AJC tampering with the Franceour story.

Perfect Cell · July 9th, 2008, 05:07 PM

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related to the Franc story but this is more concerning. AJCS journalistic integrity down the tubes jmo

Snowman · July 9th, 2008, 06:03 PM

Wait, the AJC had journalistic integrity left to lose?

Perfect Cell · July 9th, 2008, 06:04 PM

Probably. Not any more though at least me personally

pfiggy · July 9th, 2008, 06:33 PM

The day is coming when newspapers will no longer exist, thankfully. The Urinal Constipation has sucked for as long as I've been able to read.

Snowman · July 9th, 2008, 07:44 PM

I'll seriously miss my newspapers, even though I have largely moved over to CNN. You just get a more in-depth brand of news in them than you do in a 45-second story being repeated every half-hour on the boob tube.

And I just flat-out cannot read the news on the internet. I've given up on that entirely. I'm just too damned old, I guess.

Speaking of which... the Bravos can win the series for me tonight. One more year down, another 930 or so to go. Maybe that worthless bum of a first baseman can do something to help for a change.

diceman · July 9th, 2008, 07:47 PM

Happy b-day. Hope you make it to 100---especially since you're so close already!

Snowman · July 9th, 2008, 07:50 PM

Roffle.

I have every intention of surpassing that bum Methuselah. He was what, 969? So I'm shooting for 970. After all, only the good die young, right?

Snowman · July 9th, 2008, 10:37 PM

And yet another one-run road loss. I haven't done this in a while:

Home-games decided by more than one run: 25-13 (.658)
Home games decided by one run: 5-5 (.500)
Road games decided by more than one run: 13-14 (.481)
Road games decided by one run: 0-17 (.000)

Perfect Cell · July 9th, 2008, 10:38 PM

Just not our year. After two years of mediocrity and an offseason where our biggest splurge was 42 year old Tom Glavine you learn to have your expectations at a bareminimum so things like this horrdi season dotn bother you so much

Snowman · July 10th, 2008, 12:05 AM

Eh, we should still be in it. This has been nothing but bad luck. We've had at least 25 separate injuries (though to be fair, a few of those were to be expected. Still, there's no way we should be having the George Romero walking dead nightmare we've had), we're six games below our Pythagorean record (and we're six games out of first place), and our offense has scored somewhere in the neighbourhood of thirty runs fewer than they should have just based on their component stats because of their truly terrible hitting in the clutch.

Basically, every single fluky, unlucky, non-real thing that can happen to a team has happened to us, all in the same season.

diceman · July 10th, 2008, 05:04 AM

Didn't stay up to watch the second half of the game game and I when I saw we lost by one run again, all I could think of was how Hudson has to be counting the days till he can bolt from this mess.

renny · July 10th, 2008, 08:00 AM

Hmmm, optimism from the Snow - what has this world come to? Maybe we can blame it on global warming. It's nice to hear that we are a better team than our record shows, but all that matters to the rest of the world is the record and our record stinks.

I still have a teensy bit of hope. Turning it around has been done by other teams in the past, so it's possible - just probably not realistic. I have an idea - why don't we play the games and find out?

..wish it were more fun..

Snowman · July 10th, 2008, 12:51 PM

Well, I dunno if I'd call it optimism... I mean, we're an 88 or 89 win team if you take the bad luck out, maybe 90. That's likely good enough for a playoff spot, but it's not exactly a world-beater.

But we should be in the race.

NadoBrave · July 10th, 2008, 06:38 PM

Well they better at least take da Pad series this weekend or I'll really be an unhappy camper in SoCal. Though drawing Peavy vs JoJo in the opener wont' help, the 2nd game is a toss up & probably the last time I'll see Doggie face da Bravos live on Sunday.

renny · July 10th, 2008, 07:11 PM

..before you head to the ballpark... O'Brien says this:

By David O'Brien
July 10, 2008 2:44 PM | Link to this
By the way, regardless of what you may be reading elsewhere, Maddux is pitching Saturday against Charlie Morton.
It’s Peavy vs. Reyes, Maddux vs. Charlie, Wolf vs. Campillo on Sunday

July 9th, 2008, 05:07 PM	#1 (permalink)
Perfect Cell Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 215	AJC tampering with the Franceour story. Sabernomics » Blog Archive » Where Did the Frenchy Quotes Go? related to the Franc story but this is more concerning. AJCS journalistic integrity down the tubes jmo

July 9th, 2008, 06:03 PM	#2 (permalink)
Snowman Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: North Topsail Beach, NC Posts: 1,335	Wait, the AJC had journalistic integrity left to lose? __________________ That corpse you planted last year in your garden, Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year? Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed? If it wasn't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college.

July 9th, 2008, 07:44 PM	#5 (permalink)
Snowman Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: North Topsail Beach, NC Posts: 1,335	I'll seriously miss my newspapers, even though I have largely moved over to CNN. You just get a more in-depth brand of news in them than you do in a 45-second story being repeated every half-hour on the boob tube. And I just flat-out cannot read the news on the internet. I've given up on that entirely. I'm just too damned old, I guess. Speaking of which... the Bravos can win the series for me tonight. One more year down, another 930 or so to go. Maybe that worthless bum of a first baseman can do something to help for a change. __________________ That corpse you planted last year in your garden, Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year? Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed? If it wasn't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college.

July 9th, 2008, 07:47 PM	#6 (permalink)
diceman Veteran Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Port Orange, Florida Posts: 1,329	Happy b-day. Hope you make it to 100---especially since you're so close already! __________________ From "Bull Durham": Skip: You guys. You lollygag the ball around the infield. You lollygag your way down to first. You lollygag in and out of the dugout. You know what that makes you? Larry! Larry: Lollygaggers! Skip: Lollygaggers.

July 9th, 2008, 07:50 PM	#7 (permalink)
Snowman Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: North Topsail Beach, NC Posts: 1,335	Roffle. I have every intention of surpassing that bum Methuselah. He was what, 969? So I'm shooting for 970. After all, only the good die young, right? __________________ That corpse you planted last year in your garden, Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year? Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed? If it wasn't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college.

July 9th, 2008, 06:04 PM	#3 (permalink)
Perfect Cell Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 215	Probably. Not any more though at least me personally

July 9th, 2008, 06:33 PM	#4 (permalink)
pfiggy Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Location: Location: Posts: 3,716	The day is coming when newspapers will no longer exist, thankfully. The Urinal Constipation has sucked for as long as I've been able to read.

July 9th, 2008, 10:37 PM	#8 (permalink)
Snowman Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: North Topsail Beach, NC Posts: 1,335	And yet another one-run road loss. I haven't done this in a while: Home-games decided by more than one run: 25-13 (.658) Home games decided by one run: 5-5 (.500) Road games decided by more than one run: 13-14 (.481) Road games decided by one run: 0-17 (.000) __________________ That corpse you planted last year in your garden, Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year? Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed? If it wasn't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college.

July 9th, 2008, 10:38 PM	#9 (permalink)
Perfect Cell Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 215	Just not our year. After two years of mediocrity and an offseason where our biggest splurge was 42 year old Tom Glavine you learn to have your expectations at a bareminimum so things like this horrdi season dotn bother you so much

July 10th, 2008, 12:05 AM	#10 (permalink)
Snowman Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: North Topsail Beach, NC Posts: 1,335	Eh, we should still be in it. This has been nothing but bad luck. We've had at least 25 separate injuries (though to be fair, a few of those were to be expected. Still, there's no way we should be having the George Romero walking dead nightmare we've had), we're six games below our Pythagorean record (and we're six games out of first place), and our offense has scored somewhere in the neighbourhood of thirty runs fewer than they should have just based on their component stats because of their truly terrible hitting in the clutch. Basically, every single fluky, unlucky, non-real thing that can happen to a team has happened to us, all in the same season. __________________ That corpse you planted last year in your garden, Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year? Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed? If it wasn't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college.

July 10th, 2008, 05:04 AM	#11 (permalink)
diceman Veteran Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Port Orange, Florida Posts: 1,329	Didn't stay up to watch the second half of the game game and I when I saw we lost by one run again, all I could think of was how Hudson has to be counting the days till he can bolt from this mess. __________________ From "Bull Durham": Skip: You guys. You lollygag the ball around the infield. You lollygag your way down to first. You lollygag in and out of the dugout. You know what that makes you? Larry! Larry: Lollygaggers! Skip: Lollygaggers.

July 10th, 2008, 08:00 AM	#12 (permalink)
renny Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: along side the veteran presents `) Posts: 2,038	Hmmm, optimism from the Snow - what has this world come to? Maybe we can blame it on global warming. It's nice to hear that we are a better team than our record shows, but all that matters to the rest of the world is the record and our record stinks. I still have a teensy bit of hope. Turning it around has been done by other teams in the past, so it's possible - just probably not realistic. I have an idea - why don't we play the games and find out? ..wish it were more fun.. __________________ "We'll be back next year. We always are, aren't we?" -P Greg Maddux

July 10th, 2008, 12:51 PM	#13 (permalink)
Snowman Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: North Topsail Beach, NC Posts: 1,335	Well, I dunno if I'd call it optimism... I mean, we're an 88 or 89 win team if you take the bad luck out, maybe 90. That's likely good enough for a playoff spot, but it's not exactly a world-beater. But we should be in the race. __________________ That corpse you planted last year in your garden, Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year? Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed? If it wasn't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college.

July 10th, 2008, 06:38 PM	#14 (permalink)
NadoBrave Veteran Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Fantasy Island Posts: 807	Well they better at least take da Pad series this weekend or I'll really be an unhappy camper in SoCal. Though drawing Peavy vs JoJo in the opener wont' help, the 2nd game is a toss up & probably the last time I'll see Doggie face da Bravos live on Sunday. __________________ *It's a pity ignorance isn't painful!*

July 10th, 2008, 07:11 PM	#15 (permalink)
renny Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: along side the veteran presents `) Posts: 2,038	Hey Nado - ..before you head to the ballpark... O'Brien says this: By David O'Brien July 10, 2008 2:44 PM \| Link to this By the way, regardless of what you may be reading elsewhere, Maddux is pitching Saturday against Charlie Morton. It’s Peavy vs. Reyes, Maddux vs. Charlie, Wolf vs. Campillo on Sunday __________________ "We'll be back next year. We always are, aren't we?" -P Greg Maddux