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Heyward, Braves Beat Mets 9-3

Jason Heyward had four hits and four RBI for the second time since August 22. He ended up going 4-5 with a home run (16), and his one out was an absolute bullet to center field. The Braves had 14 hits altogether, with all of the top five hitters having at least two hits a piece.

The Braves scored five runs in the first two innings and were in control for almost the entire game. It was tied 2-2 heading into the bottom of the third and was five three heading to the bottom of the sixth. Jair Jurrjens did not pitch well, walking six batters, six hits, and three runs over 5.2 innings pitched. Eric O'Flaherty bailed him out of a jam in the sixth or else his run total would have been a lot worse. Kyle Farnsworth and Billy Wagner pitched scoreless innings in the eighth and ninth respectively.

Oliver Perez made an appearance and promptly gave up a home run to Brian McCann (19). Perez's presence on that team is comical, as is the fact that he has 39 walks in 44 innings. Pat Misch lasted just three innings and Manny Acosta got lit up for three runs in his only inning of work.

This was pretty much a dominant game all around for the Braves, but you would like to see Jair pitching a bit better. His strikeout pitch was working as he punched out eight, but he has pitched poorly with leads in his past two starts. Up next is Mike Minor against Jon Niese tomorrow at 7:10 pm EST.

P.S. Francoeur ended the game with an absolutely atrocious swing.

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Did everybody see the tweet about Lowe?

Some soreness in the arm, going to pitch a side session to see if it’s alright.
I wonder (hope?) if this is why we recalled KK? I’d be so down with him taking Lowe’s next start.

HURRY

Trade for Lilly!

 . . . . Seriously

1-0 DODGERS!
Vamanos Los Dodgers!!!
it´s Vamos Dodgers!

Vamonos sounds very uggly

Yeah but it isn’t incorrect

I think that it

might be. Should be ‘¡Vámonos! Dodgers’. For tonight, I’m a fan.

Vamanos

Means “lets go” (as in you’re with a group of a friends and want to go somewhere).

Vamos is the word that more appropriately captures the english meaning.

For instance

Vamonos al cine. Lets go to the movie.
Nosotros vamos al cine. We go to the movie.

Yeah

I totally meant that. Original sentence:

“Let’s go Dodgers to the hardware store to buy pickaxes to go slaughter the Phillies.”

I couldn’t translate the hard part, so I did what I knew!

Vamos Dodgers a la ferreteria a comprar picos para masacrar a los Phillies

i know, it´s because. Spanish conjugation is very complex

Go = Vamos(We), Voy (I), Van(They), Vas or Van(You)
Goes = Va

My Spanish

is as good as Francoeur’s plate discipline. Forgive me.

if your spanish proficiency mattered

why isn’t it on your public profile?

I legitimately

LOL’ed on this one. Call it a LLOL, if you may.

Of course, people will start saying LLOL when it's not legitimate

like the idiots who say “literally” as an intensifier, even when not being literal.

Well, I am of the belief

that people would definitely start doing that. Hmmp… time to slump like Jeff Francouer.

it's Vamos Dodgers
SO....

Instead of “Let’s Go, Dodgers”….

are we really saying “Here we go, Dodgers” ?

That makes sense.

Vamos Dodgers, Vamos. Clap, Clap.

FYF

I actually feel bad for Francoeur, I was really annoyed that some idiot threw a bottle at him in the outfield. Have some respect.

Eh...

I would feel bad if this was a normal player, but after the comments during his Braves tenure, and his ‘shining beacon of hope in the clubhouse’ personality change in NY, it’s hard not to blame the bottle thrower.

He didn't say anything evil. Throwing a bottle is bush league, period.
Glass?

changes if it’s not plastic.

Plastic is bush league

Glass, or filled plastic, or anything like that is way, way beyond bush league.

It shouldn't matter

I don’t like the guy either, but that’s no reason to throw stuff at him.

This

Throwing stuff at players on the field is something New York or Philly fans would do. Stay classy Atlanta.

You're absolutely correct, of course.

Friends and I were at the game at called it ridiculous behavior. The question is, “Was it a Braves fan or Mets fan that threw the bottle?” With Jeff’s recent (or past three seasons’) lack of offensive production and “Play me every day or trade me” attitude, it could conceivably have been once of the many Mets fans in attendance I saw (if they had no batteries at hand). Or one of the group of idiotic Phillies fans in their jerseys that I saw. (WTF?)

Speaking of rival fans in attendance, I was quite depressed to see the low fan attendance for the opening game of a series versus the Mets. Yes, I know it was a Monday night, but, still…

interesting vid: pete rose talks about how pitching gets no respect, and

wonders how ryan howard can hit so many oppo-field HRs:

http://sports.yahoo.com/video/player/news/In_Depth/21661504;ylt=Ao8cPggXYUVzUpficiHaBD4RvLYF#news/GrahamBensinger_InDepth/21661504

I would

love to offer an opinion on that. He invoked the power of Satan (Werth’s half-brother).

Holy...

Wagner touching 98, 97, 97 in those three fastballs before the slider to Francoeur.

That's not touching that's sitting.
My mistake.

what’s the difference? I mean, he usually sits 95-96, right?

“touching” implies hitting a velo that’s usually out of, or at the top of, a pitcher’s range. so a 93-94 MPH fastball pitcher can touch 95, but sits at 93-94

Yeah...

so if he sits at 95-96, then am I not right?

hmmm

very subjective. i guess jay212033’s point was that since he was hitting 97-98 several times, it can count as “sitting” for this session/outing, i guess.

it’s not black and white

Ahhh...

Enlightened, am I.

If you touch 97 or 98 it's not consistent.

Meaning a pitcher that’s normally 91-92 may touch 95-96 a couple times a game.

I wasn't trying to come off as rude or nothing like that though.
No worries at all.
I love

The instant recap. Gracias.

Also, I wish pagnosis (or however you spell it) was doing the recap. I want to see more “Infante is going to regress” posts.

I think Ben is also in that boat. As am I. We don’t need to beat a dead horse though

Agree completely

Getting the instant recap up is AWESOME for us to talk about the game… even if you put up something little and then edit it into a full fledged recap later.

Exactly

Its not hard to type up a few short paragraphs during the game that capture the gist of what happened and allow us to discuss it immediately after, and then follow up later with a longer recap.

LA has runners on the corners, no out

why am i convinced halladay will get out of this unscathed?

Because he’s an awfully good pitcher

not unscathed

but giving up the run is the right play there

There's an error in the post I believe

You say the Braves scored 5 runs in the first two innings, then say it was tied 2-2 going into the bottom of the 3rd.

LET’S GO DODGERS! LET’S GO DODGERS! LET’S GO DODGERS! LET’S GO DODGERS! LET’S GO DODGERS! LET’S GO DODGERS! LET’S GO DODGERS! LET’S GO DODGERS! LET’S GO DODGERS! LET’S GO DODGERS! LET’S GO DODGERS! LET’S GO DODGERS! LET’S GO DODGERS! LET’S GO DODGERS! LET’S GO DODGERS! LET’S GO DODGERS! LET’S GO DODGERS! LET’S GO DODGERS! LET’S GO DODGERS! LET’S GO DODGERS! LET’S GO DODGERS! LET’S GO DODGERS! LET’S GO DODGERS! LET’S GO DODGERS! LET’S GO DODGERS! LET’S GO DODGERS! LET’S GO DODGERS! LET’S GO DODGERS! LET’S GO DODGERS! LET’S GO DODGERS! LET’S GO DODGERS! LET’S GO DODGERS! LET’S GO DODGERS!

let’s go ooogers?

I think

that he meant ’Let’s go Boogers’.

Maturity!

kind of interesting move to call up KK today

our playoff roster will be set tomorrow at midnight, and I guess Bobby would rather have KK than Martinez or Kimbrel in the pen

KK’s been in the playoffs before…

LLWS?

No, Japan

I know.

Joke. As you know, Japan is in LLWS.

oh, haha. I think they actually won.

Japan beating Hawaii?

Hmmm… seems all too familiar… Where’s Fisher Burman when you need him?

oh... wow! haha

no way thats crazy

PEARL HARBOR II

DUCKS ON THE POND

if Georgia

played Japan, the story would have been different

Kimbrel

had to go back when he did for some reason that DOB gave. Also the reason with Martinez is that he wouldnt be available for a few days out of the pen anyway.

Kimbrel went down bc Minor is starting tomorrow.

I realize Martinez wouldn’t be available for a few days, but by sending him down, he won’t be eligible to be on our post season roster unless some pitcher that is on the 25 man tomorrow gets hurt

not true

rule was changed that as long as the player is on the 40 man its ok.

On Omar Infante's chances at the Batting Title:

As long as those added AB’s (from 502) are added as Fly Outs, not Ground Outs, I will be happy.

(for the Sabermetricians)

/joke.

Freakin'

Brewers. Loss 5-4, to the Reds.

I would much rather see the Reds than the Cards rotation in a playoff series
THIS

can we just call the NL central race already?

what about our division?
In my opinion,

Not decided until the last homestand.

I meant let's call all the division races

and start the playoffs this weekend

Cool

I’m good with that. Leedawg for Commissioner!

while I'm changing things up, how do you feel about the DH?

both leagues or none?

Uhhh...

Neither. Flip a coin before each game and decide whether the DH will be used.

Excitement!

I'm hiring you as deputy commish
Thank you.

Do I need a mustache?

only official dress policy

dudes gotta be covered up. bat girls in bikinis will be instituted Sept 1

Bikinis?

I can’t be on board with such outdated dress codes for Women. Let them show what they want!

(In other news, this totally feels like a ‘frozendesert taking over thread’.)

I'm trying to do my part as well

and since it seems PC to allow women rights these days, we’ll allow them to modify their attire as they see fit

You are a progressive,

forward thinking man.

"I DID have sexual relations with that woman!"
Which one?

That one? We need to have a talk about the standards of the Brave Family, Leedawg.

obviously not Monica

but if I got caught, it would be with a much hotter chick, and I would admit it, and be proud of my accomplishment

Yeah.

If it was with a certain type of person, I might go out of my way to make sure somebody found out.

that's what I was getting at

you mean business. I like

baseball's been losing fans

Bud Selig and his outdated policies must go!

Bud Selig

must go. WHY COULD YOU NOT LET ARTHUR BLANK BUY THIS TEAM, YOU DOUCHEBAG???

Frozendesert crying.

for real? I missed that

I like the way you think. But what coin shall we flip? Penny, dime, nickel, quarter? Maybe I’ll flip a coin to decide that….oh, the confusion

I think that is something

for the US Government to decide. As for me, I prefer chopping off a chickens head, and seeing how many bases it can touch. Odd: No DH. Even: DH.

Also, can substitute certain players for chickens. Certain players, no names. You know who you are.

reminds me of the south park where the economy goes bad

and Stan tries to return the margaritaville

Yup.

Watching it right now, actually. Where the idea came from! Smartiness: one more quality our outgoing Comish does not have.

one dollar coin

Canadian?

Mexican?

Canadian

We will fight over this!

Unfortunately, we are French… So… flip a coin?

why not?
Cool, which brings us back to

our original argument, what coin?

we'll be making our own coin

as to not have the controversy about who called which side. One will have a hitter, the other will have a pitcher. whichever side it lands on, that’s who hits.

so

Canadian hitter and Mexican pitcher?

Thorman

and Senor Smoke and Mirrors.

Justin Morneau as Canadian hitter

and kenny powers as mexican pitchher…. apparently season 2 of East Bound and Down involves Kenny Powers playing in the Mexican league

Kenny

McCormick.

Ike can be the canadian

although we could also use Terrence and Philip or the guys from the canadian broadcasting company

Not Scott!

He’s a dick.

is he not your friend, buddy?
No, he's

not, pal.

I'm not your pal, guy
I'm not

your buddy, dude.

Okay, I lost.

no not yet whats the lead? 4 1/2 or 5 1/2?

Lead is

Cliff Lee.

nope, 6
wow

we will see this weekend. I’m pretty sure they play each other

lets just calll the AL West while we’re at it.

I don't know...

I’m watching Seattle down the stretch… they may make a run…

King Felix has been lights out

Watched him in Cleveland

Both teams got no-hit until the sixth inning, where he absolutely fell apart and allowed 6 runs. Still amazing pitcher, though.

Me
But I was looking for a straight sweep of Playoff Contenders tonight. SD losing, Cards lost, Philly losing, Giants playing (tied). A Reds' loss would have been sweet.

hiroki kuroda is [REDACTED]ing the phillies through three

pelican
12 up, 12 redacted
Sounds like

my drinking game.

JJ pitched solid. The walks killed him, but he still limited the damage. I think he is underrated and, I really think JJ can be a #1 starter. He has the stuff and mentality to be one. If he can limit his walks, then he can do something special everytime out.

Agreed.

But 6? Love the 8 Ks, though.

yep

6 BBs is bad, but once he got under control he looked good.

Let's hope that

he maintains the Ks then.

I mean if he can get a 2-3BB/9 IP and 7-8K/9 IP then that’s great.

is it me… or did we just crush a lefty today?

Well, it's the Mets.

So it really doesn’t count.

/sadness

Closet

Mets fan?

“Heyward, Braves beat Mets 9-3”
Is that the best you can come up with?
Lazy journalism.
I’d like “Jason Heyward, Atlanta Braves beat New York Metropolitans by a score of nine runs to three runs”
Ben, you’re FIRED

I'm fine with

“Ha, ha, Francoeur still sucks.” Could we please get that headline tomorrow?

hiroki kuroda is [REDACTED]ing the phillies through four

Pelicanx4
cuatro

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oh dear lord, sorry for no height tags

thot that was much smaller

That is one creepy

freakin’ pelican.

I wish the Phillies game was on :(

update?

2-0 dodgers end 4th
C´mon Dodgers

Score more runs, so Hudson could be the ERA leader

HIROKI KURODA [REDACTED] METER
-———48%—————
Anybody notice

That there were 6 ex-Braves tonight playing for the Mets? Wonder if they’d take McLouth off our hands.

We got you straight up

for Angel Pagan.

Sold

He’s a player

No, no, no.

You don’t understand bargaining, Minaya. We need you to kick in some money for Pagan’s salary.

hmmm how much?
if you give me KK I’ll throw in Dickey

No no no.

We need Jennry Mejia, and a written guarantee that you will do everything in your power to maker sure that K-Rod’s option of death vests.

Dayton Moore and Omar Minaya can play rock-paper-scissors

best 2 out of 3. whoever wins gets their choice of McLouth or KK, loser takes the other

The phillies game on streaming anywhere?
NO KURODA NO!!!!

que paso?

Three ball count on Jason Werth.

Which is, ironically, four more than he has.

rec

got him tho

tacos

HIROKI KURODA [REDACTED] METER

52%

HIROKI KURODA [REDACTED] METER

————56%————

For our U.S. imperial friends, 15u; 15d

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Whoa just realized

How sick Kuroda is doing

BTW

anyone sick hearing that Halladay is better than anyone on our team?

Yes, but...

He’s the best pitcher in baseball. At least that’s what I think. He’s killer, and is an autowin for the phils.

It’s odd that you say that on a night he’s down 3-0, one of those runs a HR to Rod Barajas

and he is 16-9

Autowin????
Huddy is 15-5.. much more autowin

And he notched his 1500eth K this year.

No way Halladay has that many this year.

Jason Heyward may

disagree. I kid, I kid. What’s important is that overall, the Braves>Phillies.

Barajas!

3-0!

3-0 dodgers!

barajas HR off halladay!

yes

keep it up dodgers

Zambrano homered tonight, no joke.
I think he has the same average as Francouer.

he actually has quite a few homeruns in his career as far as a pitcher goes…so im not that surprised

do LAD's

go go go go

Tim Hudson holds the NL’s best ERA!

woohoo

but he doesnt strike no one out just lucky
/end troll imitating rant

Rod

Barajas? Cereal?

Remember all the Trolls that came on here and said we have a horrible offense....

I’m laughing at those guys!

Ok so funny story.

I’ve been hitting it off with a girl for the last few weeks. As I was cleaning my car, I realized that the change from our first date was 5 cents. The coin: a 1995 Nickel.

this can only end in marriage and a ws championship

if you screw this up /ban

Eh.

She’s Mormon. Also the Freshman Class President at BYU. Long Term chances = Francouer’s OBP.

30% is nothing to sneeze at…. in this context

Haha...

We’ll see. I’ll keep you updated.

do you go to BYU?

i remember a old spice spoof for you guys’ library, it was awesome to say the least

Yup.

Amazing place. Not Mormon. Got a link? Would love to see it.

You don’t have to be a Mormon to go there??

No.

One decision that I probably should have rethunk. However, free education does help.

Hmmm...

That’s news to me

It helps to be Mormon,

though.

And white?

Yeah.

The girls are pretty, though. And Chaste.

here you go, hope you've seen the old spice ads (to get the spoof)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ArIj236UHs

Wow.

That’s one more black person than I’ve seen at BYU since I’ve been here.

hahahHAHAHHAHAHHAAH LLLLLLLOL

Agreed

BYU is pretty sweet. I have a bunch of friends that go there.

ok

but know if you dump her before november, we’ll come after you with pitchforks and torches

Perfect!

Her birthday is Nov. 5. When is the last game of the WS? And if the Braves do win, It’ll be a perfect situation for me. Maybe not for her, though.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS!?!

It means Cash will take us to the World Series!

Yes!

Wait. What?

+1000000000000
Howard OPS on August = .276
but

he’s the preeminent power hitter OF OUR GENERATION!

Who strikes out more?

Ryan Howard, Jeff Franceour, Adam Dunn??

Nah...

The question should be, who looks the most ugly when striking out?

Clear answer.

Yes, that’s why I didn’t ask that question, cause I knew the answer

I'm sorry, my bad.

In that case, I gotta go with Dunn.

It's a toss up

I’d say Howard

Yeah.

I hate him too.

What about Frenchy?

Can he not get any love? Ugh.

Yes, you just gave him some

but

HOWARD AND UTELY HAVE RETURNED AND THEY WILL RUN AWAY WITH THE DIVISION, NOT MENTIONING THE ADDITIOIN OF OSWALT

AND RUEEEEEEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZZZZ WHO MAKEZ ZE RUNZ!!!!

Philly troll earlier tonight said

the Phils will be in 1st place by next Sunday

didn't they(phils fans) say that a couple of weeks ago?
they and their marketing machines Yahoo Sports and ESPN

have pretty much been proclaiming it since the day we took 1st from them

It's

all good. But at this point, who do you want in instead of the Phils? Let’s say that the Padres, Reds, and Braves make it. Giants?

I don't really care

you have to beat 3 good teams to win the WS, so to be quite honest with you, I’m fine with the Phils getting in. If we beat them to win the pennant, it would be that much sweeter

NLCS vs. Phils?

Can’t wait for the magic.

yea

Giants, but I would like to see the Dodgers

Probably

not going to happen.

there goes the perfecto...
kuroda already had a HBP
it wasnt

they hit werth and doubled him up earlier

that should count as perfect.

just sayin’.

He hit Werth with a pitch back in the 2nd.

Is Freddie coming up tommorow?
wouldnt

it be Wednesday?

I’d hope before the first to be post-season eligible…

really?

guess you’re right.

it'd be nice seeing him and minor in the same game

just be cool

And J-Hey!
going to the games in Pitt

monday/tues it’d be sick to see Freddie and JHEY…possibly minor!

i doubt they bench Lee tomorrow after a solid game tonight

Kuroda

is making me wish that we had claimed him off waivers.

BTW,

my goal: Make this thread have more comments than the game thread.

you are going to crash and burn

just sayin’

Yeah
Freakin'
Right.
Watch
Me
Try.
Informal warning to both you and 15ks

stop acting like 2 year olds. Next time your actually warned

/laughs to frozendesert and 15ks schadenfreudely

Eh.

I’ll stop. I just studied for like three hours. I’m bored.

that would be sad

if there were more comments in here about the Phillies than our own team

+1

No, it just goes to show some of hate the Phils just as much as we love the Braves.

Nothing wrong with that ;)

that would mean

more comments than Huddy has K’s :)

HIROKI KURODA [REDACTED] THROUGH SIX
yep

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Damn

Pelican.

Pardon my n00b-ness

but WTF is up with the Pelican, exactly?

after 4 innings

’fro said pelican x4 so i posted 4 pelicans

also ncchopper isnt here

Whew

Just making sure there wasn’t something I missed.

Nope – TC’ers are just random :D

Ugh. You all missed it.

it came from this: . Now since we’re all lazy we just say pelican when it applies

noooope

yeaaaaah

actually according to my screen u didnt post the pelican thing, so u failed, but maybe it loaded for toher?

It worked on mine…

but not on anyone else's....

sorry :-/

insert 25cents to play again

Well than clearly

GBNY’s computer> Everyone else’s

Pelican. (The Original)

Personally I always preferred this one. But it never caught on.

I like that one. A lot

You are a gentleman of fine, distinguished tastes.

+1 for you, good sir.

I hate the VW commercials where they assume that people punch for any VW, but his bit with Tracy Morgan is hillarious

believe u, but on mine its all black and reads “pw0nd.com, got humor?” maybe atl’s too?

I trust it. It’s happened before. If it really doesn’t work than just make the fail green

this

what 15ks said

hahahahahaha

but yeah i was about to explain that. its supposed to be a giant pelican gif that says “i see wat you did there” now we say pelican for short

but im not using those to say that. i just like posting them now

J-Roll with the K.

Where’s the pic of him getting nailed in the face?

Where is the blue box?
what i was thinking too

no blue box = probably because it’s the phillies BEING [REDACTED], not a phillie pitcher throwing one

If Lowe is injured

im going to be mad. Why couldnt he get injured when we had time to claim Kuroda or Lilly

when was Kuroda put on waivers?

Kuroda

went on waivers on the 24th

wow

didn’t know that. Not suprised he cleared cuz he has a pretty hefty contract but at least we have KK

he’s a FA at the end of the year

did Lilly clear?

and go Casey Blake!

i dont know if he cleared

he was placed on there friday

Kemp

goes down looking

HERE WE GO GALAXY HERE WE GO!
I'm sorry

could someone please explain the etymology of this?

from the film

I Love You, Man

I see.

Never seen it.

Squeaky-voice guy…

YouTube it.

required watching for posting on TC

also required: Anchorman

Ummm..

Then I may have gotten the wrong list of Required Watching from MVHS.

Also

The Princess Bride and Forgetting Sarah Marshall

The Princess Bride?

yep.

ok?

You’d have to go back a little. The greatest Heywardism is based off that

I’ve seen parts of it but not the whole thing. It’s about a boy dreaming or someone telling him a story right?

Story. Go watch it

Someone been telling me the say thing. I might do that.

Best movie of the 80's
Also

Backdoor Sluts 9, or else you won’t get 1/2 of the jokes here. Don’t get Reardoor Sluts 9, that’s just a bad knockoff.

The Return of something to something.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall is also a gem.

“Peter, what’s wrong with you?”
“Nothing is wrong with me Sarah.”
“…..do want my hands?”
“No, im fine. Just give me a second.”
“…..do you want my mouth?”
“No….well, yeah…maybe you could try that.”
“Peter?! What’s wrong?”
“NOTHING IS WRONG WITH ME! MAYBE IT’S BECAUSE MY COCK DOESN’T WANT TO BE AROUND YOU!”

Humuhumunukunukuapua’a. Yeah, bitch!

Anchorman of course. Never heard of the other thing

Dodgeball?
Field of Dreams?

Dodgeball is weak compared to Anchorman

I don't know.

That Lance Armstrong scene gets me every time.

thank you chuck norris
Now back to the Ocho!
this

It’s good but Anchorman is hilarious

What?

It’s seriously one of the funniest movies of the past 5 years or so.

this is a true statement

SLAPPIN DA BASS MANNNNNNNN
Bonus points for Kuroda

for beaning the devils brother too

someone notice if Padres lose tonight, we will be .5 game back from NL best record

and right now we have the best runs differents in NL. Only RAys and Yankees have better runs difference

I've been saying this for weeks now

The Padres aren’t that good. They kill the weak teams, and don’t do anything against the good ones.

Could we please get splits?

I’m legitimately interested.

Against good teams:
2-4 vs. Braves
4-8 vs. Rockies
2-1 vs. Cincinatti
9-2 vs. Giants
5-7 vs. Dodgers
2-5 vs. Phillies

Bad teams:
10-5 vs. DBacks
4-0 vs. Cubs
6-3 vs. Florida
5-2 vs. Houston
5-1 vs. Nationals
6-0 vs. Pittsburgh
4-2 vs. Seattle

Besides the Giants, they haven’t beat anyone this year.

Thank you!

Wow… 9-2 vs. SF?

I think the last time they played, SD swept the Giants at Giants place

Looks like it. I was surprised at that too, but it’s pretty pathetic besides that. In other words, they’re 25-30 against the teams in the playoff hunt, and 40-13 against the bad teams.

Told you they weren’t all that.

Yeah,

I didn’t know. And was kinda scared.

all the bad teams they've beat have no pitching

probably explains a lot….

their offense is really bad

how can a team lose when the other team only got 3 hits

This Phils-Dodgers

game is progressing quite nicely. And fast, too.

HIROKI KURODA WITH A [REDACTED] THROUGH SEVEN
holy sh holy sh holy sh

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finally, the blue box is on
Six outs...

Why’d he have to walk that guy?

he hit Werth in the 2nd

that's werth it

oh man… i kill myself

Yes,

please do!

Kidding.

Maybin, Maybin not

Please, no.
He's Upton no good

hahaha. What? my puns aren’t good enough for you?

Well, you gave me crap about spamming...

So…

now you're making an assenmacher out of yourself
Yeah probably.

Heh, I apologize, and open myself to personal insults for… two minutes. Starting now.

What an uggla thing to say…

I would hit

Werth in a second, also.

and can you really say you wouldn’t do the same in his position?

Has a pitcher ever thrown a [Really good game] but not a [Best Possible Game] without issuing a walk?

Filling in the blanks...

DL start, and….

he had HBP in 2nd on Werth

DP to get him out

Looks like the Phillies offense is really clicking.

You had to say it, didn’t you?

King of the night

HEYWARDDD

how is the phils site doin? haha
As of tonight we will officially start September in 1st...

wholdathunkit?

Holy Crap..

Didn’t notice that until now.

Wow...

August has 31 days, champ.

It's the 30th...

We’ll be up at least 2 games… So we’ll start… September… in first?

Oh yeah…I guess. I thought you were saying it was September as of tomorrow.

oh…GO COLTS!!!!!

You're lucky I'm too lazy to go find a pic of Porter's pick-six.
Interesting

little ad you got their at the bottom.

I know; isn't it great?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7LtGOQ6ygs

Thank you.

Watching that never gets old.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPMaEMvtO-Y

Ummm...okay?
My favorite

foot-a-ball clip. As a member of the MWC, as you can see, we don’t have that many to celebrate on.

I honestly cried. So many years of misery as a B&G fan.
So did I. The folks around me in Oregon didn't understand.
GO COLTS!!!
how bout my packers??
Favre

still playing for them? He was so good last year!

haha aaron rodgers is better than him

check some numbers

Totally agree

Last year: fluke. I’m not so sure why my Vikings friends love him so much. They all hated him when he hadn’t made his decision, will all hate him either when a) he sucks, or b) does the same non-decision making next year.

ya so true. and being from geren bay i cant like vikings fans either. i was all for letting favre go because of how far along Rodgers was. i still think that no qb should be shoved from college into a starting nfl role

I think that we can agree on one thing.

Tavaris Jackson: Joke.

definetley

minn would be totally screwed without brett

We've got this Peyton guy...

He’s pretty good too.

Eli's brother?

Hope he shares some genetic material. Eli’s AMAZING!

No doubt about this one...

hahaha

Thank you!

I’ll be here till they ban me!

Fine then

/banned

Hey now!

No dissing Archie’s boys!

It was

appreciation of Peyton’s ability at the expense of Eli’s.

...

I suppose I can allow that.

… can’t tell if this was serious or sarcastic… because he was so good last year

2.5 game lead ATM

King of every night

there, I fixed that for you

haha it was on espn

Kuroda has only thrown 83 pitches….

anyone else remember the travis wood - halladay matchup

where wood had a no-no through 8?

Thought it was a perfect game...

But Halladay didn’t give up a run in that one

Heyward- End of Year

Over/Under
.300 BA
.400 OBP
.500 SLG

OVER

all

under ba

over the others

kidding but under all

barely though, still great stats

I don't know..

OBP he might.

under, all of the above
Phils fans contemplating suicide haha
Please do.

One less Heathen on this planet.

LOL

Kuroda has outhit the Phillies.

+10000000000000

His first hit of the season.

why the phillies didn´t send down D. Brown to keep him playing

he will forget how to hit if he doesn´t play

Dont laugh too hard

we’ve already been no hit

by Jiminez....
But not today

So we can laugh

Phillies almost no hit 3 times during this season

Travis Wood almost perfect
RA Rickey. AL no hitter
and now

Podsednik says fuck your hit Kuroda
pods says

get off that base and get back on the mound

If I was 12

I’d be trolling on TGP….

You making fun

of my age?

you are 12 and go to BYU?

I was thinking the same thing…..LIAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry

How do we do sarcasm posting?

I generally use all caps
I

UNDERSTAND NOW

Hopefully nobody is

Even our 12 year olds

hypothetical.... not necessarily you

if you were in your mid 30’s and lived in Philly, you would troll here

game is on espn now

gna walk werth
If you're as big a fan of "For the Love of the Game" as I am

this is eerie as shit with vin scully on the call

VIDRO TIME!!!!
Ibanez

is gonna homer here

I just don't understand why you would say something like that...

Unless you are attempting a reverse jinx… in which case, go on

Has Kuo still been closing for them?
If the 9th inning is taking this long, imagine how long the 9th will take...
8th*
If the 9th inning is taking this long, imagine how long the 8th will take...

?

Anyone else see Brent Lillibridge

Hit his 2nd homer of the year…..also remember when he was supposed to be good

Yeah...

I miss Mike Gonzalez’s ability to dress himself in a suit.

Matt Diaz

is pretty damn good looking in a suit. I’d say better than Gonzo

Toss-up.

Mike Gonzalez’s facial grooming abilities are remarkable.

True

but see here

Diaz>Gonzo

Ok.

Concession made.

Mike G looks like he’s wearing a Zoot Suit.

Pimpin'!

This is M.G., and this is my bullpen.

Hudson looks like a P.I.M.P
Retired Marine

was the first thing that came to mind.

Phils fans throwing a beach ball on field

Stay classy San Diego Philadelphia

was it actually a phillies fan?
Scully said Dodger fans were pissed

And I see red in the stadium

Scully is pissed!
LONEY what a grab
Vin Scully not impressed with beach ball
haha not at all

Didn’t look that bad to Theriot… he’s back up.

Carlos Gonzalez won NL Player of the Week for last week

he should send our pitching staff some form of gift as a thank you

and not Heyward? :(
They gotta give it

to somebody else sometimes!

Heyward told Bud Selig the award

would mean nothing if he kept winning it… When I take over as Commish, Heyward will win it every week regardless of his stats

You gotta spread

the love. I’m talking a non-Heyward category.

we'll have to have a non-Heyward category

no other MLB player can compete with saving people from burning buildings, curing cancer, etc…

wouldnt be surprised to see cock for an anus try to break it up with a bunt single here

son of a bitch
there goes the no-no
REEAALLLYYY Hope he can get out of this.

Kuroda looks nervous, he’s taking forever.

Now for the W

Padres already done… finishing these guys would make a great night.

forget the no-no

WIN THIS F****ING GAME DODGERS

Now they better not blow this game.

fuck Victorino
Phillies do overflow threads with 500 comments...

glad we don’t do that haha

Yeah,

we’re up to what, 510?

I wonder what people are going to think when they go to read the game recap tomorrow

and see there are 800 comments, and only about 70 are about the Braves/Mets game from monday night

Do we know what the record is?

(For a game recap?)

we fill 500 on every Heyward AB

for big games

we’d be in the overflow #1 thread before we even got to bat

don't forget rain delays
we can definitely do some damage during rain delays

this b prolly has 500 comments…

501st!
The AJC called

they want their only joke back

We would have 5 separate threads for today's action.

Vin Scully is awesome. I love that guy. Old school.

so objective. so informative.

Yeah he is great
anybody else

hate him at first? then i started to really like him, and now he’s my favorite announcer

Same

here! I don’t know about favorite, he has some stiff competition from a certain announcer here for the Braves…

im still in the hate him phase
ride him out

he definitely gets better with every broadcast you listen to, at least that’s the way it was with me

His voice is kind annoying,

but the dept of research that he does on the visiting team is really impressive.

Dogs got the internet running I see…

Is game still on somewhere?

Off ESPN now

MLB Networkis doing a look-in
/stands and applauds for kuroda
Definitely agree.

I just sent him a bouquet of hookers

Did he tip the cap?
GO KUO GO

DO BETTER THAN YOU DID AGAINST THE BRAVES

OT: Some real hip hop right here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBa4N4Qol_Q

Have

you heard Prado’s walk-up music?

Not lately…what is it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChV5BZ8SmS0&ob=av3e

YEAH!!! REPRESENT!!!

Jewish?
yep

through and through

Really good artist.
Actually

I don’t like King Without a Crown nearly as much as something like One Day or Higher and Higher

Will listen.

Scratch that. Higher and Higher is a different group. I meant Chop em Down

Listening to One Day right now.

Where can I buy this guy’s CDs?

iTunes or a local judaica store.

Once you’re done listening to his, listen to this cover I actually love it more than Matisyahu’s version, which is awesome

Love One Day.

Chop, not so much.

I see that. Granted Matisyahu is nowhere near the top 5 of my greatest Jewish bands but I happen to like it. Although can see why you dont

Not a sligh

on his beliefs at all, love good melody to actually well-thought, articulated, spiritual lyrics- which is what he offers.

as new commish

all games the Phillies are losing in after 8 innings will be called, so all the kids at the game can get home at a reasonable time and ready for school. ITS FOR THE KIDS

I vote to be moved up to 1 inning

I'll meet you at 5

have to give them a chance to make it offical… and while on that topic, all games not involving the Phillies must be played in full- no calling a game in the 6th due to rain and declaring a winner

AND THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE ECONOMY

ummm....they throw up on little kids in Philly

they don’t care.

think of the team they're playing!!!!
They deserve it.

They have hot babysitters.

Install ceiling sprinklers in every stadium. If the Phils are losing, turn them on.

Phillies shoulda kept Happ.

I said that before they got Oswalt

who will pitch the 9th? Kuo again or Broxton?

Kuo is the closer

really?

what happened to broxton?

he sucks?
seriously though

last i heard he was still demoted for sucking

he had the bad-lidge syndrome

had no idea where the ball was going once it left is hand- couldn’t throw strikes

aka early onset Mark Wohlers Disease
Got demoted

to Set-Up after meltdown.

Wasn't that meltdown against the Phils??
I think so.
Yeah, I just looked

It was the game the dodgers were killing them, and the Phils came back to win 10-9 cause Broxton blew it

to be fair, a reliever for the dodgers pitched in the 8th

and I believe was charged w 4 runs without recording an out. It should have never gotten to broxton in the 1st place

Thats true

But either way you slice it, Broxton gave up 4 himself…

oops

sorry for the bad language, everyone + mods

eh, don’t worry about it

BTW our attendance sucked tonight

But not as bad as the Rays.

11,000… ouch

Yeah,

it looked horrible on ESPN.

ours or Rays?
Ours.
not as bad as the Rays

Crawford said it was depressing

Florida doesn´t like baseball

New park, more payroll, good team may actually help

Marlins..... more payroll.....

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Didn't MLB order them to spend more?
prob true

but no one listens to Bud Selig anyways, and they pretty much had to spend more to keep Josh Johnson, Hanley, et al, around

The Rays

are in the thick of a play-off hunt

yea...

actually very good Viva, haha

the problem is half the state goes to bed at 4

if they played games at 11 am, I’ll bet the Marlins and Rays could sell out

it was a Monday, school has started back

no one cares to see the Mets

Talking about the Rays though

Best team in baseball

economy sucks

people are poor. and they are saving their money for playoff tickets.

The Braves have scored 61 runs in the last 8 games

Just thought I’d put that out there.

Their offense sucks!!!!!

There is no way we can win in the playoffs scoring like that

BENCH HEYWARD!!!!
With production like that

It makes me wish we still had Frenchy…..

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did you post that in the subject box?
He totally

looks awesome in that pic.

lol

this is full of win.

height tags or subject line (actually both) please

Jason Heyward doesn’t allow subject lines when posting pictures of him

I never posted a pic on here before...

is there something certain im supposed to do?

its just good to post the picture with a title. even a simple “…..” in the subject line works.

That being said, I don’t want anyone to minimize the picture, so it’s staying.

alright im still fairly new to the site.

but I will do that for now on, thanks.

it’s not a huge deal in the threads like this one, but if you’re in the GameThreads, it’s a must. Quite a few of our users don’t have the fastest internet lol.

the 10-4 rule, it you will

Oh I wasn’t gonna delete it. Its awesome.

Yeah,

but this Pic is awesome enough that I’m pretty sure that they’ll let it slide.

Nice to see Casey Blake...

decided to try and catch the ball with his glove there, and not his ankles.

wow

nice play to end the game

Finally!!!

We win and the Phillies lose!! Only took about 3 weeks.

I say we go for the repeat tomorrow!

Woooo!!! 3 game lead!

Yayyyy Dodgerrrsss

3 GAMES BITCHES!!!!!
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
GIVE ME THE LLAMASAURUS!

Oh wait, we won a few hours ago…

What a great night
Goodnight all

this has been one of the most odd OT sessions ever. Its been fun. See everyone later

Gotta love when they lose a Roy start!
I wouldn't mind seeing the rockies win here
-1

I want the Giants in the playoffs more than I want Philly in there.

How fun it would be to play the phillies in the playoffs though.

I mean… yeah.. but only if we win.

you know you would enjoy it more if we beat the Phils in the NLCS
actually

I hope they finish 4th

Still hating on

the Mets, are we?

thought I’d hide my fantasy in the guise of near-possibility

....that's so true.
it's been fun

tomorrow is another day!

LMAO

Marlins and Nats are still playing…that blows.

they should just have uggla and dunn

play rock-paper-scissors, best 2 of 3, winner gets the W

where are they playing, at Petco?
Rain delay earlier?

yeah, like a 3 hour delay. that’s when you just load up MLB The Show and finish up the game in the clubhouse

and now Huddy is the NL ERA leader
but but but

he doesn’t get teh strikeouts

As long

as Law is not voting, he may have a chance. MOY has to be Cox, no? Bud Black? Please not Dusty Baker.

Gotta be Cox

last year, scrappy team

Bud Black for sure.
What up folks?

Magic # is now 29. Let’s knock it down by two more tomorrow.

CarGo

has such a poor OBP compared to his AVG

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Cody Ross fail!

HAHAHAHAHHA

OMFG HAHAHAHAHHAAA

AND they score two runs on the 7-bounce throw from Sanchez. Wow.

what happened??
cody ross misplayed a fly ball off the bat of cargo

came in, then the ball sailed over his head. triple. error on freddie sanchez = he scores

He ran in like 15 feet, and the ball flew a mile above his head. Fowler scored from 1st, and while trying to go to 3rd, Freddy Sanchez threw a 7 bounce throw to 3rd and it went into the stands. 2-1 Rockies.

hahaha yes

ultimate fail

MVP

would have run in a snake-like fashion, but caught the ball

McClouth would have caught it on the bounce and held onto it until CarGo got to home

what happened?
cody ross

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Rockies players really suck outside of Coors Field
Would we rather face San Fran or Rox in playoffs?

If we make it?

Giants. Fuck Coors Field.

+ [Jason Heyward]

we played better against SF

San Fran.

Rockies seem to have our number.

hmm Giants pitching scares me.
Hitting

is another story

Really?

Lincecum’s off his game…

Cain is all

Lincy has tooka step down, Zito blows, and Sanchez is a prety good but hittable

At any time they could turn it around.

Zito’s curve made us look stupid

it makes everyone look stupid

but we can tee-off his fastball

giants pitching is WAY overrated

consider: giants have as many RA as the mets

and their ballpark at nighttime is just as good of a pitchers park as PETCO is.

SF, if I have to choose between the 2

I don’t want anything to do Coors Field for the rest of the year

I have a feeling they get the WC

Rox, that is :(

Surely you can't be serious,

I hope not.

Watching the Rox

CarGo is extremely overrated, and is a good player, but his stats are over blown because he plays in Coors, I try and tell my friends this and they mock me, but CargGo is rather overrated

horrible OBP for his BA
Why is it that

Park effects are always ignored? Rockies hitters are always good, and SD pitchers always good.

C'mon

Adam Eaton is amazing

all the Rox players have a big difference between home vs aways numbers
29 HRs for CarGo

23 at home!!!!

and he is a K machine
Welcome to AT&T Park

Cody Ross

what happened?

double off the wall, poorly played

he misplayed two balls hit to RF, which resulted in two triples
HAHAHAHHAHA

MORE CODY ROSS FAIL HAHAHHAHAHAHA

It's official

TC has more comments in our Post Game Thread than TGP has in their GameThreads.

I'll take credit for this.

nice to see a few people stayed on tonight. Now that class started I don’t do too much on weekday nights, and TC is usually dead by 9 o’clock on the West Coast. I feel like I’m talking to myself sometimes ha.

What classes do you have?

Pre-Calc, two BM classes and my first year of spanish. FML

You can get plenty of help

for Spanish on Braves blogs. That’s how I passed last semester.

lol

yeah you’ll probably see a FanPost going up in early December for help with my Spanish finals…keep an eye out for that.

I will.

Also, how does one become an editor for this site?

I got on back in Spring Training when Gondeee said to write a recap of the game if you were interested in writing for TC, and I sent one in. Just got lucky with my timing I guess. It’s really just a matter of being around the blog for a while, writing good FanPosts on occasion, and not being an ass towards other members

Not interested, but was wondering.

Especially on that last point.

I really like doing it. I just wish we weren’t freakin 22-23 in the games that I’ve covered.

Eh.

Better than half our pitching staff.

Then how’d you pull off of the job, dick.

I surely can help with you
FML?

Fuck my life?

just wondering, just think I figured it out though not sure

was there ever a doubt? haha
suck it philly
no surprise

since they’re no longer in first.

(frontrunners joke)

And it was

a Halladay thread.

My bad.

Computer fail.

And even more,

it was a Halladay game thread.

AND they were getting no-hit

if that happened here, the trolls would have been out in full force driving up our comment totals

Really?

Well, to be honest, I don’t stay around for those.

yeah

all the BENCH HEYWARD, OUR OFFENSE SUCKS, WE WON’T HOLD OFF THE PHILLIES douchers come out and make outlandish comments, then there are 5 more people telling them to shut up, call them a troll, etc…

Off Topic:

Anyone else watch Randy Couture dominate Toney this weekend???

not braves related

/banned

Randy Couture's is a braves fan
Well then.

I’m glad to hear this.

any idea if Forest Griffen is?

I know he’s from Athens

that fight card blew

so I didn’t order it…I’ve looked and none of the upcoming cards look to special

How damn lucky did the Rockies get there?

WTP that just missed, a ball up the middle that was caught on a dive, and a line drive snagged by Street.

it's that time of year where things just go their way
Yeah.

They do deserve it after the expansion years, though.

If the Rocks win the wild card, I'm going to be pissed

I don’t want to see them anywhere near the post season after the series we just played.

Yeah,

mostly because we’d be facing them in the first round, most probably.

unless the Reds get hot and pass us

I didn’t realize they had the same record as we do, thought we had a couple games on them

I think they’re playing over their heads.

Same here.
I don't doubt that's the case

but they, like the Padres, have been doing it all year, even though they’ve both done it against less than stellar competition

I sure wish we got to play Pissburgh, Chicago, Milwaukee and Houston 12-15 times a year.

I couldn't stand the 4 or so games we would lose to the astros

via ASTROhits

CarGO is great. Coors is just messing w/ his head. You say he’s not as good as his home numbers, well he’s not even close to as a bad a player as his road numbers.

Well

about 175 away from 1000, but hey, I tried. Good night, everybody.

Justin will be here soon to pick up the slack…

IF WE HAD ESCOBAR WE WOULD'VE WON BY 10
Rox

at Home. 64 G, .298/.364/.475, 374 R, 119 2B, 30 3B, 85 HR (almost 1st NL in all hitting cat)
at Away. 65 G, .228/.302/.353, 231 R, 97 2B, 11 3B, 52 HR (2nd last in several hitting category except in HR, 11th)

that is crazy

had no idea it was that pronounced

Coors Field should be banned

or build another park w/ these dimensions
430 LF
550 CF
430 RF

and mlb let the teams play with 5 Outfielders

dome it up

then put a ton of industrial strength humidifiers inside it….. that could help

as long as they kill that stupid dinosaur, I’m fine with anything.

if you had to spend a month with that dinosaur

but the braves won the WS, would you do it?

sucks

but Coors Field is one of the most beautiful stadiums in the MLB. The way they’ve done it is very classy and conducive to the view…. but the fences are a BIIIIIIIIIIT short, i agree….

It's bigger than most parks...

The air is just thin. Ball travels 9% farther there due to lack of air resistance. Problem is the fence is just 3-4% farther back (compared to Turner, which is big). They do have a short porch in R/CF, just 375 to the gap.

-C

sooo...

I am in the middle of Hurricane Earl, category 4, light go out and then come back… wish me luck.

Yikes...

Stay safe and check back in with us when you can.

Holy Christ...

I’m all for Shadenfreude, but this is a bit ridiculous, fellas.

We watch the scoreboards, too, don’t get me wrong, but the comments are usually limited to:

“HA! [insert Brave’s pitcher who happened to lose] got blown up. LOLBraves.”

“F the Braves.”

“Suck it, Larry.”

…and then we go about our business.

Not hating, just saying that there far too many comments spent fantasizing about (the possibility of) beating us.

Chest thumping’s fine. Shared joy and fandom for your favorite team is fine. Just be careful not to tempt the baseball gods or count your trophies before they’re engraved, because right now Talking Chop is reading like the lady doth protest too much, me thinks.

Cheers, fellas.

...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Wow, that is effing hilarious. Seriously, baseball rivalries momentarily on hold – I’ve never seen that graphic and absolutely love it. touche.

BASEBALL RIVALRY RECOMMENCE!

Did this really come from the blog that had an actually open thread devoted to a Braves game?

Too bad the Braves don’t have the offense to compete and Jason Heyward can only hit singles…

Too bad the Braves don’t have the offense to compete and Jason Heyward can only hit singles…

Randy Wolf.. (yes, the Brewers pitcher)

Stole a base last night.. Legitimately too.. No wild throw. Just had a ridiculous jump

Great Game Last night!!!!!

The only thing that bothered me was someone throwing a coke bottle at Frenchy. I’m not a Francoeur fan. I did not like him as a player and I still don’t. But whoever threw a coke bottle at him last night is pretty classless. That’s not how Braves Fans act. I hope they found the guy and put him in jail for the night.

LOLMets and their bad pitching and lousy defense. I would like to see Minor have about 10 K tonight.

Also, I should be able to watch as the Twins/Tigers game will be blacked out here in MN!

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