Braves Quote For The Day ... Javy Lopez Is Javy Lopez, Right

by gondeee on Aug 11, 2010 11:54 AM EDT in Braves Quote For The Day

I'll just let this one explain itself:

Lefty reliever Javier Lopez has done an excellent job since the Giants traded for him. Through Monday, he had not allowed a run and retired 13 of his 16 hitters. He cannot, however, gun down a potential base-stealer from home plate, though longtime Atlanta Braves catcher Javy Lopez could 28 percent of the time.

Aside from their names and nationality - both were born in Puerto Rico - there is no relation, but some folks do not seem to understand that they are not the same guy.

"I get a lot of 'welcome backs' when I go to Atlanta," said Lopez the Giant, who has not donned a Braves uniform in his eight-year major-league career. [...]

Javier Lopez still gets Javy Lopez cards in the mail even though the latter retired in 2006.

"I usually send them back with a note," the new Giant said. "I really love it when you're a pitcher and they send you a card with a picture of a catcher."

Anyone else think we should cut education in Georgia?

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hahahaha that’s great

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by MBL1 on Aug 11, 2010 12:12 PM EDT reply actions

Mississippi exists

to make Georgia proud of 49th place

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by Londonjoe on Aug 11, 2010 12:18 PM EDT reply actions

Miss, South Carolina, Alabama...

Georgia is not in 49th place.

by Mr. Sanchez on Aug 11, 2010 2:00 PM EDT up reply actions

Let’s not be so quick to judge. Who knows where those cards are sent from? There are Braves fans EVERYWHERE.

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by UMDBHIK on Aug 11, 2010 7:47 PM EDT up reply actions

That’s ok, they still send Brian Wilson copies of Surfin USA to sign.

by CharlotteChop on Aug 11, 2010 12:33 PM EDT reply actions

Clearly, their positions aren’t what differentiate them. It’s the fact that Javy Lopez is HOT.

For my fellow ladies…

Milk was a bad choice...

by coldriver10 on Aug 11, 2010 12:34 PM EDT reply actions

I wish we keep him around another year or two

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by taney71 on Aug 11, 2010 1:24 PM EDT up reply actions

Best post ever.

I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.

by TheLetter2 on Aug 11, 2010 1:51 PM EDT up reply actions

Simply put…I want that.

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by NCChopper on Aug 11, 2010 4:12 PM EDT up reply actions

And this and this. :-)

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by NCChopper on Aug 11, 2010 4:21 PM EDT up reply actions

Two questions.

One: When did we convert Javy to a pitcher?

Two: When did we trade him to the Giants?

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by bwellnjonesco on Aug 11, 2010 2:00 PM EDT reply actions

Both are great guys.

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by cbwilk on Aug 11, 2010 3:11 PM EDT reply actions

Me and Javy

by Cheryl96sc on Aug 11, 2010 5:57 PM EDT reply actions

You’d be amazed how many times players get cards of guys with the same name. There was a pitcher named Chris Smith who was with Pawtucket, the Red Sox AAA team and people would hand him cards of a Chris Smith who was with the Orioles. The O’s Chris Smith was a lefty and born in a different year and was out of baseball after only a year or 2, but people still gave the Red Sox guy his cards. Funny thing was, the Red Sox Chris Smith was kind of a rude guy and would sign them because he didn’t care enough to look at what he was signing, he just grabbed the pen, scrawled a doodle on it, grunted, and walked away.

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by cbwilk on Aug 11, 2010 10:21 PM EDT reply actions