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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome to episode forty five of the

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Speaker 1: Hemmer Territory Podcast. I am your host, Sprad Roland, coming

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Speaker 1: to you deep into the night here on a Sunday

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Speaker 1: evening into Monday in the middle of July, and it

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Speaker 1: is officially the All Star break in Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 1: We are part of the Foul Territory podcast network. In

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Speaker 1: this space we cover the Atlanta Braves. If you are

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Speaker 1: a new listener, welcome board to the podcast. Usually this

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Speaker 1: is not a solo endeavor, but for some context, I

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Speaker 1: will be solo on today's podcast. It was not planned

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Speaker 1: to be that way. In fact, it's like one thirty

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Speaker 1: am Eastern time right now. The plan was for myself

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Speaker 1: and Scott Coleman, my usual co host, to be recording

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Speaker 1: in this hour. Part of that was my fault. I

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Speaker 1: am in Las Vegas covering the Atlanta Hawks at NBA

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Speaker 1: Summer League, so there was going to be a scheduled

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Speaker 1: late recording. But then Scott, who lives in Arizona, was

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Speaker 1: hit with a very very large weather storm basically, and

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Speaker 1: that led to power outages and all kinds of challenges.

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Speaker 1: We've been texting back and forth, and ultimately the choice

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Speaker 1: was basically having to be made that it was going

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Speaker 1: to be solo podcast or no podcast tonight, and be

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Speaker 1: given that this is our usual recording slot. It's Monday

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Speaker 1: morning tomorrow, et cetera. I'm going solo and we'll have

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Speaker 1: much much more content coming up later this week, some

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Speaker 1: trade line stuff for sure, some previewing of the second

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Speaker 1: solo podcast on this Sunday evening. So basically it's already

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Speaker 1: been a very busy week on this podcast network. I

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Speaker 1: definitely encourage you to subscribe to this podcast on Apple

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Speaker 1: or Spotify, overcast, et cetera. And check out all a

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Speaker 1: Foul Territory. I know we've been talking about that quite

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Speaker 1: a bit recently, but they went live during the MB

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Speaker 1: Draft on this Sunday evening. There's a lot going on there,

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Speaker 1: so check us out, subscribe and tell your friends. Overall,

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Speaker 1: it was a quality weekend for the Land of Braves. Essentially,

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Speaker 1: the big headliner at the major league level was two

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Speaker 1: including a very nice win on Sunday afternoons Slash evening

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Speaker 1: to enter the break with good vibes. Basically, the Braves

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Speaker 1: and they're now six and three in the last nine

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Speaker 1: games as the first half quote unquote comes to an end.

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Speaker 1: We always joke about this, but the first half is

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Speaker 1: not actually the first half. The Braves have already played

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Speaker 1: ninety five games so far in a one to sixty

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Speaker 1: But first half second half is kind of the traditional

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Speaker 1: and at the top here we'll just say this. The

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Speaker 1: Braves are fifty three and forty two, which is obviously

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Speaker 1: pretty good. It's like a ninety ninety one win pace.

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Speaker 1: Many many teams would be thrilled with that kind of pace. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: the Brands are not one of them, and they have

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Speaker 1: been underachieving to this point. The way that I haven't

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Speaker 1: But unfortunately for Atlanta, Philadelphia has been fantastic this season.

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Speaker 1: Is july, thirtieth so As i'm recording this podcast fifteen

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