Well I think the first sentence of your response describes the baseball problem. A lot of Atlanta residents don't really care for baseball like they used to. The age and demographics have completely changed. There's too much variation to really narrow it down to one thing, hell, I'm not even sure if there are even that many SPORTS fans in the city any more.
as a falcons fan i loved vick back in the day... yes i want him to better himself and whatnot but at the end of the day he made stupid decisions that wrecked the falcons season and team for that matter... so for that good ridence... alot of falcons fan are really not falcons fans...they were vick fans.. and it shows ... yes he was exciting to watch back then but when you really look at it we only really had 1 good season with him... the rest was just show