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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Hammer Territory podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Brad Rowland, and I'm joined on this

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Speaker 1: late night edition on Wednesday into a Thursday by my

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Speaker 1: co host. His name is Scott Coleman. Boy Scott. We

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Speaker 1: tried to act like the Braves might struggle on this

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Speaker 1: opening road troupe, and I think I could speak for

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Speaker 1: you on this one. We did not envision the calamity

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Speaker 1: that has transpired over the last seven or eight days.

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Speaker 2: Hello Brad.

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Speaker 3: In my wildest, most pessimistic dream, I couldn't come up

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Speaker 3: with this bad of a start for the Braves, oh

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Speaker 3: to seven. I think tonight's game was somehow the most painful,

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Speaker 3: blowing a five nothing lead to the Dodgers and then

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Speaker 3: a show Hao Tani home run that's gonna get shown

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Speaker 3: about four million times on every highlight reel. Imaginable Now

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Speaker 3: for the next twenty four hours, to blow a five

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Speaker 3: nothing lead, to go down zero to seven on the year,

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Speaker 3: it was just like the ultimate kick in the nuts.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I am dead inside, Brad, and I've watched a lot

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Speaker 3: of baseball. We have done a lot of podcasts over

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Speaker 3: the years after tough games and I am so deflated.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what else to say. It is so deflating.

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Speaker 1: I was thinking about this before we started recording. I'm

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Speaker 1: pretty sure I'll speak for me and you can agree

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Speaker 1: or not. I think we've done a lot of podcasts,

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Speaker 1: like you said, hundreds and hundreds of podcast especially me

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Speaker 1: and you together for near decade at this point, right,

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Speaker 1: I can competently say on my end, this is probably

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Speaker 1: the one that I've looked forward to the least that

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Speaker 1: was not a playoff podcast. Like playoff playoff losses are

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Speaker 1: a little bit different, you know, where it's like this

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Speaker 1: is excruciating and you know we have to go through

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Speaker 1: all the details and it's going to be an hour

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Speaker 1: long and it's going to be you know, one of

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Speaker 1: those things, you know, the some of the meltdowns, the

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Speaker 1: famous you know, famous losses. Right, we won't won't won't

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Speaker 1: work out now. But as far as regular season podcasts,

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Speaker 1: maybe you could argue, like when there's a major injury,

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Speaker 1: like with Ryan Teriors' ACL, it's like, yeah, this is

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Speaker 1: not gonna be any fun to talk about, right, but

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Speaker 1: this is a all timer. Look, we've done a couple

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Speaker 1: of podcasts already during this losing streak. So it's not

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Speaker 1: like we have to do it all today. Thank goodness

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Speaker 1: for that, right, But the fact that this series went

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Speaker 1: the way it did, and you're right, I think I

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Speaker 1: on social media tonight. It was like, you could not

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Speaker 1: draw up a more painful way to lose this game

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Speaker 1: after the first six losses, to go up five to

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Speaker 1: nothing kind of in you know, fortunate fashion. It's like, hey,

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Speaker 1: they're getting some breaks tonight. Things are going well for

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Speaker 1: the Braves, so the first time all year in any fashion,

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Speaker 1: and then the slow creep. It would have been easier

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But it was like, all right,

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Speaker 1: you go five nothing after two innings, and it's like this,

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Speaker 1: all right, now it's five to two. Now it's five

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Speaker 1: to three. You bring in your closer as we'll talk

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Speaker 1: suddenly it's five to five, and then the best player

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Speaker 1: in the world beat you in the ninth and it's like, okay,

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Speaker 1: here we are man, and look we should say at

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Speaker 1: the top of the show we were part of valid territory.

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Speaker 1: Please join us. All the things that we always say

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Speaker 1: on the show, but Hammer Territory, please subscribe to the podcast.

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Speaker 1: This is not gonna be a typical episode, I don't

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Speaker 1: think for us. At some point I will probably give

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Speaker 1: into myself, Scott and try to provide a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a step back with some context. But that's not

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Speaker 1: what anybody wants to hear tonight, which I certainly understand.

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Speaker 1: So I mean we'll leave with the with the big stuff,

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Speaker 1: and then we'll kind of get into the details and

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Speaker 1: then more new stuff later on. The Braves are ow

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Speaker 1: and seven. And here's the stat of the night. Maybe

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Speaker 1: no team has ever started oh to seven and made

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Speaker 1: the playoffs in the history of Major League Baseball. The

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Speaker 1: But that's still the stat. There have been three teams

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Speaker 1: don't even know what's where to go from here, Scott.

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Speaker 1: What is your reaction to that, you do you have one?

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think my brain is pulling me in

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: On one hand, I am so unbelievably frustrated just seeing

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Speaker 3: the train wreck coming on Wednesday night. You mentioned it perfectly.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't even like the Dodgers had an explosion. It

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Speaker 3: double play to basically end the rally. Maybe this is

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Speaker 3: the Braves night. Maybe this is what gets this team

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Speaker 3: finally going. They have run into some awful luck. They

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Speaker 2: And I don't know, I mean, where do you go

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Speaker 2: This team through a week. It's crazy that we are

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Speaker 1: It's April second. It's April second right now. This is insane.

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Speaker 3: It feels like a lifetime and it's a week. And

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Speaker 3: every night when you watch this team, it's like watching

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Speaker 3: a toddler walk over to a hot stove and put

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Speaker 2: That's bad. That hurts.

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Speaker 3: And then the next night, little Brad walks back over

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Speaker 2: It is just infuriating. I cannot believe.

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Speaker 3: I am this worked up about a baseball team after

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Speaker 1: Yeah again, I just said jokingly. But it's April second,

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Speaker 1: And if you're new to the podcast, which we might

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Speaker 1: have new listeners, first of all, welcome, thank you for

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Speaker 1: being here. This is not usually with a tone of

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Speaker 1: The Braves have not lost seven games in a row

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Speaker 1: seven eight seasons. So I mean, is the season over?

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Speaker 1: I will certainly tell you that it's not, despite where

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Speaker 1: end with that at the end of the show. It's like,

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Speaker 1: eight days is I'm gentlely knocking on the bloe without

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Speaker 1: than that, Like, it's it's just a it's a calamity.

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Speaker 1: It's what it is, gott It's a calamity. We have

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Speaker 1: listening right now, if you're listening at all, it's it's

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Speaker 3: This is I think probably not probably, this is the

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Speaker 3: Yes, they have a couple guys injured, but nothing. It's

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Speaker 3: not like last year where you had half the team hurt.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they had four hits in the first two innings

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Speaker 1: and then for the rest of the game goodbye. And

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Speaker 1: I believe too. Yeah, two of them more than the sixth,

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Speaker 1: which ended up not which is that failed rally that

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Speaker 1: they had. So other than that, they did basically nothing

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Speaker 1: the last seven innings of the game. Yeah, so process wise,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't the best you know, last day on the

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Speaker 1: on this game prosibly move on beyond just this one.

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Speaker 1: I will give Snitch some credit. It didn't work, I

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Speaker 1: will I like that he was aggressed with the bullpen overall.

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Speaker 1: Now we'll probably nitpick it a little bit in a second,

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Speaker 1: but he managed it like it was a playoff game

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Speaker 1: kind of with the day off tomorrow. That was the

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Speaker 1: right That was the right approach. I said this like

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Speaker 1: the third ending, I was like, guys, the least has

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Speaker 1: got to be short on Bryce Elver And it's not

447
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Speaker 1: Bryce's fault, but it was like, hey, you don't play tomorrow.

448
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Speaker 1: Your bullpen's not super overtext because they have been losing

449
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Speaker 1: these games and all that, like throw the kitchen sink basically.

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Speaker 1: And the only guy that I think is a that

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Speaker 1: I would describe as a good reliever on the Braves

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Speaker 1: roster that did not pitch this game was Aaron Bumper.

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Speaker 1: Everybody else pitched, so overall, i'd say, well done. The

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Speaker 1: only ish' I'll see you up. Actually, what did you

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Speaker 1: make of Iglacias coming in when he did? Not that

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Speaker 1: he pitched more than an inning, but when he when.

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Speaker 3: He came in, Yeah, just to quickly set the stage

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Speaker 3: because they know everybody is happily reliving this one.

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Speaker 1: Sorry guys.

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Speaker 3: Soon, Day's Bell leads off the eighth inning with and out,

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Speaker 3: but then gave up a single to the first or

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Speaker 3: the second faced and then Daves Bell fell behind two

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Speaker 3: oh with a couple of sliders that almost hit the batter,

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Speaker 3: and Chadwick Trump went out to the mound and then

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Speaker 3: mitted bat two oh count. Snit goes out and pulls

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Speaker 3: days Bell for Rice Iglesias. And I know Ryce SEL's

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Speaker 3: been doing it a long time. I'm sure he said, Oh,

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Speaker 3: I just need to execute better. But that's a that's

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Speaker 3: a tough situation to put a reliever.

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Speaker 1: In in his first I know he pitched the other

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Speaker 1: day in total garbage time, but in his first real

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Speaker 1: outing of the season. Yeah, to come in two oh

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Speaker 1: is it's it's a big challenge. And again he's he's great.

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Speaker 1: He wasn't great in this game, but he is great

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Speaker 1: in general. I get having confidence in him, but that was,

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Speaker 1: to your point a tough one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I just didn't understand it. You know, Day's bell,

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Speaker 3: the Braves are clearly relying on him. Two oh is

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Speaker 3: not great, but I mean, you make one good pitch

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Speaker 3: and you're out of it. And again, man, I just

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Speaker 3: I understood. I actually think you you made a great

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Speaker 3: point a moment ago. I think Snit does deserves some

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Speaker 3: credit for managing this game like it was a must win,

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Speaker 3: and you could tell the Braves really really wanted to

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Speaker 3: win this game tonight, you know, going to Day's or

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Speaker 3: leaving Day's ball out there. He could have pulled him

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Speaker 3: after the single and brought Ryce Cell in with a

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Speaker 3: clean count. He could have left Day's ball in for

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Speaker 3: another pitch or two and see what happens. Rice Ll

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Speaker 3: ultimately walk that batter, probably because he was behind two

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Speaker 3: oh to begin. You know, it's all revisionists now, but

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Speaker 3: even in that moment, I was like, all right, this

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Speaker 3: is kind of weird. I don't know, but I guess

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Speaker 3: if if you're willing to try literally anything to get

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Speaker 3: a win, and even though it backfired tonight.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and we won't we won't tackle all this today

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Speaker 1: because we won't have time. But there's there's been a

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Speaker 1: lot and understandably so, a lot of outrage about Alex

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Speaker 1: and Snit the last geme because they're owin Seid. I mean,

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Speaker 1: everyone's on an irosca right now. I don't think Snit's

501
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Speaker 1: done a bad job this season. I hated Hector Naris

502
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Speaker 1: on Opreen Day and so as much on his podcast.

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Speaker 1: I was really mad about that. I still am now

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Speaker 1: hated it. But other than that, like, I don't think

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Speaker 1: there's anything that Snick could have really done any differently,

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Speaker 1: Like it's not like certainly sort of behind the scenes,

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Speaker 1: if you want to say that. And look, a lot

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Speaker 1: of the time, you know the Scott. If the team

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Speaker 1: is winning, no one cares. If the team is losing,

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Speaker 1: if the manager's fault whatever. I'm not a defense guy

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Speaker 1: at all costs. Like I've Chris Stidd for years and

512
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Speaker 1: years and years. Don't think he's a perfect manager, but

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Speaker 1: I don't really know what he's supposed to do super

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Speaker 1: differently in the first seven games, make guys hit better.

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Speaker 1: I mean, okay, cool, they did it. By the way,

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Speaker 1: they did hire a new hitting coach. Everybody was matter

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Speaker 1: of like Kevin Sitzer. They they hid a new NT

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Speaker 1: coach hasn't gone very well so far.

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Speaker 3: I would Yeah, I was gonna say if if Tim

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Speaker 3: Hires does a thirty day review like most people do

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Speaker 3: with their new jobs, I don't.

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Speaker 2: Think it would go super well.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I tend to agree Opening Day was a

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Speaker 3: train wreck for Snit.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I absolutely hated it. I mean we did

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Speaker 1: too much time that on the show. I felt back

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Speaker 1: afterwards how much we talked about the bullpet management on

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Speaker 1: op literally opening day, but I I really hated that.

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Speaker 1: But and also it was proven to be ironic, maybe

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Speaker 1: that they literally dfa Tecnaris like two days later after

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Speaker 1: he was peishing in the seventh.

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Speaker 2: Deaning with a one lead and height Snit went.

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Speaker 3: I mean I couldn't believe the lineup when it came

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Speaker 3: out today with aggressive Eli White and Chadwick Trump. I mean,

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Speaker 3: they stacked their right e's, which is kind of funny

536
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Speaker 3: because they're all like fringe major leaguers, but they stacked

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Speaker 3: the right handed players on the roster against Blake Snell,

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Speaker 3: which is probably.

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Speaker 2: The right thing to do.

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Speaker 1: It worked kind of worked.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it did.

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Speaker 3: I mean they one more hit Brad like especially in

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Speaker 3: the early going. There was in the second inning, Brian

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Speaker 3: de la Cruz came up with two runners on he

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Speaker 3: hit a one hundred and eight mile an hour lineout

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Speaker 3: right at mooie bets at shortstop. If that balls a

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Speaker 3: couple feet to the right, the Braves scored two more runs.

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Speaker 3: Didn't also have one too, Yeah, toy had one hundred

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Speaker 3: and seven mile an hour ground out with two runners

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Speaker 3: on base, it would have scored a run. It's just

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Speaker 3: just a little bit of luck. And you know, you

552
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Speaker 3: can tell yourself. I think the most frustrating part of

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Speaker 3: this is you can tell yourself a real story where

554
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Speaker 3: if the ball bounces a different way a couple of times,

555
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Speaker 3: the Braves could have at least won one or two

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Speaker 3: games on this road trip. And it's crazy to say

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Speaker 3: because a week ago we were all fired up and

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Speaker 3: jacked up for the season. But even a two and

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Speaker 3: five road trip in hindsight, I mean we'd be drinking

560
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Speaker 3: on the show. We'd be having a party, right, I mean,

561
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Speaker 3: two wins would be incredible, especially against two really good teams.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if the Padres have lost yet.

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Speaker 2: By the way, they look really good.

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Speaker 1: Are they are good?

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Speaker 3: But Yeah, it's just a culmination of bad, bad, bad baseball,

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Speaker 3: some bad luck and just some really bad sequencing too.

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Speaker 1: I checked just now. The Padres are seven and zero.

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Speaker 1: So the two teams the Braves have played against our

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Speaker 1: combined fifteen to zero this season. If that's a small consolation.

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Speaker 1: If it's not, I understand, But if it is there,

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Speaker 1: you have it, Scott before you move on to other things.

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Speaker 1: You tease this earlier, and we're going to make this

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Speaker 1: on today's podcast our FanDuel Sports Network Spotlight segment The

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Speaker 1: Seconds brought to you by Fantasports Network, where you could

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Speaker 1: stream all Braves games we supposed to Braves games, and

576
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Speaker 1: we'll tell you more about that shortly. But he talked

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Speaker 1: about earlier with Marcelo Zuna and the lineup was interesting today, right.

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Speaker 1: It was tack with Ry Henders. It also if you

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Speaker 1: want to be a little bit more negative or at

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Speaker 1: least pessimistic, you could note that it also included a

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Speaker 1: bunch of guys who were like very fringe major leaguers

582
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Speaker 1: and that's weird to see on April second. But Ozuna

583
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Speaker 1: has been if you're picking a standout so far, the

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Speaker 1: offensive standout by the numbers anyway, And the big thing

585
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Speaker 1: is he's walking an absurd amount, like an amount that

586
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Speaker 1: no one has ever walked. Basically, it's like beyond Bondzian level.

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Speaker 1: It's seven games, so it's not going to continue. But

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Speaker 1: part of that is that they're not supporting him. Behind him,

589
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Speaker 1: there isn't a lot to be afraid of behind him,

590
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Speaker 1: so teams are pitching around him just to get the

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Speaker 1: numbers quickly on Marcel. As the spotlight segment on the podcast,

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Speaker 1: thirteen walks in seven games Wow for Marcel Zuna. He

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Speaker 1: is a current walker rate SCOT of forty five percent.

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Speaker 1: Forty five percent is almost percentage is currently five point

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Speaker 1: fifty two. That's pretty good.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Last year he had his highest walk rate in four seasons,

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Speaker 1: so like he's walking more. Anyway, He's been great. He

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Speaker 1: was the only guy. How the times last year do

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Speaker 1: we say this? He was the only guy last year,

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Speaker 1: the only guy who had a good season, And so

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Speaker 1: far this year he's the only guy that has had

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Speaker 1: him a decent season. What have you seen from him?

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Speaker 1: Is it just as simple as he was pitching around him, honestly,

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Speaker 1: or is there something he's doing differently?

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Speaker 3: I mean Marcel has a great eye at the plate,

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Speaker 3: and really he has for most of his career. He's

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Speaker 3: done a good job, but especially in this first week,

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Speaker 3: he has done a terrific job getting on bass. And Hey,

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Speaker 3: if I'm in a big situation and I have a

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Speaker 3: base open, am I wanting to face Marcelo Zuna? Or

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Speaker 3: am I wanting to face Michael Harris who's been not

613
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Speaker 3: very good? Do I want to face Ozzy Alby's who

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Speaker 3: has not been very good?

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Speaker 2: I mean that that's.

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Speaker 3: Kind of the decision, and I think, speaking on the

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Speaker 3: actions of the opposing pitchers, they are pitching around Marcel

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Speaker 3: to face Ozzy or Harris for at least most of

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Speaker 3: the lineups. It's interesting though tonight Ozuna was second. I

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Speaker 3: think that's the lineup I would roll with moving forward.

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Speaker 3: I would go, at least until Akunya comes back, I

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Speaker 3: would go Michael Harris leading off against righty's, Ozzy Alby's

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Speaker 3: leading off against lefties. Even if those two players are

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Speaker 3: not your prototypical leadoff hitters. Yeah, I mean, they don't

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Speaker 3: have anyone unless they want to go like Tampa Bay

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Speaker 3: Rays and do like Marcelo Zuna lead off with Austin

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Speaker 3: Reiley second.

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Speaker 1: Wit is not going to do no. They have they

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Speaker 1: have they have to drag Price thicker by his belt

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Speaker 1: to fill out that lafeup card.

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Speaker 3: I think so, but I do like Marcel and his

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Speaker 3: obp second. If Austin Riley ever remembers had to hit

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Speaker 3: a baseball again, you would think he'd have chances to

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Speaker 3: drive in Marcel. We talked about Olsen a little bit.

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Speaker 3: The numbers have been fine ish, I mean they're they're

636
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Speaker 3: down from his lofty standard. But you know, Olsen is

637
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Speaker 3: really underperformed based on his bat at ball data.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he should the only guy.

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Speaker 1: Honestly, he's the only guy. And that includes Ozuna, who

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Speaker 1: has like bad at ball data that looks normal. Olsen's hitting.

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Speaker 1: Also Baltwin, I would say, ye, who's played less. But

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Speaker 1: Baldwin's other guy who's actually hit the ball well, like

643
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Speaker 1: to way too well to be where he is and

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Speaker 1: his actual numbers. But yeah, I mean back to Zona

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Speaker 1: real quickly, just as cap a segment like he he

646
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Speaker 1: isn't the problem. You're right, I have him high in

647
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:56,440
Speaker 1: the line up normally he's been like penciled in that

648
00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 1: you know, three four spot, and I get it. He's

649
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 1: been the main power source, at least it was last

650
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 1: year compared to the rest of the of the lineup.

651
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 1: But if he's gonna get pitched like this and be willing,

652
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:06,479
Speaker 1: and I think there's something to be said for this

653
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 1: to be willing to just take this many walks. It's

654
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 1: seven games, but like sometimes hitters get dancy and they

655
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 1: want to swing, and he's not chased a lot. He's

656
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:17,320
Speaker 1: just like, hey, put me on base, that's fine. So

657
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:20,520
Speaker 1: I mean this lineup could use more of that approach. Well,

658
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 1: that's the thing. Yeah, I mean, that's what That's probably

659
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 1: one of the reason why we're doing the second one

660
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 1: Marcel right now, is like we've complained, and I think

661
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:28,800
Speaker 1: rightly so for a year plus now about them not

662
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 1: taking enough walks and not being enough, not be patient enough.

663
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 1: And you know, on opening Day, our brightest spot on

664
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Speaker 1: that podcast actually was that they were really a patient.

665
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 1: They were really patient on opening Day, and then it

666
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 1: went out the window for three days, four days, five days,

667
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 1: and it kind of came back today, which is nice.

668
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:46,440
Speaker 1: They a lot better at bats generally speaking, not the

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Speaker 1: entire game, but it was better. But I think Marcel

670
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 1: is the one person maybe alongside Olsen or baby ball Win,

671
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 1: but especially Marcel, who's like Ben patient this year, and

672
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:57,959
Speaker 1: obviously this is a degree what it's not gonna sustain.

673
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 1: No one walks as much, not even Bonds. But he's

674
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Speaker 1: doing the right thing, I think generally speaking in you know,

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Speaker 1: given his procleasity to hit the ball hard. When he

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Speaker 1: hits the ball, I think he'll have a good season

677
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Speaker 1: from what I see.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, encouraging.

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Speaker 3: I mean really, I guess, Marcel, and I mean it's

680
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,959
Speaker 3: crazy to say this, but like Nick Allen is maybe

681
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 3: the second brightest spot offensively and he's played three games

682
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:23,760
Speaker 3: so far at shortstop.

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Speaker 2: You know, I mean that's kind of it.

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Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, Drake Baldwin has nothing to show for it,

685
00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:32,440
Speaker 3: but he's just missed a couple homers and really rocketed

686
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 3: a couple of balls at fielders. You know, we talked

687
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:40,320
Speaker 3: about Olsen, Ozzi Alby's has been okay, but nothing special.

688
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 3: Michael Harris is the same old Michael Harris and just

689
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:47,720
Speaker 3: has not refined his offensive approach at all in three

690
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:53,120
Speaker 3: years now, which is really frustrating. You know, Jared Kelnick sucks.

691
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 3: I mean, let's just say what it is, Brad, Jared Keelnick's.

692
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 2: Not a very good baseball player.

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00:32:56,760 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 3: He's like fourteen hundred played appearances in this guy, it's

694
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 3: not going well for Yeah, he's not going to feed

695
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 3: Brian day La Cruz has been. I mean, again, we're

696
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 3: talking small samples, but I mean just nobody on this

697
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 3: team other than Marcello Zuna has numbers that you look

698
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:15,719
Speaker 3: at and go, oh man, those are pretty good, and

699
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:18,960
Speaker 3: it's fitting that this team is like dead last in

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00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 3: basically every offensive category.

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Speaker 2: As a result, yep.

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Speaker 1: we'll go back in now. Well think we should always

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00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 1: bring up there wasn't game related, but it's been interesting

714
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 1: to see and observe. Is that have you noticed that

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00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 1: that Nick Allen seems to be playing a lot Our

716
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:13,680
Speaker 1: guy Mark Bowman has been on the show before, just

717
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:15,839
Speaker 1: flat out said it today before the game, like, hey,

718
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:17,920
Speaker 1: they might just be goal with Nick Allen at shortstop. Now,

719
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 1: he didn't say that they were, but Mark's not doing

720
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:22,880
Speaker 1: it on accidental thing. I would imagine he's heard that.

721
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:25,920
Speaker 1: It was something like rumbling about, hey, maybe maybe it's

722
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:28,719
Speaker 1: a split, but it certainly has not been a Nick

723
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:31,279
Speaker 1: Allen is the backup shortstop. So far he started three

724
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 1: games or four games? Three always three games of the

725
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 1: seven so far. What do you make of that? Because look,

726
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 1: look we all know the deal here. He can't hit either.

727
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 1: Nick Allen has very bad numbers for his career as

728
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:45,800
Speaker 1: a hitter. But if you assume Marcia can't hit, Allen's

729
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:48,440
Speaker 1: probably better. I don't know, we'll see.

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00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:52,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, when we had Justin Tiscano of the AJAC on

731
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:54,880
Speaker 3: the pod about a month ago, he told us that

732
00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 3: the Braves really really like Nick Allen.

733
00:34:57,760 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, if.

734
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 3: You look at the back of his base ball card

735
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 3: with Oakland. It was very ugly, hit nothing. But just

736
00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:08,239
Speaker 3: because a guy hasn't necessarily been successful with one organization

737
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 3: doesn't mean a team can't work with him and make

738
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,359
Speaker 3: a maybe a mechanical adjustment to a swing or his

739
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:14,799
Speaker 3: stance or something like that.

740
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:16,600
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean it's.

741
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:18,880
Speaker 3: Pretty much been close to a fifty to fifty split

742
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:22,360
Speaker 3: with Orlando Arcia. I think our feelings on Orlando have

743
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 3: been well documented on this podcast for a year and

744
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:25,359
Speaker 3: a half.

745
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 2: Now, why not, why not give Nick Allen a chance?

746
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:33,080
Speaker 3: He's really good defensively, that was his one calling card

747
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 3: when the Braves traded for him, and so far he's

748
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:37,920
Speaker 3: done a pretty decent job. He's got a handful of

749
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:41,840
Speaker 3: line drive singles. He doesn't look completely overwhelmed at the

750
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 3: plate for a guy who has not had a lot

751
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:47,080
Speaker 3: of success. And at this point, Orlando Arcia is who

752
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 3: he is. He's not suddenly going to learn how to

753
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:52,800
Speaker 3: hit at age thirty. It was interesting that Bowman flat

754
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 3: out came out and said Nick Allen might be the

755
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,760
Speaker 3: shortstop or at least a rotating shortstop moving forward.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I just wanted to flag it because he said

757
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 1: it and then he started and he's been just he's

758
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:06,719
Speaker 1: been in there a lot, and the glove is good

759
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 1: by all accounts, like that's why he's around, and he

760
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 1: can run a little bit and all that stuff. You know,

761
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:13,840
Speaker 1: it might not be a sea change, but something notable there.

762
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:15,680
Speaker 1: And there was a small thing about lap up today

763
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 1: is like already sitting Michael Harris on April second is interesting.

764
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: It came against the lefty and a good lefty, so

765
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:27,920
Speaker 1: I get it. But usually a guy that, uh, with

766
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:32,920
Speaker 1: that kind of pedigree and talent level is not taking

767
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 1: a break in game seven one year zero and six,

768
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:38,239
Speaker 1: and he played in the game. But I thought that

769
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:40,799
Speaker 1: was interesting. I didn't have a huge issue with it

770
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:42,880
Speaker 1: because it was again against the good lefty and Harris

771
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:46,359
Speaker 1: has not been Grandy's left handed pitching. But uh, what

772
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 1: did you think of that? Did that even raise your

773
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:49,960
Speaker 1: eyebrow at all? Was that just like kind of business

774
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:50,359
Speaker 1: as usual?

775
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I understood going alrightyes, against Blake Snell.

776
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 3: That's kind of the only way you have a chance

777
00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 3: against him, at least the guy who pitched so well

778
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:01,400
Speaker 3: last year with the Giants.

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00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:03,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was a little surprised.

780
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:06,359
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm glad they got Michael Harris back in there,

781
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 3: probably like in the fifth inning, I think he pinched, yeah,

782
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:09,840
Speaker 3: and he singled.

783
00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 1: He singled as well, like he I mean, he was

784
00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:13,760
Speaker 1: involved in the game, and I think that was probably

785
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:15,840
Speaker 1: it seemed like that was the plan. It was like basically,

786
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:17,239
Speaker 1: as soon as Snalls out of the game, we're gonna

787
00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 1: we're gonna go to Michael. Yeah, which made sense. I mean,

788
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:21,799
Speaker 1: he's one of the best players, but I just thought

789
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:26,319
Speaker 1: it was interesting. Also, we won't spend any more time

790
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 1: that's than we already have. But they had this crazy

791
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:33,320
Speaker 1: run this weekend slash week where they just couldn't score.

792
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 1: They had two runs in forty innings. That's not an exaggeration.

793
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:39,840
Speaker 1: Two runs of forty innings. Only one of them was earned,

794
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 1: and it came on a home run by Michael Harris,

795
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:44,000
Speaker 1: which is normal, right until I tell you that it

796
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:47,440
Speaker 1: came off of Tanner Scott, an elite left handed reliever.

797
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:47,960
Speaker 2: Ye.

798
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:50,359
Speaker 1: Like, of all the people in Major League Baseball, from

799
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 1: Harris to Homer, off of Scott's like probably in like

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00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 1: the ten least likely, Yeah, because he's an elite. He's

801
00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,359
Speaker 1: an elite left hander and Scott, so it was so

802
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 1: it was like so crazy to me that the only

803
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 1: time they had scored an earned run in like five

804
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:06,279
Speaker 1: days or four days, whatever it was three days was

805
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 1: against a great left handed reliever on a home run,

806
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 1: Michael Harris. It's just weird.

807
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:12,680
Speaker 2: It's a funny game sometimes that.

808
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:14,480
Speaker 1: Funny is the wrong word for it. Right now, Scott,

809
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:16,480
Speaker 1: I gotta say I use that word too. I use

810
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:18,319
Speaker 1: funny a lot for that, the same way you are

811
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 1: right now. But I think that's probably not gonna go over. Well, Oh,

812
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 1: I forgot the stat earlier I have. It's so good.

813
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 1: I have to get it. It's so good, slash bat,

814
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:28,320
Speaker 1: I have to get it in. This came from codify

815
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:33,520
Speaker 1: Baseball on social media. First six games, the Braves had

816
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:38,759
Speaker 1: a combined batting average of one thirty seven. That's obviously terrible, right,

817
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 1: we Alner say that's terrible. Here's how terrible it is. Again,

818
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:46,319
Speaker 1: it's codified Baseball. They have it as that being the

819
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:51,480
Speaker 1: worst batting average for the Braves over any six game

820
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:58,399
Speaker 1: sample since nineteen forty two. What are we talking about here?

821
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:00,759
Speaker 1: I seen forty two.

822
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:03,719
Speaker 2: Who is your favorite player on the nineteen forty two Braves?

823
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 1: I don't I don't. I don't know were they had

824
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 1: Boston still on forty two? Yeah they were. I think

825
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:11,240
Speaker 1: they were still in Boston forty two. If they weren't Atlanta,

826
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 1: it was even Milwaukee or Boston. I think we were

827
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:15,719
Speaker 1: in Boston. But like, come on, man, they were also

828
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 1: one of thirty two, sorry, one of thirty four with

829
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 1: rowan scoring position in that sample one for thirty four, Scott,

830
00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:25,400
Speaker 1: it's like a batting average of thirty.

831
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:28,240
Speaker 3: They literally could have run up to the plate thirty

832
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 3: four times and tried like a running bunt and done

833
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:35,320
Speaker 3: better than one for thirty four, like a perfectly laid bunt.

834
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:37,879
Speaker 3: You would think thirty four times would happen more than

835
00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 3: one sprad out of thirty or it's I don't know, man, Like,

836
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:47,239
Speaker 3: how is this real?

837
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:49,840
Speaker 2: Is this? Are we? Are we dreaming this first week?

838
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 2: Because it was so.

839
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:54,240
Speaker 3: I'm out of words.

840
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 1: I don't know which is out of words, it's it's fine,

841
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:59,360
Speaker 1: it's it's a podcast. We're out of words. All right.

842
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:02,080
Speaker 1: Let's let's to pin in all of the on field

843
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:05,359
Speaker 1: action for now. If you want more, we'll have more

844
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:07,799
Speaker 1: in the future. I promise you. There's more to come

845
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:11,360
Speaker 1: on this podcast, though, including an update on Renald Lopez,

846
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 1: which was not the best, plus a little bit look

847
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 1: ahead to the Marlin series in just one moment, all right, Scott,

848
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:22,480
Speaker 1: we're on a Lopez one of the other calamitous things

849
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 1: that's happened in the last few days, along with Jersey Profar,

850
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 1: And if anybody missed it, we did an emergency podcast

851
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 1: on Profar's PD suspension. It did not feature either Scott

852
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:35,800
Speaker 1: or I, but it was Steven Tolbert and Sean Coleman.

853
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:38,560
Speaker 1: I was actually behind the scenes producing and I had

854
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:41,879
Speaker 1: the not pleasure of telling them about Renald's injury live

855
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:44,560
Speaker 1: on the podcast in the chat, and they were reacting

856
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:47,920
Speaker 1: to that in tough fashion. But anyway, now we know

857
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:50,920
Speaker 1: more about Renaldo's shoulder, but not a lot more. On

858
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:55,279
Speaker 1: Tuesday it was reported and I guess Stent told the

859
00:40:55,480 --> 00:41:00,239
Speaker 1: media guys that We'renald's gonna have some sort of artistic

860
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:04,840
Speaker 1: procedure next week to determine if he has structural damage

861
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 1: in the shoulder. He's already on the ilt, which we

862
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:10,360
Speaker 1: knew but ain't never know how much of this is

863
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:12,759
Speaker 1: like sour stuff, But the every one of the beat

864
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 1: guys was pretty pessimistic talking about like months, not weeks

865
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 1: kind of thing. I think Bowman actually used the word

866
00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:23,440
Speaker 1: a couple of months or more. Uh, one of I

867
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 1: can't remember who it was up my apologies, it's late

868
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:27,920
Speaker 1: at night. It was either just In or DBA. If

869
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:30,640
Speaker 1: somebody was like, there is optimism that he'll pitch again

870
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:32,880
Speaker 1: this season, was the way that they framed it, and

871
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:34,799
Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, that's not something you want to hear.

872
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 1: That should just be implied. You shouldn't have to say

873
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:41,279
Speaker 1: that out loud. So we don't know anything else about that.

874
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 1: We probably won't know for a few days at least.

875
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:45,239
Speaker 1: Hopefully they don't get in there and it's like a

876
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:47,360
Speaker 1: Johomann situation where they're like, oh, this is a disaster.

877
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:50,640
Speaker 1: He's out for the season, but you noted this and

878
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 1: I want to I want to see you up for it.

879
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:54,840
Speaker 1: Not only are they losing him right now, which is

880
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:56,879
Speaker 1: a big loss, like that leads you to throwing Bryce

881
00:41:56,920 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 1: Elder in a game in Doughter Stadium with due respect

882
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:03,560
Speaker 1: the price. They also if people forgot this, they redid

883
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:08,400
Speaker 1: Renaldo's contract in November and added some length to it

884
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:12,120
Speaker 1: and some more guaranteed money to it. At the end which, uh, look,

885
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:15,000
Speaker 1: it might be fine, but when you have a shoulder injury,

886
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 1: shoulders are tough. They're probably more difficult pen elbows. At

887
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 1: this point in time, you don't want to see that

888
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:21,879
Speaker 1: right after you've just paid a guy an extra year.

889
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:27,800
Speaker 3: Basically, yeah, it's uh, it's not great. Also, somebody noted

890
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:32,040
Speaker 3: that Ronaldo is gonna see the like world renowned surgeon

891
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 3: Neil Elatrosh, who I believe has done Ronald's knee surgeries.

892
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:39,759
Speaker 3: He did like Kobe Bryant's achilles back in the day.

893
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:41,680
Speaker 3: He's like, he's like the doctor James Andrews.

894
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 1: Now Like, I think James Andrews is like not like

895
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:45,560
Speaker 1: retired book like kind of retired. And I think Ela

896
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:47,760
Speaker 1: Trosh is like the next big name surgeon.

897
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, he's He's who all the best athletes

898
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:51,759
Speaker 3: in the world go to.

899
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:52,480
Speaker 2: For the most part.

900
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 1: I'd go to him too if I was Ronaldo, to

901
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:56,839
Speaker 1: be fair to everybody involved, I'd be like, hey, yeah,

902
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:57,399
Speaker 1: I want that guy.

903
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:00,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm probably not gonna look in the phone book

904
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:03,800
Speaker 3: for a surgeon if I you know, if I'm concerned

905
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 3: about my shoulder and the fact that the Braves guaranteed

906
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 3: the fourth year on Ronaldo's deal. I mean, let's hope,

907
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:14,320
Speaker 3: let's man if he has to have a serious shoulder surgery,

908
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:18,120
Speaker 3: I mean, obviously he'd be done for this year. Maybe

909
00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:20,799
Speaker 3: it'll just be a cleanup procedure or a scope and

910
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:23,360
Speaker 3: he can come back maybe in the summer at some point.

911
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 3: But shoulders are just terrifying. I would rather it be

912
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:30,759
Speaker 3: Ronaldo's elbow, quite honestly, I'd rather him saying, oh my ow,

913
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:33,360
Speaker 3: let me, let me get Tommy John and I'll be

914
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 3: back in fourteen months. Shoulders are terrifying. Ask Kyle Wright,

915
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 3: who had shoulder surgery eighteen months ago and is just,

916
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:44,560
Speaker 3: you know, now getting back on the mound. I mean,

917
00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:49,000
Speaker 3: shoulders are really scary. So it's just you just have

918
00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:51,560
Speaker 3: to cross your fingers and hold your breath that it's

919
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:52,560
Speaker 3: not the worst.

920
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:56,880
Speaker 2: For Ronaldough And what is his twenty twenty five hold,

921
00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:58,160
Speaker 2: I have no idea.

922
00:43:58,200 --> 00:43:59,839
Speaker 3: I mean, I think there's a world where he's back

923
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 3: by maybe June or even the All Star break. But

924
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:05,400
Speaker 3: for a picture of the braves you're really counting on

925
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:08,239
Speaker 3: this year. The fact that he made one start and

926
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:10,839
Speaker 3: is already down is not good.

927
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:14,720
Speaker 1: No, it's not. And look they they don't have Okay,

928
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:19,360
Speaker 1: they do have depth, but they don't have depth that

929
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 1: they want to use. Is the way that I put that.

930
00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:24,839
Speaker 1: Like I've said before, even with as low as I am,

931
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:27,960
Speaker 1: as on Bryce Elder, for example, Bryce Older would be

932
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:30,400
Speaker 1: in the rotation for a lot of teams. That I

933
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:31,759
Speaker 1: mean that didn't mean he'd be good for a lot

934
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:33,480
Speaker 1: of teams, but he'd be the he'd be the fifth

935
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:36,360
Speaker 1: starter on a lot of teams. They don't want to.

936
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:39,280
Speaker 1: They clearly don't want to pitch Pricelder, if that makes sense.

937
00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:41,840
Speaker 1: So you have that, you already have SMIs Shap rotation

938
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:44,960
Speaker 1: who we who we like, but is unproven at this level.

939
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:48,000
Speaker 1: I like Grandolmes, Grinholmes is fine, but like you know

940
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:51,120
Speaker 1: these those that's three names. You're gonna get Rider back

941
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:54,799
Speaker 1: at some point soon, hopefully very soon. He's gonna throw

942
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:57,600
Speaker 1: is it Friday? I believe in Gwinette, And if that

943
00:44:57,640 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 1: goes well, that's one step closer to him being bad.

944
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:02,759
Speaker 1: It would I feel a lot better. Scott. I don't

945
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:05,800
Speaker 1: know about you. If I looked up in ten days

946
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:09,480
Speaker 1: fifteen days and I saw s Strider on the probables list,

947
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:12,719
Speaker 1: I feel pretty good about that. But they need him.

948
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:15,240
Speaker 1: That's the thing. Like without Lopez, they already needed Strider

949
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:17,839
Speaker 1: back anyway, we all acknowledge that, but it becomes even

950
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:19,960
Speaker 1: more so if let's say we're not a missus three months.

951
00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:21,799
Speaker 1: I have no idea if that's a good timeline or not.

952
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:25,400
Speaker 1: I have no clue. They they will need in Capitol

953
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:26,560
Speaker 1: letters Strider.

954
00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 2: They just will.

955
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:28,719
Speaker 1: Yeah.

956
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:30,600
Speaker 3: I mean, if you want to put some pressure on

957
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:34,399
Speaker 3: a player on this roster, Spencer Strider, it just went

958
00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:36,400
Speaker 3: up exponentially, and you don't.

959
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:37,560
Speaker 1: Want to do that too. And it's like you want

960
00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 1: you want to take your time, like he's obviously he's

961
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:43,040
Speaker 1: signed long term. It's like he's he's just two elbow issues,

962
00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:45,360
Speaker 1: two elbow surgeries. Like you don't you don't want to

963
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:48,239
Speaker 1: rush Strider, and I hope they don't. So don't hear

964
00:45:48,239 --> 00:45:50,200
Speaker 1: what I'm not saying. I'm not saying you rush him back.

965
00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:53,360
Speaker 1: Then you want to be very very sure that he's ready,

966
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 1: very sure. But we have to hope he's really we

967
00:45:57,040 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 1: have to hope he's ready. It's like he's gonna have

968
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:01,399
Speaker 1: to be in because right now they have two guys

969
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:02,640
Speaker 1: we trust two.

970
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's funny.

971
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:06,320
Speaker 3: I mean we're trying to, I guess, maybe find a

972
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:10,280
Speaker 3: silver lining here or some reason to be positive after

973
00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:14,600
Speaker 3: this opening week from hell. But you get Chris Sale,

974
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 3: you get Spencer Schreider, and you get Spencer Schwellenbach. If

975
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:21,399
Speaker 3: those three and this is an if, but if those

976
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:24,239
Speaker 3: three are healthy and even close to the pitchers that

977
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:26,640
Speaker 3: we know they can be, this team is gonna have

978
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:29,200
Speaker 3: a lot of chances to win baseball games this summer.

979
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:33,719
Speaker 3: Then Grant Holmes is your fourth. I think Holmes will

980
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:38,640
Speaker 3: be okay. As we saw pitching at Yeah, at Dodger

981
00:46:38,719 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 3: Stadium is literally the toughest game you're gonna pitch all year.

982
00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:45,440
Speaker 3: I think Grant's gonna be okay. And then Smith Shavor's stuff.

983
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:46,280
Speaker 2: I mean, even.

984
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:50,440
Speaker 3: Nationally people were talking about AJ's debut against the Padres.

985
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:52,319
Speaker 2: Everyone was like, Holy.

986
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:58,480
Speaker 3: F this this split change up is unbelievable. But Kenny

987
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 3: throw strikes. I mean, if you can have the nastiest

988
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:02,839
Speaker 3: stuff in the world, but if you need eighty five

989
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:06,520
Speaker 3: pitchers to get through four innings, that's obviously not gonna work.

990
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:10,719
Speaker 3: But again, not to put everything on Spencer Strider, but

991
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:13,120
Speaker 3: it kind of feels like in some ways the season

992
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:16,720
Speaker 3: kind of hangs on Strider's elbow and that's a little scary,

993
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:18,440
Speaker 3: it is.

994
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:20,160
Speaker 1: And of course they need Ronan Counya back as well,

995
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:22,680
Speaker 1: which is a different podcast altogether, but that will be

996
00:47:22,719 --> 00:47:25,360
Speaker 1: helpful when he arrives, whenever he does, probably in the

997
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:28,720
Speaker 1: month of May at this point. Other quick news things

998
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:32,000
Speaker 1: they did dif byjes Chabas after he threw mop up

999
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:35,280
Speaker 1: duty on Monday. I think no one will be surprised

1000
00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 1: if Jesse is back at some point, but they did

1001
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:42,200
Speaker 1: kind of. I also they had to. They chose to

1002
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:44,120
Speaker 1: get a fresh arm in there, so they basically they

1003
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:46,239
Speaker 1: brought up Zach Thompson, who no one's ever heard of,

1004
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:49,880
Speaker 1: and I understand that thirty year old anonymous long reliever

1005
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:53,560
Speaker 1: just have an arm available. And they also later later

1006
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:56,280
Speaker 1: on in the week traded for someone named Michael Peterson,

1007
00:47:56,880 --> 00:48:00,799
Speaker 1: a right hander another or guy you know, thirty year old.

1008
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:03,040
Speaker 1: It was for cash, by the way, with the Angels,

1009
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:04,839
Speaker 1: because the brads won't we only have one phone number.

1010
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:06,560
Speaker 1: And then and alex On has one phone number. It's

1011
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:09,160
Speaker 1: actually just the Angels, Okay, Angels, who you got?

1012
00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:10,319
Speaker 2: Yeah?

1013
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 3: And then the other bit of news that went down

1014
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:17,799
Speaker 3: on Wednesday was Hector Narish, former first right handed arm

1015
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:19,320
Speaker 3: to come out of the bullpen this season.

1016
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:24,240
Speaker 1: Hector NAIs seventh inning, one run lead opening Day. Hector Narris,

1017
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:28,319
Speaker 1: Come on, snit, I defended you earlier. Come on here.

1018
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:30,719
Speaker 3: That one hurts because the Braves really let one get

1019
00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:34,320
Speaker 3: away on opening Day. But Hector Narris, who was defaed

1020
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:38,680
Speaker 3: on Monday morning, elected free agency tonight. Not a big surprise.

1021
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:41,640
Speaker 3: He's gonna try to catch on with the team and

1022
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:45,279
Speaker 3: I bet he will, honestly, I bet he'll sign somewhere. Yeah,

1023
00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:48,080
Speaker 3: he's he's a respected name. It's something as honest, it's

1024
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:49,480
Speaker 3: ending with the Braves. The Braves brought him in I

1025
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 3: think kind of sight unseen and gave him a shot

1026
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:55,400
Speaker 3: that he didn't really earn in spring, to be honest.

1027
00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:58,400
Speaker 3: So maybe it'll be probably a worst team than the

1028
00:48:58,400 --> 00:48:59,920
Speaker 3: Braves on paper that he signs with.

1029
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:01,360
Speaker 1: But we will see.

1030
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:02,960
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1031
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:04,640
Speaker 1: Other than that, like Sean Murphy had a good day

1032
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:06,799
Speaker 1: on Tuesday, and Guennette hit a home run on like the

1033
00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:09,320
Speaker 1: second pitchy Saul, which is nice to see. You know.

1034
00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 1: We'll leave it there for the news portion of the podcast.

1035
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:16,520
Speaker 1: It's late into the night. Last thing here, Scott because

1036
00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:19,400
Speaker 1: we probably want unless there's big news on Thursday, and

1037
00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:23,000
Speaker 1: I hope there is not, candidly for our sake, this

1038
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:25,759
Speaker 1: would be our last pot until the Braves play on

1039
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:29,440
Speaker 1: Friday at home. The home opener is Friday. Presume that

1040
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:30,840
Speaker 1: people will socow up to the stadium.

1041
00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:35,560
Speaker 3: Despite you might be able to get a cheaper ticket

1042
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:37,520
Speaker 3: for Friday's opener than you would have a couple of

1043
00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:38,040
Speaker 3: weeks ago.

1044
00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:40,239
Speaker 1: That could be true. I would, man, I would hope

1045
00:49:40,239 --> 00:49:42,120
Speaker 1: it's the home opener. I would hope it's rocking in

1046
00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:46,640
Speaker 1: there on Friday, but vibr lope so I get that.

1047
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:51,759
Speaker 1: But Hey, Spencer Schwellenbach on the Mounds on Friday, that's

1048
00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:55,840
Speaker 1: been announced by the Braves, Swell on Friday, Smiths Shauber

1049
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:59,400
Speaker 1: on Saturday, Grant Holmes on Sunday. Facing the Marlins. The

1050
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:02,400
Speaker 1: Marlins are fo and three. They've been frisky early on

1051
00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:05,080
Speaker 1: this year. They are not supposed to be very good.

1052
00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:08,400
Speaker 1: It's seven games. I'm not gonna decide they're good now

1053
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 1: because they're four and three, but they you know, we'll

1054
00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:13,760
Speaker 1: see And as I believe you said it on social media,

1055
00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:17,600
Speaker 1: are our pal Sean our co host, the Optimist of

1056
00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:20,120
Speaker 1: the bunch of the four of us laid it out.

1057
00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:22,400
Speaker 1: We're like, hey, if you start zing seven, if you

1058
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 1: come home and just beat the something out of the Marlins,

1059
00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:29,520
Speaker 1: you'll start feeling okay again. Probably you gotta do it though.

1060
00:50:29,560 --> 00:50:31,640
Speaker 1: You gotta win. You gotta win games. And I don't

1061
00:50:31,640 --> 00:50:33,319
Speaker 1: even want to say it out loud, Scott, but can

1062
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:37,480
Speaker 1: you imagine that it was on Friday to the Marlins.

1063
00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:41,279
Speaker 3: If the Braves lose the home opener on Friday with

1064
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:45,839
Speaker 3: Sly on the Mount, yeah help us all that might

1065
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:48,239
Speaker 3: be an eleven minute podcast and eight of it would

1066
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:48,840
Speaker 3: be ads.

1067
00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:52,440
Speaker 2: The Braves have to take advantage.

1068
00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:54,879
Speaker 3: And I know what we over the years, we've done

1069
00:50:54,920 --> 00:50:58,560
Speaker 3: our It's baseball. You can't project wins or expect wins.

1070
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:02,040
Speaker 3: But if the Braves can't, at the very least, when

1071
00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 3: two games against Miami, God help us all. I mean,

1072
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:08,000
Speaker 3: I think you're gonna Raves, you're flat against the Marlins,

1073
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:12,400
Speaker 3: It then might be time to be like, like, what's

1074
00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:12,960
Speaker 3: going on?

1075
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:14,080
Speaker 2: Is it?

1076
00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:17,560
Speaker 1: Look, we're not gonna do this on this show, which

1077
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:19,080
Speaker 1: much you want to, We're not gonna do this in

1078
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:22,640
Speaker 1: my opinion, but I I I'll just say this out loud.

1079
00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:26,080
Speaker 1: If the Braves lose the Marlin series, you are going

1080
00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:29,120
Speaker 1: to see people talking about Sneith's job, yes and not

1081
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:31,839
Speaker 1: and not in a just a fan crazy because look,

1082
00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:33,680
Speaker 1: every single day, I understand it to you two. Every

1083
00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:36,040
Speaker 1: single time I lose a game, I get fireshed at

1084
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:38,200
Speaker 1: my mentions. I'm not saying I'm not saying that. I'm

1085
00:51:38,239 --> 00:51:42,600
Speaker 1: saying a conversation, a real one about Sticker and I'm

1086
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:45,880
Speaker 1: not having it now, to be very clear, but if

1087
00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:49,080
Speaker 1: they're one in twelve or one in thirteen, it's going

1088
00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:51,719
Speaker 1: to start like it's that's gonna happen. It's gonna have

1089
00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:53,880
Speaker 1: to happen. I think Steven said this, or maybe it

1090
00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:55,279
Speaker 1: was you somebody did one of our one of our

1091
00:51:55,320 --> 00:51:58,399
Speaker 1: guys did mentioned last time the Braves had this kind

1092
00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:02,160
Speaker 1: of start, they fire Fredick Gonzalez a few weeks later. Now,

1093
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 1: Freddy Gonzalez is not Ryan Snicker. He's not a forty

1094
00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:09,839
Speaker 1: five fifty year organizational lifer with a world series ring.

1095
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:14,279
Speaker 1: It's different, to be very clear. But speaking of the point,

1096
00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:16,800
Speaker 1: I'm just envisioning what happens if they lose the Marlins series,

1097
00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:20,920
Speaker 1: and that is the the nuclear option would be we

1098
00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:22,920
Speaker 1: you know what you know what's that it's gonna We're

1099
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:26,240
Speaker 1: gonna have to pull the plug. And to be clear,

1100
00:52:26,239 --> 00:52:28,480
Speaker 1: I'm not that's not gonna happen. I don't think. I

1101
00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:31,480
Speaker 1: believe as of Thursday morning, right now, the Breds are

1102
00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:33,279
Speaker 1: gonna win the Marrown Series. The Breads are better than

1103
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:36,040
Speaker 1: the Marlins. This is where I, at the fifty two

1104
00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:38,560
Speaker 1: minute mark, pull out my I'm gonna use my head

1105
00:52:38,560 --> 00:52:41,160
Speaker 1: instead of my heart card and say I still think

1106
00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:43,719
Speaker 1: this is a good team. I might be wrong. I

1107
00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:46,279
Speaker 1: have less confidence than I had a week ago this

1108
00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:48,960
Speaker 1: is a good team, but I believe it's a good

1109
00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:53,600
Speaker 1: team still I do. And oh and seven is gonna

1110
00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:56,800
Speaker 1: challenge that assumption. I get it. But I also believe

1111
00:52:56,840 --> 00:52:58,919
Speaker 1: if you gave me true serum today, and I'm giving

1112
00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:00,560
Speaker 1: you to you right now on the podcast, I think

1113
00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:02,640
Speaker 1: the Brains are gonna still win a bunch of games

1114
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:07,799
Speaker 1: and be fine. But I say that till that'st part

1115
00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:09,399
Speaker 1: of the podcast because I don't want people to yell

1116
00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:10,600
Speaker 1: at me because I think I might be wrong. I

1117
00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:14,200
Speaker 1: might be wrong, but I still feel pretty okay, just

1118
00:53:14,280 --> 00:53:16,760
Speaker 1: less okay than I was with you.

1119
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:18,600
Speaker 3: You can tell yourself a story, and this is what

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00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:22,080
Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell myself so I can get some sleep tonight, Bradh.

1121
00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:26,200
Speaker 3: They could have and probably should have won Opening Day.

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00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:26,600
Speaker 1: Yep.

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00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:30,040
Speaker 3: They could have won Game two. They should have won

1124
00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:36,040
Speaker 3: Game three. Game four probably deserved to lose. They could

1125
00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:40,239
Speaker 3: have won Game five. They could have won Game six, and.

1126
00:53:40,200 --> 00:53:43,440
Speaker 1: They should have no game Game five they lost six

1127
00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:44,600
Speaker 1: to one. They probably can't take that.

1128
00:53:44,760 --> 00:53:45,680
Speaker 2: I'm mixing up my days.

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00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:48,440
Speaker 1: It's very late game Game four and five. So the

1130
00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:50,480
Speaker 1: last game of the the last game of the Potterey series,

1131
00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:51,759
Speaker 1: and the first game of the Daughter series. They got

1132
00:53:51,760 --> 00:53:53,560
Speaker 1: blown They they kind of got blown out. Those are

1133
00:53:53,560 --> 00:53:55,120
Speaker 1: the Those are the only two games that they were

1134
00:53:55,120 --> 00:53:56,280
Speaker 1: like decisively beat.

1135
00:53:56,160 --> 00:53:57,560
Speaker 2: Yes Sunday and Monday.

1136
00:53:57,640 --> 00:53:58,839
Speaker 1: So let menday.

1137
00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:00,919
Speaker 2: So they should.

1138
00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:03,719
Speaker 3: Have at least two wins. I'd probably argue three because

1139
00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:05,359
Speaker 3: of how Chris Sale pitched the other night.

1140
00:54:05,560 --> 00:54:06,759
Speaker 1: At least two, I would agree with you.

1141
00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:09,000
Speaker 3: And they could have won all but two of them.

1142
00:54:09,080 --> 00:54:12,879
Speaker 3: They if the ball bounced differently, they could be five

1143
00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:15,440
Speaker 3: and two or four and three. And this is not me, Copium,

1144
00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:16,879
Speaker 3: that's I'm not gonna do that.

1145
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:18,480
Speaker 1: We're doing this at the end of the podcast for

1146
00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:19,560
Speaker 1: a reason. This is not how we.

1147
00:54:19,520 --> 00:54:25,560
Speaker 3: Actually they think is maybe I'm delusional, but I think

1148
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:27,759
Speaker 3: what I'm trying to say is they could have a

1149
00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:30,879
Speaker 3: better record than oh and seven suggests, and as long

1150
00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:33,000
Speaker 3: as they take care of the Marlins and then the

1151
00:54:33,040 --> 00:54:35,759
Speaker 3: Phillies come to town, if they could win, say they win,

1152
00:54:36,160 --> 00:54:38,000
Speaker 3: I mean if they went five out of their next six,

1153
00:54:38,440 --> 00:54:40,680
Speaker 3: I think the vibe will be so so so much better.

1154
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:43,800
Speaker 3: Even even if they go two and one against Miami

1155
00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:46,560
Speaker 3: and two and one against Philadelphia, I think then they'd

1156
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:49,680
Speaker 3: be four and nine. I mean that's not good, but

1157
00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:51,760
Speaker 3: you're okay, there's there's four.

1158
00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:53,880
Speaker 1: And nine feels a lot different than O and seven, Scott,

1159
00:54:53,920 --> 00:54:56,240
Speaker 1: I can tell you that right now. Yeah, uh, even

1160
00:54:56,320 --> 00:54:58,400
Speaker 1: three and ten would feel better, would feel different than no.

1161
00:54:58,480 --> 00:55:00,680
Speaker 1: And seven, Which is funny because all it is three three,

1162
00:55:00,840 --> 00:55:02,160
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that you'd be good with that,

1163
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:05,479
Speaker 1: but that would feel better. It just would like even

1164
00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:07,920
Speaker 1: just getting a win. It's funny. It's so funny to

1165
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:12,960
Speaker 1: me late lately on the podcast, the difference in perception

1166
00:55:13,719 --> 00:55:17,120
Speaker 1: between winning even today. If they won today and they

1167
00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:21,719
Speaker 1: were one and six, no one would be happy, but

1168
00:55:21,840 --> 00:55:24,759
Speaker 1: everyone would feel better, Like buy a lot and it's

1169
00:55:24,800 --> 00:55:28,840
Speaker 1: one game. It's one baseball game on April second, So

1170
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:31,400
Speaker 1: like if they finally win a game on Friday and

1171
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:33,120
Speaker 1: maybe get two in a row, it's like, all right,

1172
00:55:33,719 --> 00:55:36,000
Speaker 1: people will be dancing in the streets just yet. But

1173
00:55:36,080 --> 00:55:37,880
Speaker 1: it's like, all right, this feels like a baseball team again.

1174
00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:39,520
Speaker 1: But if when you come out of the gate to

1175
00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:41,919
Speaker 1: bring things full circle on this podcast, and you don't

1176
00:55:41,960 --> 00:55:45,640
Speaker 1: see a win for a week, which means we haven't

1177
00:55:45,680 --> 00:55:51,040
Speaker 1: seen the Braves win a game since September, you know

1178
00:55:51,080 --> 00:55:52,400
Speaker 1: what I mean. And it's funny to say that, Like

1179
00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:56,040
Speaker 1: it's obviously it's for effect, but we have not watched

1180
00:55:56,040 --> 00:55:58,440
Speaker 1: the Braves win a game that mattered since September, yep.

1181
00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:03,160
Speaker 1: And you know that's how you get to hear.

1182
00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:05,920
Speaker 3: And the way last season went, I think makes it

1183
00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:07,080
Speaker 3: all the more frustrating.

1184
00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:09,960
Speaker 1: Of course it does. Like I'm not I'm not blind

1185
00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:11,640
Speaker 1: to that either. It's like that's the thing that was

1186
00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:13,920
Speaker 1: frustrated to me actually today, and I think again it's

1187
00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:15,719
Speaker 1: it's kind of the four U tab of it all

1188
00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:17,879
Speaker 1: people that don't follow our work, that don't know us,

1189
00:56:19,080 --> 00:56:21,960
Speaker 1: But like, well, you're being you're being silly, because like

1190
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:25,200
Speaker 1: this just discounts all us. Oh yeah, no, no one's

1191
00:56:25,239 --> 00:56:27,680
Speaker 1: discounting what happened last season. We talked about it endlessly

1192
00:56:27,719 --> 00:56:30,080
Speaker 1: about how frustrating it was. Yeah, like, no one had

1193
00:56:30,080 --> 00:56:32,440
Speaker 1: a lot of fun last season. It was it was

1194
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:35,000
Speaker 1: an accomplishment that they made the playoffs, given all things

1195
00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:36,600
Speaker 1: that went well, I'm sorry, all things like base of

1196
00:56:36,680 --> 00:56:38,080
Speaker 1: all things that did not go well, I should say,

1197
00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:40,680
Speaker 1: but that was not a fun season. They had to

1198
00:56:40,719 --> 00:56:42,839
Speaker 1: grind it out the entire year was they didn't hit

1199
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:45,400
Speaker 1: all year long. No one's ignoring that, But you're one

1200
00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:48,440
Speaker 1: hundred percent right, that does build on this if this

1201
00:56:48,560 --> 00:56:50,399
Speaker 1: was if last year was one hundred and four win

1202
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:54,400
Speaker 1: boppying season all year long, and yeah, they lost in

1203
00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:57,000
Speaker 1: the playoffs. I get that, but like it would feel

1204
00:56:57,040 --> 00:56:59,600
Speaker 1: better right now than it did coming off of last

1205
00:56:59,640 --> 00:57:02,120
Speaker 1: year when they didn't hit for four months and now

1206
00:57:02,120 --> 00:57:04,520
Speaker 1: they're not hitting it again. Like now, then you get

1207
00:57:04,560 --> 00:57:06,600
Speaker 1: into the here we go again situation, and that's what

1208
00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:09,279
Speaker 1: everybody and everybody said. It's like, oh my gosh, what

1209
00:57:09,360 --> 00:57:13,120
Speaker 1: if Riley is just not good anymore? What if you know,

1210
00:57:13,160 --> 00:57:14,560
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying down the list, like there

1211
00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:16,720
Speaker 1: I saw standing I mentioned I'm you might have too.

1212
00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:20,760
Speaker 1: People were like, literally, there are fans who believe that, like,

1213
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:24,880
Speaker 1: none of these guys are good anymore, And my brain says,

1214
00:57:24,920 --> 00:57:28,040
Speaker 1: that's insane, But I also kind of understand it to

1215
00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:29,880
Speaker 1: some degree because we watched them not be very good

1216
00:57:29,960 --> 00:57:33,560
Speaker 1: last year and now they're doing it again. So anyway, yeah, it's.

1217
00:57:33,400 --> 00:57:38,000
Speaker 3: Weird, just such a weird twenty twenty three. Basically across

1218
00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:42,000
Speaker 3: the board, career best years for the entire lineup twenty

1219
00:57:42,040 --> 00:57:45,360
Speaker 3: twenty four when they were healthy were either career worst

1220
00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:48,280
Speaker 3: years or the worst year they've had in quite some time,

1221
00:57:48,840 --> 00:57:52,720
Speaker 3: or hurt or Yeah, of course, but even when guys

1222
00:57:52,720 --> 00:57:54,960
Speaker 3: were healthy, Austin Riley was not having a great year

1223
00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:57,760
Speaker 3: before he went down for the season. Ozzie albeats in

1224
00:57:57,800 --> 00:58:00,280
Speaker 3: between his injuries, Michael Harris had a down year. Like

1225
00:58:00,960 --> 00:58:03,760
Speaker 3: that's building, it's like an avalanche. It's a snowball effect.

1226
00:58:03,800 --> 00:58:05,760
Speaker 3: And I don't know, I thought you made a point

1227
00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:09,120
Speaker 3: a moment ago. If the Braves can just win one

1228
00:58:09,200 --> 00:58:12,920
Speaker 3: game a game, and that's why tonight's loss was so

1229
00:58:13,640 --> 00:58:17,320
Speaker 3: unbelievably frustrating, because then you can tell yourself a story

1230
00:58:17,360 --> 00:58:20,440
Speaker 3: of Okay, hardest road trip out of the way they

1231
00:58:20,480 --> 00:58:22,760
Speaker 3: have a win, they have a happy flight home, they

1232
00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:25,160
Speaker 3: have a day off Thursday, and then they're home for

1233
00:58:25,320 --> 00:58:28,080
Speaker 3: eight days. I think it is you can tell yourself

1234
00:58:28,120 --> 00:58:31,320
Speaker 3: a story, and it's like a shooter in basketball. Sometimes

1235
00:58:31,360 --> 00:58:33,560
Speaker 3: you're having a bad shooting night, and then all you

1236
00:58:33,560 --> 00:58:35,920
Speaker 3: need to do is see one go in, get to

1237
00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:38,320
Speaker 3: the free throw line, see one ball go through the

1238
00:58:38,320 --> 00:58:40,320
Speaker 3: hoop one time, and then all of a sudden, you

1239
00:58:40,360 --> 00:58:43,600
Speaker 3: kind of have your mojo back. We really were hoping

1240
00:58:43,640 --> 00:58:45,240
Speaker 3: that was going to be tonight when they were up

1241
00:58:45,360 --> 00:58:47,880
Speaker 3: five nothing and have the Dodgers on the ropes, and

1242
00:58:47,960 --> 00:58:50,160
Speaker 3: of course they ended up losing in the most painful

1243
00:58:50,160 --> 00:58:53,000
Speaker 3: way imaginable. And I guess now we'll just kind of

1244
00:58:53,040 --> 00:58:55,400
Speaker 3: hope they take care of business against the Marlins, because

1245
00:58:55,720 --> 00:58:57,880
Speaker 3: I mean, God help us man. If we'll do a

1246
00:58:57,920 --> 00:59:00,560
Speaker 3: show on Sunday night, as we always do, if the

1247
00:59:00,600 --> 00:59:05,240
Speaker 3: Braids lose the series this weekend to the Marlins, it seriously,

1248
00:59:05,280 --> 00:59:07,480
Speaker 3: it might be twenty minutes of screaming and a couple

1249
00:59:07,560 --> 00:59:09,480
Speaker 3: of ad breaks and thank you all for listening and

1250
00:59:09,560 --> 00:59:10,120
Speaker 3: have a good night.

1251
00:59:10,200 --> 00:59:14,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've we cut it together mostly on this show.

1252
00:59:14,440 --> 00:59:17,000
Speaker 1: We did uh not on purpose. I was covering the

1253
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:20,280
Speaker 1: Atlanta Hawks at the same time tonight three everybody behind

1254
00:59:20,320 --> 00:59:22,000
Speaker 1: the curtains, so I had to give Scott like a

1255
00:59:22,040 --> 00:59:24,760
Speaker 1: ten minute break between the final out and the podcast,

1256
00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:27,320
Speaker 1: which I think was probably a good idea. Yes, it

1257
00:59:27,360 --> 00:59:29,880
Speaker 1: wasn't even on purpose. It was I could just I

1258
00:59:29,960 --> 00:59:31,800
Speaker 1: knew what Matt Scott was and I was like, Oh,

1259
00:59:31,800 --> 00:59:34,520
Speaker 1: I'm not sucked, because honestly, what happened was the game

1260
00:59:34,600 --> 00:59:37,400
Speaker 1: ended so quickly. I was not for whatever reason, I

1261
00:59:37,480 --> 00:59:39,520
Speaker 1: was not prepared for a walk off home run. Oh

1262
00:59:39,560 --> 00:59:40,920
Speaker 1: we have to start the podcast right now, and I

1263
00:59:40,920 --> 00:59:43,080
Speaker 1: wasn't ready. So uh, maybe that worked out well for

1264
00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:45,520
Speaker 1: a Scott any I agree with you one hundred percent, though,

1265
00:59:45,680 --> 00:59:47,640
Speaker 1: if it's if we're talking, if it's three or four

1266
00:59:47,680 --> 00:59:50,120
Speaker 1: days from now and we're doing the show Sunday and

1267
00:59:50,240 --> 00:59:52,000
Speaker 1: the Braves are one to nine to zero and ten,

1268
00:59:52,240 --> 00:59:54,520
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a difficult conversation.

1269
00:59:54,800 --> 00:59:55,080
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1270
00:59:55,560 --> 00:59:57,800
Speaker 1: Uh, not that I don't always enjoy talking to you,

1271
00:59:58,240 --> 00:59:59,280
Speaker 1: but that will be a tough one.

1272
00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:02,400
Speaker 3: Well, and you get the short end of the stick

1273
01:00:02,480 --> 01:00:04,520
Speaker 3: because my wife will only listen to so much of

1274
01:00:04,560 --> 01:00:07,560
Speaker 3: me ranting and waving about about the Braves and sports.

1275
01:00:07,600 --> 01:00:09,320
Speaker 2: So I'm like, Brad we got.

1276
01:00:09,200 --> 01:00:12,680
Speaker 1: To do this and podcast, Yeah, we have to, we

1277
01:00:12,720 --> 01:00:14,720
Speaker 1: have to do this now. I will, I will, I

1278
01:00:14,760 --> 01:00:18,600
Speaker 1: will share the I will not share the entire text

1279
01:00:18,600 --> 01:00:22,000
Speaker 1: we got from Stephen Steven's on vacation right now and

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Speaker 1: Steven text to us at the end of the game

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Speaker 1: and just he led with God bless like as basically

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Speaker 1: good luck to us, and then there were some other

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Speaker 1: words after that. We won't share it, but we got

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Speaker 1: through it, Scott. An hour later we talked about baseball.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully people have made it at the end, enjoy the podcast.

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Speaker 1: Please subscribe if you've not listened to the podcast or

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Speaker 1: subscribed before on YouTube, on audio platforms, Apple, Spotify, et cetera.

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Speaker 1: That definitely helps us quite a bit. And honestly, we

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Speaker 1: always thank you and we do mean it all the time.

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Speaker 1: But our our listenership has been growing, which we are

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Speaker 1: very thankful for. Hopefully stick around despite that's what's going

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Speaker 1: on in the field right now, and we definitely appreciate

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Speaker 1: all the support always, Scott. If there's anyone new who

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Speaker 1: has not found you yet, where can they find your

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Speaker 1: slow descent into mania on social media?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, if this was your first episode listening to the podcast, Oh, boy, welcome,

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Speaker 3: God bless you. We will do better podcasts, happier podcasts hopefully.

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Speaker 1: And shorter and shorter podcasts hopefully as well. We want

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Speaker 1: to talk about today.

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Speaker 3: A lot of stuff in our nightly therapy after watching

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Speaker 3: the Braves. Seemingly maybe we should do a podcast every night, Brad,

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Speaker 3: because then we can get it out of our systems.

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Speaker 3: I am at Scott Coleman fifty five on socials. I

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Speaker 3: will be there tweeting through it is probably the best

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Speaker 3: way to describe it. And we'll have another show, a

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Speaker 3: couple of shows, I think this weekend, and then, as always,

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Speaker 3: a big thank you to everybody who has been checking

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Speaker 3: out the show.

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Speaker 2: We really do appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, so yeah, one more time, subscribe, rate, review, follow

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Speaker 1: the show on social media and have your territory follow Scott,

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Speaker 1: follow me if you want to, and we will have

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Speaker 1: a show at the very latest Sunday, probably between now

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Speaker 1: and then. Well might do a one if they win.

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Speaker 1: We'll try to do a more positive episode at some

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Speaker 1: point perhaps, but the best way to find the show

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Speaker 1: always just subscribe, over delivered straight to you when you

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Speaker 1: do that. So I appreciate everybody being here. Enjoy the

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Speaker 1: rest of your I guess it's Thursday, and now Thursday

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Speaker 1: it's a Friday, and we'll see you all next time.