Boo! Boooooooooo!!!!!!
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I may or may not have started Ruiz tonight on my fantasy team. With the way the season has gone, this should jinx him into sucking against us.
thanks, Bethany
I think it behooves you to stream any available Braves opponents. Always.
And the reason I’ve been Tweeting #matherfacts for the past hour:
1. Prado LF, 2. McLouth CF, 3. Jones, 3B, 4. McCann C, 5. Uggla 2B, 6. Freeman 1B, 7. Gonzalez SS, 8. Mather RF, 9. Beachy
Tonight would be nice for Uggla to break out. We’re pushing May and he still isn’t hitting for shit.
All the peripherals would slide right (mostly) into place if he were hitting an empty 100 pts higher.
Kornheiser just used “Fangraphs” in a sentence…properly!
I’ve got palinco on my fantasy team, and I’m not benching him but ill take an 0-fer.
Is the weather a threat to getting this game in?
Nothing on the radar yet.
Here’s a Mather fact: He sucks, bless his heart. We sure are carrying a lot of dead weight.
Braves will add Proctor on Sunday.
From DOB:
“Proctor has a 1.06 ERA and three saves in 14 appearances for Gwinnett, and has recorded 24 strikeouts in 17 innings while allowing just 10 hits and five walks.”
Any chance he won’t stink in ATL?
The Braves have been in love with Proctor since 2006. Read the talking points.
Linebrink, Proctor…has Wren just gone through a painful breakup? Because he’s calling his old girlfriends all of a sudden. You can’t go home again, Frank.
Did that ball ever come down?
Well since Billy Wagner turned down his money, and went back home to his wife and kids…
Did anybody catch jon stewart making fun of the lawyer sueing roger mcdowell last night? It was good stuff.
Tipping the cap on that one…where the hell did that land? Looked like it hit midway up the blue batting eye in CF. Sheesh.
Where was Hamels throwing that ball?
Slugfest tonight?
Way to answer, fellas…
Dear God, why are we bunting in the first inning? Fredi Gonzalez is the dumbest human being alive and will always be known as such because nobody will ever be dumber.
I mean it worked, sort of, but still.. second batter of the game and you call a bunt?
Edit: And while I’m at it, Brian Jordan is even worse than Joe.
20 — Down by 3, no less.
I dont think I like Uggla that much.
Uggla is killing us.
Maybe if Uggla ditched the boys medium jerseys and got one that fit he would be a little more helpful at the plate. Starting to not like him so much
That wasn’t a sacrifice. McLouth was bunting for a hit. It was just a lousy bunt.
We should have put a clause in his extension voiding it if he hit below .200, or making him pay us money, or something.
I can’t believe Uggla will be in a Braves uniform for four more seasons. He is one of the worst players in the NL.
Well, that sucks…
Beachy’s hurt.
Time to switch to KC/Detroit where Verlander is 4 innings from a Vander Meer.
What happened?
Brian Jordan: “I’m not a doctor.” Thanks for clearing that up, buddy.
Could be a back issue. Might’ve done it while swinging the bat. Beachy threw one warm-up pitch & McCann summoned the dugout.
Thanks.
“Time to switch to KC/Detroit where Verlander is 4 innings from a Vander Meer.”
And it’s over with a Melky Cabrera triple.
How many times does that have to fail for Fredi to stop trying it?
Now Chipper looks like he hurt his back on that swing. This game is not turning out well to this point.
Oh, for crying out loud. Fredi, stop that moronic crap, you imbecile.
When will the Braves stop with the free outs?
Yeah–another squandered out.
Beachy has a strained left oblique. That’s probably a trip to the DL.
Will Freeman or Uggla ever hit a ball hard again?
Good one, Chipper.
It’s happened, by the way. Mather makes me miss Melky. Mather makes Melky look like Mickey Mantle. Alliteration!
He looked just like Francoeur out there in RF, actually.
Good job, Lisp.
MatherMania!
Mac, Mather says to eat a massive pile of manure.
Martinez!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cristhian Martinez > Babe Ruth
The whole room just erupted!!!! Oh my god!!!!!
Fredi so wanted to bunt in that situation…lol. Hardest hit ball by our side tonight. Dan Struggla needs to get the lisp to tutor him.
I say keep the alliteration going…
Cristhian Martinez > Brandon Hicks
Mather and The Lisp with back to back doubles. I need to lie down.
Ok, I didn’t see that coming.
Something has to be done about this bunting … crap!
Sweet..there’s our one free-out per inning. Fredi is the best. Screw the big inning. We’ll give you 7 outs and still beat you.
OK, that was awesome from Mather and the Lisp.
edit: I actually like the bunt there. Hedge against the double play and get to your good hitters. The rest of “the moves” have been crap, though.
No offense to the “no-bunting” crowd, but we are playing Hamels…runs are precious.
You mean the things we just got two of on consecutive doubles by a guy who can’t hit and Martinez?
FREAKING HELL.
I don’t have a problem bunting with McLouth (who actually can bunt) when Chipper and McCann are behind him.
Edit: Although that just happened.
Damnit, Mac. If only they’d had a shift on! he’d have had a single 🙁
“In order to be successful with runners in scoring position, you can’t be afraid to have 2 strikes.”
Ok Brian, what the hell does that mean?
Bunting is retarded. You only get 27 outs. Those are what are precious. Bunting makes you score less runs, not more. This inning is a great example.
Okay, Lisp, hope you’re not gassed after running the bases.
“Ok Brian, what the hell does that mean?”
Quite the trio: Joe Simpson, Brian Jordan and Chip Caray.
Man, Alex Gonzalez has a great glove.
Sounds like a match made in hell, Dan.
Honestly, the players need to just ignore bunt signs from here on in. Surely Chipper, McCann, McLouth et al have learned enough pattern recognition to do that; otherwise, they couldn’t play in the majors. Or dress themselves.
Can I suggest we call Brian “Brain” Jordan?
@64 nice use of the r word there.
So I just got home and looked at the gametracker, and it said that there were back-to-back doubles by Mather(!) and The Lisp(!?). I figured the thing was broken, but reading here I guess it really happened
Jim Powell says Beachy hurt himself swinging, and best guess is he’s out a month or so.
Another Joe Mather double?!
One has to admit, Joe Mather does look like a baseball player.
Somebody pinch me!
Hernandez hitting for Martines? That’s a step down in offense.
Thanks, Cole, for rendering that irrelevant.
Joe: I’d like to see Alex run. I know Ruiz is good and Hamels is a lefty and Alex will probably be out but what the hell man? Just run. This is baseball!
Sigh.
Nice play Uggla!
Edit: You too, Nate, for once.
This umpire is a freaking joke.
Man, what a load of shit.
Cost us a ****ing run. Bullshit.
Bobby would have gotten tossed for sure.
Over/under on how much money the home plate umpire has on this game?
Oh, the home plate umpire is a minor league callup. Guess he won’t be back up if anyone actually grades him.
What a clutch call from the ump, showing why he deserves to be in The Show.
That said, there are no words for how much I loathe Victorino.
Fuck Fredi Gonzalez. Bobby would have been out of that dugout and chewing the fucking shit out of that ump after that hit. Fredi just sits there. I am so pissed off.
I dont think i’ve ever seen a worst missed called strike.
That blown 3rd strike call to Victorino should guarantee that the home plate ump never gets another opportunity to work another MLB game – sadly, institutional incompetence amongst umps is just a given. If fact, he might’ve blown the call just to fit in.
@86–yep
And Fredi getting tossed would be a plus!
Prado!
Man, he just missed that one. 😀
I agree, Landogarner. Fredi just sat there with a dumbass look on his face.
I say bunt here.
Man, we’re just giving away outs today.
I mean, why would we want to give Chipper a chance to hit tonight?
There’s gotta be a bonus clause in Fredi’s contract for every idiotic sacrifice bunt.
Really, bunting him to third now? What-the-eff, Fredi!
Stupidity is doing the same dumb stuff over and over again
Fredi bunts a lot more than Bobby.
Can Uggla please do something? Anything?
Fredi Gonzalez’s WAR is -0.2
100- That sounds way too high, especially since you’re not counting lineup follies and bullpen management incompetence. He’s gotta be at -1 or below.
Its a good call with no outs and the lefty-lefty matchup late in a tie game
Pretty sure Fredi was around -5.4 WAM* by last count.
*Wins above monkey level.
Gee, good thing we don’t have that extra out to play with.
Can we move Uggla to 8th in the lineup?
is he kidding me? Uggla pisses me off.
I officially hate Uggla…Diory could hit a stinking fly ball
Damn, Uggla’s a bum.
Uggla just hit the Mendoza Line.
Ugh, Dan, I’ve not complained about you yet, but you deserve it at this point.
Thing is, Uggla crushed a ball to deep CF last time around, then hammered a ball foul to LF this time. He’s close to coming around, I can feel it.
^Is that you, Fredi?
At least charlie aint our manager.. Using 3 pitchers in one inning of a tie game aint too smart.
Bastardo’s really good. I’m not optimistic.
The Bastard might just walk in a run.
Thats the way you take 3-0 and make it a K
@112 I meant Uggla, to clarify. Freddie looks like garbage.
Wow Freeman and Uggla are absolutely killing us.
That was a ball on Victorino.
So upsetting. Why I do this to myself on a Friday night, I’ll never know.
This one’s gonna hurt.
Such bad hitting approaches…Uggla and Freeman swinging for the downs instead of trying to put the ball in play…
Wow, Mather sucks. That’s two players Heyward would’ve made. (This one being holding it to a single, of course.)
Fundamentally sound, Mather. Tom Emanski would not be pleased.
it wasn’t a homer. I’ll take it
Where’s Venters?
Not available. Pitched three days in a row.
126 — Pitched 3 days in a row, unavailable.
Most frustrating game ever.
I hate this game.
Has McCann ever made a tag play at the plate?
Catch the damn ball, McCann!
gotta make that play at home, had him dead to rights.
Holy shit I hate baseball sometimes.
@131 – A legitimate question. He always seems to drop the ball before making the tag.
Still, did anyone really expect the Phillies to strand their leadoff double after we performed such a textbook job of stranding ours?
Play for one run, lose by one run.
O’Flaherty will certainly be unavailable tomorrow, he’s pitched 3 days in a row now and threw 32 pitches tonight.
….!
whats the record for sac bunts in a game?
Bunts must give Fredi sexual pleasure.
The next thing bunted should be Fredi’s empty little head.
Brian Jordan: “Braves doing all the little things right tonight.”
And doing all the little things right is causing them to lose this game.
Ok. That bunt was stupid
Don: “That conversation has been going on a long time between Brian [McCann] and the home plate umpire.”
Chip: “Yeah, and it’s been mostly pronouns.”
?????
They were ALL stupid!
By the way, Jordan couldn’t have been much of a player by his own standards- he had two sacrifice bunts in his whole career.
Good thing we gave up that out!
Chip doesn’t know the difference between pronouns and profanity.
He’s like one of those old ladies, sitting at the slot machines, chain smoking…. “THIS one will be a winner!”
Brian Jordan is always preaching at people, remember when he called out Chipper? It’s just his personality.
Like what, Chip? “He” threw “it” for a strike you … you … “it.”
@147 ain’t that the truth
And here comes Linebrink. And Fredi gives up all pretense. Hope you really needed that money you put on the Phils, Phredi.
Fredi G has all of the worst parts about Bobby and none of the better parts about Bobby. It’s pretty unfun in Braves’ country these days.
That pitch was even higher than I thought
All right, yeah, the ump sucks, and Fredi sucks, but if we could’ve just made some CONTACT with runners in scoring position this would be a different game right now.
We have to accept that the Braves do, indeed, suck.
That was startlingly effective by Linebrink.
Linebrink fearing the return of Proctor?
More likely just random luck
Fuck you, Victorino. Die in a fire.
Chip: “Fuck you, you … you … “it.”
anytime you are behind 1 run in the ninth inning and if you have a righthander with an era north of 6, you have to send him out there.
The Braves need Nate McLouth to reach first so Chipper Jones can bunt.
YOU SHOULD’VE SAC BUNTED MCLOUTH
He will probably bunt again out of habit
Of course. Fredi convinced Nate that the goal of baseball is to make outs, and McLouth is just following orders.
161, Lol. But I don’t even know if it’s a joke.
McCann bunts here.
Please don’t tell me McCann’s gonna square up now.
Oh shit. Now we’re going to be caught stealing.
Would almost prefer to see Ross pinch hit for Uggla
168- My sentiments exactly.
If I hear poetic fucking justice one more time…
Final out will be Heyward caught stealing
Sweet
Uggla looks clueless
Dan, now, please.
Horseshit ending for a horseshit game.
Alright Dan Uggla, go to hell.
Ugg
*Price is Right fail horn*
can we get Infante back?
I hate that asshole…Fredi ought to be fired if he hits him 5th again
172- Nope, it’s Uggla flailing away at strike three like he’s shooing off a killer rabbit. God, that was an awful game.
So, Uggla is looking like a disaster contract right about now.
I don’t know if I’ve ever been more pissed off watching a baseball game. So many things.
Poetic justice.
Dunggla
Everyone relax there is still like a 115 games to go. Things will turn around.
187- How? Will Fredi grow a brain? That’s the Braves’ biggest obstacle right now, and it’s getting worse instead of better.
Concerning Uggla, It’s so easy to say it after everyone else sees it….but when he played against us I continued to say “why do we ever throw anything other than sliders low and outside with his “”step in the bucket swing?” The rest of the league has figured him out and we are left with another “first-year McLoud” who may take at least another year to become competent. Question is: will he listen to constructive feedback or, like Andruw, insist “I’m a pull hitter!”, at his team’s expense?
Fredi didn’t bat in the 6th and 7th innings with a chance to blow the game open. It’s not all his fault is all im saying.
Recapped.
@144 – Well, there’s “you” … and “mother” … and, well now I’m stuck.