Show #212: Our Interview with Braves Legend David Justice
David talks about the early ’90′s, the real story of his comments before Game 6 and being traded in 1997. David also shares his experiences with Fox’s Spring Training for the Troops.
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March 2nd, 2013 at 11:02 pm
@75, good points. Maybe B J Upton will be the tie breaker. In a good way.
The Uggla fail, if it persists, just really feels like the worst sucker punch ever. Especially in the wake of McLouth coming here and just falling right down a production manhole.
Honestly, I have way more hope that Francisco will put up numbers close to Uggla’s old days than I have for Uggla recovering. Seems like we’ve seen an abnormal amount of hitters just totally tanking out of nowhere, starting with Andruw Jones and stretching to Uggs. Maybe it happens in the majors more often than I’ve noticed.
March 2nd, 2013 at 11:14 pm
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/the-rapid-fall-of-dan-uggla/
I’m late seeing this. Those K rates … why is it, again, that we’re holding out some phantom hope that he’ll get well?
March 3rd, 2013 at 7:00 am
@73: Don’t forget that one game of KK’s where he pitched better than Roy Halladay in Toronto.
@76: I have that same feeling, too. That the Braves have suffered an inordinate amount of players who should be good and then just drop off the face of the earth to such a degree that you’re left saying, “if they would just be barely average, we’d be in good shape with the rest of the talent around them.”
A Jones, Frenchy, McLouth, JJ, Hanson, Venters (last year), Uggla. It seems impossible but maybe it does happen to all teams.
March 3rd, 2013 at 1:31 pm
Max Scherzer struck out zero batters of the first five. Uggla was battter number six. Guess how that ended.
March 3rd, 2013 at 1:43 pm
I wouldn’t put Andruw Jones in the same category with those players. Andruw actually had all his good years with us. According to baseball reference even in his worst season with the Braves he compiled a 2.8 WAR.
March 3rd, 2013 at 1:43 pm
Yeah, well, Frenchy had all his good years with us, too. 8)
March 3rd, 2013 at 1:57 pm
True. Trust me Dayton Moore will be fired after this year. Trading Will Myers and keeping Frenchy makes no sense. James Shields wasn’t worth that.
March 3rd, 2013 at 2:48 pm
UGGS! HR!
March 4th, 2013 at 6:20 pm
…. h’llo?
March 4th, 2013 at 10:15 pm
Howdy Bub!
March 4th, 2013 at 11:18 pm
Hey, Leah. We never had a moment concerning the end of Pixar’s greatness. We should have huddled together crying in some coffee. You do agree Cars 2 is fairly terrible, right? Right?
March 5th, 2013 at 8:54 am
@86 – I know you didn’t ask me, but yes – Cars 2 is a complete waste.
March 5th, 2013 at 9:27 am
It’s really the first time I felt that a Pixar movie was strictly made to sell toys. That, and the, what I found to be, excessive violence. Really awful.
But I found Brave to be delightful. So a nice bounce back.
March 5th, 2013 at 9:30 am
P.S. Regular shows start Sunday
March 5th, 2013 at 10:32 am
Does anyone find it weird that Uggla led the NL in walks in 2012? I don’t think of Dan Uggla as an extremely patient hitter. Looking at the span of his career (2006-2012) his walk rate doesn’t rank all that high but it is decent. His total walks rank 15th in the majors over that span.
I think the best things we can say about Uggla is that he has some power, he has an idea of the strikezone and he’s durable. All these things keep him from being an absolute disaster but he needs to find his power stroke again. If we see the walks from 2012 and the power from 2011, the Braves will be set.
March 5th, 2013 at 11:30 am
That’s like the old joke –
In Heaven: the cooks are French, the policemen are English, the mechanics are German, the lovers are Italian and the bankers are Swiss.
In Hell: the cooks are English, the policemen are German, the mechanics are French, the lovers are Swiss and the bankers are Italian.
Let’s see what combo we actually get from Uggla.
March 5th, 2013 at 1:43 pm
@91, that’s great, haven’t heard that before.
Shaun, it’s the power from 2012, walks from 2011 version I’m afraid of. And with the K-fest in Spring Training so far …
@87, wow, so bad that Stevie hated it. That’s when you know you’ve made a bad flick.
March 5th, 2013 at 8:24 pm
Huddy and Maholm’s outings have been luckier than good so far.
March 5th, 2013 at 8:28 pm
please hit Joba.
March 5th, 2013 at 8:54 pm
@86 yes…terrible. I also loved Brave. I can’t believe we made it through the Oscars without great debate. We’ve slipped!
March 5th, 2013 at 9:18 pm
I hope the Braves bust it wide open. Spring Training or no…hate the Yanks.
March 5th, 2013 at 10:28 pm
The Oscars were awful. I would watch Cars 2, Clockwork Orange style, with my eyes pried open, before I would watch 3 more minutes of that crap. The genius who hired Seth McFarland should be flogged.
March 6th, 2013 at 4:45 pm
The Braves are willing to trade Venters.
http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/blog/mlb-rumors/21823845/report-braves-could-be-willing-to-trade-johnny-venters
But why? We dont have any needs and his value is lower than it should be coming off of last season. Frank, dont get too trade happy.
March 6th, 2013 at 5:00 pm
Fun read: http://m.espn.go.com/general/blogs/blogpost?blogname=sweetspot&id=33502&src=desktop
March 6th, 2013 at 5:27 pm
Another fun read: http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2013/03/offseason-in-review-atlanta-braves.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter — though not as fun as the read in #99.
This link poses a good question: are the 2013 Braves better than the 2012 team? Entering into the season, is this team better than last year’s team when they entered the season?
I think it’d be an interesting question, and one that can’t be answered with, “well, they’re just different.” Duh. Which one is BETTER?