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Spring Training Open Thread: Braves at Astros

Derek Lowe takes the mound for his final spring training appearance before he opens up the season on the mound in Philadelphia. The game is supposed to be televised on CSS, which is Comcast/Charter Sports Southeast.

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Stream please.

Evening baseball after a long day...

… love it.

Has anyone

seen the lineup yet?

Just found it

Esco
Casey
Chipper
Anderson ( we don’t have to add the G anymore)
Frenchy
Kelly
Cody
Jordan

Am I dumb? Who’s Cody?

Cody Ross the backup catcher

Cody Ross plays outfield for the Marlins. David Ross is our backup catcher. But thanks for clearing it up.

My bad

i’m an idiot!!

Anyone have a stream?

MLB.TV

has dropped the ball. The games on TV but not MLB.TV. Lame.

Brian Jordan

doing the color, good for him!

1st pitch

warning track hit to LF, G. Anderson with the drop

2nd pitch

2nd hit.

0 outs, top 1, runners at corners, 2-0 stros

Lowe is serving meatballs & potatoes

correction, 1 out off a liner

3-0 after the first inning astros.

LOWE'S GETTING ROCKED

Damn frenchy just got robbed!!!

2 outs, 1 on

G Anderson flied out to LF
Frechy got robbed in Center
KJ broken bat up middle

Robbed of a homer?
diving catch off a rope

robbed of a hit. Michael Bourne made a diving catch.

did Ross make an out?
3 outs

Ross takes it deep to LF but not deep enough

top 2nd

groundout
GREAT catch by Schaffer in CF, stole it
groundout

much better for lowe

hella of a catch by Jordan Schafer. Astros go down 1,2,3

you do the play by play That a boy

I’ve got to go pain the bathroom, go braves!

That doesn’t sound like much fun.

DAMN

I feel sorry for you guys that didn’t see that play by Schafer. WOW

Going back on it

or coming in?

Going back...

and then kinda running into the wall

haha

BJ said Frenchy went fishing 20 minutes before the game started and caught a 6 lb bass.

That was a BAD call on strike 3 to KJ!

4-0 Astros in the 5th 2 outs.

care to do the updates?

I think the pitchers are sick of spring training.

Vladamir Nunez in for Mike Gonzo. Still Two out 2 on in the bottom 5th

Pop up.

4-0 going to 6th

Carlos lee pops out to Kotchman 3 out.

E 6 by tejada. Brandon jones on First.

BJ would’ve been out if the 1st baseman had caught that

Escobar singles up the Milddle. 2 on nobody out.

Ktochman pops out to right. Bring up Freeman!!!

Chippy Joo! (That's what my Spanish roommate always calls him)

Homer!!

Chip with a 3 run homer

4-3

Chipper whacks a Three run homer. Who said that guys wasnt worth 42 million. 4-3 top of the six 1 out.

The slowest triple ever...

unless it’s an error

Almost a Collision in center with Michael Bourne and Hunter Pence. Garret Anderson on third he was flyin around those bases.

Flyin?

Probably not the right verb. More like trudging or slogging.

Lol yeah I know. Frenchy strikes out with Anderson on third 2 outs!!

Couldn’t see that coming

Kelly johnson groundout to first 3 out.

Moylan walks Tejada on four straight balls.

5-3 Astros in the bottom of the 6th runner on second 2 out.

The strikeouts...

sure are coming more naturally now for Francouer.

Haha. Not really. Come on. 8 P 8 ))

Frenchy is back on the ball.

Totally random, but am I the only one that thinks the AL West needs another team? Like maybe from the NL Central? I just think it would make things more fair. The Angels basically have it won every year, adn that’s pathetic/bullshit.

I think Okalnd is better then the Angels this year. Two of their top pitchers might start the season on the DL.

Yeah...probably

Instead of adding a team to the NL West, we should just get rid of a couple of teams. My picks would be the Nats and Padres.

oooh!! oooh!!! oooh!!!! How 'bout this?

Axe the Nats (with fucking pleasure) and move the Pirates to the NL East………

interesting….haha

Would that mean...

We could send Philly to the NL Central?

Nah. Keep Phillie. I like roughing them up.

Then all divisions in teh NL have 5 teams. problem somewhat solved.

Ok.

As long as we’re rid of them pesky nats…

1 today 2 yesterday bring up Heyward!!! 7th inning stretch 5-3 Astros.

HAITHCOCK IN TO PITCH!!!!!!!!

Boscan grounds out to first. Has he gotten a hit this spring??

Or any spring?

He is still probally a lot better then that Corkey guy.

lmao. I can remember the one big hit Corky had early in teh season

He got a hit o shit!!! I missed that one.

he had a pretty good hit against the Cubbies

I think it was against Dempster on ESPN Wednesday night baseball – he hit a HR!

Say what you want about Corky, but that guy has played in the Bigs for three teams. As much as I like JC, he can’t say that. He can’t even say he’s played for one.

Can JC even say he’s played at AAA?

A little bit. In a career spanning from 97-08, JC has played a total of 108 AAA games over the course of 6 different seasons, getting his most time with Richmond in 2005, where he played 72 games and hit a robust .222 (which, ironically enough, is his lifetime average). He’s obviously a career backup, since he’s averaged just 69 games a season for his career.

Like I said, JC is a fine minor league backup, but he’s got nothing on Cory Miller.

Yes.

Jurrjens smacked him pretty good the other day.

I like BJones.

He’s so cool.

I love Brandon Jones

a single. 2 out. Infante up

Brandon jones is the man. Single up the middle 2 outs Infante up to bat.

Come on O

When this guy heats up, he heats up

Man...

Brian Jordan is not good.

haha. I know, right. He's the man and everything, but he doesnt have a knack for it

Give us more JOE AND BOOG, damn it

Pete!!!

Calling Pete Van Wieren!!

Fuck. Not today.

inning over. groundout

Jordan Schafer with a headset!!!!

Medlan is 5-2.

I really heart Schafer!!

Move over Kelly Johnson, there’s a new Braves-love in town.

what a nice guy. lol. He's been talking to Chipper

El goodbye yo hits a two run blast off of Medlan. 7-3 Astors!!

meh. spring training. (rolls eyes. lol)
Gorkys

misses. Andruw Schafer would’ve had that.

fail
working all the bugs out

Gorkys needs minor leagues…..cool name and everything…..I was excited……but nada

Is that his first ST game? i dont remember seeing him in another one

no

I think he’s been in a couple of others.

8-3 Astros 8th inning.

See, I haven't talked shit about this ump.

He’s been consistent. we need more of that from umps

AND BASEBALL NEEDS TO INCORPORATE AN INSTANT REPLAY RULE LIKE FOOTBALL. A MANAGER CAN CHALLENGE ONE BASE CALL A GAME.

Is that not genius? It’s just too fucking easy. But that will never f-ing happen.

Personally im an ump. I just do highschool games and umps have huge egos, and if they were to incorporate instant replay I dont think they would be to happy.

.......................lol.

Oh, I know. All I’m saying is, they aren’t fucking God. They make mistakes occasionally. On a close BASE CALL (not other calls) a manager should be allowed one challenge of instant replay a game.

I’ve seen too many games get decided by an ump making a shitty call. It’s Two Thousand and Fucking Nine. And I’m Kenny Powers.

With that instant replay u will lose a lot of the excitment from the managers getting pissed and then getting tossed. But dude I totally agree with you Umps miss a lot of calls at first and Home.

bump the excitement. it will save someone a freaking heart attack

If they wouldn’t allow 1 challenge per game for each team, then they might as well all go out and buy a Hummer to compensate for more than their small pee pees.

+1

for the Eastbound and Down reference good sir

Poor Greg White...

he’s just not that good.

Take that back. He's the man. Trust me.

Slow start.

I most certainly will not!

:p

rrrrrrrrrrr.

Greg White shall return. He’s got the eye of a damned killer. Go BLANCO!!!! It’s great to have him around if anything should happen…

Like I said...

My heart belongs to Jordan Schafer. Not that I’m rooting against Senor White…

He still might get the nod in Center.

I trust the Braves to make the right decision.

Translation: I’m paying 5 bucks to go to opening night…and if Schafer isn’t starting in CF, I’ll be pissed.

Me too little Lady but Bobby is very careful with his young players. He never puts to much pressure on them!!

I know.

I really just want what’s best for JS in the long run. But I think he’s ready. Plus, it sounded like he’d won the job when they were interviewing FW earlier.

True he didn’t mention Gregor at all!!

Oh, I'm all for Schafer too. But it's nice to have Blanco.

He’ll get back in the rythym. (damn i hate spelling that word, no clue)

WBC fucked everyone up. But Blanco cleaned up during that shite.

Shit David Ross has a strained Groin.

Uh oh.

Let’s hope Ross is ok.

bring back Corky!
I heart Martini

Nice throw, boss.

This game is just too enthralling...

Hold on give me 20 seconds to look that word up.

WOW awesome shot of the moon.

Reminded me of ‘Mountains of the Moon’ by the Grateful Dead 8 ))

Whatcha got Gorkys?

Boscan is bad just bad!

Little bit 'o Diaz is better than no Diaz at all

8-3 FINAL ASTROS.

You've all been great. Try the veal.

Any time we play the Astros, it reminds me of that game a few years back that started around 7, and ended at like 4 in the morning. It was nuts. And we lost by one run. lmao. I about got nuts that night. Actually, I did.

i think that was the day game

the 18 inning one? more recently than that, dude

Or the game that we lost in the Playoffs to the Astros in Houston!!

haha (goes back to the bad place)

How the fuck did we lose to the Astros? They’ve won like 6 games all spring. Thats embarrassing.

10

now actually. According to my data

But yeah, I've never cared for the Astros

Their starting pitcher was taking names, and GAnderson kind of swung our momentum early in teh game when he dropped a fly ball on the first play of the game. Sometimes, thats all it takes.

But you can tell teh guys are waiting to step it up a notch on Sunday.

I. Want. Phillie. Bad.

I want philly to especially since we won’t have to face Hamels.

Bring Hamels. Bring whoever. I. Want. Phillie. I. Really. Really. Really. Hate the Thillies

I really hope all these recent losses aren’t the Braves getting ready for the regular season.

Chipper increases his killing power.

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