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    Things left unsaid can haunt us

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    Things left unsaid can haunt us

    There has been a lot of commentary on the George Floyd and the Ahmaud Arbery cases. The tragedies seem pretty clear to me, although the Arbery case hits closer to home as it happened not only in my home state but near the Georgia coast that I love so much. When you put a gun in someone’s hand, they get a sense of power and authority. When you put a gun in a racist’s hands, you exponentially ramp up the chances of a tragedy like what happened in Glynn County. And the guy who pulled the trigger in Glynn County […]

    I’ll have a cup of Bacon without the Carly Rae Jepsen, please

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    I’ll have a cup of Bacon without the Carly Rae Jepsen, please

    I love the sport of baseball, even though I kinda gave up on the Braves after 40 years of loving them when they abandoned a perfectly good ballpark for a taxpayer fleecing in Cobb County. I tried to replace them with the Chicago Cubs, but it didn’t work. I like the Cubs. I just don’t love them. I grew up with about 13 channels, one of them TBS that showed the Braves all the time, and the other WGN that showed the Cubs. I mistakenly thought that commonality would allow me to make a seamless transition, but no. Maybe the […]

    A year after breaking up with the Braves

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    A year after breaking up with the Braves

    Last year, I wrote a column titled “Why I’m Breaking Up with the Braves.” Based on how they’re playing this year, looks like I did it just in time. In this coming Sunday’s column, I’ll take a look at the after-effects of breaking up with your favorite baseball team — whether or not the breakup is justified, and I think it certainly was with this management group now running the team. In short, you can’t just switch allegiances to another team after 40 years of sticking with them through thick and thin.  And there were an awful lot of thin […]