Astros County @AstrosCounty · 31m31 minutes ago
Hope you weren't liking Bo Porter on MLB Network. He just joined the Braves as 3B Coach.
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Astros County @AstrosCounty · 31m31 minutes ago
Hope you weren't liking Bo Porter on MLB Network. He just joined the Braves as 3B Coach.
I like a lot. It would be good if they could keep Dascenzo around in the farm system, as he's been a helluva minor league manager. But Porter knows the Nationals ujp and down and is as good a choice for the Braves as Pat Corrales was for the Nats a few years back.
I'm not sure the story is true. I can't find it any where else.
Betting it's a classic case where MLB wanted the Braves to wait until there were no games going on to make an announcement. But MLB network is kind of high profile and someone there was bound to blab ahead of time.
Hard to grump about that hire if true.
I mean, it's pretty obvious Fredi isn't going to be fired. I honestly thought we had already moved on from that.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.n...a38b5f90e90c4a
Looks like Fredi joined the John Bobby John bromance.
Oh, well. :facepalm:
I'm trying to decide which MLS team I'm gonna start rooting for. Cause I'll need something to entertain me next summer. Currently the Revolution are my local team, but maybe I move back to NJ and the Bimbos or Red Bulls become my team. Or do I root for an USMNT heavy team like Sporting KC or Houston Dynamo. Or a team like Colorado who has 2 young US internationals. Lots of hard choices to make since baseball clearly isn't in my best interest to follow. maybe if they extend Jason and Justin I'll have something to be excited about.
Is the world coming to an end? That's what some of you are acting like.
They are at least making very solid moves around Fredi to this point.
The one thing I noticed about the photo is that the dude in the middle is the only one wearing a tie. And it is hideous.
Did the bromance all get together and decide that they weren't going to wear ties that day? It seems odd that none of them decided to wear a tie. You'd think one of them would have worn a tie. Maybe I'm the only one.
Even JS didn't wear his bow tie. Bizarre.
With Fredi now safe, I think he does have to be on a hot seat. We're still going to be in a position, with a couple tweaks, to make a playoff run, provided we can stay reasonably healthy. If we have another year like this year, he has to be gone. No excuse.
I will hope the Braves win, but to me next year feels a lot like 08 did to me. Except back then I was fine with our offense, it was our pitching that made me sick, 2009 was a year of slight optimism because we added Lowe, Vaz, and the intriguing Kawakami, but mainly because the next wave of prospects was on the way, Hanson was ready, Jason and Freddie were on their way, and many other exciting things were happening, but this feels very 2008, no real exciting prospects to introduce, giant holes in our team, and nearing the end with one of our great players, now it's someone much younger between Jason and Justin, but back then who knew when Chipper's last year would be.
To me there's no point being excited for next year right now. Hopefully the FO gives me a reason but it seems like right now everything is about getting ready for the new stadium and that's gonna be done with Frediot at the helm.
That would be Steve Bryant, the owner of the Mudcats. The old adage "Build it and they will come" is what the Mudcats stadium is all about. Bryant first wanted to build a stadium in downtown Raleigh years ago, but the Durham Bulls (Miles Woff at the time) claimed jurisdiction of Bulls territory. So Steve Bryant took a compass and did a radius circle on a map of the territory and the very outside of it landed in a tobacco field off Hwy 64 bypass. He bought the land and over the years the stadium has gotten better and better. Used to be double A, but has been A the last 2 or 3 years. Looking forward to seeing Braves come thru like I did when Chipper, Javy, Avery, etc. came thru Durham.
Can't wait to see what special assistant we hire next. I think we should just have a special assistant for every position in the organization.
DOB is now reporting this as well.
Dascenzo, Fletcher and Walker out.
Bo Porter is in.
Looks like those are the only moves that will be made on the big league club. Just need to hire a hitting coach.
A special assistant manager would be a good hire.
Someone that must approve Fredi's lineups before every game. Or I could just write a quick program that he runs the lineup through. It would look something like this:
for (int intLineupPosition = 0; intLineupPosition < 9; intLineupPosition++)
{
int intJerseyNumber = Lineup[intLineupPosition].JerseyNumber;
if ((Roster[intJerseyNumber].OBP < 0.3) && (intLineupPosition < 6))
{
Call BurnLineup();
Call BenchFrediForTheNight();
}
}
I knew someone who bought a program to rip people off at online poker. One day, he didn't like what the program did with a pair of jacks so he tweaked it and quickly lost everything. I think that's what we would see from Fredi, except he wouldn't like what the program did with a pair of jackasses.
http://i.imgur.com/Cyrz4Wi.gif
Fredi knows talent when he sees it.
If we can't unload BJ or decide the return is not worth any problems with his brother, a distinct possibility on both fronts, he needs to be the 4th outfielder/pinch-runner guy. Nothing more. Schafer, basically, with a little more production and a lot more money.
So, the Braves, Bobby Cox and JS are liars!