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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back to the Hemor Territory Podcast. This episode,

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Speaker 1: I am your host, bradveryone coming to you on a

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Speaker 1: Wednesday evening into Thursday, and I am joined after a

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Speaker 1: bit of a hiatus. Scott Coleman is here almost Wally

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Speaker 1: Pips on Sunday. I gotta say, Scott, how are you?

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Speaker 2: My friend? Brad? You tried to replace me on my

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Speaker 2: very own show with one of our own co hosts

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Speaker 2: on Sunday. It was funny. I was flying back home,

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Speaker 2: I put on the pod, I said, let's get some

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Speaker 2: Brad and Steven Tolbert in my life for this flight,

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Speaker 2: and within like two minutes you were trying to replace

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Speaker 2: me and Wally Pitt me and I don't know. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I was no, I'm I am in jazz. Honestly, the

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Speaker 2: show would be better with more Brad and more Steven

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Speaker 2: and more Sean and less me. But here I am.

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Speaker 2: I am back, relaxed, refreshed, ready to go listen.

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Speaker 1: That's not true, but I did. I think I even

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Speaker 1: said to Stephen, either before or after the show, that

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Speaker 1: I was going to try to see if you were listening.

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Speaker 1: And I was waiting for the text you sent me

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Speaker 1: you sent me a text and I laughed out loud

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Speaker 1: to my literally out loud to myself when I read it,

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Speaker 1: So that worked out beautiful. Up anyway, if you're a

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Speaker 1: new listener, you might not to follow any of that.

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Speaker 1: But we are part of the Falla Territory network. Here

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Speaker 1: at HAMMERD Territory, we cover the Braves all year round.

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Speaker 1: There are four of us, but generally speaking, me and Scott,

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Speaker 1: Brad and Scott record you most of the time together

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Speaker 1: and then Steven and Sean do. But we kind of

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Speaker 1: switched it up last week. Look us at the end

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Speaker 1: of last week earlier this week. Actually, if you missed it,

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Speaker 1: Sean Stephen Diday's show on Monday evening kind of an

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Speaker 1: emergency pseudo emergency fashion because the Braves almost through a

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Speaker 1: no hitter two nights ago and just beshan or Florida

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Speaker 1: with it all the way through. And we'll talk about

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Speaker 1: that if we need to, but it was mostly said

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Speaker 1: by these guys. But in the meantime we're recording two

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Speaker 1: days later, and the Braves just split a pair of

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Speaker 1: one run games, so a couple of coin flippy games,

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Speaker 1: one of which they had to come back and win

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Speaker 1: on Tuesday, which will dive into later on the podcast,

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Speaker 1: and then tonight as we're recording this, they fell behind

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Speaker 1: my four runs, they scratched a clawed, they.

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Speaker 2: Never led in the game.

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Speaker 1: We'll get into all that, but Scott, before we dive

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Speaker 1: into the actual games and kind of we'll probably go

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Speaker 1: with the loss first, just get it out of the way.

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Speaker 1: The most recent game. How are you feeling? Because you

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Speaker 1: have not spoken about the team and about a week

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Speaker 1: at this point in time, the Braves have now had

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Speaker 1: two chances to get back to five hundred, They've lost

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Speaker 1: both of those chances. How are you feeling overall about

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Speaker 1: the state of things right now?

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Speaker 2: I was thinking about this earlier today. Actually, it's been

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Speaker 2: a weird team in a weird baseball season. Yes, they

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Speaker 2: were so bad to start, then they were really good,

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Speaker 2: and now they've you know, they've been okay for the

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Speaker 2: last ten days or so. Tonight's game, you're right, I

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Speaker 2: mean the game on Wednesday night. I had kind of

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Speaker 2: On paper, it was the toughest of the four game series.

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Speaker 2: Hunter Green is awesome. The Red's bullpen is awesome, especially

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Speaker 2: when they went down four nothing early. I'm like, okay, whatever,

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Speaker 2: But you know, we're coming up on twenty five percent

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Speaker 2: whatever that is this season, we don't look back and go, Man,

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Speaker 2: that five and thirteen start really sunk this team because

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Speaker 2: I think, as we talked about on this podcast, when

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's absolutely right, And you know, if you don't

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Speaker 1: Like five and thirteen almost sounds worse, but it's not

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Speaker 1: just decide as teams of five hundred team? And I'm like, well,

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Speaker 1: of just how bad it was for literally one week,

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Speaker 1: and then they've been pretty good since then, like a

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Speaker 1: can see what you want to see. That's not new

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Speaker 1: to our podcast sentiment in the last couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: If you wanted to frame this super negatively, you certainly

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Speaker 1: could like they've had injuries, they've had frustrating losses, all

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Speaker 1: it's true, one hundred percent accurate, Like for five weeks now,

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Speaker 1: basically they've been a good baseball team. Not a great

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Speaker 2: They've been managing to win more series than not. We'll

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Speaker 2: see what happens with the Red Series, but they had

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Speaker 2: you've already won two games of this Red Series. Hopefully

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Speaker 1: You can't lose the series. You can split it, but

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Speaker 2: There you go, and even then, they've been able to

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Speaker 2: just hope that once you do get Acuna back, and

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Speaker 2: all right, as long as this team doesn't start suffering

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Speaker 2: injuries as we saw last year, once they get Strider back,

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Speaker 2: once they get a COONa back, there are enough pieces here,

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Speaker 2: as they have shown two win enough games to get

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Speaker 2: they have to keep winning series because starting out five

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good way to kind of tee it

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Speaker 1: You just brought it up. We just talked around it.

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Speaker 1: Spencer Stryder threw a bullpen today. We'll talk about the

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Speaker 1: He seems to be on track. He was never going

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Speaker 1: But hope he's back is Look, they've weathered be stored

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Speaker 1: and Stephen covered very well Monday, the Braves keep winning

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Speaker 1: you still want special Stryer to be out there. We

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Speaker 2: I think you just have to hope that when Spencer

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Speaker 2: So let's hope that Strider's back on them in a

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Speaker 1: That would be good news for all involved. So that's

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Speaker 1: the state of things to some degree. We will get

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Speaker 1: Okay, Scott, let's get into the games. And after spitting

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Speaker 1: the wheel with you before the podcast episode, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: talk about Wednesday's loss before Tuesdays. We'll end a little

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Speaker 1: to three loss tonight They got done for nothing in

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Speaker 1: a wonder that they haven't lost five or six of these.

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Speaker 1: Like to go three and four. IF's if that's the

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Speaker 1: only number that you knew, Scott, If I said, all right,

433
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Speaker 1: but simulates seven games and the team goes four, four

434
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Speaker 1: to three from the right score position, you'd be like,

435
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Speaker 1: what do they got one in six? No? Three to four?

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Speaker 2: Probably? Yeah, it's a testament to how well the Braves

437
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Speaker 2: have pitched, and they have done a pretty good job

438
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Speaker 2: of executing in these close games. But three is shocking,

439
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Speaker 2: Like I that is mathematically improbable at that point. Yeah,

440
00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:48,399
Speaker 2: it kind of goes what I said earlier. It's just

441
00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:53,359
Speaker 2: been a weird team, awful start. Then they were much better,

442
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Speaker 2: and now they're back to just that they're allergic to

443
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Speaker 2: getting hits with runners in scoring position. I don't get it.

444
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Speaker 2: I don't know. Two different hitting coaches at this point,

445
00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:06,680
Speaker 2: A couple of really good hitters in this lineup. I

446
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Speaker 2: don't know, Brad, I'm really not sure. Like usually I

447
00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:12,919
Speaker 2: have pretty strong convictions and opinions about things. If you

448
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Speaker 2: ask me what is wrong with the Braves with runners

449
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Speaker 2: in scoring position for the better part of this season

450
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Speaker 2: and last year too, when this team really struggled at

451
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Speaker 2: times with runners in scoring position? I don't know. Is

452
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Speaker 2: it random variance, is it mental, is it coaching? Is

453
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Speaker 2: it the makeup of the players? I don't know. It's

454
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Speaker 2: probably some mix of that, with a lean towards just

455
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Speaker 2: baseball is random and you have hot streaks and cold

456
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Speaker 2: streaks at good and bad times. But yeah, four for

457
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Speaker 2: forty three, that is a show. I couldn't believe that.

458
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Speaker 2: I hadn't seen that on the dock. And when you

459
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Speaker 2: said it, I said, there's no way that's crazy.

460
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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I kind of teased it earlier on social media.

461
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Speaker 1: I was like, this will be a topic today on

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Speaker 1: the podcast. There were three for thirty nine before tonight,

463
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Speaker 1: and they were one for four tonight. They didn't have

464
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Speaker 1: a lot of opportunities, like they had a solo home

465
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Speaker 1: run from Baldwin, and even in the night that Rosario

466
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Speaker 1: played appearance, did not have a guy at second base.

467
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Speaker 1: That doesn't count, So there were one for four, But man,

468
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Speaker 1: it's that's a Yeah, it is statistically improbable. As you said,

469
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Speaker 1: it's been kind of a flashback to last year where

470
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Speaker 1: they pitched really well actually recently other than the one

471
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Speaker 1: blow up game we allowed ten runs. But speaking of pitching,

472
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Speaker 1: Grant Holmes today not his best, not the worst either,

473
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Speaker 1: five and a third, four runs, one wall, five strikeouts.

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Speaker 1: He had really one bad inning, the first inning was

475
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Speaker 1: pretty rough. After that he was perfectly fine. And even

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Speaker 1: then they had a chance. Like you wouldn't go into

477
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Speaker 1: the start saying I hope Grant allows four runs and

478
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Speaker 1: five and the third innings, but he didn't get them

479
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Speaker 1: absolutely obliterated. What did you think of what you saw

480
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Speaker 1: from Holmes after he was admittedly awesome at his last

481
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Speaker 1: outing against the Doughters.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was seemingly par for the course. I think

483
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Speaker 2: for Grant Holmes at this point, every now and then

484
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Speaker 2: he'll sprinkle in an awesome game like the one he

485
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Speaker 2: had Friday night, and then every now and then he'll

486
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Speaker 2: sprinkle in a total dud like the one he had

487
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Speaker 2: to get the Diamondbacks a few weeks ago, where he

488
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Speaker 2: gave up like nine homers. It was kind of what

489
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Speaker 2: we expect from grand Holmes at this point four runs

490
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Speaker 2: over five and a third. I guess you take that

491
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Speaker 2: and you're right not to, you know, repeat everything you

492
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Speaker 2: just said, Brad. But the first inning was disastrous. It

493
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Speaker 2: looked like it was going to be a whole lot

494
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Speaker 2: worse than two runs.

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Speaker 1: And then our text day and the first inning was

496
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Speaker 1: not the prettiest thing you've ever seen. Just to say that, yeah,

497
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Speaker 1: I was.

498
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Speaker 2: Like, maybe we start recording the podcast in the sixth

499
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Speaker 2: inning because.

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Speaker 1: They're about to get might be a lot one everybody

501
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Speaker 1: strapped in.

502
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Speaker 2: But Holmes only one walk, that's a good sign. And

503
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Speaker 2: his last two starts, I think combined, Holmes has issued

504
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Speaker 2: only three walks in his last two starts, which is

505
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Speaker 2: a good sign because he was walking too many hitters

506
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Speaker 2: early in the year. The one big, big, big problem

507
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Speaker 2: that grand Holmes has right now is the home run ball.

508
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Speaker 2: He is giving up homers at an unsustainable rate. After

509
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Speaker 2: tonight's start, grand Holmes is fourth qualified pitchers in Major

510
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Speaker 2: League Baseball in home run rate. It's bad. And I

511
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Speaker 2: think if he has one more.

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Speaker 1: Bad bad side, by which just to say that loud

513
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Speaker 1: forth of the bad side, it's like, uh, he's allowed

514
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Speaker 1: eight home runs in third innings like that's you can't

515
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Speaker 1: live there. No, Yeah, maybe maybe he's getting a little

516
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Speaker 1: bit unlucky with that. Like I think the his home

517
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Speaker 1: run to flyball right right now is twenty one point

518
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Speaker 1: six percent, which I believe is the yes, actually the

519
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Speaker 1: second highest in all of baseball. So it's even worse

520
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Speaker 1: in some respects. That will come down and almost has to.

521
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Speaker 1: But uh, that's why he has not been that BEA's

522
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Speaker 1: with the gap between Gretholmes being legitimately good this year

523
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Speaker 1: and what he has been, which is like a four

524
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Speaker 1: or five, like a four point five yard guy. Is

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Speaker 1: is the home runs?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, And there is some flukiness in variance with

527
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Speaker 2: Homer's obviously, if you hang a bellpie curveball, which he

528
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Speaker 2: did in the first batter of the game, yep, good

529
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Speaker 2: chance it goes out. Other Times you throw a well

530
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Speaker 2: placed ninety eight fastball and the batter just goes and

531
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Speaker 2: beats you, and that's gonna happen. Sometimes Mookie Betts got

532
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Speaker 2: him for a homer on Friday Night. Stuff happens, yep. Yeah,

533
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Speaker 2: So I think we I think it's seemingly the overall

534
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Speaker 2: thought with Grand Holmes. Every time we talk about his start.

535
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Speaker 2: He is currently having to pitch like a third starter

536
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Speaker 2: on this team, and right now the second starter, Spencer Swallenbach,

537
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Speaker 2: is not exactly throwing the ball great when in reality

538
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Speaker 2: Grand Holmes is like a fifth starter and it feels

539
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Speaker 2: tighter than it probably should because the Braves offense is

540
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Speaker 2: not scoring a ton right now either, But overall five

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Speaker 2: and a third four runs, that's perfectly acceptable, I think

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Speaker 2: from grand Holmes at this point.

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Speaker 1: It's not great, but it's fine most of the time.

544
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Speaker 1: They this is the team that should regularly score more

545
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Speaker 1: than four runs, and they a lot of four runs

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Speaker 1: of the game. As we'll get to more in a second.

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Speaker 1: The bullpen's been really good recently. They just didn't have

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Speaker 1: enough offense to overcome it in this particular spot. We'll

549
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Speaker 1: come back in a second with more on the more

550
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Speaker 1: positive game of the two. A memorable win, honestly one

551
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Speaker 1: victor on Tuesday. After a word from our partners, Okay, Scott,

552
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Speaker 1: the game on Tuesday was more fun, even if it

553
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Speaker 1: wasn't gonna be for a long time. It was actually shit.

554
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Speaker 1: We got to be kind of a frustrating loss. It

555
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Speaker 1: was low scoring, and it was the all the offensive stuff.

556
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Speaker 1: It was our third right win ultimately, and it felt

557
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Speaker 1: like they stole one, I think almost all of a

558
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:21,960
Speaker 1: sudden version of like, wow, they stole that one. That

559
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Speaker 1: was another fun win. Let's begin with Chris Sale, who

560
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Speaker 1: was you know, awesome, like just generally Chris Sale, like

561
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four n LS a young winner, like six

562
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Speaker 1: and two thirds, five hits, scoreless, two walk test strikeouts.

563
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Speaker 1: Is he raising like the ones in the last three starts?

564
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Speaker 1: Like he's just looking like Chris Sale again, and a

565
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Speaker 1: big exhale from everybody. Obviously after a little bit of

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Speaker 1: a rocky start. We did maintain some positivity about Chris

567
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Speaker 1: Sale even when he was getting shelled. And this is

568
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Speaker 1: kind of why it's like, oh, oh there's Chris Sale again.

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Speaker 1: I know he's old, but he looks awesome.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, it's really encouraging that Sale has been

571
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Speaker 2: his usual self the last couple of starts. It's seem

572
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Speaker 2: like that start out in Arizona, even if it was

573
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Speaker 2: ugly early on that he started to figure some things

574
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Speaker 2: out in the fourth and fifth innings. Then he was

575
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Speaker 2: great at course field, with a caveat being that the

576
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Speaker 2: Rockies are very bad, but I mean he was dominant.

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Speaker 2: He looked great. His slider has been one of the

578
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Speaker 2: most valuable pitches in baseball this season. It leads all

579
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Speaker 2: of baseball in wiff rate, so a single pitch. He

580
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Speaker 2: has more swing and misses on his slider than any

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Speaker 2: other pitcher has with any other pitch. And he looks

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Speaker 2: like Chris Saale from a year ago. He's gotten also

583
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Speaker 2: some fortune, maybe not even fortune, but just we talked

584
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Speaker 2: about how unlucky Sale was in the early going of

585
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Speaker 2: the year, with a batting average on balls and play

586
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Speaker 2: that was like four p forty at one point. Even

587
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Speaker 2: if he still isn't getting lucky in that regard, his

588
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 2: batting average on balls and play in the last three

589
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 2: starts is down to three to eleven. That's more more average. Yeah,

590
00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:58,520
Speaker 2: normal ish. So let's hope the ball keeps bouncing the

591
00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 2: Braves's way because continues to rack up the strikeouts and

592
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 2: is not walking people, is not giving up heart contact.

593
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Speaker 2: And if we know how good this guy can be

594
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Speaker 2: when he's going right, the Braves are gonna need Sale

595
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 2: to do this every fifth day, especially with the rotation.

596
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:15,920
Speaker 2: Even though the rotation has pitched better as of late.

597
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:19,359
Speaker 2: This rotation is pretty thin at the moment.

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Speaker 1: He had that run last year. I think it was

599
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Speaker 1: like seventeen or eighteen starts in a row allowing two

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Speaker 1: runs or less. Like it was this ridiculous run, and

601
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Speaker 1: you can't expect that necessarily, And we did say in

602
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Speaker 1: the off season he probably isn't going to be quite

603
00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 1: as good as he was last year, but he's looked

604
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Speaker 1: like that guy recently. The batman for the season is

605
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 1: still like three seventy, which is crazy high. His career

606
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 1: numbers like three hundred or two ninety eight or something

607
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 1: like that, so it should keep coming down, regression in

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Speaker 1: a positive direction, all those things. But he looked awesome

609
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Speaker 1: and gave them a chance when they were not scoring

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Speaker 1: any runs. On Tuesday, speaking of, the only run of

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Speaker 1: the game for a long time was allowed by Daisball Hernandez,

612
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 1: who wants to did even pitch bad in the eighth.

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Speaker 1: He started out the side in the inning, he allowed

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Speaker 1: an infield single, a stolen bay, and then a single

615
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Speaker 1: to give up the only run of the game for

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Speaker 1: a long time. So like he was pretty fine, and honestly,

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Speaker 1: we'll come back to the places in a second before

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Speaker 1: I forget to say this. The bullpen's been really good

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Speaker 1: for a while now, and we've expressed a lot of

620
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Speaker 1: skepticis about the bullpen dating back to the winter basically,

621
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Speaker 1: and I'm not saying it's all fixed. I'm not saying

622
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 1: they're great, but they are very quietly up to thirteenth

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Speaker 1: in baseball and era with the bullpen. Now, that's not

624
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Speaker 1: the only sist of the matters. Some of the underlying

625
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 1: stuff is not as good as that. So maybe they're

626
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Speaker 1: not actually that good. That's totally fair. But part of

627
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Speaker 1: the mild success recently has been that they had been

628
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Speaker 1: pretty good in the bullpen. Between these two games. They

629
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Speaker 1: were basically perfect. On tonight's game, it didn't matter, but

630
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Speaker 1: they held them right there at four. They were awesome.

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Speaker 1: And then they allowed one run last night. Ricell it's

632
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Speaker 1: been great. So just a little bit of a shout

633
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Speaker 1: out to the bullpen after they had been much maligned,

634
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Speaker 1: and they might be maligned again, that might happen at

635
00:29:57,680 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 1: some point, but recently they've been pretty good.

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Speaker 2: Two big takeaways from the bullpen. On Tuesday Night days

637
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Speaker 2: Bell gave up the run but got three strikeouts, and

638
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 2: that was something I was looking at Dazebell's page, and

639
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:13,440
Speaker 2: his strikeouts are actually down a bit from a guy

640
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 2: with the stuff that he has. Days Ball needs to

641
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 2: ramp up the strikeouts because so far his batting average

642
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 2: on balls and play against is in the like one

643
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Speaker 2: fifties or so. And as relievers, the name of the

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Speaker 2: game is strikeouts. You do not want to let the

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Speaker 2: opposing team put the ball in play in close games

646
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Speaker 2: because then weird stuff can happen. So really good to

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Speaker 2: see Daze bo get those strikeouts. And then also Rice

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Speaker 2: el Iglacias man boom. That was vintage Rice el Iglasias.

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Speaker 2: After we saw vintage Rice e Iglasias on Sunday Night

650
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Speaker 2: Baseball where he was awesome, so really encouraging. I think

651
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Speaker 2: everybody was at least somewhat nervous about Rice cell after

652
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Speaker 2: the start he had, But these last two appearances in

653
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Speaker 2: particular have been prime Rice Iglasias. Really good. Seven pitches,

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Speaker 2: two strikeouts and a pop fly. I mean, he was

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Speaker 2: locked in and looked very much like the guy that

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Speaker 2: we have come to enjoy so much since the trade.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and look, I asked you was a week and

658
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Speaker 1: a half ago. Like on this podcast, hey are we sure,

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Speaker 1: he's getting the ball the next outing, and we thought

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Speaker 1: he was going to to be fair Yeah, but people

661
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 1: were asking us like is he still the closer? And

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Speaker 1: I'm like, well, yes, we think he is, but it

663
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Speaker 1: was it was a question we talked about, which is

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Speaker 1: all you need to know about the way he started

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Speaker 1: the season. But you look up now and like her,

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Speaker 1: it's not a good spot here for the season still,

667
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Speaker 1: but he has seventies strikeouts and two walks this year

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Speaker 1: and the underlying stuff that's not the best, but like

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Speaker 1: he's looked great recently and looks like himself and that's

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Speaker 1: hopefully in another ex sale like Chris Sale, sales more

671
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Speaker 1: important than Ry sale because it just starts, more important

672
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Speaker 1: than relievers. But those two were very important, and they

673
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Speaker 1: both looked to be going in the right direction in

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Speaker 1: opposition to what we talked about earlier on the podcast

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Speaker 1: about the one run like chances to come back to

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Speaker 1: tonight and tonight's game on Wednesday, they pulled it off

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Speaker 1: on Tuesday, so they go into the night down one.

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Speaker 1: It's one nothing. It's in one of those nights I

679
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Speaker 1: can't get anything going. You're gonna lead off walk from

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Speaker 1: Sean Murphy who's been good this year. Our guy Stuart

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Speaker 1: Fairchild pitch runs for Sean Murphy and uh, then it

682
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Speaker 1: gets interesting. So we talked about Ylow White earlier. They

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Speaker 1: pitch up really White. Uh, we should have brought this

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Speaker 1: stuff earlier, honestly, and I forgot too. What did you

685
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Speaker 1: make of Eli White trying to bunt last night?

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Speaker 2: I did not like it?

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Speaker 1: Well does that?

688
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Speaker 2: So?

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Speaker 1: I guess maybe this is I thought this still right

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Speaker 1: now alive on the air. Are these things kind of related?

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Speaker 1: Like I feel like it kind of says something about

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Speaker 1: Snicker's faith in the isle of white that he was

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Speaker 1: asking him to bunt on Tuesday and then they pitch

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Speaker 1: hit for him the next day with Eddie Rosario. Maybe

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Speaker 1: just Sni doesn't believe in the white very much. I

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Speaker 1: don't know, I'm not I'm not saying that like in

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Speaker 1: a negative boy, because you know, look as the guy

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Speaker 1: who would I got people people. People are mad at

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Speaker 1: me this week about Nick Allen on Twitter. We'll say

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Speaker 1: that for later, but I just kind of pointed out

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Speaker 1: Nick Alla's on a very good hitter. People come mad

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Speaker 1: at me. Maybe maybe Smith's looking at the history of

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Speaker 1: Bill White versus like the recent stuff of the white.

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Speaker 1: But all of the analytically inclined people were like, why

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Speaker 1: is he bunting? Like what's going on? And he struck out,

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Speaker 1: so it didn't Actually I guess it mattered a little bit,

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Speaker 1: but it was weird, just odd.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think your hypothesis might be onto something, Brad.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I'd never like to bunt. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's rare that I'm in favor of bunting. I think

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Speaker 2: the only time is if it's like a ghost Runner situation,

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Speaker 2: the braves are batting in the bottom half and maybe

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Speaker 2: it's a not good hitter and then it's Austin Riley

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Speaker 2: and Matt Olsen or something like it, if it's.

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Speaker 1: Nick Allen that Honestly, I can't remember who said it's

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Speaker 1: on Twitter, but it was basically like, Okay, let's figure

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Speaker 1: out a situation where it would be good to bunt

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Speaker 1: or are we decent the butt? And if that's if

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Speaker 1: that's the ninth spot up right there, and it's Nick Allen,

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Speaker 1: who actually is as bad of a hitter as people

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Speaker 1: don't want to believe that he is, but he is, uh,

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Speaker 1: and then you have to stop the order coming up

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Speaker 1: after that, I would have hated it less. I still

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Speaker 1: wouldn't by the way, I still wouldn't have butt it

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Speaker 1: even Nick Allen in that spot down and Run, but

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Speaker 1: I would have thought about it. Yeah, Eli White has

727
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:12,240
Speaker 1: As much as you might be skeptical with Eli White's history,

728
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,359
Speaker 1: he's a real hitter. He's not He might not be this.

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00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:17,759
Speaker 1: He probably isn't this, but he's at least like a

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00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:20,000
Speaker 1: guy who could run into something like, has some power,

731
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Speaker 1: has some pop, he could run. I don't know why

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Speaker 1: you're bunting there. I hated that he strikes out, and look,

733
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Speaker 1: it would have mattered more if they had lost. We

734
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Speaker 1: might have led with that earlier in the show, but

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Speaker 1: I just people wanted to bring it up because it's kind

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Speaker 1: of our brand, you know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. Eli White has had pretty good

738
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Speaker 2: stat cast data too. This is not completely smoking mirrors.

739
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:42,720
Speaker 2: Even if he is not a proven entity at this point.

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Speaker 2: He hits the ball hard, makes good contact, barrels a

741
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:48,399
Speaker 2: decent number of balls. See. I don't know. Maybe it's

742
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Speaker 2: something Brian Snitker has in the back of his mind.

743
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:53,760
Speaker 2: Maybe on Wednesday's game they had some data that said,

744
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 2: you know, Eli White's not going to hit this guy

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00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 2: who knows, but it's weird, and and the fact that

746
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Speaker 2: they bunted and and pinched hit for Eli twenty four

747
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 2: hours later, I don't get it. Thankfully, Tuesday night, it

748
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 2: didn't end up costing them because Michael Harris is an

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00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 2: avid listener, active follower on Twitter. For all the haters

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00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:16,919
Speaker 2: out there, Thankfully, Michael Harris hit the ball really hard.

751
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 2: And then there was an all time send at third base,

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00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 2: and thank god Stuart Fairchild's pretty fast, because that was

753
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:26,239
Speaker 2: going to be disastrous if the Reds didn't goof up

754
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:26,960
Speaker 2: the relay throw.

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Speaker 1: So I had two tweets this week this is this

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00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:33,880
Speaker 1: is bad podcast podcast but whatever that kind of broke

757
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 1: contein and I think it was like they got in

758
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:38,279
Speaker 1: the for you tab and people that don't know me

759
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:40,719
Speaker 1: were weighing in and all these things. One was the

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Speaker 1: Nick Allen tweet I referenced earlier about how I just

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Speaker 1: kind of laid out like, hey, I'm and I've literally

762
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 1: said I'm loving the Nick Oule experience, but the man

763
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:50,320
Speaker 1: can't hit was basically the framing. The other one was

764
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 1: kind of making fun of the Stuart Fairchild's sind because

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Speaker 1: I think anyone with Honestly, anyone with eyes could tell

766
00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 1: you that was not a good send. It worked out

767
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:03,360
Speaker 1: for the Brapes, but it just go back to process.

768
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 1: We like process on the show, he should have been out,

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00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:08,240
Speaker 1: I mean it was not. I mean he can run,

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Speaker 1: he's very fast. And by the way, our guy Justin

771
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 1: Discano of the ADOC wrote like a whole piece about

772
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:17,400
Speaker 1: this send. Basically I recommend people reading if they're subscribe

773
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:20,399
Speaker 1: to the agency on Tuesday night. But it only ended

774
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 1: up ended up working because red second basement. Matt McLain

775
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 1: just held the ball for some reason, he hesitated and

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Speaker 1: didn't throw the ball home. And even when he did that,

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00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 1: it was still a bang bang play. So if he

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00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 1: turns and throws it in reasonable fashion, I think we

779
00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:35,799
Speaker 1: could be fair and say he would have been out.

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00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 1: But hey, fair chalk can fly. That's worth noting. And

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00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:41,239
Speaker 1: Matt two s Sopo is the third base coach for

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Speaker 1: the Braves, basically just said on the record that like

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00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:46,640
Speaker 1: he set him in part because the reds through the

784
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:49,479
Speaker 1: ball is second and not first. It's a process play.

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00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 1: Like I get why he did it, but it was

786
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:53,839
Speaker 1: also like people were doing the Row Washington gift, which

787
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 1: I definitely appreciate Ron, which is mister green Light. But uh,

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Speaker 1: I have to just be true to myself. It was

789
00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:02,319
Speaker 1: a bad said. It was hilarious and it worked out,

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00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:04,240
Speaker 1: so we were already happy about it. It was very funny

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Speaker 1: to me.

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Speaker 2: All help is appreciated in these games. Yeah, And I

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00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,239
Speaker 2: mean McClain didn't just hold on to the ball for

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Speaker 2: a millisecond. It was in his glove for probably two seconds.

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Speaker 1: What was he doing? Money he was doing? It helped

796
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:20,879
Speaker 1: the Braves. Again, we're happy about it, But I did

797
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,320
Speaker 1: not understand anything of what happened on the plate. It's like,

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00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:24,239
Speaker 1: throw the ball, what are you doing?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and a great moment. Fairchild was actually dfaed by

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Speaker 2: the Reds YEP a couple of weeks ago, so I'm

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00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 2: sure it felt good for him to beat the throw home.

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00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 2: Also a nice moment for Michael Harris to tie the

803
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 2: game with a double. We have been critical of Michael Harris.

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00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:44,719
Speaker 2: His batted ball and pitch selection at the plate is terrifying.

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00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:48,000
Speaker 2: I think Michael has now walked one time in his

806
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 2: last eighty four plate appearances. If my math is right,

807
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 2: he has the third lowest walk rate of any regular

808
00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:59,799
Speaker 2: in baseball right now cannot survive. He is on page

809
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:04,440
Speaker 2: to walk something absurd like fifteen times this entire season.

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00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:05,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's bad.

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Speaker 2: So we don't want to dump on Michael Harris. He

812
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 2: was in some ways the hero on Tuesday night. That

813
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 2: can be another podcast, but yeah, man, Michael Harris, please,

814
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:18,359
Speaker 2: love of God, draw walk gotta you gotta figure it out. Brother.

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Speaker 2: You're you're a talented player, five tool you can do

816
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:24,400
Speaker 2: it all, but you have to improve. And hey, credit

817
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:27,080
Speaker 2: to Michael lining the ball to right field. Thank you

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00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 2: Matt McClain for holding onto the baseball. Otherwise it would

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Speaker 2: have been not even close at home played, I don't think.

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Speaker 1: And a brutal way to lose like that of a

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Speaker 1: brutal way to lose that game. It worked out. We

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Speaker 1: can celebrate it a little bit. They end up that

823
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Speaker 1: was the tying run. The glass comes into the tenth,

824
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Speaker 1: slams the door, and then Ozuna just ropes one home

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Speaker 1: to left field, like just does what he does? Is

826
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Speaker 1: the ball really hard? And going back to the runners proposition,

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Speaker 1: that was actually one of the four hits in the

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Speaker 1: last seven days with runs reposition was the Ozuna walk

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Speaker 1: off on Tuesday. So yeah, I mean, I just pulled

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Speaker 1: it up SOD, so I'll just share it to be

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Speaker 1: true to myself. Michael Harris, there are three numbers that

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Speaker 1: I will pass along. One of them is good, two

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00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:09,640
Speaker 1: of them are bad. You just gave him the walk

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Speaker 1: stat He is fourth percentile in Major League Baseball and

835
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Speaker 1: walk rate this year according to that cast. That's not good.

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Speaker 1: He is third percentile in chase rate, which means you

837
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 1: swing and everything'. Those are the two bad numbers, chase

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00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:27,239
Speaker 1: rate and walk right. The one encouraging number to some

839
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Speaker 1: degree is that Michael Harris is hitting. I believe it's

840
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 1: like two to ten batting average this year. No better.

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00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:34,479
Speaker 1: It's not the only thing in the world. We don't

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00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:37,359
Speaker 1: do that a lot. But his expected batting average at

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00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:40,600
Speaker 1: stack Gas is like two seventy. So he's been a

844
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 1: little bit unlucky. Now he still wouldn't be what he

845
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:48,040
Speaker 1: should be at the plate when you bounce off the luck.

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00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:50,360
Speaker 1: There's a little bit of himism in there if you

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00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:52,840
Speaker 1: want to find it about Michael Harrison. The talent's there.

848
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:54,920
Speaker 1: Like you said, maybe he gets a spring board from

849
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:57,560
Speaker 1: the big hit on Tuesday, But yeah, I a fun

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00:39:57,640 --> 00:39:59,680
Speaker 1: one that maybe wasn't going to be so fun, but

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00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 1: game that, uh, you know, steal some of them every

852
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:03,799
Speaker 1: once in a while. If they if they win the

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00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:05,720
Speaker 1: series on Thursday, we'll prove that game in a second.

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00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:08,720
Speaker 1: You look back and like say, the game that swung

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00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:10,759
Speaker 1: the series from maybe a split to a win was

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00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:12,799
Speaker 1: maybe the game on Tuesday. Would you steal one because

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Speaker 1: you were down one of the knifth like you were

858
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 1: down to what two outs left? They went out in

859
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:16,399
Speaker 1: the knife.

860
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 2: There you go, and nice to get a win too

861
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:22,800
Speaker 2: when Chris Sale was awesome because they lost that start

862
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:25,719
Speaker 2: when Sale was awesome out in Colorado, YEP, that would

863
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:28,400
Speaker 2: have been back to back Chris Sale losses. And honestly,

864
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:30,759
Speaker 2: I think it was maybe the second or third time

865
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:34,319
Speaker 2: all year the Braves have won a Chris Sales start.

866
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:37,720
Speaker 2: So thankfully, you're right, they stole it. You take those

867
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:39,880
Speaker 2: anyway you can get them, especially when you get off

868
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 2: to the slow start the Braves had, and because of

869
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:44,160
Speaker 2: that they have a real chance to win a four

870
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:46,400
Speaker 2: game series on Thursday night.

871
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:50,000
Speaker 1: I totally reverse jinks that. Actually on Twitter people were

872
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:51,880
Speaker 1: caught on to me. I said, and I think it

873
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 1: was the seventh inning or eighth inning. The Chris Sale

874
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:56,040
Speaker 1: had thrown two absolute gems in a row. The Braves

875
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:58,879
Speaker 1: might lose both games. They didn't lose the second game,

876
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:01,959
Speaker 1: but yeah, they tried to lose it for a large

877
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:05,560
Speaker 1: portion of the game. All right. Before we get out

878
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:09,120
Speaker 1: of here, they look ahead quickly to Thursday. This will

879
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:10,880
Speaker 1: have this had a short shelf life, so we'll be

880
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 1: brief here. It is Schwollenbach against Nick Lodolo of the

881
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:17,480
Speaker 1: Reds in the finale of the four game series on

882
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:19,640
Speaker 1: Thursday evening in Atlanta.

883
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 3: Uh.

884
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 1: The big story obviously is shamen Bach because he has

885
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 1: been as we discussed multiple times down on the show

886
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:29,400
Speaker 1: between us and Steven and Sewan not himself the last

887
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:33,160
Speaker 1: handful of starts era over seven in his last four

888
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:36,880
Speaker 1: outings for your guy s Bench, Swellenbach say on the

889
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:40,040
Speaker 1: award winner, the numbers still look good for the season

890
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:42,319
Speaker 1: even with that, which is how good he was early on.

891
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 1: The underlying numbers are still pretty solid for the season,

892
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:48,719
Speaker 1: but he gave up some home runs. Like he's not

893
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 1: been sharp. You'd probably agree on that. Back at home

894
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:54,440
Speaker 1: here the Reds around a team that are like built

895
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:56,919
Speaker 1: to like totally tee off on him. It'd be nice

896
00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:59,960
Speaker 1: to see three weeks ago schwollen Bach in this start

897
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 1: on Thursday.

898
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:04,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, big game for Schwambach. Let's get him back on track.

899
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:06,680
Speaker 2: That Dodgers game was bad.

900
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 1: Ye.

901
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:10,640
Speaker 2: They were launching everything against him. They had like a

902
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:13,480
Speaker 2: dozen balls over one hundred miles an hour of exit velocity.

903
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:18,240
Speaker 2: And that's not Schwallenbach and he's this is a crazy stat.

904
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:23,759
Speaker 2: In the first twenty one innings, Spencer Schwellenbach gave up

905
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:27,960
Speaker 2: one earned run this season twenty one innings over three starts,

906
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:29,800
Speaker 2: and then I think the first start, first inning of

907
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:33,319
Speaker 2: his four start one run twenty one innings. Since then,

908
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:37,279
Speaker 2: he has given up something like eighteen runs over the

909
00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:42,480
Speaker 2: last twenty one innings. Pretty crazy. One run to eighteen

910
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:46,120
Speaker 2: runs over the same timespan. It's crazy to say this.

911
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:49,680
Speaker 2: I think Spencer Schwenbach throws too many strikes.

912
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:51,800
Speaker 1: That's what Steve It said too. It was funny.

913
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:53,719
Speaker 2: Or at least he throws too many things in the

914
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:56,759
Speaker 2: middle of the zone, which is obviously a problem. He

915
00:42:56,800 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 2: doesn't walk anybody. He's pretty efficient out there. But I

916
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:02,759
Speaker 2: don't know, It's like he needs to learn how to

917
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:05,319
Speaker 2: nibble on the corners. And I think it's important to

918
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:08,359
Speaker 2: remind ourselves from Swallenbach that this is going to be

919
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:11,840
Speaker 2: like the twenty seventh big league start of his career.

920
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:15,279
Speaker 2: He was in the minor league for a reason this

921
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:17,600
Speaker 2: time a year ago. He was actually just about to

922
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:20,240
Speaker 2: debut this time a year ago, and now he's basically

923
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:22,920
Speaker 2: made it a full calendar year in the majors. Hopefully

924
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:25,920
Speaker 2: Thursday Night's game gets him back on track. As we

925
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 2: have seen in the series, the Reds lineup is not

926
00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:31,520
Speaker 2: exactly the Yankees right now, and at home a chance

927
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:33,319
Speaker 2: to win the series three out of four, the vibes

928
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 2: should be great, especially going into the weekend where you're

929
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 2: gonna play a Pirates team that is just downright awful.

930
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:42,760
Speaker 2: It's it feels like kind of in the ViBe's mode

931
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:44,879
Speaker 2: of vibes. Win on Thursday Night.

932
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:48,360
Speaker 1: Would go a long way, it would. You know, Lodolo's hittable.

933
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:51,719
Speaker 1: He's not bad, but he's a hit able pitcher. It

934
00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:53,600
Speaker 1: was Baldwin today, by the way, so I expect it

935
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:57,240
Speaker 1: to be Murphy in the finale. That was a perhaps

936
00:43:57,239 --> 00:44:00,160
Speaker 1: a handed this issue ball when facing alrighty if it

937
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:02,120
Speaker 1: gets lefty. That made total sense. All that stuff it'll

938
00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:05,480
Speaker 1: be play Murphy on Thursday. And we said it earlier

939
00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 1: and I said, I think on Sunday with Stephen, like

940
00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 1: if there was a game to lose on paper in

941
00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 1: the series, it was tonight. It was Wednesday, and they

942
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:13,919
Speaker 1: could have won the game anyway. But the other three

943
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:16,320
Speaker 1: games the Braves are pretty solidly favored in. That was

944
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:18,560
Speaker 1: the case in the betty market in the first two games.

945
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:21,080
Speaker 1: I just, I just I just looked the case again.

946
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 1: On Thursday, the Braves were pre solid favorites of the many.

947
00:44:23,239 --> 00:44:25,399
Speaker 1: They're not massive favorites, but they are favored at home.

948
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:28,240
Speaker 1: It's a game you should win more often. It's still baseball.

949
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:30,440
Speaker 1: It's like sixty forty, like you know nothing. It's like

950
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:32,879
Speaker 1: ninety ten about tomorrow's game. But it would be good

951
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:35,920
Speaker 1: to win that one and get one more chance again

952
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:37,680
Speaker 1: if they win tomorrow, to get back to five hundred

953
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:39,839
Speaker 1: the day but then the next day, like we were

954
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 1: all ready to celebrate kind of tongue in cheek to

955
00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 1: some degree, getting back to five hundred in May. That'd

956
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:47,320
Speaker 1: be great that they got there. Eventually, They're gonna have

957
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:48,960
Speaker 1: to get there. Scott breaking news if they want to

958
00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 1: have a good season. They have to at least get

959
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 1: there at some point or get up of it.

960
00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:55,600
Speaker 2: So it is going to happen this weekend. Oh, five

961
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:59,120
Speaker 2: hundred ceiling old shot, there it is. How's that call

962
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:00,440
Speaker 2: my shot? Babru style?

963
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 1: Hey, foul territory, guys, clip this, clip this? Please?

964
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 2: Oh god no, because then when they get swept by

965
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:09,160
Speaker 2: the Pirates, I will have nine million people yelling at

966
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:12,359
Speaker 2: me for jinxing it. That's right. Yeah, yeah, Hey, win

967
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 2: the game Thursday, three out of four against a pretty

968
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:18,319
Speaker 2: good Reds team. Yeah, and then try to take care

969
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:20,279
Speaker 2: of business at home against the Pirates and get to

970
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:23,760
Speaker 2: five hundred, get above five hundred, and keep on winning games.

971
00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:25,640
Speaker 2: Because we're not going to do a deep dive on

972
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:27,759
Speaker 2: the NL East at this point in the pod. But

973
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:31,279
Speaker 2: the Mets have cooled significantly. The Phillies are just, you know,

974
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:34,319
Speaker 2: playing decent ball, not bad by any means, but it's

975
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:36,399
Speaker 2: not like they're looking up in the division. And they

976
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:39,040
Speaker 2: are eleven games back, And as long as they keep

977
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:41,040
Speaker 2: winning series as they have done for the better part

978
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:43,000
Speaker 2: of a few weeks, they're going to be right into

979
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 2: this thing. As Memorial Day gets here.

980
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:48,440
Speaker 1: Stack wins, stack series wins, as we've been saying repeatedly

981
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 1: because it's really just practical, it's what you want to do.

982
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:52,120
Speaker 1: And I think when this year's the Thursday of go

983
00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:55,359
Speaker 1: a long way, all right, Scott, we've done it. Put

984
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:58,520
Speaker 1: a bowl on this two game mini stretch. The plan

985
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:00,640
Speaker 1: is that we'll have a show on the feed after

986
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:02,920
Speaker 1: the game on Thursday and advance of the series on Friday,

987
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:05,760
Speaker 1: So stay tuned for that. Please subscribe to this podcast, Scott.

988
00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:08,000
Speaker 1: Now that you're back from your hiatus when you were

989
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:10,920
Speaker 1: willy pipped again breathing full circle, what's going on in

990
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:13,839
Speaker 1: your life? And if people are new, where can they

991
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:14,279
Speaker 1: find you?

992
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:15,000
Speaker 2: On Twitter?

993
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 1: I haven't actually aout the Blues at all. I waited

994
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:19,160
Speaker 1: forty five minutes at about the Blues just saying I

995
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:19,799
Speaker 1: waited all this.

996
00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:23,279
Speaker 2: For the fifteen percent of the podcast listeners who follow

997
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:24,120
Speaker 2: up hockey.

998
00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:28,640
Speaker 1: Under I can promlish that right now less than that, Yeah,

999
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:29,080
Speaker 1: there you go.

1000
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:31,840
Speaker 2: I grew up in Missouri. I grew up going to

1001
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:35,839
Speaker 2: Blues games. They lost an all timer in painful game

1002
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:39,440
Speaker 2: seven fashion. I was sad for about twenty four hours,

1003
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:42,000
Speaker 2: but most listeners have no idea what I'm talking about.

1004
00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 2: So I will wrap up if you are a hockey follower,

1005
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:48,080
Speaker 2: please send me a thoughts and prayers. But I am

1006
00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:51,400
Speaker 2: at Scott Coleman fifty five on socials. Brad and I

1007
00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 2: will be back this weekend. I think I'm not going

1008
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:55,640
Speaker 2: to say who, but I think we're going to have

1009
00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:58,040
Speaker 2: a cool guest on Sunday night. That's the play our

1010
00:46:58,120 --> 00:47:00,920
Speaker 2: usual in our usual spot. And as Brad just said

1011
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:04,160
Speaker 2: a moment ago, lots of shows on the feed myself,

1012
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:07,560
Speaker 2: Brad Steven Sean, a lot of good stuff. We're in

1013
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:09,440
Speaker 2: the full swing of the season and hopefully the Braves

1014
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 2: keep winning baseball games.

1015
00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:14,440
Speaker 1: Absolutely, thank you Scott for being here as always. Thank

1016
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:16,640
Speaker 1: you to everyone listening to the show or watching it

1017
00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 1: on YouTube, so please subscribe YouTube, Apple, Spotify, overcast, ratings, reviews,

1018
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 1: follow us social media, and this is very important. All

1019
00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 1: joking aside. If you like the show, tell somebody about it.

1020
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:32,000
Speaker 1: You probably have Braise fan friends in your life or

1021
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:34,360
Speaker 1: family members. Pass it along to them, send them a

1022
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:36,520
Speaker 1: link or whatever. If they hate it, but let's have

1023
00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:38,160
Speaker 1: up give me a chance. That'd be great. Thanks for

1024
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:41,040
Speaker 1: everybody for listening. As always, I will see everybody. Thanks time.