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ncbravesfan90
October 1st, 2012
9:46 pm
And the song “Celebrate good times” is fixing to be playing in Washington….
That last play sums up the offensive performance for tonight. That camera shot of Chipper checking out the out-of-town scoreboard just then really almost brought a tear to me, to see him pour everything he has left out there this year and to fall short on a lack luster performance tonight by the offense really hurts.
N8
October 1st, 2012
9:46 pm
“The level of moron on here has really gone up lately. You idiots know this team has 93 wins, right?”
You realize with the Nats losing and the division still up for the taking, this team just got bitch-slapped by Jeff Locke, right?
The Nate McLouth trade…. the gift that keeps on giving.
Capt.Mudd
October 1st, 2012
9:47 pm
I’ll be a “Honey Boo Boo bisquit” We got our ‘jewels’ handed to us by some Pirates.
BFChris28
October 1st, 2012
9:47 pm
Lets go Reds!!!!!!!!!!
Lets go Dodgers!!!!!!!!!!
UKUGA
October 1st, 2012
9:47 pm
McCann could use about six months off.
Starting tomorrow.
BTW, the Nationals color commentator is a ninny. He and Chip would make quite a combo.
SoWeGa Fanatic
October 1st, 2012
9:47 pm
Dang! OK, come on Friday!
Ghost of Chipper Jones
October 1st, 2012
9:48 pm
Won’t have to worry about the N.L. yie-breaker. BRAVES just let the NATS in the frony door. At least, PHILLIES doing their job.
UKUGA
October 1st, 2012
9:48 pm
The Braves’ kryptonite was on display tonight in the form of a pube-haired Jeff Locke.
tony austin
October 1st, 2012
9:48 pm
All the Cardinals have to do is to throw their crappiest pitcher and they’ll head to the division series. Especially if that pitcher is left-handed.
JAFO
October 1st, 2012
9:48 pm
Tip that cap to 1-6.
MiaBchBravesFan
October 1st, 2012
9:48 pm
A feeble, pathetic, inert grounder to the pitcher to end ANY hopes for a division title by a guy this team will pay $12 million for next year.
Frank Wren is an IDIOT!
abeeeewright
October 1st, 2012
9:48 pm
Meek, meek effort by the Braves. They were definitely flat. Sad at bats from Braves boppers.
Run the scrubs out there the next two days. Rest your startering pitchers. Get ready for the one gamer later in the week.
SoWeGa Fanatic
October 1st, 2012
9:48 pm
Just imagine our guys without that 8 game losing streak earlier this season.
Sopheee
October 1st, 2012
9:49 pm
Rest up, boys and don’t forget your bats on Friday.
kerryb
October 1st, 2012
9:49 pm
Glad that’s over. The Nats were not going to get swept by the Phillies. Now we can rest Chipper and some of the guys and get ready for Friday.
UKUGA
October 1st, 2012
9:49 pm
I loved that in one of the biggest games of the year, Bourn got on base and really wreaked havoc.
Also glad to see Mac, who can’t hit or run, start against the lefty, Locke.
Lovely.
Go Braves!
SoWeGa Fanatic
October 1st, 2012
9:50 pm
MiaBchBravesFan
October 1st, 2012
9:48 pm
A feeble, pathetic, inert grounder to the pitcher to end ANY hopes for a division title by a guy this team will pay $12 million for next year.
Frank Wren is an IDIOT!
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Huh? What? Frank got an AB and I missed it! Crap!
warren in philly
October 1st, 2012
9:50 pm
wtf braves fans – phils doing their job for ya and your team goes and shlits the bed. good luck in the playoffs
btw the only ‘regular’ that didn’t play was jimmy popup
Mark
October 1st, 2012
9:50 pm
Our OFFENSIVE Offense will be our DEMISE!
TheOnlyBravesFan
October 1st, 2012
9:50 pm
Better hope the Cardinals don’t clinch tonight, or they can be just as rested too.
MiaBchBravesFan
October 1st, 2012
9:51 pm
The Braves’ kraptonite is not an opposing pitcher, it’s themselves, from one to eight.
Can’t make chicken salad out of chicken…
njbraves
October 1st, 2012
9:51 pm
Mitchell…you’re a real piece of work man. All you ever do is complain, yet you’re calling me an idiot? Braves entered tonight tied for the 3rd best record in MLB and you and the other morons are crying like a bunch of babies. Nats were never going to get swept, get over it and get ready to complain again on Friday. You’re like a little kid whose parents took away his toys..grow up
kerryb
October 1st, 2012
9:51 pm
I hope Freddie goes with Ross on Friday because B-Mac is pathetic. Freddie probably won’t because he’s like Bobby. He doesn’t want to show up or hurt one of his players feelings. That’s more important than winning.
TheOnlyBravesFan
October 1st, 2012
9:52 pm
Matt Chernoff @RealMattlanta
This game tonight for the #Braves is a reminder of how scary a 1 game playoff scenario will be. All we can hope is the offense will show up.
Totally. Also saw a tweet that I’m sure sums up Efrim’s emotion about the game, but it can’t be posted…
Mark
October 1st, 2012
9:52 pm
This is one PATHETIC OFFENSE!
brian
October 1st, 2012
9:52 pm
2 hits against Locke??? Seriously
tmc
October 1st, 2012
9:53 pm
this team has been crapping the bed all season against lefthanded inferior pitching… no surprise tonight either.
Braves can beat anybody, but they can lose to anybody too.
Let’s hope Friday is not another Crapping of the bed after a day off…
Cause they’ve been doing that all season too.
TheOnlyBravesFan
October 1st, 2012
9:53 pm
Kinda relieved that we put the longshot division dreams to bed… let’s rest up now. We all knew it wasn’t happening, so the earlier the better, I guess.
TN Jeff
October 1st, 2012
9:53 pm
Cardinals just need to send out a Lefty and the Braves are doomed on Friday. We should have put the pressure on the Nat’s but we choked in the clutch … as usual.
Veer
October 1st, 2012
9:53 pm
I want to see Hinske, Overbay, Constanza, Pasternicky and other bench players to start and see what they can give us. Sick of this bench.
Loshe is Cardinals best pitcher. Somehow if they play a Thursday tie breaker game then I will take my chances with Wainwright.
kerryb
October 1st, 2012
9:54 pm
Medlin’s going to have to pitch a shutout Friday the way this offense is hitting.
Spud
October 1st, 2012
9:54 pm
It’s too bad that Pittsburgh and KC have become advanced triple A clubs, where talent is cultivated, and if it is good talent, it is traded before it becomes too expensive. Small market teams have become part of the talent pipeline for the Spankees, Red Sox, and other big spenders.
When you look at the challenges the Braves have with a $100M or so payroll, it’s no wonder some of the teams know going to spring training that their is no hope of playing in the WS. Finishing 82-20 would be a major feat for the Pirates, Royals, and perhaps the Twins and Indians are dropping down as well.
One team that I think should be better and have a much better history considering the big market they play in, is the Astros. On the other hand, the Rays and Cards do a good job with smaller payrolls. The Pirates probably have a good chance to have a losing record for the next twenty years! Their fans must be weary of the hopelessness.
njbraves
October 1st, 2012
9:54 pm
N8…come on man, you really think the Braves were going to catch the Nats? 3 out with 3 to play just to force a playoff? Never was going to happen. Braves looked bad tonight, but its been a heck of a season so far and we’ve all known the Braves were playing in the WC game for weeks now.
MiaBchBravesFan
October 1st, 2012
9:54 pm
No, SoWeGaFanatic, Frank Wren did worse than have an AB – he put together this positional lineup, signed Uggla to a wasteful extension, and did nothing the past THREE seasons to address the team’s lack of hitting. I mean NOTHING!!! Add Lowe, McLouth, KK, and an undeniable truth is exposed.
Frank Wren knows absolutely NOTHING about what it takes to put together a hitting ball club.
Mixxo
October 1st, 2012
9:55 pm
“Run the scrubs out there the next two days. Rest your startering pitchers. Get ready for the one gamer later in the week.”
And hope these guys can “flip the switch???”
Yeah, that sounds encouraging.
UKUGA
October 1st, 2012
9:55 pm
Those of you who say the Nats weren’t going to get swept – just curious, did you watch them tonight?
They were tight and had the yips. That would’ve only intensified tomorrow.
MiaBchBravesFan
October 1st, 2012
9:55 pm
njbraves: I guess we won’t that now that the Braves spat out the bit tonight.
Mixxo
October 1st, 2012
9:58 pm
“They were tight and had the yips. That would’ve only intensified tomorrow.”
Exactly and might have crumbled with a Braves win tonight. Ya never know but, I know one thing…….we can’t hit…. at all.
UKUGA
October 1st, 2012
9:58 pm
The Nats may just get to bring that hangover to ATL on Sunday.
Kris
October 1st, 2012
9:58 pm
This team has excelled at putting me in a bad mood this year. The offense is so grossly pathetic that it defies logic. I’m excited about a play-off run, but this team inability to hit and take advantage of opportunities is going to be it’s undoing. I’m hoping for a playoff miracle, but realisitically I see us losing 3-1 to St. Louis on Friday and leaving plenty of scoring opportunities go wasted.
I can’t even count the number of times some no-name bum pitcher who should be bagging groceries has absolutely shut down our offense this year. It’s just flat out pathetic.
N8
October 1st, 2012
9:59 pm
You’re right nj. It was never going to happen. Cuz the Braves lineup didn’t have it in them.
How do you know it wasn’t going to happen? The Cards weren’t going to catch the Braves last year either. DOB said so.
My gripe is more about getting man-handled by Jeff Locke. Braves are fighting for the division and they let this young inconsistent pile of crap who hadn’t won a game yet push them around.
Not a good sign. Thank god the Cards don’t have Jamie Moyer set up to pitch Friday.
It’s AMAZING that this team has won 93 games this year. This is one of the worst offensive teams I’ve ever watched play. They have the consistency of a bowl of cheap oatmeal coocked in frozen orange juice.
I said it before. I’ll say it again.
This pitching staff deserves better.
abeeeewright
October 1st, 2012
10:00 pm
Shaun has converted more folks than I thought to his vision of robotic ball players.
If you can’t see the difference in the energized, focussed bunch that played in Chipper’s final home series and this dispirited, wrung out bunch who just surrendered the division, you might want to get your eyes checked.
Kat
October 1st, 2012
10:00 pm
Chris Berman’s MNF ties are always entertaining…. yeah going off topic of the Bravos. Stinks we lost.
TheOnlyBravesFan
October 1st, 2012
10:00 pm
Hope to see this tomorrow..
@S_______: Tomorrow’s lineup: Johnson 8, Pastornicky 6, Francisco 5, Overbay 3, Hinske 9, Boscan 2, Baker 4, Constanza 7, Hanson, 1”
JAFO
October 1st, 2012
10:00 pm
Didnt the braves get swept to end the ec?
BAD FEELING
October 1st, 2012
10:00 pm
i have a bad feeling about WC-GAME…….
my predictions:
CARDINALS 3
BRAVES 1
WP: Lynn, LP: Medlen.. SV: Motte
SCORING PLAYS: Molina doubles vs Medlen…1-0 . Beltran. HR vs Medlen. 2-0. Prado singles.vs Lynn . 2-1. Holliday out on a sac fly vs OFlaherty…3-1…
NLDS : STL VS WSH…. SF VS CIN: NLCS: STL VS SF…..NL CHAMPIONS: SF,MVP: Posey
AL WC-GAME: ORIOLES VS A’s : A’s win 6-4—
NLDS : A’s vs TEX,,, DET vs NYY. ALCS : A’s vs DET…….. AL CHAMPIONS: DET…MVP:Cabrera
WORLD SERIES: DET VS SF ….. DET WIN THE WORLD SERIES 4-2
MVP : MIGUEL CABRERA
kerryb
October 1st, 2012
10:00 pm
If Hanson was going to pitch this series we were not going to win all 3 games anyway. Hanson is the guaranteed loss that Derrick Lowe was last year.
TheOnlyBravesFan
October 1st, 2012
10:01 pm
Win the play-in, hope the Nats are #1, and we beat them up in the LDS. I’d love that.
Halbert
October 1st, 2012
10:01 pm
Wow…….that right there is why this 1 game playoff nonsense is scary. This offense is capable at any time of throwing out a 1 or 2 hit game against anybody, and looking pretty non-plussed about it.
Powder Blue
October 1st, 2012
10:02 pm
Bad time for the offense to return to form.
kerryb
October 1st, 2012
10:02 pm
BAD FEELING, your predictions are dumb.
elb Expos
October 1st, 2012
10:02 pm
The Expos finally won a division title! How many of you thought that funky red, white, and blue M was the letters “e”, “l”, and “b” the first time you saw it? I did, and I know other folks that did too!
BFChris28
October 1st, 2012
10:02 pm
Braves may as well mail the final two in. Rest the main guys for Friday.
Ken Stallings
October 1st, 2012
10:03 pm
Posted my comments about the game in the post-game blog. I want to go back to the theme of this blog.
There were tons of poignant images from that game where Sid brought home the bacon (as Terry Pendleton put it as he rounded third base). One of them was Pirates centerfielder, Andy van Slyke, crouching down with his glove on the grass in front of him, with his mouth wide open in a trance. One second, he was a play away from the World Series, then he saw the end of his season and a group of Braves going wild at the plate.
It was a great call by the home plate umpire. Pirates catcher, Mike Lavallee, actually got the ball in time, but the best he could do since the throw pulled his glove slightly up the first base line was to wheel to make a snap tag, and that meant his glove went over the middle of the plate. So, since the front of the plate was Sid’s to take, his foot touched the front of the plate before it made contact with Lavallee’s glove. So, good call.
Vel Crow
October 1st, 2012
10:03 pm
The Braves better learn how to play small ball, because pitching rules in the playoffs. Remember that Giants series in 2010. It doesn’t hurt to bunt a man over like they should have done in the first inning.FG is a rookie playoff manager and that’s where games will be won.
warren in philly
October 1st, 2012
10:03 pm
I can’t believe I’m saying this but I want the Braves to win the WS
Fredo
October 1st, 2012
10:05 pm
Cards have scored 4 or more runs in 14 of their last 16 games (and 3 or more in 15 of 16). Braves in that same timeframe …. not as consistent
abeeeewright
October 1st, 2012
10:05 pm
Look on the bright side … Braves can let Tommy go the full eight tomorrow.
brian
October 1st, 2012
10:06 pm
I rest people tomorrow but play Wednesday. Got to keep the guys sharp
Ken Stallings
October 1st, 2012
10:06 pm
LOL!!! Yeah, that Expos hat logo was just plain dumb! Then again, despite some good players, everything about the Expos was sub-standard. Their stadium was horrible and got even worse when they put up the teflon roof which was supposed to be the centerpiece of the modifications made for the 1976 Olympics that nearly bankrupted Montreal the city. First time they tried to use it as the “innovative retractable roof” it broke and never got fixed!
The franchise is so much better off in Washington.
BFChris28
October 1st, 2012
10:08 pm
Fredi needs to play the scrubs the next two games. Maybe a few regulars to keep their mojo going, but for most part, scrubs.
JAFO
October 1st, 2012
10:08 pm
Hanson 8ip 203picthes
Mitchell
October 1st, 2012
10:08 pm
The fact that Chipper himself had no response to Adam Wainwright’s absolute slap in the face to the Braves says everything about what this organization has become.
A true shell of its former self.
This team takes the field every night at the mercy of the baseball gods, with no faith in their own talent and abilities, with no confidence to control their own destiny, with will to win.
This falls high up in a short list of one of the most inglorious and disgraceful moments in Braves history.
The Braves gift-wrapped a division title to a team that has not won a division title in their history.
Given every conceivable opportunity to take back control of the East, they gave each and every one right back.
The Nationals never had one reason to take the Braves seriously as a legitimate threat.
They weren’t even forced to win their division clinching game.
Haven’t won a single playoff series in eleven years.
Shameful.
TheOnlyBravesFan
October 1st, 2012
10:09 pm
Let Tommy go 8? He’ll be at over 150 pitches!
kerryb
October 1st, 2012
10:09 pm
BFChris28
October 1st, 2012
10:08 pm
Fredi needs to play the scrubs the next two games. Maybe a few regulars to keep their mojo going, but for most part, scrubs.
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Don’t you mean get their mojo back? Some of them have lost it.
kerryb
October 1st, 2012
10:11 pm
Mitchell, you have to give the Nats SOME credit. They played good baseball all year.
Mitchell
October 1st, 2012
10:11 pm
I guarantee you the Phillies wanted to win that game as much for the Braves as for themselves.
Un-f’ing-believable.
Mixxo
October 1st, 2012
10:12 pm
If BMac is in the lineup Fri., I’m entirely through with this organization.
I said it here first.
Capt.Mudd
October 1st, 2012
10:12 pm
Fredi….”Yeah, right we just didn’t get the bats going.’
BFChris28
October 1st, 2012
10:12 pm
kerryb
I was referring to the few that have their mojo going, but yeah, you’re right.
njbraves
October 1st, 2012
10:12 pm
Wah wah wah…I’m Mitchell and I’m mad!
Mixxo
October 1st, 2012
10:12 pm
Devin Hester ‘wants’ this!
njbraves
October 1st, 2012
10:15 pm
Mixxo…Guess you’ll be looking for a new team because Mac is gonna play Friday. Right or wrong, he’s playing.
Kat
October 1st, 2012
10:15 pm
Anyone know of a good place to grab some food near PNC? I’m going to the next two games but arriving right before tomorrow’s game and leaving right after the Wed game (due to the long drive). Pamela’s which is 1.5mi away from the park looks like a good breakfast place. Any thoughts? (And I’ve already had Primanti’s)
TheOnlyBravesFan
October 1st, 2012
10:15 pm
Kevin McAlpin @KevinMcAlpin
Fredi says now that the Division is out of play, he’ll get some of the bench players some ABs over the last 2 games. #Braves
Finally… even if it is only 6-8 ABs.
cabravesfan
October 1st, 2012
10:15 pm
betting that is ruled incomplete…but wouldn’t be surprised if it was a touchdown
elb Expos
October 1st, 2012
10:16 pm
Are you old enough to remember Park Jarry in Montreal? That was like a AAA stadium, holding about 28,000. Baseball should have never gone to Montreal, but it gave the rest of the NL a team to beat up on for 35 years.
BFChris28
October 1st, 2012
10:16 pm
Hopefully they wear their hitting shoes Friday.
njbraves
October 1st, 2012
10:16 pm
Mitchell…you’ve really got some deep rooted issues man.
BFChris28
October 1st, 2012
10:18 pm
Good decision in getting the bench players some ABs the next two games.
abeeeewright
October 1st, 2012
10:19 pm
October 1st, 2012
10:12 pm
If BMac is in the lineup Fri., I’m entirely through with this organization.
I said it here first.
This has been a pretty good night after all. It would be miraculous if Fredi didn’t start his starting catcher in the play offs.
UKUGA
October 1st, 2012
10:20 pm
Did anybody really not think Fredi would get the regulars some rest once the division race was decided?
ChattTownBrian
October 1st, 2012
10:20 pm
Chipper looks wore out. He needs to maybe PH once or twice the next two nights and that’s it.
Mitchell
October 1st, 2012
10:20 pm
And the Braves didn’t.
Davey Johnson credited his team for quote, “Playing to their abilities.”
How many everyday players can the same be said about on the Braves?
If it’s that simple, they have no excuse.
They lost the first four games of the season, went 4-17 on Monday and lost the division by three games.
They gave it to them.
kerryb
October 1st, 2012
10:20 pm
Glad Chipper can get a little rest. He was beginning to look tired and was hitting weak grounders since last Friday.
Mixxo
October 1st, 2012
10:21 pm
njbraves -
Yeah, I guess you’re right. I’m OK with that even though I’ve spent the last 41 years behind this and only this organization.
Sad but, there’s something about following a ‘motivated’ organization that intrigues me.
kerryb
October 1st, 2012
10:22 pm
Mitchell, let’s see how all of this works out in the end then we can be happy or start complaining. If the Braves wins the WS and not the Division I believe we will all be happy.
Mixxo
October 1st, 2012
10:24 pm
abeeeewright -
What about “our starting catcher sucks right now and has for a while,” don’t you understand chief?
Fredo
October 1st, 2012
10:25 pm
LA losing early 1-0, Cards could wrap up the 2nd WC spot tonight (though they really don’t need to rest players … they’re actually hitting and scoring runs)
Mitchell
October 1st, 2012
10:26 pm
“And the Braves didn’t” in response to kerryb’s 10:11pm comment suggesting I give the Nats credit.
njbraves
October 1st, 2012
10:26 pm
Mitchell won’t be happy no matter what happens. He’d complain if the Braves won the WS in 5 games because they didn’t have the “will” to sweep.
kerryb
October 1st, 2012
10:30 pm
It still ticks me off that stupid MLB came up with this completely dumb playoff format. A team that wins the wildcard by 7 games should not have to play a one game playoff. Bud Selig and crew must have been drunk when they came up with this.
Dum-Bass
October 1st, 2012
10:31 pm
Wonder if the Braves went in and “celebrated” their official wildcard spot tonight? As good a reason as the other night. Maybe an opportunity for somebody else to get hurt like Uggla did. Since he has been coming on lately, he may have made the difference. Really surprised FG allowed that celebration the other night, then again, why should I be?
Mitchell
October 1st, 2012
10:32 pm
“If the Braves win the World Series and not the division…”
kerryb, whatever you’re on, it’s working.
JAFO
October 1st, 2012
10:33 pm
Don’t be DumBass
kerryb
October 1st, 2012
10:35 pm
Mitchell, your nothing but a sorry negative pathetic A-hole.
Jeff R
October 1st, 2012
10:35 pm
Good to see the night crew is on with its assorted vampires, vultures, and the world-is-coming-to-an-end-for-the-Braves segment.
Haven’t seen a FIRE FREDI! yet. You guys getting lazy?
kerryb
October 1st, 2012
10:36 pm
I’m beginning to think that Mitchell is not even a Braves fan. He’s just a troll.
Jeff R
October 1st, 2012
10:39 pm
“Troll” is being charitable.
Powder Blue
October 1st, 2012
10:39 pm
Heyward’s been hitting a lot of grounders to second again lately. Hope he’ll start driving the ball again.