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The Braves went wild with these World Series rings.

A stadium in the United States is selling a burger for £25,000 ($33,000) to commemorate the Atlanta Braves' 2021 World Series title - but fans aren't convinced it's worth the price-tag

ATLANTA — Behind Charlie Morton and a potent offense, the Braves won their first game of the season as they defeated the Reds, 7-6, on Friday at Truist Park.

Most head coaches or managers of professional sports teams will say their team is the best or shy away from saying other teams are better than them. One Major League Baseball manager guaranteed his team will win the 2022 World Series.

The economic benefits are a home run that never came, and never should have been expected.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — When spring training began last season, the computer models at Baseball Prospectus put Atlanta’s odds of winning the National League East at 20-to-1. Eight months later, the Braves were World Series champions. That’s not a knock on analytics, it’s a nod to unpredictability.

2005 will be an even more distant memory come October.

The Braves enter the slightly delayed 2022 season as reigning World Series champs. Last fall’s triumph bore a bolt-from-the-blue-element – postseason heroics were wrought by many players who weren’t Braves at the All-Star break – but we can’t say we hadn’t seen this team coming. The Braves made the playoffs…

There’s still room in baseball for 70-something baseball guys like Tony La Russa and Steve Stone.