Put me in, Coach! I’m ready to play …. today!
With baseball season opening this weekend, this video all but chose itself for our Friday afternoon quittin’ time music. BTW, the first game of the season — Sunday night on ESPN — pits the Phillies against YOUR …. ATLANTA BRAVES!
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Truth
April 3rd, 2009
4:23 pm
GO BRAVES!!!
Truth
April 3rd, 2009
4:28 pm
I don’t care who you are… If you are a Braves fan then you have to admit when Bobby Cox gets ejected all you can do is smile! He can be dead wrong, but he will always take the side of his player! I will always admire that!
I Report/ You Whine
April 3rd, 2009
4:30 pm
The Braves are has beens.
@@
April 3rd, 2009
4:33 pm
Crank up the volume, jay!!!!! That one needs to be played loud in a crowd.
Mrs. Godzilla
April 3rd, 2009
4:33 pm
Ah…baseball memories….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16xyyuSc0tY
got my first real kiss in the right field bleachers here…..
Bosch
April 3rd, 2009
4:38 pm
Mrs. G!
Scandalous!!!
Truth
April 3rd, 2009
4:38 pm
http://www.truveo.com/1992-NLCS-Sid-Breams-Mad-Dash/id/1052748536
I was a mere child, but remember it like yesterday!
Bosch
April 3rd, 2009
4:40 pm
Truth,
That one still gives me goosebumps – I watched that video alot the day Skip died.
Truth
April 3rd, 2009
4:44 pm
Bosch… I remember screaming at the top of my lungs and waking my whole family up. My dad came running downstairs to see what was wrong and my little sister was crying! lol I love the Braves soooo much. I would always watch the games with my grandmother. When she died, I put a Braves cap in her coffin.
Bosch
April 3rd, 2009
4:58 pm
Truth,
I too have very fond memories of watching Braves games as a kid – that’s a pretty darn sweet thing of you to do with your grandmother. I’m sure she appreciated it. When I was a kid and if you were a Braves fan (back in the 70s and 80s) you were a TRUE fan!
Later.
The Corporal
April 3rd, 2009
5:02 pm
May I recommend “Men at Work” by George Will
A wonderful book on the history/strategy of baseball. You would think it’s boring but it’s hard to put down ……….. It’s been out for awhile so you should be able to get it in paperback.
Truth
April 3rd, 2009
5:11 pm
Corporal… It is sort of off topic, but my dad just gave me “Uncommon” by Tony Dungy. He said it has a little bit of football in it, but it mainly is about how to be a good man.
Midori
April 3rd, 2009
5:11 pm
Hi Everyone,
I’ve enjoyed reading the exchanges on the previous 2 threads.
you wingnuts grow more delusional and crazy by the day (Hi, Andy!!)
I have little time this week – my employer demands can’t be ignored, and at home, my domestic activities can’t either.
Hope to see you guys around later tonight.
bdatlanta
April 3rd, 2009
5:13 pm
Yall talking about the gwinnet braves, right? Cause they are the only braces that matter now.
Booorrring
April 3rd, 2009
5:14 pm
If anyone cares to watch the premier event in all sports, the FINAL FOUR is this weekend. Unlike a boring baseball game, it will be intense, exciting and interesting.
Paul
April 3rd, 2009
5:20 pm
Mrs. Godzilla
[[got my first real kiss in the right field bleachers here…..]]
That’s very nice and all that, but what on earth were you doing in RIGHT field?!!?
Truth
[[When she died, I put a Braves cap in her coffin.]]
That’s really great. She must’ve been a cool grandma.
Midori
Can you please remove the cuffs now? Please?
And get some pepper spray if In the Closet’s still around?
bdatlanta
April 3rd, 2009
5:22 pm
Err, that should read braves not braces.
Hmmm, Should I smoke a pork shoulder for the neighbor so he will check in on the cat this week?
We’ll probably end up eating it before he ever gets to it.
SuperDave
April 3rd, 2009
5:24 pm
I think Ted should buy the Braves back.
For entertainment value if nothing else.
bdatlanta
April 3rd, 2009
5:33 pm
Tarheels got this tourney.
A friend at chapel hill was delivering pizza to a dorm and while leaving the building he held the door for Dean. Smithe said thanks and my friend said “anything for god”. He said dean picked up his pace to get away from the weirdo dominos guy.
I also have some good stories about mj if you are around later. Dude loved to gamble on anything.
Icaz1158
April 3rd, 2009
5:35 pm
Corp-Another good one is the Ken Burns documentary-Love seeing old footage of yesteryear Heroes!!!
Paul
April 3rd, 2009
5:45 pm
bdatlanta
Bosch has a good pork crockpot recipe finished with barbecue sauce if your neighbor doesn’t like smoked meat.
Thats a recipe for pork cooked in a crockpot. Not a crockpot made out of pork…
caz1158
April 3rd, 2009
5:47 pm
sadly,I don’t follow sports as much as I once did. With trillion dollar salaries and media overexposure, it’s just totally different than when I was a kid.
ConservativeAnchor
April 3rd, 2009
5:53 pm
As a child I used to listen to the Phillies play with a transistor radio under the pillow.
Unfortunately Harry Kalas told me the Phillies lost.
GO BRAVES!!!!!
Hillbilly Deluxe
April 3rd, 2009
5:56 pm
There’s nothing like the crack of the bat. I hope they never bring aluminum bats to the big leagues. On a side note, how in the world can Andre Dawson not be in the Hall of Fame?
caz1158
April 3rd, 2009
5:56 pm
Do Love to Play GOLF though!!! But anyway GO BRAVES!!!!! Glad to see Don Sutton back also. The foursome of Don/Skip/The professor/Joe Simpson was unbeatable. BRAVES WIN!,BRAVES WIN!,BRAVES WIN!,BRAVES WIN!,unforgetable.
SuperDave
April 3rd, 2009
5:59 pm
Paul,
What did you say?
Bush is a porked crackpot?
(Hey, it’s a slow news day)
Bud Wiser
April 3rd, 2009
6:00 pm
Truth, great clip! I’m gonna miss Skip, but having Sutton back is great, just because of his baseball savvy and knowledge.
Good one, and good music choice Jay.
Bud Wiser
April 3rd, 2009
6:01 pm
Too windy to fish today…sigh.
@@
April 3rd, 2009
6:04 pm
O.K., so I’m not a baseball fan unless I’m in the game.
You May Be Right!
caz1158
April 3rd, 2009
6:06 pm
HD Sadly,in most cases today success is measured by rings/titles not by individual accomplishments. Many a player never had the opportunity to play on championship teams and are penalized for it. Bert Blyleven was another,great career-bad teams. Nasty curveball!
Paul
April 3rd, 2009
6:06 pm
SuperDave
I said, if you smoke crack or pot you could get porked by your neighbor.
Road Scholar
April 3rd, 2009
6:09 pm
Don’t worry Budwiser…too wet for golf too!
Mrs. G: with respect I ask, what base did he get to? (Sorry, it’s an old joke!)
Conservative anchor: I did the same thing for the Bullets and Orioles; those were the days- Wes Unseld, Earl “the Pearl” Monroe, etc. and Brooks Robinson, Dave McNalley, Luis Aparicio, Davey Johnson, Boog Powell, Chuck Estrada, Paul Blair…. To this day I still hate the Yankees and Red Sox!
SuperDave
April 3rd, 2009
6:15 pm
Paul
Sorry,
I’m not a huge Baseball or Basketball fan so I have to amuse myself somehow.
Nice come back.
jt
April 3rd, 2009
6:20 pm
I was born on the same day that the Fulton County Stadium was officialy opened. About 1 mile away. It was demolished 35 years later. for what its worth.
PEANUTS!
Paul
April 3rd, 2009
6:21 pm
SuperDave
I’ll watch the playoffs and championship game, but other than that it’s college football where on any day anything can happen.
But not golf. Or tennis. This is as good a place as any to amuse onesself – but it does stretch out the workday at times.
caz1158
April 3rd, 2009
6:23 pm
Roadie-How about the BIG E!! (Elvin Hayes), Phil Chenier,Kevin Porter,Bobby Dandridge & Kevin Greevey from the champinship team in what “79″
Paul
April 3rd, 2009
6:27 pm
jt
Just be glad they picked the stadium…
@@
April 3rd, 2009
6:28 pm
This one goes out to RW! (ISH)
Excuse the foul language.
SuperDave
April 3rd, 2009
6:39 pm
I hate to open up this can of worms.
But does anyone think Mike Vick will be playing in the NFL this fall?
He said that is his goal.
Taxpayer
April 3rd, 2009
6:46 pm
John still has it after all these years.
getalife
April 3rd, 2009
7:07 pm
The new dawg:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UQPUzwdX51o/SdaVxHo7LAI/AAAAAAAAALM/Obfp8mUjJsk/s1600-h/article-1166637-04443058000005DC-536_634×458.jpg
Bosch
April 3rd, 2009
7:20 pm
I feel like I should comment on smoked pork or crockpots or is it crackpipes and smoking pigs?
Crockpots made of pork? That’s just weird!!!
But crockpots are the mystery magical meat machines.
And how does all this tie in with baseball? I just woke up from my Friday evening nap, I’m confused.
Hillbilly Deluxe
April 3rd, 2009
7:21 pm
I miss this guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsCoCqp4nyA
Hillbilly Deluxe
April 3rd, 2009
7:23 pm
caz1158 @ 6:06
I think Blyleven should be in the Hall too. He didn’t get along so well with sports writers and I think they hold that against him.
RW-(the original)
April 3rd, 2009
7:34 pm
Thanks @@!
You know how wild we in the Esteves clan can be. (ISH)
@@
April 3rd, 2009
7:42 pm
I think Mitch Williams should be in the Hall of Fame too…….don’t you, RW?
Getalife:
It’s so not like you to go all hawg on a dawg.
Corporal
April 3rd, 2009
7:56 pm
Icaz1158 and Truth:
10-4 & thanks………
BTW – the first MLB game I ever went to was between the Cleveland Indians and the Kansas City …………………… Athletics ….
)
I Report/ You Whine
April 3rd, 2009
8:15 pm
Who knew that all it took for the “world” to “like” us was to throw them a Trillion Dollars and disarm our military?
Gosh, aren’t we blessed?
TW
April 3rd, 2009
8:16 pm
7:07 – post of the day, thanks.
Corporal
April 3rd, 2009
8:17 pm
Trivia:
This shows just how old our national game is:
This is from George Will’s book (and I think I am right on the teams/score) but if one picked up the front page of a Chicago newspaper a couple of days after June 15, 1876 one would have seen Chicago 3, Boston 2 (a baseball score) along side a bigger headline: “GENERAL CUSTER AND 300 MEN SLAUGHTERED AT THE LITTLE BIG HORN RIVER”.
Amazing ………….