This year’s two-day FanFest will be staged in Atlanta on Saturday January 12th from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. ET and on Sunday January 13th from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Discounted advance two-day passes, currently on sale at braves.com/FanFest, cost $18 for adults and $12 for children (12 and under). One-day advance passes cost $12 (adults) and $8 (children).

Fans can also purchase passes at the event. For adults, the cost is either $20 (two-day pass) or $15 (one-day pass). Children passes will cost $15 (two-day) or $10 (one-day).

“This isn’t something a fan will get bored easily with,” Schiller said. “This is now a place where we can focus on giving fans a complete baseball experience.”

More than 20 current Atlanta Braves baseball players, including Tom Glavine, Chipper Jones, Mark Teixeira and John Smoltz, have already confirmed that they’ll attend this event. Fans will have a chance to get their autographs, along with other favorites like Jeff Francoeur, Brian McCann and Javy Lopez, who is returning to the organization with the desire to prove he’s capable of being the team’s backup catcher.

More info at Atlanta Braves FanFest

Who cares about Barry Bonds breaking Hank Aaron’s home run record, Alex Rodriguez hitting his 500th home run, or Tom Glavine getting his 300th career victory. A record of more significant importance was set this season that eclipses all of those milestones by far.

Bobby Cox, the venerable, crotchety and cantankerous skipper of the NL East’s Atlanta Braves has finally passed John McGraw for the most all time mamagerial ejections in baseball history Tuesday night. Home plate umpire Ted Barrett ejected Bobby Cox for arguing a called third strike on Chipper Jones to end the fifth inning in the Braves 5-4 victory at home against The San Francisco Giants. Bobby has been a good boy for almost 7 1/2 weeks without throwing a single ejectable tantrum, although Sunday night when the Braves were at Philly he came awful close to setting the record when he came marching out of the dugout to contest a call. I was at the game Sunday night and the Phillies, who are noted for their “boo birds” were chanting “Toss him out” among other things. This was the 132nd ejection of Mr. Cox’s career, surpassing the mark that McGraw set during his Hall of Fame career. Bobby Cox has long been known for his fiery demeanor on and off the field but his record speaks for itself, leading the Braves to 14 division titles (no wonder the Phillies fans hate him so much).

During a recent Braves telecast one of the announcers commented that Bobby’s wife cringes every time she sees him get up from the dugout because with thirteen grandchildren, one never knows how advanced their lip reading skills are and anybody who has ever watched Booby at work on the umpires knows there’s some expletives deleted in his presentation.

I personally think Bobby was waiting for Barry Bonds to be in the stadium in front of the home crowd to break the record. Actually the runour has it Bobby has a “bachelor pad” in the Braves clubhouse with a couple of huge flat panel TV’s and the MLB cable package that he retires to whenever he’s ejected at Turner Field. Even though he was forced to retire to his “bachelor pad”, I’m sure Bobby was happy that Chipper Jones doubled to deep left center in the bottom of the ninth to bring Willie Harris home to score the winning run.

In my last post I expressed my disappointment about the Braves trading Jarrod Saltalamacchia to the Texas Rangers for Mark Teixeira. Well, tonight is Teixeira’s debut as firstbaseman for the Brave’s and what a great debut it’s been. Mark walked in the first inning with the bases loaded and brought in Yunel Escobar. In the sixth inning Teixeira cranked a home run with Edgar Renteria and Chipper Jones on base giving him 3 RBI’s for his third at bat as an Atlanta Brave. Pretty good way to start his career with the Braves !!!