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

In a seperate action, Roger Clemens beat Brian McNamee to court, filing a defamation suit against the former trainer who claimed to have injected him with performance enhancing drugs. Although Clemens vehemently denies the allegations that he was using performance enhancers and

Clemens filed the suit Sunday night in Harris County District Court in Texas, listing 15 alleged statements McNamee made to the baseball drug investigator George Mitchell. Clemens claimed the statement were “untrue and defamatory.”

The Mitchell Report has invoked a lot of controversy in the world of professional sports with it’s seething accusations of some of Major League Baseball’s top athletes. The Mitchell Report was the most expansive document chronicling the use of steroids in Major League Baseball, but it is open to speculation because almost the entire investigation relies heavily on the testimony of Brian McNamee, who was allegedly threatened by federal authorities with criminal prosecution if he didn’t implicate Clemens, Kirk Radomski, a former Mets clubhouse attendant, and rabid media reports who have blown the issue out of proportion seeking a hot lead. The whole affair has given a black-eye to the baseball community and has left many fans divided on the issue.

Andy Pettite, Roger Clemens and Chuck Knoblauch are all set to testify on January 16th before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. They all share the same agents, Randy and Alan Hendricks. Roger Clemens is being represented on drug matters by Houston lawyer Rusty Hardin who is the same lawyer who represented Sammy Sosa when he testified before the same committee three years ago.

Andy Pettite has come clean about using HGH (Human Growth Hormone) and when asked about it on his recent 60 Minutes interview, Roger Clemens stated he was stunned to find out Pettite had used HGH. Clemens said he was angry that baseball fans weren’t giving him the benefit of the doubt, that he was “shocked” at Pettitte’s admission and, most of all, he firmly denied ever taking steroids.