The Atlanta Braves (thread 1)

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VOLinthaATL said:
Jimmy Rollins = waiter

No way that bum infielder will ever bat leadoff for a world series champion team.
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There were five better hitters in the lineup the year the Phillies won the title.

VOLinthaATL said:
Pedroia won an MVP. Must have been a damn good waiter that year.
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Wow, the media gave an underserved award to a member of the Red Sox. That definitely proves me wrong.
 
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VOLinthaATL said:
How the hell did the braves win the world series in 1995 with jeff blauser hitting .211!!!!!

Freakin bus boy bro...
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Now you're taking it too far.

At what point was Jeff Blauser any better than about the 7th or 8th best hitter in any lineup he was in though?
 
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VOLinthaATL said:
I bet you wife would be pissed that you basically just told volnation that you married a fat chick.
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My wife has fat on two places on her body about eight inches apart. I'm pretty happy with both of them.

VOLinthaATL said:
Barry Larkin = waiter
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Funny, I was just about to use him as an example of another ridiculous MVP award winner. Larkin wasn't even the best player on his team the year he won it.
 
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GAVol said:
Now you're taking it too far.

At what point was Jeff Blauser any better than about the 7th or 8th best hitter in any lineup he was in though?
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Who cares if Prado is one of the best hitters in the Braves lineup? What does that have to do with the fact that he is having a fantastic year and looks to be a very promising young player for years to come? Do you think it affects his gap power?
 
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Vercingetorix said:
That's why second baseman are rarely anything but role players. Again, I like him a hell of a lot. But the fact that he's one of the best players on the team says a lot more about the team than it does him.
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Does it say the same about the team with the best record in baseball?
 
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Vercingetorix said:
My wife has fat on two places on her body about eight inches apart. I'm pretty happy with both of them.



Funny, I was just about to use him as an example of another ridiculous MVP award winner. Larkin wasn't even the best player on his team the year he won it.
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I wasn't aware valuable meant best. Who knew...
 
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If I'm wrong, then it should be easy for you to find a title-winning team which had a .300-.320, 10-homer type leadoff hitter that was nearly as important to its offense as the big uglies hitting a few slots lower in the order. Go ahead and look. I'll wait.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
If I'm wrong, then it should be easy for you to find a title-winning team which had a .300-.320, 10-homer type leadoff hitter that was nearly as important to its offense as the big uglies hitting a few slots lower in the order. Go ahead and look. I'll wait.
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I don't give a **** about that. What the hell does it have to do with Prado as an overall player? Again, how about his gap power?

Was Derek Jeter a cheap option as well in his 1st full year starting in the MLB? Reyes? Pedroia? Fill me in...
 
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VOLinthaATL said:
I don't give a **** about that. What the hell does it have to do with Prado as an overall player? Again, how about his gap power?

Was Derek Jeter a cheap option as well in his 1st full year starting in the MLB? Reyes? Pedroia? Fill me in...
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I don't want to get in the middle of this, but I think you're missing his point. V already said he likes Prado, he's just saying to win it all, or to be a team that is going to have a chance to win it all for several years, you need some power in the middle of the line up. That's a point that's hard to argue with.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
If I'm wrong, then it should be easy for you to find a title-winning team which had a .300-.320, 10-homer type leadoff hitter that was nearly as important to its offense as the big uglies hitting a few slots lower in the order. Go ahead and look. I'll wait.
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Since when does batting .320 and having 13HR's in his first year as an everyday guy (at this point...that could easily be 16 or 17 in the full year) automatically make him a .300 10 homer type player his entire career? You're a wealth of knowledge tonight my man...
 
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**ORANGEBLOOD** said:
I don't want to get in the middle of this, but I think you're missing his point. V already said he likes Prado, he's just saying to win it all, or to be a team that is going to have a chance to win it all for several years, you need some power in the middle of the line up. That's a point that's hard to argue with.
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Oh my bad. I must have dreamt that he said Prado is a "cheap" option and a waiter. ppreciate it...
 
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GAVol said:
I'll be glad when this is over so I can unfollow Dave O'Brien again. His repeating the same info along with tweeting the play by play during games is completely annoying.
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Did you see his tweat in the 9th where he said the Braves had just signed Greg Norton to pitch hit if Heyward got walked.

Can't say I'm surprised really...
 
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VOLinthaATL said:
I don't give a **** about that. What the hell does it have to do with Prado as an overall player? Again, how about his gap power?

Was Derek Jeter a cheap option as well in his 1st full year starting in the MLB? Reyes? Pedroia? Fill me in...
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Then apparently you're arguing with something I never said. I LIKE PRADO AS A PLAYER. The whole point of what I said to being with -- which you were apparently too eager to brand as garbage without even actually reading it much -- is that as good as he is, Prado is a type of player than you can't base your offense around. Unless they're Rickey Henderson, leadoff hitters just aren't that big a deal. You build around the core. The Phillies replaced Jimmy Rollins with, well, the corpse of Jimmy Rollins and it hasn't mattered because Utley and Howard are still carrying the load. Guys like Prado -- not just him, but his whole type -- are replaceable. Guys like McCann and what we think Jason Heyward is going to be are not.


VOLinthaATL said:
In my experience most chicks I see drinking Guinness have a beer gut or fupa or sometimes both.
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You must be hanging out in the wrong bars. None of the Brazilian chicks I saw drinking Guinness during the World Cup had anything extra anywhere. And they were all basically wearing spandex, so you'd know.

(If you're talking to women and want to offend them, call it a "gunt" instead of a fupa. They love that.)
 
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VOLinthaATL said:
Since when does batting .320 and having 13HR's in his first year as an everyday guy (at this point...that could easily be 16 or 17 in the full year) automatically make him a .300 10 homer type player his entire career? You're a wealth of knowledge tonight my man...
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He's almost 27 years old. If he were going to develop a power stroke where one day he turns into a 25-30 HR type guy, we'd already know it.
 
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VOLinthaATL said:
Fill me in on where this can be found in Atlanta. Thanks.
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The shiny, disappointing new version of Fado in Buckhead. I still go in there because I've known some of the staff since, uh, Peyton Manning was our quarterback. If Brazil plays a soccer game of any kind on TV, go there. They bring a crowd. And somehow 70 percent of their crowd seems to be girls in their 20s who apparently regard clothes as an inconvenience they have to put up with.
 
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