I wanted to play around with a few things in this Braves new venture(1) for myself. The first of which is writing about sports, which is kind of unbelievable since I've loved sports all my life, but for some reason never even dabbled in writing about them. The second is playing around with the Blogger account and seeing how the finished product looks on here. And lastly is focusing on the Atlanta Braves, a team that I've loved most of my life. I figured a small scale blog would be a good start to this. It would be a good way to gain a little bit of experience and not tying myself to any sort of commitment, which I've had a terrible time keeping in the past.
So Braves baseball is just around the corner and I couldn't be more excited and my wife is already bored of me ignoring her while watching the Braves game on the laptop while we watch something on TV. Due to my circumstances I can't enjoy the awesome broadcasters the Braves employ. I absolutely love and prefer listening to former Brewers announcer Jim Powell and Don Sutton do the radio broadcast which thanks the awesomeness of MLB.TV is very easy to play as the audio while watching the Braves telecast on the laptop. Meanwhile, the TV crew of Chip Carey and Joe Simpson also do a really good job and I love Joe's take on the game and Chip honoring the Carey legacy. The announcing has been a big part of my Braves fandom, much the way it is for Brewers fans with Bob Uecker and Dodgers fans with Vin Scully, as I would watch the games on TBS growing up and learn so much about the game from Skip Carey, Pete Van Wieren, Ernie Johnson, and the previously mentioned Don Sutton and Joe Simpson. I enjoyed all of their takes on the game of baseball and respect them so much. One of my favorite moments on the Turner Field tour I did two years ago was visiting the Skip Carey TV Booth and the Pete Van Wieren Radio Booth. It was awesome looking out the window and seeing the way these men watched 162 games a year.
We are a mere 6 days away from Braves Opening Day. It's very cool that the Braves start the season at home for a change, seems like they are always on the road, and even more cool that the game against the Phillies is going to be shown on ESPN at night. As much as I like listening to Jim and Don call a game on the radio, with my job structured how it was, I wouldn't be able to enjoy an afternoon game on April 1 much so being able to watch a night game on television is a much better way to go, even if I'll probably still be mandated to watch it on my laptop by my wife.
I plan on writing more in the upcoming days, giving more details and analysis but am concluding for the time being. In the meantime, I'm very excited for the post-Chipper Jones era. Getting the Uptons has made this team young, fast, and fun. Andrelton Simmons is emerging into a special player faster than most would even guess. Freddie Freeman is proving to be a mainstay in the middle of a line-up. Meanwhile, guys like Evan Gattis have a tremendous story and it's nice to see a player like that succeed and possibly earn a spot on the Opening Day roster. There's a lot to look forward to not only this season but for the foreseeable future in Atlanta and hopefully this blog or a version of it will be along for the ride.
(1) That was a terrible pun and I'm pretty proud of it.
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