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Speaker 1: What's happening? Guys? How are we? How you doing?

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Speaker 2: Can't complain getting ready for this Christmas with the all

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Speaker 2: seven of my boys. So it's kind of a stick

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Speaker 3: They being rich?

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Speaker 4: Dude?

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Speaker 3: You're so rich it doesn't even matter. Just just be like,

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Speaker 3: just what do you guys want. We'll just take you

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Speaker 3: the mall. Here's a gift card for like ten thousand.

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Speaker 3: Just get whatever you'll want kids. I'll see all afterwards.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's that's kind of what my gift list

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Speaker 2: kind of consists of. I grab a envelope and throw

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Speaker 2: a couple of hundred bucks and they can go get

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Speaker 2: what they want.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because you know you ain't making them all happy

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Speaker 3: if you try to. You try to go through the

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Speaker 3: list the whole time you're like, all right, he wants

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Speaker 1: I feel like there's a lot of repeats.

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Speaker 2: Instead of, you know, going through the whole list, I'll

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Speaker 2: just buy a whole bunch of one thing and throw

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Speaker 2: it in a you know, throw it in a stocking

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Speaker 2: for everybody.

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Speaker 5: So well, Chipper, you know, obviously you were well paid

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Speaker 5: during your career, but are you like, damn so I

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Speaker 5: was playing just a little bit later in life where

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Speaker 5: the money was how it looked right now because you know,

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Speaker 5: Alex Bragman, okay, third base's been in the game for

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Speaker 5: a minute. It's not even like, you know, so does

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Speaker 5: a different situation because he got called up so early

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Speaker 5: someone like Bragman, his zunis thirt he's already playing third base,

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Speaker 5: He's made a lot of money, and it sounds like

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Speaker 5: you might get another two hundred million dollars ated to

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Speaker 5: his bank account.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's uh, you know, I think all three of

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Speaker 2: us major leaguers here probably wish we were born about

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Speaker 2: twenty or thirty years later. But uh, you know, the

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Speaker 2: fact of the matter is is, you know, the price

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Speaker 2: keeps going up, and these guys, you know, they have

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Speaker 2: free agencies. They're right, you know, to go out there

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Speaker 2: and as long as somebody is willing to pay them,

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Speaker 2: what they feel is the is the going rate for

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Speaker 2: their position, for their statistics that are you know, on

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Speaker 2: the back of their baseball card, More power to them.

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Speaker 2: That's why they Players Association is one of the strongest

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Speaker 2: of butts in the seats. Does this mean?

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Speaker 4: Does this mean that will never be another player that

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Speaker 4: plays in the same team because of where the prices

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Speaker 4: are at, Because you know, once she once everybody wants

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Speaker 4: to hit free agency, and now it's like, oh, once

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Speaker 4: long lasting team doesn't want to negotiate with us.

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Speaker 2: That's a good question. I think every you know, every

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Speaker 2: to fathom that, you know, a player is making forty

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Speaker 2: or fifty million dollars and taking up, you know, twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty five sometimes thirty percent of a given team's salary

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Speaker 2: in a given year. When you spend that much on

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Speaker 2: one person, you're gonna have some holes in some other

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Speaker 1: So to each his own.

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Speaker 2: I mean, uh, these guys are you know, they're like

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Speaker 1: There this is their you know.

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Speaker 2: First real shot at going out and seeing what the

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Speaker 2: what the market offers them, you know, more power to.

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Speaker 1: Them to get what they can.

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Speaker 2: I was just of the belief that, hey, well we'll

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Speaker 3: Would you've taken less?

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Speaker 4: Did you take less?

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Speaker 3: Maybe it's a better question before in your brave's career

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Speaker 2: Well, I was lucky that I never got to a

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Speaker 1: Could have made a little more money.

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Speaker 2: The fact of the matter is is that, you know,

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Speaker 1: Once you're courted by all the.

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Speaker 2: All the pretty girls in free agency, meaning big market teams,

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Speaker 2: and guys realize how much more money they can make

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Speaker 2: in some of these big market teams. The Braves cannot

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Speaker 1: So once they leave the.

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Speaker 2: Clubhouse, I pretty much have them marked off as going

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Speaker 2: that temptation. I had Bobby Cox, I had John Shirholtz,

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Speaker 2: I had a great roster throughout my whole career. I

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Speaker 2: assure you know, my future, and that we were going

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Speaker 2: to be competitive here. And so to answer your question,

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Speaker 3: Was there a team though, come on, be honest, was

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Speaker 3: the Mets play in Shea Stadium every single day I

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Speaker 3: wonder if they got some good spread, like if they

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Speaker 2: Well see, I grew up a huge Dodger fan. My

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Speaker 2: So the year that I that I retired, I actually

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Speaker 2: come on out. Well, you know you can play whenever

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Speaker 2: and I'm like, Stan, if I wear any other uniform

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Speaker 2: telling me it was time to go. I had made

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Speaker 2: they feel about you, It's always those those those thoughts

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Speaker 2: you know, Atlanta is my speed. It's my kind of town.

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Speaker 2: you know, I was born into this organization, grew up

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Speaker 5: That's a really cool story about the Dodgers there too.

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Speaker 5: All right, So let me ask you about what's going

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Speaker 5: on with the Braves right now, because we've seen you, you know,

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Speaker 5: and everyone can give Chip or a follow if you

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Speaker 5: don't already, kind of weigh in with your two cents

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Speaker 5: on the work that Alex Anthopolis has done for several

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Speaker 5: years now running Atlanta. So here's one.

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Speaker 1: Trust the man.

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Speaker 5: He's done goodbye so far. Part of being a GM

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Speaker 5: is adhering to the cries from the fan base, hearing

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Speaker 1: You talk to him often. He's passionate about winning.

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Speaker 5: So what have you guys spoken about this offseason? Alex

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Speaker 5: is usually super aggressive early, but this time around they've

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I think whenever you have certain limitations to your purse strings,

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Speaker 1: You know, the higher levels and whatnot.

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Speaker 2: And I think you saw the Dela Cruz move yesterday

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Speaker 1: That's that's for depth.

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Speaker 2: You know, and in case we do have another rash

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Speaker 1: There's no due, no doubt that.

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Speaker 2: You know, the Braves could use a good corner starting outfielder,

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Speaker 3: Chevar, I love how active you are on social media.

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Speaker 3: It's pretty it's pretty refreshing, actually, someone of your caliber

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Speaker 3: if you would have gone like this with your first move,

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Speaker 1: Well, I think we are.

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Speaker 2: Jeff Fry have been discussing on social media the last

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Speaker 3: Hey, he came after me once because I said something

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Speaker 3: The other day, Smulcy what he thought Otani would have

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Speaker 3: All right, two quick things, real quick before before Krats

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Speaker 3: One was was she Stadium your favorite? Your favorite stadium

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Speaker 3: Because no one I never heard anyone calling. And then

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Speaker 2: Well, I think it was just just a nickname that

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Speaker 1: Oh oh my goodness. Yes, that was.

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Speaker 2: The last thing that I wanted to see when I

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Speaker 1: And sure's you, know crap it sure.

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Speaker 2: Did took him right up the, line AND i Had

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Speaker 1: Plate, man it was like covered.

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Speaker 3: Stuff that's when you know you have a lot of

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Speaker 3: memories when you're, like oh, no that was a different. One,

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Speaker 3: sorry another different walk off.

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Speaker 4: Home we're sorry.

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Speaker 5: Deal uh, Well, timber this was. Awesome really glad we

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Speaker 5: got some time with. You thank you for joining. Us

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Speaker 5: enjoying the holidays with the big, family.

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Speaker 1: Right thanks, guys enjoyed talking to. You same to. Y'all