Home opener is now in the books, and it was quite a game. Sure, we’d have all liked a different ending, but you have got to admit, we’ve seen two great games so far this season (but they could have been better). Every pitcher was used tonight, as well as every batter in this 12 inning marathon, unfortunately the Braves failed to improve on their woeful extra inning record they have compiled over the past couple seasons. I said it last night, it is even more true tonight, if it weren’t for defensive miscues, we’d be celebrating another Braves win. Hopefully, its all out of their system and we see error free baseball for a while.
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Tommy
Glavine posted a quality start giving up just one earned run in five innings but the bullpen once again wasted the effort of a Braves starting pitcher. This is a disturbing trend and one that hopefully will not be a season-long problem. The Braves were sloppy all around committing 3 errors. Perhaps the Doc Brown reference from this morning's post was not the best way to preview tonight's game. It appears Doc set his time machine to 1985 instead of 1995. I'm not going to get into the details of how bad the bullpen actually was because it makes my head hurt. Suffice it to say that Phil
Neikro (even at age 68) would have been a welcome sight as even he could have limited the
Bucs better than the
ATL bullpen. Shout out to the Hall of
Famer as tomorrow is his 69
th birthday.
Wow, what a last few months it has been! It all started with a meeting of a small group of students last September. The cause for the meeting: force the administration to hear us out and reconsider the implementation of a football program at the University of South Alabama. Come to find out, there was no forcing required (as if we could've actually "forced" the administration).
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I'm not going to even stop and doubt Spiezio's signing. Frank Wren has proven that he can do no wrong. I just think it's hilarious that LaRussa can be a
drunk embarassment and still have a job in St. Louis while Spiezio does the same and he gets the boot. Well, Spiezio did wreck his car in someone's yard, and he left the scene of an accident but c'mon now ...
throwing up in your neighbor's home AND beating the crap out of him? -- we've all done that at least once. And if you haven't, you should definitely put it on the things-to-do-before-you-die list.
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In a move that is a bit baffling the Braves have signed former St. Louis Cardinal, Scott
Spiezio, to a minor league contract. He is expected to start with AAA Richmond when their season opens on Thursday.
Spiezio was released by the Cards back in Feb. following a 6 count arrest which included the following charges: driving under the influence, driving under the influence with a blood alcohol level of .08 percent or higher, hit-and-run with property damage, assault with a deadly weapon other than a firearm, and assault and battery.
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I saw Lauren T. do this and thought it might be fun to do. That and I was a bit bored, so here you go. I hope that you find out more about me than you already knew about me.
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I was going to post yesterday before last night’s game, but decided I wouldn’t. I was slightly disappointed after that really bad loss because of all the excitement that had built up from waiting for the season to actually start. Can we just say that one didn’t count? No? OK, didn’t think so.
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Posted by Kyle James
Spot & Stripe — published on March 31st, 2008
“Every team knows they’re going to win 60 games and lose 60 games. They’re all fighting to decide the other 42.” –George Will Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Kyle James
Spot & Stripe — published on March 31st, 2008
Welcome to Spot and Stripe! Here at SNS we will primarily be discussing Auburn University Athletics and Atlanta Braves Baseball. We will also be covering the formation and development of the University of South Alabama Football program. It’s the goal of SNS to be the FIRST USA Football blog on the web. It is appropriate that we are launching on MLB Opening Day as we will attempt to bring you daily coverage of the 2008 season and the Braves’ quest for a World Title.
So the Braves lost 3-2. I didn't catch much of the game but I did see McCann get thrown out at 2nd. The season has officially started: McCann is slow, Chipper and Tex swung big bats, and the bullpen blew it in the 9th. Huzzah!
