Show #103: Braves Take Both Series in Week 2
Managing Wagner, the lead off spot, the Glaus Ceiling, MVP/LVP, and state of the team in week 2.
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April 24th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
This. Team. Is. The. Worst.
(and that is not hyperbole – they literally are the worst team in baseball. The only reason we don’t have the worst record is because of Jason Heyward.)
April 24th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
They won’t consider doing anything to him this year. When the hitters rebound and hit MLB average in the second half when it doesn’t matter, he’ll get a “good job helpin’ them fellers rebound” and that’ll be that.
April 24th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
And for anybody who doesn’t have this show on DVD already, here’s what’s coming next:
Team meeting, blah blah fire lit under, win 4 or 5 games in one week, start playing poorly again, yawn.
A sustained effort is just beyond them. Remember the last two spring training games? They were “tired of spring training.” Whatever. Tired of playing baseball. They look it.
April 24th, 2010 at 4:26 pm
I’ve learned something ABT so listen up. Pretending apathy doesn’t help. Oh my achy breaky heart. I could pummel Escobar.
April 24th, 2010 at 4:27 pm
And honestly what options do they have? Another team, built on the cheap, that completely had to rely on a bunch of questions marks, none of whom have performed. This is the team we will have all year long, and this is the team that will thus be a flatline all year long.
April 24th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
Alright – a little subject change. I promised scores of people (alright, really just Anne and Leah) that we’d start selling stuff with our logo. The shop is set up. And while the link on the website is still under construction, you can go straight there if you cannot wait another moment. Check it all out at: http://www.cafepress.com/atlbaseballtalk. Thanks.
April 24th, 2010 at 4:52 pm
A GLORIOUS change in subject! You don’t know how many concert t-shirts I have passed on waiting for this day. I’m having a hard time deciding between the black or red capped sleeved women’s tee. Have you seen them in person? The black one looks better online but I do like red. Decisions. Steve, you seriously just made my day 20% better. Which if you knew how hard this day has been you’d know that’s amazing.
April 24th, 2010 at 5:16 pm
Chipper’s injury sounds… significant. Cox chewed Escobar out. I’m glad of it, but if that’s the only chewing Cox gave, I have to join a lot of other fans in calling Bobby’s doghouse very arbitrary.
This team is falling apart. It’s an absolute spectacle. I’m not sure Bobby Cox deserves any better for his parting legacy, either. It was a nice fantasy that the players would be energized by the illusion of a great manager’s last hurrah, but maybe it’s better if history puts a vivid exclamation point on the truth: He managed a ballclub that had a high payroll and THREE HOF pitchers to about the lousiest performance conceivable for such a group. When the payroll and the HOF’ers left and Bobby remained, they’ve played from expectancy to below expectancy. Plenty of the latter.
April 24th, 2010 at 5:40 pm
Kelly Johnson: .327 Batting Average. 5 homeruns. Five.
April 24th, 2010 at 5:55 pm
See all my previous comments. Read my blogs. There has been no discernible difference with this team in the last three years. Particularly, last year. Expect no different results.
April 24th, 2010 at 5:59 pm
Aubrey Huff is hitting .254 with 5 homers. I’d take it.
April 24th, 2010 at 6:10 pm
With just their third three-game winning streak since last May, the New York Mets got back to .500 for the first time since the opening week of the season.
April 24th, 2010 at 6:16 pm
I’m seriously not watching any more until they get it together. I said I wouldn’t watch to day, but I gave in. No more. I don’t mind losing ballgames. I do mind losing to terrible ballteams and playing like this.
Not sure what I’ll replace it with. On weekdays, listening to all three hours of the Dan Patrick show might be the ticket. Or I could… do something with my life.
Nah, Dan Patrick it is.
April 24th, 2010 at 7:42 pm
Lives of Others
April 24th, 2010 at 8:16 pm
I’m working on it, Curt. They don’t have it locally.
April 24th, 2010 at 10:05 pm
KJ 6 HR.
April 24th, 2010 at 10:27 pm
Thanks for the birthday message, Curtis. For a diversion here is the song that came up on shuffle on my iPod yesterday. No joke. Heres the lyrics from Wiki:
This song is performed by Loudon Wainwright III and appears on the album More Love Songs (1986).
Loudon Wainwright III:The Back Nine
In this game you’ve got eighteen holes
To shoot your best somehow
Where have all my divots gone
I’m in the back nine now
I got to move on down to that next fairway
Up to that flapping flag
There’s a storm formin’ overhead
I got to shoulder up that bag
Shoulder up that bag
Shoulder up that bag
Got to move on down to that next fairway
Up to that flapping flag
I used to tote my daddy’s bag
When I was a boy
I saw him sweat and I heard him swear
But sometimes he’d whoop for joy
Golf clubs are made of wood and iron
No, no, no, they are not magic wands
And balls fall into sand traps
And balls drop into ponds
Balls drop into ponds
Balls drop into ponds
Golf clubs are made of wood and iron
No they are not magic wands
I’m walkin’ around with these spiked shoes on
Oh it feels a little obscene
Mother nature with a manicure
Up here on this green
Oh I don’t know about you but I got to have me a few
When we get to that clubhouse bar
It’s my reward for this scorecard
I’m way over par
I’m way over par
I’m way over par
I don’t know about you
I got to drink me few
When we get to that clubhouse bar
In this game you got eighteen holes
To shoot your best somehow
Where have all my divots gone
I’m in the back nine now
April 25th, 2010 at 1:29 am
Our three black holes from last year’s line up, Kotchman, Frenchy, and KJ have totaled 12 HR’s so far, same # as the entire Braves line up.
April 25th, 2010 at 10:39 am
I’d like to say I’m not watching tonight but I know I will. Can’t help it. Those HR stats are depressing. Maybe it’ll rain.
April 25th, 2010 at 10:40 am
New show? Hearing your three very distraught voices may help.
April 25th, 2010 at 1:11 pm
But Bub, McLouth’s strikeout rate is lower than Schafer’s was, so that’s an improvement.
Yes, new show tonight. It’s going to be very upbeat and positive. We’re going to talk about the Nats.
April 25th, 2010 at 5:06 pm
Cabrera leading off. McCann, Glaus, Heyward, Escobar 4-7 spots. I like my lineup better. Who knows…maybe it’ll shake something up. It can’t make it worse.
April 25th, 2010 at 7:51 pm
This guy is very open about his rehab stint. He’s a minor league pitcher for the Rangers. He’s from ATL and very good friends with a certain player we like to call “Hey hey hey” *fat Albert style*. Anyway, I wish a certain team that kinda rhymes with rage would read his latest blog. http://schlact.mlblogs.com/
April 25th, 2010 at 8:07 pm
Here I sit. Torturing myself. Tut tut…looks like rain.
April 25th, 2010 at 8:11 pm
I’m NOT happy about Melky leading off. Why not keep Infante in there? Neither is particularly better against RHP. I don’t get it.