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Venice Jim
August 31st, 2012
11:37 pm
TOBF – facts are not what the realists are interested in…
Dirty Harry
August 31st, 2012
11:37 pm
VJim, You long ramble about how people shouldn’t complain. Also the last time I asked you what made you such an expert? Have you played or coached on any level? of course you didn’t reply.
Lee in S GA
August 31st, 2012
11:37 pm
well if USC, Penn State and Notre Dame all lose it will be a great weekend no matter what the Braves do
count_schemula
August 31st, 2012
11:38 pm
“Seriously – to what end? This team is too flawed and has no leadership or heart. Do you really see them advancing in the postseason?”
Nope.
The one nice thing about the collapse was not losing in the first round to the Cubs, Giants or Astros. Why suffer the agony. Kimbrel tied up the game last year and I did not watch another inning of baseball until this spring.
I’m still rooting for Chipper to have a playoff end, but, I have not seen the magic out of this team except in tiny spurts.
Disgusted
August 31st, 2012
11:38 pm
I guess that Matt Chernoff, Kincaide and the rest of the 680 boys have fogotten what happened last yr.
All they do is make excuses for the failures of this team.
Venice Jim
August 31st, 2012
11:38 pm
Amazing how the realists only show up after a loss…
The A Bomb
August 31st, 2012
11:39 pm
Yeah usnavy, same applies to his ridiculous godson Uggla as well I’m sure.
Different set of rules. Destroys the clubhouse. You can’t win championships that way.
nolie
August 31st, 2012
11:39 pm
No nolie. The word was correct..ABomb
what word? are you talking about obfuscate? are you Jaded?
and if so, no, there was nothing obfuscating about my post. it was completely understandable
MFin04
August 31st, 2012
11:39 pm
Well goodnight all. Gotta win tomorrow.
The A Bomb
August 31st, 2012
11:40 pm
castrated.
uga-brave
August 31st, 2012
11:40 pm
it happens,
just got back.
was sitting in the 755 club, 0-2 game over? right/
catcher calls the only pitch he can hit.
mensa member.
MVPrado14
August 31st, 2012
11:42 pm
“Gotta win tomorrow.”
Shoulda won today – speaks volumes about the 2012 Atlanta Braves
ACE
August 31st, 2012
11:42 pm
These type games are what the Cards won down the stretch last year.
The A Bomb
August 31st, 2012
11:42 pm
Hanson and Jurrjens’ nuts were hanging, and he ripped them right off.
One of several who’ve digressed under this Eddie Haas managerial style. Sorry for the reference but it’s a clear match for the great Haas.
Venice Jim
August 31st, 2012
11:42 pm
Dirty Harry – I have never said people should not complain. Learn to read, you 3rd grade level reader. I just laugh at those who do nothing but whine and moan and cry, as you do. But I will defend your right to do so….and I will not bore you with 30 years of coaching credentials and championships won, because that is so beside the point…
Yunel's Frosted Tips
August 31st, 2012
11:42 pm
We can’t keep runnin’ Hinske out there…..he is brutal
nolie
August 31st, 2012
11:42 pm
oh castrated? hmmm. what kinda knife did they use, a Spey Blade?
MVPrado14
August 31st, 2012
11:43 pm
“Gotta win tomorrow.”
Shoulda won today – that’s becoming the story of the 2012 Atlanta Braves
Yunel's Frosted Tips
August 31st, 2012
11:43 pm
McCann may b e hurt ………but he is killin us too…..
uga-brave
August 31st, 2012
11:43 pm
man, right or wrong that one is salty.
Disgusted
August 31st, 2012
11:43 pm
JJ and Hanson have become total pussies. Part of it is their makeup, the other part is lack of support from the manager. Maybe they party too much.
A-Bomb — The reasons why JJ and Hanson have dumped on the bed is not Fredi’s fault, that is a combination of injuries, attitude and an overall lack of mental toughness. That is on them. They are both BUMBS.
I would be happy to see both of em gone this off season. Even Hanson looks washed up.
usnavyvolfaninva
August 31st, 2012
11:44 pm
You know, it’s amazing….. if it were the ’80s all over again, everybody on here would be beaming about having a record 16 games over .500 heading into September, and there’d probably be about 35,000 fans at every home game.. I think we’ve been so spoiled by the success of the ’90s that anything less than a 100-win season sucks. I’m not condemning those who are upset by how things are going, but just an observation. Meanwhile, the Phils are sub .500 and yet they continue to sell out their home games.
Tina
August 31st, 2012
11:44 pm
Thank god for football . Think McCann Uggla Hinski Francisco should try that sport there all fat to play.
nolie
August 31st, 2012
11:44 pm
no question but that was a disappointing loss tonight, but it does not necessarily signify the beginning of the end.
It could, but we don’t really know that yet
uga-brave
August 31st, 2012
11:45 pm
UT buried an ACC team that was supposed to be top three in the ACC.
Dirty Harry
August 31st, 2012
11:46 pm
I knew you wouldn’t have anything to back up that know it all attitude. You keep thinking that you are better than everyone else if it makes you feel better. Just don’t claim to the expert of the blog without something to back it up.
September Swoon
August 31st, 2012
11:46 pm
“Matt Chernoff @RealMattlanta
Thats a fact #Braves fans don’t want to hear when they are envisioning a collapse. RT @tzip34 @RealMattlanta 5th best record in the bigs”
It’s freakin’ groundhog day! People are even saying the same things they said last year!
3rd best record…..2nd best record……..August…….yada yada yada.
I repeat, playoffs do not begin in August. Braves had similar league best records in August of last year and still blew it!
nolie
August 31st, 2012
11:46 pm
FCS is that pointyball crap starting up again already????
Venice Jim
August 31st, 2012
11:47 pm
catcher calls the only pitch he can hit.
uga – well done pretending to be a fool and saying something ridiculous – love your sarcasm….
uga-brave
August 31st, 2012
11:48 pm
Yunell,
all you have to do is look at the drop in doubles.
fast twitch muscles.
why do you think the shift is on?
ACE
August 31st, 2012
11:48 pm
about time for the funny tweet from Chipper. We let one get away but will be back it tomorrow.
Tomahawkin (Suffering Fan)
August 31st, 2012
11:49 pm
Disgusted
“I guess that Matt Chernoff, Kincaide and the rest of the 680 boys have fogotten what happened last yr.
All they do is make excuses for the failures of this team.”
I don’t know abt Buck Belue and Leo: but Matt Chernoff Tells it like it is, he has Ripped Struggla in the second half, Chernoff is the best one on 680
That Carpetbagger Kincade is laughing that his Phillies won…
Disgusted
August 31st, 2012
11:49 pm
no question but that was a disappointing loss tonight, but it does not necessarily signify the beginning of the end.
It could, but we don’t really know that yet
@Nolie — Because of what happened last yr it IS signifying the begining of the end. Some of us are still mad about last September and another collapse will make us madder.
The Braves have disappointed us too many times in big games — You have to go as far back as game 2 of the 96 WS the last time they won a WS game.
We will never be in another WS game again.
nolie
August 31st, 2012
11:50 pm
Matt Cernoff is a blithering, emotionally overwrought moron, Bank on it!!!
ACE
August 31st, 2012
11:50 pm
Would have been nice to put some more dietance between the braves and cards/pirates.
uga-brave
August 31st, 2012
11:52 pm
vj, i missed my sarcasm.
the dude could not hit anything in the dirt. it was 0-2 frickin two.
at least that was on the monitor.
sorry if i missed the count.
The A Bomb
August 31st, 2012
11:52 pm
Just look at the digression of players.
Jurrjens — Hanson — McCann — Hinske — Venters — Godson is the only who you really can’t explain because he’s been treated like a prince.
But if there’s one thing I do like is that Braves fans have found out that Jason Heyward, Mike Minor and Kris Medlen are some of the toughest SOBs on the planet. Look at what he did to Medlen and now look what Medlen is doing — sticking it right back up his ass.
Watch — he’ll mess with Simmons at the first chance. Freeman is due. Guy just messes with young players’ heads. That doesn’t work anymore in this day and age.
ACE
August 31st, 2012
11:52 pm
No matter how many times they say it doesn’t last year has to weigh on the team. Let’s hope for a strong start to September.
nolie
August 31st, 2012
11:52 pm
yes it would have been, and we are all unhappy that they didn’t ACE
TheOnlyBravesFan
August 31st, 2012
11:54 pm
I’m off to bed all, take care VJ and nolie… and even the pessimists.
Go Braves, we won’t collapse, don’t jump off any bridges. Peace.
nolie
August 31st, 2012
11:54 pm
Uga, I seriously doubt that Mac called a FB down the middle of the plate. location, location, location, just like real eatate
uga-brave
August 31st, 2012
11:55 pm
nolie,
he was a waiter at the Old Rio bravo on roswell road in B’head. \\
makes him a super genius.
ask steaky, steak thought he was talented.
Venice Jim
August 31st, 2012
11:55 pm
Actually, I like Matt too…
nolie
August 31st, 2012
11:55 pm
I’m sure it does weigh on them to some extent ACE, and that can make it harder, and it might lead to failure.lets hope not
uga-brave
August 31st, 2012
11:56 pm
nolie, should of been out of the strike zone, AND
usnavyvolfaninva
August 31st, 2012
11:56 pm
I agree uga. Of course, they kept referring to that epic comeback NC State had against Maryland last year, so i was on edge until that last interception… just hope they can do that against SEC teams…guess we’ll see.
Disgusted
August 31st, 2012
11:56 pm
Tomahawk — I just do not like either of the sports talk stations that much. I tune in only at work during the week & Chernoff just seems to have a vendetta vs the fans (that is the way I take him). I could be wrong. And his partner is worse. Chuck Oliver gets by with very little knowledge and is somewhat vulgar and not funny.
The fan just has an arrogance as to how they do things, so I have pretty much quit listneing, prefer out of town talk (thank goodness for internet).
In fact they all seem to have this thing that the fans know nothing,
uga-brave
August 31st, 2012
11:57 pm
TO finish you know that.
Lee in S GA
August 31st, 2012
11:57 pm
But if there’s one thing I do like is that Braves fans have found out that Jason Heyward, Mike Minor and Kris Medlen are some of the toughest SOBs on the planet. Look at what he did to Medlen and now look what Medlen is doing — sticking it right back up his ass.
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i would through Freeman and Prado into that discussion also…Uggla, McCann and Frederica gotta get the hell out of the city or will be the same ole…same ole
Venice Jim
August 31st, 2012
11:57 pm
uga – pay attention to your surroundings
Kevin McAlpin @KevinMcAlpin
Kimbrel: “its definitely not a location I was trying to put it. I was trying to elevate on him and it didnt go high enough”
nolie
August 31st, 2012
11:58 pm
who was a waiter, Uga?
I was a waiter once and I do have an old mensa card somewhere
in fact a lot of mensa members have oddball, and sometimes even menial jobs
usnavyvolfaninva
September 1st, 2012
12:00 am
what is it with fans falling down at stadiums nowadays? Seems to be happening alot!
nolie
September 1st, 2012
12:00 am
like I said, I doubt it was called by Mac to be near where he put it
Venice Jim
September 1st, 2012
12:00 am
Like tutoring…
The A Bomb
September 1st, 2012
12:00 am
Agreed Lee.
I guess the first mind&*ck was Prado when he was cast off to the outfield as the Golden Godson was brought in.
Freeman is due. Simmons soon. Young hurlers. Pastornicky. Line ‘em up. He’ll try to knock ‘em down.
nolie
September 1st, 2012
12:00 am
sneaking in booze?
Poll Question Of The Night!
September 1st, 2012
12:01 am
Are the Braves good enough to make the playoffs by coasting and not playing heads up baseball?
Lee in S GA
September 1st, 2012
12:02 am
what is it with fans falling down at stadiums nowadays? Seems to be happening alot!
———————
increasing drinking of alcohol after watching this team play…
nolie
September 1st, 2012
12:03 am
Tutoring is the backbone of the current education system. The schools are not only not leaving anybody behind, they are dumbing it down so much that HS grads know practically nothing in many cases. BooRah for tutoring!!!!
uga-brave
September 1st, 2012
12:05 am
fellas, i digress.
was not made as an insult.
cmon, if i need someone to disect an upside down parbola.
i know who to call.
vj, straight up brother you challenge me. il like butting heads with you.
sometimes for play, sometimes for your reaction.
nolie
September 1st, 2012
12:05 am
I am a fan,and I am suffering just as much as anybody else, no matter their claim in their name…..
nolie
September 1st, 2012
12:06 am
BANK ON IT!!
nolie
September 1st, 2012
12:07 am
VJ is indeed one of our resident parabola geniuses….
Venice Jim
September 1st, 2012
12:08 am
Some people take out their frustrations and disappointments by ripping the team the “root” for – much more logical to me to take frustrations out on people I don’t root for…
Venice Jim
September 1st, 2012
12:08 am
…or know…
nolie
September 1st, 2012
12:08 am
I like paramecium myself
usnavyvolfaninva
September 1st, 2012
12:08 am
LEE,
I’d agree, except this happened in the dome (maybe they were watching the Braves on their phone or something); either way, going to games is getting more dangerous!
Venice Jim
September 1st, 2012
12:08 am
Dang – now it’s harder to do so with DS1…
usnavyvolfaninva
September 1st, 2012
12:09 am
paramecium,
haven’t heard that word since “Hook”
Venice Jim
September 1st, 2012
12:09 am
uga – off to see your boy Lane tomorrow…
uga-brave
September 1st, 2012
12:10 am
see what happens when people like me get a public education.
and it was public.
matriculation at georgia in the fall of 1986 was close to $550.
nolie
September 1st, 2012
12:10 am
easy to take things out on my paramecia….. even though I have named a few of them, its not gotten all that personal yet….
Carroll Rogers
September 1st, 2012
12:11 am
http://blogs.ajc.com/atlanta-braves-blog/2012/09/01/braves-quotes-after-fridays-loss-to-phillies-2/
with a GIANT thanks to Andy Johnston of FoxSportsouth.com, who helped me out after a disastrous clubhouse night for me….being a spaz, late getting downstairs and cutting my finger wide open while trashing my tape recorder into a gazillion pieces as i rounded a corner…..Adrenaline much? Anyway, thanks to his help and his tape recorder, I have complete quotes for you.
nolie
September 1st, 2012
12:12 am
thank you Carroll, and I hope your finger is ok
uga-brave
September 1st, 2012
12:13 am
VJ, help me out?
the only Lane i know is a HOKIE.
The A Bomb
September 1st, 2012
12:15 am
Thanks Carroll — yeoman’s work considering…
Venice Jim
September 1st, 2012
12:16 am
Wow – thanks for going above and beyond the call of duty, Carroll!
usnavyvolfaninva
September 1st, 2012
12:21 am
Hey Carroll, I’m an O-Neg! I think that’s a universal donor!
Lee in S GA
September 1st, 2012
12:22 am
Ms Rogers I do think everyone on here appreciates what you and Dave O’Brian do…emotions run wild on here …mine included…the people from of the state of GA are in need of another championship …if not from this Braves team another major sports franchise..
Venice Jim
September 1st, 2012
12:22 am
USC – Hawaii…
Playoffs!!!
September 1st, 2012
12:24 am
Fredi is the worst—-bad strategist, head-scratching lineups. throws his players under the bus, does not know how to motivate a team, and you can tell by the body language the players do not like playing for him.
I am not a Bobby Cox fan, but the best thing the Braves’ brass could do (if this slide continues much longer) is fire Fredi and bring back Bobby just ’til the end of the season. And get a new manager for next year.
uga-brave
September 1st, 2012
12:26 am
okay, before you bite me
we aopted two cats from good mews in east cobb,
got them out of a rescue sheltter.
Venice Jim
September 1st, 2012
12:26 am
can tell by the body language the players do not like playing for him
Sheer and utter nonsense – the refuge of lazy thinking fans…I saw no such thing during batting practice Wednesday…
usnavyvolfaninva
September 1st, 2012
12:27 am
Fredi is the worst…… right. Really, the guy has the third-best record in the NL, but he sucks? I don’t agree with every move he’s made, but really, dude, get a grip. Bobby ain’t coming back to manage even 1 game!
uga-brave
September 1st, 2012
12:27 am
cab, i have fthree animals.
two cats, and frittz.
nolie
September 1st, 2012
12:27 am
good for you Uga, and nobody is seriously gonna bite you, except possibly onea them new cats
usnavyvolfaninva
September 1st, 2012
12:28 am
VJ,
You a Trojan fan?
Venice Jim
September 1st, 2012
12:28 am
usnavywolfinva – you and your pesky facts…
nolie
September 1st, 2012
12:28 am
gonna fatten them up and feed ‘em to Frittzy ?
Venice Jim
September 1st, 2012
12:29 am
cab (and 2 generations before her) went there – not much choice for me…free tickets to see the #1 team in the country is cool…
nolie
September 1st, 2012
12:30 am
do Navy wolves eat Seals for breakfast?
Venice Jim
September 1st, 2012
12:30 am
I will be monitoring the important game while tailgating – William & Mary taking down Maryland…
uga-brave
September 1st, 2012
12:31 am
cab, you have nala. i have fritz the 17 year old dog.
his checkups are more close to $200 a pop.
i also have sasha. his sister.
police dog in butler count.
Venice Jim
September 1st, 2012
12:31 am
I have been corrected – 3 generations before – her great-grandmother class of 1923…
Venice Jim
September 1st, 2012
12:33 am
uga – cab retired to the bedroom a while back, just so you know…
Playoffs!!!
September 1st, 2012
12:33 am
navy dude–I know he is not coming back, but it would be the best thing for the team—kinda like when Jack McKeon came out of retirement (twice) to give the Marlins a lift. ( and a world championship).
BTW, the actual game is alot different than batting practice
Venice Jim
September 1st, 2012
12:34 am
And great grandma was there with Jackie Robinson, the 2nd greatest Trojan baseball player ever (behind a certain #41 for the 1969 World Champions)…
nolie
September 1st, 2012
12:34 am
How ya gonna keep ‘em down on the farm
After they’ve seen Paree’
How ya gonna keep ‘em away from Broadway
Jazzin around and paintin’ the town
How ya gonna keep ‘em away from harm, that’s a mystery
They’ll never want to see a rake or plow
And who the deuce can parleyvous a cow?
How ya gonna keep ‘em down on the farm
After they’ve seen Paree’
ChattTownBrian
September 1st, 2012
12:35 am
Everybody should have a cat or five outside their homes. They keep rodents and bugs away. I just don’t want them in my house, plus I’m allegic.
Venice Jim
September 1st, 2012
12:36 am
Wow – sorry – misunderstood – not sure why I am even bothering – another grandmother went to UCLA with Jackie…