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Venice Jim
January 2nd, 2013
12:55 am
Bedtime – so I will close with:
uga – good win today!
Tom O'Hawke
January 2nd, 2013
12:56 am
Ha,ha! You just named 3 of my presets, ken.
Venice Jim
January 2nd, 2013
12:56 am
How do I repost that to the bottom of the last page?
Tom O'Hawke
January 2nd, 2013
12:57 am
Good night, Jim
Tom O'Hawke
January 2nd, 2013
12:58 am
How do I repost that to the bottom of the last page?
Do the opposite of what George (to the 2ND power) does?
dylan
January 2nd, 2013
1:00 am
venice
nd isnt as good as bama in any area of the field. id be surprised if the irish score more than 10
cabravesfan
January 2nd, 2013
1:05 am
Do you really think Bama will be able to score at will?
I wonder how much some of you know about notre dame…
(And I’m really out. Later all)
Tom O'Hawke
January 2nd, 2013
1:05 am
dylan – what happened to your upper case letters? You had them a little while ago.
dylan
January 2nd, 2013
1:26 am
tom
well im on my phone now, so grammar isn’t really that important lol, but ill do better next time, promise.
and cabraves fan,
i know a good bit about ND (see Tom?) and a lot more about Bama. Bama has an NFL line right now. at least 3 members will be 1st round picks. they have a great tandem of backs, a very good tight end, some very good recievers, and a quarterback who is very god at managing the game. the defense they have speaks for itself.
Dame had plenty of trouble with UCLA, and played horrible against either PITT or Purdue (don’t remember which) they had a very easy schedule, and have always been overrated. just think back to the Brady Quinn senior season when they were supposed to be unbeatable. Their QB is good, but not spectacular as yet, and the best player on O for them is easily Eiferdt (sp?) what they are known for is their front seven and te’o. Bama’s defense is just stellar all the way through.
garyis
January 2nd, 2013
2:03 am
regarding procol harum, a salty dog is one of my all time favorite tracks. drummer b.j. wilson really nailed his part.
regarding jordan schafer, he cost the braves nothing. if he doesn’t make the team he’ll be released or will have to clear waivers. no organization knows him better than the braves. i would have to believe that wren and his staff of advisors and coaches feel he is worth an invite to spring training. i
am glad the braves have multiple candidates for the leadoff spot and if schafer has the best spring
amongst the competition it can only help the braves.
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schafer realizes that the leadoff spot is up for grabs and this is could be his last/best opportunity.
Ward
January 2nd, 2013
2:32 am
I wouldn’t mind to see Schafer do well, but I don’t think it will happen. To much of a long shot! Earlier I suggested Delmon Young, and I think he would fit nicely. Cuts down on his strike outs, and works hard with Walker. He could put up the numbers he used too. Sure Young, has had some past problems, but he can carry a team when he’s hot for a couple of months, or three. People over look, how he can carry a team for a period of time. I think Braves should just take a look, and try to get him. If not I’ll be O.K. Delmon Young, B.J. Upton, Heyward. Thats one heck of an out field. All think about it! Peace my friends, and “Go!!!!!Braves!!!!!”
Astral
January 2nd, 2013
2:34 am
Delmon Young? Don’t hold your breath
TheOnlyBravesFan
January 2nd, 2013
5:43 am
he (Schafer) is worth an invite to spring training.
richbrave
January 2nd, 2013
7:42 am
Joe TERDOSLAVICH
Ryan
January 2nd, 2013
8:47 am
Just finished a fascinating, indepth slide show of Braves first basemen. Edgy.
BravePack(FreeFan)
January 2nd, 2013
8:54 am
Where is everybody? Happy New Year to all!
JasonInFL
January 2nd, 2013
9:11 am
When does Frank get back from vacay?
BravePack(FreeFan)
January 2nd, 2013
9:13 am
Hopefully he’s back now working the phones for Fowler or Upton as we speak.
TheOnlyBravesFan
January 2nd, 2013
9:13 am
Terdo definitely deserves a ST invite…
.315/.372/.480/.852, 5 HR, 24 doubles, 5 triples, 51 RBI 4SB (7 for the entire year, never caught), 27 walks, 62 Ks in 78 games. If the Braves hadn’t rushed him…. he’d probably be a bit more hyped, at least for a trade.
I think he’s ready with the bat, he showed it in AA… went back to raking when he was comfortable again, not having to adjust to a new level and position.
Against LHP: .354/.400/.519/.919 (90 PAs)
Against RHP: .302/.364/.470/.834 (239 PAs)
Dude finished the year strong, with a .837 OPS in June, .813 in July, and .327/.412/.496/.908 in Aug/Sept.
I’d love to see if he can learn LF and get the starting job out there… one of my faves on the farm
TheOnlyBravesFan
January 2nd, 2013
9:17 am
Jon Heyman @JonHeymanCBS
David Price settled with #rays at $10.1M
Dang, what’s he gonna get next year? I’d love to get him this offseason, flat out ace and hard thrower. He’d definitely be worth the price in prospects and salary. Empty the farm for this dude!
Doubt it happens, and with him probably getting near 15mil, fuggedabout it.
TheOnlyBravesFan
January 2nd, 2013
9:18 am
Hopefully he’s back now working the phones for….Upton as we speak.
Upton and EOF for Upton.
BravePack(FreeFan)
January 2nd, 2013
9:20 am
Terdo struggled pretty bad in AAA so I’m not sure how effective he would be in The Show. Plus the guy can’t seem to find a position other than 1B, which has no opening for a while on the Braves.
BravePack(FreeFan)
January 2nd, 2013
9:23 am
TheOnlyBravesFan
January 2nd, 2013
9:18 am
Hopefully he’s back now working the phones for….Upton as we speak.
Upton and EOF for Upton
SMH…nothing like not giving a guy a chance before he’s even played 1 game for your team right?
TheOnlyBravesFan
January 2nd, 2013
9:33 am
struggled at AAA when he was rushed up there… bad decision to send him there. And it’s clear that he didn’t lose his ability to hit, he went back to hitting like he did at Lynchburg last year when sent to Mississippi. The pressure of AAA and the new position (3B) is probably what messed him up early. The kid’s hit at every level he’s played at, never struggled until he was rushed last year. Pure hitter. Maybe give him the time in AAA to sure up a few things, but I think he’s ready. If he could learn LF (or 3B) though… that’d be awesome.
ncscoots
January 2nd, 2013
9:37 am
nothing like not giving a guy a chance before he’s even played 1 game for your team right?
Unless the CBA changed it, you can’t trade newly-signed FA, anyway.
Good time to send Gattis home, it appears. He finished on a high note by absolutely raking his last couple of weeks in winter league. Yes, I know it’s winter league and AAA at best, but remember that Gattis hadn’t seen AAA yet in the minors. You could reasonably argue that this level of pitching is the best he’s seen, so far. At least, semi-reasonably.
VaBravesFan
January 2nd, 2013
9:40 am
Good morning.
Between Jason Heyward and Giancarlo Stanton, Heyward will be the better overall player. JHey provides much better defense and baserunning skills. Also many see him as a better overall hitter going forward cause of his massive plate discipline and approach he showed in his rookie season. Of course Stanton will likely be the best RH power bat for the next 10 years still.
TheOnlyBravesFan
January 2nd, 2013
9:42 am
i thought it was about AA… which still, he didn’t get much AA time this year due to the injury. His results were quite pleasing
Nowhere man
January 2nd, 2013
9:44 am
Ted Koppel reporting. BLOG DAY 16
Murph
January 2nd, 2013
9:47 am
Happy New Year everyone! Back to work… not happy today.
Did I miss anything over the last 2 weeks?
ncscoots
January 2nd, 2013
9:56 am
Between Jason Heyward and Giancarlo Stanton, Heyward will be the better overall player. JHey provides much better defense and baserunning skills. Also many see him as a better overall hitter going forward cause of his massive plate discipline and approach he showed in his rookie season
But Heyward discarded some of that plate discipline for power last year. He has to show that he can regain that high OBP and still hit 30, otherwise, Stanton is going to be the better player going forward. Stanton has improved his BA, OBP, and SLG three years running, so Heyward is going to have to distill some of his potential into performance before he catches up to the guy. Heyward’s defensive superiority and better peripheral offensive skills don’t nearly make up the difference between the two guys. Today.
TheOnlyBravesFan
January 2nd, 2013
9:58 am
Kevin McAlpin @KevinMcAlpin
#Braves will appear on ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball on April 28th at Detroit & May 26th at the Mets
TennesseePaul
January 2nd, 2013
10:06 am
Heyward’s defensive superiority and better peripheral offensive skills don’t nearly make up the difference between the two guys.
If I state such an obvious fact, I’m labeled “hater.”
I hope Heyward can return to the form everyone, including me, thought he had when he first came up, but the .330 OBP is a far cry from it.
TennesseePaul
January 2nd, 2013
10:09 am
Still distilling the albums lists. I have so many to choose from and a limited amount of resources. But, these are the problems I like to have. When it is over I’ll be getting about 12 to 15 albums. Amazon.com gift cards are wonderful to receive.
Lew
January 2nd, 2013
10:10 am
No one ever seems to have heard any of the later Procol Harum albums – Grand Hotel, Exotic Birdsd and Fruit or Procol’s NOnth – all of them very good. Quirky Keith Reid lyrics and nice keyboards and guitars (no longer Trower, who had moved on to a solocareer after Broken Barricades). They’re much better than most even realize.
Procol’s commercial success kind of started and ended with the first song they ever released – A Whiter Shade of Pale, which JOhn Lennon claimed was the best song ever written (likely eating PB cups at the time) and only ever had one cut hit the charts – a live version of Conquistador – afterwards. Their better work came later, but no one seemed to notice..
DAP
January 2nd, 2013
10:11 am
hey, y’all. happy new year.
ncscoots
January 2nd, 2013
10:12 am
I hope Heyward can return to the form everyone, including me, thought he had when he first came up, but the .330 OBP is a far cry from it.
Agreed. The kid rebuilt his swing, started having some success again, and I can understand his wanting to swing the bat last year. Just a normal human reaction. But that’s last year. He has to find a sweet spot between patience and aggression this year. That, and finding a way to not be feeble against lefty pitching, would probably turn him into the monster we all hope for.
O.M.G.
January 2nd, 2013
10:22 am
Murph, not a thing.
DAP
January 2nd, 2013
10:22 am
still no LFer.
TheOnlyBravesFan
January 2nd, 2013
10:22 am
agree on JHey… he’s a bad bad man. Stanton is an even badder one. He’s the better guy, right now. And if he keeps up those power numbers, he may stay the better player. He’s improved every year in the majors, Heyward hasn’t, and though he bounced back last year, he didn’t really come back to his 2010 numbers (outside of HR and SLG… avg, obp, ops all lower). Defense and speed aren’t enough to overcome that difference.
Just took a quick peek at WAR (if you are so inclined), and Heyward was worth 5.5 in 158 games… Giancarlo was 5.4 in 123.
Anyways, I’m just happy that we do have one of the top 3 young RF in the game right now.
BravePack(FreeFan)
January 2nd, 2013
10:24 am
Like I said last week I see huge years from both Freeman and Heyward this year. Seeing those 2 best friends rake in the Majors together for our Braves will be fun to watch for years to come. If I were Wren I would be working to keep them here together while the price is still reasonable…gotta take a chance on those 2 if you want to stay competetive in the upcoming years especially if payroll is going to stay where it is with this BS ownership group.
VaBravesFan
January 2nd, 2013
10:26 am
Keith Law said he’d still rather have Jason Heyward over Stanton going forward.
ncscoots
January 2nd, 2013
10:28 am
with this BS ownership group.
It’s hardly Liberty Media’s fault that this year’s FA class had suckage or that the Reds had a better trade package for Choo or that the Twins wouldn’t trade Willingham, etc., etc.
TheOnlyBravesFan
January 2nd, 2013
10:29 am
and well outproduced JHey on oWAR… 4.2 to 3.2. ..
ncscoots
January 2nd, 2013
10:33 am
Keith Law said he’d still rather have Jason Heyward over Stanton going forward.
That makes an assumption that both players fulfill their potential to the same degree, most likely.
Plus, Law has had a man-crush on Heyward since the kid’s minor league days, and we all know how often Law actually changes his mind on something. The Mayans end the world more frequently.
TheOnlyBravesFan
January 2nd, 2013
10:34 am
with better ownership, we coulda signed that top end pitcher we needed…. an/or Hamilton; true difference makers. But, given the market, we did okay… who could have seen Bauer for Choo (that’s basically what it was), Victorino getting 13mil, etc… BJ’s signing looks pretty good compared to those other deals out there. + now Frank isn’t desperate, can wait for a deal on his own terms
cabravesfan
January 2nd, 2013
10:37 am
Last comment because I really don’t care about either team, but for those that think Notre Dame ayes an easy schedule- take a look. They played a much harder one that Bama by any rating and it was #1 by most…
DAP
January 2nd, 2013
10:42 am
cabraves for those that think Notre Dame ayes an easy schedule- take a look. They played a much harder one that Bama by any rating and it was #1 by most…
oh my…oh my goodness. i wonder if there is any other human out there other than cab that believes that statement.
David O'Brien
January 2nd, 2013
10:42 am
Wren back in office today, characterized this as accurate description of LF situation when I ran it by him: Braves still looking, but if can’t find right deal they’ll be comfortable going to camp with what they have.
David O'Brien
January 2nd, 2013
10:44 am
Ted Koppel reporting. BLOG DAY 16 – Nowhere man
Good work. Now go catch a nap. You’ve earned it.
Murph
January 2nd, 2013
10:44 am
with better ownership, we coulda signed that top end pitcher we needed…. an/or Hamilton
Ownership, be it Liberty or whoever, is in the business of ownership to turn a profit. That’s how they got into the position where they can afford to own an MLB team… they’ve owned stuff that made them money.
If the Braves, as a product, don’t make a lot of money, then ownership can’t spend a lot of money and still make that profit. Pretty simple concept.
A new owner could come in and they’d still be hamstrung by the same issues that are plaguing Liberty. Bad TV deal, half empty ballpark, etc.
I’m sure the guys running the team have been told that they must return a certain percentage of profit, which is why you see the budget where it has been and will likely continue to be (around $85mil). At that budget the team can make money, which is all Liberty cares about.
A different owner might have gone out and overspent to get Greinke and Hamilton, but even if they won 110 games, they’d still be operating at a loss. Some owners may not care about that, but those who are in the business to make money sure would.
raleighbravefan
January 2nd, 2013
10:46 am
scoots @10:28 – Spot on…But why spoil a good Whine, by stating the facts.
ncgary
January 2nd, 2013
10:49 am
i feel good
so good
so good
just got one of them phone calls from the bs firms who
sposedly helps mofify your mortgage, no its speeeled close
allyou wannabe eds
anywaysz the guy ended this call curtly and said i dont wont to insult you
but this particular firm cant help you
we begin litigation the first week that costs 1195 for that first week of filings
so the add that said they could help everyone tells me im too poor to help.lll …………
and just when i was feeling better about my fnances……lol
ChattTownBrian
January 2nd, 2013
10:50 am
The Heyward/Stanton debate would be more interesting if they were sharing the same OF.
TheOnlyBravesFan
January 2nd, 2013
10:55 am
#1 strength of schedule? can’t see that… and despite the “cupcakes” that ‘Bama played, their opponents totaled 90 wins… ND 82
Coach (2013, Is the future now?)
January 2nd, 2013
11:03 am
DOB, I haven’t heard any news concerning Tim Hudson as to whether or not he might have surgery during the off season. I’m talking about the bone spur problem he had with his feet in 2012.
ncscoots
January 2nd, 2013
11:03 am
Braves still looking, but if can’t find right deal they’ll be comfortable going to camp with what they have.
How do we characterize “what they have”, though? Is that some combination of Johnson and Francisco platooning, or Gattis everyday in LF? Is it safe to say that those are the actual internal options, as of today, or are there other scenarios?
Don
January 2nd, 2013
11:04 am
Against the good pitchers, why not hit our pitcher either before or after Upton in the batting order. After all they hit about the same – against the best 1/3 of the pitchers, they both have the same number of Home Runs — ZERO – and probably close to the same Batting Averages – .168
ncgary
January 2nd, 2013
11:04 am
agreed ctb
i would like to see an atlanta version of the the mashers outfields of teams ago. but if i could get my druthers , i think id go hamilton , billy from the reds
Don
January 2nd, 2013
11:04 am
Against the good pitchers, why not hit our pitcher either before or after Upton in the batting order. After all they hit about the same – against the best 1/3 of the pitchers, they both have the same number of Home Runs — ZERO – and probably close to the same Batting Averages – .168
Coach (2013, Is the future now?)
January 2nd, 2013
11:05 am
Nowhere man still can’t find his blow up doll
Venice Jim
January 2nd, 2013
11:05 am
Because you do not understand anything beyond your self-fabricated facts…
ncgary
January 2nd, 2013
11:08 am
would lipka and delgado be too little or too much for billy hamilton
or just right. lead off prospect low strikeouts uses speed as strength
could make for alot of crooked number innings
Coach (2013, Is the future now?)
January 2nd, 2013
11:12 am
2012 was Jason Heyward’s calling card……barring injury, 2013 will be the year he fulfills his true potential.
ncgary
January 2nd, 2013
11:12 am
or lipka and eof
DAP
January 2nd, 2013
11:12 am
TOBF #1 strength of schedule? can’t see that… and despite the “cupcakes” that ‘Bama played, their opponents totaled 90 wins… ND 82
# of wins by opponents can be misleading anyways. but ND didnt play a single team even in the same zipcode as LSU, A&M or UGA. ND and BAMA had one common opponent. Michigan. ND won by a touchdown. BAMA won by 4 touchdowns.
ole miss and MSU are probably about as good as the best opponents ND faced.
ncgary
January 2nd, 2013
11:15 am
theyed probably want ahmed though. they really arent weak anywhere other than maybe starting depth but they susposedly have that covered too
ncgary
January 2nd, 2013
11:17 am
anyone else covet hamilton the cheap one
ncscoots
January 2nd, 2013
11:18 am
I admit, I found this a little humorous at the end. It could have been written here.
On last Monday’s iteration of the SCOUT batting leaderboards for the Venezuelan Winter League, Atlanta Braves catching and outfielding prospect Evan Gattis had a 128 SCOUT+ in 182 plate appearances. Now, as one will note below, Gattis has a 147 SCOUT+ in 211 plate appearances — which is to say, Gattis has increased his regressed offensive production relative to the rest of the league by about 20 percentage points in 29 plate appearances.
Here’s what Gattis has done in those same 29 plate appearances:
• Hit five home runs.
• Walked four times.
• Only struck out four times.
• Stolen a base.
• Probably saved someone — like, either from danger or from their own self.
Coach (2013, Is the future now?)
January 2nd, 2013
11:23 am
Billy Hamilton is my wet dream…..in a braves uniform
raleighbravefan
January 2nd, 2013
11:27 am
scoots –
MikeInFl
January 2nd, 2013
11:28 am
ole miss and MSU are probably about as good as the best opponents ND faced.
LOL, I’m a pretty big SEC/UGA snob, but ND did beat Stanford at home and Oklahoma on the road. I’d say that’s a little tougher than the Mississippi twins.
I give ND credit for scheduling a really topnotch season. But, Miami, BC, USC, Michigan, Mich State, BYU… all were more or less down this year.
raleighbravefan
January 2nd, 2013
11:28 am
Coach – TMI, my friend.
TheOnlyBravesFan
January 2nd, 2013
11:30 am
Notre Dame is unique in our grouping in being an independent with no conference schedule. Still, the Fighting Irish do play a number of yearly games, and those eight contests—Navy, Michigan, Michigan State, Purdue, Pitt, Boston College, Stanford and USC—basically amount to a conference schedule.
What conference does that amount to, the Big East? (I’m seriously curious)
DAP
January 2nd, 2013
11:30 am
my guess on the ND BAMA game is that the tide will take a lead in the first quarter and never look back. they will be in control the entire game and will win by 3 possessions.
RC
January 2nd, 2013
11:32 am
Billy Hamilton is my wet dream…..in a braves uniform
You are more likely to get the Billy Hamilton that last played for the Beaneaters than the one in the Reds minor league system.
Murph
January 2nd, 2013
11:34 am
Billy Hamilton is my wet dream…..in a braves uniform
Move to Maryland and you can marry him.
ncscoots
January 2nd, 2013
11:37 am
You are more likely to get the Billy Hamilton that last played for the Beaneaters than the one in the Reds minor league system.
Rickey say, “Billy Who? Billy Who? Don’ know ‘im, but he ain’t no Rickey.” Rickey OUT!
BravePack(FreeFan)
January 2nd, 2013
11:39 am
ncscoots
January 2nd, 2013
10:28 am
with this BS ownership group.
It’s hardly Liberty Media’s fault that this year’s FA class had suckage or that the Reds had a better trade package for Choo or that the Twins wouldn’t trade Willingham, etc., etc.
So I guess you like the fact that your team is owned by Liberty Media then? So I make a post where the main topic is locking up Freeman and Heyward for our Braves to remain competitive and them having big years and you take the last few words of it to criticize? About the ownership group at that? Wow! Welcome to 2013 where nothing has changed.
cabravesfan
January 2nd, 2013
11:39 am
You can believe what you want, or actually take a moment to look up the rankings. Whatever. I really don’t care
ncscoots
January 2nd, 2013
11:39 am
I’m a pretty big SEC/UGA snob, but ND did beat Stanford at home and Oklahoma on the road. I’d say that’s a little tougher than the Mississippi twins.
Heretic.
Lee in S GA
January 2nd, 2013
11:40 am
It is mainly the fact that most (outside the SEC conference fans)do not care to see the SEC to continue winning the national championship every year more than anything else. ESPN is #1 in this category. ND and AL have a lot of history between the 2 college programs. Should be a good game. If ND wins I will be surprised but not shocked. If AL wins a lopsided game the sooner this new playoff system comes into play for college football the better.
ncscoots
January 2nd, 2013
11:42 am
Wow! Welcome to 2013 where nothing has changed.
So, your lamentation of the ownership group as “BS” was completely irrelevant to the rest of your post, then? I’m just asking here.
ncscoots
January 2nd, 2013
11:46 am
If AL wins a lopsided game the sooner this new playoff system comes into play for college football the better.
That just means that the SEC-crushers will demand that four playoff spots be reserved for SEC teams.
Jeff R
January 2nd, 2013
11:46 am
Wren back in office today, characterized this as accurate description of LF situation when I ran it by him: Braves still looking, but if can’t find right deal they’ll be comfortable going to camp with what they have.
Sensible, though the Braves are bound to go 50-112 this season. And that doesn’t count spring training losses, of course.
I’d just thought I’d preempt the Negative Nellies. But, then again, I didn’t post on the 1st, so I may be late on this.
Murph
January 2nd, 2013
11:46 am
Welcome to 2013 where nothing has changed.
I find it comforting that I can take two weeks off from the blog and come back to the exact same conversation being conducted by the exact same people.
That was the founding principle of McDonalds. They wanted people to be able to get the same burger made the same way anywhere they went.
So… this blog is sorta like the McDonalds of the interweb. No matter where you are or how long you’ve been away, you know you can come back and it’ll be like you never left. Same ol’ same ol’… but not in a sad, pathetic way, more like in a coming home from college sort of way.
Although I came home from college and my parents had turned my room into a TV room. Got rid of all my stuff, put in a big TV with surround sound… it was kinda cool, but I got the impression that they didn’t want me to stay long.
Lew
January 2nd, 2013
11:55 am
Murph – Not so – you missed the conversation about the history of Blues and Roc&Roll .
DAP
January 2nd, 2013
11:56 am
MikeInFL ND did beat Stanford at home and Oklahoma on the road. I’d say that’s a little tougher than the Mississippi twins.
yes on stanford but maybe not on oklahoma. not this year. the mississippi twins are better than they get credit for, because they play in the toughest division of the toughest conference in the country.
cabravesfan
January 2nd, 2013
11:56 am
Feel free to look up various rankings regarding strength of schedule. Apparently I’m not the only one that believes ND played a good one.
raleighbravefan
January 2nd, 2013
12:00 pm
BravePack – The constant derision of LM (by many here) is both tiresome, and mostly unjustified. scoots is totally on point. There are plenty of worse owners…cheaper and/or more medlesome.
Is it ideal…hardly…but the only alternative is to find someone who is WILLING AND ABLE to lose money, in order to TRY to build a championship team (one which mostly eludes big spenders, including the Yankees and Phillies of last few years, as well as Angels, Rangers, etc.)
Ted Turner, once he let the baseball people run the team, was a GREAT owner, mostly because he wanted to win, more than make a profit. Ted Turner is gone, and there are very few others that fit that mold.
What LM HAS done, is let the baseball people do their job with little or no interference, ond provided a budget which allows us to remain competitve, in a mostly non-competitive invironment.
Murph
January 2nd, 2013
12:01 pm
Murph – Not so – you missed the conversation about the history of Blues and Roc&Roll .
If we start talking about jazz I’m outta here.
I went to see Branford Marsalis with Mrs Murph a long time ago… 20 minutes in and I was half asleep. The only entertaining thing was watching the spit fly out of his saxaphone when he got really into his jazz stylings.
TheOnlyBravesFan
January 2nd, 2013
12:03 pm
Phil Brown @thephilipbrown
If you’re having lineup problems, I feel bad for you son. I got 9 hitters but a pitcher ain’t one
TennesseePaul
January 2nd, 2013
12:03 pm
That just means that the SEC-crushers will demand that four playoff spots be reserved for SEC teams.
By demand, you mean consistently and undeniably out performing all other conferences thus routinely earning all four play-off spots, right?
TennesseePaul
January 2nd, 2013
12:04 pm
I got 9 hitters but a pitcher ain’t one
Babe Ruth was a pitcher.
BravePack(FreeFan)
January 2nd, 2013
12:08 pm
ncscoots
January 2nd, 2013
11:42 am
Wow! Welcome to 2013 where nothing has changed.
So, your lamentation of the ownership group as “BS” was completely irrelevant to the rest of your post, then? I’m just asking here.
Actually, pretty much yes it was. I just threw that in there at the end of my comment to voice my displeasure with who owns the Braves for myself personally. Kind of like keeping something inside so it eats away at you so finally you break down and come clean to relieve the stress.
I was really just making a post where I was really excited about Freeeman and Heyward and their future seasons with our Braves hopefully and how it would be in the Braves best interest to lock them up long term. Then you take the last couple words of my post and voice your displeasure with me badmouthing Liberty Media like your father is the CEO and you love that they own the Braves and ruin my excitement. Thanks for ruining my 2013 already. Lament about that buddy.
Rick C
January 2nd, 2013
12:08 pm
Back to repeating your same comment from weeks ago, eh Don?
MikeInFl
January 2nd, 2013
12:14 pm
’scoots Malone. Now it all makes sense.
Lew
January 2nd, 2013
12:15 pm
Murph – I’m with you on Jazz. Closest I got to it was seeing Nathan East (In the band Foreplay with one of the Marsalis Bros.) play bass for Eric Clapton the two times I saw him. He’s damned good and should stick to R&R so I could hear him more often.
BravePack(FreeFan)
January 2nd, 2013
12:16 pm
raleighbravefan
January 2nd, 2013
12:00 pm
BravePack – The constant derision of LM (by many here) is both tiresome, and mostly unjustified. scoots is totally on point. There are plenty of worse owners…cheaper and/or more medlesome.
Is it ideal…hardly…but the only alternative is to find someone who is WILLING AND ABLE to lose money, in order to TRY to build a championship team (one which mostly eludes big spenders, including the Yankees and Phillies of last few years, as well as Angels, Rangers, etc.)
Ted Turner, once he let the baseball people run the team, was a GREAT owner, mostly because he wanted to win, more than make a profit. Ted Turner is gone, and there are very few others that fit that mold.
What LM HAS done, is let the baseball people do their job with little or no interference, ond provided a budget which allows us to remain competitve, in a mostly non-competitive invironment.
Can you be sure about that? Do you have inside sources that told you this? That there is no interference? I’m sure they have some say in anything the Braves baseball people do. And I don’t want to get into this to start the New Year. I would love to have a Turner type owner again but all I was saying was to lock up Freeman and Heyward, the BS ownership comment was my personal opinion, which I am free to express. For big corporations that own teams it’s always about profit and I am free to hate that even though it’s commonplace in sports.
Lew
January 2nd, 2013
12:16 pm
Although I think he played with Clapton for the Hurricane Sandy Benefit.
VaBravesFan
January 2nd, 2013
12:18 pm
Buster Olney’s Infield Rankings… 1. Rangers 2. Tigers 3. Reds 4. Rays 5. Yanks
6. Atlanta Braves
It’s still not entirely clear how the Braves will replace Chipper Jones at third base; Martin Prado could be the full-time third baseman, or Atlanta could work the powerful Juan Francisco into the mix against some right-handed pitchers and shift Prado to left field on some days. No matter how the Braves decide to go, however, their infield should be one of the best, now that Andrelton Simmons is established as one of the sport’s best young shortstops and Freddie Freeman is emerging as a run-producer. Freeman was hampered for weeks by eye trouble — which has since been fixed — but still closed the year with 58 extra-base hits after having a strong second half.
The X factor: The Braves need more peaks than valleys from Dan Uggla, whose slugging percentage has dropped from .503 in 2010 to .453 in 2011 to .384 last year.