Doesn't make him one of the all time greats though. Thats the point, the vast majority of Braves "fans" either know **** about baseball, or are like the ones I have mentioned. I am not saying you or Huffman are those fans, but it is a fanbase that is almost on par with SEC football fans (all of them) in level of stupidity it brings. To be fair, there a lot of stupid fans of a lot of teams that overrate their players. There are just a lot more Braves fans down here to deal with.
The Braves fanbase is like 10% people who live in Atlanta and actually go to the games, and 90% "casual fans" across the Southeast who know like 3 players. Of course it's a dumb fanbase, haha. Look at Bama, UK, the Lakers...what widespread fanbase isn't like that?
You can thank TBS for that. When you can watch every game, it's east to cheer for them. I'm a Cardinals fan due to being able to pick up their games on the radio
This is why I follow them. When I was a kid, I would come home and watch a game on TBS what seemed like every night.
all the ones i know are fans who go to the games and keep up. and they all are guilty of the nonsense, minus one or two of them