The Atlanta Braves are my home MLB group, and I’ll usually be a fan. I remember the arid years of the ‘ 80s when the Braves don’t make any secret occur. They turned items around in the’ 90s and set a new standard for viewers.  ,
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I always want to become one of those entitled activities supporters, but I haven’t seen a stop to a time that has made me wish to give up hope like this one. The Braves are 0-7 to begin the year after a West Coast road vacation, and it’s not looking all that red the day before the team’s first household activity.
Bill Shanks, who hosts a sports chat radio show on facilities in Middle and South Georgia, encapsulated this dreadful stop to the time in a blog on X. ( It’s a long post, so you’ll have to click” show more”. )
In the last seven time, here is what has happened to the Atlanta ,# Braves:
0-7
14 runs scored
33 touches
.151 batting common
Shut out half
Scored one move in a sport half
The pitching blew three sports
Their original 8th round installation man, Hector Neris, failed and was DFA’d …
— BillShanks ( @BillShanks ) April 3, 2025
Rods was a guest on the night show on my favorite athletics talk place, and he wonderfully reflected the angry sadness of Braves fans everyday. He told hosts David Johnston and Logan Booker that he started his show Monday singing” Tomorrow” from” Annie” but that he’s even lost that hope.
” When a 55-year-old heterosexual man is singing show rhythms on sports television, things aren’t going well”, Shanks quipped.
Here’s a flavor of how badly things have gone this year. On Monday, right-handed cup Reynaldo Lopez went on the injured record and will probably miss many times. The same day, left fielder Jurickson Profar received an 80-game expulsion for infraction of Major League Baseball’s performance-enhancing drug plan.
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Speech from the Atlanta Braves: photograph. twitter.com/KOplY13FuA— Atlanta Braves ( @Braves ) March 31, 2025
Sixty activities. Sigh.
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Starting throwing has been good, but relief pitchers have been a substantial issue so far this season. The strikes haven’t come, and the staff also blew a five-run guide on Wednesday evening. It’s dirty.
To add insult to injury, the team’s possession put out a fairly tone-deaf media release on Wednesday, announcing that Atlanta Braves Holdings, Inc. acquired an office building. Womp womp.
I asked PJ Media’s native expert on open relationships, Scott Pinsker, what he thought about the news from a PR view. Scott and I agreed that the media release wasn’t geared toward Raiders fans and that the expected market was the local business community, but that didn’t stop the grumbling throughout Braves Country.
” Typically, when you sell a story to your lover center, you have more thrilling language &, rely on the fan knowledge”, Scott told me. ” But it sounds like the Braves anticipated the fan blowback — the’ Gimme a shortstop, not a building ‘ crowd — and tried to low-key it”.
Shanks posted on X on Thursday morning:
There is no doubt that property acquisitions and expanding the portfolio is part of the job of# Braves executives to make the company more profitable and more appealing to stockholders.  ,
However, to announce the property acquisition the morning after the team had moved to 0-6, after so many were already questioning ownership regarding the lack of activity to improve the team over the offseason, was a tremendous error in judgement]sic]. Read the room.  ,
Any crisis management team should have known this announcement would not have gone over well, and, like it or not, would have been connected to the team’s already abysmal week and the questions about not putting more of the unbelievable revenue toward the payroll.  ,
Basically, fair or not, many are going to say,” Wait, you can’t afford to sign a new shortstop or to replace the injured Joe Jimenez with an established 8th inning setup man, or to re-sign Max Fried or appropriately replace him, but you can purchase an office complex” ? ,
It might not matter as much if the team had a better record, but this adds to perhaps one of the worst weeks in the history of this franchise.
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The word that keeps coming to my lips is “hapless”. The team is hapless. The owners are hapless. When your team is off to a 0-7 start, it’s easy to lose hope, and I’m afraid it’s going to be a long, miserable season for Braves fans. At least my Georgia Bulldogs are the# 3 team in college baseball.
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