{"id":952,"date":"2007-06-23T22:15:33","date_gmt":"2007-06-24T02:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/06\/23\/one-unpleasant-surprise-braves-implode\/"},"modified":"2007-06-23T22:15:33","modified_gmt":"2007-06-24T02:15:33","slug":"one-unpleasant-surprise-braves-implode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/06\/23\/one-unpleasant-surprise-braves-implode\/","title":{"rendered":"One Unpleasant Surprise (Braves Implode)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, after today\u2019s 2-1 loss to Detroit, I read on <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/mlb\/news\/story?id=2914283\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/mlb\/news\/story?id=2914283', 'ESPN.com');\" target=\"new\">ESPN.com<\/a> that Chipper and Smoltz are going at it via the media:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhen asked before the game if he is rushing his return, Jones said, \u201cProbably. But I feel a little backed into a corner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked to elaborate, Jones indicated some doubted he was injured enough to miss games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s just say there are people who don\u2019t believe me,\u201d Jones said. \u201cLet\u2019s just say that and leave it at that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After Friday night\u2019s 5-0 loss to the Tigers, Smoltz said, \u201cYou can\u2019t worry about who\u2019s in the lineup and who isn\u2019t. You can\u2019t worry about that stuff anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Added Smoltz: \u201cI certainly appreciate the effort of the guys who are on the field busting it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smoltz didn\u2019t identify Jones as a player not in the lineup, but Jones said after Saturday\u2019s game that he got the message.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d be stupid if I didn\u2019t take it the same way,\u201d Jones said, adding he planned to \u201cplay the rest of the games this year and do whatever I can. Somebody I know better not miss a start.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smoltz, asked Saturday if he was referring to Jones, said, \u201cI have no comment. I\u2019m not even going to address that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good grief.  This is not what I expect from the Braves, even when they fall on hard times.  For what it is worth, Chipper\u2019s homerun today accounted for all the Brave\u2019s offense.<\/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>Well, after today\u2019s 2-1 loss to Detroit, I read on ESPN.com that Chipper and Smoltz are going at it via the media: When asked before the game if he is rushing his return, Jones said, \u201cProbably. But I feel a little backed into a corner.\u201d Asked to elaborate, Jones indicated some doubted he was injured &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/06\/23\/one-unpleasant-surprise-braves-implode\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One Unpleasant Surprise (Braves Implode)<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952","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=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}