My name is Alan, and I’ve recently come across your blog braves.today.com. I’d like to feature it on our site’s home page, Motorcycle-Fairing.com. We already have a short list of Cool Blogs that we recommend to our customers, and I think yours should be included. This list is our way of giving back to our customers who have been supporting us all this time. Personally, I have found that this is a great way for people to meet and connect with others who share the same passion.

I noticed that you have a blogroll. Do you mind putting us in that list? If you can, that would be great. Please let me know.

I’ll look forward to your answer. Have a wonderful week and continue the great work on your blog!

Regards,
Alan

Well, he looked plenty good this spring, and he looked more aggressive, more apt to stick to his game plan and not just lob fastballs down the middle when he got down 2-0 or 3-1 in the count. I think this could be a huge break for him, the chance to solidify himself a spot on the major-league roster.

If Tommy has to have another surgery, he’s finished. He’s said so several times. For now, it’s inflammation in the rotator cuff. Two weeks of rest … we’ll see if that does the trick.

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I agree with you! Kind of sad for a pitcher the quality of TG to go out this way. I think he will have to have a second surgery on his shoulder.

We can all hope though.

On the upside, maybe we can see a glimpse of the REAL JoJo. I think he has the talent, but does he have the head to go with it???

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I’ve taken the walk around the outlined infield and bases in the lot which used to be the Chop Shop, stood out in centerfield where Otis Nixon stood before racing to the wall in right-center to rob Andy Van Slyke and traced the path of Sid from second to home that magical October evening in 1992. I stood where the mound sat and peered westward toward the area where home plate sat and let my mind wander to what Glavine, Maddux, Smoltz and Avery must have seen when standing there during that amazing run from worst to first in ‘91.

There was something mythical about the old ballpark on Capitol Avenue, Scribe. Don’t get me wrong, I love the park at 755 Hank Aaron Drive, however I find as the days increase since that last season in the old place in ‘96 I miss it more and more.

Really miss Marshall Mann in a big way. “Centerfielder Daaaaaale Muuuurphy… Catcher Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuce Benedict” I’ll watch tapes of old games at times and catch him in the background and it always makes me smile.

Seems to me like the old ballpark was much louder than the Braves’ current home. Of course the old circular cookie-cutters were a lot like that since there was no room for the noise to really go. The new wave of stadiums do give us nice views of downtown sections of many cities with PNC Park giving the most impressive view I’ve seen in the parks I have visited to date, but we lose a little volume for the view.

Sure, Fulton County was far from perfect. The concourses were narrow, there was nothing to do other than watch the game, no plazas, not much in terms of interactive games other than the occasional speed pitch set up. As a kid, I’d always perk up in the seat of the car once we reached downtown heading south on I-75, peering out the side window in the car and smiling wide when the big concrete and steel building came into view to the left.

I guess I’m writing all of this because for me and everyone else on Planet Braves, it’s another transition year for us without having Pete and Skip around. The last three remaining links to those days for me, to those glorious hot and humid summers with Marshall, Skip and Pete on TBS and the old ballpark are sitting in the press box (Joe Simpson and Don Sutton) and standing at third base. Makes me appreciate them all the more because once each decides to retire, all we have left at that point are the memories.

Thanks for the walk down memory lane, Scribe. Drive safe and be careful with the weather. We’re expecting a loud, noisy evening in Knoxville as well.

So stay safe out there, and hopefully we can get the game in. I’ll be in the Blue Lot around 4 p.m. if it’s not storming, and then we’re in the upper deck, third-base side, for tonight’s game.

At least we hope!

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Thoughts and prayers to the Adenhart family and the Angels. We mourn with you during this time of loss and sadness. God bless …

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