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Spring Training Open Thread: Blue Jays at Braves

I'm en route to spring training today, making the long hard drive down I-75 to Orlando. It looks like the rain has left the Disney area for the upcoming week, so I'm excited for warm weather finally. Maybe I can bring it back to Atlanta in a week.

I'm too early to know the batting order, but I do know that Tim Hudson will be on the mound for the Braves.

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Huddy

Go Huddy – WAR EAGLE!!!

Roll Tide!
around the bowl

and down the hole, roll tide roll…..sorry coundn’t help it

I only do it because they own my ‘Canes. (And because it’s so fun)

I'm a Vol fan

I’ve watched Bama beat my Vols too many times

Y'all got ditched big time this year.

You happy with your new coaching situation?

He looks ok

His Dad was a good man. Good riddance to Kiffen, he was trash from the start. We’d have ended up in big trouble if he had stayed. Not saying Tenn is lilly white, but Kiffen was just too blatent.

Monte is definitely a class act...

But NEVER liked his boy. He thinks he deserves accolades and respect and does not understand that those are things that have to be earned.

The only thing

he has ever won, are good jobs. Personality of a rock. Really glad he’s gone. I like Dooley, but kind of wish we’d let Fulmer have it for 1 year and have a real search instead of passing the screwing along. Fulmer is still being paid.

BTW,

DId you ever pick up Swan Song?

Haven't found it

Haven’t forgotten, it’s McCammon isn’t it?

Robert McCammon

He also wrote a great lycantrope book called the Wolf’s Hour.

I played at LSU when Dooley was there. Apparently he’s come a long way because at the time I would have never imagined him the head coach for a program like Tennessee.

Lineup
Lineup :

McLouth
Prado
Chipper
Glaus
Esco
Diaz
Cabrera
Ross
Huddy

Heyward getting the day off as a healthy scratch since he’s making a long trip tomorrow for the split squad game.

Is Melky or Diaz in RF?
Melky
Hoping

I was hoping for a Prado lead off again today. Need to do something to get McLouth started. Or, I gurss he could just bunt every time!

Any audio link?

listening to the warmup on my iPhone At Bat app

Gotta love Jim Powell on the radio

“do or die play there for Chipper and well…he died.”

women’s college basketball on CSS…….riveting. not really. all the hotties play volleyball. lol

who’s going to be the play by play guy on here today?

Huddy sounds great.
I was soooo wrong about Hudson

Never really cared for him, but real glad we signed him this fall. 4 K’s thru 2 innings is ok by me.

Salcedo

Was in the press box earlier, made to the USA

They just said Salcedo was in the press box with them today…..Is the whole visa thing cleared up?

Gotta be if he's here in the states...

you have to assume he isn’t just in town to see the game and meet the press.

Haha +1
unless

he snuck in again

Sounds like a future Met....

Follow up ? though...

we got Salcedo in, did we also fit Valdez into the clearing?

Glad to see

That everyone is their regular sarcastic selves this afternoon. lol

I don’t know how that whole thing works but yeah i guess that makes sense.

Diaz hit and steals 2nd

good deal

Now batting.. Right Fielder Melky Cabrera...

Just doesn’t have that ring to it quite like that other kid that plays there.

Cabrera walks

then pass ball, 2nd and 3rd, Ross batting

slow roller to short, inning over

What happened to the game???
3-0 jays

Hudson still pitching

Good inning

1 hit for jays, no runs. I’m not much of a ply by play, the Vols are playing the Cats right now

bottom of 4th

Chipper, Glaus, Escobar

Its only Spring Training...

A guy’s gotta have priorities irght?

hell yeah

go Braves and Vols

6 balls in a row

Lowe will be ready Monday, Glaus walk

Escobar pops up, Chipper to 3rd, Diaz up

Double play, inning over

pitching change, Wagner coming in

vs McCoy…2 singles so far…pop up…out 1

Jeremy Reed….with 2 outs…..3rd out….1, 2, 3…good job Wags

talking about 6’6" Glaus is a great target for throws to 1st. Hope he can dig ’em out of the dirt.

pitching change,,,Dana Eavland…vs Cabrera

Cabrera…full count…fly to rt, drops for a hit, wind killed it

Ross…popped up to left…out 1

Infante…hitting .125…lond out to left…2 out

McLouth…3-2 pitch …K…inning over

BUNT NATE

try something different

That’s it, he’s fired…

Moylan in to pitch, Blanco in K-man out

Thurston in @3rd, K 1 out

K…out 2…Moylan! Change up named Dave.

Prado diving stop, hit by ball, hit in wrist and chest, safe at 1st

They keep calling his changeup Dave

What are we missing there?

Moylan named his change up Dave, far out dude

I sense a lot of “Major League” moments coming on this season…

Terminator hit into the right field bleachers…

Over

Over rt field bleachers

Ah. 6 one, half-dozen the other.

Will the Ted hold all of Heywards homers?

Not at the distances he’s hitting ‘em at… I don’t think there’s a ballpark in operation today that will hold those 400-foot-plus mammoths.

hell fire freak

I’m talking out of the stadium!

The same principle applies. 450-footers like the one he hit this spring are LONG gone…

not bad for a line drive hitter, that was a bomb

“No no, it’s too high, it’s too high!”
homerun
SLAP! “Too high. What the hell does that even MEAN?”

Might have had a BB, I missed something

Out 3, 1 hit, 1 BB, no runs, Cabrera catches fly to rt

Thurston…K….3rd in 17 ab

Glaus…3-2 count….K

I'm so excited, my hubby is home today and downloaded what I needed to listen to the game.

too bad we’re losing, but we’ll come back and win this one, maybe……

Home in Chatt

not a bad place to be

Not at all :)

EOF pitching, Sammons catching, Hinske 1st, Conrad 2nd

BB to Eavland

McCoy…double play 6-4-3

Thaimes…minor leaguer….3-2 pitch…3rd out Thurston to Hinske

Escobar…grounder to 3rd, out

C'mon Braves bats, wake up.....

Cabrera….base hit to left

Yeah, Diaz made another out just before Melky flys out,

C’mon guys.

No clue what I missed, 2 outs….bathroom break cost me……Hinske out, inning over

Diaz/out
Thanks

disappointing game so far

Yeah, I finally get to listen to one, and so far it $ucks. Ugh
OMG, Chavez in to pitch.

Chavez in to pitch, let us pray….infield single

Fisted to right, out 1

Sammons throws out a steal attempt

Hit to the outfield

Looper caught by Conrad…inning over….still 3-0

Chavez escapes damage, only because of some great D,

by Sammons and Conrad.

I really like listening to Don Sutton,

he’s good.

He sounds like baseball

So much better than Brian Jordan,

but doesn’t take much talent to do that, Brian is horrible.

Hinske…sharp hit to 2nd, out at 1st

Blanco….3-2 pitch….BB was down 2-0

Hinske

The box score on the Braves site had Hinske pitching the last inning instead of Chavez… I had to come here to check that we really weren’t trying to sabotage our season by destroying our bench.

Makes two of us

I just signed in to check on exactly the same thing…

Conrad….rt center great catch out

Thurston….long at bat….foul offs…..3-2 pitch….fly to center another great catch

Sounded like Conrad and Thurston were robbed......

Dunn in to pitch

Hicks flys to catch a liner

Hicks, great defensive play!
I'm attending this game

Wondering if I can get a refund today too since the Braves didn’t show up

I don't blame you.

I hope they play better when I get down there.

shallow rt, clelen makes the catch, 2 outs

3-2 pitch….BB

ground rule double, wind got it, Blanco should have

Sounds like Blanco didn't hustle on that fly ball double.
I'm not impressed with Blanco.....

never have been, fire him!

Yep, I think we'vegiven him plenty of chances over the last few seasons to prove himself.

Dunn should have gotten out of the inning

This
HeyJude

Take a sad song and make it better

BB, bases loaded

Out of trouble….inning over

Good job Mr Dunn, could have gotten ugly

yes, indeed.
Our final chance to get some runs.

Mitch Jones….left center…1 out

C'mon Mitch

Long fly ball =nothing.

B Hicks…..batting .182…hit past 3rd

let's go Hicks
Question!

Talking Chop March Madness Bracket…would you be interested in joining? It’s free and just for braggin rights around TC. I know not many people are in here today, but a simple “yes” or “no” would work. I already have something set up…just wondering how much participation I would have.

sure

sounds good

Wrong spot to put this mvhsbball

I think it will definitely be a hit.

Ya, there wasn’t really any other thread. I’ll have the fanpost up with all the info in a little.

Clevlen…..K…2 out Freeman at the plate

rolled to the pitcher, game over

Freeman makes our last out.
Was at today's game.

A shame we lost, but got to see Haymaker Heyward knock a few out during BP. Lots of fun w/ my younger son despite the loss.

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