Talking Chop

colorodo lost!!! 4 games behind and 10 games to go.

ccoolguy2003 - September 24, 2009 reply

10-0 and 6-4 will force a playoff!

10-0, 6-3!

I’m an eternal optimist, and even I can’t buy that as hope

ATLandUNC - September 24, 2009 reply

why not? just ask the team in front of us!

Chief Noc-A-Homa - September 24, 2009 reply

The Rockies still have to play a few more good teams. The Nats are going to be out for our blood, and then there’s the Fish. too…

But if we can somehow keep this 8-2 thing going, we could easily take the slot.

The team in front of us didn’t get swept by the Reds in the final month of their magical run.

Scott Coleman - September 24, 2009 reply

Hmmm...

The team in front of us has lost 4 out of 8 to the DBacks and Padres this month…who are the 3rd and 4th worst teams in the NL. We should’ve beaten the Reds twice, but they were hot when we played them.

Its not like the Braves are the only team who lose to a lesser team every once in a while…

Reds cooled off really quickly when they played the Rockies immediately following the sweep of us. They lost 4 straight.

Let’s face it, there’s no excuse for what happened that weekend, and in all likelihood, it killed our season (combined with a Soriano meltdown in Houston, and a Vazquez/Medlen/Gonzalez meltdown in Florida). We lost 3 straight games to an inferior team, and that’s inexcusable.

Bronson Arroyo, Kip Wells, and Johnny Cueto-that’s not the type of rotation that pulls off a weekend sweep, so we can’t make excuses about losing those. We can just hope that there’s some miracle in waiting that keeps this team alive.

I was referring to the Rockies’ 2007 playoff run, not the 2009 version.

I am probably being a little hard on our Braves. They’ve put together a nice run in the past few weeks, but it would have been a lot easier to hold out hope had they not tanked against one of the worst teams in the NL.

Jeff Francoeur killed our season.

timmy3 - September 24, 2009 reply

with the other two auto outs in our everyday line-up, in Jordan and KJ. Management left them in way too long.IMHP

I still will not give up on my Braves, until it is just mathematically impossible for us to make it to the play-offs :)

I still believe!!

Go Braves!!!!

HEYJUDE - September 24, 2009 reply

Well then......

Your not a true eternal optimist!

Jay212033 - September 24, 2009 via mobile reply

based on the defintion of eternal…no he’s not an eternal optismitc… he’s a selective optimist..

you are correct sir

Rockies remaining games:

1 vs SD
3 vs STL
3 vs MIL
3 @ LAD

Only the Pujols can save us now.

That's a hard schedule.

The Padres have shown they can beat the Rockies. The Cardinals are trying to clinch the central and are still fighting for home field advantage. The Brewers arent a bad team and can score with anyone. And the Dodgers are still fighting for their playoff lives.

I BELIEVE.

Scott Coleman - September 24, 2009 via mobile reply

ESPECIALLY

when we have 7 against the nats… we can and SHOULD win all of those games… especially the way we’re playing right now

it’s the three against the fish we need to lock down

We can't think like that tho

The Braves always take the Nats lightly and before you know it we’ve lost 2 outta 3.

The Washington Nationals are the 1927 Yankees from here on out. We can’t take anything for granted.

Scott Coleman - September 24, 2009 via mobile reply

cards gonna lay down

i also got optimistic when i saw three against the Nats for us, and three against STL for the Rox – but everyone has to realize that the Cards are going to take it easy after the cubs lose tonight.

They will have clinched, and the Rox are playing for their lives – its not going to be a sweep by the cards to put us a couple back (provided we sweep the natspos).

And if thats not enough, the cards would rather lose to the Rox, thus ensuring that’s who they’’ll play in the first round.

traphicg - September 24, 2009 reply

Wouldn’t they want homefield advantage? They gotta keep playing for that.

exactly.

Scott Coleman - September 24, 2009 via mobile reply

well, there’s also the integrity of the game. I would hope LaRussa respects that.

The Cards are a good well-managed team. They aren’t taking nights off.

timmy3 - September 24, 2009 reply

THIS

you all missed the boat

Ok – i agree, they wont throw the games.

But its hard to sweep a hard-playing, season-on-the-line team when you are too drunk from the playoff-clinch drinking binge….

traphicg - September 24, 2009 reply

not when you want to drink the home-field advantage champagne.

Especially there.

Chief Noc-A-Homa - September 24, 2009 reply

Not sure about you guys

but I’m terrified of the series against the Nats. We could have our hearts broken yet again. Or… we could easily sweep and the Rockies could be swept by the Cardinals.

Let’s do this.

Scott Coleman - September 24, 2009 via mobile reply

2 series left against the Nats…

Let’s Not play down to them, as we have most of the year :(

We Can do this….

I still believe…

Let’s Go!!

I can’t wait to chat in the open threads while We are in the playoffs, if not at the games! :)

HEYJUDE - September 24, 2009 reply

Alright...

I think it really depends on how soon the Dodgers and Cards clinch…

If the Cards sweep the Rockies (Which is fairly possible) and we sweep the Nats… We would be within one…

We’re on pace right now… over the last 13, to win 8 of the next 10 games, and we’re now playing against worse teams (I mean we swept the Cards…)

8-2, and 4-6… assuming the cards and the dodgers both take 2 from the rockies… and maybe one from the brewcrew and one from san diego tomorrow…

i don’t know…

my point is we CAN do this, so I will keep hoping

Scott Coleman - September 24, 2009 reply

Playoffs or no playoffs

Every single one of you has to love the fact that throughout the last few weeks, has been practically nothing but winning Braves baseball.

royhobbs - September 24, 2009 reply

ill be honest

i gave up on the Braves and their chances after being emberassed by the Reds. I feel bad. But im really, really glad the Bravos made me look bad.

Nah, they didn’t make you look bad. I’m happy to see them beating up on the New Orleans Zephyrs, but we have to acknowledge that these are still the same Braves who laid down against the Reds and allowed the playoff race to get out of hand.

I’m still watching the games and it’s always great fun to see us beat up on players in Met uniforms, but this team doesn’t deserve to go to the playoffs. You were right to give up on them.

Scott Coleman - September 24, 2009 reply

if we make the playoffs,

it means that we finished our season at something like 19-4, 20-3, 18-5, etc etc. You’re tellin’ me that if this team finds a way into the playoffs, we don’t deserve it? There’s absolutely no way they don’t deserve it. It would be one of the greatest comebacks in baseball history.

What a dumb post

Give up on your team because they got swept by a team riding a hot streak WOW! Well you should have given up on them when they got swept by the Marlins or the Giants. Man support the TEAM win, lose or draw!

Jay212033 - September 24, 2009 via mobile reply

Uhhh I do

I sat here for 98% of the games this year, man. Don’t tell me you’ve never missed a game because you were mad at them.

Scott Coleman - September 24, 2009 via mobile reply

Jay was talking about me, I’m fairly sure.

Oh okay lol.

I was a little confused at first but it’s cleared up now.

Scott Coleman - September 24, 2009 via mobile reply

mvhsbball

I was replying 2 Weldon. Also I get very frustrated with this team because I know they can do better but that doesn’t mean I’m not going 2 watch them or go 2 any games. I do love fans like Weldon though that give up on the team and give away their season tickets behind the dougout or in the ted turner section lol!

Jay212033 - September 24, 2009 via mobile reply

He didn't say he was going to stop watching OR attending.

He simply said that they didn’t deserve the playoffs because of the tankjob they did in the Cincy/SD series. Right or wrong, he’s entitled to that opinion.

Zowee!

That’s a fair point, mvhsbball. I guess I was trying to say that this team didn’t deserve our undivided attention after that terrible stretch that included the Reds series. But still…Kip Wells. Kip Wells. I’m unbelievably optimistic about 2010, but this team…a little bit less so. I’ll be paying attention, but I don’t think I’m a bad fan because the Reds series caused me to enter a sensory deprivation chamber for a couple weeks.

My team deserves my undivided attention. Period.

sddbaker - September 24, 2009 reply

wtf? since when do you dictate when I should or should’t watch my favorite baseball team? I don’t watch them because they win (obviously, I am still a fan after the past 3 seasons). I watch them because I want to.

gtfo with that crap!

justincredubil02 - September 25, 2009 reply

….did I say anything about you? You can do whatever you want to, bud.

Weldon - September 25, 2009 reply

I was trying to say that this team didn’t deserve our undivided attention after that terrible stretch that included the Reds series

Well, I assume by “our” that you are referring to Braves fans. Since I am a Braves fan, I belong in that group. When you say that the team doesn’t deserve my attention, I took that to mean that I should be watching this team anymore since they got swept by the Reds.

The team that wins the most games deserves to go to the playoffs. There is still a hope that the Braves can win enough games to go to the playoffs. If they did, they would deserve to go. You don’t get demerits for having a bad series against the Reds.

sddbaker - September 24, 2009 reply

that would suck if we did tho… cause he lost a bunch of games to the Natspos this year

You were right to give up on them.

you are never right to give up on ur team….ever

When the Braves are eliminated from the postseason

Can I give up on them then?

you can give up on their chances of making the post season, but if you say that they aren’t worth watching, that is another issue.

justincredubil02 - September 25, 2009 reply

I get so tired of people acting so noble about watching sports. It’s not a duty. If it isn’t fun, you shouldn’t watch every day. And that isn’t anything to do with winning and losing but more to do with expectations. So when the Braves tanked against the Pads and Reds, yeah, my enthusiasm for the season was dampened.

But yeah, whatever, stay loyal to the team yadda yadda. If you were glued to the television set thinking the team would make the playoffs in early September, you’re not a good fan. You need to be institutionalized.

Weldon - September 25, 2009 reply

I don’t get to watch them on TV.

Playoffs or not, it has been a refreshing change that we are still able to hold out some optimism for the postseason this late into September. It has been a while since we have been able to do that and I, for one, am enjoying it considerably.

Mountngrown - September 24, 2009 reply

+1

WienerDog - September 24, 2009 reply

This

And me on a 2-week vaca with no Internet access. Ugh.

then clearly u need to leave…bc i think thats the secret u have no internet access=braves win games… gotta keep everyhtign the same… i havent changed clothes in 13 days

that’s abnormal?

VivaLosBravos - September 24, 2009 reply

haha

Considered it

But since they completed the sweep after I came back, I figured I was in the clear to start posting/watching again…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9pfzPPKIGM

Lets Go BRAVES!!!!

We will do it, I know it may sound stupid for most of the people, but believe me I know there is something special going on with this team, I just know it!!!!!!!!!!

We will be playing in october, I predict a 9-1 record for the braves and a 5-5 record for Colorado………….

Check out this, is awesome!!!! Two brothers from Panama watched one game in each of the 30 stadiums of MLB in just 30 days….by car……….CRAZY……Look at Tommy Hanson in the video hahaha!!! Funny

Braves4life - September 24, 2009 reply

ur right… but only because every team gets to play in Oct

I can't help myself. Until it's written as fact we're out - I'm gonna hope.

On to the Natinals!!! (I smile every time I type that)

NCChopper - September 24, 2009 reply

LOL nice

Yessss

Great image. And i haven’t completely given up on this season yet either. I am not worried about our ability to win, but rather the Rockies ability to lose. They are just about as hot as we are and they have been in this position before.

nick9314 - September 24, 2009 via mobile reply

I still have an inkling that we will win the division…3 left against the Phillies and we trail by 6? I feel a 2007 Mets-like collapse coming on…especially with the way Lidge and Madsen have been pitching lately!

It would more than thrill me, since ESPN has basically written in the Rox and Phillies for the playoffs…did anyone happen to catch that broadcast last night?

sorry dude...

No more games against the Phils….

sddbaker - September 24, 2009 reply

crap…I was thinking we had 3 against them still….

WeStillHaveBobby - September 24, 2009 reply

OMG we can actually do this..I can taste it!! GO BRAVES!!!

Garret's Long Single in 3rd

I was at the game haven’t seen any video/highlights…Was it a homer or what? It looked like an obviuos homer live. What did the TV folks say?

lebetkowitz - September 24, 2009 reply

missed it by inches. hit the very top of the wall.

Chief Noc-A-Homa - September 24, 2009 reply

How odd would it be to finish second in 2 races?

if we kept that pace up, we would win the Nascar Nextel Cup!

Sprint Cup. You’re dating yourself. At least you didn’t call it Winston Cup.

gosh…how many different sponsors can it have in 3 years?

I grew up calling it Winston Cup, and honestly, it was Winston the last time I even followed it for a whole season.

RichmondBraves - September 24, 2009 reply

beating the mets

Is always good, even when we’re pretty much out of playoff contention.

possible but not likely...

I see that Colorado faces Wainwright on sat I assume that means they will see carpenter as well. Let’s hope these cy young hopefuls keep up the good work and shut down the mile high losers. If we change our ways against the nats and take care of business there is still hope….everyone get out their rally cap! I’m wearing mine in the office now! Let’s go bravos!

chippeforprez - September 24, 2009 via mobile reply

This could happen, but unlikely.

The Rockies are definitely looking over their shoulder, especially now that Marquis has come back to earth.

No matter what happens, if you’re still watching the standings in late September, it’s a very good thing.

Old Braves' Fan - September 24, 2009 reply

if you’re still watching the standings in late September, it’s a very good thing.

This.

Gage23 - September 24, 2009 reply

it is

we suprisingly have a better shot at the division that the wild card, phily lost that cuts their lead in half putting us 2 and a half games back while the wild card is 4 games back

southman - September 24, 2009 reply

Not

The Braves are 6.5 back of the Phillies in the NL East.

jeez man, what standings are you looking at?

1992?

what?

Let’s go Miliwaukee and San Diego!!

bravos1984 - September 24, 2009 reply

Padres!

Hopefully the Padres will beat Colorado tonight and the Cubs over San Fran.

deewill23 - September 24, 2009 reply

Rockies lose!

3.5 games back.

Scott Coleman - September 24, 2009 via mobile reply

3 in the loss column

10-0 plus 6-3 = one game playoff.

Going 6-3

Against the Cardinals (they face Carpenter, Wainwright and Lohse), Brewers and Dodgers is going to be tough. I’m thinking more like 5-4 or even 4-5.

Scott Coleman - September 25, 2009 via mobile reply

Frankly...

I’m most excited about caring about postseason baseball. Just the thought of it makes me giggle like a schoolgirl.