Atlanta Braves Thread VI

[LotteryPick]

Uggla.

 

[The Orange Pants]

Do you believe in miracles?

 

[emainvol]

Better game when these two met last year. I expected Mike to pitch well. I did not expect Leake to do so, although when I shoud have.. seems like he punked us last year.

Leake is pitching for a job, and if he didn't have to pitch to Uggla he would be getting that job

 

[Vercingetorix]

Cincinnati's Great American Ball Park is haven for homers - Paul Daugherty - SI.com mentioned here about 1/3 of the way down.

But dig a little deeper and you'll see that no team in baseball is defined more clearly by its home ballpark than the Reds are. That was by design: The close rightfield foul line and the gap in right-center were set up to help former Red Ken Griffey Jr. make a run at what was then Hank Aaron's home run record.

"It was built for Griffey and Dunn to be there 20 years,'' said former Reds GM Wayne Krivsky.

"The ball doesn't fly here any better than any other place and it's not that it's super windy,'' said Reds starter Bronson Arroyo. "It's that the gaps are small.

"You can have short lines like Yankee Stadium, but as long as the gaps get big, you're OK. Gaps are your safe zone. They keep guys from hitting the ball out all over the place. It's frustrating when a ball that would be caught in 25 other parks goes out here by a couple of rows.

"If the gaps were 20 feet bigger here you'd cut down 20 to 30 home runs to right-center every year and that would make it a little fairer for everyone. But at the end of the day their guys gotta pitch here, too."

Quod erat demonstrandum

 

[005]

brb gotta google whatever verc just said.

 

[Scotty's Flat Top]

Excuse me but in case you are trying to inquire


His name is DAN UGGLA!!!

 

[NochNoch]

brb gotta google whatever verc just said.

Latin for "drops the mic" I believe.

 

[005]

Also, Uggla rockin that tie for 2nd on the team in HRs. The man does his curls.

 

[GAVol]

I know why they did it, but I've always thought 390 to right center at Turner Field is too much.

 

[Scotty's Flat Top]

brb gotta google whatever verc just said.

I'm sure even Verc had to google what he said. I know he doesn't know how to spell that off the top of his head.

 

[emainvol]

The two worst hitters in this game today are the guys hitting the ball the hardest

 

[005]

Dan Uggla > the NL Central.

esse quam videri

 

[Scotty's Flat Top]

The two worst hitters in this game today are the guys hitting the ball the hardest

BJ Upton isn't in the lineup sir

 

[emainvol]

BJ Upton isn't in the lineup sir

Exactly, the two worst in the lineups today

 

[Scotty's Flat Top]

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

 

[GAVol]

Non credas bombulum.

 

[005]

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? is a Latin phrase traditionally attributed to the Roman poet Juvenal from his Satires (Satire VI, lines 347–8), which is literally translated as "Who will guard the guards themselves?" Also sometimes rendered as "Who watches the watchmen?",

I didn't see watchmen. idk about y'all.

 

[Scotty's Flat Top]

I didn't see watchmen. idk about y'all.

I didn't even realize they made a "Watchmen" I picked it up from an inscription on "The Watchtower" that I use to walk by in Brooklyn.

 

[VOLinthaNATI]

Quod erat demonstrandum

False.

 

[VOLinthaNATI]

Who closes for yall today?

 

[Scotty's Flat Top]

False.

I think you mean "falsus"

 

[Scotty's Flat Top]

Who closes for yall today?

Big Mike Minor

 

[VOLinthaNATI]

Already at 109 pitches.

 

[emainvol]

Who closes for yall today?

If I was them I would be using Gearrin, sonce the Reds obviously don't have a scouting report on him

 

[GAVol]

I'd think it will be EOF.