“American Idol”: How Many Of Last Night’s Contestants Could Have Used A Hug? Damon Albarn And Graham Coxon Give It Another Go

News

Now You Can Give The Atlanta Braves A Beat

First things first: The Atlanta Braves, driven by the resurgent bats of Jeff Francoeur and the ace pitching of Tom Glavine, will retake the NL East this year. Second things second: I don’t actually believe this, but I can always dream. One great thing about rooting for Atlanta sports teams (save Georgia Tech!) is the prevalence of drumlines and other aspects of HBCU culture at the games. The Atlanta Falcons have a drumline that comes out and highsteps along with that Petey Pablo song featured in (yep) Drumline. It’s a great spectacle, and it’s a change of pace from the lily-white pro games in other areas. And the Braves have the Heavy Hitters, and they are holding auditions today and next Thursday:

The Braves are looking for musicians with confidence and charisma, a flexible schedule, and the ability to work games in their entirety every Friday, Saturday and Sunday home game during the season.
PHOTO and VIDEO OPPORTUNITIES: Individuals trying out for the Heavy Hitters drum line will showcase their percussion abilities with instruments including snare, quad, base, and tenor drums, and symbols.
WHERE:
Turner Field
Enter through the Turner Field 755 Club Lobby, off of Ralph David Abernathy Blvd.
Free parking available across the street in the Green Lot
WHEN:
Thursday, Feb. 26 and Wednesday, March 4, 5:00-8:00 p.m.

Wow. I would love to showcase my “base” and “symbol” skills for my favorite baseball team! I know budgets are tight, guys, but could you hire a spellchecker? This does not make me confident for the upcoming season.

Protip to those trying out: the part you need to play is kinda easy. BOOM, boom, boom, boom, BOOM, boom, boom, boom. And so on. If I didn’t have to write for stupid Idolator dot com, I would totally be there. I think this a Maura/Mets conspiracy to keep my team down.

Atlanta Braves hold auditions for game entertainment team [MLB.com]

 
By Lucas Jensen at 10:00 AM on Thu Feb 26 2009
  • Maura Johnston

    lol glavine

  • Lucas Jensen

    @Maura Johnston: God, when he wins the Cy Young this year, you are gonna be so jealous!

  • Jerkwheat

    I want my Jair Jurrgens back.

  • Ted Striker

    @Lucas Jensen:


    Only if Turner Field starts skipping in time like the island from Lost.


    This, of course, said by a guy whose favorite team's season hangs on the performance of Mike Hampton.

  • Lucas Jensen

    @Ted Striker: Hahaha. If we skip around enough, we can lose the giant cow.

  • relaxing

    The Phils will repeat in '09!

  • natepatrin

    Wait, hold on -- I haven't been following the Braves too closely since Ted Turner transferred ownership of the team to Jack Morris in '91, but how long have they had a mascot that looks like the strung-out cousin Mr. Met never talks about?

  • MayhemintheHood

    The Braves should bring back Kenny Powers.

  • Ted Striker

    @natepatrin:


    Don't hassle Mr. Met. He's just hustlin'
    [tinyurl.com]

  • Maura Johnston
  • kicking222

    Big ups, Lucas! Despite being born and raised in Jersey, the Braves have been my favorite baseball team since I was five years old. In fact, they're my favorite spots team, period, and the only one I've rooted for my entire life. Though I'm (of course) upset about losing Smoltzie, and despite missing out on Furcal and some other free agents- and generally not improving our hitting at all- I think we made some good moves in the off-season. Our rotation is much better (though Charlie Morton is a friend of a friend, so I'm upset he's going to be in the bullpen, in the minors, or on another team), we resigned all of the position players we needed to resign, our young guys will improve with experience, and perhaps Francoeur won't be awful this season.

blog comments powered by Disqus