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Braves Minor League Open Thread: 6/8

Another Minor League open thread... gotta chat if you want it to stay around. It's a good night for Braves pitching with four legit pitching prospects making starts, including two former first round picks, including last year's first-rounder.

Gwinnett Braves
Game time:  7:15pm
Starting pitcher:  Jose Ortegano (2-1, 3.18)

Mississippi Braves
Game time:  7:05pm
Starting pitcher:  Mike Minor (1-4, 3.68)

Myrtle Beach Pelicans
Game time:  7:05pm
Starting pitcher:  J.J. Hoover (3-3, 3.48)

Rome Braves
Game time:  7:05pm
Starting pitcher: Brett DeVall (2-3, 3.55)

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Great Idea

I love this new idea!
I really enjoy all of the minor league coverage that the site is including.

What does 2011s rotation look like?
JJ
Hanson
Huddy
Medlen/KK
Minor

I would like to see Lowe moved, but of course that is unlikely. Also Meds has shown in his brief stint so far that he is ready for a spot in the rotation.

I Agree

I understand that KK is suppost to be our life line to the japanese communities,but Medlen has earned a spot over him. And yeah Lowe, I think, is gonna stick around for the entire life of his contract unfortunately.
Also first time poster here ha

Welcome new comer!! I do not post often but am an avid daily reader.

Thanks! I too have been reading here for awhile just never got around to posting up until now.

Free cookies for the new guy!
/gives you cookies

Schafer will be 3/4 with 2 2B, BB

take it to the bank

Unfortunately he isn’t in the lineup

Strasburg thread

i wish it was a better team that could light him up

Lucky for me, I live in the area, and get MASN2 HD, although, unlucky for me, Rob Dibble does the announcing. He is by far THE worst/most biased announcer ever. EVER.

its on mlb network

Worse than Joe Morgan?

Bye far.

Didnt know

That was possible.

It’s hard to believe. But he is wretched, to say the least. He’s more obnoxious than chip, and just dumb.

He sounds terrible. I bet he kills puppies.

Makes Vick seem like a saint.

LOL
nice one

Yes.

I’m in the MASN market, and am listening to Rob Dibble’s fat mouth right now.

It’s rough.

Am I a bad person if I want to see Strasburg lit up?

I’m support him.
But when he face the Braves, he gotta be careful.

No

But I’d like to see him succeed. He’s great for baseball in Washington, and by all accounts he’s got a good head on his shoulders and isn’t overbearingly cocky.

His curve is filthy. There should be laws against it.

where was that???

That was a wicked googly.

The ump looked confused.

I thought this was the Braves Minor League Thread, not Strasburg Thread.
Strasburg hasn’t thrown a strike yet!

he’s a chump,

we should trade Chavez and JoJo to the nats for Strasburg and Bryce Harper.

And have them throw in Zimmerman for chipper.

Nooooo not Chipper. How bout McLouth.

While the idea is ok, I just don’t think theirs gonna be enough comments to warrant it

Jesus.

That curve was fuckin crazy.

And the Hammer.

Dirty pitch.

On another note, I’m very excited to see Minor’s start.

Do you have alink?

So am I, i hope he does good. And the minor league thread is a good idea, especially since the big braves game is at 9:40

marlins up 1-0

LOLPhillies

I am

listening to the R-braves and am traumatized cause Chris Masters in on the DL….yikes…..

here's to hoping

jordan can find his swing and be ready for the bigs sometime around the all star break.

Agreed. And love your username, by the way. Haha

where's the steven strasburg / mike stanton schadenfreude thread?

You’re looking at it.

so people won't yell at me

if i talk about them?

Nope. Well, idk, but look up :)

Viele ups fur das.
 
(Many + for that)

Anyone know the lineup yet? Is J getting a day off yet?

yes and no

1. Infante 2B, 2. Heyward RF, 3. Jones 3B, 4. McCann C, 5. Glaus 1B, 6. Hinske LF, 7. Escobar SS, 8. Cabrera CF, Medlen RH

Nice to see chip back. An no Nate. Prado deserves a day off, too.

heyward needs a day off with the way he’s hitting

Did you hear he’s nursing a sore thumb?

hasn't he been

for a while?

yeah, that’s why I say he needs a day off. He’s hurting and it’s killing his production

Whats the official word on Diaz’s return?

I'm really mad Heyward isn't getting a day off.

It’s not like he just has a sore thumb but he is ice cold. Anyone else this cold is would get a day off. I know a day off isn’t gonna cure his thumb but at least give him a day to rest it and take is mind off hitting because he isn’t doing much off it right now.

99 with movement. YIKES STRAS!

Well, its official. He’s dirty.

no joke....

wicked slider

it's elevated though

if he can locate it down, like ubaldo, it could get a lot better

I wish they had gameday for Myrtle Beach and Rome too. Even if it doesn’t have all the bells and whistles

My prediction
before the debut they’ll retire strasburg’s number right after giving him his 10 cy awards and 10 mvp awards, NLDS mvp, NLCS Mvp and world series mvp. He’ll throw a perfect game through nine, but the nationals will not score any runs. Bill Hohn and Joe west will be umpiring the game, and give the Pirates a free run just cause. Strasburg gets the loss.

My prediction
before the debut they’ll retire strasburg’s number right after giving him his 10 cy awards and 10 mvp awards, NLDS mvp, NLCS Mvp and world series mvp. He’ll throw a perfect game through nine, but the nationals will not score any runs. Bill Hohn and Joe west will be umpiring the game, and give the Pirates a free run just cause. Strasburg gets the loss.

GAH

Sorry, ignore the double post

I can’t. It’s staring at me.

DOUBLE POST WILL HAUNT YOUR DREAMS

OMG

SS GAVE UP A HIT! DFA HIM!

Lowe for SS? Rosterbate.

HES SO TERRIBL

NO

to see such a promising career take such an ugly turn sad face

Freeman just knocked in Matt Young on an error. 1-0 Gwinnett

Yay Freeman!!! :D

MIKE STANTON ALERT

first AB. now. predict results below.

Line out to the shortstop. Seems to be the trend.

According to ESPN, SS has 4 k’s already. JEEZ

According to my television, that is correct.

Just scored tickets to the AAA all-star game at Lehigh Valley. Hope I get to see Freeman

I watched

Donnie Darko a couple days ago;

Awesome! :)

If you were refering to Donnie Darko…yes it was awesome.

infield single to stanton

it’s official. heyward > stanton

Stanton didn’t homer in his first atbat so he’s not as awesome as heyward. Too bad only 23 fans are there to see Mike’s debut

21. A couple just left to go see Get him to the Greek.

3

18 members of mike’s family who don’t give a shit about the marlins

Who DOES care about the marlins, anyway?

oh i forgot to clarify

the three “fans” are nats prez stan kasten along with the nats’ GM and assistant GM

And Dibble.

isn't dibble in the booth?

Probably more interesting than a marlins game

Have you seen his arms?

I’m starting the rumor now……Roids

Test him for roids nowww1

Dibble has to shut up. EASSSY, BIG FELLA, EAAAAAAAAAAASY.

That new kid is pitching for the Nats right now.

his stuff is lookin nasty. cant wait for the braves to put SS in his place

smoltzy in the booth calling that game...

i’m waiting for the first terrible joke of the night

4ks already in 2 innings work

Truthfully. This kid the Pirates have has a breaking ball like SS’s.

but does he throw 99

That’s the kicker. No. like 79

it does drop

but he doesnt throw 100 then drop it down to 79

ESPN is covering the oil spill

Its official: the sports world is whack

what r they saying about it

i dont have cable.

what's it saying?

They’re showing videos of it spilling and talking about how the saints are volunteering. But not much about the saints, more about the spill…

well there’s a sports angle, im not surprised

I really just want to strasburg hit

see

My friend texted me something funny. He said Ruth is glad he’s dead.

hopefully he doesnt hit like that mike leake kid...

really really well

I hear that Staton can throw a mean sinker.

He won’t hit a homer in his first at bat. Therefore, heyward is better

True or False...

Nats will pull SS after 5, the fans boo, then realize they’re watching the Nationals and leave.

I feel a big inning for the Buccs.

he's on a pitch count around 90-95....

I wouldn’t be surprised if all of your scenario comes true

I wishtheh Braves would have pick Leake instead of Minor.

why?

you do realize whatever pitcher we picked would not be in the majors right now, right?

Leake would be in AA for the Braves as well

The Reds NEEDED him in their rotation.

yeah but leake is all ups
Tony Gwynn is the best thing that could've happened to SS.

Showed him what it was like to be a major leaguer.

Pitch limit is 90 pitches for SS.

oh yeah he coach SD st doesnt he
reply button please

Kid is gonna have 12 SO’s.

O man

and he’s got the chainsaw ump…mlb HAD to set that up

seriuosly

ump seems a little too excited to ump the game

if i were an ump

id be horse by the end of a game. id want the fans in the nose bleeds to hear me

tony gwynn is so fat

even compared to his pro days

SS is taking apart

the NL’s worst team.

Don’t forget the Stro’s

hmm

personally, i think pittsburgh’s the worst team

It’s a toss up.

hes impressing me right now

lets see how he fares a couple times through the lineup

this lineup? naah, lets see him against good offensive teams like the Braves, Cardinals, Dodgers

I just realized we’re not actually talking about the minor league games

i cant watch or listen to them so someone will have to fill us in on what is going on
NOTHING CAN GO WRONG FOR THE NATINALS TODAY

NOTHING!

Except if they look down at their Jersey’s

TEH STRASBURGINATOR SHALL LEAD TEH NATIONALZ 2 TEH WURLD SERIES BUT TEH ORIOLEZ WILL BEET TEHM IN 7

man stil 2 hours till our game

i don't know about you

but watching SS is less stressful than watching the braves

thats a true statement

Strasburg through 3: 6 k's, 1 hit, 40 pitches...

and leading off the bottom of the 3rd…

He has an awesome delivery, i use to love Avery's delivery but Strasburg's looks better

ELLLLLL DOQUEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

lets hope his career is as short as averys
grounded out to short

Heyward > Strasburg

if he gets a hit they will riot in the streets like they won a championship

Well they don’t know what winning a championship is like. They’d just stand there in shock, then pass out. Heyward will resuscitate all of them, and after that they’ll start running around like drunk idiots

Ryan Doumit

would’ve taken him deep

i love mlb.tv

so many story lines to follow tonight

SS homers here
DAMN SO CLOSE!

WOW! What a play! Although, what was with the studder step!

wow

almost…wtf were they doing

are you surprised?

it’s the pirates.

I just want to see him against good teams.. not the Pirates
if he pitches every 5th day, he could make an appearance in Atlanta

at the end of June

heyward vs. strasburg

will be so hyped the world will explode

only if Heyward allows it to explode
TRUTH
lol

Slothsburg.

he'd fit in well with the speed section of our lineup

Heap, Glaus, Hinske…. speed to burn

Gotta say...

this MSN2 color guy is giving Chip a run for his money.

Told you. Dibble is the worst/most biased announcer ever.

whats everyones beef with Chip

He get’s too excited for deep flies.

or flares, or balls that are fisted, etc

Litlle Flare..Little Flare Little Flare

God...

this times infinity

ill give you that

but when im watching a game i want to hear biased talk about my team. F the rest of em

I dont get it either. I dont pay much attention to broadcasting, i just watch the game ya know?

every runner has a good jump

hahaha. Too true.

Gwinnett up 5-0 after a 3-run homer by Thurston.

Gulp gulp gulp1

On Topic!

How dare you!

fish up on phils 4-0

hanley 2-R HR

LOLPHILLIES

im so horny for a win tonight
i don't know whether you're talking about

the braves or sexytime

good to know Red SOx and Yankees are in the AL. You know Strasburg is headed there in 6 years

Because the yankees have ungodly deep pockets!

don't forget

bryce harper and the two pitchers the pirates drafted

So are Hanson and Heyward.

When we sweep them in the WS.

This Nationals game is the closest to a playoff game for the people of DC.

esp since Ovechkin and Co. layed a big egg a month ago
Uh oh

here comes OvecKid

i might have tried to bait him w that one......
its probably their first sellout

since they moved to DC

surely they sold out their 1st game their when we opened that park on a Sunday night

you mean when Zimmerman walked off against PeMo

DC is depressing enough to live in, they don’t need bad teams to make it even worse ya know

Rumor is, Strasburg is up for a Cabinet position next year.

theres no way back to back first overall picks

pan out

this new pick is supposed to be another sure thing tho

Please use the reply button

So was Todd Van Poppel.

never would have believed utley would be hitting .259

and as I see that he singles to right

same

when he comes out of that slump, it will be violent

I love how fast SS works.
hes young....

the ump already told him to slow down

Yeah I know...

I hope he doesn’t though. Like it better like this.

well the skins got donovan so they have that at least
The Wizards have a "shot"

With John Wall, and a big time free agent. They could be contenders again.

donovan STINKS

2 run HR by Howard

4-2 Fish.

fastball? breaking ball?

anyone know?

gopher ball

Basketball

Basketball

Why not. Basketball.

two hits vs. SS

ok that’s it, put him down

take him out right now!!

We need tio rename this “Strasburg debut thread”

well he is the biggest headline in baseball right now

"June 8th Pro Baseball and Other Shenanigans Thread"
You need

a pistol-whipping.

mmmmmmmmmmmmm......

pistol whip

Rickie Weeks up
how about J Hey moving within 9000 votes for first place in OF for Allstar game

9001 without my vote :)

9026

without my 25

I wish you didnt have to put in your info every time.

He might e playing CF is Ethier and raun are the other OF

maybe we can see some of his fielding skills finally then

CAN he play center? Or is he strictly a RF?

I made up like 5 or 6 fake yahoo email accts to stuff the box

Hinske for write-in!

Awesome
prado in 2nd for 2B, and Mac in 2nd for C

Welcome to the Majors, kid.

is it just me or does he have bad control

all his fastballs are high

yea i noticed this
first start

give the kid a break…he’s not heyward

its just you, his control is under control

first trouble for the kid….lets see how he handles it

Need early season Jones.

4-3 marlins

volstad is falling apart

Fish are gonna end up in the cellar come years end.. watch

Grabbing a flashlight from the Nats.

someone has to be...

the division is pretty tight this year

geez, what a 12 to 6 slider

12 to 6 slider?
this haitian shit on espn

is making me tear up

Lol

It shook me pretty bad

Strasburg gets his Vidro

broken bat double play

damn

SIT DOWN SS!

STRASBURG GIVES UP 2-R HOMER

Good Lord, the right side of the Nats infield is just so very very awful.

Welcome to the Show

Strasburg fail

The bad Young took Strasburg deep!!!
Heyward

can’t give up homers. hahaha

haha and heyward

is god.

he can

if bobby allows him to pitch from RF

if you want him to throw it 15 feet up the third base line

oooh

Repent immediately

Hes made 3 throws home…and they’ve resulted in 3 errors…obviously the weakest of his tools….(SSS)

Not after that throw last week.

wow young hit that

wait until heyward rips one

gotta give him a day off before he can hit again

HR

welcome to the majors SS

omg

he sucks he will never win Cy Young hes a bust trade him for some baseballs

Or Roy Oswalt.

can we get him for Jojo?

nah

were gonna trade Jo Jo for some Big League Chew and we can get SS for Chavez

that’ll work :)

The Nats will be lucky to get Jo Jo for him
now noones gonna go to the stadium to see that kid pitch

sucks for that guy who bought his baseball card for 25k

mike stanton AB #2

predictions?

Groundout to LF.

how does one ground out to LF?

Very lousily.

Hit it and get thrown out from LF

bold

but no cigar

ground out to 2nd

Epic fail

Line drive off Chasr Utley so Prado has to start the All Star game

Syringe falls out of his pocket.

young pitching

I cant wait to see what all of these young pitchers are gonna look like in a few years. there r some really good ones in the league right now. More than usual i would argue

56 pitches through 4. Looks like he's got another 2 innings left in him

barring another inning like the last one

BELTED LEFT! STEPHEN STRASBURG….WELCOME TO THE SHOOOOOOOOWWWW

too bad it was to right

actually, it was to RF

And it was more fisted than belted.

Just re-encacting the call of heywards homer baha

That was also, to the right.

Maybe so but the call was " BELTED LEFT"

Go back and watch it again…he says “swing and a drive…belted right”

sometimes you just gotta say “ok”

lmao. Funniest comment of the night.

this- just watched it again on dvr

I have the words permanently burned into my brain I have watched it so many times…is that pathetic? Haha

I know.

the show welcomes him

according to sarge “stanton can’t fight a bear with a switch”

so who rondo or kobe?

Larry Bird.

Micheal Jordan

Zaza Pachulia

Adam Morrison

Lenny Bias.

ouch

Yea. I take that back.

that breaks my record

for most replies to a comment.. not even having to do with the braves. i say kobe likes to do it on girls faces.

all the rape thing was set up by the father's girl to get money

sounds like something a kobe fan would say….and LT was innocent too…

stanton Ks

internet poitns to strider, bigG, and MBL

Pirates fail

for 20 years

that’s gotta suck. I’d have changed teams by then

and counting

Sid Bream curse

That was a perfect hit and run if I ever saw one

PHILLIE PHAIL

runners on first and second, pitcher sacrifices, safe @ first on pitcher sailed throw

and now kendrick misses the grounder up the middle

EL OH EL

Catch em’ out! Throw em’ OUT!

RICKIE WEEKS WITH A CANNON

Nice Vidro outta Weeks.

I remember when we were playing the Brewers and y’all kept making Milldege jokes… I was so lost

I also LOL’d.

marlins lead 6-3

DONT FUCK IT UP FISH. I KNOW PEOPLE AT BP. I CAN EASILY ExTERMINATE YOUR RACE

Coghlan actually did something

I havent checked my fantasy team since the second week…i think I still have him starting

being totally honest, fish scare me more than phils

why?

one word,

Hanley Ramirez with Stanton hitting behind him. Best 3-4 combo with Cantu at 5. Plus they’ve got 5 legitimate starters and a decent bullpen

they’re build for the long stretch of a season much like the braves

phils have too many weaknesses excluding their hitters. they have no bench, bullpen or depth behind halladay and hamels

i agree about the phillies

but i think you overestimate the marlins pitching. johnson is a legit ace, and sanchez and volstad are a good 2-3, but that’s it. hanley and cantu are legit, but stanton is unproven and will K a lot this year, and most likely the future. their bottom of the lineup (6-7-8-9) and their leadoff spots aren’t very decent right now.

IMO, cody ross and dan uggla are good ball players, we’ll agree to disagree on that

stanton will strike out alot but will also score alot of runs and hit alot dingers

i re-read your post

are you saying you are scared of the marlins b/c of their future? if you say the marlins might be a bigger threat in the NL east in the near future than, say, the phillies, i’ll agree with you there.

Fish

Can bite you O:

Phils can underage drink you.

that fan base is so sad

remember that douche bag who threw up on a 11 year old intentionally earlier this year

Yea. What a tool.

That is just disgusting. Poor kid

very happy

very happy about youngs homer against strasburg

I am new to this thread

so is it just an open thread or is it specifically for Minor league baseball?

NL east schadenfreude thread
we kind of just took over

Its the “Anything you wanna talk aboutthread”

lol that is what it feels like.

Basically, the minor league thread is now hijacked to discuss all things S. (Strasburg, Stanton, sausage, Sesame Street)

mets scare me
with what?

THEIR FACES?

that and

they have been playing us well this year

mets

steal signs at home. don’t worry about them, they can’t continue to play .800 baseball vs. us

jinx to the injuries

Their ugly ugly faces

supposed to minors

just not tonight

What?

W

if css had some braves minor league game on,

I would be happy to oblige w minor league chatter… but they don’t, and there’s a lot going on in the majors tonight

any news on Minor?

love the guy

Insert your stupid comments here

T

Can I Haz Sammich?

NO

BELTED LEFT! STEPHEN STRASBURG….WELCOME TO THE SHOOOOOOOOWWWW

LOL
i thought the call of heywards homer was “belted left” but then again my memory is horrible so there ya go

baseball sucks...

you said stupid so there ya go

I want to date Scarlett Johansson (sp?)

Over/Under for Strasburg K's...

10

I say under.

who?
Stephen... you know... the guy...

Dunno how to describe… ahhh forget it.

who?

tear

who?
This is the straw that breaks the camel's back...

- heads to garage with rope in hand -

whom?
You know what man... ya know what...

I ain’t gonna give you the satisfaction anymore. No mo. I’m done. Doneskies. Finished. Ka-Put.

who what?
Come on man...

can we just be pals? Please? No more of the questions. I just want to be friends. Let me know.

-S

oh

wait..

who?

Alright you asshole...

I’ve had enough of this bullshit. I can’t take it anymore. I’m done with this internet crap. I can’t do it. I come on here for a relaxing evening and all I get is a guy giving me shit. AHHH!!!

GRIT

This is cute.

Well why didn't you say so before?!?

Friends it is.

Staphsbert

Is my only friend

There's enough room to go around here.
mandatory post count

+1

I knew you'd see it my way.
sitting on 8 rt now and @ 70 pitches, he's probably only got 1 more inning left

I would have to say under

Can I Haz Sammich?

ahhhhhhh!!!!

Braeden Schlehuber just hit a homerun. Rome/Charleston tied 1-1. Still top of the 5th

You know what they say.

batting stance question

why do batters place their front foot further away from the plate than their back foot? seems like a detriment to hitting pitches away…

usually they then dive towards the plate

so in actuality a lot of times they jam themselves

when i played ball

it was more comfortable to stand that way

they do this

to allow their entire head to be in line with the pitcher, so they have both eyes watching the release before they go into their “timing” mechanism

thats about right

Saw that! I love fail blog

Someone should teach

that guy Strapsberg to run out ground balls… learn to hustle

grit wins ballgames

doesn't he have a fragile leg/ankle?

if i were wiggleman, i wouldn’t risk injuring my prized pitching prospect running out a ground ball

grit

YOU CAPITALIZE THAT WHEN YOU’RE TALKING TO ME.

Update on Gwinett game pleez

you'll get nothing and like it

Insert your complaints here

It was Rightfield, dammit!

I SHOULD HAVE KISSED HER

non-baseball complaints are acceptable, right?

Um…yes…

I missed game 6 bc I “had to go see about a girl”

Golden Line I heard today from MLBN

Strepsbag has 3 plus plus pitches
Nolan Ryan only had 2

HAHAHAH

6-4 fish on a dictorino HR

Pricktorino*

A-hole? oh wait that does not rhyme

Douchetorino

Victory?no

a few weeks ago when KK was nursing the foot blister

Bobby told his to slow down when he was running out a ground ball… u gotta baby your pitchers. especially your franchise player

If this was true, we’d have given JHey a day off by now

im talking pitchers
rob dibble:

“THIS IS WHAT A HALL OF FAME PITCHER LOOKS LIKE!”

STFU

Yes please. Although, 101. Wow.

He’s green with envy………because he isn’t one.

Yea. He’s just a grade A douche.

I guess this guy is worse than Chip. I haven’t watched every game, but at least to my knowledge, Chip has never claimed Heyward was already Hall-worthy.

Oh dear Heyward

10Ks for SS
That Pirates lineup

could be the best in baseball…

Steaksburg for MVP/Cy Young/Gold Glove/Silver Slugger

Holy crap.
Whats the record for most K’s in a rookie debut?

Jason Heyward

67 Ks

surely more than 10

he is done now anyways

Hearing Bob Costas

makes me miss the MLB and NBA on NBC

Costas and Uecker back together would be awesome.

Come on weeks

What is the reference. Because they look similar?

Someone said in a thread during the brewers game “he looks a lot like lastings milledge”….so now we call any black guy with dreads either rickie weeks, lastings milledge, or mcutcheon

haha. Marley’d

/sigh
you dont get it do ya

lol

CyborgHanson48
DATA SUGGESTS NATIONAL STRASBURG STEPHEN NOT CYBORG NOR DEITY: ONLY A HUMAN WOULD ALLOW HOMERUN TO PIRATE W/RATE OF 55 PA PER HR

Baha

It sucks

Having to listen to Dibble and the other guy call Stras’ first game.

11K’s so far. Very impressive stuff, even though the pirates suck.

Mlbs feed for the game must b messed up
for some reason

MLBN is showing mets / padres. Must be b/c i’m local to DC.

But even then, the game is on MASN2!! No high def? WTF!

Channel 844. Masn2 HD.

I got FIOS

my 844 is STARZZZZ

Ah. Got nothin for ya then, bud.

lucky…they were supposed to be in my area 2 years ago….still waiting

minor allowed a double and a homer in the 1st

Must have all happened after 2 outs, too, which means he’ll fit in great up with the big club.

Well....

E

Missed most of the conversation

Thoughts:

Stras can throw all his pitches for strikes
FB up to 101 on more than one occasion according to homer gun
Fairly generous strike zone tonight for both pitchers

who?
plz not again...
I thought we were exclusive?
Ovechkin

cleared it up with a cheap shot

zing....
glad to see another Hockey fan
yes, SS can throw his pitches for strikes

but he was getting greedy a little bit throwing a breaking ball right down the middle of the plate and giving up a home run

can't believe Smoltz hasn't gone into his comedy routine yet...

He saves that for PTV.

america is way to dumb for his jokes

RALLY JOKES

Hoover through 5 only 2 hits and 0 runs with 3 ks

Ok

KK and MVP for Zimmerman?

Any takers

Man Dunn

just undressed that ball

And SS gets the win.

Cue Baseball Tonight.

I was about to say

I think the Nats have just been watching him pitch rather than actually take good AB’s

That was Dunn’s first HR this year? WTF is up with that?

he hates baseball

I’m pretty sure it was his 11th..

?

that was not Dunn

That was Stoolsberg

MLBN

is f’ing up

SS might get a win

Pirates. Will*

Strasburg now can qualify for a W

until Clippard comes in and allows the pirates to tie, after which the Natinals take the lead and Clippard pick up another W

Lol

karstens coming apart at the seams

Willingham homers. 4-2 Nationals

What Willingham

hit a homer that was not a grand slam.. strange day

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Slam-Slam-Josh-Willingham-makes-history-with-t?urn=mlb,179056&cp=2#comments

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Welcome new comer!! I do not post often but am an avid daily reader.

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That's not supposed to be it...
It's supposed to be...
i read the title post wrong: thought Josh scored with two GILFs.

Is that not Comment #3?

HAHA... nicely done...

PELICAN!!!

Not really though.

Don’t want to ruin it.

But really… nicely done. You made a believer out of me.

Don’t stop!!!

Was thinking more along the lines of Smash Mouth...

if she doesn’t have braces, sure.

Still an hour till the Bravos game….:(

Mlb is being flooded with people wanting to watch the new kids on the block

and its f’in it up for the rest of us

phillies are about to have bases loaded no outs

1 hour till the Braves start

enough time for dinner @ chik-fil-a and some Green Day Rock Band

volstad falling apart

bases loaded for phils, no out

Garrrrrr

Wait…The Nats homered?
/heart attack from shock

blue jays coming to CBP….12 HRs that day

they are at home too

Alex Gonzalez will hit 6?

put bautista down

for eight

6-5 marlins

I swear. This Phillies team can come from behind any moment.

Thats not a good thing for us

not against good pitching

Freddy should have took him out 3 batters ago….maybe I don’t want him as our next manager

He doesn't know what he's doing

He never played in the big leagues

I have soured on him somewhat this year

I want Bobby next year ha :)

time to get ready for the game

Going to the liquor store

Grab me a Burnetts.

gross

college can do many things to your taste buds.

we always went with Bankers Club…or 10 High whiskey…basically it needs to be in a plastic bottle

Bankers works well too, yes.

Strasburg's 11k's are the most in a debut

since Hudson had 11 in ’99

didn’t know that. cool

I am now hooked on failblog. It is the funniest thing I have seen in a long time.

They have a lot of other great failblog sites, i’ve been going on them for 2 years. Try learnfrommyfail.com. It’s great

It makes me sad to see the amount of stupidity here in America.

Worst Fielding by Position

C – Victor Martinez
1B – Adam Dunn
2B – Luis Castillo
SS – Yuniesky Betancourt
3B – David Wright*
LF – Manny Ramirez
CF – Vernon Wells
RF – Brad Hawpe

Opinions?

is david wrong’s defense that bad at 3rd?

ive seen chipper play the last two years…idk if he can be worse

please

note the *

Realistically it is

Kung Fu Panda or Chipper Jones haha

Booth — Rob Dibble.

With Chip as play by play

Chipper bad defense? Really? He’s made a couple errors but a lot of great plays this season too

Kid is gonna have 12 SO’s.

I don’t know shit about baseball.
by oVecKid on Jun 8, 2010 7:37 PM EDT reply actions
WRONG

13 Ks

15*

I don’t know shit about baseball.
by oVecKid on Jun 8, 2010 7:38 PM EDT up reply actions
too bad

he just got 13

pitch counts are for pussies

riggleman is shitting his pants right now

as is dibble.

- Dusty Baker

theres a difference between dusty baker and babying pitchers nowadays

Elaborate...

120 pitches isnt going to make a guys arm fall off…I find it crazy that 100 is some magical number where a guy is automatically tired….if a guy isn’t laboring or losing velocity…leave him in

Dusty's guide to pitching

We winning?
Keep him out there

We losing?
Keep him out there

Is he tired?
One more inning, unless we start winning then restart guide

End of guide restart

we can only hope

his arm falls off from throwing 92 pitches

Lol
14 Ks

damn.

Pirates

like to swing?

or

pirates bet the “over” on “strasburg Ks: 13.5”

Jesus.

0BB, 14Ks. I think this was a successful debut.

yawn

teheran did that last week

I believe there's a bit of difference between Hi-A and ML hitters.
the names?

Yea. Lets not call the pirates a ML team.

If you’re smart, Riggleman, he’s had enough.

I think the pirates have had enough

I think that was it for him

Real Talk...

I know its the Buccs. But this kid is legit. Too legit, in fact, to quit.

I can’t wait till he spirals into bankruptcy

94 pitches

SS is done. either that, or the natinals are DUMB

Imagine

if he had made his debut against the D’backs. He would have about 20 Ks

In Fast Out Fast
Imagine if he could go more than 95 pitches.

He could probably get 17 anyways.

its not that he can't go more than 95

there is no need for him to throw any more

What inning is it?

7.5

Well that makes sense

Bottom of the 7th.

14K is not mind-boggling Bob. Sorry. It just isn’t.

For his ML debut,

along with 0BB, yeah, it really is.

No, it really isn’t.
 
Was it outstanding? Yeah. But it isn’t “mind-boggling”. That’s just silly.

You're right

it’s mind bottling

Bah, that's just semantics.

I misunderstood your post, which made it seem like the start wasn’t that impressive, which it clearly was.

Yea. I think it is too. Is this the high so far this year? I can’t think of another

14 ks out of 21 batters faced

Just wait, SS will be with the Yankees in 4 yrs, nats cant afford him

strasburg to yankees

harper to red sox?

Also, to Yankees.

maybe the nats will do what the twins did

pay their best player

actually, the twins traded santana for a bag of balls

But I’m the American League MVP!

Hmmm, doesn't ring a bell.

well played mauer…

i was talking about that guy behind the plate

they'll be able to afford him if they can get good attendance when he pitches

CNBC’s sports business guy said the Nationals are making an extra 1.5 mil off this game alone compared to what they normally bring in on a per game basis

Strasburg is out

why aren’t the fans leaving?

because they don’t know what a pinch hitter is so they’re waiting for him to come back out. ten bucks says they boo when storen comes in from the bullpen

Hmmm……

Scott Proctor pitching in Myrtle Beach to relieve JJ Hoover. Myrtle Beach winning 2-0, top of the 7th

On topic!
HOW DARE YOU

cant wait to see that guy on the roster

hes promising…. even better after the surgery

hey….LOVE Scott Proctor and can’t wait for him to get back!!!

sorry about being on topic…….I’m a MiLB die-hard…what can I say…..?? :)

Maybe Clippard can Villareal another win tonight.

haha

that would be hilarious

Alright time for work out

see you guys in the game thread

who?

jorge sosa in relief for marlins

well fuck.

Bye guys

I’m bored. See you in the OT. GO BRAVES

Love, Peace, and Chicken Grease.

Can anyone sum up Brave MiLB action to now?

Myrtle Beach is winning, Rome is not. That’s all I can give ya.

hoover pitched very well 6 ip, 2 hits, 3 BB, 5 K’s, 0ER

minor gave up a 2 run shot, so his numbers aren’t so pretty right now, but mississippi just tied the game

I LOVE MINI-SODA!

stupid MLB.tv commercials

1st and 3rd no out for Phillies

Thanks Sosa

phillies r winning

Strasburg is filthy

I only watched the second inning. Looked like he was ginen a veteran strike zone. I saw some strike calls that would have made Glavine blush. Was it like that the whole game?

ha, it was worse the whole game. there was a letter high curveball that crossed the plate around his eyes that was called a strike in the 7th

wtf is up with the game thread

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