It’s the weekend of the Super Bowl, which will put us a mere 10 days before the Braves open camp at North Port for the first time when pitchers and catchers report on Feb. 12. That means you’re running out of time to remember that the team plays its spring games at CoolToday Park, not Coolray Field, which the Gwinnett Stripers call home. You may get a couple mulligans among friends, but get it together, people.
Before we dive into this week’s Starting Nine, given that the Super Bowl is Sunday, and more than a few readers will be watching solely for the commercials, here’s a baseball ad from Rolling Rock that was “banned” for the sheer volume of men being hit in their (Chris/Jim/Kelly/Reed) Johnsons.