Show #86: Checking in on the 2009 Braves’ Off Season
Tim Hudson’s extension. Trading Lowe or Vazquez? Outfield acquisitions. The closer situation. And the 2010 broadcast team.
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December 4th, 2009 at 9:23 am
Anne – great comment about the interpreters! Maybe they’ll save some money for first base and just use one between them.
December 4th, 2009 at 10:10 am
(this one might be a step too far) If Curt’s right about all daughters in the Saito house, clearly he’s been kicked out of Japan for the shame of producing no male children.
December 4th, 2009 at 10:10 am
Did you all see that Barbaro Canizares was released yesterday to make room for Saito? There’s one guy off the possible 1st base list …
December 4th, 2009 at 11:06 am
1st base is driving me crazy. I’m going to have to relisten to the podcast to remind myself of the plethora of possabilities.
December 4th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
I have some ideas brewing. More to come on Sunday.
December 4th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
*gasp* does that mean a new show on Sunday?
December 4th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Yes – new show on Sunday. Tell all of your friends. Gots to talk Wagner, Saito, LaRoche and, of course, the fact that some black market selling ninjas snuck into Curt’s bedroom last week and stole his gall bladder. Not cool, ninjas!
Loved this from DOB about how the lead up to both the Wagner and Saito signings were very quiet:
Shouldn’t have been too surprising if you consider that a week earlier, Braves brass including Wren and a not-exactly-inconspicuous Bobby Cox managed to fly to Charlottesville, meet Wagner at the small-town country club where he’s a member, sit in a room with him for two hours with plenty of other members around, and get out of town and back to Atlanta without word of it leaking to a single media member — not to Virginia media, not a national guys, and not to us in Atlanta. Not even a mention by anyone in a chat room or on a blog who might have been there or whose dad might have been there.
Pretty amazing in this day and age, with two guys as prominent as Wagner and Cox, in a small town in Virginia.
December 4th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Maybe I’ll head up to Virginia and have a little chat with Billy. It’s not far and seems so effortless.
So excited for a new show!
December 4th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Leah – I like your various pseudonyms. I’ll remember never to cross you.
December 4th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Steve, the weeks are filled with days of uncertainty. One minute I’m ecstatic and the next I’m terrified. WWJD? I’ll tell ya what he wouldn’t do…and that is leave his community when they’re damn near bipolar.
*There’s actually no way to do justice to that question but I’ll leave the theology to my better half.
Will, everytime I’m running and a dude passes me I wonder if he’s waiting to round the corner and blow snot out of his naked nostril. If he does will he aim for the woods or just blow on the path?
December 5th, 2009 at 2:03 am
I saw this posted somewhere else…so don’t call me a total lunatic…partial is fine.
but how about Matsui as our big bat!!! FKKNA World Series MVP, yes please.
I know he cant run, but one of the companies I have looked at over here has invented fake cartiledge that you inject in knees to repair them…well actually they take a biopsy of your own cartiledge and then grow it in a dish and then shoot it in your knees…
Ham, can you call Frank Wren and get this deal done?
December 5th, 2009 at 2:05 am
sorry its spelled cartilage
December 5th, 2009 at 7:42 am
sorry, as to the projectile I guess it depends on the nostril…
right nostril, left hand will cover left nostril, snot flies to the right…etc.
December 5th, 2009 at 8:41 am
Yes please indeed! If he hits the ball far enough it doesn’t matter how fast he runs.
December 5th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
It isn’t like that, Leah. Yeesh. It’s just a regular old neurotic battle against your run-of-the-mill internet addiction/ sports obsession. Ya nutcase.
But if Bama wins today, it’s all gonna collapse on me. Just hook me up to an I.V. of ramen noodle juice and replace my eyeballs every couple of weeks so I can keep staring at the monitor. Go Gators?
December 5th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Tcc- Today is the Day. I would say for us at least, if we lose today our season was for nothing. It is a must win
So if we don’t sign Laroche does that mean we are soon to be closing a deal for Adrian Gonzalez? (just trying to think optomistically)
AnywayI will be at the dome today and tomorrow. Go Falcs, Roll Tide, and most importantly Give em Hell Tech! (sorry Tcc)
December 5th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
…silence…
December 5th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
Sigh. Roll Tide. I guess.
Leah, I know sometimes it’s gonna rain, but I can’t sleep through the pain.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc0uPY10mGI
December 5th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Bub, clearly Leah’s not in her right mind, so don’t take it personally. You can tell because somewhere up there she wrote, “Anne’s a smart girl,” which is clearly delusionary. Poor, poor woman…
December 6th, 2009 at 8:37 am
Days go by…you don’t write you don’t call. Ok fine. I’ll let go of my virtual anger. Catch us up on your bball thoughts. Should we have held onto LaRoche? Are you as excited as Steve about Saito? Enquiring minds want to know.
December 6th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Saito & Wagner I like. But I always like the new guys. Can’t think of one I didn’t. So, I’m a homer.
My excitement over having Tim Hudson back is actually going through some kind of delayed surge. I mean, it kind of seemed half-granted, so it’s easy to skip over it. But Hudson potentially adds a lot – A LOT – of foundation to our staff. A better veteran leader than Lowe (whether Lowe is there with him or not), and if he pitches at 90% of his old self, or better, I mean what a pitching staff! Hudson is a great interview, too. A good figurehead. That stuff is important to a long season.
Honestly, Hudson coming back really does make Lowe look like a very servicable #4 pitcher. Wouldn’t be as sexy as Hudson+Javy+Hanson+Jurrjens, but it would be plenty great. I can see Lowe rebounding just fine at that slot.
I doubt the offensive upgrade is going to be exciting, but maybe Wren will pull some magic. If the added bat(s) are only decent and not great, it will give the team the benefit of NOT being predicted by every swinging ink pen to win the whole shabang. I HATE when that happens. For Pete’s sake, let the Phillies be picked to win the East by the majority.
To me, the pitching arrangement alone coupled with last year’s second-half offense or slightly better = playoffs. But then, I’m a homer.
Lastly, the lack of left-side-infield talent in the minors makes me half hope it IS Javy that gets traded, if they’ll do use it for that. Would be very shrewd. Then, we can try to trade the Javy-haul for a big bat, but if we failed to find what we wanted, we could sign decent FA bats and increase the farm talent where we need it most.
December 6th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
*That last sentence isn’t clear. What I mean is, if we tried to use the return on Javy to trade for a big bat, and it didn’t work out, we could just keep the return minor leaguers (grab a couple 2nd tier FA bats) and brighten the future that much more. Particularly if they were left side infielders.
December 6th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Wiley, you got 2/3 of your weekend wishes. Tech and Bama won, but the Falcons are anemic without their studs. I didn’t fare as well but last night was a great game and you have to agree that C J Spiller is a pretty special guy..consolation prize was the Tigers beat the Gamecocks today in roundball.
Bub, I think the big bat is really important. A great pitching staff is wonderful, but I’m tired of losing 3-1 games! At the major league level, 5-7 runs a night is what you need to win a division.
December 6th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
If Soriano’s agent is to be believed, Wren is about to look about as clumsy as this time last year. Nothing can be easy, can it?
December 6th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
Bub – don’t believe it. It ain’t happening. New show in about 45 minutes.