Braves Quote For The Day ... Team Unity

by gondeee on Apr 23, 2011 11:13 AM EDT in Braves Quote For The Day

In the midst of a stretch of challenging and disappointing baseball, it's easy for a team to implode and for morale to begin to disintegrate. Here is a great quote from Scott Linebrink in DOB's must-read article from last night:

"I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a team like this," he said. "Everybody does stuff on the road together, it’s not like you have your individuals or your little cliques. That’s been refreshing. It’s definitely a camaraderie, that we’re going to be there to pick one another up. It helps even more when you like the guy that you’re picking up."

The bullpen -- especially the young guys, Craig Kimbrel and Jonny Venters -- relied on Billy Wagner so much last season. We knew the Braves would miss Wagner's arm this year, but some of us also knew that they would miss his veteran leadership just as much. Call it cliche, but that's an important part of any team ... and it's the tough stretches during the season like the one the Braves are in now when level-headed veteran leadership is most needed.

There has been some criticism from fans of the Braves acquisition of Linebrink, but they got him as much for his experience on the mound as his veteran leadership in a young bullpen.

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yayyy I'm back!

Going to the Grasshoppers vs Rome tonight, EXCITED! If Lipka, salcedo, and bethancourt are sitting out, I will cry

GSO

"I'd rather jerk off a tiger in a phone booth than draft Cam"
-Mel Kiper, Jr.

you guys are like a bunch of pirahnas
by chop goes da weazel on Mar 31, 2011 12:32 PM PDT

by MikeTrain on Apr 23, 2011 11:53 AM EDT reply actions

Welcome back.

THE NL WEST WILL NAIL YOU IN THE RUSTY GROIN WITH SOMETHING --TheLetter2
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by duwanis on Apr 23, 2011 1:37 PM EDT up reply actions

And the Braves are the definition of team unity haha

GSO

"I'd rather jerk off a tiger in a phone booth than draft Cam"
-Mel Kiper, Jr.

you guys are like a bunch of pirahnas
by chop goes da weazel on Mar 31, 2011 12:32 PM PDT

by MikeTrain on Apr 23, 2011 11:54 AM EDT reply actions

Team Unity wouldnt suprise me....

There are alot of young guys on this team, and it would be a good thing for them to become tight knit, especially on the road.

Up Yours Jobu!

by FlaBravesFan on Apr 23, 2011 12:48 PM EDT reply actions

What's the mascot for Unity, a giant douche?

How about Mongooses, that’s a good team name. The Fighting Mongooses.

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by Mr. Sanchez on Apr 23, 2011 3:06 PM EDT up reply actions

This is a really cool thing. Last year was the same way. Guys like Wagner and Hinske came to Atlanta and said they’d never been on a team where the guys got along with each other so well. With Uggla, McCann, Heyward, Prado, Freeman, Hanson, Jurrjens, Venters, Kimbrel, Beachy, Minor and the prospects that will be arriving in the coming years, building this type of camaraderie right now is great because our young nucleus will keep it going at least for the next decade or so.

This team has a very promising future.

by gilley on Apr 23, 2011 1:31 PM EDT reply actions

This is exactly why I love this team.

They could lose 90 games and I’d still think they’re a great bunch of guys.

THE NL WEST WILL NAIL YOU IN THE RUSTY GROIN WITH SOMETHING --TheLetter2
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by duwanis on Apr 23, 2011 1:38 PM EDT reply actions

Well, that’s why it’s wonderful to be a Braves fan.

The performance may let us down, disappoint us sometimes, but the team itself, the players, the character of the franchise, that likely rarely will.

by Ivan the Great on Apr 23, 2011 2:15 PM EDT up reply actions

Baseball is such a long season

that a team that supports one another like this will find success. It’s great to see and portends a better summer.

"Jason Heyward was a Greek philosopher reincarnated as a baseball player." - Don Sutton

by UMDBHIK on Apr 23, 2011 2:04 PM EDT reply actions

Anyone got the fox thing figured out yet?

I’m in Lexington, KY and my regional fox game is Reds/Cards. Any figured out a loophole to watch other games yet?

by BGBravesFan on Apr 23, 2011 2:09 PM EDT reply actions

go to ilemi.tv on your computer

by saipol on Apr 23, 2011 2:42 PM EDT up reply actions

wow. wish I had known this awhile ago.

by ryantex on Apr 23, 2011 2:43 PM EDT up reply actions

You sir, have just made my day!

by BGBravesFan on Apr 23, 2011 2:50 PM EDT up reply actions

Glad to help.

by saipol on Apr 23, 2011 2:51 PM EDT up reply actions

Absolutely impossible

I have tried over one million times (exactly) to figure out a way, but ESPN GameCast has been my only solution. I’m not sure why Fox does it, but it pisses me off to no end.

Thankfully, my regional fox game will involve the freak getting lit up by a previously anemic offense.

by ryantex on Apr 23, 2011 2:43 PM EDT up reply actions

Really?

I live in Pennsylvania and it says Braves at Giants.

Normally it just says "MLB baseball’ and then the info says “regional coverage”, but it is very clear that its ATL at SF today.

Yeah, well, you know. That’s just like…your opinion, man.

by ATLandUNC on Apr 23, 2011 2:50 PM EDT up reply actions

Yeah, I’m an hour from Cinci, so even though the Braves/Giants is the national game of the week, I get regional coverage.

by BGBravesFan on Apr 23, 2011 2:51 PM EDT up reply actions

Hmm, thats weird. Normally I would get stuck watching the same game simply because Cincy is closer. I never could figure out FOX’s decision making when it comes to games. I’m 2,500 miles away from SF and yet I get it. Go figure.

Yeah, well, you know. That’s just like…your opinion, man.

by ATLandUNC on Apr 23, 2011 2:55 PM EDT up reply actions

I don’t think it’s necessarily which city you’re closer to. There’s one national game that goes out everywhere and then normally 2 regional games that are strictly in those 4 teams specific radius’.

by BGBravesFan on Apr 23, 2011 2:59 PM EDT up reply actions