Slight Hiatus

The blog will be going dark for a few days as I head to Florida (minus the laptop) for a quick Spring Training tour.
O’s/Twins Tuesday afternoon in Ft. Lauderdale
BoSox/Jays Wednesday afternoon in Ft. Myers
Braves/Tigers Thursday night in Orlando.
I’ll return with a Spring Training report, many many pictures, and what I hope will not be sunburn.
Alas, [...]

Yunel Escobar

Kenny Doyle has an extensive write-up at Dugout Central in which he challenges the thinking at Baseball Prospectus that Yunel Escobar will probably be nothing more than a utility player by year’s end.
While it’s highly unlikely that Escobar can sustain his excellence from last year (.326/.385/.451), I think it’s also unlikely that we see a [...]

Pair off in threes….

Well, the Braves are back and I guess I am too.
Since I last posted, I’ve really grown to envy most every blogger working today. Even the blogs full of moronic dribblings have gained my respect just for the commitment to putting up some new content daily. While that may sound easy, stupid, [...]

Braves Crush Schilling

In a rather pleasant development the Braves pick up their third win of the six I’m claiming they need in interleague play.  Schilling never quite had it tonight allowing six runs on ten hits with exactly ZERO strikeouts.  Brian McCann led the charge with 4 RBI, three of them coming on a homerun, while Chipper [...]

Braves vs Red Sox

A three game set begins tonight with Atlanta lefty Chuck James facing off against Curt Schilling and the league-best BoSox. I love these games.  I’m also happy to report the game is in Atlanta which means there will be no DH and Big Papi will take the field to hopefully hilarious results.
And now that I [...]

Bravos Gain a Game?

Thanks to an awful stretch where the East-leading Nye Mets lost 7 of 10, the Atlanta Braves now find themselves only 2.5 games back after losing an only slightly more respectable 6 of 10.
The whole East division is now mired in mediocrity and what this means is that the second place Braves now find themselves [...]

Not so lazy Saturday…

I wanted to post something just to keep this thing alive as it’s been a busy week and an even busier weekend. Fairs, shopping, birthday parties, golf, house-cleaning…..and a blog post.
The Braves have been amazingly bad over the last week and I thought maybe not blogging about them might reverse this awful slide the [...]

Shut up Kruk

On Baseball Tonight, John Kruk just declared the Atlanta Braves “Done” for the season. On June 6. While the Braves are 3.5 games out of first place.
Granted, he was trying to make a point about how far this team can go with an ailing or benched Chipper Jones, which incidentally isn’t very, but [...]

What’s a guy gotta do around here?

Buddy Carlyle pitched a gem of a ballgame today for the Braves as they defeated the Marlins 3-1 in the opener of the double-header. He allowed one run on one hit in seven innings, striking out five.
A couple hours later he was demoted to Triple-A Richmond.
I’m sure there’s a good reason for sending [...]

Braves Lose Again

I didn’t get to see much of the game but was able to note via updates that Tim Hudson was falling back into his old frustrating habit of giving back every single lead the offense staked him to.
I’m guessing his god-awful ball/strike ratio wasn’t the result of bad umpiring or pitching entirely around the [...]