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Open Thread 4/12: Braves at Padres #2

BREAK UP THE TEAM! Heyward to AAA. Chipper needs to retire. Trade BMac. Fire Bobby.

Our season is over after 7 games. It's been fun while it lasted!

11-0 14-0 Padres in the 5th. Yuck.

Discuss.

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who will come over

just me?

ITS NOT OVER!

Lets go Braves! LEts go Braves! Lets go Braves!

I'm here

you can start posting now

i kinda wanted to see venable hit a double, no padre has ever hit for the cycle

thanks for the new thread btw

Even if the game is over, we still hang on strong

Someone remind me how JoJo Reyes even made the team.

waiting for Proctor
didnt want to add someone to the 40 man

if you dont have to

Bobby has a man crush on him.

I’m pretty sure anyone else is better than Reyes.

"Anyone" is the key word there.

anyone everyone

A quick touchdown, an onside kick. Then we throw a hook and ladder and we are back in this bitch.

is that even legal?

Sounds like a plan

Shades of Boise State…

haha

Philip rivers

Alright everybody…gotta head home from work…peace out…

Dear lord. Is this football?

Only for the other team.

We are the Cleveland Browns

how depressing

New thread, new game

new score?

no…. :(

I like the way you think

its zero zero lets see who wins here on out

i’d be happy if we trimmed the lead down to 5 or so. really happy.

Strike zone opening up

ump getting this game moving, out of mercy

Random movie quote...

Excuse me, stewardess….I speak Jive.

Jus’ hang loose, blood. She gonna catch ya up on da’ rebound on da’ med side.

Trade everyone but McCann, Prado, Heyward

C McCann
1B A. Gonzo
2B Eckstin
SS Renteria
3B Prado
LF Cust
CF Byrd
RF Heyward

AND FIRE BOBBY COX11

no

Eckstein please

WE NEED HIS GRIT DAMNIT

THAT’S WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS TEAM NO GRIT

/kneejerk reaction

fuck our patience

it is killing us when we can’t get hits, who cares if we see 4+ pitches per AB

I'll take my chances every day with a team that sees 4+ pitches

This, this, oh god, this!

You should probably read a good book about the best hitters in baseball.

Man

what a disaster this game has been. I bet their bats will be cold as ice for the next game against us.

Ok, who's gonna get us a field goal to (their 2 touchdowns) and make this one respectable?

I gave you a TWSS slam dunk in the last thread

The next person to say TWSS gets fisted by Chip.

..crickets…I hear nothing but crickets…

Did I miss it?

You said something about leaving Jo Jo in and I said “Then we can see Jo Jo get hammered.” I’m trying to help you here!

Doesn’t really work

That’s what she said…

Ok, Chip…..GET EM!!!!

Justin, you can at least take comfort in the fact I believe Chip has somewhat small hands (for a man)

hahaha. And we all know what they say about guys with small hands…they need small gloves!

In lieu of the threat by bravos1984, I’ll let it go… LOL

I’ll make an exception in your case. :P

I was surprised you didn’t notice the “settle in to enjoy it.” reference on the other thread.
I realized after I posted how that might be poked fun of.

So here's my question

Why does Melky hit a weak bouncing ground ball basically every time he’s up? Does he purposefully swing over the top?

Ideally you want to hit the ball on the screws, but otherwise, don’t you want to uppercut it at least a tiny bit for the sake of some power? I can’t remember Melky even hitting a ball in the air this season…

Believe it or not he had a LD% of almost 21% last year

He hit a line drive

his first time up , but right at someone

get out of here with facts and reason!

This is why Gold Glove awards suck – the “Everytime I see him” test…

Uh oh

Here we go, base hit

Shit

Prado gets a hit even when its right at the guy

Flashbacks...

…to last season. Love Bobby’s loyalty to Jo-Jo and any other pitcher clearly not stroking it right. Vizcaino better rock, ‘cause Melky’s not cutting it either.

We have a base runner? WHAT?

Noooo, Josh Smith is hurt…..God doesnt like me today

NOoooo, how and what?

he hurt his thigh i think

marteeeeeen
one thing i like

among many,

is that we have a LOT more posts per game this season thus far. and we have sucked. just think when we’re kicking ass!

yea was especially dead towards the end of last year

THAT WAS LOW. FUCK YOU UMP.

He just wants to go home

A 14 run lead tends to expand the strike zone considerably

Joe West approves.

i have an invisible splinter in my left thumb

from where did it come?

Is this a riddle?

lol--i don't know

is it?

This has been fun, even in a losing effort,

the comments keep me rolling…

Anyone here watch Penn and Teller’s Bullshit?

I saw the one they did on PETA.

why is mac and chipper

still in the game?

Agreed. If Chip aggravates his injury in THIS game, I’ll be pissed.

Is this the first year people have been using a shift against Heap?

no

fla does it

hmm…never noticed until this year

sly old Fredi

uses the shift against Mac

I think Philly does it too.

I don’t think teams do it consistently but he’s definitely had the overshift on him before.

You know, i figure we're gonna end up losing by a lot

but i would feel so much better to see jason heyward hit a grand slam

So would I. It would help my fantasy team.

lol same here
fuck you, ump!

that pitch was low

Desert Island... 5 Movies or 5 Books.

Discuss

do you have a tv and power

otherwise the movies would be useless

You could stare at them longingly

You have a portable DVD player with infinite battery life

why do i need one of those for books?
moves for sure
movies for sure
movies:

The Empire Strikes Back

the other 4 don’t matter, but here are some I like

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Die Hard
Back to the Future
Aliens

I dunno…

Empire…easily the best one

All Jedi had was a bunch of puppets.

5 albums

albums:

weezer (blue)
insomniac
rio
abbey road
never mind the bollocks…here’s the sex pistols

fine, if you’re gonna force my hand i’ll have to think of mine…gimme a sec

Movies, Books, Albums, whatever.
And I mean what 5 movies or what 5 book swould you bring

Coming to America, Shawshank Redemption, Major League, Toy Story, and Monster’s Ball

+infinity for Shawshank. Best movie ever.

If it had to be a DVD

I’d probably just bring the complete series of The Wire now that I think about it

you deserve a +infinity for that

Movies:

Black Hawk Down
Saving Private Ryan
Band of Brothers (I am counting it as a movie)
Zoolander
Old School

Books:

Beyond Band of Brothers
A History of the American People
The Bible
We Were Soldiers
1995 TC Annual

war stories fan?

Tends to happen to us military folks.

ah there ya go

i like a lot of them but they wouldn’t be tops for me simply because i get to thinkin’ and get depressed of the hell that is endured. i need a bit of an escape most of the time, ya know?

You been watching the new series on HBO?

The Pacific

so good

I like it better than Band of Bros. Since it was created specificaly for late night cable, they allow cussing, which allows a more realistic dialogue.

Have you seen BoB?

It is full of cussing…

you know, i still haven't finished BoB...

i got to hour 7 (Crossroads, I think?) and just never finished

That’s the best episode!!

yeah, I was about to say pretty sure BoB had cussing in it.

Hmm. I was unaware. I had only seen it on TNT.

but yeah, I like it more than BoB so far. Pacific theater was always more interesting to me

That’s because nobody talks about the Pacific like they do the war in Europe. It is almost a forgotten war.

it was made by HBO as well

It was an HBO mini-series just like The Pacific.

i dont have hbo…

:(

just waitin for the DVDs, eh?

Yeah. Or for a pirated copy to surface somewhere…

don't do it!

otherwise teamsters won’t get paid what they’ve earned

are you serious?! oh man, you’re in for such a treat

TWSS

It seems the qualifying standard has been lowered somewhat.

Chip must have been gentle.

Movies:

V for Vendetta
The Devil Wears Prada
The Dark Knight
Mulan
The Lion King

You can’t get bored with that diversity.

I have not watched more than a few minutes of Mulan

But the rest of that list gets lotsa thumbs up from me.

The soundtrack makes it a winner.

I can believe it. I just haven't gotten around to watch it myself.
oooh

V for Vendetta

I’m not a fan of that one.

-1

Artistically, it was a great movie. Politically, I hate it.

you don’t like the fact that they’re trying to destroy an orwellian, 1984 type institution functioning as government?

I don’t like the obvious parallell they were trying to draw to a conservative government.

any government that regulates what people watch

what people say and what people think is NOT conservative

True. But the parallels that they were drawing were obvious. Granted, they were extreme, but the whole calling them “terrorists” and the religion theme, etc were rubbing me the wrong way.

i can sympathize with ya

but i just take it as a radical government that deserved to have its ass kicked.

btw, i’m a fairly conservative fella, just so you know where i’m coming from

Yeah, but I think I watched V soon after watching Syriana…I was already in the mood. lol

did you like syriana?

i haven’t seen it yet.

what did you think of michael clayton?

I did not like Syriana at all, haven’t seen Michael Clayton yet. As far as movies about our current situation go, I like Traitor, The Kingdom and Body of Lies.

i've seen none of those

i’m only mildly curious about body of lies, but that’s because i like ridley scott

Kingdom and Body of Lies were both real good. Got about halfway through Traitor and never got around to finishing. Ah, the joys of instant view.

Movies

Fight Club
The Goonies
36th Chamber of Shaolin
Watchmen
She’s Out of My League

Books:
Count of Monte Cristo
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Fight Club
Rules of Attraction
Bringing Down the House

i loved watchmen. fight club kicks ass too, obviously

Yes. Fight Club.
Love Ed Norton.

is that last film a joke?

please, roy. i know we are entitled to our opinions, but seriously…

Loved it
well, i can't judge yet

for i have not seen it. i am interested, but i doubt i’d put it in my top 5.

gotta let movies fester for a while before i put it up there

I often give benefit

Of one fresh one. The way I see it, I went into the movie, enjoyed it, and left without any complaint. Can’t say the same about Shutter Island which I watched like two days prior.

haven't heard many redeeming qualities about it
Consider the sources

If it’s the Rotten Tomatoes type that go in looking for esoteric, thought-proking artwork, of course, they’re going to slam it. But if you want a relaxing flick that you can go and laugh at some raunchy gray humor, and possibly relate, than SOOML isn’t so bad.

i was talking about shutter island
OH

Well, in that case, it sucks. Anyone with half a brain can figure it out in the first two minutes.

These lists are subject to change at any moment:

Movies (not counting shows)
Shawshank Redemption
A Clockwork Orange
Fargo
Good Will Hunting
No Country For Old Men

Albums
From Here to the Infirmary
Tell All Your Friends
…Is A Real Boy
Transatlanticsm
The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me

NCFOM was amazing.

Best movie I’ve seen this decade

Did you like There Will be Blood?

most definitely

i can do a dead-on impression of daniel plainview

yes, liked it quite a bit. very good, but not great

TWBB

was more about the performance than the plot, i think

Yeah. DDL was amazing.

lol

Ask me tomorrow what my top five is, and it’ll be totally different except Fight Club and the Goonies.

I’m the same way with albums. Movies, those are pretty much my top-5

absolutely LOVE the goonies,

and i enjoy fight club, but i think it’s slightly over-rated

Actually…replace Transatlanticsm with Futures. Grr…it’s too tough to choose!

calm down!

don’t get angry!

Movies:
Fiddler on the Roof
Princess Bride
Dr Horrible’s Sing Along Blog
Casablanca
GWTW

Books:
Anna Karenina
Great Expectations
Watchmen
The Sound and the Fury
American Gods

But ask me in 10 minutes and I’ll have at least half of them different.

+1 for Princess Bride (obviously). I’ve heard good things about Dr. Horrible’s

BOOOOO!! Queen of refuuusee!

I might have to follow my sig and swap the SB44 DVD in for something. I could watch that thing for a year and not get tired of it.

unbelievable,

right?

and i think they'll be better next year

movies
The Godfather…To Kill A Mockingbird….The Big Chill….The Stand….Centennial

books
The Stand…..The Firm…..A Time To Kill……Hunt For Red October…..Patriot Games

music
Genesis, 3 sides live
Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon
Bob Dylan, Blood on the Tracks
Dire Straights, Greatist Hits
Niel Young, Decade

you pick Godfather

over Godfather part II?

wanted both, but yeah, I like the original better, Brando was great

Braves look solid tonight. At the end of the year

we are gonna look back at this west coast trip and think “what could have been”. We should have swept San Fran if it weren’t for a blown save and an errant throw/stop. Then there is no way in HELL we should be losing to these terrible a holes. It is embarrassing….. On the other hand it gives me time to go watch the Hawks do work and get ready for the Playoffs. Be there this weekend it’s gonna be fun at the Highlight Factory

Haha, “journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step”…not bad Chip

he stole that. That was the motto of my high school graduating class. (Class of 2001) I have a shirt to prove it.

maybe next he can enlighten us with passages from “Oh, The Place You’ll Go”

*places (shit)
Well

let’s bring in Wild Thing and Willie Mays Hayes to finish this thing out. lol

Glaus going yard

I feel it

That's my line
I think I'll feel better when the phillies actually start playing good teams.

that will still require us to beat bad times every once in a while

They were actually trailing today until the Natinals decided to be the Natinals.

!!

2 runners on base

NO SHUT OUT!!!

Glaus RBI!

boom!

Hey, Glaus did something!

Powerful single for Glaus right there

Hoo-fucking-ray

THIS IS OUR 15 RUN INNING RIGHT HERE
When it

doesn’t matter Glaus comes through. lol

better than never

haha

Well he’s gotta reach those contract incentives somehow.

walk escobar

then Heyward slam?

too perfect

so it wont happen…

great

another useless Glaus hit

Yeah baby!

14-1

Here's the amusing thing

My TV’s busy recording an episode of LIFE that I’m not watching the game. It’s not like I really need at this point, I’m just hanging out for the camaraderie.

RAWR GLAUS SUCKS RAWRDONEMILLIONONEHUNDREDELEVEN1

Woah.

I was looking for a pic to post about how awesome it is to finally score a run. So I google image searched, “greatest thing ever”. I have my safety filter set to off. I got some cool results.

Ohhh shit

Hit a grand slam Heyward. It would make my day.

You sir

might have just jinxed him, and endangered my fantasy game

BASES LOADED FOR HEYWARD!

Cant walk Heyward now

come on

GRAND SLAM

I can feel it.

Throw him a strike!

that was

one to hack at

Nice Last of the Mohicans reference there Joe

RBI for Heyward!!

So sad…I have TBS on right now during a Braves game and I see Family Guy on the screen…

It was really the end of an era when TBS stopped showing Braves games.

Have you heard?

the bird is the word?

dang, you heard!

of course I heard

that the bird is the word!

You big puss

14-2 baby!

#22 with a BB for our 2nd

woooo!!

As Seger would say: “Little Victories”

Pitching change?

Correia’s at 108 pitches.

Mujica in

I thought he was Japanese.

The Last of the Mujicans

They’re trying to walk us and Nate keeps swinging

NATE JUST MISSED IT. OH GOD

I magine the "recap" of this game will be quite entertaining.

Can’t wait to see the creative way it will be worded when it’s over.

In an effort to boost the morale of the Rockies….

Here is how I would recap it

Suckage..

you got to be shitting me

That is the way the day is going, Nasty Nate missed a slam by an inch

McLouth almost missed a GS! D:

shit

that was close

Thank God

I though he was going to kill the rally

That was close to a GS
then he Ks

figures

Ah. That’s the normal Nate.

Wassup everyone

So anyone wanna explain JJ tonight? was the strike zone tight or was he just terrible

mostly Terrible

Velocity was noticeably down in the beginning seemed to regain it. But he could not throw a strike. Then basically a string of bad luck after that.

Pitcher got a bloop single with the bases loaded for crying out loud

Hanson pitches tomorrow right?

Wednesday

Off day tomorrow

Unfotunately

We have to wait ’til Wednseday. Offday.

Maybe the REAL Braves players are on a flight now and will take over for these impostors on the field.

damn doppelgangers that is the problem

lol

You know, this has to put some perspective to a lot of us – we wipe the floor with the Cubs, with no empathy to how the Cubs fans feel, and less than two weeks later, it’s happening to us. Hey, at least we’re not victims to a no-hitter.

Hey, at least we’re not victims to a no-hitter

Agreed. We just need 1 more for the field goal.

Wednesday

off tomorrow

Could we just throw DLowe out there and hope for the best?
I wonder if we can sub him in for one of our at-bats?

well that was excited while it lasted.

At least we are giving the Pads a rememberable Home Opener.

We’re generous that way.

I wish i could misremember this game

how many in attendance?

COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLD TRAIN.

Ross catchin’. Infante at 3rd.

Jo-Jo Struggles On

You think you could throw a strike down 14 to 2

At least we’re playin’ better than the Astros.

Florida is losin’.

What sucks

Is the Mets dont play today. Usually I can count on them losing to make me feel better

Guy trying to bike and run at the same time

What is this the gay channel

nobody wants to see those dudes working out

Yeah, bring out some better looking ones.

I better turn it back to DWTS

Agreed. And shorter shorts.

no normal guy

going to be wearing some short shorts

Ok. Then how about bits that are too much for normal shorts?

Jo-Jo

The gift that keeps on giving

Ughhhhh they are playing Lady GaGa………

Perfect song

for Eckstin

more like Ick-stein, am I right?

good god..........
Can we put a limit on Cabrerae per game?
With the way things are setting up, we are going to be 10+ games back...

of the Phils one month into the season. Even with easier stretches ahead, that kind of lead is going to be very tough to make up against a team as good as Philly.

Wild Card?
Yeah, but it sucks to feel like you are out of the division race before June. The Phils

really lucked out with their early schedule. It’s a massive advantage to get to start out playing horrible teams so that you have plenty of time to get into a rhythm.

It’s the seventh game of the season out of 162. Think positive.

Preaching to the choir

Everything’ll be all right in the end.

Just like the last 4 years? Falling 10 games back is a very bad sign whether you like it...

or not and that is exactly whats going to happen if we keep losing games like this. We could have easily swept San Fran and now we have to scramble to win 2 in a row to take a series against one of the worst teams in baseball. We have a bunch of tough teams coming up and we will be swept in those series if we continue to play like this.

Pretty sure we aren’t 10 games back.

That's why I said 1 month into the season. We are 4 back after only a week...

and we have a lot of teams coming up that are way better than the Giants and Padres. If we continue to strand 10 runners per game, we will probably be lucky if we are only 10 games back.

And the Phillies have a lot of teams coming up that are a lot better than teh Natinals and the Astros.

Fair enough

Look, I love baseball, and I’ll be the first to admit that it does control a great deal of my life over the summer, but the fate of my world does not depend on whether or not the Braves make the playoffs or not. That being said, I told myself that losses aren’t going to bother me nearly as much as they used to in the past, which is why everyone’ll hear me say that things will be just fine.

Jojo Reyes is so shitty it is crazy. He has to be the worst

pitcher on any staff in the Major Leagues. He is a Minor League pitcher and will be that for life.

Livan Hernandez

still pitches

Livan Hernandez pitched 7 shutout innings a few days ago
Jo-Jo

could pitch 7 shutout innings too if you keep running him out there every fifth day

Hell would freeze over before that happened
NEWSFLASH - They scored NO runs that time!
I heart Brooke Burke

What about Heather Brooke?

?

who?

google it. make sure the wife/kids aren’t around.

oh gosh

get this…one of the english teachers in my district quit her job @ Christmas and now she’s a legit porn star. crazy

“amber blossom”

Hahah. pornstar english teacher.

Hey baby. Wanna see my dangling participle?

you would lead me to

someone who “goes deep”

What about Brooke Hogan?

great bod,

but looks too much like her dad in the face

Chappelle’s Show is on, thank God

I’m Rick James bitch.

24 is on, but i'm waiting about 15 so I can skip commercials
Oh well...

At least we’ll be able to see what the mopup guys can do.

Jo-jo

looking respectable up there

JoJo walks.

Holy crap.

JoJo walks

but why was he batting in the first place?

Bobby Cox Bullpen Management (C)
Why waste another pitcher in this blowout?

No point in using another pitcher down 12

i mean i understand that

but we are gonna injure him by having him throw the same amount of pitches as a starter without warming up like one in months

I’m not really sure that’s a negative from a team perspective.

Melky slow roller

ugh

An almost DP by Cabrera.

Does a Fielder’s choice add to one’s OBP?

Ugh

We traded Vazquez for this?

no

we traded him for that guy named Androys Vizcaino and about 9mil

I wonder if right about now

Melky hates that he got traded to the Braves

The yankee fans probably treated him better.

LOL Joe

They got this SLG OPS hogwash on the scoreboard and I just wanted to find his Avg.

7th inning stretch. Braves needs a workout between the inning.

I dont want to be a Debbie Downer however even though it’s 7 games into the season the team can not afford to really get far behind at any point in the season and be playing catch up.

as they say, you can't win the pennant in april

but you can lose it

well, 156 games to go…

In the early 2000s, the Braves would routinely play .500 or a little worse through the first 2-4 months of the year before seriously heating up in late July/August/September to take the division title.

Standing-watching can be frustrating, but it’s as much about not falling behind early as it is being able to go on a tear late.

The worst part about tonight's game is...

You just know the dang Phillies, Muts and Natinals are getting a huge laugh at our expense.

its the SIllies fyi

i was wondering what their nickname was

do we have one? what about the Marlins?

Actually in our house we tend to call them something else.
Something like Ph***king Phillies.

She's too polite to say it.

But I’m not. There are some here who refer to them as, the Phuckers.

Holy cow! What a serious camera zoom.

big fantasy day for Blanks. no one would be stupid enough to have him on the bench, that’s for sure

…shut your dirty whorish mouth…

watch your language you little shit.

time for 24.

i’m out. see y’all later!

Hey JoJo – that thing to your left is called….FIRST BASE.
People run there for a hit.

Alright

I’m bailing. Forgetting Sarah Marshall is on, and my xbox is looking mighty good right now.

Mila Kunis > Kristen Bell

hmm...

debatable.

but emmanuelle chriqui trumps both

Jojo Reyes should be in AAA. He BLOWS
he will be soon enough

Send him to Danville and let him start over

This game makes me have second thoughts about going to the game Saturday.

If I have to fight all the traffic to get in there and they play like this, I will get physically sick.
I don’t drink, so I can’t count on alcohol to get me through :(

I’ll be there Saturday. Maybe they’ll pull through for us.

Good, maybe we will run into each other.

I’m planning on going also. Planning. G-rents are not doing well, so things may change…

I know the feeling. I now say "I plan" instead of "I will", just never know what's going to happen with mine.

Never too late to start.

I have a paper to write, and yet, watching the Braves lose is still more desirable.

Their record is 17 runs.
Please please please don’t let us give them a new record.

So much for asking nicely.

I’m out of here. 24 is on and I need to eat dinner.

See you all later!

Friday is Magnetic Schedule Night and Friday NIght Fireworks, Come out to Turner Field and support your Atlanta Braves

Why am I still listening to this?

I have sooooooooo many papers to grade.

Its like a train wreck

You can’t turn away.

Jo Jo is the pitching equivalent to Greg Norton

JoJo is Greg Norton in disguise.

I wonder how it feels

to know that your role is that of a mop up reliever

Headline on Braves page on mlb.com

“Braves in need of rally to take Jurrjens off hook”

Understatement of the year?

Who is coming in for JoJo now. I’m on Gamecast.

Chavez
Maybe he will give up 5 runs in 1/3 of an inning like he did in ST.

And break the Pads record for them.

Well, I just got off work about 20 mins ago...

And did a gainer off my porch when I saw the score. Excuse me, but what the fuck is going on? Why is Jo Jo the Idiot Circus Boy pitching, rather, why is he on our team?

well

J.J. had a very bad night.

did JJ just get shelled?

My brain doesn’t compute the Fathers shelling ANYONE

I believe 8 men scored in the 4th inning alone.

Just said a 10 run 4th. Awesome.

8 men, 10 runs, either way it was BAD

so this is what it feels like

to be 5’ 8" 140 pounds in a maximum security jail shower

Thanks for the belly laugh. I needed one.

the best part of this are the second set of toes

Yep, no nail polish on those – not a good thing.

Chavez has really impressed me after his spring.

93 mph heat from Chavez to end the inning.

I’ve had enough of this game.

wow

I leave for a second and they put up 3 more

We couldn’t get the field goal, so they added another.

damn

Did we throw another interception to get them into field goal range

damn it Matt Ryan!

Not completely his fault

Roddy White’s not even playing

And then they rubbed it in with an onside kick after to get the dang ball back.

Glaus going yard

yep

Just got an invite to the G-Braves tomorrow night! Whoo-hoo. I’m feeling better!

What time is the game?

7:05

Thanks :) I suppose I could’ve looked it up. Haha, have fun!

No worries! Thanks.

Still taking collections

what pray tell is that?

My donation

to the big bat fund?

OHHHHHHHHH you guys want money to purchase a big bat… Got it….

Oh. Sure that’s not a bat eating another bat? just never saw one like that!

The image name says “Virginia Big-Eared Bat”

I concur.

Dunno

first thing google gave me…

It is the Virginia Big-eared Bat…

Wow. Just wow. Sorry I deflated the joke, just couldn’t recognize it!

Lizziebeth, is your avatar a photo of a watch?

Ding ding! It’s a close up of Gonzo’s watch, from a pic I took over a year ago. I was thinking of changing it, but the last 2 avatars I’ve had…both guys left. Plus SB likes it. So I’ve just left it as is.

I knew it was awful shiny – BLING for Gonzo – certainly fitting.
Was it a Rolex too?

Um, I was a bit too distracted (pujols, he smelled so good when I parked next to him to get a pic) to look and see what name brand it was…but he was highly metro, so I wouldn’t doubt it! I thought your graph for him was perfecto. :)

What you guys are doin’?

Watching the Hawks

and finding excuses to look up random pics..

watching the Braves

They are coming back.. You can LOCK IT UP

I dont understand

how Escobar gets hits Fastballs middle of the plate and hits ground ball outs

Escobar

Instead of a normal right handed approach tries to level out his swing when high, but goes over the top of it alot

which

is a problem . . . .

not neccessarily

Cuts down his swing and cuts down on his strikeouts. I would venture to say for Yunel more ground balls better than more flyballs from him

Alright, I'm gonna go make some dinner. I'll keep watching to see our 16 run 9th. See y'all Wednesday
This always makes ME feel better...

~ BMac’s Triple ~

so funny. I was at that game

thanks for showing me that. made my day a little better.

I found that link a long time ago and bookmarked it.
It always makes me smile – I just love Chipper’s reaction.

Heyward needs to homer in the 9th

Gotta keep the HR streak alive.

He allllllllmost listened to you.

I'm hoping this is as bad as it gets for the season.

+million

Let's just get it out of our system now.

Turn over a new leaf on Wed.

can only go up from here

… I hope

This L counts just as much (or as little) as a one run loss.

my thoughts exactly. My hope this loss shocks the team and gets them going mad

what a freakin ass raping

Bright spot: Chavez with 4 Ks!
yea

he’s pitching pretty well

he has been pretty impressive so far

reminds me of EOF last year, we thought how the fuck did this guy make the team. Then we were surprised

Agree,

nice suprise

Dammit

just foul

that

was inside…

looked pretty good, plus the ump wants to get the hell home

wtf

mlb.tv still has it on commercial break

might as well be

K for Heyward
K for Nate

theyre protecting you

Nate

with the hat trick

Damnit

I was hoping for a homer. :(

off to do my recap…this should be fun.

games not over yet!

there is a chance

I feel for ya :(

Nate – 8 of his last 17 have been Ks

Send him down!!!
He did almost get a GS last ab,

but, yeah, he’s off to a slow start :(

meh

this whole team is off to a slow start apparently.

Bright Spot

Heyward with a .370 OPS

OPS?!

lol

OBP

haha, I was about to say

whats funny

is i went to FYF’s player page on the mets website and it had one of his video highlights him taking a walk lol

OBP

If on-base percentage is so important, then why don’t they put it up on the scoreboard?

Either you mean OBP

Or your threshold for “Bright Spot” has been considerably lowered by today’s game.

Bless it's heart, and ours :(
Eagerly awaitng long kneejerk reaction thread
PLayoffs are over

Fire Bobby
Hang Wren
Destroy the Stadium
Sign David Eckstein

FIRE ERNIE.

Crap, wrong site.
Fire Les?
No?

+1

Haha, “destroy the stadium” would be a new one

im trying to stay positive...

i really am.

and yeah, I “destroy the stadium” is going into the recap. never heard that one before.

take that I out lol I’m not sure why i typed that.

Well, Wednesday is another day…to WIN. Damnit.

Well, the company was better than the game.

Perhaps we’ll right the ship on Wednesday.
Thank goodness it’s only APRIL.

BAck again

On Wednesday

Watchin’ Braves live.

they’re still alive after that?

Bobby needs to rip this team a new one

time for a wakeup call, imo.

the f*** was that?

Who cares that our pitching only gave up 17 runs. Our offense only got 2 agaisn’t a crappy pitching staff. Our O just sucks, it’s pretty much heyward, prado, bmac. Glaus, nate, escobar, melky haven’t done jack this season. And chipper has been injured.

what a disgrace. Melky is an UNBELIEVABLE DISASTER at the top of the lineup – if he leads off one more f*cking game, they should kill the coaching staff. JOJO REYES – NEVER AGAIN.

Good news!

Just sent the Braves my application for middle reliever. Should hear from them soon

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