From the cheap seats

Forget about Thanksgiving and Christmas, the beginning of October is definitely my favorite time of year.

October brings more than cold weather and little hoodlums dressed in expensive costumes. The month brings the Major League Baseball
Playoffs.

This is what you and I, as fans have waited for. We’ve sat through countless hours of highlights and lowlights of the long 162 game season.

We watched the great MLB All-Star Game that had many new, young faces. We booed and complained about that same game after it ended in a tie in extra innings.

We jeered many of the athletes because of the proposed strike. Finally, we admired their sincerity and best human nature on Sept. 11.

The culmination of the past six months has led to the most thrilling moments yet to come.

I hope the Atlanta Braves do well this post-season. They haven’t started well but I think that they will either start winning or they’ll lose (how do you like that prediction).

I hate to say it, but after a record 11 years of winning the division and making the playoffs, a lot of Braves fans (myself included) have been accused of being spoiled. Nothing could be further from the truth. Well, it is true, we are spoiled, but we got good reasons.

We take heat because we don’t attend games that much or in record attendance like we used to. The main reason for that is because it’s too expensive. On average, for a group of four people it would cost about
$125.00 (including moderately priced tickets) for one game of Atlanta
Braves baseball.

Some give us a hard time because we don’t get as loud as Yankee Stadium or Shea Stadium. We don’t stand up and cheer the whole game. The reason for that is simple, it’s too dang hot to be standing up cheering nine innings straight. In New York they do that to keep their butts warm during Sept. and Oct.

You may notice that I write a lot of the articles for the sports section each week. The Colonnade has a serious lack of responsible sports writers. I am usually the person who has to stay late and write articles that are never assigned to writers.

I know some of you are thinking ‘stop your griping.’ Actually I mention this only because I want to thank certain people for helping me and putting up with the crazy stuff I say or do.

First I want to thank Dr. Ginger Carter (assistant professor of mass communication and The Colonnade Adviser) for never answering my questions, but instead letting me figure out the answers for myself. I would also like to thank (it’s like I’m getting an award or something) my editor, Ryan Schomber, for bearing with me and jamming out late nights at the ‘nade.’

I’d like to thank all the coaches and athletes for giving time out of their busy schedules to help keep a better informed student body.

The man who has made my job so much easier would have to be Georgia College & State University’s Sports Information and Marketing Director, Brad Muller. Brad has kept me well informed and helped with scheduling everything from interviews to photographs.

Finally I want to thank any reader who reads the sports every week,, every other week, once every month, or for the first time, right now.

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