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World Series : Toronto Blue Jays vs. Atlanta Braves : NOTEBOOK

By BILL PLASCHKE
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During informal team meetings throughout the playoffs, the Blue Jays talked about wanting to win because it could be the last time they are together.

“This is the first World Series for a lot of guys and could be the last World Series for us as a team, that’s why a lot of guys want to win,” Alfredo Griffin said. “We don’t know if we’ll get another chance.”

Cone said he could sense that feeling when he joined the team from the New York Mets on Aug. 27.

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“There is a real live-for-now attitude around here,” Cone said. “I think we all know that we are only together for a short time longer, and so we want to get it done.”

Nobody in the Braves’ starting lineup in Game 1 is eligible for free agency.

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Bill Plaschke

Bill Plaschke, an L.A. Times sports columnist since 1996, is a member of the National Sports Media Hall of Fame and California Sports Hall of Fame. He has been named national Sports Columnist of the Year nine times by the Associated Press, and twice by the Society of Professional Journalists and National Headliner Awards. He is the author of six books, including a collection of his columns entitled “Plaschke: Good Sports, Spoilsports, Foul Balls and Oddballs.” Plaschke is also a panelist on the popular ESPN daily talk show, “Around the Horn.” He is in the national Big Brothers/Big Sisters Alumni Hall of Fame and has been named Man of the Year by the Los Angeles Big Brothers/Big Sisters as well as receiving a Pursuit of Justice Award from the California Women’s Law Center. Plaschke has appeared in a movie (“Ali”), a dramatic HBO series (“Luck”) and, in a crowning cultural moment he still does not quite understand, his name can be found in a rap song “Females Welcome” by Asher Roth.

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