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It will have to be an Edwin Jackson-esque 500 pitch game, methinks.

I love this new, quick working Yovani. I've only watched a couple batters today so far, but he looks good. His fastball doesn't seem as straight as normal and that slider or whatever it is (not the big curve) looks nice.

The thing with Prince is that he can at least build some momentum, whereas Casey runs at just one consistent, slow speed.

Bad throw from the cutoff to the infield, plus Pujols cut it off before it got to the catcher (which is why McGehee was out - he likely would've made it to 3rd if the ball went through).

Remember this moment, Brewers fans, for it was at this time that a Milwaukee Brewers base runner crossed home plate to record a run.

IT WAS ONLY A SINGLE, THAT GOOD-FOR-NOTHING GUY!

Just imagine the perfecto/no-no being broken up with a bunt. That would be unbelievably amazing. Classy Nation would sue.

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Racist ban.

I didn't expect the rainout I attended to be the best game of the series so far.

I made it through a minute of it. I really, really hope it's a joke because I don't understand how someone could think it was a good idea to put that on the internet. It doesn't seem like a joke to me, though - there was too much thought put into the lyrics and I think if it was a joke, it would have been way over the top.

Let's go Lego Maniac!

I'd pick Wade Boggs over Green any day.

Wow - whatever that slider/curve thing is that Gearrin is throwing is pretty nasty.

They are only down 2 in the 5th inning? And it's the first week of May?

McGehee doing a very nice job at 3rd so far today.

There are more photographers visible behind home plate than there are fans.

Looks like there are about as many people at the game right now as there were when the game was about to begin last night. Even when it still looked like they were about ready to play at the regular game time, I could just about count the number of fans there. My brother and I asked an usher if we could just go sit in the lower box section, but we were denied.

Marco can come over to my house after Game 1 and watch Game 2 on TV with my family.

Well, I picked a good time to attend my first game of the year. That was fun.

Of course, the one game I plan on going to might have rain issues. Just heard thunder up her NW of the city. EDIT: Ooh, just refreshed the hour-by-hour weather page and the chance of rain during the game just went down.

Aside from the 6th, Yo pitched a pretty solid game. People were saying he was nibbling, but I don't think he was at all. He sped up his delivery and seemed to attack hitters more early in the at-bat. A lot of the pitches that were balls were really close (I thought he got squeezed on quite a few), but I don't think they were borderline because he was trying to be too fine. In the 6th, yes, he started falling apart. I think he needs to work on two things. First, and I haven't sat in front of the TV watching everything in super slo-mo, but it seems to me that his release point frequently ends up too high, resulting a ball that sails on him. Then he overcompensates and bounces pitches. Second, he needs to get his curve over for strikes more often. As the Braves announcers were saying (one being Tom Glavine), the hitters know he's having trouble getting the curve over, so they just sit fastball. Eventually he has to groove one and then they can tee off. Now, there wasn't much teeing off on Yo tonight, but when he couldn't find the plate in the 6th, it only took one good hit to ruin the night. There were times he got his breaker over well and he looked great when he did. I don't think there's anything physically wrong. His fastball was hitting 94 consistently. He didn't look like he was laboring. Just still not finding the plate enough and I think it's mechanical. And to the poster who said early on that Braun's first AB was "horrible," go watch it again. It was a great job of pitching. Gave him tough fastballs in and out that he couldn't do anything with and then threw a nasty slider/curve to strike him out. I actually wasn't overly impressed with Jurrjens tonight - his fastball seemed very hittable. But he pitched really, really well to Braun.

Sounds like it.

And Danny Heatley's incident occurred right here in Atlanta, too.

Guys, we've gotten this thread halfway to 1,000 posts. I am confident we can take it all the way.