MACK SEYS THE BRAEVS NEED A RITEHANDED RELEIVER + I AM JUST POSTIGN 2 SEY I AM AVALABLE. WIL WORK CHEEP.
DANNY
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MACK SEYS THE BRAEVS NEED A RITEHANDED RELEIVER + I AM JUST POSTIGN 2 SEY I AM AVALABLE. WIL WORK CHEEP.
DANNY
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Where did Kolb go anyway? He was last heard from in April 2008.
He got sick of being ridiculed on the internets, so he took his base-on-balls and went home.
Always nice to hear from Dank Lob again. Not nice enough to offer him a position, but nice.
And the lineup is:
Bourn cf
Prado 3b
Freeman 1b
Uggla 2b
Heyward rf
AAG ss
Constanza lf
Boscan “c”
Minor p
Guess two whole starts in a row would be asking too much of the team’s third baseman?
Chipper probably had no business coming off the DL this soon in the first place.
Prado’s made two starts in a row.
I decided to follow Chip on Twitter. I like him less and less everyday. He is making me miss the days of Bob Rathburn, ugh. I wish we were stuck with Ernie’s kid and not Skip’s.
I told Chip that he needed to stop pushing his political views and focus on baseball. He responded to me something stupid (I won’t repeat it to avoid politics on here) I just retorted “this from the guy who thinks OBP isn’t important.”
Too easy. Just retort him using baseball logic.
If you hate Chip (and there’s no reason not to hate him professionally) why would you follow him?
Chipper was planning on taking today off the whole time. Said he knew he’d be sore after playing a whole game in the field.
@10,
I didn’t really hate him all that much. I would like to see a Chop-n-change do and interview/debate with him.
My lineup would be:
Bourn cf
Prado 3b
Freeman 1b
Uggla 2b
Heyward rf
AAG ss
Minor p
Boscan “c”
Constanza lf
I don’t hate him personally, but he’s really bad at his stated job. My personal pet peeve is that every ball to the outfield is, in Chip-world, a “line drive.” Regardless of whether the ball is hit on a line or not. Little looping Texas leaguer that falls in front of the charging RF, just out of the 2B’s reach? “Line drive to right!”
I don’t ask for much from an announcer. I don’t ask that they embrace the cutting edge of statistical analysis, or even the established truth of on-base percentage really. I do, however, ask that they be able to describe the game of baseball effectively. Chip can’t seem to do that.
I really miss Jon Sciambi.
Just checked the Twitter feed. My politics align with Caray’s apparently, but it’s still annoying. There’s only a very few reasons people would ever follow Chip Caray and they all have something to do with baseball. Nobody cares about your political opinion, Chip.
People talking politics on twitter is a huge personal pet peeve for me. I have to take twitter vacations during certain times of the year.
Yeah, I loved me some Boog. He and Hershiser were really great together during the CWS.
@15, Me too. He really was fun to listen to.
JASON! Hope this is a sign of things to come.
For one swing, J-Hey looks like 2010 J-Hey. Let’s hope that’s the start of something.
Did anyone else catch Constanza licking his bat?
Yep, Constanza pulled a Melky, though it appeared he was simply tasting the bat, not actively eating parts of it.
This is bullshit.
Well, those are 2 runs that shouldn’t have happened.
At least Reyes is out of the game. Wonder what he did.
Well, the Heyward homer was awesome, and the following half inning was not.
I am completely not surprised that Chip’s political views are what they are.
LOLMets.
AGONY. the most appropriate nickname of all time.
Oh look, AAG is mad because he did something he does all the time.
It’s like he swings with his eyes closed.
lol @ chip playing the aging cynic on twitter.
27 – is he talking politics on air? Too bad they don’t have a rule too.
How Fredi can keep letting that worthless hack Agony continue to kill this team with RISP is beyond me. I don’t care if he is Mother Theresa in the clubhouse, the dude flat out can’t hit
Wow, Freddie… nice snag.
Freddie, on the other hand, does not suck.
Great catch by Freeman….wow
Wow, Freddie!!!!
33 — No, thank God. Just on Twitter.
Constanza be fast.
Constanza got to first in 3.5 seconds. Wow.
Constanza is the fastest baseball player I’ve seen.
At least the umpire has a small zone for both sides.
Bourn’s speed bails us out. I know analysts don’t think speed is all that important, but I do love having guys on the basepaths that drive defenses bonkers.
Small ball!
The Braves’ second run of the game is brought to you by the letter “S”, as in SPEED.
Apparently Bourn doesn’t understand the team policy yet of not scoring runners from 3rd with less then 2 outs. Although only he or T-Bone could have beat the throw to score the run, so he tried to conform with AAG and the rest of the gang
The SNY guys pointed it out and it’s true: how crazy is it that we went from the slowest team in the league to having two of the fastest guys in a matter of days?
That’s an easy trivia question.
All 4 bases that Constanza advanced to were because of speed; his own speed for the first 3, and then Bourn’s speed allowed him to score.
i’m really disgusted with how good the Braves’ pitching has made opposing pitchers look at the plate in the last week or so.
AAG!
Jason!? Wait, it was ALEX?!!?!
….!
AAG?! (shrugs) Well, that’s different.
Did that just happen? Well that’s happy!
GEORGE!
GEORGE!!?!?!!!!!!!
Summer of George!!
Wow. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while…but that was a bomb.
Art Vandelay!
Constanza? Is that like Belliard hitting a homer?
Wow, Georgie! No speed required there!
Georgie!!!
I have to tell you, so far I like George just fine.
Bizarro World.
OK, let’s hang onto this one.
Did I just read the Braves update correctly?
I don’t think Gee is fooling anyone.
this inning is fantastic. it feels cathartic to shell Dillon Gee haha
The Human Fund.
62- Almost; six career home runs in six-plus minor-league seasons.
If AAG and George take you deep and Boscan gets a hit off of you, the manager needs to bring your suitcase to the mound.
T-bone and AAG back to back! Who’da thunk it?
AAG’s HR was a no-doubter. dude needs to just put the ball in play a little more with runners on. no one advances when you strike out all the time.
All that noise helps turn the lineup over quicker for Freeman and Uggla as well
Who was the little oufielder leadoff hitter for the braves for part of a season who could run like hell but looked kinda portly
The Braves may actually win a
Jo-Jo ReyesMinor start.Looks like George is master of the Mets domain today.
Way to go, Mike!!!
You know, Minor’s pitched pretty well so far today. That’s 4 Ks in a row now.
Seriously, Caray thinks every NL team except the Astros are playoff hopefuls right now.
Son of LOLMets.
THAT is what #1 and #2 in our lineup are paid to do.
Chip and Joe are orgasming over the speed and the run manufacturing.
Prado swings at a ball a mile outside and grounds out.
Chip: WHAT BEAUTIFUL BASEBALL IF ONLY I WERE A POET AND COULD PRESERVE THIS MOMENT WITH WORDS.
Freddie draws a walk.
Chip: How ’bout that.
Does Caray still say “Kentucky bluegas” when Venters strikes someone out?
@75, I forgot to say he played in the 70″s
Uggla is so spastic sometimes. He also looks like a very strong Elvis.
Anyone know where to find team stats for getting the runner from 3rd in with less than 2 outs?
87 — Ralph Garr?
Good game, Mike.
I don’t think I’ll ever understand Fredi Gonzalez.
He was after Garr and only played part of a season I think. Wasn’t even close to as good a player as Garr. I think he was a lefty.
Oh, Fredi.
Anytime you can pull a double-switch to make the defense significantly worse, that’s a move you’ve got to make.
Fredi just double switched. Ububba was right, this is bizarro world.
Well, this turned around awful fast.
How many little bleeders are going to kill us?
This will not make him want to do it again.
93 — Go to Baseball-Reference.com and look through the Atlanta Braves Franchise Encyclopedia. You can look at individual seasons and statistics and find the player you’re looking for.
Nice double Grybo. O’Flaherty’s ERA down to 0.88.
Albert Hall?
That’s the Acosta I know.
Double ouch.
mikemc, yeh, or maybe I’m thinking of Eddie Hall. Thanks braves14, I’ve never been to that part of the bref site, pretty cool!
Yikes.
Is there a marine biologist in the building?
SNY is ripping apart Georgie for the slide. I mean, it was ugly, but definitely wasn’t intentional… Bad break for Murphy.
@Mundale LOL
Constanza’s looked a lot worse when he folded his leg under him.
Actually that last replay looked pretty bad on Murphy.
108, it was ugly.
EAT MOR KLOB.
Fredi’s double switch comes back to haunt us.
Prado in LF?
Prado is really starting to annoy me.
the return of the ‘Prado’
An IF playing the OF and thats what happens.
These pretzels are making me thirsty!
Further proof that this team is weaker with Chipper in the game…If T-Bone is in left he makes that play
Blowing 4 run leads is the new market inefficiency.
Well that was predictable.
@119, Chipper must have a hot hand or something. Why else do you play someone?
So if you’re a self-professed player of hot hands, wouldn’t you just replace Prado with Chipper and leave Constanza and Heyward alone? Would that require too much internal consistency?
Wow, thanks, Blue.
It isn’t like Heyward homered today or anything
LOL Braves?
maybe speed will strike again in the next half inning… hopefully.
Wait, is Chipper a hot hand right now?
The Mets have all of these terrible hits, and then we get that.
Why would you double switch and make your team defensively worse in a stadium that begs for speed and defense?
@128 This is 1998, right?
Relative to Prado’s hand temperature of late, I think pretty much anyone else would qualify as hot handed.
130—Because you are incredibly slow-witted.
Mets fans are calling for Georgie’s head. Calling it a “filthy” slide.
Time to extend some streaks and take the lead back.
So the last 2 days it seems like Freeman is guessing every time he hits, and guessing wrong for that matter.
Uggla = 1/2 * DiMaggio.
Halfway to Joe DiMaggio.
Good work Uggs…now up to the cult hero
Edit: Geez…swing the bat Conrad
Drat.
@134, Wow, that’s clearly false.
This team can’t score with a runner on third with 0-1 outs, why would it with a runner on third and two outs?
I feel good with Bourn in CF. I always held my breath with Nate.
So now Venters can’t throw strikes and we are only one more Texas league single from trailing
Am I the only one who would’ve taken Venters out before this RH batter?
Guess it doesn’t matter. WHEW.
Another multiple hit game for Agony…still not a fan. He will need a lot more of those to make me a believer
To paraphrase a video game, grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and Fredi orders bunts.
Chipper!
CHIPPER!!!!!!! Great job all around.
CHIPPER! When you absolutely have to make the Mets your b***es.
Mets Killer!
Party like it’s 1999…Chipper beating the Mets.
Chipper!
Chippah!
c’mon Craig, let’s do this!
Nice DP, Uggla!
wow…great play by Uggla!!
That was a very nice DP by Uggla.
teach me how to Duggla!
Well, that was fun. Beating the Mess always is.
Whew. All’s well that ends well. Go Braves!
ballgame! big win, definitely needed to pull that one out.
Ugly wins are a beautiful thing.
This did not come easy. Go Braves.
The SNY announcers sounded devastated by this one. But hearing Ron Darling say “crushing Mets loss” is music to my ears.
I just realized Freeman’s hit streak came to an end.
Caray and Simpson were saying before the game that Gee was Freeman/Kimbrel’s threat in the Rookie of the Year race. Now Gee’s ERA is right at four.
Recapped.