As Jeff Francoeur sat on a couch in the Braves clubhouse after his game-saving catch preserved a 9-7 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Friday, Tim Hudson squeezed his way through a cluster of reporters, bestowed a bottled water and a spare rib on the young right fielder, and posed a question of his own:<\/p>\n
“Is there anything else I can get you, sir, while you sit on your throne?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I’d love to think that this is how Frenchy typically conducts his post-game press, or at least that this is how he gets when he’s feeling especially proud of himself: feet propped up, sitting back on a couch, eating spare ribs, picking his teeth, grinning smugly, and saying things like:<\/p>\n
“Considering the situation — the way things ended the other night, and now [this game], yeah, that was one of my better catches. You like to do something to help out.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Then he winks at Katy Temple and snaps his fingers at Huddy, asking for more ribs. <\/p>\n
Oh, and hey! Wilson got three hits! I guess that’s what happens when you’re basically playing ball in an alien atmosphere on another planet, or maybe he’s actually coming around. That would certainly be nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pretty enjoyable game last night, despite the tense ninth inning. Interesting how Wicky knew he didn’t have his stuff, looked into the dugout and swiped a hand across his neck like a signal that he needed to come out. At least he’s conscious of it, I guess. Why did the trainer run out to Chuckie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}