Happy as hell that the Braves have a 7 game lead, but also realize they play in arguably the worst division in baseball so far this year (AL Central sucks too). Can't believe how strong the AL East is again and the NL West is very deep.



[Edited on June 4, 2013 at 1:39 PM. Reason : repost since no one reads the last post]

6/4/2013 1:38:30 PM

^NL Central is deep at the moment too until the Pirates do their usual 2nd half dive. If the Braves were in the Central before last night, they would have been in 4th place....eek

6/4/2013 4:54:15 PM

God, Dan Uggla is a waste of space out there in the field. Good thing he's top notch on offense...

6/4/2013 7:51:30 PM

FFF

6/4/2013 8:15:13 PM

Love some Freddy. If he shaved his head he would look like Paul Wall

6/4/2013 8:17:58 PM

and gained 30lbs

6/4/2013 9:31:20 PM

Ha load the bases. Gattis about to start the walk breaking record now

6/4/2013 10:03:23 PM

GODDAMNIT. ALMOST FFF TIME.. Great catch

6/4/2013 10:29:37 PM

FFFuuuuuu

6/4/2013 10:34:49 PM

Sadly, the Braves have left 5 runners on base the last 2 innings. I feel like that was their chance...luckily, the Pirates aren't exactly killing it at the plate.

6/4/2013 10:35:59 PM

finally, someone gets the big hit. Good job Andrelton...Braves Bullpen >>>> Pirates bullpen tonight

The "strugglers" so far this season really came through tonight. Uggla was 2-3 with 2 walks, BJ with the big 2 run homer, Heyward was 2-4

[Edited on June 4, 2013 at 10:59 PM. Reason : afsd]

6/4/2013 10:55:49 PM

This guy should be at the all star game.

6/4/2013 11:00:44 PM

Agreed

6/4/2013 11:04:42 PM

Braves starting to get a little bit out of BJ Upton is big. Heyward is bound to come around and last night was good to see. Uggla just sucks ass and probably will hit .180 regardless.

6/5/2013 8:37:39 AM

http://www.kansascity.com/2013/06/04/4272802/royals-qa-a-key-week-looms-ahead.html

Quote :

"@Proud2bApstolic: if the Royals trade Santana what might they be looking for in return? They’d be looking to fill a hole with a long-term solution. My guess is their preference would be to acquire a corner outfielder with a run-production bat. A second baseman is another possibility. Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/06/04/4272802/royals-qa-a-key-week-looms-ahead.html#storylink=cpy "

might be a trade partner. we could send them uggla, and in return, they can keep santana. win-win

6/5/2013 8:59:46 AM

it's a pipe dream to think we'd ship out Uggla for anything. He's Fredi's pet and he's not going anywhere unfortunately. and guys like Romero Pena who could actually help the team will suffer because of it.

6/5/2013 9:09:57 AM

Uggla is untradeable due to his contract moreso than any kind of Fredi-Uggla man love scenario. If Wren wants to move Uggla and gets a reasonable offer (i.e. mid level prospect and only having to pay say half of Uggla's remaining salary), then it won't matter if Fredi likes Uggla or not.

6/5/2013 10:07:07 AM

let's ask The Frozen Rope, aka Kevin McAlpin

6/5/2013 10:18:00 AM

Woooo off for the matinee

6/5/2013 12:27:51 PM

Julio looks fucking awesome right now.

6/5/2013 1:23:55 PM

Teheran goes 7 2/3 no hit. Joe Simpson mentioned that he hadn't given up a hit at the beginning of the inning, and bam...gives one up to a pinch hitter.

Gattis and Laird went back to back in the 6th

6/5/2013 2:47:36 PM

http://deadspin.com/tim-hudson-once-filled-adam-laroches-glove-with-human-511478690?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

6/5/2013 2:50:03 PM

GG to Teheran. Dude is starting to finally get it. Gattis with his 13th HR in only 148 ABs (per the AJC). He could hit 40 if he gets the ABs. Swept a good Pirates team and completed an awesome homestand. GG to the whole team.

6/5/2013 3:39:42 PM

The guy gets better every time he goes out. Can't imagine the next game

6/5/2013 4:03:13 PM

Nats in third now behind what's left of the Phillies. Strasburg and Harper are on the DL. 8 games out. Crown our asses.

6/6/2013 8:39:12 AM

Dont say that. Still 100 games left.

6/6/2013 9:48:57 AM

I'm thinking of starting a 2013 Braves Postseason thread

6/6/2013 9:56:17 AM

PLZ TO NOT JINX K THX

6/6/2013 10:51:35 AM

In comes the braves collapse that I'm used to seeing.

6/6/2013 11:05:27 AM

A sweep would be nice

6/6/2013 9:51:48 PM

Nice base running Jordan.

6/7/2013 12:29:00 AM

Puig showing why he's a big leaguer. That's gonna wrap this game up

6/7/2013 12:35:29 AM

Braves continue to struggle on the road. Yesterday's game was somewhat understandable though since they had no off day and had to travel from ATL to LA. Plus it's not like Grienke sucks even though he has sucked this year.

6/7/2013 9:13:27 AM

Need this win

6/7/2013 10:34:46 PM

Well...those passed balls by Gattis finally cost us. Doubt we will see him behind the plate for awhile.

6/8/2013 1:16:05 AM

back to back jacks!!!!... by Uggla and Medlen . Totally expected.

6/8/2013 11:26:33 PM

Wait so huddy and Medlin have homers now!

6/9/2013 12:29:52 AM

^^not exactly back to back. BJ got out in between.

^Huddy, Medlen and Minor all have hit homers this season.

6/9/2013 1:17:44 AM

Nice...


Hayward is a drama queen

6/9/2013 1:17:54 AM

good to pull out a win while the offense is scuffling...

6/9/2013 1:20:25 AM

Forgot about minors.

The only games I've missed. The pitchers have hit long flyballs

6/9/2013 2:14:29 AM

Teheran on the fucking mound tonight. Just put a W in the column and let him hit a homer tonight too

6/10/2013 10:03:38 PM

Well guess I shouldn't have opened my mouth. Damn upton you should now that outfield wall by now

6/10/2013 11:55:00 PM

^growth process for Teheran. Sucks that it came against this crappy San Diego offense though.

2 hit games for the Uptons and J-Hey with a bomb. Nice to see our struggling batters coming around as of late.

6/11/2013 12:13:28 AM

Bombs away... J-hey with two, Gattis with a 3R bomb..

6/11/2013 12:39:24 AM

holy shit balls, things just went crazy in the 9th. I look away for a second, and Evan Gattis does his usual pinch hit 3 run homer, then heyward goes yicketty again to bring it to 7-6. If Gearrin didn't suck, the Braves could have had a 6-5 lead at this point.

6/11/2013 12:40:05 AM

Comeback thwarted...Evan Gattis amazes me. Its well past time for this to be a "fluke".

Also, just noticed that Laird didn't catch Teheran for the first time tonight. Could be why he "struggled"

6/11/2013 12:43:54 AM

even the padres win a game every now and then

6/11/2013 1:12:15 AM

^^he didn't catch his start before last either.


also, are we giving J-Up a free pass on his lousy play the last month? dude is batting like .175

6/11/2013 7:58:53 AM

Yeah Justin Upton has plain sucked for about 4-5 weeks now. At least some of the other guys are hitting better. Hate when we lose to shit teams, but Braves are still looking good in the East.

6/11/2013 9:28:34 AM