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Braves Ongoing Season Comments Thread..
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Just thankful I did not have to sit through the whole game to see us lose in the ninth inning.
Black face mime is just entertainment.
How about a NYC team changing it's name to The Southern Rednecks ? Their mascot could be a slack jawed yokel in coveralls with bad teeth. They could chant Yeeehaw !
Braves capitulated to the PC complaints. No foam tomahawks handed out. No organ playing the chant. No graphics on the big board showing the chop. I'm a lifelong Braves fan and it hurts like hell to lose this game, but they got what they deserved. Not the players (they deserved better), but the ownership. This is on them. I'm sure I'll get a DV from WCDawg on this but I don't care. Sick of this sh!t.
My family is full of Indians. I mean real ones. The kind that receive government benefits and you don't need a blood test to know they're Indians. And Ryan Helsley sure as hell doesn't speak for us.
Now that I got my rant out of the way, my main problem with Snit's approach to this series was the pitching rotation. We had a good discussion on this prior to the series, and I took the position that I would like to see Soroka in Gm1 since he was our best pitcher. This would've also ensured that he got a second start.
As it went, Keuchel pitched Games 1 & 4, and we lost both of them. Folty was great in Gm2 but wilted under the pressure of Gm5. And Soroka, our best pitcher, threw a total of 7 innings in the series.
This loss really hurt. It's gonna take a long time to get over. But we're used to this stuff in Atlanta. The future is bright, and AA seems to be a good GM. I still think we need new ownership. That's all.
As someone else said, thank God for Georgia football.
#1. I see nothing about the Braves mascot that is intentionally demeaning or belittling. The black face mime comparison is a red herring.
#2. In your hypothetical Southern stereotype mascot example: that sounds a little dumb and i would question why they made that choice but speaking as someone who has lived in the South my entire life I wouldn't be offended by it in the least.
piss poor managing and the obvious need of a closer keeps rearing it’s **** head. Soroka should have gotten multiple starts instead of the “World Series veteran” there’s a time and place for him. It’s advice and talking to the better pitchers throughout the game and not out on the mound burying any chance we have. Hope the battery is making some cash because they need to spend it on a corner outfielder, starter, and a big bullpen guy. Mad Bum isn’t the answer either he’s simply a replacement for DK. He ain’t Mad Bum from 3-4 years ago.
I think the rotation made sense. Soroka has been a great road pitcher and average at home all season. I don't recall anybody predicting Folty would revert back to Foldy.
I was at the game tonight and it was fascinating to watch the number of people get to their seats due to the the 5:00pm start, only to realize the game was over. I hated it for the players, but you could feel it in the stands that the life was **** out of the team and the crowd.
The most frustrating thing to me was that other than Acuna our hitters didn’t show up when needed all series, mainly Freddie. He’s my dude but that performance was pathetic. How the team responds in the offseason will tell me if they’re really serious about winning it all or if they’re content with trying to get lucky and make as much money off a playoff caliber team.
Go Braves but now it’s time to focus on the Dawgs and hope they handle their business!
There was nothing wrong with the rotation. Keuchel pitched well enough to win and Soroka was superb in his road start. .
Soroka is just our best pitcher, so I’d like him getting the ball twice. It’s just that simple for me honestly. I know his home road splits are pretty severe. Maybe that’s statistical noise and maybe it isn’t. But regardless he is our best pitcher and you want him to throw more than any other pitcher.
Especially since kuechel isn’t exactly a top tier starter, and was throwing against a right handed heavy lineup. It never made sense to me that he was the game 1 and 4 guy. He deserved a start for sure but this was another case of a dumb manager over valuing veterans
Soroka's ERA was over 4 at home, it was around 1.55 on the road. Also our starters' combined ERA over the 4 games before today was 2.05. This was about their pen performing better than ours, our cleanup hitter having a terrible series and folty sucing balls today.
You know, that’s a fair point. Feel more like we lost it in game 4.
We should have won game 4, but I felt good coming back home with Folty starting.
I have Native American ancestry. The people who complain about this are full of it. They say, “Native Americans are portrayed as unsophisticated” but all stereotypes are derived from learned exposure to a culture. Let’s not also forget that Native Americans thought they could dance up a rain storm.