Prior versus emergency starter Sosa. I’m just filled with confidence.
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Prior versus emergency starter Sosa. I’m just filled with confidence.
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Anything is better than Hampton. At least we have a chance now. Of course Thomson toasted the bullpen yesterday, so that won’t help.
Finishing fourth is going to suck.
So WHAT happened to HAMPTON?
It would also help to have a LITTLE offense.
Are Griffey and Wagner still available? 😉
Too bad they put Hampton on the DL. Otherwise, we could have had a GRIFFEY FOR HAMPTON deadline waver deal.
Terrence Moore would be wetting himself if something like that ever happened. He may explode… which might make it all worthwhile.
I’m hoping that the WGN feed isn’t blocked out here in Middle Tennessee. I’m looking forward to the break from Tom “multiple-O” Paciorek.
What does everyone think about this trade for next year?
Thompson, Hampton, Brower, Kolb, Reitsma, and Bernero for whoever…
How about Thompson and Hampton for Zach Duke?
We might be able to get Duke’s ankle brace for those two guys when he’s done with it.
Why on earth would the Pirates want to take on all that salary for two over-30 guys coming off of injury?
Also, I’m okay with getting rid of all those guys except for Reitsma.
Julio’s got to get the start today right? Please Bobby give me some hope. I need a day off from LaSuck. Plus Julio took Prior deep last time.
Maybe Smoltz needs to have a conversation w/ Andruw. Last time it seemed to work pretty well..
I was being facetious, there is no way the pirates will give up Duke, I just really wan’t him in a braves uni.
Wasn’t aubrey huff on the block last month? he could have possibly plugged a hole in the line up, i know he’s having a rough year now, but he definetly has power.
I haven’t seen the list of claimed players, but I don’t think there’s any chance that Huff cleared wavers.
has one heard if the Braves are bringing someone up for Hampton. I wouldnt mind seeing either McBride to fill Sosa’s spot in the bullpen. Or bringing up Davies and letting Sosa stay in the pen to set up Farnsworth
How about a bat?
This team was almost blanked by Jerome Williams. I’d rather see a new bat than another arm.
does anyone know why these guys haven’t been promoted from single A ball this year
Matt Harrison
11-6 3.37ERA 149 Innings 105 SO 28 BB
James Parr
13-3 3.30ERA 114 Innings 90 SO 22 BB
not sure why they haven’t moved to either AA or AAA
Wow both Franco and Langerhans in the starting lineup. Bobby’s really going for this one.
Wind blowing in from right, that’s always nice for the pitcher.
Does anybody else think Andruw Jones is swinging harder as the season progresses, by September they’ll have to start digging him out of the batters box
We’re doomed.
whew. Lucky for the Wrigley bricks there.
Perfect hit & run single. Sosa in trouble early, although he is keeping the ball down so far. Maybe get a GIDP?
Honestly, let’s just forfeit and save the bullpen. (I’m trying to counterjinx, but I don’t think it will work.)
Worked pretty well.
I like how they answered my request. 🙂 Maybe that works better than jinxing, Mac.
Whew. I think Sosa has stolen Ramirez’s magic pixie dust.
Ramirez taken out? What happened, he pull a muscle trying to beat out the DP?
The magic continues. It may not be encouraging for the future, but the way Sosa’s managed to get out of trouble so many times this year has been pretty impressive.
Dusty’s seen enough of Aramis for a while. It’s hard to use a guy who can’t run.
Who got called up?
It was McBride. The WGN guys mentioned it a few minutes ago.
Press pass notes says McBride. Also mentions that The Freak is the first Braves rookie to be on the cover of SI.
Did they update that or something? I looked earlier, and it was definitely the one for today, but I couldn’t find it. I guess I only checked the first couple of pages… and since there’s no search I could have just missed it.
Meanwhile, everyone goes down quietly in the second. Suck, sucky, suckingest.
I got the audio feed in time to hear the Braves radio guys say that Devine is the first pitcher ever to give up two slams in first two games. Wonder how he feels about *that* fun fact.
CR, it was in the bullpen section (page 3?), his paragraph is there and the first line of the notes says he was recalled for Hampton.
Patterson continuing to struggle…..good for us
Ways to make outs:
Popup
Flyout
Groundout
Foul out
Strikeout, swinging
Strikeout, looking
Strikeout, two-strike pitch bunted foul
Hit by batted ball
Caught stealing
Running past another baserunner
How many will we see today?
It seems to me like the Braves have screwed up more bunts this year than any other season I can remember.
Dunno, but let me just say, I hate when pitchers blow their bunt attempts.
Oh, I forgot the Infield Fly Rule, but that would require getting at least two baserunners on, so seems unlikely.
Force out
Thrown out trying to advance an extra base
The Braves end this series with no hits in the first three innings of any game.
you forgot interference in all its forms.
How about out on appeal for leaving a base too early (advancing on fly out)? Or missing a base?
This is the kind of game we do well in.
Graves got DFA’d, and Buster Olney notes that he feels Graves should have signed with the Braves, he would have had more margin for error (whatever that means). Why not just say he could have learned from Leo?
I would say “At least we don’t have Henry Blanco anymore,” but the way Estrada’s playing…
hitting the ball while out of the batters’ box too.
See, there are all sorts of ways to make outs, but most of them rely upon getting baserunners, preferably by hits. Not likely today.
Why did Prior bunt?
Prior will give you baserunners if you sit up there and take some pitches and foul some off, like McCann and Giles (in his first AB) did. The Braves’ best chance is to get Prior’s pitch count up so that Dusty Baker has to think about pulling him somewhere around 150.
Dman you Todd Walker, just get out!
Prior will give up some homers too, if the hitters stay patient.
Bummer, Walker is on fire right now.
It was jsut one. I think we might be able to get one.
Maybe. Possibly. I’m not confident in it right now. The offense is really looking bad. What are they hitting for the series, .150?
A HIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well it is probably better that we go through this funk before September hits. Usually we hit this funk around October. We will get through it
That’s about right – .169 coming into today’s game.
So, it was at .145 before Andruw’s hit. 🙂 At least they are making Prior work a bit, he’s up to 65 pitches already.
it happened.
Francoeur walk?
Woohoo, a real walk!
Let’s make it count.
I can tell my grandkids I saw it happen!
It’s about time…
Prior up to 75 pitches through 4 innings
Of course, it’s in vain. This is getting scary. You guys can talk about October slumps, but if they don’t turn this around soon there won’t be any chance at an October slump.
man, patterson sucks.
that’s another good inning from sosa…I think i’d rather have him and davies in the rotation right now than thomson and hampton
could this be the quickest inning ever?
Prior is not this good, is he?
great ab.
Come on Marcus
Good job, Furcal!
Good job Furcy!
Damn it!
uggg…. a dead pan prior.He is a great pitcher.But send him off quickly.
This is awful. And now you give up a hit to Hank White?
listening to the game on XM Radio, which is the Cubs radio broadcast. I can’t believe they let this homer bozo color man do the games when he sounds like someone is stabbing him every time something bad happens to the Cubs. Its infuriating.
I wouldn’t say this if YBS were an alternative, but the WGN guys aren’t bad and make for a nice little change of pace with a different perspective. Doesn’t Santo do Cubs radio? Is that who you’re talking about.
I wouldn’t do it if TBS were an alternative either 😉
Before the cub series we scored 33 runs in the last 6 games. That’s 5+ a game, I hardly see how we are in a “slump”. It’s just a couple of games, hardly justifying cries of “trade for a bat” or “OMG SLUMP”.
THANK YOU grst for a voice of reason.
I understand the frustration, but these things happen!!!
Sosa wriggles off the hook again, thanks to some fine defense.
Sosa is our Lethal Weapon! puhahah
I don’t mind a different perspective, and I have enjoyed watching the WGN telecasts over the years. But the guttural “ohhh”‘s and “gah”‘s get old. I just don’t think its very professional. I guess it must be Santo. I know he was a very likeable player, but I’m not sure I would like that even if I was a Cub fan.
Very nice bunt from Freanceour. A walk and a bunt hit, he’s really working on that versatility today, heh.
Yeah, don’t know a thing about him as a broadcaster. Gary Gillette said he was good, but he’s said plenty of stupid things in my brief exposure to him. So I don’t put any weight on that. I don’t even like that sorta thing for Braves’ broadcasters… which is why I’m watching WGN.
Hey, maybe we’re in business!
I missed the first four innings of this game(stupid class), so I missed “the walk.” And now things are finally looking up.
Lets go Brian!
Michael, yeah, that is Santo – he lives & dies with the Cubs. It is pretty annoying.
Too bad LaRoche is on deck and not at the plate. I’d take one of his DPs right now 🙂
Well, not now.
LaRoche can’t catch up to Prior or anyone else
0 for his last 17!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe that’s good, Smitty, he won’t try to pull it and serve one to left.
He can’t even make contact!!!!!!!
No DP now! hah!
Atleast there won’t be a double play now.
Jsut put it in play you dip stick!
Fuck!
God, do I hate Adam LaRoche.
!@#$%^&*()_!
He has a slider speed bat. We sould have sent Kelly Johnson up.
0 for 18
Should have used Orr.
If we don’t score, it is over!
Could have used some of those intangible thingies just now.
1st and third nobody out and we aren’t score, this is nuts
woohoo
OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YES!!!!!!!
Yes!
Eat em up!
Good job of running by Ryan!
120 pitches pull this guy…
I would have made that play.
Come on bull pen!
OoRAH!
WE need to get CHipper up this inning
The Santo noises were actually pretty entertaining that time. Go figure.
what happened!
For those of us without a tv in the office, what exactly happened on the Furcal infield single?
smoked it to lee and went off his glove into short right.
Furcal hit a screamer to D. Lee, it went off his glove toward second, and Walker’s throw was late to get Langerhans.
I think that’s about it.
Hit hard to Lee, he got a glove on it and it trickled out towards the second baseman’s position. He picked it up and threw home too late to get Langerhans.
Gotcha. Thanks. Are they taking Prior out?
They are now…
Good hustle by Langerhans to score on that, too. Have to like seeing that when the team is struggling at the plate.
And another steal by Furcal, he’s catching up to Andruw… And Giles!
Also, I’m glad to see Dusty is up to his old usage tricks with Prior. I think 130 pitches is enough, Mr. Baker.
Sosa 6 IP 4 H 1ER 2BB 3K..I’m glad Hampton didnt pitch..
What do we call these things crossing the plate again?
How can they leave Prior in so long? Doesn’t Baker remember the playoffs against the Marlins?
130+ pitches for Prior – good job, Dusty, close the gate after the cow’s gone.
Hey, it’s not like Prior is a young ace pitcher with a history of arm injuries who is the franchise building block or something.
Now, we really oughtta do some damage to Willy Lohman here.
hey the bats aren’t hot, but you have to like the baserunning
Baker suck… Oh poor boy, overworked! He is killing their ace.
predicting a long ball from Chipper!
I’ma go check Game Chatter on Primer; I think there are a lot of Cubs fans there. Should be a lot of very nice, complimentary things to say about Dusty.
I am listening on the radio, who is going to come in and pitch for us?
I hope it’s either Devine or Kolb 😉
Choice quotes:
# Posted by jolietconvict on August 24, 2005 at 04:19 PM (#1569652)
I #### knew it. It was too good to be true that he could get out of that inning. I #### hate this #### team.
# Posted by Phlegm Snopes on August 24, 2005 at 04:20 PM (#1569654)
How #### predictable was that?
# Posted by Phlegm Snopes on August 24, 2005 at 04:25 PM (#1569681)
Dusty Baker should be fukking shot.
# Posted by Let’s Play the Feud! (UCCF) on August 24, 2005 at 04:27 PM (#1569690)
Finally. A run-scoring single on pitch 132. That?s a surprise to? well, to Dusty. Probably not to most anyone else.
It?s times like this that I wish we carried 12 pitchers so we?d have plenty of arms to come in in this kind of situation.
Or at least that Williams had been able to go deep in the game yesterday so that the bullpen was rested.
Or that we had an off day tomorrow.
If only even one of those had been true, Dusty might have been able to bring in a reliever to start the 7th, or at least after Prior let the first two on, or at least after he gave up the lead?
Just got here for the rally. But in looking at the box score, it appears the run in the first off Sosa was called an earned run. How can a guy who is safe on an error and scores, be an earned run. Did anyone hear an explination of this?
Can anyone hear the kid on the radio chanting “Let’s go Cubbies, lets’ go!”
Boyer for closer!
Yeah, but here’s the problem inning. I think Farnsworth should be okay for the ninth, but who pitches the eighth? Does Bobby leave Boyer in?
poor kid
Stay with Boyer, he looks good. If he gives up a hit, bring in Farnsworth
LETS GET SOME RUNS!
they didn’t score in the first.
please leave boyer in…
lets go braves, lets go
I’ve been listening to that kid chant all game and felt I needed to counter him!!!
BTW, I’m looking forward to Farnsworth’s greeting by the Chicago fans. Should be interesting. I hope he isn’t too pumped.
ah …. getting old here. Thanks
Bipolar, Sosa’s run wasn’t in the first, it was in the 3rd, and was earned (Lawton walked, stole 2nd, and was doubled home).
if we have a chance to score here and need to pinch hit, then I wouldn’t mind seeing mcbride
Maybe The Freak is trying to turn that SI jinx around – 2 hits to break his slump and his first walk today.
I had the (mis)fortune of attending the CUbs game last night, one of a handful of Braves supporters. Cubs fans truly suck. Those few that are paying attention to the game are oblivious to the fact that they are 18 games out of their division and spend the game trash talking the Braves outfielders. Andruw kept looking back at us in the CF bleachers and laughing. Then he cranked one to Waveland Ave. I told my friend if I caught that ball they would have to pry it from my hands to throw it back.
I hope we take the series. F the Cubs.
where are we at:
according to MLB Foster is pitching to Langerhans w/ bases loaded and no outs. I’m not sure but I dont think this is it!
one out, none on. walker up.
Farnsworth comming in to face Lee, hmmm
A double switch? I guess Bobby wants to leave Foster in to face Burnitz.
Double-switch, here comes Farnie!
Well the kid is chanting and the fans a clapping with him.
TOTAL BRAIN CRAMP. Please ignore that post.
Foster coming out now, KJ coming in, as is Farnsworth. 1.3 inning save?
What was wrong with Foster?
I don’t trust him and neither does Cox vs. triple crown threat Derrek Lee.
Nothing, he just wasn’t going to face D. Lee.
I was wondering about that, CR. 🙂
Foster is left handed. Lee is not.
I guess with derrick lee up, bobby want the farns facing him
This would be a good spot for Kolb
Yeah, I kinad lost track and didn’t even know who’d been pitching. I don’t know why I ever bothering to try to do any work during the games… it just blows my focus completely 🙂
No walks Kyle
is Farnsworth a two inning closer now!
Shit!
Wow. What a bad day in the field for Andruw. How weird.
Well, now he can plunk somebody if he has something he wants to “say” 🙂
He misplayed both of Lee’s shots, very weird.
Leets get a crooked number here!
I figure it’ll take about three uneventful outs to make Farnsworth the close.
The Farns is throwing some heat!
Well, if he gets past Burnitz, the bottom of the Cubs lineup looks pretty feeble.
Monday’s hero, Kerry Wood in the game
I’d feel better with one more run here
I don’t want to get too far ahead, but I really like the boyer (8th) Farnsworth (9th) combo. They are both throwin some heat.
wow what a small strike zone
Good pitch!
Nice comeback to get the K
I don’t know if it hit the ground or not, but McCann did a great job if it did.
What, does Dusty have somewhere to be? Toss ’em, ump!
Wow, what are these guys doing?
They are taking strikes
Come on, golden sombrero time!
Walks are not good and here comes a good fastball hitter
No excuse for walking Patterson there.
At least he got strike 1 on Barrett.
YES!
Struck out the side, take that!
Meet your new closer. It wasn’t exactly pretty (unitl Barrett), but I think it’s settled… for now.
Hallelujah.
Sosa is wp.Hey dear,you deserve it!
hey and that was against his former team too, if he can keep his head cool and leo can keep his pitches around the plate, he’s dangerous
Maybe Hampton is out for the year
3 SO’s not bad, big win today!
player of the game….. Mike Hampton! that a boy Sosa, give this man a raise and a new contract…
Ramirez vs Sheets..this one should be fun
I hate days off!