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Does that ESPN article on Southern football make anyone else teary-eyed?
i’m still a little moist.
That’s the best thing I’ve seen Wright Thompson do for ESPN. I’ve been reading his E-Tickets, and they’re usually pretty good but I sometimes find his style a little grating. This was a really good piece, though. And I don’t even follow college football.
Oh well. Beat the hell out of Florida, boys.
What I would like to ask is why the hell did he go to college at Missouri?
Because of the reputable J-School, I’d imagine. Coulda gone to UGA, but a kid from Oxford prolly had to get out of the SEC if he wasn’t going to Ole Miss.
Or he could have gone to Vandy and been the next Skip Bayless.
I don’t know if there will be a recap tonight. I had to get my cable internet box replaced, and haven’t tried it out yet. If so, there won’t be any recaps until Sunday, because I’ll have to go to the University to do them and there’s no way I can get there tomorrow.
Well Mac,
I’m hoping you’ll be tearing your hair out because you can’t do recaps of victories. Go Braves!
Ububba and AAR, thanks.
Mac,
Or Grantland Rice.
Or Robert Penn Warren, for that matter.
Diaz starting batting 2nd!
1. KJohnson, 2. Diaz, 3. Chipper, 4. Teixeira, 5. McCann, 6. Francoeur, 7. Andruw, 8. Escobar, 9. Hudson.
great lineup
Tom,
You’re joking, right?
DOB put it up in his blog. Even said “no kidding.” http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/braves/entries/2007/08/31/time_for_sizzli.html
Tom, if you’re not joking (and I’m having doubts), than I honestly say good on Bobby Cox.
Anyone think Pedro Martinez will be any good or that the Mets are hoping for too much?
Who’s going to be the hero in this series? I’m putting my bucks on Teixeira. Or maybe Francoeur. Chipper is too easy.
Okay, thanks Tom. Diaz playing and Kelly Johnson back in his rightful spot. Nice.
Yeah, apparently Bobby has now decided that winning is important.
i’ve been a braves fan forever, hell, i was a MILWAUKEE braves fan…………………this might be the best lineup i’ve seen them put out there. now, can someone tell me why they’ll either score 14 runs…………or 1?
Maybe Bobby believes that losing builds character.
You gotta give Bobby credit for adjustments. Lots of managers don’t do it, and most of them don’t last.
Just imagine this lineup (though it will never happen):
KJ
Renteria
Chipper
Teix
McCann
Diaz
Andruw
Francoeur
I’d flip Frenchy and Andruw right now, but yeah, that lineup’s a wet dream.
Stu, if you flip Francoeur and Diaz, I think you will see that lineup down the stretch.
AAR,
I put ’em like that because Andruw’s been better lately, whereas Smurph’s dropped off a little.
Aram,
I think you’re right.
Who’s going to be the hero in this series?
Put me down for Andruw, as usual.
Against the Mets?
I’ll take Shea’s father.
I feel like this is 93 and were about to beat the Mets 5/6 times like we beat San Fran
I think we all know the answer is Joey Dev– I mean Peter Moylan.
Last day for trades isn’t it? Are the Braves going to get anything for Wickman or not?
Sort of surprised not to see Shawn Green in there tonight. He’s tuned us up this season (.391/.451/.609)
Robert,
No fooling. I’ve picked three “stars” after each game this season, and Green has something like four stars. I need to look it up.
Maybe Willie’s conceding like Metsblog.com.
Anyone think that the Falcons should sign Byron Leftwich?
Yes.
If he is actually released. Now the Jags may be trying to trade him.
He’s not worse than Chris Redman.
And I got my internet at home working now.
Just read an interview on Metsblog with the guy from Talking Chop. It’s a nice reminder why I post on this page.
The Falcons need Leftwich like a fish needs water. I bet they’d swing a trade for him. Harrington and Redman isn’t going to cut it for the whole year.
I can’t say I read that southern football piece. I try to stay away from them because they’re just so, je ne sais pas. But my favorite piece of sports journalism ever was a sort of video diary Curry Kirkpatrick did on I think Vandy a few years back.
It wasn’t really a hit piece or anything. I mean, it was Vandy. But it pretty hilariously showed the absurdly self-important religiosity of whoever was the coach at the time. It was focused around the coach’s banning of cussing by his players, and went through the various punishments they received for saying “shit” or “ass” or whatever else. Its (I think) ending was Kirkpatrick muttering “This is fucking bullshit” while doing push ups.
Someone has to remember this.
I’m having a tough time getting fired up for college football right now. USC opens with Idaho-bye the first two weeks, so it’s almost like the season doesn’t really start for two more weeks.
Although I plan to watch Cal-Tennessee and I expect to feel differently after that.
The coach at the time was Bobby Johnson, who remains the coach. There’s nothing self-important about the man—a great coach, BTW—and while part of the motivation behind his no-cursing rule has to do with his faith, I would think it’s pretty easy to see the worth in something like that even if one isn’t himself Christian.
Surely you can understand that most Vanderbilt players will not be playing professional football, and learning how to communicate without profanity is a valuable lesson in the business world or just in regular ol’ polite society.
I find it admirable that Coach Johnson instituted the rule in the first place, and it certainly hasn’t hurt the quality of the product the team puts on the field. What’s hilarious—or sad, depending on how one chooses to look at it, I suppose—is that someone could find fault with such a rule.
I get to dive right in with Georgia Tech and Notre Dame tomorrow. That one’s gonna be scary.
But not as scary as the Braves’ next six games. Yeesh.
What’s hilarious—or sad, depending on how one chooses to look at it, I suppose—is that someone could find fault with such a rule.
Pretty much. Wish there were more out there like this coach. Actually trying to make his players better men – imagine that.
I’m out fellas. I’ll zip through this thing on Tivo later. Obviously every game is a must have this weekend. Go Huddy!
I don’t find fault, just absurdity. I respect universities (especially rather good ones like Vandy) a little too much to hope a football coach is the guy to teach his players the proper use of language.
I don’t know if the man is self-important, but I think religiosity by definition is, especially when displayed on a field of sport, and the idea of a sort of corner for cussers to go to is hilarious, especially when juxtaposed with the language displayed at basically every other football field in America.
Oh my God. It’s like Willie Harris never left.
When Joe says “aggressive” I almost always hear it with stupid.
Who spends the most time with those players, david15? The coach.
And even if teaching them the proper use of language—as an aside, when is profanity ever proper?—isn’t his primary job, why is it absurd that he enforce those ideals?
And the juxtuposition you reference doesn’t make it hilarious—it makes it great.
*juxtaposition
Wow, Phils already up 5-0 in the 2nd. They are just on fire.
Profanity is proper whenever someone wants to use it. I’m not a fan of limiting word choice. I do think it’s preferable for people to have a broad knowledge of the language though, and, in this case, to have some reason for using profanity.
I find it absurd because the guy is a football coach. He might have been a Rhodes Scholar, I don’t know, but his chosen vocation is, in the end, pretty meaningless. At any rate the structure he’s using one isn’t one that is great for teaching something as subjective as language and its use. In a good classroom that sort of thing would be debated. On the field it’s dictated.
Football is basically a sports metaphor for war, so isn’t it understandable to see absurdity in the idea of the guy playing general telling his soldiers they can’t say bullshit?
Football is a game, dude, metaphor or not.
Anyway, this:
Profanity is proper whenever someone wants to use it
tells me this won’t be going anywhere, so I’ll drop it.
Lets git some runs!
Brutal.
Boy, Diaz swung through some hittable pitches – offspeed stuff up in the zone.
That hurt…
Hudson seems to be throwing a lot of sliders tonight, and is leaving them up and in the middle of the plate.
And our vaunted offense didn’t show up to play.
Shocking.
Another pitch up. Looked like a splitter.
Well it looks like this one is over.
Down 4-0, Francoeur swings at the first pitch and hits a weak infield pop-up.
Braves need to lose TP and get some medicated pads.
Are you surprised? He’s been doing that all stinkin’ year. The guy is an idiot.
Here we go again.
I know Jeremy. I’ve been talking about Francoeur and Thorman’s insame amount of infield pop-ups all year and, for Francoeur, last year.
It amazes me after all the talk the Braves did about getting back in this, they come out and lay a big egg through five innings.
Beltran was safe by a mile. That was a terrible call.
That should read “insane”.
Removing Hudson for Orr?????
Nevermind.
Peterson!
C’mon Matty.
Loaded for Chipper.
Come on Chipper!
This would be kindof a good time to score. No pressure, I’m just saying…
Time for the Mets Killer! Go Chipper!
ARGH
Chipper pops up on the 2nd pitch with the bases loaded. What an idiot, huh?
Alright Tex, pick him up!
Tex pops up on a 2-0 count. Idiot.
We’ll take any runs we can get. Thanks, John.
This is fucking pathetic.
The difference, disgruntledfan, is Chipper Jones hasn’t popped up about twenty times on the first pitch this season like Francoeur.
Just hit the fucking ball to the outfield, people.
Also, Chipper has been in the league 10+ years and is an All-Star. Francoeur was in AA 2 years ago. He gets a learning curve.
What a choke job. Great, guys.
Fuck this team.
That was a ball
Pathetic. Bases loaded & we only get 1 run, & that wasn’t because of anything our hitters did…Maine gave us that run for free.
Thank God for the wild pitch or it would have been yet another inning with a runner on third and less than two outs that the Braves failed to score in.
That was way low
I’m not the least bit surprised. Ugh.
That inning was like the summation of the entire season. Plenty of opportunity, lots of hope — extinguished by two pop ups and a whiff. Tough to watch over and over again.
Disgusting. This team belongs nowhere near the playoffs.
Too close to take Reagan.
These guys always do this. During the 14 year streak they needed maybe 20 to 30 key hits and they would have won 2 or 3 World Series and went much further in other playoffs.
Some people produce in the clutch some people don’t. The Braves don’t and have never done it consistantly. Look at their one run and extra innings games record. It is called choking.
The NL East is a freak show.
So much for “Maine hasn’t gone more than 5 and 2/3 innings in a start in forever”.
If he swung and missed we would all be all over him for swinging at an obvious ball 4
This team just appears to be really tight. Maybe the business like clubhouse effectiveness is wearing off.
Pretty good outing for Yates. I would have bet money on Reyes scoring.
Lately Yates has been getting into trouble and then getting out.
“Lately Yates has been getting into trouble and then getting out.”
So he’s the new Wickman.
does Randolf not have a lefty in the pen? I mean why not take your chances against woodward here? c’mon Willy make ’em pay
I’m glad I watched Ghost Rider for the 1st part of this game.
Because Willie Harris is worse than Woodward lately.
Good AB from Willie. Tough break.
Willy’s hit it further than all of Chipper and Tex’s hits combined.
ah shoot.
And by “hit” I mean contact.
Phillies lead big tonight. This sucks.
Mets making all the plays tonight.
A few minutes back, Joe or Boog said the turning points of the game were the Reyes homer and the Braves getting only 1 run out of the bases loaded situation. There’s no way to be sure, but I think it came much earlier when KJ got caught stealing in the first and Diaz struck out. It would have been better to make him slog through a tough first (face Chipper and Tex with a runner on) rather than give him a free out. If the Braves have managed to score it might have gotten in the Mets’ heads since they’ve had trouble with the Braves and are coming off a sweep by Philly. But we’ll never know …
Any predictions for the bottom of the ninth better than 1-2-3?
And the Braves aren’t.
Why the fuck would you IBB LoDuca to face a left hander in Chavez?
“Phillies lead big tonight. This sucks.”
Well, if the Braves don’t win the division, I’d rather the Phillies win it than the Mets.
Seriously, why would you intentionally walk LoDuca?
Maybe we’ll see what a clutch hit looks like.
Die, Bobby.
Awesome. Great managing and clutch hitting this game from the Braves.
Oh well, the Braves weren’t going to come back down three runs anyways.
5.5 behind the Mets for first and 3.5 behind the Phillies going into the start of September tomorrow. It’s over.
Compare the Mets bench with ours, and you’ll see why we can’t win 1-run games or extra-innings games. Who do we have that could come in and hit a bases-clearing double?
Plus, we have Bobby Cox. That costs at least a run a game.
this is exactly what i was talking about…negative clutch. thank god for college football
Yeah, it’s all good now. After tomorrow, the losses just kind of roll off, instead of daily crushing our hopes.
disgruntledfan,
Concur.
Piss poor job by Schuerholz of assembling a bench.
Why blame the bench now? They looked a lot better than the regulars. Recap is up.
Not blaming it now, just saying it’s played a role in why we can’t win close games or extra-inning ones, games we seem to be in a lot. Tonight notwithstanding, of course. Tonight PETE ORR did more than Chipper, Tex, and McCann combined. Ballgame.