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author: Eric Wagoner
date: '2000-10-04T09:52:53'
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title: I listened to the Cardinals-Braves
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I listened to the Cardinals-Braves baseball game off the internet while at work yesterday. Though I'm in Georgia, I grew up outside St. Louis. I've long loved the Cardinals, almost as much as I despised the Braves. Their collective cockiness has always made me shudder. America's team, indeed. After a weird, wild game, the Cards wound up on top. The local Athens newspaper [has a great quote:](http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/100400/spo_1004000042.shtml) "_In a remarkable example of Southern hospitality, the Braves made red the color of the day by giving away Game 1 of the best-of-five Division Series_ ".