Recruiting Forum Football Talk VI

[JCP201]

Honest question for you Braves fans….HTF did they only win 1 WS???
Best trio ever.

Had great pitchers, but people like Sid Bream, Rafael Belliard, Mark Lemke out there for defense. I think Terry Pendleton was one of our best hitters one year. David Justice-- usually only had one really reliable bat. Compare that to the Braves now-- they have it all.

 

[StoVol]

RU THO?

Have to at least ACT somewhat modest and humble

My 2 noted ️ traits

 

[GoBigOrange86]

Lol

 

[lilesrt]

4th and 5th in the rotation were never shabby either. Sometimes a shaky bullpen was the culprit, but I think there wasn't enough counterbalance from the batting side. We had some hosses like McGriff, but top to bottom it was nothing resembling a murderer's row.

Mark Lemke and Rafael Belleard.

 

[Leeleesteeth]

Lol

I don't know. Bud Light ain't real happy.

 

[JCVol00]

Lol

He’s really stepped his game up recently lmao

 

[csprig9]

We’ve won 18/26 games the past two years, better than Butch and Cornbread, yet they both constantly had top 10 classes

Constantly?
I don’t know about that but
As you can see those classes weren’t that good looking back at it

We’ve won 18’in two years and we’re recruiting against gems with numerous nattys and double digit win season

Gotta keep winning

 

[butchna]

Mark Lemke and Rafael Belleard.

My point exactly! Along with Jeff Blauser and Sid Bream. Buncha gamers, but not foundational players. The World Series winner had David Justice…which was more like it.

 

[jave36]

He’s really stepped his game up recently lmao

I don't see the humor. It seems like the 10 year old who makes up something and says he was just joking.

 

[jave36]

He’s really stepped his game up recently lmao

I do love how the Pals employee believes escalating something to his/her own CEO is the strongest of threats. I love corporate America sycophants who worship their CEO and can't imagine anything worse than his disapproval.

 

[Orange.]

There has been times when I've turned down the sound, but it's usually when we are being slaughtered. (I actually don't like the announcers who slobber all over the VOLS either-- Just call the plays) I will say the Vern announcement of the Dobb Nail boot was certainly much better then Bob Kesling's "what a turn of events". I also didn't think they sounded bias watching the repeat last night.. In fact seemed pleased that the game was so much fun.

I think that was influenced by the unavoidable circumstance that we took a 28-10 lead.

 

[Orange.]

I don't see the humor. It seems like the 10 year old who makes up something and says he was just joking.

Exactly. And that also applies the site that the yellow avi troll is referring to.

 

[Cosmo Kramer]

 

[Orange.]

Boom!!!

 

[GoBigOrange86]

I still can’t believe that Bama game. When we set the ball on the turf to go down 49-42 I thought it was over, but somehow it wasn’t. All the kicks to the groin over the decade-plus of misery, the fact that the Bama game was an exercise in futility every year since Saban had been there except for 2009 and 2015 when we at least got close…that the Vols pulled it out was so cathartic, like letting out 15 years of frustration and agony for one glorious moment.

 

[SpringBokVol]

I still can’t believe that Bama game. When we set the ball on the turf to go down 49-42 I thought it was over, but somehow it wasn’t. All the kicks to the groin over the decade-plus of misery, the fact that the Bama game was an exercise in futility every year since Saban had been there except for 2009 and 2015 when we at least got close…that the Vols pulled it out was so cathartic, like letting out 15 years of frustration and agony for one glorious moment.

That last drive to tie it up with two critical pass interference calls was unreal. Those things never happened before.

 

[BigSteve09]

Honest question for you Braves fans….HTF did they only win 1 WS???
Best trio ever.

I had this poster, or one pretty similar to it back in the day

they could have ruled the 90's

96 obviously was very close, but 97 and 98 could have been special. 99 sucked, freaking yankees.

 

[Jackcrevol]

I had this poster, or one pretty similar to it back in the day

 

[JCP201]

My point exactly! Along with Jeff Blauser and Sid Bream. Buncha gamers, but not foundational players. The World Series winner had David Justice…which was more like it.

I think the Lead off was Otis Nixon-- He was fast but not really a whole lot of great hitters-- We had Justice, Pendleton -- McGriff at one time, Gant, Klesko. All these weren't at the same time, either. They truly depended on those starting pitchers. Even the bull pen was blah. Remember Wohlers losing his mind and couldn't throw anymore? Throwing it 10 feet over everyone's head?

 

[Devo182]

Tough choice. Oppenheimer helped give us the most horrfying weaponry known to man. Barbie eventually led us to the Kardashians. I can't decide which is more destructive.

Both seem to be getting a ton of hype and as good as Robbie and Gosling might be, I'm a Christopher Nolan nut at heart. For my money, give me Oppenheimer in a real IMAX theatre.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

Vols will not miss him, so thanks !

Seems like a quality staff for Peay. . .

 

[Enki_Amenra]

Jimmy Hyams had/has some great inside sources. I know some of his sources and they are solid.

Believe it or not, he's pretty highly respected in the industry.

 

[UTProf]

Both seem to be getting a ton of hype and as good as Robbie and Gosling might be, I'm a Christopher Nolan nut at heart. For my money, give me Oppenheimer in a real IMAX theatre.

I have no idea why anyone would want to see Barbie or what on Earth made Gosling want to do the film. (I've heard it's somewhat subversive but I haven't looked into it all that much). Oppenheimer, otoh, looks great and I have a personal connection to it so that would be my choice. I'm also curious to see what all Oppenheimer goes into because there's more to it that "I am become death, destroyer of worlds" which most Americans probably don't know is actually a quote from the Bhagavad Gita.

 

[UpstateVol613]

Gonna have to compete with reruns of Dawsons Creek. What a poverty conference.

 

[Devo182]

Mizzou loss would be unexpected but 9-3 isn’t a bad prediction overall

And I think this may be the most likely sort of outcome. Lose one that is unexpected out of the grab bag of ~5 teams that could potentially catch us sleeping. I still think Joe's ceiling is even higher than HH's...but also think his lows could be lower. He's human. HH almost wasn't.