Category: Game Threads 2014

I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. We know the offense is unfit to start and our bench is unfit to pinch hit, and we sit watching our TV’s while some local newscaster tells us...

I don’t know what to do any more. I think I’m in the fourth stage of grief (1. Denial 2. Anger 3. Bargaining 4. Depression 5. Acceptance) over the 2014 Braves, otherwise known as the “Buddy Carlyle...

In the last thread, Johnny linked to a Jay Jaffe article about the Braves; it went into accurate detail about exactly how mediocre we are. Of course, WE know all about that. This is something of a watershed moment. If the...

This is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad team right now. And when the going gets tough, the tough grit their teeth, dig in their heels, take a deep breath, look deep inside, and listen to a Brazilian band on a show...

I swear, the All-Star Break gets longer every year. By 2030 it’ll probably last about three and a half weeks. But tonight, tonight! tonight baseball is back. So we get the Phillies, and it’s A.J. Burnett versus Ervin...

Being a Braves fan is a bit tough these days. This isn’t a great team, and we don’t even really preserve moral victories. We either win by the skin of our teeth or we lose in a laugher. That said, I’m a Braves...

I’m so glad that the week is coming to an end. Here’s hoping it ends well, and here’s another song I’ve always enjoyed.

So, there’s this beatnik, and he goes into a diner. He sits down at the counter and asks the waitress, “What kind of pie do you have?” She replies, “Right now, we have peach, apple, and cherry. The...

Last night never happened. Check that—the last six weeks never happened. Except for the addition of La Stella and the other Simmons. They happened. The B-est of B lineups is in play today, which signals that Dan Uggla’s...

What can I say, Ian Curtis was ahead of his time.

If we can just play like we did last night, I’d feel awfully good about this team. La Stella makes this offense so much better. We’re not a good hitting club, but with him in there we’ve probably moved from...

I didn’t want to do this. I REALLY didn’t want to do this. But the Braves have left me no choice. It’s time to bring out the big guns.

The Braves were firing on all cylinders yesterday, so I decided to basically repeat everything from the game thread: alliterative headline, factoid about our opponents, song by the same band, the whole megillah. The Brewers...

Jonathan Lucroy continues to be one of the more underrated players in the league, and Carlos Gomez and Ryan Braun are hitting. But that’s about it. However, their pitchers have the fifth-best ERA in baseball at 3.19...

In a stunning offensive explosion, the Braves’ bats woke up, silenced their critics, turned a corner, didn’t try to do too much, brought out the brooms, and swept the Cubs because our pitching continues to be awesome despite...

We’ve played 33 games. We’ve scored more than one run 20 times. Five shutouts and eight one-run games on the season — and four of those one-run performances have come within the last six games. This offense is a...

This offense is like Andres Thomas on Vicodin. It needs to wake the hell up. My prescription is BRUTAL.