If a single Atlanta Braves baseball fan buys a ticket to watch so much as one game in the franchise’s season-long swan song to Turner Field next summer, that sole silly supporter should be forced to watch every Braves home game — all 81 of them.
That’s assuming, of course, that Major League Baseball doesn’t institute some kind of mercy rule by banishing the Braves to the road all summer over what appears to be the most shameful money grab by a team’s brass in pro sports history.
After Tuesday night’s pitiful 7-1 loss to moribund Miami, the Graves are beyond dead and buried. They’re mired in a seven-game losing skid that grows twice as bad when you consider they’ve also lost 14 of their last 15. They’ve lost their last three so listlessly that they’ve come by a combined score of 31-7, including that humiliating 20-6 loss on Sunday to the New York Yankees. Heck, even the Falcons gave up only 13 points in their NFL exhibition loss to the Dolphins.
If this continues, Braves Nation should request that the franchise be charged with falsely representing itself as a major league club. Of course, to then label them a Triple-A team might be considered an affront to Triple-A teams everywhere.
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