Atlanta Braves

[Ironhead]

I tuned in to see who was winning the Red Sox v White Sox game after it was apparent the Yankees were going to win their game against our Jays and clinch a playoff spot. I was hoping that somehow that game, Sox v Sox, would be over even though it started an hour later. For whatever reason it was not on TV. I figured it was in rain delay or was PPD. I just checked the scores and found out the White Sox won 5-4.
Anyway on the station where the Sox game was supposed to be there was an episode of This Week in Baseball. The they just happened to be crowing about the Atlanta Braves being the team of the 90s.
I have heard this before The Atlanta Braves the Team of the 90s and I said the same thing last night as I always do.

Bull-fucking-shit. What a crock !


In the 90s Atlanta won their division seven, eight times ? Five NL titles, only one WS. One
All those great teams(and I use that term lightly) and only one WS.

Hell the Jays won twice and the Yankees three times, yet Atlanta is called the team of the 90s ?

Atlanta won once, all those supposed great teams and only one WS. 1995 not even a full season yet you think it was ... I do not even know how to compare it to anything. They took advantage of a strike shortened season and finally won a WS.
Atlanta plays/played in a division that laid down for them every year.
The Mets ? Shoot themselves in the head more often then not. They are their own worst enemy.
The Phillies ? Contend for a few years then take a few years off. And they took most of the 90s off.
The Marlins ? Win WS then have a fire sale.
The Nationals ? They used to be the Expos, enough said.

Now I am not saying the Jays or the Yankees should have been the team of the 90s, but it certainly is not Atlanta.




OK rant over. Hearing that crap again just set me off.

 

[The Oracle]

You do realize that the Braves won the most games in baseball during the 90's despite being in last place in their division in 1990. Record - 925-629

Also the Expos played in the national league east while the Braves played in the national league west until 1994 when the Braves moved into the east.

And to dismiss the Expos from 1990-1995 is egregious. They were a very good team that was the favourite to win the world series in the strike year of 1994.

 

[Ironhead]

You do realize that the Braves won the most games in baseball during the 90's despite being in last place in their division in 1990. Record - 925-629

Also the Expos played in the national league east while the Braves played in the national league west until 1994 when the Braves moved into the east.

And to dismiss the Expos from 1990-1995 is egregious. They were a very good team that was the favourite to win the world series in the strike year of 1994.

Like you stated they were not in the same division during all those years.
1994 ... we will never know. How would the other MLB teams have operated if it was not a probability that there was going to be a strike ?

 

[Kissing the Pink]

Braves will be in the World Series...they've got Eric Hinske this year!!

 

[maurice93]

The Expos were the best team in 1994 and the favourite. To suggest otherwise is fucking utter stupidity.

 

[Ironhead]

The Expos were the best team in 1994 and the favourite. To suggest otherwise is fucking utter stupidity.

And look how 1994 turned out in the baseball world.

 

[maurice93]

The Division Laid down for them. That is just dumb.

Maybe you forget the 1993 Giants that won 103 games, but missed the playoffs because they were in the same division as the Braves. 92 Reds or 91 Dodgers coming off world series a few years back. Was the Marlins team that won the World Series in 1997 garbage - a team that was bought. Or the 1998 and 1999 Mets team, one of which won 97 games, and made the World Series garbage. Or the 1994 Expos. They all laid down to the Braves, right. Whatever you say.

Talking about laying down - that would be the AL East in the Jays Golden era. Other then one lucky Brewers team that won 92 games in 1992, no other team in the division won 90 games over that five year span.

 

[fatboy22]

I'm always curious as to why people dump on teams that lose championship games/series,eg Braves in the 90's,Vikings in the 70's,Broncos in the 80's
Bills in the 90's,etc.

I've always felt that before you can lose a championship game you have to GET to the championship game.And only 2 teams get that far each year.

Wayne Gretzky probably said it best..."You don't look at the out of town scoreboard 'cause you know nobody else is playing"

Another thing about the 90's....the AL was stronger.1991-1999 only the Braves in '95&Fla in "97 were NL teams that won,the rest were AL teams.