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ESPN<\/a>: Legendary Braves manager, Bobby Cox, passes away at the age of 84<\/span><\/p>\n As the years passed, long after his retirement in 2010, occasionally I did have the thought of this eventuality, when Bobby Cox would one day leave us; usually whenever he\u2019d pop up sporadically throughout the years, be it as the novelty guest manager for an exhibition game, or just appearing at the ballpark for some special occasion.\u00a0 But Bobby Cox was no exception to the rule of Father Time, and as his age continued to rise, it was always a matter of when and not if, and curiosity on how the sports world would receive the sad news.<\/span><\/p>\n And now, that hypothetical has become reality, and at the age of 84, Bobby Cox has sadly passed away, leaving a void in the hearts of Braves fans, and to varying degrees, fans of baseball, fans of sport, and the people of Atlanta who had a modicum of local pride to the Braves that repped them.<\/span><\/p>\n Naturally, I am very sad to hear this as well, at 84, it can\u2019t be said that it was too soon, and he lived quite the full life, but still it\u2019s sad to hear that \u2018ol Bobby has finally left the party.\u00a0 In a way, he was kind of like everyone\u2019s dad, who grew up watching the Braves, and not just to the players themselves.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019m not going to wax too much poetic and recite a lot of the same statistics and career numbers that anyone can read about on the countless other obituaries that are already posted all over the internet, but I was always amused at the fact that he had been ejected from nearly an entire regular season\u2019s worth of games (158).\u00a0 Although I definitely recall a few times where he trudged out of the dugout to get in the face of an umpire, what I always remembered more were the times where TV cameras and mics don\u2019t necessarily pick up what he\u2019s saying, but we just see the umpire react and throw out his finger and send Bobby off, without anyone but commentators really knowing what was being said.<\/span><\/p>\n But that\u2019s what Bobby did, he got his ass tossed out of games, always in defense of his boys.\u00a0 He was this totem of steady respect and support, and I like to imagine Braves fans everywhere wished for the levels of support and sticking up for his team from their own parents as Bobby did for his players throughout his entire career, and imagined how much better life could be if they did.<\/span><\/p>\n What was always amazing to me was how Bobby Cox seemed to be immune to the criticism, from even the most staunch and stubborn of newer baseball fans who prioritized statistics and analysis over the old school, touch-and-feel managing style that Bobby Cox exercised, and what made Bobby, Bobby.\u00a0 Sure, there would be some grumblings of critique over some of his old school game tactics, but at the same time, nobody would complain when he\u2019d get a feeling<\/em>, and suddenly Brooks Conrad is hitting a pinch-hit home run of the go-ahead variety and the Braves would win a nailbiter.<\/span><\/p>\n I think one of my favorite memories of Bobby was when it was somewhere in between 2011 and 2013, but he would emerge out of retirement at the end of most Spring Trainings, and he would manage the Braves\u2019 minor league all-stars for an exhibition game against the final 25-man Atlanta Braves roster, usually at the home of one of their affiliates.\u00a0 There was one year, where the game took place in sleepy small Rome, Georgia, and the Bobby Cox-led minor league Baby Braves ended up stomping the Jesus out of the Atlanta Braves by like a score of like 10-3.<\/span><\/p>\n Every year, I\u2019d always make jokes about how whether it was at these exhibition games, or whenever Bobby showed up to the ballpark, about the umpires should single him out and eject him from the premises, just for old time\u2019s sake, and every time I\u2019d make the joke, it would get avalanches of likes and thumbs ups from the masses, and it always brought me comfort that others shared the same humor and got the joke.<\/span><\/p>\n Either way, it is truly a sad, sad day in Atlanta and the baseball landscape, that Bobby Cox has passed.\u00a0 No hyperbole, the man was genuinely one of the greatest baseball managers in the history of the game, and Major League Baseball is in a position where tomorrow is not going to be a better day than the last because of the magnitude of the loss of one of its greatest alumni.<\/span><\/p>\n What\u2019s crazy is that Bobby\u2019s passing was just days after Ted Turner\u2019s, because the two were very closely intertwined, between the former owner and the former manager-turned GM-turned back to manager.\u00a0 Already, the morbid hypothesis has already been posed about the brutal rule of threes, and seeing as how one and two were Atlanta icons, those legends in my city need to be on high alert over the next coming days into weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n Fare thee well, Bobby Cox.\u00a0 This one genuinely does hurt, and I\u2019m sad to see that this day has finally become reality, and if this were a magic fairy tale baseball season, there\u2019s no more better reason for the Braves to win it all, than, For Bobby, and what the hell, for Ted too.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ESPN: Legendary Braves manager, Bobby Cox, passes away at the age of 84 As the years passed, long after his retirement in 2010, occasionally I did have the thought of this eventuality, when Bobby Cox would one day leave us; usually whenever he\u2019d pop up sporadically throughout the years, be it as the novelty guest … Continue reading Happy Trails, 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