GDT #11, 4/12/'14: Braves (Wood) vs Nats (Jordan) Simmons back

[Gary82]

Gotta sweep to make up for that ****ty series against the Mets.

[VirginiaBrave]

Watching the Nats postgame is hilarious. Ray Knight may be the whiniest b---- in studio I've ever seen.

He said basically (1) that the Nats have been on the wrong end of eight bad calls against the Braves and (2) the league review mechanism in NY is obviously corrupt because they're protecting the umps.

I didn't catch him talking about the Nationals baserunning follies, their inability to get a hit with men in scoring position, or the three errors they committed tonight.

Between FP Santangelo and Knight, Washington may have two of the most idiotic homers on one broadcast team in history.

You forgot Mr. "See...You...Later" Bob Carpenter. Poor ole Ray is going senile in disbelief. Which is sad because before he joined the darkside he was one of the Atl. organzation's biggest defenders on ESPN.

[stpeteirish]

Today's game is on MLBN. God, I hope they don't give us the Wash broadcast.

[thethe]

Usually its the home broadcast. However, its fun to see how homerish their guys are.

[stpeteirish]

Just saw the highlights..are the Nats trying to sell the concept that Simmons spiked Zimmerman, causing the injury? The one clown announcer said something to that effect on the highlight. Its nonsense, Simmons never touched his right hand, he jammed it into the bag.

[AUTiger7222]

I have no idea why I keep expecting an unbiased article from ESPN. It's like the Braves don't exist. It's like the Braves haven't won 21 of the past 28 games against the Nationals.

http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/po...n-nl-east-race

[thethe]

David O'Brien ‏@ajcbraves 11m
#Braves Lineup 1. Heyward rf 2. BUpton cf 3 Freeman 1b 4 JUpton lf 5 Simmons ss 6. Laird C 7 Pena 3b 8.Pastornicky 2b 9 Harang P

[thethe]

Love that Pastor is getting a start. hopefully he can get some things going.

Interesting that CJ is getting a rest. He is struggling wtih seeing the ball right now.

[keithlaw]

Gnats are really easy to overrate because their frontline guys are really good which is all most people look at when judging a team. Fortunately for us their depth was atrocious last year which is what kept them out of the playoffs. Hopefully it'll suck this year too.

[AUTiger7222]

Love that Pastor is getting a start. hopefully he can get some things going.

Interesting that CJ is getting a rest. He is struggling wtih seeing the ball right now.

It's about time Pastor saw some playing time. Run with it Pastor!