The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has the full story.

The team's venerable general manager will announce this afternoon that he's resigning after 17 seasons with the Braves, and handing over the reins to top assistant Frank Wren, according to a person familiar with the situation.

Manager Bobby Cox is returning for at least one more season, but his longtime boss is not.

We've always thought that if Schuerholz would have been the GM in Boston or New York, he'd be on the cover of Forbes every month. Of course, he also would have been fired three or four times. The new GM is Frank Wren. The Braves are, obviously, never going to be the same.

Schuerholz Calling It Quits [Atlanta Journal-Constitution]

"If I couldn't get back to baseball," Smith says, "I was going to take him with me. I was going to fly out there, wait for him in the parking lot of the stadium and pop him. If I got caught, I got caught. If not, I'd come on back home." Smith pauses and extends his right hand to emphasize his point; his thumb and forefinger are extended to symbolize a gun.

"If I did, you know, the thing, at least I took somebody out who was at blame," he says.

It's a compelling story, except for one little detail that might betray author Kent Babb's experience with, uh, illicit substances. When Smith realizes that he is being blackballed from baseball and blames Scheurholz, Babb writes that "Smith bought a dime bag of marijuana and decided Schuerholz's crime was a capital offense."

Yeah. Because nothing makes you frenzied, manic and violent enough to go shoot a man more than a bag of marijuana. We are surprised that Babb didn't mention that Smith was "seeing visions of dragons that looked like Schuerholz" or that the marijuana "sent Smith into a downward spiral of all-night rave parties."

Battle Scars [The State]