{"id":3212,"date":"2010-10-09T06:37:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-09T11:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=3212"},"modified":"2010-10-09T06:37:52","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T11:37:52","slug":"sports-saturday-braves-come-back-dawgs-favored-and-falcons-vs-browns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/10\/09\/sports-saturday-braves-come-back-dawgs-favored-and-falcons-vs-browns\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Saturday:  Braves Come Back, Dawgs Favored, and Falcons vs. Browns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What an <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/mlb\/recap?gameId=301008126\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/mlb\/recap?gameId=301008126', 'amazing comeback by the Atlanta Braves');\" target=\"_blank\">amazing comeback by the Atlanta Braves<\/a>; 5-4 over the Giants in 11 innings thanks to a blast by unlikely hero Rick Ankiel.  This season has been magical thanks to the unsung heroics by a rag-tag list of unknowns and in the case of Ankiel, has-beens.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be honest; I stopped watching in the 5th \u2026 bedroom duties called.  What can I say?<\/p>\n<p>While the Braves celebrate this win, returning to Atlanta even at 1-1, <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20101009&content_id=15533690&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20101009&amp;content_id=15533690&amp;vkey=news_mlb&amp;c_id=mlb', 'Billy Wagner');\" target=\"_blank\">Billy Wagner<\/a> may have pitched his last game, going down in the 10th with a strained left oblique muscle.  The Brave\u2019s have a deep bullpen, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/atlanta-braves-blog\/2010\/10\/09\/injured-wagners-out-for-rest-of-series-and-next-round\/?cxntfid=blogs_atlanta_braves_blog\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/atlanta-braves-blog\/2010\/10\/09\/injured-wagners-out-for-rest-of-series-and-next-round\/?cxntfid=blogs_atlanta_braves_blog', 'lost of Wagner');\" target=\"_blank\">lost of Wagner<\/a> is another blow in a season where key contributors (Chipper and Martin Prado) keep going down.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dawgs Favored?<\/strong><br \/>\nSeriously?  How are the woeful Bulldogs favored over the struggling Volunteers?  I was shocked to read that some opening lines had <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/uga-sports-blog\/2010\/10\/05\/a-1-4-team-as-a-13-point-favorite-wow-richt-says-hope-theyre-right\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/uga-sports-blog\/2010\/10\/05\/a-1-4-team-as-a-13-point-favorite-wow-richt-says-hope-theyre-right\/', 'Georgia by 13 points');\" target=\"_blank\">Georgia by 13 points<\/a>.  Wow!  WTF do those pundits know that I am missing?  The current <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/gaming\/sheridan.htm\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/gaming\/sheridan.htm', 'Sheridan odds');\" target=\"_blank\">Sheridan odds<\/a> have Georgia as 11.5 point favorites over Tennessee.  Call it a lack of faith, but I really do not see this undisciplined team beating many teams this year including Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Falcons Look to Overcome History<\/strong><br \/>\nWho knew the Falcons so overwhelmingly sucked against the Browns?  The 3-1 Falcons should dispatch an inferior 1-3 Browns team, even on the road.<\/p>\n<p>To me this is a must win game.  The Falcons need to keep the pressure on the Saints, assert themselves a NFC contender, and you just have to beat teams you are suppose to beat.  I am surprised that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefalcoholic.com\/2010\/10\/8\/1738016\/falcons-can-reverse-woeful-history-against-browns-on-sunday\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.thefalcoholic.com\/2010\/10\/8\/1738016\/falcons-can-reverse-woeful-history-against-browns-on-sunday', 'Falcons are only 3 point favorites');\" target=\"_blank\">Falcons are only 3 point favorites<\/a>.  I expected the line to be 5 or 6 points.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully the Falcons take care of business, and continue a strong early season showing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What an amazing comeback by the Atlanta Braves; 5-4 over the Giants in 11 innings thanks to a blast by unlikely hero Rick Ankiel. This season has been magical thanks to the unsung heroics by a rag-tag list of unknowns and in the case of Ankiel, has-beens. I\u2019ll be honest; I stopped watching in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/10\/09\/sports-saturday-braves-come-back-dawgs-favored-and-falcons-vs-browns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sports Saturday:  Braves Come Back, Dawgs Favored, and Falcons vs. Browns<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,12,61,29,55],"class_list":["post-3212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-mlb","tag-nfl","tag-uga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3213,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions\/3213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}