Two Big Chokes
As I posted back in the summer , history is made almost every day in baseball. Sometimes it is the “bad” kind of history. The kind of history that makes baseball fans like me suffer. Lord knows the Atlanta Braves made me suffer aplenty in 1970’s and 1980’s. But, they didn’t make me suffer in a classic choking kind of way. They waited until the 2011 season to do that. Along with the storied Boston Red Sox, the Atlanta Braves are the only two teams in baseball history to hold such a massive lead in a play-off race only to see it squandered in a September swoon. Nothing like this has ever happened before and now it has happened to two teams in the same season. Truly historic twin chokes . If I disassociate myself (briefly) from the trauma of the demise, last night’s action was pretty incredible from a pure baseball perspective . The St. Louis – Houston game was an 8-0 blow out . So, it doesn’t count except to cap a terrific hard charge by the Cardinals when it matters most. So, my hat’s o