What Sunk the Braves

October 2, 2011 by Dan Schlossberg · 2 Comments

Good teams don’t fold for no apparent reason. Though buried by the publicity piled onto the Boston Red Sox, who also slipped out of the playoff picture in September, the Atlanta Braves should have seen their slide coming. Plagued all season by an inability to score runs, the Braves plodded through the 2011 season by […]

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My Minor Thoughts on the 2010 Season

September 6, 2010 by Matt Aber · 2 Comments

Labor Day is usually seen as the last marker before the final push for a spot in the MLB post-season.Â Interest for fans hoping for a miracle or those just praying to hang on to that final spot gets turned up a notch. Â For a small niche of baseball fans though, Labor Day also marks […]

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