Oh, look, the Braves’ manager used to manage the Marlins! Isn’t that interesting!
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Derek Lowe said something about the team being tired after finishing spring training with a bunch of day games and seemed to think the day off yesterday will prove beneficial for them. So to borrow a Peanutism, maybe today is the day we right the ship.
They will silence their critics today!
I like facing the Marlins a lot more without Cody Ross and Dan Uggla.
I like facing the Marlins a lot more without Eric Gregg.
gonna try to get all the ol’ cliches out of the way…
flip the script. go on a tear. change course. start fresh. it’s a brave new world, folks.
i like facing the marlins a lot more when we right the ship.
@4: I thought at first you said “Kevin Gregg”–in which case I would have called you silly.
Understandable mistake. I hated Gregg Olson, too. From now on, any time I see that second “g,” I get suspicious.
No matter who’s wearing the teal, the Marlins will always be annoying.
Same lineup, its not worth posting.
The first of 453 games this year against the Marlins.
Gonna go ahead and get this out there…just have to tip your cap to them, we ran into a good pitcher tonight.
10 – And it’s still stupid for all the same reasons.
By the way, here’s an audition tape from Josh Caray, announcer for the Rome Braves, son of Skip and brother of Chip. He was applying to be a PA announcer at Wrigley Field. He didn’t get the job, but he appears to be better than Chip.
Bring ‘im up to the big leagues, Atlanta!
Heh, I used to know Josh.
@14
He’s no longer working for the Braves. I’m not sure who he’s working for now, but he left the Rome Braves to become the Gwinnett Braves’ TV announcer on CSS (Comcast Sports Southeast, for those not in the know) during their inaugural season, and then kind of disappeared after that.
Oh — thanks, Nick. Hadn’t realized. Well, I hope he does okay.
A message to Derek Lowe: If being tired after finishing spring training with a bunch of day games is so important, then why don’t they put it on the scoreboard?
This team could use Yunel Escobar (sans his personality).
.458/.531+.750=1.281 would be nice.
@9
next year the Marlins will not be wearing teal. They’re getting a new ballpark and will be called the MIAMI Marlins. Rumor has it their main color is going to be blue. The new colors will be announced in November. I live down here and all 19 fans are really excited.
Let’s face it, without Matt Diaz we have no hope.
@19
They could use him with his personality too. To me the idea of being a “clubhouse cancer” is on the same list as having “grit” or being “scrappy”, i.e. bullshit.
Baseball players aren’t robots, they have their own personalities that have nothing to do with their or anyone else’s ability, etc.
IMO AAG’s reactions after striking out or hitting into a GIDP are far more infuriating than Escobar flipping his bat or double clutching a routine throw to first.
Anyway, I’m going to limit myself to this one post about Escobar because I don’t like thinking bad things about Wren and Bobby and the whole subject of Escobar just conjures bad thoughts in waves.
Downeaster, it doesn’t matter if you’re infuriated by AAG’s reactions after striking out or hitting into a GIDP. But it definitely matters if the team is infuriated by them. You’re right, they’re not robots — they’re affected by entirely irrational factors. I generally don’t put a whole lot of stock in the notion of a “happy clubhouse,” but if the entire team lost faith in Yunel, that would negatively affect the team’s ability to keep him on the roster.
I’ll get over it one day. Not today though.
FWIW, the umps didn’t like Escobar either. He never got a break on a close call.
I’d welcome Jeffy back before I would Yoko. Except for the GIDPs, Jeff only managed to get himself out. Yoko managed to bring everyone down.
Is it too late for the cliché game? “We hit the ball hard all night, but right at people. We just gotta keep swingin’ the bats, stickin’ with what we know works, and we’ll get a few to drop in.”
AAG’s reaction to striking out is identical to his reaction to making a great play. If you think he’s not as upset as you are when he strikes out, I suspect you’re probably right. Then again, I was out of my chair at a double play he turned the other day, and he treated it like no big deal.
I miss Omar.
Nice start to the game by Hanson. He wasn’t always hitting his spots, and some pitches to Coghlin were up, but no one got any good swings in against him. I’ll definitely take that.
Yeah, I’m pretty jazzed about Hanson. He hit 94 on several fastballs and 95 on the last one of the inning. Command was bad on the one curveball he threw, but he nailed McCann’s glove on a few sliders and fasballs.
McCann sounded frustrated by that one.
Great start from Tommy.
Well that was quick.
we sure are good at making average picthers look awesome
Volstad has pretty good stuff. Control was an issue in the past but he has gotten over most of that.
Alright, Nate!
You’re my boy McOut.
That was a great AB by McLouth
Chippah! 😀
Yeah, baby!
Are there even 6000 people in the stands tonight? Chipper isn’t going to like this.
Nate has a real pretty swing when he hits the ball
when he hits the ball
hit
this umpire’s zone is kinda wacky, btw
Just tuned in, like the line for Hanson. How’s his velocity?
Man, when he hits ’em…
That baseball was just destroyed. Not bad for a 6th place hitter.
Yowza.
Jason Heyward is why NASA stopped the shuttle program
@45,
Best of the season
Don’t look now, but someone has a 5-game hitting streak.
Happy for Freddie there. He needed that one.
Sincere question: How many teams have their best hitter batting 6th?
Man, having Jason Heyward on your team is soooooo fun!
Clutch.
Hanson’s mullet is really sweet tonight.
Umm. Okay….
NL Baseball!
Keep it up, boys.
and now McCann with some AL Baseball!
McCann killed that ball
That bunt ended up OK. I guess.
Maybe not. “That baby’s bullpen-bound!”
I’ll take bad alliteration for 1000, Alex.
Uggla… goes the other way? Hahahaha.
UGGLA! What hustle!
Get used to this, Jason.
Ealk in the 5th?
so who’s protecting our best hitter?
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Uggla is more athletic than he looks or what I expected him to be…
were you saying “boo” or “boourns”?
wwoooooow
AAG!
That was an awesome play.
this Uggla commercial still plays here in Miami. they’ve played it twice during today’s broadcast on Marlins channel
http://tinyurl.com/3r8edkt
Hanson is getting a LOT of ground balls tonight. Great to see.
Just got home from calling softball play by play, how does Hanson look?
Trying to figure out how you can only get hurt sliding head-first, Joe.
It’s almost unfair that we get to cheer for both Brian McCann and Jason Heyward.
red hair, beard, lanky
That was a nice play on both ends.
Whenever Hanson gets on top of his pitches he gets a good amounts of groundouts, when not, his pitches seem to be too flat and get hammered.
oh come on, so close
See? All this offense happens while I’m away from the tv.
@80
Hanson has traditionally been considered a flyball pitcher.
Only Agon and Hanson without hits tonight.
Freeman will be fine. Five game hitting streak and just missed getting his first HR of the season.
Yeh, I know he’s not a ground ball pitcher as such, but for me it looks like his pitches are too flat/straight when he doesn’t get them down in the bottom of the strike zone and that is when he gets hit hard.
Freddi Freeman can pick it a first
Great catch by McLouth
Attaboy Nasty.
Who’s that guy wearing McClouth’s jersey tonight?
Ok, the Braves defense in this game has been outstanding
Y’all, Dan Uggla is awesome.
Wow.
How did he make that throw? Wow.
playing some defense tonight…
If the finalist for whipping boy keep playing like they have tonight, we are going to be a great team
But AAG is a serious problem.
We could fill the ESPN highlights tonight.
Great bounce back from Tommy tonight, saw him hitting 94 with several fastballs. Unbelievable defense behind him tonight too.
I think they’re silencing their critics, righting the ship, and starting fresh.
And getting on-tracked.
Joe Simpson….. “that was fraught with danger”!
Looks like the Phillies’ magic number will remain unchanged tonight
@101, I laughed at that too.
Recappage.