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kevkat
July 29th, 2012
4:37 pm
Have we ever beaten Hamels, Blanton and Holiday in a series?
Ward
July 29th, 2012
4:38 pm
One Day the Philly faithful will sit down, and say what happened??????????? Way to go Braves!!!!!!!!!!!!
kevkat
July 29th, 2012
4:38 pm
Woody Woodward
July 29th, 2012
4:37 pm
Now off to Miami to “fin”ish off the fish. Don’t let em off the hook. Can’t let those games ” get away.” Or we’ll be sunk.
Ah..they come to us..I believe
Woody Woodward
July 29th, 2012
4:39 pm
“Barry manilow cancelled at Chastain.”
Damn.
Farnsworthy
July 29th, 2012
4:39 pm
Charlie manuel doesn’t have that bully smirk on his face anymore.
What happened Charlie? Can’t toss sand in the Braves faces anymore? Your team sucks? The gazillion millions you’re paying that pitching staff ain’t paying off?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha…………………..
Bravesfaninnc
July 29th, 2012
4:39 pm
@kevkat you right the Catfish are come to play the @Braves at the Ted
Bama Brave
July 29th, 2012
4:39 pm
See Chipper thinks we NEED Another Pitcher!!!!
Woody Woodward
July 29th, 2012
4:40 pm
Kevkat, fine but the bad puns and bad extended metafour still intact.
Dawg '88
July 29th, 2012
4:40 pm
LOL!
Chipper: Homerun was a “Yikkity”. And…”I wouldn’t say we need a starting pitcher but it would be appreciated”
Ray
July 29th, 2012
4:41 pm
The phils, with their huge payroll, just hit rock bottom. To the phils and their fan. Score freakin board. you were just swept out with the rest of the trash.
JC Brave
July 29th, 2012
4:42 pm
Now off to Miami to “fin”ish off the fish. Don’t let em off the hook. Can’t let those games ” get away.” Or we’ll be sunk.
The series is in ATL.
Dawg '88
July 29th, 2012
4:42 pm
Phillies ended Braves season on the last weekend last year.
Braves end Phillies season with 2 months to go. Heh,heh,heh!
Sweet!
Ward
July 29th, 2012
4:43 pm
Last rub in…….Paybacks a bitch. love it!
bostonbravo
July 29th, 2012
4:43 pm
Extend Uggla @ 5yrs…he gotta hit. BFD.
What’s disturbing is, he’s batting @ .210 & he still has great confidence. If I was stealing millions from someone & not doing my job, I couldn’t sleep nights & I would have no confidence. Don’t say, I know…he’ s a better man!
It’s ok, Batista’s pitching will make up for everything. I LOVE the team…8 all stars at any given time. Despise Ugglla & thecap tipping “manager”. and that won’t change.
LAG
July 29th, 2012
4:45 pm
kevkat – Have we ever beaten Hamels, Blanton and Holiday in a series?
We’ve beaten two of those three a few times. But this is the first time that all three took the L against us.
Hmmmm
July 29th, 2012
4:45 pm
hopefully the Brewers can hang on, it’d be really nice to gain ground before another Monday game …..
BFChris27
July 29th, 2012
4:46 pm
Rickie Weeks
Bravesfaninnc
July 29th, 2012
4:47 pm
Jon Heyman @JonHeymanCBS
gavin floyd’s name has come up in other #chisox talks. at the moment, they are the most interesting team.
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Farnsworthy
July 29th, 2012
4:48 pm
It is so great getting pay back on the Phillies with two straight sweeps. The Braves just put them in a deeper hole. Hah!!
The Phils’ players have zero swagger this year. They look, play and act like a last place team. No tears here.
Farnsworthy
July 29th, 2012
4:51 pm
The Phils are dead last, which is their rightful place in the NL East. They and the Mutts should always be fighting it out for last place.
Oh, man. After the last several years of getting stomped by the Phils, this is great!!!
Jerry
July 29th, 2012
4:54 pm
Wayne, just sent you an email.
JNick
July 29th, 2012
4:54 pm
——-(E
Hmmmm
July 29th, 2012
5:00 pm
Jeremy Hellickson matching Greinke pitch for pitch
The A Bomb
July 29th, 2012
5:01 pm
Brewers fans in love with K-Rod. Booing him off the field.
keylargo
July 29th, 2012
5:03 pm
I was watching the Olympics and saw a sport I have never seen. Women’s Field Hockey. Pretty much like a cross between hockey and soccer but some seriously good looking women athletes were on both the German and American teams.
kevkat
July 29th, 2012
5:04 pm
Woody Woodward
July 29th, 2012
4:40 pm
Kevkat, fine but the bad puns and bad extended metafour still inta
Lol
Hmmmm
July 29th, 2012
5:04 pm
KRod has given up 8 runs in his past 3 appearances vs NL East teams (he was the main reason Philly did so well against the Brewers)
kevkat
July 29th, 2012
5:06 pm
I can’t believe what I’m watching..the Nats are down by a run
kevkat
July 29th, 2012
5:07 pm
LAG
July 29th, 2012
4:45 pm
kevkat – Have we ever beaten Hamels, Blanton and Holiday in a series?
We’ve beaten two of those three a few times. But this is the first time that all three took the L against us.
Cool…thanks for the info…now we have!
Venice Jim
July 29th, 2012
5:08 pm
Axford…
kevkat
July 29th, 2012
5:08 pm
The Brewers are horrible…tie game on a wild pitch..geez
GTI in Brooklyn
July 29th, 2012
5:09 pm
Brewers are threatening to blow it…
SLBReb
July 29th, 2012
5:09 pm
Someone tell FG the brilliant one that when you pay someone millions of dollars, they should be contributing not just not hurting the team. Please trade FG and Struggla and let Chipper player manage so we can actually make the playoffs and maybe do something beyond. Good grief.
Hinske?
July 29th, 2012
5:10 pm
Hinske? With Constanza on the bench??? Really DOB, get real.
JNick
July 29th, 2012
5:10 pm
Keylargo, field hockey is huge up here in the northeast. My sister and cousin both played all thru H.S. Weird rules though, you can only use one side of that stick to hit the ball.
Disgusted
July 29th, 2012
5:11 pm
Attention Philly Trolls, please report to the blog.
Hmmmm
July 29th, 2012
5:11 pm
KRod has just fallen apart this year. He gave Philly hope (and then the Braves killed it) and now he’s helped the Nats get right back in this game
Bama Brave
July 29th, 2012
5:11 pm
the Brewers STINK!!!!!!!
Jerry
July 29th, 2012
5:12 pm
If the Brewers lose, I hope they trade us Corey Hart.
Juan
July 29th, 2012
5:12 pm
That Brewers Pen…Oh men…oh men.. Blew another one
Disgusted
July 29th, 2012
5:13 pm
Field hockey is cooler to watch than Golf.
Golf is not a sport in my book. Boring as watching pain dry,
If you cannot hit another human being it cannot be a sport.
Feel the same about Tennis too. Hate Tennis, Golf and Poker.
Hmmmm
July 29th, 2012
5:13 pm
“I hope they trade us Corey Hart”
where are we putting JHey then?
abeeewright
July 29th, 2012
5:13 pm
Brewers bullpen is desperately trying to give this game away. What a sorry bunch they are.
But, the offense is hitting homers and the Brewers regain their tenuous lead with 3 outs to get.
Trey
July 29th, 2012
5:13 pm
I love reading the Phillies comments.
http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2012_07_29_phimlb_atlmlb_1&mode=recap&c_id=phi
kevkat
July 29th, 2012
5:14 pm
Brewers back on top with homer by Aokie…..can we fly Kimbrel there for the save in the 9th
kevkat
July 29th, 2012
5:15 pm
Back to back homers by the Brewers….whooopie…can they hold it though?
BFChris27
July 29th, 2012
5:15 pm
Gomez!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
abeeewright
July 29th, 2012
5:15 pm
Back to back homers by the brew crew. 2 run lead. They might need 10 runs before their sorry bullpen secures the last three outs, though.
Ray
July 29th, 2012
5:15 pm
Back to Back homers by the Brewers
Disgusted
July 29th, 2012
5:16 pm
Micheal Phelps deserves to be Booed, he is a BUMB.
Loser with a Capital L. Big overhype.
He has become fat and lazy.
JNick
July 29th, 2012
5:16 pm
@Disgusted, agree – that’s why I don’t like basketball either. Every time you hit someone, they call a foul…no fun in that. Put up boards and make it like hockey – and allow goaltending. I’d watch a sport where Dwight Howard could put someone through the glass…
kevkat
July 29th, 2012
5:16 pm
so excited I can’t spell..
keylargo
July 29th, 2012
5:16 pm
JNick – I was definitely impressed by the conditioning and teamwork it took. I’m watching it again and I think it’s live on the NBC Sports Network which is 603 on Directv, Germany vs. USA
Efrim
July 29th, 2012
5:17 pm
Greinke with a nice start for the Angels.
JNick
July 29th, 2012
5:17 pm
@Trey…what comments?
GTI in Brooklyn
July 29th, 2012
5:18 pm
Random Stats that interest me: Two Out RBIs
FREEMAN – 62 rbi / 30 two-out rbi (48%)
McCANN – 54 rbi / 26 two-out rbi (48%)
HEYWARD – 50 rbi / 17 two-out rbi (34%)
UGGLA – 47 rbi / 26 two-out rbi (55%)
PRADO – 43 rbi / 17 two-out rbi (40%)
CHIPPER – 43 rbi / 14 two-out rbi (33%)
kevkat
July 29th, 2012
5:18 pm
Corey Hart doubles..hmmmm wish we could get him somehow..
GTI in Brooklyn
July 29th, 2012
5:18 pm
At least the Brew Crew can still HIT.
JNick
July 29th, 2012
5:19 pm
@keylargo, yeah, it’s pretty awesome. My sister tried to walk-on to the FH team at Pitt, but she ended up playing rugby instead…lol.
Jerry
July 29th, 2012
5:19 pm
Cross that road when we get to it.
Disgusted
July 29th, 2012
5:22 pm
JNick — I love hockey, but I disagree with you about Hoop, there is real physical contact in that sport.
I would take hockey over hoops, I hope that someday we can have at least an AHL team here. Maybe ATL is not suited for the NHL, but there is enough of a hockey fan community to support the AHL.
We do not draw badly with the Gladiators, who get zilch in the local papers, I would take the Glads over high school stuff.
I am not a NASCAR guy, but I can understand why car people are nuts about that sport. It is something you just have to have a taste for.
abeeewright
July 29th, 2012
5:22 pm
I was looking ahead to both the Braves and Nats schedules. I looked at the Nats first and said, “how on earth will the Braves make up much ground with how weak the Nats schedule is.”
Then I looked at the Braves schedule for the next few weeks. Yikes! Braves don’t play a decent team until the Dodgers at the mid-point of August.
Except for the Monday curse, Braves could reel off 14 wins in a row.
Disgusted
July 29th, 2012
5:23 pm
I hope Grienke does well with the LAA and hope that Artie Moreno is able to sign him.
As long as he does not go to a NY team.
Hope he stays in the A.L. We have enough good pitchers to beat.
GTI in Brooklyn
July 29th, 2012
5:24 pm
Ah, the Monday Curse. We gotta un-curse that somehow…
nolie
July 29th, 2012
5:25 pm
since 2-out ribbies depend on how often you come up in that situation, mere totals don’t tell you much of anything. you need the percentages compared to pAs
Disgusted
July 29th, 2012
5:25 pm
Poker is the dumbest thing to watch. Never understood the poker craze.
Have to say that I am not a gambler, so card games to me are stupid.
nolie
July 29th, 2012
5:26 pm
I like to play poker, watching it is an incredible bore IMO
Disgusted
July 29th, 2012
5:26 pm
Ribbies are ribbies — get an RBI and you are helping your team.
You got a guy with the century mark on RBI’s you have a guy who is having a good yr with the bat.
nolie
July 29th, 2012
5:27 pm
bologna Disgusted, another equal hitter would produce about the same in the same situations for the most part
phil
July 29th, 2012
5:30 pm
welikebaseball2
July 29th, 2012
2:17 pm
#1, I’m glad Heyward’s silenced the blog critics calling for his job after his second, injured filled season. Didn’t know how much more I could take of the tired, lame, uncreative “Wayward” moniker. #2, I don’t care how confident Uggla is in himself. That confidence isn’t giving us offensive results. He’s a streaky hitter, in the worse way. I’m going to say that I think we should consider trading him. This is obviously his pattern. Though a hot Uggla can carry a team, a cold Uggla hurts the team…and he’s cold more often than he is hot.
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wayward is one of my favorite nicknames, buckoo….glad it’s on hold but don’t ever call it lame again!!
Efrim
July 29th, 2012
5:31 pm
One team that’s almost completely shifted its focus away from starters to relievers is the Braves, according to teams that have heard from them over the weekend. Unless something changes, the Braves seem committed to moving Kris Medlen into their rotation and dealing for a reliever who could fill the hole Medlen leaves in their bullpen. – Jayson Stark
abeeewright
July 29th, 2012
5:32 pm
Jeff Francouer … 2006 … .260/.293/.449 … OPS = .742 … SO = 132 … 103 RBI
Not what I would call a good year at the plate.
JNick
July 29th, 2012
5:32 pm
Meh, I find basketball incredibly boring. Too MUCH scoring. You can pretty much solve every NBA game in 2 minutes. Spot each team 85 points, put 2 minutes on the clock, 10 timeouts (or whatever they get) for both teams and GO.
ncbravesfan90
July 29th, 2012
5:32 pm
“One team that’s almost completely shifted its focus away from starters to relievers is the Braves, according to teams that have heard from them over the weekend. Unless something changes, the Braves seem committed to moving Kris Medlen into their rotation and dealing for a reliever who could fill the hole Medlen leaves in their bullpen. – Jayson Stark”
Ouch
Efrim
July 29th, 2012
5:33 pm
I think Heyward is up to a .799 for the month of July – 2 more games to go.
nolie
July 29th, 2012
5:33 pm
get a damn RHed hitter too Wren.
Hmmmm
July 29th, 2012
5:33 pm
Brewers pen strikes again
BFChris27
July 29th, 2012
5:34 pm
Jeez Axford.
Venice Jim
July 29th, 2012
5:34 pm
AXFORD…
Jomps
July 29th, 2012
5:34 pm
Uggla needs to be in A ball…he licks!
phil
July 29th, 2012
5:34 pm
Mark
July 29th, 2012
2:27 pm
Welike
I have struggled with that as well the last couple years. Maybe not struggled but questioned why Heyward was just murdered on here by most it seemed(when he was obviously hurt) yet Uggla can be horrindous(with no injuries) for days, weeks and months on end yet “he’ll break out of it” is seen much more than it was with JHey.
I have a theory but I wont mention it.
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your racism theory is dead wrong….Uggly catches all kinds of crap here too.
nolie
July 29th, 2012
5:35 pm
Milw pen sukks even the Phils beat them 3 straight
JNick
July 29th, 2012
5:35 pm
How do you walk DeRosa to lead off the inning?????
kevkat
July 29th, 2012
5:35 pm
Every Brewer reliever should be released…
red ryder
July 29th, 2012
5:35 pm
Phils are toast!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Too bad too sad!!!!!!!!!!!!
JNick
July 29th, 2012
5:35 pm
@Jomps….licks? lol…you get an A for originality.
Disgusted
July 29th, 2012
5:36 pm
Some guys just do better in those clutch situations Nolie — I do not get the disdain for the RBI stat that has been around forever and is not going away.
Its almost like the newly fangled statheads do not want to give credit where credit is due for clutch hitting.
So Nolie, you cannot be implying that if a guy gets a hit with a couple of runners on base that he is not heling the team.
RBI’s are never going to lose their importance. RBI;s are not going away.
RBI’s > than WAR & RC
nolie
July 29th, 2012
5:36 pm
or just shot and buried in the pen
Pace
July 29th, 2012
5:36 pm
The Brewers have TWO closers and can’t do shyt! Unreal that they’d let the gNats back into this game in back to back innings. Well, hoping for a walk-off anything right now.
Lew
July 29th, 2012
5:37 pm
Yeah, right. Uggla is immune from grief on the blog. Never heard criticism of him throughout the slump – not more than once a minute throughout the day.
kevkat
July 29th, 2012
5:38 pm
nolie
July 29th, 2012
5:36 pm
or just shot and buried in the pen
that would be a lot easier..less paperwork
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Efrim
July 29th, 2012
5:38 pm
Braves next 7 games are at home vs. the Marlins(4) and the Astros(3). Starters that we’ll be facing:
Mark Buerhle
Ricky Nolasco
Nathan Eovaldi
Armando Galarraga
Lucas Harrell
Bud Norris
6 RHP’s after tomorrows start vs. the Marlins.
Then we head out on a six game road trip vs. the Phillies and Mets before coming home for four games vs. the Padres.
Not the hardest 17-game stretch for our Braves.
David O'Brien
July 29th, 2012
5:39 pm
Uggla on not letting hitting slump affect his defense or hustle, etc.
“Come on, you guys saw me play last year. For whatever reason, these peaks and valleys the last two years have been big-time peaks and big-time valleys. I learned a long time ago that no matter how you’re doing individually, you can’t always control whether or not you get hits and stuff like that, but you can control your attitude and your competitiveness and the way you play the game. I always take pride in that.”
JNick
July 29th, 2012
5:39 pm
Funny post on Gamecast:
“@AdamMcCalvy And no, Axford cannot get two blown saves.”
GTI in Brooklyn
July 29th, 2012
5:39 pm
nolie:
Yeah, I know, that’s why I pointed out that it was just a “random stat”.
I don’t, at present, have a way to total how many base runners in scoring position each guy has batted in with 2-outs vs. how many they’ve stranded, but here’s the ratio of 2-out RBIs to PAs, since that’s what you mentioned (in terms of percentage):
FREEMAN – 8%
McCANN – 8%
SIMMONS – 7.2%
BEACHY – 6.5%
UGGLA – 6.3%
ROSS – 5.6%
CHIPPER – 5.5%
HEYWARD – 4.3%
FRANCISCO – 4.2%
Disgusted
July 29th, 2012
5:39 pm
“Jeff Francouer … 2006 … .260/.293/.449 … OPS = .742 … SO = 132 … 103 RB”I
You forgot the 29 HRs and 30 something doubles.
I don;t care about OPS, the OBP was low but I can live with a low OPB if the guys produces extra basse hits and drives in runs.
nolie
July 29th, 2012
5:40 pm
RBI have a low correlation when judging individual production because they are influenced too much by outside influences such as quality of the offense and where a player hits there and who is around him. a player of equal OPS would likely do just as well.you don’t seem to be able to get the difference between ribbies as a necessity for wins and ribbies as an evaluation tool for players.
David O'Brien
July 29th, 2012
5:41 pm
More Uggla, on team being seven or eight games over .500 during his long slump:
“My teammates have been picking me up. It’s just a matter of time before I can pick them up and carry them for the rest of the second half. I’ve been a second-half player for the last three or four years, and it looks like it’s going to continue to be that way.”
nolie
July 29th, 2012
5:41 pm
but a better OPS player would have likely driven in more runs than Frenchy did that season.
Steve from OH
July 29th, 2012
5:41 pm
Golf is not a sport in my book.
Golf, tennis, running and so forth are the purest forms of sport. Just you against your opponent, no teammates to make you better or worse. I personally love golf, but I can understand how others would think it is boring…but I’d still call it a sport.
And I like Nick’s idea about making basketball more like hockey. Everything would be better if it was like hockey.