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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Hammer Territory podcast.

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Speaker 1: This is episode two two four. I'm your host, Brad Rowland,

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Speaker 1: coming to you on a Sunday afternoon, in fact, to

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Speaker 1: the last show, borring news of the month of June.

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Speaker 1: I don't know about you, Scott Coleman. I'm glad June's over.

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Speaker 1: To be honest with you, I did not go very

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Speaker 1: well with the Braves this month. Hello Brad.

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Speaker 2: This is the current state of at least my personal

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Speaker 2: Atlanta Braves fandom. As we were watching on Sunday whatever

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Speaker 2: it is the Braves tried to do in the batter's box.

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Speaker 2: I had a spreadsheet open from SPO track with the

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Speaker 2: Braves contract obligations for twenty twenty six and beyond, thinking

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Speaker 2: what ways and what players they can acquire this offseason

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Speaker 2: to improve second base and DH and maybe shortstop and

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Speaker 2: help out their rotation. These are not things that I

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Speaker 2: or anybody should be thinking about at the midway point

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Speaker 2: here a week before the fourth of July. It's just

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Speaker 2: kind of where this Braves team is right now, and

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Speaker 2: short of a borderline miracle, they are really swimming upstream

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Speaker 2: right now.

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Speaker 1: They certainly are, and you just referenced it. But in

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Speaker 1: between our last episode on the Feet a few days

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Speaker 1: ago and now the halfway point has been crossed, that

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Speaker 1: is now played eighty three games out of one sixty

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Speaker 1: two this season, they are thirty eight and forty five.

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Speaker 1: That's not where you want to be. Of course, they

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Speaker 1: did win three series in a row earlier this month

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Speaker 1: to kind of get off the mat after the disastrous

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Speaker 1: stretch before that, in which you were I would say

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Speaker 1: lucky enough to miss some of that in the great

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Speaker 1: state of Hawaii where you were. But since then they've

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Speaker 1: now split or lost the last three series two losses split,

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Speaker 1: and with that they're back to not the low point

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Speaker 1: of where they were. At one point. They were ten

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Speaker 1: games bull A five hundred about three weeks ago. Now

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Speaker 1: it's seven. So they've improved since then, but it doesn't

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Speaker 1: feel it doesn't feel necessarily feel that way at this

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Speaker 1: point in time. And how about this, I figured this

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Speaker 1: out today. They have now lost six consecutive Sunday games.

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Speaker 1: Scott and you and I talk on Sundays generally speaking,

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Speaker 1: six straight Sunday loss even tho they were playing well,

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Speaker 1: they've can win on Sundays. I mean, it's a running joke.

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Speaker 1: It has been for years, but six in a row.

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Speaker 3: Come on, man, Yeah, it's not quite what season was it,

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Speaker 3: Maybe twenty nineteen where they lost on Mondays, like they

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Speaker 3: lost fourteen consecutive Mondays or something crazy, something bizarre.

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Speaker 2: Of course, there's no rhyme or reason to it. More

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Speaker 2: than likely, but yeah, for years now, this team has

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Speaker 2: been bad on Sundays. They've been awful on Sundays lately,

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Speaker 2: and I think we just naturally kind of remember it

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Speaker 2: one because you and I do a podcast, but also

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Speaker 2: it's the end of a series. Usually the team is

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Speaker 2: off on Monday. Everybody has a bad taste in their

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Speaker 2: mouth for forty eight hours until they get back out

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Speaker 2: on the field. It's more memorable, I guess, than if

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Speaker 2: they had lost consecutive Tuesdays or consecutive Wednesdays. Sundays just

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Speaker 2: kind of sting a little bit more based on where

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Speaker 1: It absolutely does. And you know, I was certainly feeling

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Speaker 1: sorry for us having to record, and I didn't mean

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Speaker 1: to do that. It's it's fun for us to do podcasts.

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Speaker 1: Most of the time. Some shows are not fun. It's work.

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Speaker 1: On occasion, this might be one of those shows I

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Speaker 1: have to say. But yeah, I mean, look beyond the

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Speaker 1: Sunday thing. They lose one run game today we'll talk

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Speaker 1: eleven and twenty one in one run games. So not

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Speaker 1: only are they bad overall, they can't win a close game,

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Speaker 1: and that combination is death. Like we've discussed this many times,

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Speaker 1: but they basically had the profile of a five hundred

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Speaker 1: ish team and they're selling games below five hundred because

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Speaker 1: of a kick in the nuts, you could say, to

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Speaker 1: put a not so polite phrase on it. Today you

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Speaker 1: and I were talking during the game. You know, they

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Speaker 1: I don't mean that as a personal affront to anybody

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Speaker 1: And it's kind of like groundhog Day. I mean, I

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Speaker 2: And even the win on Saturday, as fun as it was,

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Speaker 2: as awesome as the Grand Slam from.

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Speaker 1: Murphy, it was more of the same.

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Speaker 2: For six innings they got nothing out of their rallies.

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Speaker 2: Every run felt like the weight of the world, just

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Speaker 2: game away. But the wins I few and far between.

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Speaker 2: Can you talk about just complete offensive performances? And stop

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Speaker 2: me if you've heard heard me say this before. But

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Speaker 2: the pitching has done its job. Other than Friday night,

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Speaker 2: the pitching just about every night for the last really

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Speaker 2: the whole season. At this point, maybe first couple of

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Speaker 2: May first, the pitching has absolutely done its job. This

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Speaker 2: lineup just does not hit. They're not going to hit.

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Speaker 2: I don't think. I hope I'm wrong. I hope in

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Speaker 2: three weeks we're talking about a rejuvenated lineup with Profar

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Speaker 2: and maybe Riley and Ozuna hit something and all these

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Speaker 2: that feels like foolish hope at this point, because there

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Speaker 2: is nothing I see on a nightly basis that says, hey, Brad,

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Speaker 2: just give it another day or two and everything's going

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Speaker 2: to be fine. I think we are so far past.

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Speaker 1: That I would agree. And I think there was enough

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Speaker 1: reason to believe coming into the season that last year

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Speaker 1: said that even like stuff that is more underlying and

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Speaker 1: more maybe quote unquote advanced than people might buy into.

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Speaker 1: But the injuries that happen, not having Acunya, all these

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Speaker 1: things you could have we did. We made a case,

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Speaker 1: I mean, without going player by player, and we might

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Speaker 1: Eleven to fifteen. That's bad enough, right. They did that

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Speaker 1: for era that missly Mas. You're allowing three to four

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Speaker 1: But bottom five in Baseball, not National League, bottom five

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Speaker 1: There's another way to de scrib And.

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Speaker 2: I'll say this about the lineup. If you look around

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Speaker 2: Major League Baseball, outside of the truly elite teams in

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Speaker 2: one through nine. Agreed, It's rare, other than like the

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty three Braves who had like one through nine

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Speaker 2: everybody had career years and the Yankees Dodgers. Teams with

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Speaker 2: at the Braves, Yes, Michael Harris is awful. Yes, Ozzi

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Speaker 2: a conversation for another day. Nick Allen can't hit. We

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Speaker 2: him at all. The catchers catchers overall have been terrific.

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Speaker 2: even if Murphy's been up and down and Baldwin had

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Speaker 2: the stretchery cooled down. But that leaves four players. And

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Speaker 2: sucked for six, seven, eight weeks. Now, they're not hitting

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Speaker 1: And the Braves, with all the issues at the bottom

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Speaker 2: I firmly believe that if if Riley and Ozuna pick

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Speaker 2: hit like, the offensive woes would be not gone, but

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Speaker 2: those two players in particular are the key culprits because

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Speaker 2: they're hitting behind Acuna and Olsen, who are seemingly always

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Speaker 1: It's just bad.

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Speaker 2: It's bad baseball from players the Braves cannot afford to

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Speaker 2: be getting bad baseball from. I would probably not to

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Speaker 2: flatten it out too much. I would probably include Ozzy

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Speaker 2: and Harris and make it a four pack to be honest,

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Speaker 2: as far as like the guys that it's the four

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Speaker 2: and you know, Ozzie's the investment level in Ozzie is

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Speaker 1: But those four guys are all making real money. And yes,

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Speaker 1: Okay, Scott, who talk about some games? I guess quickly

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Speaker 1: enjoy Spencer's personality. He was good on that show. Listen

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Speaker 1: to that if you haven't already. But he comes out

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Speaker 1: and just like he's obviously the headline. I know, Murphy,

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Speaker 1: it's the biggest swing of the game with the Grand Slam.

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Speaker 1: But Schwallbach was just dominant, man, like I have nothing

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Speaker 1: else to add to it. Just like he was so

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Speaker 1: good twelve strikeouts. Like he's been incredible. Yeah, one of

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Speaker 1: the best pitchers in baseball and has been for about

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Speaker 1: a calendar year now. Schwellenbach, he is so complete on

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Speaker 1: the mound, six pitches whenever he wants them. He has

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Speaker 1: double digit strikeouts now in.

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Speaker 2: Three games this year. I believe that leads the major

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Speaker 2: leagues in double digit strikeout games this season. That's crazy.

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Speaker 2: And I know we talk about Schwellenbach and just the

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Speaker 2: meteoric rise that he's had, but the fact that Braves

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Speaker 2: took a college two way player he had Tommy John

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Speaker 2: and two years later he is legitimately one of the ten, fifteen,

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Speaker 2: twenty best pitchers in baseball a certified ace is crazy

448
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Speaker 2: and one of the few truly positive developments this team

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Speaker 2: has seen over the last eighteen months.

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Speaker 1: He's been incredible. I mean, it is a great story.

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Speaker 1: He should probably be an All Star. I mean that's

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Speaker 1: not our beat necessarily, but I think if you look

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Speaker 1: at the numbers like he's I think he's top ten

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Speaker 1: now amongst our pitchers and fangrafts war I don't know

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Speaker 1: if he still is today, but as of yesterday, he

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Speaker 1: was leading the majors and innings like that's not an

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Speaker 1: easy thing to do, man, for a younger guy in particular,

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Speaker 1: And he had a slow start for him, like he

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Speaker 1: wasn't like getting killed, but it wasn't like he was dominating.

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Speaker 1: But now it's like, oh, we're back to last year.

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Speaker 1: He's just absolutely crushing. He never wants anybody, which I

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Speaker 1: always appreciate more than everybody. I just love guys and

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Speaker 1: all people. I don't know, he was awesome. Nothing else

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Speaker 1: to add. Just listen to that episode with at that

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Speaker 1: Bonus Show, because Spencer was for me, the probably the

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Speaker 1: easy bright spot of the entire weekend. You could argue

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Speaker 1: for Sean Murphy with his two home runs, he's only

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Speaker 1: he's only other competition. I would say to Spencer and Murphy.

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Speaker 1: I said before, but the Grand Slam was the biggest swing.

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Speaker 1: They were already winning, was two to one, but it

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Speaker 1: was not a comfortable lead at that point. Grand Slam

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Speaker 1: absolutely destroyed, Like numbers were crazy, one hundred and fourteen

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Speaker 1: miles an hour, four hundred fifty five feet. If you

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Speaker 1: watched it, it was just like absolutely wrecked. He homered

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Speaker 1: again today, So Sean Murphy much belind and look I

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Speaker 1: get it, he actually earned it. Like he had the

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Speaker 1: hot start this year, He's not been very good for

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Speaker 1: like I don't know, six weeks, eight weeks until this weekend.

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Speaker 1: His overall production is still totally fine, especially Catcher, but

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Speaker 1: Murphy having two big swings is nice to see him.

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Speaker 1: And if I literally saw today after he homered in

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Speaker 1: the game, people were tagging us about how bad he is,

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Speaker 1: which I always find funny, but you know, it is

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Speaker 1: what it is. Gos to you, Sean. That was a

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Speaker 1: huge Honestly, that's been on Saturday. It was awesome though

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Speaker 1: National TV like it's like, oh that was fun.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'm a crowd. Yeah, Saturday night, full crowd,

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Speaker 2: crowd behind the plate went nuts.

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Speaker 1: I mean it was so cool, fun. Finally the big

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Speaker 1: swing and good on Murph.

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Speaker 2: And you know what, Brad, as we're sitting here talking

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Speaker 2: if this team is serious about trying to turn things

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Speaker 2: around this year, I think they have to do two

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Speaker 2: things on well, I would say on Tuesday, but really

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Speaker 2: it's more Wednesday to coincide with Jerks and Profar number one.

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Speaker 1: They have to change up this lineup. It is not working.

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Speaker 2: Tweeted about it, Steven and I talked about it in

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Speaker 2: the lead on Thursday. I know Akunya is the best

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Speaker 2: lead off hitter in the world, but him batting with

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Speaker 2: nobody on base is helping no one, and Matt Olsen

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Speaker 2: hitting with nobody on base other than Akunya is.

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Speaker 1: Helping no one.

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Speaker 2: Move those guys back get and then this is part two.

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Speaker 2: I think you have to put Marcelo Zuna on the

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Speaker 2: injured list now if it's a torn hip, ten days,

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Speaker 2: fifteen days, twenty days on the IL is not going

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Speaker 2: to fix a torn hip. Almost certainly he's gonna need

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Speaker 2: surgery of some kind. But right now, with Ozuna caring

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Speaker 2: and ops and the five hundred's for a month, you

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Speaker 2: have to find a way to get Drake Baldwin in

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Speaker 2: there every night. And I would take a healthy Sean

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Speaker 2: Murphy who can at least run into a Grand Slam

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Speaker 2: than what Ozuna's doing, and then I think you could

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Speaker 2: have some real depth in your lineup. Maybe it turns

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Speaker 2: Ozuna's season around. Give him two weeks off his feet

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Speaker 2: and see if he can do something in the second half.

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Speaker 2: But if they're serious about it, I just you have

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Speaker 2: to have Baldwin in your lineup every night. But you

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Speaker 2: can't just bent Sean Murphy. So I think the easiest

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Speaker 2: way to do that would be to give marcel two

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Speaker 2: weeks off his feet, see if the hip gets any better,

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Speaker 2: see if he's feeling any better. Get Murphy in there,

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Speaker 2: get Baldwin at the top of the order with his

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Speaker 2: on base get pro far at the top of the

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Speaker 2: order with his on base and see if anything changes,

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Speaker 2: because we're watching the same damn story every single night.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you, and I get it, like I

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Speaker 1: don't I know you're not doing this, but I don't

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Speaker 1: act like him. I was gonna taking a break is

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Speaker 1: going to help him. We just don't. We don't know,

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Speaker 1: and we just have no idea. But it can't hurt him,

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Speaker 1: So we'll see. And he's been he looks awful, and

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Speaker 1: it's not like if you didn't have the injury that

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Speaker 1: we knew about, we were probably like, what is going

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Speaker 1: on with Marcello Zoono, it'd be this baffling thing. But

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Speaker 1: we kind of know he's hurt, like he's an older

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Speaker 1: guy who's hurt.

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Speaker 2: One other note I wanted to make I was looking

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Speaker 2: this up last season, the final forty games of twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty four, Marcelo Zuna hit two home runs two. He

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Speaker 2: had something like thirty eight home runs before then and

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Speaker 2: had two homers after August twentieth. And he's also thirty four,

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Speaker 2: going to be thirty five years old, And really, there

544
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Speaker 2: are not a ton of really good hitting hitters in general,

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Speaker 2: regardless of position once you get to your mid thirties.

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Speaker 2: So I do wonder if we're now seeing a combination

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Speaker 2: of both the age cliff as well as this hip injury,

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Speaker 2: because there were some mildly concerning signs towards the end

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Speaker 2: of last year that really was the final quarter of

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Speaker 2: the season. It wasn't like he had a bad final

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Speaker 2: ten days, you know, of course, not that that can

552
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Speaker 2: be flu but for about twenty five percent of last

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Speaker 2: year and then this season, the walks are great, but

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Speaker 2: he's just not driving the ball with any kind of consistency.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we did note that over the winter, and you

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Speaker 1: know him, I had a slugging mistage of three ninety seven.

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Speaker 1: Like if you're a full time DH that can't run

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Speaker 1: or do anything else, you can't slug sub for a hundred,

559
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Speaker 1: Like you just can't do it. And it's the OBP

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Speaker 1: is great, like you just said, what's it right now?

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Speaker 1: Three seventy three, Like he's second on the team. Opp

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Speaker 1: like that, you can live with that, but man, the

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Speaker 1: lack of power from him is a.

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Speaker 2: I mean kind of should they get should they put

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Speaker 2: Marcel ahead of Akunya and Olsin?

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's the profile he's currently this year's profile

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Speaker 1: of Marcel has been a top of the order guy,

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Speaker 1: not in middle of the order guy, which is weird

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Speaker 1: because can't run. I get that he can't run, but

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Speaker 1: he gets on base, so and I get it.

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Speaker 2: If you put you're only leading off once, you're only

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Speaker 2: hitting second once, you know then it's just the guy's

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Speaker 2: getting the most at bats. When I tweet about the

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Speaker 2: lineup stuff, people respond and trust me, I fully get it.

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Speaker 1: But what do you have to lose?

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Speaker 2: This team is eight games back in the Wild Card

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Speaker 2: with five teams ahead of them. The NL East is

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Speaker 2: effectively over. They're ten and a half games out of

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Speaker 2: the East behind two good teams.

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Speaker 1: About to say two two teams not one?

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Speaker 2: Yes, right, with three months to go. I mean they

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Speaker 2: have to go at like one hundred and twenty five

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Speaker 2: win pace the rest of the way. This team as

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Speaker 2: currently constructed is not going to win one hundred and

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Speaker 2: twenty five games in the second half of the year.

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Speaker 1: We got a little news on the lineup, so I'll

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Speaker 1: just shove this up now. I don't know if you

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Speaker 1: saw this in real time. Mark Bowman just tweeted. I

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Speaker 1: presume from the postgame that SNI says he's either going

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Speaker 1: to have he's likely to have Profar bat quote somewhere

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Speaker 1: in the middle of the lineup, so not high in

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Speaker 1: the line U. Apparently, I think Profar's entire profile would

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Speaker 1: be to be at the top of the order, as

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Speaker 1: we discussed all winter long, But apparently that's not the plan.

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Speaker 1: We'll see if that's actually true, but that's what said today,

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Speaker 1: so we don't agree with that. I think it's here

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Speaker 1: to say.

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Speaker 2: We'll see when they score one run in four out

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Speaker 2: of their next seven games. Again, we'll talk about it

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Speaker 2: next weekend here it'll it'll come up on the podcast.

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Speaker 1: If I had him in that topic, I would have

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Speaker 1: just went for the end of the show. But that

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Speaker 1: was kind of funny. And just while we're here, Profar

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Speaker 1: is scheduled to come back. I believe it's Wednesday, July second,

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Speaker 1: is when he's allowed to play. Maybe that's why I

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Speaker 1: first one of those days, Wednesday Thursday of this week.

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Speaker 1: He'll be back, barring a rain out or something like that.

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Speaker 1: So I know everybody hates Profar, I get it, but

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Speaker 1: he's better than the guys he's replacing. I'm pretty confident

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Speaker 1: in that. So yes, we will see all right, Scott,

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Speaker 1: a little bit more to get to about all kinds

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Speaker 1: All right, Scott, Sunday's game not the best. I have

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Speaker 1: one note from Saturday that kind of has to do

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Look, it didn't change anything in itself, but he had

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Speaker 1: in the seventh or a game of the Sea when

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00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 1: they were zero to seven, whatever they were, he didn't start.

646
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 1: He played in that game, but he had played started

647
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 1: like seventy five in a row. Whatever it was. He

648
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 1: finally sat. And the reason why I think, beyond his

649
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 1: just bad season, is that it was getting worse. In

650
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 1: the forty seven played appearances before he was benched, he

651
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:24,080
Speaker 1: had a slash line of zero sixty seven, zero eighty five,

652
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 1: zero eighty nine. He had a sub two hundred ops

653
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 1: over about two weeks. And again, it has already been bad,

654
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 1: but he had gotten worse. And whatever if that made

655
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:39,280
Speaker 1: them pull the plug or whatever, he wasn't optioned. He

656
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 1: was just benched. He actually got into the game on

657
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 1: defense on Saturday. There was some people may find this

658
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 1: it was just my idea, but there was some deep irony.

659
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 1: Eli White started the game Saturday in centerfield and walked

660
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 1: in his first play appearance, which he made everybody laugh.

661
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 1: His hair still hasn't walked, by the way, that's stat

662
00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 1: we keep throwing out there, hasn't. He still hasn't walked

663
00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:01,880
Speaker 1: since we taught, since you know, the uh previous years. Anyway,

664
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 1: we'll see. We kind of called for this, it happened.

665
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 1: That's the only takeaway. It's like it's gonna fix anything.

666
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:09,920
Speaker 1: We don't know, but it's basically three days off. He

667
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 1: played defense for an ending or two yesterday, didn't play

668
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 1: it all today, they're off tomorrow. Will he be in

669
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,800
Speaker 1: a line up on Tuesday? I have no idea. I

670
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:19,280
Speaker 1: don't know.

671
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 2: I think my guess is that this was more of

672
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 2: a platoon thing in an effort to get and he

673
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:28,760
Speaker 2: just found out that he's facing a lefty on Tuesday.

674
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess he's not playing against the lefty on Tuesday.

675
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:31,200
Speaker 1: That's my guess.

676
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:33,560
Speaker 2: That would be my guess as well, and that would

677
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 2: mean say it Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. That's four full

678
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:43,400
Speaker 2: days where Michael Harris is basically not playing. This is

679
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 2: a bigger discussion about Michael Harris's future than trying to

680
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 2: decide if Eli White in his batting glove against a

681
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:54,560
Speaker 2: lefty are better than Michael Harris and his bat and

682
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 2: glove against the lefty. This is about trying to get

683
00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 2: Michael Harris's career back on track, and hey, if it

684
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:02,960
Speaker 2: means that for four or five days, you're going to

685
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 2: give him a mental breather and just see if you

686
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:11,200
Speaker 2: can do anything anything, Even like Buster Onney's podcast had

687
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 2: a segment about how bad Michael Harris is.

688
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 1: It's wild. I mean, we got to the point where

689
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 1: it is a national story. It actually is, because this

690
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 1: is the he won Rookie of the Year. Like it

691
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 1: wasn't like this is a guy that only Brives fans understand. Obviously,

692
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 1: he's more popular and well known in Atlanta than he

693
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 1: would be anywhere else. It's baseball, it's kind of a

694
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:31,360
Speaker 1: regional sport at this point. This is the National League

695
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year and a guy they extended like

696
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:36,120
Speaker 1: this is a big story. How bad. I mean, it's

697
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 1: impossibly bad. He's been the worst hitter in the National League. Like,

698
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 1: it's not a I had someone say the other day

699
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:43,480
Speaker 1: to us, I think I'm camera if as an email

700
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 1: or whatever. It was like, we're making too much of this. No,

701
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 1: we are not. In fact, we're being very responsible. People

702
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 1: are going much harder at Michael than we are. But

703
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 1: it's just noting the numbers and where he has been

704
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 1: this season. It's been very bad, and hopefully it gets corrected.

705
00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 1: But look, if you want to be a pessimist, you

706
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:01,600
Speaker 1: can be in that. The issue is not really his

707
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:04,800
Speaker 1: physical capability, is that he can't recognize pitches and which

708
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 1: wants to swing at. That doesn't get fixed in three days.

709
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:09,520
Speaker 1: I just it doesn't. So we'll see.

710
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 2: I honest to goodness, wonder if Michael cannot see the

711
00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:18,320
Speaker 2: baseball Like famously at this point Max Munsey with the

712
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:23,200
Speaker 2: Dodgers got prescription glasses. He wore contacts, He got prescription

713
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 2: glasses that he wears now, and ever since he did that,

714
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 2: he's been crushing the baseball. It turns out he couldn't

715
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:31,759
Speaker 2: see spin rate and he couldn't see movement on the ball,

716
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,920
Speaker 2: and it's such a difficult game even if you have

717
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 2: the best division in the world. It is so hard

718
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:40,719
Speaker 2: to make a split second decision as to whether or

719
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:43,280
Speaker 2: not to swing, what type of pitch is coming, everything

720
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 2: that goes into hitting. I honestly wonder if Mike is

721
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 2: having problems seeing the baseball. I don't know if prescription

722
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 2: sport glasses are gonna do a damn thing, but why not,

723
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 2: man like, change your hands, change your feet, swing harder,

724
00:34:56,840 --> 00:35:01,319
Speaker 2: change your bat wear, glasses, whatever. Just can't keep going

725
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 2: like this. There's that is we are at the point

726
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:06,320
Speaker 2: now where there are no bad ideas when trying to

727
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:07,879
Speaker 2: get his career back on track.

728
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Speaker 1: Yep. And like we said before in previous episodes, it

729
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:14,120
Speaker 1: could be that he's optioned and he goes to Guenette

730
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:15,719
Speaker 1: like that. I know he has the big contract, but

731
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 1: he has he has minor league options, and he's within

732
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 1: the years of service where he can go down UNI Lotterie.

733
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 1: The Braves could just say you're going down. It's it's

734
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:24,279
Speaker 1: not that you don't have to ask him you're going down.

735
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 1: That's possible. I'm not sure if they're gonna do it.

736
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,319
Speaker 1: They haven't yet, but uh yeah, you're like, you're one

737
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 1: hundred percent right, And maybe it's when Profart comes back,

738
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:34,400
Speaker 1: you have more freedom to do that. I think that

739
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:38,799
Speaker 1: Alexfordugo is quite bad as well. At least White can

740
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 1: run and play defense. We'll see, all right, so long, buddy. Yeah.

741
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 1: Moving on from that briefly on Sunday, I mean, the

742
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:48,719
Speaker 1: most straight ahead Braves loss of the season, and it's

743
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:51,480
Speaker 1: just like this is something every day, two to one loss.

744
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:55,320
Speaker 1: Pitcher pitches well. Strider wasn't his dominant self, didn't have

745
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:57,560
Speaker 1: his best stuff, but still you look up at seven endings,

746
00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:01,160
Speaker 1: two runs. You can't ask much more from the mat

747
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 1: from him. Anything that sticks out to you about Stryder's

748
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 1: performance today, I mean, he's been good lately. Was not

749
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:07,239
Speaker 1: like a not his Christmas, but like he's got the

750
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:07,719
Speaker 1: job done.

751
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 2: Looks really good. Feels like we are just about all

752
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:15,120
Speaker 2: the way back with Spencer now. And that's that's notable

753
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:17,440
Speaker 2: because a month ago there were some real concerns. But

754
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:21,320
Speaker 2: every start, he even if he doesn't have his A

755
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 2: one stuff, which you alluded to, Spencer's getting results and

756
00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:29,399
Speaker 2: he continues to get strikeouts. Really other than ten pitch

757
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 2: sequence in the fifth inning today, he really didn't have

758
00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:34,480
Speaker 2: a ton of trouble. He had the bases loaded in

759
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:36,759
Speaker 2: the first inning, but other than that, it was not

760
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:40,400
Speaker 2: a smoking mirrors by any means, and finish the game strong.

761
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:43,759
Speaker 2: The velocity continues to hold up pretty well, so I

762
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:45,800
Speaker 2: feel like we're in a good place with Spencer, Strider,

763
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:49,800
Speaker 2: feel great about Schwallenbach, God Willing. Let's hope Chris Sales

764
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 2: Ribs get back soon because we need him. Like I

765
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 2: don't even know what, but yeah, I mean right now,

766
00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 2: you just try to win every time a Spencer takes

767
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 2: the mound or a Grant Home take the mound, and

768
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:04,959
Speaker 2: then you pray when Elder or Fuenttes or whoever else

769
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:08,479
Speaker 2: is on the mound that night. Yeah, I saw people

770
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:12,399
Speaker 2: like not complaining but like I don't know, scuffling about

771
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:14,879
Speaker 2: Stritter today and it's like, guys, I know they lost

772
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 2: two to one, they had the lead and he quote

773
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 2: unquote gave the lead up, but like, you cannot expect

774
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 2: the pitcher to throw strut out every night.

775
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:24,400
Speaker 1: You just can't. You gotta score run. They score one

776
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 1: run to day. It was Sean Murphy home run. They

777
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 1: did threaten in the ninth inning they had two on

778
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:32,400
Speaker 1: for Stuart Fairchild and people were like, why is he

779
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 1: why is he hitting? I'm like, why isn't he hitting?

780
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:36,279
Speaker 1: Like it's not that he's any good. But they had

781
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:37,440
Speaker 1: no way to go. They had nobody to go to.

782
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:38,800
Speaker 1: This is the bottom, the bombo of the order is

783
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:41,239
Speaker 1: what it is. We already litigated that, but people, I

784
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 1: don't think Stit did anything wrong there. They'd already used Baldwin. Yeah,

785
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:48,399
Speaker 1: there was nobody to go to. Well, and Luke Luke

786
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:50,320
Speaker 1: Williams was now the shorts, already in the game, a

787
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 1: short style. And also he can't hit anyway. Like your

788
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 1: options were Harris and Verdugo against the lefty. Like they

789
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 1: made the right choice to go with Fairchild. It's just that.

790
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 1: And by the way, he had decent contact hit the

791
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:02,280
Speaker 1: battle of the warring track. Wasn't like he had embarrassed.

792
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 1: It just didn't work out, and no one had confidence.

793
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 1: I mean, I didn't have confidence in what was going

794
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 1: to happen there. But they at we threatened, they gave it.

795
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 1: They gave it a run in the ninth and look

796
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 1: at as seemingly always. They had six hits in the game.

797
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:17,800
Speaker 1: Three of them were by Ronnie and Nelson at the

798
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 1: top of the order one two, and then the bottom half.

799
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 1: I think had one hit comby, So it is what

800
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:23,920
Speaker 1: it is. Nothing else to add for me. Do you

801
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 1: have any else on Sunday? Nothing?

802
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 2: I think we have had that exact same conversation about exactly.

803
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:30,759
Speaker 1: I mean, it's Groundhog Day, it really is. We can

804
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:35,400
Speaker 1: move on. We mentioned Profar back this week. Das Ball

805
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:39,560
Speaker 1: Hernandez started a rehab assignment today in Gwinnette, actually on

806
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 1: the road for Gunette, but he's been out for about

807
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 1: four weeks now with a forearm inflammation issue. It's good

808
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:47,800
Speaker 1: that it wasn't worse. I mean, usually you start worrying

809
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 1: about forearm stuff. But if he's rehabbing now, that's good.

810
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 1: I think Dave's bell is not fantastic, but if he's healthy,

811
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:56,719
Speaker 1: I presume he'll be back in the rotation, start in

812
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 1: the bullpen when he is able to physically, is my guest.

813
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:02,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean he's better than what some of

814
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 2: the other options in this bullpen right now.

815
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 1: And we talked about Day's bell quite a bit.

816
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 2: Needs more swing and miss, needs more strikeouts and hopefully

817
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:13,440
Speaker 2: even if he was pretty solid on a result spaces.

818
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 2: The first two months of the year, there was some

819
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:18,600
Speaker 2: significant smoking mirrors with that and if he can give

820
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:21,919
Speaker 2: the Braves a lively right handed arm out of there

821
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:26,000
Speaker 2: to mix in with Iglesias, who has calmed down a bit.

822
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:28,640
Speaker 2: I think Raycell has been okay the last couple of weeks.

823
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:33,399
Speaker 2: Still not great, but you know, Dealo, Santos, Montero, they've

824
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:35,400
Speaker 2: been fine. So yeah, if you can get them, and

825
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 2: then Pierce Johnson's been really good, I would happily have

826
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:41,359
Speaker 2: Dazebell back. And you're absolutely right, it's a good news

827
00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:44,439
Speaker 2: that it was not a serious for arm injury because

828
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:46,480
Speaker 2: usually you see those and you go, well, see you

829
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:48,320
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty six, because that's going to be a

830
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:49,560
Speaker 2: surgery of some kind.

831
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:53,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, knocked on wood, but a Glaciers has not allowed

832
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:58,719
Speaker 1: a run since June fifth, so like three and a

833
00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 1: half weeks, man, I believe that's like I think it

834
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:04,560
Speaker 1: was like eight appearances since then without a lot of

835
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:04,920
Speaker 1: a run.

836
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:08,000
Speaker 2: Like he's been, honestly since he stopped throwing that damn

837
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:11,280
Speaker 2: slider a lot better imagine.

838
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:13,560
Speaker 1: So I'm not yeah, we're not saying everything's solid there

839
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:15,279
Speaker 1: or that he's back to his old form, but he

840
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:17,840
Speaker 1: has been notably better. And yeah, Montero has gotten a

841
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:20,279
Speaker 1: lot of crap from us and myself included. He's been

842
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:22,759
Speaker 1: pretty good lately too, so well, depend it's not the

843
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 1: problem list hasm been for a while here, but Dave's

844
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:27,759
Speaker 1: bell would be a welcome edition when he is ready

845
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:29,840
Speaker 1: to go. And we mentioned it before, but as we

846
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:32,400
Speaker 1: signed off year, they're off on Monday, then they are

847
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 1: home for the Angels for three games, and then the

848
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 1: Orioles come to town after that. The Angels are currently

849
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 1: as we're talking, a five hundred baseball team now, they're

850
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:46,080
Speaker 1: forty one to forty one. The Braves have a run

851
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 1: differential that is fifty eight runs better than the Angels,

852
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 1: despite the Angels being much better in the standings than

853
00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:55,759
Speaker 1: the Braves. They're not a special team. They're okay, They're

854
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 1: not terrible. The Orioles are kind of like the American

855
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:01,319
Speaker 1: League Braves this year, where they came in with real

856
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:05,480
Speaker 1: buzz and projections and they've been awful. The Orioles are

857
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:08,239
Speaker 1: actually worse than the Braves this season, which takes them

858
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:10,799
Speaker 1: doing They are thirty six and forty seven on the year,

859
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:14,359
Speaker 1: so two games behind the Braves. So in theory, Scott

860
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 1: an opportunity to get some wins. That's also something we

861
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 1: said many times. They had not been dominating these and look,

862
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:23,839
Speaker 1: this is not the Rockies. These teams are not bad bad.

863
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:26,440
Speaker 1: This isn't the Rockies or the White Sox. But these

864
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:29,600
Speaker 1: are teams that you can at home. You're favored against

865
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:32,600
Speaker 1: in a lot of these games, the Spencer's and Grand

866
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:35,800
Speaker 1: Holmes in particular. But this first series against the Angels,

867
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:40,360
Speaker 1: it opens, it's all three. It's it's Fuentes, Holmes, and Elder.

868
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 1: It's hard to be like, yeah, sweep them with those

869
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:46,080
Speaker 1: three on the mount. I mean, maybe they will, but

870
00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:47,759
Speaker 1: you can't project that. I wouldn't say.

871
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:51,479
Speaker 2: So. What Brad is saying is everybody should make dinner

872
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:55,440
Speaker 2: plans on Thursday night so you don't have to watch now, Yeah,

873
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 2: we'll see it's it.

874
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 1: Is a winnable week ahead for the break. Will they win?

875
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:03,680
Speaker 1: Who knows? Who's to say, Brad?

876
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:05,800
Speaker 2: Will they score more than one run in any of

877
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:10,839
Speaker 2: these baseball games? It is a real question, but an opportunity.

878
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:13,000
Speaker 2: Now the schedule does lighten up quite a bit the

879
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:16,160
Speaker 2: next few weeks. Maybe, just maybe, with two weeks to

880
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,600
Speaker 2: go before the All Star Break, this team could run

881
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:21,000
Speaker 2: off a stretch of I don't know, ten and three

882
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:23,479
Speaker 2: to make them feel like they're really in it. Before

883
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 2: that four game or four day break for the All

884
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 2: Star festivities, we'll see it's probably fools, hope, fools errand,

885
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:34,080
Speaker 2: But yeah, Angels are beatable Orioles are beatable. The pitching

886
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:37,399
Speaker 2: is not great. I think we are seeing the three

887
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 2: best starters that the Angels have to offer, whereas the

888
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:44,160
Speaker 2: Braves answering their three worst. But maybe Profar brings some

889
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:46,440
Speaker 2: life into this team, maybe they shake things up with

890
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 2: the lineup. Who knows, but yes, an opportunity ahead for

891
00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:51,919
Speaker 2: the team this upcoming week.

892
00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:56,680
Speaker 1: Gotta score in these games. I mean, the best pitcher

893
00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 1: of the three is Grant Holmes pretty clearly, and he's

894
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:03,120
Speaker 1: also facing you say, Kakuchi for the Angels, who's very good.

895
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:06,839
Speaker 1: So the other two games you better score. Like it's

896
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:09,400
Speaker 1: not like breaking any ground here, but you got to

897
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:11,080
Speaker 1: score more than more than one run per game or

898
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:14,080
Speaker 1: you're not going to be winning a lot of baseball games. Scott,

899
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 1: we've done it. We managed to get to forty minutes

900
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:20,520
Speaker 1: without crying on the air. I can't say the same

901
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:22,359
Speaker 1: for for Shawn and Stephen later on this week if

902
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:25,560
Speaker 1: things go badly, But we'll see how this goes. And look, everyone,

903
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 1: I know everyone's clamoring for deadline content. We're gonna have

904
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:31,560
Speaker 1: plenty of it. What we have done some already. What

905
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:33,560
Speaker 1: we can't really do on June twenty ninth is talk

906
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:36,640
Speaker 1: about deadline every episode because it's still four weeks actually

907
00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:39,719
Speaker 1: four and a half weeks away, and you know it's

908
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:41,480
Speaker 1: it's gonna be the same thing. It's like, will they are,

909
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:43,440
Speaker 1: won't they sell? Will they are? Won't they buy? We

910
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:46,319
Speaker 1: get it, I promise you we get it. But when

911
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:48,719
Speaker 1: Alex comes out and says we're not selling flat out,

912
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:52,800
Speaker 1: you gotta wait for something to change, because that's not

913
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 1: off the table. I wouldn't say we know Alex has

914
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:58,680
Speaker 1: been creative with his comments in the past, but I

915
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 1: think that they're probably they're trying to buy. I think

916
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:02,840
Speaker 1: they're gonna they're hoping to be able to buy. Is

917
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:04,520
Speaker 1: that Is that fair? They're hoping to be able to

918
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:05,719
Speaker 1: buy by winning more games?

919
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 2: But we not Yeah, I mean yes, and I mean frankly,

920
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 2: as we have talked about, this team does not have

921
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 2: a lot to sell even if they want to sell. Yes,

922
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:17,200
Speaker 2: there's not a month worth of content with with with

923
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:18,879
Speaker 2: the selling guys. It's like, oh, here are three guys

924
00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:19,359
Speaker 2: that could sell.

925
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 1: I promise everyone.

926
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:24,120
Speaker 2: Maybe over the All Star break where there's four days

927
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 2: of downtime, maybe we'll do a mail bag where people

928
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:29,160
Speaker 2: can send in questions, or we'll just kind of break

929
00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 2: down the roster as you know, could be traded, won't

930
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:34,720
Speaker 2: be traded, could they? You know, we always get rumors

931
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:38,080
Speaker 2: too from people around the league of oh, this reliever

932
00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:40,320
Speaker 2: is available in Atlanta. Is one of eight teams that

933
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:42,320
Speaker 2: have made a call about him. Well, we'll do that,

934
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:45,960
Speaker 2: we promise. But yes, we'll get to July. Maybe, just

935
00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:48,720
Speaker 2: maybe this team can try to turn this boat around

936
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:51,600
Speaker 2: before they get too far out in the ocean. But yeah,

937
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 2: not a great weekend at home against Philly, not a

938
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:56,799
Speaker 2: great week in general. You talk about winning the first

939
00:44:56,840 --> 00:45:00,239
Speaker 2: two games on Monday and Tuesday in New York, it

940
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:02,400
Speaker 2: was like, damn, all right, are the Braves finally doing this?

941
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:05,799
Speaker 2: And then they lose No, Four out of five and yeah,

942
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:08,600
Speaker 2: not great. The answer was no to that question or

943
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:09,480
Speaker 2: the race finally doing this?

944
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:11,799
Speaker 1: No they are not. Could they do it again?

945
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:12,640
Speaker 5: Yes?

946
00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:15,719
Speaker 1: Uh, but not not not so much, by the way,

947
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:17,600
Speaker 1: So maybe we talked about Sunday. To bring things full

948
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:19,839
Speaker 1: circle here at the end of the podcast, they've lost

949
00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:21,040
Speaker 1: six in a row on Sundays.

950
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:21,759
Speaker 5: We know this.

951
00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:27,120
Speaker 1: This coming week, Scott the Braves play at eleven thirty

952
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:32,359
Speaker 1: five am Eastern Time on Sunday. Oh perhaps it's it's

953
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:33,920
Speaker 1: I think it's one of those ROCU games, one of

954
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:37,359
Speaker 1: those weird is TV. So, uh, perhaps that's what they

955
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 1: need on a Sunday to shake it up, to have

956
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:42,200
Speaker 1: Scott still be in bed, roll over eight thirty five

957
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:44,400
Speaker 1: and be like, hey, baseball's on on Sunday. Maybe that's

958
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:46,120
Speaker 1: gonna be what they need. I don't know, man, but uh,

959
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:48,360
Speaker 1: a shakeup of some sort week from today.

960
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:51,759
Speaker 2: You know what, I just realized we need to do

961
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:56,080
Speaker 2: a live show at Truest Park this week when Charlie Morton,

962
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:59,879
Speaker 2: Oh yeah mate, I'm ready his return and starts again.

963
00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:02,360
Speaker 1: Braves a three.

964
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:05,799
Speaker 2: Hour Brad Rowland solo extravaganza talking about Chuck.

965
00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:07,480
Speaker 1: He may not go as long as well I didn't

966
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:09,080
Speaker 1: bring it up already, because he may not go this weekend.

967
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:11,160
Speaker 1: If he does, I'm gonna I'm gonna be sad. But hey,

968
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:13,080
Speaker 1: I mean Steven Shaw talked about him. Maybe you guys did.

969
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:17,240
Speaker 1: I can't remember. Morton is like a potential drink candidate

970
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:21,239
Speaker 1: for the Braves, just saying he's making too much money

971
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:22,560
Speaker 1: still for it now. But if you tick on some

972
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:25,239
Speaker 1: of a salary and he's been better lately, and I

973
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:27,959
Speaker 1: guys talk about this, it's they'll give me hope. Scott.

974
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:31,480
Speaker 1: We know that Alex loves your reunion. Frankly, he rarely

975
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:32,040
Speaker 1: makes much.

976
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:32,919
Speaker 5: Yeah.

977
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:35,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, like I mean, there's there's a lot of baseball

978
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 1: players out there. I think Alex has done a good

979
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:40,520
Speaker 1: job overall. One thing he probably is too prone to

980
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:44,480
Speaker 1: doing is is the reunion. Uh see see Rosario Comma.

981
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:47,000
Speaker 2: Eddie from this he was gonna say, after three years

982
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:48,960
Speaker 2: of being the worst player in baseball, you didn't think

983
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 2: Eddie Rosario was going to solve some problems?

984
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 1: Brad, I did not, and he did not. All right, Scott,

985
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:56,080
Speaker 1: let's get out of here. Anything to plug on the

986
00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:59,760
Speaker 1: way out? Are we good? We're safe? Nothing to plug.

987
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:02,920
Speaker 2: God bless everybody for tuning into the shows even as

988
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:06,080
Speaker 2: the team is putting us through our mental sanity every

989
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:06,680
Speaker 2: single night.

990
00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:08,279
Speaker 1: Thank you for tuning in. It really does mean a

991
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:08,839
Speaker 1: lot to us.

992
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 5: It does.

993
00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:12,759
Speaker 1: We encourage you to keep doing it, and I half

994
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 1: jokingly but also kind of seriously say, if you don't

995
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:16,920
Speaker 1: want to hate listen after a loss or something, just

996
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:19,160
Speaker 1: download or click. It does help us if you even

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Speaker 1: if you don't want to. If you want to support

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Speaker 1: Tell your friends. I'm sure you have braised fan friends

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Speaker 1: in your life. They have not found the show yet.

1001
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:32,640
Speaker 1: Have them give us a chance, even in this dark

1002
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 1: period for the team. We would appreciate any anyone new

1003
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Speaker 1: joining the podcast as well. Follow us as well on

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Speaker 1: follow me there as well. Thanks forst to everybody, We

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Speaker 1: definitely appreciate it and we'll see you all next time.