Why does espn hate the braves

Unless your team is from LA, NY, or Boston ,you can bet any amount of money that your team , especially the Braves or Diamondbacks , that if every starting player in the lineup hit homeruns and the pitcher threw a perfect game , ESPN would show highlights of the other team. Don't believe me pull-up Fox Sports and ESPN web page and checkout the Braves team analusis, you will see what i mean or yahoo or any other sports outlet ESPN just plain out hates Atlanta teams not just the Braves the Hawks , The Falcons , The Thrashers , if they are playing good , they dig up something bad , and if they are playing bad they dog the crap out of them.

ESPN is biased in favor of what most people want to read , which is they want to read about big markets, good players, and winning teams, but ESPN is supposed to be the "Total Sports Network " and as so they have an obligation to be fair and report as fair for all teams in all sports the praises they have for their favorites can wait till the playoffs , if they want to play East Coast , West Coast favorites why not have ESPN 2 as the East coast team broadcasting and ESPN as the West Coast broadcast.

Furthermore they could go as far as FOX and have regional sports packages in your teams area so we would at least feel like they where not biase towards other teams , like the Braves. I think real news has a journalistic responsibility and that includes ESPN. Maybe if they would consider changing their way of thinking we wouldn't have to watch recycled articles over and over about the same teams. I think the biggest problem is that they have too many writers who don't know much about the majority of the league.

I hate watching highlights of games the Yankees , Dodgers or Redsox play in. Freeman, in the midst of a career-worst stretch, struck out four times in the game. But it didn't matter, because Riley's heroic night underscored that, even with Acuna on the sideline, Freeman has plenty of help on these Braves. Eddie Rosario was not supposed to be part of the plan. For much of last winter, it looked like he wasn't going to be part of anybody's plan. Despite his hitting 32 homers with RBIs for a Minnesota Twins playoff team in , drawing some down-ballot MVP votes both that year and in his follow-up in , the Twins set the arbitration-eligible Rosario adrift last winter by opting not to tender him a contract.

Rosario signed with Cleveland in early February, but not until he had dangled for nearly the entire winter, finally signing about 10 days before the start of spring training.

He struggled with Cleveland, and at the trade deadline was more or less salary-dumped on a Braves team that was collecting replacement outfielders. Only Rosario wasn't a quick fix: He was injured at the time of the deal, and didn't make his first appearance for Atlanta until Aug. Since then, all he has done is rake. The last of those four hits -- a ninth-inning winner -- was the biggest, a sharp single that scored Dansby Swanson. A few days later, Rosario would have the game of his life in Game 4 , getting four more hits and nearly hitting for the cycle.

He needed a double his last time up, but instead homered for the second time in the game. And in Game 6, he broke open a tense tie with a three-run homer just inside the right-field foul pole, and Truist Park exploded with a remarkable thunder of cheering, followed by an "Eddie! That's part of the wonderful, weird and random nature of baseball. Rosario, a good but temporarily unwanted player, who wouldn't have been a Brave if not for the dissolution of Atlanta's opening-day outfield, finds a home and becomes the hottest guy at just the right time.

A jaw-dropping, late-inning rally by the Dodgers , who scored four runs in the eighth inning to grab the lead, seemed like a series-shifting change. It wasn't just the momentum swing of the Dodgers' rally and the Braves missing out on a chance to grab a lead. In Game 4, the Dodgers were pitching game winner Julio Urias , and the Braves were planning a bullpen game.

But something special has been going on in the Atlanta bullpen since the beginning of the playoffs. Namely that Snitker has tied his late-inning fortunes to the bullpen trio of Tyler Matzek M , Luke Jackson J and Will Smith S , and the plan has worked better than anybody could have expected. The plan, before that trio showed up in the late innings, was to start regular-season starter Huascar Ynoa and have him go for at least a couple of innings.

But after Ynoa turned up with shoulder tightness on game day , he was removed from the roster. Atlanta won anyway, taking a commanding lead that put the Braves on the doorstep of the World Series in a game without a starting pitcher. Rosario's near cycle didn't hurt, but this was still an emblematic performance from the Braves' bullpen. It was a performance that included two-thirds of M. Instead, Snitker has been able to follow a formula similar to that of the Kansas City Royals.

At various times, Snitker has flipped the order that Matzek and Jackson have appeared, but the trio has worked in tandem all October, and has shown little sign of wearing down. Through the postseason, the M. Chris Taylor clubbed three homers, A. Pollock hit two more and L. Questions about last year's Atlanta collapse from a series lead over the Dodgers crept up once more, even as the Braves insisted that this year's team is different from last year's team.

Heck, it's different from the team it was during the first half of this season. In Game 6, all the pieces were there. Anderson put up four innings, allowing one run with his changeup-heavy arsenal. Snitker pinch hit for him in the fourth, and that replacement, Ehire Adrianza , doubled with two outs to keep the inning alive. But it was enough to spark what very well might have been the loudest roar yet heard in Cobb County, Georgia.

The other pieces contributed, too. Before the M. Minter came on and threw two perfect, electric innings. Jackson struggled, but Matzek struck out three straight with the tying runs in scoring position. Freeman, in what might have been his biggest game ever, didn't play hero ball. Instead, he accepted the four walks that were there to get. And Smith finished it, with Dansby Swanson making a dazzling play on an A. Floyd said the chant "reduces Native Americans to a caricature.

Floyd's voice is important, even though he's not part of a nearby tribe, because once upon a time he would've been. There are federally recognized indigenous tribes. None exist in Georgia. A particularly loathsome part of the Braves' insistence on keeping the chop and the league's support is the repugnant treatment of American Indians in Georgia. Thousands of Creek had their land in Georgia stolen during the early s. Five years later, more than 16, Cherokee were forcibly removed from Georgia and banished to the Trail of Tears, the nine-state, 1,mile walk to their new land in Oklahoma.

Thousands died. For years, the tribe has had signage on the left-field wall at American Family Field to market its casino -- except for when the Braves or Cleveland Indians came to town, as Atlanta did in this year's division series. The advertisement, which adorned the wall for the Brewers ' 11 home series prior to the NLDS, was nowhere to be seen.

If it's not the Cherokee then it's the Creek, and if it's not the Creek then it's the Potawatomi, and if it's not the Potawatomi then it's the National Congress of American Indians, which, in a statement on Wednesday, called on Fox, the World Series broadcaster, "to refrain from showing the 'tomahawk chop' when it is performed during the nationally televised World Series games in Atlanta.

Before anyone chalks this up to a mob or cancel culture, perhaps take a look at MLB's own social justice website , which includes a guide to "having conversations about race. Six months ago, MLB practiced those principles when it yanked the All-Star Game from Atlanta over the Braves' vociferous disagreement after the backlash against more restrictive voting laws in Georgia. Despite Manfred's desired goal to remain "apolitical," the league, in certain instances, is not afraid to get political.

It has never been willing to do so on this issue in Atlanta. And so the chop continues to exist only because it started in and coincided with a glorious part of the franchise's history, the boom decade in which the Braves won a championship and started a run of 14 consecutive division titles. To its adherents, it's an heirloom of that time, something they've romanticized.

Believing something is normal does not make it normal. Longevity and righteousness do not necessarily run parallel paths. Often, the opposite: Both are tried-and-true formulas to let problems metastasize. And that's what's happening this week. The Braves haven't been to the World Series since The world has changed. Indigenous people can use the social media bullhorn to amplify their perspectives. The Cleveland Guardians, remember, were the Cleveland Indians until a month ago.