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Open Thread 8/9: Braves at Bloopers #2

This is seriously unbelievable.

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antifail thread ACTIVATE
im going to bed...
If Alex Gonzalez

is suppose to be our sure and steady fielder… he sure has been awful for us

phillies will catch us i garuntee it
WTF do you mean us? You are not a Braves fan!
troll troll troll troll

Just flag him.

-C

come on Moylan

throw him a “Dave”

REVERSE FAIL

Yep

This just went from bad to worse.

Man, I was just putting another thread up. Had it up five seconds before I saw this one and deleted it.

I was gonna post one after this half inning. Looks like we all lose

Maybe we should just shut down TC for the night. That, or we should give Ben permission to pull to Gondeee and put:

“NUTS!”

as the whole recap.

what a fail of an inning
This is the WHAT THE HELL thread.
Haha

Should be an error on Hinske
Error on Mac too

un FUCKING believable

......................

………………

Can we go back to the old thread now?

So...

I’m going to bed. Goodnight.

So that was awesome… for the Astros.

lolbraves

Oh my fuck.

Whatever. Gonna go do something. Let me know when we go home to Atlanta.

clear the bases

Holy fuck is right

ITS the Fucking Astros!!!!!

what a good find in farnsworth!

Epic defensive failure there
what the hell was that
hoe

lee

carlos lee..

sorry i thought a rickroll would work
Who all said this series was gonna be easy?
I don't think anybody said it would be easy

I didn’t expect us to basically rape any chance we had at winning though.

"Easy" was just me being kind.

Didn’t wanna say that they “suck”. :)

So how many days before Bobby with trust Farnsworth again?

I hope Never!

I feel the same way. That is two games already that he has screwed us. Chavez could have done that.

Will even.

DFA that POS

he hasn’t been good since he broke our hearts in 2005.

too late on the new thread

forfeit.. i say

the minor hype

jinxed this…. (mock sound) easy win easy win

New Thread anyone??????
lol

that was fucking pathetic

oh my.

Just…. yeah

oh.. so now we gte the new thread

lololololololololololololololololololololololol

Is this just another example of the Braves playing down to their competition ?
If we played like this

we would never win a game

well we swept them earlier this year
you know what...

at least this just got funny

Oh, and we get that stupid GA lottery commercial. Kant-stand-ya!

this thread was created at exactly the wrong moment

How embarrassing. (and it's not over yet)

Why is everyone pinning this on Farnsworth

Our defense is just horrible, it is not just him

he did

miss the zone with half his pitches

yeah

But his defense sure was pathetic

Even plays that werent called errors were terrible

Gonzalez should have covered 2nd
Hinske missed the cut off man

Everyone put this on in the background:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK6TXMsvgQg

It’s certainly appropriate.

hahahahahahhaha

 i was hoping for either this or the price is right losing horn…. good job

so...

we look like the fukin yankees at home.. and this….

nice thread mvhs

You’re welcome. E-Mail me if you wanna send a check.

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This is easily the worst game of the year

The team is having way to many of these type games lately, but this has been a true nightmare

We have to lead the league

in errors the last month or so

This made me smile

which is saying a lot tonight:)

Have they hit a hard ball this inning, all bloops and ground ball singles.

No. They have seriously hit like 3 balls that were legit. Everything else has been a bloop or a seeing eye ground ball.

to the fucking astros, no less
Shoulda brought in Joey Devine...
I thought the same thing.
Stole this from our SF Giants counterpart.. Didn't want to have to use it.. BUT...

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I saw this during our series with them

and thought it was great. Good steal.

sweet lord

our defense has been awful lately

Gotta have good defense to win the World Series.

phillies will catcs

seriously? Shut up

Flagging from here on out.

No mas.

-C

shut up please

Phillies don’t even have Howard and Utley and they are nearly catching us.

STFU

we don’t need this!

lol it has one rec
probably because it looks like he was talking about a cactus
CAN I PITCH NEXT?!?!?
So unless we somehow win the next 2 games, won't this be our 4th straight road series loss ?
WHAT THE ????

You mean it’s not over?

we need Jesse Chavez in this situation.

As a good thing....

maybe this could wake us up.

I hope so, but we have had so many games like this lately and still nothing has sunk in.

Gameday

shat itself on that last sequence

i say let Heyward pitch.. he’ll fix it..

Shoot, maybe Ankiel will be the best bullpen option we got out of that trade.

Haha

sad but true

and the hits just keep on coming, its like top 40 with casey kasem

happy birthday jason
i believe this is called

getting shit on..

No Venters?
why overwork him when we're down six

Sarcasm doesn’t work well over the internet, lol.

no venters? there your sarcasm

i mean

he’s only pitched in half our games.

Fuckin pathetic!

a single turned into a fuckin HR!!!!! This is aweful its the worst team in the NL and they are winning 10-4

we come off a fantastic series against the Giants(one of the best) to completly shit the bed against the Stros(one of the worst)

This is the worst game of the season and we need to rebound or we are in huge trouble

Philly is too close to be losing games like this!
THUNDERDOME!!!! please can we have one?

glad you got that out

i totally read all of it

i really needed to realese it

haha

Can McCann play 1B?

Im liking Ross at C and McCann at C if so.

McCann has had some pretty bad throws tonight..

And no i dont know what we would do with Freeman next year

nite nite everyone....

were doomed…. conrad already pinch hit….

i'm going to bed, fuck this BS.

braves don’t look anything like a playoff team of late. 15 errors in the last 10 games? what the fuck

BYYYYEEEE HAVE A GOOD NIGHT!!!

maybe we can keep ’em under half a hundred

YAY NOW WE CAN PUT IN KK

Maybe the Braves will be embarrassed into hitting if they get a chance to.

ALEX GONZALEZ

Has made more BAD defensive plays than GOOD ones….

Definetly

LVP of the game so far

um

what?

Go home

it's the truth
since he has been here

he has turned some magnificent double plays.

yeah and he has made 5 errors and several mental ones.

i would say he’s about even with it then.

even? two double plays? with 5 errors?

two double plays last night. In the time he’s been here he has turned more than that

the mental errors and the 5 errors has cost us more, I would think.

And has 9 XBH in 22 games.

-C

yeah, offense has been good, we're talking about defense.
23 including today

-C

I'm guessing you missed the two ridiculous DP's he started this weekend against the Giants
1 came after an error

so it kinda leveled out

he does have 5 errors and several mental ones.
Which makes him Andres Thomas

Spectacular plays are cool and all but I prefer a guy who can regularly make routine ones. I think he’s probably pressing but whatever is going on, he and Troy Rodin over there at first are not helping things much here lately.

It certainly feels that way
looks like

Christian Martinez will make an appearance tonight

Bullpen Fail

0.1 5 H 6ER 6R 2BB

look like JoJo Reyes stats

even Chavez looks better

nooooooo way alll those runs are earned
ouch that hurts
geez

i’m hoping this is a WAKE UP game.. and a throw away game..

i apologize if the rick roll caused this

I will spend the remainder of this game teaching myself to play chess
Farnswoth + Houston = fail

At this point you might as well say Farnsworth = fail. The Houston part isn’t really necessary.

It just adds the sweet, sweet flavor of nostalgia to the mix.
Dunn

gets a nice little K.

HERE WE GO GALAXY HERE WE GO!

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MLS=bigger joke than this game

aight we got an out, you know its bad when the pinch runner gets an AB

the fuck

It was 4-3 last time I looked…

it got REALLY ugly

we made like 6 errors

ignorance is bliss

it still is

after this game i believe everyone is erasing this inning from their minds

I can't believe the bullpen and defense collapsed like that

I stepped away for 15 minutes to help my roommate move some furniture and it’s like I woke up in a nightmare

did the furniture get moved alright?

yeah, but the morale of the story is to not help people

Farnsworth lives by that one.

the pinch runner who came for the pinch hitter now is hitting
and its finally over
RUUUUUUUUUNNNNZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice shut down inning there from the 'pen!
Here they come!!!!

they're already here

Unfortunately they bring their cockroach friends along too.

Lookie lookie lookie
here comes Cookie ,Cook's Pest Control

commercial here in Chatt

Time for another 7 run inning
Getting sick of these types of error filled games
time to get drunk
The death by a thousand bloops and errors finally comes to an end
lets get

15 bloop hits this inning

Farnsworth isn't even the best pitcher we got outta that KC trade...

Beat ya to that one :)

did ya

didnt see it

maybe not run wise, but that was one of the worst innings by this team in 10 years

So, I’m pretty sure Dunn is the only guy out there who did anything right that inning.

new thread, anyone?

let’s contain the fail in here. no cross-contamination

Its no good!

and this thread is contaminating the last thread! the astros are retroactively being awarded runs from previous innings. The only solution is to nuke both threads and start again from scratch.

now all we need is 8 runs in the 8th

With our potent offense, I don’t see that being a problem.

then 9 in the 9th!

if the blue jays can score 17 runs on 8 HRs, surely we can!

and we will win 21 to 10 looks like a Falcons game
That was the worst inning in the history of the world.

3. slavery
2. World War II
1. Braves’ 7th inning vs. Astros on 8/9/10

Braves Astros NLCS 2005 game 5 8th inning
what game?

i don’t remember that

we are winning 6 to 1 in the 8th

in that inning Fanrsworth allowed a GS from Berkman and in the 9th Ausmus HR to tie it

still don't know what you're talking about
http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=251009118
STILL don't know what game is that
well, its your problem
are you inventing games that never happened?
i tried to block this game out...

9/11

No, the worst inning in the history of the world was the 7th in the 3rd inning of the 2009 season. Oh my shit that was awful.

3rd game, you mean?

yea. i agree

12-11 Loss to PHI last year (like 2nd or 3rd game) I’d say was worse

Yeah

I left work and we were up 10-3. I got home and it was 11-10 in the same inning.

This is gonna feel sweet when we come back and win...

please?

WHYYYYYYYY
shoulda brought in cash!

COMEBACK TIME!!!!!

i’ve been a been a bravos fan since 74, there have been worse, but not for a while, that was pathetic

so

at the climax of this inning. Gonzo will hit a GRAND SLAM!!!

ANYONE DOWN FOR A RED DEAD REDEMPTION SESH?

I’ll be on there.

bravesfansc

ps3 or xbox?
360
I've had both

and ps3 is way better IMO

Especially of The Show

Yeah me and my roommate have both too, but I have Red Dead on the 360

how is Red Dead online?
i'll add you tomorrow

bimbo32

I would be down but I'm stuck on Resistance 2 right now..

add me and next time I get on we can Red Dead it up

Gamertag: SleeplessShadow

let see if they still give an effort
what is it with us on the road...why are we so awful?
well if we lose....

it only counts as one loss…. so that works out pretty well

que est Red Dead
Happy B-Day JHEY!

you get to get shit on by the Stros!!!!

shit game get em tommorow

. . .

what was that? like 4 pitches?

Stop being a jerk!

It was 5, bro.

oh ok

that makes it better

1-2-3 seems about right

why is glaus still playing

why do you keep asking that?

Maybe Minor doing so well, along with Heyward, will give them more confidence in the rest of their young guys and prompt them to bring up Freeman.

cause he is teh bestes

Coming into this game, I never would have thought Minor would have nearly nothing to do with the outcome of the game. He was great; the rest of the team was not.

our bullpen sure has been shaky lately...sorta concerning on account that picking up farnsworth was supposed to make it even stronger

Our defense hasn’t exactly been helping them out at all either.

THE GAME ISNT OVER

Just thought i would let the team know that. They seem to just be throwing it away

when was the last game we allowed 10 runs?
i feel like we allowed double digit runs to arizona a couple months ago...

and ofcourse that 17 run pounding at the hands of the padres at the beginning of the year

this is just a birthday prank for jhey, right?
or a debut prank for minor?

OK Everyone... PUSH THIS.

4 8 15 16 23 42
HAHA

I’m hooked watching that show on Netflix streaming..

i have ps3 call of duty modern warfare 2 and a bunch of sports games

anyone want to play?

or play me heads up on full-tilt
i want to play you with the astros

and see if i can replicate this game. All the bloop hits and such

i thought Minor looked Stellar for a debut. EVERYONE else sucked horrendously

AAA players

Yea Minor looked good. He is a AAA player just trying to prove he belongs. Someone said last week – good the be playing the Astros- a AAA team right now. Those AAA players will always play like the have something to prove. Bagwell has also made a difference in thier hitting.
THE TEAM THAT WINS THE DIVISION IS THE ONE THAT WANTS IT MORE.

SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2

SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2 SC2

Troy Glaus

Looks uninterested in every game he plays

right

considering Hinske and McCann just had the same expressions

Ahhhhh, if you knew how to read

You would notice I wrote EVERY…..

right

like in May and June…..

June?????

When he hit under .200??? Yes, that’s exactly what im talking about

you mean

.237/.364/.505 ? ? ? ? ?

6 HR
19 RBI
8 2B

oh ok

His production

Far outweighs Hinske and McCann’s…..so you’re right, he’s the man, I was wrong

never did i say

it far outweighs him. But to pick on him for looking “uninspired” when Hinske and McCann both had the same expressions was a bit unfair.

Glaus has more than been a good player for us and this hate he is getting lately is quite unnecessary

Maybe it’s because he had one super hot month, & another pretty good one.

yep

annd Hinske has been pretty much the same. Good in April and May. Nothing special since

McCann started slow in April but has been OPSing over .800 since then.

Its just funny to me that Troy could be slumping for 6 weeks and still be at the top of the teams leaders in production

and if you're willing to put

McCann and Hinke’s production up against Glaus’s….since you want to defend him, then I’ll have that argument ANY day

considering

that with his slump he’s still leading the team in RBI’s and 2nd in HRs? Making a max of about 3-4 mil?

yea you win

Ssdly that says more about the offense as a whole than Glaus's production

I never said he was the best in the league. Just that this bashing on him is un-needed

they should release him in the morning
yes

Release him!!!!

who, the kraken?
we cant do that till after monday

The Return of PRADO!!!!

This game was truly FUBAR
wait they only had four bloop hits?

felt like at least 10

How many players made multiple bone-head plays today?

Mac: Passed Ball, Throwing Error
Alex Gonzalez: Fielding Error, Not Covering 2nd Base
Hinske: Missing Cutoff man

What else have I missed

Also

Glaus: typical poor covering of pick off throws

farns threw one away to glaus
they both failed on that one really

but most 1B get that ball TBH

it seemed like the throw was ok...

glaus just didnt really move his glove at all…

ball that got away from Glaus

Heyward kicking the ball in the corner
ah forgot that one

Heyward’s mini-slide instead of continuing to run could have perhaps gotten an out but didn’t.

I thought he was ready to go but no one covered the bag?
I think she is saying

If Heyward does not slide there, he catches the ball, but yeah Gonzalez did not cover 2nd

that was

a tough play though, to be fair

Yeah it was, I agree. But he stopped his momentum and might have made it if he had kept running.

And most definitely HE is not the reason the score is 10-4.

Well, he sorta is.

Otherwise it would be 10-3. :-(

Indeed it would. Excellent point!

anybody else still listening to the benny hill theme?

bonehead play of the night……..Cox bringing in Farnsworth9less)

NET ZERO TRADE

Sorry everyone- the trade with KC – its a net zero trade. Net zero for the rest of the year. No real immediate help.

youre down 10-4

throw freakin strikes pls

Christian MArtinez = White Flag
If anyone wants to play me in The Show

add me ( atlantabraves 22) and send me a message saying your from TC

im bobnitus
you play the show?
no i need to go get it..mostly hockey and football games and codmw2
listen to this...makes me chuckle every time:

SlideWhistle

Infield hits now

i bett hey get 3 more here

dear god...how many bullshit hits are they gonna get?
with the way things are going

had Omar grab it, he probably would have throw it into the stands

I cannot remember the last time I have seen a team get this mant lucky hits. Why can’t we have a little of this luck?

everyone ass me if u have ps3

bobnitus

atlantabraves 22

im down for some MLB the Show

As long as we're tossing them out there

I’m GeauxDucks

this place is about the same size as a little league field

Damn, I want a little league field that’s 435 dead center…

although the hill would seem right at home

I’m sure that fizzbot will say: "Phillies will catch us, we won’t make the playoffs at least two times in the recap (if there is one) and with at least two grammar errors.

The Phillies will cactus
The fillies will cactus on
can someone please ban him?
Oh my goodness.

I left for two hours and I checked the score what the hell?!?! Glad I didn’t have to witness the Astros and their “putrid” offense… man this sure blows.

ya know a lot can happen in two hours... in this baseball thing
I think

I count 7 error type plays already

it was like the keystone cops

is it just me...or do we play bad in the blue jerseys?
eh

we just have trouble playing away lately. and we wear the blues away so…

I got to say

This game is not doing me any favors when I told myself to cut out the beer drinking during the week.

hey guys

dont worry…ja happ is pitching tomorrow

JA HAPP> Bud Norris

and Happ has owned us in his career

we'll be fine

we got the Caveman!!!

Look on the Bright side

MADDEN COMES OUT TOMMOROW!!!!!!

Falcons are rated 4th best team in the NFC!
Matty Ice for MVP!
I'd be okay with that
hopefully Turner gets back to 2008 form
He just needs to quit being fat like he was last year

I think he’ll be fine otherwise.

Personally

i think we as of now the 3rd best team in NFC behind Dallas and Green Bay

and dallas will choke in the playoffs…

GO PANTHERS
ya got pickles!

if we didn’t have Matty Ice thats who’d i want

Me luvs MattyIce and the Falcons:)

just wait

They will charge you 2 dollars to download new rosters, 1 dollar to play online, and 50 cents for everytime you turn it on

seriously?
that is what

it feels like

who was asking about pitchers next Sat in chitown?

hard to be positive

Especially knowing that we face Happ tomorrow

bobby: we’re down 6, let’s bring in that japanese dude…. kawasaki?
eddie perez: you mean kawakami? dude, he’s at gwinnett
bobby: WTF? since when? WHY IS HE NEVER THERE WHEN I NEED HIM??

hahaha

time for back to back to back to back to back to back HRs

i’m glad i don’t know any astro’s fans

I wish I didn't:(

enjoy your day tomorrow

My in-laws in Houston

happy I won’t see them until Thanksgiving!

Martinez > Farnsworth

So what was the last game we actually were beaten? Seems like every game we have lost lately we have just given away.

that’s actually probably a good thing.

It is as long as they quit doing it.

i agree completely

sadly though, whether the opposition beat us or we beat ourselves, its still another game in the L column

why we always lose against pitcher with 5+ ERA?
because

we lose road games no matter what

We didn’t lose to him. We got 4 off of him, and if our bullpen and defense wouldn’t have blown it, it would’ve been enough to win.

You know, I want to feel bad about all these bloops

And while they’re frustrating to happen at the same time, we’ve certainly been on the good side of some bloop hits and untimely errors by the other team. I mean that whole 7 run 9th inning against the Reds doesn’t happen if the 3B gets the ball out of his glove.

turd in the punch bowl

exactly

Every team benefits from bloop hits over the year. Face it – we lost the game – the other team scored 10 runs – doesnt matter how they got em – they got the hits to win.

My friends and I were playing a drinking game, where we took a drink anytime absolutely riddiculous happened in the braves game.

Now two of them are passed out in critical condition at the local hospital, one of em is dead, I’m fine, This one girl threw up 4 or 5 times, and i don’t know where my other friend is… so yep thanks guys

Ankiel Ks

what a surprise

sheesh... Ankiel 1 for his last 17
really?

i thought he had a good series against the Giants for some reason . . .

aaaannnd

my memory lied to me lol

Rick Ankiel is bad at baseball.

MVP will save us!
we had been robbed on that trade

Chavez > Fanrsworth

Greg White > Ankiel
15 errors in the past 10 games

that is pretty sad

how many GONZO?
Not sure

but he has 5 in 23 games, so pretty bad either way

Amazing we’re still in first place with stats like that. We better FOCUS the rest of this series.

i'm thinking this will be a bit of a wake up call
I cant believe we gave away Chavez for Ankiel and/or Farnsworth...

thats a shame Chavez will be great one day

haha
actually

im kinda more upset about the LH Reliever we gave up

Loved Collins.

i don’t know as if I’d go that far

NET ZERO

I agree. The trade with the Royals was a net zero trade. NO IMPROVEMENT.

agreed

but we didnt really give up anything to make me upset either…and ankiel’s offense hasnt been so good…but his range is better than melkys…so thats something i guess

Ignoring the whole trade

I have always really hated Gonzalez

He's had a rough 3 years with his baby boy in a coma:(
that

stinks for him

Sure does,

surprised he can play at all :(

At least we have two more chances to win the series

I’m going to stick with the Bobby mantra. As long as we keep winning series, we’ll be okay.

360 gamertag: SleeplessShadow
PS3 gamertag: jjhova12

For anyone that has Red Dead, Modern Warfare 1 or 2, MLB: The Show 2010

ill play the show
I'm currently playing Resistance 2 and

it’s almost bed time.. But add me and we can play in the near future.

kk

kenshin kawakami of course

Meh, glad that's finally over.


.

.

thanks, melky

quick and painless

Welp

That was about as ugly a loss as I can remember.

that was fucking sad
and the Fail is complete.... need to get hammered tonight and put that one behind us
I'm doing my part right now...
you'd think houston was the 1st place team
would you?

it was more of us sucking than them being good

We will win tomorrow
Fuck this team we suck

can’t even beat the Astros! Ankiel sucks, Gonzo sucks, Farnsworth sucks! Troy Glaus blows I WANT FREEMAN!!!! Hinske is a joke, we better sign Crawford because we are going nowhere this year and our only chance is to be good next year
!

Sad face

but remember, tomorrow is another game, a fresh start. We can win tomorrow.

This

Good teams in baseball lose 40% of the time. Let’s take the next two and we’ll forget about today.

And.... that happened
B lineup > A lineup
more like

B Defense > A Defense

we need to play 2 team everyday, like NFL

offensive team and defensive team

my tv is broken

i threw my roomate in it

y'all need to lighten up...

that game was so bad i’m laughing, we’re 1.5 games up, it’s alright

Writing this recap is going to suck.
Bless you....
just write

“Mondays really, really suck.”

write

hang yourself

We beat ourselves again. I feel sorry for whoever has to write the recap. If it was me, it just write “That sucked.”

Good night TC'ers

Let’s rid ourselves of that really bad JuJu and we’ll get em tomorrow.

well guys

have a good night. I dont even have a fail gif worthy of tonight

This is the 3rd lose of Braves during August. the 3 losses were braves beating braves

1 against the Mets
1 against the Giants
and now this

Ok what happened, just got home and was watching my espn mvp game cast and all a sudden they scored six runs. any 1 want to tell me how the 6 run inning happened? Thank you

it was a fuckus

Braves allow a "inside park GS"

Wait what? ANOTHER FREAKIN INSIDE THE PARKER?

Was it Farnsworth or mainly Moylan?

Farnsworth left the bases loaded and Moylan gave up two singles

the second after a series of error, all the runners scored = 4 runs, just like a inside park Grand slam

Sorry to be so annoying but what were the series of errors? ESPN MVP was all jacked up

http://atlanta.braves.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=10795833

really, just one error

Oh lord McCann ha ha. Was that the only error in the inning.

Is it just me or has Moylan just really sucked when brought in to get a double play. Last couple seasons he was awesome and was an almost guaranteed DP

Farnsworth pick off error

Geebuz. Minor do ok?

Chavez > Farnsworth

Not even he would’ve done this.

Oh God, why am I not more drunk than I am?

At least Minor looked great.

It's probably a good thing

That Jason can legally drink, now.

Just don’t let Hinske pick the bar.

Bah.

Lets put this behind us, please.

Especially Gonzo and Minor.

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