Speaker 1: Hello everyone, Welcome back to the Hammer Territory podcast. This
Speaker 1: is episode four to eight and it is Brad Rowland
Speaker 1: and I'm showing I Thursday evening, late into the night
Speaker 1: after a rain delay. We'll be good, friend, Scott Coleman, Scott,
Speaker 1: the Brave's never losing anymore, how are you?
Speaker 2: Hello, Brad? There's the kiss of death, So the next loss,
Speaker 2: everybody can tweet at bt Roland and say thanks a lot,
Speaker 2: you big jerk. You just curse the Braves. But in
Speaker 2: all seriousness, eight wins in a row for the Braves.
Speaker 2: They are now the second fastest team in the Majors
Speaker 2: to reach seventy wins this year, trailing only the Brewers.
Speaker 2: The Braves have actually surpassed the Dodgers in the National
Speaker 2: League standings, which is really impressive. Second sweep in a
Speaker 2: row for the Braves. They had a perfect seven and
Speaker 2: no homestand and I mean, man, they just buried the
Speaker 2: Marlins and the Nationals this week. Both teams are kind
Speaker 2: of hanging around in the wild card picture, and I
Speaker 2: mean both teams are basically dead now. So credit to
Speaker 2: the Braves taking advantage against two divisional foes and really
Speaker 2: just keep on rolling. And hopefully they can keep this
Speaker 2: all the way going through the second half.
Speaker 1: Yeah, obviously the way you want to be playing, and
Speaker 1: it became it helps. Look, we last time you and
Speaker 1: I talked, we talked a lot about the trended line
Speaker 1: and what didn't happen and that stuff. I know, I know,
Speaker 1: I met what I said, I know you what you said,
Speaker 1: and it still is out there. But it really helps
Speaker 1: to win a bunch of games both before and after
Speaker 1: it to you know, maybe cause some interesting conversations to happen,
Speaker 1: but also just winning games is what we wanted the
Speaker 1: whole time, Like it's what you want.
Speaker 2: So well, look that we will not talk anymore about
Speaker 2: the deadline. We did a show I thought Steven and
Speaker 2: Sean had some really good insights as well on the
Speaker 2: previous show on the feet if folks missed it, But
Speaker 2: you know, our frustrations with the deadline are about October.
Speaker 2: I am highly confident based on one hundred and twenty
Speaker 2: some odd games of sample, this is a very good
Speaker 2: regular season team. They're eight and a half nine games
Speaker 2: up in the division. This is a really well the
Speaker 2: team built really well for one hundred and sixty two.
Speaker 2: Our concerns are in October, and we will cross that
Speaker 2: bridge whenever we get there in October. Hopefully we look
Speaker 2: back on it and laugh and go, yeah, they were
Speaker 2: just fine. They won the World Series, and we can
Speaker 2: look back and say, Wow, what a funny episode that
Speaker 2: ended up being. But until October we will reserve judgment
Speaker 2: on whether or not the deadline was a good decision
Speaker 2: from Alex and Thopoulos.
Speaker 1: That's right, hey, just keep winning every night and everyone
Speaker 1: will be in a good mood every time we do
Speaker 1: a podcast from now until the end of time. All right, Scott,
Speaker 1: play discuss about tonight's game and some news everything else
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Speaker 1: game tonight, you have a note here but actually, you know,
Speaker 1: we haven't thought about this that much, Like there's really
Speaker 1: a race now that we might actually follow over the
Speaker 1: next six seven weeks between the Braves, Dodgers and Brewers
Speaker 1: for like avoiding the wild card. Like that's not a
Speaker 1: huge like revelation, but this way Street put the Braves
Speaker 1: right back in the mix. At one point they were
Speaker 1: like four and a half games back of the Brewers
Speaker 1: and Dodgers. And now it's like, hey, they're right there,
Speaker 1: So I don't know how much you care about that
Speaker 1: right now in August sixth, But that is one sidebar
Speaker 1: of this, especially because the American League is brutal. So
Speaker 1: like the best three teams right now in the major
Speaker 1: leagues are all in the National League. Just an odd
Speaker 1: and now I guess more fun circumstances with the Braves
Speaker 1: because every game matter is just that much more. If
Speaker 1: it means that you don't have to play that first series,
Speaker 1: it'd be nice to have that.
Speaker 2: It really would. And it's funny when I find myself
Speaker 2: scoreboard watching most nights, I check the Phillies because the
Speaker 2: Phillies are really the last threat standing to the Braves
Speaker 2: in the division. But I'm also checking the Brewers and
Speaker 2: the Dodgers scores just about every night, and the way
Speaker 2: it shakes out just as a quick refresher, because it's
Speaker 2: been a couple of years since the Braves were in
Speaker 2: this position. The top two seeds in the National League,
Speaker 2: the top two division winners get that first round. By
Speaker 2: the third division winner has to play a best of three,
Speaker 2: and depending on how the nationally shakes out, that best
Speaker 2: of three could be against the Phillies and they're very
Speaker 2: good top of the rotation. It could be against the Diamondbacks,
Speaker 2: who I think the Braves have done a pretty good
Speaker 2: job with again over the years, but the Diamondbacks are pesky,
Speaker 2: They've got some talent. It could be against the San
Speaker 2: Diego Padres, who nearly gave all of us a heart
Speaker 2: attack a couple of weeks ago at Truest Park. And
Speaker 2: thankfully it would be a home series. The Braves would
Speaker 2: not have to travel out to San Diego if they
Speaker 2: had to play in that first round game, and we
Speaker 2: know how bad Petco Park has been, but it is
Speaker 2: absolutely going to be a thing. And not only do
Speaker 2: you want that top two seed because then you don't
Speaker 2: have to play a best of three where anything can happen,
Speaker 2: but if you can get the one seed, you're basically
Speaker 2: guaranteed to not have to play both the Brewers and
Speaker 2: the Dodgers on your way to the World Series should
Speaker 2: you get there. That's obviously Kart before the horse long
Speaker 2: time from now, but it's shaping out where the number
Speaker 2: one overall seed in the National League is going to
Speaker 2: have a real advantage to it for multiple reasons.
Speaker 1: For sure, as we're talking right now. Is a two
Speaker 1: game deficit for the Braves behind the Brews. But that's
Speaker 1: very manageable over six seven weeks. So keep winning and
Speaker 1: it will work itself out. I think obviously everybody knows this,
Speaker 1: but being top two is the biggest thing. Being one
Speaker 1: seed is even better. Obviously, but avoiding that first round
Speaker 1: first round series at all would be very nice because
Speaker 1: I don't want to ever want any part of a
Speaker 1: best of three. Even if the Brais were playing the
Speaker 1: worst team in the league, I wouldn't want that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just anything can go wrong in two days in baseball.
Speaker 1: You don't want that. So anyway, more of that much
Speaker 1: later on. As for today and this week's results, the
Speaker 1: Braves win going away tonight on Thursday, evening eleven to
Speaker 1: three final. It was kind of a laugher for the
Speaker 1: last I don't know, four innings or so of this
Speaker 1: game saw. The Braves have scored more than eight runs
Speaker 1: since July seventeenth, which is three weeks ago or so.
Speaker 1: That was the first came after the break. They've been
Speaker 1: winning a lot since then, but haven't been like scoring
Speaker 1: necessarily in bunches. A lot of good pitching over the
Speaker 1: last week that includes most of tonight, but other than
Speaker 1: the rain delay which did slow us down and slow
Speaker 1: things down in general on this Thursday evening, the biggest
Speaker 1: thing is that the Braves scored a bunch of runs
Speaker 1: and it was basically like across the board, a lot
Speaker 1: of guys had good nights. Maurico Devon, Matt Olsen, Michael Harris,
Speaker 1: Ronald You and Junior like just a nice, you know,
Speaker 1: explosive offensive night for the Hawks, for the Hawks, for
Speaker 1: the Braves. I'm gonna say, I'm sorry, I'm sleep It's
Speaker 1: fine approaching midnight for on the East coast, for Brad
Speaker 1: after that rain delay. Yes, two homers tonight for Akunya.
Speaker 1: Great to see, including one that's gonna be on Blooper
Speaker 1: reels for the next five years. Okay, we got we
Speaker 1: got immediate calls for us to do like ten minutes
Speaker 1: on this. We're not gonna do that. But we have
Speaker 1: to talk about the home run because it was you
Speaker 1: have to number one, you have to watch it. If
Speaker 1: anybody haven't seen the ronicon Junior home run from tonight,
Speaker 1: it's a mussy did you have an opinion? Like it
Speaker 1: was just kind of hilarious. More than anything else. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure what else to say about it. It was very funny.
Speaker 2: You could see it coming. You saw those two outfielders
Speaker 2: they clearly weren't you know, they were in a foreign
Speaker 2: ballpark to them, and they were just slowly kind of converging,
Speaker 2: and then it was the perfect bounce over the wall.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that was It was quite the moment for Ronald.
Speaker 2: I'm glad it bounced over the fence because he hit
Speaker 2: the ball really well. He deserves some good fortune. And
Speaker 2: then he also hit another homer in the eighth inning
Speaker 2: down the right field line, kind of a ball that
Speaker 2: just kept cutting and hit the top of that solid
Speaker 2: wall in front of the chop house. So yeah, good
Speaker 2: for Acunya. He's hit the ball really hard since coming back,
Speaker 2: has not had crazy results to show for it. But
Speaker 2: you hit the baseball hard, eventually the results are gonna come.
Speaker 2: And good signs tonight from Ronald to be sure, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know about you. I never worried about him.
Speaker 2: The underlying stuff looks good. Like he looks like himself.
Speaker 2: He does look like he's heard. There's been times where
Speaker 2: it's like, is he healthy?
Speaker 1: That's not what I'm thinking right now and if he's
Speaker 1: if he's healthy, I always feel good about Ronald and
Speaker 1: perhaps today unlocks a hot streak from him. Matt Olsen
Speaker 1: is someone we talk about, but also like Medilson, right,
Speaker 1: it's but again today he homer's again. There's like Ben,
Speaker 1: I know, Bowman's been leading the charge on this. There's
Speaker 1: a ward of which he has fifty home runs. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's likely, but like he's like that's now
Speaker 1: in like the view that could happen given how good
Speaker 1: he has been lately. And he's now I mean, I
Speaker 1: think he's he's been doing for a while now. But
Speaker 1: even with this recent stretch, he's still number one among
Speaker 1: all major league first basemen in Fangrafts war Like he
Speaker 1: has been the birth the best first baseman in all
Speaker 1: of baseball this season, and he just keeps doing it
Speaker 1: over and over again. Like born old. Medilson plays every day,
Speaker 1: by the way, he passed him usual on the on
Speaker 1: the game on the consecutive games played list the eighth
Speaker 1: Now like just every day he's every day is there
Speaker 1: he goes to five for the homer. It's like, hey, Medlelson, cool.
Speaker 2: He's so good. I mean just so good, so consistent,
Speaker 2: up to a one hundred and forty two WRC plus
Speaker 2: now on the season, has been one of the ten
Speaker 2: or so most valuable players in baseball, and Olson's OPS
Speaker 2: is up to eight ninety nine now. So he's just
Speaker 2: I mean, he's gonna get MVP votes. He's obviously not
Speaker 2: gonna win MVP. Shohel Tani Peekraw Armstrong, a couple other
Speaker 2: guys are having great years, but Matt is absolutely deserving.
Speaker 2: I think he'll probably finish I don't know, fourth or
Speaker 2: fifth on the MVP ballance when it's all said and done.
Speaker 2: Just such a good player and the fact that he
Speaker 2: is now eighth all time in the consecutive games played list,
Speaker 2: such an incredible run, so durable. He's going to play
Speaker 2: his nine hundredth consecutive game over the weekend at Yankee Stadium. Just,
Speaker 2: I mean, he's the man. Matt Elson five years in
Speaker 2: has been a grand slam of an addition, and just
Speaker 2: so happy for Matt. He deserves all the national accolades
Speaker 2: that he's going to get in the months to come.
Speaker 1: That he absolutely does. And I know I mentioned in
Speaker 1: the name of Mauritia Debon a moment ago but he
Speaker 1: started today at second base, which is very notable because
Speaker 1: Ozzie always has played every game until today, first time
Speaker 1: he's sat this season. He's not hurt, it's just a
Speaker 1: day off. In fact, Walt was making fun of it
Speaker 1: before the game about how he I guess Ozzi had
Speaker 1: talked himself into playing a few times already this season.
Speaker 1: We don't know when that happened, but some bride snicker
Speaker 1: vibes there where guys are just not ticking out a
Speaker 1: lot of Ever, Walt probably had to just make sit,
Speaker 1: which he finally did today. That's what you want. But
Speaker 1: Dubon steps in there and immediately goes for four hits.
Speaker 1: And Dubond's only been okay for a long No one's
Speaker 1: saying he's this great bat, but like, it's always ice
Speaker 1: to have a guy take a day off and have
Speaker 1: his replacement go four for four.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's so valuable to have Mauricio Dubon able
Speaker 2: to do that, Like confidently you can sit Ozzie for
Speaker 2: a few innings and have Dubond go out there. And
Speaker 2: you mentioned it. Dubon a little bit of a slump,
Speaker 2: slow start in the second half, but got on base
Speaker 2: all five times hit the ball. Well, just really valuable.
Speaker 2: And you know, we'll see how long the Jim Jarvis
Speaker 2: train goes. Jarvis has slowed down a little bit. I
Speaker 2: think the glove continues to be solid, but offensively, he
Speaker 2: cooled as I think we all expected Jarvis to cool.
Speaker 2: But the fact that you have Dubon available to play
Speaker 2: shortstop whenever you need him to is incredibly valuable. On
Speaker 2: nice he's not playing shortstop, you can basically play him
Speaker 2: anywhere on the diamond. Who knows if we'll ever get
Speaker 2: hass On Kim into a game, but you also have
Speaker 2: Kim available to play up the middle if you need to.
Speaker 2: Maybe we'll talk about that in a little bit. But yeah,
Speaker 2: just good for Dubon. Hopefully gets him going such a
Speaker 2: valuable player to this team, that super utility man, and
Speaker 2: he certainly picked him up. And hopefully Ozzie able to sit.
Speaker 2: I mean, he ended up coming in as a pinch hitter,
Speaker 2: so he didn't really get a full night off, but
Speaker 2: hopefully just a nice opportunity to get Ozzie off his
Speaker 2: feet for a little bit and catch a bit of
Speaker 2: a breather.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean a pitch hit dh Roll is about
Speaker 1: as soft as it gets for a day off, but
Speaker 1: he was able to get in there get will play
Speaker 1: appearance the last thing on the offensive side. We can
Speaker 1: talk about these guys all day long and drain ball
Speaker 1: has been great for example, but Laide Thomas is now
Speaker 1: on the board as a member of the Braves. When
Speaker 1: this game was still competitive, he had an RBI double
Speaker 1: to make it for nothing and that was his first
Speaker 1: big knock for the Braves. So welcome Blaine Thomas. We
Speaker 1: all know that's he's in the building. Now there's the
Speaker 1: platoon is on. There was talk people he was already
Speaker 1: asked about the fact that he's not going to plubby
Speaker 1: play very much. I guess right handed pitching. He seemed
Speaker 1: to be really cool of it. It's probably easier for
Speaker 1: that to happen when you're going to a winning team
Speaker 1: from a losing team. I think he's probably willing to
Speaker 1: buy it on that. But uh hey, he comes in
Speaker 1: today pinch hitting and has a big double in the
Speaker 1: role that he's exactly going to be it. He pitched
Speaker 1: it for you as I guess the lefty that's what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, and with you know a Kunya is back
Speaker 2: and you get Lane Thomas in the mix, and you
Speaker 2: get Sean Murphy back, you know, all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: the Braves have added some right handed thump to their lineup,
Speaker 2: because we know earlier in the year they were just
Speaker 2: getting leftied to death. Teams were lining up their lefties
Speaker 2: starting pitchers to face the Braves. They were bringing in
Speaker 2: all their lefties out of the bullpen. And at least
Speaker 2: now with Lane Thomas and even Sean Murphy off the bench,
Speaker 2: obviously Acunie is going to be in there every night.
Speaker 2: You've given other teams at least something to think about.
Speaker 2: And it was good to see Lane. He drilled that
Speaker 2: pitch off a lefty reliever down the left field line,
Speaker 2: and he's going to play a real role for this team.
Speaker 2: And if he can give him something offensively from the
Speaker 2: right side, it's only going to LinkedIn and just kind
Speaker 2: of extend out this lineup, which is good. But I
Speaker 2: think we're hoping it can be great down the stretch
Speaker 2: for sure.
Speaker 1: I think I said this on the show that is
Speaker 1: more focused on for our negativity the other day, but
Speaker 1: I liked Lane Thomas. Lane Thomas is a very helpful
Speaker 1: baseball player. He is good I think he will help
Speaker 1: the team quite a bit. Saw that a little bit today,
Speaker 1: so we just want to shot that out one more
Speaker 1: time on a more positive episode of the podcast. All right,
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Speaker 1: from tonight, including a lengthy bullpen performance given the rain,
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Speaker 1: I have a very im portant question for you, Scott.
Speaker 1: We dismissed maybe I did. I don't know if you did.
Speaker 1: We dismissed the Martin Perez lynstanity run a couple of times.
Speaker 1: Is it back? Are we back on Martin Perez insanity run?
Speaker 1: Is it back? Three innings tonight? Look great again? Only
Speaker 1: three innings. It wasn't his fault. The rain came. Look,
Speaker 1: you pitched really well. I'm I'm kind of kidding, but
Speaker 1: he's been better recently. Love to see it.
Speaker 2: I do wonder if Martin got a nap in this afternoon,
Speaker 2: just you know, keep the He almost threw the no
Speaker 2: hitter last week when they woke him up from a nap.
Speaker 2: Maybe try to get a little nap in. I don't know,
Speaker 2: but yeah, you know what, Martin was good and the
Speaker 2: fact that the rain came after three innings on getaway
Speaker 2: day bullpen had to cover six. You know, it's just
Speaker 2: all those things like, man, you really don't want to
Speaker 2: do that, especially heading into Yankee Stadium and obviously that
Speaker 2: that's a small ballpark where things can go sideways. But
Speaker 2: nice performance from Martin Perez. He's kind of right of
Speaker 2: the ship after a pretty rough goal of it, both
Speaker 2: before and immediately after the injury. But yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: he's he's given him a chance for the most part
Speaker 2: when he's gone out there, and you know, we'll see
Speaker 2: how long he the train keeps going and hopefully it
Speaker 2: goes all the way to the end of September and
Speaker 2: gives him something to think about in October. But yeah, nice,
Speaker 2: nice job tonight, at least before the rain came from Martin.
Speaker 1: Martin Perez as an era of three point one four,
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's real at all, but it
Speaker 1: has happened. I'm more of a fifth guy, but hey,
Speaker 1: era is what actually happened, so there you go. More seriously,
Speaker 1: the Brace had to cover six innings with a bullpen
Speaker 1: on this night, which made it much more It made
Speaker 1: it even more important that the Braves scored a bunch
Speaker 1: of runs, because like, you're going to Yecky Stadium multiple
Speaker 1: previo that series at the end of this podcast, but
Speaker 1: you're going to Eyckkee Stadium this weekend. You didn't want
Speaker 1: to have a gassed bullpen when you got there. And
Speaker 1: it was a night game. It was a rain delayed
Speaker 1: night game. It could have been an afternoon game. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure why it wasn't an afternoon game on getaway Day,
Speaker 1: but regardless, being able to go to the non high
Speaker 1: leverage bullpen arms other than a brief devil Lee appearance
Speaker 1: was what you wanted to do at the best case scenario.
Speaker 1: After the way that Prez had to leave the game,
Speaker 1: it was like, oh, man, if we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: use everybody, and he didn't, so that was actually very nice.
Speaker 2: A couple of bullpen thoughts. You should probably have everybody
Speaker 2: available other than Victim Maderos who threw two innings tonight
Speaker 2: and then Brent Sooner covered two innings tonight, So those
Speaker 2: two guys are probably gonna be down tomorrow against the Yankees,
Speaker 2: but I would assume most everybody else will be available.
Speaker 2: The big takeaway, I would wonder if Danny Young's time
Speaker 2: with the Big League Braves might be up. They will
Speaker 2: probably want a fresh bullpen arm for the road trip.
Speaker 2: I don't really know what the Braves have seen in
Speaker 2: Danny Young. You know, he was with the team a
Speaker 2: few years ago. He left, they brought him back. He
Speaker 2: has been very good this year and they have kept
Speaker 2: him on the roster. And it if you listen like
Speaker 2: the beat guys, it's not like his roster spot has
Speaker 2: really been in jeopardy a whole lot. So I'm guessing
Speaker 2: if I had to bet a dollar on it, I
Speaker 2: would imagine Danny Young gets dfaed on Friday for a
Speaker 2: fresh arm because he Other than Danny Young, everyone was
Speaker 2: pretty good. But the fact that Danny Young could not
Speaker 2: cover a six nothing lead against them More Orleans and
Speaker 2: you had to bring in Dylan Lee to get out
Speaker 2: of a basis loaded jam. I promise you that was
Speaker 2: not something the front officeer Walt Weiss wanted to see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think people maybe don't follow it too closely,
Speaker 1: may not realize Dandy Young's thirty two years old, Like
Speaker 1: this isn't some young guy who has options. He's thirty
Speaker 1: two years old.
Speaker 2: Guy. There you go, Brad, it's very late.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just saying that was that was an
Speaker 1: accidental one. But it's uh, he doesn't. He's not someone
Speaker 1: you need to worry about cutting dies with that much.
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not trying to dispirits the man, but like,
Speaker 1: if you got to move on, you got to move on.
Speaker 1: He hasn't shown to be. And and also bringing in Suitor,
Speaker 1: we talked about on the day on the day of
Speaker 1: the of the deadline, like that was probably gonna be
Speaker 1: replaced for Danny Young. We said that literally on the show,
Speaker 1: like Suitor probably just takes the Danny Young role. And
Speaker 1: Danny Young kept staying on the roster for the last
Speaker 1: few days, but that may end after He was not
Speaker 1: particularly good tonight. He was probably the one, uh shaky
Speaker 1: part of the pitching staff until we see very very
Speaker 1: end of the game you mentioned, but Daro's pitched well.
Speaker 1: Suitor did make his debut, was not particularly good late
Speaker 1: in the game, but a nice pick off. Though enjoyed
Speaker 1: that he.
Speaker 2: Brent souter pitches at an incredible pace. I mean that
Speaker 2: ball is in his glove and he steps on the.
Speaker 1: I mean I loved it. I loved it. As we
Speaker 1: were trying to we're trying to we're trying to do
Speaker 1: a podcast here. I was like, all right, Brent Seria
Speaker 1: is gonna come in. He throws. Everyone knows this now.
Speaker 1: I think it's washed him. But he throws very softly.
Speaker 1: But he also throws very very quickly. To your point
Speaker 1: the extension, he's just a he's a very weird pitcher,
Speaker 1: and he's He did an interview that people lapped up.
Speaker 1: It was really entertaining. He's got some local ties. Like
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be a fan favorite as long
Speaker 1: as he's not terrible. So that I hope he's not
Speaker 1: terrible for multiple reasons. But I think people are gonna
Speaker 1: like him in the clubhouse too, like I got I
Speaker 1: got him. Matt Olson have a relationship of some degree.
Speaker 1: I think Matt played with his brother. Is that what
Speaker 1: I saw or something like that. I don't know. It's
Speaker 1: one of those things. There's a brotherly connection. Bread Suoter
Speaker 1: just be good man. We're fine. But he is a
Speaker 1: fun He's a fun, crafty kind of throwback in a
Speaker 1: lot of different ways. He's also old, so that's fun.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I was gonna say Brent Suter is the
Speaker 2: new unk in the clubhouse, and he kind of has
Speaker 2: like fun uncle vibes. You know, I saw a video
Speaker 2: I think last year whenever his team clenched, he's, you know,
Speaker 2: dancing shirtless in the clubhouse very much. Thirty seven year
Speaker 2: old white guy dance moves. I mean, I look the
Speaker 2: same at weddings when I go, you know, hit the
Speaker 2: dance floor. Yeah, I'm sure you do too, Bradley, So yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, look, it was not a great performance tonight
Speaker 2: from Brent Suoter, but it was also the game was
Speaker 2: well in hand. He works fast, he's a veteran, He's
Speaker 2: had a long track record to being pretty good from
Speaker 2: the left side, so hopefully he's able to whenever he
Speaker 2: comes into a game inevitably that's a little bit closer
Speaker 2: than this. The performance is a little better. But yeah,
Speaker 2: if he's your third bullpen lefty, I think you can
Speaker 2: live with that.
Speaker 1: Yes, I would agree, all right. Some news to get
Speaker 1: to Newsy stuff. There's been a lot to talk about
Speaker 1: Sean Murphy, who only played once in the last three
Speaker 1: games coming off the IL. There's been talk about the
Speaker 1: best way to use him. I am high on Sean
Speaker 1: Murphy compertic consensus. I haven't been too bothered by it
Speaker 1: so far, but I do understand that, like, maybe you
Speaker 1: want to play Sean Murphy more than Dominic Smith in
Speaker 1: a vacuum. That's kind of the decision you're making day
Speaker 1: to day, And today it was dom again. Do you
Speaker 1: have a thought on that? Does it matter to you
Speaker 1: at all? I think we're gonna see Murphy tomorrow. Almost
Speaker 1: certainly they're facing Max Freed, so I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be Murphy. But like, moving forward, what would you want
Speaker 1: to do? You do you want Murphy to play more
Speaker 1: than he has so far?
Speaker 2: Yes, I would like Sean Murphy to play pretty regularly.
Speaker 2: I don't need him to be out there every single day,
Speaker 2: but I think because he's missed so much time, I
Speaker 2: would like Murph to play more times than not, certainly
Speaker 2: against lefties, And you know, maybe you pick your spots against.
Speaker 2: If you're facing a really good rity, then maybe you
Speaker 2: do prefer dom Smith or somebody else to be kind
Speaker 2: of in that dh roll and then Baldwin catches. The
Speaker 2: good news is they have multiple ops to kind of
Speaker 2: fill out the bottom half of the lineup. But I
Speaker 2: really do hope that Murph gets a longer runway, gets
Speaker 2: plenty of opportunities to get going, because I do feel
Speaker 2: like that maybe the very best version of the Braves
Speaker 2: one is assuming that Sean Murphy is at least hitting
Speaker 2: a little bit, but two. While Drake Baldwin is totally
Speaker 2: fine behind the plate defensively, Sean Murphy is elite defensively.
Speaker 2: He calls such a good game. I thought he did
Speaker 2: a fantastic job with Bryce Elder and Diddy or Fuentes
Speaker 2: on Thursday or Wednesday night rather so, Yeah, like, I
Speaker 2: want to see Murph out there. Hopefully he's able to
Speaker 2: give this team something down the stretch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we agree. I just wanted to make sure it
Speaker 1: wasn't just me, because you know, I am probably too
Speaker 1: partial Sewan Murphy, It's okay. Another deployment question. Hawson Kim
Speaker 1: hasn't played yet, and I I think our podcast has
Speaker 1: discussed this multiple times. But once he didn't play again today,
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, what is the point of having
Speaker 1: him on the roster if he's not gonna play? Like
Speaker 1: Hassan kid doesn't do anything for you as like a specialist,
Speaker 1: like he used to be an elite defender. But he's
Speaker 1: not anymore, So like, what is the what is the
Speaker 1: role he's supposed to play if he's not going to start?
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, that's the right. And he didn't even get
Speaker 2: into an eleven to three game at the end. You know,
Speaker 2: they didn't even bring him in to play shortstop for
Speaker 2: two winnings when it was a blowout and get one
Speaker 2: at bad end. So that's I don't know. We have
Speaker 2: made the argument that if Kim is not going to play,
Speaker 2: if they're not going to at least try him at
Speaker 2: shortstop for a few games. I'm not saying you give
Speaker 2: him a month and a half, no questions asked, but
Speaker 2: if you let him go out there for a week
Speaker 2: and truthfully a week a series against the Marlins was
Speaker 2: the time to play Kim, I probably don't want the
Speaker 2: guy going out there in Yankee Stadium this weekend against
Speaker 2: a good Yankees team. But he's not a great hitter.
Speaker 2: He's fine for a shortstop at least he used to
Speaker 2: be a fine hitter. But you know, he's not remarkably fast.
Speaker 2: He's not a utility guy who can play five positions
Speaker 2: on the diamond. So what is Hassan Kim's role? I mean,
Speaker 2: I I don't know. It was shocking they didn't at
Speaker 2: least playing a little bit tonight. I mean, if it
Speaker 2: was up to me, I probably would have kept Eli
Speaker 2: White around because Eli White is at least ninety nine
Speaker 2: percentile sprint speed and can run into a left handed
Speaker 2: fastball and hit it over the fence. If you're just
Speaker 2: gonna have Kim sit there, then then what's the point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I it would be one thing if Jim
Speaker 1: Jarvis had been scalding hot, but it's been the exact opposite.
Speaker 1: Jim Jarvis has been like very bad for a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks now, which is fine. Everyone likes him Jarvis,
Speaker 1: But like at the plate, it's not like he's doing anything.
Speaker 1: He now he's down down to like a ops in
Speaker 1: like the mid six hundreds, and all of the good
Speaker 1: stuff was early. I just looked it up the last
Speaker 1: fifteen days coordinatibe dot com. His ops is like something
Speaker 1: like three I just lost it, three eighty two ops.
Speaker 1: So it's not like you're afraid to take him out
Speaker 1: of the lineup. And I know Walt said it the
Speaker 1: day of so it's not like he hit the ball.
Speaker 1: He said. Jarvis is the short stop I just the
Speaker 1: combination of like, what are we doing here with Kim
Speaker 1: and Jarvis in a slump? Is like today would have
Speaker 1: been such an obvious day to play haws on Kim,
Speaker 1: and I don't know why they didn't do it, but alas,
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe maybe there is some I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to sow discord, but like maybe there's some like front
Speaker 1: Office versus Walt thing on this, because like if if
Speaker 1: the for office knew he wasn't gonna ever play, you
Speaker 1: probably would would just be afaid him, right, Like I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't get it, So I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's just odd. We'll find out.
Speaker 2: But and to be clear, we all know how terrible
Speaker 2: has on Kim was the month.
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not arguing that he's been awesome. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm with you. It wasn't like we're not saying he
Speaker 1: should be given a month, like you already said this,
Speaker 1: but I a one hundred percent agree with you give him
Speaker 1: a week, give him a series, like give him something
Speaker 1: to give him like one more chance. But if you
Speaker 1: if you keep him on the roster and never give
Speaker 1: him another chance, that's what doesn't make any sense to anyone.
Speaker 1: And I'm not. I'm not crying a river for Orion Matteo.
Speaker 1: That was fine with me. You're right, Eli White at
Speaker 1: least had a role, I mean, and at least they
Speaker 1: traded him. They didn't, they didn't just DFA him. But yeah, curious.
Speaker 1: You can probably find a specialist on the free agent
Speaker 1: market right now that would be more useful than hasign
Speaker 1: Kim if he's not gonna start right, you know what I.
Speaker 2: Mean, Both Marcelo Zuna and Jegees Solaire just got.
Speaker 1: The jokes have been made, but it's I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of surprised Alex has inside one of those
Speaker 1: guys already. To be honest with you, maybe they're not
Speaker 1: willing to come for whatever minor league deal has been
Speaker 1: offered to them. But McCutcheon opted out. He was the
Speaker 1: other old guy that came through, showed some signs and
Speaker 1: then opted out because he wanted to hit the market again,
Speaker 1: which I understand. Steven had an amazing odyssey uh meme
Speaker 1: usage I'm not sure you saw this or college. David
Speaker 1: had a great odyssey meme about Ozun and Celaire. The
Speaker 1: people should check out on Twitter. But yeah, we'll find
Speaker 1: out if Kim's ever gonna play It's only been five days,
Speaker 1: I get it, but like at some point you gotta
Speaker 1: play him. Maybe it'd be a maybe it's maybe it's
Speaker 1: Yeke Stadium tomorrow. I guess, I guess Max Free. That'd
Speaker 1: be very funny if that was what I decided to
Speaker 1: you South like Kim, but maybe it might happen, just.
Speaker 2: Saying it might they want to if. I mean, they
Speaker 2: haven't really seen any lefties, so maybe they're saving Hasan
Speaker 2: Kim for Yankee Stadium against Max Fried. Maybe, but uh yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Mean they did say when Jarvis first came up that
Speaker 1: they wanted to not have him face a ton of
Speaker 1: like good lefties, So maybe that's literally what's going to happen.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's Kim tomorrow against Freed. So just speculating two
Speaker 1: pitching things real quick. Haysu's cano of the athletics books
Speaker 1: Ernald Lopez today apparently in Spanish from what Haysu's passed along,
Speaker 1: but Reronaldo talked about how it was a he's kind
Speaker 1: of begun a light throwing program and he's expecting it
Speaker 1: to be a short stud on the IL. If you
Speaker 1: need a reminder, he's on the IL for a knee issue,
Speaker 1: not an arm issue, which is notable. But the hope
Speaker 1: was from Walt when it happened that it might be
Speaker 1: a minimum or a least short stay on the IL,
Speaker 1: And this is another stuff in that direction. So Ronaldo
Speaker 1: could be useful have him around, but you wanted to
Speaker 1: be healthy. He'll be in that morass of every one
Speaker 1: that the Braves have behind Chrisale. But uh, having him
Speaker 1: healthy is better than not having him healthy.
Speaker 2: So yeah, see, yeah, And whenever Ronaldo does come back,
Speaker 2: we'll see what role the Braves ultimately have with him.
Speaker 2: They could put him in the rotation and maybe move
Speaker 2: Grant Holmes to the bullpen or no, we'll see. But
Speaker 2: good to hear that that Ronaldo is doing okay all
Speaker 2: things considered. And then the other just little nugget. You know,
Speaker 2: it's been a while, Brad since we have seen Robert
Speaker 2: Swarez in the bullpen, and I'm getting a little nervous.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's been almost two months since he has
Speaker 2: last appeared in a game. And I mean, obviously for
Speaker 2: this year, the Braves need Robert Swarez, but he's also
Speaker 2: signed for the next two seasons and I believe sixteen
Speaker 2: million dollars a year is how they structured it. I
Speaker 2: think they frontloaded his deal just a smidge. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: we want to get Robert Swarez back. It sounds like
Speaker 2: he's feeling a little bit of discomfort whenever. He's still throwing,
Speaker 2: but seems to be making progress. But yeah, we need
Speaker 2: let's get Robert Swarez on a mount sooner rather than later,
Speaker 2: because we were really gonna need this guy if they're
Speaker 2: going to go deep into October.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Walt gave a long, longish quote yesterday about how
Speaker 1: they want him to be one hundred percent pain free
Speaker 1: before he raps up again. He did say that he's
Speaker 1: feeling very little pain, but there's always something in there
Speaker 1: still that they're not comfortable with to have him ramp up.
Speaker 1: That's not what you want to hear after six weeks
Speaker 1: or whatever it's been. I'm okay with him taking it slow,
Speaker 1: like you don't want to push him too fast at
Speaker 1: that age. And he missed the contract. Also, he was
Speaker 1: just completely lights out incredible before before he went down,
Speaker 1: So that's a loss for obvious reasons. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it stuck up on me how long it had been.
Speaker 1: I knew it had been longer than I wanted it
Speaker 1: to be, but he went on the il. It was like,
Speaker 1: maybe he's back in two weeks, and that was seven
Speaker 1: weeks ago or whatever it was six weeks ago. So
Speaker 1: and if he hasn't started wrapping up yet, it takes
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks when you do that, even for
Speaker 1: a reliever. So it might be September first. We're all guessing,
Speaker 1: but not ideal for him to be out still at
Speaker 1: this point in time. And the bullpen's still fine, but
Speaker 1: the best version of the bullpen. Alex made this argument already.
Speaker 1: I know that people including me, roll their eyes about.
Speaker 1: But if you want to make the argument that the
Speaker 1: Braves need to have their best foot forward in the
Speaker 1: playoffs and didn't ad a starter, it requires them to
Speaker 1: have the best bullpen you can possibly have, and Roberts, forrez,
Speaker 1: is extremely, extremely important to that goal when they get there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so I'm eagerly awaiting updates on Robert Swarrez
Speaker 2: at this point. I am pretty I'm decently concerned. I
Speaker 2: know that you know, they can say all the things
Speaker 2: they want to say, but yeah, he is a prized
Speaker 2: arm and even if it's minimal discomfort in your elbow
Speaker 2: after two months of basically being away, that's that's a concern.
Speaker 2: So we'll keep an eye on Robert. Hopefully he begins.
Speaker 2: He's going to need a pretty lengthy rehab assignment too,
Speaker 2: he's a veteran. But I'm guessing whenever he does come back,
Speaker 2: it's probably gonna be two or three appearances at minimum
Speaker 2: in Triple A that he'll need to throw. So it'd
Speaker 2: be nice to see Robert get back out on a
Speaker 2: mound and really ram things up in the next few weeks.
Speaker 1: Your rights be concerned. And one more piece of that
Speaker 1: Wall quote that I should have said earlier, I'm quoting here.
Speaker 1: At this point of the season, we can't afford a setback.
Speaker 1: If you were to have a setback, his season is
Speaker 1: probably over. And that's not him saying it's gonna happen,
Speaker 1: but that's the reality of why they have done this
Speaker 1: so far, is that, like, you're right, if you're how
Speaker 1: you set back in August, any point, you're probably done.
Speaker 1: And that's a little scarier than we want it to be.
Speaker 1: So I'm not trying to worry anybody, but I'm a
Speaker 1: little worried. That sounds like you are as well, and
Speaker 1: we'll find out what he is going to come back
Speaker 1: hopefully soon, all right, Scott. In a second, let us
Speaker 1: preview the weekend showdown with the Yankees up in New York.
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Speaker 1: Scott. The Braves are I think probably what we're talking
Speaker 1: right now, either head to the airports or on a
Speaker 1: plane or somewhere in routes to New York. And given
Speaker 1: the age that I am, and you're younger than me,
Speaker 1: but you're still in this in this window, I don't
Speaker 1: like the New York Yankees. The Braves had some very
Speaker 1: bad moments at the heads of New York Yankees when
Speaker 1: I was when I was a young person, And it's
Speaker 1: always the headline grabbing thing. Like two of the bigger
Speaker 1: fan bases in MI Mejor League Baseball, Yankees are the Yankees.
Speaker 1: Everyone understands what it is, but I always feel a
Speaker 1: little bit more juice. I gotta be honest with you
Speaker 1: about a series against the Yankees than I do about
Speaker 1: just about anything. Like in the record season. Obviously you
Speaker 1: see the Mets a lot, you see the Phillies a lot.
Speaker 1: You don't see the Yankees all that often. And I
Speaker 1: hate the Yankee Scott So I'm just saying that right
Speaker 1: now on the podcast. This weekend is going to be
Speaker 1: interesting for that through that reason.
Speaker 2: I mean, might I say it could could be a
Speaker 2: World Series preview if if the stars aligned. Very possible. Yes,
Speaker 2: you know the Yankees, their pitching is elite. I think
Speaker 2: they're second in war in pitching as a team. The
Speaker 2: rotation is very, very good, and they've dealt with injuries
Speaker 2: as well. The bullpen is good. You know, the offense
Speaker 2: has been abysmal for the Yankees, and a lot of
Speaker 2: that is because of injuries. Aaron Judge is hurt, Cody
Speaker 2: Bellinger is hurt. John Carlos Stanton, who is always hurt,
Speaker 2: is hurt. So the offense has been downright bad. I
Speaker 2: think over the last thirty days they're bottom eight in
Speaker 2: the league in offense. I think over the last fourteen
Speaker 2: days they're even worse. I think they're like twenty sixth
Speaker 2: or twenty seventh in offense. There's still some talent, and
Speaker 2: you know, the Yankees are I think behind the scenes,
Speaker 2: the Yankees are a really well run ball club. They're
Speaker 2: very analytically driven. We saw these guys in previous years.
Speaker 2: They put up really good at bats. They're always well prepared,
Speaker 2: but maybe we are getting the Yankees at the right
Speaker 2: time offensively. Even if the three starting pitchers they're going
Speaker 2: to throw out, they're all very very good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with all that. The pitching numbers are
Speaker 1: ridiculous for the Yankees this season. I think they're second
Speaker 1: in the American League runs allowed and first in the
Speaker 1: RA something like that. They're very good ren prevention wise.
Speaker 1: I looked this up though, like the Yekas, it's funny.
Speaker 1: I kind of made quick fun of the American League
Speaker 1: earlier on the podcast today, but it's not good in
Speaker 1: the American League. I will say that the Yankees are
Speaker 1: second best team in the American League right now. They
Speaker 1: haven't played very well for a little while because of
Speaker 1: the injuries. I think Aaron Judge is someone that nobody
Speaker 1: can be kind of afford to be without. He's that good,
Speaker 1: so it makes sense that they'd be worse about him.
Speaker 1: But since I looked this up today, like since like
Speaker 1: early May, like three months now, they've been a five
Speaker 1: hundred team and that doesn't mean that they're actually that,
Speaker 1: but that's a pretty good samples other than not being
Speaker 1: very good. At the same time you go up they
Speaker 1: go up there and you face their top three starters,
Speaker 1: so it's a line in a not ideal way for
Speaker 1: the Braves. They do have Chris Sail pitching, which does
Speaker 1: help a little bit, but he only pitches one out
Speaker 1: of the three times and the other the other two
Speaker 1: games are not favorite pitching matchups. It is Max Freed,
Speaker 1: Garrett Cole, and Kim Schlitzler who might be the side
Speaker 1: young winner in the American League. That is, Garrett Cole
Speaker 1: was not quite what Garrett Cole used to be. He
Speaker 1: hasn't been so far when he was like a topic
Speaker 1: guy in the league. But Max Fried's still awesome case
Speaker 1: Brayce fans forgot, and Cam Schlitzler is the underrated guy.
Speaker 1: That guy and he's been incredible this season. So there
Speaker 1: are no days office weekend for the Braves offense. They're
Speaker 1: gonna have to step up in a big way.
Speaker 2: They are and you know Friday night it'll be Tyler
Speaker 2: Malley's debut with the Braves, So new friend against old
Speaker 2: friend with Max Breed. Max has been fantastic with the Yankees.
Speaker 2: He did miss some time earlier this season, but he's
Speaker 2: been good since he's come back. You mentioned it, Saturday's
Speaker 2: probably the best chance the Braves have, at least just
Speaker 2: on paper, Chris Sale, But the way the team is
Speaker 2: playing right now against Garrett Cole, I'll take the Braves
Speaker 2: on Saturday. And then you mentioned Sunday who let's hope
Speaker 2: they went on Friday and Saturday Grant Holmes, who is
Speaker 2: coming off a good start, and maybe he'll be able
Speaker 2: to fool the Yankee hitters who have been struggling. But
Speaker 2: you know, you mentioned Cam Schlider. I think is like
Speaker 2: one A one B right now with Dylan Cees to
Speaker 2: win American League. Cy Young, he's been very very good,
Speaker 2: burst onto the scene a year ago and has been
Speaker 2: superb this season. Has a claim to being one of
Speaker 2: the three or four best starters in all of baseball.
Speaker 2: So should be a fun series. You know, we don't
Speaker 2: get to get up to Yankee Stadium a whole lot,
Speaker 2: but Braves are playing really well. The Yankees are trying
Speaker 2: to get back on track. They just called up George Lombard,
Speaker 2: who's a really promising young prospect, homeward in his first game.
Speaker 2: So there's a lot of good things with this Yankees team.
Speaker 2: A lot of good things as we know with this
Speaker 2: Braves team, So it should be a fun series and
Speaker 2: you would really love to take two out of three
Speaker 2: and just kind of keep things going.
Speaker 1: Oh man, the name George Lumbard just deraels me. Uh,
Speaker 1: former Braves top prospect his father, which is quite something
Speaker 1: to remember from my youth as well. Yeah. Also, this
Speaker 1: is a very very rare in my memory. Maybe I'm
Speaker 1: wrong about this, Scott, maybe you can correct me. When's
Speaker 1: the last time I made Braves Yankees weekend series had
Speaker 1: zero national TV games? I always always a Fox game
Speaker 1: somewhere at least a TVs game or something like. No
Speaker 1: national games for Braves Yankees over the weekend? Yeah, football?
Speaker 1: Like what?
Speaker 2: No Sunday Night Baseball either? Yeah? Nothing. I mean I'll
Speaker 2: take it. I mean, I love Braves.
Speaker 1: I don't mind it. I'm just saying, it's just it's
Speaker 1: weird to not see that. I checked the schedule thinking today,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I need to mention where the
Speaker 1: games are. I just assume they'd be somewhere else. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's just bras vision all weekend, so hey, easy
Speaker 1: to find it. But I was surprised to see that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when I was thinking about our podcast schedule for
Speaker 2: the weekend. I figured we'd be recording late on Sunday
Speaker 2: night after Sunday Night Baseball, But maybe the Yankees are
Speaker 2: like maxed out on primetime games or something, and the
Speaker 2: Braves have been on primetime quite a bit too. But
Speaker 2: we'll take it two afternoon games in New York and
Speaker 2: then Friday night will be a good one under the
Speaker 2: bright lights. So yeah, big opportunity. We mentioned, of course,
Speaker 2: eight straight wins, second fastest to seventy wins. You know,
Speaker 2: the Braves gonna take two out of three in New
Speaker 2: York against the Yankees. I think that would be even
Speaker 2: more of just a national statement. And as we're going
Speaker 2: to talk about off the top, obviously, you want to
Speaker 2: win every single game you can because it kind of
Speaker 2: feels like this race in the National League is going
Speaker 2: to come down to a game or maybe two between Atlanta,
Speaker 2: LA and Milwaukee, and every time you can notch another
Speaker 2: win in the column is only going to help your
Speaker 2: chances for sure.
Speaker 1: And we'll be down in all weekend long on the pod.
Speaker 1: If and then huge happens will break in thing else,
Speaker 1: we'll be back again on Sunday. As we always are
Speaker 1: in our warm blanket of a Sunday afternoon slash evening
Speaker 1: time slot. Scott, anythingless you want to add before you
Speaker 1: out of here on Thursday nights, We're trying to have
Speaker 1: our first sub fifty minute show in a week on
Speaker 1: this podcast because you and I went long inside Seawan
Speaker 1: Steven's and it was worthy of that given the all
Speaker 1: what happened, but a slightly more bite sized show tonight. It'
Speaker 1: still probably not like super short, but here we are.
Speaker 2: Here, we are, Yes, let's get the boy. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's going to be a late night. I'm guessing the
Speaker 2: Braves are going to get to their hotel at three
Speaker 2: am probably, so hopefully they get their rest. They have
Speaker 2: Max Freed awaiting them. But you know what, man, I'm
Speaker 2: imagining Yankee Stadium probably gets the juice is flowing a
Speaker 2: little bit. You step onto that park. If that doesn't
Speaker 2: get everything your heart pumping a little bit more, I
Speaker 2: don't know what will, but yeah, good'll it will be
Speaker 2: good to see Max Freed. And then of course Tyler
Speaker 2: Mallley making his debut. All lies on that. If he
Speaker 2: can throw five or six good innings, I think everybody
Speaker 2: would sleep a little better knowing that maybe they've added
Speaker 2: some help to the middle of this rotation. But yeah,
Speaker 2: should be a fun in New York.
Speaker 1: And if Tommy Moley struggles, the takes will be flying.
Speaker 2: So I might have to lug off.
Speaker 1: If he has a bad first Danning, I'm might have
Speaker 1: to disclose the close the old laptop for the evening.
Speaker 1: Just go ahead and close it and we'll see you
Speaker 1: guys on Saturday. Okay, anyway, I'm not trying to give
Speaker 1: him an any bad foodo at this point in time.
Speaker 1: I'm a Tyler May believer. This is a pro teller
Speaker 1: my podcast, at least what I'm on it. So all right, Scott,
Speaker 1: thank you for being here with me as always my friend.
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