Atlanta Braves Swept By San Diego Padres to Close Disappointing 2024 Season

[@tridentgum0]

Long time listener since Carlos Collazo was on this pod. First time I've ever listened to an elimination show because it's the first time I've ever been that chill after one.

[@HammerTerritory]

Thanks for listening!

[@mattmauk]

Thanks for it all boys. Tough year but I always look forward to the pod. You guys are always professional and yet, show your fandom through the highs and lows… now in video form too. Lol. Which I’m all about. Going to be a VERY interesting offseason. #GoBraves

[@chriswilkerson4293]

Thank you both for keeping such great perspectives.

[@AVResonater]

Padres’ fan here…just wanted to say mad respect to you guys for giving us all you had despite the tough Monday humdinger with your rivals and then also coming in with many players out. You guys still sure played like a team with a lot of heart. Not every team this postseason can actually say that.

[@fbluedevil]

Your comments are appreciated and good luck with the rest of the play-offs

[@joshuamiller1169]

Beat them Dodgers!

[@waynerobinson2998]

What has happened to Kelnic playing time. Is he in Braves plans in 25

[@HammerTerritory]

Laureano was just notably better at the plate so they rode that. We'll see on '25. Will be a talking point for sure during Winter.

[@kevinthevideoguyy]

Brad could be Charlie Morton's brother 😂 Love the show guys, shitty ending to the season but see ya through the off-season and into 2025 🤙

[@TheHanfist]

Thanks Brad and Scott. Very nicely done. Always appreciate your work

[@DoctorDrayMD]

Thanks for another great season fellas

[@RightCenterBack321]

Braves went down fighting. They could've done better in the 9th, but yesterday's ABs were some of the best of the season. If Max has a better start, we might be playing today. I'll say though that at this point, all we're asking for is for the Braves to win a postseason series. I don't think that's a preposterous expectation. To make the postseason this many times and to fail to get past the first round this many times cannot just be chalked up to "this game is hard" or randomness. There's something fundamentally wrong with this team at the organizational level. I'm quoting something I saw elsewhere, but the Braves don't perform well enough in the postseason to even mention randomness.

[@peteryoung5147]

Thanks gentlemen.

[@HomeStudioBasics]

2025 is hugggggely important and I’m glad Scott brought it up. Because if the same shit happens, I’ll be pretty convinced a new curse is upon us. It sucks to say that, but let’s be realistic: outside of 95 and 21. It’s been the same old crap every year with this franchise . They seemingly always find new and outrageous ways to lose, get their asses destroyed, etc. it just kind of feels like they luck out once every 30 years or so with a WS.. and after thinking about it, I do think there’s a fundamental flaw within the organization though I don’t know exactly what it is .. perhaps it has something to do with the archaic management style of the snits and Bobby cox’s of the world. It seems like they’re perpetually stuck in this mode but rather content with “the playoffs are our birthright but god forbid we advance past the first round” To me this is starting to feel like the 90s run and that’s horrifying. I think anything less than 1-2 more rings this decade would be a massive disappointment

[@QG1234-i5i]

The 90s run was far more successful than this 7 year run. We played in 5 World Series in the 90s. That's a lot of winning in the Playoffs. Now we've had a first round exit for 5 out of 7 years.

[@HomeStudioBasics]

Very true. It feels like purgatory again already and that kind of sucks

[@fbluedevil]

When Sale went down the season was over. All in all, despite many disappointments I give this team a lot of credit getting to the play-offs.

[@sarahbeth43]

Absolutely agree with both points.

[@Undertow207]

I like Snitker, but it wouldn't kill us to have a younger manager with a bit more fire

[@HomeStudioBasics]

How about just a manager who makes better tactical decisions

[@Undertow207]

@@HomeStudioBasics I'd say that's pretty important too lol

[@danausmus9807]

Us old men must stick together, I too wish spring training started 2 morrow or maybe 2 day. Great job on the pod, guys.

[@Jackson09]

I feel ya brother, I hate when the season ends... regardless of the result...

[@seanragsdale5636]

It felt prophetic when Sale went down before the 2nd Mets game. Hopefully things will go better next year

[@FGTVE_ASSAULT]

How fitting, though, that the season ended on the West Coast, the exact same coast where it started to fall apart earlier this year.

[@Jackson09]

I think i had already heard that stat you stated about us being "roughly 4 and 60-ish" in games where the other team scores 4 or more runs...i only say that to say this, the instant it went to 5-1, deep down myself told myself, it's over. Now i too never said it out loud, why, because in real life I'm completely non-superstitious, but because i played, and continue to watch baseball, im 100% superstitious in baseball...because we all know that what we do at our homes while watching a baseball game... absolutely affects the outcome of a game.... perfectly normal line of reasoning... absolutely logical...lmao R.I.P. Braves 2024 Go Braves in 2025

[@hotdiggityd]

Honestly, thank god that's over with

[@GodJilicious]

Don't know if it was over over but I think we just wanted it to be over over .. The way the season has gone, it just felt like that

[@timothyd1496]

The thing about this team is they don't have guys who raise their game in October. Orlando Arcia has more career playoff HRs than Ronald Acuna and Matt Olson, the same as Riley. The Phillies have guys up and down their lineup that have been big-time postseason players.

[@HammerTerritory]

Matt Olson has 4 HR in 19 career playoff games. A 34-HR pace. Acuna has a 121 career wRC+ in the playoffs (and wasn’t playing this week!) Riley has been quite bad in the playoffs but he… wasn’t playing this week!

[@timothyd1496]

@@HammerTerritory None of that is raising their game. Schwarber has 21 homers in 65 games. Harper has 16 in 50. Both have an OPS almost 100 points higher than in the regular season. That’s raising your game.

[@Kenneth_Mullen89]

“If you simulate that inning 100 times, they don’t score 5 runs that often.” Uhhh should I tell him fellow Padres Fans? 🤣

[@zackamania6534]

Murphy sucks. How you can defend him will be an interesting exercise in gaslighting…

[@slooger1]

They’ll chalk it up to him getting injured in game one and ignore that he’s been trending down since the start of the second half of last season.

[@HammerTerritory]

We’ve never ignored his second half last year. Nor would it be “gaslighting” to point out that… even including (!) this year, he trails only Realmuto and Will Smith at catcher in fWAR the last 4 seasons Life didn’t begin (or end) this season

[@pjbuma13]

Murphy absolutely does not suck. He is a top 3 defensive catcher and this was the first season he has ever been below league average in OPS. Not making excuses but going down with an oblique injury first game of the season and missing 2 months because of it is not exactly ideal especially for someone who swings as hard as he does. But he still played elite level defense and I believe he will come back healthy next year and have a bounce back season offensively.

[@slooger1]

@@HammerTerritory Wasnt referring to you guys ignoring it meant the organization and other media outlets.

[@somebodyandthem]

Honestly not that disappointed, Braves how to overcome a lot to even make the playoffs. Had two bad innings in two games and it costed them

[@Ccortanaa]

There was nothing Snit could do, his hands were tied from the beginning of the season due to injuries. I don't know how long he will remain the skipper, if not, it will be by his own hands. I don't know what will happen over the course of the new 4-5 months, but i hope he stays, but there's a part of me that says he's done. He has put over 50 years of his life into the Braves organization, he deserves a retirement, but that's up to him. I want to see a fresh season with Acuna, Riley, Strider, and many others healthy, but we will only see over the upcoming months leading into spring training. I have a feeling snit is done though.

[@chinom1837]

Matt Olson is trash. Has done crap in October.