<Are you kidding? The first one was ALL on Kimbrel! It's an EASY double play if he doesn't stick his stupid hand out and deflect it!

A team's closer should occasionally get a 1-2-3 inning. Never happens with Kimbrell. Simply not closer material. Like watching Dan Kolb all over again.

I hate this board. I hate it so much. But I'm addicted. I need help.

He can strike out the side in EVERY inning, but it doesn't matter if the opposing team gets 2-3 runs in between to win the game. Bottom line....

KIMBREL IS GARBAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is his fourth blown save and we are only in May. His last blown save was only six days ago. Most closers don't have four blown saves in a season. I don't care how many strikeouts he has, four blown saves by May 19th is pathetic. We need a new closer NOW.

http://aol.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2011-05-12/gonzalez-kimbrel-still-braves-closer-despite-another-blown-save?story-topic-MLB=NHL

I post like this because I truely care whether this team wins or loses. I'm literally a sports fanatic when it comes to my favorite teams, and I take it very hard when we lose, and even harder when we lay down for pathetic teams like Arizona!

Oh yes I am! Check out the last several GIP threads. I was most certainly here when we won as well.

What can I say? I'm a moody individual.

Ya'll would be stunned if you knew what I did for a living, given some of the things I post.

wrong, he's obama

I'm actually a sports writer for one of the large market newspapers in upstate South Carolina. I would reckon it's kind of odd that someone in my profession should be so demonstrative on a message board, eh?

I guess a life-long passion for sports, and the passion I have for the teams I pull for sometimes hinders my objectivity. If there are two things I have anger issues with, it's sports and bad drivers! LOL.

<Man i don't usually like to resort to name-calling because I find it childish but there really are some major league morons on this board that must be sitting around, fingers-crossed, hoping that the Braves loose.

People are so quick to pass a final judgement on guys in their first or second season. Calling Heyward, Freeman, Teheran, and Kimbrel busts is asinine. Kimbrel needs to be more consistent but to call him the worst in baseball is ridiculous. He has the talent to be the most dominate closer in the game. BTW where were you when he struck out the side in the previous game?

The truth is there isn't a team in baseball that wouldn't be tripping over themselves to get Kimbrel if he were available.