Show #130: The Braves 2010 Season Comes To A Close
The NLDS loss. Fredi Gonzalez is announced. TP moves gigs. And our 2010 season awards.
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November 3rd, 2010 at 9:04 pm
Bub, start packing.
November 3rd, 2010 at 9:16 pm
What did Wren MEAN when he said he would get us a big bat two or three years ago? Why did he say that? He said he’d fix the rotation, and he did. Then he said he’d get us a big bat, and he never did. Was it Troy Glaus? Was that the gleam in Bobby’s eye during the Vazquez(?) press confrence about getting some offense? Now I think that look was supressed laughter.
So ridiculous. I’m not asking for someone elite, but dang, the outfield is so, so bad, and we’re gonna have a daisy fresh rookie at a power spot in the infield. How about Cory Hart? Josh Willingham? Cody Ross? This window of Hanson, Heyward, Jurrjens, Prado, & McCann all being affordable won’t last forever.
PLEASE tell me he isn’t going to let another winter go by without getting a well-above-league-average bat for the middle of the order. No lead off guy and no slugger, how long will this go on?
November 3rd, 2010 at 9:19 pm
p.s. without our WonderGlaus May this year, the Braves might have finished below the Mets and Florida. So, it’s not as if we can say this team got to the playoffs without a slugger.
November 3rd, 2010 at 10:46 pm
Do we think Heyward will be more consistent next season? He really tanked in the end….which Heyward is the real deal?
November 3rd, 2010 at 11:34 pm
Leah, I expect the great Heyward is the real one for three reasons:
1. The walk rate. That’s what separates the boys from the men; a guy who is swinging at strikes and not at balls. And on top of that, he got robbed a TON on balls being called strikes. If umpires start to give him a little break (he could help that himself by not acting a fool), he’ll be even better.
2. The great Heyward is the one indicative of his minor league dominance. When he was beasting at the major league level in April, it still never exceeded the predictions.
3. No matter how much potential a rookie hitter shows, it’s still a hard year. But even with his struggles, he put up something crazy like 5 WAR (somebody check me on that), and that was with a busted thumb.
I think he’ll be a beast. But putting the offensive weight of the team on his shoulders would be a bad, bad idea.
I also expect he’ll be an injury risk most of his career. I mean, he has been for all of his minor league career and had assorted injuries as a rookie.
November 4th, 2010 at 9:31 am
1. He needs to not take so many strikes. He needs to get more aggressive in certain situations, which will come with the experience he gained this year.
2. I hope he moves out of the 2 hole. I really hope he moves out of the 2 hole. Even if he’s moved to 5.
November 4th, 2010 at 9:37 am
I read an article about colby rasmus being a guy the Braves might go after. might have been DOB that wrote it. apparently he doesn’t get along with LaRussa, and he is a huge Braves fan growing up in Georgia. He has pretty decent numbers, young guy, but it would require a trade, and the article discussed JJ or Prado having to be the jump off point in that deal.
November 4th, 2010 at 10:54 am
I would trade JJ for Rasmus.
November 4th, 2010 at 12:35 pm
But not Prado…never Prado.
November 4th, 2010 at 7:08 pm
No, I’m kind of hoping Prado is signed long term. I think the Braves should try to do that soon. It’s a risk, but that’s why it would be affordable. 7 years at 7 million per.
November 4th, 2010 at 7:23 pm
Leah, your school ratted out the Rev’s school.
November 4th, 2010 at 7:33 pm
$20.00 bet pays $150 on TCU winning the National Championship. I’m seriously thinking about it.
November 4th, 2010 at 8:33 pm
I know! Yikes! Trouble in paradise.
November 5th, 2010 at 12:17 pm
Bub, I would take it. TCU is good. That game Saturday with Utah is gonna be one you wanna watch. I think Bama plays at the same time, though.
November 5th, 2010 at 5:17 pm
http://atlanta.braves.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20101105&content_id=16010104&vkey=news_atl&c_id=atl
Maybe by the time Gonzno (can we call our short stop Gonzno?) is done next year, Tyler can step in.
November 5th, 2010 at 8:12 pm
So, daddy motherblogger deletes my post. Amazing, considering what he lets stand. All’s I said was Wren’s advertised big bat needs to arrive or I’m exiting. Petty.
November 5th, 2010 at 8:48 pm
That bloody Mother Blogger.
November 5th, 2010 at 9:08 pm
http://bit.ly/bW5XxB
Things that make ya go hmmm.
November 5th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
Leah, for your amusement: Kenny Rogers top 10 greatest hits (Kenny Rogers is the guy’s name mixed up in the Cam Newton scandal, you see:)
10. Love Gifted Me
9. You Decorated My Church
8. You Were a Good Fund
7. Paytime Friends and Nighttime Flubbers
6. Till I Can Rake it on My Own
5. Steward of the Bounty
4. Aubie, Don’t Take Your Funds to Cam
3. Don’t Fall In Love with a Schemer
2. Every Time Two Fools Collude
1. You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Cecil
November 5th, 2010 at 10:08 pm
HAAAAA!!! Hilarious!
November 6th, 2010 at 12:12 am
I just picked up the 2-disc version of It’s A Wonderful Life that has a new colorized version on one of the disc. Now, I love B & W films and I’ve cursed at the t.v. plenty over those super-saturated colorized atrocities that flooded the tube in the 80′s and 90′s, HOWEVER, this looks really, really nice.
It isn’t flawless, a few of the colors look suspicious. But I never minded that you could tell something was up in the colorized versions, it was that it was so UGLY, like the films had been exposed to radiation, or they were trying to simulate the worst era of Technicolor.
Anyway, to me, it looks very pleasing. It’ll never replace the B&W, but I think I’ll watch it all the way through in color this year, and I’d have thought that was blasphemy before.
November 6th, 2010 at 12:53 am
Err… scratch that. After 20 minutes I was missing the old images badly. Had to take it out and put in the other disc.
November 6th, 2010 at 12:55 am
Toy Story 3 on DVD is to die for, too. The mushroom cloud of monkeys is one of the finest moments in film history.
November 6th, 2010 at 8:33 am
I thought we’d get TS3 for the kiddie but I’m not sure I can wait!
November 6th, 2010 at 9:25 am
Let’s try that again. Comment #199 take two…” I thought we’d get TS3 for the Kiddos for Christmas but I’m not sure I can wait that long.” That’s what I get for trying to comment before my coffee.