The Milwaukee Brewers moved to the National League in 1998, and there haven’t been a whole lot of memorable moments for the franchise since then. Perhaps the most memorable of all came in 2003, courtesy of a former Brave, Randall Simon:
Disclaimer: Braves Journal does not endorse swinging bats at mascots.
Four hours after the event = “Breaking News.” The obligatory “no one’s laughing now” lede. The faux seriousness of Randall Simon being “interviewed” for possible “assault.”
Don’t ever change hackeneyed local newscasts. Don’t ever change.
Of course, judging by yesterday, no Brewer mascot has anything to fear from anyone on the Braves.
Not to say that I’m essentially opposed to assaulting mascots, but I always preferred Bernie Brewer to the racing sausages. Any mascot wearing lederhosen wins me over every time.
I don’t know Alex, I’ve seen Uggla toss his bat into the stands way too many times on his follow through.
Today’s lineup is the same as yesterday, why mess with what’s working I guess? I know it’s incredibly early and I get why Fredi’s doing it (though I don’t agree with it), but if I have to see BUpton come up in a big spot too many times this April I may lose it.
Game 2.
Game 2.
Relax.
So I’m thinking that this is a must win game. I think a loss and the resulting negaitve momentum could cost us at least two places in the standings at the end of the year. Anyone else have the same feeling? In other words, if we lose, we’re dooooooooooooooooomed!!!!
If BJ and Uggla get 5 hits or so between them, the team scores 4 and they lose, it’s not a bad day per se. It’s a bad day, yes. Losing is bad. But the big deal is getting BJ Upton away from the black hole that lurks beneath his feet if he starts slow.
As for mascots, my favorite was when Randall Simon snuck out and broke Don Baylor’s leg.
Ian Thomas wasn’t great yesterday. But he has a pretty good story. Welcome to the show, kid.
Wait, there is a game today? I had just assumed that today would be the obligatory day-off-after-game-one thing.
8:10 pm!
http://atlanta.braves.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?c_id=atl&gid=2014_04_01_atlmlb_milmlb_1
@10, thanks for sharing, Alex. Good story indeed. I hope he can stick.
It’s never too early for hysterics, I guess.
14- How about now? Can we get hysterical now?
0-162 looking more and more likely.
Wood is telegraphing his offspeed stuff. Slowing his arm down.
0-162 or 1-161?
And Joe is already hat tipping. What is wrong with people?
Liquid Tomahawk is my new favorite band name.
A HIT A HIT A HIT!
We’re batting a thousand the second time through the order.
And now we’re not..
BJ… Geez. He may have even regressed from last year. Let’s keep batting him second, or better yet, lead off
BJ is lost
I am not even watching the game and I feel our offense is very hopeless already…
Wait a minute, Regression is hitting cleanup? How did I miss this? I mean not that it matters much, but that’s not what I’d have expected.
What the crap was that??!? He was out by 10 yards
The new third-base coach has some jitters, apparently…I mean, God!
I thought Snitker wasn’t coaching 3b anymore?
Bring back Snitker!
Who’s the third base coach now? That is not a real auspicious way to start your major-league coaching career.
That might have been our best chance to score this season.
Is this real?? Well I guess the way the offense is hitting that’s the only way to score.
So Doug Dascenzo can f@% right off.
Dascenzoed
That was awful. I’m speechless about how bad that decision was.
I miss Snitker.
When did Snitker come back?
Jeez. It’s not like Freddie will ever be confused with Usain Bolt.
At least Uggla is squaring up a few.
@39
Usain Bolt would’ve been out by 10 feet on that.
Segura really didnt even make a strong throw either. Freddie was even in the picture when the catcher caught it. Worst 3b coaching decision I’ve ever seen. Snitker didn’t sniff that one.
I think Chip Caray has better depth perception than Dascenzo.
The shortstop literally had the ball in position to throw as Freedie was rounding third base. Mike freaking Piazza would’ve thrown him out from the shortstop position on that.
Freeman rounds second…here’s the throw to the plate…Freenans getting the green light
I can’t believe there’s a worse bunting team than ours. The whole staff looks pathetic.
RUNS!
LEAD!
JASON!!
You’ll need to hit a couple hundred more of those for this offense to be respectable, though.
Ha!
what was that! he hit that ball out of the park! is that even allowed?
Runs? What are those, pray tell?
Well there’s your runs Mr. Wood, that’s probably all you’ll get so time to bear down.
Thankfully that’s the last we’ll have to hear from krussell and Chief about how we’re not going to score a run all year.
2-1 JHey
Oh yeah, we’re supposed to hit HRs. Way to go, Jason.
Wood is still jittery.
By the way, would it be possible to try and keep those types of posts (the ones mentioned @54) down to like one a game for each of you or something? I promise I’ll seriously consider offing myself every time we strike out if it’ll help.
Runs all over the place!!!
Okay! That’s what we’re looking for!
So sweet.
#56
Just like that, again.
Dascenzo was trying to hold Freddie at 3rd on that homer… he trotted through the stop sign.
Wow, got away for a moment when we scored. Maybe I should not follow the game after all.
@63
Well played, sir.
He doesn’t have a lot to show for it, but Uggnutz is really slaughtering the ball right now.
BTW, McCann just got his first AL RBI.
Yep
Hey, Evan Gattis put a ball in play.
Alex has settled down very nicely.
Still talking about Francoeur? That’s like 4 RFs ago. They remember him like he was Hank Aaron. Hey Jeff, how’s El Passo?
Yes, he did. Looked relaxed.
Forgive my ignorance, but I didn’t pay attention to spring training at all. Is Carpenter still our theoretical setup guy or did Walden get it back from him?
Great effort, Mr. Wood.
Fred!
Insurance!
Freddie mad.
He is a free man.
Boom boom!
No regression, not yet.
I think the number one, single stupidest reason to bat BJ Upton second is this: It is the ONLY mismatch opportunity we’re going to get with this lineup. The only lefties we have in the lineup bat 1 and 3. After a LOOGY gets through Freeman, it’s all righties.
So why waste the only booby-trap in your lineup on a guy who sucks?
The company line is you can’t argue with the results tonight, right?
#80
Well, we need him not to suck.
81- Wait six outs, then say that.
Gomez is another batlicker.
Carpenter it is, I guess.
Gonna be a long time before I stop getting the shakes when Carpenter comes into the game.
Glad he got to wipe off some of the stench of his tears. Let’s win this.
Nice to see Dan’s line drives falling in. I’m sure he’ll hit a little better now that he’s not looking at that .167 average every day.
Like that calm stance from Uggla.
Good hitting by Simmons there.
Craig’s slider has just been garbage so far. No feel for it at all.
I think you can argue with the process if you like, but to paraphrase Manuel Maloof, anybody don’t like this score is crazy.
91- Only a 100% strikeout rate. He’ll need to work on that.
161-1 awaits!
Nice! Always good to see your first Kimbrel 1-2-3 inning in almost six months!
Ho hum. Kimbrel strikes out the side. Nothing new here.
And we’re now rid of the 0-162 posts, as well.
Heyward is well on his way to accumulating that 32-WAR season.
@93 – Show me the inaccuracy in what I said. He threw 4 breaking balls, and three bounced in front of the plate, one behind it.
Not doomed. Which would be an awesome black metal band name.
Pitching & HRs, seems familiar.
We will look back on this win at the end of the year and say this is when we turned the season around. (-;
@100 And plenty of Ks.
@98
For the record, you’re right. Kimbrel’s slider was garbage today. He threw it three times and brained some poor guy in the front row with two of them. Didn’t matter today, though, because no one could catch up to his fastball. That happens to him occasionally, though, I’m sure he’ll get it worked out.
@97
maybe even 33. I lowballed him way back when.
Recapped.