I hope I havent posted on this before, if I did, my apologies. With baseball season beginning, my mind turned to the Braves, and the fact that, many times, their visit to the area I lived in had coincided with a major event in my life. This goes back to 1994, when I graduated from college on the Sunday they finished a series with the Mets in New York. In 1995, my grandmother was ill in the hospital with kidney failure, and we got news she would pass, also when the Braves were in New York, and she in fact did pass away the next morning right after they left. Then, in 1997, my best friend got news that he was moving away from me, again when Atlanta was in New York. 1998 was perhaps the best one for me. I dont know if I ever posted on the circumstances of how I moved here, but there was a case in the town I used to live in, Fort Lee, NJ, where landlords overcharged tenants rent, and the case ended up in the Supreme Court. Again, we got the news when the Braves were at Shea. Even when I moved here, there was an Atlanta- New York connection, but it wasnt the Braves. The Atlanta Hawks and New York Knicks were playing a playoff series in 1999 at the time I moved, and again, Atlanta was in New York on the day I left. Last year, the Braves coming to my area, now Philadephia, surfaced again, when my mom had her hospital visit and cancer scare, which I've posted about on here before, again, just before I was supposed to see Braves-Phillies at the Vet. Maybe this is an utterly mindless post, but I just wonder why it is that every time the Braves visit my area, something happens to me? Their first visit to Philly in 2004 is Memorial Day weekend, and Iam going on that Sunday with my friend Russ to see Citizens Bank Park for the first time. Hopefully, this time, their visit will be a quiet one, and nothing dramatic will happen. Unless I win the lottery the night before, LOL! That might be the only dramatic thing I'd like after all the seemingly life altering things that have happened at other times the Braves come to town.
Mitch
Mitch
