mattlanta

[#20310] Your secure key, used to verify you are posting the topic, did not match the one submitted. Please go back, reload the form, and try again. I tried reloading and trying again like it asks but it still brings me to that message. It's no big deal though I was just posting a simple comment in the Lounge, and I just wanted to know why this popped up. Never happened to me before. Thanks.

Call me crazy, but I like to still hold hope that we will sign Jason Bay. We certainly don't have the money to do it now, but if we trade McLouth we will. People think McLouth is a huge piece of this puzzle - he's not. There is someone who is waiting to be given another opportunity in the minors and his name is Jordan Schafer. Once he gets over his wrist injury and sees more time in the minors, I believe he'll be a much better leadoff hitter than McLouth. Trade McLouth for prospects to Chicago, and sign Jason Bay to a 5 Yr, $75,000,000 ($15,000,000/Yr), sign 1B Chad Tracy to a $1,000,000 with incentives and then the team would look like this. Incomplete roster... still would need a few more bench pieces... but here's my roster...and the rotation is ordered in salary. SP Derek Lowe SP Tim Hudson SP Kenshin Kawakami SP Jair Jurrjens SP Tommy Hanson LR Kris Medlen MR Eric O'Flaherty MR Jesse Chavez MR Michael Dunn SU Takashi Saito SU Peter Moylan CL Billy Wagner CA Brian McCann 1B Troy Glaus 2B Martin Prado 3B Chipper Jones SS Yunel Escobar LF Jason Bay CF Melky Cabrera (eventually Schafer) RF Matt Diaz (eventually Jason Heyward) Bench would be something like Tracy, Infante, Ross, etc. I don't think Marlon Byrd is the real deal. If you're hitting in Arlington Park, you should always have high amount of power / doubles if you're a true power hitter. What Byrd is is a .280 hitter, but he's not a 20 HR type of guy.

Would you guys be in favor of bringing the 'fro back to Atlanta next year? A lot of people aren't liking how Marvin plays, so I was thinking maybe if we offer up the starting spot to Josh Childress (hopefully Crawford won't get offended by this) and trade Marvin for a big we could make things work out again. Something tells me that Childress doesn't want to be back in Atlanta though. Because if he did, he would have been back by now, but maybe he saw no spot for him left on this team after he saw Marvin re-signed and Crawford traded for? Starters: PG Mike Bibby SG Joe Johnson SF Josh Childress PF Josh Smith C Zaza Pachulia Bench: PG Jeff Teague SG Jamal Crawford SF [Draft] PF [big from Marvin trade] C Zaza Pachulia

All teams live and die by their best players / scorers when it comes down to the wire.

"Because the Atlanta Hawks are good. Really good. They aren't shaken by your history, and they aren't stirred by your presence. These guys are good, they know it, and they play like it every night. Beware Big Three."

Agreed. And hey... offtopic here, but what's your avatar? I don't know what it is... but it looks pretty neat lol

This team doesn't look like the real deal anymore, night in and night out they prove that they are the real deal. But how can we tell or be sure? Many of our losses have been uncharacteristic... were those just 'bad games' by our Hawks or do we really have huge weaknesses that the league justh asn't discovered yet?

Then I nominate Zaza for this award lol

Are we really putting him up there with all those greats? ...

eww!!!

I see what you're sayin'... thanks.

How's his D?

They won't make the Super Bowl.

He's not asking who you think has a better chance of making the playoffs... he's asking which team between the two you'd prefer to win it all... I'd prefer the Hawks, personally. Because we were even bigger underdogs coming into our season than the Falcons were. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge Falcons fan... but right now it doesn't seem like it's their year. They don't deserve anything more than the Hawks IMO. Granted, they've been hit bad with the injury bug... but the Hawks were downplayed this season and kind of tossed aside for the 'Big 3'. If we win a championship it'll make a huge statement to all the haters and nonebelievers (which is pretty much every one else besides the fans here in Atlanta).

He looks like an old school 2 guard. Good scoring, great perimeter shot... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw3Mo8GMfOw&feature=related Just three quick shots, but I never saw this before so maybe some of you guys would be interested. Hope he can come to ATL as soon as he can... he looks like someone that can really be a valuable piece to someone's bench...

lol bandwagon fan

This draft class will be stacked I think. Who are you guys watching out for that may be good fits for the Hawks that would be in our draft range?

Some people who follow you are thinking that you'd at least return the favor and follow them as well. Or they do it just because maybe there are bots that look through every one's group of followers and follows them too? It's gotta be something like that...

Can you picture us making any trades at all before the deadline this year? Any at all?

I didn't watch the game til the middle of the second quarter... what happened? Marvin got benched?

Yeah... I notice that as well. Good points. I think Teague is a very good matchup with Crawford as well. He and Crawf, along with Evans, helps make our second unit one of the fastest in the league and will wear down a lot of starting lineups / benches if they decide to run on us.

Topic.

Ah... nope I was referring to next season. Sorry for the confusion.

Tonight, I liked how Woodson ran some plays for Teague even with Crawford, Bibby on the floor. Granted, it was just iso-Teague's... but still...

I don't know if you read it wrong or not, but I referred to 'next year' with that comment.