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Speaker 1: Welcome one and all to the Hemmer Territory Podcast. My

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Speaker 1: name is Sean Coleman. Hope, wherever you are and wherever

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Speaker 1: you are listening, you are having a great start to

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Speaker 1: your week. And you know what, hey, if you're a

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Speaker 1: member of Braves Country, it may just be the fact

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Speaker 1: that we finally get a little bit of a break

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Speaker 1: week worthwhile. But hey, Atlanta is the center of the

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Speaker 1: baseball world right now with the All Star Game currently

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Speaker 1: going on. As we record, we'll have plunged to discuss

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Speaker 1: when it comes to All Star Weekend, but also the

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Speaker 1: majority of the show we'll be talking about the newest

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Speaker 1: talents that are entering the Atlanta organization from the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five MLB draft. And as always, I am joined

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Speaker 1: by one of the best in the when it comes

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Speaker 1: to covering the Braves and baseball, Steven Tobart. Steven could

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Speaker 1: talk with you know as always, sir, I hope you

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Speaker 1: had a great weekend.

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Speaker 2: What's up, buddy, it's been a minute. I think the

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Speaker 2: last time we did a show was the team was

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Speaker 2: a lot's happened we're gonna talk about. Obviously, the home

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Speaker 2: runs derby happened last night as we're recording. The Ulstar

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Speaker 2: And obviously the big thing is the MLB Draft, which

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Speaker 2: again with a trade deadline right around the corner. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: always good to be with you man.

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Speaker 1: Yep, yep, definitely was you know, over the weekend, I

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Speaker 1: When it came to them playing against Saint Louis, they

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Speaker 1: let's get into the All Star break. Brad and Scott

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Speaker 1: weekend is occurring in Atlanta. Seemed like it's been a

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Speaker 1: great weekend overall, great start to the week as well,

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Speaker 1: the home run Derby and Matt Olsen of the Braves

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Speaker 1: in the home run Derby in general, he had a

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Speaker 1: For instance, you've got your first, you know, real opportunity

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Speaker 1: You got introduced to Junior Kamanaro, who I think is

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Speaker 1: what the Home Run Derby should be.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Derby has become a little bit like the

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Speaker 2: So yeah, it's a fun event. You know, it's not

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Speaker 2: The crowd was going nuts. He didn't get out of

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, And you know, a couple of things that I

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Speaker 1: I prefer the old school way. I would make it

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Speaker 1: I think that that would be fun. I like the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I was thinking, is like when Griffy,

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Speaker 2: They showed every homer to its completion, all the way

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Speaker 2: And I would definitely go back to ten outs, and

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think the other thing that sticks out

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Speaker 1: I think as a kid seeing those type of things.

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Speaker 1: but it was so true. You know, we talk about

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Speaker 1: beat Chris Berman announcing a home run derby. And I'm

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Speaker 1: not trying to you know, be the old guy or

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and like when guys would get on a roll

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Speaker 2: absolutely certain about their opinions and they don't know. You

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Speaker 2: don't know, I don't know. They don't know. These kids.

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Speaker 2: Some of these kids are eighteen years years old. Who

433
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Speaker 2: knows what they're going to be in four years. You know,

434
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Speaker 2: it's going to take a while to judge the draft.

435
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Speaker 2: But just by process of let's address position players. I

436
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Speaker 2: was happy with what they I was. I was pretty

437
00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:17,639
Speaker 2: happy with seeing them be so aggressive on the position

438
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Speaker 2: player side for the first first three picks.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a sensible approach. And again I know

440
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Speaker 1: that that is not going to get people as excited,

441
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Speaker 1: you know, as it is the names that are going

442
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Speaker 1: to be there. But you know, when we talk about

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Speaker 1: the shortstops that they picked, those three names are certainly

444
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Speaker 1: going to be followed. But two other names were the

445
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Speaker 1: reason why those first three picks were under slot, and

446
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Speaker 1: that of course is Briggs McKenzie as well as Connor Essenberg.

447
00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:44,080
Speaker 1: Those were the two names of Believe, the fourth and

448
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Speaker 1: the sixth round pick for the Braves. That were really

449
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Speaker 1: the reason why the Braves went underslot. Two high schoolers

450
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Speaker 1: thought of pretty highly, those type of high school names

451
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Speaker 1: that right now may not be in the first round conversation,

452
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Speaker 1: but easily could be in time. It feels as if

453
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Speaker 1: the Braves are likely going to be able to sign

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Speaker 1: up Steve and I know you have some more information

455
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Speaker 1: on that in just a moment, but that's kind of

456
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Speaker 1: been the Braves way, is that they go under slot

457
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Speaker 1: in the first you know, in the top part of

458
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Speaker 1: the draft, so that they can get some quality later on.

459
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Speaker 1: And that has been a fruitful approach in getting some

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Speaker 1: guys in our system, especially arms, who have continued their

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Speaker 1: development and are some of the more intriguing Brace prospects.

462
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Speaker 1: This time around, though they went yes with another pitcher

463
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Speaker 1: but also a potential two way player in Essenberg. It

464
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Speaker 1: was good to see them and invest in some high

465
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Speaker 1: school talents with high upside that we'll hopefully become some

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Speaker 1: of the better prospects in Atlanta and no time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So just to give you the numbers for people

468
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Speaker 2: that want the numbers, so for their first round pick

469
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Speaker 2: south Asene, they signed him for two point six million

470
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Speaker 2: dollars and the slot value of the twenty second pick

471
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Speaker 2: was three point nine million, almost four million dollars, so

472
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Speaker 2: they saved one point three million dollars against the slot

473
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Speaker 2: on the south the scene pick for Alex lodiz Uh,

474
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Speaker 2: they signed him at one point twenty nine million. His

475
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Speaker 2: slot was one point five million, so it was about

476
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Speaker 2: two hundred and twenty five k in savings. And then

477
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Speaker 2: all total, you know, everything the Braves with all they

478
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Speaker 2: signed their first, second, third, they also signed their eighth, ninth,

479
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Speaker 2: and tenth round picks today and all of those guys combined,

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Speaker 2: they saved about two point seven million against the slot

481
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Speaker 2: uh when they signed all of those guys under slot.

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Speaker 2: So that what that says is the two point seven

483
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Speaker 2: million will be used to sign the two guys that

484
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Speaker 2: you just mentioned, which is Briggs mackenzie and then the

485
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Speaker 2: outfielder that you mentioned. And so those guys were considered

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Speaker 2: guys that were gonna be tough to sign because they

487
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Speaker 2: wanted more than what their slot was going to give them.

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Speaker 2: And so the Braves used, you know, the the mccannic

489
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Speaker 2: of the draft and This isn't common. A lot of

490
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Speaker 2: teams do this is you know, you sign underslot so

491
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Speaker 2: you can spend overslot later. And so the Braves are

492
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Speaker 2: trying to get two pretty high upside kind of first

493
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Speaker 2: day talent guys in their fourth round pick and their

494
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Speaker 2: sixth round pick by you know, by using the slot system.

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Speaker 2: So we'll see if it works. Those guys have not

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Speaker 2: signed yet the fourth and sixth round picks, so we'll

497
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Speaker 2: see if it works. And even if they do sign again,

498
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Speaker 2: they might suck. This might be the last time we

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Speaker 2: ever talked about any of these players. You may never

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Speaker 2: hear those names ever. Again, that's the draft. So but

501
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Speaker 2: again by process, focusing on position players early, using the

502
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Speaker 2: bonus system to potentially get more value with your later

503
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Speaker 2: picks is something I'm a fan of. More, you know,

504
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Speaker 2: just more shots at it. The the MLB draft is

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Speaker 2: such a crap shoot. Kind of the best approach, in

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Speaker 2: my opinion, is just as many bites at the apple

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Speaker 2: as possible. And I kind of like what they did,

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Speaker 2: you know, by process, in terms of specific players. You know,

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Speaker 2: ask me in five years.

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Speaker 1: And the thing that I'll say is that the setup

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Speaker 1: So Stephen, you know, of course now with the Brain

548
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Speaker 1: was having the season that they're having. You know, one

549
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Speaker 1: thing I know that people you know talk about, you know,

550
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Speaker 1: you know, looking at you know, potential draft lottery and

551
00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:09,920
Speaker 1: all that stuff. That was just recently introduced, you know,

552
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Speaker 1: when it came to Major League Baseball. But you know

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Speaker 1: in previous years you had NBA fans, NFL fans who

554
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 1: were you know, watching Tankathon for instance, and other sources

555
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:19,640
Speaker 1: seeing where they might get those draft picks. Well, that's

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Speaker 1: going to become something that I think Braves Country is

557
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:24,480
Speaker 1: going and maybe have it odd to focus on something

558
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,320
Speaker 1: like that, but it's going to be carrying more significance

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00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:31,240
Speaker 1: as time goes on, but especially without the Major League

560
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:35,120
Speaker 1: Baseball Draft is set up. Carlos and Brad talked about

561
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Speaker 1: this on the Preview show last week. They talked about

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Speaker 1: how the top three picks all had nine point five

563
00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 1: million or more attached to that slot, whereas the last

564
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Speaker 1: pick in the first round had three million. That's a

565
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Speaker 1: huge difference in the slotting system that's in Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 1: But an additional thing that I think Brace fans are

567
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Speaker 1: going to be watching is that Drake Baldwin who currently

568
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:59,000
Speaker 1: is clearly in the mix for the National League Rookie

569
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Speaker 1: of the Year race, and hopefully we'll get the playing

570
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:04,080
Speaker 1: time that he needs to win that award. If he does,

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Speaker 1: the Braves get another significant pick in next year's draft.

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Speaker 1: So Steven. As our attention turns to twenty twenty six,

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Speaker 1: Here's the question that I bring to you. If the

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Speaker 1: Braves land a top ten pick, which I think is

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Speaker 1: very likely, is your focus going to be on? Hey,

576
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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty six draft seems to be pretty loaded

577
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Speaker 1: at the top with singular talents. Are you looking at

578
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Speaker 1: potentially adding a real difference make your singular talent or

579
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Speaker 1: are you looking for the Braves to do the most

580
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Speaker 1: that they can with that additional money that they're going

581
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Speaker 1: to have to work with, which is a lot more

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Speaker 1: than they're used to from recent years.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean without knowing names and being able to

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Speaker 2: read what you know scouts believe about specific players and

585
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Speaker 2: where the Braves specifically on the draft. I'm always in

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Speaker 2: favor of trying to spread your money out, get as

587
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Speaker 2: many shots out as possible. It's kind of like trading

588
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 2: back in the NBA draft or the NFL draft, where

589
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Speaker 2: you just accumulate more picks. You know, you just give

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Speaker 2: yourself more shots at it. You know, It's kind of

591
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Speaker 2: like winning a World Series. You know, the playoffs are random,

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Speaker 2: So the best way to win a World series just

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Speaker 2: to be in the playoffs every year. And give yourself

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Speaker 2: more and more shots at it. It's kind of the

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Speaker 2: same logic. That's just how I kind of aro I

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Speaker 2: would approach it if I was the Braves. But you

597
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Speaker 2: might be in a singular situation where you're in a spot.

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Speaker 2: You know, the Rockies picked fourth in this draft, and

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Speaker 2: Ethan Holliday, who everybody at one point thought was going

600
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Speaker 2: one to one, was just sitting there at four, you know,

601
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Speaker 2: and so they took it. And obviously Matt Holliday played

602
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 2: for the Rocky so that's a whole different thing. But

603
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:42,200
Speaker 2: like sometimes you're just in a spot where the best player,

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Speaker 2: a guy you think is the best players in your lap,

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Speaker 2: and you're like, well, we were gonna do this whole

606
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:49,760
Speaker 2: you know, underslot spread it around, but the best player

607
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 2: just happened to fall on our lap, so we took them.

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00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:55,880
Speaker 2: So again, it's very specific to situation and pick and player,

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Speaker 2: but in general, if you ask me, I would always say, underslot,

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Speaker 2: spread your money around, give yourself four or five shots

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Speaker 2: at getting a really good player, because, let's be honest,

612
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Speaker 2: like thirty percent. I don't know what the numbers are.

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Speaker 2: You know, the hit rate on MLB draft picks is tiny,

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Speaker 2: so just give yourself as many shots at as possible.

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Speaker 2: We'll see what they do. They're gonna have a high pick,

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Speaker 2: I believe less they just get crazy hot in the

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Speaker 2: second half, which you know, it's been a couple of days,

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Speaker 2: so people might have forgotten the Braves have like three

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Speaker 2: good pitchers, where we really have like two and a

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Speaker 2: half good pitchers at the moment. So I don't exactly

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Speaker 2: see a you know, a fifteen game winning streak coming

622
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Speaker 2: in any point. But you know, barring something like that,

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Speaker 2: the Braves are going to have a pretty good pick

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Speaker 2: in next year's draft. So you know, this is gonna

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Speaker 2: be the twenty twenty six draft will be as you know,

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Speaker 2: for Braves fans, it will be the draft they focus

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Speaker 2: on as much, if not more, you know, than any

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Speaker 2: sense the rebuilt. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The other thing, of course, you know, the the future,

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Speaker 1: you know, seeing what the Braves can do potentially to

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Speaker 1: continue to add to their minor league system through trades

632
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Speaker 1: coming up, the Braves likely will be sellers. That of course,

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Speaker 1: is what many have been reporting. And the thing that

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Speaker 1: I'll say is this is that I don't really think

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Speaker 1: that there's a big connection between what a team does

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Speaker 1: in the draft and what they look for when it

637
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Speaker 1: comes to if they're sellers at getting prospects back, you know,

638
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Speaker 1: in trades. But with the fact that there's so few

639
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Speaker 1: defined sellers, I think the Braves that could be if

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Speaker 1: they clearly are committed to selling, I think that could

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Speaker 1: help out with their return. But when you look at this, Stephen,

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Speaker 1: when you look what the Braves did in the draft,

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Speaker 1: does that in any way, shape or form change your

644
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Speaker 1: outlook at the trade deadline? What you're looking for, like

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Speaker 1: is you know, I think that we would certainly welcome

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Speaker 1: a top rank shortstop in the right trade if it

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Speaker 1: made sense, But I think it's a bit less of

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Speaker 1: a need now, you know, since we were able to

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Speaker 1: land on some guys that we liked. I also think that,

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Speaker 1: you know, with the way that the draft went, you're

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Speaker 1: probably less likely to see like an unexpected significant trade

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Speaker 1: like a Sean Murphy trade or something. Those lines, do

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Speaker 1: you connect what a team does in the draft when

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Speaker 1: they're sellers versus what they could do at the deadline

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Speaker 1: or you it doesn't really make sense to be that

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Speaker 1: focus just at as much overall talent as you can,

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Speaker 1: especially with the needs for the future that the Braves.

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Speaker 2: Have, Yeah, definitely more of the second one. For one,

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Speaker 2: you know, every guy who got every basically every position

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Speaker 2: player that got picked in the first round was listed

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Speaker 2: as a shortstop. Half those guys won't actually play shortstop

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Speaker 2: at the big league level. You know. It's like your

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Speaker 2: little league team, the best athlete played shortstop or center field.

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Speaker 2: It's the same thing in high school ball. You know,

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Speaker 2: if you're the best athlete in the field, you're gonna

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Speaker 2: play shortstop. You have the best arm, you're gonna play,

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Speaker 2: you know, center field. If you're the fastest guy. That

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Speaker 2: doesn't mean these guys are all gonna be short Like

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Speaker 2: the Braves took three shortstops for the first first three picks.

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Speaker 2: I have no idea if any of them will play shortstop.

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Speaker 2: There's a chance you could draft five shortstops and not

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Speaker 2: a single one actually is a major league Cali shortstop.

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Speaker 2: So that's why I don't spend a lot of time,

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Speaker 2: you know, breaking down positional needs, because once you get drafted.

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Speaker 2: I think Chipper Jones was drafted as a shortstop. I

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Speaker 2: think Justin Upton was drafted as a shortstop. Like that's

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Speaker 2: what I'm talking about, Like it happens all the time,

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Speaker 2: and you know it doesn't mean anything, so I don't

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Speaker 2: expect it to change anything the Braves do. Anything the

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Speaker 2: Braves go after in terms of prospects and trades, what

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Speaker 2: I would say to the Braves or any other organization

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Speaker 2: or any fan is just the best prospect you can get,

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Speaker 2: regardless of position. Just try to get as much talent

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Speaker 2: to your organization as possible and figure it out later.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I don't think anything they did this weekend

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Speaker 2: should change any strategy they have with the next two weeks,

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Speaker 2: and I don't think it will. Uh there's you know

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Speaker 2: another thing. These kids are eighteen, I mean half of them.

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Speaker 2: You may never hear from half of them again, So

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Speaker 2: you know it's not it's probably not why to plan

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Speaker 2: around them. You know, even though I know you spend

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Speaker 2: a high Drave pick on them, still doesn't mean much.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, And that's the thing again, the Braves should be

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Speaker 1: in a mindset to just basically get his quality and

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Speaker 1: assortment of young talent as they can. The front of

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Speaker 1: the farm system has plenty of needs, but I again

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Speaker 1: think it got off to a really good start over

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Speaker 1: the past couple of days and we will have further

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Speaker 1: coverage on the twenty twenty five MLB Draft a guess

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Speaker 1: or two in the coming weeks. It will help break down,

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Speaker 1: you know, the Braves overall haul will have that to

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Speaker 1: look forward to. We'll also have a trade deadline special

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Speaker 1: like we did last year, really breaking down many of

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Speaker 1: the trade candidates. Who makes sense potentially to trade, what

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Speaker 1: could the Braves go actor in potential trades. All that

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Speaker 1: coming up in the next few days. Listen. I know

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Speaker 1: that the content on the field hasn't been that captivating

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Speaker 1: this season, but we're always going to be consistent with

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Speaker 1: our coverage, whether it's on the field, off the field,

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Speaker 1: no matter what is going on. That's what sets Hammer

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Speaker 1: Territorial apart, and that's why we feel we all enjoy it.

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Speaker 1: We can't thank you enough for your support, especially when

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Speaker 1: the Braves haven't been that good this season. But of course, Steven,

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Speaker 1: do you have anything else as we wrap up this

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Speaker 1: edition of the Hammer Terrictory Podcast.

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Speaker 2: Nope, just make sure you subscribe. We're gonna have a

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Speaker 2: lot of content obviously, you know, we're gonna we're still

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Speaker 2: gonna have draft stuff. We're gonna have people on that

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Speaker 2: know more than we do talk about the class, especially

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Speaker 2: more in depth. You know, it's a twenty round draft,

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Speaker 2: so there's a lot of names, and then we're gonna

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Speaker 2: go full heavy trade deadline. We're probably gonna do a

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Speaker 2: trade deadline show sometime this week, just kind of a

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Speaker 2: primer because it's a big deal and it's you know,

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Speaker 2: even if the Braves aren't buying, that doesn't mean they're

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Speaker 2: not gonna be active and they might buy. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's not a crazy thing that they might buy a

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Speaker 2: piece for next year. So I don't think they'll be

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Speaker 2: buying any rentals, but they could still buy. So there's

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Speaker 2: a lot to talk about. So we're gonna have a

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Speaker 2: lot of content one way or the other. Make sure

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Speaker 2: you subscribe. Like Sean said, we are forever grateful for

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Speaker 2: the amount of support we get. It's actually an insane

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Speaker 2: amount of support that we get on the show, so

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Speaker 2: we appreciate it as always.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. You could Stephen at b Underscore Outliers on Twitter

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Speaker 1: of the foul Territory family. Of podcasts, woof tongue tied there,

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Speaker 1: but again, can't thank you enough for the support. A

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Speaker 1: few more days until the season gets back going. Whether

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Speaker 1: or not you think that is exciting or a bit

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Speaker 1: of a curse, we'll we'll wait and see, but we'll

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Speaker 1: always have you covered. Plenty of great content, even this

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Speaker 1: week coming down the pipe for you. Until next time,

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