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Venice Jim
August 6th, 2012
12:34 am
Of course, it would be morally wrong to quit on the 501st post on the blog. Which makes you think about how the Braves playing so well is destroying blog hits for DOB without the countless posts by those who revel in the Braves’ miseries when those occur…we’d probably be at 250 tonight if it wasn’t for Uggla-related posts…(not saying those are unwarranted, btw)…
Venice Jim
August 6th, 2012
12:36 am
By 503, moral ambiguity creeps in…
DiamondbackMac
August 6th, 2012
12:40 am
! hour until Curosity lands on Mars.
DiamondbackMac
August 6th, 2012
12:42 am
That should have been “1″.
Columbus
August 6th, 2012
12:44 am
to all of you naysayers…..screw you and the horse your ode in on! Amen!
David O'Brien
August 6th, 2012
12:45 am
Video: Medlen shines as Braves complete 8-2 homestand
http://blogs.ajc.com/atlanta-braves-blog/2012/08/06/ajc-video-medlen-shines-as-braves-cap-8-2-homestand/
Bonannie
August 6th, 2012
12:55 am
Loves me some Chipper! He truly has an amazing eye and patience! His positive attitude and actions greatly uplift his team mates, and opponents seem pretty impressed by him too. Glad I got to see this future Hall-of-Famer play – especially since he still does give it his all! Kudos Chipper!
Brave Luke
August 6th, 2012
1:22 am
If Chipper does indeed retire after this season, no one should worry, He should be a definite first ballot Hall of Famer in 2018, and as a Atlanta Brave his entire career!!! I know myself and the rest of you would love to see him come back next season and go for some more records & milestones… such as (500 HR’s & 3,000 Hits), 1,700 RBI’s, another Silver Slugger, and a 1st Gold Glove in which he has deserved for at least 3 of his seasons, he was robbed and it ticks me off… but that’s another story! Have fun with your retirement and all of the hunting CJ10…!
DiamondbackMac
August 6th, 2012
1:34 am
Curosity is on the surface of Mars.
Ward
August 6th, 2012
2:14 am
Hello everyone! Do I have a curosity on Mars? No, just the science quacks……Braves will still have to hit better against the Phillies, and the Phillies wont lay down, so it should be an interesting series. Braves can’t go hit like they did playing the Astros against the Phillies, or they will get spanked. I hope for a good series? and Peace my friends, and “Go!!!!!Braves!!!!!”
Hmmmm
August 6th, 2012
2:53 am
“If Chipper does indeed retire after this season”
I don’t think there’s any need for that “if”
Couch Tater
August 6th, 2012
5:30 am
Strasburg at 127.1 innings. Speculation, they’ll shut him down at 160. Look for a tweaked toe, finger, hamstring, etc., on his 8/28 @Miami start. Possibly, another away game. Mets 9/12? He’s been averaging 6 innings a start…That’d get through all the ATL. series.
The Couch Prognostatercator.
Jeff R
August 6th, 2012
7:49 am
Bourn needs a couple days off, I think.
Tomahawkin
August 6th, 2012
7:50 am
Huge Huge Homestand…Braves Did what they needed to do…And The rotation has finally been consistant over the last 5 weeks….
Braves Should Take out the Trash easily in Philly and take 2 out of 3….This would be a Statement series If Philly wasn’t in last place
I still love the fact we Put a Fatality on their season with that sweep at home….
Jeff R
August 6th, 2012
7:53 am
Strasburg at 127.1 innings. Speculation, they’ll shut him down at 160.
In a tight race with the Braves, do the Nats shut down their ace, knowing that they could compromise their lead? Or do the Nats let Strasburg pitch, knowing that they could put too much strain on his arm? Maybe the Nats just strictly limit Strasburg’s pitch count?
CB
August 6th, 2012
7:57 am
Couch, should that have not been prognostradamuscater?
Brian from SC
August 6th, 2012
8:09 am
The Braves pitching staff is doing work. They have now allowed 3 or fewer earned runs in 13 consecutive games. That’s tied for the franchise’s fifth-longest streak of allowing 3 ER or less in the live ball era:
16 games: 8/28/93 – 9/14/93
15 games: 9/19/92 – 10/3/92
15 games: 4/27/54 – 5/14/54
14 games: 5/9/43 – 5/28/43
13 games: 7/23/12 – 8/5/12
13 games: 9/19/45 – 4/21/46
13 games: 8/6/40 – 8/16/40
Who would have thought this pitching staff would have done that?
Brian from SC
August 6th, 2012
8:15 am
Since May 8th, the Braves have a 3.47 ERA. Over the same span, the Nationals’ ERA is 3.53. Over 80 games and almost 3 months, the Braves have pitched better than Washington.
Jeff R
August 6th, 2012
8:15 am
The Braves pitching staff is doing work. They have now allowed 3 or fewer earned runs in 13 consecutive games. That’s tied for the franchise’s fifth-longest streak of allowing 3 ER or less in the live ball era
Sheets is slated to go in Philly tonight. Let’s see if he and the pen can keep the run going.
CrαZy
August 6th, 2012
8:23 am
just the science quacks
What does that mean??
ncscoots
August 6th, 2012
8:24 am
Who would have thought this pitching staff would have done that?
My enthusiasm is tempered by the quality of the competition against which they have done it.
jeffrey d
August 6th, 2012
8:28 am
Didn’t Sheets give up 4 runs in his last start?
jeffrey d
August 6th, 2012
8:28 am
No….4 R, 3 ER. My bad
ncscoots
August 6th, 2012
8:30 am
Strasburg at 127.1 innings. Speculation, they’ll shut him down at 160.
And I think folks forget that Detwiler threw only 150 IP last year. It would be unsurprising to see him start to fade a little. I also expect Gio to start walking the park, any day now. It’s in the man’s nature.
jeffrey d
August 6th, 2012
8:32 am
The Braves are 2nd in the league in ERA since the All Star Break at 3.12
jeffrey d
August 6th, 2012
8:33 am
The bullpen’s 3rd in ERA and have 340 K’s in 338 innings.
Of course, like 200 of those are from Kimbrel
Brian from SC
August 6th, 2012
8:35 am
Since July 1st (31 games), the Braves bullpen has a 1.81 ERA.
How about this trio: Since May 8th, which was a long time ago, Kimbrel has a 0.58 ERA, O’Flaherty has a 0.96, and Durbin has a 1.16.
jeffrey d
August 6th, 2012
8:36 am
Since August 1st, the Braves are 2nd in the NL in ERA at 1.
jeffrey d
August 6th, 2012
8:37 am
That should say August 5th…..
Jeff R
August 6th, 2012
8:44 am
The Nats get the Astros in Houston for four. The Braves have the tougher opponent in the Phils at Philly for three. I would expect the Nats to gain a game, game and a half here.
archie
August 6th, 2012
8:44 am
What the heck happened to Jordan Schafer? Remember when the “experts” touted him as the next great Braves CF? Now he’s lost his starting role on one of the worst teams in the history of baseball. He’s hitting .218. He was said to be at least a four-tool player. Now..he’s lost his tools. What happened?
jeffrey d
August 6th, 2012
8:46 am
What happened?
Peanut butter cups
DiamondbackMac
August 6th, 2012
8:47 am
CraZy
just the science quacks
What does that mean??
It’s just Ward trying to be funny. He’s not very good at it.
Brian from SC
August 6th, 2012
8:51 am
Since May 12th, Kimbrel, Durbin, Medlen, and O’Flaherty have lost one lead each, while Venters has lost two leads in that span. But in those six games, the Braves have won four of them.
mcdaviddawg
August 6th, 2012
8:56 am
Chipper can’t play a position physically or mentally, so he either retires or goes to the American league. His poor third base play contributes to almost as many scores as his bat.
Brian from SC
August 6th, 2012
8:56 am
Michael Bourn is hitting .179 with 30 strikeouts in 84 at-bats in his last 20 games.
ncscoots
August 6th, 2012
8:57 am
What happened?
The wrist, and too many folks in his ear telling him to be a slap-hitting, bunting, leadoff hitter.
Hillbilly
August 6th, 2012
8:58 am
Attended my first minor league baseball game Thursday in Montgomery.
Zeke Spruill was not too sharp and he got shelled. 86-87 on the fastball. A couple of untimely walks and a couple of bombs…one was a Grand Slam off the bat of Mikie Mahtook. Everything Montgomery hit was hit hard. It was not pretty.
Got to see Joey T hit a moon shot, though, and Evan Gattis looked comfortable in left field…not like I would have imagined a converted catcher would.
Jeff R
August 6th, 2012
9:04 am
Michael Bourn is hitting .179 with 30 strikeouts in 84 at-bats in his last 20 games.
Bourn needs a break.
ncscoots
August 6th, 2012
9:05 am
Michael Bourn is hitting .179 with 30 strikeouts in 84 at-bats in his last 20 games.
Yet, the Braves are averaging about five runs a game in those outings. I would have thought that Bourn and Prado cooling off would have had a more deleterious effect on the scoring, but that appears to not be the case.
doug
August 6th, 2012
9:05 am
We got a nice park in Montgomery, don’t we Hillbilly?
Brian from SC
August 6th, 2012
9:06 am
That’s where lineup depth comes in…Bourn and Prado go cold…and up steps Chipper, Freddie, and McCann.
ncscoots
August 6th, 2012
9:08 am
That’s where lineup depth comes in
Been saying it since February.
Don’t think many folks believed me, back then.
Efrim
August 6th, 2012
9:22 am
Braves are 20-7 in their last 27 games.
Efrim
August 6th, 2012
9:24 am
Heyward is on pace for 66 walks. If he gets to 70 coming off of a terrible year, we may still have to consider that “elite walker” status could still be present as he is “trying to figure things out”.
I know TenneseePaul won’t believe that though….
Efrim
August 6th, 2012
9:25 am
He’s also on pace for 159 strikeouts in 158 games. Doesn’t bother me too much, but I would like it if it was a bit less than that. Maybe in the 130’s.
David O'Brien
August 6th, 2012
9:30 am
Chipper can’t play a position physically or mentally, so he either retires or goes to the American league. His poor third base play contributes to almost as many scores as his bat. — mcdaviddawg
Oh, really? In 69 games, he’s driven in 48 runs and scored 39. But his defense has let in almost as many? OK, mcdaviddawg. I’ll take your word on that.
Efrim
August 6th, 2012
9:31 am
Heyward has hit .261/.353/.417 since July 2nd with 40 strikeouts and 17 walks in 133 plate appearances since July 2nd – a pace of 216 strikeouts and 92 walks over 162 games.
David O'Brien
August 6th, 2012
9:36 am
Since May 12th, Kimbrel, Durbin, Medlen, and O’Flaherty have lost one lead each, while Venters has lost two leads in that span. But in those six games, the Braves have won four of them. — Brian from SC
What about the lead Gearrin lost yesterday? Or are you giving that blown lead to Medlen because it was his run? If so, a bit of a misleading stat.
Anyway, they won.
Lew
August 6th, 2012
9:36 am
Chipper’s defense gives up as many runs as his offense creates? Where do people come up with this crap?
Efrim
August 6th, 2012
9:36 am
On track to miss R.A. Dickey this weekend in Queens. Very nice.
Arkansas Transplant
August 6th, 2012
9:38 am
Back from vacation and batteries recharged.
Brian from SC
August 6th, 2012
9:38 am
DOB, I was only highlighting those five relievers. Wasn’t looking at anyone else or making a comment about the entire bullpen in that post.
David O'Brien
August 6th, 2012
9:38 am
Didn’t Sheets give up 4 runs in his last start? — jeffrey d
Four runs (three earned) in 6-2/3 innings.
Arkansas Transplant
August 6th, 2012
9:40 am
Took in the Braves/Marlins game on the rainy Tuesday night last week. Besides the hour plus delay, it was a great day at the park. It’s always nice when the home team wins! And not too shabby of an offensive output either.
Hillbilly
August 6th, 2012
9:41 am
We got a nice park in Montgomery, don’t we Hillbilly?
Absolutely do, Doug. I hate that we had to leave early because my daughter wasn’t feeling well, but I was definitely impressed with the venue. We were on the front row next to the Biscuits dugout…being that close to the action is something I’m not used to.
ncscoots
August 6th, 2012
9:42 am
We were on the front row next to the Biscuits dugout…being that close to the action is something I’m not used to.
Pick up any good chatter? Minor leaguers normally are still working on their chatter, but sometimes you can pick up a reusable nugget or two.
David O'Brien
August 6th, 2012
9:43 am
DOB, I was only highlighting those five relievers. Wasn’t looking at anyone else or making a comment about the entire bullpen in that post. — Brian from SC
Understood. Thanks for clarifying.
Arkansas Transplant
August 6th, 2012
9:47 am
Here’s to hoping the Nationals continues to cool on the pitching front and the offense begins to stumble. I’m ready to read the headlines, “Braves take first down the stretch run”.
Brian from SC
August 6th, 2012
9:47 am
Jason Heyward has scored four runs in the last four games. On every single one of them, he scored from first base on a double. 3 doubles by Chipper, one by Freeman.
Love watching that kid go on the basepaths.
Hillbilly
August 6th, 2012
9:48 am
Pick up any good chatter? Minor leaguers normally are still working on their chatter, but sometimes you can pick up a reusable nugget or two -ncscoots
Couldn’t hear a sound over the crying baby in my lap, but my oldest two got to meet and take a picture with Mahtook, and my son got a ball from one of the Biscuits coaches as he walked by from the bullpen to the dugout. That made it all worth it.
Hillbilly
August 6th, 2012
9:52 am
Love watching that kid go on the basepaths.
Me, too. Maybe not the fastest, but as good of a base-runner as you’ll ever see.
Efrim
August 6th, 2012
9:53 am
Love watching that kid go on the basepaths.
As do I. Lots of value in that kids baserunning and defense in RF.
Efrim
August 6th, 2012
9:55 am
Hillbilly – Awesome to hear you had a fun trip. Zeke was 86-87? Hmm. I always thought he was 89-91, but maybe he was just tired that day?
Murph
August 6th, 2012
10:01 am
The games were blacked out for me this weekend. Which makes sense… because I live in Austin, which is 3 hours away from Houston… and they were on the road… so, yeah, didn’t get to watch any of it.
MLB really needs to rethink their blackout policies.
DAP
August 6th, 2012
10:01 am
scoots I also expect Gio to start walking the park, any day now. It’s in the man’s nature.
i expected that to start happening already…im wondering if it will happen.
scoots I would have thought that Bourn and Prado cooling off would have had a more deleterious effect on the scoring, but that appears to not be the case.
thanks to chipper, heyward, freeman and mccann being hot.
ncscoots
August 6th, 2012
10:02 am
MLB really needs to rethink their blackout policies.
I think it’s just a conspiracy against you, personally, Murph. Pretty sure everybody else in Austin got to watch.
CrαZy
August 6th, 2012
10:06 am
his poor third base play contributes to almost as many scores as his bat— mcdaviddawg
Typical over exaggerating UGA Dawg fan!!
Brian from SC
August 6th, 2012
10:09 am
Y’all see the end of that Indians/Tigers game yesterday? Brutal.
The Indians got a 3-run lead going to the bottom of the 10th. Chris Perez got the first two hitters out, then walk, walk, double, single home run. Game over.
Efrim
August 6th, 2012
10:10 am
So, this is basically our starting rotation for 2013, right? Just replace Ben Sheets with James Shields and we’re all set, no?
Murph
August 6th, 2012
10:12 am
I think it’s just a conspiracy against you, personally, Murph. Pretty sure everybody else in Austin got to watch.
I thought the same, so I switched to the neighbor’s wifi, but still no joy.
PS – Don’t use your dog’s name as your password for anything.
ncscoots
August 6th, 2012
10:13 am
Harper, since June 15: .223/.289/.321.
Five weeks of newness, followed by The Book. So, I guess even multi-generational talents can be figured out. Not that you’d know it from Nats announcers. I think they still believe he’s hitting .330 and wowing everybody.
Brian from SC
August 6th, 2012
10:15 am
And Davey’s still got Harper hitting that #2 spot. Their offense has still been pretty good of late, though. LaRoche has been carrying them.
Venice Jim
August 6th, 2012
10:16 am
Washington’s Gio Gonzalez is 1-3 with a 4.75 ERA since the All-Star break. (Jon Morosi)
ncscoots
August 6th, 2012
10:18 am
Y’all see the end of that Indians/Tigers game yesterday? Brutal.
I’m going with semi-brutal. I’m holding up the bar for “brutal” to Mike Dunn’s puking up the game (in big, industrial-sized chunks) against the Nats.
All others must be judged by that one, LOL.
TheOnlyBravesFan
August 6th, 2012
10:19 am
So, this is basically our starting rotation for 2013, right? Just replace Ben Sheets with James Shields and we’re all set, no?
I think you meant Zack Greinke.
Lew
August 6th, 2012
10:20 am
Greinke will never be a Brave. Just won’t happen.
ncscoots
August 6th, 2012
10:21 am
LaRoche has been carrying them.
And for the life of me, I can’t be mad about that. Laroche is one of the good guys, and I am really happy to see him do well. I can pull for Ryan Zimmerman to fall off a cliff, but I can’t find it in my heart to root against Adam.
Lew
August 6th, 2012
10:25 am
Kind of ironic that the player carrying the Nats right now is the one they tried so hard to replace last winter.
Efrim
August 6th, 2012
10:25 am
Harper, since June 15: .223/.289/.321.
Almost two months of not playable ugly.
CrαZy
August 6th, 2012
10:25 am
So, this is basically our starting rotation for 2013, right? Just replace Ben Sheets with James Shields and we’re all set, no? — EFRIM
I think you meant Zack Greinke. TOBF
Destined to be disappointed ↑↑
ncscoots
August 6th, 2012
10:29 am
Almost two months of not playable ugly.
Posters here would have already had him in AAA.
An avalance of “not ready/overrated” posts, for sure.
jeffrey d
August 6th, 2012
10:30 am
but I can’t find it in my heart to root against Adam.
Just focus on that lollygag he had once at first
Murph
August 6th, 2012
10:33 am
Destined to be disappointed
Just wait until the Braves end up adding Pavano as their big offseason acquisition… we’re going to skip disappointment and go straight to complete despair.
MFin04
August 6th, 2012
10:33 am
Funny how everyone in the media said the Braves were losers at the trade deadline, and that Johnson and Maholm wasn’t a good deal and the Braves failed to get Dempster. How’d Dempster (and Greinkes) first starts go?
CrαZy
August 6th, 2012
10:35 am
According the all the Heyward haters this Harper kid is a colossal bust!! They should DFA him!!
cricket
August 6th, 2012
10:35 am
difference between the tones of 1st 4 pages and current page of the blog is like between a very dark night and a sunshiny day
CrαZy
August 6th, 2012
10:38 am
How u been Murph??? You still hiding from the Five-O? Get a truck yet?
Brian from SC
August 6th, 2012
10:38 am
Funny how everyone in the media said the Braves were losers at the trade deadline,
I didn’t see anyone say that.
kenhotlanta
August 6th, 2012
10:38 am
Hillbilly, Wish you could have talked to Gattis and told him everybody in the ATL looks at him as our savior and can’t wait to see him here in LF. I wonder if he is aware of all the hoopla that his homies have for him?
Venice Jim
August 6th, 2012
10:39 am
Speaking of pitchers we opted out on, we have not heard too much from the pro-Oswalt contingent recently…
TheOnlyBravesFan
August 6th, 2012
10:39 am
How’d Dempster (and Greinkes) first starts go?
Greinke’s first start was great… better than Maholm’s. He just didn’t get any run support.
Destined to be disappointed ……Greinke will never be a Brave. Just won’t happen.
Remember me in December. I’ll be waiting. LOL
cricket
August 6th, 2012
10:41 am
Washington’s Gio Gonzalez is 1-3 with a 4.75 ERA since the All-Star break. (Jon Morosi)
he is described as wildly effective. looks like finally “wildly” is kicking “effective” ’s patootie
Hillbilly
August 6th, 2012
10:44 am
Zeke was 86-87? Hmm. I always thought he was 89-91, but maybe he was just tired that day?
Yeah, Ef, that caught my eye. Could have been the radar gun,…who knows? Some pitches weren’t even reading. All I know is that he wasn’t fooling anybody.
Murph
August 6th, 2012
10:46 am
CraZy!!! Doing well… no policia, but no new truck yet either. Playing the game, my friend… playing the game.
Spent the weekend putting together 1500 pounds of IKEA furniture. Went to get the 6 year old a desk and ended up leaving with 2 desks, 2 chairs, and some giant storage system for the girl’s playroom. The minivan was lookin’ like a low rider with all that crap in the back.
It wasn’t until I got all the furniture boxes up 2 flights of stairs that I noticed the little IKEA drawing of a sad, sweaty guy carrying the box alone with a big X through it next to a picture of 2 happy, smiling guys carrying the box.
kenhotlanta
August 6th, 2012
10:52 am
(nolie will love this): George Will wrote what could be an historic article a few days ago, not on baseball, but on the future of Football in the United States. Football is currently at the highest point in popularity that it will ever be and will soon start to slowly erode as a watchable and playable sport. The reason is the expanding knowledge that repeated hits to the head causes permanent brain damage and many other bad things that are killing and ruining the lives of more and more people that played the sport. I won’t go into all the detail, but this is something we will be hearing more and more about as the NFL’s retired veterans will sue the league for many wrongs, and as parents learn of the dangers of the constant hitting each other that the players endure, they will not let their kids even play in kiddie leagues and that feeling will slowly spread. It won’t happen overnight or maybe in the foreseeable future, but football as we know is going away unless major changes are instituted including ones that will change the very fabric of the game. It’s a very sad story due to the way former players are treated or not treated for their many problems.
Hillbilly
August 6th, 2012
10:53 am
Wish you could have talked to Gattis and told him everybody in the ATL looks at him as our savior and can’t wait to see him here in LF. I wonder if he is aware of all the hoopla that his homies have for him?
Yeah, I was by the wrong dugout so I didn’t get to talk to any Braves players.
I noticed Gattis doesn’t use batting gloves though. Raw-Dogging it. I bet the bat handle gets blisters on it.
George
August 6th, 2012
10:56 am
Good morning all
Repost from last night for you late morning folks.
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George
August 5th, 2012
8:31 pm
Very good game to win, nice homestand, some excellent games from CHIPPER. I read post-game qoutes. FREDI finnally talking about catching WAS Aand winning division, not being satisfied with play-in game. It took him long enough. I hope he was kidding when he said CHIPPER would have to take a paycut if he should change his mind. That would not even be up to FREDI about CHIPPERS salery.
ncscoots
August 6th, 2012
10:57 am
I noticed Gattis doesn’t use batting gloves though.
Doesn’t want to disappoint all batting glove manufacturers, save one. Compassionate man, Evan Gattis.
jeffrey d
August 6th, 2012
10:58 am
Evan Gattis once framed a pitch so perfectly that it counted as 2 strikes