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Posted on 9/30/16 at 6:55 pm to K9
Posted on 9/30/16 at 6:55 pm to K9
John Rocker's first game back from the suspension. That place was rocking when he came sprinting out of the bullpen. We were dumb rednecks back then so of course we brought our confederate flag. We were between the ChopHouse and the bullpen the whole game. Rocker looked up at me waving the flag and gave be a thumbs up as he was warming up.
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Posted on 9/30/16 at 8:38 pm to DirtyDAWG14
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Bottom of the 8th rolls around, guy on base, and they bring in Hinske to pinch hit. Smacks a 2 run shot just over the right field wall, and I've never heard the stadium so loud. I was one of the last rows in the 400's right behind home plate.
I seriously might have been sitting right next to you; I was in the very last row of the 400 level behind home plate. Equally the coolest moment I ever had in Turner as well as the most horrifying. Being that high up and feeling the ground rumble beneath me was a tad uncomfortable
Posted on 9/30/16 at 10:10 pm to Jefferson Dawg
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Fulton COunty stadium was a dump, but the memories from it are a thousand times better.
This will always be the Braves stadium to me.
Posted on 9/30/16 at 10:18 pm to SquatchDawg
The 1992 game 7 against the Pirates... I was unsuccessfully trying to get beer when TP doubled and made it out to watch the bases load up and then watch Cabrera hit in Bream. Loudest moment in sports for me. It was pretty fricking awesome.
Posted on 9/30/16 at 10:27 pm to Peter Buck
That was definitely one of the greatest moment in Braves history - possibly even bigger than when they won the Series. 1991 and 1992 where unbelievable. We were watching in Athens and everyone went nuts....shite was crazy. Good times.
Posted on 9/30/16 at 10:35 pm to DirtyDAWG14
I'm a die-hard White Sox fan but in '99 had a buddy offer me a World Series ticket to game 2 against the Yankees. I remember the crowd was kind of down from the beginning (likely due to losing game 1) and that it was cold as frick. They lost the game and I really don't remember much about it other than the Braves lost and the fans were pissed being down 2-0.
With all that said, as a big baseball fan, it was a real pleasure getting to attend my one and only World Series game.
I know the White Sox aren't a popular team so I doubt many of you have been to The Cell, but the food there is absolutely incredible. I don't mind The Ted but the food was absolutely awful...just ridiculously bad (SportsService, I believe). I'm looking forward to the new park more for the food than the stadium itself.
With all that said, as a big baseball fan, it was a real pleasure getting to attend my one and only World Series game.
I know the White Sox aren't a popular team so I doubt many of you have been to The Cell, but the food there is absolutely incredible. I don't mind The Ted but the food was absolutely awful...just ridiculously bad (SportsService, I believe). I'm looking forward to the new park more for the food than the stadium itself.
Posted on 9/30/16 at 10:36 pm to SquatchDawg
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That was definitely one of the greatest moment in Braves history
It was THE greatest. Of all time.
People can say the baseball season is too long and drawn out and boring. And they'd be right. Until, it's your team with it all on the line, at the end, and then magic happens.
That was probably the greatest sports high, I've personally ever experienced.
Posted on 10/1/16 at 7:20 am to Jefferson Dawg
We should've won it in 1991 and 1992.
Posted on 10/1/16 at 7:28 am to SquatchDawg
And the '93 team was better than both.I believe they only lost about 17 games in the 2nd half of the season.No excuse at all for losing to the Phillies in the playoffs.
Posted on 10/1/16 at 10:22 am to Chris_topher
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Best memories will be from the Atlanta-Fulton County stadium/the parking lot.... Otis Nixon's catch & when the Braves rallied late to beat the Dodger's w/ Bob Watson's homer
I agree 100%.....the Ted was a lousy baseball venue compared to old worn out, piss smelling Atlanta Fulton County Stadium.....the site lines and the stands at the Ted were the most uncomfortable of any stadium I ever set foot in....I have never been intimate with another mans knees outside of the Ted and unfortunately it was always some dude with shorts on so it was skin on skin....YUCK.....
Hate that the Braves won't be in Atlanta anymore but it was the only decision that could have been made. The area they are moving to will be as fricked up as the area they are leaving in 25 years....I know Vinings hates to hear that but it is bound to happen....the area is already pretty much surrounded on 3 sides by the same blight as the Ted neighborhood....in 100 years the Braves will be playing in Dawsonville and Atlanta, Macon and Columbus will all be one huge metropolis....
Posted on 10/1/16 at 10:25 am to AlaCowboy
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Saw Gene Garber strike out Pete Rose to end his hitting streak. Inside slider knee high. Rose bitched about the pitch in his presser after the game and when a reporter asked Garber about it he laughed and said he'll see that same pitch every time I face him.
I was at that game also!!! I saw a documentary about Pete Rose working at a memorabilia shop in Vegas (at the Venetian I think) and he is still pissed about that pitch...still whining that Garber was pitching like it was the 7th game of the world series LOL....both professional athletes doing what they do and at least one of them still having the fighting spirit...I would bet Garber does too....
Posted on 10/1/16 at 11:41 am to germandawg
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e area they are moving to will be as fricked up as the area they are leaving in 25 years....I know Vinings hates to hear that but it is bound to happen...
Huh?The area around the Ted had always been a shithole and was the same when Fulton County was there...putting those stadiums there was gonna change the surroundings and closest offices were all government buildings.
How in the world will having the new venue up there leave the like Summerhill or Pittsburgh areas of Atlanta?
The new venue will is surronded by Vinings,Smyrna and Sandy Springs to the East...some of the wealthiest areas of Metro Atl and you think they turn into Summerhill?
You have no idea what you're talking about
Posted on 10/1/16 at 12:16 pm to RD Dawg
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The new venue will is surronded by Vinings,Smyrna and Sandy Springs to the East...some of the wealthiest areas of Metro Atl and you think they turn into Summerhill? You have no idea what you're talking about
Does Marta buses run to that area now? If not they will start and boom there you have a ghetto. I saw it when they started running as far south as Forest Park. Clayton county then went to shite
Posted on 10/1/16 at 1:15 pm to swdawg
Marta runs in Sandy Springs and has for some time...not even close to a "ghetto"
Forest Park?Place was goimg to shite with or without Marta.Biggest problem in that
area is that the City of Atlanta shut all public housing and a lot of those folks were
driven further south to sec 8 and cheap housing.
Marta just started serving FP in '15. BTW.It turned to shite way before then.
Forest Park?Place was goimg to shite with or without Marta.Biggest problem in that
area is that the City of Atlanta shut all public housing and a lot of those folks were
driven further south to sec 8 and cheap housing.
Marta just started serving FP in '15. BTW.It turned to shite way before then.
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