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Speaker 1: Helloever to welcome back to the Hambor Territory podcast. This

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Speaker 1: is episode one seven zero. I. Your host is Brad

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Speaker 1: Rowland and I'm joined by Scott Coleman. Scott, it is

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Speaker 1: opening day eve. First pitch is like just mere hours away.

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Speaker 2: How are you, Brad?

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Speaker 3: I am great. It's so good to have baseball back.

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Speaker 3: This was a long offseason and I think after last year,

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Speaker 3: with everything going wrong for the Braves and a very

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Speaker 3: who follows this team is very anxious and excited for

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Speaker 3: a new baseball season and let's hope a really special

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Speaker 3: year is on the horizon.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, and we have been busy on the show. We

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Speaker 1: already have given so you have already given our kind

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Speaker 1: of final predictions for the season that drop on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: We sch just say ust the top of the show,

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Speaker 1: though I'm sure we have someone new considering. Baseball is

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Speaker 1: now back in our lives permanently, and if you were

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Speaker 1: not with us all winter long, welcome back or welcome

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Speaker 1: for the first time. We are part of the Thol

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Speaker 1: Territory network of podcasts. We are Hammer Territory. It is myself,

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Speaker 1: it is Scott. It is Steven Tolbert, it is Sean Coleman,

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Speaker 1: the four of us our Hammer Territory, and we cover

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Speaker 1: the Braves all year round, So please go ahead subscribe

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Speaker 1: to the show. We'll be here for you after games

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Speaker 1: and in the middle of games and all kinds of things,

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Speaker 1: rumors and emergency podcasts and analysis. We do it all

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Speaker 1: on this show. And we have two episodes already this

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Speaker 1: week are Bold Predictions Scott and I on Sunday and

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Speaker 1: then Ian Anderson Trade Reaction a little bit of fun

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Speaker 1: if you want to use the word fun. Scott, you

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Speaker 1: and I got done recording a hour long podcast on

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Speaker 1: Sunday evening, Sunday afternoon, I suppose my time on the

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Speaker 1: Eastern time zone and midday for you, and within fifteen

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Speaker 1: minutes after it was posted, the Braves traded Anderson, which

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Speaker 1: is just part of the podcast game right, Yes, that's right.

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Speaker 3: The longtime listeners know this show has published before transactions

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Speaker 3: in the past. It is the way it goes sometimes.

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Speaker 3: But I thought Sean and Steven did a really nice

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Speaker 3: job talking about Ian Anderson and his legacy but also

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Speaker 3: the challenges that he's really had for I mean two

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Speaker 3: at the very top of the mountain for Braves and

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Speaker 3: Braves fans.

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Speaker 2: Five no hit innings in the World Series.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's what you do in your backyard as

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Speaker 2: And Ian will always have a place in our hearts.

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Speaker 3: It was on that cold, rainy night, you know. I

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Speaker 3: think the Braves won that game two nothing, three nothing.

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Speaker 3: It was just one of those amazing, unexpected moments of

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Speaker 3: the spring, Brad, the writing was on the wall. It

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Speaker 3: was basically impossible to keep Ian on this team, basically

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Speaker 3: just throwing him out to the Wolves. And I genuinely

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Speaker 3: hope he figures it out with the Angels. He's going

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Speaker 3: But I think it was pretty clear.

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Speaker 2: For the Braves there just was not a path forward.

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Speaker 1: I don't have too much more to add to that

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Speaker 1: of everyone is that Ian's going to be on this

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Speaker 1: the Braves, you know, saved some face by trading him

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Speaker 1: We have plenty to talk about on today's show, though,

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Speaker 1: you know, it is again opening day Eve it's ten pm.

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Speaker 1: going to be about Chris Sale and Chris Sale. If

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Speaker 1: you're a new listener, you probably know this already, but

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Speaker 1: if you're a cross you definitely do. Chris Sale was

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Speaker 1: the best picture in the world last year essentially, and

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Speaker 1: il Si Young winner, and he's of course the person

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Speaker 1: Diego four o'clock Eastern times, start opening day, no mystery whatsoever.

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Speaker 1: Occasionally there's a little bit of drama, like even last

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Speaker 1: it was gonna be Chris Sale. If you asked us

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Speaker 1: be Chrisale all the way. And uh, you want to

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Speaker 3: Just a magical season last year from Chris Sale. And

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Speaker 3: And of course now he was the no doubt choice

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Speaker 3: I thought the Braves handled him perfectly a year ago,

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Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, the Braves and

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Speaker 3: their ceiling is so much higher with Chris Saale healthy

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Speaker 1: Totally agree, and he was great against them last year.

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Speaker 1: And just to tell you how good Chris Sale is,

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Speaker 1: basically because yes, Brave's office is really good. But Chris

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Speaker 1: It doesn't mean they're gonna win, but they are favored

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Speaker 3: For Atlanta, Michael King was unhittable and we all know

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Speaker 3: a great matchup Sale against King. I was looking at

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Speaker 3: Every time King and Dylan C's and even Nick Paveta

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Speaker 1: All right, Scott, let us dig in a little bit

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Speaker 1: To ask you about Drake Baldwin because he's gonna probably

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Speaker 2: It's one game.

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Speaker 1: I'd encourage people not to freak out about it, but

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Speaker 3: He is going to run into some really good pitching

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Speaker 1: It, Okay, Scott After the opener, The series continues something

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Speaker 1: no matter what happens on Thursday. Hey, on the bright side,

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Speaker 1: let's just do this now. There's no off day after

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Speaker 1: the opener. I know you love that. That's one of

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Speaker 1: your favorite, maybe least favorite things about baseball. You remember

450
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Speaker 1: last year? I forgot this. Actually remember last year they

451
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Speaker 1: got rained out on the actual day, so they lost.

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Speaker 1: They lost the off day. I don't think they're getting

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Speaker 1: ridout in San Diego. That's playing San Diego in March.

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Speaker 1: No rain there generally.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess the trade off of having to go

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Speaker 2: out west to begin the season is no bad weather.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I'd be shocked. San Diego and then Los Angeles.

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Speaker 3: The Braves should be in really good shape. And we

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Speaker 3: said it on the podcast the other night. We'll say

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Speaker 3: it one more time really quick. The Braves have a

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Speaker 3: very very very difficult schedule to begin the season. They

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Speaker 3: do not have Spencer Strider. They do not have Ronald

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Speaker 3: Acunya Junior. They do not have Sean Murphy, they do

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Speaker 3: not have Craig kimberl. They don't even have alex Erdugo yet.

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Speaker 2: Craig Kimbrel on the list next to next.

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Speaker 4: To I love it.

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Speaker 2: That's fine. I'm in Let me say this.

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Speaker 3: They don't have their two other worldly talents to begin

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Speaker 3: the year, and they're playing two really good teams, and

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Speaker 3: then they come home, they'll beat up the Marlins, and

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Speaker 3: then they play the Phillies, who might have the best

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Speaker 3: pitching staff in baseball and are just as much of

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Speaker 3: a World Series.

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Speaker 2: Contender as anybody. So one more time, if the Braves

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Speaker 2: do not come out of the gate super well, please

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Speaker 2: do not panic. Tell yourself. They have probably the hardest

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Speaker 2: road trip any team will make all season long out

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Speaker 2: of the way, and I think then they're only down

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Speaker 2: to two West Coast trips the rest of the season,

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Speaker 2: and that's nice when you're all of seven days into

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Speaker 2: the year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't have to do this on the show,

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Speaker 1: but there was a actually on our YouTube comments. There

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Speaker 1: was like a back and forth happening, But like, what

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Speaker 1: would be a good record for the Braves when they

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Speaker 1: come back from the trip, and you know that's thieves

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Speaker 1: to rown on that. Obviously you want to go seven

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Speaker 1: and zero. That could happen. I have to guess probably not.

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Speaker 1: But for me, it's just a void disaster. Don't go

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Speaker 1: one and six, like, don't don't go in seven like

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Speaker 1: and everything else is fine. If they go too and five,

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Speaker 1: no one will be excited by that. No one will

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Speaker 1: be excited by that. But it's two and five against

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Speaker 1: the Potter is a Dodgers like I trust me, you

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Speaker 1: and I know what the reaction will be.

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Speaker 2: If they go to and five.

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Speaker 1: It will be pretty but I will not. I will

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Speaker 1: be the person as you. I'm sure it expect Scott

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Speaker 1: knowing me for a long time now, I will be

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Speaker 1: the person on that show after two that says, hey, everybody, relax.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, if the record was seven to zero,

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Speaker 1: I'll part do the same thing in the other direction

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Speaker 1: if like, hey, guys, the bids a probably gonna win

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Speaker 1: one twenty this year. So it's early, but I'm glad

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Speaker 1: you get the PSS so I didn't have to.

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Speaker 2: That was nice for you to jump in there.

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Speaker 3: I think the goal, I think you can say objectively,

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Speaker 3: the goal is to be four and three, come out

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Speaker 3: with a winning record, two very good teams. That would

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Speaker 3: be awesome, even three and four. We're not going to

511
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Speaker 3: do a podcast at the end of the Dodger series

512
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Speaker 3: banging our heads against the wall. If they finished the

513
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Speaker 3: road trip four or three and four, they opened up

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Speaker 3: against the Marlins and the Pirates. Obviously you're aiming a

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Speaker 3: little bit higher. But it is a marathon, not a sprint.

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Speaker 3: The Braves the last couple of years, really this whole

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Speaker 3: division run and playoff run, the Braves have not been

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Speaker 3: a team that starts off super duper well, although funny

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Speaker 3: enough last year they did and then they fell off

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Speaker 3: the cliff with the injuries. But I mean famously, you know,

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty one, they weren't about five hundred until July,

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Speaker 3: and even twenty twenty two, I think they were eighteen

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Speaker 3: and twenty two after forty games, which is a quarter

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Speaker 3: of a season. So baseball is a funny game. There's

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Speaker 3: probably nothing to garner from that other than just the randomness.

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Speaker 3: And some teams take longer and some teams don't. But

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Speaker 3: six months of baseball ahead and hopefully they get off

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Speaker 3: to a good enough start where the world is not

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Speaker 3: ending on Brave's Twitter and Braves Facebook, because that is

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Speaker 3: that's not a fun time.

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Speaker 2: No, it's gonna be a marathon.

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Speaker 1: And I think if you objectively said, okay, pick your

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Speaker 1: favorite simulation Van Grafts Pakoda, whichever one you like the best,

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Speaker 1: and say all right, what is the most likely outcome

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Speaker 1: of the Braves playing seven games on the road in

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Speaker 1: San Diego and Los Angeles. They're probably gonna say it's

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Speaker 1: ear three and four or four and three to your point, like,

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Speaker 1: obviously there are tail outcomes on the good side of

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Speaker 1: the bad side, but if you just simulated a million times,

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Speaker 1: it's probably like three and a half wins and you know,

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Speaker 1: we'll see what happens from there. After Thursday Friday, it's

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Speaker 1: the only Lake games. So if this is not applied

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Speaker 1: to Scott who lives in Arizona and is blessed with

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Speaker 1: that time zone on these West Coast trips, but it's

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Speaker 1: a nine to forty pm Eastern time game on Friday,

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Speaker 1: the only super late one, and it's a Friday night,

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Speaker 1: So stay up lay if you want to.

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Speaker 2: It is what it is.

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Speaker 1: Then they have back to back national TV games on

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Speaker 1: Saturday and Sunday, both in that seven o'clock window that

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Speaker 1: like primetime national window, Fox first ESPN. So it's a

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Speaker 1: pretty you know, high profile weekend series with the Braves.

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Speaker 1: Lopez and Ceas is a pretty good matchup in game two.

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Speaker 1: Lopez was awesome last year. Ceases, of course a borderline

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Speaker 1: Ace and then you get Schwelly in game three, and

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Speaker 1: how about this, Scott, Let's how about for a second,

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Speaker 1: they're going with a J. Smith Shaver in game four

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Speaker 1: of the of the series and then saving Grant Holmes

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Speaker 1: for Game one of the Dodgers series. I saw every

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Speaker 1: reaction possible to this, and I had some laughs about

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Speaker 1: it because it was like, wait, we I thought Holmes

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Speaker 1: was the fourth starter and since Shav was a fifth star,

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Speaker 1: this does not mean that that's not true at all,

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Speaker 1: Like I think the order of who starts is not

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Speaker 1: that big of a deal, to be honest with you.

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Speaker 1: In fact, this is just me talking now, I want

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Speaker 1: to speak for you. I think if I had to

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Speaker 1: pick a guy to be the second best available starter,

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Speaker 1: it would be Schwellen Mack and not Lopez as well,

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Speaker 1: just saying that out loud. So it's not about the order.

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Speaker 1: But I found it interesting at least that they're doing

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Speaker 1: that with SMAs Schaver, And my initial reaction cannidly was like,

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Speaker 1: do they want the kid to go have to throw

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles? I guess the best team in the

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Speaker 1: world and maybe not. Also there's the gret Hoolmes daughter's

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Speaker 1: angle too. What'd you make of that decision? While we're here.

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Speaker 2: I like the decision.

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Speaker 3: You know, Smith Shaver, he's a competitor by all accounts,

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Speaker 3: he has a lot of makeup.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he's a bulldog. He's ready to go out

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Speaker 2: there and fire.

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Speaker 3: However, I don't necessarily want to have to send him

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Speaker 3: out and give up, you know, get beat up by

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Speaker 3: the top of the Dodgers lineup, which is very good

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Speaker 3: and a tough ballpark to pitch in. Not that San

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Speaker 3: Diego woire pushovers by any means, but I like it,

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Speaker 3: and it'll be an opportunity on Sunday Night baseball a

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Speaker 3: j Smithshov against Nick Pavetta. That's probably a fifty to

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Speaker 3: fifty toss up in the eyes of Las Vegas, and

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Speaker 3: the Braves absolutely have a chance that night. So I

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Speaker 3: like the move to send him out to San Diego,

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Speaker 3: let him settle in. It also probably means that smith

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Speaker 3: Schov will make his second start of the year for

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Speaker 3: sure against the Miami Marlins, which isn't a bad scenario

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Speaker 3: by any means. So maybe if it doesn't go super well,

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Speaker 3: then he can get his confidence back. And I mean,

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Speaker 3: dear God, little sidebar, if you want to look at

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Speaker 3: a roster, dude.

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Speaker 2: The Marlins are like impossibly bad that that I don't

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Speaker 2: know anyone on their team. We shouldn't.

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Speaker 1: We shouldn't do this, Scott, because you know what's gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna lose Game one. They're gonna lose Game one

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Speaker 1: of the Marlins on on the home opener, and it's gonna.

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Speaker 2: Be the end of the world.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, the Marlins are very bad.

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Speaker 3: But but no, I know, sidebar, I gotta focus. It's

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Speaker 3: fine regular season this year, are gonna lock in. It's

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Speaker 3: not middle of January anymore. Where It's like, dear God,

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Speaker 3: what are we gonna tell talk about tonight? Yes, love it,

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Speaker 3: I'm all for it. And then hopefully Grant Holmes, who

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Speaker 3: spent many years developing in the Dodger system and was

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Speaker 3: never able to get a chance, we'll go out there

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Speaker 3: and spend five or six really good innings.

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Speaker 1: And the Dodters have already named Tyler Glass now as

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Speaker 1: their guy in that outing. You know, that's a few

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Speaker 1: days away now, but yes, we'll talk about that later on.

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Speaker 1: But that's that's the next one on the agenda. And also,

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Speaker 1: just one more note, I want to mention that you

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Speaker 1: We think it's going to be Kyle Harder, Randy Vascus.

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Speaker 2: Is that what he said? That's the case.

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Speaker 1: One of their depth arms will go in that game

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Speaker 1: on the Padre series. Let's just wrap this up with

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a look at the roster we

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Speaker 1: don't know still again one more time, not official, not official,

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Speaker 1: the brand's not aust anything, as they won't until Thursday morning.

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Speaker 1: We couldn't wait that long to record the podcast. So

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Speaker 1: here we are. But every single I checked them all

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Speaker 1: to this, Scott don't know about you checked them all,

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Speaker 1: So here it is. We all know the big the

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Speaker 1: big guns. Would have to name them all as far

649
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:58,160
Speaker 1: as the bullpen is concerned, the Big four, Suarez, the

650
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 1: newly arriving picture from the Angels as the longman Ners,

651
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 1: Delo Santos and dasbel Hernandez as the five through eight.

652
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 1: What do you think of that? And the Braves also

653
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 1: do have Kimberl as you mentioned earlier waiting in the wings,

654
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:17,120
Speaker 1: plus some depth guys Jesse Chavez, Block, Farmer, Anguinette, et cetera.

655
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 1: But uh, any surprise you're expecting or is that going

656
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 1: to be the group that we think it's going to be.

657
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:24,240
Speaker 3: I really hope at least two of these guys can

658
00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 3: step up it would go a long way if Dazel

659
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 3: Hernandez can harness his command and get a ton of

660
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:34,720
Speaker 3: strikeouts and really establish himself as the number three ridy

661
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:35,720
Speaker 3: in the bullpen.

662
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 2: I don't. I'm not super confident in Hector Naris at

663
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 2: this point in his career. Why not, but he is

664
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 2: a year removed.

665
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:47,400
Speaker 3: From being quite good with the Astros, and maybe the

666
00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:49,440
Speaker 3: Braves feel like they can get something out of him.

667
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:51,960
Speaker 3: I think the splitter is still really good for Narus.

668
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 3: I'm just not sure if the other stuff is going

669
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 3: to be good enough. Then Aniel delos Santos funny enough.

670
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 3: Do you know what Aniel delo Santo his nickname was

671
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 3: with the San Diego Padres last.

672
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 1: Year, Brad, I do not. Actually, you're gonna be about

673
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:06,120
Speaker 1: to tell me on the air.

674
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:06,560
Speaker 2: Here we go.

675
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 3: It was an yelle de los meatballs because he kept caiming,

676
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:16,360
Speaker 3: oh good, so many he gave up so many homers

677
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 3: last year that he was an yells.

678
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:22,240
Speaker 1: It's it's funny because I mean, we have the same

679
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:24,960
Speaker 1: reaction and people pros on the show. I'm sure a

680
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,440
Speaker 1: few weeks ago now, but it was like almost out

681
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:31,600
Speaker 1: of nowhere, he was not being discussed at all, and

682
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,440
Speaker 1: then it was suddenly he's an everyone's projection, Like there

683
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:36,479
Speaker 1: was an announcement in a in a group chat from

684
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 1: the braves to the beat guys and say, hey, by

685
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:40,120
Speaker 1: the way, this guy's gonna be in the bullpen. I

686
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 1: want to watch him. He had a good spring, to

687
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 1: be fair, but like he was not on our radar.

688
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:46,400
Speaker 1: We did not mention his name for a long time

689
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 1: in this process, and then suddenly he went from that

690
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:51,840
Speaker 1: to project it in and by all accounts he's gonna

691
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:54,760
Speaker 1: be there on Thursday. So hopefully the meat balls will

692
00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 1: be put away for the season.

693
00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 2: That's great. Hopefully it's like a Delo's strikeouts or something

694
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 2: fun and not. That was wow, Wow, that was well done.

695
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:07,800
Speaker 2: I enjoyed that, profession. I did.

696
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 1: I did thoroughly enjoy that. I will do my regular

697
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 1: PSA for I don't understand why Buck Farmer's not in

698
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 1: this bullpen, but hey, that's just one man's opinion.

699
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 3: Uh.

700
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 1: And by the way, it was covered well by our

701
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:25,479
Speaker 1: colleagues Stephen Sewn on the show Monday night. Suarez has

702
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 1: not been good uh at all. I think that they

703
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 1: he might be a prime DFA candidate in the event

704
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 1: that Chavez or Kimberrel is ready anytime soon. But for now,

705
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 1: he might just be there on Thursday, and he's the

706
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 1: long man, and they might they may not need him.

707
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 1: I mean, the good thing about about having a long

708
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 1: man is that you may not need him. Like if

709
00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 1: you're sorry to doing what they're supposed to do, he

710
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 1: won't pitch. But that's not a given, so we'll see

711
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:56,120
Speaker 1: beyond that. I mean, the ratition is what it is.

712
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 1: It's it's set. They're not carrying a sixth starter. Who

713
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 1: thought they might do post Ian They're not doing that,

714
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 1: you know they do. They still have Bryce Elder, they

715
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 1: have Herston Waldrip, those kind of the death guys.

716
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 2: We'll see.

717
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 1: The bench is supposed to be by all accounts. Nick Allen,

718
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 1: Eli White, Brian Dela Cruz, and Chadwick Trump same question here.

719
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 1: Any surprises you expect or is that going to be

720
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 1: the group? And what do you make of the bench

721
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 1: as it is projected to be.

722
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 3: I think the bench is actually in pretty decent shape.

723
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 3: Eli White had a really nice spring. He was actually

724
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 3: on the broadcast couple of days ago and talked about

725
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 3: just his versatility and the importance that the Braves felt

726
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:39,960
Speaker 3: that Eli needed to be able to go all over

727
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,320
Speaker 3: the field, and seems like he's going to be able

728
00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:43,680
Speaker 3: to do that infield.

729
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 2: Outfield, he will stop. Yeah, yeah, he played some shortstop.

730
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 3: I think Eli said that he actually grew up playing

731
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 3: shortstop up until he was a professional.

732
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 2: And of course the speed. I mean.

733
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 3: He will be the automatic pinch runner for Marcelo Zuna,

734
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 3: Maddals and the.

735
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 1: Catchers, especially Marcello's soon. That's probably the number one guy

736
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 1: on the list that he will run for.

737
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 2: The most this year.

738
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 3: If I had to guess, thy game ninth inning, marcell

739
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:12,479
Speaker 3: leads off of the walk, Eli White and Marcelo's inna

740
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 3: out and let's hope that the Braves score because then

741
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 3: you don't have to watch.

742
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 2: Eli White hit necessarily. But Brian da la Cruz had

743
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:21,400
Speaker 2: a great spring.

744
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:24,200
Speaker 3: He had a massive home run a couple days ago

745
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 3: out in Arizona against the Cubs and Chadwick Trump. He's

746
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 3: totally fine as a third catcher type in the organization.

747
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:34,760
Speaker 3: Maybe he is going to be the backup whenever Baldwin

748
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 3: comes back again or whenever.

749
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 2: Sean Murphy comes back.

750
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 3: We'll see, But yeah, I think the bench is in

751
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 3: pretty good shape. And then Nick Allen is a really

752
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 3: good defensive shortstop, and if he hits a little bit,

753
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 3: I don't know, maybe if Orlando is struggling, maybe there's

754
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:50,960
Speaker 3: a little bit of a shortstop rotation sometime this summer.

755
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, and of course we should name Alex Verdugo, who

756
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 1: they Braves just signed recently, who was a major league

757
00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:59,560
Speaker 1: quality outfielder. He didn't really have a spring training, which

758
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:01,200
Speaker 1: is why he's not in the mix here. But I

759
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 1: think that we all kind of assume he'll be on

760
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 1: the team at some point because they gave him some money.

761
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:06,960
Speaker 1: He's a bigger name. I think he's better than Brian

762
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,600
Speaker 1: Day La Cruz for instance, But what we don't know,

763
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 1: that's just it's just it's depth.

764
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:12,400
Speaker 2: I we don't know.

765
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 1: He's a bigger name than he probably is a production

766
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 1: of player, but they did sign him, And I mean,

767
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:21,440
Speaker 1: I've read some stuff about this week, like it could

768
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 1: be overblown, but people were kind of surprised at the

769
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: Braves signed them because the Braves are very very big

770
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:28,840
Speaker 1: on clubhouse stuff, and there's like some rumblings on for Nego.

771
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 1: I don't know anything bad personally, like it's a it's

772
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 1: all kind of like nebulous clubhouse issues that I don't

773
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:36,440
Speaker 1: I'm doing giant quotes if you're not watching YouTube, I

774
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:38,279
Speaker 1: don't know about that. But if the Braves are signing you,

775
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:40,239
Speaker 1: I tend to think that they've done their job. The

776
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:43,279
Speaker 1: Braves are pretty buttoned up on culture stuff with like

777
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 1: clubhouse issues, So you know, I don't know, we'll see

778
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:47,239
Speaker 1: he's there red.

779
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:49,719
Speaker 3: People see a player wearing a chain and they think

780
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 3: he's a terrible clubhouse camp.

781
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:54,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's sad, it is, I agree, I

782
00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 2: don't know.

783
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 3: I'm glad you mentioned that, though, because they did see

784
00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 3: people ask about that on Twitter, and there was a

785
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 3: Yankee player I forget who, but a Yankees player was

786
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 3: quoted saying that he loved Verdugo like he was a brother.

787
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:06,440
Speaker 2: He would do anything for him.

788
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 3: In Charman, you get twenty six professional athletes in a room,

789
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:12,319
Speaker 3: you're not going to be best friends with all of them.

790
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:15,360
Speaker 3: But I'm glad you said that Nthopolis obviously did his

791
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:18,920
Speaker 3: homework and if they signed Verdugo or well, they obviously

792
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 3: they signed Verdugo, but I'm sure they would not have

793
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 3: done it if they were really concerned about the character stuff.

794
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was like a nesson report up in Boston

795
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 1: or something this week, like it was nebulous.

796
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:31,680
Speaker 2: It was like him being late two years ago or so.

797
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 2: I don't know.

798
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 1: It was nothing big enough for me to worry, especially

799
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 1: again if the Braves sign off, I'm not particularly working again,

800
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:39,879
Speaker 1: low investment. If it doesn't work out, you cut the cord,

801
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 1: say thing with like James McCann, they signed for a

802
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:45,359
Speaker 1: bag of balls. He's around veteran catcher. If they want

803
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:47,279
Speaker 1: to go that route instead of chat with trumpets, some

804
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:49,479
Speaker 1: point they can you know they have death.

805
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:50,319
Speaker 2: The Braves did.

806
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:53,440
Speaker 1: They did a lot of things this winter, only one

807
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 1: of which were at was actually a big investment, which

808
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:59,279
Speaker 1: was profar. Every other thing was a minor. Even Craig

809
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 1: Caperl was a giant name. The investment is tiny and

810
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 1: Rgula like, if he's bad, they'll just cut They'll just

811
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:06,680
Speaker 1: cut it. They'll they can cut anybody else they want to.

812
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:08,839
Speaker 1: So that's the state of the roster at this point

813
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 1: in time. Again, knowing the Braves, they'll pull a fast

814
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:12,759
Speaker 1: one on us and they'll change something on Thursday morning

815
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 1: and just psych out every single beat guy. If that happens,

816
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 1: you will know. Once again, this was recorded on Wednesday

817
00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 1: night that ten thirty time, that's all I got.

818
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:22,879
Speaker 2: Feels pretty set.

819
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 3: The Braves basically carried their regular roster to out to

820
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 3: Arizona for the two spring training games against the Cubs.

821
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 3: And it's a good roster and it's going even even

822
00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:35,359
Speaker 3: if Spencer Strider and Ronald d'acunya Junior don't play a

823
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 3: single baseball game this year, and they're going to. But

824
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 3: even if those two did not play, this is still

825
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:44,919
Speaker 3: a really good team. And then you think, man, if

826
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:49,080
Speaker 3: the Braves get prime Ronald d'acunya Junior or prime Spencer

827
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:51,719
Speaker 3: Streider or even close to what those guys can do

828
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 3: when they are right, it should be a really fun summer.

829
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 3: And I mean, I'm looking forward to this Braves team

830
00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 3: just just kick an ass like we knew they did

831
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:01,759
Speaker 3: from you know, for years. I think last year is

832
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:03,879
Speaker 3: so sour in our minds, where we were just kind

833
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:06,760
Speaker 3: of like white knuckling every game. I want the Braves

834
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:09,279
Speaker 3: to go back out to being the dominant We're gonna

835
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 3: beat you plus one hundred and whatever run differential at

836
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:14,400
Speaker 3: the end of the season, just truly be one of

837
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 3: the game's elite teams.

838
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:18,719
Speaker 1: And I think we believe that they're going to do that.

839
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:21,760
Speaker 1: I mean, we projected both of us earlier this week

840
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:25,840
Speaker 1: high nineties win totals. We are feeling good. Division winner.

841
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:28,759
Speaker 1: Hopefully nothing's assured, but that's we feel good. I don't

842
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:31,840
Speaker 1: want speak for anybody else, but we're encouraged by the Braves.

843
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 1: Procedural stuff happened this week. You know, they had to

844
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:37,640
Speaker 1: place Ronnie and Murphy and Strider on the aisle. Nothing

845
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 1: was weird about that. It's just what had to happen.

846
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 1: They'll all be running. It'll be back at some point.

847
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:44,520
Speaker 1: Maybe it's May first, maybe it's whatever. I'm not worried

848
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:46,319
Speaker 1: until I hear something to worry about. I am not

849
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 1: worried at all. Strider, I'm excited about. We've already seen

850
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:53,239
Speaker 1: him play baseball in public and he looked great. So yeah,

851
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 1: very very excited about baseball. And we will have you

852
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 1: covered all year long and have a territory Scott, anything

853
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 1: else you want to before we sign off in this

854
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:03,479
Speaker 1: final pre opening day edition.

855
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:07,399
Speaker 2: Thank goodness for baseball. It's going to be so good.

856
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm so excited for first pitch on Thursday,

857
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:13,839
Speaker 3: and then the marathon begins. And we're gonna find out.

858
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:16,000
Speaker 3: I think a lot about this Braves team right out

859
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:18,319
Speaker 3: of the gate. They have a really tough schedule the

860
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:21,319
Speaker 3: month of April, but sometimes that's good thing, right, You

861
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:22,359
Speaker 3: get the juices.

862
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:23,920
Speaker 2: Flowing, the players are fresh.

863
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:28,040
Speaker 3: I don't necessarily love a just ridiculous August and September schedule,

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Speaker 3: all things equal, I'd rather have a lot more of

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Speaker 2: So get some of these really tough series out of

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Speaker 3: Hopefully the Braves come out and God willing, they are

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Speaker 3: healthier than they were.

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Speaker 2: A year ago. But I'm excited, Brad.

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Speaker 3: I think you are too, and let's hope for a

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Speaker 3: special season on the horizon.

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Speaker 2: We are definitely excited about baseball.

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Speaker 1: We'll be here covering it all year long, including after

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Speaker 1: the game on Thursday. I'm not sure what combination of

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Speaker 1: a show Thursday night. Stay tuned for that, and please

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Speaker 2: And one more, Brad, I got to get this one

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Speaker 2: last thing in. Get it in. Go Cats Arizona Thursday night. Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 2: yeah yeah, Air down Arizona, and I hope Michigan wins too.

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Speaker 2: How about that?

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say, all all four of our teams,

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Speaker 1: they're all there. No great, They're all pretty good seeds,

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Speaker 1: so they were somewhat supposed to be there. But all

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Speaker 1: very interesting situation that we'll stop talking about now. But

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Speaker 1: I was already going to be covering the South Regional

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Speaker 1: So I was already to cover the regional and my

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Speaker 3: Take that credential off your neck, throw it away, find

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Speaker 1: Just start breaking out, like like the stone Cold Steve Austin,

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Speaker 1: I also don't which picks up on here, but hey, anyway,

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