The Atlanta Braves (thread 1)

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Per Dave O'Brien that was in fact the first time replay has been used on a walk off HR.

The grin on the crew chief's face when he pointed at McCann and signaled HR was pretty funny.
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#10,933
#10,933
Excellent comeback by the Bravos yesterday...nice walk-off for B-Mac...I hate the fact that Philly won again....it's gonna come down to those pivotal 6 games against them.
 
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GAVol said:
Per Dave O'Brien that was in fact the first time replay has been used on a walk off HR.

The grin on the crew chief's face when he pointed at McCann and signaled HR was pretty funny.
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McClelland - McCann was pleading with him standing on 2B that it went out. McClelland couldn't help but acknowledge that McCann was right.

Every game now is big - I'll be at the Ted tonight for my first Bravos game in 2 yrs. Hope JJ brings the good stuff.
 
#10,936
#10,936
I don't post here as much as I used to, but I must say yesterday's game was more than dramatic. I was surprised it was Brian's 1st career walk-off.
 
#10,938
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I got to say, you all had it right this offseason with Vazquez. I came on here irrate that we let him go. You all said it was the smart move. And now the Yank's pulled him from the starting rotation.

I couldnt believe they traded him at the time, and you all knew it was the smart move. Good for Wren.
 
#10,939
#10,939
Why don't people go to Braves games? We are #1 in the east getting into a stretch tun, and the attendance is pathetic
 
#10,941
#10,941
People are going to look back on whoever wins this year's NL Rookie of the Year award in pretty much the same way they regard Hideo Nomo's award. As a fluke.
 
#10,942
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VOLnVEGAS said:
I got to say, you all had it right this offseason with Vazquez. I came on here irrate that we let him go. You all said it was the smart move. And now the Yank's pulled him from the starting rotation.

I couldnt believe they traded him at the time, and you all knew it was the smart move. Good for Wren.
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I don't know that it was exactly the smart move from a baseball standpoint as much as it was just inevitable once they brought Tim Hudson back. It was clearly an either/or situation from a contract standpoint, and once Hudson came back and pitched will after the injury I thought it made more sense to extend him and trade Vazquez -- mostly because you had to figure that Vazquez would be overvalued and they could get something useful back for him. (Which they did -- not Melky Cabrera, of course, but Arodys Vizcaino.) So when it happened, I didn't regard that trade as a smart move as much as I did a grudging inevitability given the Braves' budget.

The fact that Vazquez has cratered in New York certainly does make Wren look like a guy making a smart baseball move rather than just a cash-strapped GM trading off one of his most expensive pieces, though.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
The fact that Vazquez has cratered in New York certainly does make Wren look like a guy making a smart baseball move rather than just a cash-strapped GM trading off one of his most expensive pieces, though.
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It was definitely a case of selling high, but it was probably Plan B. Sure would have been nice to dump Lowe's salary though. That contract is looking like an albatross for the next 2 years.
 
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golfballs03 said:
Why don't people go to Braves games? We are #1 in the east getting into a stretch tun, and the attendance is pathetic
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Sixty percent of the adult population of this city grew up in the north. They're Mets and Yankees and Red Sox and Indians and Cubs fans, not Braves fans.

Look at all the Mets jerseys in the crowd. They aren't New Yorkers who made the trip down; they live here.
 
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GAVol said:
It was definitely a case of selling high, but it was probably Plan B. Sure would have been nice to dump Lowe's salary though. That contract is looking like an albatross for the next 2 years.
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There was no way anybody was taking Lowe's salary last offseason. The only way Wren was going to swing a deal for him was if he ate most of the salary too. It was always going to be Hudson or Vazquez, and happily it looks like Wren made the right choice.

No question that that looks like one of the worst contracts in baseball right now. He's one bad start away from having worse stats than the much-reviled and exiled Kenshin Kawakami.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Sixty percent of the adult population of this city grew up in the north. They're Mets and Yankees and Red Sox and Indians and Cubs fans, not Braves fans.

Look at all the Mets jerseys in the crowd. They aren't New Yorkers who made the trip down; they live here.
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It's really annoying. There have to be enough Braves fans in Atlanta that can get to the park
 
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golfballs03 said:
It's really annoying. There have to be enough Braves fans in Atlanta that can get to the park
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I hear you; I'm just saying that most of the taunts about attendance in Atlanta come from New York, where there are 12 million people, the vast majority of whom grew up right there. Atlanta has 4 million people, 3 million of whom moved here from somewhere else. The Braves just don't have a large enough pool of lifelong fans who live in the area to sell 40,000 seats on a school night.
 
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golfballs03 said:
It's really annoying. There have to be enough Braves fans in Atlanta that can get to the park
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Remember back in the day when Charles Barkley was at a Braves game getting interviewed in the stands? He said the same thing. Why the hell does ATL not support this team better.

May have been the playoffs. My memory is fading!
 
#10,950
#10,950
He's hit a 3 run homer. He's had an RBI single. He's scored from first on a long single. Heyward is a complete badass.
 
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