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Wednesday, April 4, 2007
My pitch for Davies
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Here’s why I will always like Kyle Davies, no matter what: At Braves Winter FanFest 2006, when the lower-level management types were doing their level best to keep the fans from having any actual contact or conversation with the players (yeah - at FANFest) Kyle Davies and I hacked those geeks off by talking about a subject we both know pretty well: being from the Southside of Atlanta.
Davies is from Stockbridge and I grew up not far from there. When I told him where I live and where I’d gone to high school, he broke into a huge smile and laughed, saying, “We used to play y’all in baseball.” Then I talked about how everyone who used to live where we grew up has moved down to McDonough and he laughed again and agreed that “it’s crazy.” The junior suits in the room were breaking a sweat by now, the specter of an MLB player and a regular fan chatting like Just Folks nearly being too much for them to take.
And so I hope that if Kyle gets the Sunday start against the New York JV Squad, he gets the win or has a good enough outing to return from Richmond for the season. But I hope Cormier gets well soon. Better to have two good arms to choose from than to worry about who’ll start in the five slot.
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