Welcome to Brave Journal’s 10 for 10’s, where for each season of the past decade we relive the thrill of victory:
And the agony of defeat:
Today’s episode: the 2010 Atlanta Braves Season
The decade of the Aughts saw the last of Atlanta’s amazing run of division titles in 2005, and the franchise spent the next 4 years wandering in the desert of also rans. Near the end of his 24th season (over two separate stints) as field general in 2009, Bobby Cox signed a final one year contract and announced that 2010 would be his final curtain call.