The Marlins have a real racket going. Minimal payroll, lots of revenue sharing = profit no matter what they do. This never would have happened if George Steinbrenner were alive.
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Maybe the Braves should heed Sting’s advice: When the World is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around. I was always partial to Zenyetta Mondata.
I wonder how Glavine and Hampton threw today. None of the beat writers have said.
i found this interesting. in 68.2 innings pitched, braves starters have only given up 1 home run. of course, that was chuck james in colorado.
This never would have happened if George Steinbrenner were alive.
This joke never would have happened if Bill Simmons were as zealous at guarding against plagiarism as J.K. Rowling’s lawyer.
Also, I think you could say that the Atlanta Braves’ pen is pitching like de doo doo doo.
*snicker*
I didn’t steal from Simmons. We both stole from an old baseball writer about the 1981 strike:
OLD WRITER 1: This never would have happened if Judge Landis were alive.
OLD WRITER 2: This never would have happened if Bowie Kuhn were alive.
I seriously doubt Simmons stole from a 1981 baseball writer.
Why not? We’ve read a lot of the same books.
Looks like that old writer was Red Smith. I never knew.
I’d recommend this story even if it weren’t about one of my boys:
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3349186
all the words have been written……………awfully hard to be original these days.
hey stu do remember the Vandy linebacker in 2000 who fell down the elevator shaft and lived?
clarke,
Luke Hammond. We were freshmen together and I was at the party which he left to go do stupid things.
Yeah he’s my roommate. Pretty remarkable- the scar he has is wicked
No way! Where are you and he? In school or just in a town?
We’re in law school at Univ of South Carolina- I don’t know if you knew Jim May, played OL for y’all- he graduated last year and is lawyer in town.
I never met Jim, but I know who he is. There may not be a Vanderbilt athlete since 2000 (from the football, baseball and men’s basketball teams, anyway) whom I don’t know of, though.
I really don’t understand how this crap with Jeffery Loria has been allowed to go on. Obviously, I get it from the owner’s perspective. But how have the fans, writers, and everyone else with any interest in baseball not raised holy hell? This should be in front of Congress not some hearsay infested steriod investigation. With even a minimal investment, the Marlins of recent vintage could have been one of the top teams in all of baseball.
They should amend the rules on the revenue sharing such that if the revenue sharing funds are more than x% of your payroll you forfeit that portion and they actually go to teams trying to make an investment and use them for what they are intended. I still like the concept if there isn’t a salary cap, but there needs to be more accountability at the team level.
From the high 3rd camera, did the Diaz ball (that scored Francoeur on an error) look foul to anyone else?
I got my bachelor’s from South Carolina. Represent!
hudson looking unusually wild.
Meanwhile, Hudson has gotten himself into a pickle.
“On the player payroll at $20 million, that would be $5 million less than what the club will receive in revenue-sharing, which is projected to be $25 million. Apparently, a “function of the revenues” is to make a mockery of the revenue-sharing system, and do a good bit of profit making.”
http://www.bizofbaseball.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1970&Itemid=39
What is a good baseball fan to do?
BTW, what are the odds that my hometown’s baseball claim to fame will one day be that
Hanley Ramirez played here and not that Ty Cobb played here?
Well, we’re down again. Is our offense going to pack up and quit (if the inning ever ends)?
thank god i’m drinking a beer
Hudson’s thrown a gazillion pitches this inning.
Furthermore, big ups to anyone that figures out where I live based on that info.
My life is pretty damn miserable right now, and this team is only making it worse. Were there not so many days off already granted this team so far in the young season, I’d be taking the night off from watching it.
Finally.
narrows, georgia
said Hampton threw well today- no problems
fourth grade school teacher and one of my students just did a research report on ty cobb. i also didnt know that his mother killed his father.
Thanks, csg. I’m following online right now.
Teixiera needs to earn his paycheck now.
Tex, you’re killing me smalls.
jeebus christ. tex is pretty awful right now. should we think about moving him until he gets going?
I’m amazed that we’re not leading MLB in GIDP. I’m further amazed that nine teams have more than we do — but only two of those are in the NL (Cincinnati, Washington).
Thanks for playing but I’m actually in Augusta. 🙂 Ty Cobb and Hanley Ramirez both
played for our minor league team though in different iterations and many years apart.
Hudson hasn’t looked comfortable the entire game.
We’ll be lucky not to get swept.
Just joining in.
Could our offensive woes be corrected by just Tex hitting like he is supposed to?
holy balls! hudson is about to come out of the game. i dont understand what us braves fans have done to deserve this. WHY US GOD?!!!
STOP SUCKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why do we continue to make these scrubs look like Nolan Ryan?
Pendleton must go, he’s my scapegoat.
LOL. The City of Miami Police and the Dade County police are fighting over who gets to
police the new Marlins stadium and that is holding up the deal!! Go Cops! May your stupidity finally prove useful.
This team sucks. End of message.
If Hudson is hurt too, then we may as well cancel the freaking season.
Roger McDowell and the entire training staff need to be ran out of town on a freaking rail.
You’re starting to sound like a Mets fan. HaHa
Hudson goes 3. 3!!!
There is bad luck and then there is bad luck. Makes you wonder.
if hudson’s hurt then hampton, smoltz, hudson, soriano, glavine, moylan, and james have all been hurt in the first month of the season. what kind of f’n training did our pitchers do this spring? i’ve never seen anything like this.
Bridge, here I come.
I might need to find a hobby to use up all the spare time I’ll have this summer if injuries render this team irrelevant by May 15.
If anyone from the Braves organization is reading this I’m available to pitch this weekend against the Dodgers if need be. It’s true that I haven’t pitched since college, but you seem to be running out of options and I’m a big enough team player to take my 74 mph heater and hanging breaking ball into battle. If the Dodgers have any sense of fairness they will surely start both Andruw and Juan Pierre so at least I’ll have a couple of free outs. Just not Saturday, it’s my daughter’s birthday party.
KJ walks!
Cruel Soybean!
Yu-go Escobar!
I shudder to think where this team would be without Yunel.
I knew this kid was special, Renteria who?
The Fish announcers are criticizing him for posing down and pointing into the stands. Whatevs. They just want to be in the Cartel.
The ballots aren’t out yet, but I want to launch the Escobar for the All Star Team movement RIGHT NOW.
how ’bout “Yu-gi-oh”
well, three more 2 run dingers and we might have enough runs to hold on for a win.
Cruel Soybean makes me happy
Gave him a bunch of crap, didn’t they?
Hudson had thrown 59 pitches. Did they say he was injured or just bad tonight?
Yeah criticizing him after they just laughed and thought nothing of their first basemen throwing Frenchy to the ground yesterday.
This shit would have never happened with Mazzone still around. Isn’t he still out of work?.
Please call him immediately!
well they just showed Campillo and the way he shows to the hitter what pitch he’s throwing. That cant be a good thing. However, he’s been solid so far
I really dislike the Marlins announcers.
and the shitstorm continues…………….
what?? last time I checked there is a reason he’s out of a job. If he’s the savior everyone is talking about why doesnt he have a job? Must not be that great
Campillo, effective as he has been, is giving me strong vibes of the Kevin Barry experiment from two years ago. Him being lights out is not going to last, and it’s not going to be pretty when he falls apart.
Craig Minervini defines homer. He’s a huge homer and is in LUST with every Marlin player.
Frenchy late on a 86 mph fastball
Oh sure – I knew it. Now Teixeira singles.
Leo is out of a job because he rubs people the wrong way, not because he’s not good at his job. People like McDowell, but he sucks.
two crucial dp’s and that means another 1 run loss
HIT FOR DIAZ.
I like Diaz, but check out the splits on Justin Miller. It’s Gotay Time.
LOL, and the comedy continues.
And it’s too late. Sheesh. For a guy who’s so platoon-conscious, Bobby sure doesn’t pay much attention in these situations.
Our team is so good I’m concerned about competitive balance in the league. What should we do?
Mac, you called that one pretty well
Beltran hit his first homer of the year.
I’m hoping the Maddog will become our pitching coach when he finally retires. Whoever lands him will automatically become a much better team.
Hell, I hope Maddog becomes our pitcher before he finally retires..
@83
I miss having Pat Corrales on the bench in those situations.
I just heard Phil Stockman’s name – he’s not invisible
The Braves don’t strike me as being a very instructional organization anymore
So what happened to Hudson?
Did he get hurt?
Nobody seems to be too concerned, so he probably just had a bad night.
I think Bobby just pulled him – maybe letting him pitch on short rest for Sunday??
meanwhile, give Campillo credit
I prefer to think that Hudson has a case of what I had last week. Not that I wish that on anyone.
Corrales is with the Nats now. The Nats are better than us now. Coincidence?
Injured Vag?
Kotsay sucks
he’s doing more than Tex is
I TOLD YOU TO HIT GOTAY!
but will he is the question.
wow someone on our team doesnt swing at every pitch – too good to be true
The Marlins radio announcers, who are otherwise very annoying, just reported that Hudson was not taken out of the game because of injury.
lookie there a walk
Is it just me, or is Chip particularly inane today? (I’m listening to the radio.)
The ‘Diaz deserves to be an everyday player’ movement died a quick but well deserved death.
just a good opportunity to get the dormant pen some work
GETS HIS MAN!!@!
I don’t think this is a good move by Fredi, but we will see how it turns out. It is almost as if the matchup doesn’t matter, lately.
I’m not willing to give up on Diaz, but that was an obvious pinch-hit situation — a guy who can’t get lefties had just entered the game with two runners on base and two out in a one-run game. Just because it’s the sixth inning doesn’t make it not a game situation.
C’mon, Chipper.
So much for that.
I think we should be platooning Diaz and Kotsay and are just giving away outs by not doing so. I also find it odd that Bobby hasn’t done so since he’s always be fond of the platoon.
Well crap.
At least we won’t lose by 1 run again.
We are about to go to 5-9.
I’m thinking that maybe Bennett needs to put back on that 30lbs he lost since last season, could it be that he’s mechanincs are all fubar’d because of that? I know I had to relearn my golf swing after I lost 45lbs….
diaz deserves the everyday shot and doesnt deserve to be pulled when he starts the first 20 slow, especially when nothing is clicking. if he was the lone sore spot on the team, then take him out, but that’s not the case.
robert, how do you know we are giving up out because we arent platooning diaz and kotsay? blanco hasnt been tested and the diaz/kotsay platoon hasnt been tested. wishing for something to succeed because it’s new and having proof that it is successful are 2 different things.
Ryan, 5-9 will make you wish for alot of things….
agreed.
Time for the Braves’ bats to change the complexion of the season.
Because Diaz and Kotsay are marginal players and when marginal players lose platoon advantage they become kinda-sucky players. Kinda sucky players eat outs.
If you aren’t going to platoon them you should at least hit for them in the later innings, but that hasn’t happened either. Then again our bench sucks so there you go.
I hate my life.
Neither is as bad as Andruw nor as expensive. With Andruw in Center, the Braves would have the worst record in baseball.
Diaz has had 600 ABs in his career so the last 2 years don’t look like a fluke, he deserves a shot to keep going.
Frenchy!
Here come the Braves to tease us and lose by one.
damn
Peanut says Glavine is ok and will pitch Saturday.
Good opportunity to make this a one-run game again.
For a guy named after that kid in Animal House, this dude is a pretty good pitcher.
I love it how we play for one run with a three-run deficit.
Diaz has had 600 ABs in his career so the last 2 years don’t look like a fluke, he deserves a shot to keep going.
As a platoon player. Not sure why that fact keeps slipping through the cracks.
Probably because he’s hit righthanders pretty well, and had about half of his PA against them.
This Braves team reminds me of the spuat team from a few years ago ranked #2 in preseason that was horrid.
Meanwhile, Kotsay does need to go to the bench.
Now we lead the NL in GIDP.
Wow. Another DP.
This is supposedly bad luck, too?
DIE KOTSAY DIE!!!!!
robert, he was platooned, but it wasnt a strictly righty/lefty matchup reasoning, and as i type kotsuck hits into a dp. this will be an experiment that probably will not end well.
Diaz=Still much better than Willie Harris
Willie Harris .105 ba, 1 rbi
Kotsay=Still much better than Andruw
Andruw .149 ba, 2 rbi
It’s bad luck plus guys pressing too hard. It hasn’t quite hit the extreme of June 2006, but it’s starting to feel just as bad.
Yeah a 740 OPS for a corner outfielder. Yippee.
Maybe the blue jerseys need to be doused with alcohol and burnt with the ashes subsequently dumped into the Atlantic Ocean.
Diaz=Still much better than Willie Harris
Willie Harris .105 ba, 1 rbi
Kotsay=Still much better than Andruw
Andruw .149 ba, 2 rbi
Yes because those are the only two possible options.
One-run deficit. Ninth inning starting. We know how this will turn out.
so you think a platoon of kotsay and diaz will be better than a .740 ops? robert, i dont understand your argument. we can’t call on a magical fairy to give us a better player to replace diaz at the same price.
This is distracting us from the main point, which is that Kotsay is the Devil.
give blanco a few starts. kotsay has earned nothing.
What is our farm system producing? Where are the position players?
This sucks.
Why are the umpires so against us this year?
“What is our farm system producing? Where are the position players?”
At catcher
At short
At second
At third
In right field
and filling the bench.
..and the bandwagon is empty.
0-7 in one-run games?
0-6 in 1 run games. That’s phenomenal.
good point parish. i hate the negativity for negativity sake.
or is it 0-7?
…
Why did Cox bring in the long man to pitch in the 7th inning of a 1-run game again? Anybody?
Okay, Kotsay=sucks slightly less than Andruw (.220 vs .149 ba, 3rbi vs. 2 rbi)
When does the Josh Anderson Watch officially start?
157–I wasn’t paying much attention to tonight’s game but I wondered the same thing. Boyer might have been a better call.
with carlyle out there, i dont think he’s the long man anymore.
Diaz has a career .815 OPS. Not great, but adequate for what he’s paid.
Anderson’s crummy too–no improvement there.
I guess Bobby figured that Bennett was better than the other options, considering that Boyer and Acosta are now earmarked for the 8th and 9th.
Ryan c,
Negativity sake? This team is horridly bad.
We’ll be lucky to be close to .500.
I think Blanco deserves a shot. He won’t be worse than Kotsay.
I say we trade Resop for some Ben Gay and Geritol for the pitching staff and some hats for Kotsay’s bats.
It’s 0-7.
If we had been 7-0 instead, we would be 12-2. Just a 3-4 record in 1-run games would make us 8-6.
The Rockies at this time last year were in bad shape. The Cardinals a couple of years before that were no better off. Now is not the time to panic.
Agreed. While the overall malaise of this team is distressing, it’s no reason to start doing your best impression of Randy Quaid from Major League.
Meanwhile, Braves minor league teams all played one-run games tonight. Lost three of four, two of them in extras.
To me, 5-9 is 5-9, and that’s bad.
Can they now go on a 9-5 stretch? Sure.
If Rome is one of the 1-run losers tonight, I think that will be 4 1-run losses in the past five games. The other game was also a loss. It’s a bit surprising given the highly regarded talent in Rome.
Recap’s up.
he has no place on our team but Canizares just keeps raking in AAA
http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?t=t_ibp&did=milb&cid=431
also I wouldnt mind an Anderson/Kotsay platoon. Kotsay is getting killed against lefties 5-25 .259OBP, but those are out of line with his career numbers. For his career he has a .281/.281 split between RH and LH’s