Oh, I'm well aware. Sigh, the halcyon days of Ted Turner cash. Fun fact: you can see into his pent house, sort of, from the ferris wheel by Centennial Park.

I'm squicked out right now just thinking about it. I love my boyfriend and he loves me, but we'd laugh in each other's faces if one of us referred to our amorous sessions as making love. Woof.

Interesting! I lived in Connecticut for a couple years, in Madison (Southeast, on the Long Island Sound). Didn't really make it to the Northwestern part - I think the airport is as far inland as I got - but I believe you. Redneck is not confined by geography.

I'm sure you do. I mean, fuck us ITP assholes, amirite? I live downtown, I average about 20 games a year, haven't missed an opening day since I moved back to Atlanta for grad school, and I absolutely love going to Turner Field. I'm cynical about the move, but I'm also just sad.

It's cool. I was only 8, but that happened to be about the time I started getting interested in sports in general. And I live in Atlanta.

I can't even anymore with the move. I'm moving towards the acceptance phase, but it's more resignation than acceptance.

AT&T Park does have great attendance. That said, both clubs have been in the top third of the league for attendance every year for the past decade.

BE STRONG. My office is downtown, and my executive director basically sanctions weekday day games when we can fit them in.

Oh, I know. It's for me. The Braves DGAF.

The game was at noon on a Monday, at the end of a long series. I'm all for playing afternoon hooky for a 1:30 game, but a noon game means a whole day out of the office.

I live close to the current stadium, and I'm waiting until 2017 to boycott, so, I mean, you still have time. I was in first grade when we went from worst to first, so that incredible 90s run started at the same time I became cognizant of sports. Maddux is my favorite player of all time, Simmons is a blast to watch,…

We had money back then. At the time, I think Maddux's contract was record-setting or close to it. I think.

That's about the size of it. Just wanted OP to understand why a desired free agent would want to go there in the first place.

There are different flavors of Southern. I'm from, and currently live in, Atlanta, like, the actual city. Even in your comment, my knee-jerk reaction was, "Wha.... wait, why would they lump Georgia and Alabama together? I'm not like them!" Which, OBVIOUSLY Georgia and Alabama would be lumped together, especially when…

Agreed on that point. Poor Cubs fans. But the OP didn't ask directly about the Cubs, he asked about the Braves. As a native Atlantan, I feel more qualified to address things from a Braves perspective than a Cubs perspective.

Scott Boras was a pain in the ass, undoubtedly, but his player roster forced plenty of teams to deal with him.

You mean the team that, at the time of signing, had won three-consecutive division titles and would win a World Series Championship the first full year Maddux started with the team (strike killed the 94 season)? The team that, at the time, sported a roster of Tom Glavine, John Smoltz, and Steve Avery? The club that…

But he's SO SERIOUS. I'm a Braves fan, and he joins our local broadcasts pretty regulary. I love him, always have, always will, but he has the levity of an anvil.

Interesting. I actually don't have any problems with eyebrow hair growth - I think I was young enough when I plucked them, and did it for a short-enough period of time that they bounced back quickly. But I know a lot of folks who overplucked their eyebrows and now can't get them to grow.

I overplucked the hell out of my eyebrows from age, like, 17-22, but then I stopped. I guess I didn't do it long enough because they grew right back in when I stopped plucking. I mean, I still pluck to shape them, but not to turn them into sharpie lines above my eyes.