Show #187: Braves Put All Facets Together For A Five Win Week
5 of 6. Jekyll and Hyde team. Favorite Smoltz memories. And what to do with JJ?
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June 12th, 2012 at 2:59 am
Good show, fellas.
To be corny, I think the answer to which team is the Braves is “both.” For now. At some point in the season, they’ll find their identity. The bullpen is in flux. The young starters are finding themselves. The jury is out on Heyward and perhaps on Freeman, too, in some ways. Our best 3rd baseman is in left field.
Fredi, the moron, doesn’t know for sure what he has in Livan, Durbin, EOF, and Venters. Even in his moronic brain, there’ll be some settling into a rhythm for his BP use when their tendencies shake out more. Simmons just got here. And Medlen is about to be – or is he? – a starter, which could be a savior or a disaster. We won’t know who we are till 2nd half.
June 12th, 2012 at 4:13 am
Favorite Smoltz memory:
http://tinyurl.com/88kgezq
June 12th, 2012 at 4:15 am
Ugh, that ^ was bad. Don’t click it.
June 12th, 2012 at 8:30 am
Bub – I couldn’t help myself and I clicked it. You need to immediately go help some old lady across the street as penance.
June 12th, 2012 at 8:32 am
One highlight from last week that I forgot to mention.
It was game 1 or 2 against the Jays with Prado at 3rd. He charges what looks like a routine ground ball, about to field it with his glove, it takes a funny hop but without missing a beat, contorting his body, he bare hands it and makes the play. It was an amazing play.
June 12th, 2012 at 8:48 am
ABT overload this morning – listened to the last two episodes back to back. Smoltz memory: the entrance music for his closings and him just stomping to the mound. I had all the confidence that he’d do his job.
GREAT story about the impostor – I hope they never find him.
June 12th, 2012 at 11:29 am
Anne, to that point…
http://www.ajc.com/sports/atlanta-braves/impostor-crashes-braves-alumni-1456183.html
Apparently no warrants out for him. Braves taking it with good humor, at this moment.
June 12th, 2012 at 4:18 pm
Stupid girl question re the All Star game. So, I get nearly daily Braves e-mails asking me to vote for Chipper for the All Star team. Not because he’s not an All Star – he certainly is – but there’s NO way he’d play because he’s so fragile, right?
So, my question is: does this fall into the “it’s an honor to be nominated” pile, in that being voted to the All Star team, whether you do or not, is resume fodder/fodder for the HoF?
June 12th, 2012 at 4:44 pm
Anne – yeah, if he get voted into the All Star game, regardless of playing, he’s be an All Star in 2012.
Also, I bet he’d play.
June 12th, 2012 at 4:44 pm
Wow, my grammar really suffering in post #9.
June 12th, 2012 at 4:45 pm
So, Fredi is sitting Heyward in favor of Diaz tonight b/c Diaz is 5 – 9 against CC. “Can’t ignore those numbers,” said Fredi. 9 at bats!?!?!?!?
June 12th, 2012 at 4:59 pm
#9 made my day. Isolated, neither goof would be funny. Together, though, I nearly died.
June 12th, 2012 at 5:26 pm
#12 have to agree with Bub.
It’s a little known fact, but that’s actually how Steve talks when we’re not doing the show. He went through a series of classes to get “ready for pod time.”
June 12th, 2012 at 6:26 pm
I ain’t be gotten no knife
June 12th, 2012 at 6:43 pm
Steve @11, those AB’s came in 2005 and 2007. All of those hits were singles.
June 12th, 2012 at 6:51 pm
#15 fills my blood with rage. What a total nightmare, this guy. If not total, very near it.
June 12th, 2012 at 7:32 pm
I am not going to question Fredi’s logic for a while. Go Diaz!
June 12th, 2012 at 7:52 pm
Like I said, the manager makes very little difference. Everybody just calm down. *points at horizon* What’s THAT?? *runs away*
June 12th, 2012 at 8:14 pm
Agreed, #17. Nice work tonight from Matty D. Also, great quote about him from Chipper via DOB tweet.
In other news…Fredi got an Emmy??? Good lord. I agree with Joe Simpson: you’re only as good as your interviewer.
June 12th, 2012 at 8:18 pm
I’m at a children’s swim meet. New levels of bizarre. There might be fewer things WASPier than this crowd with me right now.
Go Braves
June 12th, 2012 at 9:04 pm
Minor looks dominant.
June 12th, 2012 at 9:31 pm
Venters looks awful.
June 12th, 2012 at 9:36 pm
Thank god I got home in time to see that. What ever you do, Fredi, ruin another winnable game. And now turn it into a loss. Amazing.
I can’t comprehend my hatred for the Yankees right now.
June 12th, 2012 at 9:36 pm
It might have been a good idea to use Kimbrel somewhere in this inning, preferably before the A rod grand slam.
June 12th, 2012 at 9:38 pm
Jonny needs to stear clear of Minor for a few days. Fredi should be beaten for putting Gearrin in instead of Durbin. I might barf.