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How would you like to try being a Mets and a Red Sox fan? I could therefore present myself as living proof that schizophrenia and dual natures can be overcome - even in the 1986 World Series!

To be honest, I don't dislike the Braves. I also happen to think that just maybe Tom Glavine, and not Greg Maddux, will prove in the final wash cycle to have been the greatest pitcher in the franchise's history who isn't named Warren Spahn. (For that matter, I think one of the candidates for the most memorable moments should have been that fine day in 1963 that Spahn nailed his 20th win of the season - becoming, then and still, the oldest man in baseball history to win 20 games and the only one to win 20 or more thirteen times.) But I will always wonder why after all these years the Braves still don't get it about handling their pitching and end up, almost perenially, with a blown-out staff by the time the postseason comes. Those pitchers have deserved better than what their postseason performance papers show.