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Spring Training Open Thread: Braves at Blue Jays

Our new ace Derek Lowe toes the mound against the Blue Jays today.

In a point of roster clarification, deep within the D-Fab blog (which sucks even more now that the comments are on multiple pages) he mentions that the Tom Glavine contract has not yet officially been "filed," and that will happen when Glavine reports next week. So the spot that was vacated by Tim Hudson being placed on the 60-day DL, was apparently filled by Garret Anderson, and another move will be made in a week when Glavine officially reports to camp. This is pretty confusing as there are 41 active players listed on the 40-man roster on the Braves official website -- so maybe they're just as confused as we are.

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So I checked out a copy of MLB 2k9 last night. Not too bad if any of your folks are into the baseball games.

It's out already?

I thought it comes out on the 3rd of March?

He robbed his local Gamestop.

I miss the EA Sports MLB games

I still have a copy of MVP ’05.

Is that the one w/ Manny on the cover? Classic

Yep

A classic.

I still have a braves franchise that I play. I don’t even know what season I am on.

Since we're playing the Jays

Are the Canadian stations able to stream the game over the ’net?

Nope. Big Bro MLB has its hand over their mouth also…o to speak.

Well, I've got a stream that's going at the moment

Googled Toronto Blue Jays Radio and then hit the first link that came up.

Who knows how long it’ll last.

Stick it to the man.

I’m rooting for you.

Awesome!

I’ll give it a go, too. Thanks for the info. I tried a slightly different search phrase and got a “due to MLB blah, blah, blah” message.

Might be because I was listening to the pre-game show before they switched over

Or something, technology is indistinguishable from magic

I can't get it...which station did you click on?
It's working (so far)!

You’ve made my week!!

I love Canada

Sweet

Thanks for the link!

LINK TO THIS GAMES RADIO FEED

http://radiotime.com/WebTuner.aspx?StationId=31210&

Ha ha ha

running both streams is like a flashback

Schafer Ks on 4 pitches

Why do we seem to get everyone’s ace?

KJ Ks as well
Escobar with a single
Kotchman grounds out
Good prep. for the rest of the season
Bottom 2

Lowe gets a ground out to 2B.

Hill singles

Rios flies out to CF

Millar with a single up the middle

Runners on 1st and 2nd

Thigpen Ks

Inning over

2 hits no runs, no BB, 2 grounds outs, 1 K in Lowe’s first inning.

Errr ... Bottom 1
Which, of course, should have been a correction to my above post
Here we go

works for me:
http://www.fan590.com/
(click Listen Live)

thanks Lennox

WORKS!

Sweet!

I love how right beside the audio control panel, it says “Please note that due to MLB & NBA regulations, THE FAN 590 is not permitted to stream Blue Jays & Raptors games online. We apologise for this inconvenience.”

:)

Diaz grounds out.

B.Jones grounds out

Ross singles.

Does that give him more hits than Corky had all last season?

I think everyone had more hits than the Cable Guy/child molester.

Prado groundsout

I wish we had Jesse Litsch

He is a good pitcher and a fellow Bull!

Is it Lowe v. Halladay?

The grounds crew will be tested this day…

3 hits to start the inning

not a good start to the 2nd for Lowe

Jays up 1-0

Foul out to Ross, K

2 down, 1 to go

Another K to end the inning

3 strikeouts so far for Lowe.

off subject

does anybody know if you can order the MLB Extra Innings package at the midpoint of the year for a discounted price?

Yes

You can.

Or you could just got to myp2pforum.eu and find where you can watch baseball games for free ; )

oMG

THANK YOU!!!

I watched 40-50

Braves games there last year. Never paid a cent. It’s my way of fighting back against these facist blackout rules I get in Pa. Philly, Mets, Pirates, Yankees…I hardly get to watch anything.

That is incredible!!

I’ll risk going to jail! How do you guys find this stuff!?!?

Top 3

BJ Ryan (closer) in to pitch

Blanco walks

Schafer walks

Schafer walks, worked the count well against the lefty
KJ 2 run double
Escobar Walks, Ryan can't find the plate
Kotchman GIDP
Diaz RBI 2B, KJ scores!

Ryan out of the game

Listening to the game via MLB Game Day Audio..

…though it’s the Blue Jays announce team.

Email…

As in my email?

Ya…need it so I can send you a link for fantasy baseball.

Click on my user name :)

Haha, I’ve been waiting for a couple days to see you post so I could just look on your profile…not sure why I asked. My bad.

Email sent.

It's all good..

…signed up and everything. :)

Ryan having a tough time throwing strikes, 3-1 to Kelly.

2 run double by Kelly

gives us the lead for the first time

RBI double

Two run double for KJ!

2 Run Dbl for Scooter!!!!!
What the heck happened to this radio feed?

They are just rambling and not talking about the game

+1

they suck

These news 95.7 guys are pretty good. IMO

That's the feed I've been on

esco walks

kotch up

Ryan walks Yunel on 4 pitches

Casey will Vidro or K

GIDP by Kotchman.

Yea Matty, double down the line.

RBI double for Diaz
That a boy Matty!

rakes those lefties

That's all I want him to do...

…just be a lefty killer.

Diaz/Norton

would give us nice pinch hit options late in games

Yup..

…and that’s the only way I want to see Norton, pinch hitting. Nothing more, nothing less.

That’s what we need him to do this season!

Jack Bauer's brother in to pitch

BJones with an RBI single!

man, big inning

They’re smashing these guys right now. Single by BJ

Brandon Jones

is looking pretty good this spring

found another one

nice FM. Maybe they won’t stop like the other

http://www.news957.com/

That’s what I’m listening to, they’re pretty good.

Yep, me too. They arent douches like the other guys.

Thanks! will give it a shot.

Bauer K's Ross, 3rd inning over

Trade Ross! He’s no BMac!!!

Is there anyway to type a backwards K? Because I think it would prove to be useful.

ﻼ, that’s the best I could find.

ʞ, better I think.

so what is the score now...

I just realized that the program that i was listening to switched away from the game about 15 minutes ago…lol

I guess I cant watch basketball, type online and listen to baseball at the same time

Tar Heels?
of course!
Good to have Zeller back
VERY good

he is a huge boost to the bench and means that none of our big guys should get into foul trouble again.

he looked a bit shaky his first game back, but he looks GREAT today

OMG

we’d better stop talking about basketball before someone has a hissy fit and gets the thread deleted…it has happened before…

ok.....ok
meanwhile, back at the batcave

I hope ND beats UCONN today…that will help our RPI and help us become #1 on Monday.

/flagged as hater

you gotta love it when the broadcast

leaves your game to go to another one becaue your team is just so much better than their comp that day…:)

Try the 95.7 link above

it’s working for me.

yeah, i got it now...

thanks.

4-1, Boyer in to pitch gets a long flyout to start the inning

Boyer walks Millar

Gets Thigpen to fly out, 2 down

Strikesout Snyder

Inning over! Boyer for closer!

Travis Snider

Is the Jays

Yeah, he's the one who struck out

Strikes are hard to come by in this game.

The Canadian broadcasters...

“He struck oat in his first at-bat…” Maybe he could tell us more ABOOT that.

So ironic...

I just watched the South Park movie again last night…

Top 4

Prado works the count full, but grounds out to 3B

Blanco grounds out to 2B

Since he’s leaving for the WBC, this could be his last game with the team this year.

Schafer Ks, 1-2-3 inning.

anyone know if all those groundball singles from lowe were a product of our DEF not playing well or just the hitters finding the gaps?

From the announcers

Sounds like the ones in the 2nd were well hit

i hope so cause if the DEF has gotten worse with offseason weight gains or anything that would suck especially with lowe as our ace

Schafer K's

But he did work the count full after fouling off several pitches.

Holy...freakin cold up there!

weather report – high of 5 tomorrow, low of -5.

It's always winter in Canada ...
Frank Good in to pitch Bot 4
And 5 cm of freezing rain!

What is that, about 1/2 a hog’s head?

1 Centimeter = 0.3937007874 Inches

Centimeters?

What are you, a communist?

Schafer needs to calm down with all these K’s. we dont need him to be a ryan howard we need him to lead off!!

Josh Anderson

should lead off

I agree if Schafer keeps hitting like this. there were talks of him being another Grady Sizemore but im not seeing it

It’s been like 3 games…chill out

Bingo..

..and what three games into the spring?

Anderson strikes out more than Schafer does…

Id still

take Schafer over Anderson anyday

+1

I agree only if Schafer doesnt keep hitting like this. there were talks of him being another Grady Sizemore but im not seeing it

I'd take whoever is playing better.

That goes for all the OF spots

That wont work

Because then Francoeur will have no place on the team

Bueno gets a 1-2-3 inning

KJ leads off with a single to start the 5th

Escobar is tearing it up today

Single!

Esco with an infield single

The SS apparently made a good play keeping it in the IF

Kotchman with an IF single, Diaz GIDP P-H-1B

Diaz does not need to bat against righties PERIOD

eh, it's Spring who cares...

…let him get some reps against RHP.

BJones flyout, inning over
Top 6

Bueno gets a grounder to SS, 1 down

Rios with a double past 3B
K of Millar, runner caught trying to steal 3B double play!
Strikeout-Throwout DP!

Ross seems to be tearing it up. I think i’ll finally be able to take McCann having an offday . . .

Now Chipper on the other hand . . .

Ross

Seems to be a very nice addition!

I agree

If we’re gonna have a backup catcher who doesn’t hit too well, at least he’s got some decent pop when he connects.

Now it's Top 6

I keep forgetting the Braves are the road team.

Soon as I bragg on him he K’s lol

Bragg?

"Fly on a winshield" catch.

Nice.

He used to be my favorite. I could never figure out why

I’d rather have one K every few AB’s then him doing like shafer and K’ing every at bat.

another positive so far seems to be that Escobar learned out to not GIDP

1-2-3 inning

Ross, Prado, Blanco go down quietly

Interesting...

Adam Loewen in to pinch run. I’d like to see an AB from him.

Fruto (?) in to pitch

pop out, single, wild pitch (or passed ball, Ross is out from C), walk

SHERRY HAITHCOCK JUST HIT A GRAND SLAM!!!!!
Single to LF, run scores

Schafer has, apparently moved to LF

strikeout, 2 down
Flyout to RF

Heyward is in RF, Freeman in at 1B 4-2

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Hicks K, 2 down
Oops replied to the wrong post

That that Scakville isn’t great

Top 7

Schafer gets a Double, reaches 3rd on an error

Infante is in for KJ at 2B
Sac Fly by Infate, Schafer scores
OK

Drumzalicious, complain about that one : )

Hicks K, someone else made the 3rd out, inning over
This thread is boring without...

Doc Holliday says he only threw sinkers and a few changeups

No need to bust out the cutter or the curve yet.

Cruz in to pitch

gets a groundout (?) with a good play by Freeman and a K so far

Flyout to Heyward, inning over
Top 8 Braves up 5-2

Diaz up to leadoff, no chance of GIDP this time

Diaz just misses a double down the RF line, then strikes out
Apparently everyone in the stadium gets free bowling as a result!
Heyward hits one into the parking lot, but foul
Colina makes an out, Timmons Ks to end the half inning
Valdez in to pitch, K, Walk, K
walk, walk

Bases loaded

Walks in a run
Ugh...not pretty
Nunez in to pitch, gets flyout to Blanco in CF, inning over, Braves up 5-3
Blanco, apparently robbed of a hit by the SS, Schafer with a line drive single
Hicks HBP

Bases loaded for Freeman

Inante single, Hicks HBP, bases loaded for Freeman
Fielder's choice, run scores, sounded like someone misplayed the ball a bit
Diaz K to end top 9th, Braves up 6-3
Nunez still pitching

HBP on the first hitter, maybe payback for hitting Hicks last inning

Heyward makes a catch at the rack, 1 down
Striekout, 2 down!
Foul Out to Schafer, Braves Win!
Player of the Game

sdp....

I dont understand any of your posts…..but i dont hate them either. you are a strange individual.

Thank you!

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