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Reliving all-time #Braves moments with ChatGPT: Aaron's 715th Has Uninvited Guests

I asked ChatGPT to draw Atlanta Fulton County Stadium with the Atlanta skyline behind it under a picturesque night sky (I provided a classic daytime photo). This is what I got: "Baseball Starry Night"

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The Braves take a 2-0 lead when Luis Torrens uses his mask to scoop the baseball and the runners on 2nd and 3rd are both awarded a base

Take 2: Some direction. I uploaded famously online photo of Joe Simpson, Don Sutton, Pete Van Wieren, and Skip Caray and told ChatGPT to keep the Braves on TBS desk but redraw the caricatures based on the photo.

I told ChatGPT to "Draw a caricature of the Atlanta Braves broadcast team of the 1990s on TBS: Skip Caray, Pete Van Wieren, Don Sutton, and Joe Simpson." No other direction. This is the result.

I told ChatGPT to "Draw a caricature of Kent Hrbek lifting Ron Gant off first base." No other direction. This is the result.

Early glance at the upcoming Hall of Fame ballot season and the Baseball Reference probable list of names on the ballot: Carlos Beltran and Andruw Jones will get in. No one else will come close.

I lost my stats in my downtime during the move, but I'll take this start!

Just a reminder that these were scenes after the Dodgers won the World Series last fall, including buses burning, stores looted, fires, Mexican flags waving - all on scale dwarfing anything that has happened in LA now. And no one called for the Marines being sent in www.marca.com/en/mlb/los-a...

The Elon vs Donald match is getting good

#Braves social media today

100 Greatest Sports Heroes, published in 1954. I read this cover to cover when I was about 10. Still in remarkably good shape considering it doesn't even know Aaron, Mays, Gibson, Mantle… How much do you think it's worth?

Good for Arcia. I hope he catches on again and does well. He has the talent.

THE Brian Snitker reaction GIF

Reminder, MLB fans: The “quarter pole” means a quarter to go, not a quarter done. Horse racing, not pie charts. “Down the stretch they come!” is for late August, not late May.

The #Braves are 22-15 since their 0-7 start. If they maintain 22-15 through September they'll finish 92-70.

Is Aaron Judge the greatest right-handed hitter of the last 100 years? I dug up some crazy numbers that say…he is! And wrote all about it ⬇️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/633...

If the MLB season ends with today's standings, the Seattle #Mariners would have a Wildcard Round bye and the #Athletics would be playing the Tigers (probably?) for a shot at bringing MLB playoff baseball to the SAC.

Death Taxes Braves sign Jesse Chavez

The #Braves just played a 3-game series in Colorado and did not hit a home run.

Getting back to .500 to close out the month of April would've been nice, but I'll take another series win. Go #Braves!

Among all MLB teams' respective last 22 games, the #Braves rank: 1st in BA (.278) 1st in hits (213) 1st in doubles ( 2nd in OPS (.799) 2nd in SLG (.454) 3rd in homers (31) 4th in OBP (.345) 4th in extra-base hits (71) 4th in times on base (294)

No joke. No hesitation. Alex Verdugo. All-Star. This isn't coming from me. It's coming from him. You all have your assignment.

4 home runs by one player in a game. 19 times in MLB history. Only 3 of those when his team lost the game: 7/13/1896: Ed Delahanty, Phillies lost 9-8 to Colts (Cubs). 7/6/1986: Bob Horner, #Braves lost 8-6 to Expos. 4/26/2025: Eugenio Suarez, Dbacks lost 8-7 to #Braves. 🚨👀

I'm glad I sat in the car for an extra couple of minutes to hear Eli White bat just then, and hear Ben Ingram's incredible call. #EliIsComing

Mike Trout's April 1-20, 2025: 13-for-63, 2B, 8 HR, 12 R, 14 RBI in 17 games. That’s a 162-game pace of 76 home runs. 💻 Baseball Reference (Game Logs)

Just shut it down, NL East. The #Braves are coming. Four straight. Can't stop, won't stop.

First 3-game winning streak and first sweep of the year for the #Braves!

#Braves have a winning streak for the first time in 2025!

I wonder if Chris Sale would have pitched like the 2024 Cy Young Award-winning version of himself if we weren't wearing City Connect jerseys tonight.

The hilarity of this is the broadcast team in his ear is telling him to get more Braves fans, and he misinterpreted what "get the numbers" means. 😂

He misinterpreted a playful demand to "get the numbers", meaning increase the number of #Braves fans in Toronto, to mean he should get the numbers of the ladies he's standing next to. Well, he got her number.

This week's challenge games span 98 Years, including 3 pre-WW2, one each by @kurtblumenau.bsky.social and Philly SABR Jack Morris and an Easter selection. @bravespaul.bsky.social @ewokbaseball.bsky.social @twostrikenoise.bsky.social @jessicadbrand.bsky.social starting9.vercel.app

Don Sutton *or* Greg Maddux (but not both) pitched enough innings to qualify for ERA and other rate stats leaderboards for 43 straight MLB seasons. Don Sutton’s Major League debut: 4/14/1966 Greg Maddux’s outside the womb debut: 4/14/1966