Atlanta Braves Fan Confidence Continues To Drop

Lets not trade any talent please, keep the minor league guys we have and wait. But in the mean time for 2011 who is available? Crawford? That would be really sweet..l.

In terms of winning the division, the Braves are out of wiggle room. But in terms of the wild card they could go 1-2 against the Phillies and win 5 out of 6 in the other 2 series and still be in good shape. So strictly speaking they don’t have to sweep the Phillies to remain the wild card hunt, but they do to remain the division race.

We are still in the lead for the Wild Card. It may be a half game lead, but we are still hanging in there despite our horrid play as of late.

The road looks rocky ahead because we are playing at New York and at Philly, but we can still do it. A series win in New York can really boost our confidence and get things going on the right track heading into Philly. IMO this upcoming series against the Mets is critical and will help determine if we are contenders or pretenders.

If our pitchers can pitch to their capabilities, the team should be fine in the WC and at least give the Phillies a good chase. If the starting pitchers continue to struggle with 5+ERA’s, I doubt the offense can cover that with regularity, I really wish we could find a line up that we could stick with, it seems ridiculous to have to check DOB tweets for a line up in mid-September, we as a playoff contender should have 8 starters that we can count on to start nearly every game. That is what Wren and his new manager need to do this winter, dump the daily platoon and build a team.

Championship teams don’t lose 41 out of 72 road games. If the Braves can’t win 5 or 6 games on this trip, they don’t deserve to play in the playoffs anyway.

First of all, atleast we aren’t the sissy Yankees faking getting hurt by a hbp to get on base cause were so scared of losing. I’ve seen Esco do that before but fortunaetly his diva ass is gone. Maybe that’s good baseball to get on base but I’d rather have some “ballplayers” who wanna stay in there and grind it out. Even tho it would suck to miss the playoffs I am still content with the season because of all the comeback wins which have made it worth it to me to watch so many games. Let’s extend this metaphor of looking like the Braves will lose only to come back and win to the entire season. This means although we look done now we will still come back and win at the end to make it into the playoffs.

We have 6 games against the Phillies. We need to win those to have a shot at the division obviously. I think most people have abandoned hope that we can beat them given how we have both played in recent weeks.

On the other hand we still need to beat the Phillies to stay ahead in the WC race. The Rockies finish the year with a 4 game set against St. Louis. I can promise you that asshole LaRussa is going to roll over in that series. They’ve quit. There is no way we get any effort out of them on that final weekend.

It’s just not practical to concede the NL east to the Phils and worry about the WC. Either way we’re screwed.

that happens when the only player who´s showing some kind of power is McLouth.