The Marks Post: A brave future of democracy

The city that gave us Ben Matlock, CNN, Coca-Cola, and a series of The Real Housewives is now home of the World Series champions. The Atlanta Braves won the World Series Tuesday night for the first time since 1995 with a 7-0 win over the Houston Astros.
I, for one, was happy about it. I was happy for all my friends who are loyal Braves fans just as much as I’m a loyal Cubs fan. The Braves had a stretch of sub-par years since they were the Team of the Decade, but I have friends who stuck with them all these years.
I was also happy about it because I’m a closet Braves fan. I guess I always was. Growing up, we could watch a baseball game every night. The Braves played on TBS, or we could watch the Astros. I was the oddball who came home from school everyday and watched the Cubs on WGN. Wasn’t life better with the superstations?
Anyway, Braves games were constantly on TV at my house because my sister, Haley, loved the Braves. I can still hear dad fussing about “Hanoi” Jane Fonda, who was married to Braves owner Ted Turner. Good times.
During those years, the Braves had a stacked team with a lineup that included Fred McGriff, Mark Lemke, Jeff Blauser, Chipper Jones, Marquis Grissom, and David Justice. And don’t forget about their pitching staff with hurlers like Tom Glavine, Greg Maddux, John Smoltz. Lest we forget the announcers like Pete Van Wieren, Skip Carey, and Don Sutton. It was fun watching them play, except when they were playing the Cubs.
The Braves should have won more than the one World Series in the 1990s but ran into the Yankees twice. In 1996, the Yankees beat the Braves, and that started the Yankee dynasty. The two teams met again in 1999 with the Yankees getting the sweep. Just to finish the thought, in 1998, the Braves beat my Cubs in the first round of the playoffs and lost to the San Diego Padres in the NLCS.
I’m also happy about the Braves winning this year because of political reasons. MLB was forced to move the All-Star Game this summer from Atlanta because of an election bill passed by the Georgia legislature. All the bill basically called for was voters showing their ID to vote. It’s a novel idea, but all the woke corporations like Coke and Delta Airlines pitched a fit because it was “racist.” Well, funny thing is Atlanta got the last laugh on woke MLB and hosted three World Series games.
The Braves win Monday night was also a sign of things to come. The following day was election day in several states like Virginia and New Jersey, and a red tsunami swept over the land. Republican Glenn Youngkin won the governor election in Virginia against critical race theory touting Terry McAuliffe. Virginia also elected a Black female Republican as lieutenant governor. The wins didn’t stop there as the Republicans won back the Virginia House of Delegates. New Jersey, too, saw a Republican surge as Republican challenger Jack Ciatterelli gave Democratic incumbent Phil Murphy a scare. The race was “too close to call” until all the mailed in votes from everyone swimming with the fishes were counted.
Even though the New Jersey gubernatorial race didn’t go for the Republicans, the GOP made great strides this year and is poised for big gains next year in the mid-term elections. So, break out your tomahawk and chop on for the Atlanta Braves and the future of democracy in our country.