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The Atlanta Braves are coming. Local Braves fans have been waiting for this for eight years. The Mississippi Braves announced today that the major league Braves will play a team of its minor league stars in an exhibition game at Trustmark Park in Pearl on March 30, 2013. Tickets will go on sale after the first of the year. Word to the wise: Get ’em early. There will be great demand. The New York Mets and Houston Astros both played exhibitions at Smith-Wills Stadium during Jackson’s Texas League days, and both games drew sellout crowds. The Mets played the JaxMets in 1986, the Astros took on the Generals in 1997. And if you believe in karma, there’s this: Both those teams were championship clubs. The Mets, of course, won the World Series in 1986. The Astros won the National League Central title in 1997, then lost in the NLDS to … the Braves. Atlanta has made the postseason only twice since the M-Braves took up residence at the TeePee in 2005, and the 2010 team got in as a wild card. A side trip to Pearl next spring might be a good thing.