st, 2012
4:32 pm
5 runs for the Braves coming up in the 9th inning….
ab initio
July 1st, 2012
4:32 pm
I thought Chipper’s problem was his knees, not his arms.
Retire son. Scoop up some small amount of dignity inside that gut of yours and do the right thing.
Jay Dubu
July 1st, 2012
4:32 pm
Look forward to the Braves getting the Mondya’s victory procession started tomorrow.
Nats have sucked the life out of them for this game. I really though that the Braves would take this series after they won yesterday. Huddy has to be the anchor of this rotation, and give the team a chance to win the game. He didn’t do that today.
tmc
July 1st, 2012
4:32 pm
Ahhh Chip, story of the day is not Ben Sheets… It’s the Braves get routed at home, AGAIN!
Tomahawkin
July 1st, 2012
4:32 pm
@MIBravesFan
Thanks Bro
I’m Still on the DL…I should be back into ingame Blogging Shape in 7-10 days
JC Brave
July 1st, 2012
4:34 pm
they’ll be glad to face someone they can actually beat
This^ … Hahahahahaha
ChattTownBrian
July 1st, 2012
4:34 pm
Hudson sunk the team in the 1st fu**** inning. Thanks “ace”.
TheOnlyBravesFan
July 1st, 2012
4:34 pm
TOBF – You’re in Athens too?
No, Kennesaw. I just follow weather, so I know some temps from around the area.
Yogi Berra
July 1st, 2012
4:35 pm
Where’s Whiskey man today?
McFann :Ô: :Ô: :ô:
July 1st, 2012
4:35 pm
cabravesfan—
I know. Just givin’ you a hard time…
MIBravesFan I really think it’s a “not rubbing salt in a wound” kind of thing.
Yeah, probably…just thought they’d say something. Not a huge deal…
SNEAKY PETE
July 1st, 2012
4:36 pm
MIBF is not a “bro”, even an egocentric idiot like you should know that by now Tommyhachin old son
Mark
July 1st, 2012
4:36 pm
Nick
Sorry for the delay in getting back but I had to go take my every 10 minute piss and take my heart pill. Us old folks have to do stuff like that.
Jay Dubu
July 1st, 2012
4:37 pm
@Yogi Berra
Braves already got their pitcher when they signed Sheets. They are going with the young guys from AAA to sure up the bullpen, and thye will wait to expand the rosters later this year to add some bench depth.
TBbravesfan
July 1st, 2012
4:37 pm
Jay Dubu–
Hope you are right about that win tomorrow.
Brava
July 1st, 2012
4:37 pm
NickB, you are a truly vile person. Hopefully the “old farts” will outlive you.
gcs
July 1st, 2012
4:37 pm
Venters obviously has some problems. Time in Gwinnett would probably do him a world of good.
It’s much better than letting him “work it out” in Atlanta when it is costing them wins.
I just hate when a player is having problems and the manager’s solution is just keep sending him out there to the detriment of the team.
NickB
July 1st, 2012
4:37 pm
Jaded Braves Fan
ya know what, I’m as nice as I can be on here, and try to present these ideas in an even manner, but when the same people refuse to even consider them, or look into them or just reject them outright, ya dadburn right i get condescending. I consider their point of view and present evidence in the form of statistical analysis done by really smart people and covering a large sample size. Then I get countered with smart alecky remarks and “well that’s stupid”
pardon me if I get a little sick of it