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Open Thread 6/17: Braves vs. Rays #2

Jason Heyward and Troy Glaus are carrying the offense...again.

Tim Hudson has been great on the mound...again.

Braves lead 3-1 in the 7th.

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1st?
-1 for typing it

-1 more for not being first.

Nope. That’d be me.

idk mine has Leedawg first

That’s because he was first.

I usually don't partake in this game...

but I’ve never been 1st. Might change my outlook on the matter

sigh…of all people

leedawg

showed up first on my thread

Mine has me first..
Because it posted yours before it managed to update.

Simultaneous thread is simultaneous.

Wrong

You’re third.

Except I’m not. I refreshed after posting and still nobody else.
 
So stick that in yer pipes and smoke it suckas!

Runz Runz Runz Runz

You stole my damn ice cream

INSURANCE THREAD

/sends claims adjusters

/doesn’t pay out on claim

/charges high premiums

Welcome

to the world of modern medicine!

Sorry, the complaint department is closed. We’ll notify you if it ever opens.

is this the right one?

heh

I really want Heyward to start raking again
Is Tim Hudson regressing yet?
Home Depot thingy..

WORST RULE IN SPORTS

Huddy's good work tonight. We lead 3-1 bottom of the 7th.

Clutch, Clutchier, Clutchiest: Glaus, Hudson, Brooks?

RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS
cue Peyton Manning

“Let’s go insurance adjusters, let’s go!”

Manning = GOD

GO COLTS

Reggie Wayne is pissing me off, but yes. GO COLTS!!!

RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS RUNS
Stel Og Nitram Odarp!!!

Hudson has 103 pitchs. Done?

I would think so. Let the pen finish this one.

I would think so.

If Balfour actually walked people, the jokes would write themselves

+4

What you did there...

I saw it

Nice job to jinx him!

/squinty Fry picture

Stel Og Nitram Odarp!!!
holy doublepost batman

Ro LenuY Rabocse?

I'm apparently like Chip and can't tell them apart

and thats the ONLY way I relate to that guy

Yay

Moylan’s up. Bobby shall not be satisfied unless one of his reliever’s arms falls off.

balfour for ball four

err, other way around

My head just exploded

Free ice cream for the new thread maker

what about me? :(

yours got stolen

yup. sorry

You’ll just steal it from my fridge anyways…

I don’t steal. I just bust MBL1 for taking, and maybe take from her

yeah….

Good try Esco

Even though it didn’t work, it was still hilarious.

Fail on Tampa.

WHO called time out???

bill hohn

DUH!

Who, where.. called time...

That was some little league shit… haha

dude that was awesome
we used to run that play alll the time
Oh Yunel

you’re the craziest guy I’ve ever seen.

Remember when he did that to Valverde in Arizona?

he's a mad genius i tell you

That was awesome. Except I think we still lost that game.

Remember when he said FU to Lincecum (sorry TL2).. that was awesome

Arguably the best moment of the season too, IMHO. Esco stared his little punk ass down as he rounded the bases too.

and went extra slow around the bases. great times

It’s all right. I’m sure Tim stays up at night worrying about Escobar.

haha. I just got an image of Tim with his Giants snuggie having nightmares about Esco… graphic anyone?

Esco being Esco lol
No bunt with melky

Nearly a great baserunning play.

Jones goes rogue
I'm back from my grill.

Listening, I see the Braves have a 3 run offering for the Aye Aye. He is not angry, but nor is he content.

Crap melky….losing your MVP status

would that make him 2ndMVP?

He’s sorry. He’ll go back to hitting .150 to make amends

Melky bunt fail

Nice part about Yunel’s attempt before, is now they’re worried about him – a lot .

In theory, this usually helps the batter.
But alas…. he proved his base running skills are two-edged.

What's the call?

K or chopper to 3rd?

Melky needs to learn bunting skillz from Brooksy

if there were a bunting skills competition at the all-star game

brooks would totally win that shit

Brooksy has SKILLZZ

That was a boatload of Failky

MELKY FAILLLLLLLLLLL
aaaand Fucknuts returns
Esco doubled off

Melky finds new ways to make double plays

That melk was a bad choice.

SPOILED MELK

+1 for the effort
-1 for messing up the quote

Not an official quote attempt. Merely a quote-aside.

Great baserunning Esco

bonehead play
He has pretty much eliminated such gaffes from his defense

hopefully baserunning is the next step in his mental evolution.

brandon hicks

aka: Hicksy to Bobby
Gosh, I’m gonna miss that.

ugh not Hicks.

bad base running.

Balfour making KK proud with that one

Great Base running again.....duh

went from an almost great base running play to a terrible base running play….

Just part of the adventure known as Yunel on the Bases.

Saw Brandon on the field Tuesday and was all like “WTF is he doing here?” Then I find out later that he got called up again.

Not Tuesday. Sunday. What a dumas I am .

Alexander Dumas?

Count of Monte Cristo is a great one

More like French for dumbass. ;)

maybe we should file that one under educational

Well, that promising inning start ended in not so much.

i blame

bill hohn

I know Hudson is done, but it must be kind of insulting to him to pinch-hit for him with someone that may actually be a worse batter than he is.

You make an epic point

Valid. I wonder why that’s never done? Huddy could run the bases if he’s done pitching.

I mean it's not like they used the worst hitter on the bench

McLouth didn’t pinch hit this inning.

McLouth’s on the DL, I think. So they did use the worst hitter on the bench.

venters again...
eof is the new martinez

who?

:>(

Mad face fail ah ha ha

what

:>( but it should be >:(

no its not the > is a nose in this case

haha. I just realized that could be a racist emoticon for a sad jew

the mad face fail that is

ps if you are going for madface you do this

‘;..;’

looks constipated

and when you cant sink the bismarck, you get angry

QED

I just didnt know we had a guy named martinez

Vulture coming in

I likez dis pikchur

VULTUREZZZZZ

Seems like Maddon uses an excessive amount of pinch hitters. Playing righty/lefty matchups an awful lot.

You can do that in the AL when you dont have to worry as much about phing for the pitcher

And it obviously doesn’t work.

Maddon plays to matchups on offense the way Bobby does with the ’pen

STFD

it may be a ball….but he’s been calling that all night

yea, Hohn's been bad, but consistant all night
1

that graphic brings images of Acosta to my mind. Motion to blow it to smithereens?

Get over it. You’ll get it and like it.

(I’ll make some new ones soon) ;-)

Wow. You just completly and utterly owned me. very nice

how did we score?
Jay Hey HR, Glaus 2RBI single

METEOR

can you explain that to me?

/don’t hate- I’m ignorant

You can't explain the meteor

You just try to avoid it.

Its a joke zomgz

yeah, but why Meteor? That I don’t get

heyward HR, glaus 2-run bloop single

Glausosaur grabbed Shields between his powerful jaws and chomped down.

It was worth two runs.

Also Heyward went deep.

Heyward HR, Glaus 2 run double.

2 run Powah surge by Glaus

People crossed the plate.
/end sarcasm

Heyward homered and Glaus had a RBI double that plated two

VULTUREZZZ

i would have bet money bobby would get thrown out of this game. MLB must have chewed Hohns ass

Jonny Venters

Let’s keep this guy for awhile, eh?

I only get colds when it’s warm outside.
What. The. Fuck?

Your hypothalamus is out of whack.

Um……i dont have anything to say about that

I can empathize, just finished getting over an evil one. Hope you feel better soon.

Same here

Injection yesterday and another today. ugh

Stay out of Alabama...

… you’ll have pneumonia.

What’s the connection?

Plus

Staying out of Alabama is generally a solid idea to begin with.

Goddamnit. I'm from Alabama.
Well there's your problem!

Just for my edification, what exactly is my “problem”?

Being from Alabama

Keep up.

Well, that killed any goodwill I had toward you.

If we had lost because of that Crawford run earlier

I’d be very ill.

YAYAYA HE S OUT!

Finally

Got Crawford out.

I’m so very happy Esco has a Laser Rocket Arm

And accurate..

unlike a certain furcal aka “Oh fuck another one just went into the dugout”

"6'5, 230 pound quarterback...laser-rocket arm."

Don’t give these guys free bases

Eh, walking Longoria to get to the lefty. I’m ok with that

I’m not a fan of bringing the tying run to the plate…but thats just me

Wags in the ninth?

Feel like it’s been awhile

BILL HOHN YOU SUCK AT YOUR JOB!!!
obligatory venters baserunner

Dude, where was that pitch? (First pitch from Venters to Pena.)

guessing high

Trade Venters for Matt Capps

TRADE VENTERS FOR CLIPPARD HE HAS MORE WINZ
KK for Clippard in that case
What about the Vulturez brotherz?

VULTUREZ BROZ

WHY HASN’T WREN TRADED FOR ADRIAN GONZALEZ YET? HE SHOULD BE AVAILABLE FOR A BAG OF BEANS? THEY DON’T EVEN HAVE TO BE MAGIC BEANS

VENTERZ IZ HORRIBLEEE

YESH

THE END of the inning.

TEH END OF TEH WURLD

Some insurance RUN(s) please.
nice inning Venters
venters gets out of it

move along, nothing to see here

Lakers up 25-23 2nd quarter

IT’S ALL OVER.

Has Boston score in the 2nd qtr yet???

d

Oh, there’s the “d” I lost….

Escobar stole it weeks ago

nope. lakers with 12 offensive rebounds, you can’t win like that

Put in Dave Cowens
IT'S ALL OVER!!!

Attaboy Venters! Dude kind of reminds me of Geoff Tate for some reason.

97

ok this guy is good

Joaquin Benoit….pretty awesome name

I can't pronounce that...

… so I’m gonna call him “Jack Benny”

“wha-KEEN ben-WHA”

CORRECT

So many wasted consonants.

If his name were Jean-Luc Picard

He’d be awesome.

1 hit for prado?

You know you’re a stud when 1 hit in a game is a bad thing.

Looks like we’re not going to see Soriano this season.

Except for MLBN.

Aww i wanted the Braves to beat him up

I’m a little disappointed we won’t be getting to tee off on RaFAIL Soriano this series…. [knocks on wood]

I'm not...just means we're winning
He's been anything but a fail. He was solid as a Brave.

Benoit’s a weird guy.

Currently has a miniscule ERA and a FIP under 2. For his career, ERA and FIP both near 4.5.

He's finally got better control

BILLY WAGZ

HEYWARD SUCKS HE Ks TOO MUCH RABBLE RABBLE

RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE

well….I would like it if he would cut down on them

heyward still striking

out too much

He’s trying not to make every other baseball player in history look bad by breaking every single MLB record that exists and setting some that don’t.

Muts won... WAGS TIME!!!
Hafner struck out

Mets win. Damn those Mets.

against orioles and indians
Meet the Mets, Beat the Mets.

Step right up and beat the Mets.

Watch out…they’re in first…for the next few minutes anyway.

no

only tied

I know…tied for first.

Well they are tied for first for the next three outs. So, in first

Well they are tied for first for the next three outs. So, in first

They need to go ahead and stop playing the doody-flavored lollipops of the AL

9 INNING TIMMMEZ

Oooooops fail

Bring in Chavez

So he can go on the DL too?

this

I WANT A WALKOFF

Do we face Grinke?

Yeah, in game 2, if I remember correctly.

Yup. Meds against Greinke I believe.

I think on Sunday.

yes

bannister-lowe
grinke-medlen
Davies—kawakami

ooo. Kyle Davies. That should be fun

yeah but KK’s pitching….HE CANT WIN

braves

can easily give KK run support off Kyle Davies. He ain’t no Roy Halladay

Rule #1-Do not let KK win

Rule #2-Do not talk about Fight Club.

sadly

we dont face Anthony Lerew… then it could be nearly all former braves starters

FINISH THIS OUT!!
PRADOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Prado’s life just flashed before my eyes

omfg

i almost pissed my pants

Well, that scred me. Prado/Heyward close call.
Golden Sumbrero for Heyward, yikes.

fail. he only struck out thrice

beer is delicious :)

I think he can have a pass since he did hit one out tonight.

He had a HOMERUN

We almost had another little incident...
Little Flare, Little Flare, Little Flare!!1
Prado almost hit a truck there haha
praydo better than nate in every way
nice catch Praydo

Bossman-Jr.

Prado took his life into his hands there.

I think Wagner is the only Met I’ve ever liked

you didnt like when we signed matt franco or ruben gotay?

i used to like francouer

"and thats how the BJ stuck..."
well if my name was Melvin, I'd take BJ any day
Well I would take Mel over BJ as a guy anyday

Melvin Emmanuel Upton. That’s an awesome name.

Sounds like an 80’s child actor or something.

KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

brigin the heat!!!

1 more out to go!!
OH BABY... 1 more!
1 more out to go

So the Mets are in 1st…dont care. They’ll come back to earth soon

No longer in first.

Me stupid

Easy, easy, easy.
WINNNNARRRRSSSZZZZ

Take that, stupid AL East. Glausosaur ate your champions.

97 mph with Wags’ movement? Yeah, you’re not going to hit that.

Winner winnah...check box 2!

Rainbow llamasauruses NOW

Wags you cannot retire......
RAINBOW LLAMASAURUS AND GLAUSOSAUR. RAYS HAD NO CHANCE, REALLY

RAINBOW LLAMASAURUS LOVES SEAFOOD EVEN RAY!!!!
We are the BEASTS OF THE EAST!!!
Queue the storm troopers!!
I only have 1

Huddy with the W!

I love this
thank you

having just used the generic one earlier, i decided to touch it up a little for Huddy

Words don’t even express how awesome this is.

This is really irritating! I have been trying to find a link all night long and now the game’s over! Ah well! At least I get to Llamasaurus!:)

Alright, I’m out. someone remind UltimaParadox he’s Don Sutton’s favorite fan. I’m gonna start listening to the radio just for that

I’ll try to remember :)

WINZ

Especially good win tonight

anyone else agree? Just rocked

hated it

Was AWFUL

agree

i dont know why i even posted that to begin with

We will never surrender first to the Mets. Now we get the crap teams while they get the Yankees.

Pretty easy to win 6 in a row

When they come against the Orioles and the Indians. Let’s see them play some real teams now.

Here we are

Born to be Kings
We’re the Princes of the Universe
Here we belong
Fighting to survive
In a world with the darkest powers

11 G over .500.

braves win in timely fashion too...only 2.5 hours...plenty of sleep tonight!

We are gonna force them to start talking about this team! Way to go boys!

What beautiful babies in your avatar.

lol! Thanks! I caught them playing in the window at Starbucks this weekend. They had been good all day, it was the Piccolo Spoleto festival here in Charleston. Once we finished looking at stuff they just totally lost it so we got lots of cookies and stuff and just started clowning around!:)

Huddy is in the ASG, yes?

needs more Winz

ha ha

DLowe then.

Sadly, you are correct. See Vazquez, Javy 2009

Should be but Manuel will pick all Phillies

andddd

D-lowe. cause he be using mad run support cheat codes

Up/Up/Down/Down/B/A/Select/Start

shhh

lest kawakami find out

The Glausasaur devours another victim

That.
Is.
Awesome.

LOL

BTW F the AL east

braves take 2 of 3…and the struggling phills also are about to take 2 of 3

Finals Game 7 and the RED HOT Phillies

Next on Sportscenter

But mostly game 7. Followed by BRILLIANT Stephen A. Smith analysis on game 7!

I’m so glad I don’t have comcast anymore…he was on all the local philly sportsnet all the time

Sending some positive e-vibes. No one should be forced to listen to that maniac.

The Rays hit one ball hard, and it turned into a DP. That was dominating pitching.

Bring on the Braves Lite tomorrow night!

What was the best part of tonight’s game? Any and all answers would be welcomed, didn’t get to see any of it!:(

Hudson saving the bullpen because you know those royals are sluggers?
Tampa Bay

not winning.

WINNAR

Jason going yard

The 2 best AL teams

came to the NL East where they were humbled.

BEST RECORD IN THE NL

we have it

i fucking love the braves!!!!!

Great win for the good guys! Game is over, kids are actually in bed and both asleep for a change. Time to get some shuteye! Y’all have a good one!

Good game! Great Huddy Win!

I believe the Aye Aye is 4-0. Definitely never been shut out.

Me and the boys started a all star chant in left field for prado and the usher tried to throw me out

hahaha. That’s awesome. Keep it up

HA!

Great! Keep doing it

Some rays fan complained on me…luckily there was another rays fan who told them I did nothing wrong only reason I made it to the end

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