Originally “Johnny B. Game Thread” but actually I like this song better.
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Originally “Johnny B. Game Thread” but actually I like this song better.
Use code “Journal” for a 5% discount.
Actually, in light of the circumstances and the fact i like the song better, why not “You Can’t Catch Me”?
I’m glad we traded Zach Miner for 26 games of Kyle Farnsworth
Great article on one of the Braves draftees with a Major league pedigree.
Go to http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/local/orl-mehlich0506jul05,0,6977953.story?coll=orl-sports-headlines
to read about Mikey Melich.
I’ll put down my mark now that the Braves end up with a “funny mark” by mid-September ==> http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=kurkjian_tim&id=2508492
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*JudyKolb*
Now that Manny is not going to play in the All Star game I wonder who Ozzie is going to start at LF.
John Garland
fox sports is showing the lineup
Giles
Renteria
Jones
Jones
McCann
Frenchy
LaRoche
Langy
James
Congrats to Chipper Jones – NL Player of the Week
http://atlanta.braves.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20060705&content_id=1540670&vkey=pr_atl&fext=.jsp&c_id=atl
Good for Chip. And seeing that he’s in the line-up that Fox is reporting, the foot must be doing pretty good.
I think the fact that Chip led the Braves to a 3-3 record during that week, was more impressive then his offensive numbers..
I bet Joe Crede takes Manny’s spot. Ozzie said that’s what he’d do if there was an injury opening. Screw him. What a farce.
I remember the “funny mark” as being a z most often.
I’m not a big fan of z’s. I still have a cartoon from 1991 somewhere celebrating that “it’s already June and the Braves aren’t mathematically eliminated yet.”
I’m hoping Ozzie starts Mark Redman in left.
Ozzie might start himself in left..
Yeah, mostly it’s x’s and z’s for clinched division and clinched wild card, respectively. I just think the funniest mark on the QWERTY keyboard is the ~.
I thought I read somewhere that Magglio Ordonez is taking Manny’s spot.
Yeah, I’m remembering from when there were no wild cards and dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
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ATLANTA — Chipper Jones is scheduled to see a specialist Wednesday about his injured right foot, and Braves manager Bobby Cox said the reports don’t sound encouraging.
I doubt Chipper wil play tonight if there is still a possibility of further injuring himself. I’m sure the line-up posted above is incorrect. I guess we’ll see
Yahoo now has the lineups: The Braves’ lineup is as CSG posted. Here’s St. Louis:
D. Eckstein ss
S. Taguchi lf
A. Pujols 1b
S. Rolen 3b
J. Encarnacion rf
J. Edmonds cf
Y. Molina c
H. Luna 2b
J. Suppan p
Get ’em, Chucky!
Place your bets.
Chuck James or Albert Pujols?
Certainly not Pujols. Why? Because our pitcher’s Chuck James, b*tch!
Chuck.
chipper is in the lineup on gameday as well. maybe he got some good news today. i guess we’ll see. go bravos
POLL ::::::
Who do the Braves need to step up most in July?
Jeff Francoeur
Marcus Giles
Tim Hudson
Andruw Jones
Chipper Jones
I say all of the above.
try “everyone”!
We need Francoeur to walk up, Chipper to power up, Hudson to pitch up, and Giles to be traded up.
It will be interesting to see if the cards pitch up in on Frenchy after his comments. If he was serious then I hope so, I think it would let them take out some frustration.
Brian J. don’t forget LaRoche needs to wake up.
I was just commenting on the players in Jay’s poll. You’re right of course. We also need a little more patience from Diaz, power from Langerhans, and anything from Orr or Pratt to justify their continued paychecks. And a bullpen with some working parts.
I agree 100%. I really think that Barry is here to stay for awhile. He has been affective in both of his outings.
Jay, what did Frenchy say?
http://atlanta.braves.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060704&content_id=1539063&vkey=news_atl&fext=.jsp&c_id=atl
Thanks again, Jay.
No problem.
I hope there isn’t another delay.
MLB says “Delayed: About to resume.”
Here is what will happen:
If the Braves are winning, it will rain out in the fourth inning.
If the Braves are losing, it will rain out after the fifth inning.
Round 1. Chuck.
Pujols=P3NED.
OK. There we go. Nine pitches, three up, three down. That’s the way I like to see a ballgame start.
In regard to the poll question, I vote that we neeed Tim Hudson to step up the most. If you look at what he has done versus what he CAN do, I think he can have the biggest impact of any of those.
Tough frackin’ year for the ATL, first our Braves, now this:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/07/05/coke.secrets.ap/index.html
Three Charged With Stealing Coca-Cola Secrets
Obviously, James needs his own rooting section. I have two ideas that I will not implement personally but am freeing for the public domain:
1. The Chuck Wagon, in which everyone dresses up as pioneers or cowboys.
2. The Brides of Chucky, who dress up in wedding gear.
Edgar!!!
Nice.
this feels good.
Power and pitching. THESE are the Braves we all know and love!
i wanted chip to go 5-5 with 5 hr’s so he didnt have to run. here goes the test
Andruw!!!
This is the start I was hoping for.
This is too good, it can’t be happening.
God has conspired against the Braves. It will rain out with the Braves leading 10-0 in the third.
C’mon, let’s knock these guys out early.
I like the “Child’s Play” motif. (Of course, it would be awesome to get Jennifer Tilly involved.) When I think of Chuck Wagon, I don’t think of cowboys, I think of dog food.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sweeeeeeet!
Chipper ran very good.
4-0, nice. Now I’ll take a “productive out.”
5-0
Works for me.
hopefully thats all chuck will need, but we shouldnt stop until we see a yankee type beating yesterday compliments of cleveland.
Ask for a home run next time, ububba. Obviously, they’re listening to you.
OMG charge!!!!!
i’m not sure my last post makes sense
Oh, I thought that hit him.
Brian J,
I’ll save the clairvoyance for when we really need it.
Get home a half hour after first pitch, and I miss five runs. Crazy.
Chuck can hold this lead.
Do they still make that dog food? I certainly haven’t seen that little wagon in many years.
The Mets also jumped out to a 5-0 lead after the first. Coindidence, or…..? OK, probably just coincidence, but hopefully they blow theirs.
Chuck’s fallen behind 2-0 on Rolen and Encarnacion. Don’t try to get too cute, Chuck, just keep it in the strike zone. You’re doing fine.
There was a lot of offense yesterday and it looks like there will be a lot today.
This is a bit off-topic, but was there every a player profile done of Chuck James? Someone was asking about him and I wanted to link the profile from this site, but I couldn’t find it.
Oh, and how ’bout that offense? 🙂
“Do they still make that dog food?”
Purina is still around, isn’t it?
If you supply enough beer, I could be willing to help start the upper deck “Upchuck” section.
I never did write a full one, no. In theory I write one for all callups but actually I haven’t done that often this year. Here’s a little writeup Sickels did.
There was a dog food once, children, called “Chuck Wagon” that did commercials where a dog would chase a little wagon. I do not believe that that brand of dog food is still manufactured, though, and Googling finds mostly references to actual chuck wagons. And this.
Family Dog Suspected Cause Of Miniature Chuck-Wagon Disaster | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
There was actually an Atari video game made for Chuck Wagon dog food as a promotion back in the early ’80s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chase_the_Chuck_Wagon
Wait. That ball bounced on the ground. What is this ground ball out of which they speak?
-n
Well I thought Purina made it or something. I guess I’m wrong.
I was born in 1986, so what do I know?
Okay, this one is a bit out there, but “we” (again, I will not be participating, except in spirit) could dress up as modernist paintings or sculpture that do not depict anything existing in objective reality and go as the Chuck James Baseball Abstracts.
Purina did make it; we just can’t seem to find out when they stopped making it.
Oh by the way, Chuck himself is pitching a helluva game.
Dada in the dugout. I like it.
Round 2. Chuck.
Damn.. so much for a shutout.
No worries, Chuck, you’re still up four.
Just wondering, does anyone think the Smoltz for Zumaya trade would be good?
Yes, but I don’t see Detroit agreeing to it.
Chipper back in Braves’ lineup; Reitsma out for season:
I vote amputation, but that’s probably harsh.
This is admittedly going on what I heard during the TBS broadcast, but either of those operations will probably need to be combined with removing bone spurs. Don’t count on Reitsma pitching at all in 2007.
“Three Charged With Stealing Coca-Cola Secrets”
Damn you, Slugworth!
Thats going to hurt!
Marcus!
Way to get that run back.
This is a great game!! Chipper looking like his foot doesn’t hurt at all.
It almost seems a shame to have a rally like this in a game where we’re already up by four runs.
Almost.
Glad Chipper’s stroke is intact.
Did that pitcher throw anything higher than 83?
BEAST MCCANN!
I’m surprised they don’t throw at his head for the intentional balls.
-n
Wow, LaRoche hustled.
Whaddya know, the naysayers are nowhere to be found.
Man I love thrashings
Ahaha. Did LaRoche just beat out an IF hit?? Sweet. 🙂
Suppan’s line: 3.1 IP, 9 H, 10 R, 9 ER, 2 BB, 1 K. That’s a line our bullpen would disown.
This guy has nothing.
Maybe he’s just hoping that if we keep hitting, it’ll rain…
lol
Hey guys, the Cards just struck out the side. 😀
True, but if two of those are striking out the pitcher, it’s not a real good sign.
Everyone has a hit and has scored a run except Chucky.
Oh and everyone has at least 1 RBI
I was just about to say how much I am LOVING this and I love kicking Tony LaRussa’s a– but then they cut 2 runs off the lead.
This is what Mac said that Chucky is prone to the longball, but still, I will take an 8 run lead.
I think as long as Chucky keeps the homer to an occasional thing but can still mostly strike people out and get pop ups, we are cool…
Yea he gives up a lot of flyballs but with our outfield it shouldn’t be a problem.
Only one strikeout so far, I think.
Round 3. Chuck.
Flyballs are preferable to grounders with this infield. On the other hand, he did get that GIDP earlier.
And, it’s official.
Yea but only 1 walk.
Overall, despite the occasional homer, we have to all be very happy with what we have gotten from Chucky. I only wished we had stuck him in the rotation for Sosa 2 months earlier.
Now, if Davies gets healthy, we can dump Thomson.
By the way, does anyone in here have a Kyle Davies health update? Just curious.
marcus being very patient and i like it.
The only thing I know is he is on the 60 DL. Other than that I am curious also.
lets put up a 20 spot.
Wow…I come home and find an 11-3 game
Don’t see this very often
Chipper!!!
Well the countdown is 7.
Gosh this feels good.
…and there’s our two runs back, thank you very much. Take that Cardinal a-holes…still wanna keep throwing at our players? Love this.
chipper is on my fantasy team…and he’s on the bench. what a let down.
SHIT!!!
Alex, they’re coming at us again…
No matter how big the lead, the Braves should just keep piling it on and see if they can carry it over into tomorrow and beyond.
That was probably on purpose.
ok…this sh– has gotta stop. We need to throw at one of their players now…enough is enough. I don’t care if it’s a B.S. ump response and our pitcher gets tossed, but LaRussa’s jacka– tactics is complete horsesh–.
Will we please retaliate now? Pretty please? This is offensive.
LaRussa should be tossed right now just on general principles. I think this is 5 HBP in this series now, plus 3 or 4 close calls.
Well, the occasional homer is of course ok when you start with a 9-run lead, but if it continues, it’s going to be more of a problem most of the time.
Well Scott Rolen is up in the 6th.
Seriously, LaRussa has spent his career having a hard on towards Cox for no reason in my opinion. We may not all love Bobby’s in game managing, but he was one of the nicest and most easy going managers in Baseball. For LaRussa to continue to try and get under Cox’s skin is beyond ridiculous.
I would love to drop 25 on these jackoffs.
Ok, Alex I know we all had this big discussion about wishing harm upon players, but you have to admit it would be great to see Francoeur get a full head of steam from the plate and just form-tackle the pitcher the next time he gets plunked. That would probably make my year.
Honestly, does anyone else agree that this is ALL about LaRussa and his bizarre hatred of Cox. I don’t understand…all other Managers from Dusty to Garner to even Ozzie seem to have enormous respect for Bobby…but not LaRussa. It must irk him that people don’t rever him and his 70’s haircut the same way.
I hope this guy throws at Frenchy. If he does Frenchy better charge him.
You may get your chance, Tennessee.
Yeah, I have seen Francoeur play some football. A form tackle would be beautiful.
Tennessee,
Honestly, you are 100% right. and there is a difference between wishing an ACL tear on Pujols vs. wishing Francouer would run Luna’s a– over at the plate.
No, the Cardinals have continued to tried and bully the Braves and the Braves need to start bullying back.
I am with you, Tennessee…the Braves need to stand uip for themselves and I especially don’t like taking it from that hack coward LaRussa.
Frenchy needs to go Waterboy on some people if they come close to him again
Maybe there is a reason LaRussa brought in a bigger guy.
Davey,
Waterboy…awesome reference! He can squeal like Sandler too when he does it…that would be hilarious!
haha, he won’t even let them get the chance to hit him.
Hey Mac…this Tyler guy the Cards brought in is an AUBURN guy…think this might be the right guy to go after? 😉
Even with this lead, I’d rather the pitcher not hit the batter until there are two outs, but yeah, do it.
No, charging the mound in this case is a waste.
Either lead an invasion of the dugout after LaRussa’s head, or just walk to 1st, and commence beatdown on Pujois.
Throw at LaRussa.
Watching the Fox Sports Sputh broadcast is hilarious…they are trying to tempt Braves fans out to the ballpark with ex Braves such as Paul Assenmacher and Charlie Puleo. Man, you have to be a hardcore fan to get excited by those guys (though Assenmacher had a few good years).
So much for hitting Rolen
Throw at LaRussa?
Anyone know where Charlie Sheen is tonight? We could really use ‘Rick “Wild Thing” Vaughn to accomplish THAT!
(Sheen’s probably wish some prostitute/cheerleaders tonight).
Now they are hitting us with their bats.
Rick Ankiel would probably hit LaRussa if he tried throwing towards home plate..
Or Chuck Knoblauch (I hope I typed thar correct)
The Mets got 5 runs and 4 hits while making one out against Pittsburgh in the first inning- and no hits since.
Sadly, the Pirates couldn’t string any hits together and lost 5-0.
I can’t sign in Mac..
When I sign in, nothing happens..and when I try to post, I just get errors.
Any ideas?
Knoblauch and Ankiel in a ‘throwing’ contes…new all star competition!
I’ve no idea.
So long, Chuck. You did your job. Now can our bullpen get nine outs before giving up nine runs?
Thor!!!!
Thorman first home-run!
The Mighty Thor!
Great nickname.
wow…when Thorman is hitting homers, thats just cool.
Thorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, my adopted player gets his first big league homah!
By the way…watching the guys in the dugout…Chuckie James is tiny man.
Yea 6″0 190 might be stretching it.
I think there needs to be a section now of Bravos fans at the Ted dressed in Viking gear who are “thor” supporters.
Good night for Chuck.
Wow…Reitsma is lucky that Braves fan who caught Thor’s homer was nice…he’s lucky she didn’t chuck it at Reitsma when she realized it was, well, Reitsma.
This is really bothering me. I try to sign in and nothing, just nothing happens.
On my laptop everything is fine…but on the desktop I just can’t sign in or post anymore.
But it was fine about 3 hours ago…
That was a little close.
I’m still hoping to see Jeffrey Jackhammer someone Goldberg style
So endeth Mr. Pujols’ day. 0-4. Obviously, the Braves never heard what all the fuss was about.
And as usuall, the ridiculous facial hair award goes to Scott Spezio..
YES, MCBRIDE!
It’s about time
Cardinals just aquired Jeff Weaver from the Angels.
Jeff Weaver?
Are you jealous?
Hell no… Just mentioning it. He sucks.
C’mon Reneteria.
Give Betemit a chance to bat.
I think it makes the Cards look pretty desperate.
If it was Jered Weaver then I would be jealous but Jeff is 3-10 with a 6.29 era.
Actually, the Cards just went “whoops”…they meant to aquire JERED Weaver and realized they got the wrong one…the Ozzie canseco, the Billy Ripken…
How can everyone be so short of pitching at once?
Bill Goldberg, another Georgia Bulldog done good.
Speaking of Goldberg, I wonder if he can pitch.
Did you read ESPN’s articles regarding juicing pitchers? With so many teams needin pitching,it’s enough to make you wonder just how many pitchers were juicing….especially middle relievers. Those would be the guys to benefit the most from steroids, especially their ability to help you recover more quickly.
This kind of stinks. Right when we have a perfect spot to pitch Reitsma, he’s on the DL.
I think we have a good chance of winning tommorrow. We will face Joe Mays(0-5). Then again we have Hudson going for us.
I’m rooting for extra innings up in Milwaukee.
FSN midwest is talking about Glenn Hubbard questioned about steriods. Does anyone know about this?
ububba…so true about Goldberg–another Dawg I am proud of!
If Paronto finishes this do we consider it a ‘save’?
No, we consider it a relief.
Ah, for the days when Braves were Braves and this was the kind of show we could put on against anyone who challenged us. May they soon return!
Well, that’s it. I am very pleased to take a series from the Cards.
agreed…love humiliating that jackal LaRussa.
Always great to beat the Cardinals….now lets see how we do against the Reds!
I cant believe McBribe apologized to Edmonds … he is on my shit list now … the way teams have been hitting our guys .. and he apologizes ??? Frenchy and Andrew need to have a talk with him and other pitchers … Paronto had a perfect opportunity with Albert and Rolen ….. who is gonna change Paronto ?? Maybe those 2 but at least we say hey you hit our top 2 RBI guys we hit yours !!!!!!!!