Welcome to a special sawed off edition of the Pembroke Mafia Football League, one in which we salute the Atlanta Braves for winning their first World Series title since 1995. 

It was epic. And, it led some of us in the PMFL to wonder where we were the last time Atlanta’s baseball team won it all, way back in 1995: Former Bryan County News assistant editor Ted O’Neil was in Michigan, shoveling snow, eating hot beet stew and stabbing his Bo Schembechelwhat’sisfootname voodoo doll with his fork.

Editor’s note: Beet stew is like beef stew, only with a beet instead of beef. It’s popular in Siberia, Michigan and parts of Buckhead’s East, North and Regular where the Michiganderanians roam loose.

Richmond Hill City Clerk Dawnne Greene was in middle school in Codfish, Mass, where she sang in the choir and coached the football team, the Codfish Middle School Kung Fu Codfish. They won six region titles in her two years at the school. Her co-worker, Alex Floyd, was in the gifted cupboard at Pinewood Christian Academy’s Pre-K program while back on the Ponderosa, Bob Floyd was busy keeping Hoss Floyd and Little Joe Floyd in line and wrangling pine cones.

Retired Navy Petty Admiral B.J. “Skipper” Clark was busy skippering the Minnow on a three-hour tour when he and his first mate, Bryan County Commission Chairman Carter, “Gilligan” Infinger ran aground on a certain uncharted but now famous desert isle. District 1 Commissioner Noah Covington was busy playing Danny Zuko in the Bryan County High School production of “Grease.” His number, “Greased Lightning,” became a county-wide hit and launched his political career.

County Administrator Ben Taylor was a Turner County T-Ball Star in the 3-and-under Dinky Fireants division, even though he was 7. Taylor got a waiver to play down because he was too short to see the tee. You know the rest.

Me, I was working, which shows the more things change, the more they stay the same. In 1995, I was covering an Effingham County-Groves game in Garden City, the world’s worst high school football stadium.

Time flies when you’re having fun. Chop on.