Show #104: Braves Go First to Worst in Week 3
The errors in the Mets series. Jordan calls out Chipper. MVP/LVP. And the comeback against the Phillies.
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April 26th, 2010 at 12:05 am
Good show.
Bad team.
April 26th, 2010 at 12:36 am
I know everyone hear reads DOB, but this article sums it up after tonight’s game was called for another Braves L. Hide the women and children before opening the link.
http://blogs.ajc.com/atlanta-braves-blog/2010/04/26/rain-shortened-loss-extends-braves-skid-to-five/
April 26th, 2010 at 7:30 am
*here*
April 26th, 2010 at 7:46 am
“Hide the women and children before opening the link.”.
That’s…gonna be tricky. It’s ok. I don’t think I can listen to the show and read that blogpost all in the same day anyway. Does anyone else feel like taking a fist full of muscle relaxers and sleeping for 4 days?
April 26th, 2010 at 9:26 am
good stuff guys. I was listening while writing “were going to win the next 6 out of 7, remember the end of last year” and Steve then pre-empted me with the same thought…not the 6 out of 7 bit… but to remember how things turned around dramatically last year. Then Curt says no 8 game streak…well fine, maybe no streak, but 6 out of 7, could be…pitching is still phenomenal…gotta think this hitting will turn around. lets not slash our wrists yet. ill take 5 out of 7.
April 26th, 2010 at 9:27 am
Braves are playing like they have never played baseball before. It’s embarrassing.
April 26th, 2010 at 9:30 am
The hitters need to light a fire under their butts. and start playing with a attitude NOT TO BE DENIED OF WINNING! Get fired UP one time GEEEEZ! Lets go Chipper, Nate, Melky, Diaz, Glaus HIT THE FREAKIN BASEBALL , GET ON BASE! Whatever it takes do it.
April 26th, 2010 at 9:44 am
Wake Up Atlanta Braves!!!! Grow UP ATL BRAVES!!!! PLAY LIKE PROS, NOT LIKE A BUNCH OF LOSERS! LET EM HANG AGAINST THE CARDINALS
April 26th, 2010 at 9:47 am
I know everyone says it won’t happen but how can we be hitting so poorly while the KJs, Kotchmans and Frenchys are power houses since leaving ATL and the firing of TP not even be considered? That makes us look more stupid than any farting around in the field or flailing at the plate. Shame on everybody. Shame on Chipper for not being a leader, shame on B Mac for not stepping up if Chipper’s gonna halfass his role. Shame on Glaus for everything and double shame on Escobar for getting paid seven figures and daydreaming while my heart is crushed. I want one of two things to happen tonight. I either want crystal clear precision type play that makes us proud even if we lose or tough as nails, Devil may care, basestealing, potential brawl leading type play that leaves uniforms so dirty you have to throw them away.
Ok, not shame on everybody. Prado and Heyward are like beams of light in the most dreary of days.
April 26th, 2010 at 10:04 am
…but on the Up Side, thanks, fellas, for the ABT Stuff page! Payday is Friday, people. Show ‘em some love and promote the awesome podcast: http://www.cafepress.com/atlbaseballtalk
April 26th, 2010 at 10:06 am
moodyt2 – I agree. It’s been some of the most embarrassing baseball we’ve seen in a long time. And, again, I can’t believe we’re even having this conversation. How does the team lose so much focus and ability to execute. It’s just mind-boggling.
April 26th, 2010 at 10:22 am
Anne, placed my order last night and cannot wait to get my capped sleeved ladies tee. I went with red…black had potential to make a hot day even hotter on my poor little shoulders. I’ll always wear it with navy shorts lest I look like a Phillies Fan from behind. I’m asking for a mug for Mother’s Day
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Steve, I hate to seem like a slave driver but the Rev and I can’t get either computer to log onto ABT. We keep getting “Cant open socket”. If the show’s computer guru has any suggestions can he email them to me? I haven’t been able to log on for 2 or 3 weeks (not that it’s stopped me with my iPhone…THANK GOODNESS! Haha…right? *silence*).
April 26th, 2010 at 10:27 am
I hate when I have to suffer watching the games on TV, I have to change the channel when they play like babies. It makes me wanna throw-up. I’m tired of all this half assing around. Chipper seems like he would rather be turkey hunting. He is always hurt, grow some balls and get the job done. HIT BOMBS! STEAL BASES! i cant remember the last base the braves stole. It’s awful! I’m not giving up on the Braves. Are they?
April 26th, 2010 at 10:37 am
Mara – I’m troubled by this. Although I’m having no problem getting to the site on multiple different computers. Will you post the following information about both your computers: PC or MAC?, which browser? what version of the browser? Thanks.
April 26th, 2010 at 11:56 am
Let not your heart be troubled Stevie. We’ll figure it out or I’ll be world renown for the strongest thumbs known to man. I’m pretty illiterate with computer stuff but will try to answer your questions. I have a very old Dell with Explorer and a Macbook with Safari and Firefox. For a week or so I could pull up the website through Google. But now I can’t even do that. Bub said on occasion he got the “can’t open socket” message as well but it fixed itself.
April 26th, 2010 at 12:27 pm
Right, me too. I get that message every once in a while (once a month or two months), but I hit refresh and the site loads fine. I do wonder if it’s the browser version you’re running.
April 26th, 2010 at 4:30 pm
What browser do you guys use?
April 26th, 2010 at 5:48 pm
Phillies sign Howard to extension
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=5137456
Mara – I use Google Chrome. Never had a problem opening ABT.
April 26th, 2010 at 6:52 pm
The Phillies are a serious baseball organization. Those are neat.
April 26th, 2010 at 7:58 pm
First words out of Bobby’s mouth on the “Cox Report”: “Well, we’re doing a lot of things right, to be honest…”
I just want to grab him by both sides of his face and scream into his eyeballs “NO YOU’RE NOT!!!!! AAAAAAAUUUUGGGGHHHH!!!!”
Then he goes on about “… a lot of good pitching going on in the league right now…”
Yeah. Take a gander at what kind of pitcher’s (many of) these guys are before they get to Atlanta, and then after they leave.
No matter how many times it happens, I can’t BELIEVE this giant MORON will not own up to playing like SHEITE.
Doing a lot of things right???? WHAT THINGS? Something besides defense offense I guess. AAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH.
WHY am I listening to this game? WHY WHY WHY WHY??
I can not wait for Robert Cox to go AWAY.
April 26th, 2010 at 8:15 pm
“The worst person in the world you ought to blame for a team not hitting is the hitting coach,” Cox said. “We all feel bad. We’re not hitting that bad. It’s just that when we’re not hitting, we’re not getting them in.”
I WILL DESTROOOOOYYYYYY HIIIIMMMMMM!!!!!!
April 26th, 2010 at 8:20 pm
lol. 1-2-3 inning for another 7+ ERA pitcher.
April 26th, 2010 at 8:22 pm
Trying to prepare myself for a loss…for four more straight losses. I don’t think we’re ever going to win again.
April 26th, 2010 at 8:36 pm
1st and 3rd, two men out, stop me if you’ve heard this one before…
April 26th, 2010 at 8:38 pm
Glaus really is the most unlucky sonovagun.
April 26th, 2010 at 8:38 pm
… and Nate delivers the punchline with perfect comic timing.
April 26th, 2010 at 8:39 pm
A terrible call at 2nd and it costs us a run. We can’t catch a break. Oh, and McLouth sucks.
If I hear one more guy say after Glaus gets a hit – “this might get him going”
April 26th, 2010 at 8:40 pm
Same song different verse. Everytime a little bit worse.
April 26th, 2010 at 8:48 pm
Good job, Huddy.
Cards playing the basepaths like a bunch of Braves.
April 26th, 2010 at 8:51 pm
Hudson has been the one “if” answered in the positive.
April 26th, 2010 at 8:52 pm
lol, I see Jason Hammel’s ERA is back up to 7+. I guess Braves hitting can’t last forever. LMAO… right on cue, Hammel gets taken yard and his ERA over 9 now… who took him yard? Adam LaRoche.
April 26th, 2010 at 8:52 pm
Curt, Saito and Wagner have been positive IF’s so far.
April 26th, 2010 at 8:54 pm
Hey, Glaus is hitting .200! Cue the Jefferson’s Theme Song.
April 26th, 2010 at 8:56 pm
Braves have ONE hitter batting above .265.
Braves threatening. Tell me if you’ve heard this one before.
Chipper playing hurt. This has double play written all over it.
April 26th, 2010 at 8:59 pm
Bases Loaded. One out. I’m changing my name. Screw it. It’s Mac.
April 26th, 2010 at 9:01 pm
A POINT!
April 26th, 2010 at 9:01 pm
Our starting pitcher scores the first run. Crazy. We’re rollin now.
April 26th, 2010 at 9:02 pm
ANUDDER POINT!
April 26th, 2010 at 9:04 pm
Not changing mine. Not for a very long time. I like your rally name change though.
April 26th, 2010 at 9:04 pm
Hanson, Jurrjens, KK: “man, look at that crazy run support! No fair!”
April 26th, 2010 at 9:08 pm
Huddy!
April 26th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
Escobar looks very…clean. I like it.
April 26th, 2010 at 9:10 pm
Kelly Johnson’s been doing all his damage hitting leadoff, by the way. Did not know that. *puts pistol in mouth*
April 26th, 2010 at 9:12 pm
Come on, Natester. Do it up.
April 26th, 2010 at 9:12 pm
“Back in the fourth, there’s no sco…uh there is a score. It’s 2-0 uh Braves.”
yes, that just happened. Yeah announcer dude, we’re as shocked as you.
April 26th, 2010 at 9:15 pm
Braves blowing this one WIIIIIDE open.
April 26th, 2010 at 9:16 pm
Gimme gimme gimme.
April 26th, 2010 at 9:16 pm
What is happening? I don’t understand? What’s this…scoring? I think they called it?
April 26th, 2010 at 9:18 pm
YEs needs to get a hit. Come on Yunel…everybody’s doing it.
April 26th, 2010 at 9:18 pm
LaRussa’s playing the game under protest. Quoted, “you telling me the Braves score three on our worst pitcher? Come on. I been playing this game a long time. This is bull. We’re being robbed.”
Good AB, Yuni.
April 26th, 2010 at 9:19 pm
And NOW I just pulled ABT up on my computer. FINALLY!! My fingers feel like their flying!
April 26th, 2010 at 9:20 pm
Break them up.
Yes Bub, on Wagner and Saito. No on everyone else.
I think everyone hitting .200 or below should have the name on the back of their jersey switched to Mendoza.
April 26th, 2010 at 9:20 pm
Yuni, Yuni, Yuni.
Well… that’s not even in the running for his dumbest, so…
April 26th, 2010 at 9:21 pm
Escobar in the lead off seems, dare I say it, inspired.
April 26th, 2010 at 9:21 pm
Oh Prado. You were robbed.
April 26th, 2010 at 9:23 pm
Curt, I thought the move was smart, regardless of outcome. Chew the guy out, then show him there are no hard feelings. Can not STAND Bobby Cox, but he got that one right.
April 26th, 2010 at 9:24 pm
Wow, Pujols has as many HR’s as Kelly Johnson.
April 26th, 2010 at 9:29 pm
Martin is running back and forth to back up Huddy everytime McCann throws it back to the mound. I LOVE THAT!!!!
April 26th, 2010 at 9:29 pm
Tim Hudson looking like a good signing so far, by the way. I know Javy’s NY #’s can’t be translated, but getting Huddy for 3 years seems like the better option.
44 pitches through 4 scoreless.
April 26th, 2010 at 9:32 pm
Boy, I’m takin’ a big risk with the rally name here…
April 26th, 2010 at 9:33 pm
He’s been brilliant this year.
April 26th, 2010 at 9:33 pm
Oh, Troy. You blew it.
April 26th, 2010 at 9:34 pm
That was for the Hudson comment, needless to say
April 26th, 2010 at 9:34 pm
Good try Bub.
April 26th, 2010 at 9:35 pm
Thanks Curtdoza…I was confused.
April 26th, 2010 at 9:35 pm
That’s better…I didn’t even notice.
April 26th, 2010 at 9:38 pm
lol @ “Curtdoza”
April 26th, 2010 at 9:41 pm
Prado looks good in the field.
April 26th, 2010 at 9:45 pm
So funny, I just said that out loud, “Prado looks good tonight.” The Rev. in a very dismayed voice, “I’m sitting right here!”
April 26th, 2010 at 9:49 pm
Well that was no fun.
April 26th, 2010 at 9:50 pm
Now you see how the “… in the field” part works.
April 26th, 2010 at 9:51 pm
Um, the crap happened to my name?
Tim Rockin’ it at 64 pitches with an out in the 6th. That’s gotta be our first game at that clip.
April 26th, 2010 at 9:55 pm
Wake up, Bobby. Don’t let it get away.
April 26th, 2010 at 9:56 pm
getting nervous. Bub, quick…rally words.
April 26th, 2010 at 9:57 pm
opposite of rally words…do something!
April 26th, 2010 at 9:57 pm
Ludwick-Puljols-Holiday-Rasmus = danger.
April 26th, 2010 at 9:57 pm
C’mon, Huddy. Do it up. Sinker.
April 26th, 2010 at 9:59 pm
Escobar playing some great D tonight
April 26th, 2010 at 10:00 pm
C’mon, Huddy. One more.
April 26th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
Whew.
Now, look alive, Bobby. Don’t let the man get rocked next inning.
April 26th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
deep breath…let’s get that run back. When was the last time Wags pitched?
April 26th, 2010 at 10:04 pm
1984
April 26th, 2010 at 10:05 pm
We dropped from #8 to #22 in the ESPN power rankings. I’ve never seen that happen. Ever.
April 26th, 2010 at 10:09 pm
10 Braves in a row retired since we had our last run. You can’t tell me that’s a coincidence. This team acts completely unwilling to play hard all the time.
April 26th, 2010 at 10:13 pm
What were you saying about BC leaving Huddy in too long?
April 26th, 2010 at 10:14 pm
I know his pitch count is low, but Huddy has been running out of gas all of a sudden so far this year. The damage has been limited, but watching the games you can see it easily.
That is, you can see it. I can see it. Bobby won’t.
April 26th, 2010 at 10:15 pm
BOBBY! A MIRACLE!
April 26th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
Didn’t you know? He reads this forum.
April 26th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
Okay, between trying Escobar at leadoff, and pulling Tim Hudson after a homer and a walk, I hereby allow a glimmer of hope.
BUT, those 10 outs in a row after getting a few runs is looming large.
April 26th, 2010 at 10:17 pm
I can’t believe after the last inning he was still in there. Got sucked into the Hawks game and turned back to see Hudson getting pulled. No reason he should have been out there.
April 26th, 2010 at 10:17 pm
DP right here.
April 26th, 2010 at 10:20 pm
How dare Joe Simpson say Lowe/Carpenter is a “great match up”
April 26th, 2010 at 10:22 pm
Bub – it can’t all change in one night. We’ve actually scored runs, Yunel is wicked focused and Glaus and Melky are hittin’ it like Ted Williams. Baby steps, man.
April 26th, 2010 at 10:22 pm
Yeah, but… Curt… you didn’t REALLY expect Bobby to be THAT far into “noticing things and stuff,” did you? Baby steps. Baaaaaby steps.
April 26th, 2010 at 10:24 pm
That’s my favorite name so far.
April 26th, 2010 at 10:24 pm
Umpiring this year has been awful. Just as often for us as against us, but that’s a shame. Can’t they get guys that are decent?
April 26th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
lol @ “baby steps” from me & Steve at the same time.
Melky drops the ball. Tie game.
April 26th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
Card’s announcers are talking about their poor struggling SS. Bless their hearts. That must suck…to have a position player struggling so at the plate.
April 26th, 2010 at 10:27 pm
ballgame
April 26th, 2010 at 10:30 pm
Who knows the skinny on St. Loui’s BP?
April 26th, 2010 at 10:31 pm
Wait, nevermind. What was I thinking? ERA’s of opposing pitchers tell us nothing. NOTHING.
April 26th, 2010 at 10:34 pm
Jokes are free folks
April 26th, 2010 at 10:35 pm
Good news is that the Hawks are getting waxed.
April 26th, 2010 at 10:35 pm
OK…I love Albert Pujols…but if he was out of the lineup for the next few games, I wouldn’t cry.
April 26th, 2010 at 10:37 pm
Alright, if somebody doesn’t acknowledge the “baby steps” double-up as the 8th Wonder of the World, I’m gonna stick out my bottom lip.
April 26th, 2010 at 10:38 pm
What’s this? Glaus has a beef with an ump’s call? (actually he got that one right, but…)
Now he shows up the ump with the ball 4 call. What a punk we have in Glaus.
April 26th, 2010 at 10:39 pm
C’mon, Kid.
April 26th, 2010 at 10:40 pm
Good eye, kid.
April 26th, 2010 at 10:41 pm
Our fate is in Melky’s hands. HBP or walk is my only hope.
April 26th, 2010 at 10:43 pm
There hasn’t been a single pitch in the strike zone to Melky.
2 Strikes, though.
April 26th, 2010 at 10:45 pm
In the words of the Ellen Degeneres fish: “Good feeling gone.”
April 26th, 2010 at 10:46 pm
I think it’s a goocher
April 26th, 2010 at 10:46 pm
Bub..that was amazing! Steve’s like the smartest guy I know and you both thought the same thing…AT THE SAME TIME!!! CRAZY!!!
April 26th, 2010 at 10:49 pm
I KNOW, RIGHT???!!!
Lead off double.
Shoot me in the FACE!
April 26th, 2010 at 10:50 pm
Explain to me why Chipper is playing 15 feet off the line there?
April 26th, 2010 at 10:51 pm
I just wonder how this is going to end. You think some of those 10 outs in a row might have been used for something constructive? Nah… we had the lead.
What’s the ERA of their starter again? Can’t wait to face the Cards for 3 more games if we actually lose this one. This could be unbelievably sh*tty.
April 26th, 2010 at 10:52 pm
I don’t like this walk.
April 26th, 2010 at 10:53 pm
*if*
April 26th, 2010 at 10:53 pm
*slits wrists, hangs self, shoot brain*
April 26th, 2010 at 10:55 pm
Ugggggh. I get home late from work and the wheels fall off! I should have never turned the game on. I do not have a good feeling about this.
The Hawks are getting jobbed in Milwaukee. The refs are pulling for the Bucks in a big way. How are they the more aggressive team?!?! We should be sweeping them. Can’t anyone in Atlanta coach?!?!
April 26th, 2010 at 10:55 pm
Good fielding, Brooks. Nice.
April 26th, 2010 at 10:56 pm
#(*&$(*#&Q)($URJ#U($*)UR$*(#$U(RI(#R
April 26th, 2010 at 10:56 pm
“Can’t anyone in Atlanta coach?!?!”
Roger McDowell. The end.
April 26th, 2010 at 10:58 pm
Over or under for this losing streak:
11 games
April 26th, 2010 at 11:00 pm
What’s going to be the most worstest part of all of this when things are said and done is when we get swept by the Astros.
April 26th, 2010 at 11:00 pm
Over…remember that time last season we wanted a rally and Bub got naked? Laughed so hard.
April 26th, 2010 at 11:00 pm
i say they win one in this series. this is not that game though.
April 26th, 2010 at 11:00 pm
Bobby had to KNOW LaRussa wouldn’t put up with Diaz versus a LHP.
April 26th, 2010 at 11:01 pm
Daily Show is on
April 26th, 2010 at 11:02 pm
I say we have a decent chance to get this game. But IF we don’t, 11 game losing streak.
Leah, that’s the general reaction to me getting naked, rally or no rally.
April 26th, 2010 at 11:03 pm
Hammy, that will be bad but to me the killer was letting Acosta go on and then him winning that game against us mere weeks later.
April 26th, 2010 at 11:04 pm
Curtdoza sounds like a rival to Godzilla.
Lucky hit. Good start. C’mon, Hinske, Do it up.
April 26th, 2010 at 11:06 pm
#@$%^$%*($^#%@@#@#$$^*%^*%*$%#%^
April 26th, 2010 at 11:06 pm
Et tu, Hinske? Does the pain know no bounds?
April 26th, 2010 at 11:06 pm
what he said
April 26th, 2010 at 11:06 pm
Well… there ya go.
April 26th, 2010 at 11:06 pm
Fire bad!
April 26th, 2010 at 11:07 pm
What if Esco ties it up…that would be awesome!
April 26th, 2010 at 11:08 pm
What if a Leprechan breaks in my window right now and gives me the deed to China…
April 26th, 2010 at 11:08 pm
Guy should be shelled just for having that stuff on his chin
April 26th, 2010 at 11:08 pm
1 hit since the 4th?
April 26th, 2010 at 11:10 pm
Diaz got a hit. Bunt hit.
April 26th, 2010 at 11:11 pm
What a horrible joke. Go up 3 to 0. Stop hitting. Lose 4 to 3. That’s our team.
April 26th, 2010 at 11:11 pm
sadness
April 26th, 2010 at 11:11 pm
Well, that sorta SUCKED. At least we lost in a different way.
I will now go gargle with kerosene.
April 26th, 2010 at 11:11 pm
What a joke.
April 26th, 2010 at 11:12 pm
Someone remind me next year to enjoy the offseason.
April 26th, 2010 at 11:13 pm
Is there nobody I can hurt? Can I not hurt a Brave? I think I should have a legal right to hurt a Brave. Not badly, but you know those scuba flippers? I should be able to rare back and slap a Brave with one of those. WHACK!
NEXT!
April 26th, 2010 at 11:14 pm
I feel like I Tivoed the 2009 season and am rewatching it because I hate myself
April 26th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
Funny mental image that one. The sad part is I wasn’t excited when we were leading 3 zip.
April 26th, 2010 at 11:16 pm
Did it hurt that we got jobbed out of that run early on?
April 26th, 2010 at 11:16 pm
The Braves are a slasher villain and we’re the hot chicks in the shower who can’t hear the ominous music playing. At least we’re hot chicks, I guess.
April 26th, 2010 at 11:17 pm
Might as well chalk up number 7 now.
April 26th, 2010 at 11:18 pm
Okay, two ABT’ers using “jobbed.” Where did it come from? I’m behind again. Stupid internets.
April 26th, 2010 at 11:18 pm
Well, it’s been real ABT. Tomorrow night…same time…same place…same story…again, and again, and again…
April 26th, 2010 at 11:19 pm
Oh, it’s going to 11 games. I’m tellin’ ya.
April 26th, 2010 at 11:19 pm
G’night, Leah. I will NOT be here tomorrow, I hope hope hope.
April 26th, 2010 at 11:20 pm
Gotta a hot date do ya?
April 26th, 2010 at 11:21 pm
She doesn’t want to sit and watch you scream at the computer screen? What kinda girl is she? Just kidding…I know what you mean.
April 26th, 2010 at 11:24 pm
Halladay getting CRUSHED. (heh…. 3 runs. ERA up to 1.49 now)
April 26th, 2010 at 11:28 pm
Only 2 teams in all of baseball have a worse record than our Atlanta Braves. What a sack of garbage.
April 27th, 2010 at 12:35 am
One more tidbit in the Chronicles of Suckitude:
The one starting pitcher we’ve roughed up… he has completely lost his job as a starting pitcher.
April 27th, 2010 at 1:07 am
Our offense is so bad, they were collectively elected “Miss Baseball.”
Get it? Miss… baseball… cuz they miss… the…
April 27th, 2010 at 1:08 am
Mahatma Ghandi wrote a book called “Braves Offense: Beyond Pacifism”
April 27th, 2010 at 1:10 am
The Braves offense couldn’t hit Derek Lowe.
April 27th, 2010 at 1:11 am
How much does a glaus of melk cost in Atlanta? a buck fifty.
April 27th, 2010 at 1:13 am
Barry Bonds says there should be an asterisk by Ubaldo Jimenez’s no-hitter.
April 27th, 2010 at 1:15 am
Kawakami says he’s no longer putting his soul in his pitches until Wren gets a real bat.
April 27th, 2010 at 1:17 am
Hank Aaron has urged the Braves organization to paint Jason Heyward white.
April 27th, 2010 at 1:21 am
Children’s Hospital has asked the Braves hitters not to visit anymore.
April 27th, 2010 at 1:23 am
In a game versus the Braves, Roy Halladay fell asleep in the middle of a pitch.
April 27th, 2010 at 1:26 am
Terry Pendleton threw a no-hitter in batting practice.
April 27th, 2010 at 1:30 am
Kawakami says Carlos Zambrano should choose an honorable death.
April 27th, 2010 at 1:35 am
In 2011, any Braves batter caught not using steroids will be suspended for fifty games.
April 27th, 2010 at 1:39 am
For the Braves, John Fogerty really could play center field.
April 27th, 2010 at 1:46 am
If a pitcher hits a Braves batter with a pitch, he throws down his glove and starts punching himself in the face.
April 27th, 2010 at 1:48 am
Walking the Braves’ pitcher to get to the lead off man is sound strategy.
April 27th, 2010 at 1:50 am
Louisville Slugger is suing the Braves for slander.
April 27th, 2010 at 1:50 am
Good night. We suuuuuuuuuuuck.
April 27th, 2010 at 8:23 am
#169 is my favorite. Very funny except #177…it’s too true to be funny. Good work.
April 27th, 2010 at 8:49 am
How sad that we actually are hoping Jordan Schaefer can recover from his injury sooner rather than later?
Rumor that the children of Haiti are organizing a fundraiser to help the Braves get a clean up hitter.
April 27th, 2010 at 9:03 am
The one note of positivity I’ll try to add is that they actually looked a real baseball team at times last night. That’s an improvement. On the flip side, it feels like the season is already over. So that’s not great.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:35 am
Change of subject, if possible, to get us off the “we suck” train: I wish I had time to read sports blogs & whatnot, but I don’t. A co-worker shared this with me today. Leo Mazzone’s Blog from 680 The Fan from last week. I like it!
Things I would change if I were the commissioner of baseball:
Apr 21, 2010 — 3:24pm
* Get rid of the DH
* All Star game would not determine home field advantage. Best record would.
* Eliminate QuestTec
* Reduce major league schedule to 154 games so all post season games could be best of seven
* All Saturday and Sunday regular and post season games would be day games so more children could get involved
* Eliminate World Baseball Classic
* No pitch counts on stadium scoreboards
* Have a more balanced schedule
Baseball is the greatest game in the world so don’t take the human element out of it! -Leo
April 27th, 2010 at 10:38 am
To Leo’s point: “No pitch counts on stadium scoreboards,” do you think that’s so the pitcher himself can’t turn around and see what’s what? I actually like seeing the pitch count totals, but really to guess when a pitcher will get pulled…no other reason.
April 27th, 2010 at 11:43 am
Anne, I like going to 154 games and expanding the first round. Entirely too much luck involved with 5 game series. ALTHOUGH, that too much luck is all that will keep the Yankees from buying championship after championship.
Now, back to the WE SUCK train. This tidbit from Talking Chop:
“Innings 5, 6 and 7 – 9 consecutive outs, 27 pitches seen.”
… points to exactly what I saw last night. They REALLY did react to scoring those three runs like a bunch of junior high kids. Like they reacted to falling out of the race last year, closing with 6 straight losses. Like they reacted to getting “tired of spring training” this year, closing with two shameful performances in exhibition.
There’s no mystery here, to me. Yeah, the team is short on talent. But not this damn short. They are disfunctional. They have an attitude problem. It’s real, not perceived, not made up because we’re trying to match a team’s performance to some personality. No, it’s true. Too many signs.
The atmosphere in this clubhouse is not disciplined, not sharp, not hard-driving. Are we the only club with this problem? Highly doubtful. But teams with more talent can afford a little mental laziness. We can’t.
“Innings 5, 6 and 7 – 9 consecutive outs, 27 pitches seen.” This isn’t a talent problem (exclusively). This is an attitude problem. They scored three runs. Then they phoned in three innings. Then, surprise, the other team scored four, and they couldn’t dial up another run in press mode.
I hope Wren cleans house of TP and Cox. Bring on 2011.
April 27th, 2010 at 11:56 am
*by cleaning house… errr… I guess I mean “lets TP go…”
I really shouldn’t rant in the morning…
April 27th, 2010 at 2:02 pm
Atleast we played better last night. Of course we could NOT have played worse. And better’s not gonna cut it but it was less miserable. I agree with whoever said putting Escobar in leadoff was brilliant. His D was better than ever.
April 27th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Salary of the best team in baseball: $72,847,133.
Average attendance of the best team in baseball: 25,769
“Maddon then stressed running hard in general, pointing to an infield single for Carlos Pena in a recent game that allowed the go-ahead run to score. He said that in addition to mental mistakes, he cannot stand guys not hustling down the line, always wanting to create a reputation as a team that will run hard every time.
‘That’s what I want out of our group. Pretty simple, really.’”
Okay, I’m really finished now. In my heart of hearts, I don’t believe we’ll stay this bad, and I believe we’ll be in the WC race, eventually. But I also believe this team will not be what it could have been. And if Wren goes “in house” for the next manager, I don’t look for it to get suddenly better. It’s a playin-for-grandpa mentality, where the extra effort gets kudos, it’s not what’s demanded.
Now maybe I’ve spewed enough Negativity to erase my early homerism. Here’s to finding a grumpy medium: The Curtdoza line.
April 27th, 2010 at 3:28 pm
The Ryan Howard contract might be helpful to the Braves return to the top. That’s a risky, risky contract. Had no idea until I read up on it. They could expand payroll and hang on to Werth, I guess, which would be a nightmare. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen.
Schafer
Prado
Heyward
Uggla
McCann
Escobar
Freeman
McLouth/Diaz
Hudson
Hanson
Jurrjens
Medlen
Minor
Moylan
Venters
Kimbrel
April 27th, 2010 at 3:48 pm
” In my heart of hearts, I don’t believe we’ll stay this bad, and I believe we’ll be in the WC race, eventually.”
I didn’t realize how disheartened I’ve become until I read that sentence. Really? I so want to believe that. I’ve never been so doubtful of the Braves which means they’ll turn it around real soon. Too bad quidditch is pretend…I could really get behind one of those teams. And if there’s a bad game I’d perform an obliviate charm on myself so I wouldn’t have to remember it.
April 27th, 2010 at 4:19 pm
Escobar leads off again today. I would move Heyward up behind McCann and in front of Glaus if I were BC.
Here’s an interesting article. Thoughts? Pretty graphs.
http://buzztap.com/-g3l0Yf
April 27th, 2010 at 4:19 pm
Re: the Wild Card, I just don’t see the Marlins, Dodgers, Rockies, Cubs and Brewers will pull so far ahead of us that we fall completely out. Not with Jurrjens, Hanson, and Hudson healthy and McCann + Heyward + Prado driving the offense. We have about as many threatening hitters as the other all-pitching-no-hitting teams like the Giants.
I don’t expect to win the WC, but compete for it. Three of McLouth, Escobar, Glaus, Diaz, Chipper, and Melky will just about have to return to their career norms unless we’re going to actually have a historic year of sudden drop offs.
April 27th, 2010 at 4:41 pm
*reads pretty graphs*
FIRE TP!
Sorry, he messed up KJ. The whole train wreck is on record.
And the team’s offensive approach is awful. Some of that has to fall on the hitting coach. Two points are glaring:
1. TP’s “first pitch might be your best pitch” spill, which was a mantra before this year.
2. Jason Heyward shows up and it’s like he invented the concept of Plate Discipline. Bobby and TP ADMITTED the team had become more patient only because of Heyward’s example. Do these guys not have bosses? Joe Maddon certainly acts like he’s the boss of his team.
April 27th, 2010 at 6:16 pm
Hmmm. But just looked up the Braves’ Plate Discipline figures on fangraphs. Bub is not feeling to confident in his lack-of-approach spill anymore.
We are the second most disciplined team in baseball.
So, now I’m DOUBLY mad at the Braves. They not only suck, they suck in such a way that I can’t figure out how to complain properly.
Next scapegoat: I’m going back to Glaus. He makes too many pouty faces. Ah HA. Just as I suspected. Braves lead the majors in PF%/CUC. That’s Pouty Face Percentage per Correct Umpire Call.
April 27th, 2010 at 6:53 pm
I think we should call the DOB blog “the mothership,” the way non-ESPN shows use that tag for ESPN. It isn’t original, but it’s still cool.
N8 had a good post on the mothership at 2:59 making the case for Dale Murphy’s comparability to Chipper is tinged by the stark difference in the protection hitters behind each of them.
Andruw/Tex/McGriff and so forth versus Bob Horner et al.
April 27th, 2010 at 7:08 pm
Remember when we wondered if McLouth’s .260 average would hurt the team?
We’ve got 8 batters in tonight’s line up hitting less than that. Only Prado is higher than .255
April 27th, 2010 at 7:17 pm
Bobby Cox’s “Pujols is worth 50 million” comment is all over the national media, including the top line on ESPN. Mike and Mike had the quote on their show this morning, too. They just have no idea how easy that man finds it to say the most hyperbolic stuff imaginable.
Heyward: Hank Aaron.
Campillo: Maddux
John Smoltz & Glavine last year: lookin’ great.
5 earned runs give up: best outing ever pitched.
Pujols: 50 million.
You’ve finally done it, Bobby. You’ve said something so outlandish you’re on the front page of ESPN, where the news about your player appraisals just hasn’t quite reached.
April 27th, 2010 at 7:55 pm
“They not only suck, they suck in such a way that I can’t figure out how to complain properly.”
My favorite line in a long while … I’m really considering not watching the game tonight to help change the luck.
April 27th, 2010 at 8:07 pm
Just finished the weekly podcast. Recall that my mom taught Jermaine Dye in grammar school. Does that mean NOTHING?? (probably)
April 27th, 2010 at 8:27 pm
Lowe’s sinker is sinking early. Especially to Ludwick and King Albert.
April 27th, 2010 at 8:35 pm
Melky drives in a run?
April 27th, 2010 at 8:36 pm
Bub, all those walks are followed closely by the 8 ks, 8 LOB per game figures. And the atrocious HIDP numbers they have. When they do get hits they are singles with no one on. When the bases are loaded the best they can do is let the pitcher walk a run in. Last night Simpson and Smoltz were actively rooting for the Braves to just get a sac fly out of a bases loaded situation. Is that where we are? Just hoping for a sac fly? What’s the opposite of jaded? Hopeless?
And you stole my playing for grand pa idea. It really is like no one seems to be listening. I envision Escobar getting ‘chewed out’ and having to continue to put his hand to his mouth to hide his smirk.
April 27th, 2010 at 8:45 pm
High hopes tonight after Glaus’s hustle on the basepaths. Can you tell I didn’t watch baseball while on the road this weekend?
April 27th, 2010 at 8:49 pm
Curt, the plate discipline graph showed more than earning walks. It showed the best percentage of not swinging specifically at pitches out of the zone. But I hear ya.
Re: grandpa, can we PLEASE get a no-nonsense manager? Doesn’t have to be Ozzie (don’t really care for that) or even Pinella (though I wouldn’t hate having Lou), but somebody who calls a spade a spade. My fantasy is Glavine, but I know that won’t happen.
Though he does have experience managing a major league team. Anyone remember this?
Great, now Jim Powell is spouting the 50 mil Bobby quote about Pujols, again, as if it’s a 100% considered point. Good grief, it WASN’T. It’s just some stuff he said like every day.
lol @ Esco hiding his smirk. I don’t doubt it at all.
Later that night:
“and deen, wheen he wuss e’screeming, he tell me he no gonna take dees playing without no theenking… I wuss put my face down een my hands, jew know? To hide my laughings. I love dees man, dees Bobby man…”
April 27th, 2010 at 8:58 pm
90% of these sinkers of Lowe’s are on the very, VERY bottom line of the strike zone on the gameday graphic. Haven’t seen that kind of pinpoint from him in a while.
April 27th, 2010 at 8:59 pm
Smoltz says Lowe must have solved a major flaw in his mechanics. I want to believe this so bad!
April 27th, 2010 at 9:03 pm
Nice aggression on the basepaths.
April 27th, 2010 at 9:07 pm
Stunning that Bobby is actually considering small ball!
April 27th, 2010 at 9:07 pm
2 more LOB’s thrown on the pile. McLouth was jipp’d, though. Called 3rd strike was outside.
April 27th, 2010 at 9:08 pm
Agreed, Danny, and that time it saved them a couple outs.
April 27th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
Sorry, i haven’t looked at it. Perhaps I should before I comment……nah.
How about Scoscia (sp?), Madden. I have learned to loathe the term ‘player’s coach.’ translation: no discipline and a cap on how far you can go with your level of success. Cox, Mark Richt, Jim Mora Jr., Bobby Cremins, et al. Atlanta has been pregnant with them. They all can bring in talent, they all have measures of success, they all fail to win the big one. I have honestly come to believe that the only reason the Braves won one WS is because Mike Hargrove is just an incredibly horrible manager. I mean, he lost a WS to Bobby Cox.
April 27th, 2010 at 9:10 pm
Terrible call on McOut.
Bub, it’s ‘jobbed’
April 27th, 2010 at 9:11 pm
That one did not sink
April 27th, 2010 at 9:12 pm
Voldelowe is showing his true colors.
April 27th, 2010 at 9:12 pm
Hung one little slider. Seems like he can’t get away with… dang, he just hung another one. Instantly, the sinker are flat.
April 27th, 2010 at 9:14 pm
“Bub, it’s ‘jobbed’”
That’s what she said.
April 27th, 2010 at 9:16 pm
jopped again.
April 27th, 2010 at 9:18 pm
gameday shows Lowe getting squeezed now. Is he?
April 27th, 2010 at 9:21 pm
That’s 3 out of 4 first pitch outs since the inning when we scored. Exactly what we did yesterday.
April 27th, 2010 at 9:23 pm
No, I’m wrong about that. I forgot an inning.
April 27th, 2010 at 9:36 pm
Heyward struggaluggalin’.
April 27th, 2010 at 9:49 pm
This feels familiar.
April 27th, 2010 at 9:51 pm
Hey howdy ho.
April 27th, 2010 at 9:52 pm
all of the close calls are not going our way . . . not that we deserve them.
April 27th, 2010 at 9:55 pm
Good grief. Bases loaded for Molina. Ummm…. Bobby? H’llo?
April 27th, 2010 at 9:56 pm
Hey howdy, ho.
April 27th, 2010 at 9:57 pm
ANNNNNNDDDDDD . . . . Scene!
Good night everyone.
April 27th, 2010 at 9:57 pm
Lowe squeezed on the second pitch. Again. Anyway, D. Lowe lays egg #5.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:00 pm
And there’s the difference between first place and last
April 27th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
And there’s the difference between last place and REEEEEEAAAALLY last place.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
So…I’ve developed a bad habit. I usually have to eat candy while I watch baseball. The worse they play…the more I eat. You see my dilemma.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:04 pm
5.79 ERA
15 million dollars.
Alex, I’ll take “Money Stuck Up a Pig’s Butt” for a thousand.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:05 pm
Hey Boys and Girls! Anything good on TV tonight?? No?? Oh…darn it.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:05 pm
The Bobby arguing with the ump scene seems so pathetic and sad. it was so disheartening watching him clearly trying to get tossed and the ump feeling so sorry for him that he just sat there and listened to him. he can’t even inspire his team when he tries to.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:06 pm
Hate to mention it, but Chipper’s gimpy footwork cost us a double play in that inning, couple nights after his error cost Hanson the 1-0 ER-less loss.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:07 pm
I just ate a lot of candy too Mara. My biggest problem is that now I want to go to bed.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:08 pm
Do it Brooks!
April 27th, 2010 at 10:09 pm
I was thinking that same thing, Curt.
What Bobby said: “bunch o’ @$%@#% that call ya mama ##$%^ up a @#$#^ corncob @#%@% #@$#^!!!”
What the ump heard: “damn I’m old and tired. Am I old or what? Will you throw me out? Is this Brooklyn? Do you have my crayons?”
April 27th, 2010 at 10:09 pm
3 hits. 1 by the nameless one. Bobby should just set the lineup by jersey number or height or something.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:11 pm
Curt, I thought Bobby tried but didn’t get tossed. I don’t see that as pathetic.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:13 pm
Do you have my crayons…you kill me.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:14 pm
Uh-oh, I am starting to feel. . . is that. . . hope?
April 27th, 2010 at 10:14 pm
Dang, we’re an umpsqueeze away from being up in this game. Dernitall.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:15 pm
This inning has been fun…so far. Mmmmm…reese’s pieces.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:15 pm
By the way Curt, I think Bobby will get at least one more try tonight. This game is about to get interesting again.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:15 pm
Somebody hold Danny down while I stomp the hope! Quick, before we lose him!
April 27th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
B Mac is due.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:17 pm
You’re killin’ me, Tcc.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:18 pm
Right handed power hitter up! Right handed power hitter up! Everbodeeeee Come seeeeeee.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:18 pm
B Mac get’s a C+ for advancing the runner.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:18 pm
This one’s goin’ straight to the lumberyard!
April 27th, 2010 at 10:20 pm
Yeah! From scoring position to… ADVANCED scoring position!
April 27th, 2010 at 10:20 pm
CEO OF THE LUMBAH COMP’NY!
April 27th, 2010 at 10:21 pm
Let’s don’t Glaus over the Braves chance for a come from behind win…
April 27th, 2010 at 10:22 pm
Kid is DUE
April 27th, 2010 at 10:22 pm
No pressure J-Hey!
April 27th, 2010 at 10:22 pm
Hey! Where’d ya think that ball landed?? Upper deck??
April 27th, 2010 at 10:22 pm
Horizon Wirless should have Tony LaRussa on their payroll.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:23 pm
I double dog dare Bobby to pinch hit Matt Diaz. OH, it would be BRILLIANT!!
April 27th, 2010 at 10:24 pm
Don’t give him any ideas Bub!
April 27th, 2010 at 10:24 pm
*rally cap on*
Which, in this case, is the cap of my Aquafina.
C’mon, Rook.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
Is that Paul Assenmacher?
April 27th, 2010 at 10:26 pm
That was close! for ball 2
April 27th, 2010 at 10:27 pm
Ouch!
See you tomorrow!
April 27th, 2010 at 10:27 pm
Damn.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:27 pm
Aquafina really? C’mon man
April 27th, 2010 at 10:27 pm
Gotta take it off of your shoulder Jason
April 27th, 2010 at 10:27 pm
lol @ Curtdoza.
col @ J Hey. (cry out loud)
April 27th, 2010 at 10:28 pm
What will the Bravos do if their Rookie sixth hitter is no longer batting 750 with RISP?
April 27th, 2010 at 10:28 pm
I’m on the wagon, Tcc. Don’t gimme dat.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:30 pm
Pradoooooo. That dude is the Matt Diaz of results.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:30 pm
Glad to hear it.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:32 pm
Rock on, Bub.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:33 pm
Not glad to hear that I’m out of candy. I might need to get on the wagon…the candy eating wagon.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:34 pm
Look at Medster!
April 27th, 2010 at 10:34 pm
Medlin is my all time favorite Brave…ever.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:34 pm
If old man Moyer loses tonight, the damn Mets will be in first place. And the circle of bile will be complete. From being in first with Mets in the basement, to the reverse.
Attaboy, Medlen. That’s the only player besides Dontrelle that I like in the flatbill.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:35 pm
MR…dark chocolate is good for you. Indulge!
April 27th, 2010 at 10:36 pm
That’s what she said.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:36 pm
The flatbill drives me crazy. And the crooked flatbill is worse.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:39 pm
Oooooh, thanks Cledus! You reminded me of a stash I forgot about. So, I caught a glimpse of a headline that Wags is anxious about not having pitched lately. I was hoping Bobby was bringing him in the 8th last night. Would that have been stupid? Does he only come in when we’re winning?
April 27th, 2010 at 10:39 pm
Usually me, too. But it fits Meds.
Schafer, on the other hand… looks like a lego baseball man.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:40 pm
No, Leah, bringing a closer in when he hasn’t had a chance in a while is common practice. I expect we’ll see him tonight, save or not.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:40 pm
Bub, Bile doesn’t really circle…it flows, relatively downhill..as do other substances..different process..same result.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:42 pm
Eric Hinske…my Main Manske!
April 27th, 2010 at 10:43 pm
C’mon, big E.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:43 pm
Sheet.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:44 pm
alright I’m back
April 27th, 2010 at 10:44 pm
This sucks.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:44 pm
switching to Gameday to change the mojo
April 27th, 2010 at 10:45 pm
Damn…don’t I know I have to work tomorrow?
April 27th, 2010 at 10:45 pm
lol @ hamcobar. Frozen pork.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:45 pm
(weeps quietly into his laptop)
April 27th, 2010 at 10:46 pm
Hamcobar? I’m gonna need a chart pretty soon to remember whose whom…or who. Never can get that right. Why no LOST tonight?
April 27th, 2010 at 10:46 pm
I do NOT like the idea of a rusty Wags coming in to face Pujols, first batter.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:48 pm
“Why no LOST tonight?”
Watching Atlanta, you get a game AND Lost.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:48 pm
Comment section almost at 300 and it’s Tuesday. Yikes.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:49 pm
If ya can’t beat em, hurt em…just sayin’
April 27th, 2010 at 10:49 pm
Hey, batta batta batta batta batta, saWING, batta.
Holliday HBP. Poop.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:49 pm
thats what she said
April 27th, 2010 at 10:50 pm
um, that was late.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:51 pm
I like “Mara Raincloud”, by the way. Sounds like something from a kid’s book.
Wags comin’ apart, slightly.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:51 pm
Proves misery loves company.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:51 pm
see ‘I do NOT like the idea of a rusty Wags coming in ‘
April 27th, 2010 at 10:52 pm
Come on DP!!!
April 27th, 2010 at 10:53 pm
How is Yadier Molina only hitting .254?
April 27th, 2010 at 10:53 pm
2 dollars says Bobby gets sliiiightly nudged under the bus by Wags for letting him rust this long.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:54 pm
CURT!!! I think that’s the best one yet. Do you think we could switch Molina and Cabrera? No one would notice. They look very similar and Cabrera looks like a catcher trying to play outfield anyway so no dif there.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:56 pm
Wags is rusty no mo’
April 27th, 2010 at 10:56 pm
Prado
Gimper
McCann
Jughead
due up in the 9th. Get him, Wagner. THERE you go. No bus for Bob.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:57 pm
Marteeeeeeeeeeee! It’s sad that my iPhone now thinks “Marteeeeeeeeen” is a word.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:58 pm
Took off my shoes and pants. If it works for Prado, I’m goin’ RALLY NEKKY!
April 27th, 2010 at 10:59 pm
Oh well. It’s chilly in here anyway. OUT ONE!!
C’mon, Ch(rather be with a str)ipper!
April 27th, 2010 at 11:00 pm
TP Exhibit #457: Powell says Chipper’s dad called him, had noticed his elbow was up. Since then, the LH swing is working.
April 27th, 2010 at 11:01 pm
Do it up, Silver Sluggah!
April 27th, 2010 at 11:03 pm
B Mac needs to go see his daddy when he get’s home.
April 27th, 2010 at 11:03 pm
any chance?
April 27th, 2010 at 11:08 pm
no
April 27th, 2010 at 11:08 pm
Good gosh. This is the worst.
April 27th, 2010 at 11:08 pm
I hate this season.
April 27th, 2010 at 11:10 pm
D. Lowe is a bad investment. Dang you, A J Burnett.
April 27th, 2010 at 11:11 pm
And dang YOU, John Smoltz. Bolting to Boston pulled the trigger on this awful acquisition. Just think, we’d be going through the Smoltz divorce THIS season, BUT, for many millions less. And next year… it’d be over.
Ugh. Not worth thinking about…
April 27th, 2010 at 11:17 pm
At least we scored those 2 runs.
April 27th, 2010 at 11:19 pm
How many games do we have to lose before Bobby stands before the press and says, “We suck…and that is all.” is BC waiting too long before pulling starting pitchers? I mean not in hind sight kinda managing but the real kind.
April 27th, 2010 at 11:19 pm
Actually, getting off the deck for 4 runs is no small comfort. It’s come to that…
April 27th, 2010 at 11:21 pm
Last night and tonight is too close to call, pulling-pitcher-wise, to me, Leah. I think Curtdoza feels differently about last night.
The in-game management doesn’t seem that terrible to me lately. Just playing terrible, until tonight. Don’t know that we played bad tonight, except Chipper should prob’ly be sitting. Wondering about that DP that could have been turned with better footwork. Would have gotten Lowe out of that mess.
But Lowe has pitched poorly 5 outings in a row. This is really, really bad news.
April 27th, 2010 at 11:26 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3-eavMSBnk
April 27th, 2010 at 11:57 pm
In regards to pulling the pitchers, to steal a line from Spinal Tap, there’s a fine line between clever and stupid. Bobby, in my humble opinion, always seems to wait just a bit too long to pull his starters. Hudson had clearly lost it last night and probably should have not come out for the 7th. I’m sure Bobby left it up to him, but how many pitchers will pull themselves. Tonight, I don’t know. I would not have let he who is without a name ($) face Molina. I know that’s easy to say now, but that clearly was the point when he had been in there too long. If Moylan comes in and gives up a hit there do I feel like he should have left the starter in? I doubt it. There really only seems to be one guy out there who is strong enought to go deep into a game and that’s Hanson. The rest of them have about 6 innings in them, and yet Bobby always pushes for that one more inning. You have a really good bullpen, last night not withstanding. Use it. Save these games.
April 28th, 2010 at 1:36 am
Losing streak….this one goes to 11.
April 28th, 2010 at 1:57 am
“These go to 11″
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbVKWCpNFhY
April 28th, 2010 at 1:58 am
“We’re going to talk to him,” Cox said. “He’s taking way too many pitches for strikes. [As a result] he’s getting one pitch to swing at right now.”
*vomits*
April 28th, 2010 at 2:32 am
Wow. We’re not just in last place. We’re 2.5 games out of 4th place. After only 20 games played.
There aren’t any freaking words for how atomically putrid this feels. What the hell kind of ballteam is this? I feel like Vito Corleone, when he’s telling the funeral guy he’s got to fix up Sonny’s body…. “look at how they massacred my dream…”
If Bobby Cox rang my doorbell and poored a cup of lava over my head, I couldn’t be more burned. What Brad did to Jennifer? It’s nothing. J. Caesar had a friend in Brutus. The Ninth Circle of Hell is Judas, Satan, and Cox making both of them watch this team on TiVo.
I tried to record a Braves game on DVR and it voided the warranty. Goldman Sachs wrote an article condemning Derek Lowe. Scott Boras has a T-Shirt with Lowe’s picture on the front and “Don’t Mess With Me” written on the back.
Tony LaRussa’s speech before playing the Braves: “Okay, everybody, just, you know, whatever, pffffffftttt.”
Zig Ziglar on being a Braves fan: “I’d pretty much commit suicide.”
Ted Turner’s prayer: “Okay, if I start believing in You, will You make them change the name of that damn stadium to something else?”
Joe Thurston: “Sometimes God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.”
Jason Heyward’s Calendar: “Days Until Yankee: 2,547″
Johnny Damon’s First Words Every Morning: “Thank ya JESUS!”
Chief Knockahoma: “First the trail of tears, now this…”
Sid Bream: “Tell you about what? Speak-a no English! Speak-a no English!”
William T. Sherman: “Damn. That’s uncalled for.”
April 28th, 2010 at 9:13 am
Braves need to wake up. JUST WIN ! FREAKKKKKKKKKKIN WIN A GAME. HIT THE FREAKIN BALL! 0,1,2,3,4 RUNS ARE NOT GOING TO WIN MANY BALL GAMES. SCORE 20 TONIGHT
April 28th, 2010 at 9:43 am
They just said this was the worst start ever for a Bobby Cox managed team. Is that possible? Those 80s teams were dreadful. Even they were better than this?
Speaking of leaving someone in a little too long. They should have forced retirement on Bobby three years ago.
April 28th, 2010 at 11:49 am
Here’s a link to the latest entry of a super brilliant blogger. I’m not just saying that because he fathered my beautiful children. It’s a general look at baseball that I found encouraging.
http://tumblr.com/xwf96vzrx
April 28th, 2010 at 2:21 pm
I enjoyed the read from the guy who fathered your children. Has your husband read it? 8)
April 28th, 2010 at 3:32 pm
I know this lacks elegance or verbosity, but this really, really sucks. It’s still April! How could the team be this inept and uninspired? I’m just sick about all of this. And I’m getting tired of Leo on 680 acting like there’s nothing wrong here. Are you kidding?!?!?!
Leah – your hubby’s a damn fine writer.
April 28th, 2010 at 3:51 pm
Bobby getting into Heyward about his patience makes my blood boil. He has patience with everything else. Can’t he have patience with… someone’s patience?
A patient hitter can always go back the other way a little at the time. But no, we’re gonna pressure the most patient rookie in a decade to snap out of it and start swinging early. And do it in the newspapers, too, Bobby. That won’t help the opposing pitchers any, or put any pressure on the 20 year old being asked to abandon his gameplan in month #1. I can’t believe this is happening.
April 28th, 2010 at 3:56 pm
Kelly just worked a full count, and then took a walk. I bet he’s got MLK’s “free at last” speech on his IPOD.
April 28th, 2010 at 4:37 pm
Thanks Steve, I taught him everything he knows. Haha Bub, those two actually get along quite well. However they do constantly pine for my affection. Exhausting really.
April 28th, 2010 at 5:04 pm
How did he get through an article about baseball without mentioning ABT?
April 28th, 2010 at 6:09 pm
Manager taking Lincecum out because he looks tired and is obviously about to lose it, even though there’s not much danger just yet, and he only has 106 pitches.
Isn’t that neat-o?
KJ had a bad day. Dangit all. My righteous indignation needs fuel. Wait, Frenchy with another hit and two more RBI’s. That works.
Man… Jason Werth… ninth inning, 2 outs, down 3, bases loaded, full count…annnndddd…. oh my goodness… bases clearing double.
Tie ballgame. Should have left Lincecum in. Oh, Bobby… you suck…
April 28th, 2010 at 6:20 pm
Curt, I wondered the same thing. Although it IS a very general perspective and he doesn’t even mention the Braves who play a pivotal role in the happiness of his home. He may mention them in the “about” tab…can’t remember. Anywho, thanks for reading and GO BRAVES! Stopping by the store to pick up candy on my way home. Thinking I maybe should have ordered my ABT shirt in a bigger size.
April 28th, 2010 at 7:02 pm
Please order 10. That way you can lose and gain weight at your leisure and always look cool
April 28th, 2010 at 7:12 pm
KJ HR. Putting Arizona in the lead in extra innings.
8 Homers for Kelly. Leads National League all alone.
April 28th, 2010 at 7:48 pm
“We’ve only made one mental mistake this first month, so…” – Bobby Cox
April 28th, 2010 at 8:32 pm
Molina is killing us this series.
April 28th, 2010 at 8:47 pm
Didn’t take long for this game to suck.
April 28th, 2010 at 8:51 pm
Bub, is that quote really real or one of your jokes? That’s…disturbing. Yep…city of sucktitude.
April 28th, 2010 at 8:55 pm
Leah, he said that. He said it just like that, without any qualification, in “The Bobby Cox Report” on the radio. Said we were playing very good baseball.
April 28th, 2010 at 8:57 pm
That would make me the most dejected as a player…that my coach had to completely lie for me. Any thoughts about Heyward being out of the lineup?
April 28th, 2010 at 9:05 pm
Can’t do it…can’t watch them lose again.
April 28th, 2010 at 9:05 pm
I can’t see what difference it makes one way or the other.
April 28th, 2010 at 9:08 pm
Heyward:
“It’s early, so as far as just facing guys for the first time, or maybe figuring out what their go-to pitch is, or what the strike zone may be like for certain umpires, that’s all going to happen,” Heyward said. “Sometimes they’re going to make [good] pitches.
“Like I said, it is early. There’s going to be an adjustment period. Once you go through it once, and just to get any kind of rhythm that you’re going to have later in the season, you’ll be able to better react.”
Translation: Leave me the eff alone.
But they won’t.
April 28th, 2010 at 9:14 pm
Bub you feeling ok? You’re slurring your words.
April 28th, 2010 at 9:25 pm
Where am I slurring? I’m not feeling okay, no. But I’m not drinking, unfortunately. I’m *this* close to calling it a year on this nightmare, though. Can’t make myself follow the Phillies, even though they’re interesting to me.
Rays, maybe. I’m a DH fan anyway.
I seriously just don’t know how to get behind any team run by Bobby Cox. He’s not the only problem, but he would be enough all by himself.
Listen to this clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8UgMFvtdK0&feature=related
… and tell me it doesn’t make you sad. I think the grass might actually be greener… it can’t get any browner.
I don’t know. It’s depressing.
April 28th, 2010 at 9:28 pm
Go hawks
April 28th, 2010 at 9:31 pm
I wish I could enjoy NBA. Maybe if the Spurs go ahead and knock out Dallas I’ll hook up with the playoffs.
April 28th, 2010 at 9:32 pm
There were some weird typos in your quote. I know. It really is depressing. I feel like we’re never going to win again.
April 28th, 2010 at 9:35 pm
Heh. THAT would at least be entertaining. No, eventually we’ll win again. But not much.
April 28th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
There should be a mercy rule for MLB teams. Can’t believe Montreal came back and won the series.
April 28th, 2010 at 9:41 pm
Prado’s making him work!
April 28th, 2010 at 9:45 pm
sorry, jinxed him.
April 28th, 2010 at 9:49 pm
4.1 IP for Kawakami. Spiffy.
April 28th, 2010 at 9:52 pm
“..and then along came Jones…SLOW WALKIN’, slow talkin Jones.”
April 28th, 2010 at 9:52 pm
Turned it off. Can’t watch. Heart broken.
April 28th, 2010 at 9:54 pm
I can, however, still eat candy.
April 28th, 2010 at 9:55 pm
KK joins Lowe in the 5+ ERA club
April 28th, 2010 at 9:55 pm
Heck, Far…ain’t even a challange lessen the bases are loaded….
April 28th, 2010 at 9:56 pm
Gol dang it!
April 28th, 2010 at 9:56 pm
Six to Zip.
Alegre means joyful.
April 28th, 2010 at 9:57 pm
Somebody let me know when it’s Now, so I can switch over to the Home Shopping Network.
April 28th, 2010 at 9:59 pm
ergelA =lufyoj..got it
April 28th, 2010 at 10:01 pm
And with that out from Chipper, we officially have one batter hitting .250 or higher.
April 28th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
I want a head to roll…I don’t much care whose.
April 28th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
maybe we can make their hands so sore from catching flies and infield dribbles that they will have big blisters and then they can’t even catch a ball…at all! Fantastic strategy!
April 28th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
Tcc, it’s been Now for two weeks. Pick me up a salad shooter, will you?
April 28th, 2010 at 10:07 pm
Yes, Ma’m, that’s a round of salad shooters for all, my treat.
April 28th, 2010 at 10:08 pm
Cledus, did you just call Bub Ma’m cause…I think he can take you. He’s not in the best of moods. Well, who the hell is right?
April 28th, 2010 at 10:09 pm
20 errors on us now.
But we’ve only made one mental mistake, says Bobby.
April 28th, 2010 at 10:09 pm
Load ‘em if you got ‘em, boys!
April 28th, 2010 at 10:10 pm
Who made the error?
April 28th, 2010 at 10:11 pm
My bad, Princess. BTW, Bub is bigger, younger and stronger than I am, but he ain’t near as mean. No contest.
April 28th, 2010 at 10:11 pm
How does a team in the AL East, with a 72 million dollar payroll, get off to a 16-5 start? SIXTEEN and FIVE! And they’re not winning by small margins, either. Just roasted the A’s again tonight, 10 to 3.
lol, Albert Pujols up with bases loaded, no outs. Poor Jonny.
April 28th, 2010 at 10:12 pm
I can stay away from watching the Braves, but I can’t stay away from the ABT forum. Sad sad sad days.
April 28th, 2010 at 10:12 pm
It’s good for him…teach ‘em while their young.
April 28th, 2010 at 10:13 pm
Leah, I was just speaking of the 2 early errors.
Double Play on Pujols. That’s useful. *rolling eyes*
We can get six runs off these chumps.
April 28th, 2010 at 10:13 pm
Awe Hammie…you ole softy you.
April 28th, 2010 at 10:14 pm
Damn. Jonny Winters went DieHard on their arses. K’d Holliday after DP’ing King Albert. Put that one in your pocket for next year, son.
April 28th, 2010 at 10:14 pm
These pretzels are making me thirsty
April 28th, 2010 at 10:15 pm
lol, VENters. Not Winters.
April 28th, 2010 at 10:15 pm
just got a great deal from HSN on rally caps!! Who needs one??
April 28th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
Just because I had two mini cruellers doesn’t mean I can’t have m&ms later right? I though so. I’m sending Bobby my weight watchers membership bill.
April 28th, 2010 at 10:18 pm
Hawks up 8 with 6 to go
April 28th, 2010 at 10:21 pm
Way to set them up, Bravos! Boy, are those Cardinastys gonna be surprised when we put up 10 runs in the 8th..
April 28th, 2010 at 10:21 pm
7 with 4
April 28th, 2010 at 10:22 pm
Curt, what does the Hawks series stand at?
April 28th, 2010 at 10:23 pm
G’night ABT. Keep your chin up.
April 28th, 2010 at 10:24 pm
Prado & Esco make a great DP. Excellent (wasted) fielding.
April 28th, 2010 at 10:24 pm
You’re GOING?
April 28th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
Bub, seriously, I can’t take it. I’ll hope and be crushed then angry and foul.
April 28th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
Well, it’s a smart play.
G’night.
April 28th, 2010 at 10:26 pm
Princess..don’t leave us!
April 28th, 2010 at 10:27 pm
You’re not getting enough chocolate, clearly.
April 28th, 2010 at 10:28 pm
Curt, please don’t tell me I’m going to have to become an NBA fan to get me through this losing streak…Please!
April 28th, 2010 at 10:31 pm
Series is pathetically tied at 2 games a piece. And hawks are now up 3 with 2:30 to go. Disappointed
April 28th, 2010 at 10:35 pm
Hawks down 4 with 1:16 to go. A shocking turn of events
April 28th, 2010 at 10:35 pm
Braves are gunshy. Should have a run in and Prado on second.
April 28th, 2010 at 10:38 pm
Glaus pitches another “body fit” over a strike call. That’s getting old. What is he, fourteen?
April 28th, 2010 at 10:39 pm
Hawks falling apart, too, eh? Dang.
I’m switching over. At least they have SOME chance…
April 28th, 2010 at 10:39 pm
Maybe it will rain tomorrow.
April 28th, 2010 at 10:41 pm
Fouling already? Forget that.
April 28th, 2010 at 10:44 pm
Lord, why hasth thou forsaken me?
April 28th, 2010 at 10:45 pm
Gamecast says 2 point game with :10 left. Is it over?
April 28th, 2010 at 10:46 pm
Over
April 28th, 2010 at 10:47 pm
Ugh. Thanks, Curt. I’m glad you got me into that one in time for a little extra sport pain.
April 28th, 2010 at 10:48 pm
Atlanta losing on two fronts.
April 28th, 2010 at 10:52 pm
Curt, you have sinned…what the heck were you thinking pulling for Atlanta????
April 28th, 2010 at 10:53 pm
The Atlanta sports scene is at an unparalleled level of suckitude. How can the Hawks lose that? How can the Braves be this bad?? Why can’t the Falcons play now? Ugggggggghhhhhhhh. I am SO angry!!! Not sad or depressed; flat out angry. Pissed.
I am going to go wake up Curt’s kids . . .
April 28th, 2010 at 10:54 pm
Count me in there too, Lord…but I was suckered in to pulling for the Hawks.
April 28th, 2010 at 11:09 pm
6 to 0.
8 in a row.
This really seems impossible.
April 28th, 2010 at 11:27 pm
What a night
April 28th, 2010 at 11:28 pm
Steve, you guys might consider doing something completely different for show #105. I mean… I dunno. I just don’t know how you guys will be able to stand stoking up the energy to talk about this teams “chances” of… anything. And talking about 2011 is obviously out. I don’t envy you. It would be easy if y’all weren’t so professional… but… ugh.
What a revolting developmink.
April 28th, 2010 at 11:44 pm
Could be worse. We could be Caps fans.
April 29th, 2010 at 2:57 am
The Braves are awful.
April 29th, 2010 at 9:29 am
You could talk about this weeks Modern Family which was hilarious. “You should really label those sticks.”.
I hope Chipper sits out. We learned last year if he doesn’t have time to heal up he only gets worse. Put Prado at third and Infante at 2nd. I like Latinos around the horn (at first I phrased that differently but thought better of it). “I’m a good girl I am!”
April 29th, 2010 at 10:51 am
I like this plan a lot! http://buzztap.com/-6SgTpC
April 29th, 2010 at 11:56 am
CABRERA LEADING OFF?????? HEYWARD IN FRONT OF MCLOUTH????? AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGG! THIS TEAM SUCKS BECAUSE THE £*€@!%€ COACHING STAFF IS A BUNCH OF MORONS WITHOUT BRAINCELLS!!! I like Chipper getting time off. Good luck JJ.
April 29th, 2010 at 12:24 pm
During this losing streak Melky is 9-29 with a BB, RBI, and 4 runs scored. Trust me I am no Melky fan but right now he is not the problem.
April 29th, 2010 at 12:51 pm
The Adam Wainwright – JD Drew trade will go down as the worst in Braves history. Even more so than the Tex trade. I know I have really lamented that trade a lot, but Wainwright is a #1 and will be for a long time. And we got nothing out of it. Drew had a decent year, but nowhere near worth the player we gave up for him. Schuerholz really got taken advantage of at the end of his tenure. Imagine wainwright instead of the nameless one at the top of the rotation with he, Hanson and JJ anchoring our rotation. It would out do the last trio of guys we had, in my opinion.
April 29th, 2010 at 1:09 pm
I hope your right. I hope he gets 4 hits and scores everytime. He doesn’t scream speed to me and sometimes it feels like the Melkys and Troys see more hit-able pitches while the McCanns and Heywards are pitched around. That would make me lose patience at the plate and swing at junk especially if my skipper is telling me I’m too patient. I know noone is hitting great (except Prado) and there is no excuse for that (yeah right) but some are hitting better than Melky.
April 29th, 2010 at 1:39 pm
I’m calling him Bob Cox from here on out. I have lost all sense of affection for the guy.
All eyes on Heyward’s first two pitches in his first three at bats. Way to go, Bob.
I predict fully lifeless baseball from the boys today. A “we know we’re beaten in this one, let’s just start over tomorrow” daze of apathy. Only so much the Matty D’s, McCann’s, and Prado’s of the world can do surrounded by Glaus, Escobar, Chipper, other sour attitudes.
When this team gets tired and worn out, they just punk out. Like last year’s last 6 games. The only way we scratch out a win is if Jurrjens pitches a shut out or one run game, and some ball finds out bat at the perfect time. Or if Heyward goes nuts with the stick.
Score 5+ runs today, Bravos, or kiss one fan goodbye until the allstar break.
1.5 runs per 9 innings pitched this year for Jair. One. Point. Five. Per NINE.
April 29th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
6 pitches. 3 outs.
April 29th, 2010 at 1:52 pm
boom
April 29th, 2010 at 1:56 pm
Activity in the bullpen for Atlanta.
Bye bye, Jair. Get well soon.
April 29th, 2010 at 1:57 pm
6 outs on 12 pitches.
April 29th, 2010 at 2:09 pm
Hewyard swings at the first pitch a mile high out of the strike zone. Think Wainright gets the newspaper?
April 29th, 2010 at 2:10 pm
Heh. Nevermind. Wrong hitter.
April 29th, 2010 at 2:15 pm
Good heavens. Gameday on the web browser at work. If there were ever a sign from God that a manager needed to retire. Good or bad, I’d want to be over and done with this team, and it’s not even May.
April 29th, 2010 at 2:31 pm
what’s this? What’s that long, skinny do-hickey beside the Braves’ name on the scoreboard. Is it a small case L? Did we lose already?
April 29th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
Bub, you don’t have to watch but you HAVE to drop by and say hi. Anne, that was the luckiest homer ever per Don Sutton. Of course I didn’t see it. I’m listening as I kill things.
April 29th, 2010 at 3:01 pm
7 to 1. Now we’re talking. I was getting worried there.
April 29th, 2010 at 3:02 pm
Hate baseball. Can we talk about something else?
April 29th, 2010 at 3:02 pm
Wonder if we’re still “playing outstanding baseball.” Bob? Are we, Bob? Bob?
April 29th, 2010 at 3:03 pm
Leah, it’s a nice day outside. Here in Jacksonville. How’s NC?
8-1. Wooooooo Hooooooooooooo!!!
April 29th, 2010 at 3:04 pm
Good thing Pujols isn’t playing.
April 29th, 2010 at 3:11 pm
Alternate Themes for the Podcast that will perserve the ABT name:
Atlanta Bourbon Talk
Appalachian Banjo Tunes
Aren’t Belgians Tall?
Angry Baboon Tirades
*sigh*
April 29th, 2010 at 3:17 pm
Angry Baboon Tirades. Hilarious. Beautiful here in the NC. Killed some unwanted saplings. Drilled holes in their ass and poured in poison.
April 29th, 2010 at 3:18 pm
Mulan’s gonna kick your butt. You’re not painting with colors of the wind AT ALL.
April 29th, 2010 at 3:19 pm
Crap, that’s Pocahantas, isn’t it? They all blur together after L King.
April 29th, 2010 at 3:21 pm
Avatar Blue-Ray Testing
Anything will Avatar in it and we’ll make a million.
Guess i shouldn’t bother listening to the game. Back to Sirius/XM hair metal
April 29th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
Bub, will you tell Curt I’m mad at him? I’m giving him the silent treatment for telling us the Braves would win one in this series.
April 29th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
Pocahontas can bite me. It felt good.
April 29th, 2010 at 3:28 pm
That’s what she said…
April 29th, 2010 at 3:29 pm
If the Braves think they can sucker me back in with 5 runs in a blow out loss, they can forget it.
April 29th, 2010 at 3:31 pm
Incidentally, Heyward has taken at least one called strike early in every at bat. He’s ignoring Bobby. Good on him.
April 29th, 2010 at 3:31 pm
You promised mister! I’m holding you to it. If I had to pick one person to homer I’d have picked Hey Hey Hey.
April 29th, 2010 at 3:31 pm
Bob. I meant Bob. He’s ignoring Bob.
April 29th, 2010 at 3:33 pm
Ways you know the game is a blow out: Jim Powell is taking 5 minutes to talk about how fast Heyward runs around the bases after hitting a homer. And Don Sutton spends 15 minutes agreeing with him. Somehow Emmitt Smith was brought up….
April 29th, 2010 at 3:43 pm
Those Brian Giffen(sp) immitations the radio guys do, pitching their voices “low”, are the worst. Cringeworthy.
April 29th, 2010 at 3:44 pm
And the Cards make a ball caught after a bad hop the defensive play of the game.
April 29th, 2010 at 3:50 pm
10-4 good buddy.
Yunel limping.
April 29th, 2010 at 3:51 pm
Where the heck is Jeff Porter? Bobby just gonna let Yunel limp around out there the rest of the inning? Disgraceful.
April 29th, 2010 at 4:03 pm
Only 140 more games until Bobby is gone.
April 29th, 2010 at 4:10 pm
I’m now wishing this was the 2009 team. This is the 1989 team.
April 29th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
You mean Bob. Ok, I know I’m beating a dead horse but we only have 2 less hits than the Cards. Stack the guys hitting OVER .200 at the top of the lineup Bob! I’m tired of St. Louis.
April 29th, 2010 at 4:13 pm
Groin injury for Yunel. Nice that they left him out there for that last out, limpin’ around. What if it had been a screamer up the middle? Yunel’s not my favorite guy, but dang, is this the Mets now?
April 29th, 2010 at 4:30 pm
Did I honestly say we would win one? I’m such an optimist.
136 days until the Falcons 1st game
April 29th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
KJ 9HR. 4 hits. 3 RBI. .320
April 29th, 2010 at 4:51 pm
Roll Tide.
April 29th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
Go Gators!
April 29th, 2010 at 5:43 pm
If we can just sweep the Astr… ugh. I can’t even fake it at this point. That said, the Braves are 3 – 0 at Turner when I’m attendance this year and I’ll be at Saturday and Sunday’s games. We will definitely win the series.
April 29th, 2010 at 5:43 pm
“If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.” Henry Youngman
April 29th, 2010 at 6:03 pm
Steve, you were at the last game we won. How weird does THAT seem?
April 29th, 2010 at 6:58 pm
Do Ham and I get no credit? I say Steve was responsible for the Glaus Menagerie’s homer, Ham gets “Carry on my Heyward Son’s,” and I’ll take McOut’s. In other news, I have been to 3 Hawks playoff games in the past two years, and they are 0-3.
April 29th, 2010 at 8:09 pm
Steve’s the hero type, Curt. Sorry.
April 29th, 2010 at 8:34 pm
Bub, you’re so right about me.
It is INSANE that was the last game we won. Especially considering it was like 3 weeks ago.
Going to watch The Blind Side tonight. Will I cry? Oh, I believe I will.
April 29th, 2010 at 9:10 pm
Steve, if you’re the type who can know you’re being shamelessly manipulated by every facial mannerism, fiddle string, and cliche heartstroke in the cinematic book, and still the freaking tear ducts won’t shut the hell up, like I am, you will cry.
I didn’t think the movie was great, but Sandra’s transformation was solid. And I’m pretty sure I lost a waterdrop or two. Damn ‘em.
April 29th, 2010 at 9:12 pm
Gwinnett Braves on TV right now and we’re up 4-1…wooooohooooo!!!!
April 29th, 2010 at 9:18 pm
Freeman with a two run triple!!! 6-1! Shut up..it’s Braves and they’re winning, dammit..
April 29th, 2010 at 9:44 pm
Braves win! Braves win! Braves win!
April 29th, 2010 at 10:39 pm
Spur win! Spurs win! Spurs Win!
April 30th, 2010 at 9:53 am
Great video of Seth Avett singing “In the Curve”. Dude can play the guitar like nobody’s bidness. Atleast two of you will appreciate it. The rest will appreciate that this comment was not about the Braves.
http://tumblr.com/xwf97936c
April 30th, 2010 at 9:55 am
Bub – I knew that The Blind Side would be cliche and pandering and predictable, etc. But I also figured it would be so over the top charming and fun and heartwarming that I would forgive all of that. I did not find that to be the case. And I barely shed a tear. Which is crazy for me, because I am movie crier. I saw UP last week for the first time and was a mess for a 1/3 of the movie. It literally got to where my kids told me to close my eyes for an upcoming scene because it was going to make my cry. No joke. This is so great not talking about the Braves, by the way.
April 30th, 2010 at 11:45 am
Steve, I overheard you talking to Bub and I must have my say in the matter (spoken in a British accent). I cant believe you just saw “Up”? I bawled like a baby. I DID shed a tear after The Blind Side during the credits. Looking at the real snapshots was moving and I just love that it took place in the deep south. If you haven’t seen Precious (based on the novel Push by Sapphire) and choose to, make sure you hydrate before hand.
April 30th, 2010 at 12:50 pm
Steve, The Blind Side isn’t a blister on Up’s heel, for certain. Like you, I went into it expecting a glorified ABC Afterschool Special, but it still wasn’t quite enough to get me through without a couple of bored sighs. I felt like the cliche of “if you’ve seen the trailer, you’ve seen the movie” applied for the most part.
The life-with-Ellie montage in Up is one of the most impactful moment in cinema, to me. As wonderful exposition sequences go, I rank it with the pre-opening credits section of Rasing Arizona. Which is to say, highest ranking possible. Most films handle exposition so poorly, I wish they’d just do the Star Wars Information Scroll and get it over with. So I love it when somebody makes it almost the best part of the whole movie.
(The Lord of the Rings Cate Blanchet prologue is another example of doing it right, though I’m not a fanboy of that trilogy.)
This is MUCH better conversation than the team who shall not be named.
April 30th, 2010 at 1:11 pm
*I did like Sandra Bullock, though, and even more than my “okay, Sandra will try to act tough” imagination had suggested.
April 30th, 2010 at 1:14 pm
“I’m not a fanboy of that trilogy.”
you are dead to me
April 30th, 2010 at 1:19 pm
Me: Watch your mouth.
My 4 year old: Mama, I can’t see my mouth.
April 30th, 2010 at 1:26 pm
Look, I like it. I own it, extended versions. Just not as flipped out as some.
Thumbs up to 4 year old wit!
April 30th, 2010 at 1:34 pm
What’s the record for most comments between weekly shows?
April 30th, 2010 at 1:40 pm
All records during the bubdylan era require and asterisk.
April 30th, 2010 at 1:43 pm
Whew…that was close buddy. I think this show’s comments will blow any other’s out of the water. Imagine what it’d be like if we were winning. I hate to bring up baseball but…what do you think our chances are tonight? I can’t watch…got plans.
April 30th, 2010 at 1:54 pm
It’s Houston. Hanson’s pitching. Chances are decent. Doesn’t change much of anything.
April 30th, 2010 at 2:15 pm
Think you’re right. Not because it’s the Astros and Handon’s pitching but because it’s the first game I probably won’t get to see a pitch. Go Braves!!!!!!
April 30th, 2010 at 2:21 pm
Handon? Clearly losing it!
April 30th, 2010 at 2:33 pm
Can’t wait to get your Hand On the young pitcher?
Ugh. My brain says “No” but my fingers just keep typing…
April 30th, 2010 at 2:54 pm
http://www.atlantabaseballtalk.com/?p=237#comment-8500
Enjoyed the blog from our Brave in NY.
April 30th, 2010 at 2:54 pm
lol, don’t know why the link opens to my comment. Meant to link the blog itself. Oh well.
April 30th, 2010 at 3:49 pm
500!
April 30th, 2010 at 4:28 pm
“500!”
I guess everybody loves a winner.
April 30th, 2010 at 5:10 pm
John Smoltz on Mike and Mike was very balanced and professional. And didn’t profess his own character even once. A full ten minute piece, and he was very good.
I hate my life.
April 30th, 2010 at 6:49 pm
Luke Wilson dates Joe Simpson’s daughter? My proudest moment as a Braves fan has arrived! I freakin’ love me some Luke Wilson. He took in Braves’ BP today, says Carroll Rogers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKnvD5Ok5iY
April 30th, 2010 at 7:36 pm
Curtdoza, you expecting the Hawks to have a chance? Hangin’ tough in the first. (He says as they miss three straight FG attempts…)
April 30th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
Princess…yes to the Seth Avett video. Very nice. Now. let’s go braves, if you please!!!
April 30th, 2010 at 7:42 pm
Lordy. Nate.
April 30th, 2010 at 7:43 pm
I heart me some nate mclouth, no foolin
April 30th, 2010 at 7:51 pm
Bub, short answer is no. Sekou Smith, who now works for the NBA network or something and used to be the Hawks beat writer – and who is really great at his job, had some BRUTAL things to say about the team after Tuesday’s game. Poor coaching, lack of cohesion, lack of team chemistry, etc. Jamal Crawford, who has been invaluable all season, as evident by his recent 6th man of the year award, was totally faded by his teammates upon receiving said reward. Apparently, only Zsa Zsa and Randolph Morris showed up to the award ceremony. Sekou also pointed out that the Bucks are running some very basic rotations to get their guards isolated on our bigs and Woodson has done nothing to counter this. My buddy and I were amazed at how many times the Bucks had wide open 3 pointers. They just move the ball until they get the matchup they want and the Hawks have simply not adjusted.
But given that, they are the #3 seed and so they should have some ability to win one FREAKING game on the road. (1-10 in their last 11).
April 30th, 2010 at 7:53 pm
No wonder the Phils got rid of this clown
April 30th, 2010 at 8:02 pm
Myers is awful.
Hawks falling behind.
Heyward flashin’ the D. Heh. I wonder what the error total will be with these two teams for a whole series. Gotta set the over under at about 10. (Not normally with Heyward, just givin’ him sh*t.)
Here come the stros.
April 30th, 2010 at 8:13 pm
Curt, that’s a shame about the Hawks. I had it on ESPN3 earlier before my computer puked it up. I’ve been away so long I didn’t even recognize the unis, much less any players.
Maybe they’ll pull off the upset here and do the ol’ “come togethah” in game 7? It does go back to ATL if they win here, right?
Nate with a bunt hit.
April 30th, 2010 at 8:14 pm
Nate!
April 30th, 2010 at 8:15 pm
Our lead off man has 2 hits in 2 innings. Stolen base now. Braves won’t them. God bless ‘em.
April 30th, 2010 at 8:16 pm
Braves won’t them = Braves want this one.
I have no idea.
April 30th, 2010 at 8:30 pm
Braves want them one
April 30th, 2010 at 8:31 pm
Heyward has power. Is that 6?
April 30th, 2010 at 8:31 pm
I’ll be dipped in s**t!!
April 30th, 2010 at 8:33 pm
And on cue, Hawks tie it up. Was 7:32 pm a magic moment for the city?
April 30th, 2010 at 8:34 pm
*dusts soot off of Bubba*
April 30th, 2010 at 8:42 pm
Hawks up 7.
April 30th, 2010 at 8:49 pm
How do they do at holding leads, Curt? Up 10 in the third!
April 30th, 2010 at 8:50 pm
Up 14!
April 30th, 2010 at 8:55 pm
Up 18!
April 30th, 2010 at 8:59 pm
Hanson hitting 96MPH in the 5th.
April 30th, 2010 at 9:13 pm
Talllllllkinnnnnn
to myseeeeeeeeeeellfffffffff.
Talllllkinnnnnnnnnnn’
to myseeeeeeeeeeelffffffff…..
Hawks up 17 with 8 minutes to gooooooooo.
Tallkinnnnnnn…. to mahhhhhh seeeelllllfffffffff!!!
LEAHHHHHH!
April 30th, 2010 at 9:21 pm
Wow. Lead down to 10.
April 30th, 2010 at 9:23 pm
8 pt lead…
April 30th, 2010 at 9:23 pm
Hawks are a terrible 4th quarter team, as this lead evaporates
April 30th, 2010 at 9:25 pm
Sorry, terrible is generous
April 30th, 2010 at 9:32 pm
A Braves starter pitching the 8th? What’s this?
April 30th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
95 in the 8th. Nice work Tommy
April 30th, 2010 at 9:39 pm
Tommy or Wags in the 9th?
April 30th, 2010 at 9:42 pm
Wags is well rested and has a 400th save to get to.
April 30th, 2010 at 9:43 pm
My only down note: 3 earned runs off Myers isn’t exactly doin’ it. Oh well. A win is a win. If we hang on.
April 30th, 2010 at 9:46 pm
Dammit!
April 30th, 2010 at 9:47 pm
Good grief. Jim Powell just Chip Carey’d up a call big time. He was screaming about that ball, CRUSHED!!!! etc, etc.
Pence catches it.
April 30th, 2010 at 9:47 pm
It was close…
April 30th, 2010 at 9:48 pm
Jason Heyward’s a beast. He will destroy mediocre pitching. (That’s not a snarky remark. I just mean you can’t make many mistakes against him.)
April 30th, 2010 at 9:49 pm
Game 7 prediction, Curt? Goes back to ATL, right?
April 30th, 2010 at 9:55 pm
Hey Howdy Ho! Cledus, I live that you still call me princess. What’s that crooked number in the scoreboard?
April 30th, 2010 at 9:56 pm
Braves win. 4-2.
April 30th, 2010 at 9:58 pm
Braves win..Bless their hearts.
April 30th, 2010 at 10:00 pm
Ahhhh…. Amazing what a win can do. Everything feels different again. And Nate with 2 hits. We’re back!
April 30th, 2010 at 10:05 pm
lol, really, Steve? REALLY? Houston? Myers? 2 point win?
You’re KILLIN’ ME!!!
April 30th, 2010 at 10:08 pm
Love…I meant love. So…are we excited? Atleast a little?
April 30th, 2010 at 10:12 pm
Leah…YES! Bub, go stand in the corner and think about your attitude, young man!
April 30th, 2010 at 10:12 pm
The smallest, tiniest, littlest little there ever was, so little it could only cause a the smallest, tiniest, littles half smile on the face of a baby ant.
April 30th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
I’m excited the losing streak is over.
April 30th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
April 30th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
lol, Mets torched Kendrick. We’re still the only offense Kyle Kendrick hasn’t been destroyed by this year.
April 30th, 2010 at 10:23 pm
So McClouth and Heyward getting it together a bit. What about the other lackers? How’d Glaus, Cabrera and the rest of the Lumber Co. look?
April 30th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
Cledus looks happy!
April 30th, 2010 at 10:35 pm
I am happy, Princess. Best story of the night was Hanson going 8 innings with 7 K’s. Heyward’s blast was a tremendous 2nd place. Infante was fine in place of Escobar.
April 30th, 2010 at 10:36 pm
I think Hawks win game 7 and get swept by the Magic
April 30th, 2010 at 10:37 pm
Troy had 2 walks and a run scored. The Melk man had a hit and a walk.
April 30th, 2010 at 10:42 pm
Still…4 runs? Just sayin…but good for Tommy!
April 30th, 2010 at 10:44 pm
Baby steps, Princess.
April 30th, 2010 at 10:48 pm
So some of you may remember right before Spring Training I broke out in hives on my face. Tonight, the first game I’m not able to atleast listen to a portion of and what happens? Hives…in the exact same spots. Maybe I DO need professional help!
April 30th, 2010 at 11:38 pm
^ a rash remark.
April 30th, 2010 at 11:38 pm
(Mrs.)
May 1st, 2010 at 1:08 am
Kobe me no likey.
May 1st, 2010 at 8:56 am
Nothing to see here folks…just a lady who loves Braves Baseball. Move it along. Just a simple case of hives…not a freak show people!
May 1st, 2010 at 11:13 am
Bub, I guess you watched the Lakers game. What a travesty. It’s hard not to root for the OK City, particularly against the Lakers. We were talking about the game on our call last night. I’ll bet Pau Gasol smells bad. All the time.
May 1st, 2010 at 4:24 pm
Look at the Braves! Swinging the bat and…ya know…hittin the ball!
May 1st, 2010 at 4:44 pm
Glaus has 3 RBIs? I’m I seeing this correctly? Look at that smile! Come on Matty D!
May 1st, 2010 at 4:51 pm
I know it’s the Astros and boy do they look bad but Yaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!
May 1st, 2010 at 5:31 pm
Every time I try and get out, they pull me right back in.
Ole Bulletproof Glaus with another huge day. I sniff the playoffs (or glue or something).
May 1st, 2010 at 5:39 pm
Yeah Curtakami! They sweep the ‘stros and I may just change my name! Glaus is crazy today! Prado looks awesome but well…doesn’t he always?
May 1st, 2010 at 8:04 pm
Bub – I was kidding last night. But now I’m not. We ARE back! OK, I’m still kidding a little. But these last two games, the team at least did what it should – beat up on a crappy team. And today (in person, no less) was just stupid good fun. 10 runs! 15 hits! 4 RBI for Glaus. Glimpses of what could be with this team.
Regarding the question of comments record – this has got to be it. I don’t know that we’ve ever broken 500 before.
May 1st, 2010 at 9:55 pm
570. In the face every other comment section
May 1st, 2010 at 10:07 pm
What do we think about Wags? Did everyone but me see this coming? Is he just trying to spark the team or did April kill his love for the game? I wouldn’t blame him.
May 1st, 2010 at 10:25 pm
I’m listening to the game. I only know we won, nothing else (I was with my dad today). It’s kind of cool. I think I’ll do it all year. Skip the losses and listen to the wins.
You wouldn’t believe how exciting it is, knowing we’ll win, just not knowing which batter it’ll be… and when. How relaxing it is when, for example, they hit into a double play last inning (I’m in the 2nd now) and I know… it doesn’t matter at all! Yay, double play! Who cares!
Hmmm… I wonder who will cause the win on offense… I predict:
Uh oh, better hurry up. “A duck on the pond for Heyward.” I’m gonna say… it’s not Heyward versus the lefty. At least not right here, his first time against Wandy.
So… let’s see… oops. Heyward singles. Ross up. I gotta hurry.
Okay… uh… Ross. I’ll say Ross does something right here. And… Glaus, since in rhymes. I’ll say Glaus and Ross do it up for the Braves.
Wait, one more: mmmmmm…. to heck with it, Jason Heyward.
May 1st, 2010 at 10:28 pm
Ross strikes out. I’m no good.
Poop. Braves threaten, but cannot score. But you know what? WHO CARES? Not me! We win!
*eats another muscle relaxer* These taste goooood.
May 1st, 2010 at 10:29 pm
Andruw Jones 2 homers, Kotsay 1 homer, all off Javy V. Poor Javy.
May 1st, 2010 at 10:31 pm
Hey Bub!
May 1st, 2010 at 10:31 pm
If anyone tips me off, I’ll be furious. If you have to say something about _______’s big homer or go ahead double or whatever it was, in the next 3 hours, I expect a capitalized SPOILER ALERT. That is fair. I rock the comments section. Without me, you’d have, like, 13 comments.
(I know, I know, quality over quantity.)
May 1st, 2010 at 10:32 pm
Hey, Mara the raincloud! I’m in a capital mood! How are YOUUUUUUU?
*sings*
Fleeeeeexerilllllll…. fleeeeeeeexerilllllll…. take it for muscles and you don’t have to feeeeeeeeeel. Nothin’, nothin’, not one thiiiiiiing.
May 1st, 2010 at 10:34 pm
Maybe Javy will return home in free agency. It’s a shame we don’t have the balls to trade Lowe and pay half his salary, then throw 10 or 11 mill a year at Javy. That’s only a net loss of 3 million or so to trade Lowe for Vazquez. Come ON, Wrenny wren wren!
May 1st, 2010 at 10:37 pm
Wow…you’re flying. Is this flexaril medicinal? I mean you ok? I’m itchy. Stupid hives. I just listened to a song about a Rabbit and a brick. It’s a good game. You’ll enjoy it.
May 1st, 2010 at 10:38 pm
Speaking of Lowe…predictions for tomorrow?
May 1st, 2010 at 10:42 pm
Yes, it’s medicinal, NORMALLY, lol. I took it for a back injury three years ago, and even when I healed up, I kept filling my Rx. 8) Now I take it if I need to sleep early, which was the case last night to get up early to go see pops.
Only, 20 hours later, I’m still looooooooooooooooopy. Maybe I should have only taken one.
(A man confident in his masculinity can use emoticons all. day. long. You should see me in a pink Izod. *sings “take me on” by A-HA.*)
Hudson with a hit! Is it Hudson? Is he the hero. No, don’t tell me.
May 1st, 2010 at 10:44 pm
Predictions for Lowe? 2 out of 3 ain’t bad. That’s my prediction.
1st and 2nd with one out for LARRY…. WAYNE… JOOOOOOOONES. I predict….. I’ma say… a single. (Sorry Larry, my confidence in you…. waynes. AAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!)
May 1st, 2010 at 10:45 pm
Btw…Cabrera homers. Twice. Oh snap!
May 1st, 2010 at 10:46 pm
2 out for Glaus. It’s GOT to be him. He’s got two on. Two outs. I’ma say…
HOMAH, with the lefty pitchin’. Ball one. Good stot.
May 1st, 2010 at 10:47 pm
Oh NO YOU DID NOT!!!! WE ARE THROUGH if you’re telling the truth. T-H-R-O-U-G-H.
May 1st, 2010 at 10:48 pm
You are killing me! Wow. I have to take that stuff Occasionally for chronic shoulder pain and I hate it. Makes me very sleepy and I cannot function.
May 1st, 2010 at 10:48 pm
(You really listened to that song unsolicited? REALLY?) (REALLY?)
Braves have the lead on a Glaus Duuuuuuubullllllllll!
May 1st, 2010 at 10:49 pm
Johnny D with a walk off homer tonight. I’d like to hear again from you how right I am…always.
May 1st, 2010 at 10:52 pm
I love that song. Speaking of songs…how about you write one about the 2010 Braves while on Summer break. Pleeeeeeaaaase?
May 1st, 2010 at 10:57 pm
You got it. Here’s the chorus.
“Soy un perdedor
I’m a loser Bobby, so why don’t you kill me?”
8)
May 1st, 2010 at 10:58 pm
You were right about Damon. Way right.
May 1st, 2010 at 10:59 pm
Um…why don’t you try again when less loopy. Gotta go to sleep. Enjoy the game and don’t get all pissed when Glaus throws a hissy about the call at first and gets the boot.
May 1st, 2010 at 11:01 pm
Ugh. I hope you’re joking. G’night.
(That was a rip on a Beck song, btw. Wouldn’t want you to think that’s where my mind goes… without a little shove.
Sleep tight, hive turkey.)
May 1st, 2010 at 11:02 pm
Stupid Cavs.
May 1st, 2010 at 11:05 pm
I can’t believe you referenced an artist from the last couple decades! Night ole man. Glad you had a good day with Pops.
May 1st, 2010 at 11:07 pm
Pshh. I’m hip.
May 1st, 2010 at 11:22 pm
Glaus with another RBI. Woo hoo!
May 1st, 2010 at 11:28 pm
LOL! Jim Powell with the best line of the year! He got hit by a pitch and he said, “Here comes trainer Jeff Porter to check on the baseball.”
Awesome. And if he had that one prepared, he REALLY sold it, cuz he didn’t say it immediately. Too funny.
May 1st, 2010 at 11:28 pm
*Heyward got HBP.
May 1st, 2010 at 11:29 pm
Lowe will pitch his best game (fewest earned runs, that is) on Sunday and Braves complete the sweep. In other words, that’s how bad the Astros are.
Being the enormous dork that I am, just watched Iron Man again in prep for 2 coming out next week. What an absolutely enjoyable and substantive superhero flick. Except for the end with how he kills Jebediah – makes zero sense and is pretty lazy.
May 1st, 2010 at 11:39 pm
2 is getting mixed reviews, but the first Iron Man is hard to live up to.
May 2nd, 2010 at 12:23 am
re ironman2, this was sorta funny…
http://www.theonion.com/video/iron-man-2-buzz-heats-up-over-rumors-gwyneth-paltr,17275/
Go Braves.
May 2nd, 2010 at 12:54 pm
Dear Mr. Lowe,
Pretty please remember to tape your big toe.
Sincerely,
Mara Mary Princess Leah
May 2nd, 2010 at 2:10 pm
Troy Glaus is my hero.
May 2nd, 2010 at 2:24 pm
A very disturbing trend I’m noticing watching Lowe’s last two starts on gameday, and now this one. When Lowe is on, he hits the bottom stripe of the zone with a ton of sinkers. But even that isn’t producing ground outs as consistently as last year. Decent hitters are serving pitches in that spot over the infield’s heads for singles.
And then, when Lowe misses high with that sinker, he’s getting destroyed. Really crushed. I would gusess that 50% or higher of Lowe’s sinkers that don’t hit that bottom stripe, but are in the zone, are hammered. So, it’s like, when his location is perfect, he’s only decent. And when it’s off, he’s terrible.
This is gonna be a looooong contract.
May 2nd, 2010 at 2:41 pm
Lowe getting away with hanging sinkers.
Attaboy, BMac.
May 2nd, 2010 at 2:43 pm
Those are 5 words I never thought I’d see on this forum. Good for Glaus!
May 2nd, 2010 at 2:45 pm
Took 65 swipes on iphone to get down here. Sweep the Strohs
May 2nd, 2010 at 2:45 pm
And for us. I have mad love for #22.
May 2nd, 2010 at 2:46 pm
If we score a few more here, maybe we can see the headline: Braves Chuck Norris.
May 2nd, 2010 at 2:50 pm
Will, if you’re swiping slow enough to count your too slow. I have learned that if you watch the screen after you “refresh” it will flash the bottom of the screen. Tap the screen at that exact point in time and it stays toward the bottom which =little scrolling.
May 2nd, 2010 at 2:50 pm
lol, only Derek Lowe… 3-6-5 DP.
May 2nd, 2010 at 2:51 pm
Derek Lowe, not my hero
May 2nd, 2010 at 2:55 pm
Letting Lemke do color is barely forgiveable, letting him do play-by-play is punishable by death.
May 2nd, 2010 at 3:02 pm
You’ve never been more correct. “And now to the… [awkward pause like you're talking to somebody on the phone who gets a beep that interupts their voice] … top of the order brings up [voice becoming frightened] Bourne.”
Lowe getting hit harder. Way to follow up your impossible DP.
May 2nd, 2010 at 3:11 pm
First career GS comin’ up. Hide and watch.
May 2nd, 2010 at 3:11 pm
If Houston manager lets Norris face Heyward here, he’s insane.
May 2nd, 2010 at 3:14 pm
Second time it jumped to the bottom – you are right. But first time i had to scrolllllll. then iphone froze…its 4 in the a.m. here. In laws house…. woke up to go to bathroom. Cant get back to sleep…Check on Bravos. Hi everybody! Two in a row . Yahew!
May 2nd, 2010 at 3:15 pm
Oh, McCann.
May 2nd, 2010 at 3:17 pm
Next time Hey Hey Hey. Hiya Will. Sorry you can’t sleep. Go Braves!
May 2nd, 2010 at 3:20 pm
Great hit by Cabrera! Almost as good as his homers last night huh Bubalicious.
May 2nd, 2010 at 3:22 pm
Yeah, ALMOST. (I was pretty sure the Baseball Cosmos had not completely lost its mind)
May 2nd, 2010 at 3:27 pm
Something wrong w my iphone. First it said ATL1 HOU 0 and then it said ATL 4 HOU 1 and now it says ATL 7 HOU 1. It has a virus or something
May 2nd, 2010 at 3:27 pm
Bobby pulls Lowe? Managing with some urgency?
May 2nd, 2010 at 3:28 pm
lol, Will. Comment of the week.
May 2nd, 2010 at 3:29 pm
Laughing at will…get it? So what’s with the dude in the outfield stands wearing a hockey mask? Weirdo.
May 2nd, 2010 at 3:31 pm
Yikes. Phil Hughes pitching another low-hit shut out for Yanks. 1.44 ERA. Javy’s doing his part, but it’s not enough. Evil, evil people up there.
May 2nd, 2010 at 3:39 pm
Thx… getting…. sleeepy. Dare I close my eyes and jinx it … Hope not! Later guys – go braves
May 2nd, 2010 at 3:42 pm
You think J.R. Towles’ parents are big Lord of the Rings fans?
May 2nd, 2010 at 3:43 pm
Glad we could help, Will.
May 2nd, 2010 at 3:45 pm
So I DO like the red jerseys. But not so much the hats that go along with them.
May 2nd, 2010 at 3:45 pm
Let’s get an out here, folks…
May 2nd, 2010 at 3:45 pm
No, but his cousin’s are. After all… they’re… wait for it … J.R. Towles’ kin.
May 2nd, 2010 at 3:46 pm
Love the jerseys, love the hats…just sayiin’
May 2nd, 2010 at 3:47 pm
I thought the same thing Curt. The Lord of the Rings is a fine piece of literary and cinema work. I dare any to say different.
May 2nd, 2010 at 3:48 pm
J.R. Towles’ Kin? Heh, heh, hahahahahahahHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA!
May 2nd, 2010 at 3:50 pm
And the Hobbit, in two movies is in the works!
May 2nd, 2010 at 3:53 pm
Hope the Braves are hitting this well a month from now.
May 2nd, 2010 at 3:54 pm
Love the Hobbit.
May 2nd, 2010 at 3:56 pm
Or even on tues.
May 2nd, 2010 at 3:59 pm
AND on Tuesday. Wahooooooo!
May 2nd, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Give me another hit of that coolaid, Princess…
May 2nd, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Wait, this Tuesday? Now I’m confused…which doesn’t take much.
May 2nd, 2010 at 4:02 pm
I may have to change my name if they keep hitting.
May 2nd, 2010 at 4:05 pm
I love the Hobbit, too, but he’s 0 for 4 today.
May 2nd, 2010 at 4:06 pm
Lol…I bet he does have hairy feet.
May 2nd, 2010 at 4:17 pm
Wagner in
May 2nd, 2010 at 4:21 pm
For what it’s worth, I hate the red jerseys. In fact, when I was walking through the mall and saw the game on a TV from afar, the first thought in my mind was “Those burnt orange Astros’ jerseys are terrible.”
Go Hawks
May 2nd, 2010 at 4:22 pm
Ball game! Wags!!!!
May 2nd, 2010 at 4:25 pm
The red jerseys are horrible. Need to be a darker red with less orange in it.
May 2nd, 2010 at 4:25 pm
Not just cuz I’m a bama fan, either.
May 2nd, 2010 at 4:26 pm
Good sweep. Outscored ‘em 21 to 4 I think.
May 2nd, 2010 at 4:35 pm
I LIKE ‘em! The Navy ones are my fave but I like the red also so nanny nanny boo boo. Yay for the sweep and Yay for a new show!!!!!!
May 2nd, 2010 at 4:56 pm
Some food for thought: Braves have won 4 or their first 8 series.
The teams they lost series to: Phils, Mets, Giants, Cards = 58-37 combined record.
The teams they beat in series: Pads, Astros, Cubs, Rockies = 46-51 combined.
Lastly, the combined record of all the teams we’ve played = 104-88. Houston is the only bad team we’ve played, and we swept them, outscoring them 21 to 4.
May 2nd, 2010 at 4:58 pm
So you’re saying we are average
May 2nd, 2010 at 5:02 pm
I’m saying the picture is more logical than I thought. Yes, average. Which is twice as good as I thought.
May 2nd, 2010 at 5:17 pm
http://www.forums.mlb.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?tsn=1&nav=messages&webtag=ml-astros&tid=82525
Astros fans impressed with Heyward tipping his cap.
May 2nd, 2010 at 5:41 pm
I missed it. I need a play by play. Nice fans though. I Might could hang in that litter box…notice that’s might with a capital M.
May 2nd, 2010 at 6:03 pm
If Kobe broke any bone besides his neck, I would not be sad. Neck, yes, sad. Non-neck. No sadness.
May 2nd, 2010 at 6:41 pm
We could hit 700 posts if we tried. Who wants to talk about… Jason Hewyard???
Revised predictions:
BA: .288
Walks: 70 (current pace = 98)
Homers: 37 (yup, I’ve officially lost my mind) (current pace = 49 hrs)
Doubles: 38 (current pace = 21, but some of his homer pace will land over here)
RBI’s: 140 (current pace = 140. Why not?)
ROY.
May 2nd, 2010 at 6:48 pm
That’s nice stuff from the Astros’ fans. Did anyone see Baseball Tonight that night to see what the national reaction was? I don’t remember seeing a move like that from many players, let alone a rookie. Most guys just slam down their helmets.
May 2nd, 2010 at 7:04 pm
I didn’t even know about it till I saw that Astros thread.
Somebody needs to be chronicling the great Heyward moments before we lose track.
Opening day homer.
Walk off hit vs. Rox.
Tie homer vs. Phils.
Tip of Cap on robbed homer.
Shaving Cream-Face smiles.
Busting the window & denting other cars in ST.
Hitting the ball back at TP and then dodging the pitch behind him in ST BP.
First ST homer: monster blast off Scherzer.
Those are my favorite 8, I think. Oh, man you know what would be awesome? A YOLA site dedicated to chronicling this. We could link and/or copy-paste articles on his moments and post pictues. If I build the site and give you all passwords, will you take some shifts with me maintaining it? Two week shifts or so?
May 2nd, 2010 at 7:06 pm
Or… I wonder what kind of copyright issues might abound.
May 2nd, 2010 at 7:41 pm
Does anyone know of a clip that shows the tip of the cap? I missed it. What game/inning? 700…freakin crazy! We have til 11 or so, totally doable.
May 2nd, 2010 at 7:45 pm
So I was hanging out with a Cubs fan and a Phillies fan tonight and they started bashin my Braves which pissed me off. It’s one thing for us to knock ‘em around but when fans of other teams do it I get angry. It made me hope they continue this winning streak.
May 2nd, 2010 at 7:46 pm
Should I change my name?
May 2nd, 2010 at 7:51 pm
No name change for the Astros sweep, no. And thanks for reminding me.
May 2nd, 2010 at 7:54 pm
Water at the ballpark: $4.00. Miller Lite at the ballpark: $6.75. Sunburn honestly gained watching the boys sweep the Lastros: PRICELESS!!!
Steve – did your kids get to run the bases??
May 2nd, 2010 at 7:55 pm
Alright, no name change. Let’s make a pact. No name change until…what? We top the WC again? JJ and KK get 3 wins each? You make the call.
May 2nd, 2010 at 7:57 pm
Leah, if you fast forward the condensed game to the 11th minute, you should be able to catch the Heyward cap tip. He actually takes his cap all the way off and raises it to Pence. But you have to keep your eyes on Heyward while the camera is centering on the outfield.
http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=7761195
May 2nd, 2010 at 7:59 pm
*actually, scratch what I said about the camera. It’s when the ball is being thrown back in.
May 2nd, 2010 at 8:07 pm
Thanks Bub! I can’t pull it up right now but will definitely check it out. Proud of that guy. Anne, glad you had such a great sunny weekend. Did you eat a mexidog?
May 2nd, 2010 at 8:13 pm
I’m willing to change my name back if they get within 1 game of the Wild Card lead, provided that includes a record of 2 games over .500.
May 2nd, 2010 at 8:13 pm
Yumm, can’t wait to get my hands on a Mexidog!
May 2nd, 2010 at 8:17 pm
Hoy que ella habla.
May 2nd, 2010 at 8:17 pm
24 more posts…
May 2nd, 2010 at 8:19 pm
Mets torching Moyer in the first. That’s what every single team except us has done. Same with Kendrick.
That’s really the two most disgusting facts about our offense:
Everyone but us has spanked Moyer.
Everyone but us has spanked Kendrick.
May 2nd, 2010 at 8:22 pm
Just saw the Astro fan quotes. Makes you proud doesn’t it..
May 2nd, 2010 at 8:22 pm
Are the Nationals that good? Will you change your name to Bubalicious? Cledus, seriously, tell me you wouldn’t eat a mexidog
May 2nd, 2010 at 8:25 pm
#675…translation please? 2 games over .500 and leading WC race…got it.
May 2nd, 2010 at 8:28 pm
Mara, I’ve never seen a Mexidog, so I’m not sure what I’d be getting into. On the other hand (which is what people used to say instead of “that said”) as much as I love hot dogs of any kind, I only allow myself a few a year, including the ones that I eat at Turner field. So, what’s in ‘em?
May 2nd, 2010 at 8:34 pm
No idea but I can’t get past the name. I picture a scrawny mutt in the dusty streets of Mexico.
May 2nd, 2010 at 8:35 pm
Great up close shot of J-Hey tipping his cap at the end of this clip.
http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=7756111
May 2nd, 2010 at 8:35 pm
Are we talking about Senor Bub or Mexidogs?
May 2nd, 2010 at 8:37 pm
Translation: That’s what she said. (Or as close as I could get: There is what she speaks.)
When you call me Bubalicious, that is way cool.
If I call myself Bubalicious, that is way lame.
Tcc, VERY proud. That’s a rookie, with the presence of mind, in his disappointment, to represent the club with veteran class. Might be in my top 3 favorite moments, now that I’ve actually seen it.
May 2nd, 2010 at 8:40 pm
Paper bag, that’s an awesome get. Shows much more of the disappointment, followed by “good catch, fella.” I love it. LOVE IT.
May 2nd, 2010 at 8:41 pm
Tcc, you’s a funny, funny guy.
May 2nd, 2010 at 8:43 pm
Fair enough. Very funny and uh ew.
May 2nd, 2010 at 8:46 pm
Yeah, that clip showed Heyward giving a sincere tip of the hat and looked at Pence when he did it. That’s huge.
May 2nd, 2010 at 8:48 pm
Mexidog Grande in my dreams. Woof!
May 2nd, 2010 at 8:49 pm
See since the new show’s coming up and this board will be soon forgotten I’m tempted to fuss at Bub for telling Cledus about Mexico. But that’s a bit much and someone might pull a Hammy. Ha! I did it!
May 2nd, 2010 at 8:51 pm
692
May 2nd, 2010 at 8:53 pm
Everwho posts #700 should make it about Hey Hey Hey. Something classy.
May 2nd, 2010 at 8:54 pm
pre 700 post: Heyward seems to have loosened up lately in his post game comments. I was worried he might be too mature for his age.
May 2nd, 2010 at 8:59 pm
As some would say…he was born old.
May 2nd, 2010 at 9:00 pm
I want to see J Hey as ABC’s person of the week.
May 2nd, 2010 at 9:01 pm
more like born wise.
May 2nd, 2010 at 9:03 pm
Just so he doesn’t show up on that blasted Sports Ill cover.
May 2nd, 2010 at 9:04 pm
Heyward is the BRAVE OF THE YEAR!!!
(just in case it’s #700)
May 2nd, 2010 at 9:04 pm
Whatever you say about Jason Heyward. The best thing is he’s on OUR TEAM!!!!
May 2nd, 2010 at 9:05 pm
Well done.
May 2nd, 2010 at 9:05 pm
Ha!
May 2nd, 2010 at 9:06 pm
Well, Mets have cooled off against old man Moyer. Still just the 3 runs in the 3rd now.
May 2nd, 2010 at 9:07 pm
Good job Cledus! That was perfect!!!!!!!!!
May 2nd, 2010 at 9:08 pm
Mara, I think you can probably change your name now. I know my clouds have turned to sunshine with this thought. . . . The Braves are due! I mean, we have too many hitters who are capable of hitting 280+ to not have a dramatic upswing soon. I can’t wait to see the other end of this downswing. All of the players I wanted to trade last weekend seem to have already gotten the memo: Glaus, Cabrera, McClouth, and maybe even Lowe. I already had faith in the rest of our underachievers. I also heard that the Yankees went on a 0 for 9 slump last year.
May 2nd, 2010 at 9:11 pm
Danny, you feel alright with 3/5 of our starting rotation under severe questioning?
May 2nd, 2010 at 9:13 pm
I’m with ya, Danny. Go Braves!
May 2nd, 2010 at 9:14 pm
Severe questioning?? Only JJ is Hispanic, right??
May 2nd, 2010 at 9:16 pm
Anne – my kids did run the bases this afternoon. It was awesome. They could not have loved it more and it was cool coming out of the tunnel where the grounds crew dwells. A really terrific deal that the Bravos offer.
And, no love for my 4 – 0 record when attending at the Ted? 4 AND OH!!!!
May 2nd, 2010 at 9:16 pm
Tcc, 25,789 Atlantans reported Lowe as “suspiciously eyeing a taco.”
Uh oh. That’s borderline, isn’t it?
May 2nd, 2010 at 9:17 pm
Serious props, Steve, especially since 2 of them have been Lowe starts.
May 2nd, 2010 at 9:17 pm
Steve, any chance you have season tickets??? Maybe we could set up a fund.
May 2nd, 2010 at 9:20 pm
Too late Danny, made a deal. Although I’m growing tired of Mara which means death or something akin to that. However, I’m already brain storming about my next name.
May 2nd, 2010 at 9:23 pm
Leah, how about Hive Turkey?
May 2nd, 2010 at 9:27 pm
Getting better, thanks. How’s your back? Huh?
May 2nd, 2010 at 9:29 pm
Lol, it’s fiiiiiine.
Santana just walke Moyer with the bases loaded. 5-4 Metros in the 4th.
May 2nd, 2010 at 9:30 pm
Grand Slam off Santana. Victorino. Don’t know if I should laugh or cry.
May 2nd, 2010 at 9:32 pm
Now a 2 run homer by Utley. 10 to 5, Phillies. 4th homer of the game by the Phils.
May 2nd, 2010 at 9:32 pm
Mets vs Phillies…somebody will lose. That’s worth cheering about.
May 2nd, 2010 at 9:34 pm
Jerry looking old as he walks to the mound…tsk, tsk
May 2nd, 2010 at 9:35 pm
Switching back to M*A*S*H reruns.
May 2nd, 2010 at 9:39 pm
Werth still looks pre hominid.
May 2nd, 2010 at 9:40 pm
Francoover unable to run it down. What a damn shame!
May 2nd, 2010 at 9:41 pm
There were two outs before this started. They’ve scored 9 runs without recording an out.
May 2nd, 2010 at 9:45 pm
I guess I’d rather the Phillies win since it seems likely and the Mets are in first right now.
May 2nd, 2010 at 9:48 pm
I would like either the Mets or the Phillies to completely crumble and sink to under the Brave within two weeks. Since the Phillies are an unlikely candidate, this game is going fine by me.
May 2nd, 2010 at 9:50 pm
This is too funny. One of Chip Carey’s best flubs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RHcGWHuThE
May 2nd, 2010 at 9:53 pm
Like I said….100% chance one of ‘em is going down. I won’t cry either way.
May 2nd, 2010 at 9:54 pm
Bub, that was PRICELESS!
May 2nd, 2010 at 10:09 pm
Show #105: Swept, Swept, Sweeped.
May 2nd, 2010 at 10:16 pm
Show #105: BRAVES SWEEP (Curt “but it was only the Astros”)
May 2nd, 2010 at 10:27 pm
Damn you socket that won’t open making me miss all the great clips! Seriously, someone that rhymes with flub may have to email them to me.
May 2nd, 2010 at 10:27 pm
No idea why my name keeps changing back.
May 2nd, 2010 at 10:35 pm
Yeah…what about that name change. Thought we had a deal mister. JK.
May 2nd, 2010 at 10:40 pm
Okay, I’m gonna put on Monster’s Inc and clean my messy apartment. If somebody posts an ETA on the new show, I’ll be most thankful.
May 2nd, 2010 at 10:54 pm
25 min maybe.
I already broke my promise and uttered the unthinkable. Starts with an L. Honestly, usually ends with an L too.
ZING.
Tcc, a wins a win, even if it is the Astros. Better than the alternative.
May 2nd, 2010 at 10:59 pm
Kinda like getting old…better than the alternative. G’night ABT. It’s been a great weekend!
May 2nd, 2010 at 11:04 pm
“Tcc, a wins a win, even if it is the Astros. Better than the alternative.”
I am alone. Alone. Alone……..
May 2nd, 2010 at 11:17 pm
(I’m just placating him)