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Atlanta Braves - Streakiest Team in Baseball

I've been an Atlanta Braves fan for many years and I have to say - this is one of the strangest seasons I've observed of theirs. I don't think there can be much debating it - the Atlanta Braves are the streakiest team in Major League Baseball.

Here's a rundown of their season to this point:

The Braves started the year 0-4, losing their first four games, before winning ten of their next eleven to go to 10-5 on the season. In late May, they were losers of eight straight to fall to 26-24 overall, just before winning eight of their next nine to improve to 34-25. Just after that, they lost seven of their next eight to drop to 35-32, before winning three straight (38-32), losing seven of eleven (42-39) and most recently, winning seven consecutive games to bring them to 49-39 on the season to this point. If these aren't the streakiest bunch of SOB's, I don't know who is.

So, how will the Braves finish? The heck if I know. They could just as well win their final 74 games as they could lose them. They could win the World Series or not even make the playoffs. I don't even think a psychic or an omniscient being would know what these Braves are going to do. Thank Zeus Leo Mazzone is no longer the pitching coach there. The guy would have rocked himself to the point of banging his head against the wall and suffering a concussion.
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