Atlanta Braves - WORLD CHAMPIONS!

 

"I can't believe what I just saw!"  I know the Atlanta Braves were good.  The best team the latter part of the season.  But I didn't know.  Or maybe I was too scared to think it.  Still hard to believe Atlanta is the World Champion but the Braves did it.  World Series Champions after beating the Houston Astros six game to two.  Wow this feels good. After watching them struggle much of the year how could you see this coming.  Good on Braves management for going for it at the trade deadline, after Acuna's season ending injury, when it would have been easy to say it isn't worth it.  I was always worried about the pitching even though it really put up good numbers all year.  Solid starting pitching and a really good bullpen that shutdown Houston in some critical games.  It really was a team effort.  I think the bullpen as a group could have been given the MVP.  Just saying.

As a Braves' fan this is special.  It's been so long.  The 1995 Championship was amazing.  That team had been built up for five years and kept falling short.  This team, while winning four straight division titles, it still wouldn't have surprised anyone if they had lost in the playoffs.  The team is full of great stories, fun players and great manager.  I'm really enjoying this and it will take some time to come down from the high.  Now I just need to pick me up some swag...you never know if this will happen again.  www.fanati...

And this guy.  Can't say enough about Freddie Freeman.  He's a special player and means so much to the Braves and to Atlanta.  A guy who suffered through some lean years but was the leader this team needed as it ascended to a perennial contender.  It is so nice to see him hoist the World Series trophy.  He deserves that opportunity.  That can be said about many players but Freddie Freeman truly deserves to be amongst them.  A good player, leader, beloved by Atlanta fans and by all accounts a good person.  Congratulations Freddie Freeman.