Game Thread and NAHWAL: Stupid Schedule Edition
by yondaime4 on Apr 30, 2008 2:10 PM EDT
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PrintSorry about the late post guys. I was under the impression the game would be starting later. Lucky for everyone I got off work early today! I'll be doing a catch-up post tonight for the minor league stuff. I don't know when I can do the NAHWAL update because I don't have a functioning copy of Excel at the moment and the Google program bollux's the spreadsheet up. Anyways post your picks!
Anyone else find it ironic that is, in a sense, the end of a month long 3 game series with the Nats?
*Addendum: The Braves have heard my plea and will start Jo-Jo Reyes on Saturday. Any predictions on how he will do? He did give up two runs in his short start last night which tripled his runs allowed for the year. I have strong faith.
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1. 21, 765
2. Chipper
3. Jurrjens gets the W and goes 6
picks.
1. 23,235
2. Teixeira
3. Matt Diaz goes 3-4 with a walk.
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1. 20,102
2. Chipper
3. Jurrjens goes 6+, picks up the win, allows fewer than 3 runs, and walks fewer than 3.
picks
1. 19,452
2. Tex
3. Jurrjens goes 8 and Ks 9
by ghost of tom thobe on Apr 30, 2008 2:42 PM EDT reply actions
Picks
1. 22,086
2. Chipper
3. Texiera gets game winning hit
...i totally just realized i did 2 AAB picks and no pick to click. not that it matters, because both are gonna be horribly wrong.
Which is why I found it interesting.
by Smoltz's Beard on Apr 30, 2008 11:35 PM EDT up reply actions
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1. 19200
2. Kotsay
3. Frenchy throws out someone at second
is anyone else depressed? If the answer is “No”, you have not yet read the news. Our pitching blows. Who would have thought Jurrjens would be our ace?
Indeed...
...our numbers as a team look very, very good. I would bring up our X W-L record again, but don’t feel like hearing from idiots in the peanut gallery.
by Smoltz's Beard on Apr 30, 2008 3:48 PM EDT up reply actions
Just a quick run down actually.
3rd in Starter ERA
10th in bullpen ERA
3rd in OPS
2nd in BA
5th in Runs scored
127 runs for/104 runs against = we should have a winning record and we are 2…... TWO, 2, DEUX, Ni games under 500.
Let me ask you this. If I told you that John Smotlz (twice), Tom Glavine, Rafael Soriano, Peter Moylan and Mike Hampton all would have gone on the DL in April before the season started and then said that we would only be 3 games behind the Marlins for first place (who have the worst starters ERA in the league btw) would you have laughed at me? Cause I would have laughed at you.
I’m thankful that we are only 2 games back.
by Smoltz's Beard on Apr 30, 2008 5:33 PM EDT up reply actions
NAHWAL
1. 17,452
2. Chipper
3. Bobby gets ejected
picks
1. 19,899
2. Mac
3. Jurrjens pitches 7 shutout innings
picks
I’ll try to be optimistic…
1-18,789
2-JJ
3- Our bullpen blows a 3 run lead…
So much for optimism.
Picks
1. 16,931
2. Chipper
3. 2 Braves homer and Matty comes off the bench to drive in 2, once again proving to Bobby that he should be in there every freaking day.
Man, I'm glad we got JJ.
Maybe he’ll even settle in as a nice 3 starter for the long term, that would be a good return. Plus it’s nice to have young pitching that is performing well in the bigs.
AHHHHH.
Has that squeeze worked at all this year?
hey why dont the braves play small again...?
...oh yeah thats right
Well that was a surprising way to score.
Now we need JJ to go 9.
wasnt the hardest hit ball...
but ill take it
Unfortunately Chipper
couldn’t clear the wall on that one.
Please don't let them score JJ.
Could you please?
geez
if i have to hear one more time how great shawn hill’s fastball is, im gonna lose my mind
Smoltz has made up his mind.
He’s going back to the pen, at least for a bit (which I imagine will encompass the rest of his career). Story on MLB.com. So does that help us at all, obviously losing the starter Smoltz of last year is a blow, but having him as a closer could be something that makes a big difference. I’d rather he pitches than doesn’t and if this is what it takes, so be it.
Ah christ.
Don’t bunt Kotsay over to then take JJ out with a pinch hitter. Why?! WHY!!!!?
And then bring in Diaz.
2 pitch at bat, at best.
It saddens me too.
If that run doesn’t come in, what a waste to pull our pitcher who was shutting the other team down. I mean JJ could have bunted Kotsay over without getting pulled. Oh well. P.S. Diaz swings at everything, higher swing percentage than anyone in baseball this year.
Yunel.
Please save Bobby’s bacon. If you don’t knock the run in, this game will end in tears.
That's why sometimes
I don’t understand Bobby’s managerial choices. Diaz’ at bat was essentially a bunt, something you can do with your pitcher! So know we’ve wasted a bat, forced us to run out our suspect bullpen, and taken out our starter who was way under 100 pitches and cruising. This kind of thing costs teams dearly.
I couldn't have said it better...
... when we lose this game, blame it on Bobby for taking out Jurrjens for no good damn reason.
-sdp-
Stop the presses!
Heap threw someone out! Did Wily fall over or something?
He just has too much respect
for Bobby and doesn’t want Bobby’s choices to look the dumbest today.
So who hits the walk off for the Nats?
Zimmerman again?
Bobby playing the matchups again...
... what a fucking idiot manager. Go grab a lefty every time one comes to the plate. Bullshit strategy. It just burns up more arms and isn’t a damn bit effective.
-sdp-
yeah well at least it'll probably end the game here.
So, whatever.
If these
guys can’t throw a strike instead of hitting somebody, it doesn’t matter, but lefty vs. lefty is a solid pro-pitcher matchup – isn’t that why you have ring on the team?
Bennet, is cool.
He’s not the problem, look at his spot starts. It the bullpen use that is troubling.
Thank god, it didn't.
Given they way things have gone though, I figured you were right.
One good thing of all this.
We’ll never play a 22 inning game. We’d have to make Chipper pitch at that point.
Combine player mistakes
with coaching mistakes and bad things happen.
Well
at least they have to work for their baserunners.
Walk off walk
for Lopez. I’ll call it now.
who saw that coming?
Not me.
Please let that be the turning point.
Heart lept into throat
when Pete said flyball.
Stop with the walks.
Christ, it’s no wonder we don’t win 1 run games.
I'm going to switch my pick to click from
Chipper to Tex from now on. He’s found it again.
so when this game inevitably goes to more extras, we won’t have our best power threat in the lineup. slick.
betcha frenchy does something not productive on the first pitch
Frenchy
He’s our man. If he can’t do it, it’s because he struck out on a bad pitch.
If the Braves don't score another run.
They will lose, it is fated.
Sure
Let Acosta bat for himself, but pull JJ.
Well, to be fair.
The JJ move was dumb dumb dumb, but we don’t have a much better option than Acosta left, if at all. So it’s better to leave him in than count on Lillibridge to knock a run in. That earlier move still pisses me off though.
i don’t see how its better to let a guy that doesn’t know what the fuck he’s doing bat than to let a position player bat, and at the same time, let a pitcher who’s already thrown 2 innings stay in the game.
if we blow this game, i’m gonna fucking lose it.
Yeah, that's fair.
If only Smoltz were already closing. We’d have won already.
does the braves site cause anyone else’s browsers to crash? every damn time i go, i have to spend less than 5 seconds on the main page, firefox crashes. real irritating.
I use to have all sorts of crashing problems with
Firefox, usually ad-related.
Take out Tex.
Then leave in Acosta. What a great pair of moves that was.
Acosta
even odds that he walks in the winning run?
by Something Profound on Apr 30, 2008 7:50 PM EDT reply actions
Our knight in shining armor.
Buddy Carlyle!
by Something Profound on Apr 30, 2008 7:51 PM EDT reply actions
When Bobby retires after this year.
It might just save the future of the franchise. He’s killing us with these moves.
product of a terrible bullpen. Remind me why we traded Devine?
by Something Profound on Apr 30, 2008 7:55 PM EDT up reply actions
hey, don’t tell me about that. i was the only one pissed when we traded joey. by the way,
9 1/3 IP, 7 H, 3 BB, 1 ER, 9 K
They couldn’t have given up, like someone that SUCKED for Kotsay?
Meh.
Whatever, bullpen arms are a dime a dozen, look at who we’ve gotten our production from. Pete Moylan? Ken Ray? The managing is killing us right now. Bobby made at least 3 or 4 terrible choices tonight, most of which negatively impacted the game.
One of the funniest replies I’ve seen so far this year.
by Smoltz's Beard on May 1, 2008 4:37 PM EDT up reply actions
So did they say why Cox left in Acosta to bat? I had it muted so I didn’t have to listen to the terrible Nats announcers.
by Something Profound on Apr 30, 2008 7:59 PM EDT reply actions
Mark Teixeira will leave...
... and it probably won’t be because of the money now. He’s probably damn tired of Bobby taking him out after every double he hits.
-sdp-
Team meeting.
Call a friggin’ seminar or conference or whatever the hell you want to call it. We have to do something differently. Otherwise, we’re back the the 1988 Braves (54-106).
damn
Im just gonna have to quit watching this terrible team for awhile. This team reminds me of the 2007 Braves. This team is so much better than this, when I repeat WHEN will we win a ONE run game?
braves#1
So...
...I come back home from losing two softball games, 15-11 and 27-2, and see that Acosta walked FIVE FUCKING PEOPLE.
/headinoven
by Smoltz's Beard on Apr 30, 2008 11:40 PM EDT reply actions
Well..
...I know it sucks a big one because we could have picked up a game on the 3 teams ahead of us in the division, but at least the Mets, Phils, and Marlins all lost too!
That's how
I consoled myself a good portion of last summer. I was hoping I wouldn’t have to do that again this year…
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Attendance for the game was 29,473. With a guess of 25,324, yondaime4 gets the point.
The picks to click were Jurrjens with the gem and Kotsay with the bat. One point each to:
Smoltz’s Beard
traphicg
WienerDog
sdp
sddbaker
AAB picks, one point to yondaime4.
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