The Atlanta Braves Thread (Javy Lopez Edition)

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Scotty's Flat Top said:
Did you have this one?


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You know it
 
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VOLinthaNATI said:
1. Tim McCarver is a fool to listen too but he did play the game for many years at the highest level, but really, what does he know?

1a. The confidence and mental approach is extremely important throughout a grueling MLB season but in the playoffs it's kind of different because everyone is usually 100% tuned in and playing with confidence because it's almost like a fresh start after 162.
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But the Braves are an extreme home/road team. They're only .500 on the road, but over .700 at home. You don't think that would translate into a different confidence level if they played a Game 7 at Turner Field rather than out in LA? How does something that's supposed to be a factor all year suddenly become irrelevant in October?

(I am not, by the way, arguing that "confidence" and "focus" and all that stuff aren't important; merely that it's much less of a factor than McCarver and his ilk make it out to be. Almost all ex-players radically underestimate how much random action there is in baseball, so they place far too much importance on the supposed mental state of the players. A guy goes 12 for 20 and it's because he's really confident. He goes 2 for 20 the next week and it's because he's lost focus. It's easy to see why as a player you sort of have to wrap yourself in that belief system, that you control everything, but it's not how the sport of baseball actually works.)
 
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Vercingetorix said:
But the Braves are an extreme home/road team. They're only .500 on the road, but over .700 at home. You don't think that would translate into a different confidence level if they played a Game 7 at Turner Field rather than out in LA? How does something that's supposed to be a factor all year suddenly become irrelevant in October?

(I am not, by the way, arguing that "confidence" and "focus" and all that stuff aren't important; merely that it's much less of a factor than McCarver and his ilk make it out to be. Almost all ex-players radically underestimate how much random action there is in baseball, so they place far too much importance on the supposed mental state of the players. A guy goes 12 for 20 and it's because he's really confident. He goes 2 for 20 the next week and it's because he's lost focus. It's easy to see why as a player you sort of have to wrap yourself in that belief system, that you control everything, but it's not how the sport of baseball actually works.)
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Incorrect.

However, you obviously think you're right and the voice of reason on this issue so it does not behoove me, who has played and been around the game sense I was about 5, to continue this discussion.

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Scotty's Flat Top said:
Don't know anything about him, but I trust ya on that.
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Good defensive midfielder for man city, his play has dropped off a bit as of recently with age. But has tons of international experience for England and has played in a lot of big games. Trying to sign him on a season long loan, and it looks like we will unless someone swoops in with an offer to buy him before the transfer window closes next week.
 
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VOLinthaNATI said:
If I pick a team as my favorite today, how long until I can refer to myself and other fans of said team as "we?"
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I don't really care what you do or refer to a team as, I have been an everton supporter since Duncan Ferguson's first spell in Everton in the early 90s
 
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vol2013 said:
I don't really care what you do or refer to a team as, I have been an everton supporter since Duncan Ferguson's first spell in Everton in the early 90s
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Lol, easy there sport. I was only clownin Scotty a bit because your "we" appeared to include him.

Verc - You gon let me in on that sarcasm font secret any time soon?
 
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VOLinthaNATI said:
Incorrect.

However, you obviously think you're right and the voice of reason on this issue so it does not behoove me, who has played and been around the game sense I was about 5, to continue this discussion.

:hi:
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Well, just about all the ex-MLB players on TV and the radio seem to have no idea how random their sport is. I guess there are probably untold thousands of flameouts whose careers never went anywhere who fully understand/put the blame on how much randomness there is.
 
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A little of my handiwork from today

(this is not a typical wound from a sim round...they usually aren't nearly this bad. He was pretty close to me when I got him. They do hurt like a MF'er, regardless)
 

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You training bears? Monkeys? The missing link? Good grief next week for training nair his arms
 
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