NLDS: Braves vs. Giants

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#227
Another good thing: Kyle Farnsworth probably rendered Freddy Sanchez useless for Sunday.
 
#229
#229
Gah, what a game. Wow. I'm thinking Huddy shows up huge at the Ted and we get some runs on Sanchez. Big momentum turn right there.
 
#232
#232
What a freaking play at 3B by a guy who hasn't played the position regularly in forever. (And who then got pulled immediately for a defensive replacement!) Man. That turned out to be a hell of a game.
 
#233
#233
I think they are right for mentioning the massive set of cajones on Glaus for that play. That was the best chance the Braves had to get out of the inning.
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#234
#234
What a great game, and great start to this sports weekend!
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#235
#235
I mean if you go home there, the game is still on, and you can still possibly get Posey.

Glaus is one lucky guy.
 
#237
#237
Heebs said:
I mean if you go home there, the game is still on, and you can still possibly get Posey.

Glaus is one lucky guy.
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It is arguable. It is usually a bad angle from home to 1st. I don't think Farnsworth would have made it out of that inning. He was shaky before the Braves took the lead. Glaus did plan that, so he knew what he was doing. Your strategy is the technically correct one, but Posey was the runner and Infante knew what was up, so it was all or nothing. He took a chance and it paid off.
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#238
#238
Heebs said:
Hopefully not for Georgia sports teams, but Braves fans who do not root for the dogs
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The Braves are the south's team, not Georgia's. Those leghumpers barely even pay any attention to baseball. I went to a UT/UGA game on the same day as a Braves' playoff game in the 90s and I couldn't find a bar in downtown Athens that would put the Braves game on the TV for me.
 
#239
#239
Vercingetorix said:
The Braves are the south's team, not Georgia's. Those leghumpers barely even pay any attention to baseball. I went to a UT/UGA game on the same day as a Braves' playoff game in the 90s and I couldn't find a bar in downtown Athens that would put the Braves game on the TV for me.
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That is pathetic.
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#240
#240
I love DVRs. My three year old daughter keeps begging to see the ball hit the water again. And again. And again.
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#242
CardassianVol said:
That is pathetic.
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I couldn't believe it. Everywhere I went was the same: "College football only." I ended up having to just listen to a little radio I'd fortunately brought with me. I'm asking to put a local pro team's playoff game on, and yet the bartenders in every place acted like I was asking for a San Jose Sharks hockey game. Ridiculous.
 
#243
#243
lylsmorr said:
:no:
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I assume you own a map of the United States. Take a look at where St. Louis is. I lived in Missouri for a year during college. You're rooting for a team in a state where people assumed that because I was from Tennessee that I fooled around with my cousins and I only wore shoes on Sundays.
 
#244
#244
by "The South's team" I assumed you meant, the majority of people in the South likes the Braves.
 
#245
#245
lylsmorr said:
:no:
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That is not very arguable. It doesn't mean that they are your team or that everyone in the South likes them. But, throughout this region, the largest number of baseball fans are Braves fans. That is definitely true. It helps that they are the only team in the region to exist for more than 20 years.
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#246
#246
CardassianVol said:
That is not very arguable. It doesn't mean that they are your team or that everyone in the South likes them. But, throughout this region, the largest number of baseball fans are Braves fans. That is definitely true. It helps that they are the only team in the region to exist for more than 20 years.
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I think the Braves' run throughout the 90s did more to help that than anything. Everyone loves a winner.
 
#248
#248
Vercingetorix said:
I assume you own a map of the United States. Take a look at where St. Louis is. I lived in Missouri for a year during college. You're rooting for a team in a state where people assumed that because I was from Tennessee that I fooled around with my cousins and I only wore shoes on Sundays.
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What does this have to do with anything? I don't cheer for the people of Missouri, I cheer for the sports team located in St. Louis.
 
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#249
#249
lylsmorr said:
I think the Braves' run throughout the 90s did more to help that than anything. Everyone loves a winner.
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Not at all. When I was growing up in the 80s, back when the Braves sucked, the lines were pretty clear. If you were from north of a line running from a little above Knoxville over to Nashville, you rooted for the Reds. If you were from west Tennessee/Kentucky or Arkansas, you rooted for the Cardinals. If you were from anywhere else in the south -- Knoxville on down in Tennessee, the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, etc -- you either rooted for the Braves or you were a frontrunner who rooted for the Yankees or somebody like that. All this was pretty well a given back when the Braves were losing 100 games a year.
 
#250
#250
lylsmorr said:
What does this have to do with anything? I don't cheer for the people of Missouri, I cheer for the sports team located in St. Louis.
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I called the Braves the south's team. You quibbled with it because you don't root for them. Fair enough, but you live in the extreme northwest corner of what can still plausibly be called the south. The rest of the south roots for the Braves.

(Other, of course, than the people in the extreme northern part of what can still sort of be called the south, who root for the Reds.)
 
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