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I can't think about tonight's game right now. So here, have some stuff on another game happening tonight that I've been looking forward to:
Here’s an account from D-backs writer Jack Magruder of our notes group.
First baseman Adam LaRoche is looking forward to seeing old friends in Atlanta this weekend. Not that he believed the renewal would be necessary a short time ago.
LaRoche, who broke in with the Atlanta organization and spent 2004-06 in the majors there, returned for the 2009 stretch drive and hit .325 with 12 homers and 40 RBIs in 57 games. But as a free agent entering the offseason, he received very little interest from Atlanta before signing a one-year, $6 million contract with a $7.5 million mutual option for 2011 with a $1.5 million buyout with the D-backs.
“We had some real good chemistry there. I thought I would for sure be back. It didn’t take long to figure out that they were going a different direction. There was no real serious talk involved,” said LaRoche, who instructed his agent not to call Atlanta but to wait for an indication of interest.
“I’m not going to go beg anybody. I don’t mind going somewhere else. It wasn’t first time. It worked out.”
LaRoche is hitting .257 with 10 doubles, four home runs and 23 RBIs while hitting in the middle of a D-backs’ lineups that has the most homers and is tied for third in runs in the NL.
Third baseman Chipper Jones and right-hander Tim Hudson are two of LaRoche’s closest friends in Atlanta. Hudson is scheduled to start Sunday, and LaRoche said: “I’m looking forward more to seeing him than I am facing him. It’ll be fun.”
LaRoche, 30, has no hard feelings about moving on.
“Not at all. Back when I was younger I would have, but the more I play the more I understand that it is a total business,” LaRoche said. “If you even let something like that bother you, you probably don’t have a place in this game, because there is a lot of little things like that that happens. You just roll with it.” [Source]
I love when Adam comes back to ATL. Kelly is also coming back to play as an enemy. Both for the first time since leaving. And Chipper should be back in the line up, of course. He best hit at least a single, I love seeing them chat at his base.
In the "stupid" file:
Well, this is something we haven’t had much of since the John Rocker days, and the tomahawk demonstrations of the early 1990s, but apparently a rally has been organized for Saturday for people to demonstrate against the new Arizona immigration law.
The press release I got about it actually says “Braves fans to protest Arizona Diamondbacks at Turner Field.” That seems a little unfair to me. Not sure what the Arizona Diamondbacks had to do with passing any laws, but hey, I’m just a messenger. And here’s the message:
The release is calling this a “unique pep rally, calling for the Braves to defeat the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Major League Baseball commissioner to pull the 2011 All-Star game out of Arizona.” It will be held at the front gates of Turner Field Saturday night at 6:45 p.m.
Organizations behind it include the Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights, the US Human Rights Network, Building Locally to Organize for Community Safety, etc. [Source above]
As they said, the D-backs have so much to do with Arizona immigration laws, this makes total sense. *rolls eyes* Their hearts are in the right place, but their heads are off their (pun intended) rockers. I hope it fizzles out, there's really no point to it. Use your protest time to picked people who actually make decisions. Not a baseball team with one player that's even from the state, not to mention no one that has anything to do with the law!
Here’s an account from D-backs writer Jack Magruder of our notes group.
First baseman Adam LaRoche is looking forward to seeing old friends in Atlanta this weekend. Not that he believed the renewal would be necessary a short time ago.
LaRoche, who broke in with the Atlanta organization and spent 2004-06 in the majors there, returned for the 2009 stretch drive and hit .325 with 12 homers and 40 RBIs in 57 games. But as a free agent entering the offseason, he received very little interest from Atlanta before signing a one-year, $6 million contract with a $7.5 million mutual option for 2011 with a $1.5 million buyout with the D-backs.
“We had some real good chemistry there. I thought I would for sure be back. It didn’t take long to figure out that they were going a different direction. There was no real serious talk involved,” said LaRoche, who instructed his agent not to call Atlanta but to wait for an indication of interest.
“I’m not going to go beg anybody. I don’t mind going somewhere else. It wasn’t first time. It worked out.”
LaRoche is hitting .257 with 10 doubles, four home runs and 23 RBIs while hitting in the middle of a D-backs’ lineups that has the most homers and is tied for third in runs in the NL.
Third baseman Chipper Jones and right-hander Tim Hudson are two of LaRoche’s closest friends in Atlanta. Hudson is scheduled to start Sunday, and LaRoche said: “I’m looking forward more to seeing him than I am facing him. It’ll be fun.”
LaRoche, 30, has no hard feelings about moving on.
“Not at all. Back when I was younger I would have, but the more I play the more I understand that it is a total business,” LaRoche said. “If you even let something like that bother you, you probably don’t have a place in this game, because there is a lot of little things like that that happens. You just roll with it.” [Source]
I love when Adam comes back to ATL. Kelly is also coming back to play as an enemy. Both for the first time since leaving. And Chipper should be back in the line up, of course. He best hit at least a single, I love seeing them chat at his base.
In the "stupid" file:
Well, this is something we haven’t had much of since the John Rocker days, and the tomahawk demonstrations of the early 1990s, but apparently a rally has been organized for Saturday for people to demonstrate against the new Arizona immigration law.
The press release I got about it actually says “Braves fans to protest Arizona Diamondbacks at Turner Field.” That seems a little unfair to me. Not sure what the Arizona Diamondbacks had to do with passing any laws, but hey, I’m just a messenger. And here’s the message:
The release is calling this a “unique pep rally, calling for the Braves to defeat the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Major League Baseball commissioner to pull the 2011 All-Star game out of Arizona.” It will be held at the front gates of Turner Field Saturday night at 6:45 p.m.
Organizations behind it include the Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights, the US Human Rights Network, Building Locally to Organize for Community Safety, etc. [Source above]
As they said, the D-backs have so much to do with Arizona immigration laws, this makes total sense. *rolls eyes* Their hearts are in the right place, but their heads are off their (pun intended) rockers. I hope it fizzles out, there's really no point to it. Use your protest time to picked people who actually make decisions. Not a baseball team with one player that's even from the state, not to mention no one that has anything to do with the law!