Atlanta Braves Officially Out of Race Before They Are Out

The Atlanta Braves sale of Mark Teixeira for a worst first baseman, albeit cheaper, and some below average pitcher is a true sign the Braves have little interest in competing anytime soon. It is really unfortunate, too, because we fans are not used to this. We experienced more than a decade of good times, and [...]

Have The Braves Called It Quits?

At 6.5 games out of first place in a division no one wants to win, the Atlanta Braves are sitting in fourth place at the All-Star break. Clearly, it would not take much of a run to put the Braves in contention for a division title. But it will take a bunch of changes in [...]

Cover your Eyes

Before Tuesday’s debacle against the Brewers, word got out that Jeff Francoeur had done something to help his game: my interest was piqued-extra batting practice with Chipper Jones or Terry Pendleton, I wondered? No. Watching game film, then? No, not exactly. I did some research and discovered…he inserted a new contact lens into his right [...]

Crystal Ball

On March 28th, BravesNuWorld jokingly prophesized about a coming together of several worse case scenarios for the Atlanta Braves, a perfect storm of unfortunate events, a doomsday of hyperbole that couldn’t possibly come to fruition all in a single season. It was meant to be a joke. Here’s what we said, in a nutshell: “Smoltz’s [...]

Bobby’s Hat Trick?

In an ingeniously insane act of desperation, Billy Martin once employed a radical managerial tactic in order to ignite a Yankee team that was struggling to score runs, a team that was in flux–which is to say it was trying to find room for Billy’s, Reggie Jackson’s, and George Steinbrenner’s egos. Despite peals of threatening [...]

Who Wants To Throw Some Bombs At Frenchy?

Jeff Francoeur has a blog here. This is a brazen move for a Braves player right now. I found out about Frenchy’s blog from this cutesy pie. Boy Frenchy, you’ve really got it right with the headline to your most recent post. You guys really do need to start winning on the road. This isn’t [...]

Such Drama Queens!

Much like last year, 2008 has been a season rife with drama, a Doctor Jeckel and Mr. Hyde campaign mixed with a little A Tale of Two Cities: playing in Atlanta and not Atlanta. In 2007, inexplicably, they could not win at home, they scored a ton of runs with 2 outs, and they lost [...]

Bobby Cox Needs Lineup 101 Lesson

Ray and I talked about this last night, and it makes a good blog post as I sit home sick with infected ears and throat. Why in the world is Kelly Johnson batting lead-off for the Atlanta Braves? Johnson’s average is .241 and his on base percentage is a pathetic .323, and somehow Bobby Cox [...]

Bobby Cox and his Ingenious Plan

This may be too much inside baseball, but I really enjoy reading the Wall Street Journal. You will find articles in this paper that don’t get in the mainstream media monsters. In today’s Weekend Journal section, there’s a story titled “Baseball Dares to Be Different” with a few paragraphs about our beloved coach Bobby Cox. [...]

The God’s Must Still be Angry

The Atlanta Braves passed the buck once again following a hapless loss to the Marlins Tuesday night. It wasn’t the lack of patience or discipline at the plate, or the unreliable relief pitching, or uninspired managing: it was, none other than…bad luck. It’s bad. I’ll give them that. Like a Bush press conference, the post [...]