Dreams of The Owl

[The Chosen One]

BJ is upping his game the last few days. Dan encouraged me the first few games but has since stalled. If you had Uggla pencilled in your bets to homer before BJ Upton you lost a lot of money.

At least BJ contributes some defensive strength whereas Uggla's throws are only rivaled by that of Ryan Zimmerman, and he has a shorter distance to first base. Uggla's poor throwing almost lost us the game the other night.

Is there reason for optimism that Dan could hit 20-25 homers this year? How about 15? We're stuck with him for another year after this while LaStella is finding his groove and Peraza develops.

Dan Uggla Shown Here Reenacting Thor's "Hammer Spin".

[CyYoung31]

So, is this the official Uggla rant thread then?

[Dalyn]

[Mad Dog Murph]

The Upton and Uggla threads are getting tiresome. We get it already.

[AerchAngel]

He is hitting better than Heyward.

Oh snap!!

[nsacpi]

I think his hitting approach has been better this year and would give him another month or so to get better results.

However, I see that he has one hit in fifteen at bats against Gio Gonzalez and would like to see Pastornicky at second today.

[thethe]

You don't want to bring LaStella up....fine. There is no damn reason why Ramiro Pena can't get more starts at second base though.

[Heyward]

However, I see that he has one hit in fifteen at bats against Gio Gonzalez and would like to see Pastornicky at second today.

Wish granted.

[The Chosen One]

The Upton and Uggla threads are getting tiresome. We get it already.

I actually would prefer people use these individual threads to talk about the individual player, for better or for worse.

Actually some of the best sports forums I've been on, had individual threads for individual players.

[nsacpi]

Wish granted.

I'm not surprised. Fredi does pay attention to these things.

[Heyward]

I saw Chipper talked with BJ, maybe that has helped him a little or it was a fluke.

Still shouldnt be hitting 2nd, i'd swap JUp and BJ.

[Julio3000]

I actually would prefer people use these individual threads to talk about the individual player, for better or for worse.

Actually some of the best sports forums I've been on, had individual threads for individual players.

I would much rather see these individual threads thrive than continue reading the interminable carping about BUp/Owl/Fredi elsewhere, which either derails other threads or clutters GDTs—which should be the rightful domain of juvenile pee-pee jokes and premature predictions of defeat.

If you don't care to read, you can avoid. It just means the signal-to-noise ratio in other threads will be (ok, COULD be) be that much higher.