Since I am bereft of ideas this week and am taking a de facto week of rest I thought I'd point out some of the good work that other Braves bloggers are doing. The Braves caravan is rolling along, but one absent face is of course Adam LaRoche. But Rochy is apparently the star of the Pirates winter caravan and had this to say to David O'Brien about his former team and its fans:
I can actually get on board with that. Many of the people in Atlanta are fair-weather fans who don't come out when the team is not winning. For whatever reason, and I still don't have an answer after years of wondering about it, Atlantans are not passionate about baseball - at least not as passionate as many of the other baseball cities.
Over at the newly rekindled Home of the Braves blog, Steven has some pictures from one of the Braves winter caravan stops. He too laments the aloofness of so-called Braves fans for not knowing who was signing autographs. I mean, come on, it's real easy, it was Diaz, Lerew, Brayan, and Pete - marquis names no doubt.
I'm already a big fan of the possible return of some killer Lightenberg-esque sideburns to Atlanta in the person of Anthony Lerew.
Over at Rowland's Office, they took the opposite approach that I did with the "Top Braves During the Streak," and instead are doing the "Worst 10 of the Past 10." They're not necessarily ranking them, they're just throwing them out there in no particular order, but they've already covered some "good" people - Raul, do you remember Albie Lopez, B.J. "Slough-off," and the player who CB calls Captain Mediocre, Keith Lockhart:
Yeah, Lockhart was quite pedestrian - and never did anything after he left Atlanta. Of course that assumes he actually did "something" while he was in Atlanta.
Well that's enough borrowing from other bloggers for today (maybe). I'll get the "Talk" cranked up again in a few days. Like I said at the beginning I'm just taking the week off - what better time than now, right?
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passion is created when a city feels a part of the team. turner field's location destroys any chance for a big "walk up" crowd. that is 5-10,000 crazy fans that atlanta misses out on every game. yes, we as fans have been spoiled, and so are the players, but that is what you get when you have successful seasons followed with discouraging post-seasons. besides the historic teams with historic ballparks (n.y, chicago, st. louis as examples), who wouldnt have that problem? but, we can thank god we are not marlins fans. 2 world series in 10 years and they still cant get love.ryan c - February 1, 2007
I Remember...
A few years back when we played the Cubs in the playoffs, there fans invaded our homefield (it honestly look like Wrigley Field South, judging by the stands) and they mock the Tomahawk Chop, among other things. At first, I was mad as hell about how classes their fans were; but then, I was upset at our own fanbase. I mean, how could we let that happen??? How is it that there were so many empty seats during a playoff home game that the opposition took control of the atmosphere??? Say what you will about the stadium's location, about fans and players being spoiled and complecent... truth is that the fanbase is just bad. If you can't root for your team when they're winning and won't root for them when they're losing, you just don't deserve to have a team that calls your city home. I hope that last season will wake people up and bring them out to the stadium if these Braves perform as they should, but I also wish I could be more confident about that.ejruiz - February 1, 2007
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