D*C picture status: Saturday’s pictures will go up tomorrow, September 15.
At the time I’m writing this, the Atlanta Braves are 56-88, and tied for last place in the NL East division, as well as the worst record in all of Major League Baseball. They’re just as bad as the Phillies whom were popularly predicted to guaranteed lose 100 or more games; the pinnacle of futility when it comes to a baseball season.
For whatever reason, nobody except for me really had the Braves pegged for 100 losses, but as we near the rapidly approaching end of the regular season, the Braves are pretty much on a rocket ship crash course for 100 losses, if not substantially more than that.
Of their last 30 games, the Braves have literally won just four of them. And two of them were against the Phillies, who barely count as a major league franchise in their own right, currently. (btw, the Phillies have won 11 games out of their last 30, in comparison) If this current trend between both teams keeps up, the Braves will undoubtedly finish out the season as the worst team in baseball, along with over 100 losses.
Needless to say, as I’ve said it many times, despite the fact that I am more or less a Braves fan, I’m thrilled with the way the season is transpiring. For starters, I’m pretty much going to be right about having pegged a 100-loss season back in like January, and seldom do things make me feel more smugly satisfied than being right in a long-term prediction.
And I’ve never bore witness to a 100-loss season before, frankly. For whatever reason, in prior bad Braves years, they’ve had enough talent to accidentally win over 63 games, and manage to avoid the dreaded third digit in the loss column, but this year, they don’t even have that. 100 losses is all but unavoidable at this point, and even I’m not that concerned that I’m jinxing it by being so boastful about it right now.
The Blue Jays are coming to town next, and they have to keep winning to maintain their pace over the Yankees who are chasing them, and following them are the Cardinals who need to keep winning to maintain pace over the trailing Pirates. Those alone are basically six more losses waiting to happen, and the clock is rapidly ticking for the Braves to futilely try and get seven more wins to prevent 100 losses, when they’ve been playing .133 baseball over the last month.
I mean, with fans like me, who needs enemies and all, but frankly, I feel no remorse or guilt over so fervently rooting against my team. I refuse to support a management group that so blatantly has given up on an entire organization, on purpose, citing the necessity of tanking in order to rebuild. I understand it very well, but the fact that they won’t float even a modicum of respect back to the the people who pay their salaries to at least try and win a few games is something that I find a little deplorable.
Either way, here’s to the impending 100 losses, and I can’t wait to try and possibly be there when it inevitably happens. Knowing my luck, it’ll happen while on the road, but I kind of feel the compulsion of trying to go to the last home games, because it’s awesome how easy it is to get into the ballpark now, because the team sucks on such an astronomical level. After all, you have to hit bottom in order to be able to start recovering.
