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Spring Training Open Thread: Muts at Braves

The Braves will take another stab at the Mets today, this time at their home park of corporate awesomness.

The lineup for today:

Melky Cabrera, CF
Martin Prado, 2B
Chipper Jones, 3B
Troy Glaus, 1B
Jason Heyward, RF
Yunel Escobar, SS
Matt Diaz, LF

David Ross, C
Brent Clevlen, DH

Tim Hudson gats the start followed by Jonny Venters, Peter Moylan, Eric O'Flaherty, Stephen Marek, Jeff Lyman, and Mariano Gomez.

I think it's telling how Cox keeps putting Heyward in prominant spots in the batting order. I had thought Heyward would have been more protected in the order, hitting behind Escobar in the seventh spot, but here he is ahead of Yunel, and he hit third yesterday. It might be a lefty-righty thing today, but Heyward could break up the righties just as well hitting behind Escobar. They sure are putting Jason right into the mix... NO FEAR!

The awesomeness of Jason Heyward not to be understated, he spent much of last night answering fan questions on his twitter feed. I don't know how long he can keep that generosity up, but what a great down-to-earth fellow.

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Does anyone know who the Mets are throwing today?

LHP Pat Misch will start for the Mets, and also scheduled to pitch today are RHP Eddie Kunz, RHP Josh Stinson, LHP Neal Musser, RHP Jack Egbert and RHP Eric Niesen.

From metsblog.com

Outside of Misch- who are they?

Kunz was a first round pick out of Oregon State I think. The rest are garbage

Kunz is a guy that has a great sinker anf nothing else. He always has a 60% plus gb rate in the minors.

The Mets are apparently trying to convert him into a starter. Niesen is a lefty who has pretty ridiculous amounts of movement on his pitches, and has a real shot at winning the second lefty job out of spring training. He’s actually a fairly interesting prospect, and likely the only Met pitcher worth paying attention to today.

Those tweets are painful to read.

Seriously…

Oh come on...

Give the kid a break…he’s a kid, and they are actually better than what I read from a lot of twenty year olds. I also think he adapts to the style of the tweets he’s receiving….

Freeman tweets like a normal adult, no excuse for Heyward to sound like an 11-year-old asian girl.

apparently Freeman calls himself Freeto. Either way, I can’t get over his background picture so I’m okay without the twitter

Agreed. It’s not like he went to college. He has obvious baseball smarts, and that’s all we can ask.

As much as I jump on "texting" language on message boards...

…I have to give Heyward a break here. It isn’t lack of education; he graduated high school and could have gone to college but had the intelligence to know better than to turn down the bonus money he was offered. The language is, alas, the language of today’s youth. It’s not that he cannot form complete sentences or type in proper English, it is that he doesn’t because that is not the convention among tweeters of a certain age.

Anyone know where I may possibly see/hear this game in Texas?

there might be a link later on. i’ll find out

Streams won’t work for me on a work computer…

/sadface

sadface indeed. especially because there are none as of now

It might be a lefty-righty thing today, but Heyward could break up the righties just as well hitting behind Escobar. They sure are putting Jason right into the mix… NO FEAR!

Now how could Heyward break up a righties block if he bats right handed?

um, because he hits Lefty.

I’m just going to let that one go…

forgive me, for I have sinned. That sounded pompous and was the best I had. I’m clearly not having a good morning

He’s been doing impromptu Twitter interview sessions the last week or so. I think he’s become a little obsessed. He even got Freddie on there.

I saw that. It actually scared me

Unfortunately....

I think I’m getting a little obsessed with Twitter.

Let's just put an end to this...

Give Jason a number under 50 and declare him to be a major leaguer.

Better yet...

Let’s just give him the ROY and MVP too.

Might as well just start engraving that plaque in Cooperstown

Well they already have a spot picked out fro him, right?

Spot?...

the man will need an entire wing of his own.

+1
And seriously...

thanks for the 2k10 comments. Now the question is can I get the game without the wife bitching it isn’t Mario?

No worries, sorry I didn’t have much to say about other facets of the game. I can say that I find the interface easier to navigate, but unfortunately the music they play is still pretty bad. Let me know if you end up getting it, I’d be interested to see how it plays on the Wii.

I can see myself putting alot of time into the My Player mode, if it’s anywhere near as good as the NHL Be A Pro mode it’ll keep me coming back for more (now I kind of want to try out the modes in NBA and NFL as well). Along with what looks to be a revamped Franchise mode I’m actually somewhat optimistic.

Is it just for wii and ps3?

Oh, nevermind. I thought you were talking about the show. I was pretty sure that was only out for the ps3.

I thought it was just for 360, but apparently Wii as well. The Show is on PS3 and it’s a vastly superior game from what I heard.

The Show

is such an awesome game it has great controls not like 2k10 feels like im steering a tank in the outfield

Ya'll are getting out of hand with this.

Next thing somebody will say that hes gonna win the Heyward Award this year too.

He’s already won it for life!

Twitter accounts added

FYI, I’ve updated the Choposphere links on the left side of the front page of the site to include all the Braves player/prospects I know of who are on twitter. I’ll try to keep that updated as more come on board.

Can’t watch ST in New Orleans.
/gently weeps

+1

on the username there, great show

what’d you think of the new album?

I like it, a few clunkers in there, but they are doing what got them to where they are, which i like. BUT, if you listen to “this addiction” the bridge is exactly the same as the bridge in “goodbye forever” I mean exactly the same. same note, everything. Take a listen…
But I love em, so its all good

What you think Beard?

I’ll have to listen to that. The intro for “Dead On The Floor” sounds exactly like one of the songs off their S/T whose name I can’t recall at the moment.

I agree with your view on the album. All of Dan’s songs are great, but most of Matt’s are pretty poor other than “Lead Poisoning”.

good call

“trucks and trains” perhaps?

hoping to catch this on MLB.TV today in between some of my windows on my work computer. :-)

It’d be nice if the MLB audio was working today…

I agree

It didn’t work yesterday and that was a let down. I’m hoping it was just first day bugs on the iPhone app.

Looks like it might be working today. It says it’s playing, but no sound…hopefully it’ll kick on at 1pm.

I need a link for today!

So is this one supposed to be on MLB Network, or just MLB TB

TV ..... plus I forgot the ?

nope, MLBN is showing the Yanks/Pirates.
But they just did a thing on Heyward, and Al Leiter said he was impressed with Heyward’s ability with pitch selection, ie. laying off a curve/breaking pitch. I think the praise from the former players, especially pitchers, are the best

And Sean Casey has talked highly of Heyward the past two days. Breaking down his swing.

Ya’ll should be careful with those streaming websites, I got a really bad virus from one of the links somebody posted yesterday

Hmmm….I almost exclusively use those links during the season, and I haven’t gotten a virus from one yet. stick.tv or channelsurfing.net and others like those are fairly solid.

yeah, i’ve never had a problem in the past, either. the virus i got was apparently something relatively new that a lot of ppl i’ve talked to have run into lately. just thought i’d throw it out there.

Do you know which one, because if it was mine, i feel really bad and am really, really sorry

i honestly don’t remember, i’d try to find the website, but lord knows i don’t want to go through that crap again. either way, i was eventually able to get rid of it, so it’s no big deal. it was called “security” something, in case you run into it.

all i remember is I posted a link and it popped up with a warning on my mac. IIRC I did mention that. Usually if that does pop up its mentioned

yeah, i definately remember you saying that. i don’t think it was that one.

I don’t think it was that one either; I think that’s the one I (finally) used when I got home yesterday. Everything I try at work is getting blocked.

Jair Jurrjens threw off mound second time, 30-35 pitches today, fastballs and changeups, no problems. Maybe one or two more, then a start.

DOB Twitter

Well, I don’t see how that matters. JJ wouldn’t even make a AAA All-star team.

So have the Braves officially given up on Medlen as a legitimate starter? I mean I initially thought yes, he’s just going to be long/situational relief, but it seems the longer he spent in the bigs, the better he adjusted.

We just don’t have a spot for him right now as a starter, and he’s too valuable to be in AAA.

A fantastic situation to find ourselves in.

For our current team, he defines perfection as a long relief/spot starter type.

I’m hoping with this lineup we can muster more than 2 runs off of these pitchers.

I want to see Chipper, Glaus and Heyward all go deep.

If Heyward hits a homerun, I can only imagine myself flying straight up and hitting my head on the ceiling.

That is, if you can stay upright from the tremendous earthquake that will inevitably follow.

Link anyone?

I’ve been looking all over the place. I’ll let you know if I find one.

Anybody have audio from the their iphone At Bat? Mine is actually streaming but no sound is coming…

Its coming now but man there are all of these really annoying squeaks all the time.

Hmm…I’m still not getting anything.

There we go. Nice.

That’s what she said…on both or your comments.

Click on background (the quicktime logo) to get the audio from safari, its comes in MUCH better and clearer..

+1

So I’m guessing there’s no video on At Bat either? All we can do is listen to the audio?

Apparently if you have MLB.tv you can watch it directly on your phone as well as your computer.

For subscribers, game is on mlb.tv

keep us updated suscribers, we love you.

Or give us all your account infos…

I would but someone gave away that last year and his account was banned in like 20 seconds haha

Live streams for games

Hey guys i used this site all last season and i was able to watch the spring training game yesterday with

www.p2p4u.net

the quality can vary but it got me through a lot of nights last year having a terrible cable packeage

I thin p2p streams pose the most issue with viruses, so be warned

yup, that was the one

MLB.tv is not working for me. WTF?

I just looked at mlb.com, and they only have the audio icon next to the game now…it did have the tv link too, but not anymore.

the worst is, last year they at least did gameday for ST games. Not anymore

Yeah, I was just looking for that too.

Didn’t they have free mlb.tv last year for Spring Training too?

That much i don’t remember

Screw the free crap. I just paid $120 this morning just so I could watch these games.

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2010_03_03_nynmlb_atlmlb_1

How did you find that? All I could find is the live boxscore. Thanks!

Go to http://www.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/, and then click on the game at the top. It took me a while to find it because for some reason they don’t link to it off the home page like they usually do

Many thanks!

It’s not updating. Man I thought I found something

The live boxscore isn’t even updating. This BLOWS!

I know it is only ST, but there are some fans out there who care about this stuff. Come on, MLB!

I wish every day that Roger Goodell was the MLB commissioner.

has the game even started yet?

Well, someone below was just talking about good D in the top of the 1st.

GAMEDAY is up and running

Yeah, bottom of 1st. Melky grounded out, Prado walked on 4 pitches.
Chipper hit into DP.

? First time to use this

I just got a stick man batting, not live action. Is this right?

Welcome to my world…and yes. That’s all we get.

Crap,

I was hoping for a magic button I could push, and get live action! lol

Exactly. WTF is this all about.

Great defense in that first inning! So thats what range in RF looks like, haha.

Are you watching?

SNY dropped the video feed.

Nope, just going on the radio feed descriptions. They both sounded like that first ball hit woudl be trouble but low and behold the Heymaker got there. Then he charged shallow line drive for the second out.

OF D isn’t important – it isn’t on the scoreboard.

Judging by the little dots on the gameday screen, the were nice plays, especially the second grab

So what’s up with the Mets not playing any of their starters …for the 2nd day in a row?

They’re scared a line drive hit by Jason Heyward might carry one of their players to Cuba.

the weather held em back yest. Manual pulled 5 starters after the rain

Gameday

finally updates

c'mon Chipper
WTF

Chipper – 1 pitch, GiDP

it’s 2010, not 2009!

He should have listened to Boog!

Chip

GIDP on the first pitch, ugh

maybe he shouldve listened to boog after all

sucks that the MLB.TV isn’t working anymore…it’s like I paid for nothing! :-)

At least I can listen to the game.

Sorry, not that it’s not working anymore but not carried for this game…

The audio should still be g2g.

Heyward with a nice catch to start off the top of the 2nd…hope he didn’t hurt himself when he slipped in the outfield.

Sounds like Huddy’s getting rocked. Thank goodness for Jesus Heyward in RF.

It seems like gameday is updating all at once after every half inning.

it’s very annoying. Really, it would kill them?

yeah it’s sort of disappointing

DP by Barajas to end the top of the 2nd.

ugh

im guessing we dont have video even though it claims to show every ST game?

You’re right, no Video. Only Audio today unfortunately.

Not every ST game

Only 150 ST games. What they end up doing is showing 7 or 8 games a day near the end of spring training to make their “number”.

They said that Heyward has made put outs on 3 of the first 6 batters of the game…guess the wind is blowing out to Right.

i wonder

if Cox would bat Heyward 5th Escobar 6th then McCann 7th

intresting… Although I think Heyward needs some time before that happens

switch heyward and mccann ;)

i mean

thats where we all assumed thats where he would hit but i was just asking out of curiousity

I don’t think he would do that…and I think that McCann is suited just fine to bat 5th personally. Now I think Heyward should be 7th and then whoever is playing left should bat 8th. That’s my opinion.

How ’bout on days that Ross is playing and McCann is getting a rest?

If McCann is sitting then Heyward should definitely bat 5th.

Would be a good way to work him into a prominent spot in the order without having to carry those pressures every game.

its not a question of if McCann would be good in the 5th spot

its just a thought of a consistent top half of the lineup with McCann sitting out more than most players because he’s the catcher.

I've long been of the opinion of...

dropping McCann in the order. Not because of his bat, but if we have other quality options, his position of C makes me want him lower.

Heywards up

Heyward is batting now…took a breaking ball for strike one then a ball.

Heyward Walks on 5 pitches.

They are scurred.

After that Scud Missile he hit yesterday, wouldn’t you be?

So what do we have so far, 3 or 4 first pitch outs between the two teams?

working the count

3-1

he WALKS

It’s amazing he’s reached base 4 out of 4 times so far in Spring training…amazing.

What's more amazing

The kid has barely seen a strike in all 4 PA’s. The one he did see damn near decapitated the Mets 1B

The MLB is gonna be easy for him, gonna be just like High School..

Sporting a 1.000 OBP so far. Nice.

with a 1.000 SLG for an OPS of 2.000

I'm really confused...

I didn’t think RF’s were allowed to walk. Is this some new spring training rule?

we’re trying to buck the trend…for a change.

What’s a walk?

I think it's that thing

they do when they go back to the dugout when they’re out? I’m just having to guess though, i have no idea…

Haha…maybe Heyward could teach Chipper and boys a thing or two about not first pitch swinging.

God this is so awesome

We might actually see an opposing pitcher reach a 90-95 pitch count before the 8th inning this year with Heyward in for Frenchy

Ya know, I think that has been our biggest problem over the past couple of years – everyone was hacking. How many CGs were thrown against us vs how many we have thrown?

3-0 to Escobar…he’s afraid Heyward is going to pull a Damon on him and steal 2 bases!

actually

i dont want Escobar hitting 6th. All these groundballs. that was almost a DP

Would you put him 7th?

He’s too valuable to not be 6th. Someone pull up his RISP/RISP 2 outs numbers. Its ST, don’t worry about him

He’s always been notorious for ground-balls though.

I know, but I’m reluctant to not give him those opportunities. Wasn’t he best in the majors with RISP?

That isn’t a skill though.

what isn’t?

Situational hitting.

Why isn’t it a skill? it so is completly

I don’t buy that people for some reason hit better in certain situations than in others. Maybe they have a lack of focus in non-situational ABs, but that isn’t really a different skill – it is a different mind-set.

different mindset translating into different numbers, making it a skill to be able to have that mindset

Or just a lack of focus during the other times…

I would respectfully disagree with you on that.

but not about his GB’s though. That is why I didn’t like him batting in the two hole.

eh

he hit into too many DP’s for me

Here are his RISP<2 out numbers:

.331 .415 .491 .906

That doesn’t just happen by accident.

even still though

when we have 1 out he hits a GB

But it isn’t too far off from his career numbers of .301 .375 .426 .801

I think perhaps that the simple fact that he is a good hitter affects the pitchers in those situations more than Esco himself. I may be grasping for straws with that argument…

really? go back and look. everything jumps at least 20 points

Maybe it is a skill, maybe it isn't

we cannot be certain of the future. Escobar may end up with significantly better numbers with RISP than without over his whole career. Not likely, because nobody with a long career has been that significantly better with RISP over his whole career (20% is about the max), but he could always be the exception that proves the rule.

UGh….mlb gameday still shows Glaus batting.

What did Glaus do, btw?

Dusted the plate off for Heyward

What did Esco do, also? Can we get an official updater?

flyout to right

Dude’s throwing 80 and all we can muster are a few ground outs.

Billy Wagner, Troy Gluas need to stay healthy and produce for Atlanta in 2010

no shit, Sherlock

I was watching MLB Network the other day and Harold Reynolds said that Brian McCann and Chipper Jones have to have good years for the Braves to do well. That was his analysis.

In other news, the future success of the New Orleans Saints rests on Drew Brees’ shoulders.

You don’t think Chase Daniel will fill in well?

Chase will probably have fewer than 10 games as a starting QB in his career.

MIZZOU BABY!

Chase Daniel was a badass QB

Quick! Name the last Big XII QB to be successful in the NFL.

i know i know...

the Big12 doesn’t put out much at all in terms of NFL talent…except Wide Recievers.

Vince Young

maybe

Vince Young

Fail.

why? he had a very successful year this year

Chris Johnson. ’Nuff said.

Not really

So are we going to call Marc Bulger a success because of Steven Jackson? Try again.

No. Because neither of them should be called a success.

Also, Steven Jackson 2009 was not Chris Johnson 2009. CJ turned in one of the best RB performances in NFL history. Teams simply didn’t care about VY or his ability to throw the ball. They worried about CJ.

yeah, and Jackson had arguably the 2nd best year this past year. Plus he was the only weapon, so he was all that was focused on.

Either way, Jackson was a total success

He was on my fantasy teams, and I am very aware of how good he was this past season. Having said that, he was no where close to what Chris Johnson was. Keep in mind, that all of this praise for CJ is coming from a die-hard Jags fan…

I know that, I just think you’re underestimating Jackson a little.

Keep in mind this is coming from a one time Ram fan, so you probably aren’t

Not at all. He had a very good season, but it was nothing like the season that Chris Johnson had.

Jackson got fewer carries, because the Rams D would let games get out of hand early, while the Titans D could keep games close and allow CJ to stay involved.

Jackson’s numbers are also a bit inflated due to his ability to catch the ball out of the backfield.

aren’t we talking run only? so where do catches come into play?

We aren’t talking anything specific. We were talking about who was the better RB last season, which somehow evolved out of my challenge to you to name the last Big XII QB to be successful in the NFL. VY does not count. There is not a single team out there that actually WANTS VY as its starter – with the possible exception of Oakland.

Fail

The Rams would have him

I highly doubt that.

why not? Bluger is washed up and old. They need a new QB. If they were to trade tomorrow then they wouldn’t have to think twice about drafting Suh. Plus I’d have VY over McCoy or any 2nd rounder if I were them

Why not? Because VY would not be an upgrade over Bulger. The only thing that VY has on him is youth and legs.

2 things Bluger doesn't have

so now they can wait a year and get a QB next year. What, should they get Vick?

Vick is far and away better than VY.

I think VY is potentially “better than what they have now.” But that’s a far cry from “what we want.”

I still would say that if VY is the best success you have to offer, the point is close to proved.

Yea

the Big XII suck with QBs spread offense kills QBs the cant make the transition to the NFL. VY is the most successful one

Which indicates the sad state of affairs that Big XII QBs find themselves in…

Yea

maybe Mccoy or Bradford will break the trend

58.7%, 10TD/7INT, 7.3 YPA is “very successful”?

in the second half of the season, he was at least above average. He had that gamewinning drive and turned them into one of, if not the, hottest team by the end of the year

Yeah. I’m not saying he did horribly. But “at least above average in the second half” is below the threshold for what I’d call “very successful.”

False again. Chris Johnson did that. Look at CJ’s stats and carries/game in relation to their W/L.

Isnt

wins what matters look at saints 08 Drew almost passed for the record passing yards but the team wasn’t successful

Then they went out and got a defense and had their excellent draft picks grow into their roles. The Saints have been building this Super Bowl team for a few years now.

thats what im saying tho

last year the Titans had a good D this year they really didn’t show up to many injuries they could have made the playoffs with a decent D

Seneca Wallace

Best back up QB ever!

Sorry

My boss walked into my cube and I had to take my headphones off…trying to catch up now.

Is gameday just being retarded or are we really all hitting the first pitch every time. Gameday says that misch has thrown only 13 pitches.

There’s a bad case of that going around today, Huddy got their first three batters on three pitches too.

Moylan in to pitch now. Castalanotto grounded out to Escobar in the top of the 3rd.

apparently

Glaus just made a great play at 1st

On a foul ball. :-)

still

good play lol

Base hit for Adams to right…runner on first with one out.

I’m giving up on gameplay…I can find everything out here like a half hour ahead of time.

Definitely

I’ll try to keep you all updated for as long as I can listen…I have a meeting at 3 PM so I have some free time until then

Sweet, thanks!

Glaus with a play on a ground ball and toss to Moylan to get the out. Runner on 2nd now with 2 outs.

Ground out for Pagan to end the inning…I think it went to Glaus with a flip to Moylan again.

Clevlen up now…whoever was up before him grounded out for the first out. Misch is still pitching.

Ross grounded out, sorry.

Last pitch from Misch was only 81 MPH…I could hit that!

Although he just through a FB at 88 MPH (it was a ball though)

Is he a junk ball pitcher?

Location, location, location.

Clevlen with a line drive hit to CF. Runner on 1st with 1 out. Melky up next.

Cabrera grounds into a DP…end of 3rd.

There’s a good chance you should get video back at 2. My TV listing for SNY says the game starts at 2, so you might get video then

Melky GIDP

Fail

Wow, batters must really be behind in ST

They say that the batters...

…usually are behind the pitchers at the start of spring training. I don’t think this is anything shocking. This also explains why Heyward is doing so well; while hitters are behind the pitchers right now, this does not apply to deities.

Atleast

we dont have to watch us fail at batting

Trucker calling in to XM's MLB channel just now:

Caller: “Hey, it’s like the first day of REAL BASEBALL!” (really excited)

Kevin Kennedy: “Oh, so the Mets yesterday don’t count?”

Caller: “No, I mean Major League baseball!”

Is it the Top of the 4th coming up.

Yep – with EOF facing Cora, Murphy, and Tatis.

Cora singled, thrown out by Ross trying to steal.
Murphy and Tatis both strike out on six pitches. Three called. Three swinging – in that order(?!).

try you’re video feed again. It might work

Can’t — work restrictions — all I have is the alleged live feed from mlb.com

what makes me mad about this game

is that they apparently have velocity. that would have been nice yesterday

So I just read that Megan Fox says that she has only slept with 2 men – her highschool sweet-heart and her current bf…I call BS on that.

HAHA

oh god that made me laugh so loud thats total BS

Yeah...

Why wouldn’t she want to tell everyone about me????

In more baseball-related news, Nolan Ryan has predicted that the Rangers will win 92 games…I think he may be right. They have a really good team this year.

I’ll take the under, but not by much. around 87. Their pitching, I just don’t have enough confidence in it

I agree with this. And watch out for Seattle. That division is going to be a lot of fun to watch

I think the Angels will be a huge disappointment. I just don’t see them putting it together, and I think their rotation is vastly overrated.

The Angels may finish last.

They lost a lot for last year’s team and the guys they got to replace them just don’t seem that good to me.

Dammit, got a call. Glaus is up now with Chipper on first.

not sure

cant remember

What did EOF do?

Looks like he got 2Ks on 6 pitches.

Glaus lines out hard to 3B.

alright, I have work to do. I’m out. See everyone later

Glaus

lines out hard to 3B

Heyward is up again.
1-1 to Heyward

How are they pitching him?

well

mitsch was pitching him in then out

Stand by

for lift off

Fouls off a 1-1 Breaking ball and 3B catches the foul pop.

They finally got him out
I don't believe you.

Heyward doesn’t make outs.

Okay, I'm going to see what happens here and then go do work.

Really, I swear…

Mariano Gomez pitching now.

Mariano Gomez

in to pitch

Freeman in for Glaus at 1st

thurston in for chipper at 3B

Barajas singles to left.

Pass ball by Ross…Barajas moves to 2nd.

Just to recap, we only have 1 hit, right?

Lol ya. By Clevland or whatever his name is.

I want at least 3ABs for Heyward today

I think he might get 3 hits…but then again Cox might pull him.

Thanks for the updates Dave
No worries

The least I could do…since I can’t be there to take pics.

Prado boots ground ball into RJ and runner reaches…runners on 1st and 3rd now.

Ooh, they ruled it a hit, athough the announcers are ruling it an E4.

So

Gomez is going down. Mets almost score

bases loaded

one out

Freeman

throws out runner at home

Sorry, bases were loaded (I guess I missed something). Ground ball to Freeman, he comes home and gets the force but they didn’t get the DP.

Come on Gomez

Pagan gets a hit to LF just pass Escobar and a run scores from 3rd…bases are still loaded.

Mets runner from 2B trips over 3B and falls flat on his face.

Don't they know not to drink and run by now...
Mets

injuries already. 2 Mets injured getting on the bus over here.

Adams just tripped over 3B

Mets 1 - Braves 0

Ground out to Gomez, force at first, end of half inning.

hey everyone, just joined in

can i get a one sentence recap of the game so far?

Braves bats quiet, pitching pretty good, Mets just scored to make it 1-0

Going to bottom of 5th, 1-0 Mets. Atlanta has one hit. Heyward 0-1 with a walk and pop foul-out.

Heyward made good plays in RF to keep Hudson’s appearance scoreless, but after Gomez had problems pitching.

ya know

i would like to practice plate discipline throughout the entire lineup. Not just Heyward

Hahaha

That’s the second best joke of the day, after “Heyward doesn’t steal bases. They are given to him as offerings” from earlier.

Escobar

swings at 1st pitch. Grounds out on 2nd pitch.

Ok thanks

Heyward with another walk, that’s what I like to hear

I’d rather hear double, triple, homer. Although walks are nice.

Personally, I don’t want any rally-killers, like HRs, in his boxscore.

In that case, I would love to kill a rally 20+ times this season.

Ted Williams has the record for most walks by a rookie at 107...

could Heyward challenge that mark?

I hope so. He has 3 in 2 ST games so far, and his minor league track record certainly gives us hope!

Diaz up now.

Diaz rips a single up the middle.

Ross up now, 1 out and Diaz on first.

Flashback to 2009…

Pops out to RF.

I know it's the 2nd game of ST but

we are looking terrible against the Mets AAA team.

indeed

have yet to face any of Santana, Maine, Pelfrey, or Perez

Well, I’ll give you Santana…the rest are arguably AAA talent.

wow. twice in one day. You really love that comment

Well, this one was more serious than my last sarcastic one…I really do believe that those 3 guys would not be in the rotation of a large portion of MLB teams.

maybe. I like Maine. If he was somewhere like St. Louis, you know, with a pitching coach, he could probably be an above average starter. The others are AAA

Maine may need some coaching help. He certainly LOOKS to have the stuff, just not control. Either way, he hasn’t been very good so far.

true, the only way we differ is that I wouldn’t call him AAA talent

I just like to criticize the Mets’ rotation as much as I can.

well thats not fair

its beating a dead horse :)

low-hanging fruit!

Well, it is just the 2nd game of ST. The Mets aren’t exactly tearing the cover off the ball either…

true

the offense definitely takes more time to get into swing

too bad

its not their regulars that we have seen yet

Glaus and some other guys have been hitting the ball hard, its just not falling right.

how does Glaus look on the field so far?

Story of last season

Brent Clevlen up now (DHing today)

Clevlen with a deep drive to the outfield, but caught on the warning track.

more warning track power – just what we need!

Clevland

hits it to the warning track. but out

did Matt advance to 2nd or is he still on 1st?
didnt matter

was 3rd out

ah, i thought that was just the second
We have like 6 hits in 2 games
3rd out of inning.

Stephen Marek is in to pitch now…Daniel Murphy leads off.

Unless he's improved his control the Mets will score here too
Mets 2 - Braves 0

Murphy scores on a single to center.

Mets have 8 hits now.

welp

Apparently the only people that can pitch are the onese we already know are in our bullpen.

We haven’t seen Heyward on the mound yet, so this isn’t entirely a true statement…

Oh crap...Mets 3 - Braves 0

A gapper and a triple by Martinez.

Mets 4 - Braves 0

Thole up now, single to CF and another run scores.

come on Marek…

I know it's early, but,

Geez, we can’t beat the Mutts AAA players, frustrating.

We have quite a few AA players in though..

not when you can’t see/hear it.
But seriously, its game 2 of spring training. Cut them some slack. If we’re like this next week, then we can freak out. Not yet

not sure i’d even worry next week

I would, just a little. If all we could do was manage a couple hits and walks by Heyward. I’m not saying we have to have HRs every at bat next week, but if we can’t at least get good cuts and a couple hits, I’d worry a little

Save the worrying for April 6th.

So I think Marek will probably be dropped off of the 40-man…and hopefully, Mitch Jones can be put on it!

+Infinity

Should’ve kept Brandon Jones!

err

i dunno that you want that after seeing that swing yesterday

Oh geeze

None of these guys have played competitive baseball in 5 months. Give em a little time.

they have been swinging a bat though

His swing was atrocious

Including the Mets &&& as well right but they're still hitting the ball

that’s because they’re all playing for jobs. If you look at it, the ones who aren’t hitting for us are the ones who know they have a job

Um......what?!?!

They still haven’t been playing for months so reguardless if they are playing for jobs it shouldn’t make a difference.

meaning while someone like Esco probably doesnt care what goes on, and isn’t gonna try hard the average met will

FIRE FRANK WREN!

WE SUCK!!!

MAREK

SSSSSUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKSSSSSSSSS

Marek walks a batter.

What inning is it?
Top of the 6th I believe.

Marek walks another one. 2 on and 2 out now.

Jonny Venters in to Pitch now
So

Marek is gonna get cut now i hope so

anyone want to predict what cox will say about marek after the game?

along the lines of what he said about Chavez yesterday

Everyone has bad outings...

I remember EOF having a pretty terrible outing last spring.

I was on Marek’s train last season…I am jumping off after today. He just doesn’t cut it, and it isn’t just today. He has been pretty bad since before the infamous trade.

I remember being stunned when EOF made the team over the LOOGY we got from Chicago (drawing blank on name)

logan, boone logan
there we go

I remembered Boone and was thinking it was his last name

Boone?

wasnt that it... i thought it was anyway,

Yeah, I just didn’t expect mvhsbball to forget that

I know I know ima bad fan….my f*cking fire alarm went off twice in the middle of the night last nice cause the battery was dying. FML.

nice night

That happened to my wife and I the last time we were in Vegas. The casino fire alarm kept going off in the middle of the night…and it was loud as hell! Like a klaxon horn or something.

Did we get out of the inning

So, I just ordered my TC Annual. I am really looking forward to getting that thing!

how much is it?

With shipping costs (standard USPS) it was a little over $16.

Ordered mine too. Can’t wait to get it.

Nobody's keeping up with the game anymore lol

what game? /sarcasm

ya the score is something like... what 5 or 6 to 0??

We’re getting our asses handed to us by a AA team. It’s getting old already!

Heyward

Hits a Ground Rule Double

dang he's good

we need 9 heywards

RBI double for the Heymaker, LINE SHOT!!

I’m not liking the Heymaker…

the Jay Hey Kid is my favorite.

But did the ball bounce over the fence or go through it?

M V P!

M V P!
M V P!

I’m ready to put this kid on the Opening Day roster already

you know since I control that kinda thing

I’m glad he didn’t kill the rally with a 2-run HR.

lol

you know, that never gets old

Seriously

I’m glad he didn’t HR on a day we couldn’t at least see the highlight

Wait, he didn't walk?!?

RF fail

Braves tie the game

Heyward Scores from 2nd Freeman from 3rd

Wait......huh? Wtf?

…..Wipe that smirk off your face, Frenchy!!!

does this mean you’re watching the game?

I wish.

I just picture Frenchy over in teh dugout looking like he’s having a ball.

damn

Why do you build me up, just to let me down?

haha. sorry. I just saw it was 4-0 on the (online) scoreboard

It’s how he copes with watching his replacement dominating

How did Freeman get on base? Does anyone have an update on everything that happened this inning?

well

gameday will probably have an update after the inning is over

Melky, Prado, Thurston walked
Freddie hit a FC and the Mets got the runner at 2nd
Heyward hit a ground rule double
Escobar hits a 2 RBI single

1 RBI each for Freeman and Heyward

according to the gamecast on my iPhone

Melky Walked
PRado Walked
Thurston Walked
Freeman grounded out hard to the SS. Thurston out at 2B. Melky Scored. Prado on 3B and FF on1B.
Heyward doubled to deep CF for a ground rule double.
Esco singles. Freeman and Heyward score!

4-4 baby

gameday has the double at the warning track

same here. mine just has a little red dot basically next to the wall.

Just got off work, anyone have a audio feed? PLEASE!

GAMEDAY IS BACK!

Here's a recap from what I've gathered:

 
 
according to the gamecast on my iPhone Melky Walked
PRado Walked
Thurston Walked
Freeman grounded out hard to the SS. Thurston out at 2B. Melky Scored. Prado on 3B and FF on1B.
Heyward doubled to deep CF for a ground rule double.
Esco singles. Freeman and Heyward score!

4-4 tie baby

Who was pitching for the Mutts?

When we scored these runs?

Johan Santana

jk….uhhh looks like Eddie Kunz?

Waaaaaaah

I wanna see and/or hear what’s happening!
Just had to get that out.

Thanks, guys. Anyone else notice that it is our youngsters that are getting it done?

yea

clearly wasnt chip with his 1st pitch GIDP

Changes

Conrad at 2nd
Hicks at SS
Blanco in CF
Johnson in LF

I just asked myself why Kelly Johnson is in LF. :(

dont you know?

we traded for him

Don’t toy with me.

That would be awesome…but sadly, now it is impossible.

i might be heading to the DBacks camp this week

if I do, I’ll get some pics of KJ…just for you.

:)

and Gage23 as well!

Thus, the sad face

……………Go Prado!!!! lol

?

whoops. missed that Milky walked, too. I thought Prado got it started.

We better keep Heyward in RF

He should play the whole game, IMO.

On base in 5 out of 6 at bats thus far.

Why would you say such a thing?

(passes out into a sweet, sweet slumber…)

Dude come on,

We all know OBP isn’t on the scoreboard

but that .667 average is

WOW!

Matt Young is in RF now. Total BS

Heyward’s done enough for one day.

Minaya

only has one change of underwear left, so Cox wanted to be nice

Jason Heyward isn’t an below-average hispanic baseball player…

After looking out there and seeing Heyward for 6 innings it must look like we aren’t even playing a RF now.

lol

especially since Matt Young makes Nate look big

I want to see more of Young this spring.

He had a hard liner to 3B and a walk yesterday, he’s been improving with his bat and defense every year.

So here's our new lineup:

Blanco
Conrad
Thurston
Freeman
Young
Hicks
Johnson
Boscan
Clevlan

And now, it is 5-4 Mets, according to Gameday.

a leadoff walk, followed by a single, then a groundout scored the run.

Doh!!

relentless!!

we take Heyward out for 2 seconds and those bastards take advantage of us

Who's pitching? Still Venters?
Clevelan

Dude has some wheels

Tied at 5 again

What happened?

Stole 2nd and then took 3rd on a very heads up play w/a slightly wild pitch. Then Blanco drove him in

NEVER under-estimate El Blanco
Wait what's the score?
5-5
Make that 6-5

Thurston drives in Blanco.

BRAVES LEAD

Alright guys thee ya go!

I walk away and its 5-4. wow

Yeah. I go to get lunch, bring it back, and…what now?

haha. is his game being played in fast motion or something?

this, damn keyboard

Mets Pick-Off Fail

1B loses the ball and Conrad scores from 3rd.

7-5 Braves

woah. backtrack. When did it become tied?

Clevelan got on base, stole second, took third on a wild pitch
Blanco single, Clevelan scores
Conrad single
Thurston drives in Blanco to make it 6-5

Er, make that 9-5

2-run homer for Brandon Hicks!!!

yeahhhhh 9-5 whooo

do you know what station your audio is?

WALR

But I have MLB.com

9-5 lead

Hicks HR

Ata boy Brandon, you rally killer you!
this gal is no longer frustrated. :)

Once you go Brandon, thats what you’ll be demandon…

Wait the game is still

on wtf what inning is it

7th just finished
MIKE MINOR PITCHING
Minor on the mound!

Will they bring Heyward back in to pitch the 9th?

I wish the Orioles would do that with Wieters like he did at GT.

K's first batter
Minor or Heyward in the 9th?

Just askin’

What a horrible draft pick.

Worst draft pick since FYF

Huh? I thought nobody could be as good as the latter person mentioned in that sentence. So how could he be a bad draft pick?!?

I really hope MLB puts the highlights of this game up like they did with yesterdays.

I don’t know if anyone is filming the game…

ESPN had the highlights on BBTN yesterday afternoon.

Anyone have an update on the game?

9-5 Atl

Marek was bad. Heyward was good. Minor was perfect in 1 inning. Hicks hit a 2-run, rally killing HR. The Mets are really, really bad.

Really, really bad?

Based on their AAA team losing 9-5?

No. Based on their inability to field, mental mistakes and general lack of quality starting pitching.

Also, if you really want to be an ass, you should recognize that their AAA team lost 9-5 to our AA team.

How is that true?

The entire Braves starting lineup today will likely make the opening day roster (with most of them starting), and 3 pitchers that pitched should also be there. The Mets played 2 starters, 3 bench players, and no pitchers who are likely to be on the opening day roster. The game was really decided by a bunch of lousy pitchers having rough outings, so there really isn’t much to take away from the result for either side (besides a few young kids having nice days).

Umm, because we scored 9 runs with our AA roster. Wasn’t that obvious?

Atlanta Hits – Thurston, Heyward, Escobar, Hicks, Diaz, Boscan, Clevlen
Atlanta RBI – Thurston, Freeman, Escobar, Hicks
Atlanta Runs – Cabrera, Prado, Blanco, Conrad, Freman, Heyward, Young, Hicks, Clevlen

That is how our AA team beat your AAA team.

Well most of those hits came off of Kunz and Stinson.

The Mets are planning on starting Kunz in either St. Lucie or Binghamton this year, Stinson just reached St. Lucie in late July of last year. The majority of the guys in the game when the Mets gave up those runs played the majority of the year in St. Lucie or Binghamton last year. I don’t see how that constitutes beating the Mets AAA team.

At best they were beating up on a bunch of AA players.

DePerron made that assumption, I just went along with it.

Either way, your team is in bad shape this year.

It's tough to make any sort of conclusion about them yet.

It’s basically the same team that missed the playoffs by one game in 2008 (Delgado for Bay, Barajas for Schnieder, new bullpen except for Feliciano), so if they stay healthy they should easily be a contender. If they have injury issues like last year, they’ll be out of the race by July. Most of the projection systems have a tough time with them due to the time lost last year for such a large amount of their team. They have quite a bit of wiggle room financially as well, so I’d guess they will be able to take advantage of some salary dumps midseason if they need to.

yeah, but now home is Citi Field, so it doesn’t matter- you guy’s aren’t going to generate offense

It's basically the same park as Shea.

Citifield ranked 22nd in runs accoring to park factor in 2009…Shea was 21st in 2008 and 23rd in 2007 (and dead last in 2006). The dimensions are almost identical between the two. The Mets have always played in pitchers parks, and it’s not like the opposition doesn’t have to play in the same field.

The MSM makes too big of a deal about Citi because the Mets didn't hit HR's there.

When guys like Santos, Berroa, Castillo, Jeremy Reed, Angel Pagan, and Dan Murphy make up most of your lineup it’s not really the parks fault. They actually hit more HR’s at home than away last year.

um no. Just look at the difference in distances, plus Citi plays like a pitchers park anyway, Shea played like a hitters park. Plus with the weird walls and everything. Didn’t you read the editorial a while back criticizing spending money on FA’s to try and generate more HRs instead of using that money to move the walls in? geez…

Shea was not a hitters park at all, did you even look at any data before coming to that conclusion?

You should check out the numbers from Baseball Reference or ESPN before you say that. According to both sets of data Shea was one of the better pitchers parks in the majors. According to how the parks actually played, they were both pitcher friendly to very similar degrees.

The park really doesn’t matter though in context to the 2010 Mets, as both they and their opponents have to deal with the same park.

numbers, please. No, I don’t care for numbers, because I’ve been to enough games at Shea that frankly, those numbers lie. Especially with the wind from the water almost always carrying the ball out. Forget that. It really isn’t the same team that missed the playoffs by 1 game, because then you guys had an effective starting rotation. Johan actually scared me. Now, frankly, Johan doesn’t, Ollie can’t pitch to save his life, Maine still needs a pitching coach, and I couldn’t tell you for the life of me who the other two pitchers are.

I don't know how to argue against the "Those numbers are just wrong, I've been to games there argument"

But to answer your question about the rotation, it was Pelfrey and Pedro (who had a 5.61 ERA) in the last two spots. It really wasn’t a very good rotation, they just had a very good offense.
Here’s a non numerically based report on Shea. Here.

you can’t really, but to be fair I never said they were wrong, they just don’t account for the whole picture.

This year (2010) I think the Mets don’t have that much of an offense (please, Bay isn’t the answer) and virtually no pitching. Go through it. Half of the team is coming off injury, the center to your offense (Beltran) isn’t even back. Plus, although I’m no expert, but I don’t think your fielding is that great either. I don’t think its too early to make conclusions about the Mets. Tops, you guys have a win pct of .475, maybe .500 if you get lucky.

(please, please, please, please, please don’t say Wright is the centerpiece of your offense. he isn’t.)

Frenchy will save them…..

Just using their UZR/150 numbers for the last three years (or in Murphy's case 1 season), they come out as exactly 10 runs above the average team.

Plus/Minus would tell us that they were 38 runs above average in that same time period. The defense isn’t out of this world, but they won’t be terrible.

The offense won’t be bad either. Reyes is leading off, Castilo and his .387 OBP are in the 2 hole, and the 3/4/5 hitters all had wOBA’s over .380 last year. The Murphy/Francoeur/Barajas trio sucks (although Murph isn’t awful), but the top half of the order matches up with just about anyone once Beltran gets back. Pagan had a .358 wOBA last year, so he’s at least an adequate fill in (Beltran is expected back in late April/early May).

The pitching is the huge question mark. If the Mets get anywhere near 2008 levels of production out of them (4 of the 5 starters are the same) they should be fine. Only 2 guys had a sub 4 era that season, so it’s not like anyone is asking them to turn into the Braves rotation.

Those defensive numbers are just their projected starters

I didn’t want to bother with the bench players since I’m not 100% sure who those will be.

Okay, so defense is fair.
But Reyes isn’t leading off, or so is the word. Plus, once Beltran gets back you could be fighting to stay out of the cellar. One black hole is enough to bring down a team. Two? Killer (see Anderson, Garret and Francoeur, Jeff in one lineup). Having those three can negate anything done by the rest of the lineup.

How about we leave the pitching aside?

Fair enough on the pitching...projecting any of tham other than Johan would be an exercise in futility anyway.

Jerry is claiming he’s going to toy with hitting reyes third, but I really don’t put any stock in it. He claimed that he was going to do that last year as well, and nothing ever came of it. Even if Pagan ends up leading off, He hit for a .350 OBP last year with double digit steals as a part timer. He’s a capable leadoff man for a month.

As far as the Beltran injury goes, It may very well end up being a blessing in disguise. The injury is going to assure Angel Pagan gets regular playing time for the first month (he was worth 2.8 WAR last year in under 400 PA’s). If Francoeur struggles for the first month and Pagan continues to impress, I could see Francoeur losing his job when Beltran returns. There really isn’t another position on the roster where the Mets could offer the kind of quality depth they have in center field (Fernando Martinez will be waiting in AAA as well). It was only arthroscopic surgery, so it really doesn’t look like anything that should be an issue going forward. If Francoeur is hot for the first month, then the Mets find themselves in a good situation as far as outfield depth goes.

As far as the black holes go, Barajas is going to generally be one. Francoeur and Murphy may or may not be, it’s hard to say at this point. If Francoeur is, I’m sure he’ll be sitting since Jerry is on the hot seat already. Either way it’s hard to compare the lineup to last years Braves because when Francoeur was dragging down the lineup it really wasn’t a very strong 1-5 they were running out there. Escobar struggled for the 1st half, McClouth wasn’t there for most of that time, and Kotchman was pretty bad. Prado also didn’t establish himself as a regular until midseason. The Braves offense in general picked up in the 2nd half, and LaRoche and McClouthdidn’’t hurt.

I should make this clear...I don't think the Mets have a realistic shot at the division this year

I have a feeling Philly will run away with it unless they get hit with some key injuries. I just don’t think they should be counted out of the wild card hunt yet either. With relatively good health they ought to be fairly close at the trade deadline and they certainly have enough in the farm system to go after another impact player (and may be one of the few that doesn’t have to worry about salary).

Again I disagree, French is almost a lock to be a black hole. I’m sorry. Turkey Underwear or not, he’s a black hole. It was on the scoreboard when I went last year at one point (no joke. there was a black hole over his name).
There’s nothing in your minor league, thats a known fact. I haven’t seen anybody talk highly of it in a while.
Plus look at the NL: fighting for the WC is: Braves, Marlins, Phillies, Cardinals, Cubs, Brewers, Dodgers, Diamondbacks, Giants, Rockies. Take out 3 as division leaders thats still 7 teams better than the Mets. Plus who would they get at the deadline that could make them any better? They have sluggers…

I just don’t see the Mets doing anything for the next couple years until they get some sort of pitching staff

Without putting together another huge post, most publications have had the Mets farm system ranked as just about the middle of the pack.

Sickels had them at 13, Law had them at 16. They are also one of the few teams that won’t be losing any of the guys on their list to the opening day roster, so they should climb by mid-season.

As far as the Wild card hunt goes, I don’t really see any reason that the Mets can’t compete with teams like Milwaukee, Arizona, San Fran, Chicago, and Florida. All of those teams have major questions. On paper the Braves and Rockies both look better at his point, but that’s not really enough to say that they will perform to what their expectations are.

As to who’s available at the deadline, there will likely be just as many big names available this year as there were last year. Any pitcher, Catcher, or First Baseman that becomes available would likely be an upgrade.

Yeah, they’ll climb, but like 2 spots tops. Not impressed. therefore, they really can’t get anyone at the deadline.

And no, I don’t see them passing most of those teams, here’s why. Almost all of those teams could stay at least on par with, if not outhit, the mets offense (except for maybe San Fran) and all could definitely outpitch the mets (except for maybe Milwaukee). So I could see them pass maybe one or two, not make a dent in the standings

I guess I don't understand how you don't feel they have enough to make a trade at the deadline if they need to.

They easily have more in the farm system to offer than Cleveland got in either the Lee deal or the Martinez deal last year, and they Could have easily beaten the Granderson deal, the Lee deal, or the Vazquez deal this winter. The only trade I can think of in the last year that they may not have been able to match was the Halladay deal (and I’d be inclined to think Martinez, Mejia, and Davis would have topped that package). They are also one of the few teams that won’t require other teams to eat salary. They may not have the best farm in baseball, but they have alot of good prospects that will be major league ready within a year or so, which tend to be the types of guys deals are centered around. Guys like Jason Heyward are great for making the farm system look good, but those types of guys just aren’t traded so it really doesn’t matter if the Mets have them as far as their ability to deal is concerned.

we could argue this forever. So why don’t we just stop?

I also don’t think the Mets are going to make a deadline deal, and Jerry and Omar will be fired sooner rather than later, but for another day, another time

He should scare you. Johan is still an excellent pitcher. Very ignorant to ignore the number. Shea was a pitcher friendly park. It would be stupid of them to waste money on moving the walls in. If Wright isn’t the centerpiece who is, Jeff?

Johan’s armor showed some kinks last season. He can still be very good, but he isn’t as scary as he used to be.

Look, Johan is good, top 10; but not elite, so he doesn’t scare me, like say Hanson does, or will in 3 years.

Heyward has already walked, singled, and stolen third base in the first 2+ innings today. Consider me officially terrified.
by PhillyFriar on Mar 2, 2010

Thats scared. Johan just doesn’t do that. He’s aging, has lost a little bit on his stuff, and frankly just can’t mow you down like Hanson could. He just doesn’t scare me when I look at him on paper.

Wright isn’t the centerpiece, either Beltran, or Reyes (is/are.. i’m too tired for grammar). The team collapses when Reyes can’t hit, and Beltran was the center of that lineup when they went 7 games with the Cards in the NLCS. If I had to choose one, I’d say Reyes

Again, whatever helps you feel content.

It was just a bit entertaining that with yesterday’s loss, the cry was that it’s only a spring training game and that all that matters was a solid performance from heyward.

today, however, a win, is (for some reason) a performance that predicts seasonal placement and condemns the mets to a dismal 2010. it was amusing enough to come back to this board and find post after post of analysis based on preseason.

I think it’s a mistake to write the Mets off.

I would have said the Mets were really, really bad whether they played today or not.

As I posted below

Whatever helps you sleep at night.

You’ve been taking the lowest possible outcome of the Mets offense and pitching, which is fine. All I’m saying is that there’s a decent chance that you’ll be disappointed.

If I didn’t know any better I would’ve assumed that the Braves had won the division these last four years.

If I didn’t know any better, i would think that the Mets had a decent rotation and a good offense, based on some of the posts that I have been reading.

Minor was perfect in his appearance. Good to see!

Minor +1; Marek -1.

DOB Twitter

Chipper Jones just said in clubhouse, of Heyward: “I will be shocked if he’ doesn’t break camp with us.”

Better DOB Twitter
Get rid of him: Heyward popped out to third with two out and runner at first in fourth inning. He made an out. Both PAs today vs. lefties

Does DOB lurk?

DAMN

I go to my meeting with us down 4-0 and we end up ahead 9-5…what the Hell!

I see Heyward got a double and Hicks with a HR…good job guys!

You need to go to more meetings. I want hear that you have 7:35 PM meetings from April to October.

Don’t worry, I’ll be at the Gwinnett Braves home games most nights doing their photography, so I won’t be watching many Atlanta Braves games unfortunately.

If I haven’t told you before……THAT’S SUCH A SWEET GIG!!!

thanks but it would be sweeter if I got paid at least something for it! However, it’s still going to be fun.

BRAVES WIN

wait, when on earth did the game move past the 7th?

my thoughts

exactly

A little bit ago

Pretty sedate 8th and 9th innings. Minor pitched 8th. Can’t remember who closed but it was 1,2,3

sweet. In that case, I’m out. see everyone later

Props to the young ones,

sounds as if they are the ones that pulled out this win.

Lyman pitched the 9th.

We just put up 600+ comments

for an exibition game that wasn’t even available to a large majority of our posters. To quote BMac, “That’s pretty neat.”

I think yesterday’s have over 800.

yea but

this one hardly anyone could see on TV couldnt hear on radio and Gameday was bein crappy today

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