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Originally Posted by almost3am
It's amazing how good the Braves have been for so long. Do they still get good support in Atlanta? I'm just wondering if certain sports speak to certain groups of people more than others...
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Funny you should ask. There is a huge stir going on around that topic in Atlanta right now. Many Bravess fans like other Atlanta sports fans can be very fickle. After all as good as the Braves have been they have only won the World Series once. Lately they've gained a reputation for being the best team in baseball during the regular season and then flopping during playoffs.
But they shocked the world (the Atlanta Metro anyway) when they recently demanded a huge sum for stadium renovations or else they would leave the city of Atlanta. It was pretty obvious that they already knew what they wanted to do because they barely gave the city time to vote no on it before they revealed plans they had worked out with neighboring suburban Cobb county to build a new stadium and move there.
This left long time fans in the city of Atlanta furious for many reasons (one being that traffic is a nightmare in Cobb, largely because of a lack of public transportation because of Cobbs anti Atlanta politics). You have to understand there's sort of a mutual hate between alot of Atlanta natives and the Atlanta suburbanites (translate: Red vs. Blue) with Cobb county having a particular anti Atlanta history.
Anyway that's a long still developing story and to answer your question the Braves get a lot of support from Metro Atlantians (though some intown dwellers have threatened to end their support now.)
The African American community in Atlanta tend to throw their support at Hawks basketball and the Falcons American Football. You don't see nearly as many Black Braves fans.
To be honest I think the huge African American middle class in Atlanta would get behind MLS soccer alot quicker than poor and working class Blacks who tend to be more traditional and less likely to accept new different things in a lot of ways