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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back to the Hammer Territory podcast. I

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Speaker 1: am your host, Brad Rowland, coming to you on a Thursday.

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Speaker 1: It's almost a holiday edition of the podcast. July fourth

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Speaker 1: will be arriving as we finish up this podcast, and

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Speaker 1: I'm joined today as I always am, by Scott Coleman. Scott,

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Speaker 1: it's episode two twenty seven. There have been a few

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Speaker 1: of these episodes, the spalls on our old podcast where

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Speaker 1: we used to do lack loss episodes. This is a

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Speaker 1: weird one for me. I gotta be honest with you.

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Speaker 1: How are you on a Thursday night?

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Speaker 2: Hello Brad, Happy early fourth of July to you and

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Speaker 2: everybody out there listening. I am in a weird place

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Speaker 2: as a fan and as a podcaster of the Atlanta

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Speaker 2: Braves because this team is a weird spot. They have

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Speaker 2: not been in in ten years at this point, maybe

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Speaker 2: eleven years. I think I was thinking about this earlier today.

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Speaker 2: Tell me what you think. This season to me kind

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Speaker 2: of feels like twenty fourteen, where there was some expectations

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Speaker 2: and hype and excitement, but obviously it's it's just not

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Speaker 2: gonna happen, or it's probably not gonna happen. We should say,

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Speaker 2: maybe they're not fully dead yet, but to me, it

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Speaker 2: feels like twenty fourteen. Of course, twenty fourteen was the

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Speaker 2: end of an era. They sold the entire world a

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Speaker 2: few months from now in twenty fourteen. I don't think

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Speaker 2: that's gonna happen. We're actually going to talk about that

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Speaker 2: a little bit later in the show. But it's weird

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Speaker 2: times right now to be a Braves fan.

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Speaker 1: It certainly is. And that's probably the best Sebi recent

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Speaker 1: comparison for this team is twenty fourteen, and that's a

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Speaker 1: long time ago. We weren't even do in podcasts yet.

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Speaker 1: You haven't talking for a long time. We haven't even

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Speaker 1: started yet in twenty fourteen, so a lot has happen.

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Speaker 1: If you are a new listener to the show, or

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Speaker 1: if you perhaps are joining us again right now, then

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Speaker 1: that's interesting timing. We welcome you back to the show

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Speaker 1: for sure. We should also plug. We did an emergency episode.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't Scott and I, it was actually our colleagues

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Speaker 1: Sean and Steven on Wednesday to chronicle the latest and

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Speaker 1: the disastrous news for the Braves, and it's specially Swallenbach

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Speaker 1: going down. We could give our reactions now, I guess

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Speaker 1: it's better than the worst case scenario. It's not a

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Speaker 1: Tommy John, it's not a long term, long term injury.

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Speaker 1: But also it's not good for a team that has

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Speaker 1: no margin for air. That was covered in more detail

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Speaker 1: than we probably need to do it now, but it

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Speaker 1: seemed like the reaction was I want to put wars

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Speaker 1: takes on WEDNESDA Night.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was the if the Braves couldn't withstand

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Speaker 2: the Chris Saale injury, they really could not withstand the

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Speaker 2: Schwellenbach injury. And to me, I mean, maybe there's a

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Speaker 2: one percent chance that I'm hanging on that this season

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Speaker 2: Schwalenbach injury was basically the nail in the coffin. No Sale,

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Speaker 2: The Braves are legitimately gonna run like pretty close to

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Speaker 2: pitching staff has just been ravaged. Four out of five

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Speaker 2: it's it's crushing. And just when I saw the announcement

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Speaker 2: that elbow is fractured, was just another, you know, punch

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Speaker 1: Right, and it special to talk about it to the

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Speaker 1: was relatively upbeat, clearly frustrated because a guy wants to pitch,

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Speaker 1: It is what it is. But yeah, I identified with that.

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Speaker 1: It was certainly not great, especially for a team. And

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Speaker 1: Scott in a way that perhaps I am prone to do,

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Speaker 1: but you kind of casually set a one percent chance

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Speaker 1: the rogue guy of the four of us, even more

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Speaker 1: positive than our good friend Sean Coleman, who can make

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Speaker 1: anything sound positive. I want to kind of say that

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Speaker 1: it's not totally over. Am I allowed to say that

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Speaker 1: on the podcast? And that is that a promissial? Now

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Speaker 1: I will give the context necessary to defend this take.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying I'm optimistic, because I'm definitely not optimistic.

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Speaker 1: But I think it's like they stall have like a

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Speaker 1: Does that make a rationals I'll explain. I'll explain it.

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Speaker 2: That is a little spicy and a little hot. But

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Speaker 2: let's hear it, Brad. I want to hear I'm at

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Speaker 2: one percent. I think most people listening or watching the show,

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Speaker 2: and I get somewhere in like the zero to three percent.

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Speaker 2: But I want to hear lay out your case, defend

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Speaker 2: your your thesis.

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Speaker 1: Here I do get it again, and I'm going to

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Speaker 1: be very clear, I'm not expressing optimism overall. It's I

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Speaker 1: little bit more nuanced. I think it's because of and look,

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Speaker 1: they're even with a loss tonight. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: we're recording after a game on Thursday. That was not

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Speaker 1: looking it up to just make sure I'm not crazy right now. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Braves are still at this very moment only and

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying otherwise. What happens though, if they against

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Speaker 1: what if they are What if they're there, and that

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Speaker 1: doesn't seem implausible to me. I wouldn't project it because

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Speaker 1: sell the world off right now, which I think we're

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Speaker 1: and they just kind of hit better for four weeks,

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Speaker 1: which seems plausible to me, I don't know. I wouldn't

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Speaker 2: Okay, if they're four and a half games back in

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Speaker 2: four weeks, sure I could talk myself into some buying.

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Speaker 1: And not like all in buying. By the way, again,

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Speaker 1: this is it. This season is not an all in

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Speaker 1: buying is out the window. Like a month ago, I

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Speaker 1: That's not on the table anymore. But what if they can,

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Speaker 1: like go get a picture? You know?

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Speaker 2: Sure, I have no confidence they're going to get within

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Speaker 1: I agree, I agree with you, which is why.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, I know we are trying to at

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Speaker 2: least see this from all sides, but I think the

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Speaker 2: season is effectively over with. There's still reasons to tune in.

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Speaker 2: I saw a lot of that back and forth. Oh,

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Speaker 2: the season's over, I'm not watching the Braves, blah blah blah.

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Speaker 2: There is so so much to watch storyline wise and

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Speaker 2: but everyone else sure, why not? I'll check out some baseball.

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Speaker 2: But I mean, yes, if by some miracle between now

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Speaker 2: Braves have seven teams ahead of them, eight teams in

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Speaker 2: the wild Card.

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Speaker 1: Too many teams, is the answer.

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Speaker 2: It's it's virtually well, no, actually it's more than that.

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Speaker 2: It's like twelve teams. I think they have a better

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Speaker 2: So they're in eleventh place in the National League. Good

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Speaker 2: freaking lord. So yeah, I don't think we're gonna have

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Speaker 2: weirder things have happened.

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Speaker 1: No, And again, I think it's just my natural inclination

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Speaker 1: it's just like kind of over. There's the like the

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Speaker 1: meme of like it's so over, we're so back and

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Speaker 1: we're back. I'm not saying we're so back. That's not

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I am very pessimistic as everybody is.

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Speaker 1: I just think it's like ten percent versus one percent

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Speaker 1: even now, Like I don't think this is necessarily accurate

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Speaker 1: But Frank Grafts are answering today. Had the Braves with

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Speaker 1: a seventeen point two percent chance to make the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: the Coda at Baseball Perspectives had nineteen point nine percent.

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Speaker 1: So I'm lower than those. I'm lower than those, Like

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Speaker 1: when you have that kind of percentage and they're like

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Speaker 1: pretty good models, it's probably not totally dead. But this

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Speaker 1: while I'm not trying to be contrarier for Contrarion's sake,

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Speaker 1: I actually believe what I'm saying. But ten percent is

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Speaker 1: still like horrific. It's not like it's not exciting.

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Speaker 2: Well, what was the Braves playoff odds coming into the season,

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Speaker 2: like ninety percent or something.

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Speaker 1: Crazy like that, Probably ninety ish on fangrass, I didn't

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Speaker 1: look at a coda, but yeah it was. It was.

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Speaker 1: I know in fangrafts they were the second highest in

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Speaker 1: All right, Scott, dealer's choice. Do you want to do

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Speaker 2: Let's get the Acunya segment out of the way, because

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Speaker 2: It is insane that this is being talked about for

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Speaker 1: I cover the NBA a lot, as people might know,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we're on the same page. We'll probably say,

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Speaker 1: like the hey, reasons to watch the Braves podcast for

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Speaker 1: later if we need it, if they just could obviously,

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Speaker 1: if they really really really fall out of it, that's

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Speaker 1: it's on the table now in August September, and we'll

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Speaker 1: be talking a lot more about minor league guys and

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Speaker 1: whatever else. So put that to the side, but we

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Speaker 1: should at least mention there was a real news item

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Speaker 1: that got kind of buried because of the Schwalmuck injury

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Speaker 1: and everything. Pro far us back now and he looks good.

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Speaker 1: That's he was looking good in Guinette. He's played well.

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Speaker 1: So are you homeward tonight? As we're talking on Thursday.

439
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Speaker 1: That should have been a big story. It still was.

440
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Speaker 1: Like he apologized to his teammates that got reported on

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Speaker 1: as he arrived back in Atlanta. You know, people are

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Speaker 1: It's mixed reaction, as you might expect from the fans.

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Speaker 1: That makes total sense. He put them in a terrible

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Speaker 1: spot this season. We've covered that at nauseum. But I

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Speaker 1: want to I think it's a story that he is

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Speaker 1: back for both now but even less so now and

447
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Speaker 1: more so for the future because he has signed for

448
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Speaker 1: three seasons and for me putting this season on the

449
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Speaker 1: back burner a little bit, it would be really nice

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Speaker 1: for the Braves and optionality, flexibility planning all of these

451
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Speaker 1: things if he was an Albatross contract. So if he

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Speaker 1: comes back and plays well and the way that he

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Speaker 1: is right now and hits, if you wanted to trade him,

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Speaker 1: you probably could. I'm not saying they're going to do that,

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Speaker 1: but they probably could. If he comes back and he's

456
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Speaker 1: bad and he has the PD suspension, you can't move

457
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Speaker 1: him and he's stuck on your books and all those things.

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Speaker 1: So that's a bigger picture. Like it. If you are

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Speaker 1: one of those people that have given up on the season,

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Speaker 1: don't I don't blame you, number one, but number two,

461
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Speaker 1: the Profar return actually still matters because he needs to

462
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Speaker 1: be good for like every other reason.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh it absolutely matters. And it's just two games,

464
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Speaker 2: but it's been encouraging. Two home runs, one from the

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Speaker 2: left side, one from the right side, which is great

466
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Speaker 2: to see, and Profar was crushing the baseball in Gunnette

467
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Speaker 2: and I think it's only natural to have a ton

468
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Speaker 2: of skepticism when a player has a career year and

469
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Speaker 2: then gets popped for peds. It was the same conversation

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Speaker 2: we had on the show. It's probably the same conversation

471
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Speaker 2: everybody listening to the show has with their friends or

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Speaker 2: family or whoever it is they talk about the Braves with.

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Speaker 2: But the reason that we also liked the Profar signing

474
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Speaker 2: in the off season was because of some of the

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Speaker 2: swing adjustments and mechanical adjustments that he made which made

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Speaker 2: it feel a little more real. Now, how big of

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Speaker 2: a role did the Peds have in him being a

478
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Speaker 2: silver slugger a year ago, first the swing and just

479
00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:05,240
Speaker 2: having a good year overall, We'll probably never know, but

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Speaker 2: at least so far, it's been early returns. If Profar

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Speaker 2: came back and he was zero for eight with four strikeouts,

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Speaker 2: you can imagine what the reaction would be from the

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Speaker 2: fan base. But Jerckson Profar a very important player for

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Speaker 2: this team because if he can show that last season

485
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Speaker 2: was any bit of the norm going forward, that's a

486
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Speaker 2: really good bat to have somewhere in the top half

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Speaker 2: of your lineup. And god knows the Braves could use

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Speaker 2: a couple more of those.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they really could. And again, it's like you said,

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Speaker 1: it's two games, but he is back left field. As

491
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Speaker 1: we covered at nauseum, has just been such a complete

492
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Speaker 1: and utter waste land for this team that maybe if

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Speaker 1: you want to fly somemothtimism, and again, let's say you

494
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Speaker 1: have to, he's a real baseball player. I feel confident

495
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Speaker 1: in that he's not going to be a total and

496
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Speaker 1: utter zero. I feel good about that.

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Speaker 2: In two games. Profar has more home runs than Braves

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Speaker 2: left fielders had given them in something like one hundred

499
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Speaker 2: and seventy five played appearances.

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Speaker 1: Yeah it was like ten months.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Eli White had one and I think in Milwaukee

502
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Speaker 2: and since then and Verdugo, I don't know if Verdugo

503
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Speaker 2: ever hit the warning track. Dear God, Thank the Lord.

504
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Speaker 2: We are moving on from him. But yeah, hey, Profar

505
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Speaker 2: a reason to tune in see how he does. If

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Speaker 2: he can give the Braves some real production and then

507
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Speaker 2: just more confidence that what he's doing moving forward is

508
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Speaker 2: going to be someone they can count on, would be

509
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Speaker 2: huge for this team.

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Speaker 1: I totally agree, and we'll probably have a couple more

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Speaker 1: thoughts on what happened the last couple of days. We're

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Speaker 1: not going to do a full flung game breakdown of

513
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Speaker 1: these games because we don't need to. First though a

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Speaker 1: new segment, and it's our Draft Kings player segment. We're

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Speaker 1: sponsored today by the folks that the Pick six app

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Speaker 1: from Draft Kings. All you have to do at that

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518
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Speaker 1: mix for cash prizes. And the player spotlight today is

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Speaker 1: Matt Olsen. Now, a lot of the Braves have been

521
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Speaker 1: struggling for a while now, but the two guys who

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Speaker 1: haven't been are Ronnie, who's been a little bit shakier recently,

523
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Speaker 1: but still it's great and Metals. And the reason why

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Speaker 1: he's the spotlight segment today is that Matt has now

525
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Speaker 1: reached base in thirty three consecutive games. We all know,

526
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Speaker 1: we've never miss his games. He's been playing every day

527
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Speaker 1: for literal years now, but he's not reached base for

528
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Speaker 1: more than a month consecutively. It's the longest streak for

529
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Speaker 1: the Braves since twenty twenty, and the longest active streak

530
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Speaker 1: in all of baseball. Matt has been really good basically

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Speaker 1: for a while. It's gonna get lost, I get it.

532
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Speaker 1: But this is this is actually a real thing, and

533
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Speaker 1: I think he probably should be the knowledge. So what

534
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Speaker 1: have you seen it from Olsen lately? I know he's

535
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Speaker 1: really having a good season. He should probably be an

536
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Speaker 1: All Star, But what do you make of this run

537
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Speaker 1: that he's on and how much do you care?

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Speaker 2: I think in a season where so many things have

539
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Speaker 2: gone wrong, we can overlook things that are going right,

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Speaker 2: and Olson has been terrific really for most of the season.

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Speaker 2: He has been the one and only constant in this lineup,

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Speaker 2: and not only just offensively, but defensively. Matt grades out

543
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 2: exceptionally well in the eyes of the fielding metrics. He's

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Speaker 2: almost certainly going to win a Gold Glove over there,

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Speaker 2: and it feels like a legitimate gold glove, and not

546
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Speaker 2: only a Gold Glove, but a Fielding Bible Award at

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Speaker 2: first base, which is probably a better indication of how

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Speaker 2: good you are as a fielder. And then we've seen

549
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Speaker 2: the pop the home run ball has come back the

550
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Speaker 2: last few weeks, had the Grand Slam on Wednesday night,

551
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Speaker 2: which was great to see. And when it's all said

552
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Speaker 2: and done, Mattilson might finish the year as the best

553
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Speaker 2: first baseman in baseball. In terms of war He's right

554
00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:37,199
Speaker 2: up there with Pete Alonso and Freddie Freeman. It's going

555
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 2: to be a three horse race to the very end.

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Speaker 2: But Yeah, can't say enough good things about Matt. He

557
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Speaker 2: has been one of the few rays of sunshine this

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Speaker 2: season and he deserves the credit that we're going to

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Speaker 2: give him here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you mentioned it, but he's on pace for like

561
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Speaker 1: a five and a half war season at fangrafts, maybe

562
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,080
Speaker 1: even more than that at Baseball Reference if you prefer

563
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Speaker 1: that version of it was a book replacement. But he's

564
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Speaker 1: been comfortably their most valuable player this season. Again, on

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Speaker 1: a per game basis, you could certainly argue for a

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Speaker 1: Kuna or Sale or even swallow Block maybe, but given

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Speaker 1: the injuries to those guys and running got the late start,

568
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Speaker 1: Olsen leads the team and all the war metrics. He is,

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Speaker 1: to your point, the leader in gold glove, platinum glove,

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Speaker 1: what do you want to say? At first base? And

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Speaker 1: he's on pace for thirty plus home runs. Again, he

572
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Speaker 1: isn't hitting the same way he was two years ago.

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Speaker 1: That's fair to say when he was shattering power records.

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Speaker 1: But he's just been an awesome player this season. And

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Speaker 1: you know, not a surprise. This has been a star

576
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Speaker 1: player for a long time. But he's having a star

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Speaker 1: level season. And he's the only one other than Ronnie

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Speaker 1: who can say that for this team. So a real

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Speaker 1: bright spot. Want to shot him out today on the

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Speaker 1: first ever DraftKings player spotlight segments. And now Scott, we

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Speaker 1: will look at the pick six options for Friday's game.

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Speaker 1: It's July fourth, and it's a big one, all right, Scott.

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Speaker 1: I have a couple of picks for Friday, between the

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Speaker 1: Braves and the Orioles, and they're both in the more

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Speaker 1: side of things. For Baltimore, I'm going to go with

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Speaker 1: the more on old friend Charlie Morton getting more than

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Speaker 1: four and a half strikeouts. The Braves will strike out

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Speaker 1: on occasion, as we know, and old friend Charlie is

589
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Speaker 1: capable still of getting those strikeouts. On the Brave side,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to go with the more on matt Olsen,

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Speaker 1: and in fact, you know they have hits available here,

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Speaker 1: but I'm going to go with the more on matt

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Speaker 1: Olsen more than zero point five home runs, which means

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Speaker 1: a bigger payout. But also matt Olsen has been staying hot,

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Speaker 1: certainly capable of a big old swing in this spot

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Speaker 1: against old friend Charlie Morton or if they need to

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Speaker 1: get into the bullpen. For Baltimore, it will go with

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Speaker 1: the more on zero point five home runs for matt Olsen.

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Speaker 1: All right, Scott. Briefly, any takeaways from the two games

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Speaker 1: that have not been covered on this feed are guys

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Speaker 1: Shawn Stephens recorded before the game Wednesday is of the

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Speaker 1: emergency nature of the Schwelmbach injury. So we have two

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Speaker 1: game sample size here, one good on Wednesday at a

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Speaker 1: breezy win, and one pretty bad on Thursday. It was

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Speaker 1: kind of a reversion again, not a full breakdown, but

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Speaker 1: anything you wanted to least note from these two games.

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Speaker 2: I think my only real takeaway is that Diddy or

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Speaker 2: Fuentez needs to go back to Gwinnett, Will Scott.

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Speaker 1: To be replaced by whom would be my question to you?

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Speaker 2: Right there is no options, and that's why I would

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Speaker 2: not be surprised at all in the next day or

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Speaker 2: two or three if alex Enthopolis goes out and signs somebody.

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Speaker 2: It might be Kyle Gibson, who has the worst advanced

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Speaker 2: metrics you have ever seen, and his it's not gonna

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Speaker 2: go well. I know people have mentioned Kyle Gibson because

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Speaker 2: he had two good starts in Triple A. It's probably

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Speaker 2: not gonna go well. But I would rather throw Kyle

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Speaker 2: Gibson in this lost season and have Ditty or Fuentes

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Speaker 2: go back to Gwinnett and develop and pitch against minor leaguers,

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Speaker 2: which is where he should be. He is the age

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Speaker 2: of a college sophomore. Most of the kids who played

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Speaker 2: in the College World Series a few weeks ago are

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Speaker 2: older than Diddy or Fuenttest how many of those kids

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Speaker 2: in the College World Series could come up right now

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Speaker 2: and have an impact in the majors. Zero is the

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Speaker 2: true answer, So I'm more focused on Dittier's long term outlook.

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Speaker 2: I know the Braves are in the most dire of

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Speaker 2: situation here and they don't have other options but just

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Speaker 2: pick someone out of a hat. I would rather see

642
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 2: Jackson Stevens for three innings than I would DIDDI or

643
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 2: go out there and have to throw ninety pitches in

644
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 2: three innings. That is not what we need. God forbid.

645
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:15,719
Speaker 2: You get an injury to that kid and you stunt

646
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:18,280
Speaker 2: his development. I just I think that was my one

647
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 2: and only real takeaway from these two games.

648
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think I saw this from a couple

649
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:26,000
Speaker 1: of people this week that I trust, and it was like, Hey,

650
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 1: this is a maybe a reminder to all of us

651
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:32,840
Speaker 1: that there's a lot that has to go into pitching.

652
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 1: That it's more than about the stuff that you have.

653
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 1: Because he has good stuff already, he has major league stuff,

654
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 1: he does. The numbers say that, the AYTA says that

655
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 1: he has major league stuff already. Yeah, but there is

656
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 1: more to pitching than stuff, and that he's a shining

657
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 1: reminder of that. And look to be one hundred percent

658
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 1: fair to him. He isn't the problem in the rotition

659
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:57,320
Speaker 1: like he I mean, he's a problem in the rotation

660
00:32:57,440 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 1: right now, but you're one hundred percent right. He shouldn't

661
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 1: be there. It's not his fault, Bryce Elder. I mean,

662
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 1: we've talked about it a lot, but I'll just give

663
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 1: the numbers and we'll move on. Last four Stars for

664
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 1: Bryce Elder fifteen to two thirds innings, twenty two earned runs,

665
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:12,600
Speaker 1: seven home runs allowed. I don't think Bryce Elder is

666
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:16,400
Speaker 1: that bad, but it's been that bad for four starts.

667
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 2: Do you know? I look this up tonight because I'm

668
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 2: a crazy person. Do you know what Bryce Elder's era

669
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 2: is since the twenty twenty three All Star Game.

670
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:29,560
Speaker 1: I used to have this like bookmarked almost, but it's

671
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 1: probably in the high fives.

672
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 2: Ooh nice, five point nine.

673
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:38,720
Speaker 1: Eight so six, Yeah, it's yeah, that is really really

674
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,360
Speaker 1: not good. And I don't know if he's better than that.

675
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 1: He's better than the guy who's been the last four starts,

676
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 1: because no one's this bad, but he might be a

677
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: true era in the five s guy, and that's that's

678
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 1: a fringe major leaguer, and I feel bad like he was.

679
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 1: You know, he's always shown some flashes, but the stuff's

680
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:57,480
Speaker 1: not good enough and we all know that. But I

681
00:33:57,480 --> 00:33:59,040
Speaker 1: don't want to pile on Bryce. It's not He's not

682
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 1: the only problem. He's just not a good and right

683
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 1: now they have two guys, and they have two guys

684
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 1: that are active and healthy who we know are competent

685
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:11,839
Speaker 1: major league starters. It's Strider and Grant Holmes. You mentioned before,

686
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 1: by the way, in the Olsen segment, how it gets

687
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 1: lost sometimes when things are going bad some of the

688
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:19,920
Speaker 1: good things. Grant Holmes been a freaking revelation and no

689
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:21,840
Speaker 1: one cares, and no one cares, and I get I

690
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 1: get it. But he has been really good. He is

691
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:27,839
Speaker 1: a three point four of the season, like that would

692
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 1: have been a Dancing the streets number coming into the season.

693
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:31,400
Speaker 1: It just hasn't mattered.

694
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:35,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, Grent Holmes is the man. What a cool story.

695
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:40,680
Speaker 2: Just he's been awesome. Ten straight starts, three runs or less.

696
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 2: Crazy all you can ask for for a pitcher who

697
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:46,800
Speaker 2: was making his major league debut about this time a

698
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:50,239
Speaker 2: year ago, his debut. He was thirty years old and

699
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:52,759
Speaker 2: he made his major league debut. And now he's been

700
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 2: one of, frankly the better, more consistent starting pitchers in

701
00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,840
Speaker 2: the National League this season. Really a great story, I know.

702
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,240
Speaker 2: So every time it's the same damn story. Grand Holmes

703
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:08,640
Speaker 2: seven innings, six innings, one run aloud, nine strikeouts, eight

704
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:11,239
Speaker 2: hundred whiffs on his slider, because that slider is so

705
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 2: good and the Braves lost the game two to one.

706
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:16,239
Speaker 2: It's it's the same story every single night.

707
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:19,960
Speaker 1: It's not a lot of fun unless you have more

708
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 1: to add on these games than I kind of doubt

709
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:24,319
Speaker 1: you do. We'll look ahead a little bit to some

710
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:27,920
Speaker 1: stuff coming up over the holiday weekend. It was already

711
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 1: Nolice that Ronald Coude was struct the All Star game

712
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:33,799
Speaker 1: in Atlanta. Glad about that. He's in the derby as well.

713
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:35,960
Speaker 1: I hope he wins it. People will be excited to

714
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:37,640
Speaker 1: watch that no matter what. Be a lot of Braves

715
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:40,799
Speaker 1: fans there as they should be. I think Olsen should

716
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 1: be an All Star. I think he will make it.

717
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:44,279
Speaker 1: If I had to guess right now, we'll get a

718
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 1: lot of the way the voting works, like he's the

719
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:48,399
Speaker 1: top of the war leader boards, et cetera. I think

720
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:49,880
Speaker 1: he should make it. I don't know if he's not

721
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:52,720
Speaker 1: a lock, but I think he should make it. Salors

722
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 1: Wallabacher deserving All Stars. They just can't pitch in the game,

723
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:59,479
Speaker 1: so maybe they'll get the like nod knowing that they

724
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:03,839
Speaker 1: can be replaced. We'll see maybe, yeah, but that gets

725
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:05,720
Speaker 1: announced a ways. I bring up and now the rosters

726
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 1: are fully announced on Sunday, So between our show today

727
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:12,640
Speaker 1: and our next show that's scheduled anyway, is Sunday, we

728
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:15,239
Speaker 1: will know who the All Stars are. And that's coming

729
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 1: up on the horizon. I mean it's in Atlanta, so

730
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 1: it's a bigger deal than it would normally. We're not

731
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 1: huge All Star people on this show. But it's literally

732
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:23,879
Speaker 1: happening down the street from my house, so it's like, hey,

733
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:24,759
Speaker 1: all Stars.

734
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:28,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the home run Derby is shaping up to

735
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:29,720
Speaker 2: be really really good.

736
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:30,400
Speaker 1: Agreed.

737
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:34,160
Speaker 2: But Kunya is in cal Rally. If folks don't know

738
00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 2: him because he plays in Seattle. He is a catcher

739
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 2: who hits the absolute piss out of the baseball. He

740
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:42,720
Speaker 2: might hit sixty five home runs this year.

741
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:46,240
Speaker 1: Cal Rally is a you just said it is a catcher.

742
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 1: He has thirty three home runs on July third. He's

743
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:52,959
Speaker 1: a catcher. He's not even playing every day, Like that's

744
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,440
Speaker 1: really hard. He's playing a lot for a catcher, but

745
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 1: like he's not playing catcher every day, he's deectioning some whatever.

746
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:01,880
Speaker 1: He's on pace for sixty runs as a catcher. That's impossible,

747
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 1: that's ridiculous.

748
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:08,359
Speaker 2: And then today James Wood, who is just a phenomenal

749
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 2: hitter for the Nationals. Said he's in. Oh boy, if

750
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 2: you have tickets to the All Star or to the

751
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 2: home run Derby and you're in right field, you should

752
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:18,560
Speaker 2: bring a glove because you are going to get some

753
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 2: baseballs headed your way. James Wood's going to hit a

754
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:24,279
Speaker 2: ball over the chop house. I'm pretty sure he has

755
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:27,600
Speaker 2: freak power. It's it's shaping up to be really good.

756
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:30,360
Speaker 2: So we know three of them so far. Hopefully the

757
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 2: fact that Akunya and Rally and Wood are all in

758
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:36,759
Speaker 2: there that they'll kind of draw in the other sluggers.

759
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 2: A Lonzo is going to do it.

760
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 1: Well, he's in it. He loves it. The guy that

761
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:44,360
Speaker 1: I want to su bowl. The guy I want to

762
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:46,319
Speaker 1: see is is Show Hey. If they can get show

763
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:48,480
Speaker 1: Hey to do it, that'll bring that that'll bring the

764
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:49,759
Speaker 1: place down. Don't know if they'll be able to get

765
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:51,239
Speaker 1: him to do it, but if he'll do it, i'd

766
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:54,319
Speaker 1: be you got ACONI and show Hey and Woods as

767
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 1: a prospect, you know, not only a prospect like a

768
00:37:56,160 --> 00:38:00,000
Speaker 1: young guy Rally, that'd be awesome. Anyway, I will be watching,

769
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:02,359
Speaker 1: I'll be covering in basketball that week, but I will

770
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 1: be watching with hor un Derby because I enjoy it

771
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:07,000
Speaker 1: generally speaking, and I hope Ronnie competes and he just

772
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:09,960
Speaker 1: for me. I don't know if he's gonna be the best,

773
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 1: like he said it before, I don't know if he's

774
00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:13,680
Speaker 1: like the best home run Derby candidate, because it's kind

775
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:15,799
Speaker 1: of an interesting power that he has. But he'll be

776
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 1: entertaining and put on a show, So looking forward to that.

777
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 3: Oh.

778
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:23,840
Speaker 1: The other thing that's kind of noteworthy for mostly the future,

779
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:28,600
Speaker 1: Joe Amenez got captured throwing some either a bullpen or

780
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 1: something of a bullpen this week in Atlanta. Obviously, he's

781
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:34,799
Speaker 1: been out for a long time. We all talked about

782
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:35,880
Speaker 1: this in the winter, like he might be off to

783
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:37,279
Speaker 1: the season. We don't want, we don't know. He did

784
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:38,880
Speaker 1: kind of say, I guess I think it was bowman

785
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:43,719
Speaker 1: like maybe maybe August for Jimenez. I would not rush him.

786
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 1: And by the way, he has signed for next year,

787
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,720
Speaker 1: which matters a lot. But he was really, really really

788
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 1: good pre injury and they've missed him. But that's a

789
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 1: good encouraging sign that he's like throwing in saying.

790
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:57,959
Speaker 2: Like that, yeah, great sign. If folks have not seen

791
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:01,360
Speaker 2: the video of Joe Jmenez throwing. He also looks like

792
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 2: he's dropped a decent amount of weight. He is a

793
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 2: big human being.

794
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 1: He's a big man.

795
00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 2: Yeah. I did not realize just how big I mean

796
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 2: on TV. It's kind of hard to pick up, but

797
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:14,880
Speaker 2: I saw Joe Amenez h in Arizona either last year

798
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:16,640
Speaker 2: or the year before. It comes out of the bullpen,

799
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:18,920
Speaker 2: and he was like six I think he was listed

800
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:21,839
Speaker 2: at six three two seventy or something like that.

801
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 1: I'll looking it up now. I'm make sure I think

802
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:27,440
Speaker 1: you're right. He's not on the active ron Okay, here

803
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 1: here's the forty man. This is great radio. Yeah, and

804
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:32,800
Speaker 1: listed at six three two seventy seven on the Braves

805
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:33,560
Speaker 1: official ronster.

806
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,719
Speaker 2: That is a big boy. Yeah, that's a that's a

807
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:39,920
Speaker 2: defensive end in the NFL. So it looks like Joe

808
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 2: did slim down a bit, which I'm guessing was on

809
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 2: the recommendation of his doctors. Anytime you're rehabbing a knee injury,

810
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:49,439
Speaker 2: the less weight you can put on that thing, the better.

811
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 2: The less torque you're putting on that knee, the better.

812
00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:55,279
Speaker 2: And I mean, frankly, Joe Amenez if he comes back

813
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 2: this year and looks good. He's probably my odds on

814
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:02,480
Speaker 2: to going into the offseason at least to be the

815
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:06,799
Speaker 2: team's closer next season. Maybe Dylan Lee, although I think

816
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 2: having a lefty who you can move around a little

817
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:12,279
Speaker 2: bit is probably more valuable than locking him into the

818
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:15,239
Speaker 2: ninth inning necessarily. But yeah, it's not a small thing.

819
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:17,440
Speaker 2: If Johan Niz can come back and looks good and

820
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 2: can kind of put the knee injury behind him, that

821
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:22,400
Speaker 2: would be a notable development in the second half.

822
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 1: I agree again for this season, if they could somehow

823
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:27,000
Speaker 1: stay in it, it'd be very helpful. But even if

824
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:30,120
Speaker 1: they can't, getting him on the mound right for next year,

825
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:32,759
Speaker 1: He's paid next year a good amount too, Like you're not,

826
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 1: that's not a guy you could just like cut bait On.

827
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,799
Speaker 1: He's owed guaranteed money next year. Hopefully he's back and

828
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:40,440
Speaker 1: ready to go. Last thing I lehould have more to

829
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 1: add is that the Braves are hosting the Baltimore Orioles,

830
00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:45,840
Speaker 1: who I like to call the American League Braves. This season,

831
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 1: they're the I would say, the equal probably of the Braves.

832
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:52,120
Speaker 1: As far as just being disappointing, they've actually been worse

833
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 1: than the Braves. Now, they were producted to be quite

834
00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:56,239
Speaker 1: as good as the Braves are, But the Orioles are

835
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:59,440
Speaker 1: thirty seven and forty nine with a negative eighty seven

836
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:04,120
Speaker 1: run differential. They're bad. They're bad, and I'm surprised by

837
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 1: that talented team. But three game series at home at

838
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:10,680
Speaker 1: Truest and you know where I'm going first, Scott, come on,

839
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:14,280
Speaker 1: we know where I'm going. First Friday night, July fourth.

840
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:17,880
Speaker 1: If listen this fodcast before then, my guy old friend

841
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:21,240
Speaker 1: Chuck Morton on the mound for the Orioles. Listen. Speaking

842
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:23,640
Speaker 1: of guys that could just change clubhouses, how about alex

843
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:26,879
Speaker 1: Is mix a handshake deal with Charlie Friday morning, Trow

844
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:29,520
Speaker 1: just just walk across the field start the game for

845
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:33,640
Speaker 1: the Bridge instead. That won't happen, but he's also paid

846
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 1: a lot of money. But hey, it will be fun

847
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 1: to see him back in Atlanta. Hopefully he is cheered.

848
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:41,760
Speaker 1: He should be cheered rousingly by the fans. Yea, hopefully

849
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:45,279
Speaker 1: that happens. And also it's Strider. It's always fun to

850
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:47,360
Speaker 1: watch Strider pitch, so Friday night's the fun game of

851
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:47,800
Speaker 1: the weekend.

852
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:51,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope they show the clip of Charlie Morton

853
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:56,200
Speaker 2: in the World Series, pitching on a broken leg and

854
00:41:56,320 --> 00:42:00,160
Speaker 2: striking out jose Al Tuve on a broken leg. It

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Speaker 2: was truly one of the most badass things I have

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Speaker 2: ever seen a professional athlete do. Just Charlie's the man,

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00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 2: he better get a big ovation. I will be legitimately

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Speaker 2: disappointed in the fans and attendance if they don't give

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Speaker 2: Charlie a big olevation. Really a good human being too.

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Speaker 2: You want to talk about a player, who you ask

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Speaker 2: who's Charlie Morton? You will not find a soul who

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Speaker 2: says a bad word about Charlie And yeah, hey, you

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Speaker 2: know what, Oriole's giant disappointment. I think the American League

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00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:32,040
Speaker 2: Braves is the perfect name for them. Somebody's got to

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Speaker 2: win these three games, and who knows, maybe the Braves

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Speaker 2: will take two out of three. Maybe they'll finally win

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Speaker 2: on a Sunday. Wouldn't that be nice?

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Speaker 1: Well, although I will say, I am I'm not the

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Speaker 1: we don't know who's hosting the show on Sunday. You'll

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Speaker 1: be here. I don't know if I will be, which

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00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 1: it'd be perfect if they were to win, because that

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Speaker 1: I because I wasn't here. But I'll take it if

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Speaker 1: they win to be fine, Yeah, so.

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Speaker 2: We'll take it. We'll see kind of a man. If

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00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:58,839
Speaker 2: you would have said, Scott and Brad four months ago,

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Speaker 2: pick some of the sea that you're circling on the calendar,

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Speaker 2: I think you probably would both pick this series.

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Speaker 1: I mean July fourth, Orioles like fun, Young Team, Gutter, Henderson,

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Speaker 1: all these guys coming in, Adley Richman, Charlie Morton and

880
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:14,239
Speaker 1: they're they're bad and some of the Braves. So that's

881
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:16,960
Speaker 1: that's tough. But hey, it's holiday baseball. I wish it

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Speaker 1: was an afternoon game. This is one of our like

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Speaker 1: weird things. I just wish it was an afternoon game.

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Speaker 1: Just I just do. I know it's Friday. I get it.

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Speaker 1: It's like the World Day and the Brains didn't play

886
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Speaker 1: on the World Day. It's like, what are we doing here?

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Speaker 1: Who's who schedule these games? Maybe they want to do

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Speaker 1: a fireworks show? That is That is definitely why. That's

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Speaker 1: definitely why. All right, Well, we've we've covered lots of

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Speaker 1: things on this episode. We've saved some bullets for later

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00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:43,440
Speaker 1: talking about like what to watch for. There isn't I

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00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:46,840
Speaker 1: saw lots of arguments today about the Braves should just

893
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:50,080
Speaker 1: like tank now and try to lose. If this was

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Speaker 1: a if this was basketball, I would probably argue that

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00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:56,279
Speaker 1: exact point. In baseball, it's just not worth it in

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00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:58,560
Speaker 1: my opinion. The draft, the draft capital all that's just

897
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 1: not the same calculus. But at least I get it.

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Speaker 1: And that's that's the word place to be too speaking.

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Speaker 1: Just a weird episode all the way around. I hope

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Speaker 1: people enjoyed it, hope people will hang out with us.

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Speaker 1: No matter what the next few months, we won't stop

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00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 1: doing shows. They'll be a little bit different than if

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00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:15,240
Speaker 1: they fall out of it. They'll be a little bit different,

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Speaker 1: probably a little bit more big picture, some more young

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Speaker 1: guys and future facing. But we're not going to stop talking, Scott,

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Speaker 1: So I look forward to talking to you much more

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Speaker 1: throughout the summer.

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Speaker 2: That's right, when or lose, good or bad, we do

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00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:30,040
Speaker 2: a show, we will continue to do shows. A big

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00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:32,839
Speaker 2: thank you to everybody for continuing to check out and

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00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:35,359
Speaker 2: support the show. I really I don't know about you, Brad.

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00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:38,560
Speaker 2: I get them pretty regularly. People tweet me and say, hey,

913
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Speaker 2: I'm really sorry you have to do a podcast about

914
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Speaker 2: this team right now. Yeah, but we appreciate it, and

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00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:45,799
Speaker 2: that means a lot to us that you guys are

916
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:48,880
Speaker 2: thinking of the show. We try to keep these upbeat.

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00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:51,239
Speaker 2: We try not to sit here and just bang our

918
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Speaker 2: faces against the table for twenty five minutes and go

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Speaker 2: all right, have a good night, everybody. We try to

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00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:59,279
Speaker 2: bring content. We try to bring nuance to discussion and

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Speaker 2: if you're a new list and welcome board, happy to

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Speaker 2: have you. But yeah, we'll be back Sunday. Maybe the

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Speaker 2: Braves can win a couple in the challenging year. We'll

924
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Speaker 2: take all the wins wherever we can get them.

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Speaker 1: That's one hundred percent right. Please subscribe to Hammer Territory

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Speaker 1: anywhere you find your podcasts. We're on Apple and Spotify overcast.

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Speaker 1: We're also on YouTube. Follow us on social media at

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Speaker 1: Hammer Territory. One more PSA. The game on Sunday is

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Speaker 1: eleven thirty five am Eastern times. Start the Roku game.

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Speaker 1: Scott will be in bed when that game begins, I'm

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Speaker 1: pretty sure on the West coast of things. And also

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Speaker 1: a plug, our guy Steven Tolbert was on a Foul

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Speaker 1: Territory today, so if you want to go find that

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Speaker 1: that's available for you on the follow Territory Feed did

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Speaker 1: a great job, represented us very well and check that out.

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Speaker 1: Follow Scott if you want to on social media. He's

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Speaker 1: really really excited about movies and things, sometimes Arizona basketball.

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Speaker 1: He's at Scott Tulum fifty five. I am at BT

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Speaker 1: Rowland mostly in basketball talk now, but alas follow us there.

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Speaker 1: Thank you sincerely though for listening to the podcast all

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Speaker 1: the time and throughout the rest of the summer, and

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Speaker 1: we'll see everybody next time.