Category: Recaps 2014

Here are the first 10 tracks from y 2014 End Of Year compilation(s.) They have nothing to do with baseball. 1 – “Longer Than You’ve Been Alive” From Most Messed Up (2014) by Old 97s 2 – “I...

So, for those of you not following along at home, Mike Matheny lost the NLCS last night by managing worse than Fredi Gonzalez ever even thought about doing. I’ll throw it over to Deadspin for the details. Matheny, when...

(Pinch hitting for smitty again today; smitty, I’m still praying for you and your wife. I hope she is improving. Update us when you get the chance.) Final 2014 Box Score The Braves decided that limiting their winning to...

B.J. Upton and Justin Upton both made great defensive plays and both homered to gave Aaron Harang his 12th win of the season after winning just 2 times in his last 7 starts. Once again, Aaron did what he usually does, … 8...

Box Score Well, if that game didn’t serve as a metaphor for the 2014 Braves’ season, I don’t know of one that would. The Braves jumped out early, just like in April, behind Ervin Santana, just like in April....

The Braves lost. Stay gold, Braves Journal.

Bottom 2 1.Chris Johnson doubles (26) on a line drive to left fielder Starling Marte. 2.Christian Bethancourt grounds out, second baseman Clint Barmes to first baseman Ike Davis. Chris Johnson to 3rd. 3.B. J. Upton walks. With...

ESPN Box Score Baseball is cruel. Baseball is cruel to players, who pitch their hearts out and suffer through outing after outing of no run support, or who watch their efforts become negated through shoddy defense or unlucky...

Some may find this a sacrilege of a powerful moment in human history. Some may find it a violation of our “no politics” rule. Nevertheless, I am reminded of the words from the old spiritual as delivered by the Rev....

Braves fire GM Frank Wren Frank Wren bore the brunt of the blame for the disappointing performance of the 2014 Braves, and the Braves canned him today. I’m not surprised, and I’m not mad, but I will miss him....

Same Box Score, Different Day Remember the miserable Braves loss index we had, where the Braves would find creative ways to lose all the time and you could never guess which type of game it would be until toward the end of the...

Braves quit, Braves quit, Braves quit! While i try not to lose interest or be disgusted, it is a struggle to find any positives. There were some so let’s start in the 8th inning when Joey Terdoslavich singled, Emilio...

Box Score, but don’t bother Well, the Braves continued their assault on Offensive Ineptitude by being shut out for the 15th time this year, this time courtesy of the Mets and Zach Wheeler. Julio Teheran threw 89 good to...

ESPN Box Score The Braves offense has proven that they hate all of their starting pitchers, but they especially hate Alex Wood and outright refuse to score when he is in the game. In the wake of their division-clinching victory...

You know, the band Failure is back. That’s really cool, because I only just started getting into them, and they hadn’t been an active band in more than a decade. I’m hoping I’ll get to see them live....

[Sometimes, one perceives a lack of sufficient understanding to properly explain a situation. So, today, I have called on Dr. Michael M. Baden, noted medical examiner, to review the corpse of the 2014 Braves and explain the...

They say nothing is as boring as listening to someone else’s fantasy sports story, and usually they’re right, but sometimes that fantasy sports story is instructive of a larger point, and that’s what I’m...

Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Jim Morrison…  

I did not see the game, but Julio Teheran took a no-hitter into the 6th but then things fell apart. The Rangers scored 3 runs on 3 hits and an error. The offense was too sickly to recover and bring a win to Julio.

The Horrid Box Score Pitiful. The Platonic Ideal of the 2014 Braves season was captured tonight in a game they couldn’t win against a woeful Rangers team that is playing out the string. Excellent starting pitching –...