With the unfortunate news that the Falcons are now losing Deion Jones for an extended period of time — after having just lost Keanu Neal for the season — it’s understandable that Atlanta Falcons fans would be wondering why this is all happening?It’s simple: It’s the curse of Atlanta sports.But how did we get here? Why is this curse haunting us in the year that the Falcons had their best roster ever?Pull up a chair and let me share with you a tale. A tale of how the curse of Atlanta sports was visited on this city of ours.The year was 1840. In a city called Terminus Womens Robert Alford Jersey , which you now know as Atlanta. Daniel Day Choat was visiting Terminus from the frozen icelands of Canada. The intense heat of the Atlanta winter had disoriented Mr. Choat, who stumbled his way onto a private property just on the outskirts of town. It was there, on that fateful land, that he met a witch named Morph.Morph: Trespasser! Your very presence on my sacred land has disturbed my life, life, life. For this, you must pay dearly!Choat: I’m quite sorry. This intense 50 degree heat has me quite disoriented. I was looking for your local mountie. Morph: A what?Choat: You know, a handsome fellow on horseback who can help with any of life’s troubles?Morph: I don’t know what that is.Choat: That’s too bad, eh?Morph: I don’t have time for this. A great curse will be visited on your head!Choat: Does it have to be my head? Do I have some options here?Morph: What? No one has asked me for options before.Choat: Well, as they say in my home of Canada, it never hurts to ask.Morph: I don’t normally offer options.Choat: It’d be a nice gesture to a visitor, dontcha think?Morph: Ok. I’ll give you two options! Choat: That’s not very many.Morph: Dammit. Stop interrupting me! You only get two for now!Choat: Ok, then. Morph: Your first option is this: throughout the rest of time, all the men in your family will go prematurely bald. Choat: Wow, that’s pretty harsh, eh?Morph: Shut up! Your second option is this: Throughout the rest of time, all sports teams in your adopted land will be cursed. They will raise your hopes and make you believe, only to crush their fans in the most dramatic and painful ways possible.Choat: What’s a sport?Morph: It’s a thing that’ll be big in the future. Leather balls Womens Ryan Schraeder Jersey , stuff like that. Lots of cheering.Choat: Ah, yeah, I’ll definitely go with that option. The balding sounds horrible.Morph: Are you sure about that? I promise, this sports thing is really going to take off. Choat: I can’t imagine my progeny without a full head of hair. Yes, I’m positive.Morph: So be it! From henceforth, your adopted land shall have a sports curse placed on it, only to be lifted when the great chrome falcon god is appeased.Choat: Haha, ok, whatever that means. I have to go now, my family and I really like it down here. We’re thinking of adopting this city as our own.Morph: Be gone, you! Be gone from my life, life, life.That infamous exchange lives on in the very history of Atlanta and all of its sports teams. One stupid Canadian is disoriented by temperatures above freezing and we all have to suffer for it. The next time you feel hopeful about an Atlanta team, just remember this curse and all that comes with it. It’s why we suffer, especially when things seem the most promising. Friday evening was a tough one for the baseball world with the game reminding all of us of our mortality, as it is wont to do. Although it wasn’t a huge surprise, it’s always jarring when it is made official. That is, Joe Mauer is walking away from the game. One of the most underappreciated players of his time made the announcement last night http://www.falconsfootballauthentics.com/julio-jones-jersey-authentic , and he released this letter to Twins fans. Mauer is a true throwback as a contact-oriented hitter whose game fits less and less with the modern MLB aesthetic, and also as someone who spent his entire career with one team. It’s a rare and special connection between fan and player, and you can see that come through with that statement. Mauer is certainly going to be in the Hall of Fame within the next seven years or so, but it seems as if players like him are too often only properly-appreciated at times like these. Mauer was, quite simply, one of the very best players of his generation and for a time he looked like a future inner-circle, first-ballot Hall of Famer. He’s not at that point anymore, but that was largely out of his control. Over the first ten years of his career, Mauer hit a wildly impressive .323/.405/.468 and was 35 percent better than the league-average hitter. Oh, and most of that came as a catcher. For some context, no catcher has hit that well in a single season since 2014, and only 12 have done so with at least 350 plate appearances since 2010. Unfortunately, concussion issues eventually caught up with Mauer, and he had to leave the catcher position to play first base. His relative lack of power didn’t play as well there, and a weirdly vocal portion of the Minnesota fan base used that and his contract against him whenever they could. On a national level, the view of Mauer wasn’t much more fair, if it all.The lack of appreciation for Mauer during the second half of his career was always frustrating, in no small part because injuries had been the reason for his downfall. It’s refreshing www.atlantafalconsteamonline.com , though, that we can now properly contextualize just how great of a story Mauer was. A hometown kid spending his entire Hall of Fame career with the team he grew up rooting for. One of the best pure hitters the game has ever seen, and the guy you’re always told is your favorite player’s favorite player. Mauer was one of the best players of his time, plain and simple, and that’s with head injuries essentially taking away his 30’s. We’ll never know what truly could have been, but we know that it was a tremendous career either way. If these teams don’t spend in free agency they have no right to complain when 2019 doesn’t go as well as they’d hoped.The 2018 Red Sox just can’t lose. A Massachusetts man played Red Sox jersey numbers for a lottery ticket....and won.Mauer isn’t the only future Hall of Famer whose career may be over. Adrian Beltre hasn’t announced anything, but he may be leaning towards retirement.Scott Boras spoke to the media last week, which means it’s time to play ”Did Scott Boras say that?”Big news from Cubs land....maybe. According to Buster Olney, Chicago may be willing to trade Kris Bryant. File this under I’ll Believe It When I See It.Sticking with the Cubs, will fans at Wrigley be satisfied with just one World Series win?When a player struggles with the Yankees, it’s easy to say he simply can’t handle playing in New York. Is that a real thing?The Rays traded for Mike Zunino earlier this week. He is: Good.The next Mariners player to go very well may be James Paxton, and the Dodgers could be the best fit for the southpaw.Speaking of the Dodgers, they may also be a fit for the best catcher on the trade market.In more trade talk, could two of the best teams in the American League match up for a deal?The Orioles are coming off a historically bad season and clearly in rebuild mode. That doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be in on the free agent market.
