The official NL East Thread

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Waiting here at the ATL airport, feel so bad on how alone Smuggle is. They are not even showing the game at the fucking bars here.....WTF is up with that?!?! There is a TGI's and a random bar in the food concourse, and they don't have access to Braves games!

I go to the bartender at TGI's and he asks me who they playing, I respond Phils and he's like "Oh Braves are gonna lose.......who cares?!" LOL.....sorry smug, you are alone my friend.

BTW great write up on Kolb, totally agree with you, pretty much wrote what I wrote, in 6 posts prior to that.

SMH at that. What a 2-bit fucking sports town I happened to be born in.

[Blade]

Listening to the game right now......on MLB.atbat. Nice bunt by Oswalt. Alright Shane and Chase, lets get these boys home....

[SethMode]

Had to:

[mobbdeep1122]

Bye bye Braves

[Pitty]

H-2-O

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So distraught.

[Blade]

YES YES YES! I listened till the 7th last night, until the plane flew off, but goddamn its a SWEEP!!!

Loving it, its like fucking McDonalds!!

What's the magic number now? 5?

Again what an awesome birthday

[Blade]

Just caught up on the tweet by Todd Zolecki.....magic number is 4.

[mobbdeep1122]

YES YES YES! I listened till the 7th last night, until the plane flew off, but goddamn its a SWEEP!!!

Loving it, its like fucking McDonalds!!

What's the magic number now? 5?

Again what an awesome birthday

Happy birthday bro! That was a great present.

10 wins in a row -- this team is money in September! 18-3 this month.

[Blade]

Happy birthday bro! That was a great present.

10 wins in a row -- this team is money in September! 18-3 this month.

Fuckin RAUUUUUUUL man! I just saw the highlight on MLB.com........I looked up his stats the other day, look up his situational splits, yahoo does a good job with it, i think he is right behind Chooch in the clutch.

BTW..........the700level tweeted that Shane is 3 for his last 18 with RISP. Needs to pick that up.

But I like this we are finding ways to win. Did you guys see this picture of Lidge when he closed it out?

[mobbdeep1122]

Raul has come a long way since June. I think he was batting .229 then and now has his average in the .275 area. He's been great in the second half and we're going to need him going forward.

Shane has cooled off a bit since being hot the last 2 weeks. He looked a little anxious at the plate the last 2 games. The Braves kept feeding him offspeed stuff and he was swinging fastball. With J-Roll expected back this weekend, it'll be interesting to see where he is in the lineup. I'd guess they'd bat him 6th or 7th to ease his way into things, but it wouldn't shock me to see Charlie put him right back in the leadoff spot.

That Lidge pic is great. I killed him last year and earlier this year, but he has been great since August. Him and Madson have been almost unhittable. I haven't been this confident in the back end of the bullpen since 2008.

Hopefully we can clinch in the next few days so we can get Jimmy back in the lineup and get his timing down, and to also rest H20 and Madson a little bit before the playoffs start.

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Thought you Phillies fans might like this:

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[SethMode]

Thought you Phillies fans might like this:

http://wp.me/pNmXW-kR

Jesus...I have this image of my head of you just breaking down into sobs after finishing that blog dude.

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Jesus...I have this image of my head of you just breaking down into sobs after finishing that blog dude.

I was going for tongue in cheek, but it came across as psychotic.

[SuperKevin]

Danny Espinosa has 6 home runs in his first 73 at bats of his career. In fact 11 of his 17 major league hits are extra base hits. I can't wait for him to be the everyday second baseman next season.