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Braves vs. Phils — you could watch it if you lived in Toronto
By David O'Brien | Monday, June 30, 2008, 04:01 PM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Toronto — OK, I'm boarding this bird in 18 minutes, so let's see if we can get a blog done in near-record time. Please excuse its brevity.

You folks who live in states bordering Georgia and wonder why you don't get to see Braves games on Peachtree TV, you'll love this one. I meant to mention it a couple times this week and kept forgetting. Now I've remembered:

If you live in Toronto and get the Rogers cable system, which I think that most folks there do, you get Peachtree TV. Can you believe that? I checked into my hotel room, turned on the TV, looked at my channel guide and saw WTBS. Thought I'd check it out and see what was on, and low and behold, it's Peachtree TV, not WTBS. Unbelievable.

Don't know if that was a screwup on the part of someone at the cable company who thought they were ordering WTBS, or if there's some outcry in Toronto for Braves games on Peachtree TV, but there it was. And those staying in the Braves' team hotel across town said they had it on their cable system, too.

That would help explain why there were literally hundreds of fans wearing Braves jerseys and caps and other gear at the games, when they'd really have no connection in the past couple years to the Braves otherwise, right? I mean, there were little kids wearing Braves stuff. It was a little like the old days when all the games were on TBS and Skip Caray and Pete Van Wieren were as big a celebrities as the players themselves when the teams checked into hotels, fans calling out for the broadcasters' autographs like they do for Chipper's.

Anyway, point of the story: If you live in, say, North Carolina or Alabama and don't get Peachtree TV, and really, really want to see the Braves games that station covers, you could always move to Toronto.​