Archive from 'The Braves Are A Team I Like'

“Why is Spring Training in Florida?” is something I wondered as a kid

... and now I know why.

My flight to Orlando was cancelled due to the lovely weather here in Ohio. Alas, I did not get to see the sea of 60's but let's pretend I was there. Look! There goes Matt DeSalvo, #66.

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Tom Glavine, author of books with lots of pages

To commemorate the return of Lefty McOutsidecorner, I dug up a couple of old books Tommy wrote back in the glory days. Yeah, I had no idea he's an author either but they are selling for under $1 over at Amazon.com.

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Marketable Braves and Matt Diaz

The Braves have always had decent exposure when it comes to marketing and lending their names out to the big companies like Rawlings and Mizuno. Here are the current big names being marketed:

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Chipper injured and drunk Braves fans

If you care, here's the article. Like I said a while back, why was he not locked away in a padded room? I blame this on Bobby.

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Phillies, Nats, Marlins, Mets Are Teams I Don’t Like

In order to expand my audience here are some quick NL East stories:

- Mets relievers like to wear a lot of jewelry.

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Five Things You Don’t Know About Me

I've been tagged by Tim at Rain Delay so here we go:

1. I played baseball for El Salvador’s national team and traveled to places like Cuba, Mexico, D.R., etc.. Currently I play in Miami in the same independent league that sprouted some MLB players such as Ronnie Belliard, Placido Polanco, and new Yankee reliever Edwar Ramirez (his changeup is absolutely ridiculous).

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I love this

Spring Training is usually a lot of fluff... but this video blog on the Braves gave me chills.

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Valentine’s Day with Timmy and Kimmy Hudson

...and no, none of their kids are named Jimmy. Believe me, I was disappointed too.

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Quick Hits

- Aybar trade is starting to look good right about now , though we might have another booze hound on our team. Thanks a lot, wifey!

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One Heaping Spoonful of McCann

Bradley McCann.

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Braves on TV

Spring training is around the corner. Yay? That means 1 month of "Why is Chipper still playing in the 3rd inning? Please put him back in his padded room. And get him some more of those anti-bunion shoes!"

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