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Braves Ongoing Season Comments Thread..
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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.
Lol. Lots of ppl in America sing and dance in church and pray for god to do something. It’s basically the same thing and I doubt you’d call those people unsophisticated for it.
Yeah it seems crazy because you don’t believe in what they do but they’d probably say the same thing about you. I don’t mean to insult anybody’s beliefs, just pointing out the similarity.
I didn't watch the game. Did Folty revert back to the "old" Folty or did he just have a bad game? The "old" Folty to me had problems with emotional control more than anything else. I recall discussions on this forum about getting him to work with a sports psychologist or performance specialist. Was his control (pitching control) off ? His emotional control?
I’m thinking we will leave this open for another day or two for more post game thoughts and then close it down for the season
Terrible ending to a great season. There are lots of reasons/excuses you can give for losing the series, but the Cardinals hit a lot of balls in the right places while we weren’t able to get runners in when we got them in scoring position. It was always going to depend on the top of our lineup to provide enough offense for us to win, and Freeman, Donaldson, Markakis, and McCann didn’t get the job done. I would like to see us bring up Apache, Waters, and Ian Anderson. I would sign Donaldson, if he would agree to a reasonable 2 year contract, and I would go out and sign a catcher.
I call BS.
The guy seems a bit self loathing.
You are spot on about the Cardinals hitting the ball in the right places. I can't recall ever seeing so many balls hit within 1-2 of the foul lines with basically every one of them being fair. Just uncanny. They had to have at least 4 doubles in this series that were little flares just over 3rd or 1st. Couple that with grounders hit right down the line and that's a lot of XB hits in a short series.
I'm 1/16 Cherokee, the rest is English, Welsh and Scots. I've never lived on a reservation or near a native population. My Mother's Father had a strong native appearance though and I'll never forget an asshole who called him chief. If you're a child on a western reservation your prospects are not good. Why implant negative images in their brains simply for our amusement ?
There does need to be some roster turnover. Need a better catcher all around. I'd say Duvall has secured a bench outfield spot with occasional start. Carmago is probably gone. Gotta decide what to do with Riley.
I noticed you didn’t include Markakis and snitker in your people who should be gone, and beg you to reconsider.
Oh I completely agree with those. No argument from me. Markakis is a good clubhouse guy but he serves no other purpose. They can bring in good clubhouse guys that produce. Snitker does nothing as a manger except screw things up. He is awful in game. I can tell guys to swing away and play every day. Bullpen mismanagement is a huge issue too. I think Kranitz probably needs to go as well. I'd like to see Wash as the manager.