Comments on: Hot Offseason Action: Braves

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umpbump.com — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 06:10:50 +0000

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By: Nick Kapur

Nick Kapur — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 06:09:33 +0000

At least the Bravos finally figured out that without Leo Mazzone, they can no longer just run out to the mound whichever AAAA pitchers they can scrounge from the independent leagues and have the best bullpen in the league anymore.

But what’s with all the mainstream sportswriter adulation for John Scheurholz over these latest bullpen moves? Scheurholz has consistently been one of the least creative GMs in the game, and now that Leo is gone he is getting exposed for the fraud that he is.

People keep writing how the Braves “underachieved” last year and these moves will put them back on track, but the truth is, last year’s squad was terrible, and this year’s looks even worse.

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By: Alejandro

Alejandro — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 23:01:58 +0000

Well serves you well to be a pundit, Green, you totally overlooked the fact that WHIMP is spelled with an H!!!!

The damn thing sat there for days calling ball girls “weakly interacting massive particles.”

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By: Sarah Green

Sarah Green — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:49:40 +0000

Nick, as usual, you are the voice of reason to Sarah’s manic, illogical hormonefest. It’s “MIDNIGHT GREEN,” Green!

Also, had ESPN taken into account these unis, which were designed by Vera Wang herself, we surely would have won.

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By: Zvee Geffen

Zvee Geffen — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 04:31:01 +0000

Alejandro! I’m not a copywriter, I am a *columnist.* Besides, we put exclamation points and question marks in things, so why not the occasional period?

Don’t start talking smack about punctuation with me, Leal. I just fixed the apostrophes in your Ball Girl post! Snap!

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By: Nick Kapur

Nick Kapur — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:13:38 +0000

The Braves just signed Craig Wilson, so I guess that means the won’t necessarily be betting the entire farm on Scott Thorman now.

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By: Nick Kapur

Nick Kapur — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:53:32 +0000

For the life of me, I can’t figure out why the Braves made this LaRoache-Gonzalez trade. How can you trade a player who OPS’d over 1.000 for a relief pitcher? They must have really been fed up with his ADD or something. What a terrible trade.

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By: Paul Moro

Paul Moro — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 06:08:48 +0000

I’ve never considered the Eagles’ color to be “teal.” It’s much closer to a “forest green,” IMHO.

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By: Alejandro A. Leal

Alejandro A. Leal — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 04:08:58 +0000

Are you kidding???!?!? The White Sox have HAD terrible unis, but the current version has, by far, the most compelling, we’ll-take-you-out ‘tude ever.

Besides, it’s a perfect complement to that perpetual S-O-X logo, unchanged since eternity!!

(On a side note, what’s with the period in the headline? I thought you were a copywriter?)

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By: Zvee Geffen

Zvee Geffen — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:45:21 +0000

First and foremost, let me say that while the Patriots’ uniforms aren’t particularly breathtaking (not like the Bruins’ unis, which are truly spectacular…truly) they have avoided many of the pitfalls that other teams have, such as TEAL. Earlier, Coley, you pointed out that teams like the Diamondbacks used to be all, “Oh, let’s have teal uniforms! Everyone loves teal!” But now they are going back to some more normal colors. Now, Eagles teal isn’t like Diamondbacks teal (teal is much less annoying when not conjoined with purple…which I admit was my color scheme for all of fourth grade). But still, perhaps the Eagles would be well served by backing slowly away from the teal (since who wants to look even a little bit like 4th grade Sarah Green?) and returning to their days of true green. And speaking of purple, while the Vikings uniform of purple and yellow has a certain camp appeal, it’s just not, well, badass. Alas.

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