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Vercingetorix said:
Regardless of what I think about his contract, I've spent my whole adult life rooting for Chipper. I don't hate the guy at all. I still think he's a really good hitter when he plays. I'm just saying let's not be giggly little girls. Two RBIs off what he did with that pitch is a gift.
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So... You want me to be mad that he didn't get a better pitch? I'm confused.
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Sutton just said EOF throwing in the bullpen alongside ... Livan Hernandez???? That can't be right can it?
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Regardless of what I think about his contract, I've spent my whole adult life rooting for Chipper. I don't hate the guy at all. I still think he's a really good hitter when he plays. I'm just saying let's not be giggly little girls. Two RBIs off what he did with that pitch is a gift.
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I get you. Chipper Jones has been my favorite player for two decades. I just want to see him get every hit, RBI, and barehanded throw he can this season...I don't care if it is a lazy roller over second base.
 
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GreatWhiteNorth said:
I get you. Chipper Jones has been my favorite player for two decades. I just want to see him get every hit, RBI, and barehanded throw he can this season...I don't care if it is a lazy roller over second base.
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I don't know how old you are, but I'm assuming you're a relatively young guy. I was to Dale Murphy as you are to Chipper. You are to Chipper as either Heyward or Freeman will be to my kid. This is how baseball's supposed to go. My dad's hero was Mickey Mantle. Baseball is -- still, even -- about heroes.

I admit to crapping on Chipper on this message board A) because he deserves it, since he can't play through any discomfort, but moreso B) because so many guys who post here are young and hero-worship the guy. But the sad thing will be once baseball stops being able to inspire that in kids like no other sport. If you're 20-25 years old and you still aren't still totally in the bag for whatever player you fell in love with when you were 10 years old, there's something wrong with you. I was 20 years old, jaded, and in college when the Braves traded Dale Murphy, and I still had to hurry home and be by myself because I was afraid I was going to cry like a little girl.
 
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I'm 35. Old enough to have gotten to watch Murphy in the powder blues, and watch Chipper's entire career. I want to latch onto a young player like Heyward, but in this age where most players end up playing for multiple teams, it's just not the same.
 
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I guess at some point I just accepted that in the modern era, all players have contract pressures on them, and if a guy like Chipper stays his whole career with one team, it's not necessarily because he's more "loyal" than anybody else, with deliberate scare quotes there, it's because that's the way his contract happened to work out. My favorite Brave other than Murphy was Maddux, and he was a FA acquisition who eventually left because that's what he was forced to do. Chipper wasn't forced to do that -- although, if his contract had happened to come up at a different time, he easily could have. The older I get, the more Jerry Seinfeld's quip about how all we root for is laundry becomes more obviously true.
 
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The game ended almost nine hours ago and I feel like I'm only now calmed down. I hate hockey. I love hockey. The Braves are the team my brain roots for; the Vols are the team my heart roots for; the Capitals are the team that the reptilian mass of nerves at the top of my spinal cord roots for. Hockey is primal.

I have a soft spot for the Blues from the two lost years I lived in Missouri as a kid. Bummer to see them losing to a freaking California team.
 
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Blues have been awful. I mean, absolutely attrocious at fundamental hockey. Turnovers in own zone, passes aren't crisp or accurate. Kings look like they are on the power play when its 5 on 5.

I'm just disappointed after the strong regular season they had. Can't take anything away from LA, though...after running the Canucks out and dismantling STL like they have, they are obviously for real.
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As a Caps fan, I can certainly sympathize with you with the bad playoff showing after the great regular season. It's maddening. The one thing I will say is that, unlike baseball, the game that is played in the playoffs is actually different from the regular season game. It's played differently, called differently. Baseball's fundamentally the same game from April through the last game in October. Hockey's a different game in May and June.

The Kings are frigging scary right now. Glad that they're on the other side of the bracket.
 
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There are so many great beer bars within five blocks of Coors Field that I can't believe there are 500 fans left in the stadium at this point.
 
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I have to admit that I'm really happy to have Livan on our team instead of somebody else's. He's not great; he's never been great, but by God, his arm is inhuman. I'm convinced he could pitch 130 games a year and never blink.
 
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He has Randy Johnson's arm without Randy Johnson's talent. Even at 38 years old or whatever he is, I think you could start him every five days and use him twice in relief in between and he'd barely notice it.
 
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