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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Emmer Territory Podcast.

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Speaker 1: This is episode two four three. I am your host,

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Speaker 1: is Brad Roling, coming to you on a Sunday evening

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Speaker 1: here in early August, and I'm joined as I always

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Speaker 1: am by Scott Coleman. Scott, we kind of don't think

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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about I would say one game for

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Speaker 1: most of the show, much over the next two months,

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Speaker 1: but today the Speedway Classic dominates all news a round

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Speaker 1: Atlanta Braves, how are you.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Brad? We should just get right to it on

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Speaker 2: the show tonight because all of America is waiting for

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Speaker 2: a definitive ruling on this one. So as folks know,

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Speaker 2: the Braves have no one on a Sunday since the

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Speaker 2: third weekend in May. It was the week before Ronald

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Speaker 2: Lacuna Junior and Spencer Strider were set to return, and

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Speaker 2: since then the Braves are like oh to nine on Sundays.

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Speaker 2: So the question of the year, Brad, does today's win

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Speaker 2: count as a Sunday victory? Of course, they started on

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Speaker 2: Saturday night, played in a monsoon for about nine minutes,

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Speaker 2: then the game was postponed. They finished it on a Sunday,

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Speaker 2: even if first pitch was on a Saturday. Where do you,

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Speaker 2: Bradley roll and stand on the definitive question of our time.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a nuanced situation. We've already taken credit

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Speaker 1: to some degree on social media, both of us for

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Speaker 1: the street being over. It's Sunday. We've been playing it

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Speaker 1: up for two months now, and they just keep losing.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of hilarious. But I think in looking at

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Speaker 1: this a little bit, I think technically, if you were to,

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Speaker 1: let's say, in a couple of weeks, you go into

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Speaker 1: an official channel, Baseball Reference or whatever and try to

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Speaker 1: find the Sunday games, I think it's gonna look like

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Speaker 1: a Saturday game in those, So like, I'm okay with

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Speaker 1: us taking a victory lap on them find finally winning

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Speaker 1: on Sunday. I also don't think that it's actually a

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Speaker 1: Sunday game, if that makes sense. Like take what I mean. Look,

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Speaker 1: there have been very few wins of any kind, and

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Speaker 1: I mean that literal or figurative this season for us

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Speaker 1: and the Braves. So if you want to just take it,

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Speaker 1: let's just take it.

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Speaker 2: Let's take it.

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Speaker 1: Okay, let's just let's just take it. The Braves won

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Speaker 1: a game on a Sunday. It was kind of a

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Speaker 1: weird one and we'll talk all about that in a second.

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Speaker 1: By the way, if you're new to the podcast, you

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Speaker 1: just found us. We're not usual with this insane It's

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Speaker 1: just that things have gone off the rails the last

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Speaker 1: few months. Uh, Welcome to the Arbor Territory Podcast. Please subscribe,

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Speaker 1: rate review, tell your friends. But yeah, I mean, look,

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Speaker 1: people that are listening to this probably know the deal

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Speaker 1: to some degree here about the MLB Speedway Classic that

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Speaker 1: transpired became a two day event on Saturday and Sunday

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Speaker 1: in Bristol, Tennessee. And you know what do you want

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Speaker 1: to talk about? First Deers Choice, the Brays winning. It's

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Speaker 1: a series win, the first win by any team in

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Speaker 1: the state of Tennessee ever in Major League Baseball. There's

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Speaker 1: that aspect. There's the actual game, and then there's also

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Speaker 1: like the drama of what actually happened on Saturday. And

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Speaker 1: absolute nonsense of what happened on Saturday? Where do you

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about the game first, Because there were some

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Speaker 2: like legitimate things like Hirston Waldrip and Eli White had

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Speaker 2: a great game. So let's talk a little bit of

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Speaker 2: the nuts and bolts of the game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the game, you know, we'll put Allstar rightway to

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Speaker 1: that for a second. But the actual game, it was

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Speaker 1: the Eli White game in some respects. He was the MVP.

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Speaker 1: He got some national shine. That was fun. But I

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Speaker 1: think Waldrop's probably the biggest thing. So without going into

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Speaker 1: the nonsense, yet, they were supposed to start Stride on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: That ended up not happening. It became a bullpen game.

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Speaker 1: Then it got postponed or sorry, suspended, and then they

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Speaker 1: called up person Waldrup, who pitched in the majors last

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought Waldrop looked really good. And you know,

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Speaker 2: So I thought Waldrop was really impressive for a situation

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Speaker 2: And I think he did more than enough to get

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Speaker 1: The Rings have eight games in seven days, Like they're

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Speaker 1: Other than Waldrip, I would say again, Eli White was

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I mean he got interviewed by Ken Rosenthal and

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Speaker 2: And this was very much the Eli White and Hurston

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Speaker 1: Like, Okay, that's actually the next thing because and I

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Speaker 1: It was just hilarious how long they waited to do that,

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Speaker 1: announced on the air on Fox was that he was

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Speaker 1: doing an interview with like the base like the guy

432
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Speaker 1: from MLB, like the field operations guy from MLB. And

433
00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:48,680
Speaker 1: they were doing it in the rain, like they were

434
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Speaker 1: next to the dog. Did you notice this? They were

435
00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:51,560
Speaker 1: next to the dug out, but they were not in

436
00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:53,359
Speaker 1: the dugout. It's like they made a point to do this.

437
00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:54,840
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, we have to do this. Actually in

438
00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:56,879
Speaker 1: the elements, we're standing there in the rain. Kid's getting

439
00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:00,280
Speaker 1: poured on, he's in a suit. Just hilarious stuff. So

440
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Speaker 1: I don't know, they finally announced it. They push it,

441
00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:05,560
Speaker 1: they push it to uh push it. A Sunday we

442
00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:08,159
Speaker 1: toushed on it, but look, we weren't there, but a

443
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Speaker 1: lot of our listeners were I know, I got tweets,

444
00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:15,399
Speaker 1: you got tweets. I don't want to talk about us forever,

445
00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:19,800
Speaker 1: but like it was apparently, like legitimately awful the conditions

446
00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:22,280
Speaker 1: for fans during the rain, and you know, some of

447
00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:25,479
Speaker 1: this is maybe unavoidable. It's a makeshift fed you clearly,

448
00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:30,879
Speaker 1: but between they ran out of food apparently in Bristol.

449
00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:32,960
Speaker 2: Ran out of did you see the picture. They were

450
00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:36,760
Speaker 2: selling hot dogs without the buns, and they were selling

451
00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:40,359
Speaker 2: nacho chips, but they didn't have any cheese. So people

452
00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:43,520
Speaker 2: and people were hanging out because, like I know, Snit

453
00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:46,280
Speaker 2: was saying how great the energy was pregame and how

454
00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:48,679
Speaker 2: cool event, and then you know, they run out of it.

455
00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:50,879
Speaker 2: That someone said they waited in line for a bathroom

456
00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:54,440
Speaker 2: for like forty minutes. There was nowhere to go because

457
00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:57,000
Speaker 2: it was pouring and if there was lightning, god knows.

458
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Speaker 2: You don't want to be sitting on a bunch of

459
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Speaker 2: bleachers if there's lightning, even if you have a poncho

460
00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:03,240
Speaker 2: and an umbrella or whatever. It was just it was

461
00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:06,399
Speaker 2: a bad look for Major League Baseball. At least they

462
00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:09,520
Speaker 2: got the game in today, so it's like, okay, whatever,

463
00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:12,120
Speaker 2: it's done. With we played a major League game in Tennessee.

464
00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:15,320
Speaker 2: We turned a racetrack into a baseball stadium for a day.

465
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Speaker 2: But I mean it was it was not well done,

466
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Speaker 2: Brad for an event that has been on the calendar

467
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Speaker 2: for a calendar year.

468
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was not well done. And you know, we

469
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Speaker 1: don't know all the details, but maybe there were people

470
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Speaker 1: asking this even before the weather. It was like, why

471
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Speaker 1: wasn't this just like a weekend? Like they could have

472
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Speaker 1: done two games there instead of one, and that gives

473
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Speaker 1: you a little bit more logistical cover, maybe you do

474
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Speaker 1: a double header to day or whatever whatever. It would

475
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Speaker 1: have been like having it having an outdoor look logistically

476
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Speaker 1: having an outdoor event in Tennessee in the summer, like

477
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Speaker 1: there's a good chance it's gonna rain, and like they

478
00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,080
Speaker 1: clearly did some work on the field so where they

479
00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:57,160
Speaker 1: had some drainage but not enough and nowhere to get

480
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Speaker 1: these people to go. I felt awful. People we know

481
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Speaker 1: people that that were there, people that work for battery Power.

482
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Speaker 1: I know a lane Day was there for example. I

483
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Speaker 1: would have loved honestly, if I had an easier schedule,

484
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Speaker 1: I would have tried to go. As as media like

485
00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:10,439
Speaker 1: it was, it was that cool in an event. I

486
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Speaker 1: know some of my friends that were in the Atlanta

487
00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:15,199
Speaker 1: market were there covering it, and there was real juice

488
00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:17,680
Speaker 1: until the rain came. Like by all accounts, like it

489
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Speaker 1: was an awesome crowd they set. I mean, did they

490
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Speaker 1: actually officially set the record because they were gonna set

491
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Speaker 1: the record for attendants? I'm assuming they did because they

492
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Speaker 1: were all there at the beginning of the game.

493
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so could have seen the classic pairing of Pitbull

494
00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:34,200
Speaker 2: and Tim McGraw. Like God, who hasn't lived? I feel

495
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Speaker 2: like I have lived a good life, Brad, now that

496
00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:39,240
Speaker 2: I have seen Pitbull and Tim McGraw in concert in

497
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Speaker 2: Bristol with a monthsoon on the way, it was a

498
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Speaker 2: man alive. What in Blooper was stealing race cars and

499
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:48,240
Speaker 2: that was at least funny.

500
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Speaker 1: I mean, shouts to Blooper. Blooper's not for everyone. I found.

501
00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:54,040
Speaker 1: There's a split on Blooper, but most bra his fans

502
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Speaker 1: enjoy his work. He's just a crazy person, not well,

503
00:23:56,560 --> 00:24:00,520
Speaker 1: person's not the right thing mascot, but like, yeah, it

504
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:03,040
Speaker 1: made it a little bit more tolerable during the endless Raindoway,

505
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Speaker 1: I couldn't keep watching the Fox broadcast because they're just

506
00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:09,520
Speaker 1: killing time. They don't know anything, they're just talking about

507
00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:10,119
Speaker 1: about nothing.

508
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:11,840
Speaker 2: Oh it was just yeah, they were eating what he

509
00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,640
Speaker 2: gets alive on the set, and I got it. I'm

510
00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:17,960
Speaker 2: serious about this Tim McGraw and Pitbull thing, Like what

511
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:22,600
Speaker 2: what executive at Fox was like, Brad, I have figured

512
00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:31,560
Speaker 2: it out now. Saturday Night tennessee Tim McGraw, which made sense, sure,

513
00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:33,000
Speaker 2: and then Pitbull.

514
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Speaker 1: Pit Bull is always available. It seems he's big events.

515
00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:40,440
Speaker 1: He's he's out there. If you pay the pay, paying

516
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:42,760
Speaker 1: the right salary, he will come out and play to

517
00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:45,359
Speaker 1: whatever crowd. So no, I mean, it could have it.

518
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Speaker 1: Ali said it could have been cool. It was cool

519
00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:51,919
Speaker 1: at times. I felt really bad for all involved. It

520
00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:56,040
Speaker 1: was poorly planned in some ways clearly, and uh, you know,

521
00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:59,240
Speaker 1: if you have some horror stories, I don't. I'm sorry.

522
00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:02,280
Speaker 1: I feel legitimately bad for fans that went and had

523
00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:04,400
Speaker 1: to deal with it and especially people that were trying

524
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:06,240
Speaker 1: to get back to work today and couldn't had to

525
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:08,160
Speaker 1: like get their tickets away or trying to get refunds

526
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:11,720
Speaker 1: and yeah, boy, no fun there. But hey, I will

527
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Speaker 1: say everyone made this joke. But I mean, could anything

528
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:17,399
Speaker 1: be more on brand for the twenty twenty five Braves

529
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Speaker 1: like anything at all. I mean, they won the game.

530
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Speaker 1: I guess that that was not as unbrand they're supposed

531
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Speaker 1: to lose the game in general. But besides that, everything

532
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:24,920
Speaker 1: else was just I.

533
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,360
Speaker 2: Was gonna say. In the ninth inning, the first two

534
00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:30,800
Speaker 2: batters reached against Trice e Iglacias with the Braves up too,

535
00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:32,760
Speaker 2: and I thought, you know what would really make this

536
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:34,720
Speaker 2: game in this weekend perfect.

537
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:36,680
Speaker 1: A Glaciers giving up the three run hover to lose. Yeah,

538
00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:39,080
Speaker 1: that'd have been incredible when he's still on the roster

539
00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:43,439
Speaker 1: for some reason after the deadline. Anyway, that's a Thursday

540
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:45,520
Speaker 1: Show topic from three days ago that we'll not do again.

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Speaker 1: All right, Scott, let us talk about Austin Riley, which

542
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:51,760
Speaker 1: is not as fun as some of that stuff. Austin

543
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:53,720
Speaker 1: Riley and we don't know a lot right now, but

544
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Speaker 1: he left the game on Sunday once they restarted. It

545
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Speaker 1: was not a weather related, rain related injury.

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Speaker 2: Thank god.

547
00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:05,199
Speaker 1: If that happened last night, can you imagine. But he

548
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:08,200
Speaker 1: exits the game with what the Braves called lower abdominal

549
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 1: pain after a rundown in which he was trying to

550
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:14,480
Speaker 1: chase Ela de la Cruz. I know who my money's

551
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:16,520
Speaker 1: on in that battle. It's not Austin in a race.

552
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:17,959
Speaker 2: He did catch him.

553
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,080
Speaker 1: He did catch him, I know, and maybe that's why

554
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:23,080
Speaker 1: he pulled up lame because he had to extend uh aggressively.

555
00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:26,399
Speaker 1: But snit, I guess on the broadcast right away, I

556
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:28,920
Speaker 1: didn't see it, but you did kind of downplayed it

557
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:32,040
Speaker 1: a little bit live and then after the game he

558
00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:35,280
Speaker 1: kind of said, there'll be more evaluation. If you don't remember,

559
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:39,040
Speaker 1: Austin just was on the IEL for an abdominal issue.

560
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:41,000
Speaker 1: I don't know think the if these No one knows

561
00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:43,520
Speaker 1: if it's the exact same thing, but it's the same area.

562
00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:46,399
Speaker 1: It would be surprising if it wasn't related. And to

563
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:48,080
Speaker 1: some degree he's been off the IL for a week,

564
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 1: so it's still It would have been, yeah, July twenty fifth.

565
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,960
Speaker 1: So I don't have much to add other than obviously

566
00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:56,359
Speaker 1: you hope it's not a serious thing. They are, of

567
00:26:56,359 --> 00:27:00,479
Speaker 1: course incentemized to be cautious given the state of everything

568
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 1: and often being signlunged for anybody, but especially a guy

569
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 1: who signed long term and all that stuff. Anything to

570
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 1: add on this besides the fact that it's just not

571
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,880
Speaker 1: fun and another thing that had to do with Yeah,

572
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:14,919
Speaker 1: I mean it was I mean a heck of a

573
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 1: play by Riley to get the out just before a

574
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 1: run scored at home played. And but you know, I

575
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:23,440
Speaker 1: think with at this point in the season and the

576
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 1: fact this is now a recurring injury for Riley, I

577
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 1: think you put him back on the injured list. Why not, Like,

578
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,200
Speaker 1: the last thing you want him to do is try

579
00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:36,040
Speaker 1: to play through this and injure himself severely where he

580
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:39,159
Speaker 1: you know, like you have a core muscle strain or

581
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:41,640
Speaker 1: a tear or something like that which would require surgery

582
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:45,119
Speaker 1: or a longer time of being out. The season, for

583
00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:47,960
Speaker 1: all intents and purposes, is over. Put Riley on the

584
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 1: injured list. Hopefully it's nothing serious. I mean, I want

585
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:52,080
Speaker 1: Austin to be back out there in a couple of weeks,

586
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:55,679
Speaker 1: but there's no reason to push this. And I'm guessing

587
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:57,720
Speaker 1: maybe by the time folks listen to the show they'll

588
00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:03,480
Speaker 1: have some more clarity. But just another kind of roadblock

589
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:05,880
Speaker 1: for Austin Riley in a season where he just has

590
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:09,119
Speaker 1: not been very good. To be blunt, yeah, I mean

591
00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 1: I know it might not seem like much, but these

592
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,280
Speaker 1: those core core injuries the way you describe it, like

593
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:16,399
Speaker 1: obliques are the one everyone kind of recurls at, but

594
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:20,160
Speaker 1: anything core muscle related for baseball players is more serious

595
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,879
Speaker 1: than for any other regular human because they just have

596
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:25,159
Speaker 1: to use that so much. It's just you cannot function

597
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:27,400
Speaker 1: in the same way as a power hitter in particular

598
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:30,639
Speaker 1: if you don't have your core right on all cylinders.

599
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 1: And that's that's the short version of that. But yeah,

600
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,439
Speaker 1: I mean there's a longer conversation that will probably have

601
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 1: at some point, but Austin is having a very rough

602
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 1: season by his standards. He has a one er four

603
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:43,880
Speaker 1: WRC plus, which isn't disastrous, but for a guy who's

604
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:46,480
Speaker 1: supposed to be a star, is not at that level.

605
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 1: He's eighty five WRC plus since June first. That's two

606
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 1: months of him being like a solidly below average hitter.

607
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:56,520
Speaker 1: And he isn't like a great defender. There's always been

608
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:58,080
Speaker 1: a split there, but like, he's not a great defender

609
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 1: at the very least. So there's that he's got a

610
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 1: hit and last two years combined one ten WRC plus. Yep,

611
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:06,959
Speaker 1: I can tell you right now when they get when

612
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:08,920
Speaker 1: they gave him that contract, that is not what they

613
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:12,480
Speaker 1: were hoping for. And that's still a good player. No

614
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 1: one's saying he's a terrible player. But one ten WRC

615
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,040
Speaker 1: plus and where he was before the contract in the

616
00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 1: one thirty five, one to forty range, that's a that's

617
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 1: a big gap. Like you can you're a start one

618
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 1: and you're not a star on the other. That's that's

619
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 1: a simple as I could put it.

620
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't, I don't have the exact number. But

621
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Speaker 2: since Riley signed the biggest contract in franchise history, again,

622
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:35,840
Speaker 2: like he's been a good player, Like do not hear

623
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 2: what we're not saying? Yep, But if you told me

624
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:42,560
Speaker 2: on that the night we did that emergency show, after

625
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:46,560
Speaker 2: Riley signed for two hundred plus million dollars, biggest contract

626
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 2: by a mile on the franchise history, that he was

627
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 2: going to have like a one fifteen WRC plus and

628
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 2: like just over an eight hundred ops in the three

629
00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 2: seasons to follow that massive contract like that, I would

630
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 2: say you need more from that player. And the fact is,

631
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:09,360
Speaker 2: when you sign these long, long deals, the likelihood is

632
00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 2: that you're gonna get better production at the front end

633
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 2: of it than the back end. So if Riley doesn't

634
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 2: turn this thing around. The last couple of years of

635
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:20,160
Speaker 2: this contract could get pretty ugly. It is still way

636
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 2: too early to make any kind of declaration in that regard.

637
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 2: He's still a very talented player. He is in his

638
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:29,640
Speaker 2: theoretical prime. And if you ask me, will Austin Riley

639
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 2: be better than this going forward? I would say definitively yes.

640
00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 2: But it is very fair to say that the last

641
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 2: couple of seasons and especially recently, have just not been

642
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 2: what the Braves need from Riley.

643
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:43,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, and like I said, we'll probably do a whole

644
00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:47,520
Speaker 1: show it's at some point, but it's he didn't have

645
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:49,720
Speaker 1: like to be fair to him, he signed them in

646
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:51,960
Speaker 1: the middle of twenty twenty two, and he was a

647
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:54,719
Speaker 1: star level player in twenty twenty three the next season,

648
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 1: But the two years after that is what we're talking about.

649
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 1: And look some of the underlying stuffs. I'm more concerned

650
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 1: where his walk rates going the wrong way, strike out

651
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 1: rates going the wrong way, and he's not like young

652
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 1: Young anymore, and that is the risk. And that's something

653
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 1: we said on that show when we did that emergency

654
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 1: pocket that you were just referred to is like there,

655
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:17,200
Speaker 1: that was one of the shakier extensions that Alex gave out.

656
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 1: Not that it was terrible, no one said that, but

657
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 1: it was one of the ones with more risk because

658
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:23,720
Speaker 1: of just how old he was going to be by

659
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 1: the end and the profile all that stuff. So anyway,

660
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 1: we'll get that later. Hopefully Austin is fine. There was

661
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 1: actually a little bit of news. I'm not sure if

662
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:33,040
Speaker 1: you've got the same one I just got. Scott Herson

663
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 1: Waldrop has been returned to Gwinnette, which was expected to

664
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 1: be fair, but and Bowman actually just said in real

665
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 1: time that he's uh, he's able to return as the

666
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 1: extra player on Saturday. We talked about that, but I

667
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,479
Speaker 1: want to just say that broke while we were recording

668
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 1: officially going back down. That was always gonna happen. He

669
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:49,400
Speaker 1: was the extra guy.

670
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:53,000
Speaker 2: You know, all that stuff in one clarification because I

671
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 2: looked it up, Brad. So since signing the biggest contract

672
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 2: in franchise history with the Braves, this was at the

673
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 2: end of July twenty twenty two, YEP, Austin Riley is

674
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 2: batting two sixty two with a three twenty nine on

675
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:12,960
Speaker 2: base percentage, a four to sixty five slugging which is

676
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 2: good in a one seventeen WRC.

677
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,280
Speaker 1: Plus that's a sub eight hundred ops.

678
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 2: You need more, just full stop. You need more from

679
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 2: your star players. There's a lot of issues with this team.

680
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 2: Riley is far from the biggest issue with this roster

681
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,840
Speaker 2: right now. Agreed, they need more and we will. We'll

682
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 2: do a deeper dive probably some point in the next

683
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 2: two months when the games don't have as much meaning

684
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 2: on Riley, where he's been and what his future might

685
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 2: look like.

686
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we'll move on. But the big thing of

687
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 1: with that is like when you're extending a guy like that,

688
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 1: you're hoping that you get surplus value at the beginning

689
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 1: because the end of it is almost certainly not going

690
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 1: to be good. That's that's the theory of an eight

691
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:54,120
Speaker 1: year extension is like he's gonna outplay it for the

692
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:56,240
Speaker 1: first four or five years and then kind of gradually fall.

693
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 1: And right now he's not out playing. He's not he's

694
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:00,360
Speaker 1: not super underwater on it. But you wanted to be

695
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:03,800
Speaker 1: a fifty million dollars player like he was pre extension,

696
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 1: and what he wasn't twenty twenty three, To be fair,

697
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 1: the last two years he's been like at the level

698
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 1: and that's not where you want him to be. Okay,

699
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 1: Before we get out of here, one more note, not

700
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 1: a huge surprise, but we talked about it a lot

701
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 1: on Thursday about Ozuna sticking around and all the factors

702
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 1: didn't play there. Friday, Brian Snicker said pretty plainly that

703
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 1: the plan is for Drake Baldwin to basically play almost

704
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:32,480
Speaker 1: every day or every day, which means him dhing when

705
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:35,239
Speaker 1: he's not catching, which we all were happy about and

706
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 1: happy to hear. Of course, Drake is the young talented player,

707
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 1: but also he has the Rookie of the year at stake,

708
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:43,480
Speaker 1: which could help the Braids with a draft pick. All

709
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 1: of that that's the longer discussion, but obviously we all

710
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 1: want Balwin to play it as much as possible. Sid

711
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 1: did not give the same guidance on Sean Murphy, which

712
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 1: is interesting because Sean Murphy's been as good as Drake

713
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:58,120
Speaker 1: Balwin this season. Granted he's not a prospect in the

714
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 1: way that Drake is, but by the numbers has actually

715
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 1: been just as good. What do you make of that

716
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 1: whole thing? Like, is that Ozuna basically basically what amount

717
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 1: to Ozuna playing over Murphy? Sometimes? Like when when Murphy's

718
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:15,399
Speaker 1: not catching. It seems like he's like Murphy's gonna catch

719
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:18,879
Speaker 1: almost only and very rarely DH. Is what I that's

720
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 1: the message I took from that. He didn't say that, but.

721
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:25,040
Speaker 2: I didn't necessarily take that away. I'm guessing it's gonna

722
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 2: be something like Ozuna plays once a series.

723
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:31,920
Speaker 1: So well, and that basically means that Murphy's gonna end

724
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:35,320
Speaker 1: up not dhing. I mean, if you follow the logic there.

725
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:40,279
Speaker 2: Well, if Murphy catches one and Baldwin catches one, then

726
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:43,840
Speaker 2: you would have Murph DH once and have uh Ozuna

727
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 2: DH the other night. I don't know, I mean, we'll see.

728
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:47,239
Speaker 1: Yeah.

729
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:50,880
Speaker 2: I didn't read that as anything more than just Baldwin's

730
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,480
Speaker 2: gonna play basically every day, which is what we have been.

731
00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:57,799
Speaker 1: I'm in on that. I should, I just don't. It's

732
00:34:57,800 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 1: not a big of a deal if it was the opposite,

733
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:04,919
Speaker 1: Even as resident Murphy defenders like, I'm less bothered by

734
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:07,120
Speaker 1: this than I would be by the other way around.

735
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 1: I want Baldwin to play as much as humanly possible

736
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 1: for multiple reasons. Obviously, make sure he's not overextending himself.

737
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 1: But he's a young guy, he's a good shape all that,

738
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 1: so he'll be fine. And if you're just hitting, that's

739
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:20,759
Speaker 1: different than playing catcher all the time. So whatever. I

740
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 1: just think that Snid is very intentionally leaving the door

741
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:27,680
Speaker 1: open to play Marcel and I don't particularly like that.

742
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 1: But it also was expected. We talked about, we predicted

743
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 1: that as well, like he's gonna play. I think you

744
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 1: saw the too. He'll play some. It's just what's gonna happen.

745
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 1: And one note on the Rookie of the Year thing

746
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:42,360
Speaker 1: for Baldwin. So the Brewers on Sunday placed Jacob Miserowski

747
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 1: on the injured list, which is a shame because that

748
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:49,239
Speaker 1: kid is so electric. But in my opinion, Miserowski was

749
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:52,320
Speaker 1: probably the biggest threat to Baldwin.

750
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:55,239
Speaker 2: Winning Rookie of the Year. So it helps, I mean,

751
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 2: it does. I mean, we never want to root for

752
00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:59,799
Speaker 2: an injury of any kind, but it does help you.

753
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:04,840
Speaker 2: Baldwin is a comfortable favorite now in the betting odds

754
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,040
Speaker 2: for Rookie of the Year, and again that would get

755
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,239
Speaker 2: the Braves draft pick, and it would get them even

756
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:12,279
Speaker 2: more money to spend with the likelihood that they are

757
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 2: going to have a top five, if not top three,

758
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:18,400
Speaker 2: top two, top one pick in the draft next summer.

759
00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:20,960
Speaker 2: That's not a small thing when you're trying to rebuild

760
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:24,080
Speaker 2: your farm system in a hurry. Yeah, as of now,

761
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:28,440
Speaker 2: our friends at DraftKings have Baldwin at minus two forty five.

762
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:33,240
Speaker 2: That's a big favorite. Fern Awards race on August third. Now,

763
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 2: not like a slam dunk, like, he's not definitely going

764
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:38,000
Speaker 2: to win it. He's got to perform number one and.

765
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:40,240
Speaker 1: Stay healthy all that stuff, but he is a clear

766
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 1: betting favorite at DraftKings well.

767
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:45,319
Speaker 2: And just to show the impact of the injury to Misrowski,

768
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,360
Speaker 2: I believe Brad correct me if I'm wrong, but Baldwin

769
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:52,240
Speaker 2: was minus one ninety as of Sunday morning before Milwaukee

770
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 2: put him on the injured list. So that is a

771
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 2: significant jump because and again no one's rooting for injuries here.

772
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 2: Do not hear what we're not saying. But it helps

773
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:03,759
Speaker 2: Baldwin and it helps the Braves, and as long as

774
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:06,840
Speaker 2: knock on freaking wood, Baldwin stays healthy down the stretch,

775
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 2: not only will the Braves have a Rookie of the Year,

776
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 2: which is really cool, but it should help them get

777
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,400
Speaker 2: that draft pick that they could really use next summer.

778
00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:17,319
Speaker 1: It is one of the bigger sweats of the rest

779
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:19,279
Speaker 1: of the season is whether Baldwin will win the Rookie

780
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 1: of the Year, So root for that if nothing else

781
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 1: for his fans. Unless you have takes on Friday's game,

782
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:26,839
Speaker 1: we don't have to touch on that too much. Although

783
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,560
Speaker 1: chast Brice Elder, who actually pitched pretty well on Friday.

784
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:32,399
Speaker 1: He had been really bad for a while, so nice

785
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:34,080
Speaker 1: to see that. They still lost the game, but it

786
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 1: was not his fault. They lost the game. He pitched well,

787
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:37,879
Speaker 1: So there you go. That's my always take on Friday,

788
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 1: unless you have more to ad.

789
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 2: Another good night for Michael Harris.

790
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:45,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. All right, let's look ahead a

791
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:48,480
Speaker 1: little bit then we'll get out of here. As noted earlier,

792
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:51,800
Speaker 1: the Braves have eight games in the next seven days.

793
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:54,440
Speaker 1: No day off this week and a doubleheader on Saturday.

794
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:58,839
Speaker 1: It's three against Milwaukee and then five against Miami. All

795
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 1: that's in Atlanta, so busy week. We'll have shows as

796
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:04,360
Speaker 1: we always would. The Braves actually announced their starters for

797
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:06,799
Speaker 1: the Milwaukee series and then changed it during our show,

798
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:10,960
Speaker 1: which I did see. Originally it was Fetti on Monday,

799
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 1: then Strider on Tuesday, and Wentz on Wednesday. Now, uh,

800
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:20,879
Speaker 1: it's Feeddi Wentz on Tuesday, Strata on Wednesday. I'm fine

801
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:23,320
Speaker 1: with that. Give Spencer as much time as he wants

802
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:26,839
Speaker 1: or needs. Yes, yeah, I mean Strider went through the

803
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:29,439
Speaker 1: full on warm up. I mean he was gonna pitch

804
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:31,359
Speaker 1: on he was going out to the throat like they were

805
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:33,560
Speaker 1: about They didn't. They didn't call the delay until like

806
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:36,680
Speaker 1: right before the game. So he was ready to go,

807
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 1: and he's you know, he's a he's a guy that

808
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 1: gets psyched up, like he's a very intense person. I'm

809
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 1: sure he was like amped to go pitch in this

810
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:48,319
Speaker 1: big spot National Fox, like all that stuff. Like it's

811
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:52,280
Speaker 1: not exactly a normal cool down. I would say, yeah, right,

812
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:53,439
Speaker 1: So it makes sense.

813
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:57,600
Speaker 2: Gives Strider an extra day protect that arm. And you know,

814
00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 2: it's funny, Brad. I remember, back in the beginning of April,

815
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 2: which feels like an eternity ago in this baseball season,

816
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 2: that first Sunday home game against the Marlins was rained out,

817
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:12,279
Speaker 2: and at the time, I think the Braves were one

818
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:15,160
Speaker 2: in eight, and I think, like word for word on

819
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 2: the show, it was like, you know, the rain out

820
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 2: today is not the worst thing, because in August surely

821
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 2: the Braves will be in really good shape and playing

822
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:25,759
Speaker 2: much better, and then the Marlins will have sold and

823
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 2: will be thinking about next year. And I mean, the

824
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:31,799
Speaker 2: Marlins are like legitimately alive in the wild card race.

825
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 2: They're five hundred, they're playing, They're the second best record

826
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:37,840
Speaker 2: in the game over the last six weeks in the majors,

827
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:40,600
Speaker 2: and we know where the Braves are. In a million years,

828
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:43,600
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have predicted this. So Miami's playing goodball. The

829
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:45,719
Speaker 2: Brewers are really I mean, the Brewers are just such

830
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:49,840
Speaker 2: a machine, one of the best run franchises regardless of

831
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:52,279
Speaker 2: payroll in the major leagues. It'll be a tough week

832
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 2: for the Braves, and I mean, lord knows other than

833
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 2: the Strider start and presumably Hirston Waldrip getting another start

834
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:02,200
Speaker 2: next weekend and might be a tough go the next week.

835
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:05,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I knew they were playing with you well,

836
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:08,000
Speaker 1: but I will admit I did not know this. The Brewers,

837
00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 1: as we are speaking on Sunday evening, at the best

838
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:13,760
Speaker 1: record in baseball and the best run differential in baseball.

839
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:16,360
Speaker 1: There have been the best team in baseball this season

840
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:20,280
Speaker 1: by the numbers till as of right now, so in what's.

841
00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 2: Crazy about Milwaukee? Every offseason they lose like three players

842
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:26,840
Speaker 2: and you go, oh wow, like Willia Damas and Corbyn

843
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:29,960
Speaker 2: Burns was there, Like every they don't have the money

844
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:32,440
Speaker 2: or they don't they're not they don't spend the money

845
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:36,759
Speaker 2: to retain these high level players. And every year Milwaukee

846
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 2: wins and just a really good baseball team and easy

847
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:42,960
Speaker 2: to root four team. They have Bill Contreras. They just

848
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:45,920
Speaker 2: put Trino on the injured list. But again, man, this

849
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 2: is a good, talented, fundamentally sound baseball team.

850
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're the only team in baseball that's top five

851
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:56,240
Speaker 1: and both run scored and runs allowed usually good formula

852
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 1: to win games if you are good at both those

853
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,920
Speaker 1: things prevention and score. So yeah, uphill battle obviously the

854
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:04,040
Speaker 1: results of the results. But a busy week. If you

855
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:07,360
Speaker 1: enjoy watching baseball, there'll be a lot of it. Eight games,

856
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:10,320
Speaker 1: seven days, no night's off. Even as much as the

857
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 1: season has been brutal, I don't like off days. It's

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Speaker 1: good for the show sometimes, but as far as like

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00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 1: it just throws your real them off, like we're all

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00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:20,319
Speaker 1: used to just all right, turn the game on, here's

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00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:20,759
Speaker 1: a game on.

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00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 2: Oh I still do.

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00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and I always will. I mean, the

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Speaker 1: game is gonna be on whatever. So I've never liked

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00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:28,000
Speaker 1: off days, and this week there are none, and there's

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00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 1: an extra bit of baseball on Saturday, so stay tuned.

867
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Speaker 1: We'll be covering all of it. But yeah, we'll see.

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00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:36,319
Speaker 1: We'll see about Walter coming back up. I think it's

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00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:39,279
Speaker 1: probably gonna happen Saturday, all as a Strider. He's the

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Speaker 1: one guy in the rotation that we know is a

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00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:44,399
Speaker 1: guy in capitol letters. But look, Joey Wentz has been good.

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00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:46,439
Speaker 1: We'll see what he looks like in his next follow

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00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:49,399
Speaker 1: up start. Like Eric Fadi is not exciting at all,

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00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 1: but he's a Bajor League pitcher. So plenty of stuff

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00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 1: to talk about this week. We'll cover it all in

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Speaker 1: this space.

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Speaker 2: I was gonna say, is Monday's gait at Truest Park

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00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:02,600
Speaker 2: going to be like the lowest attended Braves game in

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Speaker 2: that stadium in like six years?

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Speaker 1: Here's something you did that you wouldn't know as well. Uh,

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Speaker 1: Monday is also the first day of school in a

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Speaker 1: lot of places. A run Alanta.

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Speaker 2: Oh so yes, I think the question.

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Speaker 1: And I guess it's gonna be pretty pretty rough. Attendance wise, Milwaukee,

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Speaker 1: as good as they are, is not a They're not

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Speaker 1: a casual fan draw. It's not the Yankees, it's not

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Speaker 1: you know, it's not the Dodgers coming in. So uh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I would imagine it's gonna be a little down, especially

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Speaker 1: in the nonst Rider the first Monday and Tuesday, I

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Speaker 1: would imagine, and the nons rider games are gonna be

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Speaker 1: tough tickets. Well maybe not, I should sorry, easy tickets

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Speaker 1: to get if you want to go.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say, you can probably get a

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Speaker 2: good deal. This is the time of year where teams

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Speaker 2: who are not in the mix start doing like the

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Speaker 2: you know, get a season ticket for the rest of

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Speaker 2: the season, all home games for ninety nine dollars, and

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00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:50,840
Speaker 2: you know, you just get like assigned row nineteen of

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Speaker 2: section four oh two. You know they're not gonna be

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Speaker 2: good seats, but you're in the stadium and you know, hey,

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Speaker 2: like we said, I'll turn on the braves just about

902
00:42:57,880 --> 00:42:59,840
Speaker 2: every night. Sometimes I might turn them off in the

903
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:02,759
Speaker 2: ending if it's going real bad. But baseball is a

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Speaker 2: good thing and we'll get through these next two months.

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Speaker 1: It's always a little bit of a litle with weeknight attendance.

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00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:11,719
Speaker 1: When school starts, that's just natural for any place. But

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Speaker 1: when your team is what the Braves are right now,

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00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:16,279
Speaker 1: it will probably be a little bit bigger of a dip.

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00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:16,879
Speaker 1: But we'll see.

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Speaker 2: And this is just so unrelated. When did school start,

911
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 2: Like school's out here in Arizona started on Friday. What happened,

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00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:28,799
Speaker 2: man Like wasn't when I was a kid. It was

913
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Speaker 2: like Labor Day was when I started going to school.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we were My parents are, granted because

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Speaker 1: I'm a Michigan FANA's I'm not surprised to anybody. My

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00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:40,080
Speaker 1: parents are Midwestern people and that's where I grew up,

917
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 1: and same like we would we would start school around

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Speaker 1: my birthday. My birthday is in mid August, and my

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00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:48,960
Speaker 1: parents were like, this is insane, you should be starting.

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00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:51,680
Speaker 1: And now they're starting. Some places to start start it's

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Speaker 1: like July thirtieth or something other stuff. Yeah, school, and

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00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:56,359
Speaker 1: that's it's weird. But yeah, I can tell you because

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Speaker 1: I'm my brother. My brother's teacher. A lot of places

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Speaker 1: around the metro Atlanta area start Monday, and that is

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Speaker 1: a hilarious bit of synergy. So we'll see. But all right,

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Speaker 1: Scott let's get out of here. We're gonna we pleased

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Speaker 1: to be shorter. It's not really shorter, but it's probably

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Speaker 1: shorter than we would often be on a Sunday. That's

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Speaker 1: forty five minutes. We get out of here. Anything to

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Speaker 1: add and if not, folks can find you where on

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Speaker 1: social media.

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Speaker 2: I'm at Scott Coleman at fifty five and as always,

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Speaker 2: thanks everybody for sticking with us, even in this challenging

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Speaker 2: season filled with weird baseball games and rain delays and

935
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Speaker 2: hot dogs without buns and everything else in between.

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