Gamethread: Dodgers @ Braves, August 2, 2009 (105/162)

[sdp]

Sick today, guys.

Plus, you've got Miller, Morgan, and Steve Phillips tonight.

Go Braves

[Devil Wears Prado]

Hooray for this game being televised on ESPN!

[-Dr. Brave-]

Whenever Joe Morgan talks, I'm going to hit the SAP button.

[JanShan12]

I'll probably watch it on mute while using gameday audio so I can get the Braves radio broadcast.

[Dreamscape]

Steve Phillips pulling a stat directly from his a$$. .300 batting average, 400 homers, 10 first place teams. Ah, yes, BAHR1stPlace. Must have missed that one on baseball-reference.

[Hobbes]

Rafael Four-call...a blast from the past.

[Hobbes]

Steve Phillips pulling a stat directly from his a$$. .300 batting average, 400 homers, 10 first place teams. Ah, yes, BAHR1stPlace. Must have missed that one on baseball-reference.
He's also one of only two players to go 1-for-4 with a homer and a walk four days after getting hit by a pitch, the other being Hank Aaron. So obviously he is a stud.

[Dreamscape]

Nice job by Jurrjens.

Have I thanked Detroit yet?

[RiknTN]

Prado !!

[Dreamscape]

That ball was absolutely hammered. Good job by Prado.

[Devil Wears Prado]

Jesus Christ, Joe Morgan... do you ever talk about anything new?


...all I hear him talking about is how Billingsley is a power pitcher and his 'power curveball is different from Kershaw's curveball'.

[Hobbes]

Chipper just couldn't lay off that pitch...twice.

[Dreamscape]

I'm tired of that curve already.

[Hobbes]

I'm tired of that curve already.

QFT.

[Devil Wears Prado]

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[Dreamscape]

Jurrjens is one of the best pitchers nobody knows of.

[Lauren T.]

Carroll Rogers (http://blogs.ajc.com/atlanta-braves-blog/2009/08/02/jj-can-take-the-series/comment-page-5/#comment-236856)
August 2nd, 2009
6:31 pm

Adam LaRoche is bunking up at Chipper’s house for now, apparently has a “wing” to himself. …Says LaRoche “I could live there and he would never see me.” Told Chipper that and he got a chuckle. Says it’s been fun to have LaRoche around. They went to dinner last night and played a little poker.
Not surprising. ;)

[Devil Wears Prado]

Joe Morgan is so stupid.

:banghead:

He talks about how unique Billingsley's curveball is because of how it starts in the strike zone and it drops out... don't most curve balls do that?

:thumbsdown:

[Chris_Moderato]

If you run fast enough, you can trick the other team's runners into doubling themselves up. Nice work, Morgan, you unbelieveable assclown.

[Hobbes]

Nice job on Manny JJ!

[Devil Wears Prado]

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[Dreamscape]

Damn...that was one hell of a pitch.

[Devil Wears Prado]

What's up with Jurrjens?

[Dreamscape]

If he hangs a curve that McLouth doubles on, Morgan would respond: "He went to the curve too much there. He had him set up for a fastball."

Why not say...McLouth hit a good pitch on the outside corner and drove it. Which you also said.

Damn you, Morgan.

[Wahoo]

Ruh roh. Two runners on, none out, top of the 4th.

[Dreamscape]

He's throwing everything up. Coming on the heels of that at-bat last inning, I'm quite concerned.

[Chris_Moderato]

Nice play there Prado.

I finally broke down and dropped $20 on the MLB Premium thing so I could listen to the Atlanta radio broadcast while watching the game. Joe Morgan has finally driven me crazy.

[Devil Wears Prado]

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[Wahoo]

Looks like our staff is gonna need to throw a shutout, because between the quick ABs and our punchless lineup, we'll be lucky to manage 1 run tonight.

[Hobbes]

Nice play there Prado.

I finally broke down and dropped $20 on the MLB Premium thing so I could listen to the Atlanta radio broadcast while watching the game. Joe Morgan has finally driven me crazy.
Unfortunately you now have to listen to the insufferable Cooks Pest Control jingle.

[Devil Wears Prado]

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[Devil Wears Prado]

Am I the only one who hears that heckling fan in the stands yelling at Manny?

"CAN YOU HEAR ME OVER THERE, MANNY?"

"MANNY I KNOW YOU CAN HEAR ME!!!"

Hahaha.

[Dreamscape]

John Grabow and Joe Biemel are amazed that only one reliever was traded this deadline, Steve.

[Hobbes]

Crap.

[Dreamscape]

The Dodgers have worked him, but Jurrjens hasn't had his best stuff either. That was a horrible pitch.

[Devil Wears Prado]

Game over. Hitting is sucking, and Kemp just hit a three-run homer.

[Wahoo]

3-run dinger by Matt Kemp, and that's all folks! Have a good night.

[Lauren T.]

I'm quite sad that two of you are giving up on the team over four runs. It's only the 5th inning; we've come back from worse.

[Andy G.]

What Lauren said.

[Devil Wears Prado]

I'm quite sad that two of you are giving up on the team over four runs. It's only the 5th inning; we've come back from worse.

We only have 2 hits.

I turned the TV off. I'm just following the game on GameDay.

[Dreamscape]

We only have 2 hits.

I turned the TV off. I'm just following the game on GameDay.
Butttttttttt...

They're both extra base hits.

/walks off whistling "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life"

[Wahoo]

I'm quite sad that two of you are giving up on the team over four runs. It's only the 5th inning; we've come back from worse.

Well you can give me grief tomorrow if we actually win this game, but from what I've seen thus far, our lineup has been thoroughly overmatched tonight. I'll go with the odds on this one and go ahead and put in the right-hand column. Thanks.

[Dreamscape]

I want to just shake Bobby and say "Greg Norton sucks! Give it up, Bobby!"

[Hobbes]

Billingsley not able to continue and will come out of the game. Schmidt is pinch-hitting for him.

[Hobbes]

And Schmidt gets a hit. :no:

[Wahoo]

And Schmidt gets a hit. :no:

I think he's sticking it to us. STICKING IT!

[Dreamscape]

So...is it okay to turn off the tv when we're down by five? Cause I'm le tired and I wanna know!

[hoosjon]

I HATE that we play like this! When we start off not hitting, it just means we're gonna GIVE the other team's pitching (doesn't matter who they trot out) a 4 or 5 hitter. It's so HARD to believe!

I'm still watching, but when you add our frustrating plate appearances to Morgan and Miller and Phillips, I'm ... well ... :banghead: :furious: :hissyfit:

And Phillips, BIG SURPRISE, is currently jocking Mike Piazza. :no:

[Lauren T.]

So...is it okay to turn off the tv when we're down by five? Cause I'm le tired and I wanna know!
:p:p:p

[-Dr. Brave-]

Well, I don't know about you guys, but I'm not giving up hope yet. If we put our minds to it, we can still win this game.

[sdp]

Fail. 105 games in to the season and we're just a game over .500. In other words, time is wasting and things aren't looking favorable. Regardless of being just a few games out of the Wild Card (the NL East race is over), you've got to put some distance between yourself and .500 to be considered a playoff-caliber team--the Braves haven't been able to do it.

[Andy G.]

I understand where you're coming from sdp, but it's not difficult to change that. The Braves have the pitching to go on a winning streak at any time. Every playoff team has a really good streak or two during the year, and with the rotation the Braves have, it's not hard to believe they'll have theirs pretty soon. With more than a third of the season left to be played, it's not even unlikely. They could go from a game over .500 to ten games over in just two weeks. Fans get antsy in August, but as of right now, there's a lot of baseball to be played. I like our team.

I want to see Heyward called up. He can platoon with Diaz in right. He would see plenty of at bats and could give us a huge boost offensively if he hits at all like the way he's hitting in Mississippi.

[Freddy_Ballgame]

Sorry Andy, but I think I've reverted back to my earlier stance. The only way I can see our pitching staff pitching us into contention is in a wildest dream scenario. You see how the Dodgers can play and you just know eventually they'll get a 3 run bomb from someone. When the Braves get a three run bomb it's "STOP THE PRESSES!"
Morgan and Miller absolutely suck. Even before I heard Miller say that Kemp was the Dodgers best pure hitter, I wanted to beat the @#!* outta him. What? All of a sudden Manny doesn't count, Little Joe? I guess it would kill those 'stards to say something complimentary about the Braves.

[Dreamscape]

They repeatily talked up Jair Jurrjens, spoke of Chipper Jones as if he was still this huge masher, how Brian McCann is the best hitting catcher in the majors, how great Yunel Escobar is...

I mean, there is a lot to complain about with the ESPN crew, but playing favorites isn't one of them.

[luvdembravos]

I get so tired of hearing Joe Morgan reliving his war stories...take him out of the booth and the Sunday night ESPN crew wouldn't be so bad.

..and not that Yunel Escobar would've made a difference last night but with the exception of McCann, he may be our best offensive weapon. There's no way he should be traded by this team in the next few years. Keep Escobar, McCann and Chipper but the rest of the postition players are trade bait as far as I'm concerned.

[Lauren T.]

I get so tired of hearing Joe Morgan reliving his war stories...take him out of the booth and the Sunday night ESPN crew wouldn't be so bad.
I don't mind Morgan nearly as much as Miller. I think it's Miller's constant mispronunciation of players' names -- why won't someone correct him? Or if they have and he's ignoring their critique, why allow him on the air? Mainstream media is supposed to at least attempt to be accurate, yet we heard him accent the wrong half of Jurrjens' name all night.

...At least he wasn't calling him Jurrgens all night, like some people do. It's not Jergens!

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:banghead:

[Hobbes]

Every playoff team has a really good streak or two during the year
The Phillies just had the best July they've had since 1890.

[-Dr. Brave-]

I don't mind Morgan nearly as much as Miller. I think it's Miller's constant mispronunciation of players' names -- why won't someone correct him? .... We heard him accent the wrong half of Jurrjens' name all night.


That grated on my nerves too. Accenting the wrong syllable was bad enough, but putting that pause between them was even worse.

Right:
Jurr'jens


Wrong: Jurr












jens' :banghead:

[Freddy_Ballgame]

What I heard wasn't "repeatedly." It was more like sporadically.
As for Miller and his ridiculous enuciations, he may be trying to match Vin Scully, the most over-rated talker of 'em all. I can still hear him droning on in a game so many years ago.....the Pirates had a big lefty pitcher named John Candelaria. Scully must've pronounced Candelaria twelve different ways. It was pronounced as it appears "Can-del-area." Scully emphasized each syllable at different times as well as pronouncing the vowels differently as often as he could. Almost made me yearn to hear Harry Carey butchering some of those old Cub names. At least that was funny!