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TheOnlyBravesFan
September 3rd, 2012
12:29 pm
Have to give him (Constanza) a chance and great to have him for a pinch runner late in games he doesn’t start.
He should only be a pinch-runner…
Let’s hope Fredi gets Hanson out the rotation now too, since he’s being tough.
George_George
September 3rd, 2012
12:30 pm
Lew
September 3rd, 2012
12:18 pm
No – Frank Wren makes personnel decisions like who becomes a Brave and whooes or doesn’t remain. Fredi makes linp and managerial desicions. That’s just the way it is – it’s called chain of command and deleion of duties.
************
Hi Lew
The above is how it SHOULD work, but remember FREDI is stupid and stubbern.
the truth...
September 3rd, 2012
12:30 pm
Betting we see Reed off the bench before this one’s over……….I’m betting he is better against righties than half our lefties……
Lew
September 3rd, 2012
12:31 pm
The Truth – Bullsh%t
VaBravesFan
September 3rd, 2012
12:31 pm
Constanza goes from not being good enough to have a bench spot during the season too starting in LF and batting 2nd. Usually September call-ups don’t get called upon to start games. So lets start em when the games matter even more, but not good enough for a bench spot most of the season. Gotta love it!
Lew
September 3rd, 2012
12:32 pm
George – Dude, if I were you, I’d tread carefully talking about stupid and stubborn.
monty
September 3rd, 2012
12:33 pm
May we never see Constanza hit ever again.
Lew
September 3rd, 2012
12:33 pm
Especially if I couldn’t spell stubborn correctly.
TheOnlyBravesFan
September 3rd, 2012
12:35 pm
truth: Reed is good against RHP, but he isn’t that good…. He has a .283 batting avg. against RHP, our lefties are all near or above that. He is better against RHP than Constanza is…
VaBravesFan
September 3rd, 2012
12:35 pm
So I guess tomorrow Constanza is gonna play in RF to give Heyward a day off? Hell lets start Constanza in RF, Baker in LF, Pastor at 2nd, and Overbay at 1st oh and Francisco at 3rd and Reed in CF, and Boscan at C…. I mean we gotta shake things up, were only trying to make the playoffs…
George_George
September 3rd, 2012
12:36 pm
Lew
September 3rd, 2012
12:33 pm
Who spelled it wrong? You or I, I am not sure.
VaBravesFan
September 3rd, 2012
12:36 pm
It just blows my mind…
Lew
September 3rd, 2012
12:36 pm
VaBraves what? No Prado at first or SS?
Lew
September 3rd, 2012
12:37 pm
George – You’re the one who still isn’t sure – look it up – I don’t need to.
George_George
September 3rd, 2012
12:38 pm
VaBravesFan
September 3rd, 2012
12:35 pm
Sounds like a ST lineup.
VaBravesFan
September 3rd, 2012
12:39 pm
Tomorrows lineup….
CF Johnson
RF Constanza
1B Overbay
3B Francisco
LF Baker
2B Pastor
SS Janish
C Boscan
Trey
September 3rd, 2012
12:41 pm
George is a good guy.
VaBravesFan
September 3rd, 2012
12:42 pm
To me I don’t see how plugging Constanza in the lineup is a better option than Reed Johnson regardless of opposing pitcher… Constanza wasn’t even good enough for a bench spot and now he’s starting in September lol..
Lew
September 3rd, 2012
12:43 pm
And totally obsessed.
DAM
September 3rd, 2012
12:44 pm
I would also prefer to see Reed in there over Constanza.
VaBravesFan
September 3rd, 2012
12:45 pm
Well i’m outta here, maybe it will let me post from my cell phone later. Hopefully we can win!
George_George
September 3rd, 2012
12:46 pm
Trey
September 3rd, 2012
12:41 pm
I try to be, I am not mean to other bloggers we are here to have some fun and learn things.
Lew
September 3rd, 2012
12:48 pm
Your idea of having fun is constantly ripping on Fredi. And what exactly, is it that you learned?
I’m out of here, too – have at it in gamers.
Brava
September 3rd, 2012
12:50 pm
May we never see Constanza hit ever again.
Really? And I assume you consider yourself a Braves fan?
jeffrey d
September 3rd, 2012
12:53 pm
George is a good guy.
Wait, who??
Oh, you mean George George. Yeah, he’s……there.
Brava
September 3rd, 2012
12:53 pm
Yes, George is a good guy.
southern hope
September 3rd, 2012
12:53 pm
hey, do any of you know how to listen to 680 the fan radio highlights from last night’s game? I’d love to hear the entire 9th inning.
Brava
September 3rd, 2012
12:55 pm
southern hope, if you go back through the blog, someone posted an audio link last night after the game.
CaptainMudd
September 3rd, 2012
12:56 pm
Meds interviewed on pre-game; #54 with the ‘light-hearted’ answers, sitting by his locker. Fox SS mic reaching down for the jovial answers; guy seems loose and ready.
CaptainMudd
September 3rd, 2012
12:57 pm
Enter your comments hereConstanza in LF today.
George_George
September 3rd, 2012
12:58 pm
Brava
September 3rd, 2012
12:50 pm
I think CONSTANZA picks the team up when he starts. Last season the team had a better win-loss record when he started in CF than when others did.
Brava
September 3rd, 2012
12:58 pm
I love watching Meds get interviewed. He seems a lot more intelligent than the average baseball player.
TheOnlyBravesFan
September 3rd, 2012
12:58 pm
If Constanza doesn’t get a hit today, he can to go **** like Uggla.
George_George
September 3rd, 2012
12:58 pm
BELIEVE IN THE MEDS.
Brava
September 3rd, 2012
12:59 pm
I do, too, George. There are just a bunch of Georgie haters here. I hope he makes them eat their words today.
Tomahawk Mafia
September 3rd, 2012
1:00 pm
Today’s Braves lineup looks troublesome. Jose Constanza should be nowhere near a Major League lineup, much less hitting second.
TheOnlyBravesFan
September 3rd, 2012
1:00 pm
I love watching Meds get interviewed. He seems a lot more intelligent than the average baseball player.
He’s a keeper… a smart man and an ace like Maddux.
Brava
September 3rd, 2012
1:01 pm
Yes, he is, TOBF.
TheOnlyBravesFan
September 3rd, 2012
1:02 pm
I do, too, George. There are just a bunch of Georgie haters here. I hope he makes them eat their words today.
He might today, but Uggla and BMac shut up their haters for a bit too… look at where they still are.
Georgie is a minor league journeyman, no more… just look at his avg. this year… .216. (over 16games I believe.) His career starts (including last year) aren’t impressing. He’s a minor leaguer, let him stay there.
bravesgrl4life
September 3rd, 2012
1:03 pm
Hey, y’all! Been missing for a while. WTF SportSouth? Soccer when there is supposed to be a Braves game on ????
phoenix
September 3rd, 2012
1:04 pm
Chipper, Mac and Uggla on the bench today. $33 million salary in 2012, just riding that pine.
CaptainMudd
September 3rd, 2012
1:04 pm
Georgie @.215 is …………well, we’ve had similar starting players at this BA interval…..nothing new.
Trey
September 3rd, 2012
1:04 pm
His obsession’s not nearly as bad as Robert’s was.
George_George
September 3rd, 2012
1:05 pm
I was reading a page back about who get Tomahawkin banned. Hope he has not been banned again.
Tina
September 3rd, 2012
1:05 pm
Constanza swing at strikes like I said yesterday he isnt even a AAAA player but hes better than having Uggla in there with his puss arm.
Brava
September 3rd, 2012
1:06 pm
Not going to argue about Georgie, but it’s hilarious seeing the ones who call everyone else haters ripping on him.
Jeff R
September 3rd, 2012
1:06 pm
Chipper, Mac and Uggla on the bench today. $33 million salary in 2012, just riding that pine.
Nice take.
CaptainMudd
September 3rd, 2012
1:08 pm
And I’m not advocating .215 is acceptable, nothing close to it is–I just care not to take a trite shot at Jose.
Jerry
September 3rd, 2012
1:08 pm
Glad to see that Fredi finally grew “a pair”. Does this mean that I think Fredi shouldn’t be fired? Not at all. Unlike a lot of posters here, I don’t spend much time at all denigrating Fredi’s ability as manager. I think he sucks at his job, but I think it’s a waste of time beating that dead horse. I spend enough time beating a dead horse with my absolute dislike for Uggla. I would have given him his walking papers long ago and driven the bus to the bus station and asked Fredi to walk him to the gate and then driven off, leaving Fredi with that stupid look on his face. Anyway, what’s done is done. The Braves should be ecstatic that with as bad as they’ve played, the Cards, Pirates, and Dodgers haven’t exactly put their best foot forward yet. Still, even if the Braves win one of the wild cards, they will lose that game if Medlen is not the pitcher.
Tomahawk Mafia
September 3rd, 2012
1:08 pm
Constanza’s .216 batting average is less of a concern than his .216 on base percentage. The guy is an out machine that swings at everything the pitcher throws.
bravesgrl4life
September 3rd, 2012
1:09 pm
Oh, found the station with the game. I was looking at Fox SportSouth, not regular SportSouth.
George_George
September 3rd, 2012
1:09 pm
Outta here for game. KEEP IT GOING BRAVES! BELIEVE IN THE MEDS.
Sopheee
September 3rd, 2012
1:11 pm
‘teen ‘teen in the infield makes me so happy.
David O'Brien
September 3rd, 2012
1:11 pm
NEW BLOGGAGE on UGGLA situation
http://blogs.ajc.com/atlanta-braves-blog/2012/09/03/braves-slumping-2b-uggla-now-a-part-time-player/
Tina
September 3rd, 2012
1:13 pm
Joe Simpson your wrong that Freddi going with his hottest hitters then wheres Reed Johnson?
CaptainMudd
September 3rd, 2012
1:32 pm
great start…collapse free it appears….and, it is 09-03-2012
David O'Brien
September 3rd, 2012
1:38 pm
13 of Medlen’s 1st 15 pitches were strikes
Braveone
September 3rd, 2012
2:47 pm
From the previous blog which had 1,008 comments, nolie led the way with 62 posts. There were 147 different poster names. Here are the Top 25:
Rank Poster Frequency
1 nolie 62
2 TheOnlyBravesFan 56
3 vitriol spewer (phil) 52
4 Brava 50
5 Tomahawk Mafia 37
6 Tomahawkin (Suffering Fan) 34
7 Disgusted 31
8 George_George 29
9 The A Bomb 29
10 Lil’ Barry Bailout 28
11 jeffrey d 25
12 Capt.Mudd 21
13 brian 20
14 count_schemula 20
15 Ryan 19
16 VaBravesFan 19
17 MVPrado14 18
18 ACE 17
19 Jerry 15
20 SOS Braves 15
21 ChattTownBrian 14
22 Jeff R 14
23 Ward 14
24 the truth… 14
25 Birdhair 13
Ward
September 4th, 2012
2:27 pm
Hello everyone! Just got back from the lake. Nice walk off by Chipper against the Phillies, and nice game by Medlen yesterday against the Rockies. Who’s this Baker guy?
Ward
September 4th, 2012
2:47 pm
By the way who ever is deleating my monikers name? I’m not going away, so you can give it up.