Comments on: Springtime Storylines: Will the Braves miss a beat without Bobby Cox? http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/25/springtime-storylines-will-the-braves-miss-a-beat-without-bobby-cox/ Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball. Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:43:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: macjacmccoy http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/25/springtime-storylines-will-the-braves-miss-a-beat-without-bobby-cox/comment-page-1/#comment-122636 Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:32:10 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=47589#comment-122636 Not really just calling it like I see it. But isnt that what baseball fans and bloggers do? We discuss and pick apart every little minutiae that goes on in the game and talk about the things we dont agree with. Thats all and me personally I dont agree with fence straddling .

]]> By: Old Gator http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/25/springtime-storylines-will-the-braves-miss-a-beat-without-bobby-cox/comment-page-1/#comment-122507 Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:54:22 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=47589#comment-122507 With Fat Freddi managing the Bravos, I would definitely make my predictions conservatively. We watched him for a couple of seasons sort of manage the Feesh. We watched him win kudos for “getting the most out of a team” that clearly finished below its ceiling in ’09 and got off to a crawling-away-from-an-accident pace in ’10 before Scrooge McLoria lost patience when his busk-art team performed like a bunch of Keenes instead of Rembrandts and restored Fat Freddi to his thwarted destiny in Atlanta. We watched him inspire averrations of loyalty from his players, and somnambulistic performance afield. We watched his coaches feed baserunners to opposing catchers like herring to the porpoises at the Seaquarium. The logic of some of his onfield substitutions will remain greater mysteries than why the planchette spontaneously shudders when your great great grandmother has bad news for you during an otherwise pleasant game of Ouija Scrabble, or why your slamhounds always seem to detonate thirty yards short of the electric meter reader. I always wish the best for Craig, and there’s no endemic cuisine in Atlanta nearly as atherosclerotic as a horrible horsemeat and Velveeta sandwich, but he’d better hope this new crop of ballplayers think off-the-corner because you can bet Fat Freddi is going to be thinking snugly within the box, and watch Cincinnati (within whose airport confines I am currently immured waiting for my flight back to the land of swaying palms, pina coladas and invasive species) is going to waltz away with the Joker this season.

]]> By: Craig Calcaterra http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/25/springtime-storylines-will-the-braves-miss-a-beat-without-bobby-cox/comment-page-1/#comment-122488 Sat, 26 Mar 2011 12:39:21 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=47589#comment-122488 Shit, DJ! They’re on to you!

]]> By: D.J. Short http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/25/springtime-storylines-will-the-braves-miss-a-beat-without-bobby-cox/comment-page-1/#comment-122487 Sat, 26 Mar 2011 12:17:15 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=47589#comment-122487 I think you’re taking this a little too seriously.

]]> By: macjacmccoy http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/25/springtime-storylines-will-the-braves-miss-a-beat-without-bobby-cox/comment-page-1/#comment-122482 Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:27:21 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=47589#comment-122482 Go the Conservative route yeah right. Saying that implies that you really want to predict them winning the division but instead your gonna play it safe and go with the census projections. I call B.S. on that. Even if your werent “Going the conservative route” you would have still picked them to place 2nd in the division . You just said it to hedge your bets. So if they do end up in 2nd place you can say “see I was right” but in case they win the division and your prediction is wrong you can act like you really thought they would do it all along. Do me a favor, dont go the aggressive route or the conservative route. Just go the real route and make you prediction. If I didnt know any better with all the double talk your doing I would think you were the lawyer here at PHT and not Craig.

]]> By: florida76 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/25/springtime-storylines-will-the-braves-miss-a-beat-without-bobby-cox/comment-page-1/#comment-122474 Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:06:08 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=47589#comment-122474 While Bobby Cox managed a long time and will eventually reach the HOF, it’s troubling he won only one world title with one of the best pitching staffs since WW2.

In fact, Atlanta has only one world title the entire time in that city. That’s one less than the Florida Marlins, and one more than the Milwaukee Brewers!

Maybe the new manager will finally be able to finish when it counts the most.

]]> By: Kevin S. http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/25/springtime-storylines-will-the-braves-miss-a-beat-without-bobby-cox/comment-page-1/#comment-122473 Sat, 26 Mar 2011 02:43:53 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=47589#comment-122473 Considering he’s already planning to have the vastly inferior Nate McLouth hit second while the dude who was actually the best rookie in baseball last year (no, not bitter about that) hits sixth, I’d worry about them missing a beat. Yeah, I know lineup optimization isn’t that big a deal, yada yada yada, but something like that worries me in terms of how a manager views the game.

]]> By: rapmusicmademedoit http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/25/springtime-storylines-will-the-braves-miss-a-beat-without-bobby-cox/comment-page-1/#comment-122426 Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:57:40 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=47589#comment-122426 That old son of a bitch was asleep half the season, they should have
kicked that bastard out long time ago.

toodles

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