Show #150: An Interview with Braves Great, Mark Wohlers
Mark discusses the early 90′s, the World Series Championship, the Leyritz homerun and his loss of pitching control.
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June 11th, 2011 at 9:59 pm
Power came back on just in time to see McCann come back into the dugout after his three-run HR in the 10th… Pretty kewl…
June 11th, 2011 at 10:07 pm
I think there are more die hard fans in Houston than in Atlanta. Listen to ‘em…
June 11th, 2011 at 10:43 pm
119 I have a little more confidence after tonight’s game. He hit an outside pitch to right field, an inside pitch to left and a patient walk in the 10th ahead of McCann.
June 11th, 2011 at 10:59 pm
#125 – Yes.
Someone noted it earlier, but it bears repeating. 17 runs in two nights with no Prado, no Heyward, Mac in only one of the games.
June 12th, 2011 at 12:35 am
128: I’m getting there. Let’s see how he does on the rest of the road trip. Right now, I’d say, “fair” if Danny walks and hits for average with a few doubles mixed in being in the two spot.
June 12th, 2011 at 12:42 am
Gonna be interesting when Nate McLouth comes back. Jordan has more than earned back his leadoff spot. I don’t see how the Braves can take Jordy out of the line up. I think like this. McLouth won’t be back next year so this season, you play one of them (starting with Schafer) until they stop producing. Kinda like low minor league hockey goalie tandems. But if I had to choose, Schafer is in and McLouth is out. It’s as simple as Jordy has more tools than McLouth does. Schafer also seem to have more fire in his belly and being down in the minors the past two years has made him even more hungry to get back especially after Chipper’s frank conversation with him.
June 12th, 2011 at 12:45 am
Afterall, this Jordan Schafer is the Jordan Schafer the Braves paid for and expected. He’s grown-up some too which helps a great deal. The Braves paid for a McLouth that just never really panned out the way they hoped.
June 12th, 2011 at 2:19 am
Schafer’s game reminds me of Kenny Lofton. He’s got a long way to go before he’s putting up Lofton’s numbers, but there is definitely potential with Schafer. Give him the job so you can see what you got.
June 12th, 2011 at 10:10 am
Didn’t everyone predict a 3-4 week? We’re one win away from going 6-0…
Also I’m a Schafer fan. I don’t know the Braves record with him in the starting line-up but it has to be good. And he’s stolen more bases in a week and a half then anyone else on this team has stolen the entire season. How do you justify benching him?
June 12th, 2011 at 11:54 am
My prediction was 6-1. But I won’t complain if we go 7-0. I agree, keep Schafer in CF. Maybe we can put McLouth in LF. But I think we tried that experiment last year and it didn’t go too well?
June 12th, 2011 at 12:51 pm
From Elias: The Braves’ 6-3 victory in Houston on Saturday night not only moved them nine games above .500 for the first time this season, but it lifted the franchise’s all-time record to 9982 wins and 9982 losses. The Braves franchise, of course, was a charter member of the National League in 1876, and the team went 19-19 in its first 38 games that year. Then on July 25, 1876, Boston defeated New York, 11-1, to go to 20-19 – and the team stayed above .500 (high point: 523 games above .500 in April 1903) until June 3, 1923, when the Braves lost to the Brooklyn Dodgers, 7-6, evening Boston’s record at 3084-3084. A 9-7 loss to the Phillies the next day dropped the Braves a game below .500 – and they had stayed below the .500 mark ever since – for over 88 years, until the win over the Astros on Saturday night! The low point came on April 20, 1991, when the Braves lost to the Reds, falling to 526 games below the break-even mark. But that same 1991 team started the big climb back to .500 by winning the National League championship that year; now, 20 years later, the team is back to the .500 mark for the first time since 1923!
June 12th, 2011 at 2:10 pm
Schafer could swipe 40 if he plays all year.
Uggla, my gosh. Kepp it coming.
June 12th, 2011 at 2:11 pm
Ok, I know I said I’d wait untl this road trip is over to declare Uggla back. With that homer, I think he’s back.
June 12th, 2011 at 2:17 pm
Can’t stop watching Uggla’s homer. Just watching it over and over again. Love the Chipper love in the dugout too. Great, fantastic sight!
June 12th, 2011 at 2:18 pm
*kepp = keep
June 12th, 2011 at 2:22 pm
140 It was probably influenced by “U-gg-la”. I agree “Kepp it coming Uggla!”
June 12th, 2011 at 2:47 pm
The answer to the trivia question is Willie Harris with 17 in 2007. Joe and Chip have no shot at getting this one…
The “folks in the truck are getting mean”…
June 12th, 2011 at 2:48 pm
Freddie needs to stop swinging for the fences
June 12th, 2011 at 2:49 pm
Same year Frenchy led the team in hits and RBI
June 12th, 2011 at 2:50 pm
The more I watch Schafer the more I forget McLouth is a Brave.
June 12th, 2011 at 2:52 pm
143 Chipper might need to go give the “Schafer” talk to Freddie, substituting “line drive up the middle” for “speed”…
June 12th, 2011 at 3:42 pm
Does Martin Pipp get his “2-hole” back when he comes off the DL?
June 12th, 2011 at 3:43 pm
88 I guess with his current difficulties, we can scratch Hunter off the list of “possible additions”…
June 12th, 2011 at 3:47 pm
We do need someone in left. Henske is starting to show the league his vulnerability to a good curve ball… not something we want them to know about our best pinch hitter
June 12th, 2011 at 6:08 pm
How ridiculous is Venters by the way? Absolutely lights out. Good game today, great game from Tommy.