Philadelphia Phillies vs. Atlanta Braves – Box Score – September 27, 2011 – ESPN.
I hope the Cardinals vote Derek Lowe a playoff share. He’s the MVP of their stretch run, for sure. Lowe failed to make it out of the fifth inning as the Braves have now completely blown a seemingly insurmountable lead in the wildcard.
Lowe started off with a homer to Chase Utley in the first. He got through the second without giving up a run, somehow, but in the third he gave up a leadoff double to Carlos Ruiz, refused to just take the out on the succeeding bunt, allowing Roy Oswalt to reach, and eventually gave up two runs. Two hits and a sac fly in the fourth scored Shane “Burn In Hell†Victorino.
After Lowe allowed the leadoff man to reach in the fifth, Fredi finally relieved him, only for Arodys Vizcaino to allowe a two-run homer to Hunter Pence to make it 6-0. Jimmy Rollins hit a solo homer off of Julio Teheran in the seventh to make it 7-0; Martin Prado hit a meaningless homer in the ninth to make it 7-1.
I wish I was a Rays fan…wow amazing!!
Rays just tied it with s PH 2-out homer in the 9th. Wow.
Tied in St. Pete. (EDIT — and I’m the last to know because I’ve got Rays-Yankees on the MLB.TV iPad app, which is about 40 seconds behind the actual live feed.)
@490 — well put.
Dan Johnson was hitting .108 this year.
Yup, it was Proctor.
Check that: Corey Wade
And now Proctor is in for the Yanks
Wishing to be a Rays’ fan, just for now. Talk about never saying ‘die.’
Well, McCann’s gonna make one out, so this is a two-out inning.
Proctor!
Proctor is the last line of defense for the Yanks!
496: I ignore Valverde because I’m not up on my AL. But he’s old and ugly. Kimbrel is young and good looking. There’s not a GM in MLB that wouldn’t give up his left nutsac for Kimbrel, and blown saves (BS) ain’t a factor in that…
Proctor v. Farnsworth!
Farnsworth and Proctor in the game in Tampa – it’s like the nightmare of Braves relievers past!
Torture.
Nice.
Can we just lose and end this already?
Bobby Valentine’s been sinking his teeth into the Braves and their shitty play all day long and he’s still at it into the late night. It’s not like we don’t deserve it, though.
Well, sitting on my ass in front of the TV hasn’t worked since the 3rd. I think I’ll try sitting on my ass in front of the computer.
oh, your friend called and offered me a ticket to tonight’s game Jim, it was much appreciated although I had to decline
Heyward is going long here.
Who in the hell is De Fratus?
Great hit for JHey!
EDIT: Damn, Phillies just got incredibly lucky on Wilson’s bunt. Man, Braves, could use a break.
Milwaukee just won, so that’s where the Braves go on Saturday, in the unlikely event that they win this one and tomorrow night.
Spike,
Alan or Mike?
Mike’s been texting me from the game all night. He’s about to have a stroke.
Now’s the time, boys.
521: He’s the late drummer of Echo & the Bunnymen. Even he can get Braves hitters out!
Oops! Spoke too soon. Nice smack, J-Hey! Good bunt, J-Wi!
And here’s Folk Hero.
Lets go Brooksie
@521: The losing pitcher in tonight’s game.
If Wilson had laid down that bunt as a squeeze earlier in the game, the Braves are on a plane to St. Louis right now.
C’mon Folk Hero!
To switch the luck, the channel has been changed from Chip and SportSouth to ESPN2 and whomever the hell is talking.
Folk Hero is not folk heroic.
And that’s why Folk Heroes are just Folk Heroes.
Conrad tried to hit a HR when all he needed was a single. Thanks for trying, Brooksie.
Alright so Nitram’s gonna win it.
Does this tell you something, Prado?
Please, please silence me, Martin.
Walk to Bourn to face Prado. Gotta hand it to the Phils, they’re trying to win.
And they’re giving the only guy who is hitting the IBB. OK, Martin – time for you to Silence Your Critics.
Pitching out to get to Prado? What are the chances this backfires on the Phils? 5%? 10%? It just hasn’t been his year – so far.
You can make up for a hell of a lot of transgressions here, Prado …
This computer idea – …
OK, one more WP and we’re off to St. Louis!
Let’s go for the totally nutso play of a suicide squeeze here (yes, with 2 strikes).
Can’t be surprised…he is a utility player at best…need to upgrade that position. Yet another weak ground ball from that clown
Hack, hack, hack. Pathetic.
Nope!
Ugh. Only way we win is on a random HR.
poop
I still love Prado. He just needs a lot of time away from the game. His head is all wired wrong right now.
If it was the Phillies hitting there, alternate-universe Phillies Prado would’ve taken 5 straight pitches.
Is it too late to do something productive with this night? Like self-directed exploratory dental surgery?
Prado was clearly trying too hard; that last pitch was waaaay inside.
What is this team trying to do to me?
Haven’t we been through enough, as Braves fans? Oh my. I hope they aren’t still doing this when i’m old and frail.
Feels like game four of the 2005 NLDS.
And that was way inside, Prado.
No, dammit. Not Linebrink…Teheran I want to see here.
@548
A new hitting coach wouldn’t hurt either. But I think we all know that.
Linebrink!
Linebrink….might be time to go to bed now
NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Not Linebrink! Can’t Ross throw?
I really can’t believe my eyes but I’m watching Scott Proctor pitch for the Yankees with the Devil Rays rallying in the bottom of the 10th. The mind boggles…
Linebrink…. I can’t watch.
I can’t watch this anymore. If the Braves end up in the playoffs, I’ll be incredibly surprised. Best of luck to everyone sticking around on the 2011 Braves Failboat, keep an eye out for the hat-tipping credit iceberg.
Wow Mikey Minor warming up.
Minor is warming up. That’s a good move. Who would it be tomorrow? Do we know?
Hat-Tipping Credit Iceberg would be a good name for a band.
563—Beachy.
I have to be at work at 7 AM for one of the longest and busiest days I’ll ever have, and yet something is keeping me here on this couch.
#563
Beachy
I’m pretty sure Beachy is set to pitch tomorrow.
It’s amazing how well this game encapsulates the season. Not a bad Braves team at the end of the day, but a thoroughly unenjoyable one.
Beachy. Great. I thought for some reason he’d pitched earlier in the Phillies series.
Linebrink can’t possibly be the best option here can he? Vizcaino? Derek Lowe??
Proctor gave up a home run distance fly to Damon that was just foul. Then struck him out, ending the inning.
Linebrink. My God. Please do not throw a 94 mph FB right down Broadway to Chase Utley again, with our season on the line.
Lowe. Now how appropriate would that be?
I am typing two posts. Since for whatever reason (and I don’t know because this is the only blog of any type I have ever contibuted to, therefore making my posts even more irelevant than they deserve, if possible ), my blogs aren’t posted for 5 minutes, I want to be ready to hit submit, because I am sleepy.
First AND PREFERRED POST: Braves win! Braves win!!
2nd post: Not preferred: Wait until next year!!
(OMG! Linebrink vs Utley!)
Take Linebrink out right now.
Guys, I think Linebrink is still rusty.
@569, My thoughts exactly. Watching this team has become joyless, like navigating traffic.
Like I keep saying. These peckers take pitches like no one’s business.
Yup.
Fuck this
Season really over.
You fucking kidding me? That’s how it’s gonna end?
Fuck Fredi and this team. This asshole keeps rolling Linebrink out there and they got exactly what they deserved…a loss of the wildcard.
‘Night, y’all. Maybe next year.
L*n*br*nk…
Well…
Linestink, once more.
Of course Linebrink would end our season.
I turn on the game and see Atl infielders out of position, and as a result the Braves give up the lead on a bloop prayer.
Fredi was holding Utley on first.
Sam? Sam? Where the f*$& are you, Sam?
@577 – Don’t you put that evil on me.
Right down the fucking pipe. I swear, I’m smarter than half the athletes I watch on a daily basis.
How predictable.
good screaming christmas. Melky last year, Linebrink this year. but what makes me angriest is picturing LaRussa right now.
Mac, all the best in the offseason. this one feels like it’s going to be a little longer than most. Thanks for everything you do here, giving guys like me a place to lurk.
good luck and good health
Please lose by getting Chipper to third with no one out and than having him never score.
And that stupid broken bat flare is emblematic of the entire season.
Gotta love that clip of the Cardinals watching a weak popper land where Freddie Freeman should have been standing.
I don’t care how the game ends now – I’m just worn own. I want to score 2 or zero.
I am signing off, Braves need to upgrade offense, Duh. Have a great off-season Braves Journal Brethren! I have learned a great deal from all of you. Thanks, Mac!!
GO BRAVES!!!
The worst thing about this epic collapse is that it would take a second consecutive one for the front office to even consider firing Fredi.
Blame Linebrink all you want too, but this offense hasnt scored since the 3rd. Same ole story.
Our next manager should really do some soul-searching about this franchise’s issue beating the Nationals.
Walk Carlos Gonzalez, you damn fool.
The Atlanta Quitters… America’s Team!
Barring a miracle, 2-8 in the last 10, 5-12 in the last 15, 8-18 in the last 26. Heads must roll.
Cards getting the champagne room ready
I feel nothing. But I will miss watching the games with you all. We deserved better. Maybe next year.
I didn’t really want to see us fail one last time with a runner on base, but oh well.
I seem to recall that there are non-blasphemous words in the English language, but I can’t think of any.
Okay Freddie, this is your pitch.
C’mon, Freddie…
La Russa’s hateable face makes this sting twice as much.
I want to fart in Fredi’s mouth.
Collapse complete
Very fitting way to end it.
BJ regulars – Fun spending some time with you again this year. Sorry to leave you so soon. Looking forward to the winter meetings. Let’s try to eake into October next year. – Jeff
ps – Here’s hoping that Chipper makes one more.
How dreadfully appropriate.
OK, time to hit the bar.
Sweet smokey Jesus.
At least we don’t have to endure the Cards winning in Busch and rubbing it in tomorrow.
Fitting. Goddamn the lot of them. If only this team had one iota of professionalism, one shred of pride.
Wow. This kinda sucks.
W-O-W
‘Fredi’ and ‘fired’ have the same letters…
How?
No pride!!
Screw Fredi Gonzalez.
Well that was just awful.
Congrats to the third base ump. Way to make a difference dude.
This is unreal.
Ok, I lied: I feel something.
I know we’ve been expecting it the past few days but it is still absolutely unbelievable for me. This was such epic collapse it’s still tough for me to grasp. This hurts so bad.
Don’t drive home, Furcal.
You could see this coming at least a week ago. Feel bad for Huddy–what a warrior.
Anybody have the stomach to watch Braves Live and hear what Fredi says?
I feel bad for most of the players.
I might have something to say in Mac’s recap thread tomorrow, but I’m kinda out of gas right now. Gonna watch the Devil Rays.
I don’t. They damn well quit, humiliated themselves on national television while getting paid 10-500 times my salary. I’m going to have to think long and hard about whether I should root for them ever again.
I’m sure Fredlot’s already telling reporters that they’ll go get ’em tomorrow… but thanks to him, there IS no tomorrow for this team.
@639
My only consolation is that it happened to most of the players.
The Phils getting swept by St. Louis in the NLDS would pay them back for this series. And then St. Louis losing in the NLCS would make me happy, because I can’t stand them. That’s all I got left to root for this year.
I feel sorry for Hudson and Chipper. Those guys deserve better.
I hope we’ve seen the last of Lowe. If Kawakami gets banished to Mississippi, he should be shot.
This video says it took place in Belgium but I don’t believe a word of it…
I somehow want to blame Heyward for being god awful all season long.
This collapse could have been avoided in dozens of ways this past month and in each instance, these guys fell short. They choked, ran out of gas, and had awful leadership. The trifecta of doom.
Parrish will be gone, Fredi will be back.
They had some bad breaks but when you can’t beat a team starting mostly scrubs and can’t score for 10 innings, it’s time for the GM to take some accountability. This is Frank’s team and they failed. The Braves are damn lucky they don’t play in the NE or they would have been booed off the field. What a disgrace.
The Braves need better players, simple as that.
I wonder what this will do for 2012 ticket sales.
Sometimes I regret my decision in 1958 to make the Braves my team, but hey they’re my team.
648- I think a lot of fans will follow my lead and find something else to do with their time. This is why Atlanta’s a “bad sports town,” because except for the Braves in the 1990s, every pro team in the city has been run by indifferent to awful management.
Okay, very very very NSFW, but this is how I feel, courtesy of Deadwood:
Well I can finally go get something to eat but I think maybe I will just get a bottle…this Hurts
@648
It’ll destroy them, except for the Yankees and Phillies series. If the organization stands pat after this embarrassment, attendance might dip under 2 million. Heads must roll.
It just occurred to me that the Braves had Linebrink pitch to Pence with a base open and a weaker hitter in deck.
We were going to get bombed in the first round anyways.
Who cares.
Well, I’m going on a pre-planned but now very well-timed vacation this weekend. I’ll be back on here whenever thinking about baseball doesn’t make me want to kill myself. Maybe next week, maybe in a couple more. As always, I greatly enjoyed talking Braves baseball with you all this season. I was really grateful to see you come through your health problems a couple months ago, Mac, and I hope you are on the other side of that for good. See you guys around.
It occurs to me that Fredi would be a better manager if he had one Ask the Audience, one 50/50, and one Phone a Friend during every game.
Orioles tie Red Sox with 2 out 2 strikes in 9th!
And the fucking Baltimore Orioles, who haven’t been relevant in 14 years, rally to tie the Red Sox.
Does it help that Papelbon just blew the lead with 2 outs in the 9th? At least if the Red Sox lose, we’ll be a footnote on SportsCenter.
657 — What if the audience were those commenting on the AJC blogs?
“We don’t have another game tommorrow, that’s the only sad thing”
How about the whole choking away the wild card?
@650,
That’s sort of my point. Attendence was mediocre when they were one of the best teams in the league. After this, it’s going to be hard to draw flies. And they had big crowds for the last three games. So much for the emotion of playing at home. I imagine the stadium will be even emptier than ususal next season. It’s similar to when they were winning divisions and losing in the playoffs. It’s hard to work up much excitement for next season. You can always hope for Heyward to break out and so forth, but I doubt there will be any big acquisitions. It’s also sort of interesting that McCann went from being grossly underrated to being possibly overrated in the same season.
Rays have to get a HR off of Proctor, right?
If we didn’t double steal with Chipper at the plate, we win this game. Would coulda shoulda.
I’ve never been so happy to see my favorite team booed. They deserve it big time.
@657, Then we’d sign Ken Griffey Jr.
O’s win!
Wow Sox Loss
Time to test my theory. Sweet lord, what is going on?
We got company up in Baltimore.
I will always support the Braves!
That said, this one is tough because it became virtually inevitable.
We are now in elite company of great chokers: the 1951 Dodgers 1964 Phillies, the 1978 Red Sox, the 2007 Mets, the 2008 Mets and the 2011 Braves, will all be remembered together.
Going forward, with the exception of the Dodgers most of these teams did not go on to win the league or their divisions. My guess is that these experiences are destructive for a team, with the impact felt for mmany years afterwards. This may all be fun to debate in the newly arrived offseason, but my point is that the Braves should not be conservative with either management or the team…..
Well, at the absolute least I get my $120 back from the playoff tickets I bought when we were 9 games ahead. But I sure wish I wasn’t getting it back.
2011 Red Sox will be remembered. 2011 Braves probably skate away with undeserved irrelevance.
Fredi just said: “we’ll get ’em next year.”
If anyone in Tampa actually gave a shit, what a story this would be.
Proctor serves it up. Go Devil Rays!!!!
Rays!!
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand misery sure does love company. 🙂
664- You win the cigar! Longoria goes deep, and the Red Sox go home.
The Rays’ eighteen fans are going crazy!
Proctor. You just knew Proctor was going to destroy somebody’s season.
There’s no way Proctor ever gets a major league pitching job again.
Two collapses are complete.
The losing pitchers for the two teams that finished their collapses: Proctor and Linebrink.
If you told me right now that the Braves could have one of Longoria or Maddon, but not both, I’d actually think about it for a moment before choosing Longoria. Congrats to the Rays, my hope for 2011 WS Champs.
Well that was hardly surprising. Fire Fredi. Fire Parrish. Cut Lowe. Boom, ready for ’12.
Proctor should get playoff shares from both the Rays and the Cardinals.
Proctor’s killed Atlanta and Boston this year. Watch out, Milwaukee.
#684 I’d actually think about it for 3 or 4 moments.
Do you think Wren and Theo are texting right now?
This would be the second straight year that the great Adrian Gonzalez has missed the postseason on the season’s final day.
Imagine if this year happened under Bud’s new WC regime…I think I’d throw myself off a building.
Thanks, Red Sox! Now the Braves will mostly be forgotten.
@684
I’d trade a substantial player for Maddon, straight up. One of the four young pitching studs. Three playoff appearances in four years with that budget and community apathy … and coming back this month as they did (even though it took a Sox collapse to help)? Maddon’s the best manager in the sport.
I still feel like crap, but knowing the Red Sox blew the pennant and Carl Crawford and his megabucks didn’t come up with the last line drive of the season, and paved the way for his former team to win the spot—that is sweet. Now hoping for A Tampa/Milwaukee World Series.
So appropriate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLQ2TIul8pI
Well, at least no one will notice our epic collapse now. Thank God for East Coast bias!
See all y’all in the spring for another round of masochism.
Let’s look at the positives. At least Beachy and Minor are rested and available for the playoff game tomorrow.
Wait, what?
Update:
CoolStandings and BP now have the Braves’ postseason odds at 95% again.
Oh, by the way, screw adding another Wild Card team. The 2011 Braves are reason #1 why that’s a crummy idea in concept.
694- Not me.
Unless there’s quick evidence that Braves management sees a problem, we are done.
The Rangers are the closest team to me, owned by Nolan Ryan, a man I have a lot of respect for, and have strong management at every level. They have everything the Braves don’t to ensure their fans’ happiness.
I’ll keep a weather eye out, but unless a neuron fires that I don’t expect, so long and good luck.
I just can’t get excited about the Rays comeback right now. Yea, it’s awesome but I’m not over what happened to us.
#687, exactly. losing like this, you can blame any two losses that could have been wins. Proctor comes to mind.
@696
After this month, CoolStandings and BP (at least, their playoff projections) are no longer relevant.
Parrish and Fredi came together and can leave together. How about Pendleton and somebody?
One big issue for next year, besides health, is who can help turn around Heyward. He’s worth more to the org than Fredi. Fredi decided to burn out his arms and play for one game at a time, threw Heyward under the bus way too early. This is partly to blame for the end of season collapse. Did he really think Constanza bunt hits and 120 innings from Venters would ge the team into the world series?
Proctor!! This is so funny that it kills the pain of the last month.
The Braves were indeed wise to invest in Proctor and make sure that he get mack to the majors…..
Go Rays!!
@701-
The problem is those models (AFAIK) treat games as independent events, and they’re simply not. There’s clearly serial correlation that exists in baseball, it’s just really hard to model, so often times the best way to go is to just ignore it. I think where it really hurts is underestimating the likelihood of crazy runs like the ones the Braves/Cardinals/Rays/Red Sox went on.
Sitting in a gas station parking lot in austell and thinking that I absolutely hate Fredi Gonzales. He is a ruiner. He make baseball less fun to watch and baseball games less easy to win. This sucked.
Oh well, at least I still have Georgia footba…
Kill me.
Mravery,
Yes, it is like the bank risk models that assumed home prices couldn’t all fall nationwide, or weaken more than 5pct in a period.
I hope the front office realizes that a serious shake up has to happen, both to signal to fans that the reign of failure has ended, and also because the players need a different atmosphere. Lots of young players that could be traumatized by this.
@707
It can also be argued that the collapse is bigger than Fredi, since last year’s team fell apart late, as well, with similar injury woes (position players last year, pitchers this year). Bullpen overuse has also been a common thread. Only San Diego’s swan dive prevented two choke jobs in succession. Hopefully this leads the Braves to understand that something is amiss with their general baseball philosophy.
And I won’t even get into how this is now five non-playoff years out of six, with no playoff series wins in a decade. That, too, can find some of its genesis in general philosophy (with ownership also culpable), but that’s a discussion for another day.
Moments like this are when I wish Ted was still around and not tending to his bison. He wouldn’t stand for this. (I know it’s simplistic, but sometimes in simplicity lies truth.)
The headline should read ‘October free’ instead of proctor-free. Sure I feel bad and I am disappointed and really mad at Parrish, Fredi and 6/8th of the regular offense but seriously this saves me from suffering through another three losses in October. They just weren’t good enough this year.
#709–I agree: the Braves were not going anywhere had they made the playoffs.
However, looking back on the season, it is incredibly disappointing.
We can only Thank Scott Proctor for the memories…..
Probably nobody will see this, but seeing as how Varvaro doesn’t have a nickname (as far as I know, anyway) can we start calling him “Unheralded reliever?” It seems like it is contractually obligated that any mention of the poor guy has to begin with that disclaimer.
Man I am bummed. Despite the desultory nature of this entire month’s worth of Braves baseball, I held out hope that maybe, somehow, their shit would work in the playoffs. They were up by 10.5 games with 32 games left! How the hell did this happen? I look forward to Mac’s dispassionate assessment of what went wrong because right now I just don’t want to think about this anymore.
Kimbrel is a great kid:
http://blogs.ajc.com/atlanta-braves-blog/2011/09/29/braves-quotes-after-season-ending-loss-to-phillies/
I feel sorry for him.
Also, Chipper’s saying, it’s his fault, he shoulda talked to Kimbrel.
From Fredi just the usual and to be expected stuff.
just now realized that proctor surrendered rays’ walkoff. geez, fail from braves and ex-braves alike.
Hate that I missed the inevitable collapse of this hapless club.
Frank, please get this thing turned around.
This was what I expected for many days now, but I do feel a bit of awe over the parallelism with the Red Sox.
You just know that franchise will act decisively. I’m expecting to feel very angry when we don’t. Prove me wrong, Wren.
Oh. no.
No, no, no, no…no.
Thanks for a great year, Mac
You’ll always be a champion to me!
23 days. That’s how long it took for the Braves to go from being 8.5 game ahead of the Cardinals to being one game behind. Stunning. I remain in a bit of shock–I feel like I have watched this horror show unfold in slow motion.
I blame Billy Wagner’s kids for selfishly taking him from us a year too soon.
Really the blame should go much deeper.
It should be on the organizations lack of ability in regards to developing young hitters.
The philosophy about hitting in this organization has always been poor. They are not teaching these guys to work counts and have productive ABs.
The most productive hitters we have go outside of the organization to get hitting advice.
Think about it. Every year in September and October , the average hitting team goes cold. They can’t produce runs. They let struggling pitchers off the deck. The Phillies are teaching their guys how to work count and manufacture runs. Make pitcher get them out, not the other way around.
While Parish should be gone. It goes deeper and until they fix it, we will see this team fall apart at the end of the year like they have every year since 1996.
Smitty–I like with your analysis. Let me add that it is possible that the organization is beginning to understand the problem. A number of the position players that were drafted this year Ahmed, Kubitza, La Stella De Santiago and Larsson all had impressive walk to strikeout ratios. I am hoping that this was more than an accident–but an attempt to move away from the free swinging, strikeout machines which have featured on the farm in recent years.
To be sure, they are a long way off and until Liberty Media puts some money into the draft, I would not expect the Braves to produced a large number of good hitters, but it may well be indicative of a change (finally!)in organization’s philosophy, regarding the development of hitters….
With a modest budget, I guess this is what you do. You set up the team to get into the post season and see what happens. That plan was working until an incredibly awful month of baseball.
Of course, to win that way, lots of things have to be going right. Instead, everything went wrong at the worst time.
What will the FO do? I hope they’ll find a new hitting a taker for Lowe in order to improve LF and SS. A new hitting coach would be grand. But I don’t really expect too much will change.
There will be talk of injuries, of having Bourne for a full season, of Prado and Heyward having better years…
Dont think we can take chances on both Prado and Heyward in the corner OF spots again next year. One of those needs to be upgraded and the other needs to make some adjustments.
However, Prado is Chipper insurance. That age 40 season is going to need some insurance.
Well, regression to the mean should help Prado and Heyward. And no other player really had an outstanding year at the plate.
I just hope Kimbrel doesn’t get too down on himself.
Well this seems even worse in the morning. Ugh.
Should be a really good team next year, by subtraction if nothing else. No more McLouth, Linebrink, Scott Proctor (though I suppose we should wait to see the list of non-roster invitees to camp next year before declaring that), or Lowe (please, dear god please). The additions of a bounceback from Heyward, a full year of normal Uggla, and a full year of Bourn should allow us to clinch right before the September collapse happens.
Joe Sheehan has an article up on Si.com where he criticizes Fredi’s player management.
Seeing Fredi hated in national media somehow does a lot to alleviate the misery.
Recapped. Ugh.
@721
and you know Lowe is gonna bounce back next year. this is how you stay in the league forever, take every other year off…or 4-6 if you’re Hampton