What the hell...

by tgriffith3 on Dec 19, 2008 1:00 AM EST Comment 27 comments

... are we going to do now? We didn't get Peavy, Burnett, Furcal, or anyone even close to our radar. We just signed a first baseman hoping that he would be a knuckleballer because his last name is Niekro. We may lose Smoltz, one of two faces of the franchise. Our relievers are all injury prone and we've done nothing to help in that area. We supposedly have all this extra money to spend, and we haven't done $hit!!! I hope Frank pulls a rabbit out of his hat sometime soon, or we're going to be the new Nationals.

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Wow

Just so you know you can curse on the internet. Have you seen the people we have been dealing with, you meet more respectable characters at flea markets or in YouTube comments. There are plenty of reasons we have not gotten Peavy, Burnett, or Furcal. Wren is doing a fine job and he isn’t going to let Smoltz get away. If he does, then we can all complain.

by someguy917 on Dec 19, 2008 1:14 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

If a post ever deserved the crying baby pic…

by VegasAces on Dec 19, 2008 8:29 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Seriously. I’m worried about what all these folks who are so pent up on something happening right now are going to do over the next couple of weeks. Stuff rarely happens right before X-Mas and most teams close up their offices between X-Mas and New Year’s. That crying baby might get a lot of work. And the angry Asian dude that loves the caps lock.

by cbwilk on Dec 19, 2008 8:34 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I’m not too worried. I still don’t think we’ll be competing for a championship next year regardless of who we get now.

by Sparhawk on Dec 19, 2008 8:49 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Last time I checked

The Braves still have a 40-man roster, full of pitchers, infielders, and outfielders, which seem to be requisite in order to play the game of “base-ball.”

Just because the Braves didn’t get Peavy because they refused to get reamed, didn’t get Burnett because they refused to overpay, didn’t get Furcal because they did get screwed, and probably won’t bother to go after Sheets because of fear of injury, and probably won’t get Dunn because he bats lefty/team will get outbid, DOES NOT mean that the Braves will shrivel up and die like your post seems to insinuate would happen.

I can see your frustration, because the Braves had this $40 million spendable wad this off-season, and they’ve done nothing with it in the FA market other than a backup catcher, really. For reasons nobody can explain, the Atlanta Braves just are a team that nobody wants to play for. It happens. Injuries occur to every team. Smoltz for all intents and purposes won’t likely retire this year, but it’s bound to happen sooner or later. Same with Glavine. It happens.

But there are still 40 guys now, and 25 guys later, who are all major league players for a reason, and they’re going to go out and play baseball to the best of their ability. As fans, we owe it to the team to have a modicum of faith that they’re not going to lose 162 straight games because they didn’t get Peavy, Burnett, Furcal, Sheets, Dunn or any other marquee free agent/trade.

This woe-is-us bullshit attitude is getting old, and it certainly isn’t necessary. It might not be a successful, even a .500 season, but as Pujols as my witness, there will be some fucking Braves baseball one way or the other. Enjoy it, or at least I hope you do, because I say this all the time – I’d rather be watching bad baseball than no baseball at all.

No wonder nobody likes you, Tuttle... everything's a (Pujols) damn debate.

by royhobbs on Dec 19, 2008 9:04 AM EST reply actions 8 recs

Bravo

This could probably be the greatest post I’ve ever read on this site

by Zeus12888 on Dec 19, 2008 2:04 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I've been a Braves fan forever...

…and I have always been as optimistic as the next guy. But when does it end?

Two of my best friends are Yankees fans, and they are the most annoying people on the face of the earth to talk baseball with. But one statement that they have echoed over and over again is starting to make sense. “You Braves fans are content with mediocrity.”

Are we? During the 14-straight-stretch, it was okay to hear that statement from Yanks fans, because we were winning no matter what they tried to say. We only won one October classic, but we had a chance each year. We’ve been out of the playoffs three years now. A statement that now bothers me is one made by Braves fans. “At least we’re playing Braves baseball.” Huh? Braves baseball is pitching. We haven’t pitched well. Braves baseball is getting bunts down. We can’t bunt for shit. Braves baseball is producing our own talent, and Tommy Hanson will hopefully be the first starting pitcher we have produced in who knows how long. Braves baseball is WINNING. Right now we’re not even competitors. The even keeled, positive attitude of people around Braves baseball is something respected around the league. And as a baseball fan, “I’d rather be watching bad baseball than no baseball at all” is a statement I am truly behind. But as a Braves fan, I expect more. I expect my team to win. I will defend my players and coaches to a fault, but dammit I’m frustrated. I don’t want to hear this “crybaby” bullshit from a bunch of brainwashed fans that can accept mediocrity. I’m also not the George Steinbrenner type that can’t accept a three game losing streak. But when did it become a crime to criticize your own team? Baseball fans, go ahead and accept mediocrity, but Braves fans, there’s no reason to continue blindly supporting every move we make. I hope every move or non-move our front office ever makes works out great. But I don’t have to believe it will despite knowing better.

by tgriffith3 on Dec 19, 2008 5:28 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

and by the way...

… there weren’t supposed to be so many words bolded or italicized.

by tgriffith3 on Dec 19, 2008 5:29 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

So if you’ve such a big fan, why do you only post if you have something negative to say?

by sddbaker on Dec 19, 2008 5:41 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

he’s busy going to games like a TRUE FAN

BIG JOE SUCK ONE

by bigjoe on Dec 19, 2008 6:31 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I don’t know what that’s supposed to mean joe. But I have been to 112 games in the last two years in eleven cities. About half of those games were when we were out of contention also. So I’m no fair weather fan.

by tgriffith3 on Dec 19, 2008 9:43 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

i rest my case.

BIG JOE SUCK ONE

by bigjoe on Dec 20, 2008 1:06 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I don’t simply post when I have something negative to say. My post begged a question… what are we to do now? I expected answers giving suggestions as to what may happen before the beginning of spring training. What I got instead was a bunch of overly optimistic fans that expect our group of rag-tag ballplayers to bring us back to the glory days of the 1990s.

It is great to be a Brave fan because there is definitely something that separates our ballclub from the rest.

Wait a minute… do we still have that ‘something’? Is there still that aura surrounding the Atlanta Braves that puts W’s on the scoreboard no matter who leaves or joins our team? No there is not.

So why is it not happening anymore? A lot of reasons: payroll, Leo’s gone, and we don’t have the most dominant trio of starters in the game anymore. So, management will deal with that. Things will come around. Or they won’t.

But Braves fans, it ain’t the nineties no more. We’re not winning. I want the Braves to win so bad I’d bleed for it to happen, but it ain’t the nineties no more.

I have faith that Frank Wren, Bobby Cox and company will put a product on the field that will win. But as a fan that is accustomed to winning, I reserve the right to share my opinion when things look grim. Obviously wins and losses are out of my control, but I won’t be blindly optimistic.

by tgriffith3 on Dec 19, 2008 9:42 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

that was amazuhzing

by heap16 on Dec 19, 2008 8:28 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Follow the Funk From the Skunk and the Dank that is Crunk in the Dungeon

On and on like that.

Homer the Polecat.

by Euruproktos on Dec 23, 2008 2:03 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

+1

Rec’d, and if I could give the last paragraph another rec on it’s own, it would get one.

by VegasAces on Dec 19, 2008 10:39 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Damn it

that w as meant to reply to royhobbs’ 6:04 post

by VegasAces on Dec 19, 2008 10:39 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

ahh isn’t it refreshing when everyone has given up hope. You can just smell it coming from the screen when you’ re on Chop. And its such a far cry from the “We’re gonna get Peavy and maybe Dunn” talk.

Pardon the sarcasm I’m just so disappointed in Wren and you can say he has done a bad job. Its his job to improve this team and the team isn’t improved.

Another summer of minor league stat watching, reading BA chats to see if I can have any hope for the ’10 and ’11. I think the Furcal “signing” marked the darkest period of the Braves in my life time and its just a sad thing.

by rocket8188 on Dec 19, 2008 4:47 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

so...

go away and don’t try to drag everyone else down…..

by sddbaker on Dec 19, 2008 4:55 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Psst

The offseason isn’t over yet. . Breathe.

by VegasAces on Dec 19, 2008 8:11 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

“Darkest period of the Braves in my life time”…haha. Overreact much?

I guess I should be one to talk.
There's nights that I can't even walk.
There's days I couldn't give a fuck.
And in between is where I'm stuck.

by Smoltz's Beard on Dec 20, 2008 1:16 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

this means dude can’t drink alcohol yet

BIG JOE SUCK ONE

by bigjoe on Dec 20, 2008 1:07 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

If Fookie's agent screwing over the team is the darkest

I’d hate to think of what you thought Skip’s passing was like.

No wonder nobody likes you, Tuttle... everything's a (Pujols) damn debate.

by royhobbs on Dec 20, 2008 2:01 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Overreact? This team as presently built is on par with the Nationals and the Marlins. Better quesiton is do you care much? On a serious note, how moronic for you to bring death into a baseball discussion when baseball is completely unimportant when it comes to that subject.

by rocket8188 on Dec 20, 2008 11:56 AM EST reply actions 0 recs