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“Chico and McCann”
Man, how badly are these spring training games starting to drag? It’s going to be a long week, but at least we’ll have the real games soon. I can’t even get excited about this Aybar drama, personally. Chuckie did well today against the Nats, Huddy was good against the Tigers yesterday, and Hampton is ahead […]
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Baseball: Best Enjoyed In Your Boxers, With Donuts
My notes from the game on ESPN today (we beat the Phillies 7-4), and explanations: Chipper mohawk? — Did anyone else notice that Chipper was rocking this kind of half-mohawk thing? The hair on the side of his head was shorter, and on top it was pointed in kind of a v-shape. Is that just […]
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The Potential Injury Dilemma
Joe Mauer is injured, hopefully not badly, but they’re still checking him out. He has the precursor to a stress fracture, and right now they’re predicting that he’ll be sidelined for just “a few days.” Hearing about any catcher’s injury always makes me wince, particularly when he’s Heap’s American League twin. I have been traumatized […]
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“Long-Term Partners”
I’m so mad that I’m not at home to capture this image, but if you go to the Braves official website right now, on the front page there is a story about Heap signing a six year extension cycling through their news links. If you click on the actual story there is a doofy picture […]
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Hungry Hungry Bravos
My boss, who is a big Braves fan, came up to me yesterday to chat about the games that were on TV over the weekend. She also mentioned that she’d seen one of the many Chipper interviews where he insinuated that the team had lost its “hunger” after so much success in the division for […]
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“Dude, I Might Be Able To Throw”
We won both of our games today, Hudson looked good, Heap and Frenchy almost simultaneously hit homers while playing across town from each other, our top outfield prospect (whose name is Jones, naturally) looked great at the plate, Chipper’s injury is minor (again) and hell, even on the Hampton front, things are looking up: he’s […]
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One Week At Disney and Skip Is Already Contemplating Murder
How awful were those green hats? I was embarrassed for everyone involved. We lost to the Cards this afternoon, but no big deal — Smoltz got hit but he looked fine, Wicky looked sort of terrible. I have a bad feeling about Wicky this season, I don’t know. I hope I’m wrong. Anyway, we were […]
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“Players Will Smell Better”
I was able to watch our game against the Yankees last night, again on their YES! network (is there an exclamation point after Yes? There should be). Cormier looked good, though Joe Girardi, who was calling the game with some obnoxious ass who had the nerve to compare Kelly Johnson to Chuck Knoblauch just because […]
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Mystery Solved
I think I figured out why Davies struggles with confidence on the mound: The kid on the left in the back is Davies. Poor Davies; at least he’s kind of cute now. But the best part about this picture: the kid next to him, in the middle? Is Frenchy! Hahahaha. And the kid next to […]
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Open-Minded Frenchy??
The game last night was a fun one to watch, despite the rookie pitcher Acosta who threw it away in the 9th. Bobby probably has Nam Flashback-like memories of pulling pitchers after last year — he didn’t look too happy when he had to take Acosta out in the 9th. Hitting looked good, relief pitching […]