Open Thread and NAHWAL: Please Sweep
Los Angeles Dodgers @ Atlanta Braves
This is a real-time post. i'm still up at this hour, please do not refer to what is keeping me up. I will only say that there needs to be some sort of post-inebriated mental genie that keeps one from drinking so much.
By the way, if it seems like I've been a zombie recently, that's true, and it may be more pronounced in the near future. Work has been all-consuming and they may send me to Singapore next week, so that will be interesting / slash less-than-full-time. Kudos to Matt (that yondaime guy) who has been doing a great job with the minor league updates.
Arrrrrrggghhhh!!!! I want a sweep!!!
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Make It Happen!
I feel this sweep coming and it’s just the beginning!
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by ejruiz on Apr 20, 2008 6:14 AM EDT 0 recs
picks
1. 34,500
2. Frenchy
3. Escobar hits at least one double
by brndn on Apr 20, 2008 7:37 AM EDT 0 recs
Picks for a sweep!
1. 38,111
2. McCann
3. Jurrjens continues his solid start to the year with a QS
by VegasAces on Apr 20, 2008 8:25 AM EDT 0 recs
NAHWAL
1. 36.380
2. Teixeira
3. Bobby uses 5 relievers.
by pett-man on Apr 20, 2008 8:27 AM EDT 0 recs
picks.
1. 35,243
2. KJ
3. Jurrjens strikes out at least 5 and doesn’t walk anyone.
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by mccannfan on Apr 20, 2008 8:55 AM EDT 0 recs
picks
1. 37,900
2. Chipper
3. Acosta picks up the save.
by RonGantFan on Apr 20, 2008 9:14 AM EDT 0 recs
Pickage
1. 40,404 late arriving
2. Chipper off the right hander
3. Matt Diaz plays
by OntheGo on Apr 20, 2008 9:30 AM EDT 0 recs
picks
1) 41,214
2) Jurrjens
3) Jair strikes out 4 or more Dodgahs
by bigjoe on Apr 20, 2008 10:21 AM EDT 0 recs
Picks FTW...
1. 32,231
2. Jair Jurrjens
3. Teixeira homers
-sdp-
by sdp on Apr 20, 2008 10:22 AM EDT 0 recs
Picks
1. 36,283
2. Chipper
3. 2 Braves have multi-hit days with one being Matty. (He better freaking play today!)
by musicman on Apr 20, 2008 11:13 AM EDT 0 recs
picks
1. 40,474
2. chipper
3. braves sweep, bullpen allows 0 runs yet again
by jc25 on Apr 20, 2008 11:52 AM EDT 0 recs
picks
1. 39,017
2. Chipper
3. Jair has a QS and gets the win
by jess7 on Apr 20, 2008 12:15 PM EDT 0 recs
picks
1. 41,023
2. Tex
3. Braves score 8 runs—Chipper and Tex combine for 6 of them.
by jug on Apr 20, 2008 1:07 PM EDT 0 recs
Broom.
Gondee…in the midst of your alcohol-related stuper it would be great if you went back to the game against Lowe and updated my NAHWAL points. I picked Chipper as my #2.
I myself enjoy a snifter of port at Christmas, but I can’t have some lush blog-running botching my points when Steven Segal drinks are on the line…GOD.
1. 41,999
2. Francoeur
3. 3+ runs in at least 2 innings for the Braves.
by Smoltz's Beard on Apr 20, 2008 1:09 PM EDT 0 recs
Picks
1. 37,814
2. Chipper
3. Chipper and Tex have back to back HRs
by hbkbraves on Apr 20, 2008 1:23 PM EDT 0 recs
Mine!
1. 38,694
2. Escobar
3. Andruw strikes out twice, Escobar has three RBIs
by Samson on Apr 20, 2008 1:38 PM EDT 0 recs
Diaz
the whole series off!...killing my picks. Curious about the amount of ‘rest’ Bobby’s giving him all of the sudden. Don’t get me wrong, I think Blanco is better defensively…and is showing some promise at the plate. But Bobby saying he just wanted to rest Diaz (3 starts) because he had played every game coming into the series (15) just seems strange.
by OntheGo on Apr 20, 2008 1:50 PM EDT 0 recs
Yeah, I don’t know about that. I think Diaz is pretty well-rested at this point.
by jug on
Apr 20, 2008 2:12 PM EDT
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Blonde or Brunette?
Behind home plate, when leftie is up and camera zooms on the batter. Blonde in red tank top, brunette in green NICE. I love HD…
Go Braves!
by WienerDog on Apr 20, 2008 2:15 PM EDT 0 recs
commentary
Ron Darling sucks. He’s making Chip Caray look good by comparison.
by bigjoe on Apr 20, 2008 2:32 PM EDT 0 recs
meh
At least we got on the board…we’re really working the count well against Kuroda, he’s got 68 pitches through 3. No way he gets past 5. Awful AB by Francoeur to end the inning though…gets to 2-0, and takes 2 horrible swings that result in a weak grounder to short.
by bigjoe on Apr 20, 2008 2:40 PM EDT 0 recs
We are seemingly more patient today, working the count. Almost too much even, there have been some pitches that were really hittable the guys took. But, I’m not going to complain.
Jurrjens looks pretty good so far. Getting some good location & velocity.
Agreed on Frenchy. C’mon Jeff, you can do better!
by jug on
Apr 20, 2008 2:44 PM EDT
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haha
i was preparing a post saying something like “perfect 12 pitch inning”. yeah.
why does corky miller have a job? guy can’t hit a lick.
by bigjoe on
Apr 20, 2008 2:53 PM EDT
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Fortunately...
... for Corky, his job isn’t to hit.
-sdp-
by sdp on
Apr 20, 2008 3:19 PM EDT
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?!?!?!?
please, oh god PLEASE let that just be a bruise.
by bigjoe on Apr 20, 2008 3:13 PM EDT 0 recs
Well...
you’re not gonna hear Chipper and Smoltzie sniping about one another playing thru some pain this year. And I think Chipper thought he got all of that one and had to hustle it into a double…that can hurt ailing legs.
by OntheGo on Apr 20, 2008 3:16 PM EDT 0 recs
Let's get some runs!!!!
Frenchy killed that ball! To bad Andruw plays center field.
by mvandonsel on Apr 20, 2008 3:19 PM EDT 0 recs
ASS HEAD
That guy at second for the Dodgers has made some tough plays today!!
by mvandonsel on Apr 20, 2008 3:21 PM EDT 0 recs
ugh
Lets hope Chipper got pulled for precautionary reasons and nothing serious.
by bigjoe on Apr 20, 2008 3:22 PM EDT 0 recs
Some of you creative types...
need to put your heads together and come up with a nickname for Jair…he’s gonna be around for a while!
by OntheGo on Apr 20, 2008 3:26 PM EDT 0 recs
Bingo...
...did you not see Jurrjen’s Surgeons?
by Smoltz's Beard on
Apr 20, 2008 4:53 PM EDT
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Yes...
...that is where its from. Did it seem like I came up with it on my own? What gave you that impression…
I’m not very creative or original, but I’m good at stealing other people’s ideas!
by jug on
Apr 20, 2008 8:41 PM EDT
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Sorry...
...meant to reply to OntheGo’s comment. I stupid.
by Smoltz's Beard on
Apr 21, 2008 9:16 AM EDT
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Unitl somebody comes up with something
I’ll just call him…FILTHY!
by mvandonsel on Apr 20, 2008 3:29 PM EDT 0 recs
ah
There we go Corky, in your 3 ABs, you’ve hit the ball a combined total of what, 40 feet? And allowed 2 stolen bases? WAY TO EARN THAT PAYCHECK!
by bigjoe on Apr 20, 2008 3:33 PM EDT 0 recs
Scott Proctor...
getting ready? Riiiiiiight he was squatting there!
That was a BS call by the plate umpire on that strike to Kelly.
by mvandonsel on Apr 20, 2008 3:37 PM EDT 0 recs
kuroda
he’s going on fumes. i can’t believe he’s one out from a quality start. that would be the worst QS ever.
by bigjoe on Apr 20, 2008 3:39 PM EDT 0 recs
YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!
F-THAT. WE BETTER NOT LOSE BY A RUN!
by mvandonsel on Apr 20, 2008 3:42 PM EDT 0 recs
Per Pete on radio from the Braves training room...
... aggravated the right quad again.
-sdp-
by sdp on Apr 20, 2008 3:42 PM EDT 0 recs
argh
if that ball goes 5 more foot, 4 runs score…because with the way andruw was loafing, no way does he get to the ball.
by bigjoe on Apr 20, 2008 3:44 PM EDT 0 recs
That is the fastest
That I have ever seen Tex run!!!
by mvandonsel on Apr 20, 2008 4:00 PM EDT 0 recs
awesome
two SHIT HITS to start the inning, now we need a nice solid one that goes about 400 ft
by bigjoe on Apr 20, 2008 4:01 PM EDT 0 recs
We deserve a big
hit after we got robbed last inning
by mvandonsel on Apr 20, 2008 4:02 PM EDT 0 recs
REALLY????
If Martin would have caught that I would have turned the game off.
You think that Corky could have caught that?
by mvandonsel on Apr 20, 2008 4:03 PM EDT 0 recs
Nice but
I think he’s gonna gap a pitch out of the strike zone
by OntheGo on
Apr 20, 2008 4:07 PM EDT
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He’ll get it together. He is going after pitches instead of letting them come to him. He’s too anxious to hit, and not just have a good AB.
by jug on
Apr 20, 2008 4:12 PM EDT
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