Show #203: The Braves Make the Postseason and We Celebrate Chipper
Recapping the Wildcard clinching game. Heaping more love on Chipper. And being all in on the Braves’ postseason chances.
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October 5th, 2012 at 11:02 am
@99 – Couldn’t agree more. To add a loss today to the every growing negative post season narrative this team has would be brutal in so many ways.
Luckily, that’s not going to happen. 5 – 1 Braves. Go to your bookies right now.
October 5th, 2012 at 11:41 am
@95 LOL
October 5th, 2012 at 12:14 pm
Steve, I agree with that score so much, I’m just gonna match it: 5-1 Bravos.
(Now we’re really doomed)
October 5th, 2012 at 1:52 pm
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8460326/atlanta-braves-st-louis-cardinals
Keri taking the Braves. Ready for 5:07.
October 5th, 2012 at 2:01 pm
5-2 Braves. We score in the first inning.
October 5th, 2012 at 2:39 pm
All of the ESPN “experts” are picking the Braves, except for one guy who has the Cards going to the WS.
Don’t know how that makes me feel.
2 hours, 27 minutes.
October 5th, 2012 at 3:11 pm
Scoring in the 1st would be the best thing ever.
October 5th, 2012 at 3:18 pm
I may have seen this elsewhere – it may have been posted here, even. But very suitable anyway.
A haiku for today:
Braves Braves Braves Braves Braves
Braves Braves Braves Braves Braves Braves Braves
Braves Braves Braves Braves Braves
October 5th, 2012 at 3:21 pm
I haven’t done squat today.
I don’t see how the experts can make a pick, really. Baseball players, pitchers included, only do what they “normally do” about half the time. Way too much abnormality. In fact the reason baseball fans are always complaining is because on a game-by-game basis, you can’t count on anything to go like it should. Thus ace-versus-#5 starter games don’t go like they should, etc.
Blah blah blah. Just one more way to say that this one-game business is a travesty of the game of baseball.
Fortunately, Medlen might, MIGHT be the rare piece that performs so consistantly that we have an advantage today. Unless, of course, our hitters match his consistancy with their own inconsistancy. In which case, we still win via Kimbrel.
We ought to track, though, for fun, how many of the factors, let alone outcomes, predicted by the experts turn out anything like they thought.
October 5th, 2012 at 3:29 pm
@108 is that copywritten, because I’m sure I can use it in an upcoming English class. Thoughtful and provocative. Gooooooooooooooo Braves!
October 5th, 2012 at 3:31 pm
I feel like the Braves are set up for an ultimate suckerpunch today. I for one fully expect to win, even as I type that. But that’s sort of the point.
October 5th, 2012 at 3:41 pm
Nope – feel free to use it all you want!
Things I really hope don’t happen:
1. Cardinals get on base via a bunt up the 3rd base line
2. Heyward to lose a fly ball in the sun (stupid 5:07 start time!)
3. Molina catches runners stealing
4. Or, maybe even worse than 3, Molina picks a runner off!
Just getting the worries out. Braves got this. GO BRAVES!!!
October 5th, 2012 at 4:10 pm
My Hollywood Ending Points System:
1. Chipper hits GW homer: 35 points
2. Chipper hits any HR: 15 points
3. Kimbrel K’s 3: 10 points
4. Meds allows 0 runs: 10 points
5. Braves walk off in the 9th: 15 points
6. Any Brave takes lead after 6th inning via XBH: 5 points
7. Any Brave K’s a Cardinal with bases juiced, 2 outs, after 7th inning: 5 points
8. Medlen picks a runner off first: 5 points
Anything over 50 from that list would cost me an eviction from my apartment.
October 5th, 2012 at 4:12 pm
*2. Chipper hits any OTHER HR.
October 5th, 2012 at 5:08 pm
Pitch #1 from Meds, here it comes … SO EXCITED!
STRIKE!!!!
October 5th, 2012 at 5:09 pm
STRIKE TWO! Swing and MISSSSSSSSSSSS!!!! Change up!
October 5th, 2012 at 5:09 pm
STRIKE THREE!!!! ATTA BOY, MEDS!!!
October 5th, 2012 at 5:11 pm
STRIKE THREE to BELTRAN!!! SIT DOWN!
October 5th, 2012 at 5:14 pm
Meds looks like he’s feeling it today. I feel good about this game!
October 5th, 2012 at 5:14 pm
OUT THREE BABY!!! 24 MORE OUTS TO GO!!! (oh, and we might need a run somewhere in there from the offense…)
October 5th, 2012 at 5:15 pm
Ahhhh….. The Braves on TBS! Just like the good Lord intended life to be! Go Braves!!
October 5th, 2012 at 5:15 pm
Oh, it’s on. Braves ’bout to score about 17 runzzzzz in the bottom half of the firssssssst.
whooooooooooooaaaah -oh-oh-a-ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh
whooooooooooooaaaah -oh-oh-a-ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh
whooooooooooooaaaah -oh-oh-a-ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh
whooooooooooooaaaah -oh-oh-a-ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh
October 5th, 2012 at 5:18 pm
Bourn K’s…. well, maybe only 13 runs this inning.
October 5th, 2012 at 5:19 pm
Prado grounder. well, maybe only 8 runs.
October 5th, 2012 at 5:21 pm
Lohse is missing. Be a shame to get nothing.
And dass juss wut we got. Nur-in.
Boooooooooooooooooo.
C’mon, Meds!!!