Personally I’m glad to see him go, although I know quite a few people here wanted him back on a 1 year deal. I was terrified he was going to penciled in as our #3 starter.

He made a bunch of quality starts towards the end of the season, I’d rather have him back than Glavine. Watch him win comeback player of the year in ’09.

I don’t want him, or Glavine back. Glavine was great in his day, but his day has passed. Hampton’s day has passed as well. Let him rot in that hole of a city all he wants.

Promoted to front page, since everyone’s already commenting on it. Sorry bigjoe, I took out your colorful metaphor, but swear away in the comments.

Sheet head owed us. Screw his family in Arizona. The money he stole from us for the past few years paid for that pad. He owed us the opportunity to match the offer. He moved for selfish reasons to live closer to his family. He made millions in his absurd contract and gave nothing to Atlanta. He basically sat at his house in Arizona for most of his tenure in Atlanta. The man is a coward and has no loyalty.

He will do fine for the Astros and will be penciled in at No.3. he would have been a No. 4 for us. Screw that guy. His wife has to be on the prowl for him to care that much about being so close to home. Lost all respect for him. don’t care what charity he donates too or whatever. He is not a man.

I’ll never get the hatred of Mike Hampton. The truth is, he made 85 starts (decent overall performance-wise) in a Braves uniform for 509 innings pitched. For that, we paid the grand total of 6/$42M ($7M/year). It was a bad contract, but certainly not a crippling one. He was hurt, but he never gave up. His teammates don’t hate him and neither does our management, so why should you? I love how people pretend to know that we offered him something equal to what the Astros did and that he must have turned us down for no other reason than his being a complete prick. All I know is that Wren confirmed that he was in touch with him, so I’m sure he’s an Astro because we didn’t match their offer. And honestly, take a look at these comments and ask yourself: if you were him, would you really want to pitch for this fanbase? I’m happy for him and I wish him all the best. Mr. Glass has a lot more class than many of his detractors.

Is that you know he’s gonna pitch 190 innings have a 13+ win season with a decent whip. You know it’s going to happen.

Tazawa was bad this is not nearly at that level. It’s the principal of the matter. If Hampton called wren told him about the offer and we declined then I will look like an a$$ but does anyone think that his spineless vaginal face dare show up to Wren and ask for more money. Coward. Cowards are weak and useless to society. Maybe evolution will take care of his blood line.

This is sports, and the guy has been worthless to the team. Who gives a crap about how hard he tried, he is rewarded rather handsomely for his efforts.

Us Redskins fans are ready to bench Jason Campbell after a few bad games, it’s the way of sports. You don’t perform, you get skewered. I don’t think Hampton cries about taking abuse from the fanbase when he goes home to his 100+ million.

You make millions you deserve to get it when you suck. You don’t like it then stop sucking. Look at Donovan McNabb the guy does everything and he gets it every week.

Look at Phillip Fulmer for the Vols this year. He has his second losing season in 17 years and he’s out.

Look at Derek Anderson with the browns. He starts off bad and done. He won’t be a brown next year. He just signed a contract this year.

Look at Wood with the Cubs. Not worth it anymore done your gone. It was a nice ride.
Hope you suck somewhere else.

A-Rod every day. If he didn’t walk the walk then he would be gone.

you are worse than my wife. Yes, you are right. Thanks for keeping it real. lol

Think about it, some woman made the decision to marry Mike Hampton. That’s awful. And he might be creating Junior Glass, who one day will show promise, get the biggest contract possible, and then sit on his ass and not pitch again until his contract year.

Don’t do it. You can feel the Punk hate in their writing.

“MattDiazFanClub” your name is not a good moniker to defend an underperforming Brave.

I think we will all agree that Hampton will not be missed. I still can’t believe the level of apologism he is receiving. I wish him nothing but the continued failure he has shown us over the years.

man, I really enjoyed reading Charmin519’s posts along with a few other. Way to keep me entertained fellas.

As for Hampton, he doesn’t owe the Braves anything. He got hurt and that was out of his control. Now if he’d gotten hurt for stupid reasons similar to Monta Ellis of the Warriors, then I’d say Hampton owed the Braves at least a full year at a discount rate.

I’m glad he isn’t a Brave any longer. I never liked him as a pitcher and think he is terribly overrated.

We are on the verge of a new era for the Braves, and I for one am very excited for what’s to come. Let’s just hope that all the talent in the minors pan out and don’t turn out to be like Frenchy.

I really expected him to take a pay cut and play for us for one year, then pursue options elsewhere, or if he performs well, we sign him on for more time. I didn’t have real high expectations, but I did expect him to come back out of respect, but this reactions baffles me.

There was no reason to expect Hampton to take a pay cut out of a sense of loyalty. His years are winding down, and with his prior injury history, he needed to get as much as possible out of the leagues before he can no longer pitch. Also, he probably feels that he has a better chance at wins with the Astros than he does stop-gaping for a year with the Braves, giving him better opportunities further down the line.

As a fan: Screw him and his little dog too.

I thought he would sign with us too. I was some kind of pissed off when I heard he didn’t. Your right though, I didn’t expect much either but I did feel like he would come back.

What I’m about to say is crazy talk and possibly just plain stupid…………….but

I started to feel like I could count on him. As if somehow we could count on him to come back start as our No. 4 and help out for a season while our young crop matured.

Here’s hoping we can sign someone with upside for cheap. Maybe Randy Johnson.

thank you all for ruining my first post to get onto the main page.

Hampton’s Career. It’s started off pretty good. Then you get moved to the big times. Things are steady for awhile then chaos sets in. Just when you think it’s over and your getting back on track………BAM………..out of know where another blast from the past pops up and starts again. Now people are getting annoyed. It’s a little to much and then at the end it starts to become civilized again. LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL. It looks good and it gets a little smoother at the end. Now all we need is Gondee to completely move it off the board and Hampton’s Braves Career to date has been masterfully depicted in your post. Quite possibly the greatest post ever.

According to the AJC the Braves offered more than the Astros. Weak Mike.

How much longer is the flight between Atlanta and AZ and Texas and AZ?

…he was a shifty-looking little fellow.

and I missed it.
Oh well, it wasn’t the good kind anyway. ;)

Go Z, stomp sliced bread’s ass!

anyone know what the record for most posts in a thread is on this board (cant include open game threads)