Look, we all know Wagner, Glaus, and Saito will be sharing HGH sammies all through Spring Training and that we're one "Chipper was out in front of a Santana change-up" swing away from Omar Infante being our starting third baseman, but anything that takes my mind off of the Deacs averaging 23 points a half and LOST giving me gray hairs is fine with me. A full year of Hanson, Prado, and McClouth should help the Bravos stay in the hunt this season but I hate the fact that we're one significant injury away from irrelevance again. This eerily reminds me of a couple seasons ago when we were counting on Smoltz, Glavine, Hampton, and Hudson to carry the load in the starting rotation coming out of Spring Training, and they all went down one by one. Let's just hope McCann fixed his eye problem over the winter and Escobar got his wild bat throwing and violent stretching antics out of his system. With the Jay-Hey kid (680's nickname, I love it) set to play now and big Freedie Freeman waiting in the wings for 1B, along with a couple of strong young arms and (gulp) Schafer on the verge of storming the pro roster, the Braves should still be in good shape going forward post Cox and Jones. Considering the Falcons fizzled, Kovalchuk was given away, the Deacs are on the verge of either getting beat by 40 by Syracuse in the 2nd round or securing a 1 seed in the NIT, and the Hawks are destined to get swept by Cleveland in the 2nd round (again) then lose Joe Johnson in free agency, I could use some Braves magic this summer!!
Meanwhile, I want some dap for THIS little gem of a prediction I wrote in an email to Colin and Steve way back on 11/09/09: "What REALLY sucks is normally at this point we can say, well at least we've got hoops season around the corner, but this year could be ugly with only a half-asleep Aminu back in the fold. Luckily Duke and Carolina lost a lot too. You heard it hear first, watch out for the Terps this year - fear the turtle."
Anybody who wants me to fill out their brackets for them this year, I will do so at a nominal fee.
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