What have the mass media done to Braves fans? This is going to be ugly so hide the kids.
Can you believe that it's 2011 and the Braves payroll is just $89 million this year? It just boggles the mind. The Braves payroll has basically been frozen at this level for ten years, while they have played in brand new, beautiful Turner Field. If Ted owned the Braves their payroll would be at least $200 million.
And they could afford that.
That's the reason for this ugly post. Through mass media brainwashing from the local yocal press in Atlanta to the national baseball media, Braves fans have had their brains scrubbed like the Manchurian Candidate.
But this movie is dirty, it's from the backwoods of Deliverance notoriety. Braves fans have been made to strip, bend over and squeal!
Squeeeeal!
These good old boys actually think Atlanta is something called a “mid market team” to quote a Braves fan at MLBTradeRumors.
According to A.C. Nielsen, the folks who get paid big bucks to track markets and rate them for broadcast advertisers, Atlanta is the 8th largest market in the country right behind Boston and ahead of Washington D.C., which just signed Jayson Werth away from the Phillies.
And it just gets uglier the more you look at these statistics.
A.C. Nielsen market rank, TV Homes in millions.
| 2010-11 | | 2011 |
| Rank | DMA Name | TV Homes |
| 1 | New York | 7515330 |
| 2 | Los Angeles | 5666900 |
| 3 | Chicago | 3502610 |
| 4 | Philadelphia | 3015820 |
| 5 | Dallas-Ft. Worth | 2594630 |
| 6 | San Francisco-Oak-San Jose | 2523520 |
| 7 | Boston (Manchester) | 2460290 |
| 8 | Atlanta | 2407080 |
| 9 | Washington, DC (Hagrstwn) | 2389710 |
| 10 | Houston | 2177220 |
| 11 | Detroit | 1883840 |
| 12 | Phoenix (Prescott) | 1881310 |
| 13 | Seattle-Tacoma | 1874750 |
| 14 | Tampa-St. Pete (Sarasota) | 1795200 |
| 15 | Minneapolis-St. Paul | 1753780 |
| 16 | Miami-Ft. Lauderdale | 1580580 |
| 17 | Denver | 1572740 |
| 18 | Cleveland-Akron (Canton) | 1526200 |
| 19 | Orlando-Daytona Beach | 1453120 |
| 20 | Sacramnto-Stkton-Modesto | 1409400 |
| 21 | St. Louis | 1258580 |
| 22 | Portland, OR | 1197780 |
| 23 | Charlotte | 1166180 |
| 24 | Pittsburgh | 1160820 |
| 25 | Raleigh-Durham (Fayetvlle) | 1131310 |
| 26 | Baltimore | 1108360 |
| 27 | Indianapolis | 1106420 |
| 28 | San Diego | 1089010 |
| 29 | Nashville | 1039430 |
| 30 | Hartford & New Haven | 1018770 |
| 31 | Kansas City | 974820 |
| 32 | Salt Lake City | 953950 |
| 33 | Cincinnati | 923830 |
| 34 | Columbus | 915950 |
| 35 | Milwaukee | 901100 |
St. Louis has a payroll $20 million more than the Braves, yet St. Louis is just the 21st largest market in the country and about half the size of Atlanta.
Can you handle anymore ugliness? I hope so.
Milwaukee's payroll is just a few million dollars shy of the Braves and Milwaukee is the smallest market in the game.
How small is Milwaukee in comparison? Atlanta is more than two and one half times bigger than Milwaukee. That's probably why the Braves moved from Milwaukee to Atlanta after the 1965 season.
This is some serious abuse that Braves fans have undergone over the last decade, and there is no sign of the abuse subsiding. The entire baseball media continues to operate under the big lie that Atlanta is some kind of tiny market buried under Chipper Jones contract.
It was once much different.
Way back when Greg Maddux was a star product of the Cubs farm system and about to become a free agent. The Cubs would not pay him the big bucks and Greg Maddux hit the market.
The Yankees did not sign Greg Maddux. The Braves did. And the Braves signed Maddux to what was then the biggest contract for a pitcher in MLB history.
In fact, when you look at what the Phillies have done the past few years in acquiring Halladay, Oswalt and Lee and paying them the big bucks, it very much resembles what the Braves once did to become the dominate force in the N.L. East.
The Braves developed Tom Glavine through their farm system, the Phillies did likewise with Cole Hamels.
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