I’ve been on this earth for 28 years, and the Braves have made it to the playoffs 16 times. I’m a lucky guy. Those of you who started rooting for the Braves before I was born had a much tougher row to hoe. I think I probably took the playoffs for granted in the early 2000s, when it seemed like we had the division title as our birthright but could never get past the Division Series. Now I don’t take it for granted.
Neither did these guys.
Jayson Stark @jaysonst
Fredi Gonzalez says protest already has been denied by MLB.
Fyi – the protest has already been denied as I understand it.
I think it was ruled on before they resumed play.
Reddick
Cespesdes
Ugh. I can picture a couple of those super young awesome starting pitchers, but …
Crisp, there’s another…
McCarthy, he’s hurt, but he’s one.
And that’s it. Well played, @491
I suppose the one high-profile person who’s in perfect position to air out MLB is Chipper. Here’s hoping he does.
Even if the call isn’t made, do you really think this team would have gotten a key hit? They were going to figure out a way to lose regardless. And, maybe this is actually a more fitting way for Chipper to go out since the Braves spent most of his career figuring out ways to lose playoff games. If this was a series, I’m sure the Braves would have lost.
But I hate the Cardinals. I will now go to the playoff game here and gladly root against the scumbag Cardinals.
Jarrod Parker, Dan Straily, Ryan Cook, Derek Norris, Josh Donaldson!!!
There has to be some kind of tipping point where MLB will start to lose fans with these playoff structure shenanigans.
Dude, the NFL hasn’t lost any fans yet. MLB is unassailable.
Why do people hate the Cardinals? It’s not like their fans throw batteries at the players.
I hate this format. I hate having teams 7 games over .500 in the playoffs after playing an unbalanced schedule in a division with two 100 loss teams. I hate that one blown call can send a team home because there’s only one game. I hate that legitimate protests are never seriously considered.
The problems here are MLB problems. I have no problem with the team that happens to benefit.
I don’t know who those people are!!!
Lol. Ah well. This is Atlanta sports. Embrace it. There’s always next year.
You know, I think I might miss Mac the most this time of year. He was the perfect administrator of the Braves Journal support group.
I’m tired of the Cardinals’ Red Brick Road. How lucky is this team? Braves collapse is the only reason they get into the postseason in 2011. MLB changing its rules is the only reason they get into the playoffs this year. Holbrook thinking a ball fifty feet out of the infield is on the infield. As Olney wrote on Twitter:
“Nelson Cruz now wondering why infield fly wasn’t call on David Freese’s game-tying hit in Game 6 last year.”
Everything on a silver platter for this team.
Go Nationals.
The game of baseball is awesome. Major League Baseball, however, not so much.
The Cardinals are like the NY Giants. Fuck around during the season, squeeze into the playoffs and get hot. I hate this-it’s not just that the Braves lost; it’s that the regular season means nothing. I hate it when it happens in the NCAA tournament.
This was totally predictable when they came up with this structure. But I guess Bud is happy.
Fuck this game (as in today’s game, not baseball in general). Fuck shitty umpires with massive egos and the union that protects them. And Fuck MLB and the spineless cowards in the front office that won’t stand up to them.
The regular season will always mean nothing to all but one team…unless you just want them to stop playing at the end of the season and give out trophies.
Honestly, I thought this was an 85 win team at best. And I still think that. Our offense is terrible. We overachieved for a good part of the year. But there’s lots of teams better than us. One of them will win the World Series. As long as it’s not the Yankees then I can deal with that.
So I just got in. Guess I saw all the good bits?
@506, We need a “Where do we go from here?” post, stat.
I don’t object to losing a one-game elimination contest. It’s the umpiring that’s beyond insulting.
The A’s are good–Griffin and Parker are great, and they may be getting Anderson back. The bullpen is sick. And the Carter/Cespedes/Reddick/Moss group is very good, while Smith, Crisp, and Drew are solid complementary pieces.
Go A’s!
I just have this feeling that the Cardinals are going to make another run. And I hate that. They should not even be in the playoffs.
All I know is that this game sucked and that I totally despise all of our announcers. The best part of tonight was the fans throwing stuff. That was the only bright spot in an otherwise complete and total choke-fest.
Is it possible this was the 2012 disaster the Mayan calendar was talking about?
“I just have this feeling that the Cardinals are going to make another run. And I hate that. They should not even be in the playoffs.”
Maybe Selig can expand the playoffs to eight teams per league this offseason, and the Cardinals can get in with the eighth-best record in 2013.
Recapped.