"i don't want to be a light that hangs around your wrist"
(so long and thanks for the memories)


well, there goes the neighborhood. this news broke around lunchtime yesterday. john smoltz is done for (at the very least) the season. i won't spend much time romanticizing and waxing nostalgic about his awesomeness. a lot of that will go on today on other sites. it's not that i didn't like smoltz. i loved him being a brave. but i was never a "smoltz guy". i am a hudson guy. and before that, i was a maddux guy. but i will miss him and what he brought to the table for my braves. it does piss me off a little bit that, since the news broke yesterday, reporters, players and commentators (hell, even smoltz himself) have been coming out of the woodwork talking of how they "saw this coming", that they've known he's been in constant pain since the spring. would've been nice to share some of that info with the fans so we didn't get our hopes up. oh well.

good-bye, john smoltz. hope the surgery goes well. i am sure we'll see you on the fox saturday afternoon broadcasts sooner rather than later.

oh, and the season is now officially over.