I’m ready for the weekend, but it’s month-end Friday at work, so I’m probably not done yet. Anyway, some notes: The Simpsons Movie is out today, and you better believe I’ll be seeing it tonight. Metacritic, a review aggregator I like to check on occasion, rates it an 81, which is very good. I’m expecting […]
Category: Braves
Charting the Braves' hitters
Recently, I was inspired by the First Half in Review article about the Milwaukee Brewers on THT. Writer Justin Inaz presented some graphical data on the Brewers in what I thought was an interesting way. In keeping with a recent trend of must-read THT articles, this one was positively enlightening. If you look at the article, […]
Braves' homestand ends in a disappointing split
I asked last Friday if the Braves really were swept by the Reds, and it turns out that this actually happened. After a split with the Cardinals, the Braves ended up dropping five of seven this week, finishing the homestand at 5-5. The Marlins went on to take 3 of 4 from Cincy this weekend, […]
Friday Notes: July 20, 2007
I was going to put up a substantive post today, since I only did one twice this week, but obviously this isn’t one. The reason for the lack of posting this week is that the bank auditors have been with us at work this week. Thus, my schedule has been completely thrown off. Thus, no time for […]
Braves sweep Pirates, and I come home happy
I returned from Atlanta in one piece on Saturday having witnessed quite the offensive show from the Braves the night before. I’ll have more on that in my comments, but let’s get to the scores and stats. This Week’s Stats Scores and FanGraphs summaries: 7/13: Braves 9, Pirates 1 7/14: Braves 5, Pirates 4 7/15: Braves […]
Friday Notes: July 13, 2007
It’s a scary day around here. This is what’s going on: As I’ve mentioned probably too many times, I’m going to the Braves game tonight against the Pirates. It looks like a great pitching matchup, with Hudson facing Ian Snell, who has been outstanding this year for the Bucs. I’ll be closely monitoring Willie Harris […]
A winning week out west…must have been my wife's fault
The Braves played the whole week in California against two solid NL West teams: the Dodgers and Padres. I’ll give my wife the credit. Since she was in California this week, her good vibes must have spread south to cover the Braves and lead them to a few tough wins. It certainly wasn’t because I was watching. […]
Friday Notes: July 6, 2007
It’s been a fairly boring week at home. I swiped my baseball card collection from my mom’s house so that I could look through it and have something to do. Still, I guess there are things going on: The Live Earth worldwide concert is tomorrow, and I think it’s being broadcast on NBC/Universal here in […]
Braves nearly sweep the week, decide 5-1 is good enough
The Braves know how to finish the week with a bang. Yunel Escobar had an epic at-bat against Kevin Gregg (if you’ll allow me to call a matchup between two virtual unknowns “epic”), eventually singling in the tying and go-ahead runs to put the Braves up 5-4 in the 9th inning yesterday. Then, Bob Wickman […]
Solving the monster of interleague play and MLB competitive imbalance
I was planning on writing about something else today, but I ran across a great article by Studes at THT about interleague play. He concludes that if anyone should have a beef with the schedule makers this year, it’s the Braves, who faced four tough teams: the Red Sox twice, the Tigers, the Indians, and the […]
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