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trevols81 said:
That is nothing to be proud of.

Metopolitan Atlanta has rougnly 5.2 million people. The entire state of Minnesota is just about the same. The fact that the Twins top Atlanta in attendance is just sad.
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Everybody that lives in Minnesota is from Minnesota, so they all grew up Twins fans. Out of the five million people who live in Atlanta, four million are transplants from somewhere else, mostly the north. They're Yankees and Mets and Phillies and Red Sox and Indians and Cubs fans, not Braves fans, and they're raising their kids to root for the same teams.

The southerners here are really into college football, since that's about all they grew up with. The northern transplants are into pro sports, but they've kept their allegiances to their northern teams. Despite the area's now-massive population, there just aren't very many local sports fans who grew up in the area, rooted for the local teams, watched the games with their dads growing up, etc.

It's a fun city to be a sports fan in because you're constantly running into fans of other teams from everywhere. If you're in a bar and the Braves are playing the Mets or Phillies on TV, there are always going to be Mets or Phillies fans in the room. People here care a lot about sports -- just not that much about the local pro teams.
 
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Travis is an idiot. Today he was talking crazy. Brent and Blaine could not convince him to give Martin a chance. I can't beleive he is a Vol fan. He sounds like a KY hoops fan. Their show is better than listening to Darren McFarland. Go Vols!!!
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MiddleVol said:
Put it this way, if Nashville had a chance to trade franchises with Milwaukee where Milwaukee would get the Predators and Nashville would get the Brewers-- throw in the Sounds and Admirals for good measure--and put it to a vote, it would be approved by at least 75%.
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That is absolutely ridiculous.
 
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awebb7 said:
That is absolutely ridiculous.
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I would swap for a MLB team here in Nashville and move the preds somewhere else. Although I'm a braves fan I would love to be at a MLB baseball game downtown Nashville on a hot summer night!!
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Vercingetorix said:
Everybody that lives in Minnesota is from Minnesota, so they all grew up Twins fans. Out of the five million people who live in Atlanta, four million are transplants from somewhere else, mostly the north. They're Yankees and Mets and Phillies and Red Sox and Indians and Cubs fans, not Braves fans, and they're raising their kids to root for the same teams.

The southerners here are really into college football, since that's about all they grew up with. The northern transplants are into pro sports, but they've kept their allegiances to their northern teams. Despite the area's now-massive population, there just aren't very many local sports fans who grew up in the area, rooted for the local teams, watched the games with their dads growing up, etc.

It's a fun city to be a sports fan in because you're constantly running into fans of other teams from everywhere. If you're in a bar and the Braves are playing the Mets or Phillies on TV, there are always going to be Mets or Phillies fans in the room. People here care a lot about sports -- just not that much about the local pro teams.
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That explaination does make a lot of sense. I had not considered all the transplants that are relatively new to the area.

In Alabama if you are into baseball then I say it is, roughly, a 70% chance that you root for the Braves. This has to do with the fact that there are only 3 MLB teams in the entire southeast and 2 of 3 have only been around since 1993 and 1998, respectively. The Braves are one of the only, if not the sole pro sport team of the 4 major sports in the country who have more fans that live in neighboring states than in the city where they play.
 
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trevols81 said:
That explaination does make a lot of sense. I had not considered all the translants that are relatively new to the area.
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The transplant thing can't be overstated. I went to a party at a neighbor's house this weekend, and out of about 18-20 people from the neighborhood, my wife and I were the only two people who are even originally from the south. The men spent half an hour talking about baseball at one point, but it was all Yankees/Sox and the Phillies' rotation. The Braves didn't even come up.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
The transplant thing can't be overstated. I went to a party at a neighbor's house this weekend, and out of about 18-20 people from the neighborhood, my wife and I were the only two people who are even originally from the south. The men spent half an hour talking about baseball at one point, but it was all Yankees/Sox and the Phillies' rotation. The Braves didn't even come up.
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Common occurrence. grew up in Decatur/Stone Mountain,
People would always ask me where I was from, and were surprised when I said Atlanta. most of my childhood friends parents were from Ohio.
 
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Atlanta is an interesting sports city. I've been here 26 years...wow, don't say that out loud. There's a solid core of Braves fans from the many native southerners here that still remember the god-awful 80's but loved Aaron, Niekro, Ernie Johnson and all things Braves. The Falcons are popular now and are developing a sustainable fan base - they've been mediocre for so long that they've been tough to follow. It's a college town. And tough for a UT fan, but...it's great to be a Tennessee Volunteer.
 
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MikeHamiltonFan said:
Clay Travis has lost all shreds of credibility he had wrapped around himself.

He went to Vandy, worked as a lawyer and then pretended to be a journalist for a minute.

Your book sold less copies than a biography of a T Ball star.
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Any idea where I can get a copy of that book...it sounds interesting? (I'm talking about the T Ball star book of course).
 
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atlantavol62 said:
Atlanta is an interesting sports city. I've been here 26 years...wow, don't say that out loud. There's a solid core of Braves fans from the many native southerners here that still remember the god-awful 80's but loved Aaron, Niekro, Ernie Johnson and all things Braves. The Falcons are popular now and are developing a sustainable fan base - they've been mediocre for so long that they've been tough to follow. It's a college town. And tough for a UT fan, but...it's great to be a Tennessee Volunteer.
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I grew up a Braves fan because of my older cousin who was a gigantic Braves fan. I watched the Braves as a young kid, not even realizing the complete futility of the organization. Thinking I was Dale Murphy hitting the game winning home run in the bottom of the ninth off Nolan Ryan.

I can vividly remember Sid Bream sliding safely into home to take us to the World Series. Jack Morris and Kirby Puckett be damned but that was a great time to be a Braves fan.

All the appearances in the Series during the nineties and the championship over Cleveland will never amount to the joy I felt going from worst to first in '91.

It is still hard to believe that more Atlanta natives don't feel the same way I do.
 
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Clay Travis is just an ordinary fan who has no training in sports managment, broadcasting, etc.
It was entertaining when he first came up (ClayNation, with cbssports). But when you put someone like that on the spot every day and they're expected to entertain, they tend to turn to shock and awe. It grows old very quick and he will eventually be replaced.
 
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trevols81 said:
I grew up a Braves fan because of my older cousin who was a gigantic Braves fan. I watched the Braves as a young kid, not even realizing the complete futility of the organization. Thinking I was Dale Murphy hitting the game winning home run in the bottom of the ninth off Nolan Ryan.

I can vividly remember Sid Bream sliding safely into home to take us to the World Series. Jack Morris and Kirby Puckett be damned but that was a great time to be a Braves fan.

All the appearances in the Series during the nineties and the championship over Cleveland will never amount to the joy I felt going from worst to first in '91.

It is still hard to believe that more Atlanta natives don't feel the same way I do.
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It's not that Atlanta natives don't feel that way; it's that there aren't that many Atlanta natives to begin with. I'd guess that 80 to 90 percent of the people I run into in town (including myself) lived somewhere else in 1991.
 
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mikehamiltonfan said:
clay travis has lost all shreds of credibility he had wrapped around himself.

He went to vandy, worked as a lawyer and then pretended to be a journalist for a minute.

At this point he should be unmasked for what he is, a bitter and emotional and delusional pearl fan. He made retarded statements in the media about the pearl firing and now he has attacked coach martin more than pearl's son.

Clay, you have a good looking wife. Unfortunately that is about the only thing you have going for you. Your book sold less copies than a biography of a t ball star. Anytime you are on the radio i will change the station. I did not regularly support your pathetic website by viewing your tripe, but i guarantee i will not be reading it in the future no matter what outrageous and stupid thing you say.
And if you dare to try to suck up to coach martin after he starts to suceed at tn, i hope he rips you in a way that makes the "i'm a man" speech seem tame.
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ditto......
 
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Vercingetorix said:
It's not that Atlanta natives don't feel that way; it's that there aren't that many Atlanta natives to begin with. I'd guess that 80 to 90 percent of the people I run into in town (including myself) lived somewhere else in 1991.
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I don't disagree with you but it is hard to believe that the population of this metropolis of the south has soared 1000% since '91.

I could be wrong, though.
 
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HendersonVol said:
I lived in Atlanta. The braves are a good product and it's so difficult to get around downtown that the city doesn't support them.
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Its not that. We've only recently overcome the hangover brought about by a decade of being just out of reach of relevance.

The Phillies' run has given the fan base a good shot, as has the good crop of new players in the past three years.

If they can manage to stay relevant-to-hot past the start of SEC fall practice, then the fans will come. Make no mistake though, this city will always put SEC football #1.
 
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trevols81 said:
I don't disagree with you but it is hard to believe that the population of this metropolis of the south has soared 1000% since '91.

I could be wrong, though.
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The actual population of the metro area has roughly doubled or tripled in the last 20 years. But the qualifier "of the people I run into" is an important one. I'm a middle-aged, middle-class guy and that's the demographic that seems to have exploded in the last couple of decades on the north side of town. That's where all the northerners who've moved south live; those are the people I run into. It's not a representative sample of the entire metro area by any means, but I think it is a pretty good one of the demographic that generally buys sports tickets. And mostly these guys are rooting for other teams.

Meanwhile there are huge, heavily populated poor areas in the south half of the metro area where it looks like the boom of the last 20 years never happened. From the standpoint of "why can't Atlanta sell out baseball games?", these folks basically don't count, because most of them are too poor to think about going to games.
 
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trevols81 said:
I don't disagree with you but it is hard to believe that the population of this metropolis of the south has soared 1000% since '91.

I could be wrong, though.
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I'm not from Atlanta, but I've been a Braves fan since the early 80's due to TBS. Atlanta is full of people just like me (and a CRAPLOAD of Cubs and Cards fans from points midwest). I follow the Braves slightly less closely than UT athletics.

Its just next to impossible for me to make a playoff game on a weekday with a family and a career, let alone 81 home games.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
The actual population of the metro area has roughly doubled or tripled in the last 20 years. But the qualifier "of the people I run into" is an important one. I'm a middle-aged, middle-class guy and that's the demographic that seems to have exploded in the last couple of decades on the north side of town. That's where all the northerners who've moved south live; those are the people I run into. It's not a representative sample of the entire metro area by any means, but I think it is a pretty good one of the demographic that generally buys sports tickets. And mostly these guys are rooting for other teams.

Meanwhile there are huge, heavily populated poor areas in the south half of the metro area where it looks like the boom of the last 20 years never happened. From the standpoint of "why can't Atlanta sell out baseball games?", these folks basically don't count, because most of them are too poor to think about going to games.
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Extraordinarily good point, King of Gaul.
 
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vol-un-tear said:
Travis is an idiot. Today he was talking crazy. Brent and Blaine could not convince him to give Martin a chance. I can't beleive he is a Vol fan. He sounds like a KY hoops fan. Their show is better than listening to Darren McFarland. Go Vols!!!
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He was even doing the C-A-T-S, Cats, Cats, Cats! Cheer.

A total d--- move, but he's crazy like a fox. Its irritating, but he is driving ratings.

It will drive ratings even more if Cuonzo can make him eat his hat.
 
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