I missed last week and will have to do an abbreviated version this week. I just have too many irons in the fire right now to devote much time to blogging, and the Braves’ uninspiring play hasn’t helped. They lost both series last week, both crippling losses given their standing in the division, but the […]
Month: August 2009
Bison Basketball 2009-10 Schedule
View the full schedule here. Harding has posted the Bisons’ schedule for the upcoming basketball season, which will be their first second without Matt Hall since I was a freshman in 2002-03 (and he was there then, only as a redshirt). [The post-Hall era has clearly been uneventful, since I had trouble recalling that last […]
Braves Check: August 17, 2009
The two-game sweep of Washington was a nice start to the week, but it hurts to lose two of three from the Phillies. The Braves are now in third place, six games back of the Phils for the division lead, with six games remaining against them. The Wild Card race is getting closer, but the […]
Braves Check: August 10, 2009
Suddenly the Braves seem like a team with a little resilience and fight in them, don’t they? I didn’t watch much of the games this week, since they were almost all late starts, but winning 3 of 4 against the Dodgers on the road can’t be a bad thing. A series win against the Padres […]
Jason Heyward Discussion
A baseball discussion topic for your weekend, if you’re so inclined. I’ll be navigating some whitewater on the Hiwassee River tomorrow, so do as you wish. If you follow baseball, you’re well aware that hitting prospects are treated differently from pitching prospects. A good pitcher has tremendous value, but a pitching prospect’s much higher injury […]
Braves Check: August 3, 2009
A noisy trade deadline has passed, and the Braves are nine games out of first place in the NL East (third place) and five games out of the Wild Card (fifth place). They added Adam LaRoche for Casey Kotchman in a sort of perplexing deal at the deadline, but they’re facing an uphill climb to […]
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