Light up cards are being exchanged at home plate.

Jim Beecham, as always, representing Bobby Cox, lugging it out there.

What are the truly good guys in baseball, coach's first base for the Cleveland Indians,

representing Mike Hargrove, Dave Nelson.

Crowd just now settling in, they had a terrific response for our honorary first pitch ceremony.

Former President Jimmy Carter, one of biggest baseball fans in America, and certainly a huge Braves fan,

since he hails from Plains, Georgia, went out and threw out the first pitch,

and he has been practicing, Pete, because he was pumped up through a strike.

Yeah, I think the radar gun caught him in about 84 miles an hour, not bad.

That's two miles below the National League average, so he's got a future in this.

Mike Mordecai, as always, there to receive it and get his picture made.

I am right now proclaiming myself a stockholder in Mike Mordecai's Wall of Fame.

You know, that's, I don't know, you and I've talked about this before.

I appreciate that in Mike Mordecai.

Sometimes people, that can be a thankless task, but he's a guy with a smile on his face that anytime there is a ceremony he hustles out there,

and that that is good PR. It is good PR, and it's good that you get your picture taken with all these

folks for some who are members of corporations who are having nights here

it's one of the biggest moments in their life to be out there in the middle of the mound in the line of fulton county stadium throwing out a first pitch and mike is just as cordial with them as he is with the celebrities that are out there at world series time he's a good guy and that may help him somewhere else i know that it used to really tick off gregg olson when he had to catch because he missed those.

This crowd getting a little bit antsy.

We're still waiting. I know that it used to really tick off Greg Olson when he had to catch because he missed those.

This crowd getting a little bit antsy.

We're still waiting for the umpires and the baseball network to say, let's go.

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