One thing I think I don't appreciate about this place enough, is even though a lot of us differ on things like saber, scouting, whatever we all relatively understand that we're going through a rebuild. Whether or not we agree how the rebuild should be done or what we should be drafting, I think pretty much all of us here understand what the front office is trying to do and why they've made all the moves they've made. Most importantly, I think that mostly everyone here knows we're in a rebuilding phase.
So in real life, I meet some Braves fans here where I live, who will say stuff such as:
- "I don't know what the hell they're doing. I mean how do you trade the best closer in baseball?"
- "They dun traded all the good players away and we got crap playing for us right now"
- "They're going to a new stadium and dont' have any plan to get any good players"
- "The braves dont' care about winning. They can't even field a real team for the next 10 years."
- "We traded all our good players for prospects, and those prospects aint' doing nothing for us right now"
It's really like meeting different real life versions of ninerssbchamps.
That's only 25% of the problem though. When I surf the Braves' pages on facebook, I run into amazing comments like this:
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I've gotten into arguments in the Braves facebook comments section of why it's a waste to have Mallex sitting on the bench against lefties and throwing Francouer out there and that Mallex will never learn to hit lefties if he keeps getting benched. They'll throw out how Francouer is hitting lefties better than Mallex. They legitimately think we have a chance of winning the world series if we just continue using Frenchy against lefties. They'll also say "if Mallex was good enough to hit against lefties they'd throw him out there against lefties". No. No. No. That's not how any of this is supposed to work.
People saying Ender should be benched because he offers nothing with the bat. People saying AJ should be playing everyday over Flowers. People trashing Wisler and Folty until recently. The fans on there that say "we need real players" whatever that means.
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So I just want to say from the bottom of my heart, that I appreciate the quality and sometimes intense discussion that comes on here. We've lost a bunch of regulars here due to the heated discussions but I want to thank most of you for staying here through the recent bad times.
-Jeff
So in real life, I meet some Braves fans here where I live, who will say stuff such as:
- "I don't know what the hell they're doing. I mean how do you trade the best closer in baseball?"
- "They dun traded all the good players away and we got crap playing for us right now"
- "They're going to a new stadium and dont' have any plan to get any good players"
- "The braves dont' care about winning. They can't even field a real team for the next 10 years."
- "We traded all our good players for prospects, and those prospects aint' doing nothing for us right now"
It's really like meeting different real life versions of ninerssbchamps.
That's only 25% of the problem though. When I surf the Braves' pages on facebook, I run into amazing comments like this:
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I've gotten into arguments in the Braves facebook comments section of why it's a waste to have Mallex sitting on the bench against lefties and throwing Francouer out there and that Mallex will never learn to hit lefties if he keeps getting benched. They'll throw out how Francouer is hitting lefties better than Mallex. They legitimately think we have a chance of winning the world series if we just continue using Frenchy against lefties. They'll also say "if Mallex was good enough to hit against lefties they'd throw him out there against lefties". No. No. No. That's not how any of this is supposed to work.
People saying Ender should be benched because he offers nothing with the bat. People saying AJ should be playing everyday over Flowers. People trashing Wisler and Folty until recently. The fans on there that say "we need real players" whatever that means.
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So I just want to say from the bottom of my heart, that I appreciate the quality and sometimes intense discussion that comes on here. We've lost a bunch of regulars here due to the heated discussions but I want to thank most of you for staying here through the recent bad times.
-Jeff
