Toledo 10, Florida 44
Rice 12, Texas A&M 123
OK State 24, Miss St 14
LA-Lafyette –, Arkansas —
Alabama 421, VA Tech 7
Austin Peay 10, Tennessee 0
Wash State 14, Auburn 15
UGA 42, Clemson 31
LSU 30, TCU 32
**no known process of modern communications technology has been found to penetrate the boundaries of Arkansas
Wow, you have TCU beating LSU. It’ll be a close game, for sure.
As a UVA alum, ROLL TIDE.
No way Tennessee holds Austin Peay to just 10.
“Fly is open, Let’s go Peay.”
I have no idea what to expect from UGA’s defense just yet, so I’ll go Dawgs 38-34, and I believe we’ll run it a whole lot more than people think.
I feel I should make explicit the caveat that I only do this because Mac did this every Saturday, and dammit, tradition and shit. I, when I actually let down my guard long enough to identify with a college program any more, am a Ramblin’ Wreck. And even there, I try to avoid it altogether these days. I am personally opposed to both willfully induced brain trauma on 18-20 year old boys as well as sleazy cartels of 60- and 70- year old men scraping billions in pure profit off of said massive brain trauma, while paying the kids virtually nothing of what they’re worth on any sort of open market. All in the name of “higher education.”
Or to put it another way, I am not responsible for any money you lose making bets on these games boys.
College football & men’s college basketball is a hypocritical sleazepit, but nobody has a gun to these kids’ heads either.
I have 3 football teams: Yale, Georgia Tech, and whomever is playing Notre Dame.
Yale’s season doesn’t start until the 21st, just so other teams can try and catch Yale’s 872 wins (trailing only Michigan).
Sam, thanks for continuing Braves Journal tradition.
Go Northwestern Wildcats!
@7, nope, they are perfectly free to stay in Dublin and work at the chicken plant.
Apparently the Pirates acquired Justin Morneau for Alex Presley
Wren talked today about the waiver wire and that he’s put many claims in but the player never makes it to them. It’s hard being on top.
Constanza back again? He keeps somehow coming back more than Pete Orr used to.
More like Dracula.
Harper on GNATS fans “They have a whole winter to watch RGIII”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/wp/2013/08/28/bryce-harper-on-dwindling-nats-fans-they-have-a-whole-winter-to-watch-rgiii/
Still a douche
Not really getting E. Johnson over Terdoslavich in LF.
Espinosa might be a low risk/decent reward for the Braves. He will be arb-eligible next year for the first time and could be a cheap backup with decent pop. He’s been terrible this year but has the ability to hit RHP with authority and above average with the glove. He’s a far better option than EJ and/or Janish.
Espinosa actually WOULDN’T be arb eligible, if whoever acquired him didn’t recall him this season. He’d need 86 days, and he’s got 79.
I don’t know what he’s done in the minors, but, he won’t be cheap. The Nats were smart to pull the plug right on time on him, and they know that if they keep him, they essentially get a do-over, from a service-time perspective.
Johnson and Janish are free.
The way it looks right now with Bama and VT, 421-7 could be about right.
@16, Maybe Fredi wants to see his skills in the OF for future reference?
@13, It seems clear to me Fredi has a man crush on Georgie. Speed is a dazzling aphrodisiac. Too bad he always hits to a drawn-in infield.
Bummer of a start.
Guh, bunting in the 1st inning.
Well there’s one back.
Regression!
According to MLB Network, the Braves’ 15 runs scored during their current five-game winning streak is the lowest amount of runs scored during a five-game winning streak since the Brewers in 2011.
Guess one can Interpret that as good pitching or bad offense or both.
Oh my god I thought Auburn would never score another touchdown.
If you’re going to send Gattis down, you have to bring someone up. There are not a lot of ML quality players on Gwinnett’s roster, so you bring up the guy that’s been on your shuttle for two years.
Well, you’re gonna give some up to Stanton.
But why send him down now? Rosters expand tomorrow, and Gwinnett’s only got three games left. How much good can you do in at most three days?
But why send him down now? Rosters expand tomorrow, and Gwinnett’s only got three games left. How much good can you do in at most three days?
In better news, the Mets are curbstomping the Nats tonight.
Gattis has 2 doubles in 2 ABs in Gwinnet tonight.
We don’t need that kind of shit on the big league team.
@32 Well it’s not like he was doing that on the big league team either. I don’t have a problem with sending him down, but I think keeping him up for so long is a little odd. I’m not sure the promotion night is a good enough reason.
I love these good good pitching/great defense type games we’ve had this home stand, but I wouldn’t complain about a major offensive breakout one of these nights, either.
Braves really need to re-sign McCann. But it really seems like the Rangers are prepared to throw all the money at him.
Come on Freddie….
EDIT: MAKE THEM PAY REGRESSION
EDIT: Drat.
@35
The only hope is that Chipper talks to McCann one day in the plaza on the north side of the stadium, tells him how f—ing awesome it’s going to be to have a statue there, and says, “Yours can go right next to mine.” McCann can still be a legendary player and potential Hall of Famer elsewhere, but if he wants any chance at a statue that will stand out in front of a stadium, he only has one choice.
The Braves need to start pulling at every such heartstring they can. Cash will not push them over the top; sentiment can — I hope.
37- For some reason, I’m getting a flashback to Star Trek: First Contact here:
“And your hand is sort of… reaching toward the future!”
“I gotta take a leak!”
Edit: Scout says, “Dangerous count for Jacob Turner; B.J. Upton is a dead-red fastball hitter, with a .637 OPS against them this season and .551 against everything else.” Four more years.
2nd Edit: Thanks for making me eat my words!
WAIT.
I’ll be damned.
What now?!
WHAT?
But that’s the wrong Upton!
I was just getting ready to ask if we could send BJ to AAA with Gattis. I guess he showed me!
BJ!
He really does have a sweet swing. We just don’t see him connect all that often. Good for him!
Don Sutton, just now: “And THAT one is drilled to deep left field. Going back is Yelich. And HE’LL watch that one settle in to his glove.”
Not cool.
I thought the same thing.
Since you guys love Breaking Bad so much…. Mike Dunn looks like Walter White. Like a lot.
BMAC!!!!!
Appreciate the McCann we have!
Beautiful hitting, gentlemen.
Uggla’s turn
Jim Powell just called Dan “Ugly” twice in a row.
Double damned.
What happened?
BJ did something.
Game day says injury delay
We have had so many opportunities to take the lead tonight and just can’t do it. That can be more annoying to watch than just being flat out dominated by the opposing pitcher. (Wasn’t that one of Mac’s old Miserable Braves Loss Index entries?)
BJ hit a grounder that almost killed Solano.
EDIT: But you’re probably assuming that it meant a Brave was injured. And reasonably so.
Yeah after #53 and 55 I figured it was our injury somehow
Freddie better not be hurt from that.
@61, Sorry about that.
And @60, can I hire you as my internet translator.
I guess we need to win this one right now.
Loving Regression tonight!
That was close, B-Mac.
The one time a bunt is actually a decent play and we don’t do it. And you have to pinch run for Freeman, don’t you?
That was Dan Ugly, folks.
I hate you, Dan Uggla.
Dan Uggla is unacceptable.
Really, Dan? Of all of the things you could have possibly done there…
So close.
Paraphrasing Rainier Wolfcastle: “My eyes … the Lasik does nothing!”
I love me some Eliott Johnson. And yes, he does look like Dana Carvey.
Mr. Upton
And of course BJ gets a hit now, just to make Dan’s failure really hurt.
Who is that guy in the #2 jersey, and what did he do with the real BJ?
Oh yeah.
GET HIM IN JUSTIN
Okay, Justin, why don’t you just drive in your brother and we can all go home?
They should walk Justin
Thirteen men left on base. Feels like a cap-tipper.
On the other hand, how about this UGA/Clemson game, eh?
Molina is down to .328, Regression extends his lead in batting percentage.
I have never known anything like I know that Dan will fail to drive in the runner here.
84- Well, he didn’t exactly fail. Woo-hoo.
LOLFish. A walk to Uggla? Even if BJ gets out here, that was dumb.
AHHHH BJ!!!!!!
BUPTOMANIA!
So happy for BJ. What a night for him.
His nickname is BJ!!!!
BJ!!!!!!!!!
I’ve arrived just in time to say: B.J.!!!!!
Every so often, we get the star we thought we were signing. (Putting BJ’s name in that sentence always makes it sound dirty.)
Seriously. SO happy for BJ.
Let’s hope BJ is on the comeback trail.
Go, Braves!
@93 – Every so often you get the BJ you thought you were paying for?
When he’s off, oof, but when B.J. Upton is on, it’s glorious.
I want to think that BJ is starting to get hot, but I always remember what my grandpappy used to say:
Even a stupid, arrogant, over-paid, blind squirrel-looking outfielder finds a nut sometimes.
I’m paraphrasing.
On August 30, 2000, Reggie Sanders was hitting .189/.260/.309/.569. That night he went 2 for 4 with 2 doubles on his way to a torrid September that would see his numbers go up to .232/.302/.403/.705. Unfortunately, he was 0-fer in the playoffs.
May B.J. be 2000 Reggie Sanders except with success in the playoffs.
Man, after the 3 game hang-over from losing Heyward, this team just goes right back to winning. This team could be something special. Especially if BJ gets it figured out.
What a night for BJ.
And it looks like I can ignore college football this season. Georgia is going to start 1-3.
BJ approaches the Mendoza line at .195.
I am perilously close to having sympathy for Georgia fans. That punt was terrible luck.
Braves win. Nats lose. Pit beats STL. All good results.
And Clemson wins, a bad one.
@98: I don’t think B.J. is stupid or arrogant. Why do you?
Just gotta hope the Padres can do something in the 9th against the Dodgers.
And this is why they play the games.
Have a night, B.J.!
Not to be morbid, but wasn’t it one year ago today that Mac passed away? Time goes by fast.
#103
Don’t feel sorry. Three big mistakes did us in.
The biggest sequence was not scoring a go-ahead TD after a 1st & goal, then fouling up the tying FG. The game was very winnable.
Chris Johnson took the AVG lead back last night.
Hilarious thread, everyone was on their game.
Dodgers picked up Michael Young from the Phillies. That’s what deep pockets will do for you.
@113. Eventually they will run into the situation like what the Yankees are experiencing now. The Red Sox are smart enough to unload the three huge contracts before it is too late.
Great game tonight! I just caught the condensed version, and man. BJ?! What’d, he have like 4 well-hit balls tonight? And Minor got crapped on by foul-pole-hooking HRs and a 8-bounce worm burner…. Some times thems the breaks, but the offense sure picked him up. Great job from Schafer, Regression, and of course, BJ! (WHAT!?)
Young’s an FA after 2014, so it’s no big deal money wise. Uribe’s been as good with the bat and better in the field than Young, so either this is to bolster the bench or hopefully, to move some more veteran presence into the starting lineup.
recapped.