Atlanta GM tells all on podcast
@jonahkeri What got me: self-imposed poverty that comes w trying to make it in MLB-Coppolella said he used to eat out of trash.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 May 2016 16:10 (seven years ago) link
rip fredi
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 15:16 (seven years ago) link
gonz
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 May 2016 22:54 (seven years ago) link
my strategy for this season is to follow the Braves only by reading this thread, so far it's working pretty well
― Brad C., Tuesday, 17 May 2016 22:55 (seven years ago) link
rip aaron blair
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 23:58 (seven years ago) link
really seems like the most futile manager firing ever. the team's not doing any worse than expected.
― qualx, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 00:20 (seven years ago) link
9-28 overall and 2-17 at home, 11 homers, .594 OPS, is mmmmmaybe a little worse
― pleas to Nietzsche (WilliamC), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 00:38 (seven years ago) link
ok but is fredi to blame? is firing him gonna change anything? it's already a dumb thing teams do, just usually the teams that do it have SOME talent beyond AAAA? no one's looking at that team and thinking, "yeah, fredi gonzalez is really holding them back"
― qualx, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 00:58 (seven years ago) link
He's probably not to blame, but I don't think he's the right guy to manage the nu-look team whenever it emerges from its cocoon. This was Coppy and Hart throwing an armload of bats in the shower and calling the players a bunch of lollygaggers.
― pleas to Nietzsche (WilliamC), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 01:14 (seven years ago) link
fredi doesn't seem like a great manager, but of course he's not to blame. i guess you can only let morale collapse so far before doing something?
you only get to pull that trigger once, tho, and while they should be better than this, they're still not going to be good. how long are they gonna let the interim manager (who's been with the organization since 1977!) hang? what actually better managers are available?
i'm not sure they're so close to a rebound that an established manager would want to be associated with the ongoing pain
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 01:33 (seven years ago) link
@mlbbowmanFoltynewicz draws his first walk in his 39th career plate appearance. Exactly 100 PAs sooner than Frenchy drew his first unintentional BB
― mookieproof, Monday, 30 May 2016 18:21 (seven years ago) link
http://deadspin.com/cobb-county-needs-to-raise-taxes-to-pay-for-public-park-1780832038
― pleas to Nietzsche (WilliamC), Monday, 6 June 2016 21:21 (seven years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/5d/b7/bc/5db7bc3fa0a41c6504b2bf9aed7f12de.jpg
― mookieproof, Thursday, 9 June 2016 23:40 (seven years ago) link
A 1-hit, no-walk beauty from Teherán — 92 game score.
― pleas to Nietzsche (WilliamC), Sunday, 19 June 2016 20:08 (seven years ago) link
gonna have to name one of his kids citi
― mookieproof, Sunday, 19 June 2016 20:12 (seven years ago) link
i feel the need to copy this post here, and poss on every ilm thread in due time
The Chase d'Arnaud Band was born, who have a sound that the group's namesake says is best defined by its "bandwidth."
"It's like James Taylor meets Crosby Stills & Nash meets the Beatles meets the Rolling Stones meets Def Leppard meets Metallica," d'Arnaud said.
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 19 June 2016 20:54 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CluVtAMWAAQqyfu.jpg:small
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 June 2016 14:52 (seven years ago) link
Double digits in home wins, hot damn!
...wait, what month is it?
― pleas to Nietzsche (WilliamC), Friday, 24 June 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link
coppolella just did a q&a on the braves twitter account -- admitted the wood/peraza/olivera trade was bad, praised the arizona front office (for being suckers, i guess), etc. kinda intersting
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 June 2016 18:39 (seven years ago) link
he also called out wisler for regressing a bit
― dynamicinterface, Friday, 24 June 2016 19:51 (seven years ago) link
http://deadspin.com/the-braves-are-going-to-ridiculous-lengths-to-squeeze-e-1782862795
― pleas to Nietzsche (WilliamC), Thursday, 30 June 2016 13:21 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnIEUEXUMAAji3a.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 14:39 (seven years ago) link
@EricFisherSBJCobb County pol Tim Lee, architect of much-debated Atlanta Braves stadium deal, loses runoff election in landslide.
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 14:08 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/Braves/status/759201152990842880
aww
― mookieproof, Saturday, 30 July 2016 01:41 (seven years ago) link
less aww
https://twitter.com/Braves/status/759198590023720960
― mookieproof, Saturday, 30 July 2016 01:45 (seven years ago) link
Jim Bowden:
"As I reported earlier today there is traction on a trade that will send Matt Kemp and cash to the Braves but nothing done"
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 30 July 2016 22:07 (seven years ago) link
it looks like the fausto carmona era is set to begin
― dynamicinterface, Saturday, 6 August 2016 14:07 (seven years ago) link
dansbae
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 01:20 (seven years ago) link
bringing his hair
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 04:17 (seven years ago) link
If you ever wondered how horrible it would be for Al Franken to be a sportscaster, tune in to the Barves radio feed — Mark Lemke sounds just like him. Knows about as much about baseball, too.
― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Sunday, 4 September 2016 18:32 (seven years ago) link
~ lemmer ~
― mookieproof, Sunday, 4 September 2016 19:31 (seven years ago) link
As a franchise, the Braves have been around for more than 140 years. They woke up today with a .500 record of 10,424-10,424.
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 7 September 2016 19:07 (seven years ago) link
ender inciarte has been good recently
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 7 September 2016 19:41 (seven years ago) link
#blessed to have been able to witness aaron blair's first big league win
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 03:52 (seven years ago) link
#nonplussed
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 September 2016 04:15 (seven years ago) link
96.2% route efficiency
http://m.mets.mlb.com/news/article/202712846/statcast-measures-inciartes-catch-on-cespedes/
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 22 September 2016 18:59 (seven years ago) link
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, September 7, 2016 2:41 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
prescient
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 22 September 2016 19:17 (seven years ago) link
http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2016/9/22/13008288/braves-julio-teheran-trade
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 24 September 2016 18:29 (seven years ago) link
trade him
what's the obsession with immediately filling the seats of white flight park? it's not gonna get cancelled for bad first season ratings
― qualx, Saturday, 24 September 2016 18:49 (seven years ago) link
I think there's something to having a leader, or at least public face, of the pitching staff the way Freddie is the leader of the offense. He's inexpensive, talented, young and I've never heard say a nervous word about his mechanics or health. I'd keep him.
― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Saturday, 24 September 2016 21:50 (seven years ago) link
unless they're legitimately planning on contending next year, which they probably shouldn't be, i don't think that's important
teheran is never going to have as much value as he has right now in this market. the pieces he brings in could make this team's youth movement in the coming years very cubs-like.
― qualx, Saturday, 24 September 2016 22:03 (seven years ago) link
he's an all-star who is cheap and under control for four more seasons; that's the kind of guy you want to *get*
it shouldn't take the braves five years to contend. i mean yeah if dave stewart wants to give them aj pollock and all his future first-round picks for teheran then do it, but i don't see why they need to shop him now
― mookieproof, Saturday, 24 September 2016 22:34 (seven years ago) link
if it were any other offseason I would probably agree but this one is unique. I also don't think teheran's ERA this season is reflective of his true talent level so there's that.
― qualx, Saturday, 24 September 2016 22:42 (seven years ago) link
OTM.
They are so much better than they were in April. I think they're having a 2012 Royals/2014 Astros season this year. I don't know about playoffs, but .500 is not hard to envision next year.
― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Saturday, 24 September 2016 23:08 (seven years ago) link
68 within reach
― Andy K, Sunday, 2 October 2016 13:32 (seven years ago) link
I didn't give them a snowball's chance until the last week or so.
Mark Bowman ✔ @mlbbowman
The Braves interviewed their four internal mgr. candidates - Snit, Pendleton, Perez and Porter. Pendleton was said to be very impressive
I know Snitker has to be the frontrunner after this 2nd half, but I'm kind of rooting for Pendleton. I'd like to see the Barves start off in White Flight Stadium with a black manager. (I don't know anything about Porter.)
― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Sunday, 2 October 2016 15:01 (seven years ago) link
mcdowell out
― mookieproof, Friday, 7 October 2016 14:03 (seven years ago) link
kudos 2 nailing the win total exactly, WmC
― johnny crunch, Friday, 7 October 2016 14:06 (seven years ago) link
should we start the Hot Stove thread? or just keep bumping every team when they unload ballast during October?
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 October 2016 14:09 (seven years ago) link
http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/johnny_carson_karnak.jpg
xp
― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Friday, 7 October 2016 14:10 (seven years ago) link
Snitker permanent (and with a name like that, he's got to be good)
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 19:58 (seven years ago) link