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Chipper's Southern Bell
September 11th, 2012
8:49 pm
Commenting on blog thanking DOB and Carroll is not cool. I thanked my attorney that I just paid good money (cash only) for doing her job.
Carroll Rogers
September 11th, 2012
8:50 pm
Pitching match-ups for #Braves-Nats: Detwiler vs Medlen, Jackson vs. Hanson, Gio Gonzalez vs. Minor
Disgusted
September 11th, 2012
8:50 pm
How many of you are tired of Bourn striking out in the big moments as of late? Wish the Braves had more clutch hitters!
One vote. Hey, let another dumb team overpay for Bourn.
ChattTownBrian
September 11th, 2012
8:50 pm
WOW that Mets pitching must’ve been BAAAAAAAD.
Tomahawk Mafia
September 11th, 2012
8:50 pm
This team seemingly tries to avoid scoring or producing fundamental approaches at the plate with men on base. Bourn, for the second season in a row has disappeared down the stretch.
brian
September 11th, 2012
8:50 pm
Another RISP and less than 2 outs, and another runner left on base
Bat Masterson
September 11th, 2012
8:51 pm
Another random thought – tonight is a perfect night to star gaze (my laundry facility in my apt complex is in a different building so I walk outside to get to it). Kat
Kat_
Yikes! What do you do in the winter when there is 10 feet of snow on the ground?
ChattTownBrian
September 11th, 2012
8:52 pm
Of course Bourn strikes out way too much. Third highest on the team, and he’s the leadoff guy. That’s bad.
Mark
September 11th, 2012
8:52 pm
Be nice if Overbay would stretch toward the ball toward Chipper rather than toward SS!
Heath
September 11th, 2012
8:52 pm
Since someone asked, Post All-Star:
Bourn .232/.328/.323/.651
T-Dawg
September 11th, 2012
8:53 pm
Clutch hitting….Three year tradition of failure. It all started with Troy Glaus.
cabravesfan
September 11th, 2012
8:53 pm
Nice job Huddy!
Brava
September 11th, 2012
8:53 pm
Nice play, Huddy!
Capt.Mudd
September 11th, 2012
8:53 pm
I keep telling myself over and over that we’ll have one big inning soon…..and, there you go; thanks Timmy–a little payback from an experienced Pro.
Referencing Baseball
September 11th, 2012
8:53 pm
Let someone else pay for Bourns great WAR numbers. Who are they using to compare him to? A dead guy? Joe DiMaggio maybe?
TBbravesfan
September 11th, 2012
8:54 pm
good thing he got that out.
Heath
September 11th, 2012
8:54 pm
cab -
Ha ha ha. Yes, I did deactivate my FB account. There are several reasons for that. Stalk much? ;}
Yogi Berra
September 11th, 2012
8:54 pm
On Bourn where you going to get someone better..braves not buy so he’ll be gone and we’ll end up with another Nate. I’m damn glad we got him, best lead-off hitter in many years.
Disgusted
September 11th, 2012
8:54 pm
Let someone else pay for Bourns great WAR numbers. Who are they using to compare him to? A dead guy? Joe DiMaggio maybe?
HA HA That is funny. Seriously.
Capt.Mudd
September 11th, 2012
8:55 pm
Overbay makes me think I could play
Mitchell
September 11th, 2012
8:55 pm
Offense in full force again tonight.
Clearly.
Mark
September 11th, 2012
8:55 pm
I want to declare WAR on WAR numbers.
Disgusted
September 11th, 2012
8:56 pm
What has Bourn done lately?????
Striking out with men on base. He is in a slump and is not worth the big $$$$$$$.
Disgusted
September 11th, 2012
8:56 pm
WAR–
What is it good for
Absolutely Nothin’
Say It Again.
Capt.Mudd
September 11th, 2012
8:57 pm
How about that ‘tootsie roll’ pony tail?
ChattTownBrian
September 11th, 2012
8:57 pm
McCann, Bourn and Prado are the three guys in our everyday lineup that are what you call guys in their prime. The rest haven’t hit it yet, at the end of it, or way past it. That’s what hurts so much about BM struggles and now Bourn’s. Those players are supposed to be carrying you.
Disgusted
September 11th, 2012
8:58 pm
These BUMBS are repeating some of the fundamental mistakes of last September.
That collapse should never be forgotten.
cabravesfan
September 11th, 2012
8:58 pm
Heath-
Actually, not stalking! I just looked since we have been talking – because I have not seen anything from you and you are still in my friends list (I noticed when looking for someone else earlier) and when I clicked on your name, it said it was deactivated!
Hugo Z Hackenbush
September 11th, 2012
8:58 pm
Damn it all! The Braves need to score first in every game! They need to get ahead, and stay ahead in every inning! Until they win! And they need to win every game from now until baseball ends in the year 2456!
Kat
September 11th, 2012
8:59 pm
Bat Masterson @ 8:51 pm …A shovel and a pair of boots. And that’s what a K+ a month will get you where I live, outside laundry..fun times. (sarcasm font) Though last winter it didn’t snow more than 5 inches and that was only 2 times. Global warming at it’s finest.
brian
September 11th, 2012
8:59 pm
Bourn is playing himself out of a huge,huge contract
Veer
September 11th, 2012
9:00 pm
Bourn isnt worth anything more than 8 million. Which ever team signs him will be making a huge mistake. A Juan Pierre Crawford type mistake.
Kat
September 11th, 2012
9:01 pm
Bat.. well it’s not ‘outside’ hah, it’s in a different building that I walk to (like 100ft away). Truly outside laundry would be interesting….
Heath
September 11th, 2012
9:01 pm
Uggla:
Post All Star: .205/.330/.368/.698, but…
September: .333/.400/.556/.956.
Hey, gotta start somewhere.
Hugo Z Hackenbush
September 11th, 2012
9:01 pm
Wow, Disgusted! No one’s ever quoted Edwin Starr on this blog in reference to WAR! You’re too clever!
ncbravesfan90
September 11th, 2012
9:02 pm
I wonder what the Brewer lineup would do if they were facing Estrada? I’ll take the over on 4.5 runs….
Hugo Z Hackenbush
September 11th, 2012
9:02 pm
Can you tell I’m in a mood?
Tomahawk Mafia
September 11th, 2012
9:02 pm
This appears to be another game where the bats are nonexistant.
Heath
September 11th, 2012
9:03 pm
cab -
It’s been deactivated…maybe a year now? A while, for sure.
Veer
September 11th, 2012
9:03 pm
why aren;t we hitting
smallmouth6
September 11th, 2012
9:04 pm
T-Dawg: As so many folks are on this blog–you are wrong.
TBbravesfan
September 11th, 2012
9:04 pm
man went to get a cup of coffee came back we were out.
kelevra
September 11th, 2012
9:05 pm
giancarlo stanton with his daily homerun i see…
ChattTownBrian
September 11th, 2012
9:05 pm
Bourn will get close to what he and Boras want. Believe me.
Capt.Mudd
September 11th, 2012
9:05 pm
@Hugo……Zager and Evans questioned if man would be alive [in the year 2525]……how can man survive 69 years without baseball….MLB?
Brava
September 11th, 2012
9:06 pm
Kat, sounds pretty primitive. Do you have indoor plumbing?
ncbravesfan90
September 11th, 2012
9:06 pm
“why aren;t we hitting”
Because we used up our weekly allotment of runs saturday with 11 runs….
Fredo
September 11th, 2012
9:06 pm
“why aren;t we hitting”
they’re saving the bats for the playoffs
Capt.Mudd
September 11th, 2012
9:06 pm
Simmons does have brawn
cabravesfan
September 11th, 2012
9:06 pm
Heath-
And I just noticed now! Not stalking
Hugo Z Hackenbush
September 11th, 2012
9:07 pm
Cap, everything I know, I learned on “Deep Space Nine.” As in, the early bird gets the wormhole…
NorCal Brave
September 11th, 2012
9:07 pm
Another struggling starter finds the instant solution: an outing against the Braves. And as for Bourn, anybody else think he’s starting to worry more and more about the contract, twisting himself into a deeper slump?
ncbravesfan90
September 11th, 2012
9:07 pm
Don’t look now…..Phillies winning again 8-3
TheOnlyBravesFan
September 11th, 2012
9:08 pm
Thanks Heath! I truly enjoy that Dan Uggla stat… he’s HOT in September.
Capt.Mudd
September 11th, 2012
9:08 pm
Michael Bourn…our ‘defensive specialist’ now that Janish is no longer a reg.
John Leonard
September 11th, 2012
9:09 pm
Well at least we won’t be no hit.
jj
September 11th, 2012
9:10 pm
Where would Braves be without Bourn. He carried team 1st half. Just ask Chipper.
Kat
September 11th, 2012
9:11 pm
Brava haha yea. It’s not that bad. They couldn’t charge what they charge if it was crappy. That’s my only issue, everything else is fine.
Efrim
September 11th, 2012
9:11 pm
Can we play the Mets again?
Bat Masterson
September 11th, 2012
9:11 pm
it’s in a different building that I walk to (like 100ft away). Truly outside laundry would be interesting….
Kat_
Ha, I pictured you dressed like an eskimo, on a snowmobile, pulling a laundry basket behind you. Outside, like the “good old days” yeah that would be a little rough.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Maytag-Ringer-Washing-Machine-1938-Vintage-8×10-Reprint-Of-Old-Photo-/110945156799?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item19d4d8bebf
Mark
September 11th, 2012
9:11 pm
Veer
It appears to me that every hitter we have tries to knock the ball out of the stadium not just over the fence. We K way too much as well but evidently thats the philosophy because our swings all look the same regardless of the count with 2 exceptions – Prado who is just a good hitter and a good 2 strike hitter who doesn’t mind going the other way and Chipper who is just so good he doesn’t need to change his approach based on the count.
TheOnlyBravesFan
September 11th, 2012
9:12 pm
Anthony Rizzo involved in a collision at 1B in Houston… hit his head hard… hope he wasn’t concussed (though I’m ‘feared that he was)
http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=24681445&c_id=mlb&partnerId=aw-5101689458926385319-996
Heath
September 11th, 2012
9:16 pm
TheOnlyBravesFan -
He is what he is: streaky.
September numbers are based on only 27 official at-bats (3BBs added to that), but again, it’s a start.
Brava
September 11th, 2012
9:16 pm
I’m picturing Kat loading her laundry onto a dog sled for the trek to the laundry building. It’s a lot more fun than watching this game.
njbraves
September 11th, 2012
9:16 pm
Overbay will fit in just fine with this team.
TheOnlyBravesFan
September 11th, 2012
9:16 pm
Simba!!!
FIRE FREDI GONZALEZ
September 11th, 2012
9:17 pm
START CONSTANZA.
COSTANZA = WINS
ncbravesfan90
September 11th, 2012
9:18 pm
This is why the whole, we’re 4th in the NL in runs argument does not work. Braves score 11 runs saturday and then score a combined 9 runs over the next 5 games. 20 runs over 6 games makes it look alot better than it has been, which is simply not the case.
Brava
September 11th, 2012
9:18 pm
I see you’re similarly occupied, Bat.
FIRE FREDI GONZALEZ
September 11th, 2012
9:19 pm
WAR = Darwin Barney MVP of the league.
brian
September 11th, 2012
9:19 pm
2 hits through 5 off of who???
This is getting ridiculous night in and night out against no name pitchers
Kat
September 11th, 2012
9:19 pm
Bat Masterson @ 9:11 pm LOL
brian
September 11th, 2012
9:19 pm
Thank you for coming to hit tonight Simmons
Heath
September 11th, 2012
9:20 pm
cab -
Yeah, I suppose that’s not stalking then…
…to bad.
Kat
September 11th, 2012
9:21 pm
Glad I can be of some entertainment to Brava and Bat during this quick boring game. If I showed you how unexciting my 100ft walk is which is probably more like 50ft because I have no sense of length, you’d be sadly disappointed hah.
Mark
September 11th, 2012
9:21 pm
Real glad Overbay got thatuseless hit last night so he could start tonight. 2 ABs = 2 Ks.
Brewers probably hope Yawnish, Hinski and Rev get an AB and get a groundball hit then all 4 of these guys can start!
Bronke
September 11th, 2012
9:21 pm
Hope the Braves can mount some kind of rally. They need someone to be a fire starter in this lineup. Who will step up and be the one?
FIRE FREDI GONZALEZ
September 11th, 2012
9:22 pm
Ncbravesfan if we don’t get a run here it’s 9 runs in 7 games. That’s brutal. Put in Jorge Costanza and start running.
Mister Frisky
September 11th, 2012
9:22 pm
Worst 20 game over 500 team in history.
NorCal Brave
September 11th, 2012
9:22 pm
Are we still capable of beating the Fish? May have to sweep our last 2 series with them to get into postseason.
Hugo Z Hackenbush
September 11th, 2012
9:23 pm
And while we’re at it, that whole “third-best record in the NL” argument doesn’t work because…uh…
BravesWin
September 11th, 2012
9:24 pm
Off-the-field question, here — can we talk about Chip Caray for a minute? The guy has a great voice, but it’s endlessly punctuated by a nervous chuckle, even when it’s bad news for the Braves. I wish I could pick up the radio guys, just to avoi-i-i-i-d that ann-n-n-o-ho-ho-ying affectation of his.
FIRE FREDI GONZALEZ
September 11th, 2012
9:24 pm
@Mark
It should be Prado at 1st. Freeman looks lost out there. He’s even carrying his struggles into the field this month.
Mark
September 11th, 2012
9:24 pm
If Georgie were playing we’d be winning
Bat Masterson
September 11th, 2012
9:25 pm
Brava_
Yes, and I like the scene you described.
Tina
September 11th, 2012
9:25 pm
Braves get shutout in wildcard game if we play SL it will be Carpenter.
Heath
September 11th, 2012
9:25 pm
Post All-Star:
Minor in 69 Innings has a 2.34 ERA, .204BAA, 54Ks, and only 13BBs.
That’s a large enough sample size to be confident in his development…at least I think.
Yogi Berra
September 11th, 2012
9:25 pm
Braves have two hits both by Simmons.
Brava
September 11th, 2012
9:25 pm
Ha, Kat, you’re a good sport. This game IS awfully boring so far.
Mitchell
September 11th, 2012
9:26 pm
Bronke
September 11th, 2012
9:21 pm
Hope the Braves can mount some kind of rally. They need someone to be a fire starter in this lineup. Who will step up and be the one?
If you’d like to make a call, please hang up and dial again…
VaBravesFan
September 11th, 2012
9:26 pm
Tough night facing a Cy Young caliber pitcher….
FIRE FREDI GONZALEZ
September 11th, 2012
9:28 pm
Freeman 5-32 with a .156 slugging pct. No EBH. 1 RBI. Frediot needs to bench Freeman like he did Uggla. Put Reed and Costantza in there and win games.
Brava
September 11th, 2012
9:28 pm
I liked yours, too, Bat.
Mitchell
September 11th, 2012
9:28 pm
Nailed it.
That’s about as funny as funny gets, folks.
Booyah!
Capt.Mudd
September 11th, 2012
9:28 pm
You know….a little ‘jab’ for the sake of a laugh is not exactly throwing someone under the bus or changing feelings for and recognition of many great things a player has accomplished. I use a lot of tongue in cheek stuff in my posts….I think most regular posters realize this…however, looking at some subsequent comments [on occasion] gives me the impression that there are a few folks out there ready to bite my finger off when I pick a favorite of theirs to use for a well intended joke.
I love this team and want each and every guy on it….just in case a few ever wondered….I want all of them to succeed and play super. I have no enemies on this board and am not planning on having a problem with anybody–please (those few of you) don’t take my posts as an ‘attack’ on anyone.
Mark
September 11th, 2012
9:28 pm
Fire
Based on the ABs I’ve seen from Over Brated I’d rather have Ski out there at 1B.
So far tonight Overbay has K’d twice and allowed an infield hit because of a sorry stretch.
ncbravesfan90
September 11th, 2012
9:29 pm
“Tough night facing a Cy Young caliber pitcher….”
True, True….
Disgusted
September 11th, 2012
9:29 pm
I agree that Minor is on his way and the personal wins will come.
He is one building block I would call pretty much untouchable, Other teams will ask and Freddie will not bite. Not this off season.
Capt.Mudd
September 11th, 2012
9:30 pm
Nice single Mr. Prado
sometimesiwonder
September 11th, 2012
9:31 pm
Blame Larry Parrish