Show #178: Nightmare Start for the Braves
The significance of the sweep. Should Fredi go? And Good Signs/Bad Signs of the week.
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April 11th, 2012 at 6:34 pm
The Chipper stretching tweet from DOB is so sad. Promising, but sad.
April 11th, 2012 at 6:56 pm
Where can I see the lineup?
April 11th, 2012 at 7:23 pm
Chipper never stretches. Explains alot but I still love him.
April 11th, 2012 at 8:53 pm
Just saw DOBs tweets about Chipper’s stretching. It is nothing but crazy.
April 11th, 2012 at 9:15 pm
Playing all kinds of ball tonight…I like it!
April 11th, 2012 at 9:28 pm
Love that Heyward and Uggla are both coming to life. Even Jack Wilson is contributing with his fundamentals. Now we need to get Freeman and Bourn going.
April 11th, 2012 at 10:43 pm
Yeah, I am willing to give Heyward a little time…
April 11th, 2012 at 10:44 pm
Can somebody PLEASE run for Chipper? Looks like he hurts running. I cant believe he is back so soon. I see normal people take months to return to work for what he had done.
April 11th, 2012 at 11:21 pm
#133: I know. I was kinda glad that Uggla’s almost sure double down the 3rd base line in the top of the 9th was fielded. I didn’t want Chipper to have to run from 1st to 3rd.
April 11th, 2012 at 11:22 pm
#134 was me
April 11th, 2012 at 11:30 pm
Great win
Wouldn’t it be amazing if somehow Heyward has a breakout Matt Kemp like season?
April 11th, 2012 at 11:42 pm
112 is brilliant!
My hope meter is now even more unexplainably high! (5ish)
April 11th, 2012 at 11:52 pm
Princess, I had a bad feeling about Schafer even when he was a promising prospect for the good guys. Now I think he’s a punk, spelled PUKE! Just sayin’
April 12th, 2012 at 7:50 am
#138 has he EVER played that good? He killed us from both sides of the plate all 3 games!
April 12th, 2012 at 9:47 am
Great game last night. I hate all these off days at the beginning of the season.
#139, no he didn’t. Kelly Johnson did the same thing to us when he went to the D’backs. They both fall under the Wes Helms category of hitting .220 on your team/hitting .400 against your team.
April 12th, 2012 at 9:49 am
I will say that both the Astros and Mets looked a lot scrappier than I thought they would. Maybe it will take a long, hot Summer to get them into the form everyone anticipated.
April 12th, 2012 at 9:50 am
Ham, are you watching The Killing Season 2?
April 12th, 2012 at 10:50 am
Nate, reluctantly and unbelievably, yes. And I am liking it.
April 12th, 2012 at 11:59 am
Me too. I told myself I wouldn’t watch, but I caved. It’s been better. Hopefully the writers have an idea of who the killer is going to be at this point.
April 12th, 2012 at 8:10 pm
I am not satisfied with the current Braves game to off-day ratio.
April 12th, 2012 at 8:35 pm
#145: Totally. On the bright side, tomorrow starts a 9 straight game stretch.
April 12th, 2012 at 9:17 pm
136 – Oh, totally. Heyward can definitely have a breakout season like Kemp had last year. The only question is when it will happen. I was actually thinking about that today — that Heyward could have a Kemp-like season last year. I also just looked at Kemp’s seasons before last year, and he had a few years that were kinda middling, promising, but not up to his 2011 potential. Lots of OPSs in the .750-.850 range, which is where I think Heyward will be until he becomes the hitter he’ll fully be.
A couple of other factors:
1. Last year, Kemp was 26. Heyward is currently 22.
2. Fredi Gonzalez. If he keeps undervaluing Heyward and hitting him in the 7 spot, I think that Heyward will have a Kemp-like season…for another team. For now, I have little confidence in Fredi’s ability to oversee Heyward’s production and development as The Behemoth that Heyward is meant to be.
April 12th, 2012 at 11:22 pm
Sorry… I don’t think Heyward will be what we all want…..
I may be crazy, but should you already have your swing down by the time you get to the show? We always here that “oh he needs to work on his swing.” I know people get better with practice but this is what these people do for a living. All day long.
BTW…did anyone see the article about Francoeur delivering pizza to fans?
April 13th, 2012 at 12:59 am
@148
He’s still only 22 years old and had one of the best OBP’s by a rookie ever. Most pros at 22 are still in AA or AAA. Show me a MLB player who doesn’t work on his swing and I’ll show you a scrub. This game is all about adjustments.
April 13th, 2012 at 7:44 am
#148 – doc, I saw that article. Great stuff. Despite everything, he really is a super nice guy. Very humble. Very down to earth. It seemed very typical of something he would do.
For those of you who didn’t see it – http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/jeff-francoeur-gets-pizza-delivered-fans-bleachers-233500021.html