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  Would you want to be the 1991-2005 Braves or a one and done team?
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« on: June 24, 2020, 11:48:32 PM »

From 1991 to 2005, excluding the strike-shortened season of 1994, the Atlanta Braves under manager Bobby Cox, general manager John Schuerholz, owner/CEO Ted Turner, pitchers Tom Glavine, John Smoltz and Greg Maddux saw 14 division titles, 5 World Series appearances and 1 World Series title (1995).

They were the Team of the 1990s until the Yankees repeated in 1999.

Would you rather be the 1991-2005 Braves, or a one and done team that makes a playoff appearance and doesn't return consistently?

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« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2020, 09:24:57 AM »

The Braves should have won more than 1 World championship.
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« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2020, 08:34:08 PM »

I'm impressed that people here would like to be the 1990s Braves. Always in it, but always the bridesmaid.

You never know how long the roll will continue.

ATLANTA — Chipper Jones knows he's been very fortunate to be a part of Atlanta's record 10 consecutive postseason appearances. He also knows it can't last forever.
"Obviously this roll at some point is going to end," said Jones before Game 5 of the NL championship series. The Braves trail the Arizona Diamondbacks in the best-of-seven series 3-1.
"The window may be starting to close," he said. "We've ridden Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine and John Smoltz for much of this run and these guys are getting up there."
Jones has been a part of the streak since 1995 and is taking part in his seventh postseason. Maddux had been in the playoffs with the Braves since 1993 — eight times. Both Glavine and Smoltz have been in all 10.

https://www.deseret.com/2001/10/22/19612750/braves-know-days-are-numbered
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« Reply #3 on: June 26, 2020, 12:06:07 PM »

I'm impressed that people here would like to be the 1990s Braves. Always in it, but always the bridesmaid.

Except, you know, the time they won. You're basically asking if you'd rather be a consistently great team who won one World Series or an average-to-poor team who (I think? You didn't specify if the one and done actually won) won one World Series. That doesn't seem like a difficult choice.
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« Reply #4 on: June 26, 2020, 03:14:39 PM »

I'm impressed that people here would like to be the 1990s Braves. Always in it, but always the bridesmaid.

Except, you know, the time they won. You're basically asking if you'd rather be a consistently great team who won one World Series or an average-to-poor team who (I think? You didn't specify if the one and done actually won) won one World Series. That doesn't seem like a difficult choice.

I'm saying that because a lot of sports fans and so on feel the Braves wasted their chances to seize the moment to win more titles. They could have won in '97, 2001, 2002.
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« Reply #5 on: June 26, 2020, 03:39:38 PM »

I was raised as a Braves fan in the 90s.
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« Reply #6 on: June 30, 2020, 09:10:25 PM »

This is a silly question. I'd rather be good for 15 years and win a title than win one title and suck the rest of the time. Honestly there's nothing worse than your team sucking. Even if you lose in the end it's better to still be in contention.
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« Reply #7 on: June 30, 2020, 11:17:36 PM »

This is basically asking if you want to be a Marlins or a Braves fan
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« Reply #8 on: July 01, 2020, 02:02:53 PM »

This is a silly question. I'd rather be good for 15 years and win a title than win one title and suck the rest of the time. Honestly there's nothing worse than your team sucking. Even if you lose in the end it's better to still be in contention.

True, the 90s Braves were tired of losing series after series.
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