Beat the Mets

While for some this was a sad day to be a baseball fan because their team finished off one of the biggest collapses in baseball, if not sports history, for me it was a sad day because this was the last Braves baseball broadcast on TBS.  I've been a Braves fan for my entire life and have watched countless games on the SuperStation, so much so that the sound of Skip Carey's voice can take me back to my childhood living room in Selma, Alabama, remembering such things as Brian Asselstine twisting his ankle in the chainlink fence at Fulton County Stadium or staying up late to watch as the Braves tried to win 13 in a row to open the season in 1982.  The last few years, however, the powers that be decided to scale back TBS's coverage of the Braves until now, thirty years after it all started, we're left with America's Funniest Home Videos instead of Braves baseball every summer night at 7:35pm.  It's a sad day for me, made only a little better by the fact that the Mets choked and that technology and a few (too many) coins will deliver the Braves to me next year.  But what better way to go out than to hear good old Skip Carey pay tribute to the Amazins on this rather amazing day.

{ht Rowland's Office.  See you next Spring, fellas.}