Such a season would try the faith of a saint. Perhaps coincidentally, John Coppolella and John Hart, architects of the Braves’ massive rebuild, are named after one. They absolutely believe their way, baseball-wise, is the only way. But that doesn’t help much in a week like last, which saw the big-league team lose seven consecutive games and, for the third time in two months, demote a young starting pitcher to Gwinnett.
The week’s highlight was the Hall of Fame luncheon Friday. On hand to witness enshrinement of Andruw Jones and especially John Schuerholz was Dayton Moore, long a disciple – I’ll stop with the Biblical references – of the latter.