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DzynKingRTR

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That's not just a Braves thing. The Cubs are counting pennies with the hope to sign a guy like Tanner Scott, who just so happened sign with the Dodgers today.

The Dodgers is literally picking and chosing who to sign and leave the scraps for the rest of MLB. It's sickening.

I'm surprise the Dodgers have not called up MLB and have them them void Juan Soto's deal with the Mets, so that they can sign him a deferral rich deal.

I have two ideas: 1. Make the Dodgers a barnstorming team. No home games at all. They simply travel the country all season long (but only on trains, like they did back in the early part of the 1900s). 2. Split the Dodgers into two teams. One of them plays only on the road, the other at home. And the Dodgers can not rotate players between the two teams.

Obviously this is a joke, venting out frustration. MLB needs to do something about the unfair competitve advantage the Dodgers seems to enjoy.
Normally I would never hope any one would get injured, but the dodgers can all get injured. Every last one of them.
 

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My post was not about wanting them to compete with the Dodgers or Yankees but, they should be able to compete in their division. This offseason, AA basically rolled over and played dead. They are cutting salaries, when they let d’Arnaud walk I knew it was going to be a bad offseason. It just sucks because this team could have been in the NLCS/WS conversion for years to come but I guess the owners decided enough was enough. Now I doubt they are even a contender for the division title.

 

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My post was not about wanting them to compete with the Dodgers or Yankees but, they should be able to compete in their division. This offseason, AA basically rolled over and played dead. They are cutting salaries, when they let d’Arnaud walk I knew it was going to be a bad offseason. It just sucks because this team could have been in the NLCS/WS conversion for years to come but I guess the owners decided enough was enough. Now I doubt they are even a contender for the division title.

You pretty much knew when Walker Buehler’s contract with the BoSox was revealed. I’m not getting my hopes up that we get Flathery but if we do then it would put a little good will towards the season
 

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The worst part is we fall for it every single time. The Braves are Lucy with the football and we are Charlie Brown thinking she will let us kick it this time.
The one thing we got was 1991. Other than a win in the final game, I wouldn’t trade anything from that year for anything I ever had as Braves fan. That was the one year that the failure was at least acceptable and we could cope with it.
 

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The one thing we got was 1991. Other than a win in the final game, I wouldn’t trade anything from that year for anything I ever had as Braves fan. That was the one year that the failure was at least acceptable and we could cope with it.
I still say the 1991 WS is the best one ever... or at least in my lifetime.

5 One run games in a 7 game WS is crazy.

But yes also the journey of that season was incredible. I saved so many news papers from that season.

Though probably still my favorite single moment was the 1992 NLCS walkoff w/ the Sid Bream slide.
 

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I still say the 1991 WS is the best one ever... or at least in my lifetime.

5 One run games in a 7 game WS is crazy.

But yes also the journey of that season was incredible. I saved so many news papers from that season.

Though probably still my favorite single moment was the 1992 NLCS walkoff w/ the Sid Bream slide.
I remember watching that and thinking Bream looked like a wounded animal shot in the woods as he was chugging home with that limp! LOL!
 
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I still say the 1991 WS is the best one ever... or at least in my lifetime.

5 One run games in a 7 game WS is crazy.

But yes also the journey of that season was incredible. I saved so many news papers from that season.

Though probably still my favorite single moment was the 1992 NLCS walkoff w/ the Sid Bream slide.
It pains me that baseball fans today don’t have any idea what pennant races were like. They really did miss out on something similar to the do or diamond mentality that you used to be inherent in college football.

From the blockbuster signing of four free agents through Tom Glavine having his breakthrough year and first Cy Young Award, the incredible comeback against Rob Dibble that pushed the Braves into the race and racing home every night to see the 10 PM news and find out if the Braves won or lost, heart, pounding, and full of anxiety, it was a once in a lifetime experience.

And I’ll be honest with you, I could have dealt with it if the Braves had won it all in 1991 and then regressed back to being the lovable losers for a while, rather than win all of those division titles and have almost nothing to show for it.

I thought the defeat against the Blue Jays in 1992 was far more soul crushing than what happened at the hands of the twins.
 

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