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Impetus<\/a>: The New York\u00a0Giants<\/span>\u00a0Yankees complete a sweep of the Atlanta\u00a0Falcons<\/span>\u00a0Braves by a score of 20-6.\u00a0 The day after a 60-year old Braves fan fell to his death from the upper deck of Turner Field, while trying to antagonize Alex Rodriguez.<\/span><\/p>\n Seriously, 20-6 is a god damn football score.<\/span><\/p>\n Prior to the 2015 season, I mockingly said that the Braves were going to lose 100 games this season.\u00a0 After all, they had traded away just about everything worth anything, and turned a team that could have probably easily won at least 85 games into a team that well, could very well lose 100 games.\u00a0 Naturally, things didn\u2019t turn out as bad in the start, when the Braves swept the Marlins to start the season, and went like 5-1 or something in their first few games, but as is often the case with baseball, reality sunk in, and then the Braves started playing like the team they were destined to be in 2015, and likely again in 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The thing is, there were a lot of naysayers to my outlandish belief of 100 losses, where smart alecs would correct me and state that a 90-something loss season was more likely.\u00a0 Now they\u2019re not entirely wrong, but the fact of the matter is that currently, the Braves are exceeding expectations, and playing very much like the 100-loss caliber team I had declared them to be at the start of the season.<\/span><\/p>\n Fact: with their getting swept by the Yankees, the Braves have lost 12 of their last 13 games.\u00a0 They are 54-76 in the 130 games played of the season, with 32 games to go.\u00a0 If they maintain a pace like this, the Braves will finish out the season 57-105, and have undoubtedly lost 100 games.<\/span><\/p>\n Here\u2019s the disheartening part: no matter how much rhetoric the Braves brass and management will spew about \u201csorry for the shitty season, but our squad will continue to fight to the very end RAH RAH!<\/em>\u201d there is absolutely no way that they\u2019re also not thinking about the possibilities of deliberately tanking, so that the team will be in position for the top draft pick(s) going into the 2016 season.\u00a0 The Braves aren\u2019t the Yankees or the Dodgers, the Braves are a cheap franchise that does not like to spend money.<\/span><\/p>\n Teams that do not spend money are reliant on the draft to get quality players, and even then the Braves often times skip out on high-potential stars, because they don\u2019t want to pay them, typically opting to pick guys based on \u201csignability\u201d which is another way of saying \u201cguy who will possibly offer our less than superstar money offer.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Basically what I\u2019m really getting at here is that we\u2019re kind of at a crossroads as far as the Atlanta Braves are concerned.\u00a0 2015 was undoubtedly going to be a really, really bad season, which we all knew, but just how bad it was going to get, I don\u2019t think anyone could have predicted.<\/span><\/p>\n The team is very much alive on the futile quest for 100 losses.\u00a0 A Braves fan has\u00a0fallen to his death<\/em>\u00a0while watching a miserable team play baseball.\u00a0 If you were to ask a Braves fan \u201cthe team is going to lose 161 games this season, but if you could choose the one game they win, who would it be against?\u201d I\u2019m sure like 80% of them would have said the Yankees.\u00a0 Not only could they not get a single win against the Yankees, they allowed the Yankees to hang 20 runs in a single game, and like 38 over the three game series.\u00a0 Seriously, the last time I saw anyone hang 20 runs, was when Josh Hamilton went Hulkamania on the Baltimore Orioles and the Rangers scored like 21; but that was literally almost five years ago.\u00a0 I honestly never thought I\u2019d see the day where the Braves would have 20 runs hung on them; I\u2019ve seen them get no-hit, but never did I ever think I\u2019d see them allow 20 fucking runs, much less to the New York Yankees.<\/span><\/p>\n Either way, the Braves have somehow sunk to a level of low, that even I can\u2019t say is pathetic.\u00a0 It\u2019s actually worse than that.\u00a0 The phrases from\u00a0Fight Club<\/em>\u00a0about \u201chitting bottom\u201d kind of come to mind.\u00a0 I knew this season was going to suck, and that I would take things with a grain of salt, but after this kind of weekend, it\u2019s really making me question my allegiance to the team, because it\u2019s really sad when they can\u2019t even get right, being bad.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Impetus: The New York\u00a0Giants\u00a0Yankees complete a sweep of the Atlanta\u00a0Falcons\u00a0Braves by a score of 20-6.\u00a0 The day after a 60-year old Braves fan fell to his death from the upper deck of Turner Field, while trying to antagonize Alex Rodriguez. 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