Talking Chop

I have been an 8 since the offseason and still remain the same

I love this team! Even when we were going through our struggles it was frustrating as heck but I knew it could last all season.

Jay212033 - June 4, 2010 reply

I’ve been a pretty steady 8. I went to 7 during the losing streak, though. Thinking about doing 9 if the team keeps this up.

I also went from an 8 to a 7 during the losing streak, but I’m back to an 8. No fan fickleness from me.

Now if only Bobby would bench McLouth. Is Diaz ready yet?

Wow

I did the same. Consistent 8 but a 7 during the streak. I like you guys.

And no, Diaz won’t be read until probably the all-star break the last I heard.

fark on a stick! I need a steady dose of Diaz. I’ve never seen a batter that makes me curse 1 second and then scream with joy the next.

Same.

I’ve been an 8 all season except for the losing streak (7) and the current winning streak (9).

I cannot testify to the consistency of my voting, since this is the first vote I’ve cast.

My vote is none of your damn business and i’ll thank you to stay out of my personal affairs.

Although you have no voting record….(according to your profile)

He has sock puppets.

Scores of them.

soup du jour - June 4, 2010 reply

I vote, the problem is that my large amount of comments i make pushes my voting for the last period off the record. But thank you for snooping.

My bad. Maybe I should mind my own business… :)

We all know you’re one of the people who constantly votes 1, what I don’t know is why you continue to try and hide it.

Wait, I thought it meant this team is number 1, have i been doing it wrong this whole time? How embarrassing.

Until we get Pujols or Damon...

I’ma keep voting 1 goshdarnit. I might relent and bump it to a 2 if we sign that Jermaine Dye dude or bring back that comedian in the TV booth.

Heyward is the new Pujols, so you should be voting at least a 2.

Nah, he's that right handed slugging 1B we need behind Heyward...

So until Wren trades Glaus and Freeman (and only those two) for Pujols, I’m keeping it at a 1. Do it Wren, or suffer my wrath!

I bet you voted for Pat Buchanan too.

The ballot was confusing

+1

Futurama references…….always a good decision.

UMDBHIK - June 4, 2010 reply

Futurama is coming back!! woo hoo! Do the Bender!

Eh, I'm not that excited...

more a wait and see approach to see how good it is. It’s been a while since the first go-round, and second comings aren’t always better. The movies thing didn’t really get my anticipation up, and the Simpsons have been crap imo for a decade or more.

TWSS

award6 - June 4, 2010 reply

hmmm.....I must have missed this poll.

Don’t see it anywhere.

lol, Oh well, Go Braves!!!

I love this team. Right down to the 25th guy on the roster

MBL1 - June 4, 2010 via mobile reply

I do not love Cristhian Martinez or Jesse Chavez. Their uselessness was pretty apparent last night when the lefty Venters was brought in to finish off the right-handed Martin. What’s the point of having an extra pair of right-handers in the bullpen if they aren’t going to be used in more than just blowout situations. I agree you probably need to keep one of them, but not both.

KLB - June 4, 2010 reply

I love Chavez just fine

Don’t love Martinez at all though.

that

Venters has been very effective against RHP so I didn’t hate the move. But I agree with your statement about blowout situations…frustrating as hell.

This has to be be the all the band wagon fans here. The Braves have a horrible organization and it is the only team owner by a corporation in the League. They constantly bring in recovering injury players cheap or over the heal veterans cheap. They got bailed out by drafting Hayward and Hanson. I have not forgot the last 5 years of trimming payroll and allowing studs to walk away from Atlanta but offering contracts far below what the player is actually going to get so that they look like they are trying when in fact they are only trying to cut payroll so the executives can divide the profit and laugh at the fans of Atlanta for accepting this garbage. The 4 week roll has been great but Atlanta needs a real owner who wants to win first. Cox has to go and he will thank god this year and I will miss him dearly but he is not as sharp as he once was. Finally if you gave this organization over a 5 you are not very bright or a very avid fan. We have traded away great players for less than nothing and let Texierra walk away, and much much more so pray that Hayward is sent from God and that his energy can ignite the veterans and cause the younger players to hustle more and play winning baseball more because if your not doing that when Hayward is on the field then you are looking like a complete fool because Hayward is hands down the best baseball player at 20 that this league has ever seen and he will win triple crowns and championships but watch closely because they Braves should offer a ten year deal right now for 100 million but they will penny pinch and pay him what his contract says for 3 or 4 years and at the last second they will try to compete with the Yankees and Red Sox for his services in free agency but will loose miserably. The Braves have to sign him now to a decade long contract and start paying him rather than risk being cheap and waiting. Massive Braves fan but also not fooled by the smoke and mirror corporation that owns the Braves right now.

*Heyward

lol

Tex wasn't coming back, dude

Londonjoe - June 4, 2010 reply

batteries?

Londonjoe - June 4, 2010 reply

This was

the longest sentence ever written. Nice work!

UMDBHIK - June 4, 2010 reply

LOL

I love that epic 153 word sentance near the end.

bbxxj - June 4, 2010 reply

*sentence

bbxxj - June 4, 2010 reply

I saw that long sentence-paragraph and just skipped it. My eyes think it’s really ugly to look at.

OGT needs to make a comeback, right now

fphjr01 - June 4, 2010 reply

you really should have blockquoted this, because people are gonna think these are your actual thoughts.

Oh I know.

rawr stealing my quotes rawr

I had to post the whole thing.

lol it was truly a classic

this hayward fellow

sounds pretty good

lingsched - June 4, 2010 reply

You are welcome to your opinion, and I hope I am welcome to mine. I don’t feel like a fool for voting 8, because the Braves are in the race for the best record in the NL and our Minor League system is ranked as top 6 in baseball. If that is a sub-5 vote, I can’t imagine the scale you use.

TROLL

what the hell is wrong with you rabble rabble rabble….ban this guy rabble

It does have one interesting point...

10 yr/$100m for Heyward right now? Good deal or bad deal?

After next year, good deal….after this year, bad deal…..just my opinion.

I can agree with that

It would make 12 yrs for $101M overall, and probably keep him here for his career. That’s my thinking.

Although...

if he finishes this year and then produces next year like he has so far, it’d probably take more like $120-150m as opposed to just $100m. You gotta think that after arb, he could get $20-30m+ per on the open market so he’d be selling himself way short on the back end.

Absolutely

He only signs a 10 yr deal with Atlanta if this is where he really wants to be. If he wants more, he can get it, no doubt. I think a 5 or 6 yr deal is more likely if he wants to go FA.

Anything to keep Heyward is a good deal. Even if he had to play every position at once, he could still do it because….he is Heyward.

What's the all-time high for fan confidence?

Go Braves

Thomas Hunt Morgan - June 4, 2010 reply

This year, 82%. Before this season IDK (Wasn’t on TC) But probably right after the World Series in ’95?

when we signed Craig Wilson

Paul Bako.

/ban

come on

I’m new here!

Liar liar, plants for hire!

Really? I have some petunias looking for work.

This is just another reason I love this blog. You guys/gals crack me up.

THE BRAVES SUCK FRANK WREN IS A YANKEES FAN..WHY ELSE WOULD HE TRADE JAVY VAZQUEZ TO THEM FOR MELKY?!? WHO? CAUSE WE SHOULD’VE TRADED KK BECAUSE HE DOESNT WIN GAMES AND WENT 7-12 LAST YEAR. HE OBVIOUSLY DOESNT WANT TO WIN A CHAMPIONSHIP BECAUSE HE NEVER SPENDS MONEY EITHER LIKE HE GOT TROY GLAUS AS A BRIDGE PLAYER TO GET TO FREEMAN!!! WHY FRANK WREN?! WE SHOULDA TRADED EVERYONE FOR ADRIAN GONZALEZ CAUSE HES A GOOD HITTER. MAYBE WE SHOULDA TRADED KK AND THEN A SPARE PART LIKE JORDAN SCHAFER BECAUSE HE SUCKED LAST YEAR.

FIRE FRANK WREN

Melky is a contender for MVP

but other than that I completely agree

best bunter in the league, baby.

Don't forget...

MELKY CHOP.

It amazes me, every time.

-C

cthabeerman - June 4, 2010 reply

FRANK WREN SHOULD CHOKE ON A HOTDOG!!!!!!!!!

MBL1 - June 4, 2010 reply

a big New York one, cause, you know, he’s a Yankees fan.

Now let me get this straight.

Are you saying Frank Wren is a Yankees fan?

WHY ELSE WOULD HE TRADE JAVY TO THE YANKEES FOR MELKY?!?

Javy cost $11.5M and Melky was less than $4M, Wren is a cost-cutting bastard, that’s what I think, a cost-cutting bastard.

Seriously.

He should’ve just paid Javy’s salary from his own pocket.

Seriously

I hope you realize I wasn’t serious

Surely you can't be serious...

DolphinNation - June 4, 2010 reply

Don’t call me Shirley

LOL

MBL1 - June 4, 2010 reply

This is just another reason I love this blog. You guys/gals crack me up.

I need to come on here more often—it would be worth it!

Um...

Pot paging kettle.

I was just playing along.

anyone notice how the fan confidence graph looks like a W?

it’s like it’s trying to tell us something, man

atl192485 - June 4, 2010 reply

pointy boobs are good?

This bears repeating. Boobs are just good.

Suitcase full of cash?

Buried under the big “W”

To me, it looks like a “W” as in… WINNERS

NCChopper - June 4, 2010 reply

George W. Bush is running TC?

UMDBHIK - June 4, 2010 reply

It is a W! For win!
ZOMG! ALERT THE MEDIA

MBL1 - June 4, 2010 reply

somewhat OT

Accuscore gives us only a 22% chance of winning the division despite having the biggest division lead in baseball. what gives?

15ks - June 4, 2010 reply

Best guess….they don’t expect the Phillies to slump the rest of the season

because we are playing in by far the best division in baseball

washinton is the worst team in the division and theyre still right at .500 with Strasburg coming up in a few days. And the phillies will not keep playing the way they are the whole season, so this division is still by far the most competetive and most unpredictable in baseball. Cant wait for Spetember, its gonna be one hell of a race!

CoxXx - June 4, 2010 reply

ummm…. NL you mean.

AL East gets hyped endlessly, but that doesn’t mean it’s overrated. Rays and Yankees are better than ANY team in the NL, and the Red Sox are really good too (just think when their pitching regresses back to where it should be). Toronto is playing really well, and Baltimore wouldn’t have that record if they didn’t have to play the BIG 3 every other day.

Seriously, Atlanta and Philly are good… but there’s no way the Marlins, Nats, and Mets are anywhere near the talent level of the AL East.

NL East is probably pretty close to the NL West for the best division in the NL.

Overall:
AL E > (AL W, NL E, NL W) > AL C > NL C

kbertling353 - June 4, 2010 reply

NL East > NL West