Show #210: The Braves Land Justin Upton
Was losing Prado worth it? Is the team better now? Worries about leadership void? And what to do at 3rd?
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January 30th, 2013 at 7:43 am
And who said I was white…
January 30th, 2013 at 8:41 am
@51 Everyone…..
But a racist, you are not. It’s really quite laughable. We all know what you meant.
BUT NO POLITICS OR POLITICAL LIKE DISCUSSIONS ON HERE!!!!!!!!!!!
January 30th, 2013 at 11:05 am
Just to be clear, I definitely didn’t mean Leah said anything inappropriate. Just wanted her to know what was being (erroneously) claimed, if she didn’t.
I just read this ESPN headline too fast: “Yanks Eye Voiding A-Rod Contract,” and thought it said “Yanks, A-Rod Avoiding Eye Contact.” Probably just as true.
January 30th, 2013 at 11:09 am
@53 and she had no clue.
January 30th, 2013 at 12:21 pm
Players-only meeting? McCann or Hudson. I know Hudson’s a pitcher but I would think his experience and age give him the authority to do that.
January 30th, 2013 at 3:39 pm
In case you can listen, I’ll be on 97.7 The Zone in Huntsville, AL at 7:20pm ET tonight talking about the Braves.
There’s a LISTEN LIVE link on the right side of their home page: http://www.977thezone.com/
January 30th, 2013 at 8:45 pm
So bummed…I missed it.
January 30th, 2013 at 9:16 pm
Who knew there were a ton of good Queen songs not on Greatest Hits? Not me. I downloaded A Day at the Races, News of the World, A Night at the Opera, and Sheer Heart Attack on impulse last week. Some of the best non-radio-hits classic rock I’ve ever heard in my life. I’d probably put it up against the non-radio Rolling Stones stuff. Might even be better.
I missed it, too, Stevie. How’d it go?
January 30th, 2013 at 9:19 pm
Just one example. This is one of the best.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHm3PthXu_g
January 31st, 2013 at 12:08 am
Hey Bub. It went well. I felt very good about it.
And yes on Queen. News of the World was the first album I bought with my own money. Freaking love that album.
January 31st, 2013 at 8:45 am
First album I bought with my own money was Def Leppard – Pyromania. With a Turtle’s gift coin, for all you old school Atlanta people.
January 31st, 2013 at 9:11 am
& before Turtles was Peaches…who members that place?
January 31st, 2013 at 10:23 am
Happy Birthday, Jackie Robinson. Nice Google tribute today. http://www.google.com (duh)
January 31st, 2013 at 12:10 pm
bub {the story goes that any white person using the epithet “well-spoken” for a black person must mean “I was surprised that black guy could speak well.}
the issue in such a situation is with the hearer, not the speaker.
January 31st, 2013 at 12:12 pm
Also Bub, sad that “great hits” doesnt actually mean “greatest songs”.
January 31st, 2013 at 12:51 pm
Curt, oh, yes…Turtles. I remember those family shopping trips and we had to hit Turtles before we made our way home. My dad was once a hippy.
I frequented the same store when it was a Blockbuster Music to pick up the latest Offspring, Weezer, Nirvana, Soundgarden, etc.
January 31st, 2013 at 1:22 pm
I totally remember Peaches (and even Oz which was it’s sister store in Buckhead). I bought the vinyl soundtrack to Star Wars at the Peaches in Buckhead. Isn’t that where Justin’s is now? It was right at the curve.
January 31st, 2013 at 1:33 pm
Dayn Perry of CBS Sports wrote a blog post about this USA Today story from 1997, called “Lifting the game: Creatine is baseball’s new gunpowder:”
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/bbw/2001-04-04/2001-04-04-archive-pumped.htm
It’s pretty amazing, in hindsight, to look at how not skeptical the media was back then.
It’s easy to blame the players who used steroids, and I certainly think they deserve their share of the blame. They’re the ones who did it, after all. But it was the media and the baseball establishment who fed the steroid culture and grew it in to this hidden-right-under-our-noses monster. It’s all just fascinating to look back on.
January 31st, 2013 at 2:28 pm
#64, that was well spoken. 8)
#63, I thought the Jackie google art was one of the best I’ve seen in a long time.
January 31st, 2013 at 6:18 pm
D’Backs and Prado agree to 4yr/$40mil contract
January 31st, 2013 at 6:20 pm
My first album I bought with my own money was Blood Sugar Sex Magik by Red Hot Chili Peppers.
January 31st, 2013 at 10:13 pm
Peaches with all their albums in peach crates. I got Elton John’s Greatest Hits LP there.
January 31st, 2013 at 10:51 pm
Sooooo…. Prado took less money and years from Arizona becauuuuuussssseeeeeee…. what? Is there some tension between Atl and Martin we don’t know about? Or I don’t know about? Not that it’s a big deal now, but… weird.
January 31st, 2013 at 11:04 pm
I think Simmons’ll do fine leading off. I do have the clubhouse concerns if the Uptons 1) alienate themselves due to some incident, or 2) there is some resentment by other players because they receive all the attention or, more importantly, if 3) one of them gets off to an Uggla like slump and Atlanta fans become extremely hostile and resentful due to the loss of Prado.
I think the wisest, calmest influence in the clubhouse is Tim Hudson. I think McCann is fully capable of being the leader in the clubhouse, but I think Hudson is a little more well-spoken, even more so than Chipper.
Strikeouts will definitely be an issue this year; but, on the whole, we have a more explosive offense, an exceptional outfield defense, a very good and potentially great starting rotation – y’all may be surprised by Teheran – (barring injury in the first half), and an exceptional bullpen.
We do lack contact hitters, and have an offense that could show like Yankees last year: out of this world and unbeatable one minute and swinging at air the next. And, a potential weakness defensively at third base (both players), as well as little back up at first if Freddie Freeman gets hurt.
All that being said, “I am stoked to see the season begin.” I think the trade on the whole was an up grade. I, too, was saddened to see Prado leave. Frankly, I was pleasantly surprised that as many Braves fans as there were were as upset to see him leave, as I. But remember, this time last year he was being shopped around for next to nothing…some difference a year makes.
Now, just hope the Uptons at least get off to a good start, that’ll be the biggest hurdle.
January 31st, 2013 at 11:17 pm
“I think Hudson is a little more well-spoken”
Wait… Tim Hudson is black??