Mariners/Braves Difference

[Mondo Jay]

MLB didn't do the Mariners any favors with only one off day in September and that brutal road trip cross-country to finish the season.

 

[cezero]

MLB didn't do the Mariners any favors with only one off day in September and that brutal road trip cross-country to finish the season.

would've been even less of a favor to have them play a bunch more at home in SEP

 

[Chewbaccer]

To be fair, Wren was given a much longer leash than I cared for.

Seemed like every move he made as a GM went sour. Signed Derek Lowe to a 4 year deal, and paid him more per season than Chipper ever made. Traded for Dan uggla then signed him to a 5 year, 13 million a year deal. Then signed BJ Upton for 5 years, 75 million, the biggest contract the Braves had given an outfielder.

While the Braves are a young team, those 3 moves alone set the franchise back. Really the only move that worked in our favor was the Justin Upton trade.

The Braves as a franchise are guilty of being too loyal at times.

I miss the days of John Schuerholz as GM where seemingly every move turned to gold.

 

[NWinAZ]

Still hard to argue with 3 2nd place finishes and a 1st place finish...at least from a fan of a team who still celebrates a team 13 years later that didn't win it all.

Schuerholz was a stud. Hard to compare all that follow to him.

 

[wazzu31]

Very well put.

Sometimes, firing a manager is merely a PR stunt for an indifferent front office to get media/fans off their backs over poor performance. That's not the case with ATL.

Our beat writers/media personalities either pander to the M's organization, or don't care much about baseball compared to other sports. You won't find many who dare to criticize the priorities of the our ownership more than maybe with a tepid article or two in the offseason. It's not like that in real sports towns with storied pasts and fans hungry for wins.

I was hoping that the Squawks win would elevate Seattle to becoming a real sports town again like it was for a time in the 90s, but I guess it's still not enough to make this a baseball town.

The problem is that whenever a beat writer writes anything negative there is a huge backlash from the organization. The only beat writer that did anything worth while was Geoff Baker but he got blackballed by the Mariners organization for calling out Howard and Chuck for the comments about profit or winning, his big piece on the Mariners cutting payroll to sell the team and the Cliff Lee trade scandal etc and it became really hard to believe all of his stories because they were mostly unnamed sources whenever he wrote a real story.