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14Aug/100

The good ol’ days, when Braves pitchers could dominate in crappy sweaters

This is just perfect -- a shot of the early-90s Braves pitching rotation. I love Maddux's attempt at facial hair, Glavine's Notre Dame trucker hat, Steve Avery looking like he needs a car seat -- but the best by far is Smoltz's Cosby Show sweater. Wonder where that one ended up?

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Photo courtesy of ChopTalk, a mag for which I now write, and a magazine to which all Braves fans should subscribe. Great stuff. Good times, good times.

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17Dec/043

October No. 14

Amazing news on the baseball front, as the Braves have dealt for All-Star pitcher Tim Hudson and, just like that, pretty much guaranteed themselves another berth in the postseason. So what if it could be another short stay in October? You gotta be in it to win it...In other baseball news, the Yankees may or may not land freakishly talented mullethead Randy Johnson...and I couldn't really care either way. Matter of fact, I hope they do get him--it'll make their inevitable postseason flameout that much more satisfying. (More satisfying than the uber-choke of 2004? Nah, but still, any Yankee loss is a good loss.) Sure, the Yankees will certainly make the playoffs, and probably win the AL East, but they won't win it all. Why? 'Cause fantasy teams of multiple stars ALWAYS fall apart. The 2004 Lakers, the Dan Snyder Redskins, the Damn Yankees (not just the team, the '80s-arena-rock all-stars: The Nuge! That guy from Styx! That guy from Night Ranger!)--big-game failures, all of 'em. Every championship team needs its grunt crew--its Robert Horrys, its Bill Muellers, its Duff McKagans*. And once the Jeter-Torre-Bernie-Posada nucleus bails out, the Yanks are done for quite awhile--their farm teams have less talent than Ashlee Simpson, most high-profile free agents won't want to play with a supporting cast of scrubs, and no other manager on earth will put up with Steinbrenner's absurd demands the way Joe Torre has. Seventy-win seasons--they're closer than you think, Boss.

*-Guns n' Roses bassist and single drunkest musician ever to survive his band's heyday. You could catch a good buzz just from looking at photos of ol' Duff.

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Jay Busbee writes for Yahoo! Sports, covering the NFL, college football, NASCAR, golf, the NBA, baseball and, really, pretty much every other sport out there. He has also contributed to Esquire, Slate, ESPN.com, Deadspin, Slam, Atlanta and many other publications. And he often veers from journalism and just makes stuff up, writing comic books and the occasional novel.