Introductions Are In Order II

KeithLockhart said:
So can you tell us what was it like from your vantage point and the eruption?
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Loudest I've ever heard the chop chant...actually the wildest I've seen a crowd during any sporting event. Took a friend that's a Giants fan (big buddy of Gaylord Perry's) to the game with me, and the moment even got to him - he was chopping and chanting as loud or louder than I was.
 
From my view in the upper deck, it just looked like a line drive at first, but when it went over, all I remember is hugging random drunk people and chopping for at least 10 minutes.
 
Apologies for not posting sooner, it was a busy week.

I'm Brian aka Tomahawk Cult, a "computer guy" by trade, married with a 9 year old son, and live in Rosman, NC. I've been a baseball fan for almost all of my 47 years, and became a Braves fan in 1981 when I discovered the Braves Radio Network. 33 years later radio is still how I prefer following a game (especially when Sutton is on the air).

My favorite Braves memories mostly center around 1991: Sid Bream, almost in tears, hitting a pinch hit HR against the Pirates in Pittsburgh; Bream's grand slam against the Dodgers in Atlanta that September; being at the ballpark when the Braves clinched the Western Division by winning against the Astros (with the Dodgers losing a few moments later). After those dark seasons from 85 through 90, 1991 was a lot of fun to witness.

I found out about this board from another Scout board (Pack Pride - I'm an NCSU graduate). I look forward to reading about what other Braves fans have on their minds. :-)
 
what i have learned from this thread

people didn't like my intro and there isn't one chick who posts here
 
njc108 said:
Guys there are some women here. I know some that use to lurk all the time at scout. They just never post.
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If more ladies posted here (and no, not the dude earlier in the thread who is confused on that front) I would definitely be forced to clean up my act a bit.

Maybe Keith should hire female moderators.
 
Hawk said:
If more ladies posted here (and no, not the dude earlier in the thread who is confused on that front) I would definitely be forced to clean up my act a bit.

Maybe Keith should hire female moderators.
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Or maybe you should do the admirable thing like everybody else here and post your own hello introduction... or at least copy and paste what you wrote in the wild wild west forum when you made your WWE debut here last year.
 
I guess its my turn. My name is Cary, I am 29 and was born on the 4th of July. I joined the scout boards becase I scour the net for every bit of Braves info I can get and Bill Shanks had the best inside info I could find. He hated me because I didn't didn't blindly accept his ridiculously homer opinions. I remember him laughing at me for saying I didn't think Scott Thorman could hit in the majors.

I was born in Louisana where we have no baseball team and the braves were the only team I could watch every night thru tbs. I didn't realize I was a braves fan until the legendary game 7 duel between Smoltz and Morris. I felt so bad when the braves lost that I knew I was a braves fan. I was a huge Glavine fan. When I was 7 I went as Glavine for halloween and my best friend as Avery. Glavine to me was the face of the Braves and I never thought he woupd leave. As some of you know I still haven't gotten over him leaving absolutely crushed me. I honestly cared more about Glavine/maddux/smoltz/chipper/andruw being braves than I did about winning. I didnt care if we lost 100 games so long as they were braves.

I live for the braves but I don't die by them. Being an Aints fan I learnd to appreciate winning rather than thinking the world will end if my team doesn't win a championship. My favorite braves season was 2005 when the baby braves helped extend the streak. I take far more pride in the braves division streak than actually winning a championship. I appreciate that the braves have given me reasonable hope every year for 20+ years. No one will ever match the braves division streak. It is more unbreakable than even the 56 game hit streak and I wouldn't trade it for even 2 more world series wins.

Edit - and I can't stand people who complain that don't comprehend how lucky they are to be a fan of a first class organization like the braves. Its like the rich 16 year old complaining that the ferrari his parents bought him isn't the color he wanted. People like that deserve to be Royals and Browns fans. Maybe after they experience that kind of hopeless fandom they can apprciate a good thing when they see it.
 
No doubt Bill wore rose-colored spectacles. All Braves prospects were assumed to be great, especially if they came from Georgia.
 
that Hinske homerun and then 20 minutes later are some of the toughest times i have had at the ted
 
When I lived in the Macon area, I tried giving Bill's radio show a listen. It is absolutely insufferable, particularly any Monday after a UGA football or Atlanta Falcons loss.
 
I harbor no ill will towards Bill. He definetly was a great source of braves info. It was just sad how personally he took it when someone disagreed with him. I think getting to know some of the players especially prospects made it hard for him to be anything close to objective about them. I would probably be the same if I got to know them.
 
Oh and my baseball background I played 2 years in high school. I got to face Scott Kazmir and Clint Everts of cy falls hs who went on to be first round picks. I even got a bunt hit off Kazmir. My Al Bundy moment is I once got 4 bunt hits in one game. I had this trick where I would show bunt and if the 3b came in I would do a switswitlnging bunt and knock in over his head. After the 4 bunt game the coach made me stop because it wouldn't hellp me get better at regular hitting. I played ss and cf and I was tylhe Edmonds of cf diving at everything regardless of if it was neccesary. Literally practiced that atleast an hour a day. I ended up quitting after getting hit in 5 straight at bats(no that's not a typo or exaggeration) and I just started bailing on every swing.
 
cajunrevenge said:
I harbor no ill will towards Bill. He definetly was a great source of braves info. It was just sad how personally he took it when someone disagreed with him. I think getting to know some of the players especially prospects made it hard for him to be anything close to objective about them. I would probably be the same if I got to know them.
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He obviously put a lot of work in Scout forum. However, there were issues. He exaggerated the tightness of his connections with the org. As already mentioned, he overhyped prospects. Just read his book. It's easy to look back with hindsight and joke about Brandon Jones or baby Schuerholz, but be reasonable. If you take most samples of 10 prospects. Maybe one will achieve stardom. A couple could stick in the majors. Other will get hurt along the way, regress in development, decide to pursue another career path, etc. You name it.

Think of some of the names, that have passed through the system. Greatness was predicted for Komminsk, Terrell Wade, Mike Kelly, Chen, Lombard, Betemit, Marte, etc., etc. Nobody's suggesting that other clubs have greater success (all right, maybe some do) but to just pretend that all are destined for major league careers is just silly. Yeah, Georgia became more of hotbed, and names like Wainwright, McCann and Posey proved it, but it's not as if every kid is a potential peach, just because he grew up a Braves fan.

My point wasn't to intiate a bash Bill fest. I put my money where my mouth is and bought his book. Having read it, there was a natural assessment. He went too far with the "scouthead vs. stathead" non-debate. Many times, there were posts from me at Scout, mentioning that Schuerholz indicated in his book that they use both approaches. So, these philosophies were not mutually exclusive. He basically only dealt with in in one chapter, and it was to capatilize on the Moneyball hype. Otherwise, there was no reason for anyone but a Braves fan to read that book.
 
John Adcox here. Native Atlantan, Writer, Reader, Screenwriter, and User Experience Strategist. I used to teach college astronomy and Celtic mythology. I'm a Braves/King Arthur/fantasy/SciFi/literature/Philosophy buff and the lay leader in a progressive, welcoming intown church. I live between Little Five Points and Decatur. I am happily married. I once got very drunk with Dr. Seuss. Ray Bradbury bought me my first Guinness.
 
JohnAdcox said:
John Adcox here. Native Atlantan, Writer, Reader, Screenwriter, and User Experience Strategist. I used to teach college astronomy and Celtic mythology. I'm a Braves/King Arthur/fantasy/SciFi/literature/Philosophy buff and the lay leader in a progressive, welcoming intown church. I live between Little Five Points and Decatur. I am happily married. I once got very drunk with Dr. Seuss. Ray Bradbury bought me my first Guinness.
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Maybe I'm mistaken, but why haven't you participated in the book/literature thread in BBQ?
 
GovClintonTyree is actually Tom, a 50 YO Gator lawyer in Seattle, who moved from Atlanta a few years back because the ex-Mrs. Gov is a bigger asshole than Bill Shanks (I was banned for telling him he was thin-skinned - oh, the irony. One night I just got tired of the arrogance, vitriol, ego and stupidity and told him how I felt. Same thing happened, now that I think about it, with the ex-Mrs. Gov.).

I became a Braves fan in Richmond in 1970 when my dad took me to see the R-Braves and I saw Ralph Garr and Dusty Baker on the way up. Superstation helped in SoFlorida before they (sort of) got ML baseball.

I love a 1-0 game that takes an hour and forty-one minutes and have been blessed to pull for what must be the greatest pitching franchise in history. I've passed that along to 11 yo LilGuv, who may be good enough to have a post high school future.

I can't believe how successful we've been at developing pitching since Schuerholz retired but am wondering who angered the baseball Gods after four all-star caliber starters (Hanson, Jurrjens, Medlen, Beachy)flamed out early.

Edit: The new Mrs. Gov wants me to point out that I'm now happily married to a hot redhead who is acquiring a deep appreciation of baseball. Which is true.
 
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