Ben Ingram

I really do.

I mean, these are two cherished figures in this franchise.

I think if you had, I hate the Mount Rushmore statement, but if you had that for the Braves, I mean, those two guys would, one of them would easily be on there in Bobby Cox and the other one would be a strong consideration.

The reason the Braves are what they are in terms of a national brand is because of the Superstation.

I think people in Chicago would understand that because of what the Cubs were on WGN for so long nationally.

You had a national brand there.

When we go out west, like I just said, we're in Seattle and Denver and Los Angeles, and especially in Denver, there are more Braves fans than Rocky fans.

I've seen that in San Diego.

I've seen that in Houston.

And every time it's the same story.

We get to meet fans before or after a game, and they say, I'm a TBS kid.

I follow the Braves on TBS.

I watched all the guys back in the 80s and the 90s.

That, to me, you're creating generation upon generation of fans for your team.

So I think that made the Braves a national brand with Ted Turner able to put that out there.

And then the winning coming along under Bobby Cox.

This is a team, this is a franchise that in the 70s and the 80s never won a single postseason game.

And then Bobby Cox comes along, and he has these future Hall of Famers and Chipper Jones and Greg Maddox and Tom Glavin and John Smoltz and Andrew Jones, and they win 14 straight division titles.

So all that coming together at the same time, the winning ability by the team and then Ted's ability to blast it out there nationwide –

created multiple generations of Braves fans.