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Jorge Sosa doesn't seem to lose, so Game 3 isn't that much of a mismatch. He hasn't really had a bad start all year, except for a game against the D-Backs.

Reitsma does it again. Seriously, why does Cox continue to go this guy, he's horrible.

Chipper Jones deserves all the praise he gets. Seriously, insult us for the Tomahawk, but everything else is just people being stupid

Nope: Chicago Cubs (1876-2004) 9756-9203 Philadelphia Phillies (1883-2004) 8591-9805 0.467

I thought that was the Phillies

You're winning 4-3. You have enough runs.

That was awesome. Way to go Francouer.

MVPs hit two run home runs when his team is down 4-1. :-)

Huh?

MVPs are not 100% mistake free. The Game 1 Curse continues...4-1 Astros

Andruw Jones is probably the best centerfielder in the NL, so one misjudged play means nothing.

Hudson's having an off game, just like every other Braves pitcher seems to have an off game in Game 1 of the LDS. 2-4 is coming up for the Braves, hopefully they can get something together

Yahoo! Sports is asking whether the Astros can repeat their upset from last year. Okay then.

Home Run by Chipper Jones. Chipper's been playing really well recently, and I believe has an OBP about .400. Adam LaRoche really needs to step up and get some hits, to force pitchers to pitch to the Jones'.

Forgot about 1999. Missed the top of the 1st, and see it's already 1-0. Great.

The Braves have never lost a divisional series after winning Game 1. The Braves have never won a divisional series after losing Game 1.

And while I'm glad to see AL picking the Braves, their bullpen still worries me. Joey Devine???? Well at least Kolb didn't make the roster, and hopefully Farnsworth can continue to play well.

Braves postseason roster had a few surprises. Cox is only carrying two catchers, Brian Jordan and Kelly Johnson made the roster over Hollandsworth. Blaine Boyer has some stiffness in his arm, so Cox picked Joey Devine. Dan Kolb and Kyle Davies did not make the roster. Horacio Ramirez and John Thompson did, and one of them will start Game 4.

Consideing Piper can barely move, this is a bad idea.

Yea I know, I have to do my duty as an ROHBot. Even though I did NOTG2 sucked ass. What do you think of the whole argument and ROH Fans HTQ?

Booing Austin Aries whenever he did anything during his match against Punk, and cheering Punk for the same. Isn't that suspending disbelief? Ditto the Embassy. The fans for the most part HATE Jimmy Rave. Another match is Strong v. Punk from Escape from New York. The crowd was begging for Strong to chop the shit out of Punk and take the title. The biggest example is Jimmy Rave though, since people really hate the guy. Whenever I see him walking around, I ignore him, since I do hate the guy. And people have been raving about feuds in ROH since 2003 since the Raven-Punk feud. I really don't know what you're trying to argue here. ROH hooked its fanbase on doing indy dream matches for the first little bit. That was starting to get stale, so during their Reborn process, the booking philosophy changed a bit and now most of the matches on the show usually have a lot of backstory and further the feuds. I still don't see what the problem is with fans watching a show because they will get a good in-ring product. ROH fans DO get emotionally involved in matches. Aries v. Joe from Final Battle is another example. I don't understand how can you rip on the fanbase when you've never been to a show. And at the ROH Board, after every show there's always a thread where people complain about the behaviour of the fans and it gets annoying. The dueling chants can be lame, but I'll never understand people in the ROH fanbase who just get so anal about what the crowd is doing and what they're chanting, and can't just enjoy the show and have a good time. I mean seriously, it's just wrestling. I mean OMG half the fans are chanting for one guy, the other half are chanting for the other guy, let go and have fun. And at Escape from New York, the chants for Homicide and Lethal were legit, because fans were emotionally involved in the Lethal v. Rotts feud. You're generalising again. Not every match has chants and the fans trying to put themselves over. The wrestlers do get the crowd into their matches, just watch any of the big ROH matches with guys like Homicide, Punk, Joe, Gibson, Aries, etc. I mean I go to ROH shows to slap the wrestler's hand, go crazy for Nigel, call Lacey a whore, see my friends and see some good wrestling. Most ROH fans go to the show just to have a good time and good wrestling. Not with some grand notion of how to put themselves over. I'll go to any ROH show if its in my area and I'm home for it because I like the product they put out. And I do get emotionally invested in the feuds. I mean I get into the big storylines and usually end up booing the heels like mad, and going crazy for the faces. Unless it's Nigel. Kobashi vs Joe Greatest. Match. Ever. First, the crowd was absolutely on fire for this match. Kobashi was getting a lot of cheers and would get the fans on their feet by just looking at them and hulking up. I have never seen Joe so intense for this match. He came up with Lethal as his second/assistant. Match starts with Joe slapping Kobashi and Kobashi returning the favor. The first Kobashi chop gets the fans on their feet. Kobashi is thrown outside and Joe hits him with a baseball slide (maybe i dont remember well) and hits a suicide dive onto him for "Holy ****" chants. Goes back inside for some insane stiff chopping which gets the electric crowd on their feet. It goes back outside where Joe hits an ole ole kick. However, Kobashi avoids the second one and instead hits a move of his own which received a huge pop but I couldn't see. Kobashi DDTs Joe on the floor. Goes back inside for more chopping. Joe eventually gets control after a Kobashi abdominal stretch and starts locking on submission holds. Eventually Joe reverses a Kobashi suplex into a suplex of his own. Joe places him on the turnbuckle and hits him with a Muscle Buster! Crowd is going wild for only a two count. Joe hits a power bomb and flows into an STF. Kobashi almost gets the ropes but Joe in a crossface holds back his arm! Kobashi finally gets to the ropes. Kobashi eventually regains control and hits joe in the corner with a bunch of chops, leading to a huge pop. Kobashi then hits not one but two Half Nelson Suplexes! Joe kicks out of a couple of pins but then is met with a sleeper into a sleeper suplex! There might have been some more moves afterwards but eventually Kobashi gets pumped up and hits Joe with a crazy lariat for the win. Crowd goes nuts and chants ROH! Look at the self-importance. NINE references to the crowd in this. And, apparently, the match was SO great that the FIRST thing this guy had to say about it was something about THE FANS. Was the ECW audience even this absorbed into being ECW fans? Well, they *did* chant "ECW"... Okay, so the crowd was into Kobashi v. Joe, which apparently was the best match in ROH history. I fail to see the problem.

No, and looking at it, their stats don't seem too bad. I've just watched too many Braves games where they seemed offensively challenged. I think swapping in Langerhans/Francoeur for Jordan/Mondesi really helped their offence.

OMG THE CYRSE IS BACK2!!!!!!1

My bad, the Braves are worse in the NL. Their batting average was only .266, which is pretty low.

Has anyone else noticed the Braves have the second worst offense in the playoffs? And the worst bullpen too! I don't know what was wrong with Farnsworth in Chicago, but he's been a godsend in Atlanta.