Braves Pitchers and Catchers Report Today
by gondeee on Feb 19, 2010 8:30 AM EST
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Yes. Yes.
Watching the same six old Phillies, Yankees, Mets… Red Sox “classic” games on MLBN with two feet of snow outside can only cut it for so much longer.
"If you were going to make a Mount Rushmore of managers, Bobby's one of them."
-Mike Scioscia
by The Keith Lockhart Era on Feb 19, 2010 8:59 AM EST reply actions
MLBN actually plays a bit of Braves games
Ive seen the early 90s twins and pirates series several times recently.
"If I have asthma, they won't let me scuba. And if I can’t scuba, then what’s this all been about?? What am I working toward??"
They do have the Braves in relatively regular rotation..
Just seems like the only ones I catch are heartbreakers.
"If you were going to make a Mount Rushmore of managers, Bobby's one of them."
-Mike Scioscia
by The Keith Lockhart Era on Feb 19, 2010 6:40 PM EST up reply actions
Every time I catch one, it's the Lonnie Smith game from '91.
I’ll keep the DVR on the lookout for happier Braves times.
"If you were going to make a Mount Rushmore of managers, Bobby's one of them."
-Mike Scioscia
by The Keith Lockhart Era on Feb 20, 2010 1:42 PM EST up reply actions
Spring Training Success
How do you guys view it? Does it mean anything?
I had always considered a good spring training record to mean we had a lot of ‘not quite ready for prime time’ players who wouldn’t contribute for a few years.
I view baseball ST as I view NFL preseason…not a good barometer unless there is something blatantly obvious wrong. I think success can’t be judged by any amount, but it can expose flaws in your team (aka the pen keeps getting rocked over and over in ST). But I take all results from ST with a grain of salt and am just happy to see them out there playing.
by soup du jour on Feb 19, 2010 9:37 AM EST up reply actions
I never pay attention to our record, just how the guys are performing and who they’re performing against. I mean, i hate to see the Braves lose, ever, but it’s not like these are real games.
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You can’t really rely on ST record to indicate future success, mainly because of the regulars only playing half-games or less for the first half of ST. So many of those game results are influenced, if not downright dictated by, guys who never had a chance to make the team in the first place who will be sitting in the minors come Opening Day. Like soup^ said, Looking at ST results holistically can expose a systematic flaw, so in that way it is diagnostic, but it is not indicative of future performance.
Yeah
didn’t the Braves have the best record in ST last year?
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by alligatorimpersonator on Feb 19, 2010 2:28 PM EST up reply actions
eh
i look at match ups a lot more towards the end of the season. like i wont care how well Heyward does against a AA lefty as much as against Santana towards the end of ST after pitchers have worked out some kinks
by drumzalicious on Feb 19, 2010 8:41 PM EST up reply actions
Pitchers and catchers report, first college games are today…screw you winter, I survived!
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Yeah, i’m working in Athens this year, so i’m looking forward to heading over to catch some uga games after work. gonna be awesome to see some baseball soon.
"Matt Diaz is a baseball player."-Joe Simpson
That should be fun since UGA is always so good. And the Braves have a history of getting UGA guys so you might see some future Braves.
Anybody around Atlanta should try to get to a Georgia Tech game on a Friday. Righty Deck McGuire is Tech’s ace and he’s going to be a top 10 pick in this year’s draft. He’s definitely worth going to watch and maybe trying to get an autograph from, which won’t be hard since Deck is one of the nicest kids you could want to meet.
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Georgia will depend a lot on how the kids develop...
they will be very young, and look to be heavy on defense, speed, and pitching, with suspect power. Colby May and Zach Cone are keys offensively. It’ll be an interesting team to see develop. They have a good bit of talent, but as said above, it’s very young and not much for slugging.
Also, Bobby Valentine was saying some great things about Gordon Beckham on ESPN this morning. Not sure if that’s a good sign, or bad.
by Mr. Sanchez on Feb 19, 2010 11:08 AM EST up reply actions
talk about a laid back atmosphere…i love going to diamond dawgs games
"Dum spiro spero"
by Bravely going forward on Feb 19, 2010 10:38 AM EST up reply actions
If only I still had friends at the Green house...
you could enjoy one of the best experiences in college baseball, talking trash from Kudzu Hill. So many great stories, from the umps for a regional coming to the house late one Friday because they didn’t know Athens liquor sales (non-bar) end at 11:30 and wanted some beer, to heckling Travis Storrer (Clemson) so bad he had to be pulled for game 3 of the series, to former Red and Black cartoonist Mack Williams doing such a fine job heckling LSU’s RF he got congratulated for it (he called the guys mom posing as a reporter for the Times-Picayune doing a feature story to get some background). Good times.
by Mr. Sanchez on Feb 19, 2010 11:12 AM EST up reply actions
So I'm starting it now...
Because they started so late last season and we didn’t really wear them out (alright so the Bravos corporate managment wore one of them out)…
TC mottos for the 2010 season:
Believe
In play, run(s).
Go USA, Braves, BU Terriers, Irish, Colts, Caps, Hoyas, NU Cats, Wizards, DC United, Washington Freedom
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by SuperNewb on Feb 19, 2010 11:05 AM EST via mobile reply actions
No more Francoeur
So a lot less
In play, out(s).
No wonder nobody likes you, Tuttle... everything's a (Pujols) damn debate.
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