Kirby tries to hijack the Braves

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volfanbill said:
TBS made the Braves the team of the Southeast before the Marlins or Rays existed. And minus small pieces of geography in Florida, the Braves still are.

And I don’t like the Braves, I’m just answering the guy’s question
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Haha, the Marlins?? They have fans?

The answer is easy. Is the same one to why are there so many cubs fans in Iowa? Caridinals fans in Arkansas? Reds fans in Kentucky? Red Sox fans in NH, VT, ME?
 
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There’s one BIG difference. The Braves can actually win a championship. Snit catches a lot of heat but he was about as masterful as you can be against that offense.

Y’all are so hung up on Georgia winning but Kirby still has to make critical calls late. I don’t think they’ll get by Bama let alone win it all.
 
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golfballs said:
Haha, the Marlins?? They have fans?

The answer is easy. Is the same one to why are there so many cubs fans in Iowa? Caridinals fans in Arkansas? Reds fans in Kentucky? Red Sox fans in NH, VT, ME?
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I heard you could pay 5$ and sit where you want at a Marlins game.
 
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Dudleys87 said:
I heard you could pay 5$ and sit where you want at a Marlins game.
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Wouldn’t surprise me. The Marlins and Rays both have poor attendance. I watched the Royals play the Rays on back to back days in 2017 when I was in St. Petersburg on a work trip. Nice stadium but very few people were there.
 
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Plecoptera said:
Wouldn’t surprise me. The Marlins and Rays both have poor attendance. I watched the Royals play the Rays on back to back days in 2017 when I was in St. Petersburg on a work trip. Nice stadium but very few people were there.
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Miami and Tampa teams are like USCw. The attendance goes up only win they’re winning and it’s meaningful. Otherwise they don’t care it’s a social scene to them.
 
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unfrozencvmanvol said:
This is where I hate the guy. I think it's pretty stupid to try and sell the story that he's a bad coach at this point, but what a slimy move. The Braves are the South's team, not Georgia's. Almost everyone in Tennessee is a Braves fan.

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I live in Tennessee and I've been a Braves fan since the Dale Murphy era. Even if Nashville or Memphis ever get an MLB team I will still be a Braves fan. It's just too engrained in me.
 
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Godfatha said:
Reds fan here, too. The first MLB game I attended was a Reds game when I was in the 6th grade. Pete Rose got the hit record against the Padres in that game.

The Reds were just as close to Knoxville as the Braves were. And I got turned off by having the Braves shoved down our throat, when they were just a team from Atlanta to me.
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The Braves sucked the first 25 years they were in Atlanta. It was almost a joke that they were on tv almost every night and they were so bad. Ted's bravado when he played manager was a spectacle which served to give more attention to America's hapless team (brilliant marketing, actually). Anyone remember Ralph Garr? Bob Horner? Al Hrabosky? Heck, I remember Chief Nokahoma, dancing around the pitcher's mound before the first pittch, then dead-sprinting to his teepee under the left field foul pole. Good times.
 
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Plecoptera said:
Wouldn’t surprise me. The Marlins and Rays both have poor attendance. I watched the Royals play the Rays on back to back days in 2017 when I was in St. Petersburg on a work trip. Nice stadium but very few people were there.
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I don't even live in Florida, but have also attended probably 20 games at the venue. Always had a good time.

Part of the problem though is that the stadium was not built for the Rays. The stadium was built in the late 80s or early 90s when the Giants were posturing to move to Tampa.

Of course the Rays want their own stadium.

One of the big problems they have is that such a huge percentage of the population in Tampa would be transplants and most already have a team. When the rays are playing the Yankees or Red Sox, place has good attendance. Otherwise, not so much.
 
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I was born at a perfect time and place to be a Braves fan. Born in the early 90s in Chattanooga and they were the team of the 90s, at least in the NL they were.
 
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volfanbill said:
TBS made the Braves the team of the Southeast before the Marlins or Rays existed. And minus small pieces of geography in Florida, the Braves still are.

And I don’t like the Braves, I’m just answering the guy’s question
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It isn't just TBS. It's the fact that your parents could take you to the games, The players would come to your city for autograph signings. You got a chance to feel connected to the team and players.

People who think it started just because the games were put on TV don't really see what happened.
 
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unfrozencvmanvol said:
This is where I hate the guy. I think it's pretty stupid to try and sell the story that he's a bad coach at this point, but what a slimy move. The Braves are the South's team, not Georgia's. Almost everyone in Tennessee is a Braves fan.

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I don’t see anything wrong with this or let it upset me. It would be the same as Heupel doing the same if the Titans won the SB. No big deal.
 
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ABINGDON VOL FAN said:
I don’t see anything wrong with this or let it upset me. It would be the same as Heupel doing the same if the Titans won the SB. No big deal.
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It's not the same to me. If you disagree that's fine but imo the Titans are a very Tennessee centric team. The Braves have nationwide fans because of the TBS days and at a minimum are the MLB team of a broad region of the South. The Braves don't belong just to Georgia. That map somebody posted above says it all, there are a solid 5+ states that the the Braves are the most popular MLB team. I don't appreciate bowl cut trying to appropriate their championship.
 
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vollygirl said:
It isn't just TBS. It's the fact that your parents could take you to the games, The players would come to your city for autograph signings. You got a chance to feel connected to the team and players.

People who think it started just because the games were put on TV don't really see what happened.
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They didn’t go to nearly the amount of cities that TBS put them in front of. Never once to my knowledge did they come to the Tri Cities or much of anywhere in NC. I’m sure that’s the same for most places not in GA or easy driving distance. My parents never took me to games. My grandparents had quite the tradition of watching EVERY single game on TBS. Never once went. I get what you’re trying to say, but Chattanooga is essentially right outside Atlanta. (Less than 2 1/2 hours). I’m in the Nationals media market here in NC, but I can promise you this is still Braves country.
 
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unfrozencvmanvol said:
It's not the same to me. If you disagree that's fine but imo the Titans are a very Tennessee centric team. The Braves have nationwide fans because of the TBS days and at a minimum are the MLB team of a broad region of the South. The Braves don't belong just to Georgia. That map somebody posted above says it all, there are a solid 5+ states that the the Braves are the most popular MLB team. I don't appreciate bowl cut trying to appropriate their championship.
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Should they have run the WS parade route through Alabama to MS then back up to Tennessee and parts of KY? After all it’s the south East’s team. Not Atlanta’s
 
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It's not the same to me. If you disagree that's fine but imo the Titans are a very Tennessee centric team. The Braves have nationwide fans because of the TBS days and at a minimum are the MLB team of a broad region of the South. The Braves don't belong just to Georgia. That map somebody posted above says it all, there are a solid 5+ states that the the Braves are the most popular MLB team. I don't appreciate bowl cut trying to appropriate their championship.
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I think you're just kind of embarrassing yourself here. FWIW. You're the post-world-series fun police.
 
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Growing up in East TN (1960s and 70s) it was all Braves down around Chattanooga, but once I got to Knoxville in the late 1970s I was amazed how many Reds fans there were. I think the Knoxville TV stations even carried the Reds games.
 
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BigorangeBoy said:
Growing up in East TN (1960s and 70s) it was all Braves down around Chattanooga, but once I got to Knoxville in the late 1970s I was amazed how many Reds fans there were. I think the Knoxville TV stations even carried the Reds games.
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I’d say the Reds were #2 growing up in the 80s and early 90s in Upper East Tennessee, but it was an unbelievably distant second. Then when the Yankees got good again, Yankee fans came outta nowhere
 
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unfrozencvmanvol said:
It's not the same to me. If you disagree that's fine but imo the Titans are a very Tennessee centric team. The Braves have nationwide fans because of the TBS days and at a minimum are the MLB team of a broad region of the South. The Braves don't belong just to Georgia. That map somebody posted above says it all, there are a solid 5+ states that the the Braves are the most popular MLB team. I don't appreciate bowl cut trying to appropriate their championship.
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From the same state, so…🤷
I think you should lighten up.
 
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unfrozencvmanvol said:
This is where I hate the guy. I think it's pretty stupid to try and sell the story that he's a bad coach at this point, but what a slimy move. The Braves are the South's team, not Georgia's. Almost everyone in Tennessee is a Braves fan.

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When I was a kid, MLB did not exist south of Cincy or west of St Louis. The Nashville Vols played in Sulphur Dell and Tennessee fans who followed MLB kind of fell into two camps, West Tennessee followed the Cardinals. The rest of the state followed the Reds. My grandparents, Nashville residents, had been life long Reds fans, since before ww1, often going to Cincy for games. When the Braves moved to Atl they were overjoyed and starting listening to the Braves radio telecasts. They followed the Braves the rest of their lives good times and bad.
 
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orangepridenation said:
In West TN it is. I live in the Memphis area. Around here I see more Cards fans. The more rural areas farther out might tilt more for the Braves, but I know there are a ton of Cards fans in my hometown a couple hours northeast of here.
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Memphis is home to the AAA Cardinals, produces some cardinal fans
 
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Otis1105 said:
Should they have run the WS parade route through Alabama to MS then back up to Tennessee and parts of KY? After all it’s the south East’s team. Not Atlanta’s
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That parade added serious time my Florida run. It was so backed up in Atlanta I was only passed by one Dodge Challenger. I doubt he was breaking 40mph but still going 3x the speed of everyone else.

This has regrettably only added to my utter hatred of the state of Georgia.
 
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