Now tell us how you really feel! ;)

Watch Ted Turner's Braves choke in the playoffs, again!

Is that better?

*thud* ;)

In fairness, it isn't so much the division series or the League Championship Series that give the Braves half as much trouble (they did, after all, cash in five pennants for their trouble) as the World Series does.

On the other hand, it could have been worse. Anyone who remembers the 1983-90 Braves - or, too many years of Philadelphia Phillies futility (people think the Cubs have a knack for mediocrity under pressure?) - can tell you. Not to mention, anyone (me, for one) who has put up with too many years of the real curse of my Boston Red Sox: bonehead management, in the front office and in the dugout, a curse which seems too much to have afflicted my other lifetime affection/affliction, the New York Mets. (Don't even think of asking the state of my already warped mind come the 1986 World Series!).