Talk Radio Madness

Hear the guy on AM680 yesterday wanting Braves hitting coach Terry Pendleton fired? His reasoning…”I know the Braves are leading the league in runs scored, BUT they’re also leading the league in strikeouts.” Isn’t scoring runs what it’s all about?

Seems like the Braves would be real hesitant to move Betemit to 1B or LF, or Chipper to 1B…particularly in the middle of a season. Seems like Pratt has allowed more PB & WP than McCann or Pena would.

The Braves radio announcers had mentioned that James was starting in the minors. Kyle Davies was talking to your buddies on 680 late yesterday. He said his return was ahead of schedule, but he was still a month away. Davies praised Cox for sticking with guys, & Kincaide agreed that he was a good manager. Davies also reminded them of the 6-3 record on the recent road trip.

Buck & Kincaide (& callers) agree that the biggest problem is the bullpen…but every day they announce the starting lineup, wondering what changes will be made, considering the losses over the last week or so. But if there’s no real problem with the offense, why expect changes in the batting order?

There have been changes in the pen…not only the off-season overhaul, but since the season has started. Boyer was officially classified as hurt, as was Davies, Ramirez, McCann, Chipper, Renteria, and Hampton. McBride, Paronto, and Yates were called up, Ray replaced Reitsma as the closer, and a few guys were sent down. They’re getting James ready to start, Horacio is back, McCann back late this week.

Changes have been made almost weekly, and more are planned. People forget that. Buck is like me, acknowledging that Betemit is ready for prime time. He says he needs to take the initiative and practice at first and left…but couldn’t that be considered going behind Cox’s back? Actually, Betemit was taking balls in left last week when I was there, though it didn’t seem serious.

All five of us got Jeff Francoeur bobbleheads at the Rome Braves game not long ago. The likeness isn’t the greatest in the world. May sell one or two on EBay.

The other night we had some friends at the swim meet at the subdivision next to ours. We decided all five of us should walk/run/bike/scooter the two miles to it. It was further than Ceil had remembered. It was going to dark when we went back, and though there wasn't that much traffic, I rode Anna's small bike home (swallowed a bug!) and got the car.

I'm not in shape for the Peachtree! Got the number today in the mail.

There's this big discussion on Ceil's email news group nationwide about VBS: some churches charge a fee to attend VBS...some higher than others, depending on theneighborhood...because some parents figure anything free isn't worth sending their children to.

This morning I caught up some on my famous calendar/scrapbook. Even worked a little on my list of games attended...did 2001 during lunch.