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God forbid consecutive extremely close losses on the  to the best team in the NL and one of the top World Series contenders.

We gave the Braves everything they could handle and more, but someone has to win every day. We were a few pitches away from sweeping a juggernaut on the road, but now the sky is falling. 

Some of you are comically irrational. Get a grip - it's May, and most of you thought we'd stink anyway.

Flame away.

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God forbid consecutive extremely close losses on the  to the best team in the NL and one of the top World Series contenders. We gave the Braves everything they could handle and more, but someone

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It was a frustrating weekend. I think what's not being talked about here is the fear that this start is a mirage...that it's a little too good to be true.  That we're more like a 75 win team and

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Well this was the wakeup call I needed.  Thanks for setting me straight.

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4 minutes ago, Sanfran327 said:

God forbid consecutive extremely close losses on the  to the best team in the NL and one of the top World Series contenders.

We gave the Braves everything they could handle and more, but someone has to win every day. We were a few pitches away from sweeping a juggernaut on the road, but now the sky is falling. 

Some of you are comically irrational. Get a grip - it's May, and most of you thought we'd stink anyway.

Flame away.

Shoulda seen the game thread (if you didn't).  

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5 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

It’s not just here.

I'm certain it's not. I'm not an active Twitter guy, but I do scroll by a lot of doomsday posts on Facebook. 

I guess the differences are that a) this board is held to a much higher standard and b) it's the only source of O's information and conversation that I care about. 

Social media is the wild west. This board is smarter than this.

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2 minutes ago, Sanfran327 said:

I'm certain it's not. I'm not an active Twitter guy, but I do scroll by a lot of doomsday posts on Facebook. 

I guess the differences are that a) this board is held to a much higher standard and b) it's the only source of O's information and conversation that I care about. 

Social media is the wild west. This board is smarter than this.

It was a frustrating weekend. 

 

They're still 10 games over and they looked like they belonged this weekend.

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2 minutes ago, glenn__davis said:

I agree with the premise of the thread but just something you gotta learn to scroll past.  

Fan is short for fanatic, and some of the responses you see will be like that.  Just scroll past and get to the good stuff :)

 

Part of the problem on here, at times, is that the good stuff gets pushed down because people start threads that are absurd and not necessary. 

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5 minutes ago, maybenxtyr said:

It was a frustrating weekend. 

 

They're still 10 games over and they looked like they belonged this weekend.

Thank you. Sums it up perfectly. Frustrating, yes. Definitely looked like they belonged. Still +10. All great, optimistic points.

And yet, there are nothing but tantrums everywhere you look. 

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16 minutes ago, Sanfran327 said:

I'm certain it's not. I'm not an active Twitter guy, but I do scroll by a lot of doomsday posts on Facebook. 

I guess the differences are that a) this board is held to a much higher standard and b) it's the only source of O's information and conversation that I care about. 

Social media is the wild west. This board is smarter than this.

 

12 minutes ago, maybenxtyr said:

It was a frustrating weekend. 

 

They're still 10 games over and they looked like they belonged this weekend.

It was a frustrating weekend.

I think what's not being talked about here is the fear that this start is a mirage...that it's a little too good to be true.  That we're more like a 75 win team and not a 90 win team.  The fear that we're going to miss the playoffs while the Sox and Yankees are gonna get right and pass us in the standings.

So every little blip on the radar, like losing two to the Braves that we could have won, is going to bet met with a little bitof freaking out.  

We're not used to this.  We're not used to being contenders year in, year out.  If we'd won 90+ games every year for the past 3 years and had deep playoff runs, this would be no big deal.  

But I think a lot of people here are waiting for the other shoe to drop.  I think we all recognize that this team played way above its head last year and we're probably not as good as our start has indicated.

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It was a frustrating weekend.

I think what's not being talked about here is the fear that this start is a mirage...that it's a little too good to be true.  That we're more like a 75 win team and not a 90 win team.  The fear that we're going to miss the playoffs while the Sox and Yankees are gonna get right and pass us in the standings.

So every little blip on the radar, like losing two to the Braves that we could have won, is going to bet met with a little bi of freaking out.  

We're not used to this.  We're not used to being contenders year in, year out.  If we'd won 90+ games every year for the past 3 years and had deep playoff runs, this would be no big deal.  

But I think a lot of people here are waiting for the other shoe to drop.  I think we all recognize that this team played way above its head last year and we're probably not as good as our start has indicated.

I think this is spot on. 

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2 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

 

It was a frustrating weekend.

I think what's not being talked about here is the fear that this start is a mirage...that it's a little too good to be true.  That we're more like a 75 win team and not a 90 win team.  The fear that we're going to miss the playoffs while the Sox and Yankees are gonna get right and pass us in the standings.

So every little blip on the radar, like losing two to the Braves that we could have won, is going to bet met with a little bi of freaking out.  

We're not used to this.  We're not used to being contenders year in, year out.  If we'd won 90+ games every year for the past 3 years and had deep playoff runs, this would be no big deal.  

But I think a lot of people here are waiting for the other shoe to drop.  I think we all recognize that this team played way above its head last year and we're probably not as good as our start has indicated.

Other than Mateo, there's really not any offensive player that's playing above their head. I really think there's some room for improvement on the offensive side.

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