Meanwhile, the secret to putting up Grateful Dead videos is to ignore any and all concert footage and find something they did for TV, like this from SNL:
Basically, you have Lorne Michaels saying [DR. EVIL] “Guys, noodle all you want, but you have three and a half minutes, and if you’re not done by then you’ll be playing only to the audience, and two minutes after that you better leave because otherwise people won’t be able to hear “Weekend Update”. [/DR. EVIL]
baha! JS said “Mark is my homeboy from Baltimore”
That is the funniest thing Joe Simpson has ever said.
I guess Paronto is, in fact, not out of options.
I wish the showed Joe high-fiving JS
*they
Let’s hope that plane arrived on time, Mac. 😉
That’s another question, I guess. I can’t argue with the results of either platoon — all four guys have played well in their present roles.
What did Joe say?
Another beautiful thing about baseball on the radio is no cutting into the game to update me on players I don’t like achieving milestones that I couldnt’ give a shit less about.
Swings, only TBS does that. FSN doesn’t do that.
103 games, Joe…One Hundred and Three…to the Braves 104.
Coz,
I was just about to say that, I caught it too.
I don’t think we’ll ever see a pennant race like that ever again.
508 — After JS made the comment about Teixeira being his homeboy from Baltmore, Simpson said “Well, now you really are the homeboy upstairs” on the air. (Referring to Smoltz’s comments to the press last year.)
with no game on tbs tonight and espn offering the pu pu platter of wnba and poker … oh wait… glavine is going for his 300th tonight on fsn (here in wisc). i should’ve gone to milwaukee to the game.
Chuck mowing them down.
Boy, Sciambi try’s to give brian a compliment by saying that he never gave an excuse for his finger, etc. and gay ass Joe Simpson had to talk about Salty and Brian being worried about his position. I don’t know what Simpson is going to do without his boy Salty…
Wow. Well chalk up at least one positive thing about the Fox family of networks!
so my neighbor spent a couple of years in madagascar and he said that in malagasy the word “Mahay” is a huge compliment you give to someone to indicate extreme competence.
i like it.
I think we can safely conclude that Jeff’s batting has made a lot of progress.
KELLY!
Franco’s put some good wood on the ball twice already.
You know, with Tex playing 1st, the two lowest batting averages in the lineup will be Andruw and McCann. That ain’t too shabby.
Love the Joe comment. That was pretty quick thinking.
It’s good to see our offense wasn’t burned out from Sunday’s explosion.
Well, Chuck’s doing his usual struggling inning.
5-4 now.
errrgh…why can we not hold a lead?
Yup, good thing we got more hitting instead of another pitcher.
Um, now would be a good time to get an out, Chucky…
Don’t ruin this day for us!
THAT’S WHY I HATE CRAIG BIGGIO.
AND HOUSTON TOO.
That was the quickest three runs without a homerun I can remember.
You’re begging for it when you walk the leadoff man.
Thank you.
Well, the bleeding stopped, thankfully.
I don’t see how this day can be ruined. Teixeira isn’t even with the team just yet. But surely he’ll be PHing for someone.
It’s not that ruined to me. I think we have to expect this from Chuck. Essentially, this team is the one we’ve had all year, so I don’t think we should be complaining just yet.
braun just hit a double off of glavine (the kid can rake against lefties) and prince knocked in a run with a groundout.
Our cleanup hitter.
Oh, great, he looks like he hurt his shoulder.
braun has been incredible…andruw?…not so much.
Moylan for two. 🙂
Teix will be a defensive substitution for Julio in the 9th.
Well, that was almost a disaster.
unreal…can we please win this thing?
No thanks. I’ll take Aybar’s defense over KJ any day.
Damn…
We’re just lucky that Chipper got there and Bruntlett’s arm wasn’t even close to the plate the way he was sliding.
JEFFY
that’ll work
LAUGH, ALL YOU PUNKS WHO SAY FRENCHY IS AVERAGE AT BEST. AHAHAHAHAH
Tex is here and suiting up! 🙂
Frenchy’s hot!
Tex is in the building…
Tex in the house!
Owe you a coke, Sam…
Is TEX in DAMN I cant see the game!??
Wow, Franco hit it to the same spot in right twice in a row.
please note:
after a 5 for 23 road trip, the frenchy fan club will be meeting at post #549 to say “welcome back” to the smurf, as he goes 3 for 3.
No in, they announced that he’s putting on his uniform right now so we should be seeing him soon.
Our 6 and 7 hitters are 3-for-3 tonight. And they will get pushed down in the order tomorrow. I think I could get used to having a great offense.
Please note:
Frenchy is hitting over .300
12 home runs 68 rbi’s
Thank you!
YEah where da Frenchy Haters at??
Smurph = Franc The Tanc?
Frenchy’s progressing quite nicely.
Oh boy, it’s Yates.
Moylan’s ERA is 2.01 now.
Ya done good, Yates. 🙂
The Moylan ERA thing is unbelievable. Especially after last year. Amazing.
Yeah, we need to send more scouts down under.
Australia, the next latin america.
Renty with yet another 3-hit game. Now Chipper needs a hit or something. He needs that batting title!
1st and 2nd, none out, only Andruw Jones can screw this up.
Pitch around Chipper to get to Andruw. And Bobby says he needs to talk to the players before deciding where Tex should hit. Um, the guy with the lowest BA shouldn’t be hitting cleanup, period. Sorry, it’s an easy decision.
I’m convinced that Teixeira is going to be hitting 5th.
McCann had better do something here. 😛
How does he not break his ankles on those swings.
Tex has been spotted…
YAAAAAAAAAAAY, Tex is here!
TEX IS HERE!@!@#lj@
YEAHHHHHHH!!!!!
He probably will be hitting 5th, and Andruw will reward Bobby’s loyalty by leaving for more money. He really should be hitting 8th.
On the bright side, people may not want to face Tex, so hitting fifth could be the best solution.
Tex looks good in a Braves uniform.
Like a rock star showing up 😉
maybe andruw has the pictures, boras must have bought them off of speedy pete.
Does Tex hit for Julio now?
I already like that Tex busted his ass to get here.
AW, that was almost out too.
Whoooo, close.
‘Rissa,
Doesn’t look like it.
KELLY DID IT INSTEAD
SUCKAS!
KJ!!!
kj is incredible….where are you tonight tony?
I’m mad I won’t be able to see him until TBS takes pity and shows a game on Thursday. I don’t have any idea what I’ll do next year. It stinks being a broke college kid who lives far enough north that I’ll get to watch the Nats…but no Braves.
Niiiiiiccccccceeeeee
KJ!! This guy is going to hit 8th, and not Andruw. Wow!
I’ve been waiting on the cavalry…and it’s a-comin’…but it looks like the troops engaged are already excited.
Go Bravos!
WE WANT TEX! WE WANT TEX!WE WANT TEX! WE WANT TEX!
Rissa, that’s what mlb.tv is for!
Can’t afford MLB tv…and I don’t have a fast enough internet connection to watch it, even if I could afford it.
What speed connection do you have? You don’t need anything other than a normal cable/dsl connection. Don’t tell me you are stuck with dialup?
This is just great.
i hear ya ‘rissa… but i’m excited to see hours of house of payne and everybody loves raymond instead of the game tomorrow
i’ve gotta wait till Thursday too dont worry Rissa cause my internet connection sucks a$$!!
and next year tbs is dropping ’em…
dale murphy on tbs was the only reason i’ve been a braves fan for over 20 years. i’m still in grad school and can’t afford the mlb package as far as $ goes and as far as the rage it would stoke in my wife. she likes going with me to the brewers games… but not watching them on tv everyday.
I think Chuck James got tired when running the bases…but he’s had better games where he got a no decision, so this evens it out a little.
see, this is exactly the kind of game we shouldn’t be using Soriano…I don’t get it.
dsl won’t come out to where I live. I was stuck with dial-up until last summer, then my dad got us a satellite connection. It’s fast enough for most things, but there is a slight pause while the signal gets to the satellite. Live streaming would be difficult to watch.
Both Mets and Phillies lead by 1 run in the later innings.
Alex, I think Soriano had already warmed up before we scored.
But I agree with you on the overuse. Yates should not have pitched the 7th despite tonight’s outcome.
That sucks. :/
Check that…Cubs have scored 3 times to take the lead in the bottom of the 6th over Philly.
Go Cubbies!
Sweeeet
Soriano scoreless frame. Also sweet.
mets just loaded the bases with one out in the top of the 7th… newly acquired castillo up to bat but yost just came in to yank suppan
Another flyout for Harris.
Julio since becoming a brave(11 games): 9/36 (.250 avg), 7 RBI,.341 OBP. Not too shabby, and if you take the rbi total over a 162 games, it would be over 100 rbi’s. i am very excited that we have julio on our bench for the rest of the season. i believe he will become valuable in a crunch.
I thought that if he had a few ABs, he’d be a good pinch-hitter for the stretch, and it looks like that’s going to turn out to be the case.
KJ making a case for leadoff hitter perhaps with Harris’ struggles continuing.
620 — i sure hope so
I doubt it. The fact he hit two homers and drove in five runs will keep him low in the order.
brewers just got out of a bases loaded 1 out situation without giving up a run.
glavine’s still up 2-1 going into the bottom of the 7th.
he’s got a chance for his 300th win just an hour down the road from me… should’ve gone.
They should let Tex come out for one AB. Let the crowd see him at the plate. It won’t hurt anything.
let him pinch hit for andruw 🙂
Bruntlett’s had a baaaaaaaaad night.
This is exactly the kind of game I hoped the Braves would have tonight. A big win like this, along with the Tex and Dotel deals may kick off a very nice winning streak.
Meanwhile, the Astros look like shit.
More runs!
That Adam Everett injury looked pretty nasty.
Sometimes I think it would be nice if series were decided on aggregate score for all games.
The Braves are making an effort to get to the pitchers spot so we can see the new guy hit.
… I just thought of something. Kelly could be the leadoff hitter again, because if he’s just the eighth hitter, he’ll be walked a whole lot to get to the pitcher.
francoeur is raking now…..12 hr, .301 average, 69 rbi’s. That’s bigger than big.
26 runs in the last 2 games. Could we spread it out a bit better?
The Pythags actually say we should have a better record than we do now.
Swings,
Then what would decide the amount of games won?
braves14,
I just don’t like this attitude at all. I know we can’t score 10+ every time out, but what you just said makes me think that the belief is that they’ll lose tomorrow or the day after because they won’t be able to score.
I suppose on your final W-L total, you would have your normal record, but for the series, Team A would win 27-20. That’s a pretty cool idea, but it really wouldn’t mean anything. Team B would just say “Check out the standings, losers.”
By the way, the Pyth record is just 56-50 currently.
What attitude?
is this a record breaking thread tonight? there have been a crazy number of posts in the past few days
Not much of a better record.
As opposed to our 55-51…and the expected W/L record will be greater after tonight.
My point being that we had overperformed all year until now.
braves14,
Well, the attitude as in the idea that the Braves should “spread out” their runs. That makes me think that the Braves only have a finite amount of runs to score and are “spending” them too much today.
To what, 58-49?
Wouldn’t that mean we’ve underperformed? If we’re “supposed” to be 56-50, and we’re 55-51, we “underperformed.”
That’s a fair guesstimate.
The Braves win and all is right with the world.
We are now, Rob. All year until the last 2 games our actual record was better than our expected record.
We’d still be behind the Mets, though. Incidentially, they “should” have three less wins than they do.
2 games is a pretty substantial difference.
All that would matter would be number of series won. Games won could still be a tiebreaker at the end of the year. Then you could eliminate extra innings unless there were a tie at the end of nine in a rubber game. I really like the way things are now but it would be a cool idea for some independent league to try.
Well, the Mets are overacheiving while the Braves are underacheiving according to the Pyth record. Is that a good sign?
brew crew still up 2-1 in the top of the 8th. but they brought in turnbow. doh.
my derrick turnbow bobble head is the trophy for my fantasy league this year. heh heh.
Oh ok, I gotcha braves14. I’ve come to expect that your Pythagorean record vs. your actual record will always be slanted based on your team’s strengths and weaknesses. That’s why I never really put a whole lot of stock in it.
I would like to offically to continue to lobby for more play time for Kelly Johnson. What a night! I think this portends a lot more runs for the rest of the season. I wish I did not have to go out of town this weekend. I am so excited!
sam, if these things actually normalize over the course of a season (they don’t always — the indians should have won a ton more games last year than they did)… then i’d say it’s a good sign.
What it’s good for is a predictor of future performance.
For example, the Yankees were right around .500 despite scoring a fair amount of runs than they allowed. That evened out. Same thing with the Cubs.
But I think if you looked at our expected record for July it would be a good bit better than our actual record. (I haven’t checked myself or run any numbers.)
fair amount of more runs*
We gotta put “should” and “supposed to” and all those terms when discussing Pythagorean records in quotes because it’s just fantasy: you lost a game, and you won a game. If you lost a game, you did something in that game to mean you shouldn’t have won.
As you can see, I don’t like the whole Pythagorean record deal. “This team should have won 10 more games than they did.” No, they didn’t. Their bullpen sucked in those games. They had bad situational hitting in those games. The shortstop couldn’t get a bunt down. Their manager’s an idiot. They shouldn’t have won those games.
The Pythagorean record is good for predicting the future performance of a team. For example, if I had to bet blind (without knowledge of SP) on, say, San Diego vs. Arizona, I’d bet on San Diego even though Arizona has the better record.
It’s possible that the manager or bullpen can have effect on it.
But its biggest thing is the predictor of future performance.
660… agreed rob. it should be “should” win. it’s only an indicator of what “should” happen statistically over a long haul. but each game counts. one game isn’t a large sample size and so the stats don’t really work in that regard for each individual game, but they should over a ton of games. and i agree on the decisions and execution that go into making a win.
guys, i want you to look at the power in our 2-8 guys. this is ridiculous:
renteria 10 hr 52 rbi proj. 17 hr 86 rbi
chipper 17 hr 56 rbi proj. 29 hr 95 rbi
tex 13 hr 49 rbi proj. 23 hr 87 rbi
druw 20 hr 69 rbi proj. 33 hr 114 rbi
mccann 12 hr 64 rbi proj 21 hr 113 rbi
frenchy 12 hr 69 rbi proj 20 hr 114 rbi
kj 12 hr 55 rbi proj 20 hr 91 rbi
that is some really solid production, and if all of those stats can come to pass, we are going to be looking at a division winning team. also, look for mccann to get a ton of starts behind the plate for the stretch. i would not be surprised to see him catch 9 out of 10 games.
Why can’t frenchy hit homers any more (tonight notwithstanding)? I just looked and his ISO before tonight’s game is .140. That’s pitiful! Is he hurt or something?
The problem with the pyth record is that blowout games or close games count the same. If you win 9 games 1-0 and lose the 10th 0-10 the pyth record will tell you that you should have a losing record which is dumb.
@665
He’s hitting .302 …. leave him be! If he were swinging for the fences he’d be around .260
i dunno; if you win 9 games 1-0, you got extraordinarily lucky. any team that did that is a lot closer to a .500 true talent team than a .900 true talent team (their sample mean).
Kyle,
Frenchy isn’t hitting home runs because he has adjusted his hitting style. You will notice how he doesn’t try and pull everything. You will see him hit the ball to the opposite field and center a lot more. This year he has sacraficed his power for his average. Frenchy is still only 23, and he will learn to hit for both power and average. I have been really impressed with the way he takes his approach at the plate.
I don’t know if I would use Pythagorean record if I was betting blind. On the other hand, I wouldn’t use just one thing to bet blind, but then again, the information that I would need to bet would disqualify me from “betting blind.” If I just couldn’t know who was starting, I would atleast like to know who each team’s manager is and their in-game managing ability. I would probably like to know if they had a good bullpen too. The reason one team’s Pythag record would be higher than the other team’s is because the “worse” team Pythagorily has a better bullpen. That was just really long way of saying I don’t have enough confidence in Pythag records to put money on future success.
mets up 2-1 in the 8th … runners on 1st and 2nd for the brewers. Mets are bringing in Mota to face Hall.
TIE GAME!! HAHA GLAVINE!
Brewers tied it. No 300 wins for union boy tonight.
They have the go ahead run at third with less than two outs. Get one more Brewers so Cordero can finish and win it.
Bases loaded, 1 out..
Graffanino batting, bases loaded, 2 out, 2-2, bottom 8 vs Mota.
Side retired. Dern.
At least the Brewers get to bat last.
At this point, Glavine’s doing it all with smoke and mirrors. I don’t know how much he has left. His peripherals look like Davies with a worse K rate.
trading power for average isn’t necessarily a good thing. despite frenchy’s high BA, he’s still barely a league average-hitting right fielder. still, he has improved his batting eye since last year, and is hitting better relative to his position than he did last year as well.
so, i don’t think francoeur is a bad player or anything, i’m just concerned about his power outage. also, i tend to think that his .300+ average might WAY overvalue him to some folks…
I agree Kyle. And he has to hit close to .300 to be valuable. I will give him credit for a better eye.
I tend to think Frenchy’s .300 average is the sign of a maturing hitter who is taking what the pitchers are giving him rather than any significant negative sign. I’d rather him do that than swing for the fences all the time, as Andruw has done at times this year.
The power is still there; I imagine toward the end of this season or start of next, we’ll see him put all of it together and become that elite player he’s been projected to be. Essentially, if you want to think about it this way, when the power comes back in full effect (if, of course, it is accompanied by his current hitting approach and not his previous one), Frenchy will be the player we’ve always believed Andruw could become.
I think the fact he’s a league average player at age 23 with a low salary is very favorable.
Well, the Brewers had better win it now. I’m really not sure why you wouldn’t want Glavine to win his 300th game BTW.
kim jong il is on the mound, c’mon brew crew drill this guy!
and he walked the the lead off guy with 4 pitches!
Well said Clark. I’m not necessarily talking about the recent questions about Frenchy’s power, but it never ceases to amaze me how people seem to want to find fault with him. I’ve been very pleased with Franceour’s progress this year (actually very surprised) and think he can be really good if he keeps on maturing.
I wonder why the Mets chose Sosa in the 9th. That gives me some bad memories of last June.
Wow, I hadn’t had the occasion to use MLB.com Gameday thing recently. They’ve really improved it.
I’ve been gone all evening and signed on to find 684 posts!!!! What the hell! Do I have to read through 300 of these to find out whats going on???!
Runners on 1st and 2nd, 0 out
corey hart (no sunglasses tonight) bunts safely, runners on 1st & 2nd no outs. the mets are in meltdown mode.
Ha ha ha…fielding error on the bunt attempt by Delgado. First and second nobody out.
bunt safely a.k.a. Delgado is a stiff
Kyle S,
I agree with you completely about Smurph, but I try to avoid pointing stuff like that out because it gets one labeled a “Frenchy Hater” or “anti-Frenchy”. Doesn’t matter how true/clear the stats are.
I too am at least somewhat encouraged by his BA development, though. He’s only 23 and I think there’s still a very good chance he turns into a much-better-than-average offensive RF.
Why is Sosa pitching here? It’s really inexplicable.
JJ Hardy bunts them to 2nd and 3rd, 1 out
Another sac bunt, this one the Mets don’t screw up. 2nd and 3rd, 1 out.
It’s great to see Sosa doing his thing for the Mets. His 2 something ERA of a few months ago now stands at 4.59 and will hopefully rise.
i smell blood!
joelk,
All you need to know… Braves improved 1B and bullpen. Salty and a buttload of prospects are gone. World Series here we come.
Ryan Braun at the plate
I’m not complaining.
come one Braun!!! do it for us (university of miami, go canes!)
Prince Fielder’s on deck too.
I’m really not entirely sure why they’re not walking Braun to set up the DP for Fielder. Maybe they think Sosa will walk home the winning run. If so, they’re probably right.
crap. K’d him
Struck him out. Fielder now. I guess that’s why BTW.
Stupid Braun. Guess it’s up to Fielder now.
Braun struck out.
Fielder IBB.
now they’re walking Prince
And they’re now walking Fielder.
Bill Hall next.
Up to Bill Hall.
Go Hall!
For those watching on TV, is there even anyone up in the bullpen or is this all Sosa’s?
they’re gonna blow it.
It’s irrelevant now, since Hall either will bring in the winnign run or make the last out.
Last out in the 9th, really.
wild pitch FTW. count it.
Re lineup in the Teixeira era–I think Frenchy should bat 8th. With a pitcher on deck, eight hole hitters are less likely to see good pitches. With Frenchy good pitches don’t matter–he swings at almost anything. And if he gets some intentional walks, it’ll make his OBP look more respectable.
nick,
the guys on wfan say it’s all sosa
3-2 count
Full count
Full count
like i said, walk in the run FTW
that (runner going) thing freaked me out
That would be great.
DAMN!
damn it Hall!
Hall flied to center. Sosa successfully walks the tightrope.
f***
cocksucker!
At least the Brewers have the advantage in extra innings…
Hall flied out to center. Crap!
Was it a strike if he hadn’t swung?
“Sosa makes like Houdini.” Give me a freaking break.
I’m interested to see when/if the Brewers call up a prospect named Mark Difelice. The guy was dominating here in Huntsville in AA and has done the same in Nashville AAA (over only a few starts). He has 80 K’s in 85 innings, only 7 walks and his combined ERA is 1.62 – not bad.
According to Gameday, that was ball four, too.
this guy is choking!
Got out of it. Brewers back up.
Mench, Miller and Graffanino due up
Did the Brewers just use three pitchers that inning?
LOL…Jorge’s back out for more punishment.
the Mets are just BEGGING to be knocked out of first in the East. How many runners have they left on base this game? like 20?
Corey Hart is possibly the ugliest player in baseball. But hey, he can hit.
Frenchy will be the player we’ve always believed Andruw could become.
That’s, um, optimistic. Andruw was an All-Star and finished eighth in the MVP voting in his age 23 season. Frenchy is currently 23 and if everything breaks just right he might be average. He sure wasn’t average last year. Frenchy’s best case isn’t anywhere near Andruw. He might have an early start on Brian Jordan’s career.
Always amazed by how undervalued Andruw is by his own team’s fans.
come on Hardy!!!!!
The Brewers gotta win this thing here don’t they? Aaron Sele?
Ned sure loves his bunts.
horrible bunt by Hardy
Robert,
Yes, we know, Francoeur’s not that great. We’ve touched on that a million times. Can’t we just say he has made progress and leave it at that?
Braun’s gonna win this with one swing
Robert,
That comparison doesn’t undervalue Andruw, it overvalues Frenchy. You pretty much said so yourself.
and someone needs to learn how to bunt…c’mon finish this
Uhh…if hitting .300 with 70 RBI so far is average, then…
son of a bitch!
Weldon,
He’s referring to the abscene of slugging and walks.
Regarding Soriano, his numbers seem to be good when he pitches on back to back nights — in 10.2 ip he’s got a 2.53 era with a .179 baa.
2 days rest is where his worst stats come from – 9 ip, 6.00 era and a .303 baa.
With 1 day of rest he’s got a 2.57 era in 14 ip and with 3-5 days rest he’s got a 3.97 era in 11.1 ip, however just a .132 baa.
One other note, if you want to argue that he shouldn’t start, do it because you don’t think his arm would hold up or because he lacks a consistent 3rd pitch — not because when he’s been tried there and failed. He started 8 games in 2002 as a 22 year old seeing his first Major League action. He ended up 0-3 with a 5.10 era as a starter, but if you check the game logs his ERA was inflated by his last couple of starts. But the point is, a lot of guys struggle in their first sniff of the big leagues. His minor league track record as a starter shows he should have been given more of a shot. However, at this point, its anyone’s guess as to how he would since its been so long since he’s started a game.
I give up. The Brewers are determined to piss this game away. Just a team that’s not used to winning. Turning it off.
i’m going to bed
Frenchy’s good, Andruw’s alright …
and the Brewers are a bunch of flukes. C’mon!! Beat the effin’ Mets already
A 107 OPS+ for a corner outfielder isn’t even really average. I was just trying to be agreeable. Maybe after tonight stats are included…
Robert,
Exactly, I think we need to drop it because we know the problem and there is just no use in bringing it up because it’ll be the same arguments over and over and over again.
prince just hit one a TON … barely foul
Damian Miller. Whoopee.
On to the 13th…
Damien Miller > Corky Miller
Frank,
Don’t diss CorkMan 😉
Went to the Yanks-White Sox game tonight, a 16-3 gut-stomping.
Nine homers, 8 by the Yanks & none by A-Rod. Bummer, we all wanted to see a little history tonight.
bottom of the 13th now.
Hey ububba, I’m going to the Mets-Braves game on Thursday. My buddy got them free through work so there in the upper deck, but I’m not complaining! You going?
Graffy led off with a double. If he doesn’t score… well, we’re going to the 14th.
this ring kid sounds pretty solid. a mets fan on mlbtraderumors posted this site and on the same post he said,referring to ring, “he’s terrible”. why are people on that blog so idiotic? from this article, this guy sounds like the 2nd coming of superman.
http://globalnym.blogspot.com/
Geoff Jenkins walk-off 2-run HR.
RB4,
Pretty sure I’ll be at the Tuesday & Wednesday night games, not sure about that Thursday afternoon affair. It’ll be a last-minute decision, essentially related to how my work load is looking.
But holla, it’s a distinct possibility. We’ll hook up for a brew.
FWIW, saw 2 very proud (but separate) Braves fans at Yankee Stadium tonight, one wearing a kindofa goofy Tomahawk golf shirt & the other rockin’ the Sunday cap. Both were, apparently, emboldened by the trade(s). So was I…
FINALLY
Ububba,
Whoops, just kidding. The tickets are actually for Wednesday, so cool! I might try to catch one of the other ones as well.
I wish we had gotten a starter, but with such a scarce market for them I think you need to improve where you can. At any rate, the race next week could be very interesting. I’ll be wearing my Smoltz jersey.
Just a note on Frenchy: he’s currently leading the NL and is second overall in MLB with 13 outfield assists. He’s certainly above-average in the field.
His walk rate has nearly doubled from last year and his K-rate has declined modestly. So he’s making adjustments. It remains to be seen if he can continue to improve and return his power numbers to their 2005 level.
At this point, I’d say he’s probably around league-average in RF, which is certainly better than last year’s depressing performance. But he’s still got a lot of upside if he can continue to improve.
It seems obvious that Ascainio will be the next player sent down (when Dotel gets here). Ring is going to AAA, but I’ve heard that he’ll be in the bullpen next week. I would think the only possibilities to be sent down or released/traded would be Yates and Wickman. Does Yates have options? I’m also hoping, along with the rest of the free world that Woodward gets his walking papers.
We better trade soon if we have to. As I understand it when a player is traded after the deadline he has to clear waivers. All teams below them in the standings get a shot at the player. Right now Colorado is the only serious playoff contender that is below us. If we keep winning that will change.
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