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 ………….
@@
April 3rd, 2009
8:22 pm
Bloomberg — “If there is another al-Qaeda attack, it is just as likely, if not more, that it will be here in Europe in a European city,” he (Obama) said.
Oops! The politics of fear? But I thought…
I Report/ You Whine
April 3rd, 2009
8:23 pm
If your neighbor wants to kill you, by all means, call him up and tell him you got rid of your 12 Gauge Slug Gun.
Bosch
April 3rd, 2009
8:24 pm
getalife
Great picture – yeah, it’s nice to see people wanting to hug our President instead of throwing a shoe at him.
Just saw an interview on BBC America news with a German guy and Russian guy – the Russian wasn’t too enthused about Obama. Go figure. Apparently Obama is visiting Moscow in July – should be interesting to see how that plays out.
I Report/ You Whine
April 3rd, 2009
8:26 pm
When I get mugged, the first thing I always do is pull out my Ruger P345 .45 Auto and give it to the mob as a sign of friendship.
RW-(the original)
April 3rd, 2009
8:28 pm
@@,
I’m sure Mitch is mentioned in the Hall. Somewhere around the Toronto Blue Jay exhibit.
jon
April 3rd, 2009
8:28 pm
Hot Damn!! Go Braves!!!
From April to September (sometimes October) the Braves on radio or TV are like the soundtrack to my life. I rarely sit and watch a whole game , but if they are on the air – it’s on while I do other things. Been that way since the 70s when Ted put them on the Super Station.
Don’t seem right without Skip, though.
I Report/ You Whine
April 3rd, 2009
8:32 pm
I found that when you catch someone prying on your backdoor it is best to let them in to meet the family and see that we are not “mean” people.
I Report/ You Whine
April 3rd, 2009
8:37 pm
I often leave the front door of the house wide open while I sleep so that no one will think that I don’t trust them, heaven forbid.
DB, Gwinnettian
April 3rd, 2009
8:38 pm
While I cannot in good conscience second your “go braves,” as a diehard Mets fan I will be pulling for them to beat the Phils.
DB, Gwinnettian
April 3rd, 2009
8:40 pm
I sometimes think that Creedence was the second greatest American band. After the Velvets.
But then I think of Crazy Horse as a band…
DB, Gwinnettian
April 3rd, 2009
8:41 pm
Also, while I am not a Braves fan, it is good to know that I can tune in a ballgame ’round these parts and be a part of that.
Also, they play 13 games with my Mets. So there’s that.
DB, Gwinnettian
April 3rd, 2009
8:44 pm
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”.
I hear ya. I recall literally dropping the book when I read the original rules of baseball from 1849 and realizing that they had a “must complete the strikeout by throwing to first” rule even back then, if the catcher dropped the third strike and first base was open.
amazing that rule’s still in place, but it is. 160 years later.
DB, Gwinnettian
April 3rd, 2009
8:45 pm
I hope they never bring aluminum bats to the big leagues.
They won’t.
I Report/ You Whine
April 3rd, 2009
8:46 pm
We need to skip this baseball nonsense and get right to the start of the NFL season so that I can watch my whiny little quarterback eat up the rest of the league like so much fodder.
Be warned Falcon fans.
Bosch
April 3rd, 2009
8:50 pm
DB,
The Mets? I’m not a baseball fan and even I know that’s not good. I stopped watching baseball after the mid-90 strikes. Although, I was all into the Braves before then – Glavine ruined it for me.
Great American bands? Hmmm. That’s a topic all to itself. White Stripes? Green Day? Moby (is he American?) Beck?
Bosch
April 3rd, 2009
8:52 pm
Fleetwood Mac? Jimi Hendrix? Janis Joplin?
Bosch
April 3rd, 2009
8:54 pm
REM? Madonna? Sublime? Cake? Marvin Gaye?
Bosch
April 3rd, 2009
8:56 pm
Oh snap, and the Jackson Five (including Michael and Janet)? Do we go by records sold or great music?
If we go by great music, then the best band ever is from Ireland – U2
jon
April 3rd, 2009
8:56 pm
What are the five ways to reach 1st without hitting the ball?
RW-(the original)
April 3rd, 2009
8:58 pm
DB,
They play each other 18 times, if you can believe the sortable schedule.
DB, Gwinnettian
April 3rd, 2009
8:58 pm
Green Day?
Of all the things you mentioned, I’ll admit to thinking about this group of late.
Ages ago I submitted to my temptation and purchased their major label debut “Dookie”. Heard it a few times, put it away, though they were hopelessly derivative of the Ramones, Pistols, Clash, et al.
Fast forward many years; maybe it was hearing them on my mp3 player during a run, but that debut album is fookin’ brilliant. It’s a classic. And they’re a great band.
Maybe as good as They Might Be Giants, even.
Later, all. Better half just told me there’s some pre-season baseball to viddy.
DB, Gwinnettian
April 3rd, 2009
8:59 pm
RW–18?
Well, I was in the ballpark.
Bosch
April 3rd, 2009
9:02 pm
DB,
Well, can you get any better than Dookie?
The Doors? The Smashing Pumpkins? Red Hot Chili Peppers? Nirvana? The Foo Fighters?
Bosch
April 3rd, 2009
9:03 pm
And the Clash wasn’t American.
DB, Gwinnettian
April 3rd, 2009
9:03 pm
I try to get away, but yeah, Bosch.
Nirvana. Life-changing band, that.
And now I really must go. Be excellent to one another.
Bosch
April 3rd, 2009
9:04 pm
Pearl Jam? And the Ramones, I feel bad I didn’t think of them right off.
Bosch
April 3rd, 2009
9:08 pm
And then you have THOSE bands like Boston, Styx, and Journey -
Oh and the others like Bon Jovi, White Stripes, and Poison (ewwww)
But you’ve always got the BOSS – Bruce Springsteen.
Bosch
April 3rd, 2009
9:09 pm
Oh, not White Stripes (love them) I meant, Whitesnake (again, ewww)
@@
April 3rd, 2009
9:17 pm
The New Yorker baseball reviewer Roger Angell chortled over Williams’ “scary, hilarious antics”, saying “he flung the ball and then… flung himself after it, winding up with his back to home plate… peering over his left shoulder in case anyone accidentally made contact.”
Snort!
Snort
Like waiting for an accident to happen.
Bosch
April 3rd, 2009
9:18 pm
Whitesnake, not White Stripes.
Bosch
April 3rd, 2009
9:19 pm
And we have Tom Petty, and although I don’t care for him even though he’s a force – Jimmy Buffet.
rcs
April 3rd, 2009
9:29 pm
the phillies at home. cheese steaks, soft pretzels, yuengling. wish i could be there.
Bosch
April 3rd, 2009
9:29 pm
And how can I not mention Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead? Shame on me.
Bosch
April 3rd, 2009
9:33 pm
rcs,
They’ve started selling Yuengling around my parts and it’s changed my whole town. It’s like a revolution.
I’m feeling a new baseball comraderie. Maybe I should start watching again.
Hillbilly Deluxe
April 3rd, 2009
9:33 pm
No matter what anyone does in rock and roll music, Elvis or the Beatles already did it.
@@
April 3rd, 2009
9:37 pm
My Dad loved to listen to Roger Whitaker.
Me too.
rcs
April 3rd, 2009
9:46 pm
bosch, i know what you mean. when yuengling first released the lager in eastern pa, distributors couldn’t keep in it stock. that was around 1997. still the best beer around.
rcs
April 3rd, 2009
9:49 pm
@@ – my dad also loved Roger Whitaker. Johnny Cash was another favorite of his.
@@
April 3rd, 2009
10:04 pm
rcs:
I wish I could recall all the artists he enjoyed. Most, if not all were balladeers which is probably why I enjoy solo artists more than groups.
jon
April 3rd, 2009
10:27 pm
so no one knows 5 ways to reach 1st base without hitting the ball?
Dusty
April 3rd, 2009
10:38 pm
Aww I’m still lovin’ the Braves.
Right by my back door there is a paper fan stuck in a glass container. The fan has a wooden handle. “I’M A SKIP & PETE FAN” is written across the top. Right below is a picture of Skip & Pete smiling. It is my favorite souvenir of a great game and a fun time with the Braves..
I surely miss Skip and Pete too.. And I hope the Braves really get going. I’m ready!
Dusty
April 3rd, 2009
10:51 pm
@@
I still like some of the “oldie” solo artist too. Dusty Springfield’s “The Look of love” and Etta James “At last” for instance.
But I confess my lifetime favorite is Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue”, Once I got the music for that one but it was so difficult I went back to a one finger version of my own. It was “blue” alright.
Corporal
April 3rd, 2009
11:00 pm
jon:
1. 4 balls
2. Hit by a pitch
3. balk
4. catcher interference
5. ?
Corporal
April 3rd, 2009
11:04 pm
BTW, have you libs ordered your WWDO bracelets ?
Corporal
April 3rd, 2009
11:05 pm
Excuse me: WWOD ………..
fearless fosdick
April 3rd, 2009
11:11 pm
I’m a little late joining the music club..But, here I go with some of my all time favs…Kingston Trio, Bob Dylan, Frank Sinatra, Willie Nelson, J.J. Cale, Dion, Dinah Washington, I probably have over 2,000 cd’s and my music taste is quite electic! A lot of standards, Jazz, and blues. Think I’ll go listen to something bluesy and enjoy a nightcap.
fearless fosdick
April 3rd, 2009
11:14 pm
corporal …Dropped third strike!
Midori
April 3rd, 2009
11:17 pm
Jesus — what a family!!
Todd Palin’s half-sister was arrested Thursday after police say she broke into a Wasilla home for the second time this week to steal money.
Palin is the husband of Gov. Sarah Palin. He declined comment.
Diana Palin, 35, entered a home near Wasilla’s Multi-Use Sports Complex and attempted to steal cash from the owner’s bedroom, police said.
She also broke into the same house on Tuesday and stole $400, they said.
McLean said Friday he didn’t recognize the street where his wife was arrested and had no idea why she might do what police say she did. McLean described Diana Palin asa stay-at-home mom who takes good care of their two young children.
McLean said he got a call Thursday around 10:30 a.m. from police, asking him to come pick up their 4-year-old daughter, and has heard nothing since.
http://community.adn.com/adn/node/140107
Dusty
April 3rd, 2009
11:19 pm
Corporal,
What does WWOD stand for?
As to Jon’s question, I’m wondering if there is a “catch” to this one. You can reach first base without hitting the ball by running, walking, skipping, crawling or hopping. You think???
Paul
April 3rd, 2009
11:24 pm
DB
Who’re the ‘Veltets’? sounds like a bad interior job on a 57 Chevy restoration.
Bosch 7:20
[[I’m confused]]
So what else is new?
Now the topic’s great American band. I see you specified “American” rather than “great(est) bands. You know who you were trying to exclude ’cause you know the answer: Abba.
Jon
[[What are the five ways to reach 1st without hitting the ball?]]
Meet up with Mrs. Godilla in the right field bleachers…
Bosch 9:02
Weird Al Yankovich.
DB 9:03
Bill and Ted’s band had a name? Oh yeah – something Stallions!
Bosch 9:33
[[They’ve started selling Yuengling around my parts and it’s changed my whole town. It’s like a revolution.]]
Ummm, isn’t that a Chinese beer? Never mind…
10:51 Dusty likes Dusty Springfield? Could it be?….. Yes!