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 22nd, 2010 at 10:29 pm
Then the Rev. Said, ” Honey, you need to pray the Phillies have a major injury in their rotation.”.
That almost got him slapped.
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:30 pm
Or not.
Well, that was fun.
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:31 pm
*”Or not” wasn’t directed at your comment.
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:40 pm
Wild Card Standings
Florida
Braves .5 GB
Giants .5 GB
Nats 1 GB
Rockes 1 GB
G’night, folks. Get ‘em tomorrow. (We miss Santana, Pelf will be tough, though. Like Jamie Moyer.)
April 22nd, 2010 at 11:30 pm
#172 very funny.
Good lord – what a horrible end to the series. Blech. Dreadful. What is going on here?! Except for 1+ innings on Tuesday night (late) we have looked horrible all week. I know its the Phillies and all, but we gotta put up a better fight than that.
April 22nd, 2010 at 11:48 pm
Steve, your hatred of Lowe may be strong, but it’s certainly not irrational. All nine innings did I sit. Sigh. That’s going to be a long plane ride to NYC tonight.
April 23rd, 2010 at 10:05 am
I really really NEED us to win tonight. My mental health depends on it.
April 23rd, 2010 at 10:45 am
Leah – sadly, I agree with you 100%. I’m in such a foul mood and it’s all about last night. Damn this game!!!!!!
April 23rd, 2010 at 11:08 am
While I find the fan who can love a team and not hate their rival slightly insane, I envy them a little. Just like I wish I could watch a game for the heck of it or go to the ballpark because it’s a beautiful day and not be in knots over the outcome. Why DO I care so much? Didn’t grow up in ATL? Didn’t grow up watching baseball? I started watching in ’98 at the end of the glory days. Is there a weekly meeting for this sort of behavior?
April 23rd, 2010 at 1:19 pm
Sorry Leah, it’s only cold turkey or addiction on this kind of thing. Choose wisely.
April 23rd, 2010 at 1:51 pm
Honestly, I don’t understand Philly hatred, other than the fact that they stand between our team and the playoffs. It’s not like Rollins and Victorino are Milton Bradley. Most of their personalities are alright, and they play hard and pack the house. They’re not a mishmash of free agents. Their rise to dominance seems much more legit than the Yankees. The acquisition of Halladay was a brilliant move, and the guy took a (probable) pay cut to go there. I think they’re a class A organization.
But you don’t have to hate the other team to be miserable over losing to them. Last night was the worst loss in a long time. Like a slow train wreck, and I saw both the offense’s garbage against Moyer AND Lowe’s latest egg from a mile away.
Escobar, Lowe, and Glaus are getting on my damn nerves. Glaus needs to quit showing his ass over strike calls and basepath calls. He’s usually wrong on the replay. I guess I’m glad he cares, but he’s making a fool of himself. McCann is a passionate player, too, but when he has a beef with the umps, he’s right 90% of the time. He doesn’t just show out because he lost on the play and is whiney about it.
Escobar is always going to be a petulant child, I guess. I wouldn’t trade him, just because his dumb plays will never be enough to make him less valuable than a lesser talent, and his personality isn’t bad enough to be a cancer, but I probably will never embrace him as a favorite Brave again like I have before. He acts like he has to just completely grit his teeth to play the game professionally. I asked my Spanish teacher, who is an original refugee from Cuba’s communist takeover (she’s in her 70′s), if the Hot Headed Cuban Ballplayer excuse holds water. She said character and heart are the same everywhere, and a brat is a brat. (Though I must admit, she reminds me of Escobar a little in temperment, lol.)
Well…. that’s that. That series spoiled my mood. And I completely expect to lose to the improving Mets. The Braves can change my mind or they can let it stay sour. I’m not lifting a finger to change my own mood toward them. They’re playing like ass.
April 23rd, 2010 at 2:00 pm
p.s. I still expect to compete for the wild card. Mad as I am and would like to say otherwise, we’ve just got too much pitching to fall out of it, barring injury. And it is truly impossible for these batting averages to stay here.
There are a lot of runs to be had by lifting half the team’s averages by 100+ points each. Just don’t know when they’ll do it. My money says, not soon.
April 23rd, 2010 at 2:28 pm
That they are. I was referring to the Mets. I honestly don’t hate the Phillies. I want to trade half their lineup and last night’s opposing pitchers. I really like to embrace the team and appreciate the players we have. I believe comparison is the theif of joy and try not to compare. When 6 out of 9 players can’t bat over .200 all that’s hard to do.
April 23rd, 2010 at 2:29 pm
5 out of 9…too many either way.
April 23rd, 2010 at 2:29 pm
Bub – I want to believe that it’s impossible for the averages to stay where they are, but the pessimist in me says we thought the same thing about Kelly and Frenchy last year, too.
OK – predictions for tonight’s game? I’ll start: we lose 4 – 1.
April 23rd, 2010 at 3:06 pm
6-3 Mets. Maine’s going back to fast balls. If our hitters don’t have to have an approach, they’ll get a few hits. Kawakami’s due a shelling.
April 23rd, 2010 at 3:17 pm
Uck to you both. I don’t like turkey…too dry. 4-3 Braves with Prado hitting a homer off one of Maine’s fastballs. There, I said it.
April 23rd, 2010 at 3:20 pm
At Citi Field/ Grand Canyon? Good luck.
April 23rd, 2010 at 3:29 pm
I just realized that the risk/ reward ratio of doubting a Prado homer against Leah is not in my favor.
Yes, Prado hits a towering homer against Maine’s fastball.
April 23rd, 2010 at 3:30 pm
… in a 6-3 loss.
April 23rd, 2010 at 4:06 pm
Silly Bub, how’s that possible when the bags will be bustin with Bravos?
April 23rd, 2010 at 4:27 pm
I like the lineup. Heyward after McCann followed by Hinske.
April 23rd, 2010 at 4:35 pm
Escobar and Glaus benched. I swear BC reads this forum.
April 23rd, 2010 at 4:48 pm
“Braves sent wrong lineup and I cut-and-pasted it w/out checking. Anyway, infante’s at SS.”
thanks DOB…awesome
April 23rd, 2010 at 5:14 pm
He benched Escobar and Glaus? Alright, I have to say I’m 50% sold on Bobby being less lethargic this year. If only I could dare to dream he would replace Lowe in the rotation.
By the way, the Braves have it in their power to effectively end John Maine’s career as a starter tonight, I expect. Braves will pull a stealth move and let him have more chances… *facepalm*