Comments on: Springtime Storylines: Will standing pat get the Braves back to the playoffs?

By: buffalomafia

buffalomafia — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:49:46 +0000

What about Atlanta’s cheap ownership who should be in pursuit of a new third baseman like David Wright! The Braves had all off season to do this.

Chipper is HOF bound but can’t be dependable!

Also the Braves don’t have any speed on basis. They were bottom of league for steals.

Plus a couple pitchers have bad arms from last year????

If you want to beat Phillies then get a thirdbase man.

By: cltjump

cltjump — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:09:53 +0000

With a cherry on top, natch,

By: foreverchipper10

foreverchipper10 — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:30:26 +0000

Please please pretty please let all go as planned.

By: cltjump

cltjump — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:21:00 +0000

So true. So freaking obnoxiously, nerve-rackingly, off-pissingly true.

By: cltjump

cltjump — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:18:33 +0000

I just remembered, I haven’t paid a visit to a certain fine website since the end of last season…. I wonder if firefredi.com is still up…
God, he’s just such a terrible manager. He probably dreamed of hitting the World Series-winning sacrifice bunt when he was a kid.

By: skids003

skids003 — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:38:44 +0000

Whoever stays the healthiest will win the dvision, second healthiest finish second, so on.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:49:08 +0000

The other one. In that particular situation.

Don’t forget that we had Fat Fredi weighing down one end of our bench in Macondo for a year and change, too. We lost our share of games because, mostly, of what he didn’t do rather than because of what he did – failed to remove a struggling reliever when he came up to bat, quotidian stuff like that.

So although I hate to default to the keynote again, I think it’s just a matter of which manager manages to get sick at the most critical time. It has to be an illness. Unfortunately for both teams, managers can bungle right on through their injuries – “bungling hurt,” I think it’s called….

By: hasbeen5

hasbeen5 — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:37:50 +0000

But if you had to bet on one of them losing a game because he sac bunted with his cleanup hitter while the pitcher was batting fifth and Eric Hinske had been used to pinch run 2 innings ago, who would you take?

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:24:56 +0000

“Staying healthy” is always a risky way to project a finish. Though I project the Feesh to be a lot better than they were last season, I think that, since they have as many key breakdown threats going for them as the Bravos, they will be neck and neck with them most of the season – and may the last man not limping or icing his shoulder with the iceberg that sank the Titanic in September make the difference.

As far as the manager, it’s true, Fat Fredi is pretty boring and always seems one play behind the curve. On the other hand, he’s not a slobbering, incoherent, loudmouthed, gutter-vulgar ongoing embarrassment. Six of one….

By: hasbeen5

hasbeen5 — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:22:44 +0000

“Fredi Gonzalez’s managerial style doesn’t inspire a ton of confidence, either.”

Imagine what that sentence would have said had Craig written this post.

By: bravojawja

bravojawja — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:18:46 +0000

I don’t know what to think of this team, which is a little weird since it’s essentially the same team as last March and I figured they’d win the Wild Card, which they almost did. Maybe we’ll get the second WC this go round, assuming nearly everything DJ and the Braves’ front office is assuming will happen will actually happen.

But that’s a whole buncha if‘s. The Braves need a left fielder and a shortstop but couldn’t or wouldn’t find either this offseason, and that’s going to be this team’s Achilles’ heel. Or, more to the point, Chipper’s knees.

By: yankeesfanlen

yankeesfanlen — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:15:48 +0000

Is Craig trying to have some “emotional detachment” from the Braves, D.J?