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Sunday, April 05, 2009

Baseball season is here!!!

brooke will probably make fun of me for this post, but i'm super-excited that baseball started Sunday night! i'm a big nerd and play fantasy baseball, so i'm obviously looking forward to that. but more importantly, i've always been a HUGE Braves fan.

one of my earliest memories of baseball as a kid was watching Sid Bream slide into home to help send the Braves to the World Series.

i idolized Dale Murphy as a kid. i even got my dad to call me "Dale" for a while.

the names Ken Oberkfell, Gerald Perry, and Rafael Belliard bring back nostalgia.

we used to drive up for Sunday afternoon games when we lived in Macon. we would buy the "cheap seats" in the upper deck, but we would move down behind home plate halfway through the game. this was back in the days of the blue Braves uniforms. i vividly remember one game where shortstop Andres Thomas hit a game-winning home run in extra innings. we were probably 10 rows behind home plate, and we watched it sail over the fence of Fulton County stadium.

so yeah, i'm excited. our tv will be tuned to Peachtree TV and Fox Sports South for the next 6 months. :)

6 comments:

Liz said...

I went with your family for one of those Sunday afternoon games. We played the Expos and lost 16-14. Jeff Treadway hit 3 homeruns. We went another time and saw Eric Davis and the Reds play. Davis hit a homerun that day. Good times!

Hope you and Brooke are doing great!

Brian

ICURIS said...

wow. jeff treadway. now that's a name i had forgotten!

those were some good times!

Chad said...

I don't believe I could have said this better myself. I was so excited about the game last night that I recorded it and watched it when we got home. Stayed up to finished watching it until around 11 all the while knowing that I had to get up at 5 to work out. To say that I love the Braves would be an understatement. We should try and get together sometime and head to ATL for a Braves weekend. Oh and anytime they play "The Slide" on the radio, I get chill bumps.

Anonymous said...

PLEASE....let's go to a Braves game!! I would love that! I have been trying to get us over there for some time now...randomly I will say...
Can we please go to a Braves game? :)
We just usually have too much going on....we need to plan it!!
-Brooke

Anonymous said...

I love baseball too. But I absolutely abhor Sid Bream, Barry Bonds and that entire playoff series. Bream, the slowest man on Earth, running on one of the best arms at the time. ARGHHHH! In my mind it never happened. Andy Van Slyke(my favorite player of all time) should have run over to Bonds, KNOCKED HIM OUT and the thrown Bream out at the plate. And he could have done it too! And the last decade and a half of "rebuilding" (or as I like to call it "stinking it up") in the Steel City are irrelevant, although the Pirates are the best AAAA farm team in baseball. Pittsburgh baseball only serves as a time killer until Steeler football kicks off. But I do love my Pirates as they instill the Christian virtue of long-suffering. I am also really interested in the White Sox right now. A friend from high school Ehren Wasserman is a relief pitcher for the pale hosiery from the South Side. He has a wicked side arm delivery. Have you seen the Jimmy Rollins for Dicks sporting goods videos on YouTube. AWESOME! Good luck to you, Rick, in fantasy baseball this year.
And sorry for the really long post.
-Ryan

Kristi said...

Oh, the memories! Remember Bob Horner and that goofy curly blonde hair? Or Dale Murphy hitting home runs? Sid Bream? Love those Braves!