The Braves support is strong on this forum.
Here's hoping the Mets and Phils underachieve by alot so the Braves get the division.
Only thing I'm honestly worried about is the bullpen. Rotation we have built in redundancy- as long as more than 2 starters aren't hurt at the same time we'll be fine. Like the lineup quite a bit, hope we don't throw Schafer out there to lead off to start tho. Let him ease into it, have KJ lead off at first.
Acosta was overused imo. When hes used sparingly hes good.
Logan era has begun?
Oh God, I thought Felix put himself on the DL for a second playing that popup.
Wait a second, no one else here cares about anything except the Braves, why do I even bother with commentary? :lol
Well, that's good because your real life team isn't looking so hot.
Morrow blew it in the ninth, there's my Mariners!5th overall :lol
Well, that's good because your real life team isn't looking so hot.
really? triumph i thought you were better than that.
Well, that's good because your real life team isn't looking so hot.
really? triumph i thought you were better than that.
yanquis lol
Well, that's good because your real life team isn't looking so hot.
really? triumph i thought you were better than that.
yanquis lol
New York 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 3 0 2 8 12 0
Atlanta 0 4 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 9 2
That inning right there shows why this team is .500 at best. Vazquez has to be destroying the locker room right now. Now they have three outs before they have to face Lidge. What a horrific game. Bobby should cut both Moylan and Boyer tonight. No excuse what-so-ever to walk five guys when you're up by 7 runs.
And now Howard make a nice diving play. God I fucking hate this team. Gets me in the worst mood. :maf
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,513597,00.html (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,513597,00.html)
Fuck. That'll put yesterday's loss in perspective real quick.
Gallo, who is suspected of driving under the influence, fled the scene and was arrested about a mile away, officials said. His license had been suspended prior to the crash for a previous drunken driving conviction, police said.
He is expected to be charged with felony drunken driving, felony hit-and-run and vehicular manslaughter. Investigators may also pursue murder charges against him, according to Lt. Kevin Hamilton of the Fullerton Police Traffic Bureau.
(http://www.ktla.com/common/medialib/image/211537.jpg)QuoteGallo, who is suspected of driving under the influence, fled the scene and was arrested about a mile away, officials said. His license had been suspended prior to the crash for a previous drunken driving conviction, police said.
He is expected to be charged with felony drunken driving, felony hit-and-run and vehicular manslaughter. Investigators may also pursue murder charges against him, according to Lt. Kevin Hamilton of the Fullerton Police Traffic Bureau.
Felony Drunken Driving - Strike 1
Felony Hit-and-Run - Strike 2
Vehicular Manslaughter - Strike 3 (as it was obviously gross negligence and is a Felony in CA)
Even without the murder charges, that cholo-looking motherfucker is going to jail for life.
Damn it. The only game that I'll be able to watch in class tonight is MIL/SF. :-\
(http://www.ktla.com/common/medialib/image/211537.jpg)QuoteGallo, who is suspected of driving under the influence, fled the scene and was arrested about a mile away, officials said. His license had been suspended prior to the crash for a previous drunken driving conviction, police said.
He is expected to be charged with felony drunken driving, felony hit-and-run and vehicular manslaughter. Investigators may also pursue murder charges against him, according to Lt. Kevin Hamilton of the Fullerton Police Traffic Bureau.
Felony Drunken Driving - Strike 1
Felony Hit-and-Run - Strike 2
Vehicular Manslaughter - Strike 3 (as it was obviously gross negligence and is a Felony in CA)
Even without the murder charges, that cholo-looking motherfucker is going to jail for life.
Is he legal?
I asked on Facebook when someone posted the link if the Angels were going to receive a compensation draft pick, and somehow that made me out to be an asshole?Plastics come out of the woodwork in times like this.
Our first 4 games in Arlington last year the Indians gave up 39 runs (!!). This year they gave up 29 runs in three games.
FUCK THAT BALLPARK
Thinking the Braves will get rained out tonight. :-\
Its weird. They go like 8 years without a single rain out in the new stadium. But, in the last few years they've been getting rained out like crazy.
i've gotten a dui just because i was over the limit. there's a difference between driving after you've had a drink, and driving when you're so drunk you run red lights and kill people.
driving a car is dangerous. period. alcohol makes it worse, but so does being an idiot, a horrible driver, too old, too young, inexperienced, on the phone, or whatever.
harsher penalties for dui's don't prevent these accidents, they just fuck otherwise law abiding tax paying people who happen to be the unlucky one pulled over 2 minutes after leaving a bar and breathalyzed for no reason other than that.
i don't give a fuck what you morons who disagree with me think, harsher penalties for dui's just give the state more fucking money and allow there to be more donut eating fat fuckholes hiding behind bushes waiting to fuck someone over.
you really think the fucking asshole that killed this kid wouldn't have been driving if the penalty for drunk driving was $10,000 or $100,000 instead? don't be fucking dumb. people die. car accidents happen everyday. whether or not alcohol is involved, or what the penalty for dui's are, they're gonna happen regardless.
If your team was 0-4 and your pitching staff gave up 50 runs .. would you be ledging?
Triumph, I'm spanking your ass in Fantasy. Woo... imaginary internet victories to improve my self-esteem!
Eh. Part of the Blame goes to Matt Diaz. Looked like an idiot in LF.
What's wrong with Felix today? Three runs, a wild pitch, two walks and five hits in 2.2 innings so far...
What's wrong with Felix today? Three runs, a wild pitch, two walks and five hits in 2.2 innings so far...
Braves would be undefeated if not for one flukey goddamn inning, sigh.
Braves would be undefeated if not for one flukey goddamn inning, sigh.
28 LOB.
28 LOB.
You know, I didn't want to bring it up, but your pitching kind of sucks balls too.
5-1 Braves start a 3 game series with the 5-1 Fish today.
GO BRAVES!
The Yankees had Nick Swisher pitch?
:lol
Sore shoulder could end Glavine's career. (http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=Ap.awm4gZ6Ms6dzolGL.St05nYcB?slug=ap-braves-glavine&prov=ap&type=lgns)
Gotta say I'm not surprised about this, to be honest. I think it's kind of time for him to hang 'em up. It's a shame that he wasn't able to pitch well at the end with the Braves, but oh well.
As for calling up Hanson, I would honestly prefer to give Reyes one more chance since I don't like not having one lefty in the rotation. Then hopefully we can get something for Vasquez at the deadline, cause hey- even if he's gonna pitch modestly well, I'd still rather have Hudson over Vasquez for basically the same price next season, and we're probably not affording both.
A Tigers team I'm excited about versus the Mariners with Griffey back. This is almost like I'm a kid again :hyper
I won't be able to watch any of the games in this series though :(
Really impressed with Porcello today.
This Braves team sucks, lost 2 of 3 to the Pirates
and one to the Nats
Got a call from a buddy earlier today, we're gonna head down to Safeco Field and get last minute tickets for tonight's game against Tampa Bay.
BASEBALL!!!!!!! YEEEEAAAAHHH!!!!!
would you like season seats
i'll pay
maybe
You know what's really sad? Even though we suck and are currently sitting at 7-8... we're in 2nd place in our division.
lol mets
lol phillies
/me is planning the parade from Winnipeg
In Gaston we trust.
Saw this in an LL thread. WTF
(http://xdf.xanga.com/61bf05f458332225122586/b176946848.gif)
:lol
Washburned :lol :lol
Looks like Boras will requesting $50 million for Stephen Strasburg rights.
Does he think this is the NFL draft?
Just read about this :lol I mean wow....Let's take bets on who's next!
I'm on the verge of not watching another baseball game ever again. My hope in all of this is Griffey is clean. To my knowledge his name has never come up in any of this and I hope it never does.
I'm on the verge of not watching another baseball game ever again. My hope in all of this is Griffey is clean. To my knowledge his name has never come up in any of this and I hope it never does.
Thanks for screwing Jurrjens out of another win, Braves. grrrr
I can't believe the Indians season is already over. It's not even summer yet. Fuck me.
“And manager Ozzie Guillen had an amusing explanation for his ejection in the bottom of the sixth inning after Cleveland’s Jhonny Peralta took a called strike to start the bottom of the sixth.
“I was protecting Peralta,” Guillen quipped. “I asked Peralta if that pitch was low and in, and he said, ‘yes.’ They thought I was crazy because I wasn’t protecting J.D. I was protecting the opposition. That means I was going to send a message that I wasn’t here to protect my players. I was here to protect baseball”
The Rangers were actually in the lead of the West as late as the end of May in 2005. They ended finishing 7 or 8 games below .500 by the end of the season.
Who hates the Braves? Except for Mutts fans, I mean.
Who hates the Braves? Except for Mutts fans, I mean.
Why are the Rays so bad this year :(you're still alive. :o
Thunder perfect gamed by Akron. Toxic you still alive?
Why are the Rays so bad this year
Why are the Rays so bad this year :(
Oh yeah! Ichiro with a home run! 7-1 M's in the 6th!
C'mon sweep!
We're back to .500!!
:rock
We're back to .500!!
:rock
well that was fast :teehee
No! Say it ain't so.
Ichiro visits Sisler's grave
During an All-Star Weekend when history is made and honored, Ichiro Suzuki paid respects to a man whose achievements are linked with his own.
Ichiro, in St. Louis for his ninth All-Star Game, visited the grave of St. Louis Browns star George Sisler, whose single-season record of 257 hits was broken by the Mariners outfielder in October 2004.
Sisler's descendants -- including Sisler's 81-year-old daughter, Frances Sisler Drochelman -- had traveled to Seattle to witness Ichiro break the record that was set in 1920, and last weekend, Ichiro returned the gesture.
"I wanted to do that for a grand upperclassman of the baseball world," Ichiro told MLB.com. "I think it's only natural for someone to want to do that, to express my feelings in that way."
Ichiro, accompanied by his wife, Yumiko, and some friends, laid flowers at Sisler's grave, at Des Peres Presbyterian Church Cemetery. Sisler, a Hall of Famer, died on March 26, 1973. His career was marked by a lifetime .340 batting average, and a .407 average in 1920. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1939.
"There's not many chances to come to St. Louis," Ichiro said, according to the Seattle Times. "In 2004, it was the first time I crossed paths with him, and his family generously came all the way to Seattle."
Another All-Star Game might be old hat to Ichiro, who was the MVP of the 2007 game and has won a Gold Glove in each season since entering the major leagues out of Japan in 2001.
But this time, Ichiro got to meet President Barack Obama, who threw out the first pitch. Obama, visiting the clubhouses, stopped and signed a ball for Ichiro, who gave a slight bow upon meeting the President and appeared as giddy and excited as a kid.
"My idea, when I saw him, was to say, 'What's up?' to him," Ichiro said. "But I got nervous. You know, he has that kind of aura about him. So I got nervous and I didn't say that to him. I was a little disappointed about that.
"But I realized after seeing him today that presidents wear jeans, too. So my hope is that our skipper, [Don] Wakamatsu, was watching that and we can wear jeans on our flights, as well."
In news that should surprise no one, Sammy Sosa tested positive for performance enhancing drugs.
:o
:lol
I was so shocked to see the Braves come back and win in the bottom of the 9th tonight that for a minute I could have sworn we were playing the Mets, especially considering how we came back.
In news that should surprise no one, Sammy Sosa tested positive for performance enhancing drugs.
:o
:lol
:o
:o
In news that should surprise no one, Sammy Sosa tested positive for performance enhancing drugs.
:o
:lol
:o
:o
This is like the time you discovered s-video cables.
so how about them tigers?
:( Mets
What's wrong with the Rays is that even after fielding a competitive team, no one showed up to watch them. Can't afford to keep players in Floridia, where baseball goes to die.
Smh, we should've picked Lincecum over Longoria.
Smh, we should've picked Lincecum over Longoria.
Yeah . . . that was horrible. ???
Longoria is a fantastic positional player and the Rays have him locked up until 2016 for peanuts. According to fangraphs, he's worth over $30 million this year alone, and the Rays are paying him less than $5 million a year over the term of his contract.
Pitchers are risky draft picks and rarely live up to their potential.
Smh, we should've picked Lincecum over Longoria.
Yeah . . . that was horrible. ???
Longoria is a fantastic positional player and the Rays have him locked up until 2016 for peanuts. According to fangraphs, he's worth over $30 million this year alone, and the Rays are paying him less than $5 million a year over the term of his contract.
Pitchers are risky draft picks and rarely live up to their potential.
If we can't even keep BJ Upton more than two years, what makes you think we're going to keep Longoria before trading him for more prospects?
Is Johan even a dominate pitcher anymore
I like RJ Anderson though, he's my home boy :(
I USED to be a Red Sox fan. When they get rid of the homos pedroidya and youkillis then ill like them again. I was walking in a shaws recently and saw both of those distinguished effete fellows faces on the cover of a magazine, just them, and it made me sick. What is wrong with resox fans
STFU I never liked the Red Sox. And i've been OG Tampa Bay fan unlike those fucking distinguished effete fellows over at GAF who became fans once they where winning. I was a OG Devil Rays fan.
Also David Price >>>>>> any other pitcher in the league. He's amazing.
No change for Citi's dimensions. David Wright is probably slitting his wrists listening to this. :lol
3-year, $27 mil contract for Francoeur confirmed. :gloomyHe's not even allowed to have a sharp GM!
3-year, $27 mil contract for Francoeur confirmed. :gloomy
Is that ridiculous because Youkilis is a shit player or?
3-year, $27 mil contract for Francoeur confirmed. :gloomy
:lol :lol :lol
Have fun with that!
:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol Red Sux fans
I'm listening on radio!It's 1930 all over again.
I've been watching TBS' coverage... I can't believe we don't have the HD feed of this yet...
I've been watching TBS' coverage... I can't believe we don't have the HD feed of this yet...
Ouch, that sucks. The only channel I'd want in HD that I don't currently have on FiOS is AMC.
I've been watching TBS' coverage... I can't believe we don't have the HD feed of this yet...
Ouch, that sucks. The only channel I'd want in HD that I don't currently have on FiOS is AMC.
Comcast has been screwing over Seattle residents. All the suburbs and nearby towns have had tons of additional HD channels for months now, including TBS HD, AMC HD and even most of the Canadian broadcast networks in HD. I pay the same price as my parents, but they get about 25 additional HD channels at no extra cost. We'll be lucky to get them before the end of the year. We're supposed to get them by November 3rd, but I'm not holding my breath...
Grazed his jersey? Whoops.
edit: I have never heard a baseball announcer use the term "fisted" more than TBS' crew tonight.
I think we all know what activity is going to take place tonight at the distantmantra household.
Cliff Lee almost threw a shutout.
I have ZERO hope of the Mets finishing on top of the NL East next year. Phillies are going to roll over the division again.