I saw these videos on Braves Love and didn’t even realize that they had been posted on the AJC. I’m putting these videos in one post to save time because I’m not really feeling all that great today. You learn some very interesting facts from these two guys, both videos are definitely worth watching. Enjoy!

Categories: 2010 season, Know Your Braves / Tags: Hinske, Kimbrel, videos / 11 views

I found this via Twitter this morning, and so far it’s a good read. Kris Medlen is now blogging his way through Tommy John rehab.  Check it out.

http://krismedlen.blogspot.com/

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And so it goes. Braves win, the Phillies win, and no ground can be made up. This lead has been as little as a half game since Atlanta took over first place and has been as much as seven. Somehow, they keep finding a way to win. Call it keeping pace, but I prefer to call it doing your thing and letting the pieces fall as they may. Whether it is  Brooks Conrad launching pinch hit grand slams, a Troy Glaus’ walkoff homer, Melky Cabrera with a walkoff single, or just a sac fly to get a comeback started, you can’t write this team off. Twenty of the Atlanta wins this year have been recorded in their final at bat. There’s a stat to chew on. Imagine what kind of mood we’d be in if the team of last year that struggled mightily in one run affairs was still around. This is not your 2009 Atlanta Braves, my friend. No sir, this team is more scrappy. Don’t expect us to roll over like the 2007 and 2008 Mets teams, either! They are finding ways to win in games that they have no business winning. This is truly a team has a different hero every game. Tonight, it was Mike Minor keeping the Braves in the game despite trailing 2-0 when he departed the game.

You really don’t know what this team is going to do next. Just when you think they are out of the game, they draw straws (or so it seems) to choose the role of the hero. Of all the anxious Phillies fans following tonight’s game, not one truly saw a pinch hit home run from Diory Hernandez coming to kick off the 6th inning comeback. Then Omar Infante keeps the comeback coming and the Braves did not look back. Not even once. The Braves just keep finding ways to beat the odds. If someone says that Atlanta does not deserve to be in first, you’re wrong. Any team that can pull of twenty last at bat wins by the middle of August deserves to be where they are. So I guess it is true what Joe Simpson said tonight: “As long as you’re in first place and you’re winning, it doesn’t matter what the others do.” Yes, that’s true Joe, but a little more cushion between Atlanta and Philadelphia wouldn’t hurt either. Would it?

Categories: 2010 season, write-ups / Tags: misc / 61 views