My sentiments were that they should have replaced Cox earlier. It's too late now. I fully expect the Braves to enter that "downswing" that all team eventually have to face.

And I feel that it is a manager's responsibility to motivate a team, and when a team that wins 90-100 games a year for several years in a row suddenly chokes in the playoffs, I think you have to look at management.

Case in point - LaRussa and the Cards this playoff series. He totally mismanaged that team in the NLCS. I mean, why go to Rhodes last night? If anything NY had proven they eat Rhodes raw... so why throw him? I don't care IF his regular season stats were sharp... the current state of affairs pointed towards the Mets eating him alive... both my father and I sighed when Rhodes came in. We knew the game was over. Sure enough... 3 run blast.

But let's not get away from the original intent of the thread - which was to state that I find it humorous that many still consider the Braves the "team of the 90's" while the Bills are laughed at.

What did they do differently? The Bills at least MADE it to the final game 4 years in a row.

The Braves had good teams - no doubt - but when came to crunch time... they choked.

So either the Bills are a choke team and therefore the Braves must be even MORE of a choke team

- or -

The Braves are America's sweethearts going 1-9 but at least making the playoffs 9 years running, and the Bill's are celebrated just as much for making it all the way to the final game 4 years in a row.

As for the fact the Braves at least won it once in the 90s and therefore have "earned" the title... so what? The Yanks won it three times in the 90s. In my books (as much as I loathe to admit it) that makes them the team of the 90s... NOT the Braves.

Even my Jays won the series more often than the Braves in the 90s.