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HEAR IS A VIDEO FRUM MY FAVRIT INDIANAPAPALISIAN ARTUST:
Lolz… 😀
Here’s what we need today:
Hi, Dan!
I’m Kev. I live near Indy, too!
I love the Indians! You should do them a big, big favor. You should go outside, get on 16th Street and walk away from the sun until you hear really loud cars. Race cars!
You should go inside the track (it’s real neat!) and ask for the third turn. It’s not far!
Look for big guys with long beards and dark glasses. Look for HD tattoos. They’re the nicest guys. They’ll probably give you a beer! Or more! Maybe even kiss their girlfriends(they’re not really old ladies, they just call them that.) They don’t mind!
Then tell them you have your own bike–a Honda!
They’ll really love that!
It would be the best thing that ever happened to you. And it’ll help the Indians a bunch.
i wonder if KC would trade Perez for Pena?
did Odalis burn his bridge with the Braves?
Catcher is just about the only place where the Royals don’t need help. John Buck is 26 years old and hitting .287 .391 .585.
Also, Perez, in 47 2/3 IP, has struck out 20 and walked 14. He is done. Pass.
thanks, just curoius.
i shud git dan 2 prufreed mi postes
Lineup glory.
Atlanta Braves – 26-17, 2nd in the NL East, 2.5 GB
Martin Prado, 2B
Edgar Renteria, SS
Chipper Jones, DH
Jeff Francoeur, RF
Matt Diaz, LF
Andruw Jones, CF
Brian McCann, C
Chris Woodward, 3B
Scott Thorman, 1B
Tim Hudson, P
Boston Red Sox – 29-13, 1st in the AL East
Coco Crisp, CF
Kevin Youkilis, 3B
David Ortiz, DH
Manny Ramirez, LF
J.D. Drew, RF
Jason Varitek, C
Eric Hinske, 1B
Alex Cora, SS
Dustin Pedroia, 2B
Kason Gabbard, P
Strating Lienups 4 2Dae’s Gaem:
Braevs:
M Praddo 2b
E Retneira ss
C Joanes dh
J Frenchy rf
M Dyeazz lf
A Joanes cf
B Mcccannn c
C Woudword 3b
S Thor! Man 1b
Redd Soxs:
C Crispy cf
K You Kill Us 1b
D Ortees dh
M Rameeriz lf
JD Droo rf
J Verytech c
E Hinky 1b
A Coara ss
D Perdoya 2b
(Thanks for the proofreading help, Dan. I think he also made out the Braves’ lineup…)
when did we call up prado?
We called him up when Lerew was put on the DL today.
First I’ve heard of it. Man, now I have to write him up and he’s almost completely boring.
I don’t think that it’s been announced yet, but Yahoo! now has Lerew on the DL and also the Braves site has Prado on the 25-man now.
i’m sure dan would love to write about him.
Also, KJ finally heats up — it’s obviously time for him to take a day off!
my thoughts exactly
I guess Bobby wanted some depth at the end of the lineup as well with swapping McCann and Diaz. He did well in the cleanup spot last night or I thought he did anyway.
Guess he’s going to try Frenchy in the clean-up role today.
i think andruw asked for B-mac to bat behind him
Sometimes, I am almost positive Bobby overmanages himself before the game and then is all managed out when the game begins.
Odalis Perez is washed up and I think still too expensive for us. We’ve already wasted away a few million on Wilson and Redman, no point wasting more money for no results. It’d be nice if the unnamed player in the Langerhans deal is announced as Halsey and soon.
First of all, Redman should be put on the permanent DL, he is terrible, i dont understand what the reason is to keep him, I guess they dont trust and dont want to rush any more young kids, but they cant be as bad as Redman, he has 0 % chance to improve….
Second of all, Im glad Andruw got moved down, its as if bobby cox reads you guys posts! maybe this will help him…..
Where is Aybar? any word on him?
is there any pitcher other than Redman, because thats a guarenteed loss every 5 days, wihch the mets dont have
AJC posted a story yesterday saying aybar was in a rehab program
Boston radio says the game is delayed.
Aybar is in rehab, undisclosed location. Tim Brown has it in his latest Yahoo! column
Prado… Jesus, now we have 3 utility infielders on the 25-man roster? WTF?!
Thanks for the info on Aybar, hate to say it, but that turned out to be the worst trade EVER….we got appendicitis and substance abuse for Wilson Betemint
njbravesfan, according to the AJC, Aybar is in a undisclosed rehab facility and is getting the treatment he needs.
Here’s the entire article.
Oops, too late. Oh well.
wilson can only hit against the braves, so no huge loss.
here is the Brown column
MLB.TV says rain delay. How’s the weather/outlook for Boston today?
They finally found Aybar? That’s good to hear.
Our main problem is that we aren’t looking for a stop-gap fifth starter for a few starts while somebody nurses an injury. I’d be all for bringing up Trey Hodges or another AAA arm in that kind of a role, but Cormier is anything but proven and his recent outing in the minors doesn’t look good.
The Jays were shopping Towers and Ohka last I heard, I’m not sure what we have that they’d need, but I think JS seriously needs to find us a legitimate starter with a couple years left on their contract.
Thanks for the info, its really ashame what happened to this poor kid, very unfortunate, hopefully he recovers and is ok as a person, let alone baseball player, but if he comes back adn gives us something its much needed depth, but prado getting the job done would help us tremendously too.
again, i hear WFAN everyday in New York talking about how the Yankees are gonna add payroll, how much more could they add? who are they gonna get? could you imagine the braves add just 20 million, we could dramatically help our ball club, let alone another 70 million which would still put us about 70 million below the yanks!
Saved by the Bell…… wow
pete says atleast a half hour before the game gets started
According to Jon & Joe, the game is supposed to start at 2:35 ET. They were extremely doubtful of this. At any rate, they will wait all day to get this one in if necessary.
Still raining by the looks of it…
According to weather.com, it’s not supposed to stop raining until around 10 pm, but it says it is going to let up some by 3 pm. They’ll most likely have to play through the rain like last night’s game.
Will TBS still show the game if it overlaps into Sunday Night Baseball?
http://www.weather.com/weather/map/interactive/USMA0046?from=36hour_map_large&zoom=7&interactiveMapLayer=radar
doesn’t look good – but dang, that’s a fun radar..
Ha ha ha. What hilarious fix will Tim find himself in in this one? Ha ha.
Any updates on when the game will start mac?
i am glad that at least it should be safe to assume that we won’t see jonathan johnson in atlanta. he’s given up 7 runs in 4 innings so far tonight in richmond.
Jonathan Johnson needs to hang em up. Is Bobby smoking crack again? How can he not put KJ in the lineup.
Grounds crew is taking the tarp off the field.
KJ just had a day off against the Nats, the day after the error heard round the world.
He’s a professional baseball player. He’ll be okay.
(from the last thread)
Mac,
Why has Andruw given you ANY evidence EVER that he wouldn’t be the sulking type? He seems EXACTLY the type to sit & sulk.
So huddy has really bad numbers in Fenway….im a little scared.
Alex R,
you think he’s sulking now, you sould have seen him when they closed the gold club 😉
I believe Andruw could be disappointed. No one, especially in a contract year wants to see their spot drop in the batting order.
But I do not believe he would “sulk” to the point of refusing to play. That’s insane.
Wow, an interview with Drew Carey! This is virtuoso television right here.
Dick Clark + Drew Carey = two of the four horsemen
“There’s a lot more still to come!”
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Watching the Marlins right now, Marlins RP Lindstrom just hit 101 on the gun, he has some ood stuff… wow!
Alex, you say this because you don’t like Andruw, but have you ever known him to complain publicly or yell at Bobby or anything like that? In fact, one of your regular complaints is that he smiles all the time and is too easygoing. Andruw has been moved down in the lineup before and he never sat. In fact, he almost never leaves the lineup unless he’s seriously injured and can’t run.
First Pitch 4:35!
They’re now saying first pitch at 3:35 CT.
Sorry, I get “Eastern-centric” sometimes.
Huddy 3-7 vs. Sox and gives up a long double to Ortiz … a tad worrisome here at the start.
Nice one Woodie.
Good job Woodward
uh oh…
Yikes… a four spot in the first.
Wish the rain hadn’t stopped….
Is this one of those games where we make the young pitcher look like Cy Young?
The ’06 Hudson has returned.
Why IS Prado playing today? More of that lefty-vs.-righty fetish that Bobby Cox is infected with?
If Prado takes playing time away from Kelly Johnson regularly, like a platoon, that’s grounds for a pink slip.
Hey Mac, you’re darn right I don’t like Andruw and the reasons have been listed numerous times.
Though I wholeheartedly agree with beedee’s assesment…’Druw’s biggest whining was the closing down of the Gold Club. I wonder if he started tagging along w/ Chipper to Hooters?
Should have been two, but Prado bobbled. Whew, great defense, just like the Prado-fans were saying made him deserve the job in spring training.
Well hopefully that will cut Prado’s time dramatically. A “glove man” is s’posed to make that play
No, this is one of those games where we play like sh*t defensively along with making the young pitcher look like Cy Young. It’s its own subcategory.
A.J brings the glove at least…
Back to this game, this is the Red Sox offense so it’s not the “normal” offense to judge this again, but if the Braves are going to have any shot at making the Wild Card (because I firmly believe that if the Mets keep getting great starting pitching from the likes of Sosa, Maine, Ollie Perez et all, we have zero chance) we HAVE to get a 3rd high quality starter we can rely on.
I don’t see how we can keep relying on an inconsistent offense with only 2 reliable starters…look what a disaster when one of those 2 is getting killed…like today.
By the way, I missed this earlier…why is Chris Woodward playing again?
No one has said this, but is Woodward the NEW Keith Lockhart, my least favorite Brave of all time, not named Reitsma or Kolbb?
5-0 deficit, 3-1 count and Thorman swings at ball four for a groundout. That’s suppose to be Francoeur’s move.
Are the “Braves getting A.J. Burnett” rumors still floating around?
Hudson is known by these hitters, they saw him for years, and has bad luck in boston, unfortunatley his NL strength is also an AL weakness?
well hudson is probably due a less than great start, we can still turn it around.
DANNY hasn’t kept his “bolg” very up-to-date.
I wish it would rain.
DANNY HAZ SHURT TURM MIMRY PROBLIMS
(like what the stike zone might be, and where did i just set my keys)
Well, at least we’re proving that we CAN hit.
small steps
The ‘Druw Jones Index continues it’s downward spiral.
to coach pendelton:
please take the hans device off andrew.
thanks as always,
brian
I am late getting in here and lazy too. So why is Prado playing? Did KJ get hurt?
Also, has Kolb inhabited the body of Huddy? This game doesn’t look very good so far.
Prado is playing for the usual (i.e., no good) reason.
Oh, look, the Red Sox fans are so sophisticated. They’re doing the wave.
Boy is Woodward worthless.
I hate that damned Green Monster. That’s a home run in 29 other parks. Ridiculous.
The Braves have had their chances these past two innings.
The Phillies and Marlins won. The Metrosexuals have prehaps their best pitcher so far going tonight. This sucks.
And see, that evil Green Monster cost us any scoring in that inning. I really despise, the Red Sox, Red Sox nation, their damned park and Stu is right…they have become far more obnoxious and hateable then the Yankees.
KJ just played a double header and hadn’t really gotten an off day since early April. They got Prado for the time being and he was hitting at Richmond. Seemed like a good time for an off day.
Yes, but a day off against the Red Sox? Isn’t it hard enough to try and beat these guys? Geez.
so it would be better to rest him against the mets?
Correct me if I’m wrong…but the Red Sox play with the Monster, too. Seems to me if the “wall” cost the Braves any runs, the “wall” would cost the Red Sox, too.
No, we should have rested KJ against the freaking Nationals…who managed to take 3 of 4 from us, but still, that’s where you rest KJ so you have his bat against the 2 toughest teams in Baseball. Geez.
Dreamscape-
Just because the Sox play with the monster, doesn’t mean I have to like it. Look how Prado’s terrific hit ended up being a single.
“KJ just played a double header and hadn’t really gotten an off day since early April.”
Francoeur is playing.
Kelly Johnson ain’t some near-40 year old veteran. I’m sure he can play every day.
So, you can prove KJ would have done better than Prado today? Sorry, but that is just not how baseball works. KJ probably needed an off day, the Braves had Hudson on the mound and some rookie scrub lefthander going for the BoSox.
Hell, it was a great time to give KJ an off day. Didn’t work. Oh, well.
It doesn’t matter what you have to like or whatever. The fact is the wall didn’t cost the Braves anything. The Braves are playing flat. They’ve had opportunities, but can’t cash in.
WHY MCBRIDE?
Tomorrow is an off day! He’d have 36 hours to rest. What’s more, he had an off day Thursday and only pinch-hit.
No, he was used on a double switch, Mac. He didn’t get an off day.
Seriously, Prado in the lineup at second and KJ out isn’t why the Braves are going to lose this game.
Hell, had Francoeur taking a better route at Ortiz’s flyball in the first, this game may look very different, but no one can confuse Francoeur with a defensively talented player.
fenway is one of the most f’ed up parks in baseball, if your not use to playing it…sux for you. face it we’re getting out played. let’s get ready for the mets.
Mr. Francona, tear down this wall.
“let’s get ready for the mets.”
…and cheer on the Yanks to avoid the sweep.
Ugh.
i am a jelly doughnut
Maybe a crappy Red Sox bullpen can help the Braves at least make it close?
c’mon matty
there’s a start…druw let’s get it done baby!
MATTY!!!
Another K for Andruw. This is sad.
Let’s earn some lofty free agent money for next season, Andruw!
Look, the big hero STRIKES again.
Someone get Scott Boras on the phone.
Sheesh!
that is sad…druw needs an intervention
It’s possible that the most annoying thing about Andruw’s slump is that it reinforces Joe Simpson’s opposite field monomania.
Dreamscape-
You are on an island here. KJ is a huge part of the Braves offense and yes, he’s 25 freaking years old and didn’t play (as previously said) on Thursday. Sorry, you are way off base and he shouild have played.
And any defense of that monstrosity, the Green Monster is uncool.
I’m getting a lot of searches for “Thor” by the way.
Come on Saltalamacchia.
Woodward… this should be interesting.
ok,
joe simpson & andruw need an intervention
Good. Salty can do some real damage.
salty, time to cement your spot in the ATL…
Maybe someone should start with keeping ‘Druw away from the donut table inside the announcers booth.
I am in decent shape and I feel like I have a flatter stomach then Andruw. That doesn’t seem right seeing as I am not a pro athlete and work in front of a computer a good portion of the day.
After all that, KJ will probably have to enter the game anyway. Which brings up the question of why you don’t use him here.
Alex R.,
Do you live in Cincinnati? You sound like my brother:)
And yes, Andruw is having a horrific season thus far. Please go out of Atlanta on a high note.
Or at least Salty can cement his TRADE VALUE since we are going to have to aquire a 3rd starter at some point.
Chuck James & Kyle Davies are not going to cut it for a Playoffs run.
er,
Hi, my name is Alex R. and I am an original here on Braves Journal 😉 I live in Northern Virginia. Nats country.
good at bat so far for Salty…
Raise your hand if you would like Salty to hit a Grand Slam?
(Hand Raised)
(raises 2 hands)
damn!
oh damn….foul!
Dammit!
I was so close….
What an at-bat… best i’ve seen in a long time
Hey, I will take a walk! What a mature kid – I love that!
Good at-bat Saltalamacchia.
A homerun ties it.
raise your hand if you’ll take the walk…
Come on, Thor
Guys like McCann, KJ, & Salty…it’s kids like that, that make Baseball played the way it’s supposed to be.
The antithesis of Andruw the last few years.
That would be a raised hand that didn’t get typed.
Hey, let’s take a good hitter and pinch run him, so a not as good hitter can get an at bat!
Not thor, but one of the MI’s, of course.
So much for the off-day.
I said “Walkalamacchia!” at the same time my housemate said “Saltalawalkia!” Either one works, I guess.
…and let me add Willie Harris to that list. I know Mac hates him, But I love this guy and he has played his a– off since becoming a Brave…coming to his ‘hometown’ team.
So, while Mac can keep on loving Andruw, give me guys like McCann, KJ, Salty & Harris.
I wonder if KJ might have hurt his hand a little on the broken bat last night.
Nice one Adam, I was thinking off Salamicchia, but Walkalamacchia is ok too.
Well that’s the game.
Double play was the last thing we needed right there
Somedays I don’t trust Bobby’s judgement…
GD IT! you’ve gotta f’n be kidding me!
That was awful, Thor.
I like Thor overall, I do, I have seen some nice things, but that’s a situation where you absolutely take the first pitch, even if it’s right down the middle.
So aggravating.
I miss Craig Wilson.
Kelly Johnson would have known to take a pitch.
Wow, Dreamscape, that’s one helluva a sense of humor you have. Funny stuff!
Diaz plays with reckless abandon… and I love it
I bet Wilson would have taken a first pitch. Probably three of them and sat back down.
Let me add Matt Diaz to my list of players I always like 🙂
mcB”s pitch count 33 bagillion
ok 17
Jorge Sosa pitches for the Mets on Tuesday in the opener. If there is any justice in this world, the Braves will tear him apart.
I swear I never want to hear Chip Caray say “GETS HIS MAN” ever again.
i never want to hear chip caray again
I don’t like hearing the phrase “fisted” unless in the proper venue. And the baseball field is not that proper venue. Yet, Chip insists on saying it.
I predict we will find out that he’s really not Skip’s offspring at some point this season.
The big Royals-Rockies rivalry goes into extra innings.
he is terrible in the booth,,,,god i hope we destroy sosa, when he was in atlanta he had a good string, then last year brought his bag of frisbees and his l screen out to the mound nad killed us, so its only fitting we demolish him
Yuck
Release Chip Caray and call up the other Skip Caray son all the way up from Rome.
I hate when Chip yells “Swung on and belted” on balls that are caught easily by the right fielder…
Chip plays a pretty decent straight man in the studio for the pre-game and post-game shows, but as a play-by-play announcer, he is horrid.
Man…that beard on Youkilis…
How about we replace Chip in the booth with John Schuerholz Jr.?
sit on it potsie!
Oh, and Chip is currently 20 illegals in his eyebrows…
Alex,
only if he can’t talk endlessly about his “chicago” days
Yes, I have noticed Chip does this. I hear he also mentions a lot how great the other team is usually.
Speaking of Jonathon Schuerholz, Jr., I wonder when he’ll get his token major league debut. Sometime this September? The clock is ticking.
praise kali…now jobu, make our bats strong and true!
You know, David Ortiz and Manny have pot bellies. But I would mind Andruw’s less if he hit like those guys.
I look forward to having Andruw return to Atlanta next year at a discount, unless the Sox or Yankees (or Mets) are really that stupid.
well in andruw’s favor, david can’t even play 1st much less CF
Can we package Chip Carey & JS Jr. for a bag of peanuts somewhere?
beedee…tru, good point; but I wouild still take Big Papi’s far more reliable monster bat…
Actually, if Andruw keeps going, he could be approaching Langerhans-ian levels.
i would be plaesed with a p-nut TBNL
Somebody get Chip to stop saying “Matty”
alex,
anduw only needs to hit the last couple of months this season to cash in, but i c where your coming fom
way 2 go matty! 🙂
Diaz has this Jack Black’esque look to him…only he’s more awesome
he does have some tenatious, if ugly, D
Right now I’m embarrassed to have the same passport as Andruw.
Damn son…
Four strikeouts for Andruw Jones today. Maybe he should go to the eight hole.
“Can we package Chip Carey & JS Jr. for a bag of peanuts somewhere?”
Sorry, it would take Chip Caray, Schuerholz, Jr. and the cash for said bag of peanuts to obtain the bag of peanuts.
Na regen komt zonneschijn
Time for redemption Thor…
holy shit beedee….u can speak dutch?
oh..excuse my language..i just never thought I’d see Dutch here
Another mighty groundout for the mighty Thor.
i spent a season in europe racing may bike, but my god parents are dutch so i pull it out here and there.
Sweet!
Dat is fantastisch… ok, I’ll stop now
Oh my god … why use Soriano in this game?
we do have a day off tomorrow…not the end of the world.
when was his last appearance?
1. He hasn’t pitched in a few days
2. We have an off-day tomorrow
3. Keep it to 4 runs for Papelbon in the ninth
Yeah, I guess it has been a while since he pitched.
JoeyT,
Because he hasn’t pitched all series, and I don’t think he’s pitched since the middle of the Nots series.
Soriano hasn’t worked for several days…at least three, maybe four. Hell, last time we had a lead late aside from last night was Wednesday.
Ok so i was a little late
nicely done!
If Pete Rose is Charlie Hustle, what is Manny Ramirez
Manny Couscous?
He magnetically runs straight toward the dugout on anything that isn’t a home run
Can someone please score Renty.
There ya go…let’s at least damage his ERA
Well, at least they hurt Papelbon’s ERA.
Frenchy!!!
AJ…..hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Time for redemption.
Redeem yourself, Andruw.
This should be fun….
Well, we know where the sultan of sulking and donut ingestion will take us in this situation…
Hey, if he just walks here and lets McCann do the damage, I’ll be happy.
Ouch. That last swing hurt to watch.
You kidding??
pathetic
FIVE SWINGING STRIKEOUTS FOR ANDRUW! WOO-HOO!
Wow… I mean,…wow.
Jones is killing us…why not start Willie:)
Hey, Mac, defend your boy.
Don’t worry, everybody–it’s ok that Andruw is absolutely killing us now, because his numbers will be good by the end of the year!
Why isn’t Andruw in the poll?
I hate out hitting and NOT scoring the runs. We have been overly blessed with RISP this season, but the last several games are moving in the wrong direction.
And can someone tell Andruw he is playing for $$$$$$ next season.
I am at the point of saying either Andruw, Bobby or Pendleton needs to be punched. Hard.
Hey, you think it’s possible that the AJC can re-run that awesome feature from March where Andruw is showing off his fleet of cars that the Braves have essentially paid for.
Why punch Bobby? Andruw’s the one who left 7 individual runners on base.
I vote for Redman to be punched. Hard. Every day…
Thorman left six too. Want to blame it on them both?
we had our chances to get back in to game, suck it up and take it like men. we still have over 100 games to go.
Thorman hit the ball hard on the bases-loaded double play. Andruw looked awful and failed to make contact all day. You really think they had comparable performances, Sam? Laughable.
Andruw’s killing us, and he needs to be moved to the 8th hole until he proves that he can outhit Woodward.
Sam, the only problem with your statement is that Thor isn’t expected to be clutch yet. He doesn’t make the millions and have the experience needed to lead a team to the World Series. Andruw does and should. He sucked.
Yes, we can take it like men. And I hope they are doing some gut checks right now. Each of them.
Andruw’s not playing well at all. He’s been a great player for the Braves but is not any good right now and should probably go on the DL. This is not a moral failing.
if you look at him vs crisp, his avg. is about 20 pts lower but he ha 6 homers and 30 RBI compared to 0 HR and 12 RBI for crisp the guy many think is a “andruw” in the making.
yes, he’s awful at the plate right now, but that’s why he’s still with the braves. if he was as consistant as manny, he woulda been gone a long time ago.