Not that it’s the right call, but it’s one possible explanation.

As for the Cubs fan shots, I agree, it was pretty amusing. Especialy the mammoth girls, the wannabe skater bois, and “cool” college kids who probably know less about baseball than I know about nuclear physics. It was sad to have the PCDs get the love all night…they stayed with them for like 10 seconds after the Frenchy homerun.

I dont know if any Manager would be able to save face from IBB to chip and mac, twice through the lineup

on Lou having some sort of brain fart. Pitch to The Man? 3-0?… With Heilman pitching? (Chipper could still see traces of the Mets aura around him)…When Escobar’s run the only one that mattered anyway?….And Chipper is hobbled?….And Mac, while faster than he used to me, still, well, Mac, and therefore double play material?… If I’ve ever, ever seen a situation where I would go ahead and put a man on base, that was it. Chipper must thought he was dreaming when they didn’t walk him…there was no way he was going to not deliver in that situation….NO WAY!

Uhh, can you tell I enjoyed the game?

And it was wonderful seeing all the Cubs fans agnsting all over the place. It is so satisfying when you have a bunch of loud mouth bandwagoners trying to take over your park and they end up having to shut up. Go Braves!!!

I couldn’t sleep last night.

I especially enjoyed Peachtree Tv’s constant camera showing of Cubs fans after the meltdown began, that gave me a tingle in my shorts.

lol’d. I felt the same way too, and was screaming obscenities at the TV whenever they kept showing Cubs fans.

To see Kawakami continue to get comfortable over here. That makes seven starts now without a spike in ERA, even if he did make it easy on himself by starting that run up around 7.

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I am a sort of stats-nooblike person from way back, but not at a deep level. Can someone explain BABIP and its significance to me?

Thankfully n00bs have to wait 24 hours to spout off nonsense now. By then, FYF could revert back to his old self again.

Bill Shanks is currently discussing how they think Francouer may have turned a corner, and how he could still be a good leader for this team.

what the Mets fans said when Beltran slid into Chipper’s glove and was pronounced safe — “I’ll take it if they give it to me.” Except in this case, it didn’t decide the game.

Actually, I thought it was pretty funny. I’m fairly certain he did it one other time this season as well, and got away with it, but they didn’t make such a big deal of it.

You should have heard Mitch Williams go off on him on MLB Network. It was an absolute riot

on SportCenter

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Agreed.

well, in the Braves defense, that guy was throwing strikes consistently. Could they have been a little more patient? Absolutely. But he it wasn’t like he was effectively wild or something like that, Now i missed the first few innings, so i’m only going on innings 4-8.

I make no bones about it, I dislike the Cubs. But it’s not blind dislike. In order to dislike a team, they have to have a redeeming qualit(ies) to them. The team itself, when the Cubs sucked, I didn’t care about them at all. But their fans – Pujols almighty, I just don’t understand the blind faith in such a bad team. In short, I’m envious that Cubs have such dedicated and fiercely loyal fans, and especially ones that transplant or travel to other places to fervently continue to root for the Cubs. So when I’m at my home park, I want to see Cubs fans leave as disappointed as possible, which easily crosses the line towards dislike.

But now that the Cubs went on their spending spree, and have legitimate talent, everything is twice as annoying. On top of the loyal fanbase are thousands of bandwagon sheep who root for the Cubs just because they’re a popular team. But they all act the same. And it also sucks when the Cubs went 6-0 against the Braves last year, and pretty much all of them were blowouts.

Also, the ways Cubs fans conducted themselves last year after the passing of Skip (bless his heart) was downright despicable.

Scariest part is Fred Hackman called it GA homered on Sunday, and apparently Joe Simpson called for it when FYF hit his last night.

I don’t have the time to get into this, but I’ll simply say this…his salary is not low for the contributions he’s making thus far this season. By any means. He also plays a corner outfield position, poorly I might add, and doesn’t provide the necessary offensive production to merit playing there.

for the worst position player in baseball last year (and just as bad this year)

Kawakami isn’t going to net us anything worthwhile at this point.

Attitudes like this are what gave Cory Patterson a ton of ABs in the majors.

Well said. I couldn’t agree with you more.

I’m the eternal optimist and the game threads at time can just get down right depressing.

Stick to your guns, there is nothing wrong with being positive.

I feel the same way about some of the open threads now too. If I miss a game, I don’t really concern myself to see what was said the previous night, especially if it were a loss. I came home a little late last night and watched the last two innings of extras, but didn’t really think about getting on my laptop. It comes as no surprise that one negative action can be met with 12 critical comments, and one positive action is usually summed up in one comment. It’s hard work, but it’s like trying to save money when it’s so damn easy to spend it instead.

Things tend to weed themselves out in the long haul; there’s always that stretch right around/after all-star break in which people get burnt out on baseball a little bit, and just want to go out and enjoy their summers. I sure as hell know it happens to me every year.

But as I said, don’t change on account for others acting like dead weight. Just don’t be a dick about it and go “I told you so” once good fortune comes rolling around and others have to feel silly.

I know I’ll get angry when we fuck up in games, and it’s the heat of the moment, but outside of games, it’s real easy to be positive. We have a pretty good team and a great future!

I got home around the 5th last night, and turned on the laptop, and after seeing how things were going, i put it down. After Francouers homer, i turned it back on, made only a few comments (mostly because my computer wasn’t handling the comment overflow too well). I stuck it out just to get the joy i get for putting up Bubb Rubb after that great comeback. I’m not perfect by any means, i’m sure i’ve made my share of negative comments,

But yeah, i agree with you, the constant one liners of “we suck”, “how will he mess this up”, are getting old as hell. I’m not perfect by any means, i’ve made my share of negative comments, but the constant bitching gets really old.

how I feel about this.

The eskimo is just a crybaby…don’t listen to him. Seriously though, I don’t think you’re part of the group of people he’s talking about.

that now people try to outdo each other to see who can complain the most. It didn’t used to be like that. People expressed how they felt…I guess they just didn’t feel as whiny.

That’s what the open threads are for. When I do participate I don’t call people out on it, nor do I express my disdain for it, because that’s what it’s there for. And if/when I do get a little disappointed over the negativity, I leave without much a mention. It’s as simple as that.

It’s what sports fans do – bitch when their teams underperform, celebrate when they do and go above and beyond. You should hear half the crap that comes out of my mouth in person; if I put the things I said to myself or present company while watching a game into open threads, there would be about 300 more comments a night, but at the same time, it’s impossible to capture the celebration and joy in text when Chipper hits a game winner or something. I hit my hand on a ceiling fan last night doing a celebratory Dragon Fist Pump, yelling like an idiot. I just refrain from putting it in the open threads, because I’d rather not have those mostly negligible remarks put in writing, and for anyone who wishes to see, see them.

SB is right, I am not speaking about any poster in particular. I do appreciate the people who celebrate when there is a big play for the Braves. But like royhobbs said, there seems to be a litany of negative comments (that occur over an extended period of time) when something bad happens, while there is a short burst of positivity when something good happens. To me, when you are a fan of a team you take bad times along with the good times and you NEVER EVER count your team out of a game. People can think what they want, I think we have a good team. Could we be better? Of course!! But I would honestly take our team over any other team in the NL East.

The simple fact is that there are certain players on the team (off the top of my head KJ and Kotchman), who could go 5 for 5 three consecutive nights, but go 0 for 4 the next and people would say that they don’t deserve their job. I just don’t get it. Open threads can be whatever people want them to be, all I know is that they used to be much more fun then they are currently. I just prefer to never count the Braves out of the game no matter the inning or who they are playing.