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<blockquote data-quote="texan" data-source="post: 954031" data-attributes="member: 38206"><p><strong>One and done for Chipper Jones</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- <a href="http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/3006/chipper-jones" target="_blank">Chipper Jones</a> has seen enough baseball history to recognize it when it hits him right </strong></p><p><strong>between the eye-black. His decision to retire is less about achy knees and diminished skills than an </strong></p><p><strong>acknowledgement that even fairy tales must end eventually. Jones still remembers how messy things got </strong></p><p><strong>when <a href="http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/1975/tom-glavine" target="_blank">Tom Glavine</a> and <a href="http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/2077/john-smoltz" target="_blank">John Smoltz</a> left Atlanta, and he vowed not to subject the Braves to what he calls the </strong></p><p><strong>same "PR nightmare" all over again.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>But Jones did swap one inconvenient truth for another by calling it quits. Over the next six months, he'll be</strong></p><p> <strong>free to visit parks throughout America without reporters coming over and grilling him on his baseball </strong></p><p><strong>future -- or feeling guilty when the questions spill over to his teammates.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong><a href="http://espn.go.com/mlb/spring2012/story/_/id/7723234/chipper-jones-retire-2012-season" target="_blank">Chipper Jones to retire after 2012 season - ESPN</a></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="texan, post: 954031, member: 38206"] [B]One and done for Chipper Jones LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- [URL="http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/3006/chipper-jones"]Chipper Jones[/URL] has seen enough baseball history to recognize it when it hits him right between the eye-black. His decision to retire is less about achy knees and diminished skills than an acknowledgement that even fairy tales must end eventually. Jones still remembers how messy things got when [URL="http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/1975/tom-glavine"]Tom Glavine[/URL] and [URL="http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/2077/john-smoltz"]John Smoltz[/URL] left Atlanta, and he vowed not to subject the Braves to what he calls the same "PR nightmare" all over again. But Jones did swap one inconvenient truth for another by calling it quits. Over the next six months, he'll be free to visit parks throughout America without reporters coming over and grilling him on his baseball future -- or feeling guilty when the questions spill over to his teammates. [URL="http://espn.go.com/mlb/spring2012/story/_/id/7723234/chipper-jones-retire-2012-season"]Chipper Jones to retire after 2012 season - ESPN[/URL] [/B] [/QUOTE]
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