You know that I now weigh less than Andruw? This is not a good thing, what with him being a professional athlete and all.
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You know that I now weigh less than Andruw? This is not a good thing, what with him being a professional athlete and all.
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Prodigal fat guy…heh heh.
with what has andruw been prodigal? money, talent, trips to the scale for LA beat writers? Most on here would say he hasn’t been prodigal with his effort on the diamond. come to think of it, i don’t know if the definition of prodigal allows you to be recklessly spendy in anything but money…
I somehow won my league last year despite picking Andruw “early” (round 4, I think) in hopes of a productive contract year.
I just picked him up off the free agent list a couple of days ago. It won’t sniff my active roster… maybe he’ll heat up enough to trade him.
It’s been a long, difficult stretch for our man Andruw. Thanks for the great years.
It’s weird to see him in a different uniform. But, I agreed with the decision to let him go … and he hasn’t shown us much to believe the Braves should have done otherwise since.
I meant “he” won’t sniff my active roster. Not sure what happened there. Didn’t mean to refer to AJ as “it”.
sweet. triple post.
Go Braves!
On the Longoria deal – I think the reason I would not have doen is that it seems like the same deal could have been struck at the end of this year. Now, you can’t really give him more time in the minors when you aren’t saving his eligibility (and a more refined game) for when your team is ready to really compete.
It could work out, but the benefit of doing this now rather than six months from now seems negative.
what can we expect from Bennett? 3, maybe 4, IP
we might see all the relievers tonight
But it was bizarre that the Rays sent him to the minors to start the year, and everyone thought it was to preserve his arb clock — then they brought him up a week later, and now this.
Weird timing.
Wonder how it will affect the market. Is every kid going to expect such a contract now? Will the amount of petulance increase as teams play the game and wait to offer contracts to their young guys?
c. shorter – I think you are confusing prodigal with profligate
“Rays” is a bad name. I think they need another modifier:
Ex Rays
Charlotte Rays
Lester del Rays
Frito Rays
Kinsella Rays
c. shorter – It may create more of an issue within the Rays organization. They have a lot of young guys that may wonder why they don’t have a long term deal during their league minimum years.
Gamma Rays?
Death Rays (especially when they play the Yankees)
Rachael Rays
Man Rays
Sanchez Reys
Ineeda Rays
I like Man Rays. Good call!
Man Rays – genius. Their uni could have the bass fiddle cut outs on the back.
Man Ray may well be my least-favorite famous American artist.
Tampa Rays High the Roof Beam, Carpenters
for the unfamiliar –
http://www.marcopolo.provincia.venezia.it/tommaseo/lezioni/Inglese/AdP_04_05/Palmarin/Image88.jpg
here’s the bass fiddle photo
Instead of billed caps, the Man Rays could wear turbans with a starfish on the front.
Piri Rays
Ashed Rays
You Can Call Me Jay Rays
weak, but i’m trying
I’ve been exchanging emails with a few buddies over this deal and we all love it. Basically, that kid, who should be a star and may be one soon–at the very least, he’ll be really good within the next two seasons, if not this season–will be extremely cheap by league standards. He’s to make on average less than $3 million a year, which is, incidentally, almost exactly what the league average salary is right now (and it will increase with inflation).
As for the industry, it depends on the organizational philosophy. The Indians, and to a lesser extent other clubs like the Brewers and A’s, have been locking up their budding stars for longterm deals. Grady Sizemore and Danny Haren, for instance, have great contracts–which makes them either bargains or valuable trade commodities. The Rays upped the ante a bit by signing a guy with practically no major league experience, but it’s still not a huge risk. Most guys shouldn’t expect to be signed longterm, but guys like Jay Bruce and Justin Upton should be locked up sooner rather than later.
I like Basil’s.
Hoo Rays
Bob And Rays
Hairsp Rays
In other, completely unrelated sports news, with the Sonics impending move to Oklahoma City, I have a new team to hate. That’s one of the most annoying things to happen in pro sports in awhile.
The Brother Rays (after Ray Charles)
Hoo Rays is my favorite so far.
How about Tanger Rays?
You would have a ready made endorsement and could sign Scott Spiezio at a discount.
The Tanger Rays might get Tony LaRussa to manage, too.
That was for you, AR.
The Gabba Gabba Rays, in deference to The Ramones.
Blue Rays
UV Rays
anyone see where Col and SD played 22 innings yesterday?
how about longoria’s favorite right now
pay rays
The Sister Rays — a Lou Reed shoutout.
anyone see where Col and SD played 22 innings yesterday?
Petco.
I could see a game between Peavy and Francis going scoreless for the normal 9 innings, but having the bullpens do so well for that long is unexpected. Did you notice Wilfredo came in for 5 scoreless for the Pads? Boy I miss him (not).
I’m predicting Bennett goes 3 IP followed by Campillo for another 3IP (and Campillo will do better). That will be followed by 0.1IP-0.2IP from everyone else in the pen.
Thank God that wasn’t the Braves, or we’d have about 3 more visits to Dr. James Andrews in order.
I predict 6 strong innings from Bennett tonight.
Because I’m crazy.
That is hilarious. The Braves would have run out of pitchers in the 13th though.
I hope Bennett does so well. I noticed at #2 in the NL for BA is none other than Furcal, just over .400. Hopefully we can keep him off base.
A 22-inning game would have witnessed at least two innings on the mound from Kotsay, who actually had a save in a College World Series game 13 years ago.
Come to think of it, that makes him a viable candidate for closer right now.
I actually thought the same thing when I saw that boxscore. Thank goodness that didn’t happen to the Braves. Those four pitchers we used in the 7th inning would have killed me as Kotsay started the 15th inning.
With the way Cox had to use pitchers this week, Kotsay might have been needed by the 12th and the game wouldn’t have made it past 13.
If the Braves played a 22-inning game, the bullpen and staff wouldn’t recover for at least a week. There’d be a lot of options and frequent-flyer miles on the Richmond-Atlanta shuttle.
I just read that game had 659 pitches thrown.
Yeah, everybody knows that fat buys can’t play.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/o/ortizda01.shtml
http://www.baseball-reference.com/f/fieldce01.shtml
http://www.baseball-reference.com/r/ruthba01.shtml
Make that “fat guys”. Or don’t and ignore the larger (lololololol) point and mock the typo.
blanco starting in left and batting 8th. is this the start of the matt diaz we have come to love: the platoon matt?
Nitpicking: Andruw is not a professional athlete. He’s a professional baseball player.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH…Skip and Pete on the radio and all is right with the world.
Do you guys have any audio on Peachtree TV? I do not.
Do you guys have any audio on Peachtree TV? I do not.
It’s good to have Furcal back in the park tonight. Just wish he was in the right colors.
No audio here.
No audio. Chip has been silenced.
Skip and Pete on the radio? Chip silenced?
All really is right with the world.
I’m late to the party: what’s the story on Diaz? Has Bobby reached his limit on games without a platoon?
What’s wrong with the audio?
Going to be a long night …
Is Andruw in the lineup?
Ah, there is he. I thought maybe I missed him
Ugly first inning, but I’ll take it.
Yes, batting 7th, with Garciaparra 8th … five years ago, who thought those two would be so low in an order?
Indeed, ONIO. The times they are a’changing.
Now on MLB.TV the crowd noise is on, but Chip is still silenced.
Silence is beautiful.
I can transcribe the closed captioning if you want. It’s great, they’re having an inane conversation nobody can hear.
After years of listening, I can pretty much piece together my own Caray-Simpson banter. I appreciate your willingness to get Chip’s words to the world though, Mac.
Silence is beautiful.
That’s the sound of our bats against Lowe.
@60
I would pay extra to have an only crowd noise and game sounds option.
Chip: Why is it that closers struggle in non save situations?
Joe: He really needs to go right to right center here!
Impossible to tell, but looked like a warm reaction for Andruw.
And yes, Joe was complaining that Andruw is trying to pull everything.
That almost brings a tear to my eye. Thanks for making me proud tonight Braves fans and cheering for Andruw.
@68 – Classic.
Damn, is there anything worse seeing than the Braves trying to hit any kind of sinkerballing pitcher.
Question: If Joe Simpson is telling Andruw Jones to go the other way on everything and try to hit singles and generally be Joe Simpson instead of Andruw Jones, and nobody can hear it, is it still stupid?
Sound’s back.
Oh, that’s wonderful. They’re talking about a pitcher maybe being hurt… and then show Hampton in the dugout.
It’s as though they perpetually have a camera on Hampton, waiting for someone on the field to get hurt so they can cut away to get his reaction.
Maybe Hampton should pull a Rick Ankiel and spend a few years in the minors (ON ROIDS) trying to learn to be a hitter.
Urkel’s put on weight.
The first announcer sound we got on MLB.TV is this J.J. fellow asking some suit about fireworks. Riveting.
Anyone want to say that Kotsay would have gotten that?
I’d like to, but it’s only the second inning of the series’ first game, so I don’t want to jinx things.
Lucky. What a weak 3-0 hack by Captain Numbnuts.
Give Ed Mangan an RBI on that last play.
Good job Kotsay
Andruw certainly could have hit into a double play there.
Ouch. They might have to unretire Javy Lopez’ old 643 for Kotsay to wear.
No. 1 in the NL in GIDP. GD it.
For some reason I haven’t been able to post in awhile. Just trying to see if this works!
77–Urkel on roids?
I have to be honest. I like Bennett alot.
Glad to see a righty, albeit a tough one, on the muound for the Dodgers tonight. The team ops is 100 pts higher (839 vs 737) versus righties than lefties.
This just ain’t my night.
LA/Atl is the only game they’re not showing on MLB Extra Innings tonight.
And my NJ Devils are down 3-1 in score & games, facing elimination by the hated Rangers.
At least the Braves are winning & Bennett is hanging in there.
I’m getting it on EI. Check channel 734.
Nice performance so far by Bennett. I figure they’ll try to throw him out there for one more (assuming his spot doesn’t come up in the batting order this inning). He’s only thrown 52 thus far.
In contrast, Lowe has thrown 47 through two innings.
Eighteen GIDP this year. Sweet merciful crap.
Well that was absurdly quick.
This is ugly for Andruw.
Is that it for bennett?
Kotsay should be out for running out of the baseline.
Francoeur – 3 pitches from Lowe, 3 swings. Were the last two as far outside as Gameday made them look?
And Matt Diaz never started against a righthander again.
Gregor Blanco is making the most of his chance to start.
Marcus Giles: .316/.390/.526, 136 OPS+, 21 HR, 69 RBI
Jose Vidro: .310/.397/.470, 121 OPS+, 15 HR, 65 RBI
Vidro won the Silver Slugger at 2B in ’03.
This drives me nuts. We gave up an opportunity in the 4th so Bennett could get two more outs?
Glavine on the DL.
Chipper!
Chippah!
I had flashbacks to the Andrew Jones/Marcus Giles collision in Milwaukee there.
TRAINER: Rafael, you seem a little groggy.
FURCAL: Well, you have to remember that I’m a little drunk.
ANDRUW: You really gotta stay out of my way, little buddy.
Game Day says injury delay. What happened?
McCann’s definitely winning the “Who’s the best catcher in the NL?” competition tonight.
Jones and Furcal crossed paths in center field chasing a McCann pop fly … neither came up with it; Furcal got the worse of it but stayed in the game.
Andruw ran over Furcal. They’re both fine, but the trainers were checking on Furcal.
must be the Braves night … Frenchy walks
‘Rissa, given our last week or so, that notation must have made you throw up in your mouth a little.
This guy looks like the love child of Fernando Valenzuela and Hideo Nomo.
BMac had just hit a single, and I was hoping it hadn’t been a bang-bang play at first and he turned an ankle, or something.
Has Chuck James made a start in Richmond since his start in Colorado? Hopefully he’ll have better results at home tomorrow than he did last time out. What number pitcher in the DL this season is Glavine?
Oh nice, Glavine to the DL. What on earth is going on here?
Yeah, Joe, you’re down five runs and Martin Prado is the hitter, you better make a pitching change to extend the game by another five minutes.
Scott Proctor has always been Torre’s bullpen packmule.
man I go out for 15 minute and I miss Chipper going long.
5 runs is not an insurmountable deficit with this Braves bullpen.
Wow glavine on the DL.
That’s the 3rd of our starting 5 to land there 2 weeks into the season.
Two of our starters that continue to pitch appear injured.
Our top three relievers are DLed.
We are 0-7 in one run games and we are performing 5 games under our Pythag 15 games into the season.
I would rather be lucky than good.
Chuck James is coming back tomorrow to sub for Glavine. They must figure he’s ready to put up 5-6 innings.
117: Yes, he started one game, went 5.1 innings and allowed 3 runs. (1 earned, 0 HR, 3 BB, 3 Ks)
Houston we have lift off!
Can Chipper just bat for everyone?
Oh my. This Chipper guy is pretty good.
I say we keep him.
Chippah!
I needed that.
Dear Lord, that went a long way.
I can’t believe how locked in Chipper is.
BTW Remy, loved your post about the Col. earlier. I’ll bet that was an amazing gig. ARU was the best live band in the country at their peak, IMHO. Just sick.
Anyone hear how far Chipper’s shot went? I think I missed it.
Boyer’s actually hitting for himself?
absolutely, take an extra inning from the same guy over a (should be) meaningless run.
Did Boyer just come up a little gimpy running that one out?
Guess not.
Two more one-pitch outs and Boyer will have totally justified that inning-ending at-bat.
AreJay, where are you from in Ks?
Great googily moogily. I’ve just discovered how to adjust the PVR so that I can sync up the video with Skip and Pete on the radio. This discovery goes down with fire, the wheel and buffalo wings in importance.
I’m guessing same town you’re from Joel.
Kruger, I want to know how to do that too!
@135: I get the strategy. I’m just surprised.
Thanks.
Hesston?
Chipper’s hitting .455. Man, that’s insane.
#140 you wanna share how you did that?
Nice hand for Andruw there.
Well-deserved. Wouldn’t have bothered me one whit if he’d sent it over the fence there.
Neat to see the spiderman catch in the Andruw Jones highlights–I was sitting in RF stands for that game and had a great view of the catch. It’s the only game I’ve gone to at the Ted–watching from home beats the traffic hassle.
142,146. get the radio on (I’ve got it up on MLB.tv) and pause your pvr till you’ve sync’d the action up. You can hear the pop of the ball into the catcher’s mitt which makes a nice source of reference. then alternatley pause or ffwd to fine tune.
Is it just me, or do we come out on the wrong end of the check-swing calls 85 times out of 100?
Well I owe Mr. Bennett an apology. He went more than 3 and exceeded all my expectations.
And now I have to go worship my Chipper shrine.
Hmmm…Ohman gets the win?
I know you’re supposed to go 5 as the starter, but isn’t it up to the scorer otherwise? Is there a rule that says he can’t give it to the starter, because Bennett deserved it.
Yeah, it’s up to the scorer and cannot go to the starter. Ohman and Boyer pitched the longest, and Ohman did get out of the 2 on, 2 out situation Bennett left him.
Recap is up. And nine times out of ten, the guy who finishes the fifth gets the win in that situation.