August 7, 200422 yr I hate saying this, but the fact is right now the Braves are playing the best baseball. They have the best record since the all start break and they do not show any signs of slowing down. We are already too far behind them to hope and catch them, we would need to win 7 more games than they do the rest of the way, so barring a disaster on the Braves team I don't see that happening. I think our best shot at making the playoffs is the wildcard, we are 5.5 games out of the WildCard and we play many of the teams ahead of us in the WC in the coming weeks.
August 7, 200422 yr How long have you watched Braves Baseball? Since the early 90's, they have always sparked off like this and then they cool down. The difference this year is that instead of being 10-15 games out, the competition is 5-7 games out.
August 7, 200422 yr Thats wishful thinking that the braves will 'cool off'. I believe the wild card isnt going to happen b/c we need too many teams to start losing, and we dont control our own destiny there. We play the braves 6 more games, we need to win the majority of those games to have any chance of even thinking of going to the playoffs. And even though we have won 2 in a row, we need to mount a much larger run, not win 2 lose 3, win 4, lose 5. We need a 9 of 10 run or sumthin down those lines to get us back in the thick of it.
August 7, 200422 yr How long have you watched Braves Baseball? Since the early 90's, they have always sparked off like this and then they cool down. The difference this year is that instead of being 10-15 games out, the competition is 5-7 games out. 500403[/snapback] I've watched them for 12 years now
August 7, 200422 yr Damn you Jaret Wright. :thumbdown Can't Mike Hampton suck more for his $10 million marlins paycheck.
August 7, 200422 yr Thats wishful thinking that the braves will 'cool off'. I believe the wild card isnt going to happen b/c we need too many teams to start losing, and we dont control our own destiny there. We play the braves 6 more games, we need to win the majority of those games to have any chance of even thinking of going to the playoffs. And even though we have won 2 in a row, we need to mount a much larger run, not win 2 lose 3, win 4, lose 5. We need a 9 of 10 run or sumthin down those lines to get us back in the thick of it. 500412[/snapback] Realistically, we would have to go 5-1 against the Braves to cut their lead significantly. The Braves have been 8-2 of the last ten for the past month. We really need run of 9 or 10 wins just to catch up a few games. All this doesn't seem very likely, but if nothing else, this team is fun to watch again. :thumbup
August 7, 200422 yr in the title, I assume you mean "Atlanta Braves: Marlins of 2003" if thats what you mean, that is laughable they dont have the magic like we did.... that being said, they could still win the WS
August 7, 200422 yr The Braves won't win the WS....if they get to the playoffs....there's far too many better teams out there.
August 7, 200422 yr They'll get into the playoffs and get knocked out in the NLDS.... again. Their regular season performance can never be a judge of how they'll do in the post season, they've played like this EVERY SINGLE SEASON for the past 12 years and if anything they have an even less chance of going far this year as opposed to others.
August 8, 200422 yr Braves aren't the Marlins and should never be compared to the Fish because THEY CHOKE IN THE POSTSEASON!
August 8, 200422 yr Fish have won the world series every year they finish above .500. The Braves can't say that.
August 8, 200422 yr I hate saying this, but the fact is right now the Braves are playing the best baseball. They have the best record since the all start break and they do not show any signs of slowing down. We are already too far behind them to hope and catch them, we would need to win 7 more games than they do the rest of the way, so barring a disaster on the Braves team I don't see that happening. I think our best shot at making the playoffs is the wildcard, we are 5.5 games out of the WildCard and we play many of the teams ahead of us in the WC in the coming weeks. 500402[/snapback] Braves fans were probably saying the same thing 2 months ago about themselves...they were more than 6 games back and are now 5 or so up in that short of a time span...it can happen.
August 8, 200422 yr They'll get into the playoffs and get knocked out in the NLDS.... again. Their regular season performance can never be a judge of how they'll do in the post season, they've played like this EVERY SINGLE SEASON for the past 12 years and if anything they have an even less chance of going far this year as opposed to others. 500761[/snapback] Bad managing. Screw the wild card. If we don't knock the Braves down this year of all years..
August 8, 200422 yr Fish have won the world series every year they finish above .500. The Braves can't say that. 501391[/snapback] yeah, but the marlins have only finished above 500 twice. after one of those winning seasons we finished with 108 losses.
August 8, 200422 yr There is plenty of baseball to play, if we can gain a game a week on the Braves then we can win the divisoin. Hopefully though the Braves will start to lose and we will continue our run.
August 8, 200422 yr Ugh.... stupid Braves. I hope Chipper chokes on Hooters food. 501548[/snapback] Hooters....you mean Gold Club :shifty Same can go for Andruw.
August 8, 200422 yr :blink: HOW IS A FRICKIN' CARTOON CHARACTER KITTY COOL?!!?!?!?!?!? :blink: :mad : Yeah so anyway.... :whistle
August 8, 200422 yr Bah.... it's my avatar. I don't care what ya think anyways. Honestly, I chose it because it reminds me of my niece. She loves Hello Kitty. But that's way off the subject. Back to the Marlins.
August 8, 200422 yr Bet you most of the players wouldn't know what to make of Hello Kitty. Luis would call it "dude". Miggy would say something that would take a minute or two to process after thinking about that accent. Jack would mispronounce "Kitty" for an hour and just call it "Kite-ie" and JP would make a rap song as follows: You are white, like a snow flake Yo' name is Hello Kitty, sweety cake Girls like to play with you Your best outfit is blue Cause it shows off your heart :notworthy
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