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sid
August 31st, 2012
10:49 pm
nolie the truth hurts you loser.
TheOnlyBravesFan
August 31st, 2012
10:49 pm
were we leading after 6? If so, there goes that nice figure too
I think so… wonder who performed the jinx tonight.
TheOnlyBravesFan
August 31st, 2012
10:49 pm
Well, damn
Amanda Comak @acomak
There was more than one #nats player in the clubhouse shouting out “He got him!!!” when Mayberry’s HR cleared the fence in Atlanta.
yep
August 31st, 2012
10:50 pm
September has started a day early!
NO MORE FREDI
August 31st, 2012
10:50 pm
I smell September coming.
nolie
August 31st, 2012
10:51 pm
that was cold, truth….
McFann :Ô: :Ô: :ô:
August 31st, 2012
10:51 pm
Yeah, gee! Now what—do we have 3 whole losses when leading after 6 to go with our 60-some-odd wins?
Pathetic. Why are they even gonna play out the season?…
Who Me?
August 31st, 2012
10:51 pm
Hey Sid – while you’re writing CJ off to retirement, send McCann and Uggla packing too. Let’s free up some salary space and go shopping for a few great players. Just for fun, bring Gattis up for a sip of coffee for September and sit McCann for about a month. Gattis and Ross can split the catching duties, can’t be any worse than McCann up there.
sid
August 31st, 2012
10:51 pm
pahtetic garbage losers.
TheOnlyBravesFan
August 31st, 2012
10:51 pm
Mark Zuckerman @MarkZuckerman
Plenty of applause in Nats clubhouse when Mayberry homered to put Braves behind in 10th.
Let’s go Janish… get on base kid.
September
August 31st, 2012
10:51 pm
Chipper gets thrown out at the plate loafing from second base. One run.
Janish stays at third instead of scoring on what should have been a wild pitch. Two runs.
Kimbrel throws a slider strike one to a guy looking for a fastball. Makes him look sick.
Kimbrel throws a slider strike two to a guy looking for a fastball. Makes him look sick.
Kimbrel throws a fastball 0-2 to a guy looking fastball all the way when he looked sick on the slider and BOOM! Ballgame!
Braves aren’t good enough or smart enough to play lax baseball and expect to win.
Their slack play cost them the game tonight.
Vabravesfan
August 31st, 2012
10:51 pm
phillies just come in our house and take care of business. were playing like we have a playoff spot locked down or something.
ncbravesfan90
August 31st, 2012
10:51 pm
Ball was only 6 inches inside on Uggla….tough luck
The A Bomb
August 31st, 2012
10:51 pm
ANY TIME Gonzalez starts making moves before the 7th inning it doesn’t usually end well.
ZERO creativity. Unless, of course, it’s written down 24 hours prior. He is outmanaged and that proves how good this team COULD be.
But most of the team plays like they hate playing for this guy.
the truth...
August 31st, 2012
10:52 pm
Uggla………….the K-Man
nolie
August 31st, 2012
10:52 pm
Yanish bobbed back up over 200 for a day or two anyway….
sid
August 31st, 2012
10:52 pm
who me? they need to go.sadly, it likely will not happen.
TheOnlyBravesFan
August 31st, 2012
10:52 pm
sid the jerk, I see.
McFann: Those 3 losses mean the world… more important than the wins…. facts don’t matter
NO MORE FREDI
August 31st, 2012
10:53 pm
I called it. Told you not playing playoff type baseball for a run in the first was going to hurt. Fredi is clueless. Bet tomorrow he throws out a funky lineup like that will be the answer. You suck Fredi. There is no answer for that.
monty
August 31st, 2012
10:53 pm
Sad…crunch time and they are faltering again. Major failure on Minor to shut them down after given the lead, failure to get add-on runs and failure of KImbrell to give that sweet a pitch with 2 strikes, and failure by CM. Sad night.
nolie
August 31st, 2012
10:53 pm
sid, you wouldn’t know a baseball truth if it came up and introduced itself
ncbravesfan90
August 31st, 2012
10:53 pm
“Uggla………….the K-Man”
Also, the man who put the Braves ahead in the 6th……..
vitriol spewer (phil)
August 31st, 2012
10:53 pm
Boooooooooo!!
Powder Blue
August 31st, 2012
10:54 pm
The Atlanta Braves are choking. We’re all quite familiar with how this script reads.
TBbravesfan
August 31st, 2012
10:54 pm
who cares chip
Vabravesfan
August 31st, 2012
10:54 pm
pretty bad when were considered a top team but were getting clowned and all the tweet ragging on us about the nationals gaining ground every night.
Busch Leaguer
August 31st, 2012
10:54 pm
Braves Fans are you ready for some Football.
sid
August 31st, 2012
10:54 pm
September….be careful to critic the great Chipper…..you’ll be called a hater.
TheOnlyBravesFan
August 31st, 2012
10:55 pm
September (or whoever you really are)…. what if Kimbrel throws another slider and the guy gets a hit, possibly a HR… then everyone is blaming him for not mixing up his pitches. Can’t have it both ways. I didn’t mind the FB being thrown, just pick a different location…. like low and away for a ball.
relegated to PTV
August 31st, 2012
10:55 pm
Struggla isn’t pointing to the Phil’s dugout now…
ncbravesfan90
August 31st, 2012
10:55 pm
Mayberry doing it all tonight, as he usual does against the Braves.
TheOnlyBravesFan
August 31st, 2012
10:55 pm
Hinske? Game over
Jerry
August 31st, 2012
10:55 pm
Yessir, gonna be a sweep I do believe. The collapse is a coming.
ChattTownBrian
August 31st, 2012
10:55 pm
I’m Mayberry’d out!
sid
August 31st, 2012
10:56 pm
nolie keep your head up your a–
Trey
August 31st, 2012
10:56 pm
sid, you may want to reconsider butting heads with nolie. He knows a lot about this game.
Bronke
August 31st, 2012
10:56 pm
Hey Fredi doesn’t this look familiar?
Dum-Bass
August 31st, 2012
10:56 pm
Erick Hinske being the “last hope” somehow reminds me of the captain being the last man on the Titanic.
nolie
August 31st, 2012
10:56 pm
you always take every opportunity to rip Chipper, thus you are a Chipper-hater. pretty elementary there sid old buddy
Trey
August 31st, 2012
10:56 pm
“.be careful to critic the great Chipper”
I think you mean critique.
TBbravesfan
August 31st, 2012
10:56 pm
swangski
vitriol spewer (phil)
August 31st, 2012
10:57 pm
Hinske?
Good grief…
Tomahawkin (Suffering Fan)
August 31st, 2012
10:57 pm
@Vabravesfan…
Co-Sign on that 1051 post
This Game will cost us in the final weeks, Bank On It!
sid
August 31st, 2012
10:57 pm
enough time wasted on this crap outta here
TheOnlyBravesFan
August 31st, 2012
10:57 pm
Braves Fans are you ready for some Football.
Not really, I don’t get fully into football until the baseball season is over. Any more questions?
T-Dawg
August 31st, 2012
10:57 pm
Can’t stomach another collapse especially when I don’t see the team giving 100%. Very disappointed.
Powder Blue
August 31st, 2012
10:57 pm
“The collapse is a coming.”
Situation normal.
the truth...
August 31st, 2012
10:57 pm
nothing more to say….hate to go to bed with that sick feeling in the gut after you watched another give away…
stizz
August 31st, 2012
10:57 pm
This team may have wasted two years of all world talent because of one man. We’ll be lucky if it takes them less than a week to recover from this loss.
Trey
August 31st, 2012
10:58 pm
sid, so you can get back to your p*rn?
nolie
August 31st, 2012
10:58 pm
wow,look how nice and white Hinske’s pants are…..
Tomahawk Mafia
August 31st, 2012
10:58 pm
Sometimes this team makes me want to sob.
relegated to PTV
August 31st, 2012
10:58 pm
Waaamp whahhhh
vitriol spewer (phil)
August 31st, 2012
10:58 pm
Critic…..lol
TBbravesfan
August 31st, 2012
10:58 pm
did not stun them chip
Jay Dubu
August 31st, 2012
10:58 pm
This one was a team loss. Looks like they’re hung over from the 10 game road trip. Pitching wasn’t there tonight, and no clutch hitting. The way that Doc pitched, this game should have been a blowout.
The two lefties scare e. The Braves could find themselves with a 4 losing streak as they step into September.
Frdei, you might want to shine up that Harley so that you can ride off into the sunset, and away from the Braves dugout….forever!!!!
Bronke
August 31st, 2012
10:58 pm
The worst part of it is, people expect the Braves to collapse because they set the standard!
Tomahawkin (Suffering Fan)
August 31st, 2012
10:58 pm
Trey
“sid, you may want to reconsider butting heads with nolie. He knows a lot about this game.”
Who Cares, Dude is a Total ####
M.V.P.Heyward
August 31st, 2012
10:58 pm
Ballgame.
I’ll take 1 out of 3. No sweep please.
ncbravesfan90
August 31st, 2012
10:58 pm
“Not really, I don’t get fully into football until the baseball season is over. Any more questions?”
Just hold down the excitement for baseball, a la last season….
TheOnlyBravesFan
August 31st, 2012
10:58 pm
Hinske with another failure of an AB… can’t we drop him yet.
We lose a few games and people fear another collapse. It’s normal to lose games, sometimes 2-3 in a row. We’ll be fine. We’re not collapsing. We will get into the playoffs, hopefully as the #1 WC…. division hopes seem to be slipping.
Tina
August 31st, 2012
10:59 pm
Braves are LOSERS. Janish should of tried to score on that wild pitch because there wasnt a Brave going to get a hit with runners in scoring position. When they fire Freddi kick Snitkers ass to the worthless bum. Phils sweep Braves as Nats sweep Cards. Again will never have family go to game with Freddi . Dodgers and Cards win wildcard as Wren blows up Braves this winter. Nice going Joe Braves will not pick up ground on Nats you ass they are going to beat us by 10 games or more as we cant beat teams under 500 in Sept. Are bench is one of the worst in baseball but these stupid managers have to go righty against a lefty and a lefty against a righty crap. FIRE freddi you watch LEE and Hamels will kick are asses
chuck
August 31st, 2012
10:59 pm
The fall started early this year. You can’t fire the entire team but we can and should fire the manager.
Jerry
August 31st, 2012
10:59 pm
Our vaunted bullpen gives up 3 runs and theirs gives up nothing. They get rid of Victorino and Pence and still have enough to beat Atlanta.
The A Bomb
August 31st, 2012
10:59 pm
I do remember a time when a guy like Gonzalez might have been appreciated strictly on his managerial record.
But I do not remember a time when a manager 30 games ABOVE .500 over 1.5 appears to be so overmatched. Braves really do need a change to let these talented guys breathe. Gonzalez is not the guy.
Felix
August 31st, 2012
10:59 pm
Man. Sure glad we are doing so well against these sub .500 teams. So the Braves choked again against the Phillies. There were multiple “chokes” in tonight’s game by so many Braves. I guess we can say that the choke tonight was a team effort. But Janish wears the goat horns for the biggest brain cramp.
UNCFAN
August 31st, 2012
10:59 pm
As crazy as this might sound…watch out for the Phillies in the wild card race…
McFann :Ô: :Ô: :ô:
August 31st, 2012
10:59 pm
TOBF—
Oh yeah—I always forget that rule…
Ah well…crummy game. That happens…time for bed! Will be looking for BMac news via iTouch…Night, all!
Growler
August 31st, 2012
10:59 pm
Points on the closer:
Without Kimbrel’s performance this year… the Braves aren’t leading the Wild Card. But…. he has YET to prove he can close out big, clutch games down the stretch. And with their recent struggles and the Phillies rotation set up the way it is this weekend, don’t tell me this game wasn’t one of those. Let’s hope that changes… immediately.
He’s only pitched 48 innings this year. Once or twice this season you have to throw out “the book” and put him back in for a second inning, and this was one of those times. I know it’s a long season, but Gonzalez far too often doesn’t put his team in the best position to win. This was another one of those games.
Jaded
August 31st, 2012
11:00 pm
These guys are a bunch of choking dogs.
Four wins in the last 13 years, starting at around the same time they folded last year. Losing three out of four to non-contending teams, just like they did so often last September.
This is the same team that lost its final six games at home in 2009 with a playoff spot on the line. This is the same team that held a 3 game lead in the division on September 1, 2010 and ended up finishing six games out before losing in the first round of the playoffs in appalling fashion. This is the same team that authored the worst collapse in NL history in 2011.
I shudder to think about how 2012 is going to end. Chokers don’t change their stripes.
Busch Leaguer
August 31st, 2012
11:00 pm
TOBF
The problem was not that Kimbrel threw a fast ball ,it was the location .Dead down the middle and straight ,no movement.
TheOnlyBravesFan
August 31st, 2012
11:00 pm
Trey @ 1058
Bye sid, ain’t gonna miss ya… don’t need to come back ever. Don’t let the door hit your @rse on the way out.
chuck
August 31st, 2012
11:00 pm
McCann needs to go on the DL and get his shoulder fixed. Going 0 for 5 every night is’t helping anybody.
nolie
August 31st, 2012
11:00 pm
now now tommyhawkin you bifg fat lying piece of poopoo, that is just no way to talk about your superiors
Powder Blue
August 31st, 2012
11:00 pm
“The worst part of it is, people expect the Braves to collapse because they set the standard!”
And they’ll willingly oblige us.
ncbravesfan90
August 31st, 2012
11:01 pm
“As crazy as this might sound…watch out for the Phillies in the wild card race…”
For real, creeping up in the rearview mirror…
Tomahawkin (Suffering Fan)
August 31st, 2012
11:01 pm
Jay Dubu
“This one was a team loss. Looks like they’re hung over from the 10 game road trip.”
C’mon man…They had they day off yesterday to collect their minds….Gotta Win the Next Two, Nuff Said…And this offense while they may score some, they don’t hit with R.I.S.P.
Gotta be able to excel at that in big games against good teams
The A Bomb
August 31st, 2012
11:01 pm
And BTW pitch calling was AWFUL.
If it was McCann — so be it. He was awful then. Garbage selection.
MVPrado14
August 31st, 2012
11:01 pm
Remember this game as the one that officially started the Braves journey to collapse 2012
nolie
August 31st, 2012
11:02 pm
nah, The Great Expensive BoSox set the standard
MFin04
August 31st, 2012
11:02 pm
Yeh, I don’t really like Kimbrel closing vs the Phillies, was confident in EOF and Venters, but crap happens. That one is all on Craig. Team is collapsing. Get used to it.
JC Brave
August 31st, 2012
11:02 pm
What a downer…
Tomahawk Mafia
August 31st, 2012
11:02 pm
There is no reason for Eric Kratz and John Mayberry to kill the Braves. Mayberry is an out machine and Kratz was gifted an 0-2 fastball down the middle.
monty
August 31st, 2012
11:02 pm
Hinski getting more mileage out of one AB a long time ago than any player should. Can’t cover LF and can’t do any real damage any more.
Jerry
August 31st, 2012
11:02 pm
One other thing to look at tonight is that we only scored on homers. We swing for the fences. Helluva mindset.
September Swoon
August 31st, 2012
11:03 pm
Forgot the rest of the moniker.
Ok, I’ll give Kimbrel some slack on the blown save, but can’t give Chipper’s loafing play or Janish not scoring on a ball halfway to the Braves dugout a pass.
I repeat, Braves aren’t good enough to win not using their heads or giving 100% effort.
MVPrado14
August 31st, 2012
11:03 pm
2-5 homestand here we come!
Tomahawk Mafia
August 31st, 2012
11:03 pm
You guys have it all wrong. The collapse started two weeks ago against the Dodgers. The Braves have been a different team ever since that night they had the walk off win against the Dodgers two weeks ago.
Clint Eastwood
August 31st, 2012
11:03 pm
“When someone doesnt do their job, You have to let’em go” !
vitriol spewer (phil)
August 31st, 2012
11:03 pm
The collapse is indeed underway….
Makes me really sad.
nolie
August 31st, 2012
11:03 pm
Gotta be Hinske’s last year at least
Chas
August 31st, 2012
11:03 pm
The Phillies sweep is in order. The Braves CHOKE this night was shared by many…a true team effort. Shortly, it will be September…and the results for these Braves, will be the same as September 2011. The last chapter of another Braves collapse has begun. The Braves are who they are. Many of the same players, the same manager, the same team officers. The result will also be the same. And why not? They are who they are. CHOKERS, HEADCASES, and LOSERS.
TheOnlyBravesFan
August 31st, 2012
11:03 pm
Just hold down the excitement for baseball, a la last season…
Okay, will do…. I’m a true Braves fan, and an all-around baseball fan…. I don’t mind. The Braves will not collapse this year, I’m fairly sure.
Dum-Bass
August 31st, 2012
11:04 pm
Another loss to another sub .500 team. What was it you guys were saying about “beating up on ” those teams?
TheOnlyBravesFan
August 31st, 2012
11:04 pm
Those guys are just too good..
ESPN Stats & Info @ESPNStatsInfo
From Elias: For the first time in Expos/Nationals franchise history, they have reached 80 wins before September.
Vabravesfan
August 31st, 2012
11:05 pm
boy that would be embarrassing if we missed the playoffs again. would have to be the axe for fredi and wren. our organization shouldnt accept another non playoff season.
Astral
August 31st, 2012
11:05 pm
They are who they are. CHOKERS, HEADCASES, and LOSERS. @Chas
yes you and the rest like you are exactly that
ncbravesfan90
August 31st, 2012
11:05 pm
“Okay, will do…. I’m a true Braves fan, and an all-around baseball fan…. I don’t mind. The Braves will not collapse this year, I’m fairly sure.”
I hope they don’t either, but the streaky offense doesn’t give me a good feeling at all…..
Tomahawkin (Suffering Fan)
August 31st, 2012
11:05 pm
Jerry
“One other thing to look at tonight is that we only scored on homers. We swing for the fences. Helluva mindset.”
Co-Sign, They Have had that mindset since Mid August, and that is not gonna win games against good teams…It feels like Bobby-Ball again…Gotta Start playing ABC Baseball, I have been saying that for weeks
Growler
August 31st, 2012
11:06 pm
The only fairly sure thing “TheOnlyBravesFan,” is you have no idea if they’ll choke or not.
Which is not the worst, but not good, either.