A well-earned tribute to the man at the hot corner
As you may have noticed, I’m not a particular fan of heavy metal. Once I hit 17 or 18 and started to explore more thoroughly all the various types of music available, my Black Sabbath and Judas Priest albums went more or less unplayed.
Tonight, though, let’s make an exception. With the Braves playing a one-game playoff at the Ted for entry into the full playoffs, this could be Atlanta’s final sendoff for the great Chipper Jones. We went to the game Sunday to watch his final regularly scheduled home appearance — we bought the tickets back in July, and weren’t certain then whether the Braves would make the post-season — and the 40-year-old made three sterling plays in the field that any 25-year-old would have been proud to make.
When you start talking Chipper, a lot of memories come back. I remember going to my first Braves game back in 1990, against the Cubs, and there were maybe 5,000 people in the place, with 4,950 of them rooting for the Cubs. That doesn’t happen anymore, and Chipper Jones, along with Bobby Cox and a certain trio of pitchers, helped make that transformation possible.
Essentially growing up in the Atlanta spotlight, Jones has had his occasional stumbles, but overall he has conducted himself with dignity and class, doing great credit to himself and the Braves. He’s also played some clutch, Hall of Fame-caliber baseball along the way.
So to mark the occasion and as a well-deserved tribute, here’s Chipper’s walkup song, “Crazy Train” by Ozzy Osbourne, a veteran himself who is even more grizzled than Chipper.
– Jay Bookman
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godless heathen
October 5th, 2012
10:54 pm
How about a tune?
http://youtu.be/Y7e9D9NcGis
Brosephus™
October 5th, 2012
10:56 pm
skydog
I met him a few years back and got to chew the fat with him for a while. I think he was kinda surprised that I recognized him and called him by name. He’s a cool guy to talk to.
———————-
Do they try to trick you with questions like “howz it hangin’” ?
You can never tell. Those undertakers are some shady characters…
godless heathen
October 5th, 2012
10:56 pm
sky, I know you are a Braves fan. Just wait ’til next year.
RW-(the original)
October 5th, 2012
10:58 pm
The Susan Sarandon character in Rocky Horror Picture Show was smoking hot.
There you go JV. I fixed all that dialog for you.
JamVet
October 5th, 2012
11:00 pm
Wow. I never knew this version this existed.
For Hillbilly Deluxe, the kindest, gentlest (neatest) soul I ever knew on this blog…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvQ77PoNJ6E&feature=related
Mick
October 5th, 2012
11:01 pm
getalife
Never had the thrill of hitting a home run but….I did score many touchdowns, thank the lord, what a thrill, life is great-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6qf39bpFPw&feature=fvst
JamVet
October 5th, 2012
11:03 pm
True dat, RW, Those cotton white panties and bra sure did get this (then) 20 year old’s attention!
(Dammit, Janet! I love you!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBjVBbeqf7E
godless heathen
October 5th, 2012
11:03 pm
OK gang. On the right side of the page is a list of topics inviting us to click on them. On my screen, just above 5 Worst Mistakes Women Make in Bed is 10 Signs that Death is Near
I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to know if death is near until he knocks on the f*****g door.
godless heathen
October 5th, 2012
11:06 pm
Never had the thrill of hitting a home run but….
I got to third base a few times.
http://youtu.be/9NTDHjVKQyo
JamVet
October 5th, 2012
11:06 pm
Lotsa hours in the batting cage and I taught myself to become a switch hitter. No power left handed and no contact right handed!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aizCMO-mI1Q&feature=related
Brosephus™
October 5th, 2012
11:06 pm
I know you are a Braves fan. Just wait ’til next year.
I don’t know if he took my request seriously or not, but I did get a bit of satisfaction from this year’s team. I had a run-in with Schuerholz back in May right after the Braves lost 8 in a row. I asked him to not bring back the powder blue looking pullovers no matter what happened for the rest of the season. He got a good laugh from that, and told me that we wouldn’t see them.
Mick
October 5th, 2012
11:06 pm
jamvet
You really understand our particular time warp, this for you on a very cool friday night-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af84emF3SB0
skydog
October 5th, 2012
11:08 pm
yeah bro,
I wanted to name my first born Claudell, but my wife overrule me. My daughter Allson thanks my wife to this day for the ruling.
Mick
October 5th, 2012
11:11 pm
skydog
I agree with allison!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x34wa2jehek
skydog
October 5th, 2012
11:13 pm
heathen- I`m with what Woody Allen said, “I`m not afraid of dying, I just don`t want to be there when it happens.”
godless heathen
October 5th, 2012
11:13 pm
And just for the record, the heathen hates all this wild-card BS just like he hates inter-leauge play crap. Made for TV $$$.
RW-(the original)
October 5th, 2012
11:13 pm
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/05/14227186-san-francisco-nudists-might-have-to-cover-up-if-new-ordinance-passes?lite
Why do they always seem to named Weiner?
Goodnight y’all
Brosephus™
October 5th, 2012
11:16 pm
skydog
Let me offer my belated thanks to her as well.
JamVet
October 5th, 2012
11:18 pm
Mick, very cool.
For no reason at all this one popped into my head this morning…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkgozdtsh_g
Brosephus™
October 5th, 2012
11:19 pm
Y’all have fun. I gotta take my tired ass to bed.
skydog
October 5th, 2012
11:22 pm
Now we (Falcons) have to figure out how to corral RGlll? He is a water bug that can throw.
Dogs may be in trouble with Lattimere and the old ball coach?
JamVet
October 5th, 2012
11:26 pm
heathen, just for the record, before this Jamvet never noticed your penchant for referring to yourself in the third person, ala Bob Dole and Richard Nixon!
It takes a helluva personality to pull that off!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlfE695MFHc
skydog
October 5th, 2012
11:29 pm
Bo Jackson was a 3rd person! Bo Knows.
skydog
October 5th, 2012
11:32 pm
The most impressive thing I ever saw live at a major league event was a Bo Jackson pop up in the old Comensky Park. The whole crowd gasp at this thing that went out of the lights and then back in.
godless heathen
October 5th, 2012
11:33 pm
Go Cards. If it ain’t the Braves, I always pull for the Cardinals due to some family and old friend connections.
I’d like to dedicate a tune to my long lost friend, Robert. Many years ago we worked together in the SE Missouri Ozarks and talked ourselves into free lodging at a state park that was closed for the winter. Baseball season started before the kicked us out for the paying customers, and my friend, from Cape Girardeau, Mo (the only inland Cape in the world, according to him) was a great Cards fan. We had an AM radio that we listened to the Cards games on and a cassette player that we listened to CSN on.
http://youtu.be/pF-oWhD2itE
JamVet
October 5th, 2012
11:55 pm
heathen, way cool.
I grew up in Stickville Kansas and me ( a then 13 year old) and my older brother Jim and his friend Howard, would listen to Harry Carey and Jack Buck broadcast those Card games on AM radio. My love for the game actually started way back then listening to those static filled games of Bob Gibson, Steve Carlton (yep), Lou Brock and Curt Flood. (BTW, I’ve passed through Cape Girardeau. Home of Rush Limbaugh…)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-S6md3LNgs
Mick
October 5th, 2012
11:58 pm
Shiite, it’s raining out which takes me back-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ma8OhzFdIA
godless heathen
October 6th, 2012
12:11 am
Jam: My mostest favorite CSN (&Y) song is one of the shortest, I won’t link to it because you know it by heart.
“Let me be your country man”
Mick
October 6th, 2012
12:16 am
heathen
I thought I might be the last man standing tonite-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taG95SKKMVE&feature=related
godless heathen
October 6th, 2012
12:17 am
Jam, You made me google. There’s no such place as Stickville, KS. LOL! Somewhere in the sticks in KS? Flyover country? The SW Corner of the NE corner of the NW corner of the 3rd section of Township 2W and Range 4N?
godless heathen
October 6th, 2012
12:21 am
Mick.
What a tune!
I’m still here. Emotional day for me and Uncle Bud and I are still working it out.
Issues related to family finances. But ef it. Everybody is healthy.
Mick
October 6th, 2012
12:26 am
**But ef it. Everybody is healthy.**
Ah yes, your health is your wealth..write on-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOeRWKCmhRg
Jm
October 6th, 2012
3:02 am
getalife
October 5th, 2012
10:54 pm
I use to swing for the fences until a hitting coach told me just slow down my swing and just make contact with the ball. It worked.
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I’d say you took that lesson to heart. Your blogging definitely resembles bunting.
/throws empty beer can at getalife
Jm
October 6th, 2012
3:05 am
Tom Friedman is crying
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/05/business/global/glut-of-solar-panels-is-a-new-test-for-china.html?hpw&_r=0
Jm
October 6th, 2012
3:29 am
This is such a disgrace
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/transportation/marta-readies-for-financial-overhaul/nSWPy/
Especially if you think about it in this context: the amount wasted by MARTA over a decade could’ve paid for two new rail lines,one to Emory, CDC, and the other to someplace else like the galleria (or a ton of light rail). Or it could’ve paid to build the Beltline single handedly.
The MARTA waste has cost the city of Atlanta dearly. Very dearly.
if YOU are not registered to vote by Tuesday, October 9, YOU will not be able to vote on November 6
October 6th, 2012
6:28 am
YOU can register “RIGHT NOW”
http://sos.georgia.gov/elections/how_to_register.htm
Skip
October 6th, 2012
6:52 am
Try not giving up six runs, makes winning a little easier.
stands for decibels
October 6th, 2012
7:30 am
Wow. I never knew this version this existed.
Really enjoyed that Campbell version, JV, thanks.
I assume you’ve heard Nico’s classic take:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_z_UEuEMAo
but did you ever hear Fountains of Wayne’s?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CsEIITeGTw
stands for decibels
October 6th, 2012
7:32 am
Tom Friedman is crying
He can, as always, suck. on. this.
stands for decibels
October 6th, 2012
7:49 am
Guess I should mention, it was nice to see RW back on these pages (I know he’s made an occasional appearance, but it’s been awhile.)
Jm
October 6th, 2012
8:00 am
Sfd. I thought Friedman was a doofus before. That, um, confirms it in spades.
Jm
October 6th, 2012
8:22 am
http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=321005115
Well, our fans should not have behaved that way. But I can understand why they did.
skydog
October 6th, 2012
8:25 am
The Braves were in the right place, it was just the wrong time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf15HrUZ5Wk&feature=related
indigo
October 6th, 2012
8:26 am
When adult men earn huge amounts of money playing a kid’s game, the maturity level of their society is called into serious question.
skydog
October 6th, 2012
8:29 am
Wake up G.Mare, here is one for you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5VMoi9EKUA
Jm
October 6th, 2012
8:43 am
Indigo
General nonsense
I guess every society is immature, because this is a global phenomenon
Maybe we’re immature next to alien civilizations was your point
Hard to argue with that
skydog
October 6th, 2012
8:45 am
Levon was the man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_95DOmt9Bc&feature=related
skydog
October 6th, 2012
8:49 am
Poor ol Dirt Farmer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBuJB218UvU
skydog
October 6th, 2012
8:51 am
Maybe the best talent the US has ever produced?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZaU3VtMfoM&feature=related
skydog
October 6th, 2012
8:58 am
This place …… is only 1/2 way home.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ5Jl3zxabo&feature=related
JKL2
October 6th, 2012
9:02 am
jamvet- I grew up in Stickville Kansas and me ( a then 13 year old) and my older brother Jim and his friend Howard, would listen to Harry Carey and Jack Buck broadcast those Card games on AM radio.
Mike Shannon was the speaker at my HS graduation. I saw a game every year the old Busch stadium was in existence. The only year I haven’t attended at least one game was when I was deployed.
indigo
October 6th, 2012
9:05 am
jm – 8:43
Maybe we’re the insane asylum of the Universe?
skydog
October 6th, 2012
9:12 am
Go to the 8:45 part of my above post, This place
Go to 8:45 on the above post,(This place) Levon has our countries plight figured out.
JamVet
October 6th, 2012
9:15 am
JKL2 , those were crazy days. The Viet Nam war, Civil Rights protests, RFK and MLK Jr both assassinated and sex, drugs and rock and roll!
Gibson, McLain, Mantle, Drysdale, Catfish Hunter and Hank Aaron. And the pitching was so dominant that MLB lowered the mound and shrunk the strike zone!
Good times…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ntcMjYL7hc
RW-(the original)
October 6th, 2012
9:30 am
Thanks for the kind words, stands.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Brocephus,
With all the films and docudramas being made about the Bin Laden raid it occurs to me that a film using the Iowahawk script would make mare money than the rest of them put together.
Thogwummpy
October 6th, 2012
9:31 am
Whoa Bookman—-how in the world are you applauding someone for individual achievement?!?! Your god and our Pres-tard Obama would say about Chipper: “He didn’t have that career, he didn’t hit those home runs…..SOMEBODY ELSE did that, somebody else made that happen.” Which is much like giving credit the stadium ground crew—the pretext being that the government has an ethical right to take Chipper’s salary and redistribute it to all the “little people” along the way that Obama thinks are more deserving of Chipper’s pay. So basically, like all selectively Libbies….success and accomplishing a dream is only okay if you’re an actor, or athlete, or musician, or artist, etc. (a galley of certain chosen careers that progressives grant a pass from class hatreds)—-BUT, if one worked hard, made sacrifices, took the risks and paid the personal prices to succeed in business, THEN the Leftist gloves come off and you guys scream “rape!”—and in so doing, YOU SLANDER REALLY GOOD PEOPLE by a childish, adolescent broad brush of irrational HATE. If you praise Chipper, yet dennouce the businessman—then you are a hypocrite! Then again, I’ve yet to meet a liberal who isn’t.
RW-(the original)
October 6th, 2012
9:31 am
Mare money?
geeez
IHB
JamVet
October 6th, 2012
9:41 am
Thoggrummpy, go with the decaf, son…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O83CrS-KElk
skydog
October 6th, 2012
9:45 am
Thog -”took the risks and paid the personal prices to succeed in business”
You don`t own the Gulf of Mexico con.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 6th, 2012
9:46 am
31 more days and I predict Drs. will be treating an abnormally high level of aneurysm cases.
skydog
October 6th, 2012
9:49 am
That is perfect planning. The cons heads explode on Nov 7th, but full coverage don`t kick in till 2014.
skydog
October 6th, 2012
9:58 am
What are Bibi and McCains plans AFTER they pop a cap on Iran?
If 1/2 a billion mad people come swarming down the hill after Israel what are they going to do?
I ain`t going, how about you?
RW-(the original)
October 6th, 2012
10:04 am
I guess this fits in on a music thread
JamVet
October 6th, 2012
10:05 am
We all chipped in for a bag of cement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEil2e_bUvg
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 6th, 2012
10:10 am
What are Bibi and McCains plans AFTER they pop a cap on Iran?
If 1/2 a billion mad people come swarming down the hill after Israel what are they going to do?
Revelation 14:20 — And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
Gonna need a lot of blood to make that revelation come true.
Maybe that’s the plan all along.
TaxPayer
October 6th, 2012
10:20 am
Lying is considered a winning strategy by the cons.
If Mittens takes every side on every issue, the con-clusion is that he must have told the truth.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 6th, 2012
10:29 am
KAMCHAK
I’ve been trying to compare Romney’s economic plan (clearly lacks details) to the one Obama submitted to voters in 2008…I don’t see any direct comparisons but what I do find is 4-5 talking points about cutting taxes, allowing tax free access to 401K’s for limited amount, and the like. I’m trying to see if Romeys BS is any more of less specific lacking as Obamas as a challenger..
I know the budgets, or the few he has submitted, were basically ignored by Congress as typical tax and spend….I think the last one proposed a $1.5 trillion deficit…
Hard to know who to trust…why should I trust Obama over Romney…of course i trust neither of them..
Fred ™
October 6th, 2012
10:32 am
KAM: garedneck2112 yahoo.
Fred ™
October 6th, 2012
10:33 am
I think the last one proposed a $1.5 trillion deficit…
I don’t know about that, but the last one proposed by I think was rejected by the Senate by 98-0. his own Party won’t help him out.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 6th, 2012
10:35 am
Why don’t any of the Obama supporters recall all his broken promises of 2008 and beyond that appear to me to be no different than those DEMS are so quick to point out currently for the other dope? Sure, he delivered on the small ball stuff, and he did sign PelosiCare but on the macro promises, he has failed miserably….cutting deficit, ending lobbyist controlled DC agenda (most important IMO), ACA was going to be revenue neutral, foreign reputation of US would improve simply by his election blah blah blah..
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 6th, 2012
10:37 am
FRED
How’s it hanging?
http://money.cnn.com/2012/02/13/news/economy/obama_budget/index.htm
Thomas R. Buchanan, P.E.
October 6th, 2012
10:39 am
Dignity? Class? Like that exhibited by the fans, or the majority of people commenting, or a Hooters predator?
Fred ™
October 6th, 2012
10:42 am
Stevie Ray: Although I know this to be a useless endeavor to a denying hard right wing fanatic I’ll give it a try.
There is a DIFFERENCE between a ‘broken promise” and something that was attempted and blocked. Idiot Democrats tried your same tired “broken promise” line on Newt Gingrich and his Contract with America. He lied, he broke his promise, he didn’t do everything he said.
Well the TRUTH of the matter was that he DID do everything he said. He got every single thing up for a vote. Some passed, some didn’t, and some were vetoed.
In Obama’s case, anything he didn’t get done before 2010 was blocked by a Congress who found it more important to so no to ANYTHING the President proposed than to do what was best for the Country.
But just for fun, and because I’m bored, run down this long Rush Limbaugh/,FOX News etal list of Obama “broken promises.”
Fred ™
October 6th, 2012
10:43 am
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am…
October 6th, 2012
10:37 am
FRED
How’s it hanging?
http://money.cnn.com/2012/02/13/news/economy/obama_budget/index.htm
+++++++++++++++
Is that the one that was rejected 98-0?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 6th, 2012
10:50 am
Fred
I’m trying to send you an email, but it won’t go through.
You mentioned Local #7. You still welcome there?
Fred ™
October 6th, 2012
10:52 am
Sure. Today?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 6th, 2012
10:54 am
Hard to know who to trust…why should I trust Obama over Romney…of course i trust neither of them..
Why do you assume that I trust Obama?
You’re not prepared to trust him no matter what I say, so your question is more of a gotcha thingie.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 6th, 2012
10:55 am
Fred
Yeah, what time?
td
October 6th, 2012
11:00 am
Well since the tribute to the greatest player the Braves has ever had seems to be over and it is back to politics then:
“I’m sorry, he sucked,” said Maher last night. “He looked tired. He had trouble getting his answers out. Looks like he took me million and spent it all on weed!”
“Maher has given a million dollars to support President Obama’s super PAC.”
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/big-super-pac-donor-obama-looks-he-took-my-million-and-spent-it-all-weed_653844.html
Fred ™
October 6th, 2012
11:00 am
I don’t care. Anytime 20 minutes from now lol. I need a shower and it takes me 3 minutes to get there. I DO want to be somewhere and planted to watch the Florida/LSU game though which is at 3:30 and then Georgia?South Carolina is at 7:00.
You want to shoot for noon?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 6th, 2012
11:01 am
Fred
Yeah, I gotta do the shower thing too, so 12:30ish
Fred ™
October 6th, 2012
11:03 am
td: As far as I can tell, no one except Right Wingers watches Maher or cares what he says or thinks. I haven’t seen any of the left wingers on this site show him any support or love, nor any of us independents. Personally I think Maher is pretty much a classless D-Bag. I would listen to Rush before I would listen to him.
Fred ™
October 6th, 2012
11:04 am
ish it is. Look for the fat boy sitting at the bar.
skydog
October 6th, 2012
11:13 am
skydog = like bill maher = Right Wing
something don`t add up?
getalife
October 6th, 2012
11:16 am
Maher is funny, even the guests from the right laugh on his show.
Fred ™
October 6th, 2012
11:23 am
Alrighty then. We now have 2 folks who like Maher, skydog and getalife. LOL You are “new” skydog, but YOU getalife? I never heard you say you liked him before. Guess I’ll have to change my “no one here likes Maher anyway” statement in the future………..
getalife
October 6th, 2012
11:27 am
“Look for the fat boy sitting at the bar.”
Most Americans are fat but Kam is a soccer fan so try to recruit him to real SEC football
skydog
October 6th, 2012
11:28 am
getalife – I am sitting in my man cave with a tinfoil hat on, trying to get some football picks to come in.
I`m seeing a tiger eating an alligator leg and a chicken with a dog in it`s mouth. I`ll have to consult the hat manual for an interpretation.
The book says, “up is down and bomb Iran”. Wait, that is the con section. Football says, LSU 35 – Fla 31 and SC 27 – dogs 21
getalife
October 6th, 2012
11:33 am
Fred,
I watch Showtime and HBO shows. I have opined that fact before. He is an atheist pot head lib comedian and pretty funny.
skydog
October 6th, 2012
11:37 am
I was just in Outdoor World and some guy was buying cases every cal. bullets they had.
He ask for directions to Tucker and yelled out, “Mr. Digets forever!”.
getalife
October 6th, 2012
11:38 am
“I`m seeing a tiger eating an alligator leg and a chicken with a dog in it`s mouth”
That cracked me up and think you are right but the LSU Florida game will probably be low scoring with LSU winning at the end by 3. I hope Mett shaved that silly moustach and steps up his game.
Fred ™
October 6th, 2012
11:40 am
The book says, “up is down and bomb Iran”. Wait, that is the con section. Football says, LSU 35 – Fla 31 and SC 27 – dogs 2
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I hope you ain’t betting your retirement fund OR your skins on that. Otherwise you’ll be playing air drums in a homeless shelter on Monday…………
Fred ™
October 6th, 2012
11:41 am
get: Maher hasn’t been funny in years. “Get” with the times, Mett shaved his ’stache earlier this week. Doesn’t matter, Gators win.
skydog
October 6th, 2012
11:43 am
I`m down worse than Romney right now, so I am changing gears.
Fred ™
October 6th, 2012
11:44 am
skydog:You doing points or head to head?
skydog
October 6th, 2012
11:48 am
These guys will go any which way you want.
http://sports.bovada.lv
getalife
October 6th, 2012
11:49 am
Fred,
Making fun of the right is always funny to me. The jokes write themselves.
Fred ™
October 6th, 2012
11:50 am
get: I understand that but Maher doesn’t do it well. He’s to hate filled to be funny.
skydog
October 6th, 2012
11:51 am
Fred,
Not me, but my brother in laws friends wife, took $200 last year and made $3,600.
skydog
October 6th, 2012
11:52 am
This year he has taken $600 and turned it into $0.