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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome to episode seventy of the Hemmer Territory Podcast.

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Speaker 1: I am your host, Sprad Roland, coming to you on

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Speaker 1: a Sunday afternoon, and I'm joined as I always am,

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Speaker 1: by Scott Coleman. Scott, that Brings have won four series

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Speaker 1: in a row doesn't always feel that way when we're

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Speaker 1: talking about the team, but they've actually been playing pretty

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Speaker 1: well in recent days.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Brad, Yeah, four series wins in a row, and

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Speaker 2: the Braves have won six of their last eight games. However,

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Speaker 2: you would never really know it watching this offense try

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Speaker 2: to hit a baseball every night. It has very much

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Speaker 2: been the pitching carrying the load for this team for

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Speaker 2: I mean really months now, but especially lately, this team

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Speaker 2: just can't score runs. Hey, their winning series and that

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Speaker 2: ultimately should get them into the playoffs as long as

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Speaker 2: they can keep doing it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's definitely the case. This is gonna be one

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Speaker 1: of those mixed episodes. If you were a long time

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Speaker 1: a listener to the podcast, you'll know that it's always

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Speaker 1: challenging on some level when the Braves lose on Sundays.

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Speaker 1: One of our regular podcasts recording times dating back to

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Speaker 1: the beginning of this podcast. They lose on Sunday afternoons,

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Speaker 1: so there's a little bit of that shadow cast over

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Speaker 1: the podcast, but at the same time, a lot of

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Speaker 1: positives because generally speaking they went five and two this week.

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Speaker 1: That is a positive on the whole, six and two

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Speaker 1: overall on last a games as you mentioned, and plenty

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Speaker 1: to discuss, even if the offense has been certainly challenged

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Speaker 1: in recent days. We should say it was top of

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Speaker 1: the show, especially if you're a new listen. We are

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Speaker 1: on Spotify, overcast, YouTube, et cetera, et cetera, and we'll

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Speaker 1: dive into the weekend if you've missed anything from this

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Speaker 1: previous week. We did four episodes like five Days Scott

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Speaker 1: and I last Sunday and also on Wednesday. Our co

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Speaker 1: hosts and colleagues Sean Coleman Stephen Tolber records twice as

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Speaker 1: well Monday. I believe in Thursday, it was our last

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Speaker 1: show on this feed, but since then the Brits held

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Speaker 1: Serve beat the Nats in a series by winning two

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Speaker 1: out of the out of the three games, including the

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Speaker 1: first two. But what was we kind of have to

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Speaker 1: start here broad and we'll kind of dig into the

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Speaker 1: game in the second We talked around it. But the

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Speaker 1: Braves have now scored nineteen runs in the last seven games.

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Speaker 1: If that's all I told you, Scott, is that the

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Speaker 1: Braids we're gonna have nineteen runs in two series across

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Speaker 1: seven games against division rivals and the Phillies in the Nationals.

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Speaker 1: What would you have projected the record to be in

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Speaker 1: those seven games, Probably like two and five, certainly not

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Speaker 1: better than three and four. I have to say three

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Speaker 1: and four would have fought good with that. And the Braves,

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Speaker 1: by the way, again as a reminder, they won five

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Speaker 1: of those games somehow despite averaging less than three runs

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and again, pitching deserves all the credit this week.

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Speaker 2: I mean, really, everybody was great, and this team needs

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Speaker 2: the pitching to be great right now. The way it

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Speaker 2: is going, we knew there were going to be challenges

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Speaker 2: without Riley and without Akunya and without so Laer for

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Speaker 2: the better part of the week, and everybody else who's

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Speaker 2: banged up, and then you just have a bunch of

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Speaker 2: regulars who are continuing to struggle offensively. Matt Olsen had

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Speaker 2: a home run on Sunday, but he has not been

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Speaker 2: sitting in the world on fire. Sean Murphy continues to

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Speaker 2: be in a bit of a funk over the last

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Speaker 2: five or ten games. Really just it is both frustrating

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Speaker 2: to watch on a nightly basis because they just every

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Speaker 2: game is seemingly like three to two or two to one.

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Speaker 2: But at the same time, they're winning and that's all

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Speaker 2: you can ask for. And at the end of the day,

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Speaker 2: it does not matter if you win a game twelve

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Speaker 2: to nine or three to two. But I think, just

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Speaker 2: for all of our sanity and blood pressure, the Braves

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Speaker 2: have to find a way to start scoring a few

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Speaker 2: more runs because trying to win all these games when

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Speaker 2: you were putting up two or three every single night.

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Speaker 3: Is just not going to be sustainable, right.

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Speaker 1: The margins are just too thin for comfort. Our guy

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Speaker 1: Steven Tolbert was making fun of this this week as well,

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Speaker 1: like these guys are gonna kill him and I'm just

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Speaker 1: gonna read the scores of the week's games. It's actually

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Speaker 1: kind of funny. Three to one, three to one, three

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Speaker 1: innings four to two, and then a super blowout today

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Speaker 1: on Sunday five to one. I say that with obviously

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Speaker 1: some snark attached. So basically every game was competitive. Even

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Speaker 1: been comfortable since last Sunday's eleven to three dominant win.

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Speaker 1: It's been a nail batter every single night, and the

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Speaker 1: margin Forreeer has been tight. We'll get into kind of

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Speaker 1: how the Braves are handling all of this offensively, what's

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Speaker 1: been challenging them, How good the pitching has been this

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Speaker 1: week has been a carryover for the whole season, and

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Speaker 1: so then we've tried to emphasize all year long, and

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Speaker 1: every once in a while it's worth taking a step

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Speaker 1: back and just remembering that this is not supposed to

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Speaker 1: be what this team was. It's really wild every again,

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Speaker 1: not trying to do this every single show, but the

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Speaker 1: Braves were historically dominant last year with a very similar

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Speaker 1: personnel to this year. Obviously you lose a Kunya and

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Speaker 1: the injuries, as we'll get into maybe later on this podcast.

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Speaker 1: Always always always need to be around the corner for

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Speaker 1: this team. But the formula for this team was supposed

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Speaker 1: to be offense first and everything else secondary, even if

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Speaker 1: they were really kind of void of like going weaknesses.

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Speaker 1: We like the bullpen, we like the rotation, et cetera.

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Speaker 1: The rotation's overperformed almost certainly, especially when you removed Rider,

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Speaker 1: like it's going to get this out of the rotation

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Speaker 1: all year long has been relatively unbelievable, to be honest

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Speaker 1: with you, from Chris Sale especially to Raial to Lopez,

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Speaker 1: to be doing this. And the bullpen has been great

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Speaker 1: all year long as well, even if today was kind

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Speaker 1: of a hiccup on that front. But it really is

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Speaker 1: like from a thousand, ten, one hundred and two thousand,

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Speaker 1: you know, view of things, the offense being what has

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Speaker 1: been all ye year long and the Braves still being

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Speaker 1: ten or five hundred is actually truly remarkable. And you know,

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Speaker 1: as we're talking, Scott, I'm not sure that if you

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Speaker 1: evend know this, but as we're talking, the Braves currently

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Speaker 1: lead the National League. It runs allowed. That is how

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, it's remarkable and no matter how this season ends.

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Speaker 2: The pitching staff is such a big reason why the

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Speaker 2: club has been successful really since day one, And it

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Speaker 2: pulled this stat the other day and it really blew

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Speaker 2: my mind. So the Braves is we'll call the Braves

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Speaker 2: is big six offensively of Acunya Olsen, Riley, Murphy, Alby's,

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Speaker 2: and Michael Harris. In twenty twenty three, those six players

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Speaker 2: combined for thirty three point two war. That was the

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Speaker 2: largest war of any team's top six players. Again, Acunya Olson, Riley, Murphy, Alby's,

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Speaker 1: War five and a half person. Just for the record,

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Speaker 1: just a quick math there, that's that's five an half

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Speaker 2: So yes, there's there's maybe two dozen players who get

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Speaker 2: even close to that kind of number. And obviously rond

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Speaker 2: Acuna Junior was the MVP, Matt Olsen was fourth, Austin

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Speaker 2: Riley got votes, so on and so forth. This season,

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Speaker 2: the Braves is big six of Acunya Olsen, Riley, Murphy,

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Speaker 1: It is late August Scott.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I say this without trying to be obtuse,

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Speaker 2: but if you told me five months ago when we

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Speaker 2: were doing our season preview podcasts that at the end

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Speaker 2: of August the Braves would have six point eight war

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Speaker 2: from that six that group of six players. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I would have thought something like catastrophic happened, like like

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Speaker 2: I don't even know, right, just shocking that last year,

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Speaker 2: to end around eight or nine war combined, depending on

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Speaker 2: how the last month of the season goes. It is

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Speaker 2: truly a miracle that this team as of today is

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Speaker 2: in the postseason. And I mean I just even in

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Speaker 2: anybody could have seen this performance offensively combined with all

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Speaker 2: the injuries.

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Speaker 1: I'm with you one hundred percent, and I wanted to

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Speaker 1: start the show here because you know, obviously, coming off

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Speaker 1: bit skeptical generally speaking. I'm sure a lot of listers

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Speaker 1: probably in some respects, but taking several steps back and

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Speaker 1: just realizing that they are seventy and sixty despite pretty

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Speaker 1: much the season from hell. In most ways, a lot's

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Speaker 1: And we're obviously frustrated day to day. It's been frustrating

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Speaker 1: Scott let us dive in to the weekend's results. The

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Speaker 1: first few guys were obviously more favorable than the last one.

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Speaker 1: Friday's game was there fifth straight game while scoring three

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Speaker 1: runs or less. That's actually remarkable in itself, as we

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Speaker 1: bridge to the previous segment, But they end up winn

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Speaker 1: to get in ten, benefiting from a poor defensive play

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Speaker 2: only two runs. Thankfully, the offense was safe to score

433
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Speaker 2: just enough with the four. There was a note on

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Speaker 2: the broadcast that when Ramon Loreano hit a insurance home

435
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Speaker 2: run in the eighth inning, the Braves were on the

436
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Speaker 2: cusp of breaking a nineteen sixteen Boston Bean Eater record

437
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Speaker 2: for the fewest runs scored over a stretch of six

438
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Speaker 2: or seven games. I mean, the Boston Bean Eaters. Brad,

439
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Speaker 2: you don't want to be messing around with records from

440
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Speaker 2: that era of baseball. So again just the overall theme.

441
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Speaker 2: The Braves won the game. Pitching was really good, the

442
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Speaker 2: offense was not. But you take two out of three

443
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Speaker 2: against a pesky Nationals team. I mean, we don't want

444
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Speaker 2: to be too greedy here.

445
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Speaker 1: Everyone wants to be greedy, including us, But objectively, this

446
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Speaker 1: is where I do my bit. Even if you're playing

447
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Speaker 1: the worst team in the league. Maybe not the White Sox,

448
00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:41,399
Speaker 1: they're historically bad, but just pick anybody else. Projecting a

449
00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:44,480
Speaker 1: sweep is never is never the right projection, like it

450
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Speaker 1: can obviously happen. You'd like to sweep a team. But

451
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Speaker 1: the Nats, as you've pointed out several times incorrectly so,

452
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Speaker 1: are not absolutely terrible. And yesterday was in Atlanta. But

453
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Speaker 1: the I would say, the medium, the media, sorry, the

454
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Speaker 1: media outcome in that series would have been a two

455
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Speaker 1: to one braz victory and that's what happens, So no

456
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Speaker 1: worries there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I believe the Braves are ten and four since

458
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Speaker 2: the disastrous weekend at course Field. I mean ten and four, Brad,

459
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Speaker 2: I you know you take that every single time.

460
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Speaker 1: You have to. It is I mean the infamous nine

461
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Speaker 1: to eight Sunday loss to fall to five ers hundred,

462
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Speaker 1: five hundred, Yeah, there's something like that. They're nine and

463
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Speaker 1: four ten whatever it is. Since then, they've been quite good. Yeah,

464
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Speaker 1: since that's stretch, we should talk about Sunday's game. We

465
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Speaker 1: should lead with the injuries as well. We don't know,

466
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Speaker 1: so we'll time stat this. Scott I records earlier than usually.

467
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Speaker 1: There was an earlier game today. It was a noon start.

468
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Speaker 1: We have lives and things, but it is three forty

469
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Speaker 1: one pm Eastern time as we're recording this podcast. Keep

470
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Speaker 1: that in mind. Michael Harris exited the game on Sunday.

471
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Speaker 1: He actually got hit with the first on the first

472
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Speaker 1: battery of the game in the hand by a fastball.

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Speaker 1: Stay in the game for three more innings, which in

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Speaker 1: theory would be a positive. I'm not sure. The Braves

475
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Speaker 1: then announced that he was gonna come out of the

476
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Speaker 1: game quote as a precaution that was in the release.

477
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Speaker 1: And then postgame Bryce Snicker said that the postgame kind

478
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Speaker 1: of tests were still being done as he spoke to

479
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Speaker 1: the media, they'll probably get results at some point today.

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Speaker 1: We won't know that as we're recording this podcast. You

481
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Speaker 1: might as you were listening, So just keep out in

482
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Speaker 1: mind for context. Perspective. I don't know, Scott, I'm a

483
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Speaker 1: little bit less. I'm knocking on worry now. I'm a

484
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Speaker 1: little bit less worried that it was about Riley, where

485
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Speaker 1: we kind of all assume the worst. With Riley. It

486
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Speaker 1: seemed like the rollout here has been a little bit

487
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Speaker 1: more positive. At the same time, nothing's been positive on

488
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Speaker 1: injury front this year, so who knows.

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Speaker 2: No, you know, I think we're holding our breaths, but

490
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Speaker 2: if recent history is any indication, maybe we shouldn't be,

491
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Speaker 2: because we might be holding our breath for a long time.

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Speaker 2: You know. The fact that Michael did not immediately react

493
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Speaker 2: in the way that we're like Austin. Riley was hunched

494
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Speaker 2: over and just in clear and obvious pain. Now Michael,

495
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Speaker 2: I'm sure it didn't feel good, but he trotted to

496
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Speaker 2: first base. The cameras caught him with the Braves training

497
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Speaker 2: staff doing some strength tests. He looked like he was

498
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Speaker 2: able to grip the trainer's hand pretty well with his

499
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Speaker 2: injured hand. That's all encouraging. And the fact that Michael

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Speaker 2: stayed out there for four or five more innings and

501
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Speaker 2: had an at bat where he swung a couple of times.

502
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Speaker 2: I think that's at least somewhat encouraging. But I mean,

503
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Speaker 2: if I had to guess, I'm guessing after four or

504
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Speaker 2: five innings, the hands started to either swell or become sore,

505
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Speaker 2: and the Braves did use the word precaution, although that

506
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Speaker 2: doesn't necessarily mean a whole lot because they used precaution

507
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Speaker 2: on joegeeseil air and he ended up missing a full week.

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Speaker 3: So we'll see.

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Speaker 2: Let's all sincerely hope for good news on this one.

510
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Speaker 2: You know, if I had to bet, I would imagine

511
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Speaker 2: the Braves are going to get okay news and avoid

512
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Speaker 2: yet another injury. But man, the way this season is gone,

513
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Speaker 2: I mean, nothing would shock me at this point.

514
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Speaker 1: I would like to not have to do any more

515
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Speaker 1: emergency podcasts this year. Yeah, as we always say post deadline,

516
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Speaker 1: we don't want to do any more podcasts pre deadline.

517
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Speaker 1: That's fine because usually usually, not always, usually those are good.

518
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Speaker 1: That means they're trades or exciting things. Post deadline when

519
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Speaker 1: you can't trade a new one. The only reason why

520
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Speaker 1: we would do it emergency podcast is for an injury

521
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Speaker 1: and a bad one. So no more of those, please,

522
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Speaker 1: But yeah, we'll have coverage later on the week. If

523
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Speaker 1: we need to on that front. The other injury that

524
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Speaker 1: happened was late in the game Marcel's doon fall folled

525
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Speaker 1: a ball off of his left leg. It was clearly

526
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Speaker 1: in some pain. He told the media I believe was

527
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Speaker 1: from gay birds bab to see that he expects to

528
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Speaker 1: play tomorrow. I trust Marcel. We'll see on that. But

529
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Speaker 1: uh Sin didn't talk about it. Then I saw post game,

530
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Speaker 1: so that one, it didn't seem like it was terribly alarming.

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Speaker 1: He finished the play, He finished the play appearance. But

532
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Speaker 1: another guy they obviously can't afford me without. He's been

533
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Speaker 1: their best hitter by a lot this season. So just yeah,

534
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Speaker 1: goes about saying they need they need more solos of them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe, I mean the fact that Marcel is the

536
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Speaker 2: DH is obviously helpful here. It's not like he really

537
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Speaker 2: has to put stress on that knee.

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Speaker 1: He tried to, he tried to run and stretch one

539
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Speaker 1: stretch one this weekend. It didn't go very well. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe maybe eight years ago, Marcell, you could have

541
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Speaker 2: gotten too second base. But I think I'm sure when

542
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Speaker 2: he wakes up, especially tomorrow morning, it'll be bruised, it'll

543
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Speaker 2: be swollen, let's hope that. I mean, even if Marcel

544
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Speaker 2: has to miss a game, that's obviously not the end

545
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Speaker 2: of the world. But you know, just yet another thing, man.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's something about the Sunday afternoon games lately.

547
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Speaker 2: I've just been some kind of curse because you know,

548
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Speaker 2: just no matter what, there's always something. But it does

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Speaker 2: seem like Marcel is going to be fine and in.

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Speaker 3: The good column.

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Speaker 2: I was very, very interested to see what Ronaldo Lopez

552
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Speaker 2: was going to do today.

553
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Speaker 1: Yep.

554
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Speaker 2: And he pitched really well and the velocity was really good,

555
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Speaker 2: and that was I think notable considering he was pitching

556
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Speaker 2: on regular rest, coming off of his first start in

557
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Speaker 2: a couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: He was a fair bright spot of Sunday afternoon for

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Speaker 1: the Braves despite the loss, you know, one run allowed

560
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Speaker 1: and six innings. Some strike outs look like himself certainly,

561
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Speaker 1: you know, the pitching other than what happened with Luke Jackson.

562
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Speaker 1: We'll get to in a second. Marge Raer goes both ways,

563
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Speaker 1: like I feel like, and this is just part of

564
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Speaker 1: the natural reaction of fandom when the team loses games

565
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 1: or his trailing that people get really mad at the pitching.

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Speaker 1: I would just stress that being mad at anything about

567
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Speaker 1: the pitching right now is just kind of a misguided

568
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Speaker 1: It's the offense. If you lose a game three to two,

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Speaker 1: it's the offense's fault. It's not really the pitching's fault.

570
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Speaker 1: If you hold your opponent of the three runs or less,

571
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Speaker 1: you're supposed to win more often than not. So there's that.

572
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Speaker 1: But yeah, as for Ronaldo, he was really quite good.

573
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Speaker 1: I was encouraged by that they didn't have to give

574
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Speaker 1: him a break, which they didn't fel like they did.

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Speaker 1: The Braves are. I think they've changed for two in

576
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Speaker 1: a little bit, as we've discussed last couple of weeks, like

577
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Speaker 1: they're kind of pressing peller to the metal right now

578
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Speaker 1: with their pitchers, not necessarily overusing them, but just not

579
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Speaker 1: being as cautious for obvious results based reasons. But Ronaldo

580
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:54,200
Speaker 1: returned favor with that sort of aggressiveness by pitching quite well,

581
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Speaker 1: giving them a chance because look, they were still tied

582
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Speaker 1: in this game at the end because of Ronaldo.

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Speaker 2: He did a really nice job and you just have

584
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Speaker 2: to hope that he's able to keep building on the start.

585
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Speaker 2: The fact that he is seemingly no worse for wear

586
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 2: after that elbow injury is very very good news. And

587
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 2: despite all of the Braves's challenges and obstacles this season,

588
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 2: I still have in the back of my mind that

589
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Speaker 2: if this team can get into the playoffs, and if

590
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 2: they can avoid more serious injuries, they really are built

591
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Speaker 2: as a team that could win a playoff series or

592
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Speaker 2: two or three or four. It's just going to be

593
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,800
Speaker 2: a bit of a rocky road getting to that point. Yeah.

594
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Speaker 1: I mean, any team that has the pitching depth that

595
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Speaker 1: they have on both starters and relievers is built for

596
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Speaker 1: the postseason. I'm looking right now to do the live stats,

597
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,440
Speaker 1: but I'm pretty sure the Braves are like number one

598
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Speaker 1: or two. Yeah, they're actually number two right now in

599
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Speaker 1: Fangraft's war for the entire pitching staff this season, nearly

600
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Speaker 1: behind Philadelphia. They're number two in the majors in era

601
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Speaker 1: as a full staff. I believe they are number one

602
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Speaker 1: in FIP like their number one strike out right, I

603
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Speaker 1: believe too, Yeah, they are. So they've basically been, if

604
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Speaker 1: not the best pitching staff in the league, in the

605
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Speaker 1: top three, and if you just start there, that's a

606
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Speaker 1: good place to be for your pitching staff, especially when

607
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Speaker 1: when you also have the aces to you combine the

608
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Speaker 1: aces of Sale and Freed with enough depth and a

609
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Speaker 1: high end bullpen with a dominant closer, like that's a

610
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Speaker 1: pretty strong fundation.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean you just have to try to

612
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Speaker 2: get there, right, you know, I think we've probably said it.

613
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Speaker 1: Not a lock by any means still here in late August.

614
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but all right, Brad, should we do the seventh

615
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Speaker 2: inning Luke Jackson next time?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's just discuss this briefly. Look, we don't always

617
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Speaker 1: try to go super deep into the single games for

618
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Speaker 1: the rever season, but interesting situation here, So I'll start

619
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Speaker 1: here before this try to put your pre knowing what

620
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Speaker 1: was going to happen had on what did you make

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Speaker 1: of Luke Jackson in a tie game and a seventh inning,

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Speaker 1: Because you did say earlier that they have taxes the willpen,

623
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Speaker 1: and that is fair and that's good context people should

624
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Speaker 1: point out, because it's not like they had everybody available

625
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Speaker 1: for their I means, I guess everybody was available in theory,

626
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Speaker 1: but there might be a reason there. But at the

627
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Speaker 1: same time, I don't think that anyone really trusts Loop

628
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Speaker 1: right now, so to have him been a close game

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Speaker 1: in the set sorry, not even a close game, a

630
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Speaker 1: tie game in the seventh inning. It's not ideal.

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Speaker 2: I kind of closed my eyes because I just I

632
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Speaker 2: have no confidence in Luke man the fact that, okay,

633
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Speaker 2: so let's start here. Was Luke Jackson good today overall?

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Speaker 3: No?

635
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Speaker 1: No, But he also had.

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Speaker 2: A lot of things work against him that were not

637
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Speaker 2: his fault. That's correct, and that's all part of the

638
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 2: Luke Jackson experience. To answer your question, I would have

639
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Speaker 2: not put Luke out there. I would have thrown Aaron Bummer.

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Speaker 2: I would have thrown Dylan Lee. I would have thrown

641
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Speaker 2: Grant Holmes. I mean, any of those guys are better

642
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,960
Speaker 2: choices than Luke Jackson in a one to one game.

643
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Speaker 2: But it's not his fault that whit Mayorfield made an error,

644
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Speaker 2: and it's not his that the umpire missed strike three.

645
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Speaker 2: And it's not his fault that there was a Sean

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Speaker 2: Murphy passed ball that erased what could have been a

647
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 2: double play set up. So it's probably an even pendulum

648
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:14,400
Speaker 2: on Luke was not good, but there were also some

649
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 2: things out of his control that obviously worked against him

650
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 2: in the worst way possible.

651
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:22,240
Speaker 1: That's a great way to put it. And I do

652
00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 1: think that it's pretty clear that at the moment, with

653
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 1: their current active twenty six men roster, Luke is their

654
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 1: worst pitcher. Maybe you could argue Chavez, it's one of

655
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 1: the two. I can't see anybody else being in the

656
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 1: in the mix there. So to have your probably worst

657
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 1: pitcher in a TI game in the seventh inning, it's

658
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 1: not great. But yeah, you just laid it all out there.

659
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:46,160
Speaker 1: You never know what would have happened had they gotten

660
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 1: the call. But I mean it could have been as

661
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 1: simple as the what was It should have been strike

662
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:55,000
Speaker 1: three by the pitch metrics that we have. Literally the

663
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 1: next pitch is a wild pitch that scores a runt,

664
00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 1: so the game goes from being tied to not being tied.

665
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 1: Then to give him the double that was that was

666
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 1: a real double to go three to one, and then

667
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 1: the insurance run the I think it probably should have

668
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 1: been another era. I wouldn't I went in the same inning.

669
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 1: It was called a single, but it was probably should

670
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 1: have been. I'm playing the he mix, so yeah, it

671
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 1: was both. And I don't want to tell everyone that

672
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 1: Luke would have gotten out of the inning, because honestly,

673
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 1: I believe they were about to go away from the

674
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 1: many way. If Luke gets that out and gets the

675
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 1: call strike three. In theories coming out of the game

676
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 1: there they had someone warming. I think was it Bummer.

677
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:33,239
Speaker 1: I believe it was Bummer. Yeah, he probably comes out

678
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 1: of the game.

679
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 6: I don't know.

680
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 1: That's what the radio guys thought was listening to the

681
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 1: broadcast at the time, So we'll never know. It's one

682
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 1: pitch it was. It was it was bora line. It

683
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 1: wasn't like it was like down the middle of the plate,

684
00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 1: but it was probably strike. He didn't get the call

685
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:48,120
Speaker 1: and cycle from there. But as we both said before,

686
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 1: if the Braves score one run, they probably are gonna win.

687
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:54,080
Speaker 1: So that's that's another part of this. Like, yeah, it

688
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:57,280
Speaker 1: was frustrating to watch. Luke wasn't good. Mary Food out

689
00:33:57,280 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 1: a tough endings he also, I believe, yeah, it was

690
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 1: the first inning that Maryfield had the pretty wretched play

691
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 1: appearances with the bases loaded in the first inning. Oh yeah, Like, yeah,

692
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 1: that was tough. He had a bad day. We did

693
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:09,600
Speaker 1: pray similarly, so we're allowed to say that he had

694
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:10,239
Speaker 1: a bad day to day.

695
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean rough at bat for with the bases

696
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 2: loaded in the first inning. Felt like the Braves had

697
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 2: a real opportunity to put up a crooked number in

698
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 2: the first inning, which has been.

699
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:22,800
Speaker 3: Very few and far between the last couple of weeks.

700
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:27,200
Speaker 1: But instead they scored zero runs. Right, yeah, even not

701
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:29,239
Speaker 1: even not even one could have scratched one across there

702
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:32,960
Speaker 1: did not And uh yeah, I still think on balance

703
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:36,040
Speaker 1: it was the today it was an offensive loss. I

704
00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 1: mean that's pretty clear to me.

705
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:40,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I tweeted it during the game.

706
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 2: At some point, man, they just have to score some runs, right,

707
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 2: I mean, that's that is the end all be all.

708
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 2: You have to score runs to win baseball games. And

709
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:53,719
Speaker 2: when you don't score runs consistently, your margin of air

710
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 2: is so small. And I know they went five and

711
00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:59,360
Speaker 2: two this week, but you cannot expect to win games

712
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:01,800
Speaker 2: when you only up one or two or three runs

713
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 2: every single night.

714
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:05,719
Speaker 3: Offense kind of cures all.

715
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,279
Speaker 2: And at this point, the Braves just don't have any

716
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:09,239
Speaker 2: offense to talk about.

717
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:14,239
Speaker 1: If they scored nineteen runs this coming week, they're not

718
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 1: one of that games. I am. I'm quite confident in that.

719
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:21,839
Speaker 1: So it's good fortune and good ren prevention. This week.

720
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:25,120
Speaker 1: That was all that was all positive, but replicating that

721
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:27,080
Speaker 1: is not something you want to try to do if

722
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:29,400
Speaker 1: you can help it. Speaking of this coming week, I

723
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 1: wish you have thoughts on Harold Ramirez, who the Braves

724
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:32,880
Speaker 1: signed to a matter leag deal this week. That was

725
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 1: the only bit of news beyond the injury stuff that

726
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 1: we could mention, but probably just death there.

727
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:39,880
Speaker 2: I would guess I was gonna say, if Harold Ramirez

728
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 2: plays a single inning of Atlanta Braves baseball this season,

729
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 2: something has probably gone very, very very wrong. But yeah,

730
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 2: I mean it's it's depth for Gwinnette. Funny enough, Brad.

731
00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 2: Just a note on old friend Eddie Rosario. Eddie signed

732
00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:00,080
Speaker 2: with the Mets on a minor league deal and was

733
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 2: released about a week later, So Eddie is on the market.

734
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 3: I cannot.

735
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:08,719
Speaker 1: I think Eddi's cooked. I think that's that's just me.

736
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 2: That is a I guess a tip of the cap

737
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 2: to the front office for catching that before they.

738
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:15,759
Speaker 3: Re signed him.

739
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 2: I mean, the Braves did decline Eddie's I think eight

740
00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 2: million dollar option last winter. Not that Jared Keelnick has

741
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 2: been anything special on the outfield, but I think we

742
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:28,080
Speaker 2: all know it's Eddie's time. Thing for the memories. But

743
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 2: uh yeah, Harold Ramirez probably never going to be talked

744
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:34,160
Speaker 2: about on this podcast ever. Again.

745
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 1: I wanted to want We'll see, I wanted to, but

746
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 1: this is just a sidebar kind of related. I just

747
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:43,240
Speaker 1: looked at the Braves active roster listing on edGB dot com,

748
00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:47,760
Speaker 1: like the official team sanctioned roster. It made me laugh.

749
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 1: They only have three players list as infielders on the

750
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 1: entire team. Now, obviously you have to play four each

751
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 1: and every inning and each and every game you have

752
00:36:56,960 --> 00:37:01,360
Speaker 1: to beleave four Arcia, Arcia Olsen and are Alla says infielders.

753
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:04,359
Speaker 1: They actually have Merryfield and Luke Waives Listen's outfielders, which

754
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:05,160
Speaker 1: is just basically.

755
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:07,240
Speaker 2: Oh sure, I was gonna say, because mirrorfielder is playing

756
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:08,400
Speaker 2: some outfield with the Phillies.

757
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:10,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Luke can playoff field too. It's just was

758
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:12,240
Speaker 1: funny the way they that was just a non sequitary

759
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:13,880
Speaker 1: is just kind of made me laugh like that. That's a

760
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 1: pretty good backgrounds of this season. The Brays have free

761
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:17,360
Speaker 1: and fielders on the roster on the team has to

762
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 1: play four every day. Okay, moving on a big week ahead,

763
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 1: we will preview the entire thing. But they do play

764
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 1: Minnesota three times they have to go on the road

765
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:29,839
Speaker 1: after being home this week, they're actually on the road

766
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:33,759
Speaker 1: for all seven this coming week. The Twins are pretty good.

767
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:36,759
Speaker 1: That's worth just saying out loud. The Twins are not

768
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 1: like a sexy team. They're not always talked about, but

769
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 1: they are. They have seventy two wins already as they're

770
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 1: still playing right now. They're playing right now speaking against

771
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:47,160
Speaker 1: the Cardinals. But that's a good baseball team. And the

772
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 1: Braves will use some of their best pitchers this weekend,

773
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 1: which would be interesting. But it's all kind of a

774
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 1: maybe there's some look ahead risk with Philadelphia, the big, big,

775
00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:59,240
Speaker 1: big four game showdown sort of looming in Philadelphia this weekend.

776
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:00,759
Speaker 1: But the Twins are not team you can kind of

777
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 1: look over because they are very good.

778
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:06,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, solid ball club. And raise your hand if you

779
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 2: had the best division race in baseball this season, being

780
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:14,279
Speaker 2: in the American League Central between the Cleveland Guardians the

781
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:15,880
Speaker 2: Kansas City Royals.

782
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 1: The Royal Mine. That gets me. The Royals being there

783
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:19,759
Speaker 1: is actually well and they actually have the best run

784
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:21,880
Speaker 1: inferential in the entire division, which blows me away. Now,

785
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 1: it helps when the White Sox are in the division

786
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 1: and they are thirty one and ninety nine. But I

787
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:31,239
Speaker 1: think we agree though about divisional race. It's actually quite

788
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 1: fun and you don't actually like baseball. I know there's

789
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:35,720
Speaker 1: a lot of people that don't like watching anything with brapes,

790
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:37,399
Speaker 1: but I want to track the stuff. It's it's fun

791
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 1: for me.

792
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:38,680
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.

793
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 2: Twins solid club, good run differential, really good pitching and

794
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:47,720
Speaker 2: kind of quietly their offense is fourth in war this season,

795
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 2: so they're a talented team. They are very much in

796
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:53,440
Speaker 2: the playoff picture in the American League, just like the Braves.

797
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:56,160
Speaker 2: Every single game matters for the Twins because it feels

798
00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 2: like the al race is going to come down to

799
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 2: maybe the last day of the season, so a test

800
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 2: for the Braves, three in Minnesota and then four enormous

801
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:08,360
Speaker 2: games in Philadelphia. It feels like this is going to

802
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:12,320
Speaker 2: be a very important week ahead and two quality playoff level.

803
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:16,759
Speaker 1: Teams for sure. And I think you note that you'd

804
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 1: know this on our dock here, like there was maybe

805
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 1: a chance the Braves were gonna not use their best

806
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:24,560
Speaker 1: possible guys and maybe give him an extra day day

807
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 1: off as far as pitching is concerned. That is not

808
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:30,120
Speaker 1: the current plan by the probables. The probables are freed

809
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 1: on Monday, Schwellenbach on Tuesday, and Chris Saale on Wednesday,

810
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 1: which is the order that they would have been in.

811
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 1: No matter what, the Braves do actually catch a break.

812
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:41,879
Speaker 1: Minnesota's best pitcher by far is Pablo Lopez. He's very,

813
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 1: very good. He's not scheduled to pitch, so a pitching

814
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 1: advantage to Atlanta prove the Lenza of their top two

815
00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 1: guys pitching and Lopez not. Despite the games being in Minnesota.

816
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:53,319
Speaker 1: I guess they could still pull a fast one on

817
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 1: us and throw in like Smith shav or Ian, but

818
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:58,040
Speaker 1: it seems like it's going to be the big Guns

819
00:39:58,040 --> 00:39:59,279
Speaker 1: of the big Guns only. And then we'll see what

820
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:01,720
Speaker 1: happens with Phildelph And.

821
00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:06,160
Speaker 2: Just a roster note here that I believe on Friday

822
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:11,120
Speaker 2: is September first. That's when rosters expand, so the Braves

823
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:14,880
Speaker 2: will get to add another pitcher and another hitter. Now

824
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 2: the hitter, I don't even know who it'll be, maybe

825
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:23,760
Speaker 2: Eli White or the outfield, but nothing of consequence there.

826
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:27,439
Speaker 2: But the team will get to add a very valuable arm.

827
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:31,520
Speaker 2: I would assume it's days Bell Hernandez to add another

828
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:34,399
Speaker 2: power right handed arm to the bullpen. It would also

829
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 2: give you a full month of being able to see

830
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:39,840
Speaker 2: Day's Bell and see if he's a potential playoff series option,

831
00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:44,040
Speaker 2: or that they could opt to add one of their starters,

832
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:47,279
Speaker 2: whether Ian Anderson who's been pitching really well and A. J.

833
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:50,480
Speaker 2: Smith Schauver has been much better lately coming back from

834
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:52,840
Speaker 2: that oblique injury. So we will see a couple of

835
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,760
Speaker 2: days away now. Of course we will have a podcast

836
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:59,160
Speaker 2: whenever that roster move gets made. But just worth noting

837
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:02,200
Speaker 2: that you can add two players to your roster. Although

838
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 2: I mean, remember when teams used to have like thirty

839
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:05,440
Speaker 2: five of their.

840
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 1: Forty roster you could carry, you could cary if you

841
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 1: can care, you care everybody. At one point it was forty,

842
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:11,960
Speaker 1: you could, you could do forty. It was just absolute chaos. No,

843
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 1: I think your riot's a good point. By the way,

844
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:17,040
Speaker 1: it's Sunday, not Friday. Sunday is the first. It's weird,

845
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:21,880
Speaker 1: but Sundays the first. But yeah, uh, Day's Bell seems

846
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: like an absolute luck to me to be one of them. Uh,

847
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:28,400
Speaker 1: we'll see if it's another guy, another starter like you mentioned,

848
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:30,840
Speaker 1: maybe like if you want to go relieve reliever, you

849
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:33,600
Speaker 1: go to Jackson Stevens always been I think it's been hurt.

850
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:36,600
Speaker 3: I think I think the rule is one hit or

851
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 3: one pitcher?

852
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:39,800
Speaker 1: Is it one and one? I've missed that, I think.

853
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 3: So, which with the DH.

854
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, with the DH is.

855
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:46,400
Speaker 2: So dumb because teams don't really use their bench anymore.

856
00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:47,880
Speaker 2: I wish they would change that.

857
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 1: I would certainly expect it to be Eli White and

858
00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:56,879
Speaker 1: Day's Bell then through that once. I mean, it doesn't

859
00:41:56,920 --> 00:41:58,680
Speaker 1: mean it's going to be that. It could be somebody else.

860
00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 1: But they have those guys on the forty man, which

861
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:03,239
Speaker 1: makes a big difference. Of course, they're are like they're like,

862
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:06,239
Speaker 1: for instance, people always ask abou Julie Guriel. He got

863
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 1: hurt number one I think a couple of days ago,

864
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 1: but also not on the forty min, so you gotta

865
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Speaker 1: have the maneuvers there. He's also like one thousand years old.

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Speaker 1: Nacho was on the forty men, I guess, so that

867
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Speaker 1: would be a guy to keep an eye on at

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00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:18,359
Speaker 1: some point maybe, but they probably they probably want him

869
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 1: to keep playing. I would imagine every day until the

870
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 1: mile season's over. So if I if I had to

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Speaker 1: bet right now without any inside info, I would I

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00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:29,399
Speaker 1: would bet on Eli Whiten Days player name this, yeah,

873
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:33,480
Speaker 1: I would concur could be Zach log I guess he's

874
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:36,319
Speaker 1: on the forty men or aj I will say this

875
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:40,120
Speaker 1: as a curve ball. Daves Bell is much safer than

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00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:43,040
Speaker 1: these guys because he's actually a reliever. But I think

877
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 1: both Smith Shaver and Hirston Waldroup could be reliever candidates

878
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:49,279
Speaker 1: with their stuff if they had to.

879
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:52,799
Speaker 2: And you know, obviously you only get to add one

880
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:55,920
Speaker 2: roster spot. But if the Braves want to give, like

881
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 2: a j. Smith Shaver a real test and it's like

882
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:03,280
Speaker 2: a multiple bullpen arm down the stretch, you can always

883
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:06,319
Speaker 2: say that Jesse Chavez has a sore elbow, or.

884
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:08,600
Speaker 1: You could df Luke Jackson. All apologies to Luke, he's

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00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:11,160
Speaker 1: my he. I still I didn't. I think it was

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00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 1: like you called it not about a week ago. I

887
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 1: still think that they don't want to dfa him. They've

888
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:17,800
Speaker 1: made that clear. They probab would have done it already.

889
00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 1: But there might be a point where they just have

890
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:22,760
Speaker 1: to be like, all right, we've enjoyed our time together.

891
00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:25,239
Speaker 1: Uh maybe we move on here and Jesse They're not

892
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:26,560
Speaker 1: going to do that. I think it's a good point.

893
00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:28,840
Speaker 1: I'm glad you said injury for Jesse rather than DFA.

894
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:31,400
Speaker 1: They're not gonna dfa him, but I think that they

895
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:33,640
Speaker 1: can give him two weeks off pretty easily they wanted to.

896
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:39,560
Speaker 1: So yeah, uh did I el staid for old? Yeah?

897
00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:43,160
Speaker 2: Enjoy three paid weeks in vacation, Jesse. You can still

898
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:45,400
Speaker 2: be around the club. But yeah, I mean we're just

899
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:49,280
Speaker 2: spitballing here. But you know, man, it's it is crazy

900
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:52,239
Speaker 2: to say that there is about five weeks left in

901
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 2: the regular season. I feel like the month of August

902
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:58,799
Speaker 2: flew by, like yesterday, felt like we were doing the

903
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:01,879
Speaker 2: trade deadline podcast. And here we are, man, I mean,

904
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:05,000
Speaker 2: this is officially the home stretch, final month of.

905
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:07,279
Speaker 3: The season for baseball. I mean, football is back.

906
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:10,200
Speaker 2: It really does feel like maybe the first half of

907
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:13,240
Speaker 2: this season kind of slogged for me, but the second

908
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:18,239
Speaker 2: half has flown by, and we'll be ready for hopefully, god,

909
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:21,040
Speaker 2: let's hope we will hopefully be ready for playoff baseball

910
00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:21,479
Speaker 2: here soon.

911
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:24,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll know some more about the way the races

912
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:30,880
Speaker 1: stack up. The Mets and Padres play each other today

913
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:33,200
Speaker 1: after we're recording this podcast, so the Braids will either

914
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 1: be closer to the Padres in the standings in the

915
00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:40,080
Speaker 1: second wilid Card race, or they'll be closer to the Mets.

916
00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:42,279
Speaker 1: We'll see, but you know, it is what it is.

917
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:44,400
Speaker 1: That's kind of a root for wherever you want to

918
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:48,799
Speaker 1: kind of situation. Philadelphia, I believe one today they're about

919
00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 1: to win. Whether' up. They're up six to three, so

920
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:52,960
Speaker 1: they're probably gonna win. So the Braves, if that holds,

921
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:55,239
Speaker 1: will be six games back in the division. Not over

922
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:57,279
Speaker 1: by any means, but it will big weekend that we'll

923
00:44:57,280 --> 00:44:59,600
Speaker 1: preview later on this week because I think that we

924
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 1: could probab agree if the Braves don't win at least

925
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:04,280
Speaker 1: two or three in Philadelphia, the division race is probably

926
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:05,560
Speaker 1: going to be uh no more.

927
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:10,080
Speaker 3: Well, we'll see it. Yeah, probably fair. Let's hope they can.

928
00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:13,800
Speaker 2: The Bats wake up a little bit on the road again, good,

929
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 2: you know, two good clubs with Minnesota and Philadelphia. But

930
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 2: another twenty week. I mean, hey, if you can go

931
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 2: four and three this week, I know it's kind of

932
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:24,880
Speaker 2: boring or conservative to say, but four and three against

933
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:27,279
Speaker 2: two teams like this on the road, I think you

934
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 2: have to take it.

935
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 1: I was about to ask you and you read my mind,

936
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:32,360
Speaker 1: what would be a good result, and I think we

937
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:35,319
Speaker 1: are in lockstep. Obviously you want to get greedy. But

938
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:38,000
Speaker 1: if you go on the road against two seventy plus

939
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:41,120
Speaker 1: win teams already and win four out of seven, that

940
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:44,359
Speaker 1: would be very very good. We'll see if it's only

941
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:45,920
Speaker 1: more than that. What you don't want to do is

942
00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:48,359
Speaker 1: go too and five and dig yourself the whole. That's

943
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:51,240
Speaker 1: seems obvious, I know, but this is a on paper,

944
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:54,680
Speaker 1: a difficult stretch, both for opponents and being on the

945
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:55,880
Speaker 1: road and all that stuff.

946
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 2: So in the good news looking ahead here, because you

947
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 2: know we're in the time of year, I think you

948
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 2: can really look at the schedule in the calendar. You know,

949
00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 2: the schedule gets significantly lighter after this tough week. The

950
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:11,160
Speaker 2: Braves return home, they get the Rockies for three, then

951
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:12,120
Speaker 2: they get the Blue.

952
00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:14,759
Speaker 1: Jstcott the Rockies on the Braves. I'm not sure you

953
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:17,280
Speaker 1: wross the same series I did, but just saying.

954
00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:20,960
Speaker 2: Let's hope they will not be the benefit of course

955
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:24,520
Speaker 2: field in that one. But you get the Rockies, you

956
00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:27,359
Speaker 2: get the Blue Jays who sold off some pieces. You

957
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:30,319
Speaker 2: get the Reds for a makeup game, who kind of

958
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:33,080
Speaker 2: have fallen off, then you get the Nationals again, which

959
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:36,000
Speaker 2: is hardly a guarantee, so you do have a couple

960
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:38,960
Speaker 2: of softer weeks of schedule after this tough week ahead

961
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:40,400
Speaker 2: to hopefully keep winning games.

962
00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:42,240
Speaker 3: And just you know, it's.

963
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 2: Probably the theme of the podcast, just keep winning series

964
00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:48,600
Speaker 2: and the Braves should find themselves in the playoffs in

965
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:51,120
Speaker 2: some capacity early October.

966
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 1: Keep winning Series is a good piece of advice for

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00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:58,680
Speaker 1: the Alanta Professional Baseball Club. Scott. Anything to plug or

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00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:00,279
Speaker 1: share at the end of the podcast, because if not,

969
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:02,719
Speaker 1: let us get out of here on a Sunday afternoon.

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00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 3: Nothing to plug, go Braks.

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00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:09,440
Speaker 1: You like that like five words? That was very I

972
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 1: was thrown off. It was very concise from you there, Scott.

973
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