ATLANTA -- It wasn't supposed to end this way. Not for the surging Atlanta Braves during the second half of the season, and certainly not for the people's choice. This was a cruel finish for Chipper Jones. More than an hour after the Braves' 6-3 loss Friday night at Turner Field to the Cardinals in the National League Wild Card game, hundreds of Braves fans kept yelling, "We want Chipper, we want Chipper, we want Chipper!" from behind the home dugout. They alternated their pleas for Jones with chopping and chanting. He never came. He was somewhere trying to forget the nightmarish ending to his 19-year baseball career, and many of his demons for the evening were self-inflicted. There was his...
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