Author: Jenny
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“Life After Wickman”
Wicky was DFA’d yesterday (what is my favorite past tense verb of all time? DFA’d. Not just in relation to this particular DFA’ing, and not that I particularly enjoy it when players get turned out on their asses – though I do usually favor cutting the slack sooner rather than later – it’s just fun […]
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No Excuses, Except For This Really Good One
One principle that never fails when it comes to quotes from ballplayers: as soon as you hear them say “no excuses,” they’re about to offer up an excuse. “There’s no excuses,” Moylan said. “The ball just kept slipping out of my hand, and no matter of rosin would keep it sticky. I’ve never had that […]
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“Heap(s)!”
I don’t even know where to begin. This is like the Davies “Heap and Frenchy were snobby when I sucked!” retrospective times a thousand. Daniel, when I said you’d made my morning by sending me this link, I really meant you’d made my week. I never even knew the whole backstory about Heap’s older brother […]
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“Getting To The Dance”
So, were those first few days after Tex arrived fun, or what? How about that one afternoon when Willie made that catch? Other than that, yeah. Dark times. Please enjoy a Frenchy quote that made me laugh: “We have a team that’s good enough to win the World Series,” he said, “whether we go in […]
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It’s A Long Story
Two things that contributed to bad defensive plays in that game: 1) Bobby starting Prado instead of Scooter. 2) Eric Byrnes. And if you can figure out how Byrnes was to blame, well. You’re probably some form of me, accessing this blog from another dimension. Hi. Totally unrelated, Bethany asked that I post the transcript […]
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WILLIE!
That game was so fantastic, I think I’m going to throw up. Seriously, I jumped for about three minutes straight after the last out, and I don’t even know what I did exactly after Willie made that catch, but it involved throwing myself off the couch to kiss the television when they showed Willie several […]
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Frenchy Fun Facts!
At least once a week, either Bowman or someone at the AJC does a “so check out how good Frenchy is this year, eh???” article. (As opposed to the “so check out how many RBIs Frenchy has this year” straw clutching of last year). Here’s this week’s, hot off the press! Engaged to his high […]
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Fun With Media On New Guy Day!
I’ve said this before, but there are times when I forget that I’m obsessed with baseball because it’s fun to watch, not just because it’s eaten my brain and I’m therefore willing to be in agony when things go wrong. Last night, New Guy Preview Night, I’ll call it, my husband went to bed early, […]
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Tommy Is Jealous Of Jules
The AJC has a story up about Glavine getting booed in Atlanta, which features Tom-Tom pouting about the fact that we never booed Julio when he was with the Mets. I personally feel no nostalgic responsibility to Glavine whatsoever, but I never even liked him much when he was with the Braves (I appreciated his […]
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Attention, Atlanta-Area Fans!
Not particularly fond of Barry Bonds? Sick of having the game you’re trying to watch interrupted so that the network can show live footage of Bonds popping out to the catcher (I missed one of Heap’s at-bats yesterday for this! On TBS, too!)? Now you can fight back! Martin at Talking Chop has an excellent […]