Posting this from Lang’s email.

Thanks go out to the Grizzlies, who forced the Hawks to re-sign Josh Smith by signing him to a 5 yr., 58 million dollar offer sheet that the Hawks were forced to match. Memphis helped us to bypass the inability for Sund to put something together over the past month. What a disaster it would’ve been if they let Josh S. go; it’s bad enough that they couldn’t work out anything for Chills. 

OK, UGA is ranked #1; will they make it through the course of the season undefeated?

That schedule at the end of the season looks rough, especially since there are so many road games. I don’t think they’ll make it through undefeated, but they probably will make it to the SEC Championship and a possible BCS bid.

A lady from work gave us two tickets to Wednesday’s Braves game, so Ismail and I headed down to Turner Field for our first post-Tex game. They gave out 70s-style Braves hats to the first 10K fans, but we were too late and didn’t get them. We had tickets in the 200 Terrace Level, right behind the plate. The tickets were good, but it was really crowded in our section and the gametime temps were in the high 80s, making for a sweaty night.

We unexpectedly ran into Dave and Quin at the “Kids Run the Bases” section in the Upper Deck. Dave didn’t seem to happy about the Braves prospects, either this year or for the future. I think that obviously this year is done, but there are enough pieces out there to bring in and make this a competitive team for 2009. If we can get a quality starter (Sabathia, Sheets, Lackey) and a power-hitting outfielder, we should be right back into the mix.

We got to see Jair Jurrjens pitch and he had a decent game. The Braves led for the first 4 innings, then JJ gave up two in the bottom of the fifth. After giving up one more in the sixth, the score remained 3-2 until the ninth. The bullpen once again imploded and gave up four runs, negating any chance of a comeback. Blaine Boyer sucks; I can’t emphasize that enough. I just don’t understand why Cox contnually goes to this guy in pressure situations.

We left the game by that point, knowing that this team lacked the wherewithal to tie it up. I’m sure i’ll end up going to another game or two before the year ends, but right now, I have zero optimism and very little interest in what this team is doing; they have lost all desire to salvage the season.