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Bronke
July 3rd, 2012
9:26 pm
Ladies and gents. This is your 2012 Atlanta Braves! Can we all give them a standing O? When will the madness end? Cubs laughing at the Braves in their dugout
MFin04
July 3rd, 2012
9:26 pm
“I’m not sure even a 4-game sweep at the hands of the Cubs would mean the end of Gonzalez”
Heck DOB wouldn’t even think it was a disgrace since the Cubs are soo good this year.
Arkansas Transplant
July 3rd, 2012
9:26 pm
If your the Cubs, you should feel pretty good about possibly sweeping us at home. Given who pitches over the next 2 nights.
bustersonly
July 3rd, 2012
9:27 pm
I could understand having a 230 hitter making the All Star game if he had 25 home runs.
bustersonly
July 3rd, 2012
9:27 pm
I could understand having a 230 hitter making the All Star game if he had 25 home runs.
FEAR
July 3rd, 2012
9:27 pm
Mordecai “3 finger” Centennial Peter Volstad beating the Braves, eh?
T-Dawg
July 3rd, 2012
9:28 pm
There just aren’t words to describe how underwhelming this team has been the last two years. This team needs to do some selling at the trade deadline and hope there are teams desperate enough to want some very average players.
Waffle House or Bust
July 3rd, 2012
9:28 pm
FRANK WREN….
Put on your big boy pants and fire Fredi. This team is uninspired and just going through the motions. Save the season and let TP manage rest of season. Lets see what happens. Don’t sit around and let another year go by like you did last season with not firing Parrish when you had the chance.
Pluto
July 3rd, 2012
9:28 pm
I haven’t heard any viable discussion of Fredi being on the hot seat. I don’t think there’s a chance he gets fired this season.
old man
July 3rd, 2012
9:28 pm
Playing like this against the Cubs is embarrassing. Our record against the Nats is embarrassing.
Delgado and Minor were both on our “untouchable” list. The next time someone tells you a player is untouchable, tell them they are full of crap. No one should ever be considered untouchable.
brian
July 3rd, 2012
9:29 pm
Didn’t think scoria no could run anymore
ncbravesfan90
July 3rd, 2012
9:29 pm
Hudson pitches to contact with a sinker and gets ground balls to show for it. JJ pitches to contact with no sinker.
Rick
July 3rd, 2012
9:29 pm
old man, Chipper is 2 for 2 today and has extended his hitting streak to 10 games. That’s not producing?
Braint
July 3rd, 2012
9:30 pm
Old Man, .300, 6HR, 30 RBI……Chipper has produced when he plays.
TheOnlyBravesFan
July 3rd, 2012
9:30 pm
heOnlyBravesFan, how many games has Dan Uggla played at 2nd base this season and why has it adversely affected his offense?
I wait with bated breath for your enlightening genius to wash over this blog
He’s started every single game he’s played at 2B…. the only think that’s affected his offense is his lack of rest and the fact that every one slumps. He would still be a horrible LF….
ChattTownBrian
July 3rd, 2012
9:30 pm
Maybe Uggla will start groping opposing players at 2nd base instead of our guys. Rub some of that error/out funk on them for a change …
TuffShhhtuff
July 3rd, 2012
9:30 pm
“Pluto”, who was the lucky guy Beth Kenner was supposedly sexually harassing?
brian
July 3rd, 2012
9:30 pm
I would be fine with TP managing the rest of the season. Of course I would be fine with about anybody but Bobby V managing the braves right now
FireFrediot!!!
July 3rd, 2012
9:30 pm
GET RID OF UGGLA & MCCANN!!!!! GET RID OF UGGLA & MCCANN!!! GET RID OF UGGLA & MCCANN!!!
Tomahawk Mafia
July 3rd, 2012
9:31 pm
The Cubs are playing pretty well in this series, thus far. They have left plenty of men on base, but have taken advantage of the Braves mistakes and score enough to win.
bustersonly
July 3rd, 2012
9:31 pm
I don’t think that anyone currently associated with this team should manage it when Fredi does depart, need an outsider, no favorites.
FEAR
July 3rd, 2012
9:31 pm
The Braves do not like rocking the boat during the season. They are the “gentlemen’s team”. They won’t fire fat fred
TheOnlyBravesFan
July 3rd, 2012
9:31 pm
JJ did ok there…. he escaped a leadoff hit.
The A Bomb
July 3rd, 2012
9:31 pm
Just been confirmed that the ball Uggla threw in the 3rd inning has now been designated space junk.
UNCBrave
July 3rd, 2012
9:31 pm
Braves are playing TIGHT while the Cubs are playing LOOSE..
Tomahawk Mafia
July 3rd, 2012
9:32 pm
bustersonly
I agree. The next Braves manager needs to be someone without any Braves association. The culture needs to change in Atlanta. It was an outstanding culture in the 1990s, but it long since grown stagnant.
abeeewright
July 3rd, 2012
9:32 pm
“Lower third of the order up for the Braves”
Translation … don’t take a pee break if you want to see Braves on offense this inning.
Capt.Mudd
July 3rd, 2012
9:32 pm
I wonder sometimes what some of these guys would be up to if they didn’t play ball? Like Dan Uggla? He could be a fireman imo, at least when things got ‘hot’ they would stay that way for a while….and, Franscisco, he could be a Butcher at some market [read:Wal-Mart]….using knives and blades…he would be sure to sharpen hit athletic skills. I could go on, but I hasten to since it only fills the silly time during a real silly game—Volstadt?
Pluto
July 3rd, 2012
9:32 pm
I doubt Beth Keener was harassing anyone. I’d bet it was the other way around. And by someone high enough in the organization to keep his job while she gets let go.
MFin04
July 3rd, 2012
9:32 pm
Nice job Jurrjens, always clutch with guys on base. Love it.
TheOnlyBravesFan
July 3rd, 2012
9:33 pm
Guillen is a great manager…. we need a guy like him
clarkspencer @clarkspencer
Ozzie Guillen went on post-game, profanity-laced rant in clubhouse, for all to hear, ripping pitchers after Tuesday’s loss.
archie
July 3rd, 2012
9:33 pm
1. Jair, you might as well put it on a tee, the way you’re serving it up there.
2. Someone suggested putting Uggla in LF. I agree. Lower or upper deck?
3. To the ATL home-cookin’ scorer who didn’t give Chipper an error: what?
4. Is Freeman dragging a piano when he runs down the first base line?
5. If the Braves lose tonight, and at least one more against this AAA team, Fredi can call Delta.
6. Volstad came in with an ERA resembling the national debt, Suddenly he’s Greg Maddux.
Jake W.
July 3rd, 2012
9:33 pm
Hudson pitches to contact with a sinker and gets ground balls to show for it. JJ pitches to contact with no sinker.
So are you saying they both pitch to contact?
When JJ doesn’t hit his spots he gives up hits, when Huddy doesn’t hit his spots he gives up hits (see Sunday). Sometimes when they both hit there spots they give up hits because they are contact pitchers.
JEB
July 3rd, 2012
9:33 pm
Why do the Braves make these terrible pitchers look like Cy Young?
There is absolutely no way these 5 + ERA guys come in here and pitch the game of their life against the Braves. We are not that lucky – nor are they!
FEAR
July 3rd, 2012
9:34 pm
I nominate Bobby the Brain Heenan for Braves Manager.
Brava
July 3rd, 2012
9:34 pm
BMac!!!
cabravesfan
July 3rd, 2012
9:34 pm
That’s nice to see from Mac
The A Bomb
July 3rd, 2012
9:34 pm
Robot Gonzalez is going to hit for JJ. Here comes our outstanding ‘pen, baby!
TheOnlyBravesFan
July 3rd, 2012
9:34 pm
though he did say this
clarkspencer @clarkspencer
Guillen said it’s unfair that Heath Bell gets most of the blame when other pitchers were just as responsible in 13-12 loss.
Kevin McAlpin @KevinMcAlpin
80 pitches through 5 for Jair Jurrjens. He’s allowed 3 runs, however none of them have been earned, on 9 hits.
5 innings? 9 hits, 80 pitches? He’s lucky for the errors, he should have some earned runs
YAY!!! He got a hit, but he’s still not back….
McFann :Ô: :Ô: :ô:
July 3rd, 2012
9:34 pm
A HIT!! By golly!!
That was a beauty…
phil
July 3rd, 2012
9:34 pm
A rare sight for mcFatty….
A hit!!
old man
July 3rd, 2012
9:35 pm
We are at the halfway mark. 12hr and 60 rbi is producing for Chipper? And, he is not pulling his weight in the field. The real issue I was addressing was our defensive problems. 2b and 3b are our problems.
Tracy
July 3rd, 2012
9:35 pm
JJ even with his 87 mph fastball has pitched pretty good tonight, 0 earned runs. It is like Ralph has said so many times on this blog that the problem with this team is not pitching, it is hitting.
JEB
July 3rd, 2012
9:35 pm
That will beat the shift every day BMAC!
Capt.Mudd
July 3rd, 2012
9:35 pm
Yeah baby….Legend, Joe Simpson on the call for The Braves network
brian
July 3rd, 2012
9:35 pm
Great job mccann
Carroll Rogers
July 3rd, 2012
9:35 pm
McCann broke up an 0-for-14 with that single to left to start the fifth
FEAR
July 3rd, 2012
9:35 pm
yes! go simmons!
Efrim
July 3rd, 2012
9:35 pm
Nice job Jurrjens, always clutch with guys on base. Love it
Obsession.
abeeewright
July 3rd, 2012
9:35 pm
Did Bigfoot just run across the outfield? Did a UFO land in CF?
No. It’s even more unlikely.
McCann just got an opposite field hit.
Brava
July 3rd, 2012
9:35 pm
Woohoo!
cabravesfan
July 3rd, 2012
9:35 pm
That is nice to see too
VaBravesFan
July 3rd, 2012
9:35 pm
Cubs are easily handling us.
The A Bomb
July 3rd, 2012
9:35 pm
Take that, Satan!
Le Fan
July 3rd, 2012
9:35 pm
I live in NY and when i watch what terry colloins is doing with that met team it makes me wonder how much better the braves would be with someone like him at the helm
This Braves team takes on the persona of its manager to a tee
Fat, lazy and clueless
VaBravesFan
July 3rd, 2012
9:35 pm
Here’s our chance.
TheOnlyBravesFan
July 3rd, 2012
9:35 pm
Dumb defensive play…. take JJ out here…. he didn’t conserve pitches well enough to get to hit
Pluto
July 3rd, 2012
9:35 pm
A big mouth like Guillen doesn’t fit the organization. Screaming doesn’t necessarily help.
brian
July 3rd, 2012
9:35 pm
Enter your comments hereSpeed and hustle – love to see it from simmons
Tomahawk Mafia
July 3rd, 2012
9:36 pm
Brian McCann hitting a pitch to left field is a sign of the apocalypse. Every one needs to take cover.
ChattTownBrian
July 3rd, 2012
9:36 pm
Again – no bunt from fredi.
The A Bomb
July 3rd, 2012
9:36 pm
WHY? HAVE JJ BUNT!
Capt.Mudd
July 3rd, 2012
9:36 pm
Just great athletic hustle for sim
brian
July 3rd, 2012
9:36 pm
Big at bat here from hinske
tiger297
July 3rd, 2012
9:36 pm
holy stupid moves
archie
July 3rd, 2012
9:36 pm
All we need is a bunt. And we get Hinske. Thank you Frediot.
FEAR
July 3rd, 2012
9:36 pm
Never mind that $h!t, here comes Durbin!
Brava
July 3rd, 2012
9:36 pm
Why is he taking JJ out?
abeeewright
July 3rd, 2012
9:36 pm
Bad decision by Fredo. Jurrjens is pitching a nice game. Hinske has been a dreadful pinch hitter.
TuffShhhtuff
July 3rd, 2012
9:36 pm
Oh yeah, I forgot, it’s ALWAYS the males harassing the females! Innocent little “beings”!
old man
July 3rd, 2012
9:37 pm
I know Chipper’s numbers are down because of injuries, but that’s been part of his problem.
The sad part is, that even with what I see to be his decline at the plate, he is still probably the hitter opposing pitchers fear the most. Sad commentary on our offense.
Pluto
July 3rd, 2012
9:37 pm
Let’s get JJ some runs here; he has pitched well enough to get a win.
TheOnlyBravesFan
July 3rd, 2012
9:37 pm
Volstad in trouble here….
Tomahawk Mafia
July 3rd, 2012
9:37 pm
I call a bad at bat here from Hinske.
MFin04
July 3rd, 2012
9:37 pm
WHY THE HELL IS JURRJENS NOT BUNTING!? RIDICULOUS.
ChattTownBrian
July 3rd, 2012
9:37 pm
Murphy questioning Fredi pinch hitting for JJ here.
TheOnlyBravesFan
July 3rd, 2012
9:37 pm
Volstad in trouble here….
Don’t swing Hinske
brian
July 3rd, 2012
9:37 pm
. Bunt the pitcher with 2 on no out or go for broke with Hinske? Big call by fredi
JEB
July 3rd, 2012
9:37 pm
WHY pull Jurrgens after only 80 pitches??
He CAN bunt the runners over!
It’s only the 5th inning – not the 7th or 8th
Efrim
July 3rd, 2012
9:38 pm
Why is he taking JJ out?
9 hits?
cabravesfan
July 3rd, 2012
9:38 pm
I call a bad at bat here from Hinske.
Yup. terrible…
TheOnlyBravesFan
July 3rd, 2012
9:38 pm
Bases loaded for Bourn…. I love it. Our top 2 hitters coming up to hit. Bourn needs a clutch hit.
tiger297
July 3rd, 2012
9:38 pm
love it when a plan comes together…
Jerry
July 3rd, 2012
9:38 pm
bases loaded and no one out. How will the Braves blow this opportunity?
MFin04
July 3rd, 2012
9:38 pm
Efrim – You are just a hater. Guy could throw a perfect game and you’d still think he doesn’t strike enough guys out or throw hard enough.
boondawg
July 3rd, 2012
9:38 pm
Volstad just saved Fredi’s rear end!
Bravefaninok
July 3rd, 2012
9:38 pm
F-bomb from the mound that time….it is an epidemic.
ChattTownBrian
July 3rd, 2012
9:38 pm
Gapper from Bourn would be sweeeeeeeeeet
Harpie
July 3rd, 2012
9:38 pm
Bases loaded, no outs. I’ll bet a million the Braves don’t score this inning…
old man
July 3rd, 2012
9:39 pm
What an idiot.
Have JJ bunt, you moron.
brian
July 3rd, 2012
9:39 pm
Nothing wrong with bunting the tying runs into scoring position with nobody out and Bourn/Prado coming up
Of course a walk works well too
phil
July 3rd, 2012
9:39 pm
If they blow this…..against Volstad?
Sigh….
cabravesfan
July 3rd, 2012
9:39 pm
Bunting the runners over is good. Moving the runners over without sacrificing an out is better
ramblinwreck80
July 3rd, 2012
9:39 pm
grand slam?
Tomahawk Mafia
July 3rd, 2012
9:39 pm
Alright, my proactive pessimism paid off. Hinske worked a good at bat. Now Bourn needs to keep the line moving.
brian
July 3rd, 2012
9:39 pm
Huge hit by Bourn!!!!!!!
cabravesfan
July 3rd, 2012
9:39 pm
MIKEY!!!!!
BFChris27
July 3rd, 2012
9:40 pm
Bourn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ekim
July 3rd, 2012
9:40 pm
YES! YES! YES!
Jake W.
July 3rd, 2012
9:40 pm
Proof its Tuesday