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Braves Ongoing Season Comments Thread..
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No you’re right we need to get rid of Markakis, although he’d be a fine 4th outfield bench option. Frankly I’m surprised we didn’t move on from him last year.
Id like JD to return, i would also like kuechel back. Except we should probably realize kuechel is maybe a number 3 and shouldn’t be a 2 playoff starts a series guy lol what a joke.
Keep folty, probably won’t get much for him in a trade, think he only has 1 year left anyway.
It’s past time we make a big free agent signing or trade, it should have happened last year. We need to push the chips in enough to be an actual WS contender. That means 1-2 upper tier starting pitchers, get a legit corner outfield bat an another plus player, and figure out the bullpen
JD with a 14 run homer!!!
Baseball season is done for me. Go Dawgs!
Hate that it ended like this. Sucks to not even get to watch but 1/2 an inning of a game 5. Sure was a fun season though up til today of course. Hope we can add a big time starter next year to go with soroka fried and whoever else. Really need a closer too. Anyways that’s next year. Go dawgs!!!!!!
Too bad he didn’t show up the rest of the series. We could be waiting to see who we would face between the gnats and dodgers.
Oh. well. It was fun while it lasted and it lasted longer than last year. Much to be optimistic about for next year. Got to rest up...for Saturday.
JFC
It doesn't have to be either or. Also, I assume you've never had the experience of struggling to be looked at like a regular human being.
In my opinion we need a TRUE ACE, whatever it cost, if you want to be competitive you got to spend money, Braves need to get off that money
It's a lot on Folty, that was about as bad a 1 out performance as I've seen. It was the whole team over those 3 innings though, just a huge choke job. The curse lives.
It just hit me....**** !
I don't think anyone looks to sports mascots to see any realistic depiction of a culture or group of people. This all blew up back in the 90's with FSU and the Seminoles. A group of people were protesting and making a huge fuss over the issue. As I recall, the elected leader of the modern day Seminole people came out and publicly stated they felt honored that the University chose them as a symbol for the school.
To be clear, if teams decided they wanted to change their mascots to something more... neutral (?) I wouldn't oppose that. I have just never thought of it as being that big of an issue. There is a very real segment of our culture these days that seems to be looking for something to be offended by.
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.