Atlanta Braves Fan Confidence Surges In Anticipation Of First Postseason Game In Five Years

by gondeee on Oct 7, 2010 8:28 AM EDT

If you'll remember back one week ago to the previous regular fan confidence poll, the Atlanta Braves had barely managed one win against the last place Nationals in the middle of a pennant chase, and had lost the Wild Card lead -- their end of season collapse was all but a fait accompli, and the fan confidence had plummeted to 52 percent.

After the Monday poll and a sweep of the Marlins, a second poll showed the fan confidence was unchanged at 52 percent, and the Braves still had to face the powerful Phillies. For the first two games and up until the final out of the last game the fan confidence was likely still a question mark, but the last minute style of this season reared its head one last time and saw the Padres lose and the Braves continue to play on.

The fan confidence jumped from 52 percent last week to 75 percent this week -- a number that high hasn't been seen since late August. Braves' fans are excited, and they should be. The Braves drew probably the easiest first-round matchup of all the playoff teams, and have the better part of three days to rest and prepare themselves for the second season.

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Throughout the postseason, we'll take fan confidence polls after each game to see how each game plays on our psyche. It may be a bit of overkill, but it should be an interesting thing to look back on. Until the next poll, Go Braves!

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Great to see the confidence back up, but...

…I don’t see how the Braves drew the easiest playoff matchup. I think the Phillies did. The Reds have a good lineup, but usually, and as we saw last night, good pitching can quiet good hitting. The Reds’ problem is that their pitching is suspect, easily the worst rotation of the playoff teams. The Braves get to face a whole lot of Lincecum, Cain, and Sanchez against the Giants. That is a rough set of pitchers for anyone to face.

Being honest, on paper, the team that drew the easiest matchup was the Giants. The Braves pitching is good on paper, but not to the level of the Giants and Phillies. And the offense is so banged up, we have only four above-average hitters left. Fortunately, they don’t play games on paper, and was have an incredible bullpen, which can be a big equalizer. And, hell, in short series’, anything can happen—-just ask the Rays. With Price getting beat and Shields pitching today, they can easily be down 0-2 heading to Texas.

by cavebird on Oct 7, 2010 8:50 AM EDT reply actions

Agree. The Giants had a great September. They are by no means an easy match up especially with the Braves and their lousy road record starting in San Francisco and playing there in a potential 5th game.

by redwards95 on Oct 7, 2010 9:48 AM EDT up reply actions

Totally agree. The Reds are by far the easiest playoff matchup. Add to this the fact that their fans are very disheartened and don’t believe that their team is capable of getting past the first round no matter who they play.

by Zontar on Oct 7, 2010 9:49 AM EDT up reply actions

I agree on everything except the pitching. Our pitching is/has been as good as the Giants 1-3.

Our BP is better and our bench is better. Their offense is actually worse than ours.

IMO, the Braves’ only weakness is the offense – due in large part to the injuries to Chipper and Prado. However, that being said, Lee, McCann and Heyward are more than enough to carry this team at least past the Giants.

This guy wants to suck all the cubs dick can he not have an unbias some what partition reguards
by RWH2 on Apr 5, 2010 10:20 AM CDT

by justincredubil02 on Oct 7, 2010 11:02 AM EDT up reply actions

And as well as Lee's been hitting,

he may be able to do it single-handedly if need be.

"Jason Heyward was a Greek philosopher reincarnated as a baseball player." - Don Sutton

by UMDBHIK on Oct 7, 2010 1:50 PM EDT up reply actions

So looking forward to this series.....

been too long since we been here! GO BRAVES!!!!

DON'T STOP 'TIL WE REACH THE TOP!!!!!!!!
Another SAINTS fan in Panther country!
GEAUX SAINTS!!!!!!!!!!!
WHO DAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by SAINTSfaninNC on Oct 7, 2010 8:51 AM EDT reply actions

Daily Poll

For crying out loud, if you are going to do a daily confidense poll, get rid of the “organization”, “front office”, “minor leagues”, part of the FCP. I agree that a daily poll will be interesting, but surely you can see this is why folks don’t understand the FCP in the first place.

Write your own recap!.....mvhsbball

by bighop on Oct 7, 2010 9:07 AM EDT reply actions