A divorced couple is arguing over Atlanta Braves’ season tickets, a notion which frustrated a Superior Court Judge to the point that he told the exes to settle out of court. An AP story described how psychologist H. Elizabeth King and her ex-husband, lawyer Charles Center, agreed during their 2002 divorce to evenly split up the four tickets to the 27 Braves’ games that the couple owned each year as part of a three-way partnership.

When one of the partners died last year, King’s season ticket share went from 13 to 27 games (the couple had agreed in the original divorce settlement that Center would get the extra ticket each year for the Braves’ season opener at home). Upon getting an increase in season tickets, that’s when King claimed that Center went out of his way to break the divorce agreement.

Specifically, King claimed that Center gave her tickets that he knew would conflict with her schedule. She also asserted that 80 percent of the games were for day games and thus a direct jab by her ex-husband since she has skin cancer. Center said that he has been distributing the increase in Braves’ tickets to his ex-wife like he always had via a sequential mathematical formula. Center added that he changed the arrangement once people started asking him for tickets or when there were conflicting schedules.

After a two-hour proceeding in which the couple did not look at each other, the AP story detailed how Superior Court Judge Melvin Westmore became frustrated but did not cite Center with contempt. He rather told the divorced couple to settle the issue outside of court.

While the total value of the four tickets to the 27 Braves’ games cost $6,000, what’s the big deal anyways? Every baseball fan knows that the Braves are just going to lose in the postseason like they always do, thus making the regular season pretty irrelevant. Just joking.

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