Show #160: A Rough End to a Good Week for the Braves
Bobby and the ’91 team. The Uggla hit streak. Our confidence in the team and another heated discussion about Heyward.
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August 15th, 2011 at 10:04 pm
I am walkin’ around the Bay Area tomorrow sporting my Braves t-shirt for sure. Suck it, Wilson!!
August 15th, 2011 at 10:05 pm
Don’t you know Mac loves having a teammate he can jump up, bear hug and not knock over? Love me some Freeman!
August 15th, 2011 at 10:08 pm
Just got to the TV for Prado’s at bat and the rest of the fabulousness. What a freaking win! That’s a very nice 2 game swing, right there. Huge.
August 15th, 2011 at 10:13 pm
Fear the Beard my a**
August 15th, 2011 at 10:16 pm
I know everyone is going to be talking about Freeman, but how about Constanza? How many other players in the MLB beat out that ground ball? And did you hear the crowd after he was called safe at first? Huge momentum builder right there. We don’t even get 1 run in the 9th without him leading off the inning.
He’s earned a starting position on this team.
August 15th, 2011 at 10:25 pm
Wow……speechless
August 15th, 2011 at 10:26 pm
@ Anne…… I love it
August 15th, 2011 at 10:33 pm
@ Leah thank you!
@ Curt Wow! Your Dad is so lucky! If he was on a transport ship in Vietnam he was probably on a LST which are flat bottomed. Even if you overboard during the day you are probably lost at sea. At night?? Wow….. A few years ago a Sailor went to catch a football and went over during the daytime. We lost him. So sad…. These things happen often and the media never covers it.
GO FREAKIN BRAVES!
August 15th, 2011 at 10:41 pm
“un-Braves” related…. Congrats Jim Thome.
August 16th, 2011 at 2:27 am
Great Win. Win the next 3 and we bury them.
Yeah, congratulations to Jim Thome. However because of the steroid era, I am unfortunately suspicious.
August 16th, 2011 at 9:49 am
Doc – yeah, I think he knows how crazy lucky he was. And me, for that matter, since that was before I was born or contemplated.
That win last night was fun to watch. I sensed it coming.
Thome always struck me as a clean guy. A throwback type of guy. Congrats to him.
August 16th, 2011 at 10:13 am
Curt, I was the opposite…totally expected a big swing and miss by somebody. And can someone tell the too busy mother of three whats up with Thome?
August 16th, 2011 at 10:16 am
Have you guys ever heard the story of Chipper and Thome in a brawl together in the minors? Thome had Chipper pinned against the net behind home plate, and through the net Chipper could see his parents sitting in the front row watching him as he got dominated by Thome. I forget where I saw/heard Chip tell that story. Probably a Spirts South Rain Delay or something.
August 16th, 2011 at 10:23 am
Frigatedoc, thank you for your service and sharing your fan experience with the rest. Curt, that’s pretty crazy man. Your existence was saved by a cargo net.
August 16th, 2011 at 11:10 am
#38 – From Buster Olney earlier this year:
“My first brawl in professional ball was against Charlotte,” Jones recalled. “He and Manny [Ramirez] and those guys were in Charlotte. And we cleared the benches, and he and I came across each other in the melee, and the next thing I know I was pinned up against the backstop, with my face up against the screen. And I looked over, and my mom and dad are like three rows away from me, and they had the look of horror. It was one of those moments when you just kind of cry for help, because once he got his big paws on me I was done. … He was like, ‘Don’t move, Chip. I will squash the life out of you.’”
Through the years, Jones and Thome have become friends from across the field, when they played against each other in the World Series in 1995, during spring training when Thome was with the Indians in Winter Haven, Fla., and during Thome’s years with the Phillies.
“For a while we were the only guys who wore our uniforms with the socks showing,” Jones said. “Not a better guy on the planet.”
August 16th, 2011 at 11:18 am
#36 – If any slugger from the 90s was clean, I’d believe it was Thome. Big, strong dude. Maintained power throughout his career. No unusual spikes or dips. He’s like a really talented version of Adam Dunn.
August 16th, 2011 at 12:21 pm
@ Nate, Thank you…it was an honor to serve our great country… I would not change a thing. Being able to hear the Braves on the radio like (at sea) that just added to the moment. Kind of old school.
Curt’s story about his Dad STILL blows my mind…. At sea, at night…you can’t even see your hand in front of your face. That is why you can see every star in the sky. Being on a cruise ship does not count in compairison. I am just glad that cargo net was there to save his Dad AND ultimately Curt!
@ Eric: THanks for sharing the story about CHipper and Thome….can’t imagine Thome even coming at me…..that dude is a monster. I saw on ESPN last night his first home run as a rookie and he was smaller but still big. Chipper looked like a little kids then. I LOVE what he said to Chipper…classic.
August 16th, 2011 at 12:23 pm
Frigatedoc and Curt – great stories, both of you. Thanks for sharing.
Because I still have a sense of objectivity about all this, I post this link:
http://www.talkingchop.com/2011/8/16/2366115/atlanta-braves-outfielder-jose-constanza-is-winning-the-war-of-trade
August 16th, 2011 at 12:28 pm
Look at Stevie…all grown up. “Summer of George” love it…
August 16th, 2011 at 12:54 pm
#43, I love what “leedawg” posted as the first comment: “Summer of George, Autumn of McCann, and the Fall of the Phillies.”
August 16th, 2011 at 12:58 pm
Curse you leedawg!
August 16th, 2011 at 1:22 pm
@ Steve…… I saw that on talking chop AND was going to post the link…but you beat me to it.
Again, I see where you are coming from with him and Heyward…..but right now Georgy rocks.
And to think we were all so mad when we didn’t get Beltran…..right now the Braves look like they did they best at the trade deadline AND we don’t have Mccouth, Schafer, OR Proctor! Life is good…..
August 16th, 2011 at 1:39 pm
I didn’t even have to leave the house to piss off a Giants fan. Turns out mom’s physical therapist likes baseball.
August 16th, 2011 at 3:08 pm
“but it’s time for everyone to come around on how important this kid is and how important he could be for the rest of the year.”
Looks like I don’t need to say “that means you too, Stevie” but it doesn’t hurt.
August 16th, 2011 at 3:13 pm
I would guess Thome is clean, However if you don’t get caught why admit wrongdoing. If that steroid list was destroyed like it was supposed to in 2003 we would be saying A-rod was clean as well and he would continue to say he did it all natural. So we will never know. Unfortunately everyone who played in the 1990′s has a cloud of suspicion. I will never assume somebody was clean.