It’s baseball season again, and only three games in, the Braves are showing promise. They swept the Phillies 3-0, which is a great way to start things off. It’s waaaay to early to make any predictions, but it feels good, anyway. Two of the three games were won with a extra-inning rallies, which was how the Braves won many games in their golden days in the early 90′s.

Losing the NL Division title may have been the kick in the pants the team needed. It’s been 15 years since the Braves began their NL Championship streak (not counting the 1994 strike when there was no championship, of course), and 12 years since their 1995 World Series win. It’s about time for another one, I think.

When I first started this blog, I mentioned being at a Braves game in 1992 when Otis Nixon made a fabulous catch that robbed the Pirates of a game-tying home run late in the game. After a little searching, I finally found footage of the catch on Youtube (the footage starts at the 1:35 mark in the video, or the 3:00 mark if the counter is counting down):

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