DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN : BRAVES ARE SITTING PAT WITH A WINNING HAND.The last time we saw the Atlanta Braves The Atlanta Braves are a professional baseball team based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Braves are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League. From to the present, the Braves have played in Turner Field. , owner Ted Turner For other persons named Ted Turner, see Ted Turner (disambiguation). Robert Edward Turner III (born November 19 1938 was walking around with the World Series trophy The Commissioner's Trophy is awarded each year by Major League Baseball to the team winning the World Series. Recent trophy designs consist of 30 flags representing the 30 teams in North America's two top leagues, the National League and the American League. on his head, a goofy smile on his face and a giddy bounce in his step. No surprise, either. After five years of frustration, the best team in baseball finally had the crown to prove it, and Turner and the Braves were enjoying their coronation. So how did the Braves celebrate in the following months? By sitting at home and watching other clubs scramble to get better. In the past, such a strategy - some might mistakenly call it complacency - would spell certain doom. Atlanta general manager John Schuerholz John Schuerholz (born on October 1, 1940 in Baltimore, Maryland) is the President of the Atlanta Braves of the National League. Before joining Atlanta, he spent twenty-two years with the Kansas City Royals organization, including nine as the club's GM. sees it a different way. ``If you don't win the world championship, you have to do that,'' he said. ``You have to make more dramatic moves when you're chasing a team, rather than being the team.'' In this rare case, he's right. Schuerholz has assembled something of a dream team in the Olympic city of Atlanta, particularly when it comes to pitching. The staff is the envy of baseball, so talented and durable that no one is going to catch the Braves, at least not right away. And while young pitchers provide hope in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , and new faces produce improvement in St. Louis, the Braves should easily reach their fifth straight postseason and could become the first NL team to win consecutive championships since Cincinnati's Big Red Machine in 1975-76. SOURCE: Associated Press |
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