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Speaker 1: Welcome one and all to the Hammer Territory Podcast, and

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Speaker 1: this time around, this time around, it's a winning edition

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Speaker 1: of the Hammer Territory Podcast. With you, as always, wherever

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Speaker 1: you are and wherever you are, listen, my name is

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Speaker 1: Sean Coleman. Always a pleasure would be with you. Hope

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Speaker 1: you had a great weekend outside of baseball. Hope you

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Speaker 1: had a great weekend and you're getting off to a

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Speaker 1: great start this week. But Steve Otober, absolutely the worst

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Speaker 1: weekend you could think of, the worst weekend ever. The

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Speaker 1: title of yesterday, the title of Sunday's podcast was perfect,

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Speaker 1: the worst weekend, the worst week ever. And thankfully the

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Speaker 1: Braves were able to put that all past him, get

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Speaker 1: the job done in a seven to one victory over

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Speaker 1: the Brewers on Monday night. How are you so good

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Speaker 1: to be with you as always the hardest working man

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Speaker 1: in the Hand Territory Podcast field.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I can't remember the last time we did

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Speaker 2: a podcast after a win. I mean that's how long

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Speaker 2: it's been. I mean we didn't do any last week.

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Speaker 2: Scott and Brad did one on Sunday after a loss.

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Speaker 2: I legitimately can't remember last time we did a podcast.

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Speaker 2: Wheel it was the Zach Wheeler. It was the victory

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was almost two weeks ago. So yeah, what

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Speaker 3: a lovely feeling. I mean, just to.

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Speaker 2: Watch an easy, like start to finish game where they

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Speaker 2: just easily. I mean, they haven't been able to win

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Speaker 2: a single game in seven games and they just come

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Speaker 2: out to nine and just and win easily. And there

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Speaker 2: is something fitting to the fact that it was Chris

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Speaker 2: Sale on the mound. Of course he's the one to

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Speaker 2: bust the streak. There is something fitting to the fact

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Speaker 2: that a Kunya Homer, you know, Riley doubled Olsen Homer,

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Speaker 2: Azuna single in It's like all the guys who we

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Speaker 2: expect to be awesome, we're awesome tonight, Like this is

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Speaker 2: what we thought it would be like all year.

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Speaker 3: And so you know, maybe.

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Speaker 2: It's just one night and maybe tomorrow we'll come back

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Speaker 2: and we'll get you know, snatched back to reality. But

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Speaker 2: we're gonna enjoy the hell out of it for one

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Speaker 2: night because tonight was fun. Tonight I had fun watching

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Speaker 2: a Braves baseball game. And man, I can count on

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Speaker 2: one hand the number of times I've said that this year.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, and the great thing about it is is because

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Speaker 1: tonight the star Wars stood out and we're gonna get

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Speaker 1: to plenty of it as we We're just gonna sit

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Speaker 1: here and focus on a victory. It's been such a

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Speaker 1: long time since we've been able to talk about a

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Speaker 1: win for the Braves, but we're gonna break down all

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Speaker 1: course it starts with Chris Sale, who's been absolutely spectacular.

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Speaker 1: You know, he got off to a bit of a

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Speaker 1: slow start, you know, in April, Stephen, but ever since

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Speaker 1: May first, I know that he may not be, you know,

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Speaker 1: May first, you can easily make the case that he's

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Speaker 1: Thing is, he didn't have his best stuff. They seem

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Speaker 1: Besides giving up what was it an RBI single to

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Speaker 1: And if there's one thing that you can count on

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, one of the real bummers of the

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Speaker 2: last three weeks with how bad they've played, is that

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Speaker 3: I mean, he's been doing this for.

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Speaker 2: Five, six, seven weeks now. I really got off to

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Speaker 3: He's just been incredible.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the strikeout stuff is still every bit as

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Speaker 3: You know, the.

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Speaker 3: But I mean, he was just awesome.

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Speaker 2: And listen his numbers. You look at his overall numbers,

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Speaker 3: So I'm not saying it's gonna happen.

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Speaker 2: But like Paul Skeens has been unbelievable, but he plays

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Speaker 2: but Chris Sale has got every chance to repeat as

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Speaker 3: So awesome, awesome.

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Speaker 2: I tweeted before the game, or actually I tweeted during

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Speaker 2: the game that Chris Chris Sale and Ronald Kunter Junior

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Speaker 2: different story. Now, we're not gonna get ahead of ourselves,

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Speaker 2: but for tonight, Chris Sale, awesome, cy Young level, Chris,

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Speaker 1: Speaking of start, Stephen, I think you're gonna get this one,

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Speaker 1: but tonight. Well, entering tonight, Chris Sale had made forty

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Speaker 1: two career starts for the Braves. Do you want to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Spitzer, Strider through fifty career starts had four hundred

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Speaker 1: And think about this. All the success that Chris Sell

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Speaker 1: And again it is what gives you hope that how

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Speaker 2: You know, the offense has has fallen off a cliff.

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Speaker 2: hold up. And if the Braves had only scored three

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Speaker 3: And so yeah, I.

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Speaker 2: Really hope he stays. I really hope he can do

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Speaker 1: I know that he won the cy Young last year,

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Speaker 1: So, Steve, when we talk about the fact that Chris

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Speaker 3: What is today's date, Steven, June ninth?

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Speaker 2: Oh, we got we got Tennessee. Got a Tennessee mine

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Speaker 1: Over the past two weeks, Austin Riley has a one

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Speaker 2: We're I think we're only like six percentage points away

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Speaker 2: They we need a month of this, two months, three

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Speaker 2: it would just be great to just even for a

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Stephen, one other quick question that you know many

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Speaker 1: may not you know think is on the horizon, but

440
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Speaker 1: it's getting close. Is that tonight? Was the sixty fifth

441
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Speaker 1: game of the season. You know, Jerks and Profar was suspended.

442
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Speaker 1: I believe what was it after the second game of

443
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Speaker 1: the year. So we're two and a half weeks basically away.

444
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Speaker 1: We're about fifteen sixteen games away from where Jerks and

445
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Speaker 1: Profar would be available. I imagine that we'll hear over

446
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Speaker 1: the next week or so, perhaps the ability for him

447
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Speaker 1: to start a rehab assignment. But but the other the

448
00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:50,280
Speaker 1: reason why I'm bringing this up is because the Brain's

449
00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:53,240
Speaker 1: need to figure out their left field situation because Alex

450
00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:56,920
Speaker 1: Verdugo is not it. He's just not getting the job done. Tonight,

451
00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,639
Speaker 1: two excellent opportunities to add value, and the ball the

452
00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:02,919
Speaker 1: bad did not leave his shoulder. Shout out to Eli White,

453
00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:05,360
Speaker 1: who made the most of an opportunity a nice insurance

454
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Speaker 1: home run. I would almost just say just put him

455
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Speaker 1: out there for the defensive upside, for the base running,

456
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Speaker 1: just hopefully maybe he can get on a heater for

457
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Speaker 1: the next ten days or so. But the Braves do

458
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Speaker 1: need production from their left field spot because they're obviously

459
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Speaker 1: still waiting to get something of any type of value

460
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Speaker 1: offensively for Michael Harris from Nick Allen, one of those

461
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Speaker 1: two it's not going to come from. But the left

462
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Speaker 1: field situation again, I know we're two and a half

463
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Speaker 1: three weeks away from having what we hope is a solution,

464
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Speaker 1: but we got to figure it out over the next

465
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Speaker 1: few weeks. Any thoughts on that, do you just still

466
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Speaker 1: go with the platoon and hope for the best, or

467
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Speaker 1: do you maybe just give it to Eli White Because

468
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Speaker 1: as we also saw, you know, earlier today, Jared Kilnick's

469
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Speaker 1: not really doing anything to impress down on Tripalea.

470
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Speaker 3: Now, yeah, Kelnick's been awful.

471
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Speaker 2: He's got like a seventy five WRC plus since going

472
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Speaker 2: down to Gwinette, so he's been bad. Verdugo has fallen

473
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Speaker 2: off a mountain since that hot start back in May.

474
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Speaker 3: I can't remember exactly what it was, maybe late April,

475
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Speaker 3: but he.

476
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Speaker 2: Takes so many fastballs that I just I don't understand

477
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Speaker 2: how somebody takes so many fastballs down the middle. Like

478
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Speaker 2: if I took one fastball, if I was a major

479
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Speaker 2: league hitter and I took a one fastball down the

480
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Speaker 2: middle for strike three, I would tell myself, all right, well,

481
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Speaker 2: at the very least, we're not doing that again, because

482
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's just embarrassing, and like it happens to

483
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Speaker 2: this dude like twice a night. I don't really I

484
00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:26,840
Speaker 2: don't really understand what's happening. So yeah, I would just

485
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Speaker 2: put Eli White out there. At least you're gonna get defense.

486
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Speaker 2: At least you're gonna get speed. Every once in a while,

487
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Speaker 2: I was gonna run into a homer like he did tonight.

488
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Speaker 2: None of these guys are good by any stretch. There's

489
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Speaker 2: a reason that Brave signed Drexson profar. There's a reason

490
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Speaker 2: the Braves spent twenty million dollars last winter on Jared

491
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Speaker 2: Kilnick when they spend all that money in all those

492
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Speaker 2: different trades to get him over here, because left field

493
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Speaker 2: has been a black hole.

494
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Speaker 4: For a long time.

495
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Speaker 2: I mean, even like when they traded for like Eddie Rosario,

496
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Speaker 2: the reason they traded for him midseason was because of

497
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Speaker 2: how bad left field was, and even back to like

498
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, when they want the World Series, like,

499
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Speaker 2: left field has just been a problem forever. And now

500
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Speaker 2: with the struggles of center field and shortstop and and

501
00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:11,920
Speaker 2: you know, Oddsy's been better lately, but overall is still

502
00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:16,199
Speaker 2: sub seven hundred ops. Man, it'd be nice to get

503
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Speaker 2: a left fielder that can hit, and yeah, Profar. So

504
00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:24,840
Speaker 2: people have asked me, Profar can start rehab games and

505
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Speaker 2: get ready to go before the eighty one games were up.

506
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Speaker 2: Like there were people that thought like the eighty one

507
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Speaker 2: game suspension meant or the eighty game suspension meant that

508
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Speaker 2: he couldn't even start rehab games until after the suspension

509
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Speaker 2: was over.

510
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Speaker 3: But that's not the case. He can rehab.

511
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Speaker 2: Fairly soon, in like a week or so, so that

512
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Speaker 2: he is ready to be activated as soon as his

513
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Speaker 2: suspension is lifted. So I'm assuming you just said that,

514
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Speaker 2: but I'm assuming that's what the Braids are gonna do.

515
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Speaker 2: We'll hear about that probably next week where they're gonna send.

516
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Speaker 3: Him to get going.

517
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Speaker 2: But the Braves need him, honestly, Listen, I don't have

518
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Speaker 2: a lot of confidence and I'm gonna be extremely harsh

519
00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:08,760
Speaker 2: with him until he proves anything because I don't trust

520
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Speaker 2: him and I don't think he's earned that trust, and

521
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Speaker 2: so we're gonna be critical until he does something productive.

522
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Speaker 2: But make no mistake, the Braves need him. The Braves

523
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Speaker 2: needs something on a left field. Until then, I would

524
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Speaker 2: absolutely just put Eli White out there and just at

525
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Speaker 2: least you're gonna at least, you know, for a fact,

526
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Speaker 2: you're gonna get speed and defense. And every once in

527
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528
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Speaker 1: Homer Absolutely again, he don't want to really, you know,

529
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530
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532
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533
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Speaker 1: left field, why not see if you can improve upon it,

534
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535
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Speaker 1: Of course, some news was confirmed earlier today, actually a

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Speaker 1: couple of news updates.

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Speaker 4: We'll get into the other one in just a moment.

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Speaker 4: But the news was confirmed that many of us had

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Speaker 4: expected earlier today. A J.

570
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Speaker 1: Smith Shover underwent surgery in Arlington, Texas to replair a

571
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Speaker 1: torn UCL which basically, in other words, is Tommy John

572
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Speaker 1: surgery in his right arm. Many of us had suspected

573
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Speaker 1: it from ten days ago. It was confirmed today. Braves

574
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Speaker 1: just went ahead and got it done. Stephen, correct me

575
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Speaker 1: if I'm wrong. One is one very important distinction to

576
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Speaker 1: make is that I believe that this was a complete

577
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Speaker 1: repair of the torn UCL versus I forget what the

578
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Speaker 1: shoulder braves or whatever operation Spencer Strider has had. I

579
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Speaker 1: don't have the name off the top of my head.

580
00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:40,960
Speaker 1: But of course there's now multiple routes you can go

581
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Speaker 1: with Tommy John surgery. This was a complete repair. The

582
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Speaker 1: big news though, The big part of this though, the

583
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Speaker 1: Braves of course announced that he will miss the rest

584
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Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty five season. But let's just be

585
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Speaker 1: honest here, there's a good chance that he's going to

586
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Speaker 1: miss into a large portion of the twenty twenty six

587
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Speaker 1: season as well, so he may not really be an

588
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Speaker 1: option again until twenty twenty seven.

589
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Speaker 4: We've spoke before.

590
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Speaker 1: You mentioned that age is obviously still on the side

591
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Speaker 1: of a j Smith shaber, But it doesn't take away

592
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Speaker 1: from the fact that man just for the past two seasons,

593
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Speaker 1: he had that one start where he looked really good

594
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Speaker 1: in Chicago in twenty twenty three, had the oblique injury,

595
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Speaker 1: didn't come back until the playoffs last year, and now

596
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Speaker 1: was really starting.

597
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:21,359
Speaker 4: To put it together.

598
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Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year candidate and then falls into just

599
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Speaker 1: this unfortunate injury. Sad to see that we're not going

600
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Speaker 1: to see him for a while.

601
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Speaker 2: Yeah, just a quick reminder, So Spencer Strider got the

602
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Speaker 2: internal brace procedure and aj S mischaber A got Tommy John,

603
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Speaker 2: and I know we talked about this before, but just

604
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 2: as a reminder, Tommy John, is when they completely reconstruct

605
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Speaker 2: your UCL because you had a full tear, the internal

606
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Speaker 2: brace is where they just kind of they kind of

607
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Speaker 2: support the current liguament because it was not a full tear.

608
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Speaker 2: So it's a very different surgery, even though they're both

609
00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 2: obviously significant elbow surgeries that Tommy John, the full reconstruction

610
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Speaker 2: of the of the ligament is about if you look online,

611
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Speaker 2: it says about twelve month twelve to fourteen month recovery time.

612
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Speaker 2: So you know, even if you're optimistic about it, and

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Speaker 2: let's say it only takes aja year to get back,

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Speaker 2: then you have to remember he's got to go through

615
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Speaker 2: a full spring training and get you know, ramped up,

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Speaker 2: and even if you only brought him back as like

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Speaker 2: a reliever, the chances are he would still only be

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Speaker 2: back for a very small part of twenty six, and

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Speaker 2: most likely he's probably out for all of twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 2: So the I know in the announcement they announced twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty five, I would just go ahead and prepare yourself

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Speaker 2: that we're probably not going to see Aja in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty six.

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Speaker 3: It's not a guarantee he might again.

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Speaker 2: He might pitch sometime in the second half next year,

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Speaker 2: maybe as a bullpen guy, but I wouldn't. I would

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Speaker 2: just kind of in my mind just kind of remove

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Speaker 2: him as an option for the next year and a

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Speaker 2: hal half and then if if something surprisingly good happens,

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Speaker 2: then you can be you know, uh, it can be

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Speaker 2: a bonus. But yeah, it sucks for him. I really

632
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Speaker 2: hate because this kid was just like really scratching the

633
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Speaker 2: service of his talent. He was really starting to figure

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Speaker 2: it out. The splitter was such a weapon, the fastball

635
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Speaker 2: was such a weapon. He was really learning how to

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Speaker 2: use his velocity to control the fastball. You know, Tommy

637
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Speaker 2: John is not like a career ending surgery the way

638
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Speaker 2: it used to be. There are guys that come back

639
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Speaker 2: as good, if not better, now not all the time.

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Speaker 2: For some guys, they never come back the same. So

641
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Speaker 2: it's not one hundred percent thing. It's still major elbow surgery,

642
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Speaker 2: so we're gonna have to wait and see. But it's

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Speaker 2: not some career ending injury. It's so common now that

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Speaker 2: for most pictures it's not a matter of if, but

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Speaker 2: a matter of when. Especially guys I throw this hard.

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Speaker 2: So it sucks, but at least he got it out

647
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Speaker 2: of the way early in his career.

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Speaker 3: He's still in twenty two.

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Speaker 2: He's still you know, he's still got plenty of time

650
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Speaker 2: to be a great major league player, to you know,

651
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Speaker 2: make all the money he needs to make and wants

652
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Speaker 2: to make.

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Speaker 3: So sucks for him.

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Speaker 2: I hate it for aj best of luck in recovery,

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Speaker 2: and you know, we'll see in in twelve months or so.

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Speaker 1: And the other thing that I think that this puts

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Speaker 1: the spotlight on is that, you know, what this means

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Speaker 1: is is that the Braves rotation that you see right now,

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Speaker 1: Chris Sale, Spencer Schwellenbach, Bryce Elder, Spencer Strider, as well

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Speaker 1: as Grant Holmes, this not only is going to be

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Speaker 1: your rotation through the rest of this year more than likely.

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Speaker 1: Knock on wood, you hope that hell certainly is there,

663
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Speaker 1: because there's not, like you know, a clear you know,

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Speaker 1: other pitcher knocking on the door, but this also very

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Speaker 1: likely could be your starting staff going into twenty twenty six. Now,

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Speaker 1: I know Ronaldo Lopez will hopefully be back by then

667
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Speaker 1: as well, but if Bryce Elder's throwing pretty good, you

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Speaker 1: know that that at least has six options for five spots.

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Speaker 1: But the point that I'm getting at right now is

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Speaker 1: is that this rotation has been among the best in

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Speaker 1: baseball made first A. J. Smith Schaufer had to roll

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Speaker 1: in that, but Bryce Selder is step riding and has

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Speaker 1: done quite well an excellent start over the weekend. I

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Speaker 1: know that it may not necessarily be on paper the

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Speaker 1: most encouraging thing to say that this could be our

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Speaker 1: main rotation this year and next year, but that's what

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Speaker 1: stands out.

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Speaker 4: We've got the guys.

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Speaker 1: Who were going to hopefully lead us where we need

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Speaker 1: to go. You pray for help, but you also pray

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Speaker 1: for them maintaining the success that they've shown over the

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Speaker 1: past month.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's easier it with selle In Schwellenbach pitching

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Speaker 2: like they have the last three weeks, four weeks, five weeks,

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Speaker 2: six weeks, whatever it's been. They both look like top

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Speaker 2: of the rotation arms again, and that makes everything easier, right,

687
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Speaker 2: Like Grant Holme, Spencer, Strider, Bryce Elder can all kind

688
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Speaker 2: of fit in on the back end of the rotation

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Speaker 2: because they none of them have to like lead this

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Speaker 2: rotation with Sell and Schwallenbach pitching the way they have,

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Speaker 2: so a lot of it starts with those two. But

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Speaker 2: you're right, they've been one of the best rotations in

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Speaker 2: baseball for six weeks now. So and credit again, you know,

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Speaker 2: Brad and I talked about it last night, but you know,

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Speaker 2: insane amount of credit to Bryce Elder for what he

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Speaker 2: did in San Francisco.

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Speaker 3: And we'll see, you know, Strider.

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Speaker 2: We're not really ready to make definitive statements on Strider yet.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's just gonna be kind of a wait

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Speaker 2: and see. Grant Holmes is gonna pitch again tomorrow, so

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Speaker 2: you know, he's been solid, he's been super solid. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: this is probably gonna be the group for the rest

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Speaker 2: of the year unless they make a trade at the

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Speaker 2: deadline or I guess technically Ronaldo Lopez is not out

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Speaker 2: for the year. We don't actually know what the update

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Speaker 2: is gonna be with him. I guess technically could come back.

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Speaker 2: You might even come back as a reliever. If they

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Speaker 2: can't build them all the way back up to be

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Speaker 2: a starter, potentially they could put them in the bullpen

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Speaker 2: at the end of the year.

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Speaker 3: But this is probably the group.

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Speaker 2: You know, there's nobody in tripa A that's really knocking

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Speaker 2: on the door. So these are gonna be the five guys.

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Speaker 2: Pray to God for no more injuries, because they really

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Speaker 2: can't afford any more injuries. And hopefully this group can

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Speaker 2: keep it going and the offense can finally start pulling

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Speaker 2: its weight.

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Speaker 4: And that's where we get into the rest of this week.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: Of course, we don't want to put the cart before

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Speaker 1: the horrors, any cliche saying that you want to or

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Speaker 1: anything like that, but I do think it's worth mentioning something,

723
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Speaker 1: you know, for this week. Again, don't want to assume anything.

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Speaker 1: We'll take, as Stephen mentioned, the old Bobby Cox approach

725
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Speaker 1: of one game at a time. But but Steve, but

726
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Speaker 1: Steve tomorrow. Grant Holmes is on the map and the

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Speaker 1: Braves are favored against the Birds, and then on Wednesday

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Speaker 1: it's Spencer swelling back against Chad Patrick. You would have

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Speaker 1: to feel pretty good about that.

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Speaker 4: Pitching matchup.

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Speaker 1: You're off on Thursday, and then you wait, wait, wait, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're off on Thursday, and then you turn right back

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Speaker 1: around and you welcome the Rockies to Atlanta. The Braves,

734
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Speaker 1: in other words, are going to be favored in every

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Speaker 1: game that they're going to play this week, coming off

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Speaker 1: the last the previous ten days, and how far are

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Speaker 1: they've fallen over that ten day stretch. It's hard to

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Speaker 1: ask for a better setup. It's just now you've got

739
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Speaker 1: to execute to take advantage of it again, one game

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Speaker 1: at a time. But if you can build off today,

741
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Speaker 1: the offense can come and give Grant Home some early support. Tomorrow,

742
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Speaker 1: you get the job done tomorrow. The setup is there.

743
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Speaker 1: You got off days on Thursday and then a week

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Speaker 1: from today before you get into that really tough stretched

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Speaker 1: end June, this week could be a really, really good

746
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Speaker 1: opportunity to put the past ten days behind you and

747
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Speaker 1: get off to a really good start before a hectic

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Speaker 1: into the month of June.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So the next two weeks for the Braids are two

751
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Speaker 2: more against Milwaukee and Milwaukee off Day, a weekend at

752
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Speaker 2: home against the Rockies off Day.

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Speaker 3: Then they play the Mets for three games in Atlanta.

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Speaker 2: So if you can build some momentum this week going

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Speaker 2: into that Met series, maybe you're playing your best ball

756
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:01,520
Speaker 2: of the year, potentially you can start chipping into some

757
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:04,320
Speaker 2: of this lead. Then after the Mets they go to

758
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Speaker 2: Miami for a three game series, and then they go

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Speaker 2: to New York for the Mets again, and that's kind

760
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Speaker 2: of the next two weeks for the Braves. So obviously

761
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Speaker 2: playing the Mets twice is not gonna be easy. There,

762
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Speaker 2: you know, best record, one of the best records in baseball.

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Speaker 1: But other than that, right after that second Mets series

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Speaker 1: is the Phillies just start jaw right.

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Speaker 2: So they do have a chance here over the next

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Speaker 2: five six days to get going to get healthy. Now,

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00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:32,839
Speaker 2: the Brewers are not a pushover. You know, the Brewers

768
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Speaker 2: were one of the hottest teams in baseball before tonight,

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Speaker 2: and they went up to Philadelphia and kicked the crap

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Speaker 2: out of the Phillies.

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Speaker 3: So it's not yet.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the Braids could lose the next two games,

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Speaker 2: and we've seen this Jecklin High team all year, so

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Speaker 2: we're not putting the car before the horse. They gotta

775
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Speaker 2: win tomorrow and go score some damn runs, and that

776
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Speaker 2: would make everything easier. But if they can, if they can,

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Speaker 2: if they can maintain this and get home against the

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Speaker 2: Rockies and maintain it there and maybe win like five

779
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Speaker 2: out of six or even like six out of six

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Speaker 2: and start chipping into this at least start chipping into

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Speaker 2: the wild card lead a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Then you can start.

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00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:15,360
Speaker 2: Then you can start getting some hope. Again, hope is

784
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 2: not there yet. They're too far back. We're gonna they're

785
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Speaker 2: gonna need like a six game winning streak, seven game

786
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 2: winning streak, ten out of twelve, twelve out of fifteen.

787
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Speaker 2: They're gonna need something huge to really get back in

788
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 2: this thing. They've just dug themselves too much a hole.

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Speaker 3: But this is a good week to do it.

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00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:34,839
Speaker 2: Like Sean just laid out, pitching matchups in your favor.

791
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 2: You end at home against the worst team maybe in

792
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:40,239
Speaker 2: the history of baseball, come into your place. At the

793
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 2: end of the week. You take care of business in

794
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:47,240
Speaker 2: these two games. You got a shot to maybe start

795
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 2: rewriting the narrative of the twenty twenty five season. But

796
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:52,840
Speaker 2: it starts tomorrow. If you lose tomorrow, you're back to

797
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 2: square one. So go win a damn game tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because at the end of the day. That's the

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Speaker 1: reason why you keep it in the perspective of one

800
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Speaker 1: game in a time. You just lost fourteen out of seventeen,

801
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:07,480
Speaker 1: So if you win twelve out of fifteen, congratulations, you're

802
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:11,879
Speaker 1: back to five hundred. The braves have a big, big,

803
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:15,600
Speaker 1: big hole to try to climb out of. They're capable

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Speaker 1: of doing it, but the best way for them to

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Speaker 1: do it is to take it one game at a time,

806
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Speaker 1: and with every game, whether win or lose, we're going

807
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Speaker 1: to be right here to cover it for you. The

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Speaker 1: hardest workingman when it comes to the Foul with the

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Speaker 1: Foul Well, I'll say Foul Territory Crew, I won't go well.

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Speaker 1: One of the hardest workingmen of the Foul Territory Crew

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Speaker 1: obviously the hardest when it comes to the Hammer Territory Crew,

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Speaker 1: Stephen Tolbert, probably going to be here for eighty to

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Speaker 1: ninety percent of the podcast for the rest of the year,

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Speaker 1: but you can find him a be underscore outlier on Twitter,

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Speaker 1: slash x.

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Speaker 4: My name is Sean Coleman.

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Speaker 1: You can find myself at stat's sac Hamit Territory across

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Speaker 1: all forms of social media and on YouTube. Also, Foul

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Speaker 1: Territory proud member of the Foul Territory family of podcast Stephen,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna make a request, man.

821
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Speaker 3: Let's do it and and and and do not. Do

822
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:05,360
Speaker 3: not throw in a hashtag.

823
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Speaker 4: I will punch you hashtag.

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Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not throwing out a hashtag. Okay, let's

825
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Speaker 1: do two podcasts in a row where we get to

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Speaker 1: recap a victory.

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Speaker 4: Let's do it about that, Let's do it.

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Speaker 1: Let's do it next time you see us, maybe Thursday

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Speaker 1: or Friday, but we know why not.

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Speaker 4: Let's let's just win. But you know, we just came

831
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Speaker 4: off a week where we were win lists. Let's go

832
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Speaker 4: through a week where we don't lose a game. So

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Speaker 4: much more Yeah, yeah, it's so much more fun. We'll

834
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Speaker 4: have you covered. Can't thank you not for all the support.

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Speaker 4: Win or lose, but preferably win, go breaks.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you again, and we'll talk to you

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Speaker 1: again here soon on The Hammer Territory podcast