To say the least, the Braves season has taken a tailspin. After the blowout yesterday I'm starting to think that pythageras might be catching up with them. But who knows?
You can blame who you want...Andruw, Davies, Woodward, or even Bobby Cox. The fact is that something is missing. Or maybe, just maybe, that something that is missing is not a something but a someone. What do I mean by that? Two words:
The first is Chipper. The second is Jones.
Chipper Jones.
Fact: The Braves have won a grand total of 4 games (This was typed before today's game was finished. The Braves are currently up on the Brewers 2-1) since the day Chipper took that spill with Batista against the Pirates. From now on that incident will be known as the Batista plunge.
After Chipper tumbled to the ground...the rest of the Braves followed. You hear all this talk about how 1 man can't make that much of a difference. How locker room leadership doesn't really exist...it's all about how they perform on the field.
We're 4-10 since the Batista plunge. We're 4-10 without CJ the past week and a half. Is there more to why the Braves are plummeting? Sure. But I won't get into all that now. I just want to keep repeating that record...4-10 since chipper hurt his palms/thumbs/whatever it was he hurt on his hand.
You never really know how much someone means to you until you have to survive without them.
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