This is a tough one to swallow.  Being a life-long Braves fan, Smoltz has always be my guy moreso than Maddux, Glavine, Chipper, Lemke…etc.
The Sox were my #2 team for a long time, but that kinda ended when they became The Red Sawx. 

What happened to the reports the Braves had all this “excess” money to spend this offseason because of all the dead weight coming off the books?  Blame it on the economy, I suppose.  With a lineup composed of only 2 plus players (and one of those is injury prone), could the Braves win 70 games?

wow. It’s been a long time since an offseason move made me incredulous of the Hardball reporting. Tell me you are not serious.
I’ll be at the Diamond in Richmond, wishing it was 1988.

My guess is that many Sox fans will be wishing it was 1995 again, too.

We’re experiencing the opposite of Smoltz leaving out here, namely, Giambi returning. If we can get Miggy back, and Hudson and Mulder…or was it Scully and Mulder? It’s been so long….

@Moose - Trust me.  I remember 1995 in Boston.  Mo Vaughn at first (MVP! MVP!), Valentin at short, Wakefield and his ridiculous 1.61 ERA on an afternoon in July…

I remember 1996, too.

But what I meant to say was that on days when Smoltz toes the rubber, I’m imagining a lot of groaning at Fenway as yet another opposing batter flips a pop fly into the Monster seats in the top of the third.  It is at those moments when Sox fans might wish they had the 1995 version of John Smoltz wearing the home whites.