Catcher’s Blog

I wasn’t going to post at all until I finished my review post of the game I went to, which I’m still working on, but since I received this in my inbox today reminding me that Mac still needs more votes to go to the All-Star game with only two days to vote, I thought I would post it. It’s way too cute not to post.

That would get me to vote for anything that has to do with Mac. I don’t think it would matter what it was for, just because of that face, I would vote for or support it. This will always be how I think of Mac, even when I see pictures like these. There’s not a thing he could do to change my mind of his cute, teddy bear-like appeal. Well, okay, I can maybe think of a few things, but I doubt he would ever do those things, or at least so no one sees him doing those things.

vote for Mac!

But joking aside, Charlie Morton needs to come out and pitch better than Jo-Jo did last night. And our offense needs to come back to life. Tonight it’s Charlie Morton facing Dave Bush, who beat us last time we saw him in yet another one-run game. Can we please do well tonight and tomorrow?

Tomorrow I will not post because, as I’ve mentioned, I will be going to Atlanta to see tomorrow’s game against the Brewers. Tomorrow is Brian McCann Bobblehead Night Day, so I’m hoping to get one of those. I will take pictures of this statuesque Bobblehead as well as the game and other things. I will make a post with pictures and some possible footage with some commentary and review of my trip on Thursday or Friday.

For now though, I leave you with a video I made last night. It’s the first one I’ve made in a few years, so I’m sure it pretty much sucks. But you can view it anyway. I might add onto it as the year goes on and I get more pictures and footage to use, just depends. The footage is from FanFest in January, it’s not very viewable because of the lighting and the effects that I used, but excuse that please. I might post it without the effects since I can remove it if I wish; I just thought the effect went with the song I added to it. I also added in some pictures from FanFest of McFrenchy and some KJ from Braves Live and a Spring Training game from TV as well. All comments are welcome, so feel free to do so.

While many people are already panicking and it’s just May 1st, I’ve been thinking of some possibilities that might help out the team. Of course, not all of these are my ideas, so I won’t take credit for them. These are just possibilities that the team could think about doing over the course of this season. Some of these suggestions are not meant to be taken seriousily, by the way.

- With Smoltz stating that he’ll be returning as a reliever for now, we’ll definitely need someone to fill his spot in the rotation. I’m sure we won’t find a top-of-line starter like Smoltz available right now, though. But maybe Frank Wren could make up for the somewhat questionable job that he’s done so far by going out and making a deal with another team for a middle of the rotation guy. MLBTR was ahead of me, which I was hoping they would be, and suggested we try for Joe Blanton or Kevin Millwood. While this might be a feasible option, we really don’t want to have to give up a lot to get a pitcher, but that’s harder these days to accomplish.
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