Braves 2020

As a Braves fan for years, I remember the old Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium and of course Phil Niekro, Dale Murphy and Bob Horner. I remember the rotten years when Skip Carey mentioned Slim Pickens was in the stands that night...Of course I kept looking for him, but didn't realize he meant the stadium crowd was sparsely attended...
then at Turner Field we had Chipper with Smoltz, Glavine and Maddux leading us to the World Series... The reason the Braves got the heck out of Downtown Atlanta and built in Cobb County at Suntrust (now Truist) was Parking at Turner Field was located right next to the highest crime area in the county. You were lucky if your vehicle wasn't broken into or damaged. Pushers constantly badgering you in the lot after the games, to buy their drugs or homeless panhandlers constantly harassing fans. That's why attendance started getting hurt. Fulton officials wanted so many low income "affordable" housing opportunities, it actually turned the Turner field area into a drug infested ghetto.. With that being said, I'm actually looking forward to the Spring to get to attend a Braves game and visit The Battery. Cobb officials did it right, with a complete gameday experience with nice shops, restaurants, office buildings and high rise (high rent) luxury apartments and plenty of police everywhere to keep away the riff raff (pan handlers, drug pushers).

I do hope this Covid stuff is over by the Spring and I can maybe get to see a few games live at The Battery / Truist Park... Kudos to Cobb for not letting the Battery turn into a ghetto.
 
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