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Speaker 1: Welcome one and all to the Hammer Territory podcast. My

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Speaker 1: name is Sean Coleman. It is a pleasure to be

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Speaker 1: with you once again, and as always, I am joined

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Speaker 1: of our podcast partner, Steven Tolbert. Steven, how are you

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Speaker 1: this afternoon, sir?

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Speaker 2: What's up, Sean? Yeah, it's good to be with you, buddy. Man.

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Speaker 2: We had a scare today. Yeah, we're gonna talk about it. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: probably tell by the title of the episode what this

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Speaker 2: show is mainly gonna be about, because we had a

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Speaker 2: big scare in spring training today. The game was on

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Speaker 2: MLB dot TV. I was watching it and my heart dropped.

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Speaker 2: So we'll get into a second. And then we got

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Speaker 2: a couple of news and notes things. But yeah, always

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Speaker 2: going to do these with you, man.

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Speaker 1: Yep, yep, same here and and and I'd say that

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Speaker 1: it's good to do these with you as always, But

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Speaker 1: definitely don't want the content to be focused on injuries,

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Speaker 1: and it seems like that that's been kind of the

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Speaker 1: theme over the past ten days, you know, last week

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Speaker 1: injury news and then of course the event that we're

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Speaker 1: talking about was, you know, as Brave's country knows today

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Speaker 1: Jerks and Profar dived after a ball in the outfield

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Speaker 1: and he hurt his wrist. He jammed his wrist on

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Speaker 1: the dive. Steven, I'm gonna let you go through the updates.

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Speaker 1: The initial reaction to those who were who witness it

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Speaker 1: It seems like that right now. There are positively some

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Speaker 1: positive vibes, but we're not out of the woods yet basically,

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Speaker 1: So Stephen, if you will with the updates, just hoping

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Speaker 1: you know that definitely this is not going to be

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Speaker 1: and obviously what we saw last year.

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Speaker 2: For Yeah, So the Braves tweeted out like ten minutes

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Speaker 2: after the injury is a very quick thing, but they

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Speaker 2: tweeted out that Profar was removed from today's game with

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Speaker 2: a jammed left wrist. Initial X rays were negative and

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Speaker 2: I saw a lot of people celebrating. That is not

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Speaker 2: MRI later, you know, additional imaging shows a hairline fracture

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Speaker 2: the first update we got, and then Bowmanmarbowman MLB dot

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Speaker 2: ahead of ourselves. And then Bowman's last update was and

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Speaker 2: we're recording this, snicker said that trainer Greg Polis was

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Speaker 2: encouraged by the early test on on profged wrist. The

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Speaker 2: Braves hope they dodged a bullet, but it all comes

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Speaker 2: down to what the MRI says. So you know, that's

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Speaker 2: And just there's no point I really thought at the

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Speaker 1: The other thing is is you know, with a risk

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Speaker 1: What comes from this? Well, of course, there's a good

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Speaker 2: And it's like, Bro, you had like a forty WRC

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Speaker 2: don't there's no other guy on the team that is

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