Greatest Braves Team Ever?

With the Braves owning the best record in baseball, it’s easy for kids to say the is the best time ever to be a Braves fan. What about the World Series runs in 1957-58, with Spahn & Lew Burdette, Aaron, Mathews, Adcock, and Bobby Thomson? The 1969 western division championship, with Niekro, Aaron, Boyer, and Cepeda? Or 1982-83 with Murphy, Horner, Benedict, Niekro, Camp, Chambliss, etc. ? And I’m pretty sure the record run of division champions in the 90’s? Sid’s slide, Maddux, Glavine, Smoltz, Chipper, Cox, Mazzone, etc.? Sure the 2023 team is loaded, leading the league in several offensive and pitching categories, but Braves history has been loaded with great times. Heck even when the team was losing 100 games per season in the late 70’s and 80’s it was a great time to be a Braves fan. Perhaps I'll post a ranking.

Saturday morning on ESPN College GameDay in one breath Kirk Herbstreit goes out of his way to say “no disrespect to Georgia” (remembering how last year he picked Tennessee to beat the Dawgs), then joined expert geniuses Desmond Howard and Pat MacAfee in picking Alabama to win SEC championship. Sure, it’s easy to say the Dawgs won’t win a third straight national championship, since no one has done it in decades and decades – but who is going to stop them? Lots of question marks over in Tuscaloosa this year. One South Carolinian thinks the Gamecocks are up to the task. LOL.

Stetson is taking a lot of preseason snaps. He’s thrown several interceptions, and had a few more near interceptions dropped. Some still love Bennett, but others think the Rams need to bring in a veteran backup.

Over 1600 scientists agree: there is no climate emergency. And when opponents tried to debunk the research by claiming it was funded by Big Oil, another study showed that it wasn’t. Still gets my goat that it’s hot in August and people cry global warming. Yes the climate is changing. It’s been changing for the past 6000 years – which is a really long time. Ocean temperatures are rising – due to undersea volcanic activity. Sure I am just an old guy. What makes me or any other non-scientist such an expert? Trust the science? I did spend a good deal of time listening and reading up on data from scientists brought in to lecture my kids on Living Science retreats – science-backed data on their website www.answersingenesis.com

With human trafficking so rampant, its hard to dismiss any story as completely untrue. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. True or not, it’s enough to make a guy to never wear red shoes again. Great – right after I bought a pair.

Are we witnessing a precursor to the Antichrist's covenant with many?

Signs that the US culture has been completely transformed.

The 2023 Ryder Cup team

Sam Burns Choudrant La - 27 - Ryder Cup Rookie

Patrick Cantlay Jupiter Fla - 31 - one Ryder Cup appearance 2021

Wyndham Clark Scottsdale Ariz - 29 - Ryder Cup Rookie

Rickie Fowler Jupiter Fla - 34 four Ryder Cup appearances 10 14 16 18

Brian Harman St Simons Island Ga - 36 - Ryder Cup Rookie

Max Homa Scottsdale Ariz - 32 - Ryder Cup Rookie

Brooks Koepka Jupiter Fla - 33 three Ryder Cup appearances 16 18 21

*Collin Morikawa Las Vegas - 26 one Ryder Cup appearance 2021

Xander Schauffele Jupiter Fla - 29 one Ryder Cup appearance 2021

Scottie Scheffler Dallas - 27 one Ryder Cup Appearance 2021

*Jordan Spieth Dallas - 30 four Ryder Cup appearances 2014, '16, '18, ‘21

*Justin Thomas Jupiter Fla - 30 - 2 Ryder Cup appearances 2018 & ‘21

U.S. Captain: Zach Johnson St Simons Island Ga

Vice Captains: Stewart Cink, Fred Couples, Jim Furyk, Davis Love III, Steve Stricker

Phil Mickelson admitted that he stole a sign from the driving range at Augusta National.

I worked until 6 pm last night. C cooked stir fry with beef tips in a wok, as well as collards. She watched a home renovation show while a played on my laptop. Most of the Braves highlights happened after I went to bed. This morning I ran three miles at the gym.

MICKEY MANTLE [SABR Bio] tied Babe Ruth for most home runs hit in Fenway Park by a visiting player, with 38. Drafted for the Korean War, Mantle was found unfit for military service in Dec 1950 due to an arrested case of osteomyelitis in his left leg. Mantle was actually rejected twice more: on 13-Apr-1951 after his draft board again cited the osteomyelitis and then, bowing to public pressure, one last time in 1952 when the knee he had damaged in the 1951 World Series prompted his final “physically unqualified for military service” assessment. Mantle once set the record for the most home runs in a year where he did not capture the league home run title. He hit 54 HR in 1961 behind teammate Roger Maris’ 61. Sammy Sosa’s 66 in 1998 is the standard today.