Nats:
Wilkerson, LF
Carroll, 3B
Vidro, 2B
Guillen, RF
Johnson, 1B
Church, CF
Guzman, SS
Schneider, C
Ohka, P
Braves:
Furcal, SS
Orr, 2B
C. Jones, 3B
A. Jones, CF
Estrada, C
LaRoche, 1B
Mondesi, RF
Langerhans, LF
Thomson, P
No Vinny again, and that's about all I have to say about the lineups. Let's Baseball!
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Weather.com says it's 64 and cloudy in Atlanta at the moment. Scattered showers and thunderstorms are predicted, though; 60% chance of rain.
Weak! Also, weather.com broke the hell out of my computer the other day. I guess they're 133t haxxxx0rz or something.
How long does Ohka go today?
6. His last start was perfect Ohka, and I predict he'll do the exact same thing for the rest of the year.
I agree he should go 6, but my guess is Frank lets him go 6 2/3 and then realizes he is out of gas
Good point. I predict we will not see a double switch from the Nats in this game.
^^^^
From the prognosticators that brought you water is wet.
Also, Frank Robinson will not do a cartwheel on the field. You can take that to the bank.
I would pay good money to see the cartwheel (but even better for the double switch)
What's wrong with Castilla? Besides the obvious, I mean.
sore shoulder
Castilla's got a "sore shoulder" which is baseball talk for "old and sucky."
Okay, that clown is going to freak me out for the next three hours.
I miss anything good in the first five minutes? What'd Wilkerson do?
Nats taking more pitches so far today ... nice to see
Wilk K'd. I heart Nick Johnson.
Okay, Church needs a hit here to make sure he stays with the club when Armas comes back.
Sorry about Pennywise, I can change it.
Wilkerson struck out swinging
Soul Patch!
Just like that.
I'm relieved - Church has been sucking like a Hoover lately.
Fox News First Run of the Game!
(And the clown can stay. I find them mildly creepy but I'm not phobic or anything. I just think the whole concept of clowns -- especially at children's parties -- is creepy and contrary to everything we teach children about strangers and people who should be trusted)
ass clown K'd
Ah, "Inning-Endy" lives on in spirit.
23 pitch 1st inning ... that's more like it
Bobby Cox had an early tee time
Mazzone does all the work in the dugout anyway.
Okay, we need more snark in this thread. Ryan? Needham?
I thinking about making a Castilla/sore shoulder/masturbation joke. Maybe in a little bit.
GodDAMN I hate Chipper.
Ohka with his first of two long balls today
gotta love 4 pitch walks ... aarrgghh
Dammit. I do some actual work, come back to my desk and Larry hits a home run.
What is this "work" of which you speak?
Thanks a lot, Yuda! Every time one of works, something bad happens. Stay focused.
Must be a full moon tonight, we're hitting.
Schneider - Doubles Machine!
BTW, I think this is the only scenario (man on 2nd, no outs, pitcher up) where BP approves of sac bunting.
Apparantly one of my coworkers knows Brian Schneider.
No word on if she "knows" him or just knows him.
Listening to the Braves' announcers on radio is roughly akin to going to a bachelor party hosted by the late Paul Simon.
More rumor and innuendo, Yuda!
How's Okha with the stick?
I'm not big on bunting (except with the pitcher) before like the seventh or eighth inning.
Also, why the hell is Guzman hitting ahead of Schneider? I guess Frank wants to split the lefties but seriously.
Oh, great fucking bunt landlord.
Dammit Ohka ... it's hari kari time
Nien Nunb: "Mmabdmnfalkb!"
Ryan, I think there's one other (runner on 2nd no one out, home half of the ninth), but I can't recall exactly.
Nah, Jim Baker tore Juan Pierre (!) a new one for bunting with a runner on second and nobody out in extra innings the other day.
Also, fuck you, Furcal.
I think I just learned something. Thanks, celine!
That's probably what BP will point to the next time they get accused of groupthink, Yuda.
Really, Yuda?
I can't recall who it was that wrote what I was thinking of. Joe Sheehan maybe? It was a while ago, too, before he left and came back. I probably messed it up, anyway.
Sheehan left and came back?
I wanna say Click wrote the deadly-dull bunt study, and I know it was last summer.
Oh, and Church is a latter-day saint.
Yeah, he started his own newsletter or something about couple or three years ago. Charged some negligible amount of money for the privilege to read it. Then he came back, I think, when BP, went to subscriptions.
If it's a formal study by Click, then I missed it, btw.
If it's deadly-dull, odds are 50/50 it was Click or Davenport. Neither of those guys could write if their lives depended on it.
Which I guess is ironic since, presumably, their lives kinda do depend on it -- I don't think they have other sources of income.
damn 4 pitch walks
I think Davenport is in computers or software or something like that.
Click is one of the "new guys" whose name just makes me go "huh?".
He walked the f%cking pitcher ... a$$hole
What is it about Ohka and two outs? He magically transforms into Antonio Osuna.
Oh for fuck's sake.
Well, that sounded pretty damn lucky.
Is it possible to have a man-crush on a whole team? I love the Marlins.
No, it's not possible, you sick freak. ;-)
Okay, did somebody hit a home run while I was getting coffee or are they just talking about dingers for shits and giggles?
61 comments and I haven't even added anything yet? Jesus!
no first pitch swinging Nick ... please
Ooh, coffee. Good idea. BRB ^_^!
are you comparing yourself to Jesus, Chris?
We all seem to be a bit sluggish this afternoon. I blame Ryan Langerhans.
Wow, that was an old-school Nats inning.
You look pretty lively, Yuda. Yee haw!
It's a good thing I forgot to bring my al-kee-hal to work . . .
The stars have gone back out of alignment. They had a 16-hour window from 9:30 last night until 1:30 today.
It's hard to explain, but to me at least Skip Caray always sounds like he needs to fart but just can't.
My father always told me I was the Son of God... but I'm not really into sandles.
I can't get the game on my radio. Just some mexican music. (Which, if I can say this without being deemed insensitive, frequently sounds like circus music)
Okay, if Castilla is going to be this gimpy Bodes absolutely has to DFA Baerga and call up Brendan Harris so we don't have all of our infielders on base at once.
On the field, that is.
Esteban Loaiza and Antonio Osuna will be stopping by your place to kick your ass for that later, Chris.
I'd settle for more than one fielder on base!
What's the score?
I think they just moved in, actually!
Just be sure you don't go to the DMV, Chris.
Re: the game. I'm not feeling sanguine at the moment.
Ohka ... throw a fucking strike please
Anyone see the fans doing the funkdafied tomahawk chop after the rain delay last night?
What's the score damnit?
Basil - you get one of them William F. Buckley word calenders?
I absolutely abhor the tomahawk chop
Aw crap.
I spelled "calendar" wrong on purpose.
Motherfucker.
No, Ryan. Admiral Piett taught me everything I need to know.
No, you spelled it as Nien Numb would, of course. ;-)
I guess something bad happened.
EFF YOU WFED AM!
I would love to see Schneider slap Ohka in the face and say "Act like a man"
We just have to limit the damage until Kolb comes in again.
I'd love to see anything. Dave and Charlie need some greenies or something, they're droning on today and putting me to sleep.
Chris, something bad did happen. However, Yahoo! gametracker is frozen, and as far as I'm concerned we're still ahead.
As Yuda said last week, I'm in the present, the rest of the world is in the future.
Yuda, Charlie was the worst last night. He was practically sleeping by the time the Braves were down to their last strike. He livened up a bit when the last out was recorded, but big whoop.
I was going to mention it today, but then I found the picture of Professor Kolb.
Thank God the Braves have the corpse of Raul Mondesi in the lineup to end that rally.
3-2 Braves after 3.
Mondesi can ably fill the important "DNP-AWOL" spot on the 40 man, though.
'S about time! Thanks, Ryan.
Of course the hits are hard to come by for Cristian Guzman. He sucks ass.
That's a funny-looking double, Schneider.
I literally walked across the office to my mailbox and back, stopped at the water fountain for a second, and that was the whole half-inning for the Nats. Wow.
Now I'm getting the bible-thumping station. This blows ass.
I can be in my little shack in the woods and get WBAL clear as a bell, yet I can't get WFED in a crappy ass building half a block from the Capitol?
Anybody see the link of Primer to the article about how Steve Kline peed in his O's-underoos?
Shack in the woods, huh? Do you churn your own butter and refuse to recognize the authority of the federal government?
Let's stuff the All-Star ballot box to ensure the rest of MLB can enjoy the batting superstar that is CRISTIAN GUZMAN
Now my coworkers are hanging outside my office, talking, blathering and rambling. Shut up so I can listen to my static!
Serenity now.
Chris ... $14.95 with MLB.com ... that is all you need for the year
I can be in my little shack in the woods and get WBAL clear as a bell, yet I can't get WFED in a crappy ass building half a block from the Capitol?
The converse would be if you were in Baltimore and got WFED clear as a bell, but couldn't get WBAL in a crappy ass building half a block from a crack house.
I kid, of course.
If you've ever been up to upstate ny, you'd know! I grew up with my nearest neighbors being corn fields.
Maybe that explains some of my problems...
That's not a kid, that's a pretty accurate assessment of our fine neighborly city to the north.
I've got the MLB TV subscription. The problem is the ahole IT guy here who put up a firewall. I can't access MLB from work. Prick.
Looks like you merely need to work on your walkman-balancing technique, Chris.
Or to go to Abdul's electronics depo on the corner and a real Sharpe radio.
Yeah -- the crack houses in baltimore are in nicer buildings than they've got a reputation for.
How's Guzman been on D? I know he's not a supastar like Jose Vidro, but I haven't seen any huge screw-ups.
I would laugh hard in recompense for your jokes about my 56k at home, Chris, but then my IT guy has the same policy and the only reason I can listen is that the Atlanta Braves have invaded my city.
The Walkman is home unfortunately. I'm using a 1985-era boom box now.
It only picks up Run DMC.
We're nearing the thread-klling limit, i suspect?
What are you complaining about, Chris?
I'm the king of rock
Ain't none higher
Sucka MCs
Should call me sire
I don't know if I'm worried that you didn't need to google that.
We made it to 200 last week. Then again, the fact that I'm citing last week's number is only wasting a post toward Blogger's limit. So I'll shut up.
(Cue Ryan to say "about time" right . . . now ;-)
I won't stop blogging til I retire!
Hip-hop's finest truism.
By the way, I'm not internationally known, but I'm known throughout the microphone . . .
It's Christmastime in Hollis, Queens . . .
Damn you kids and your modern music. Give me Frankie Valle any day.
How many times are these assholes going to bluff a bunt and take a strike?
Give me Rep. Herseth, Chris!
Oh, on the field: we've got back to back 3Bs (Carroll/Vidro) and tied the game.
A hit with a RISP? Call Ripley
Back to back triples is an awesome concept. I'm sorry I called you an asshole, Jamey.
Ask you and you shall receive!
This team has been hitting a TON of triples!
And then Angry Man SF'ed Vidro home. Just like that we're up, and Lumberjack is at the dish.
Walk for NJ!
I love NJ!
(The player, not the state)
Ah, that's nice.
It's not that she's hot, of course. It's that reasonably attractive women in government are a novelty, and I like novelties.
Plus, she looks like a nice person.
Lock the state! (Primer reference I never got.)
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