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zjcvols said:
I don't have any sports hero other than the Great General Neyland himself, but I grew up with Chipper. Chipper's rookie year was 1993, the year I was born (okay, I was born Dec. 31st, 1992 but the point remains dammit!). After Chipper retired, I was not in a daze, but definitely down a little bit. My mom asked why and I was like "Mom, Chipper's my childhood. I did everything Chipper did on the baseball field. His batting stance, the high socks, the switch hitting (which I was awful at). Basically, this is the end of my childhood."

That's kind of how I look at it in a weird way since Chipper never has met me. It's the end of my childhood. I will cry after his last game. Not just because my favorite athlete ever will be gone, but it's the end of an era also.

Dammit.
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Life has a way of getting your attention sometimes, even when you delve into sports in an effort to get away from it.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
I was a grown man when Chipper came up. Married and everything. To you it seems like Chipper has been there forever; for me, it seems like he just got here a few years ago.

At least they didn't trade him to the Phillies like the Murph.
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Exactly. It's the end of an era for a lot of people like me. All we know is Chipper batting in the 3rd hole playing third base. It will be different.

I really, really hope he stays retire (and I truly believe he will) because he has to DH now, and it was hard enough seeing John Smoltz in a (gulp) Boston Red Sox uniform. I don't want to imagine Chipper in a different uniform.
 
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zjcvols said:
We might have to have a VN gathering then!

I've never been to one.

Freak, where you live at, if you don't mind my asking. You live in East TN?
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I'll let you know for sure but I'm thinking about watching the UGA game somewhere in Atlanta on Saturday and hitting the Braves game on Sunday.

I do. I live in Knoxville.
 
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tnfalcon said:
Life has a way of getting your attention sometimes, even when you delve into sports in an effort to get away from it.
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Braves baseball is my release. I'm not naive or dumb enough to think it's much, much more than a game, but it's my thing to get away from the troubles of life.

Until Fredi Gonzalez makes a dumb bullpen decision.
 
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Freak said:
I'll let you know for sure but I'm thinking about watching the UGA game somewhere in Atlanta on Saturday and hitting the Braves game on Sunday.

I do. I live in Knoxville.
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I'm going to Chattanooga Friday night to visit a college friend and heading down to Atlanta Saturday night/Sunday morning.

We thought about going to Athens for a minute, till we realized we are broke and didn't want to go in that ****hole :)
 
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Freak said:
I had a similar thought process until Florida happened.
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I had a cautiously optimistic approach going into the UF game.

All optimism is now gone. I have no doubt UT is going into Athens, play well for three quarters, UGA makes a big play, and we lose by 13.
 
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tnfalcon said:
I've tried to repress this, which I'm sure says a lot about me.
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They showed his first start on national tv (ESPN or MLB Network, can't remember which) and watched the first five pitches he threw, turned off the TV and said "I can't handle this" and walked away.

Shows us how crazy America is about sports.
 
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zjcvols said:
We thought about going to Athens for a minute, till we realized we are broke and didn't want to go in that ****hole :)
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I've been to several UT games there. Athens is a very nice college town most of the time, but it's an open anus on game day. Not highly recommended.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
I've been to several UT games there. Athens is a very nice college town most of the time, but it's an open anus on game day. Not highly recommended.
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Not speaking from experience, but can't you say that about every SEC school not named Vandy or UK?
 
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zjcvols said:
I had a cautiously optimistic approach going into the UF game.

All optimism is now gone. I have no doubt UT is going into Athens, play well for three quarters, UGA makes a big play, and we lose by 13.
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I'm waiting to see how they respond to the loss. I don't know if this team has the leadership and mental toughness to go on the road and play well in a big game.
 
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zjcvols said:
They showed his first start on national tv (ESPN or MLB Network, can't remember which) and watched the first five pitches he threw, turned off the TV and said "I can't handle this" and walked away.

Shows us how crazy America is about sports.
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I got used to Wayne Gretzky in an LA Kings uniform. No uniform change will faze me much after that.
 
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Oh, and Jordan in a Wizard uniform. My dad wasn't a Jordan fan, but it took him a few days to recover from that one.
 
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Freak said:
I'm waiting to see how they respond to the loss. I don't know if this team has the leadership and mental toughness to go on the road and play well in a big game.
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Call me a negavol, but I can't imagine they will beat UGA. AT ALL.

Of course, they'll beat Akron by 40 and bring everyone's hopes up.
 
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zjcvols said:
I'm going to Chattanooga Friday night to visit a college friend and heading down to Atlanta Saturday night/Sunday morning.

We thought about going to Athens for a minute, till we realized we are broke and didn't want to go in that ****hole :)
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I lived 30 miles away from UGA for over 17 years and was only on campus one time. That was enough for me.

VERY few people cared about UGA until Mark Richt and David Greene. Now they're insufferable.
 
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tnfalcon said:
I lived 30 miles away from UGA for over 17 years and was only on campus one time. That was enough for me.

VERY few people cared about UGA until Mark Richt and David Greene. Now they're insufferable.
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They don't have UT's tradition, but they were kinda in the rut UT is in now in the 1990's with Ray Goof and all that.
 
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zjcvols said:
Not speaking from experience, but can't you say that about every SEC school not named Vandy or UK?
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Ordinary sidewalk UGA fans are typical redneck SEC fans. No better, no worse. But the students are a really toxic combination of pretentious, surly, and combative; a drunken bunch of brosefs spoiling for a fight. Maybe it's because they bark like dogs and it screws up the wiring in their brain stems. I think you're more likely to get in an ugly confrontation in a nearby bar after the game in Athens than in any other SEC town I've been to.
 
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zjcvols said:
Oh, and Jordan in a Wizard uniform. My dad wasn't a Jordan fan, but it took him a few days to recover from that one.
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Jordan in a Wizards uni wasn't so shocking because he was so obviously done done done, and it had been so long since he'd played. He looked like a baseball old-timer on a barnstorming tour of Japan.

Derek Jeter in a Brewers uniform would be about what it was like to see Gretzky wearing something other than an Oilers sweater.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Ordinary sidewalk UGA fans are typical redneck SEC fans. No better, no worse. But the students are a really toxic combination of pretentious, surly, and combative; a drunken bunch of brosefs spoiling for a fight. Maybe it's because they bark like dogs and it screws up the wiring in their brain stems. I think you're more likely to get in an ugly confrontation in a nearby bar after the game in Athens than in any other SEC town I've been to.
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I used to hear about stuff like that happening a lot when I was in high school (Jefferson, GA).

A few classmates would go to the bars in Athens because some would serve alcohol to them.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Jordan in a Wizards uni wasn't so shocking because he was so obviously done done done, and it had been so long since he'd played. He looked like a baseball old-timer on a barnstorming tour of Japan.

Derek Jeter in a Brewers uniform would be about what it was like to see Gretzky wearing something other than an Oilers sweater.
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Gretzky was in his prime with the trade, no?
 
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