It’s not going to be quite the same with the Hawks not having any picks. From what the AJC says today, it doesn’t sound like they’re looking into trading for picks either. Makes for a boring draft from a Hawks fan’s perspective.

I was hoping that the word was “resigned” rather than “re-signed”. You gotta believe that the Celtics playoff series saved his job.

With UGA making the CWS for the third time in five years, has the program surpassed Tech in baseball? Tech is very consistent year to year in wins but it seems like Georgia is making it further in the postseason and tends to beat Tech to advance in many of their head to head battles in the regional/subregionals.

This was probably the most frustrating regular season game that i’ve ever attended. I needed to wait a few days to write this game up because otherwise it would’ve been profanity-laden.

Dave, Steve, Al and I went to the Braves game on Friday night vs. the Phillies. Dave had two tickets from his season ticket package and two more that he exchanged. The exchanged tickets ended up being on the fifth row, just to the left of the third base dugout. His regular tickets were also good, in the same section 19 rows up.

Hudson pitched a great game for the Braves, going 7 2/3 innings and looking strong to get the win. However, some terrible coaching from Bobby Cox, Snitker and Hubbard effectively destroyed Huddy’s chances. In the 7th, the score was 2-1 Braves with the bases loaded and one out. Snitker tried to send Escobar home on a pop fly to shallow left from Francoeur; he was thrown out by six steps. Brian McCann, who had homered in his previous AB, would’ve been next up to bat, but instead, the inning was over.  

In the eighth, Bobby Cox let Will Ohman hit for himself so that he could pitch in the ninth. He walked, but then the Braves tried a double steal with Ohman trying to steal second-he was out by a mile and the score was still 2-1.

In the ninth, Ohman got the first batter and everything looked great for a series opening win. Then, Cox decides to bring in Blaine Boyer and the game went to hell from there. He proceeeded to get one more out but loaded the bases in the process. He got Coste to pop up just behind the first base bag, a ball that Kelly Johnson tracked down, gloved….and then dropped, allowing the Phillies to score the tying run. It was a play that a little league kid makes 75% of the time, yet Kelly dropped it and cost us the game.

 The game would go to the 10th and the Phillies scored two runs to make 4-2. We decided to leave instead of putting up with any more of the Braves futility. Apparently, the Braves made a run in the bottom of the inning, scoring one, but had the tying run thrown out at the plate. I’m glad that we didn’t see it as everyone (mostly me) was pissed off enough already about the 9th inning that we didn’t need any more fuel for the fire.

The Braves went on to get swept and are now 6 1/2 games out. Instead of winning on Friday and climbing back into the thick of the division race, the Braves are now essentially dead in the water. If they would’ve had 1) some competent basecoaching, 2) better use of relievers and 3) some better fielding fundamentals, we might’ve been 2 1/2 out of the lead instead of where we’re at now.

I just can’t see him finishing over .400; I imagine that he’ll finish in the .365-.370 range.