I guess maybe you could argue with the lyrics, if your heart is three sizes too small. But you can’t argue with those guitars.
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I guess maybe you could argue with the lyrics, if your heart is three sizes too small. But you can’t argue with those guitars.
Hat tip: JonathanF
Use code “Journal” for a 5% discount.
My favorite REM-related song of the last 25 years.
“Forget about the cheaters, and all the steroid eaters…”
Top that, pop-punk kiddies.
I’ll voice the dissenting opinion in this thread: music about baseball is just too on the nose for me.
Great escape, Mikey.
@3, I didn’t say it was a good song, just that it was my favorite, mainly for the sentiment. Unfortunately REM’s songwriting chops vanished at some point in the early ’90s.
Don’t look now, but Judy’s got 2 homers this series.
Is that a Braves’ run? Do my eyes deceive me?
Ordinarily, I’d agree with you W.C.G., but desperate times…
#5
I didn’t love the post-Bill Berry records until 2008’s “Accelerate,” which was surprisingly rocking, IMO, a terrific record.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9DoM2W0YDQ
A balk that moves our runner into scoring position and then we immediately cash in with a RBI single? That’s so not the 2014 Braves, but it sure is nice to see.
Ha ha ha…this bullshit ballpark finally plays in our favor!
I don’t think any team can turn a 3-6-3 double play like Freddie and Simmons can. That play is so pretty when they do it.
Time to cash in, Bravos.
Edit: Guess the chips were counterfeit. Drat.
C’mon BJ, surprise me…
Do all Red Sox games last six hours?
My hatred for this stadium cannot be expressed in words.
Chris Johnson doesn’t hit for power, doesn’t walk, is not a good defender, and his empty batting average is suffering. It’s like we have Francoeur again.
Nonsense. Francoeur could defend.
Is the Offense back? I hope so.
@18
Yeah, he was great at defending the ERAs of opposing pitchers.
How is Chris Johnson not batting -.5000000? At .258, he has a higher batting average than Heyward, Gattis, B.J., and Doumit.
This is gonna happen to us again.
I motion that we start calling him Kris with a K due to his many strikeouts
This $#!^ again?
Cue the circus music. I think I might become a Red Sox fan because the Braves suck right now
And really, Uggla is worse?
The supposed great outfield defense doing the job yet again
Shoot me in the face!
That was all kinds of awkward.
I hate this team right now. Carp, this is not on you.
This is not a good baseball team. Not at all.
The Upton Brothers suck on defense.
They just suck.
The Braves will self-destruct in 3…2…1…
We’re going to lose 4 very winnable games against the Red Sox, I can just feel it.
In their defense, they really aren’t concentrating, so it’s hard to determine what their level of ability is.
Did they really call that La Stella shit a hit? That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard!
Bad News Braves.
Oh good…here come the comedy stylings of Luis Avilan.
It’s really awesome how literally every Red Sox ball in play turns into a not-out. That’s just a totally likely thing to have happen.
Some poor sap is going to have to recap this nonsense.
What? Me? Oh.
That botched play by La Stella could have been a double play leaving the bases empty and 2 outs.
Have to bring in Kimbrel here don’t you? 2 outs with Ortiz up
Not this f’ing roided-up douche again. Please just walk him. Please.
@37 Have fun with that.
Now bring in Kimbrel.
How about this? Fredi is.
Kimbrel in the 8th inning? How novel.
At least for once Fredi is doing stuff I agree with. That will make the loss a bit more palatable.
Kimbrel in the 8th… This move is coming about 7 months too late.
Why does David Ross need a scouting report? Lol he caught Kimbrel for 2 years.
Well, Kimbrel needs the work, I guess. Not like there’s going to be a save situation.
So is Walker’s hitting philosophy to take strikes and swing at balls?
Heyward over matched and way behind two high fastballs yet again
So glad to see us giving away outs.
For the record I didn’t agree with the bunt call. Fat chance of him doing anything differently though. You have 3 outs left. Giving up one on purpose is the dumbest thing ever.
Nothing but 88 mph fastballs to Heyward. Unreal
Kimbrels command sucks so far
Does any team in baseball have a worse hitting philosophy than the Braves?
I really hope the front office notices this.
@54—wait, do the Braves even have a hitting philosophy?
Maybe not. Greg Walker is the problem.
Braves have always given an anti-sabremetrics-and-proud-of-it vibe. Maybe it’s different behind closed doors. Who can say for sure unless you work there.
The bizarre thing is that they were pretty open last year about seeing more pitches and grinding out at bats early to get into the pen mid-game. This year they decided to be more aggressive. That’s working well so far.
Greg Walker was quoted the other day as saying we swing at too many bad pitches. He’s not an idiot.
Kimbrel has no idea where the ball is going.
If he is not an idiot, he has a difficult time communicating a point.
Chip did not seriously just say that…
Good grief. What a miserable way to lose this will be. Not going to end well
Fittingly pathetic. Bad decisions, bad execution, lack of attention.
What a shit show.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Of course. What a horrible team this has become.
Well ain’t that a bunch of bullshit?
Yep, we lost all four games in a series that we could have easily swept. Very winnable games there that we handed to the Sox. Bleh. Hard to win when you can’t hit or field.
Tommy La Stella sure isn’t the answer
Not a bad throw. Walks will beat you every time. Unfortunately, our team would rather swing at crap than take a walk.
La Stella looks like a terrible defender. He blew 2 gigantic plays out there .
It’s as if we were playing the World Series against Boston with home field advantage. Swept in four, naturally.
He was safe at 2nd anyways. TLS missing that one just spared us 3 more minutes of agony.
No hit, no field, no win: our Braves suck.
There may have been worse four-game series in the regular season, but I can’t think of any right now.
To be fair, blame goes to LaStella, BJ, and Justin in those last two innings. Team isn’t focused apparently.
Well, let’s hope this is as bad as it gets this year. That was quite a meltdown.
DOB will write nine articles on how the fans suck and Fredi, BJ, Walker and Uggla are a four headed monster of greatness.
Not sure the outfield gaffes made much of difference to anything but my mood.
LaStella was the difference. I think he is dealing with some nerves still.
Not sure the outfield gaffes made much of difference to anything but my mood.
LaStella was the difference. I think he is dealing with some nerves still.
That this team is still in first (maybe 0.5 out now) is quite a storyline. However, I just see too many holes to finish above third.
Justin and BJ let two totally unexceptional, garden variety base hits bound past them. I’m still shaking my head at seeing two major leaguers let that happen in such a short span of time.
Think about this for a minute: BJ and Uggla are probably the two worst everyday players in the majors and have been for a year and a half…and we have literally nobody in our entire farm system that’s any better.
If the Braves were in a bigger market, the media would call out the front office and the coaching staff on this crap and this wouldn’t happen as much.
Instead we get homer articles and tons of crap on how we should be thankful to be in first place in a weak division.
We would literally have 4-5 more wins this season if we could simply catch the ball. I know offenses slump (of course, ours slumps for like a month at a time), but defense never should. This may be yet another hint that we just don’t have a good team this year (being tied for first place aside). World Series contenders get beat; pretenders give games like that one away.
krussell: That’s one heck of an observation, and a scary one. Maybe Rachel Phelps will buy the team and berate them until Fredi motivates them to win just to piss her off.
Can we demote Chris Johnson? I mean, like, to the Nationals?
@82 and @83 The top headline on our MLB.com website right now is “Braves among game’s best at finding top talent”. Ironic for both of those comments, in different ways.
DOB will have an article praising someone then in the comment section he will rip a fan who calls him on it. He is part of the problem.
Check this out too:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cwXuYx-CJhhrZVTkwBSM41BtzYqzLqzYbpicDTje708/edit?usp=sharing
The feed from Johnson looked catchable to me. Who are we blaming? Because I’m buying a pitchfork at Home Depot right now. Who has the torches?
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@85 Our farm system has always lacked hitting talents.
@90, blame the offense for not scoring. 3 runs is a loss unless you are playing the Cubs/Mets/Marlins/Phillies/etc.
@89
“The stats showing the numbers of TJ surgeries are totally blown out of proportion. The Braves have had some bad luck. But with the leadership of Fredi Gonzalez and the proven ability of BJ Upton, the Braves keep winning. Any fan who is critical is a moron and doesn’t deserve to read anything I write. Now for some classic Greg Almond lyrics that I have copied and pasted.”
I was gonna post our record with and without Uggla in the lineup, but I think it’s just too soon…
#88
Don’t like him? You don’t have to read him.
But he has nothing to do with the Braves dropping the ball all over the field for the past 4 games.
He just gives them passes for access. That’s why I don’t read him
I hate to see them play poorly, but I’ve really lost a lot of interest in the regular season over the last few years because of the new playoff format. They’re still likely to make a spot and once we’re in it’s basically a crapshoot anyway.
Still cannot fathom extending Chris Johnson. How can an organization that does so well evaluating talent miss so badly on him?
Well, we’re kind of a longshot to make the playoffs this year so the regular season should be more interesting in some respects.
What I would do to have Mark Ellis in the lineup!
Recapped.