What’d you think of Derek Lowe’s performance?

That’s not spin, that’s an honest question. Spin would be something like: What’d you think of Lowe’s rough outing today? or How did Lowe’s ineffectiveness affect the team?

Are you and GoBravesNY the same person? Or do you just have the same avatar and very similar names?

popular picture for you New Yorkers, I guess. :)

I heard that Justin hates DOB.

Chipper, 2 days prior, had discussed 1st inning woes that the starting pitchers are having and how it has affected the lineup. To bring it up twice in 3 days is news and there is a story here. Whether you don’t like DOB (which is understandable) or whether you don’t like the fact that I fanshotted this quote, Chipper’s trying to say something. He’s placing blame on the pitching staff for creating a deficit that a discouraged offense can’t rally from.

What I hate is when people take personal vendettas out on blogs rather than actually trying to understand the information, and justin, you are the ring leader in personal vendettas.

This is his quote after Monday’s loss:

"I think our problem right now is we’re having problems getting through the first inning," the veteran third baseman said. "We’re down 2 or 3 to nothing in the first, and when you’ve got an offense that’s struggling, that’s like 8 or 10 [runs]."

Attacking? Seriously?

So, if I disagree with something and think you are reading too much into it, that’s now a personal attack?

just an observation about what happens in the new world of sound bytes and interview excerpts. But let’s not turn this into another “KK is on the DL” thread :)

Personally, I think thigs like this need to be said. However, he has always went about answering questions and never really faults himself as an individual player.

I don’t have any extensive knowledge about how Chipper handles himself in interviews, but I have yet to see anything this year that indicates to me that he’s being selfish or thinks too highly of his own abilities. If DOB (or whoever else) had asked him about the problems with the offense, I’m sure he’d have been admitting troubles right up there with the rest of them.

Who was he attacking? Seriously, was it DOB? Maybe I’m just stupid.

Chipper is not saying anything special. What Chipper is saying is so irrelevant, I can’t even put it into words. It’s like asking someone “how do you feel?” after a loss. Is anyone ever going to say anything other than “it’s tough; we didn’t get it together; etc etc”??

It’s not exactly rocket science to understand that it’s a bit unnerving to try to get runs when you’re already down. It changes people’s mindsets; that’s just how humans are. Instead of thinking, “ok, the score is 0-0, let’s get some runz!” it becomes “ok, the score is 5-0, we need runs omg”…there’s a slight panic there, especially as the game progresses. This is so normal that I don’t even know what else to say.