I hate this guy. The Braves are 3-5 on their current road trip. They have taken leads into the 8th in 4 of the losses.

Here is quote about last night. "Leadoff walks don't bother me," Kolb said. "I'm a ground-ball pitcher; I can get double plays. But when they're hitting them where people aren't, it's tough."

Why would would you admit to being a groundball pitcher? Learn to strike people out, Kolb.

The guy was an all-star for the Brew Crew...looks like we got the best of him. I have no remorse for Braves fans though. Do you remember when you didn't win the division, well Spoon probably does.

I've tried to like the Braves but they've had the same sense of arrogant entitlement the Yankees have had.

Maybe now that they're not "America's Team" (they never were), I can be less irritated by them.

I would imagine all of us do. They sucked for a long time, and I even lived in KS when they started to get good and I remember coming in from playing bball or something and my mom being like "Can you believe if the Braves win this game they clinch the Division!" So, yeah, when your fave team SUCKS when you are a child, you don't forget that shit.

And Kold can eat a dick.

That's only true to a point... it's hard to be cocky Yankees-style when you lose the big show year after year after frustrating year. Always a bridesmaid, blah blah blah.

I was actually more annoyed by TBS over the years than by the actual team. They presented themselves as a national network when they really were regional. They built the team up like everyone was SUPPOSED to be fans or somehow they weren't real baseball fans and maybe not even true Americans.

The team itself has had some great players.

The game calling, however, was better than almost anyone else's, anywhere, back in the days of Sutton, Ernie, Skip, et al. I'll be honest, I didn't know how good I had it. I wasn't a fan of baseball at large, just liked the braves. So I didn't hear other announcers. And when I got to college and really heard what others were like, I was disgusted. Mine were so subtle, so tasteful, so sparse in all the right ways, so old-school knowledgable. It's hard to put one's finger upon it properly, but everyone else seems young, impetuous, rushed, and in love with the sound of their own voices... more cartoony and MTV, almost. Those guys did it with class.

(bunp)

This point cannot be reiterated enough.

Oh and here is a link to a petition I signed to fire his sorry ass.

http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/DanKolb

Are you fucking serious?

I love how Red Sox fans get so worked up over this. For chissakes, The Yankees have won 26 Championships, and the next highest total is nine by St. Louis.

Or how about this list of players with retired numbers. I mean, Mantle is no Yaz and Berra is no Fisk, but cmon:
Babe Ruth
Yogi Berra
Bill Dickey
Joe DiMaggio
Whitey Ford
Lou Gehrig
Ron Guidry
Elston Howard
Reggie Jackson
Mickey Mantle
Roger Maris
Billy Martin
Don Mattingly
Thurman Munson
Phil Rizzuto
Casey Stengel

Let's also not forget Mel Allen. RIP

One main difference is that the Yankees had and still have genuine national appeal. My father grew up in the rural South and was a big Yankee fan thanks to Mickey Mantle, a guy from Oklahoma with unbelievable talent who was a star in NY.

The Yankees are able to draw, rightly or wrongly, because they are the big dogs of MLB. People are drawn to winners, not runners-up. And in the history of baseball, no one has come close to matching the winning ways of the Yankees.

And don't waste your time with the whole "buying championships" argument, because the fucking Red Sox aren't exactly operating on a Pittsburgh budget.

Enjoy your rings, fine. I have no problem with that. But you will never be the Yankees. And to constantly piss and moan and whine because the Yankees are undeserving recipients of favorable light from all aspects of American culture only solidifies that fact.

From about 1981 to 1986, I was the biggest damn Braves fan, since you really didn't have a team that close to Arkansas. Joe Torre (!) was the manager, Dale Murphy, Bob Horner, Claudell Washington, Brett Butler and all them dudes [Can I get a shout out to Craig McMurtry from Bruce Benedict?]. I had at least 2, if not 3, Dale Murphy jerseys. TBS got me interested and kept me interested.

I still have a soft spot, but it's not the same anymore. I felt a hole when Murphy shuffled off to Philly to wither away. It was good times though, even though they were godawful and wore those blue road unis.

My Phillies are finally showing some life. Hopefully they won't choke again when there's a little pressure on them to win.

MVP.

St. Louis 34 19 .642 --
Chi Cubs 28 24 .538 5.5 Have won 7 consecutive
Milwaukee 25 28 .472 9.0
Pittsburgh 24 28 .462 9.5
Cincinnati 21 32 .396 13.0
Houston 20 32 .385 13.5

Derrek Lee 43 r/74 h/14 2b/17 hr/50 rbi/33 bb/35 k/9 sb/.389 avg/.478 obp/.732 slg/1.210 ops Positively Bondsian, but natural issue. Diamond Derrek is a genetic behemoth, like Richie Sexson, but talented.

Sorry, but Bobby Abreu is this year's MVP.

explain this foolish statement.