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MiaBchBravesFan
July 12th, 2012
7:58 pm
OH Steve: Steve Trout was left on the board b/c he’s an OF, and the Braves wouldn’t know a good OF if the reincarnations of Aaron, Mays, & Mantle came up to the scouting dept. and kicked ‘em in the shins.
ChattTownBrian
July 12th, 2012
7:59 pm
Hey I was the “Gnat” once before on here. I bzzzzzzzz all the time to bloggers. This was like 2 years ago though, I’ve grown up since then.
brian
July 12th, 2012
7:59 pm
All the talk about nerds……is this the tech board?
Capt.Mudd
July 12th, 2012
8:00 pm
I think he was once Count__ Dracula
brian
July 12th, 2012
8:00 pm
Heyward???? Not a bad OF to draft.
Everybody missed Giancarlo Stanton as well. 2nd round pick
count_schemula
July 12th, 2012
8:00 pm
“All the talk about nerds……is this the tech board?”
No. It’s the culinary board. With some baseball tossed in.
Bat Masterson
July 12th, 2012
8:01 pm
I got it: you can’t use the word h-a-t-e.
That’s new and odd. What about hateraid
MiaBchBravesFan
July 12th, 2012
8:01 pm
brian, must be tech support appreciation day here at the ol’ (OLD, STALE) blog.
NickB
July 12th, 2012
8:02 pm
I would think Huddy would have to retire for the team not to pick up his option as cheap as he is relative to his performance.
MiaBchBravesFan
July 12th, 2012
8:03 pm
OK, what’s the over/under on Ben Sheets for Sunday’s start?
ChattTownBrian
July 12th, 2012
8:03 pm
I was also “GatorBrave” back in the winter of 2009. I got into it with DOB a few times. Haha!
I have no idea how I came up with that name either.
Anybody else got any skeletons they need to let out?
NickB
July 12th, 2012
8:04 pm
It’s a waste fo time to fret over lost draft chances (unless your team really blew it with a top 5 pick or something) soooo many picks early never pan out, and sooo many late picks become superstars that’ it’s truly a crapshoot.
Capt.Mudd
July 12th, 2012
8:05 pm
‘Hateraid or Hate Raid?”
MiaBchBravesFan
July 12th, 2012
8:05 pm
<——- always has been
NickB
July 12th, 2012
8:05 pm
when the crazies show up ranting about trading Uggla and putting prado on 2nd and calling up Constanza I sometimes troll them as DERANGEDANGRYHILLBILLY
nolie
July 12th, 2012
8:06 pm
(unless your team really blew it with a top 5 pick or something)
you mean like picking Minor at 7th and passing on Trout three times????
MiaBchBravesFan
July 12th, 2012
8:06 pm
It’s actually Hater-ade.
nolie
July 12th, 2012
8:07 pm
drinking Haterade is the opposite of drinking the Kool Aid
MiaBchBravesFan
July 12th, 2012
8:08 pm
I drink lots of Hater-ade when I ponder fl gators.
NickB
July 12th, 2012
8:08 pm
I actually think Minor is going to turn out to be pretty decent. Not an ace or anything, but I could see him as a solid #3 for 8-10 years
Capt.Mudd
July 12th, 2012
8:09 pm
“You don’t give me love, you give me pale shelter”—you don’t give me love, you give me cold hands…..and I can operate on this failure….But No Heee wants to be in….in command.
nolie
July 12th, 2012
8:09 pm
#3 at the 7th pick when that was the projection to begin with? I think you aspire higher myself
NickB
July 12th, 2012
8:09 pm
Oh, btw, I have a blog that i just started called deranged angry hillbilly, it’s msotly humor, but there is some Braves stuff on there
http://derangedangryhillbilly.blogspot.com/
MiaBchNolesFan
July 12th, 2012
8:09 pm
Gonna be a GODD year; got my season tickets!
NickB
July 12th, 2012
8:11 pm
nolie
welcome to the Liberty media owned Braves…. signability is ALWAYS an issue.
that, and I’m not a JS fan at all
MiaBchBravesFan
July 12th, 2012
8:12 pm
Dang, with Trout in the lineup, the Angels are 42-24!!! We NEED us one of those high-impact OF’s.
nolie
July 12th, 2012
8:13 pm
every so often I drink some hater-aid myself and dis that pick. makes me feel like a part of the blog….
MiaBchBravesFan
July 12th, 2012
8:14 pm
After the Teixeira trade, JS is both the front and back end of a Jack-as$. His son Franky is cut from the same lame timber.
MiaBchBravesFan
July 12th, 2012
8:17 pm
While we’re drinkin’ Hater-ade, Jack “The Hack” Wilson might want some Geritol-ade & Depends.
This is just one example as to why Wren’s an idiotic bird-brain.
nolie
July 12th, 2012
8:17 pm
maybe we can trade Minor for Trout, after all he is a MUCH higher draft pick…..
count_schemula
July 12th, 2012
8:18 pm
Tuesday I left Pastor down for Luis Cruz (Dee Gordon’s replacement)
I guess I had a feeling it was going to be at least a Wilson share.
NickB
July 12th, 2012
8:20 pm
I think Wren has done a very good job, considering the budget constraints and completely obliterated farm system he inherited
Bat Masterson
July 12th, 2012
8:21 pm
hate
count_schemula*
July 12th, 2012
8:22 pm
testing, 1, 2, 3 proxy server test on 67.12.34.12 test test
All your base are belong to us, testing, 1, 2, 3…
Bat Masterson
July 12th, 2012
8:22 pm
Looks like ken was wrong about the word hate
Steve from OH
July 12th, 2012
8:23 pm
It’s a waste fo time to fret over lost draft chances
Oh yeah, without question. It’s just seeing Polished and Signable in our system, being exactly what they were projected to be (and who the Braves thought they would be) and seeing some of the guys we passes on irks me a bit.
That, and we drafted basically the same guy twice in a row in the first round…
MiaBchBravesFan
July 12th, 2012
8:23 pm
Nick’s drinkin’ the Wren-ade!
Capt.Mudd
July 12th, 2012
8:24 pm
The Raccoon meister at SS……is promising to change both his ‘ways’ and his name; commencing this Friday……Jackanrelton Revcoon.
nolie
July 12th, 2012
8:25 pm
I drink the Wren-aid too, more than not anyway
NickB
July 12th, 2012
8:25 pm
nope, I just don’t throw a holy hell tantrum over bench signings
Capt.Mudd
July 12th, 2012
8:27 pm
Nick was Mr. Wren standing directly behind you as you were typing?
NickB
July 12th, 2012
8:27 pm
Wilson, good pickup when one considers the Rev was our opening day starter
Francisco, good pickup as it was two teams grabbin needs from the other teams “about to go stale” pantry
Hinske- no way to know he’d have this bad of a year
Diaz- hitting lefties at .764 clip, could be better, but isn’t killing us (except when Fredi uses him wrong)
Lew
July 12th, 2012
8:28 pm
Re: The Wharton School of Business – two things – one, it’s in Pgiladelphia and not with the main Penn State campus hours away and two, it’s not even affiliated with Penn State, but The University of Pennsylvania.
Capt.Mudd
July 12th, 2012
8:28 pm
I’ll just say it quick….that was cruel Nick…..I apologize
MiaBchBravesFan
July 12th, 2012
8:29 pm
After Lowe, KK, McLouth, and the failure to obtain a top-flight LF for the past (seems like) decade, I am over Wren, The Bird-Brain.
Bat Masterson
July 12th, 2012
8:30 pm
I’m thinking Simmons’ hand was only bruised and Uggla broke it to get the good Pastor back up. Takes some of the heat off.
NickB
July 12th, 2012
8:30 pm
what if all those players you listed had performed excellently? would you still hate him?
Do you think GM’s should be psychic?
MiaBchBravesFan
July 12th, 2012
8:30 pm
Lew, ALMOST AWESOME! Pig-ladelphia!!!
MiaBchBravesFan
July 12th, 2012
8:32 pm
No, Nick The Extremist! I would’ve settled for a .333 batting average out of those three examples; not an abject cluster @#%&. Or is THAT too much to ask, Your Excellency?
count_schemula*
July 12th, 2012
8:33 pm
“Hinske- no way to know he’d have this bad of a year”
Hinske got fat.
Riding the pine for $2M and can’t even stay in shape. And we thought he was a pro’s pro.
NickB
July 12th, 2012
8:35 pm
yer missing the point, GM’s can only judge talent by what it has don in the past, and whil I thought it was an overpay for Lowe, there were no indications he would just suck like he did, same with Nate, it’s not lik Mclouth had a bad year and Wren traded for him hoping he would revert to prior form, he was raking in Pitt.
ALL JAPANESE PITCHERS ARE A CRAPSHOOT, at least the Braves didn’t pony up a $50 mill posting fee plus a 6 year deal for him
NickB
July 12th, 2012
8:37 pm
my “e” key seems to be working when it feels like it
richbrave
July 12th, 2012
8:38 pm
You know MIKE TROUT was exactly who I had in mind when I postulated that the BRAVES should stick with the best player available when they pick in the 1st round rather than the best remaining pitcher.
richbrave
July 12th, 2012
8:39 pm
PHILLY AAA team is named the PIGS – IRON-PIGS that is. Ah, the feckless pigs! Heh!
count_schemula*
July 12th, 2012
8:40 pm
Or change to drafting hitters. Let other pay for and develop pitchers and build most of the rotation through FA.
All draft picks are sketch, but, pitchers moreso.
Capt.Mudd
July 12th, 2012
8:40 pm
The University of Pennsylvania….or with brevity; simply Penn….is entrenched in Ivy League yore. A fabulous institution of higher education and a historical gem. The Quakers…..nice football unis too!
richbrave
July 12th, 2012
8:40 pm
‘Big BEN’ coming to your town soon.
MiaBchBravesFan
July 12th, 2012
8:42 pm
Nick, I’ve said it before, look it up. The DAY they signed Lowe was the most idiotic, reactive signing in recent memory. Yeah, they stank up the place in 08, but instead of thowing $60 million at him, it was the perfect time to rebuild and hoard some money. The Lowe signing triggered the optimism that caused the stupid KK signing, compounded by the need to waste more money on McLouth.
When you are the Braves owned by Liberty Media, Frank Wren DOES NOT have the luxury of screwing up. If the guy is not a lead pipe cinch, hoard the money and rebuild. The fact that Wren doesn’t know a solid positional player or hitter from a wad of used gum makes him an even bigger useless idiot. Hell, what did he ever do in Baltimore except waste Angelos’ money. This from a guy who parlayed riding Dombrowski’s coattails during the Huizenga $$$ Era into a career of GM mediocrity!
Capt.Mudd
July 12th, 2012
8:48 pm
“Simple Minds” too.
NickB
July 12th, 2012
8:48 pm
well, every EDUCATED Braves fan I have spoken with agrees with me…
so put that in yer pipe and smoke it chief
kenhotlanta
July 12th, 2012
8:48 pm
Bat, I don’t understand…I tried 3 times to submit the same comment, and once using that word and it didn’t show up and with no moderation either. That word was the only one I used that it wouldn’t accept. Very strange and it has never happened with any of my comments to me before. Oh well, moving on…
Powderfinger
July 12th, 2012
8:49 pm
MiaBchBravesFan—In all fairness to FW, I think Angelos called most of the shots in Baltimore, just as he has since he owned the team (with the jury still being out on this edition). But I feel your passion…
Trader Jack
July 12th, 2012
8:50 pm
Capt.Mudd
July 12th, 2012
8:40 pm
The University of Pennsylvania….or with brevity; simply Penn….is entrenched in Ivy League yore. A fabulous institution of higher education and a historical gem. The Quakers…..nice football unis too!
Proud to be a Quaker, spent many Saturday afternoons at Franklin Field
MiaBchBravesFan
July 12th, 2012
8:50 pm
And that’s OK too, Nick. We agree to disagree. That’s OK, I’m a cigar man myself.
ChattTownBrian
July 12th, 2012
8:50 pm
There are so many regulars that go over to Bradley’s Schultz blog under different names. Also notice when DOB or Carroll write a side blog barely any of the regs from here are posting there. Riiiight. Sure, sneaky little shyts!
Capt.Mudd
July 12th, 2012
8:52 pm
@MiamiBetchBravesFan……I intrepidly agree with your logic and reasoning as rendered above….good stuff……but more and more I see an absence of ‘common sense’ employed by MLB GM’s.
The A Bomb
July 12th, 2012
8:52 pm
Team still undecided about shortstop position.
The TEAM seems to be UNDECIDED about a lot this season.
Unbelievable.
MiaBchBravesFan
July 12th, 2012
8:53 pm
Thanks, P-finger. After a decade of GM brilliance – and Ted’s money! – like the 90’s were, these past 12 years have been a veritable about-face of incompetence and brutal waste.
ChattTownBrian
July 12th, 2012
8:53 pm
“Simple Minds too” Capt.Mudd
I liked two or three of their songs.
The A Bomb
July 12th, 2012
8:55 pm
Wren has done what he has thought best.
But he will never get the nickname KING MIDAS.
ChattTownBrian
July 12th, 2012
8:55 pm
A Bomb, as bad as Jack is a hitter, you’d better be thankful he’s here. His glove and arm are above average. He can stand there and not move in the box for all I care. But, at least he can bunt. He has to be starting now. Has to be. They cannot do that to our pitchers having TP there.
MiaBchBravesFan
July 12th, 2012
8:56 pm
By the way, Capt. Mudd, my cousin was a Wharton School grad (96). The fam is very proud of him, and his business is a boomin’. I am hoping to go up one fall with him to catch a game at Franklin Field, one of the truest stadium treasures this country has to offer!
Capt.Mudd
July 12th, 2012
8:58 pm
Here’s a thought….could this be? When one chooses to kvetch…..ahem, one then assumes a different blog moniker to do so….which in turn, allows them to savor their original names fine standing?
kenhotlanta
July 12th, 2012
8:58 pm
I’m starting to watch Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life”…anybody see it or have any advice? Most of the reviews were not kind, but it’s got Sean Penn and Brad Pitt.
The A Bomb
July 12th, 2012
9:00 pm
With Wilson-Pitcher at 8-9, you’re looking at giving up 7-8 outs per game and few rallies. And he’s not as good defensively as he used to be.
He’s a guy who’s decent defensively, awful offensively and basically on his last legs. We could’ve done a helluva lot better in the offseason — Punto, Keppinger etc.
count_schemula*
July 12th, 2012
9:00 pm
“I’m starting to watch Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life”…anybody see it or have any advice? Most of the reviews were not kind, but it’s got Sean Penn and Brad Pitt.”
Tried to do “Days of Heaven” last night but the Netflix DVD was cracked.
Malick is usually worth watching on some level, just jump on in.
ChattTownBrian
July 12th, 2012
9:01 pm
Capt.Mudd, that is exactly what goes on. They might even bash their other self using their regular blog name.
Kat
July 12th, 2012
9:01 pm
According to Twitter Braves picked up SS Terry Tiffee at AAA.
https://twitter.com/YorkSportsGuy/status/223562037224153090
Powderfinger
July 12th, 2012
9:02 pm
kenhotlanta—Don’t know that one, but Malick’s stuff usually moves at a pace all its own. I think all you can do is to give it a shot. His films tend to be pretty polarizing…
richbrave
July 12th, 2012
9:04 pm
DOWN ON THE FARM
GCL-ORLANDO
STANKIES win 1-0. RATS! I hate the STANKIES…………on every level!!!!
2010 DSL grad RHSP ABE ESPINOSA [L 0-4, 5.71 ERA] 4.0 IP, 1 H, 1 R/ER, 2 BB, 2 SO.
This one is on the offense. You’ve got to score at least one run every game. It’s your job.
2012 9th round RHRP STEVEN SCHILS [40.50 ERA] 0.2 IP, no-hits, 3 BB, 1 SO.
Rookie Independent Leaguer DON DRAKE [0.00 ERA] 1.1 IP, 2 H, zeros, 3 SO.
2011 DSL grad RHRP JORGE MONTENEGRO [6.94 ERA] 0.0 IP, zeros.
2011 DSL grad JOEY MENSES [.234 BA] 2-3, 1 SO, 1 CS [3].
2011 DSL grad 1B ROBBY ARNO [.296 BA] 1-2, 1 SB [1].
2012 3rd round C BRYAN De La ROSA [.241 BA] 1-1, 1 2B [1], 1 BB.
count_schemula*
July 12th, 2012
9:05 pm
on IMDB re: Tree of Life
“Any other masterpieces with a sub 7 score?”
It’s probably a good movie wrongly panned by the mass. The mass hates slow. I love it. Badlands. Jim Jarmusch, etc.Sounds like Tree of Life wanders some. That bugs some people.
kenhotlanta
July 12th, 2012
9:07 pm
Thanks, I liked “Days of Heaven”.
count_schemula*
July 12th, 2012
9:10 pm
“Capt.Mudd, that is exactly what goes on. They might even bash their other self using their regular blog name.”
Who is this they you speak of so sneakily like a school girl?
ncbravesfan90
July 12th, 2012
9:11 pm
For what its worth, Pastornicky started at second base tonight for Gwinnett, not shortstop.
Capt.Mudd
July 12th, 2012
9:11 pm
@MiaFan…..I too, congratulate your cousin on his wise career choice and subsequent successes….as to Franklin Field, the aesthetics of such simply touch the soul in a very special way. I have a relative who graduated Bucknell undergrad and then went on to Philadelphia Medical College–has been a Cardiologist for several years and too, married a Penn undergrad who went on to become an Orthopaedic surgeon…….I spent 5 years in PA and generally love the state.
Kat
July 12th, 2012
9:14 pm
nc.. they just acquired another SS .. maybe they are moving Pastor to 2nd. See my 9:01.
keylargo
July 12th, 2012
9:15 pm
As much as i would like to see MLB be sued over refusal to meet a slotted draft choice on the pre agreed on amount, i hope MLB sneaks out and leaves the Marlins on their own. The Marlins’ have been an embarrassment for years and all I can say is i hope the Marlins are left to pay every legel penny and then pay the player about triple what he originally deserved.
We just don’t need franchises like the Marlins drag proud long term franchises down to their level. They are in this to reap a huge financial profit by selling their team with in the next few years. I’ld like to see some regulations put in place to make sure that deal is above board.
Loria and Sampson are smart men who feel they are smarter than the other franchises. They plan to sell the team along with the stadium (paid for by the public) for a giant profit in the near futrure.
ncbravesfan90
July 12th, 2012
9:16 pm
Kat-
Yeah i saw that, thanks for the info on that!! I think this probably means they won’t be calling up Pastornicky…what do you think?
Kat
July 12th, 2012
9:18 pm
Hmm dunno… even when they say they are going to do something they don’t always. So ya got me I won’t pretend to guess
ncbravesfan90
July 12th, 2012
9:19 pm
Haha yeah, true.
count_schemula*
July 12th, 2012
9:20 pm
Maybe there is some truth to the Hudson rumors? If he actually said he changed the way he pitched with Pastor in there… that’s a big deal.
Capt.Mudd
July 12th, 2012
9:20 pm
@ChattTownBrian…..Ever hear a tune by ‘Minds’; Someone Somewhere in Summertime?
ncbravesfan90
July 12th, 2012
9:22 pm
“Maybe there is some truth to the Hudson rumors? If he actually said he changed the way he pitched with Pastor in there… that’s a big deal.”
I agree, I believe they are true.
MiaBchBravesFan
July 12th, 2012
9:23 pm
keylargo: on point, as always! The marlins are owned and office-managed by a bunch of scum bums and carpetbaggers!!!
Powderfinger
July 12th, 2012
9:25 pm
All things considered, I’d much rather lose out to the Nats than the So Fla Fish…every day… week after week…month after month…year after year…
MiaBchBravesFan
July 12th, 2012
9:28 pm
Let’s pause for a moment here. Wren had touted Pastornicky all winter long as a suitable replacement at SS. My dead paternal grandmother could scout a SS and in five minutes could tell you if he could play plus defense in the MLB – as most of us can on this blog.
You mean to tell me that Wren finally gets the Pastornicky-sucks-on-D memo after a third of a season, plus time spent in his minor league system???
Your honor, I rest my case.
MiaBchBravesFan
July 12th, 2012
9:30 pm
P-finger, imagine my roiling disgust at having to tolerate the blithering yahoo’s down here who drink mullet-ade like it’s single-malt!
Then again, folks down here wouldn’t know a single-malt from swamp water.
Bat Masterson
July 12th, 2012
9:30 pm
Maybe they picked that dude up so they can bring Pastor Nicky back up.
Capt.Mudd
July 12th, 2012
9:31 pm
The Marlins, IMO are swimming in murky dangerous superslime
Powderfinger
July 12th, 2012
9:32 pm
MiaBchBravesFan—I really think Wren had no choice but to start the Rev here to start the season. All he needed to see was how Andy did at a level above A-ball. End result is…we have our shortstop for several years to come (just got to fill in for a couple of weeks while the finger recovers)…