Braves Phall to Philly

What a crappy night.

Wow, after watching the G-Braves play a great game this afternoon, hanging out with CB and letting some of his mojo rub off on me, that was a really disappointing effort from the big league team tonight. Oh well, its baseball, so there’s always tomorrow!

Sure, we lost 2 out of 3 from Philly, but we’re now 8-7 and we played the Cubs, @SF, @SD, vs the Rockies and the Phillies.

If you aren’t happy with 8-7 against those teams, you’re nuts.

For the betterment of my health/social life and stress/frustration levels…I gotta turn away for a few days….D Lowe struggled – yes. But without the Utley errors we’re shut out. Again. I don’t know what else to say. Talk to you all in a few days – i’ll keep an eye on things from a far.

Losing to Roy Halladay on a day when the Philly D makes 3 or 4 webgems – I am ok with.
Losing to Jamie Moyer on a day when the Philly D makes 3 or 4 errors – I am NOT ok with.

This is terrible. We are here talking about how we have the top rotation in the NL East but cant beat the 2 starters that battled for the #5 spot on the phillies

On my break I turned on the radio about 9:00 pm to hear BMac lead off the sixth I believe with a single. The announcers say its our third hit…THIRD HIT…off Jamie Moyer. Troy Glaus then follows (not singling him out just the only part of the game I heard) with a nice backwards k on a pitch they described as right down the middle. It was 6-2 and I changed my station to the NFL Draft. That is pathetic. First Kendrick, then Moyer. It’s pretty embarrassing actually. I wondered how the powers at be at TC would spin this positively…turns out even they couldn’t do it.

How did Heyward watch that pitch go by!?!?!?!?

lol……Doh!

We lost a series to the best team in the NL. Get over it people, stop being so over dramatic. Now, if this same shit happens to the Mets…we may have a problem.

I know a lot of people tend to feel relaxed whenever Jamie Moyer takes the mound against the Braves. TV likes to talk about his 5.49 or something ERA career against the Braves, and many seem to think that he throws no harder than 82mph, that we should have a field day with him.

Since he became a Phillie and including tonight, since 2007, the Phillies are 6-3 against the Braves when Moyer takes the mound. His numbers aren’t ever spectacular, but there is something to be said about how he has shown to be on the winning side more often than not against us. There’s a reason why I often cringe at the thought of facing Moyer; at least I know there’s nothing wrong with getting shut down by Halladay or Hamels, but the Moyer ones are the most frustrating to watch.

Guess it was due right there.

99% of the time, dude is a Gold Glover.

You do realize we’ve only played 15 games out of 162 games? That’s what…about 1/16th of our season.

We’re 8-7 and we played 4 of the top 7 teams (Cubs, Giants, Rockies, Phillies) in the NL from 2009 already, along with a Padres team who started hot.

On the pace we’re currently on, we’d finish around 86-76. BUT you simply cannot ignore that we’ve played most of the top talent in the NL so far, with the exception of the Dodgers and Cardinals, who we’ll face next week.

Once we start playing the weaker teams, like the Natinals, Pirates and Astros, we’re going to start winning even more ballgames. We really are. Our offense is a mess and our starters have been incredibly inconsistent, and we’re STILL a game above .500.

What’s gonna happen when our offense starts to click, our starters shake off the rust AND the bullpen gets even better with the addition of Craig Kimbrel, Scott Proctor and even a guy like Mike Dunn? Do you really think we’ll continue to play .533 baseball? I don’t. And you shouldn’t either.

/end rant

McLouth
Prado
Chipper
McCann
Escobar
Heyward
Hinske
Diaz
Pitcher

Although McLouth is struggling I still like him at the top over Diaz and Melky. He has more speed and if he has been swinging the bad a little better of late. I’m NOT giving up on Glaus, but I’d like to see Hinske get a little more starts at 1st to try to jolt the offense. He’s been hitting the ball real well so far. I’d like to see Escobar hitting 5th. He’s been hitting the ball hard but right at people and Escobar will come around. Heyward in the 6th spot puts him in position for more RBI opportunities. And I chose Diaz over Melky because I like Matt’s effort a lot more than Melky’s. Diaz usually hits for a good average, but with his plate discipline he needs to be at the end of the order.

Lowe you suck. You are supposed to pitch like crap and somehow have our offense gives you 10 runs. I hate you so much Lowe YOU SUCK

KK vs. Maine
JJ vs. Niese
Big Red vs. Pelfrey

I’d like to think we could win 2 out of 3, but after getting shut down by Kendrick and Moyer, who knows what our offense will do.

So their new commercial says that for every “pink bucket” of fried or grilled chicken they sell, they’ll donate $0.50 to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

Great. So we’ll save our mom from breast cancer but then give them heart failure with all the grease from the chicken.

Come on now…just donate the money KFC. It’s not like you don’t have any.

We don’t know why you’re still here either.