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Open Thread 6/26: Braves vs. Tigers #2

Chipper Jones...words cannot explain how much Braves fans love you.

Braves lead 3-1 in the 8th.

GO BRAVES!!!

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Oh my god....that curtain call was awesome.

I love this team.

DON'T GIVE UP RUNS THREAD
new run prevention thread
Lets finish strong guys
The shut em down thread is up for business
get KK the win thread
That was beautiful...

… the reverse silent treatment for Chipper!

I need to see a video clip of that.

GO BRAVOS!!!!

words cannot

but that curtain call goes some ways

Jonny Venters is filthy

Filthy is Jonny Venters.

retirement? fuck retirement
"I LOVE YOU CHIPPER"

“I LOVE YOU CHIPPER”
        WE!

STFD

Says Venters.

Ryan "Just Watch" Rayburn
I love Jonny Venters.
STFD

“Next.”

it sounds like the ump laughs when he calls a strike

“haaaa!!!”

I BET I LOVE CHIPPER MORE THAN ANYOTHER TC USER

Rubbish

I love chipper more than you do!!!

I think not!!!

I LOVE YOU CHIPPER!

I LOVE YOU CHIPPER

I LOVE YOU WAAAY MORE THAN GOULDISGOLD

I LOVE YOU CHIPPER

WAY MORE THAN MBL1.

We could do this all day.

I LOVE YOU CHIPPER MORE THAN PRINCE FIELDER LOVES CHEESEBURGERS.
I WIN

FIGHT ME.

/throws water balloon at your face

/throws Jason Heyward at your face

Silly MVHS. only Chuck Norris can throw Jason Heyward!
/throws Chipper at your face

"I am a strong man, anyone in this office take a run at me."
Just enough room in the yard there
STFD x2

Venters reminds you that HE IS IN COMMAND HERE.

Your silly fly balls do not perturb him.

Venters can really throw some gas.

someone get Johnny Venters

a hooker… he deserves it

He's a big boy

He can pick up one of the team groupies same as anyone else.

The hooker would have to pay him.

i really like gregor

hes got wheels for OF defense

takes a ton of pitches, has decent contact, and gets on base

no power, but he does other things well

thats why we put him in late in games when we have a lead

He is FAST

I wanted him traded, released, DFA’ed, whatever, gone, I wanted him gone. I was wrong, he’s been real helpful to have around.

Good play

Great throw Yunel
Great stretch Glaus

…damn that was close.

Just noticed that Greg was...

…sporting the J-Hey sleeve…

Damn good play by Esco there

WOW, close play.
THREE OUTS TO GO

Saito or Wags?

who do they have coming up?

wags

“give me saves bitch!”

It’ll be wags, I’m pretty sure.

Wags all the way.

Unless they go crazy and take this out of a save situation…

sweetsweetsweet.
123.

Hey!

Let’s score some more. Just because.

RILEY would enjoy more runs.

Photobucket

Nicely accessorized.

NCChopper took him shopping

RILEY LOVES CHIPPER JONES SO MUCH HE LICKED THE TV

if KK loses he will retire and throw this phrase:

“I…. consider myself, the unluckiest man, in the face of the Earth

Hey Earth! In your face!

Before or after he uses the hari-kari broken bat on himself?

TIM HUDSON set up the silent treatment

Just re-watched the highlight on the DVR…definitely Huddy.

I love Huddy
Folks

This thread is legendary. Ten years from now, when people are talking about the great Kawakami, you can say “Yeah, I was on talking chop when he got his first win of 2010.”

I'm printing it out

So I can frame it.

look at the splits against lefties the tigers have coming up

ordonez 1.269 OPS
cabrera 1.134 OPS
boesch 1.418 OPS

good lord, maybe we shouldn’t use wagner

Wags

is not impressed

saito for the save!!

They don’t face Wagner though.

And thinking about it…how many good lefties are in the AL Central? Liriano, maybe the Sox’s two guys…and that’s about it.

i think its much more likely

they just destroy lefties (possible exception = boesch)

plus they’ve done this over their careers

plus AL central teams don’t just play AL central

plus they aren’t nearly as good vs RHP

plus liriano, danks, and buerhle are pretty damn good

I hope Chipper just hurries up and retires.
At the SBN Meet-up

I got into a little argument with gondee and royhobbs-I said Chipper won’t retire at the end of the year. I like to feel like, right now, I’m winning.

418 ft

Chipper’s HR

Off a 100 mph fastball

no less.

braves are good at reaching milestones

100th HR: McCann
400th save: Wags

aaaaaaaaaaaaand………………….

!st win of season: KK

Chipper: 200th HR at turner field

Let’s get him to 450 overall before the end of the year.

I think Chipper just wanted to make sure Strasburg knew he couldn’t just come in here with his 100mph stuff and think we couldn’t hit it.

Come on glaus

walk it off

Glaus has taken a pounding today and Simpson says his kness have been bothering him.

Glad he hustled to first… might have been an 8-3 putout victim!

I love his hustle, even when hurting, he gives it his best.
pansy

hit a home run so i dont think u r a sissy

we’ll take a single. “limping all the way to first base.”

hit for Glaus

that is a slump buster

Swung so hard it pushed Jackson back powah
troy limps to 1st on his single
Austin Jackson...

is no Greg White in center field.

Gregor Blanco wishes we was Greg White

Reverse shadow magic on the outfielder there.

sit troy, put in hicks
HR scores Glaus, so long as Hinske is willing to walk.
BAHAHAHAHA
Glaus scoffs at you
all it took was a solid double
Chip Caray: "No, it was a RINGING double."

GLAUS SAYS WHAT LIMP!?

Glaus

scores from FIRST WHAT

holy shit

glaus just scored from first on a ball that didnt reach the wall

Troy scores from 1st
NOW

This is a legendary thread!

unfuckingbelievable

GLAUSOSAUR GOT WHEEELZ

WTF?

Who replaced Glaus with Usain Bolt?

Glausosaur rumbles on in...give that man a day off...lol

WHHHOOOOO!!!

What has gotten into Glaus lately?

oh my fucking god! Glaus scored!

Way to redeem yourself Eric. All is forgiven

I choose to believe

That while he was off-screen, Glaus hopped on a bicycle and we didn’t see it.

shoulda been hicks

Don’t think Hicks could have carried him…

Oh my god.......

DOUBLE SCORES GLAUS FROM 1st!

I’ll never use that on you again, Troy.

Do not slide head first Jason....please?
Caution...

Glausosaur crossing

Wagner says

GOSH GUYS STOP SCORING

Nah, he's good

He got his 400th.

Wags:

Alright boys, thats good. Dont wanna use all our runs in one day.

He has an outside shot to be the #1 lefty saves reliever if he keeps getting chances…NO MORE RUNS!

Glaus says " Who says I'm slow?"
haha

Trainer over to help Glaus cool down

DON'T SCORE ANYMORE

MY TEAM NEEDS THE SAVE

Run Troy run!!!!!

Glaus is all used up!

HR ESco please
I love the Braves

But goddamn I hate FOX and their fucking blackout rules.

Is GD necessary ?
Yes

I avoided capitalization just for you.

God didn't come to damn but to save, imho
is this a reference to Billy Wagner somehow?
My friend kreese

Saves the day with that comment.

haha figured the discussion needed to take a turn to the lighter side!

Very few things are asked of posters around here, but a lot of people feel GD is over the line. Think of others just a little bit and everything will be great. No need to offend or step on others toes, just leave that phrase off for others sake.

Thankful to be singled out as a Christian on any site

I truly believe God is not in the damning business. So to read gd makes my heart cry :(

Religion and politics are buzz words

however I am a Christian too, however being that no one actually knows the true name of God, and that most of what we practice is from the Roman Catholics and a load of horseshit, I would say that arguing whether or not “goddamn” is more offensive than “mf’er” or even “sweatypants johnson” is based solely on what you allow to offend you, and not any better or worse.

Can’t stop anybody from offending anybody else, but if it is so easy to leave off the “N” word, it ought to be that easy to leave off “GD”. But if folks don’t want to put forth the effort to be decent to others, there’s not much can be done about it.

i agree with you

i just think if you start policing “GD” where does it end? I mean, I love that I can type “fuck” and no one cares…but shouldn’t they? Seems like a can of worms I don’t want opened. But if someone is genuinely offended by something, it shouldn’t be too hard to avoid that phrase, or at least try. And anyways, Wagner comes to damn AND save at the same time…

Like I said, very few rules here, that is a good thing, but decent shouldn’t rquire rules.

I wouldn't say no one cares....

because I care; it’s not my favorite word to hear fifty thousand times a day. I realize it’s accepted here, though. That doesn’t mean everything should be…..

I love that I can type "fuck" and no one cares.

I care, and have commented to the fact. I hate that in order to be on my favorite teams most informative blog, I have to see that crude word typed over and over each night. Of course, if we are losing, it is used even more. Let’s have Fun but at the same time be respectful.

Yeah, but if we aren’t even going to be decent enough people to not refer to Catholicism as “horseshit,” do you really think we’re going to leave off “GD”?

haha, hey I didn’t refer to Catholicism as horseshit, merely the beginnings of modern Christianity and how they evolved to become what we know now.

most of what we practice is from the Roman Catholics and a load of horseshit,

is not exactly what you say unless you like coming onto a baseball blog and insulting other people’s religions.

Well, clearly I didn't elaborate enough.

I was trying not to. And I’m not going to go through all the corruption of the Roman Catholic church from it’s inception to now because I think it’s silly to do so. However I didn’t mean to piss anyone off, I was simply making a point as to the name of God and how it is not His true name, therefore I am not offended by it being used in “vain”.

I have no clue what you feel about Christianity or Catholicism, but horseshit has nothing to do with mine.

I never meant to attack Catholics personally, I am a Christian. The horse shit I was referring to was that of the Church itself, the entity of the Roman Catholic Church. Not Catholics individually.

All right, fine

I didn’t think it would be turned into this big a deal. It won’t happen again.

I don’t know if I like Heyward running here. Didn’t he hurt himself running?

i'm sure he's been informed

no more head first slides

Haha, well I hope so.

Sliding head first…yes. I imagine Bobby would kill him if he slid anything other that feet first.

My guess is that they want to save Infante to pinch hit if the 9th spot comes up.

Yeah I’m sure. I’d just rather he didn’t have the option.

i think Glaus slid into home feet first too

having slid into home head first last week… i guess the warning has gone around the clubhouse

Butt first

Troy Glaus needs oxygen…and then some more oxygen.

And then some oxygenated oxygen fortified oxygen.
and them maybe some cherry flavored oxygen

no moar runz billy needs teh savez

Still nobody out, by the way.
almost

for Yunel

Dang....thought Esco was gonna get on the board there
Esco

wanted his first HR of the season

Allllmost…. Esco WTP… advanced Heyward to third.

WTP?

White Trash Party by Eminem?

he'll homer tomorrow

book it.

WAGNER APPROVES OF ESCO FLYOUT

A Sacrifly!

I will accept this.

Damnit Yunel

don’t tease me bro!

I'm not gonna lie

I got a little aroused when Chipper yarded that thing. So sweet.

That pitcher was running in from the bullpen and it got me thinking: wouldn’t it be funny but awful if someone got injured running in from the BP?

Jeff Weaver

I think he got to the mound but he didn’t throw a live pitch.

The Dodgers guy that we almost faced right?

I'm gonna name my kid FuTeNi
6 letter name...ftw

yeah, when ya’ll were talking about players’ names earlier, i was thinking about this guy, but couldn’t remember what team he played for

Your kid will hate you
and your wife would never agree to that name

And let's be honest...

they don’t need your signature on the birth certificate.

and they will kill you at 16
My sense of patriotism

says to cheer for him to shut is down………….ahhh, screw it, GO BRAVES!! SCORE MORE RUNS!!!!

im gonna name my kid pizza pussy santa...

cuz everyone loves one of those things

WTF Heyward
What did he do?
nothing

(which was good). TIgers thought Braves might do a squeeze – they didn’t. Pitchout sign was missed by the pitcher.

not much he could do there

the catcher was already standing

yea, I only saw the ball go past the catcher. I didn't know it was a pitchout
Wagner: "Yes!"
haha

that was a strike

Wonky pitch there.

That was bizarre
Saito's up in the pen
Saito warming up
WHO CALLED NOT WAGNER IN THE NINTH

ME ME ME ME ME

Tigers upcoming hitters VS lefties

ordonez 1.269 OPS
cabrera 1.134 OPS
boesch 1.418 OPS

its the right move IMO
I dont remember

I think it was Beard

MVHS I'm pretty sure.

no he was the one making terrible arguments

I thought justin was the one making terrible arguments.

Yeah that was me I don’t know shit about baseball.

yea, because i said that….
chill out

I never said that you said that.

I’m chill….but Melky is coming up so I’m kinda pissed.

......and hits a chopper

i love my braves, but i swear theyre predictable

melky=chopper
nate=pop up
kimbrel=BB or K

ha.

But

Thats not against BILLY WAGNER

We are the knights who say...

Ni!

You must cut down the mightiest tree in the forrest wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirg…A HERRING!!!!!!!!!!!

If we chase him

do we face Icky Icky Icky P’tang Zoo-boing Wooooo?

2 shrubberies for you.

Blanco

hit another one there, that girl was good looking

Now I know I’m getting old – I was watching the 10 yr. old boy bummed that he missed a foul ball.

I love how we wait to score most of our runs. You could say that we...

Abide!

Its the Dude
actually

it’s the Stranger

I know. But he says it too
the Dude

from Los Ang-eles.

Gregor Blanco

Walks a lot.

yep

and i love him for it

He's been a WHOLE LOT better this time up

MORE runz? Jeez peoplez

Walkz not runz

A

Maybe Omar

can hit lefites one of these days

well done Whitey!

So I know this seems really random, but I just realized that Rafael Belliard played 16 years and never once had a WAR higher than 0.8

Textbook definition of replacement level.

Plus, it’s completely possible that TotalZone is completely screwing over his defense.

Greg

takes 2nd wow

GWHITE!!

Runs from first on a fly ball 100 ft away!

TREMENDOUS BASERUNNING
make em pay

Melkman

PITCH TO PRADO DAMNIT!
Gregor is doing everything right now... ive been very impressed

IBBing Prado. Everybody BOOOOOOOOOOOO

OOOOOOOOB
i was saying

boo-urns…

Gregor>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Nate
x10

Well at least this season

agreed, at least this year

Defensively I think he’s a better fly catcher. and clearly has a much better arm.

walk prado????

who wants to pitch to MVP?

Melky gonna K here

should have been

3U

I don't care

I just want to see Chipper bat again.

booooo
Hey!

Just realized I had Chipper in my fantasy line-up today.

...just his usual chopper putout
YES

WAGNER IN LINE FOR THE SAVE

WAGNER SAITO IN LINE FOR THE SAVE

ARE YOU KIDDING ME

FUCK MY LIFE

MVP

is not MVP there

YEAH HE IS! Keeps it a save situation!

Wagner/Saito/Whoever approves

Why would it be anyone other than Wags?

Saito was warming up not long ago

Wow...Red Sox are dead.

http://sports.espn.go.com/boston/mlb/news/story?id=5331815

There goes the MVP

I knew I should have traded him last week when I was thinking about it.

thats funny i thought the same thing and almost did it for hanley

SIT

DOWN RED SOX, too bad thats not utley

bleh

I don’t wish injuries on anyone.

Utley is a great dude too

now if it was Howard or Dickhead…well, different story.

I really don't want to see Howard get hurt either

I want to see him inevitably decline and drag down the weight of the Phillies’ roster because of that ridiculous contract he signed.

Now who’s gonna be my fantasy 2B!? Somebody else in my team has Prado…

League not team

i think i saw saito

because of splits

have wagner warm and ready to get a one out save

kthx

Um whyyyy not wags?

im going to continue to post this until everyone agrees with me

tigers OPS vs lefties
ordonez 1.269 OPS
cabrera 1.134 OPS
boesch 1.418 OPS

for reference

all of those are significantly better than pujols

SSS
yea, for boesch definitely

but cabrera’s isn’t really out of line, and ordonez always has killed LHP

I mean, even for Cabrera, it’s .150 better than his career splits, which is fairly big margin. For Ordonez, it’s .300, which is a HUGE difference.

splits

and have Saito save for KK’s first win

Ummmm isn't it obvious???

We don’t want KK to win

someone prep rainbow llamaglausosaurus
Hunting down the flamethrower...
was that

EOF up in the pen

probably…just as insurance.

Wow

that was strike 3

not even close
?

fox track and gamecast had it as a strike

think he means not close to a ball
WHERE THE FUCK WAS THAT?!?!
maaaaaaybe a little inside
thank goodness it doesn't matter
right down the middle

but we got the out so its all good!

LETS GO SAITO CLAPCLAPCLAPCLAP

1st out

come on Saito

2 more outs until KK cries.....
If I was a Braves player

I’d be taking KK to the strip club after this game.

That

was pissed on

well

no doubt homer there

wow

that was a no doubter…
and that helps my fantasy team, as long as we still win its all good?

Head…

…desk…

FUCK

HR by Cabrera

Get up Wags now

Wow….another one right down the middle.

at the time, understandable

MY FANTASY TEAM IS HAP-
/slaps self

buddy left her hangin on tv
No doubter there...glad we got the out beforehand

Like he way he just fing stood there.

Cabrera is a monster.

Marlins should have never got rid of him.

-1

I’m glad they did!

Me too

but Marlins are morons for sending that guy away.

both maybin and miller sucked

Did you really expect anything different from Florida?

Nope.

Hanley will be gone soon enough.

I can see it now in 2013….“Marlins no longer like expensive ballpark. Will move to High School field to cut costs.”

High School Field?

You have to probably pay to do that, team will play in owners back yard. Bases are paper plates.

they should

have traded him to us

Wagner

where are you?

I'm really glad we brought in a righty to face those hitters

Definitely wouldn’t want Wags to come in with those great numbers against lefties.

Are you being facetious?

Yeah…I was the one begging for Wags to come in despite the splits.

ok good, me too haha
yes, because a solo homer from miguel cabrera

proves it was a bad decision

LETS GO BRAAAAVES CLAP CLAP…CLAPCLAP

looks like cabrerra has jerry curls

This doesn't feel like a save

I miss Wagner’s 97 mph fastball

So is Wags

just unavailable today

SPLITS

That guy is gonna post the OPS numbers soon.

look in the bullpen

they have EOF and Moylan warming up, no Wags AT ALL

SPLITS
?

it has nothing to do with it now, they are past the big 3…

WHY IS WAGS NOT WARMING UP IF SAITO IS IN TROUBLE, instead we have Moylan and Wags

err

Moylan and EOF

i just like saying SPLITS

at this point i dunno

BYAH

ordonez 1.269 OPS
cabrera 1.134 OPS
boesch 1.418 OPS

see above

you guys are not even reading the posts

SPLITS

ordonez 1.269 OPS
cabrera 1.134 OPS
boesch 1.418 OPS

yes, i know

responding to RichmondBraves

beautiful pitch
Saito

Ks Boesch

SAITOOOO

Saito is a closer, even if he throws in the 8th

K.
2 down, one to go.

what the eff david blaine

ONE MORE OUT FOR KK!
White Sox the hottest team in baseball?

Ummm no…that would be the Texas Rangers.

Yup, 2nd best record

Winz plz

For Bobby

For Wags
For KK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

for another game up on the entire division
Are you shitting me?

Poor KK is gonna have a heart attack in the dugout.

No worries

Chipper will save him

Oh jeez get Wags up now

You know what happens

Saito gives up 2 more runs and we get a walkoff.

and now saito can’t throw strikes

No Saito....this is KK's win

Booing your own team is LOW. Just LOW

pretty sure it was to the umpire..

oh Chip

Will McCann have a play, HE WILL MAYBE??

one more time please

Mccann wanted a fan to get that ball

Ugh...

Saito is making me sweat like a Hispanic at the Arizona Capital Building.

FUCK

come on end this

THIS IS FOR KK!!

people at buffalo's haven't finished their drinks
30th pitch is the charm...for KK!!
...or maybe not
FINSIH HIM?

Please? I usually don’t have to ask with Wags…

i dont like this at bat

Saito

last batter no matter what happens

what is a plane going to crash onto the field
yeah

that’s the KK victory celebration.

Epic at bat here
At least

Guillen is tired from moving with all of these pitches

Baseball Gods just HATE KK

Ugh

nice AB from inge

damnit im nervous

WAGNER RIGHT THE FUCK NOW
he

was not even up

Jesus

nice try Saito, but new pitcher

Yeah bobby

(rapid head-desking)
NO NO NO GET UP WAGNER BOBBY
Fuck you Inge
Kawakami: LULWUT?!
WOW

not cool

good job by inge

EOF to (hopefully, finally) finish it.
Any word

if Wags is hurt or something?

asleep in the clubhouse
am i supposed to post splits here?

they seemed to do pretty well against a righty

Nah

He’s probably fine.

E-O-F E-O-F E-O-F E-O-F E-O-F E-O-F

EOF backwards is Foe

If i was KK

i’d probably fight Saito in the clubhouse during the break

Stole a win from him earlier this year.
Just pimp slap him right in the face

Kawakami is from the Shimizu Province, Saito from the Umigawa Province.

What did you think was going to happen?

Someone is going to go Shimizu all over his Umigawa!

WIN

Crazy. Bases loaded. Game is hanging in the balance.
I love baseball.

Not loaded yet

Just a little ahead of yourself. 2 men on.

Now: Bases loaded. Game is hanging in the balance.

Damn your jinx
oracle

Okay then: K to end the game.

EOF

has been pretty bad lately

Oh my god.

or shit…for those of you having a Holy War up above.

OH MY FUCKING GOD BOBBY PUT IN WAGNER

/freaks out

WTF

EOF Walks him come on

Bring in Moylan

see you later EOF

PUT IN WAGNER NOW ALL WE NEED IS ONE OUT JESUS CHIRST

DEAR CHIPPER….

GO GET WAGSTER RIGHT NOW

HEAD DESK HEAD DESK HEAD DESK!

Is Rick James gonna have to choke a bitch reliever?

This is getting uglier.

im about to start punching babies if gerald the eff laird wins this for them.

This is all a plan to KILL KK's MLB carrer

a three run lead coming into the inning, and here we are…

Question:

Were Yunel and EOF just making noises at each other, or was Yunel speaking English there?

Oye Chico

throw strikes

Wagner

must have something wrong with him, he has only pitched one day in five days

If wagner doesnt pitch in this game ill be furious
Be furious...Wags isn't pitching today
OH SHIT SON IT'S LAIRD TIME

5 pitches, 5 balls…

EOF

5 straight balls… why no Moylan

Aaaaaaaaah

Throw a fuckin strike Eric
WTF come on

this is getting painful

I'm just giggly at this point.

JESUS CHRIST WHERE IS BILLY WAGNER

EOF

Cant close a door!

THIS IS WHY U PUT IN WAGNER
might as well walk him

then give up a hit, and bring up Moylan

I JUST PUNCHED A BABY IN THE THROAT!

It's a strike!

Just throw another one like that please

/rips head off of Teddy Bear

Full count: Thank Pujols!
splits?
good thing bobby knows teh splitzzz
they really worked this time...

Why was O’Flaherty brought in to face righties?

It's official!!

KK is cursed!

Baseball gods HATE him
fuck

he walked him

KK IS FURIOUS!!!

if we lose it's on fucking bobby for not putting wagner
This is a loss

that ruins a season

SPLITS

Why have you failed us?

ordonez 1.269 OPS
cabrera 1.134 OPS
boesch 1.418 OPS

splits guy here, reporting for duty
they really do hate Kenny
I'm gonna hit a fucking wall

This is unreal. Seriously the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen.

Reminds me of

a game in Philly last year

This is worse

We’re at home

stupid

splits hate KK

SHUT UP ABOUT SPLITS. WAGNER IS THE BEST PITCHER IN OUT PEN
This has got to be a joke
OH MY CHRIST GO GET WAGNER BOBBY YOU DUMB FUCK

sweet Jesus.
now I’m upset.

Put KK back in

If only we could do that

FUCK BOBBY PUT FUCKING WAGNER IN!!!!!!!!!!!! HE CAN PITCH DAYS IN A ROW STOP BABYING HIM!!!
THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS

Erm…yeah Bobby is the coach of a 1st place team. Hes horrible.

PeMoPeMoPeMoPeMoPeMoPeMoPeMoPeMoPeMoPeMoPemo

PeMo backwards is

Omep…… not good

Wags must be hurt or something

I dont get it, he has only appeared in one game the last 5 days

he's in slumber land
South Carolina 1, Clemson 0

I still don’t understand why O’Flaherty was brought in to face two right handed hitters with Peter Moylan ready to come in.

EOF came in to face two lefties

then two PH instead

no wagner again oh my goodness

Throw a damn strike! I am dying here
C'mon Bobby.

You used Wags four days in a row last week, then he got the whole White Sox series off and had an easy inning last night. He should be available unless there is an injury we don’t know about.

Someone put out the fire!

Who is coming in? (No TV stupid Fox)

OUTZ OUTZ OUTZ OUTZ OUTZ PLZ
Kawakami was in line for the W

Was there any doubt that it was going to go somewhat like this? We still only need one out, but it couldn’t be easy.

Mutts & Phools lost . We must take advantage!
Everybody lost....we need this one
come on Peter

Moylan in.

Johnny Damon pinch hitting for Edwin Jackson.

Damnit...Damon's up

it’s times like these when you can tell apart the kids on this forum

Three straight pinch hitters for the Tigers

So they just blew up their bench.

OUTS OUTS OUTS OUTS
Ball 1

we are going to lose

Ball 2

just failure

we’ve had enough, let’s go

Chill TC nation
we can't fucking chill when bobby is making a stupid decision here
wagner is obviously not available to pitch

we need him for the postseason.

Uhh we have to make it frist
Its obvious

something must be with Wags

MAKE THEM HIT THE BALL CHRIST JUST THROW STRIKES
Moylan not even close though
Strike 1

a glimmer of hope

Moylan ALWAYS has trouble throwing strikes
Ball 3

not going to end well

Full count...AGAIN....ugh

DAMNIT BOBBY THIS IS ON YOU

FINISH IT!!!!!!!!!!!

Ughh this is just not good. I don’t get lots of the decisions today. Why use Heyward as a pinch-runner if he might need a DL stint? Why insist on giving Wags the day off when he should be available? Not good. Maybe we don’t want KK to get a win.

because

Heyward has a hurt thumb

NOW LETS END THIS GAME!!
The moment pitchers and hitters dream of
WHY CAN't THEY THROW STRIKES!!???
thank you Damon

swinging at ball 4

he looked at that one
THank you Umpire!!!!!!!!!
OMG K

YESSSSSSSSS

SOMEHOW

Despite Ball 4 being called a strike
4-3

Thank you sir — obviously that was prepped WAY TOO LONG AGO

Ump bailed us out, there. Big time.
LOL SPLITS GOT US THIS WIN

ordonez 1.269 OPS
cabrera 1.134 OPS
boesch 1.418 OPS
ordonez 1.269 OPS
cabrera 1.134 OPS
boesch 1.418 OPS
ordonez 1.269 OPS
cabrera 1.134 OPS
boesch 1.418 OPS
ordonez 1.269 OPS
cabrera 1.134 OPS
boesch 1.418 OPS
ordonez 1.269 OPS
cabrera 1.134 OPS
boesch 1.418 OPS

STFU
oh come on

lighten up… im just messing around. we won the game.

seriously dude chill
Wow

not a strike, but I will take it

STRIKE THREE!
WE ARE SO DAMN LUCKY.

Holy shit.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
KK GETS A WIN!!!

And is officially off suicide watch

hell

half of TC is off suicide watch

haha

wow, not even close to a strike

that was a bad call
yeah

does not even feel like a win

WOW on gamday it looks a foot outside

Cue the multi rainbowsaursues for KK's first win!
Ballgame!

Despite Sam asking God to damn it, we won. Thank you God:)

I PAID OFF TEH UMP

Umpires hate The Tigers
This win is tainted

blah

Agreed

:-\

Bleh

This is make-up for the flukey loss in Arizona where they only scored because McLouth and Heyward collided.

Stop…I don’t wanna remember sitting through that horseshit pile of a game.

What?

That was McLouth/Heyward’s fault.

Not that was a fair loss, but its not like the umpires went out of their way to give the Dbacks the game.

It was flukey, all the same.

Not even close

Karma?

KK

You deserve this. Savor the win, then get more

Moylan was yelling at himself before the ump called it a strike.

That’s hilarious.

Yes!!

Thank goodness. Yay KK!

Wow!

That was such a ball. Damn. I feel bad for the Tiger fans.

this

terrible call

964 more

And we’ll be close to even

Did the umpire give Brian McCann a fist-bump afterward?
LOL!!

Juuuuuuuuuuuuust a bit outside!

Man thats TWICE

a horrible call has screwed the Tigers

to be fair we've been screwed on bad calls before too
And no one cries for us

Quite the contrary

Someone post the lamasaurus
Tigers fan will come here to complain in 3, 2, ....
slightly justified
I wouldn't blame them
We won guys...

who cares if it was a bad call?

Because it makes me feel dirty.

i don’t. we’ve got shitted out of winz before, it evens out

I guess

That’s one way to look at it.

I just feel bad for Tiger’s fans. Nothing close to what happened in the Almost Perfect Game, but they have been screwed over by umpires in 2010.

that insurance run we got turned out to be HUGE
Think of it this way.

It doesn’t feel so dirty when you think about how the Phillies get to play three “away” games at home. That’s more crappy than any strike call.

The Phillies themselves

Are a sin against God.

True

Worst part of the whole deal was that Blue Jay fans won’t see Halladay this year.

KK ONLY HAS ONE WIN HE STINKS

The ironic thing is

This was probably his best start of the entire season, but he might be benched if Jurrjens comes back this week.

Wasn’t his best of the year. I’ll go with the 6 innings, 0 ER, 8 K start he had in ’Zona. Maybe even the 6 IP, 0 ER, 5 K start against the Reds.

Heck, that start against Pittsburgh, where he only allowed 4 hits but gave up 2 runs, was a pretty damn good start too. He was unhittable until the 7th, and he just grooved one pitch to Jeff Clement that tied it up. He was really throwing well that game.

Hrm

7 IP, 2 H, 1 ER (a bomb to one of the best players in the American League), and 3 BB. Oh, and six strike outs.

THe only game that can really compete is the game in Arizona.

Well

The Reds are a great offense, and he shut them out over 6 innings as well. Reds score more than the Tigers, by a fair margin.

Yup

Regardless, Cox has one hell of a decision to make.

KK HAS INFINITELY MORE WINS THAN HE DID YESTERDAY!!!

From now on

Nobody say anything about NOT scoring anymore runs because they want someone to get a save!!!

Baseball is a messy game

You gotta get wins any way possible

Anybody else

Feel a horrible since of deja vu to last year’s game where nobody in the bullpen could throw a strike?

I think it was against the Phillies, and we must have walked about five players in a row.

Yikes

sense of deja vu***

So I pulled out

My awesome copy of Talking Chop 2010 Annual.

It was actually in the first week of the season. on April 8 against the Phillies. Braves had a 10-3 lead going into the seventh inning. Then EOF gave up a single, hit a batter, he exits. Moylan came on and walks a batter and allows two singles. Blaine Boyer (haha) comes in and walks two more! Lastly, Jorge Campillo (haha x2) came in and gave up a single and walk before getting the final two outs. Those four relievers gave up eight runs over five walks, a hit batter, and three singles.

Oh well, at least it didn’t end with a loss today.

I refuse to feel bad. We have had bad calls go against us that have cost us wins. Getting one in our favor is fine with me.

i agree…no reason to feel bad, but the next time we get screwed, i’ll definitely think back on this game

Rainbow Llamasaurus loves idiot umpires!!

This is an imposter Rainbow Llamasaurus.
It was either llamasaurus's cousin...

or no llamasaurus at all!

Take some time and think about that…

RAINBOW LLAMASAURUS' STRANGE COUSIN MAKES APPEARANCE BECAUSE HE'S COOL TOO
LOL at tigers fan

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/4499/tigers.jpg

Umm....what? Really?
The fuck was that?
awesome drawing

You’d feel the same way if it was Hohn and he had done this to us.

There is no "would" to it

He did and I did. This is Karma, coming around to even the score. The Tigers will get a bad call to go in their favor, sooner or later and Hohn will get crabs or something. It will all even out.

Farm thingies...

GCL:
Rohm had another hit
Edison Sanchez 2-4 with a double, played 3rd
Lipka had his first SB

Danville just had a 5 run second inning, capped by Robert Brooks’ 2 run triple.

Randall Delgado is getting rocked.

Matt Diaz is in rehab at AAA.

Delgado

He’s settling down after a rough 2nd!

Also Sanchez

Is going to be good!

in honor of the great imager

Next up..........

SWEEP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

personally, on the slow mo replay, I thought strike 3 was on the black when it crossed the plate, but had very late tailing action such that where received by McCann, it looked well off the plate.
Excellent call by the ump.

Haha

:-)

I’m totally serious. truly I am.

well if it was a legitimate strike, not even Pujols could’ve hit it! /dodges lightning

Vlad Guerrero would doubled off the wall

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