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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Hammer Territory Podcast. My name is Sean Coleman. Hope,

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Speaker 1: wherever you are and wherever you are listening, I hope

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Speaker 1: that you're having a very good Monday into Tuesday. It's

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Speaker 1: eleven forty pm Central Time, twelve forty on the East Coast.

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Speaker 1: But what matters most is that the Braves won a

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Speaker 1: game in somewhat surprising but very very good fashion compared

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Speaker 1: to their recent weeks level of play. And it's just

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Speaker 1: nice to be able to talk this late into the

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Speaker 1: night about a Brave's victory and has always joining me

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Speaker 1: my podcast partner, Stephen Tolbert. Stephen, this was a nice

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Speaker 1: change for the Brave and especially for us when it

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Speaker 1: comes to talking about the Braves. On a night where

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Speaker 1: it just seemed like nothing was going their way, they

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Speaker 1: finally were able to put something together in that tenth

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Speaker 1: felt like a playoff atmosphere type game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I really did. I mean, you know, Chris Sale

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Speaker 2: versus Blake Snell is certainly a playoff caliber matchup. It

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Speaker 2: it still might be, depending on how the rest of

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Speaker 2: the year goes. The Giants have been playing pretty well,

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Speaker 2: but yeah, it was. That was a wild game. Chris

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Speaker 2: Sale was obviously unbelievable. The Braves needed it as much

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Speaker 2: as they've needed anything all year. You know, obviously we're

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Speaker 2: gonna get to all the details of the game, but yeah,

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Speaker 2: what a fun game. And I'm just I'm a little

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Speaker 2: stunned that they won. Honestly, these are just games they've

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Speaker 2: kind of lost all year. So I was just all

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Speaker 2: all night, just waiting for like the gut punch, like

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Speaker 2: the heartbreaking loss, and it never came. I mean, they

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Speaker 2: Iglesias was amazing. So yeah, it was a big win.

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Speaker 2: They needed it after I mean, just a soul crushing

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Speaker 2: team that's been the Giants are one of the hottest

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Speaker 2: teams in baseball. They've won like twelve of sixteen games

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Speaker 2: or something like that. So to go to their park

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Speaker 2: against their best pitcher and won the first game, that's pick.

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Speaker 2: That was a huge win tonight.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, And you've talked about, you know, Chris Sale versus

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Speaker 1: Blake Snell. Easy to get the names confused with how

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Speaker 1: much they sound like each other, but a pitching matchup

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Speaker 1: that is just rare to see. I believe Sarah Lane

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Speaker 1: said this was the fourth time that a duo of

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Speaker 1: pictures are pictures going against each other in the same

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Speaker 1: aligning three or less runs with both pitchers going you know,

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Speaker 1: over six innings in that game, something along those lines.

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Speaker 1: The point is is you can come up with a

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Speaker 1: But the thing is is that this is nothing new.

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Speaker 1: When the Braves fans come to watching Chris Saille, he

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Speaker 1: truly has emerged as a stopper for this team. He's

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Speaker 1: And Steve and I think that this is going to

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Speaker 1: We needed him to pitch to his best tonight and

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Speaker 1: that's absolutely what he gave the Braves and I'm glad

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Speaker 1: they were able to get him a victory.

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Speaker 2: As a response, Yeah, I mean, you know, first and foremost,

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Speaker 2: I'm just glad he's he was actually pitching in this game.

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Speaker 2: You know, Brad and Scott talked about it on the

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Speaker 2: show last night, but like Brian's nigger came out and

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Speaker 2: said on Sunday that like they're done with the extra

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Speaker 2: rest for their pitchers. Swallen back pitched yesterday, Chris Saale

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Speaker 2: pitched on regular rest today. You know, if this had

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Speaker 2: have gotten more rest, you know, it could have been

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Speaker 2: another mind numbing loss. So yeah, just the fact that

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Speaker 2: which is kind of what we've been talking about for

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Speaker 2: a while now. But yeah, he was unbelievable. He actually

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Speaker 2: out pitched Blake Snell. You know Snell. Obviously Snell was

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Speaker 2: Buckner back there calling maybe the worst game I've ever seen. Well,

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Speaker 2: He was out of the game in the sixth inning,

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's pretty good from your offense in

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Speaker 2: Braves desperately need Chrisselle to just be an ace for

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Speaker 2: they needed every pitch tonight that he had, and they

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Speaker 1: And the crazy thing about it is is that I

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Speaker 1: would much rather there have been a much more emphatic

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Speaker 1: response from Sunday. Let's put this into perspective. Some days

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Speaker 1: ways one of the worst losses we've seen the Braves

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Speaker 1: and I wrote about it over at Battery power dot com.

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Speaker 1: You wrote about it as well. It pretty amazing that

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, listen, they're in the playoffs right now,

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Speaker 2: and the Braves still have I think seven head to

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Speaker 2: So it's a long, long season, and there's still forty

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Speaker 2: And like I said, they're getting healthy, they're getting their

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: the pitching was much much better tonight, obviously winning a

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Speaker 1: And the crazy thing to me though about it, Steven,

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Speaker 1: But in this twenty twenty four season, where we've had

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Speaker 1: has really been our veterans. You know, think about it,

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Speaker 1: you know, Chris Sale thirty five years old, Rice Selly

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Speaker 1: Those veterans can continue to deliver, and we're going to

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Speaker 1: But the veterans for the Braves this year really continued

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Speaker 2: as effective. And obviously when you lose you know, a

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Speaker 2: chunk of your fastball fastball velocity, that's gonna happen. But

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Speaker 2: it was clear something was going on with him, and yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's a bummer. I mean, like you said, he's a

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Speaker 2: free agent at the end of the year. You know,

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Speaker 2: relievers don't get that many chances for big paydays. You know.

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Speaker 2: The one thing is it's a hilp and not like

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Speaker 2: an elbow or shoulder, you know, Bowman MLB dot com

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Speaker 2: The Braves, beat writer for MLB dot com Work Bowman

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Speaker 2: tweeted out earlier today that, you know, AJ should be

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Speaker 2: commended because he could have shut it down a long

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Speaker 2: time ago and just had surgery and said hey, I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna protect my payday, and he didn't do that. He's

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Speaker 2: he's tried to you know, rest it and pitch through it,

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Speaker 2: and I don't think they're gonna let him do it again.

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Speaker 2: You know, just the tone of all the beat writers

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Speaker 2: today talking about it, it really felt like they were

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Speaker 2: you know, it really felt like a bit of a

447
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Speaker 2: eulogy where they were kind of given the you know,

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Speaker 2: AJ has been great and and and we've we've loved

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Speaker 2: having him here kind of speeches and we'll see. Maybe

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Speaker 2: we're wrong, maybe we're reading too much into that. But

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Speaker 2: the tone of the beat writers today certainly didn't sound

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Speaker 2: like the news was gonna be positive. I think we're

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Speaker 2: gonna find out tomorrow. I think they said he's gonna

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Speaker 2: do an MRI and we'll find out tomorrow exactly what's

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Speaker 2: going on. But he went on the fifteen day at

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Speaker 2: that fifteen day. I l obviously that's how they got

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Speaker 2: Dylan Lee back up, and so he's gonna be out

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Speaker 2: for at least a little while and we'll see if

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Speaker 2: it's it's for the rest of the year, and you know,

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Speaker 2: it's possible. We've we've seen the last of aj Minter

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Speaker 2: in a Brave uniform.

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Speaker 1: And let's talk about the ripple effect that comes that,

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Speaker 1: you know, down to the bullpen. You know this phrase

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Speaker 1: bullpen entering. You know, I believe play today was despite

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Speaker 1: at least, you know, over the past few days entering

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Speaker 1: this weekend, at the very least, they obviously had their

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Speaker 1: struggles in Colorado, but they were able to get the

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Speaker 1: job done on Monday night. This Prase bullpen remains one

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Speaker 1: of the best in baseball, but they've had struggles in

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Speaker 1: recent days. But with aj Minter now being out, you know,

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Speaker 1: that takes away a key left handed option and also

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Speaker 1: takes away a bit of the diversity that you have

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Speaker 1: in the back end of the Raise bullpen. Now you're

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Speaker 1: down to Aaron Bummer and Dylan Lee, who I think

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Speaker 1: are still a pretty strong one two combination. But I

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Speaker 1: think the Braids arguably had the deepest you know, right handed,

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Speaker 1: you know, or into the bullpen that you can have

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Speaker 1: in baseball. But removing aj or aj mintor from that

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Speaker 1: bullpen that takes away a reliable late inning left handed reliever.

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Speaker 1: And so the Braids are probably going to have to

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Speaker 1: adjust some of the methods in which it comes to

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Speaker 1: using their bullpen moving forward.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's he's been one of your high

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Speaker 2: leveraged guys, So Dylan Lee and Aaron Bummer are going

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Speaker 2: to have to step up. Aaron Bummer has actually been

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Speaker 2: much better than his kind of surface numbers like Aaron

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Speaker 2: butten Like the the league has like a four four

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Speaker 2: to thirty babbit batting average on balls and play against

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Speaker 2: Aaron Bummer this year, which is just wild. It seems

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Speaker 2: like every time he comes in the game, the first

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Speaker 2: thing that happens is he gives up an infield head

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Speaker 2: of some sort. So I'm I'm actually much higher on

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Speaker 2: Aaron Bumber than a lot of people are. I think

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Speaker 2: he's got like a I think he's got a fip

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Speaker 2: in the ones this year or it's nut's two o

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Speaker 2: two sorry, so it's almost in the ones this year.

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Speaker 2: So like he strikes a ton of people out, he

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Speaker 2: doesn't walk anybody just He's had some horrible bat at

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Speaker 2: ball uck this year, so I think he can be

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Speaker 2: a weapon. But they're gonna need somebody. And Dylan LEAs

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Speaker 2: had a really good year, so they they have options.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, those guys are gonna have to step up.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be interesting what they do with the bullpen.

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Speaker 2: You know, Luke Jackson has not been good since he

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Speaker 2: came over. There was actually some thought that he might

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Speaker 2: get DFA today to get Dylan Lee back up. Obviously

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Speaker 2: we didn't know about the AGA injuries, so I mean

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Speaker 2: to see if Luke Jackson stays. You know, they've got Daves,

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Speaker 2: Bill Hernandez and Triple A who's pitched really well for

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Speaker 2: the Braves this year. You know, it's tough to say

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Speaker 2: you'd rather have Luke Jackson than Day's Bell. Right now,

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Speaker 2: I think I'd rather have Day's Bell, but you know,

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Speaker 2: they do like to protect their depth, so we'll see

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Speaker 2: what they do. But yeah, it's a bummer Forray Jay,

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Speaker 2: it really is. And like you said, somebody's got to

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Speaker 2: step up. You know, from the left side, it's almost

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Speaker 2: certainly going to be Aaron Bummer and Dylan Lee and

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Speaker 2: we'll see how they do.

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Speaker 1: A couple of other notable but expected injury you know,

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Speaker 1: updates for the day. On Monday, it was you know,

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Speaker 1: basically confirmed that outfielder Michael Harris the Second will be

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Speaker 1: activated on Wednesday. So one more day until we get

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Speaker 1: Michael Harris back from the sixty day I l he

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Speaker 1: had been on there, you know, for a little over

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Speaker 1: two months with a hamstring injury. Renaldo Lopez will be

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Speaker 1: making a rehab start on Tuesday. I believe that he's

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Speaker 1: eligible to come back on the eighteenth from the injury list,

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Speaker 1: so he potentially could start over the weekend for the Braves.

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Speaker 1: But you know, we talk about ripple effects, and so

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Speaker 1: if Michael Harris the second is coming back on Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: you now get to another interesting conversation, Stephen, when it

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Speaker 1: comes to, okay, which of your three outfielders. You're obviously

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Speaker 1: you're going to keep Solaire and Kellennick on the roster

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Speaker 1: to go with Harris, But now it comes down to

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Speaker 1: Eli White, Ramon Loreano and also Adam Davall. You know,

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Speaker 1: which of those players potentially could be on the move

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Speaker 1: off the roster or you know, out of Atlanta to

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Speaker 1: make room for Michael Harris. The second, I understand that

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Speaker 1: Ramon Loriano has had his moments where he seems to

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Speaker 1: be the clear guy that you would want to move

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Speaker 1: on from. Eli White seems to be much more of

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Speaker 1: a bench option that can be a defensive replacement for

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Speaker 1: Celaire Layton games. Adam Devaugh I think offers the highest

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Speaker 1: potential with the plate of these guys, but Ramone Loreano

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Speaker 1: actually has been the most productive hit her at the

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Speaker 1: plate out of these players. When you look at all

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Speaker 1: three of those options, White, Loreano and Deval has been

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Speaker 1: the odd man out once Harris returns. I think you

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Speaker 1: can make a case for all three of them to

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Speaker 1: be the odd man out, but you could easily make

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Speaker 1: a case for all three of them to stay. Going

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Speaker 1: to be an interesting decision to see who goes to

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Speaker 1: make room for Harris.

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Speaker 2: The second. Yeah, I mean it actually is pretty fascinating,

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Speaker 2: you know, even though it's it's not the most you know,

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Speaker 2: high impact roster decision in terms of who's going to

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Speaker 2: be the you know, the fifth or sixth at outfit

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Speaker 2: or however you want to count it, but because there

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Speaker 2: really is an argument for all of them to be

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Speaker 2: the guy that's cut loose, like if you're if you're

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Speaker 2: just making the argument that Eli White should be the one.

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Speaker 2: You know, he has options, so if you send him

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Speaker 2: to Quinnette, then you get to keep all of them

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Speaker 2: right and if you protect yourself against injury. But the

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Speaker 2: flip side of the coin with Eli White is that

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Speaker 2: of the three, Elo White is easily the best defender

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Speaker 2: and he's easily the best base runner. So I could

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Speaker 2: actually make the argument that he has more value on

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Speaker 2: the Braves bench than either Loreano or Duvall because he

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Speaker 2: can come in late and help be a defensive replacement

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Speaker 2: for sol Air. And obviously, when you have a DH

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Speaker 2: playing right field, having really good backup, you know, a

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Speaker 2: really good backup defensive outfielder is is important. So you

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Speaker 2: know that's the argument for him. For Loreano, he's hit

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Speaker 2: the best out of all the outfielders. It's a very

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Speaker 2: low board to clear, but Oreanno's got like a seven

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Speaker 2: to fifty oh ps since he's joined the team, which

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Speaker 2: is miles and miles better than anybody else has done,

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Speaker 2: not named Jorges Hilare at least, But he's been brutal

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Speaker 2: in the outfield. Now obviously he's been brutal in center field,

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Speaker 2: and when Michael comes back, he's not gonna play center field,

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Speaker 2: so maybe you can justify putting him in a corner.

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Speaker 2: But he's been brutal in the outfield. I mean, there's

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Speaker 2: no there's no arguing that point. And then Adam Devall.

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Speaker 2: Adam Devall probably is the best player out of all

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Speaker 2: of them if you just use career numbers. But Adam

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Speaker 2: Davall is easily having the worst season out of any

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Speaker 2: of these guys by a mile. I mean, Adam Devall

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Speaker 2: is like his is a bats are just brutal, even

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Speaker 2: against left he's lately his bats have just been brutal.

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Speaker 2: They're just a lot of non competitive bats. I think

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Speaker 2: he's got like seventeen or eighteen strikeouts in his last

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Speaker 2: like twenty seven at bats or something like that. It's

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Speaker 2: he's I think he's like one for his last twenty

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Speaker 2: eight or twenty nine. It's just brutal. I mean, he's

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Speaker 2: just been awful, and he doesn't offer a lot defensively.

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Speaker 2: He doesn't offer a lot on the bases. So if

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Speaker 2: you're looking for an argument for getting rid of him,

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Speaker 2: that's that, you know, that's that argument. So each guy

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Speaker 2: really does have an argument four and against and I'll

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Speaker 2: be just see what they do. And I guess is

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Speaker 2: they're just gonna option Eli White and keep all of them.

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Speaker 2: But you know, if it if it was up to me,

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Speaker 2: I would keep White on the roster mainly for you know,

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Speaker 2: helping out Jorge Silaire late in games as a defensive replacement.

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Speaker 2: But we'll see what they do. It is going to

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Speaker 2: be interesting.

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Speaker 1: So let's reset the scene here entering Tuesday with the

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Speaker 1: Braves getting this victory. The Mets had the day off

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Speaker 1: on Monday as well as the Phillies, So the Braves

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Speaker 1: right now in the East are games but behind the Phillies.

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Speaker 1: That that that, you know, we'll talk more about that,

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Speaker 1: you know, after this we complete this week and going

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Speaker 1: to the start of next week to face the Phillies.

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Speaker 1: But a more immediate significance, the Braves do have now

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Speaker 1: a full one game lead on the final spot in

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Speaker 1: the wildcard picture. Arizona and San Diego four games ahead

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Speaker 1: of the Braves. They've been playing crazy baseball. But the

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Speaker 1: big thing for the Braves is that they're one game

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Speaker 1: ahead of the Mets and also two and a half games.

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Speaker 1: You know, above Saint Louis and San Francisco. The Braves

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Speaker 1: can kind of take care of business against San Francisco

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Speaker 1: if they can, you know, especially offensively, get to playing well.

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Speaker 1: But of significance directly for the Mets is that, despite

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Speaker 1: their struggles, they play the Athletics as well as the

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Speaker 1: Marlins this week, so there's a good chance the Mets

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Speaker 1: are going to have a good week. The Braves need

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Speaker 1: to have a good week, I you know, basically surmised

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Speaker 1: it as they at least need to have a winning

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Speaker 1: record playing seven times this week, they really need to

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Speaker 1: have five or more wins. And the big key, Stephen

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Speaker 1: is that Charlie Morton versus Kyle Harrison. You know, that

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Speaker 1: may be honestly where you feel the Braves may have

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Speaker 1: the best, you know, chances in terms of pitching matchups left,

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Speaker 1: because you've got Grant Holmes versus Robbie Way on Wednesday

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Speaker 1: and then Max Reed versus Logan Web on Thursday. The

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Speaker 1: Braves did well for their week and for this series

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Speaker 1: to get the opening win against the best pitcher they'll

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Speaker 1: be facing in this series. But the offense has to

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Speaker 1: get going, especially facing left handers over the next two games.

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Speaker 1: They need that to happen, and Charlie Morton also needs

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Speaker 1: to have a short memory and have a bounce back

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Speaker 1: performance on the mound. The Braves really really need to

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Speaker 1: get this game on Tuesday, and it would really help

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Speaker 1: if they can get some early run support for Charlie

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Speaker 1: Morton by the offense getting going like they did in Colorado.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, listen, when you're playing in San Francisco,

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Speaker 2: San Francisco is a good team, You're playing four games.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know you would love to win three

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Speaker 2: or four if you're being honest, like a split is

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Speaker 2: probably a pretty good outcome. But yeah, I mean, the

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Speaker 2: Brads just don't have a lot of margin for error.

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Speaker 2: Like you said, the Mets are playing Oakland in Miami

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Speaker 2: this week. Now, I will say Oakland has been substantially,

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Speaker 2: substantially better in the second half. Oakland actually is like

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Speaker 2: I think they're thirteen and eight or fourteen and eight

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Speaker 2: in the second half. Their offense is just gone bananas

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Speaker 2: in the second half, which is wild. So it's not

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Speaker 2: as much of a pushover as maybe it was, you know,

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Speaker 2: a few months ago. But yeah, I mean, obviously you

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Speaker 2: would expect the Mets to dec take care of business

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Speaker 2: somewhat against those two teams at home this week. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean the Braves need to keep going. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you definitely, at the very least you want to split

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Speaker 2: the series. You would love to win three or four

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Speaker 2: in San francisc go and then go win the series

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Speaker 2: against La the Angels to finish up the home stand

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Speaker 2: or the road trip. That would be best case scenario.

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Speaker 2: But we'll see. I mean, I've honestly just I've kind

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Speaker 2: of become Brian's nicker, where I'm just I'm thinking about

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Speaker 2: the next game. You know, every time I try to

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Speaker 2: get ahead of myself and think this team has figured

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Speaker 2: it out or they got a good stretch of schedule

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Speaker 2: coming up where they could really make some Hey, every

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Speaker 2: time I get I go there mentally, it just all

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Speaker 2: goes to shit. So I'm I'm I've begun Brian Sticker

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Speaker 2: would just just win tomorrow. Just come out tomorrow, win

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Speaker 2: the game tomorrow, you know, score some runs hopefully, Charlie,

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Speaker 2: is it Charlie Morton tomorrow? Is that what you said?

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Speaker 1: Charlie's Charlie Charlie Morton versus Kyl Harrison.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we need Charlie have a good game. He's

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Speaker 2: not pitch well on the road, so you know, the

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Speaker 2: offense coming out and scoring some runs against Kyl Harrison

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Speaker 2: would be very welcome. But yeah, just go win tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Just win tomorrow's game, and then do it again the

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Speaker 2: next day and try to build on something and maybe

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Speaker 2: start playing some decent baseball.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, the Steam is fully capable of it. And hopefully,

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Speaker 1: you know, this win tonight again, especially considering all that

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Speaker 1: But in that tenth inning, you know, and they needed

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Speaker 1: they look like, you know, a team that you know

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