Trying to come up with something interesting about San Diego, coming up blank.
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They are going to have a basketball game on an aircraft carrier in S.D. on Veterans Day.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/basketball/ncaa/04/25/michigan.state.north.carolina.carrier.ap/index.html?eref=sihp
I found that kind of interesting.
1: Yeah, but it’s going to be a game between North Carolina and Michigan State, and those are *never* interesting.
Everything I know about San Diego: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtube_gdata_player&v=H38LiqJdzvI
The good lineup. You know. The one with McLouth 8th and Heyward 2nd. YAY!
Apparently Arodys Vizcaino’s arm just fell off or something in the fourth inning of his start and he had to leave the game.
Wow, that sucks. Though I figured he was heading that direction when they discovered a partial tear of his UCL. I almost wished it was a complete tear so he could go ahead and have the surgery instead of just delaying it. (Of course, I say all this without knowing what really happened.)
San Diego has the greatest seafood I’ve ever tasted.
@5
Mac, is that confirmed? I checked his line and it wasn’t pretty through 3. Are you sure they just didn’t take him out?
Teheran is doing his thing again.
5 IP 3h 1bb 6k 1R
@7
You should go to New Orleans…
@9, I’d love to. A friend of mine just went. She said the people were nice and everything was dirt cheap.
Sounds about right 🙂
@10
It’s funny how friendly a city can become after being bent over by a natural disaster.
Was there a time when New Orleans wasn’t friendly?
8 — Gondee from Talking Chop retweeted a message saying that a trainer came out on the field and that Vizcaino was taken out during the middle of an at-bat.
If it was the UCL again, hopefully the Braves’ medical staff will learn their lessons.
Jim Tressel is in deep shit.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=6424573
@15,
They will have to fire him. See Bruce Pearl.
Also, they should have to forfeit their 2010 season. So that means the SEC still owns them.
Heyward is a beast… At least for the last few games.
Boom.
And Heyward says, “Go f*** yourselves, San Diego.”
Dustin Moseley 0-3 with a 1.40 ERA over 25 innings before this game. That has to be almost impossible.
Greeted by Heyward.
That’s how you know the season is still young…well, besides Francoeur’s performance. Moseley had the 2nd lowest ERA in the majors for SP coming into today.
Nice one Lowe. Chess match with a checkers player.
Some fine pitches by Lowe there to get out of the 1st inning. (Thanks, MLB Live Look-In (TM)!)
I am glad that we are not just up there hacking….
Looks like we might get the Lowe we had the last game he pitched. Ugh.
Would’ve loved to have seen the look at home there.
In my opinion, Lowe would do a lot better if he stopped spotting them runners in second and third in every inning.
What the hell is this ump doing? He’s squeezed Derek out of at least two strikes this inning.
More Braves runs, less Padres runs.
That was a brutal, inept call on the changeup to Maybin. The double to the wall is the only good contact Lowe’s given up all night. Good process, bad results. Thank you ump and luck.
Fun to see Lowe spit in his glove before he gets a new ball on a 3-2 count. And gets the K, natch.
Edit: That’s not fun.
Yeah, the double has been the only hard hit ball. The other hits have been pathetic little groundballs.
Well, until that one, anyway.
Until that one.
That was just a bad pitch.
Yeah, sorry I mentioned it. Still, Lowe looks pretty good. That 7 run (or some ungodly high number) inning against the Mets back in ~August ’09 seems like decades ago.
There is nothing right or civil about Philadelphia.
Braves are already in hibernation mode.
Man, this game got un-fun really fast. I’m going to bed.
I think that the builders made Petco too severe of a pitcher’s park. (Just like I think some others are too small.)
this ump’s strike zone is LOLBAD
Lowe has only allowed 2 homers in 31 innings and has a 31/9 K/BB ratio. He’s actually earning his paycheck this year, at least so far.
It’s really a shame he made that mistake to Ludwick, because his stuff is crazy tonight.
Man, the camera production tonight is awful.
Good time for Uggla to break out…Guess not.
Moseley has walked 10 and struck out 9 on the season. That is what you would call smoke and mirrors.
Freddie! I like him. Let’s keep him.
Sea Bass!
I could get used to this from AGon… but I won’t, because I know it won’t last.
YES!
Oh yeah Sea Bass, nice one.
Big zone tonight. Work it.
Radio crew is all over the umpire – for both missing strikes and balls.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Extremely random calling of balls and strikes, tonight.
Derek, helping his own cause!
Bit of karma there.
Mosely’s really liking that off-speed pitch out of the zone when he’s got a full count. Did it twice to McLouth and then again to Prado.
Nice catch there by Nate, even if he makes it look harder than it is.
Been listening on radio until just now. Has the strikezone really been that bad?
Amazing scoop by Freeman.
Good thing Uggla took a beat to get himself settled. After such a tough play, he might’ve made a bad throw.
Freeman: Pickin’ Machine.
Yeah, the strike zone really sucks.
I think Freeman is about as good at first base as Caminiti was bad at it.
Dammit, I thought Jason took that one for a ride.
Is it just me, or is Chip somehow a little less annoying this season?
MLB Gameday says Heyward’s hit was quite a bit out of the park… damn.
Edit: Can’t figure out if there’s a way to post images.
Who am I missing on the trivia question? Helton, Pudge Rodriguez, and … ?
No image posting except for the cryptkeeper.
Thought as much, just wanted to post a shot of where Gameday claims the ball was caught 🙂
Bullshit. He was very out.
Out, and it wasn’t close.
I vote for replay.
What a call….
You’d think the umpires could get one of those close calls at second correct this season, even if it’s by accident.
Im tired of umps missing the calls at 2B
#67 – Bobby Abreu? maybe
67—So, I looked it up. Should’ve known that one.
76—Yep. Nice job.
Sick catch, bro.
Whew. Nice grab by AAG. I’d’ve been pissed if they’d missed that one, too.
AGony has been absolutely brilliant in the field, this year. He’s like the Freddie Freeman of shortstops.
Agony is a helluva fielder.
I didnt know Pudge, but immediately thought Helton and Abreu
Problem with the throw was that it was nowhere near AAG’s glove. But AAG’s glove caught the ball and tagged the runner out before he reached the base. Basically, the umpire didn’t have a good angle.
It feels like Uggla’s only hits have been homers.
Lowe is at 107 pitches, send him out for the 7th? Depends if we get a baserunner?
@82- Pudge is the active leader. 🙂
85 — No. Even if it is Linebrink. It’s the 4th time through the order and you consider health for future starts.
#86 – yeah makes sense, just didnt come to mind
Hopefully O’Flaherty has it after the long outing yesterday.
Damn it, Eric.
Why is the guy who pitched 2 innings yesterday pitching now?
I love it when a pitcher walks the first batter and then the opposing manager just gives away an out.
Browsing BB-Ref after looking up the trivia question…What is the career record for doubles? I guessed before I looked and was only 20 off. Bonus points if you guess who; I never would’ve come up with it.
In theory, ‘Brink would be better here than anywhere since he’s a flyball pitcher (plus his successful track record with the Pads). Not sure I want to test it though.
If I were a Padres fan I’d be pissed about Hudson hitting 6th while Jason Bartlett hits 2nd.
Here we go.
@93,
Well, it’s not Hugh Duffy (wrong semi-obscure record holder)…
I miss Moylan
DAMN YOU FREDI
Hey I have an idea – why don’t we promote Marek and release Linebrink?
I was half-right, that’s a homer anywhere else.
Hopefully the gas can will keep it close enough for Heyward to have a shot to tie it up.
Thank you Linebrink….
Mother-effing Linebrink.
Can we please get Marek and co up instead of these old stiffs…
Free Marek.
Free Cory Guerrin?
Please go away, Linebrink.
Linebrink isnt close to where McCann wants these pitches
AGHHHHHHH! This is so frustrating. He obviously cannot get major leaguers out, and seems to combine that with a tendency to choke in high leverage situations.
Has anyone said anything about Linebrink sucking?
We couldn’t do that, Adam! Then we’d have too many good pitchers in the bullpen. All that winning would bore the fans! Better to make them squirm and to raise sales of Maalox to help the economy.
How much longer are they gonna let this guy pitch in high leverage situations? How much longer until we get somebody who can pitch the 7th?
Good god. I hate our acquisitions.
Marek, please.
And Linebrink’s ERA continues to drop. Think we’ve got a gem here, fellas.
Free Mark Lemke. Free anyone.
At least Linebrink pulled off a successful Grybo.
Linebrink’s got just about the worst command I’ve ever seen from a Braves reliever.
Linebrink of destruction
Nah, Wohlers during his anxiety issues was worse.
117- Worse than end-of-the-line Chris Reitsma?
3 of Linebrink’s four past appearances have had WPA’s of -0.296; -0.215; & -20.5.
That means his appearances have routinely been reducing this team’s chance of winning by over 20%. Holy Moly!
The only *possible* thought I have on Marek is that they are waiting till June to get an extra year of MLB service out of him? Either that or despite his insane ability to get minor leaguers out, they think his stuff just won’t work on MLB hitters.
Sucks for Lowe….
I am afraid the Braves believe in Marek as much as they did Buddy Hernandez….
Oh, and to top it all off, I have O’Flaherty in my fantasy matchup and my opponent has Linebrink. grrrr….
119 & 120—“…just about…”
How nice of you Eric to just let him tag you.
Why would you have either, ben?
NL only league that counts holds? only guess Ive got
God bless you, Johnny Venters.
@127
I dunno about Linebrink, but I have O’Flaherty b/c it is a deep NL-only league, so you have to take middle relievers and bench player to fill out your roster. Also, we count holds as an incentive to put middle relievers on your roster (making your team more realistic, even if its a crappy stat).
123 – I’ve been thinking the same thing
93 — Looked it up. Figured it would be someone from that era.
Jonny, we know you’re awesome. No need to spot the Pads runners just to prove it.
Agony is SICK on defense right now.
Can’t get double plays without a runner on…
Ideal bullpen: kimbrel, venters, o’flaherty, moylan, marek, Martinez, and I got nothing…
I just hate knowing that the two vets the Braves had to bring in are the two worst relievers we have on the roster.
Damn our double plays are pretty.
137- At least Scott Proctor isn’t with the major-league team. Yet.
136 — How about Wagner or Feliz?
nasty
God, Venters is good.
What a pitch. 94 with sink.
So the Braves tonight have 4 hits and no walks. At least they bunched them.
A run, please.
I know this is sort of blasphemous, but to me, Jonny Venters is a tiny bit like Mariano Rivera — he basically has just one pitch, but it’s a mid-90s fastball with unhittably insane movement.
Great…Heath Bell
Oh no, Gwinnett allowed Proctor to pick up the save. He’ll be here before we know it.
I can’t believe he called that 1-0 pitch to Chipper a strike. He sure hasn’t been giving that part of the zone consistently.
And that 1-0 pitch to Brian was a blatant strike, called a ball. I’m glad Jim Powell is calling this umpire out for being bad tonight.
146—He’s got a pretty nasty slider, too.
All right, Gearin. Let’s see what you got.
Really? This is the MLB debut for the guy who already blew two saves at AAA this season?
Cantu is fairly disgusting looking.
Good job by Fredi of putting Gearrin in a position to succeed for his debut. Low pressure.
Gonzo!
I see why AAG was highly acclaimed for his defense.
At least Gearrin’s in with the bases empty. This is as relatively low pressure as it could get for a game we need to win.
AAG clearly took the doghouse comments personally. I want to commend him for doing whatever it took to get out of the Braves Journal doghouse and into our good graces.
Gearrin’s looking good, but he doesn’t seem like he’d be that hard to figure out. And we just got fairly lucky.
Ringing Maybin up on that check swing was absurd — he didn’t swing. At all. But thank you, home plate ump.
Well, since Fredi doesn’t seem to want to use Kimbrel here it’s Gearrin, Asencio (after his horrific last inning), Martinez or, God forbid, Sherrill.
Looks like a high 80s sinker and a slider.
I already have more faith in this kid than I do in Linebrink or Sherrill. Low expectations I guess.
1-2-3, nothing hit hard or out of the infield. Great job, kid!
Way to go, kid. Just what we needed.
Great debut for Gearrin….It would be nice if the Braves could make it possible for him to get the win….
#160 – it was an awful call. Dont see why the home plate ump gets to make calls on check swings.
Time for a Freddie Franchise short porch homer.
So, will we see Dunggla or DAN UGGLA this inning?
So are Linebrink and Sherrill the Twin Whipping Boys?
Joe thinks the hold is a good stat.
Everyone asleep? Or just bored?
Everyone’s out the back hammering nails in the Sherrbrink voodoo doll.
We lose if sherril enters the game. It’s that simple.
He may pitch next inning if nobody scores with the switch-hitting Hudson and the lefty Hawpe.
Yep, time to score.
Great job, kid.
Is Sherbrink or Lineill the better name? I prefer the latter.
Fine two innings from Cory Gearrin “of War.”
“Ernesto Frieri”? Who the hell is this?
Two innings and no one got it out of the infield, can we keep him?
178- Beats me, but I think San Diego’s random name generator is on the fritz.
This ump has no clue
great catch Martin
This ump is definitely making stuff up as he goes along.
Nice play Prado.
wow, nice grab Nate
And nice play by McLouth.
Nice D in that inning. The Lisp wasn’t exactly fooling the first 2 hitters.
Good D boys. Now let’s win it.
Does it ever occur to any of you how silly it is to actually type, “nice play, Prado” or “great catch, Nate”. It just did to me.
And what the hell is a “Cory Luebke?”
Attaboy, Chip.
Slow tag, looked safe.
Hicks..ugh
Pretty awesome to hear the Braves fans tomahawk choppin on the road. Padres Color guy asked if the pinch runner Mark Lemke.
Damn, and now the Padres play defense.
Ernesto Frieri is from the same part of Colombia as Julio Teheran, from the northern Coast, City of Cartagena. He has very good numbers in his very short MLB career, with 57 k’s in 46 innings. He posted good numbers in his minor league career.
Nice play by the pitcher there. But a homerun here would do the trick
It was probably a long time ago that Hicks actually ran the bases between second and third.
sooooo why is Hicks up in the majors?
There’s a run we should have.
Baserunning blunder, Hicks has gotta make sure that gets past the pitcher.
Let’s see if we can pick him up here.
That was a very bad 0-2 to Freeman. Bet he wants that swing again.
This game may go 20.
Hicks can’t even run the bases right. What good is he?
Waste of a promising start there. :-/ I can’t even fault Hicks too much for breaking on that particular hit. Just a really good play by the pitcher.
So does Cristhian bat for himself if we get through this inning?
Well, you really need to be sure the ball gets past the pitcher before you go– if it gets past the pitcher, you still get to 3rd. Hicks is stupid as well as worthless.
Uggggh.
Wouldnt you rather have Hudson bunting? Why ask a reliever to do that?
Would rather him struck out bunting than that.
207 — Because Hudson isn’t available to pitch the next inning.
Ah, my bad. double switch moved the pitcher spot.
Ugh. Terrible bunt… though it’s better than Hanson.
Why not pinch-bunt with Hudson or something? Did we really need to preserve him for the potential next inning?
Good freaking Lord.
That was awful.
Well christ.
ETA: In fairness, the kid probably hasn’t run the basis in a couple years.
Which makes it even dumber to leave him in.
Well that was ugly. Now Martinez can go back out there and get the loss.
Good night fellas
haha wow. We just got Lisped that inning.
Hilarious!
OK, so now we know not to use Cristhian as a pinch-runner. Check.
Let’s go for the trifecta, Lisp. Leadoff homer to end it. You can do it!
An exhibition of great baseball fundamentals by the Martinez…
I’m guessing that Lisp, being the long relief guy, knows how to bunt fairly well.
It’s almost as if he’s not used to running the bases.
The Lisp is to base-running as Melky is to throwing.
In the history of baserunning, that’s certainly a new low.
The Lisp is to baseball as Melky is to baseball
The Lisp has a strange follow-through.
How many innings is bmac gonna catch?
I’m in hard yawn mode.
Aren’t you a teacher, Ryan? I’m surprised you’re up this late.
I’m going to curse myself tomorrow, but I can’t quit now.
230
teacher here too. I have to be at work at 7:40AM. Boo, Lisp!
Spring break. Woohoo!
Who didn’t see that coming?
Well… sleepytime.
Fuck.
Again, sticking with the Lisp bites us in the end.
aaaand ball game.
wow, we just got Lisped like nobody’s ever been Lisped before.
So there ya go….snatching defeat from the jaws of victory once again
Well, that was depressing.
Good thing we kept Martinez around to pitch another inning!
You can’t spell “Lisp” without an “L.”
shith
Spring break something.
I’m still blaming Linebrink for this one. Well, Linebrink and also Wren, for leaving Marek in AAA.
Let’s be real. There are lots of potential goats from tonight’s game. You can go Linebrink, Hicks, Lisp, any of the tons of guys who struck out with runners on, and there’s certainly a good dose of Gonzalez.
Well, and the incredibly awful offense.
Why would you let Hicks run for Chipper in that situation? Sure his knees hurt, but he doesn’t get thrown out like Hicks did there.
I nominate Fredi for whipping boy
Fredi Gonzalez – who should just be called Fredo from now on – is really, really bad at managing. He’s awful. Good thing he left his best right-handed bench bat on the bench and best reliever in the bullpen… while forcing the Lisp to bat against the Padres’ left-handed reliever and then pitch a 3rd inning.
What an idiot.
Our manager is an ass.
@249
I second the Fredi to Fredo motion.
Fredo the Whipping Boy
249—Exactly. Fredi is just awful. It’s rather depressing that he’s our manager.
Fredi has been very bad. And his continued usage of Linebrink is absolutely maddening. But… the team is batting .226. We only scored three runs against Dustin Mosely, a guy with a 4.89 ERA. There’s not much the manager can do about that.
He can still put his team in the best possible position to win, given those struggles, and he’s not coming close to doing that.
Agreed.
I also wish our 25-man roster reflected the optimal 25 men — so that Linebrink, Sherrill, and Hicks were off the team, replaced by, say, Marek, Todd Redmond, and Diory. Bobby always used to put his worst players in a position to kill the team, too.
Yeah – Clearly, better hitting would cover a lot. But I get the sinking feeling that we’re in a disadvantage when playing close games, and the Braves are going to have to win a few of those to be successful this year. The fact that the Braves have hit so poorly has simply cast into sharper relief just how bad Gonzalez has been; it shouldn’t excuse his bad decision making.
How about Frediot?? Of course if we really had a functioning offense, Frediot’s management wouldn’t be so much of an issue.
Recapped.