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Speaker 1: Welcome one and all to the Here Territory Podcast. My

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Speaker 1: name is Sean coleman A. Hope, where you are and

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Speaker 1: wherever you are listening, you are having a great start

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Speaker 1: to your week and it is rare to be able

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Speaker 1: to say this, so we are going to cherish it

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Speaker 1: as much as possible. One other source that that is

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Speaker 1: having a great start to the week is our Atlanta Braves,

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Speaker 1: a walk off five to four victory over the rival

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Speaker 1: New York Mets. And the title of this podcast is

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Speaker 1: not meant to be dramatic, hyperbolic, anything else other than

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Speaker 1: the straightforward truth. Arguably the biggest win of the season,

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Speaker 1: the way it was done, the fashion and that was done.

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Speaker 1: Who came through big time to get the job done.

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Speaker 1: It was an absolute must win and the Braves got

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Speaker 1: it taking care of him. We're here to break it

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Speaker 1: all down for you, and there are a few, if any,

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Speaker 1: who are better at breaking it down than my podcast

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Speaker 1: partner Steven Tobert Steven, It's always good to do these

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Speaker 1: with you, but especially when we get a needed win. Hope,

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Speaker 1: you've been well, buddy. Let's hear what you've got to

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Speaker 1: say about the Atlanta Braves getting the big victory over

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Speaker 1: the New York Mets.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what's up, man. I think it's fair. I think

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Speaker 2: the title is fair. I think that was the biggest

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Speaker 2: win of the season. You're coming off this just disastrous

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Speaker 2: loss on Sunday against the worst team in baseball. You

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Speaker 2: had a chance to sweep, you had all the momentum

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Speaker 2: get bludgeoned at home ten to one against the worst

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Speaker 2: team in baseball, maybe the worst team of all time.

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Speaker 2: And so the vibes are not good coming into tonight.

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Speaker 2: You've got the division leader coming in. This is the

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Speaker 2: first game all year against the Mets'. You know, they're

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Speaker 2: up by a million in the division. The division race

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Speaker 2: is not really a factor at the moment. But it's

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Speaker 2: just about the vibes. And if you had lost this game,

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Speaker 2: that's two in a row. All the momentum you had

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Speaker 2: from that, you know, mini hot streak is gone, and

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Speaker 2: you're just back to the same all nonsense that we've

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Speaker 2: had all year and and out of the ashes quite literally.

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Speaker 2: I mean this, Let's be honest. They were dead in

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Speaker 2: the water for most of this game. It wasn't until

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Speaker 2: the eighth inning. I think that it was going to

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Speaker 2: hit that that basis clearing double and and tied the

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Speaker 2: game up the one swing the Braves have been basically

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Speaker 2: waiting for all year. I mean that that stadium has

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Speaker 2: been waiting on that swing all year long, and it

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Speaker 2: just never comes. And it came tonight and a Glaciers

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Speaker 2: came in, shut the door. The Braves walked it off,

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Speaker 2: and the U and the extras. Just a huge win,

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Speaker 2: a huge win when the Braves need I mean, the

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Speaker 2: Braves need everyone, quite honestly. But yeah, you can't win.

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Speaker 2: You know, you can't win a series until you win

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Speaker 2: you know, this first one. I mean, if you had

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Speaker 2: lost this first one, now you gotta sweep the next two.

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Speaker 2: Most likely you're probably gonna lose the series. Now you've

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Speaker 2: got a good chance to win your third series in

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Speaker 2: a row. Big win, huge, huge win. And I'll tell

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Speaker 2: you what, the last thirty minutes of that game really

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Speaker 2: changed the tenor of this podcast, because it was gonna

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Speaker 2: be pretty negative had that not happened. But they did.

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Speaker 2: They came back and won it, and that was I

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Speaker 2: think easily the biggest winning the season.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, And you know, let's kind of break down the

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Speaker 1: different parts of it. We won't go put out by

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Speaker 1: let's talk about the other side of things, you know,

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Speaker 1: awake late in games. It felt like we were back

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Speaker 1: and I want to give the Braves organization credit. I

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Speaker 1: feel like it made sense. I mean, it definitely worked

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Speaker 1: out to make sense starting Grant Holmes on Sunday to

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Speaker 1: an uncannyability to be able to deliver big time against

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Speaker 1: the best of the best in Major League Baseball. Tonight

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Speaker 1: If he's not going to be elite like we're used

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Speaker 1: Not his best outing tonight, but good enough to get

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a weird game. You know, his stuff

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Speaker 2: Acuna did not get a good jump on that ball.

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Speaker 2: I just we've said this before. I just I would

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Speaker 2: And you know, he almost made the play anyways, but

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Speaker 2: you know, he didn't get a good jump on that ball.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, that was bad luck. And then he gave

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Speaker 2: you know, Schwelly has picked up the offense plenty of

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Speaker 2: the favor, and they finally did. You know the normally

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Speaker 2: You know, he wasn't awful by any stretch, just just

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Speaker 1: You know, Steven. And again, I don't want to get

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Speaker 1: because I've talked about it before, You've talked about it before.

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Speaker 1: What the Braves need a lot to get out of

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Speaker 1: Our best were at their best night when it needed

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then of course the double Biozena probably the

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Speaker 2: They could they could come out and lose. We could

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Speaker 2: where we started, but for one night. This is what

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Speaker 2: I expect. I expect when the pitchers. The pitchers, the

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Speaker 2: You know, we're not all the way back yet, you know,

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Speaker 2: I think I think between all the runs they scored

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Speaker 2: we still have these moments with the offense where it's

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Speaker 1: So, Stephen, one thing I want to also, you know,

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Speaker 1: that leads us to our big point is that, you know,

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Speaker 1: the other big news of the night was that Jerks

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Speaker 1: and Profar did begin not necessarily a rehab assignment, but

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Speaker 1: basically due to the rules of a player that is

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Speaker 1: suspended with how many games now he is to return

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Speaker 1: him which is basically a few weeks away. I believe

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Speaker 1: it's July second he can return. He started, it's not

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Speaker 1: really a rehab assignment, but he started playing in the

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Speaker 1: minor leagues. He basically is allowed to play in the

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Speaker 1: minor leagues to kind of get back into baseball shape.

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Speaker 1: Don't necessarily know the stats from the game. I know

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Speaker 1: that he had, you know, a pretty hard hit ball

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Speaker 1: in play in his first at bat, but this is

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Speaker 1: significant because whatever you may think of Jerks and Profar,

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Speaker 1: whether you don't believe he's going to come close to

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Speaker 1: when he did last year or not, a couple of

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Speaker 1: things still stand out. He makes contact consistently and he

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Speaker 1: also can get on base consistently. You take that skill

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Speaker 1: set and you put it right into your number two spot,

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Speaker 1: and that solves all. This is shoes with the coaching

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Speaker 1: staff overthinking it. That is something I'm looking forward to.

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Speaker 1: Stacking Jerks and Profar in that second spot. Then Olsen,

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Speaker 1: some combination of Riley and Ozuna and your catcher spot,

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Speaker 1: you've got your top six in place. That could really

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Speaker 1: help out the consistency of this offense.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So that was the big news today was that

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Speaker 2: Profar was starting his It is funny they call it

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Speaker 2: a rehab assignment. He's not coming back from an injury.

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Speaker 4: He's not.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I guess technically he's rehabbing his reputation. I

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Speaker 2: guess that's what he's rehabing at the moment. But he

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Speaker 2: is starting his return to play, and the rules of

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Speaker 2: the CBA allow a player who's been suspended for PDS

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Speaker 2: to start back in the minors about two weeks before

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Speaker 2: he's due back in the majors, so that he can

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Speaker 2: actually the day his suspension is done, he can you know,

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Speaker 2: he can play in the majors. So I looked up

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Speaker 2: the stats he went. I think tonight he went two

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Speaker 2: for three with a walk and a sockfly. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: four quality productive at bats, and yes, when Profar comes back,

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Speaker 2: if he is the Profar that they think he is,

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Speaker 2: and that is a massive if, by the way, that's

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Speaker 2: not a guarantee at all given what's happened. But if

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Speaker 2: he's the quality of hitter that they think he is,

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Speaker 2: then he could be in that mix with being you know,

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Speaker 2: Acuna one, maybe Profar two, and then you go Olsen, Riley,

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Speaker 2: Ozuna or however you want to mix those up. It's

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Speaker 2: very clear that Snit does not like putting Olsen, Riley

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Speaker 2: Orzuna two. I don't know why, and I don't I've

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Speaker 2: never really understood that, but that's clearly how SNID is.

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Speaker 2: So you know, one hundred percent, if he's back and

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Speaker 2: he's actually productive, that could solve this issue where you

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Speaker 2: don't really have a two hitter, or at least in

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Speaker 2: Snit's eyes, they don't really have a two hitter. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's significant and the Braves need him. I mean, just

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Speaker 2: point blank, the Braves need him. Like you said, the

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Speaker 2: Braves have four positions left field, center fields, second base,

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Speaker 2: and shortstop who are among the worst hitters in baseball.

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Speaker 2: Like all four They Braves have four positions on the

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Speaker 2: diamond that are among the worst hitters in baseball. That's brutal.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's no wonder the offense goes through these

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Speaker 2: massive peaks and valleys. And when you've got four of

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Speaker 2: the worst hitters in baseball making up half your lineup,

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's what you're gonna get. So yeah, this

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Speaker 2: is a massive deal with Profar and we're gonna watch

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Speaker 2: it like a hawk to see how he does in

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Speaker 2: triple A. We're gonna watch it like a hawk to

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Speaker 2: see how he does when he gets back. I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: be very interesting, like the stat cast data, like how

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Speaker 2: hard he's hitting the ball. That was the big thing about,

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Speaker 2: Like they gave him that contract because his batted ball

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Speaker 2: data was significantly better. Well now we know, like maybe

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Speaker 2: that wasn't all legitimate, So like what does that batted

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Speaker 2: ball data look like now that we know he has

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Speaker 2: to be clean, So that stuff. I'm gonna be watching

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Speaker 2: like a hawk. It's gonna be fascinating to look at.

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Speaker 2: But it's a big deal and the Braves need him.

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Speaker 2: The Braves need more quality hitters in their lineup because

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Speaker 2: right now they got too many black holes that are

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Speaker 2: just automatic outs.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely and you have to hope that is is he

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Speaker 1: Yes, Steve, it's so Monday. The Braves had an off day,

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Speaker 1: but it was a newsworthy day because the first initial

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Speaker 1: results from the All Star balloting for the American in

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Speaker 1: the National League. When it comes to position players they

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Speaker 1: were released, and those results have a bit more significance

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Speaker 1: with them in recent years because of course they lead

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Speaker 1: to the top three eventually being voted on again, I

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Speaker 1: believe by fans, and I'm gonna be honest with you,

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Speaker 1: I was a bit surprised by the results. Ronald Raccoonie

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Speaker 1: Junior was the only Braves position play who was voted

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Speaker 1: into a relevant position. He was sixth overall in outfield voting.

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Speaker 1: I imagine that he'll work his way up, and especially

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Speaker 1: if he keeps you know, sett in the world on fire,

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Speaker 1: he'll eventgui work his way into that and I think

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Speaker 1: that he'll be, you know, maybe a starter or at

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Speaker 1: least on the team when it comes to the All

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Speaker 1: Star teams. But you typically see the Braves. You typically

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Speaker 1: see Braves Country out there, you know, putting you know, Braves.

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Speaker 1: You know, this is the same source that has put

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Speaker 1: you know, Orlando Arcia as the starter two years ago.

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Speaker 1: So I'm not saying I'm disappointed to Braves Country, because

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Speaker 1: I completely get it with how this season has gone along.

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying I'm a bit surprised, especially for Matt Olsen,

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Speaker 1: who I think right now should be you know, in

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Speaker 1: the you know, at least in the third spot when

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Speaker 1: it comes to the first basement. Any surprises from you,

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Speaker 1: we may see Maddilson eventually work his way up again.

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Speaker 1: I get the reason why. Perhaps we didn't see as

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Speaker 1: many braves as we usually do, but still little bit

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Speaker 1: of surprise. Certainly, hope Ronald gets the support that he

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Speaker 1: needs to get up in that top three eventually.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Ronald's probably gonna make it. Honestly, I mean, I mean,

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Speaker 2: just look at it. I mean his numbers are upsir.

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Speaker 2: I mean he was on base four more times tonight,

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Speaker 2: so I mean his on base percentage is approaching five

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Speaker 2: hundred rapidly. So I think Ronald's gonna make it, and

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Speaker 2: I think it's deserved. I was surprised Matt Olsen was

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Speaker 2: like sixth among Nation League first basemen, and like I get,

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Speaker 2: like Freeman and Alonso were having monster years, so those

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Speaker 2: guys were gonna be ahead of Olsen. But like Olsen

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Speaker 2: is very clearly like the next best first baseman in

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Speaker 2: the National, like Luisa Rise is ahead of Matt Olsen.

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Speaker 2: Louisa Rise is having a terrible year with San Diego.

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Speaker 2: Like I think Brace fans are just pissed as hell

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Speaker 2: the way the season is gone, and they you know,

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Speaker 2: I don't. I just don't think they care to vote

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Speaker 2: much other than Ronald, which I again, I'm not blaming them.

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Speaker 2: I haven't spent a lot of time voting for All Stars.

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Speaker 2: I've made more jokes on Twitter about the Braves voting

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Speaker 2: for All Stars, and I have actually voted for any

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Speaker 2: All Stars. So yeah, so it's not surprising. Azuna was

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Speaker 2: always in a tough spot because Otani and Schwarber are

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Speaker 2: both the h's in the National League, and both of

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Speaker 2: those guys are having absolute monster years and Ozuna has

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Speaker 2: really struggled the last month with the hip stuff. His

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Speaker 2: numbers are really really fallen off. That's another reason that

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Speaker 2: hit tonight was so big. It is good to see

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Speaker 2: Ozuna get a big hit specifically. But yeah, no, nothing

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Speaker 2: terribly surprised. I was Olsen was probably the biggest surprise,

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Speaker 2: being that low among first basemen. But I think Acunya

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Speaker 2: is gonna make it h and I think Sale is

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Speaker 2: gonna make it, and then I think swollen Box got

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Speaker 2: an outside chance of making so I think I think

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Speaker 2: at the most the Brad is gonna get us three.

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Speaker 2: I think more more likely is probably two.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. And the other thing that I want to discusses

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Speaker 1: The best way that I could put it out there

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Speaker 1: do that is scoring five runs a game, averaging five

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Speaker 1: five runs a game. That's the pace that they need

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Speaker 1: and lay a dud. But we won five out of

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Speaker 1: our last seven, we have made up two and a

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Speaker 1: half games in the Wild Card over the past week,

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Speaker 1: and again we have Sell and Strider on the mound

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Speaker 1: over the next two games. I'm not wanting to put

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Speaker 1: before and that bridge has been burned so many times

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Speaker 1: we can win this series, we can win win the

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Speaker 1: next two games and set ourselves up against the Marlins

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Speaker 1: for the weekend. You could start to see that fourteen

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Speaker 1: out of seventeen losing stretch was horrible. The bouncing back

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Speaker 1: clip over the next two weeks after that, I could

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Speaker 1: really put us in a decent position. Again, I'm not

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Speaker 1: sitting here. I think it's more likely than not we're

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Speaker 1: not gonna make the playoffs this year. But we get

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Speaker 1: another win in this series, and then we win the

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Speaker 1: series against the Marlins, They're starting to chip away. You

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Speaker 1: if you just play to your capability.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean if they play to their talent level,

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Speaker 2: of course they can beat anybody. I mean literally anybody.

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Speaker 2: But we've just seen so many times where it looks

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Speaker 2: like the Braves got everything going the right direction and

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Speaker 2: then out of nowhere, they just lay an egg and

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Speaker 2: usually that starts some sort of bad stretch. And so

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Speaker 2: that's like what I'm always on guard against. Like, I

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Speaker 2: love being I love I love that you're a positive person.

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Speaker 2: I love that you you are are always trying to

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Speaker 2: spin it positive, and I'm trying to get there myself

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Speaker 2: because Strider and Seille going the next two days, like,

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Speaker 2: the Braves are are in a really good spot to

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Speaker 2: win this series, and then you got a bad Marlins

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Speaker 2: team and that could potentially be four series wins in

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Speaker 2: a row, which is no joke. But I'm always on

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Speaker 2: guard against the Braves laying an egg the next two

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Speaker 2: days and losing this series. And I know that's I

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Speaker 2: know that's an extremely pessimistic way of looking at it,

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Speaker 2: but after the last two years, you know, especially this year,

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Speaker 2: like it's just tough to get too excited. But this

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Speaker 2: was a massive win. This was a massive win because

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Speaker 2: now you just have to win one of the next

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Speaker 2: two to win the series. You've got a chance to

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Speaker 2: win both of them. With Sail and Strader on the mound.

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Speaker 2: Then you go to Miami, you can potentially do some damage.

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Speaker 2: It's right there in front of you to make a

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Speaker 2: little run here. And I would probably suggest that people

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Speaker 2: not to even look at the division until the Braves

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Speaker 2: have like a good month or so, and then maybe

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Speaker 2: check in on the division every once a while to

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Speaker 2: see if they've made up any ground. I would focus

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Speaker 2: mainly on the wild card. You know, the Braves are

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Speaker 2: seven games back, which is a much more management number.

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Speaker 2: I think they're still like twelve or eleven games back

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Speaker 2: of the Mets in the East. So I just I

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Speaker 2: wouldn't I would put that out of your brain. I

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Speaker 2: wouldn't even concentrate on the division. We're talking about the

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Speaker 2: wild Card pretty much exclusively until the Braves get, you know,

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Speaker 2: back into the same stratosphere as the Mets in the Phillies. So,

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Speaker 2: but they're not dead, and Scott made that point on Sunday,

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Speaker 2: they're not dead, but they have such a small margin

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Speaker 2: of ra that they I mean, like one like three

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Speaker 2: game losing streak and they might be dead. One four

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Speaker 2: game losing streak and they might be dead. Like that's

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Speaker 2: how much I want a nice on knife's edge it

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Speaker 2: is right now, Like they have no margin for error.

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Speaker 2: They have to play really good baseball basically from now

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Speaker 2: to the end of the year. We'll see, we'll see

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Speaker 2: if they can do it. I hope you're right. I

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Speaker 2: would love for your positivity to win the day, and

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Speaker 2: you're one hundred percent right. Nothing would make me happier

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Speaker 2: that you would be right and I would be wrong here.

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Speaker 1: So the best way in my opinion, to keep the

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Speaker 1: perspective in place to where you keep kind of the

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Speaker 1: odds in your favor. Is not to look too far ahead.

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Speaker 1: That old Bobby Cox adage one game at a time.

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Speaker 1: Win today, and that just makes you more confident to

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Speaker 1: win tomorrow, and then that's when you can start to

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Speaker 1: look at the bigger picture with a bit more positivity.

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Speaker 1: But hey, the good thing is is that we have

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Speaker 1: a bit of momentum going into tomorrow with our best

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Speaker 1: picture on the mound. You have to feel confident that

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Speaker 1: you've got the pitching, the starting pitching matchup. The big

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Speaker 1: thing for this Braves team. Hit the fricking ball in

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Speaker 1: the air earlier in the game. That's going to be

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Speaker 1: a huge key. Get some runs early for your starting staff,

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Speaker 1: to alleviate some of the pressure off of what your

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Speaker 1: offense has to do lating games and off of your bullpits.

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Speaker 2: That's what. If the Mets want to keep making outs

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Speaker 2: on the bases, yeah, that's fine. I think Alonso and

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Speaker 2: Soto both made two outs on the basis tonight.

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Speaker 1: So if they don't want to, if they don't want

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Speaker 1: to play their full potential, let's do it.

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