Journey to the Underworld

According to Greek mythology, Orpheus was in love with Eurydice. When she died, he journeyed to the underworld and played his lute so beautifully that the most fiendish of creatures wept and granted his love a reprieve, on one condition: he could not look behind him to see her following him until they left the underworld. Of course, like any good tragedy, Orpheus could not resist temptation and he looked behind himself, dooming Eurydice back to hell.

The Braves are Eurydice and we fan, with our high pre-season prediction, are Orpheus. After two seasons in hell, we were granted a reprieve. And the Schaffer suspension, Soriano injury, and embarrassing losses to start the season (both through poor play and bad luck) have sent our love crashing back down. I'm not saying some sort of metaphysical essence that surrounds the Braves fandom has caused this (I'm more inclined to blame a team OBP of .324 and a bullpen that hastily traded Tyler Yates because of its supposed depth). However, I'm sure it's not helping.

Yes, week and a half into the season -- I'm not conceding anything. However, these are troubling trends that have continued from the previous two seasons of putridity -- our offense comes in spurts and our bullpen is atrocious (to put it nicely).

I'll let someone come up with the solutions, though, a collapse by the Mets and Phillies is certainly a plausible one.

Go Braves.