Braves biggest in-divison rival for 2008

Wow BC10 you are going to get me fired for spending so much time reading that post.    I am familiar with the population surrounding Atlanta as compared to the North East, but considering that Atlanta is still one of the largest cities in this country, and the surrounding area is very densely populated the Braves should be filling up the stands for any playoff game.  As far as day games go, even when the Cubs suck they still manage to turn out a good crowd for their regular season games; most of which are still played during daylight hours.  Anyway the point is that a good fan base wouldn't let their team play a playoff game in a half full stadium.  As for the fact that Football is king in the south I'll grant you that (even though the Falcons fan base is horrible as well even when they are playing fairly well and there is no craziness going on with the organization.  I purposely stayed away from that earlier by the way).  However, last time I checked Southern Baseball is where most of the American players are developed in high school and college.  Just look at the young guys from GA on the Braves team over the last couple years. 

Hopefully, you are right and the last couple years did much to put a fire back in the fan base.  We can only hope. 

Sometimes Bravochick, I think that we are TOO laid back.  Paying a compliment to the Mets fans (about the only one i will give this year), Mets fans are rabid!  Good or bad, they are going to be loud.  Bravochick, good to see you back!  Go Bravos

Im gonna have to go with the Mets as the biggest Braves rival, not to say that i like the philadelphia one bit, but the best games, by far to watch are braves-mets. My favorite memory from last year was a game at shea (the one where willie made the sick catch to end it) and hearing all the mets fans chanting, "Larry, Larry, Larry!" and then watching "Larry" hit a 470 foot bomb off the base of their scoreboard.

one team that i think could get a vote possibly, (especially if were talking about non division rivals) that hasnt been mentioned is the Astros. the braves and astros always seem to play each other late in the year, and earlier on it was the braves that were getting the better of houston, but the last two times the braves went to the playoffs it was houston beat them, and last year, if i remember correctly, it was houston that officially knocked us out of the race. this is not to say that i hate houston even remotely close to the way i hate the mets or phils, it was just something i thought about