{"id":1186,"date":"2008-05-24T06:54:20","date_gmt":"2008-05-24T11:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/05\/24\/braves-hot-georgia-not\/"},"modified":"2008-05-24T06:54:20","modified_gmt":"2008-05-24T11:54:20","slug":"braves-hot-georgia-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/05\/24\/braves-hot-georgia-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves Hot, Georgia Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Braves quietly ran off a nice winning streak, going 6-4 in the last 10 games to pull within 1.5 games of the Marlines.  Chipper Jones is a regular firecracker \u2013 .415 AVG, 12 HR, 35 RBI, 36 R, 1.172 OPS.  Bobby Cox is having so much fun with this bunch that he just signed a <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/mlb\/news\/story?id=3410118\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/mlb\/news\/story?id=3410118', 'one year extension');\" target=\"new\">one year extension<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019m certainly going to end my career here,\u201d Cox said. \u201cThere\u2019s no doubt about that now. I\u2019m happy. We\u2019ve got great ballplayers. They\u2019re fun to be around and it\u2019s a fun team to be a part of. If it wasn\u2019t fun, you should get out of the game, but I\u2019m still having fun.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I cannot imagine the Braves without Cox as the manager.  If the Braves can hang on until help arrives from the DL (Smoltz, Gonzalez, and Soriano should all be back in the next few weeks) then they guys may actually have a shot to take this thing deep into October.<\/p>\n<p>I am not sure what happened to the Bulldogs.  They bounced back from last year\u2019s disappointing year to win the SEC, get the top seed in the SEC tournament, only to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgiadogs.com\/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=40708&SPID=3589&DB_OEM_ID=8800&ATCLID=1473702\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.georgiadogs.com\/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=40708&amp;SPID=3589&amp;DB_OEM_ID=8800&amp;ATCLID=1473702', 'bounced in two straight games');\" target = \"new\">bounced in two straight games<\/a> by Mississippi and Alabama.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Up next, the SEC Champion Bulldogs will likely play host to one of the 16 NCAA Regionals with the host sites announced on Sunday, May 25 at 7 p.m. EDT on ESPNews and NCAASports.com. The entire 64-team selection show can be seen live on ESPN on Monday, May 26 at 12:30 pm. EDT. NCAA Regional play begins May 30-June 2 at campus sites around the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hopefully the Bulldogs got the loosing out of their system and will start a nice run to Omaha.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Braves quietly ran off a nice winning streak, going 6-4 in the last 10 games to pull within 1.5 games of the Marlines. Chipper Jones is a regular firecracker \u2013 .415 AVG, 12 HR, 35 RBI, 36 R, 1.172 OPS. 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