Hail, Hail Fredi-onia! Atlanta Braves 2011 Thread

Because it's too early for "Fredi's Dead"

Anyway, via Capitol Avenue Club, where we at right now:

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i dont have a great feeling about this season

Chipper's knees probably sound like a pack of ramen getting stepped on when he's doing his therapy.

is pixel farmer WmC?

yes

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I know chipper keeps threatening to retire if he can't play his best, but I hope he keeps playing as long as he can OBP in the 380s. that shit's valuable. too bad we cant DH him :[

He seemed to have such a weird season last year. After a long stretch of dismal and hurt, he seemed to suddenly turn the corner and said he felt better than he had in years. I assumed he found some great drugs that suddenly kicked in. 2-3 weeks of productivity, one dumb midair pirouette, and there went the knee.

xp - sorry, Morbs, I wanted a non-mod login.

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"The Braves are becoming McCann’s team."

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― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, February 1, 2011 9:06 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

You'd LOVE our fantasy league.

ya. keeping track of stuff there is fun.

Watched tonight's game -- my first look at Scott Linebrink. Man, does that guy have a violent delivery! I fear for his shoulder.

Still no retirement papers filed by Wagner, as far as I know.

Prado
Heyward
Jones
Uggla
McCann
Gonzalez
McClouth
Freeman

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According to Rob Neyer, McClouth is hitting SECOND.

FreddieFreeman
Opening day 2011. Heading to the field. #lehgo
20 seconds ago

You are hitting eighth, dude.

mclouth hitting second, lowe starting opening day... are we sure Bobby retired?

haaaa

he's back in the tunnel with a fake mustache

at least bobby had the sense to hit heyward 2nd for a while last year

the motherfuckin J HEY KID

haha hope this becomes an annual tradition

haaaa

he's back in the tunnel with a fake mustache

― The Louvin Spoonful (WmC), Thursday, March 31, 2011 1:31 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

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YES THAT WAS THE REFERENCE

Jimmy please don't yell at me :(

;)

Glad to see Ankiel in some other team's uniform.

Heyward fucking punished that pitch. I cant believe Livan is starting for the Nats on opening day.. Then again I think hes the 'greatest starting pitcher in Nationals history' so hes got that going for him.

lol, McCann's weight loss highlights that 2nd chin just a little bit more

Not the right thread for this, but Livan had a pretty great day. I'd be satisfied with his performance.

sss, ss

He got beat, so I'm satisfied with his performance too.

J-Hey already up to Francoeur's 2010 walk total (probably).

lotsa Braves fans came to DC judging by Uggla HR reaction

Fun day today, nice to take some extra BP in a simulated game situa -- oh wait!

uggla is a really fun player, i hope you guys enjoy him

uggla has the giambi stare

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Mistreatment of Kenshin Kawakami continues

Thought this was really interesting.

J-Hey homers are just beautiful, with those downward swings and low trajectory shots to the 3rd row.

J-Hey wakes em up w/ a triple!

(this is how much I hate the Phils)

My local cable system hasn't come to terms with Peachtree TV yet for their broadcasts...the fucking assholes. "They want so much money, ewww! And you'll still get 100 Braves games this season!"

shut up morbz. go celebrate werth beating the mets.

i will celebrate any shelling of any member of The Greatest Rotation Ever

well at least you call TGRE by their preferred nomenclature. you're blasphemous, not heretical.

so dubbed by cheesesteak-gnawin' troglodytes

found a feed of the Phils broadcast on the web...never heard of v0dkasp0rts before...

YAY LARRY!

hahaha yesssssss Larry

home cookin' from the official scorer too

a towering 25-foot drive from Howard

Last year's team, with last year's problems.

NO ROOKIE OF YEAR 4 U

haha

:D

era goes from 2.00 to 2.10 to . . .

the vaunted bullpen

oh wow, what an implosion

off tommy john and into the fire

K. Medlen's 2nd MLB appearance in perhaps the most biggest 1/3 inning of the season.

whoops, 2nd appearance of the season.

Two-out Jack Wilson walk-off HR

McCann looks v strange shaven

"strange"

one of the more arbitrary and delayed strike zones i've seen

hay, it's Mordy's pal

MLB Network of what is going on tonight is pretty damn good

Currently batting clean up for the Philz
M. Martinez
0-1, .198

idk maybe he has a lot of RBIs lol

C'mon Schwimer!!

who's pitching?

oh boy Linebrink

goodbye

welp, they showed a little life there at the end. a little too late.

is that a career for Larry?

rip

it aint over...

Larry actually had a dope 2nd half:

.362/.563/.924 (not counting tonight's 0-5 debacle)

peace out atl

congratulation Cards the Brave gave it to you

dag

#david_j_roth
Braves bullpen an interesting mix of Civil War impersonators, terrified 160-pound teenagers.

Mr. Dorbius, what is your tweeter?

Mr. Dorbius, what is your tweeter?

Not particularly stressed by this slo-mo trainwreck -- could see it coming after the home series with the Mets, made my peace with it during the Nats series. Go Brewers.

Hope Larry reconsiders coming back in 2012 and retires as a player, stays on as hitting coach.

is fredi gonna get savaged for this collapse? felt like there was a lot of misguided hate at him this year, and i'm not sure how much of this was his doing

i guess i wasn't paying that much attention because somehow their situation didn't seem in doubt, but

not that his numbers were that great but it seemed like maybe teheran might have gotten more use. or kimbrel might have been used less. i dunno.

the thing about him overusing kimbrel & venters is the worst complaint of em all to me

first of all, they didn't throw an exorbitant amount of innings. secondly, if those two throw a combined 25 less innings, the braves prob aren't even in position to win the wild card on the final day.

ajcbraves David O'Brien
Actually he ended group interview when asked. RT @Dylan_Reeves: @ajcbraves Did he answer why we pitched to Pence with Martinez on deck?

went to bed in the 6th thinking they had it wrapped up. heh

What's amazing about last night is, Northeast bias aside, this game is hardly being pored over (outside of ATL I'm sure).

other events did distract a little, true.

we should all take some time out from lol'ing at the BoSox to lol at the Braves a little i guess.

true, but the braves were not unanimous picks to win the toughest division in baseball either

Not particularly stressed by this slo-mo trainwreck

― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Thursday, September 29, 2011 12:25 AM (21 hours ago) Bookmark

not clowning on you but it's been remarkable today how today all my Braves and Red Sox fan friends were cool about this. It's like they passed through the fifth Kubler-Ross stage of grief well before the games last night.

hahaha, that's exactly how it feels to me! Believe me, I was doing plenty of screaming and pleading last week. But by the time it came down to the Braves vs. the best team in the league and the Cards vs. the worst team in the league, I was pretty calm. The idea of calm Red Sox fans is a little surprising though.

And since I did one for the Red Sox, it's only fair --

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Larry Parrish fired. That'll fix it.

DKnobler
Fredi announced Thursday that coaching staff would return. Did they not tell him, or did he not consider LP part of the staff?

I like both moves -- Braves dropping LP and Wren reminding Fredi who's boss.

J-Terd

What a great name

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prefer joey turds