Show #100: An Atlanta Baseball Talk Retrospective
Hammy, Curt, Scott, Frank, and I discuss the behind the scenes of the first 100 shows.
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April 2nd, 2010 at 5:21 pm
Oh Jo Jo…
April 2nd, 2010 at 5:32 pm
That’s what she said.
Actually, I like the move. I think he has a better chance to succeed (read: do okay, eat innings, 4.00 ERA) in the pen. And if it makes him less likely to be our 6th/spot starter, all the better. Here’s hoping this is the mark of the end of those days.
But that does beg the question, who IS our 6th starter now? Minor? Parr? Some kind of Medlen+Reyes 3+3 tagteam?
April 2nd, 2010 at 5:40 pm
If she said it it wasn’t from a positive…um stand, viewpoint. I cringe everytime his name is announced. I hope your right. He would have been my first choice to go to the minors but maybe I’m basing that more on the last two years than ST.
April 2nd, 2010 at 5:55 pm
Hello from Turner Field! My earlier prediction that “Curt’s Harem” are wearing the number 10, not 2010, on their backs. …and so my predictions begin to fall flat immediately. Go Braves!
April 2nd, 2010 at 5:59 pm
Awesome, Anne! Give us some atmosphere.
April 2nd, 2010 at 7:36 pm
Hong Kong Fan – thanks for checking in and for your kind words. Loved hearing about your weekly call with your brother. It’s humbling, really. Thanks again and don’t be a stranger.
Anne – I second that request! What’s the scene there? Did the place go nuts when Heyward came to bat for the first time? Did Andruw get a warm welcome? And, Bug, thanks for all kind words.
Bub – Good Lord! Very glad to hear your Dad is ok.
April 2nd, 2010 at 7:41 pm
Not unexpected, but a generally subdued crowd. Heyward got a good but not great welcome. …and then Medlen was allowed to pitch…and it’s been: mediocre.
Anyone agree with me that Andruw looks skinny(-ier)??
April 2nd, 2010 at 8:15 pm
Brian Jordan just walked by – all by himself – and proceeded to hug all of the ushers and he’s making his way around the stadium doing so. NICE!
April 2nd, 2010 at 8:29 pm
Do something Anne! They’re losing! Make a commotion, do the locamotion!
Did you guys at home hear the commentary in the top of the 8th: Don Sutton, “So you ask, who’s the fifth starter?”
“Low and inside ball 1.”
April 2nd, 2010 at 8:39 pm
Leah – I have absolutely LOVED Glavine in the booth tonight. He made the underwhemling tandem of Joe and Chip much, much better.
Anne – “Heyward got a good but not great welcome.” How can that be?!?!? Do you get a sense it’s not a savvy baseball crowd? Just folks there for the “event” of it? (I just described the crowd at almost every home game, by the way.)
April 2nd, 2010 at 8:39 pm
Bad news: Bravos not looking so good tonight. Good news: It’s still Spring Training and it doesn’t count!! Best news: Bub, sounds like your Dad is stable and in good hands. Is he at the med center associated with UAB? They have a great reputation. Best wishes!
April 2nd, 2010 at 8:57 pm
Tcc, thanks! He’s at Trinity Medical. Don’t know much about them, but if his surgeon is as skilled with the knife as he is with talking to families in the lobby, he’s a miracle man. Yes, very stable. Sitting up in bed and talking. It’s a long, slow road from here, but it’s looking great right now.
What an egg the boys laid, huh? I almost wish that deep fly by Andruw went on out… just to make it a complete deep cleansing or something. Awful, awful, awful.
Hanson did well.
And I liked not going into any inning when the three batters flashed up on the screen as COMING UP made me go “well, maybe the next inning.” My confidence isn’t much shaken. But what a complete stinker of a game.
*spits on the ground*
April 2nd, 2010 at 9:21 pm
Bub, with some experience in Cardiology i will say that “sitting up in bed and talking” is Way ahead of the Game, given your description of the situation. Again, best wishes.
As to the Braves, do you think that coming home to “The Ted” takes some adjustments for the the new guys and even to the vets? Seems like a change of locale and venue would have some impact. Sure, there was talk about the lights and all, that will take some getting used to for the new guys..how long do you think that adjustment takes?
April 2nd, 2010 at 9:29 pm
Tcc – I think, more than anything, these are the last of the meaningless games and their hearts are not exactly in it. Look at Wagner tonight. Non save situation, lacking in focus – same old story. But, are you worried about Wagner because of tonight? I’m not.
April 2nd, 2010 at 10:28 pm
Watching him live, Wagner seemed to have his stuff, like, every other pitch. I agree, Steve, that it’s lack of focus and non-save situation, so what the heck kind of pitching. …though the returning players must have warned him and the rookies/minor leaguers that The Fans need to be won over moreso than most. Along the same lines, Steve, yeah, more lackluster and not savvy is the problem – this game and typically. I will say I thought it was a nice crowd for first exhibition. 755 Club looked buzzingly busy, viewed from across the way. Nice spread of folks all around the Ted.
Oh, and my tickets are slightly better than I thought. Still Terrace above the Braves dugout, but the dugout ceiling lettering begins with the Braves symbol, then the sentence, so: (A) Home of the Braves. I’m not directly above the a in Braves, but above the (A)!! Foul ball came one row and four seats to my right…I need to bring a glove and stay alert!
April 2nd, 2010 at 11:54 pm
Wagner will want to wash his last outing from memory as he opens the season. He allowed four runners to reach and a run to score before he’d recorded an out. He gave up a single, walked a batter and hit two others. He got out of the ninth inning having given up two runs on a sacrifice fly and a double play.
On the bright side, he was hitting 97 mph on the radar gun.
“Wags just got off the mark a little bit,” manager Bobby Cox said. “He was trying to go in and just missed. But overall he’s had a great spring.”
Hitting two batters doesn’t really sound like he just missed much of anything. And the Hawks lost.
April 3rd, 2010 at 6:15 am
Awwww, Bobby. Wags? That’s so everyday. I was hoping for Waggy.
April 3rd, 2010 at 6:41 am
Congrats on how far it has come. And thanks for the shout out to us regular posters, guys. I think I remember Hammy talking about the show at a Christmas-time party at his moms house? 2007? …I forget..that was the first time Hammy pimped the cast and I had no idea he was a fan until then. I checked it out and remember thinking that the show was already quite professional by then – I was impressed. It was still under the old name and a little before Curt was on as a regular. I think it was before the 20th reunion…because during the 20th reunion I had strep throat and could barely function with a 102 degree fever. Anyway, all of you guys thanks for the hard work, because this podcast keeps me in touch with home too…Really means alot. And Im definitely in the group of those who learn a lot more than I can really contribute. Preshiate it.
Just came back from 4 days in China – around Shanghai. Sort of ironic that a Hong Kong based fan posted. Hello Hong Kong Fan. I couldn’t access from Shanghai. Suppose that the mainland Chinese internet is more tightly controlled. I got MLB.com but this site was blocked. Clearly you guys are too subversive.
For the record, I was one of those who loved the fake Frank cast. You have got to get him on…
hope your dad is OK, Bub.
April 3rd, 2010 at 1:33 pm
Thank god Jo Jo made the team.
April 3rd, 2010 at 1:36 pm
What on EARTH? They ought to be ashamed.
April 3rd, 2010 at 1:39 pm
I can’t wait to read Bobby’s quotes about this game.
April 3rd, 2010 at 1:52 pm
Someone please very carefully tell me why not to panic? What is happening? Why do we look like little leaguers?
April 3rd, 2010 at 2:09 pm
Because they have completely phoned in the game. They’re putting as much into this game as they did the last 6 games of 2009.
Except Conrad and Proctor, who understandably are still trying to prove themselves.
And Jo Jo, who I can’t think would phone it in, considering Proctor is breathing down his neck in a few weeks.
You don’t have to panic because they’re just not playing. But it doesn’t change the fact that it’s a low down dirty shame to do this to the fans.
April 3rd, 2010 at 2:54 pm
Well, maybe that was a little too much. But the radio guys just said they look “disinterested.” I don’t quite get it, but okay.
Bobby will say Chavez and Proctor looked great (which they did). And that the team is so ready to get started they don’t have much to give to these throw-away games.
April 3rd, 2010 at 3:02 pm
I’m exhausted. That was less than fun. Bring on the season!
Bub, got a update for us on Pops?