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I grew up in BFE (we had three TV channels – this was before satellite dishes started popping up in rural America) and the only baseball I got to see was playoff baseball; for that reason I’m a lifelong Mets fan. All my friends lived in town and had cable and TBS so they were all Braves fans before the great teams of the 90s. I hated Maddux, Glavine, Smoltz, Avery, Larry, etc.

Tony Kornheiser had Tim Kurkjian on his radio show yesterday to talk about Maddux and Glavine and Kurkjin had a great line about how smart of a pitcher Maddux was: “…if you ever saw Greg Maddux with his shirt off, and I did, you would never imagine that he was an athlete let alone one of the top six pitchers of all time…”