Take a free pass to Radio Free Sports
Rather get into a back-and-forth blog debate with colleagues Jim Young and Bruce Buchanan over the meaning of "free pass," I'll let you listen to us discuss the Braves, manager Bobby Cox and the point I was making at this week's Radio Free Sports podcast.
Listen and understand that I was not arguing the NL East is weak. Just that other teams who should have challenged the Braves underachieved or faded after showing early promise and, thus, the Braves don't get 100% of the credit for their 11th straight (not 14th) division title as Jim seems to want to give them.
We do agree Cox is the NL manager of the year, just as Andruw Jones should be MVP. But, if Jimbo is going to talk up the NL East and rip the NL Central for being full of chumps, does that not mean the Phillies had a more treacherous road than the Astros, whom they trail by 2 games for the wild card?
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