Seriously, was anyone surprised that the Marlins have been basically running a con game, crying poverty to get what amount to kickbacks from the local governments while at the same time pocketing millions in revenue-sharing money? First off, this is what the owners do. They always lie about how much money they’re losing, and they always use accounting tricks to do it. Second, they’re PURE EVIL.
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quick question…and it may be a stupid one…but has Freeman ever played LF?
Re: Kimbrel trimming his mohawk.
How the hell do you fit a mohawk in a baseball hat?
Chip called me this morning and wanted me to let you guys know, that if you play the game the right way, the game will reward you.
Because the game is a pagan god.
God bless those pagans.
Good play is not enough for the Baseball Law-Giver. He must also feast on a sacrifice (not bunt or fly). I nominate Chip.
In my private mental movie of the way the season ends, the Braves are carrying Bobby Cox around the field in celebration of winning the World Series, and as they move off toward the clubhouse Jeff Francoeur creeps out of the bullpen, grabs Chip by the blazer and says “He wants you too, Malachi” as he drags him back into the corn.
As for the video: somewhat related.
1. Infante 2B, 2. Heyward RF, 3. Prado 3B, 4. Mccann C, 5. Hinske 1B, 6. Gonzalez SS, 7. Cabrera LF, 8. Ankiel CF, 9 Lowe P
in 5 plate appearances last night, heyward saw 30 pitches. that’s pretty amazing. kinda disappointed to not see diaz in the lineup. no matter the handedness, he should play in every marlins game.
One might argue that it’s more annoying to lose to a team that is bilking Major League Baseball and lining its own pockets by refusing to pay its players.
But then, it will always be annoying to the Marlins.
I think the Marlins are mostly annoying because they still have those ugly teal uniforms. I mean c’mon the 90s were 20 years ago. Arizona finally wised up and cut their horrendous teal and fuchsia act (I’m not sure if I long for or wish to forget a time when that was actually thought to look good), so it’s time you guys took the hint, Marlins.
@2, I just cut a matching strip out down the center, when I was in college
@5, it is the will of (L)andruw.
Apparently, AL teams are actually interested in Troy Glaus?
Maybe Wren could finagle a Glaus for Ellsbury trade.
The Sox made it clear at the deadline that they aren’t trading Ellsbury; if they ever did, it’d certainly take more than Glaus, who really has no value right now. If we traded him, we’d get a pretty bad PTBNL or cash, IMHO.
How about Glaus + The Fond Thoughts of What Heyward’s Rookie Year Could Have Been if the Braves’ Managerial and Training Staffs had Anything Resembling Competence?
I bet ol’ John coulda made that deal in his sleep.
Oh, good, a leadoff walk. I guess we got the Good Derek today.
Sorry, I’ll stop channelling Robert now.
*sigh*
It’s going to be a long afternoon.
Oh, for pete’s sake.
That should be about all Josh Johnson needs. Unfortunately, it’s probably not all he will get.
I’m suddenly glad I won’t be around for most of this game.
Free Kinshin.
He literally has no idea where the ball is going.
Josh Johnson vs. Derek Lowe is the Florida-Vanderbilt of our potential pitching matchups.
“Hanley just killed that rally.”
– Jeff Francoeur
We really needed to win this game too. Sigh.
Good night everybody.
@21 Sure he does. Hard toward the seats.
Time for sarcastic applause!
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Ten home runs allowed in Lowe’s last 11 starts. For a “ground ball” pitcher, he sure lets the ball get airborne a lot.
i have yet to see Lowe win a game this year. I need to stop watching when he pitches…
Lowe is Tommy Hanson-esque so far.
It’s sort of miraculous that we’re only down 3-0. Thanks for lowering my expectations, Derek. No pun intended.
Lowe had strike 3 on Hanley, but for chrissake you don’t walk Emilio Bonifacio. You can not walk Emilio Bonifacio.
I’m guessing the Braves offense will cure whatever has ailed Johnson in August.
Nice, Eric!
physics with Chip–“the ball was rising when it got to Ankiel”
And of COURSE Derek pops up the bunt.
Are they mentioning that Tim Hudson bunt again!?
Someone mentioned this the other day…
Bobby calls for plenty of bunts. How about they practice it more?
Tommy, get out of the booth and show them how it’s done.
These pitchers need to spend at least an hour a day working on bunts. Pathetic.
Johnson has a surprisingly bad road split. There’s a glimmer of hope.
I’d rather Derek Lowe get better at actually pitching, instead.
For the Brewers. Whom we will trade Lowe to, along with that Japanese fellow the Braves allegedly have down in the minors, and Nate McLouth.
In my fantasy.
I thought that was a terrible call at first, but on the replay looked like it might have been a tie.
Edit: The better angle looks out, just barely.
I’ve come to acceptance over Lowe’s mound shortcomings. I’m just looking for improvement wherever we can find it.
Just saw the money shot. Not that it helps. The play shouldn’t have been that close, anyway.
Man, Derek Lowe is awful.
5-1 Marlins.
Remember when Lowe was supposedly a “day game” pitcher?
Derek Lowe can barely get three outs; asking him to get four is just cruel.
Kawakami is better than this.
^ Sometimes. So is Lowe. How quickly we forget Kawakami’s second to last start.
I wonder at what point in the season the quick hook will start getting used. It was obvious pretty early that Lowe doesn’t have it today.
This is bad timing to have a rough stretch since the beginning of the last road trip.
Joe: “Lowe had a high ERA after the break last year, but he was 7-3!”
2 more years of this.
Damn, I hope the Braves can somehow con someone into taking Lowe in the offseason. He was decent to good for a stretch recently, but he is just not good or consistent enough overall to get this kind of money from a budget constrained team.
Sarcastic applause!
Maybe we can fool the Yankees into thinking they need another starter with Vazquez not working out.
Barring a rally, this will be 11 Braves losses in Lowe’s last 13 starts, with a 2-7 record charged to the pitcher in that span. (By comparison, Atlanta is 30-15 in that time frame when Lowe doesn’t pitch.) Evidently, all Kawakami did was bequeath his “certain defeat” role to Lowe.
David O’Brien: “I fully expect to see Freddie Freeman among the group of callups on Wednesday (Sept. 1). I’m hearing that’s the plan.”
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Screw these guys, I’m leaving home.
There’s only one guy on the left side of the infield, McCann hits it on the ground to the left side…and it’s right to the one fielder who starts the double play. Wow.
From bad to worse.
Time to turn the game off, methinks.
@27 You reached that conclusion about this game at a saner point than I did, but I’m there, too. Another waste of $434,587.82 on the starting pitcher; Lisp on the hill for “relief;” Melky taking his usual scenic route to balls hit in his direction.
How are the Braves going to make the playoffs when they play 12 games against the Marlins and Nats in September?
Pretty much have to sweep/take 3 of 4 from the Mets to hang on to first now.
I’m following the game on the internet. Any masochists out there mind describing the circumstances of Bobby’s ejection?
Lisp >>> Farnsworthless
@66–nothing special, tossed for arguing a check swing third strike on Hinske–probably just wanted to get away from the dreck
@66
Ejected from the Dugout for arguing the Hinske Check Swing Strikeout.
Bobby argued the check-swing 3rd strike to Hinske. To the naked eye, it looked really borderline. Hinske beefed, but was walking back to the dugout the whole time.
Bobby began squawking & it looked like the 3rd base ump tossed Bobby while he was still in the dugout. Bobby came out & got his money’s worth.
FWIW, on replay, I thought it was a good call. His hands and his bat crossed home plate.
Our starting pitchers, with the exception of Timmy yesterday, have been bad this week. Hanson on Friday and Lowe today put the offense in a hole before they even came to bat. Jurjenns couldn’t hold a lead in the Wednesday debacle. Even Timmy was below average on Monday in Denver. Let’s hope we can break out of this week’s pattern. We have enough problems; we don’t need what has been a strength to falter.
Thanks, everyone.
just to make sure no one forgot how bad our defense is
@71 I didn’t JJ was awful on weds. The BP was the real problem.
come on boys, we deserve a serious come from behind victory this week. GO BRAVOS!
Melky is the king of the (sometimes) useful dribbler.
well that helps
It’s better to be lucky than good.
well, too much wishful thinking
This looks like the old Miserable Loss type “Starter was terrible falling behind early, team can’t come all the way back.”
what’s the possibility KK gets called up to start in place of Lowe, 100/1? He can’t be any worse.
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Chip: “Strikeouts are faschist“.
As guys coming up to bat in the 9th go, Conrad, probably Diaz and Heyward are exactly who I’d want.
We got ’em right where we want ’em.
anythings possible!
I’m through being a pessimistic braves fan. TOO many of them out there.
Love it.
YES!!!
DIAZ!
OH MATTY!
Matty D!
MATTY!!!!!!
OMG this is awesome
Yeeeeeeeessssss!!!!!
MATTY, MATTY, MATTY!!!
To all of those who stopped watching: you’re no fan.
Matt “The Fisherman” Diaz.
How could you not love this team?
That was an amazing AB by Diaz.
wow….
LET’S GO HEYWARD! LET’S GO HEYWARD!
Now let’s win this one!
Derek Lowe knows how to win.
have some resilience!
channeling Chip: a piece de resilience
103—We haven’t yet won, and Lowe’s not in line for the decision, anyway.
Lowe knows how not to lose.
BMAC!
OH B- wait, wut?
YES!!! They better not screw this up.
Unbelievable.
thats a WALKOFF cmon get it right
Just some delayed celebrating. That’s all.
How could that not have been a HR?
Douche-bags.
They’ll see it was gone.
Wow. Instant replay wins today. Go MLB.
I didn’t think it was going to have the height off the bat.
What a comeback.
Braves Win!!!!!
Simply incredible.
I love me some Leo Nunez!
BRAVES MAGIC!
bmac is slow but that was one longgggggggggggg homerun trot 🙂
OH MAN, I following online was it really a HR!?
YEEES!
ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE! Go Bravos!
That was awesome.
Since a pitcher probably won’t get it, I nominate Brian McCann for NL MVP.
Umps thought it was so nice they wanted to go watch the HR a couple more times before leaving the park. 🙂
Hey, just get Josh Johnson out of the game. No problem…
Truly, was that ever unexpected…
I have learned to never give up on this team
Like I said, we had ’em right where we wanted ’em.
This team is going to give me a heart attack via Yahoo game updating if they keep doing stuff like this…but I like it!
If you play the game the right way, the game will reward you!
So much nicer to come out on the winning end of a comeback!
Suck this, Phillies!
I can’t believe it. These wins never get old.
God that felt good.
Stunned.
what happened? It just says double on gamecast…nevermind. They just changed it.
Maybe that somehow evens out Wednesday’s debacle.
That was one insane comeback.
Edit: McCann’s “double” became a HR via replay.
The ball hit off the top of the wall, to the secondary wall, then bounced back on to the field. The first base umpire didn’t know the ground rules and called it a double. To save him embarrassment or something, they went to the booth to review it before calling the inevitable homer.
FWIW, I consider Cristhian Martinez the player of the game.
Ditto. After a rocky first inning, he came up huge.
Poor Medlen was trying to get in on the home plate celebration, but was severely hampered by the huge cyborg arm brace.
The Braves are now a full 4 games better than the next closest team (Yankees) in home record. This is, by the way, utterly weird, as any disproportionate advantage to a new stadium should have worn off long ago. Hurray for anomalies!
Recapped.
The ump mighta just missed it.
Before replay was instituted, I was at a game where A-Rod hit one about 10 feet over the RF wall, but it hit a metal beam in front of the bleachers & bounced right back onto the field.
The only guy in the stadium who didn’t know that was a HR was the ump who called it a double. His perspective was the worst one in the park.