Comments on: Mariners 10, Braves 2

By: Mac Thomason

Mac Thomason — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:49:06 +0000

I don’t think it’s Coldplay. The official policy of this site is that Coldplay is the Jeff Francoeur of bands.

By: chris

chris — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:23:23 +0000

ps–

and your “The Only Band That Matters” is????

please tell me it’s Coldplay…please tell me it it’s Green Day or some crap you think is good…please…

By: chris

chris — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:21:12 +0000

Douglass = Moronic

obviously you disagree…but i comment on the fact that you know nothing of music…ergo…your taste is crap.

tell me another? hipster? jesus, you are childish. my tastes FAR outweigh yours.

oh, and the new MMJ is crap, as is ALL their music.

now, if Deerhunter came along, or the Black Angels…sure…but most of the time, Douglass, you are the backlash of what is good, ergo, what is hip.

i like fabulous music. and i HIGHLY doubt you’ve seen a Mogwai or God’s Pee or 64DOS show before you talk smack…

seeing that i WORKED at XYC in Chapel Hill, i can pretty much see that you’re moronic (hey…that’s an eye roll………………………..

…..for the obnoxious child who thinks he knows music…thanks Douglass for proving that the last three letters of your name fit…)

flame wars commence….

now…here’s hoping for a braves win/

By: Another Alex R.

Another Alex R. — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:04:06 +0000

Paul DePodesta, as usual, has a smart opinion on callups:

"My only answer is that in a perfect world (which rarely, if ever, occurs), I prefer bringing guys up when you have the reasonable hope that they'll never go back down to the minors. That is strictly my opinion, not anyone else's. This was the case with guys like Khalil and Jake. All too often, though, you see guys come up, struggle, then go back down. That roundtrip ticket can do a lot of damage to a player's confidence, and that confidence is a key ingredient to success at the highest levels."

By: Mac Thomason

Mac Thomason — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:01:24 +0000

Game thread is up.

By: Mac Thomason

Mac Thomason — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:58:50 +0000

It just seems that as soon as a pitcher has any success in the upper minors, the Braves promote him to the majors, he does well for awhile, and then he has a few problems and they snowball. It’s different in the IL than the PCL, as you note, but I want them to have some success they can fall back on.

By: jj3bagger

jj3bagger — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:57:15 +0000

Mac, I’ll agree with you that all hitters no matter how polished should spend at least a year at AA, and I think another year at AAA. Pitchers however, I think get wasted alot of times at AAA, at least starting pitchers. Maybe the IL is different, but living in a PCL town, there are so many bandboxes in this league, that I have noticed alot of teams in this league have their young pitchers skip AAA because it doesn’t do them alot of good. The Marlins for example do it all the time (this year with Tucker and Volstad). Dodgers with Kershaw, etc.

In my opinion, I think AAA is on its way to becoming exclusively roster filler/DL two week bench replacements and severely blocked prospects/veteran “AAAA” players as far as hitters go. As far as pitchers, a league full of Buddy Carlyles and relief pitchers is all I see happening.
I don’t see alot of real good developing going on in AAA these days, Charlie Morton excluded.

By: Mac Thomason

Mac Thomason — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:53:00 +0000

Chipper for certain, Escobar probably.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:45:54 +0000

with Chipper and Escobar out, he’ll have to start.

Are we already sure they’re both out tonight?

By: barrycuda

barrycuda — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:38:00 +0000

no offense Mac, but i’ve been to both cities a couple times lately
and Birmingham makes Jacksonville look like Paris.