I crossed a big item off my bucket list over the weekend and finally made it to a Braves Opening Day. We only lived in Augusta six months during our first stint here, so we left before baseball season started. Tickets went on sale a few months ago, so I bought seats even though we…
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Opening Day 2015
Today is the start of another baseball season. The grass is green, the hot dogs fresh. Every team is dreaming of playing in October. Sadly, this season, I am a very displaced fan. As the Braves have a terrible media contract, I will spend most of the season watching games online and hoping for highlights…
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Opening Day
Today is Opening Day. The fresh start for every team. The hopes and dreams of October. I love baseball. Hands down, it is my favorite sport. I love going to baseball games and watching games on TV. Sadly, I’m no longer a two hours drive down one interstate from Turner Field. My only hope for…
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Labor Day weekend
Mac doesn’t get too many long weekends in this course, so we decided to make the best of this one. Friday, we headed up to Atlanta and caught the Braves game. It was El Oso Blanco night in honor of Evan Gattis. Sadly, as the back-up catcher, Gattis wasn’t in the starting line-up and only…
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There’s no crying in baseball
Or that time I cried at a baseball game. So I’m a huge Braves fan. Like 90% of my excitement of moving to Georgia was being about two hours away from Atlanta. 10% was leaving Fayetteville. In the past few years, Mac and I have attended Bobby Cox’s last home series, Chipper Jones’ last home…
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Opening Day
Today is the favorite day of the year for baseball fans. The grass is green. The bats are stained and tarred. The uniforms are crisp and clean. Six months, 30 teams, 182 games. Every team in undefeated. Every team can go the distance and see the Promised Land in October. For the first time in my…