Yeah, some Atlanta fans are fickle, but I'm not. I've got season tickets, and I go whenever humanly possible. I always have and will love the Braves, win or lose (and believe me, they've done some losing, too).
Keeping Maddux looked like a mistake early on. And while Moss and Millwood are tearing things up right now, Glavine was beginning to get washed up towards the end of last season, and he's not much of a loss - though it was disappointing to see him go to the Mets, we've always known where his motives lie anyway <ahem> baseball strike <cough, cough>. I don't know that we really have much reason to regret keeping Greg Maddux for a little while longer, though; our current starters are doing incredibly well, and most of them we're hardly even paying. Whenever we seem to have a mishap in our pitching, our hitting comes through quite nicely. Though this doesn't happen all of the time, it's doing well enough to keep us in first in our division by four games and to give us the best record in baseball by a few games, atm.
You can't really insult the braves' hitting; they lead the league in batting average, runs, slugging %, hits, and RBIs. How this may change later on, I don't know, and I'll still be here talking good about us and other teams, should we just fall off the leaderboards in the next few months (I do enjoy watching Montreal and San Francisco
almost as much).
Our bullpen . . . well, it's doing . . . ok. We're getting the run support we need right now, so it's not much of an issue. When slumps start hitting, I'm hoping ol' Leo can have them squared away so they can keep us in the running.
As for our playoff hopes, sometimes we're up; sometimes we're down. I can't really explain it, but we at least have some good months to enjoy before they get here. Oh, and if anyone from Florida really wants to get into an argument about team strengths, someone else will have to handle that; I've got better things to do.
That's all I've got.