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Had a couple birthday parties there. Even though he was before my time (not technically, but I was too young to remember him play), he was one of my favorite "old timers." Got to meet him once at an autograph signing at the Grand Avenue Mall when I was maybe around 10-12 years old. Interesting group in the lineup that day: Hegan, Vuke, Ken Sanders, and...Mickey Mantle.

Yeah...I have a feeling the conversation didn't quite go like that.

Good. I've never understood why the rules for home plate were different than other bases (aside from being able to run/slide through the plate).

Can't ask for much more of a career than what Hairston had, short of being a multi-All Star. He was a really fun addition to a really fun 2011 team. Will always be a part of Brewers lore.

a) Gord Ash was with the Blue Jays, and b) I think bj was joking.

I was just coming to post the Deadspin writeup of this. Fogeys are funny.

I'm thinking like umpteen years, a kafillion dollars.

If Votto wasn't so selfish and drove in a few more runs, maybe he could've won.

And Turner Field is really nice. That's one of the biggest shames of the whole thing.

I live in Cobb County. I used to live within walking distance of where the new stadium will be and my wife works within walking distance. I expect there to be outrage, not about the stadium itself, but about the sneaky deal wherein we'll be on the hook for a gajillion dollars. I am fortunate to live in a very good school district (similar to the Nicolet district, where I grew up, except with a good football team), but now that my daughter is in the public school system (she also happens to go to one of the better elementary schools around), it's pretty obvious that they need more money. Not because my kid's school is suffering (it's brand spanking new, actually), but because they are ALWAYS trying to hit us up for money. At any rate, barring some sort of wizardry, traffic around the new stadium is going to be HORRIBLE. It is already frightening - the I-285/I-75 interchange is a parking lot at rush hour and the surface streets around there are really bad, too (my wife deals with that every day). Considering those are the same streets that will now have to handle game traffic, I am morbidly interested to see what happens. The area is solidly middle-to-upper middle class. Lots of sprawling apartment complexes that cater to young professionals, lots of mid-high rise office parks, hotels (man, they must be crapping their pants), and the major surface street by the stadium, Cobb Parkway, is a big commercial thoroughfare. The area's biggest mall is there, too. I think it's funny that one of the reasons given for moving was traffic. Sure, driving down from Marietta or farther resulted in hitting traffic downtown, but isn't that the case for every stadium? There's always gameday traffic. Now, traffic will probably be worse. Even for those rich white people who live up here, they'll still have to drive to the games and traffic on the surface streets will be a nightmare. And as far as parking is concerned, I never had a problem. Traffic flowed right off the highway and into stadium parking. Boom, done. And after the game, cops directed people right onto the highway. Oooh...it takes a while to get out of the lot. Yeah, it's a baseball game. I do understand that there is a huge difference in the quality of neighborhood, though there isn't really all that much to do around the new site, either. There's a mall and chain restaurants. I have read that it will be developed into a complex that involves more than just the stadium, though. The economy of the area is strong enough that existing businesses can take advantage of the stadium and new ones can easily crop up. I'm kind of excited because hell, the Braves are moving to my neck of the woods (I don't live RIGHT there any more, but still pretty close - just three exits up I-75, which I don't even have to use to get there). I'm skeptical about how this will all work though. Plus, I like Turner Field. It's a great place to watch a game.

Might as well give this guy a flyer. The last Herrera we picked up worked out great!

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First sentence of the Deadspin article on last night's game: "In the bottom of the 8th in Los Angeles, Juan Uribe sent the Atlanta Play The Game The Right Ways packing with an absolute monster blast to left field."

I would guess that right now the media will totally be on Pujols' side (especially talking heads like those on ESPN shows) because hey, he's royalty and if he's going so far as to sue, he must be clean. But if it comes out that he was juicing, hoo boy. I don't think he will be eviscerated like Braun was because he's simply loved more than Braun, but the general commotion will be bigger.

You HAVE said this before.

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"PR move" and "genuine gesture" are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

Ben Sheets never had a worse year than that one from Sharpie?

Sometimes they do. In a young guy's case, it's more likely that he could be worn out because he's not used to playing so many games with barely any rest. Don't forget they're living out of a suitcase, too. I mean, hell, when I was 23, I worked as a consultant and traveled during the week. There were plenty of weekends when I was exhausted from a long week. Even when I didn't travel, I was often tired out and welcomed the weekend with open arms. And my work schedule was much, much easier than a professional athlete's. What insight? What do any of us know about why a guy isn't performing at a HOF level anymore? Best guesses are fatigue and regression. Good, old slumping could be an answer, too.

lol at not being allowed to get a bit worn out just because someone's 23.

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Ugh. RAFAEL. Not YUNIESKY. Rats. http://i.imgur.com/FHDq7.gif

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Getting the signs relayed from the runner on second, obviously.

I don't see how it's so hard to understand - I was listening to ESPN radio today and the hosts were railing on him for this. MLB obviously told him something that made him snap out of it. Perhaps it was the threat of a much longer suspension. Who knows. But someone said something and Braun was like, "Holy crap, I done screwed up." He didn't need to be shown every piece of evidence because he knew he did it.