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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back to the Hemmor Territory podcast. This

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Speaker 1: is episode one seven to two. I your host s

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Speaker 1: Brad Rowland, coming to you on a Sunday evening here

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Speaker 1: at the end of March, and I'm joined as I

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Speaker 1: almost always am, by my co host, Scott Coleman. Boy, Scott,

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Speaker 1: this is gonna be a fun one.

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Speaker 2: Huh, hello Brad? When does opening day start for the Braves?

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Speaker 1: Monday?

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Speaker 2: In la? I heard? Okay, good, good, because these are

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Speaker 2: all exhibitions right, this like joke of seventy two hours

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Speaker 2: that we just want those don't those games don't count? Right?

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Speaker 2: The Braves are own o?

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Speaker 1: Is that right? They would be nice if the Braves

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Speaker 1: were zero and zero. And look at the top of

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Speaker 1: the show, Scott's probably gonna yell that's okay. I'll play

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Speaker 1: straight man today. Scott will play angry co host. He's

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Speaker 1: allowed to do that. We just says at the top

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Speaker 1: of the show though, cause we have new listeners, I

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Speaker 1: can't imagine why someone for the first time will be

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Speaker 1: finding us today. But if they are, first of all, welcome,

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Speaker 1: and I mean that sincerely, please subscribe to our podcast.

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Speaker 1: We are called Hammer Territory. We are part of the

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Speaker 1: Foul Territory network of podcasts, and usually it would be

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Speaker 1: a little bit more positive than today's show is going

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Speaker 1: to be. But the Braves just opened the season oh

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Speaker 1: one four with a four game sweep loss to the

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Speaker 1: Senego padre Is. Now you want to talk about a

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Speaker 1: few days ago on the show and I'm thinking out loud,

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Speaker 1: you and I both were like, yeah, right, they might

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Speaker 1: lose this opening serious, it wouldn't stun anybody. The potteris

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Speaker 1: are good if you're playing on the road. I gotta

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Speaker 1: be honest with you, though, Scott, I did not at

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Speaker 1: any point really consider the reality of a four game

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Speaker 1: sweep in San Diego, San Diego, especially with the way

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Speaker 1: that as we'll get too many times on the show,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure the offense just completely rolling over and dying

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Speaker 1: for the last two and a half of those games.

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Speaker 1: It was about as ugly as it possibly could have been.

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Speaker 2: It was pathetic, it was uriating at times. There was

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Speaker 2: the play tonight where the Braves were just they had

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Speaker 2: a small, tiny, little rally and it's crazy that something

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Speaker 2: as simple as a leadoff walk gets us all so excited.

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Speaker 2: It's like, oh, here we go. This is it the

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Speaker 2: Braves are gonna wake up, And promptly the Braves hit

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Speaker 2: into yet another double play, and the cherry on top

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Speaker 2: was Marcelo Zuna. I don't know what happened over running

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Speaker 2: And there was a really bad moment earlier in the

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Speaker 2: series where Ozzie Alby's like basically didn't run out a

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Speaker 2: ball and got doubled off as a result, have some pride,

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Speaker 2: is what I'm saying. If you lose a game and

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Speaker 2: you go all out and the other team just beats you, right,

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Speaker 2: it's a hit the ball in opportune moments. That baseball

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Speaker 2: is a really simple game when it comes down to it,

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Speaker 2: situational hitting, being situationally aware, and the Braves just weren't

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Speaker 2: that in any of the games this weekend. It was

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Speaker 2: so frush. I think it was the first time since

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Speaker 2: nineteen eighty that the Braves were four games swept to

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Speaker 2: begin a season. Now, of course you generally don't play

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Speaker 2: four games, so that's a little bit of an obscure

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Speaker 2: stat but we're talking forty five years was the last

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Speaker 2: time the Braves were four games swept to begin a year,

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Speaker 2: and it was just a pathetic performance. And I mean,

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Speaker 2: I would love to be a fly on the wall

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Speaker 2: in the clubhouse. Who's the one saying something, Who's the

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Speaker 2: one saying, guys, we gotta get going because a lot

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Speaker 2: of those players are no longer with the team. Freddy Freeman,

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Speaker 2: Dansby Swanson, Travis Darnault, those guys aren't there, and I

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Speaker 2: would love to know. And let's say this just right

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Speaker 1: Indeed, there are there are.

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Speaker 2: Six months of baseball to go. Objectively, it is still

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Speaker 2: very early. A four game losing streak sucks, but it's

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Speaker 2: four games and there's a whole lot to go. It

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Speaker 2: is the equivalent of the two minute warning in the

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Speaker 2: first half of a NFL season, of a seventeen game

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Speaker 2: so much baseball ahead. But good god, they need to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I could certainly argue. And we did a show

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Speaker 1: and that was kind of just one of those nights.

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Speaker 1: Like I don't think the Braves were disgusting on Thursday,

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Speaker 1: Like they didn't play that bad on Thursday, that was

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Speaker 1: And this is a team that while last year they

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Speaker 1: like that, that's the theory of the team is that

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Speaker 1: runs at some point. Now, this other stat you mentioned,

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Speaker 1: The last time the Braves scored seven runs or fewer

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Speaker 1: You're coming into the season with the second highest projected

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure if you know. Nine times three is

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Speaker 1: twenty seven. Twenty seven to twenty seven down. It wasn't

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Speaker 1: Nickovett is good, but like, it's pretty shameful to not

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Speaker 1: it's tough to take any of them. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I think the Braves had three or four baseballs all

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Speaker 2: And you mentioned Saturday night's game against Randy Vasquez, who

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Speaker 2: barely made the team. He was almost sent to Triple

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Speaker 2: in games one and two. Imagine that your your manager

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Speaker 2: the season. That's another conversation for Thursday show.

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Speaker 1: That's right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we will not pick at that scab anymore. I'm

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Speaker 2: not sure how long Hector Nearis is going to be

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Speaker 2: on this team, Brad.

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Speaker 1: But.

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Speaker 2: If the Braves, if this was Friday night, and the

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Speaker 2: that's different. But to get mowed down for twenty two

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Speaker 2: squad of the Padres Bullpen, that's inexcusable and really just

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Speaker 3: Me out to my team, a bad girls work, watch

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna have the local through.

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Speaker 2: We'll put the drs and they don't win.

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Speaker 1: It's a shame work Strim. Now, all right, Scott, let

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Speaker 1: us dive in again, just to what transpired? Where do

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Speaker 1: you want to begin? You want to talk about Sunday

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Speaker 1: just a little bit more because we're we're already here.

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Speaker 1: It's Sunday night. I mean, we don't know, you don't

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Speaker 1: Look, you mentioned the Ozo already. I think we all

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Speaker 1: Now again, we already leed this. Let this point, we'll

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Speaker 1: say it one more time. This was an offense loss,

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Speaker 1: don't give you. Don't get me wrong, but it was

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Speaker 1: very funny or deeply ironic, whatever you want to say

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Speaker 1: That's all I have. I was like, all right, well

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Speaker 1: versus the higher side. Guys are not like fully ramped

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Speaker 1: they don't. They're not one hundred percent ramped up to

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Speaker 1: throw hundred pitches or whatever. Yeah, hopefully that's it with

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Speaker 1: or Ado, but uh yeah, I agree. Like free Spring

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Speaker 1: Missus was a double take number. I was like, wow,

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Speaker 1: is that really the number in it.

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Speaker 2: It was it felt like San Diego's hitters were just

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Speaker 2: So we'll see. It's just one start again, It's just,

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Speaker 2: you know, one one game. But it was not necessarily

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Speaker 2: an overly encouraging start for Ronaldo, especially after a pretty

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Speaker 2: pedestrian spring training. But of course we're gonna have to

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Speaker 2: evaluate and see how he looks. Presumably on Wednesday. I

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Speaker 2: believe he's set up to start Game three of the

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Speaker 2: Dodger Series, which is going to be really tough, but

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Speaker 2: then he should get some easier starts under his belt

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Speaker 2: but it seems like Chris Sale is gonna be good.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna talk about schwon Bach, but I mean, schwen

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Speaker 2: they're going to get Spencer Strider back soon. So even

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Speaker 2: if Ronaldo is a really good four, this team is

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Speaker 2: going to be in good shape with the rotation. It's

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Speaker 2: just a matter of hoping that that was just kind

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Speaker 1: And that is what Lopez was signed to be. You know,

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Speaker 1: I think he didn't pitch like his peripherals were not

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Speaker 1: let's discuss Saturday's game and hold the bright spot for

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Speaker 1: just one moment. About Saturday's game. First, the ugly stuff

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Speaker 1: from Saturday. We talked about it a little bit before,

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Speaker 1: but in some ways it was almost a better embodiment

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Speaker 1: than of what's happened so far this weekend than Sunday's

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Speaker 1: game was because the only run that scored for other

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Speaker 1: team in the game on Saturday happened because of the

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Speaker 1: following things. With two outs, a comebacker hits Aaron Bummer

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Speaker 1: in the foot and rolls all the way into the

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Speaker 1: dugout so that it's an automatic ground rule. Double without

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Speaker 1: leaving the infield. That's one thing that happened with two

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Speaker 1: outs and nobody on base against by the way, the

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Speaker 1: unluckiest pitcher in the world, Aaron Bummer. Then after an

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Speaker 1: intentional walk that I actually kind of hated, but we

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Speaker 1: want to talk about right now because it's not playoff podcast.

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Speaker 1: Then literally like a seventy mile an hour dribbling ground

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Speaker 1: ball from a former Braves farm hand, Juli gurlyyell through

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Speaker 1: the hole between third base and shortstop, gets gets right

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Speaker 1: by Arcia for again the only run, the go ahead,

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Speaker 1: the winning, the only run, another offensive, an offensive disaster

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Speaker 1: on Saturday. But I thought that was just incredible. That

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Speaker 1: was the only Roman Scordia.

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Speaker 2: It was just so frustrating. Even the official MLB account

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Speaker 2: said something like, have you ever seen this before in

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Speaker 2: a baseball game? Right ball to hit Aaron Bumber's foot

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Speaker 2: perfectly and then roll into like the five foot wide

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Speaker 2: dugout opening to make it a ground world double.

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Speaker 1: And how many balls hit off of the other like

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Speaker 1: off the fielders this weekend that were that went straight

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Speaker 1: to other fielders like the brace probably had at least

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Speaker 1: three ground balls that carram right to a fielder this weekend,

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Speaker 1: and granted that happens sometimes, but the juxtaposition of those

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Speaker 1: those happening and then this one happened to put it

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Speaker 1: more on second base. Oh man, my head hurts already.

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Speaker 1: It's my head hurt.

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Speaker 2: On March thirtieth, it was somehow perfect because you mentioned

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Speaker 2: Juli Gurleell hit a twelve bouncer into the shortstop hole

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Speaker 2: that got just under Orlando RCA's glove. If the balls

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Speaker 2: hit harder, the runner probably doesn't score because Profar comes

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Speaker 2: in and it would be tough to score on a

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Speaker 2: ball to third base. Yeah, so bases are loaded. I

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Speaker 2: mean the inning would have continued, but at least the

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Speaker 2: winning run doesn't score. If the ball was hit a

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Speaker 2: foot or two to the right, Arcia probably gloves it.

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Speaker 2: If it was hit any softer, Rcia probably gloves it.

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Speaker 2: It was just you could not roll the baseball out

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Speaker 2: there better than what Guriel did after a ball ricochet's

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Speaker 2: off Aaron Bummer's foot into the dugout, then the intentional walk,

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Speaker 2: and again, man, a one run should not be the difference.

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Speaker 2: I feel like this is a podcast from July eighteenth,

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. I swear to God we've done this

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Speaker 2: show before, Brad, where there was some nonsense that gave

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Speaker 2: the other team a run or two and the Braves

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Speaker 2: couldn't do anything about it. It's just such a frustrating way.

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Speaker 2: I would almost rather lose these games like ten to

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Speaker 2: nothing and just be like, you know what it is,

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Speaker 2: what it is, than lose a one nothing game in

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Speaker 2: the most annoying way possible.

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Speaker 1: I agree, I think as much as maybe it built

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Speaker 1: on each other so that Sunday's result was the most

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Speaker 1: frustrating because we were just already worked up about it, right,

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Speaker 1: this is it's a sweep and all those things. But

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Speaker 1: the most maddening individual game was Saturday to me anyway,

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Speaker 1: like the one Look the way they lost Saturday's game.

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Speaker 1: You know, even before that they had two just terrible

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Speaker 1: double plays on first pitch swings when the potteries couldn't

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Speaker 1: find couldn't find the plate, and then they build out

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Speaker 1: with with double plays with rends scoring position. Matt Olsen

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Speaker 1: hit a hits a near home run that should have

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Speaker 1: probably been a home run, it wasn't. It was like

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Speaker 1: what six inches short of a home run, like just

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Speaker 1: right there. Maddening. And then of course the stat that

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Speaker 1: everyone was sharing. That's stopped being shared now because, by

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Speaker 1: the way, it's still true because today they didn't have

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Speaker 1: anybody in scoring position the entire game, not one, not

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Speaker 1: one plate appearance. So there are still one for twenty

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Speaker 1: two with runners and scoring position for the season so far.

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Speaker 1: It was the same yesterday that it is today. But look,

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Speaker 1: I think I tweeted this, I know I put it

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Speaker 1: in our notes. Nothing else. Throw everything else out the window.

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Speaker 1: If all you know about a team is that they're

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Speaker 1: one for twenty two with Browns scoring position, they're probably

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Speaker 1: losing those games, or at least most of those games.

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Speaker 1: Like you can't just do that, and there's barriants involved there.

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Speaker 1: I'll be the first to say that this is where

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Speaker 1: I start giving my context, and I always with Gibbs Scott,

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Speaker 1: but one for twenty two is like you're gonna lose,

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Speaker 1: like ill you're in a bunch of home runs that

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Speaker 1: aren't you know, you're just a trouble.

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Speaker 2: It is almost a copy paste of everything that plagued

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Speaker 2: the team a year ago. And I thought you and

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Speaker 2: Stephen and Sean did a great job on the opening

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Speaker 2: day podcast about everything that concerned you going in kind

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Speaker 2: of reared its head in that opening day game against

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Speaker 2: the Padres on Thursday. The one big concern that this

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Speaker 2: team had offensively a year ago, as if they did

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Speaker 2: not hit home runs, they really struggled to score. Situational

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Speaker 2: hitting was really bad. On base was a struggle. They

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Speaker 2: didn't get on base at the level they should, and

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Speaker 2: through these first four games and especially over the weekend,

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Speaker 2: it was pretty much more of the same. They had

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Speaker 2: a home run from Ozzie, and they had a home

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Speaker 2: run from Riley, and they had a home run from Kelnick,

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Speaker 2: and other than a duck fart that went inside out

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Speaker 2: off of Marcelo Zuna's bat, they got past the second

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Speaker 2: basement for two runs on Friday night. I mean, that's

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Speaker 2: basically it for the offense and the there was a

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Speaker 2: Ozzi Alby's had the bases loaded on opening day, basically

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Speaker 2: hit into a double play and beat the throw by

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Speaker 2: a millisecond. There was none of it, and that was

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Speaker 2: such a problem in frustration a year ago, even with

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Speaker 2: all the injuries, and this team is mostly healthy. That's

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Speaker 2: what's just so frustrating. And let's hope it's just one bad, bad,

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Speaker 2: bad weekend in San Diego. If the Braves played this

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Speaker 2: series in San Diego in July and the team was

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Speaker 2: ten games above five hundred. Yes, we'd be frustrated, but

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Speaker 2: you can probably chalk it up to Okay, it's the

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Speaker 2: West Coast, good team. Stuff happens in fifty to fifty games,

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Speaker 2: all that. But because it's opening weekend, I mean, it

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Speaker 2: was just a perfect storm of all the bad things

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Speaker 2: we didn't want to see and somehow they appeared. And

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Speaker 2: now we're I think the panic level has gone up,

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Speaker 2: probably more than it should after just four games of

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Speaker 2: a season.

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Speaker 1: We agree the pedic level is too high right now.

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Speaker 1: I'll get yelled up for saying that that's fine, is

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Speaker 1: outing is pretty pretty persil.

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Speaker 2: And I think what's crazy about Schwanbach is even though

645
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 2: he was really good, six shutout innings on Saturday night,

646
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 2: I don't even know if he had his A one stuff.

647
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 2: I don't think you did. No, it was just crazy,

648
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 2: but he was frustrated on the mound a couple times

649
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 2: where he was ahead of a hitter and tried to

650
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 2: throw a breaking ball and it was way off the plate,

651
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 2: or couldn't locate a fastball, or early on especially he

652
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:35,960
Speaker 2: didn't seem to have his full command. But I mean,

653
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,920
Speaker 2: what does it say about him not even a full year,

654
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 2: not a full calendar year into his big league career,

655
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:46,720
Speaker 2: and he's almost frustrated with himself after six scoreless because

656
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 2: he felt like he didn't have ultimate command and only

657
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 2: had four strikeouts, and we saw what the strikeouts can

658
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 2: be when he has everything working. He is so good,

659
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 2: He is so impressive. And I think if we're trying

660
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 2: to find the pow positives and the silver linings, that

661
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 2: if health willing, the Braves might have three legitimate ace

662
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:12,240
Speaker 2: type pitchers in this rotation this summer with Sale, Schwallenbach

663
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 2: and Strider. Even if the offense continues to be bad,

664
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:19,560
Speaker 2: that alone should carry the Braves for a lot of it,

665
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 2: and then maybe the bats eventually wake up. Maybe they

666
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 2: can get some of those torpedo bats the Yankees are

667
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:27,840
Speaker 2: using and hit the baseball for once. They got to

668
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 2: get that overnight FedEx to them, because clearly what the

669
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 2: Yankees have going is working. But Schwellenbach just he's the man,

670
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 2: and he's so good and so competitive, and it's I look,

671
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:40,479
Speaker 2: every time and every fifth day Schwenbach goes out there,

672
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 2: it's like my favorite day of the week.

673
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think you told me about this.

674
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 1: But Espnsbusteroli was talking about the torpedo bats with Drake

675
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,560
Speaker 1: Ball when I believe it was on the broadcast on Sunday,

676
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 1: So maybe the Braves will do that after Hey, listen,

677
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:53,720
Speaker 1: I can almost hear every fan say, go ahead, please

678
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 1: go ahead and get the torpido bats. At this point

679
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,840
Speaker 1: one morning on Schwellenbach start that I found that cast.

680
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 1: He did not he did not allow a single bare

681
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 1: old ball in the game on Saturday, which means, if

682
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 1: you don't know this, it means that no one hit

683
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 1: the ball in the sweet spot of the bat. Basically,

684
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 1: that means he was getting soft contact the entire game.

685
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 1: Velocity wise, none of that. He just was to your point,

686
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,759
Speaker 1: without his absolutely a one stuff. Still missed a bunch

687
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:23,200
Speaker 1: of bats, and no one barrowed him up the entire game.

688
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:25,000
Speaker 1: So it was like he was getting smoked and it

689
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 1: was just getting right at guys, like he was dominating

690
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 1: in the way that he did despite having not his

691
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:33,280
Speaker 1: best stuff. And we talked about with Lopez earlier. Actually

692
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:35,439
Speaker 1: Schwally's fastball was up a hit like a half tick

693
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:38,839
Speaker 1: on from last year, which you wouldn't expect this role

694
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:40,360
Speaker 1: in the season. I don't if that's gonna be sustainable.

695
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:42,080
Speaker 1: But he was sitting in like that ninety five and

696
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,799
Speaker 1: a half ninety six range in this game, which isn't like,

697
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 1: you know, one hundred percentile velocity, but for a starter,

698
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 1: that's real velocity, even in the modern game. And I

699
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:54,480
Speaker 1: was impressed. Man, I thought he looked great and I

700
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 1: felt bad for him. Did they lost the game? But

701
00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 1: he's so good.

702
00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:02,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's just awesome. It hurts my Spencer Strider or

703
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 2: Spencer Schwallenbach Cy Young tickets that he should have gotten

704
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:08,319
Speaker 2: a win and absolutely pitched well enough to get a win.

705
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 2: And I mean, you just hope that again it does

706
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,359
Speaker 2: not become a theme for this team that they're just

707
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:17,400
Speaker 2: throwing awesome starts from their pitchers in the trash, because, honestly,

708
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:21,319
Speaker 2: you said a moment ago, if we knew blindly five

709
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 2: days ago that they were going to get five innings

710
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:27,839
Speaker 2: from Sale five innings from Lopez, six innings from Schwallenbach,

711
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:30,920
Speaker 2: and four innings from Smith Shauver. And you would just

712
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:34,360
Speaker 2: show the flat numbers that they allowed, you'd be okay

713
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 2: with that. You'd be like, okay, they probably went two

714
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:40,960
Speaker 2: and two, maybe one in three, especially the Schwellenbach start,

715
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 2: So to go all in four is especially frustrating. And again, man,

716
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 2: just more of the same from last year. And I

717
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 2: just I really hope they wake up or it's going

718
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:51,280
Speaker 2: to be a really long summer.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Man, I mean you just said this. I just

720
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 1: pulled the number while you were talking four starts. This

721
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 1: is just the starting pitcher performance. Twenty innings air runs,

722
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 1: so a three point six era that's not incredible, but

723
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:09,359
Speaker 1: that's totally fine. And man, it's hard to go zero

724
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 1: to four. Yeah, when that's what you get from retarders.

725
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:14,359
Speaker 1: But when you don't hit it all, your open's bad

726
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:16,759
Speaker 1: end up there. But you're right, that is a if

727
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:19,760
Speaker 1: you want to spread it out beyond Schwamunbach to the rotation.

728
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:21,920
Speaker 1: To this point, that's been the best part of a

729
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 1: team through four days has been the rotation. Small Bar

730
00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 1: tore clear there, of course, but Schwelly led the way.

731
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:30,759
Speaker 1: He looked awesome, and we'll talk about him, of course,

732
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:32,839
Speaker 1: much more the rest of the season. We do have

733
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:34,360
Speaker 1: more news to get to on the show and than

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Speaker 1: a brief look ahead to what is Yes, everybody the

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Speaker 1: com for detips. All right, Scott, let's get away from

746
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 1: the weekend, please lord away from the four game series.

747
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:20,840
Speaker 1: Oh a bit of news, nothing earth shattering, but just

748
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 1: updates on three guys who are either injured or ramping up.

749
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:29,960
Speaker 1: Strider pitched actually a rehab start on Saturday with Gwinnette

750
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:33,959
Speaker 1: looked good by all accounts. Three innings, struck out six

751
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:36,959
Speaker 1: through hard. Seems like he's gonna make it a couple

752
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 1: more starts, but uh, just another posit data point for

753
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 1: a guy who we're all hoping is gonna be back

754
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:42,360
Speaker 1: in what three weeks?

755
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:45,919
Speaker 2: Something like that? Two weeks sounds about right on the timeline.

756
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:50,920
Speaker 2: Strider threw sixty pitches, so presumably his next start he'll

757
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:54,360
Speaker 2: throw seventy eighty ish and then make another start and

758
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 2: probably going ninety would be my guess, and then the

759
00:37:56,920 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 2: Braves will probably evaluate. I'm guessing that Strider'll be back

760
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:04,800
Speaker 2: after two more rehab appearances, but if he doesn't look great,

761
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,919
Speaker 2: or maybe they see a velocity dip when he gets

762
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:10,440
Speaker 2: into the seventies and eighties of his pitch count, they

763
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:14,399
Speaker 2: might have him do one more rehab start. But I mean,

764
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:17,640
Speaker 2: it's the end of March. It seems probable at this

765
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:20,359
Speaker 2: point that the Braves will get Strider back maybe mid

766
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 2: late April.

767
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is again we tease it already a little

768
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:28,480
Speaker 1: bit about just hoping he comes back and he's awesome,

769
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:30,760
Speaker 1: and nothing really has to add. Just other day, another

770
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:34,120
Speaker 1: positive data point along the way to recovery. For Spencer.

771
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 1: Sean Murphy is of course rehabbing as well. He call

772
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:39,920
Speaker 1: it actually I think five games or something like that,

773
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:44,280
Speaker 1: minor league action. Sorry, five innings, I should say. He's

774
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 1: supposed to, per mort Bowman, begin a full fledged rehab

775
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 1: assignment this week. That's good to see from Sean Murphy.

776
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:53,719
Speaker 1: And I already hear the course of people that don't

777
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:54,600
Speaker 1: want work to come back.

778
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:55,000
Speaker 2: I get it.

779
00:38:56,880 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's that. That's there's the positive stuff for Murphy.

780
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:00,239
Speaker 2: Right.

781
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 1: Do you want to talk about Bolwin for a second.

782
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:06,880
Speaker 1: We did discuss Baldwin on Thursday after the game with myself,

783
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:10,399
Speaker 1: Sean and Steven. The results have not been incredible from

784
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:12,160
Speaker 1: ball went at the play. He didn't play one of

785
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:14,399
Speaker 1: the games because he wasn't gonna play every single day.

786
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 1: That's not realistic. We saw some sustin Trump this weekend.

787
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 1: But I think everyone, and I mean everyone that I

788
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:25,760
Speaker 1: have seen and trust, is like, this guy looks great

789
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:28,920
Speaker 1: to me, and the results weren't there. But you know,

790
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:30,719
Speaker 1: there's a little bit of a hiccup on Thursday with

791
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:34,400
Speaker 1: guys stealing bases that snit immediately blame my pitchers, not Baldwin,

792
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:36,880
Speaker 1: which we agreed with even watching the game. But what

793
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 1: if you see from him through you? I guess way

794
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:42,160
Speaker 1: three games for him, but obviously looks to be pretty

795
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 1: ready by three games standards.

796
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 2: Drake Baldwin is ready, and he still has learning to

797
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 2: do with the highest level. But clearly this is not

798
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,280
Speaker 2: a kid who needs to spend six months in Gwinad

799
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:56,919
Speaker 2: to keep his head above water at the big, big level.

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00:39:57,440 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 1: Yeah.

801
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:00,440
Speaker 2: The question, of course, and this is the th stating,

802
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:02,759
Speaker 2: is what are the Braves going to do when Sean

803
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:07,759
Speaker 2: Murphy comes back in probably two weeks. Offensively, Baldwin, you

804
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:10,760
Speaker 2: said it exactly right. He hit the ball really hard

805
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 2: throughout the weekend. Of course, the one hit that he

806
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:17,880
Speaker 2: had was on an opposite field seventy mile an hour, doink.

807
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 2: It's funny. Baseball is a funny game like that. But

808
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:24,279
Speaker 2: and then defensively he called a good game. I know

809
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 2: Chris Sale has sung his praises for the work he

810
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:30,120
Speaker 2: does with the Pidgick staff calling the game, and he

811
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:32,720
Speaker 2: had a couple of runners thrown out on the basis,

812
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:35,839
Speaker 2: which is good. That Thursday game, I don't know what

813
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:38,239
Speaker 2: happened on Thursday, Brad, I mean did they did they

814
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:40,960
Speaker 2: forget to look at the runners or something.

815
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:43,319
Speaker 1: But well it was multiple guys too, and I think

816
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:45,759
Speaker 1: Stephen passed along with Smith said yeah, it was just

817
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:48,640
Speaker 1: a bizarre guys are getting running leads and it was

818
00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:50,399
Speaker 1: not on ball, which is that. That's the key thing

819
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 1: that everyone agreed on after the game was that it

820
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 1: was not on ball when which is good. That's all.

821
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:54,319
Speaker 2: That's all.

822
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:57,239
Speaker 1: That's all I needed to hear from everybody involved that

823
00:40:57,320 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 1: it wasn't like a concern moving forward. And just to

824
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,280
Speaker 1: give the number, by the way, because I can already

825
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 1: tell you this right now, Scott. Someone's gonna yell at

826
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:04,880
Speaker 1: us for saying he was good because he had a

827
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:07,719
Speaker 1: two fifty eight oh ps this week. I get it.

828
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:12,160
Speaker 1: Everybody watch watch the evats, even if you don't believe

829
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:14,560
Speaker 1: in that. It's not pure eye test, like look at

830
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:16,439
Speaker 1: the bat at ball data. He said, the ball hard

831
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:18,759
Speaker 1: you already mentioned. I think probably his worst swing of

832
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:20,440
Speaker 1: the weekend was where he got his hit, which is

833
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:22,799
Speaker 1: the whole which is hilarious. But that's just baseball for you.

834
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 1: But you know, we're not trying to go overboard. I'm

835
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:27,240
Speaker 1: not saying he's going to be you know, patro Riguez,

836
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 1: but he looks pretty good to everybody that's uh watching

837
00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:34,280
Speaker 1: the team closely, including us and everybody else.

838
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:37,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, with the game on the line on Saturday night,

839
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:41,480
Speaker 2: Baldwin had a phenomenal abat with two hours Yeah, and

840
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:43,799
Speaker 2: a terrible strep three call.

841
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:45,799
Speaker 1: Just yeah, it was Yeah.

842
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:49,000
Speaker 2: I wasn't sure how I felt about the challenge system

843
00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:52,279
Speaker 2: for baseball and they announced it until that pitch. Now

844
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 2: you're in to me right now, give it to me.

845
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:58,480
Speaker 2: Nine am Monday morning. Pressure release from MLB saying effective immediately,

846
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 2: ABS is instituted because I'm so tired of watching these

847
00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:05,560
Speaker 2: umpires just blow call after call after call, especially in

848
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:08,800
Speaker 2: the ninth inning it was ball four, Baldwin earned the walk.

849
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:10,640
Speaker 2: He should have walked. You should have kept the game

850
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 2: alive and.

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00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:13,560
Speaker 1: It would have been one of those like auto you

852
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:16,080
Speaker 1: know if you didn't watch bring training. This is the

853
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:18,600
Speaker 1: new proposal. It might even come into the league next

854
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:21,879
Speaker 1: year where it's not full robot MPs just still have umps,

855
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:25,000
Speaker 1: but like you're able to challenge a couple of calls

856
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:27,319
Speaker 1: per game and given that that doesn't get more high

857
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 1: leverge on that you're down one run in the ninth

858
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 1: ending with two outs like that's an auto challenge he wins. Anyway,

859
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:35,279
Speaker 1: I'm on board with that as well. But anyway, long story,

860
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:37,440
Speaker 1: short Ball one's gonna be good. We will have the

861
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:39,759
Speaker 1: discussion when Murphy comes back about what they're gonna do,

862
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:42,800
Speaker 1: and hopefully, look, hopefully the Braves have a tough decision

863
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:45,839
Speaker 1: in that Baldwin is playing great, you know what I mean.

864
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:48,800
Speaker 1: The best case scenario is Baldwin's playing great. I'll just

865
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 1: say this, Murphy's gonna play every buddy. He's not gonna

866
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:53,840
Speaker 1: not play. The decision is basically, do you want Baldwin

867
00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:56,880
Speaker 1: to stay up with Murphy or go back down Triple A.

868
00:42:57,200 --> 00:42:58,839
Speaker 1: I think he's over call off after Triple A. That's

869
00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:01,200
Speaker 1: kind of everybody thinks right now. But we'll see how

870
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:07,279
Speaker 1: that goes. Last update and uh, Craig kimberl through some

871
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:11,759
Speaker 1: live BP this week, right. He of course was not

872
00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:15,880
Speaker 1: unlike unlike Naris who apparently have been throwing before he

873
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:18,399
Speaker 1: ride for the Braves whatever it is, Unlike Chavez who

874
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 1: had been in a camp somewhere else, Kimber was on

875
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:23,759
Speaker 1: the couch, so he had no spring training and he's

876
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:26,799
Speaker 1: doing that right now. I think I don't know about

877
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:29,880
Speaker 1: you Scott. I think people, especially Braves fans that may

878
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:33,120
Speaker 1: may only watch the Braves, are thinking Craig kimber is

879
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 1: gonna ride on, ride in on a white horse and

880
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:38,239
Speaker 1: save them. And I'm I'm telling you that's probably not

881
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:40,319
Speaker 1: going to happen. I'd love it for it to happen.

882
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:42,400
Speaker 1: I loved I would love Cameron to find it again.

883
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:46,160
Speaker 1: I've seen people like really assigning a lot of value

884
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:48,200
Speaker 1: to Craig kimberll coming back, and that is really scaring

885
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:51,920
Speaker 1: me now. But uh hey, he might be better than

886
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:54,400
Speaker 1: Hector and Arius probably is.

887
00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:58,480
Speaker 2: I would say, there's you, Brad Roland, you might be

888
00:43:58,480 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 2: better than Hector Nis.

889
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:01,720
Speaker 1: Well, that's that. It's not true. Hectoranoris is a professional athlete.

890
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:04,720
Speaker 1: And I'm not I throw someone in like the low sixties.

891
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:05,920
Speaker 1: If I think of I had to guess right now,

892
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 1: have you not throw a missmall quite some time? But no,

893
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:10,360
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not picking I'm not picking on Kimbrel.

894
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 1: I just and I think maybe some of it's like

895
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:13,520
Speaker 1: tongue in cheek about how the bad I get it.

896
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:15,799
Speaker 1: The bullpen was not very good this weekend. I just

897
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:18,239
Speaker 1: want people to realize he's not Craig Kimberl from ten

898
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:19,880
Speaker 1: years ago. That's how that picture.

899
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:24,360
Speaker 2: That is fair. And I think the hope with Kimbrel

900
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:26,640
Speaker 2: is that he's not used in the ninth. He's not

901
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 2: even gonna be used.

902
00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 1: In the eighth.

903
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:32,000
Speaker 2: He is purely a middle reliever at this point who

904
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:34,759
Speaker 2: still throws really hard, gets a lot of swing and

905
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:37,320
Speaker 2: miss on his knuckle curve. And if he can be

906
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:40,040
Speaker 2: a stabilizing forest in the middle of the bullpen, then

907
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:42,120
Speaker 2: you take him for the two million dollars that they

908
00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:45,759
Speaker 2: paid him whenever they inevitably call him up. So yes,

909
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 2: it's gonna help. I would take Kimbrol over Hector Nis

910
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 2: for sure at this point. Even even if you remove

911
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 2: the two bad appearances this weekend for Neris, I would

912
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:58,000
Speaker 2: still take Kimbrel in a vacuum over him.

913
00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:01,120
Speaker 1: I would too, And I'm just gonna say that every

914
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:03,839
Speaker 1: podcast I do, maybe between now and the end of time,

915
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:05,840
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say the words Buck Farmer out loud.

916
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:08,279
Speaker 1: Don't know why he's on the team, still just saying

917
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:12,719
Speaker 1: out loud, but yeah, Kimberl hopefully soon ramping up, we

918
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:14,840
Speaker 1: will see. That's the end of the news. Unless I

919
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 1: think I'm looking one more time to make sure. And

920
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 1: by the way, this is as a plug. I don't

921
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 1: work fit anymore. But I the first place I look

922
00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 1: for news is Battery power dot com because they're gonna

923
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:26,480
Speaker 1: have it just saying saying it out loud. Love our

924
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:29,560
Speaker 1: guys over there, including Scott. Three of our four hosts

925
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:31,600
Speaker 1: right there. I don't. I'm the one that said that

926
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:38,920
Speaker 1: for the plug. Last thing, Dodger Series begins on Monday.

927
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 1: The absolute thing you do not want to do after

928
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:45,600
Speaker 1: you are swept in four games is go to Dodgers

929
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:47,800
Speaker 1: Stadium and play three games. And that's what the breaks

930
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:52,360
Speaker 1: have to do. Also some late nights, some Scott Coleman specials,

931
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:54,400
Speaker 1: a ten to ten game on Monday, a ten to

932
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:58,400
Speaker 1: ten game on Tuesday, about eight forty on Wednesday. Sleep

933
00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:02,000
Speaker 1: when you die. Everybody. The Dodgers haven't lost yet. I

934
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:05,960
Speaker 1: don't believe, is that correct? There's still They won the

935
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:08,520
Speaker 1: first two games in Japan about two weeks ago. They

936
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:10,719
Speaker 1: came home and won the first three. They weren't they

937
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:13,440
Speaker 1: were challenged, they were not blowouts. They almost lost a

938
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 1: game this weekend at least won them maybe maybe two

939
00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:18,719
Speaker 1: of the games. But everyone has said that's the best

940
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:20,960
Speaker 1: team in baseball. I tend to agree. In fact, I

941
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:22,520
Speaker 1: believe I said this on the show. If not, I

942
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:24,600
Speaker 1: think I will say it now. It's the best rush

943
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:27,399
Speaker 1: I've ever seen, and I'm not exaggerating as the best

944
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:30,120
Speaker 1: roster I've ever seen. Doesn't mean they can't lose, and

945
00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:31,920
Speaker 1: they're gonna lose games. Even the best teams of all

946
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:35,720
Speaker 1: time lose games. But not what you want to see

947
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:38,799
Speaker 1: on Monday. What are you expecting when the Braves arrived?

948
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:40,799
Speaker 1: And by the way, Grant Holmes against his former team

949
00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:41,560
Speaker 1: on Monday.

950
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:43,920
Speaker 2: Night, if there was ever a time for the Braves

951
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:46,800
Speaker 2: to win two out of three.

952
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:49,359
Speaker 1: It would be good. Just get hey, well, okay, right now,

953
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:53,800
Speaker 1: right now, right now, would you settle for one?

954
00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:56,919
Speaker 2: I'm not getting yes, I would settle for one.

955
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:01,160
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if I would, But it's

956
00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:04,040
Speaker 1: it's a thought. It's a it's definitely a thought because

957
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:06,879
Speaker 1: of where they are. Obviously you'd like to win all three.

958
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:09,640
Speaker 1: And I would say there is a bigger chance of

959
00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:11,840
Speaker 1: the Braves sweeping the Dodgers that people want to realize

960
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 1: that there is, because baseball is baseball and they're not

961
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:17,279
Speaker 1: going to be massive butterdogs in all these games. They're

962
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:20,279
Speaker 1: just not I'm not expecting that to happen. I'm just

963
00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:22,400
Speaker 1: saying that out loud, but I think I think if

964
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:23,960
Speaker 1: you pull Brisman right now, I bet you a lot

965
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:26,080
Speaker 1: of them would say, yeah, I'll take one. I'll take

966
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:28,760
Speaker 1: one at six, Yeah, sign me up. Which is crazy,

967
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 1: but that's where we are.

968
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:33,120
Speaker 2: Monday's game is going to be an uphill battle. Grant

969
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:36,040
Speaker 2: Holmes is going to start. We saw him kind of

970
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:38,640
Speaker 2: weirdly out of the bullpen for an inning already, but

971
00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:42,680
Speaker 2: Holmes his first start against Tyler Glass now, who is very,

972
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:47,040
Speaker 2: very good when he's healthy. Yeah, Tuesday's game is actually

973
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:50,239
Speaker 2: interesting because it's going to be Chris Sale against Dustin May.

974
00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:53,560
Speaker 2: That's that's probably a game in the eyes of Vegas

975
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:55,919
Speaker 2: that's going to be like a fifty to fifty toss up, and.

976
00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:59,160
Speaker 1: It's it's the only the only pitching advantage that Braves

977
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:01,920
Speaker 1: have this weekend. Y is the game on Tuesday, and

978
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:03,880
Speaker 1: Dustin mat is good for the record, he's just not

979
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:06,520
Speaker 1: He's not chrissale. I looked at the betting odds right now.

980
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:08,160
Speaker 1: They don't have the game on Tuesday yet, but betting

981
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:10,840
Speaker 1: odds are up for Monday's game. The Braves are like

982
00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:14,600
Speaker 1: plus one seventy right now, so that's like a thirty

983
00:48:14,680 --> 00:48:17,520
Speaker 1: five percent chance to win the game. Thirty thirty five percent,

984
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:22,520
Speaker 1: and that's with your fourth fifth starter against a not

985
00:48:22,560 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 1: like a full blown eighth but Glass is really really good,

986
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:27,720
Speaker 1: so that's a pill battle. So yeah, I think probably

987
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:29,840
Speaker 1: fifty to fifty ish at least the Betty market on

988
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:32,920
Speaker 1: Tuesday with Sale on the Mountain and it's Do you

989
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:34,960
Speaker 1: think it's interesting that Sales throwing going four days rest

990
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:36,560
Speaker 1: because that was like talked about, like it was a thing,

991
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:38,239
Speaker 1: and I was like, well, I mean, it's the second

992
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:40,040
Speaker 1: start of the season. I thought he was gonna pitch

993
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:42,080
Speaker 1: on Tuesday. I'm glad he is. It's just interesting.

994
00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:44,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it makes sense to pitch Sale on

995
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:47,880
Speaker 2: normal rest on Tuesday night. It's still very early in

996
00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:50,400
Speaker 2: the season. And while the Braves are playing seven in

997
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:54,200
Speaker 2: a row out West, I believe between the end of

998
00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:58,600
Speaker 2: the Dodger series and their next eighteen games, the Braves

999
00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:00,200
Speaker 2: have four off days.

1000
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:04,240
Speaker 1: Including including Thursday, So they're off on Thursday to travel

1001
00:49:04,239 --> 00:49:06,480
Speaker 1: because forth they yeah, they're not gonna make the Braves

1002
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:08,080
Speaker 1: play seven in a row and then travel back and

1003
00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:09,719
Speaker 1: play the next day. That'd be brutal. So they do

1004
00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:14,680
Speaker 1: have Thursday off and a slightly earlier game on Wednesday,

1005
00:49:14,719 --> 00:49:18,560
Speaker 1: a five forty local start. But yeah, it does get easier,

1006
00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:21,200
Speaker 1: both schedule wise as far as the opponents are concerned

1007
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:24,600
Speaker 1: and the actual like breast schedule, it does get easier.

1008
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:26,719
Speaker 1: But if they're oh and seven, that's not gonna be

1009
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:30,440
Speaker 1: a kind to anybody. And look, this is like, it's

1010
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:32,240
Speaker 1: not even a hot if you just do the math,

1011
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:35,480
Speaker 1: it's not hot. They're gonna win a game this week.

1012
00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:37,359
Speaker 1: I feel I feel good. I feel good. They're gonna

1013
00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:39,279
Speaker 1: They're gonna win one in l A. I like to

1014
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:41,759
Speaker 1: I'd like to get to. But I think they're gonna

1015
00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:42,399
Speaker 1: win at least one.

1016
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:46,520
Speaker 2: The famous last, the eternal Optimist Roland.

1017
00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:49,160
Speaker 1: That's that's Sean. That that that is Sean Coleman. Uh.

1018
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:51,560
Speaker 1: We only have one optimist on our on our podcast

1019
00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:53,160
Speaker 1: out of the four of us, and it's definitely Sean.

1020
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:55,120
Speaker 1: But of course Sean came in hot Thursday, and I

1021
00:49:55,440 --> 00:49:57,640
Speaker 1: didn't I didn't know what to do. I got real,

1022
00:49:57,800 --> 00:49:59,439
Speaker 1: we we got we got tweets like, why is Sean

1023
00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:01,960
Speaker 1: so oh man Sewn's negative, We're all in deep trouk

1024
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:04,480
Speaker 1: with Steven. Steven is probably the other side of Sean,

1025
00:50:04,680 --> 00:50:06,080
Speaker 1: and you and I are in the middle somewhere. I'm

1026
00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:09,319
Speaker 1: probably closer to Steven. It doesn't matter. It's just if

1027
00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:12,000
Speaker 1: we lose Sean, it's gonna be a long year. If

1028
00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:14,400
Speaker 1: Seawn's negative, we're all in trouble.

1029
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:18,319
Speaker 2: But one game at a time, Yes, I say, one

1030
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:20,960
Speaker 2: game at a time, good coach, speak out of you. Yeah,

1031
00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:23,399
Speaker 2: one game at a time. Maybe maybe the Braves will

1032
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:26,200
Speaker 2: surprise us, maybe they will wake up. If there is

1033
00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:29,360
Speaker 2: any is there, if there is any kind of positive

1034
00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:31,280
Speaker 2: that I can spin here as we wrap up the show,

1035
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 2: I got one of got midnight on Wednesday, going into Thursday.

1036
00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:41,400
Speaker 2: The Braves have clearly played their most difficult road trip

1037
00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:42,520
Speaker 2: all year long.

1038
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:43,400
Speaker 1: That's correct.

1039
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:47,799
Speaker 2: Frankly, they probably have their seven most difficult games done with.

1040
00:50:48,560 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 2: So not every game is going to be at the Padres,

1041
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:53,719
Speaker 2: who were arguably the second best team in baseball. Not

1042
00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:55,560
Speaker 2: every game is going to be at the Dodgers, who

1043
00:50:55,560 --> 00:50:58,680
Speaker 2: have unlimited money and have a billion dollars in deferrals,

1044
00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:01,239
Speaker 2: and they can sign whoever they want and trade whoever

1045
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:04,640
Speaker 2: they want because they don't have restrictions like everybody else does.

1046
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:08,960
Speaker 2: The schedule will get easier. The Braves, I think, are

1047
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:11,760
Speaker 2: going to wake up. I pray they wake up. Otherwise

1048
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:14,360
Speaker 2: we have a lot of very very bad podcasts on

1049
00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:18,520
Speaker 2: the horizon, Brad. But they'll get going. I would I

1050
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:20,360
Speaker 2: said that at the beginning. I'll say it again. I

1051
00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:22,319
Speaker 2: would love to be a fly on the wall in

1052
00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:25,640
Speaker 2: that clubhouse tonight. I would hope that some of the

1053
00:51:25,719 --> 00:51:28,120
Speaker 2: veterans on this team, some of the very well paid

1054
00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:30,640
Speaker 2: veterans on this team, would say, guys, we got to

1055
00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:35,400
Speaker 2: get going. Losing like this on national television, getting doubled

1056
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:39,280
Speaker 2: off at second base, basically getting a perfect game thrown

1057
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:44,520
Speaker 2: against US is inexcusable. And let's hope in a jump

1058
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:47,480
Speaker 2: and ballpark at LA, at a Dodger stadium will kind

1059
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:49,640
Speaker 2: of help them wake up even more, because I mean,

1060
00:51:49,680 --> 00:51:52,560
Speaker 2: it was just about as disheartening of four games as

1061
00:51:52,560 --> 00:51:54,800
Speaker 2: I have watched the Braves play in a long time.

1062
00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:58,520
Speaker 1: It was, and we've talked around it. But I do

1063
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:00,600
Speaker 1: and not just because of the way that I am.

1064
00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:03,600
Speaker 1: I do believe what I'm about to say. I'm not

1065
00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:08,640
Speaker 1: worried yet. I'm not obviously on four people are worried,

1066
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:12,120
Speaker 1: and I don't blame you for being worried. I'm not yet.

1067
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:15,360
Speaker 1: It is four games, and I'll give this is not

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Speaker 1: doesn't mean anything. It could mean something. This is like

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00:52:19,239 --> 00:52:20,800
Speaker 1: with a hat teeth to our guy Steve, and I

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00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:26,040
Speaker 1: can tweeted this out earlier today. The Braves started on

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00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:30,720
Speaker 1: four in twenty twenty one, they won the World Series.

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00:52:31,719 --> 00:52:34,839
Speaker 1: Now that team had a lot go way. I had

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00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:38,160
Speaker 1: a lot go right for them, right they were under

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00:52:38,160 --> 00:52:40,759
Speaker 1: five hundred deep into the season. If you don't remember this,

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00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:44,560
Speaker 1: I saw some pretty revisionous history happening today about that

1076
00:52:44,640 --> 00:52:46,560
Speaker 1: team that I won't mention my name, but I was

1077
00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:49,319
Speaker 1: like people have forgotten, how like not that great that

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00:52:49,360 --> 00:52:52,080
Speaker 1: team was for most of the year and even like

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00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:55,760
Speaker 1: on paper they overhauled the overhauled the outfield in July,

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00:52:55,960 --> 00:52:59,239
Speaker 1: all these things. Anyway, that season they were owed four.

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00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:01,759
Speaker 1: They were also four and eight. I believe, like they

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00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:03,600
Speaker 1: didn't just win like the next eight like they were.

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00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:06,640
Speaker 1: They were both five hundred for a long time and

1084
00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:08,680
Speaker 1: they won the World Series. Now you don't want to

1085
00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:10,520
Speaker 1: follow that path, you don't have to, so get out

1086
00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 1: of dig out of this thing. Quickly, But there are

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00:53:13,080 --> 00:53:15,239
Speaker 1: numerous exacts. That's just one that's convenience for us to

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00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:17,480
Speaker 1: use because it's the Braves example, and it's obviously the

1089
00:53:17,520 --> 00:53:21,280
Speaker 1: high end example. But starting with four is not best sentence.

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00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:23,719
Speaker 1: But you don't want to go start two and ten,

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00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:25,960
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like you gotta to your point,

1092
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:29,400
Speaker 1: you gotta wake up. Not not the serious that you would

1093
00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:31,600
Speaker 1: any of us would pick, but there's something to be

1094
00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:33,200
Speaker 1: said for if the Braves can go out there and

1095
00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:35,440
Speaker 1: maybe steal a series in Los Angeles, that could be

1096
00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:38,040
Speaker 1: a jumpstarter. It's like, all right, we just beat the Dodgers. Yeah,

1097
00:53:38,080 --> 00:53:40,239
Speaker 1: you know, like that's on the road and all those things.

1098
00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:43,160
Speaker 1: So if they're owing seven on Wednesday night and we

1099
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:45,960
Speaker 1: do a podcast, it's gonna be hard to sell optimism,

1100
00:53:46,040 --> 00:53:48,400
Speaker 1: Like I promise you that, but I don't think it's

1101
00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:50,640
Speaker 1: gonna happen. I think it's gonna get one in La

1102
00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:53,480
Speaker 1: the Maths. We'll tell you that too, not just my

1103
00:53:53,560 --> 00:53:55,720
Speaker 1: feeling and my optimism, because I don't really have optimism,

1104
00:53:55,800 --> 00:53:58,440
Speaker 1: but it's more just context of being measured. Just to

1105
00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:01,880
Speaker 1: say I don't believe that brands are suddenly bad, I

1106
00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:04,319
Speaker 1: won't be wrong there's a chance I'm wrong, Like there's

1107
00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:06,799
Speaker 1: a chance that seems like very good. That's definitely possible too.

1108
00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:08,200
Speaker 1: But I do think that this is still a good

1109
00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:10,719
Speaker 1: team and this weekend has not changed that, even if

1110
00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:13,560
Speaker 1: it was as brutal as it passab could have been. Yeah,

1111
00:54:13,600 --> 00:54:14,120
Speaker 1: anything else to.

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00:54:14,120 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 2: Add, Scott, nothing to add. I kept it PG on

1113
00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:19,840
Speaker 2: the show. I try not to cuss, I really do.

1114
00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:22,239
Speaker 1: I was proud of you. We had some we had

1115
00:54:22,239 --> 00:54:24,600
Speaker 1: some colorful that messages back and forth during the game.

1116
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:27,600
Speaker 1: We won't share those public consumptions, but there was some color.

1117
00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:29,120
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1118
00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 1: By the way, not to Scott, I was involved in

1119
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:34,160
Speaker 1: the color for messages too, so but we kept it

1120
00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:36,399
Speaker 1: on the rails. This is why we and look all

1121
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:39,560
Speaker 1: joking aside. I think there are probably a lot of

1122
00:54:39,560 --> 00:54:41,680
Speaker 1: podcasts that just would not have done a show, but

1123
00:54:41,719 --> 00:54:43,960
Speaker 1: we always do shows. We're not gonna ever not do

1124
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:45,440
Speaker 1: a show like We'll be.

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00:54:45,440 --> 00:54:48,759
Speaker 2: Here rain or Shine win or Yeah.

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00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:48,920
Speaker 1: Man.

1127
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:52,400
Speaker 2: We've done some some dark podcasts over the years, and

1128
00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:56,680
Speaker 2: some really good ones too, And I think objectively, and

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00:54:56,760 --> 00:54:58,879
Speaker 2: God bless you if you were still listening an hour

1130
00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:01,239
Speaker 2: into this show, we really do appreciate it. I'm just

1131
00:55:01,600 --> 00:55:05,000
Speaker 2: we really appreciate it. I do too, Yes, objectively, as

1132
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:07,920
Speaker 2: frustrated as I was tonight, and I was pretty worked up, Brad,

1133
00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:10,440
Speaker 2: I don't get super worked up over regular season games

1134
00:55:10,440 --> 00:55:11,040
Speaker 2: as much as I.

1135
00:55:11,719 --> 00:55:14,439
Speaker 1: March thirtieth Scott Colman just right to run through a wall.

1136
00:55:15,440 --> 00:55:19,080
Speaker 2: But objectively, my brain is telling me this team has

1137
00:55:19,160 --> 00:55:22,879
Speaker 2: too much talent, too much track record to not get

1138
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:27,600
Speaker 2: it figured out. Just wake up, guys, wake up. I'm

1139
00:55:27,640 --> 00:55:30,080
Speaker 2: sure they listen to this podcast on the team flight. Brad.

1140
00:55:30,800 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 2: Please let everyone know that we at Hammer Territory have

1141
00:55:34,239 --> 00:55:36,399
Speaker 2: asked them to wake up. I think the entire fan

1142
00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:38,680
Speaker 2: base would like to see that. And maybe a trip

1143
00:55:38,719 --> 00:55:42,160
Speaker 2: down to the Dodgers against the Goliaths of baseball will

1144
00:55:42,239 --> 00:55:44,560
Speaker 2: kind of help get them going, and maybe they'll have

1145
00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:46,360
Speaker 2: a couple of balls bounce their way and they can

1146
00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:48,600
Speaker 2: get a couple of wins in LA. It would really

1147
00:55:48,640 --> 00:55:52,000
Speaker 2: really make for a pleasant flight back home on Wednesday

1148
00:55:52,080 --> 00:55:54,160
Speaker 2: night if they could win one, even two of these

1149
00:55:54,160 --> 00:55:55,359
Speaker 2: games would go a long way.

1150
00:55:56,440 --> 00:55:59,400
Speaker 1: Strongly agree, and we will have shows this week. Not

1151
00:55:59,520 --> 00:56:01,400
Speaker 1: exactly sure when the next one will be, but in

1152
00:56:01,440 --> 00:56:03,239
Speaker 1: the next few days we will have a podcast as

1153
00:56:03,280 --> 00:56:04,840
Speaker 1: we always do, so please go ahead and click the

1154
00:56:04,840 --> 00:56:08,719
Speaker 1: subscribe button on your favorite podcast platform audio wise. That's

1155
00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:12,720
Speaker 1: places like Apple, Spotify, Overcast, et cetera. We're also on YouTube.

1156
00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:16,080
Speaker 1: If you want to watch Scott Coleman's shining face as

1157
00:56:16,120 --> 00:56:18,200
Speaker 1: he discusses sprays baseball, you can do You can do

1158
00:56:18,239 --> 00:56:20,279
Speaker 1: that there at YouTube. Please like the show on their

1159
00:56:20,640 --> 00:56:24,240
Speaker 1: subscribe Tell your friends Scott. People can find you where

1160
00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:25,360
Speaker 1: on social media.

1161
00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:27,720
Speaker 2: I am at Scott Coleman fifty five.

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00:56:28,480 --> 00:56:31,120
Speaker 1: Bear down, everyone, Bear Down, Go Blue. By the way,

1163
00:56:31,160 --> 00:56:33,400
Speaker 1: it was for all of the excitement about our four

1164
00:56:33,640 --> 00:56:36,520
Speaker 1: teams making us sixteen, none of them did very well

1165
00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:39,000
Speaker 1: after that. Now I will say Shawn's team and Stevens

1166
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:41,839
Speaker 1: team won one game, my team and your team did

1167
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:44,680
Speaker 1: not win a game after that. But hey, all four teams,

1168
00:56:44,760 --> 00:56:46,360
Speaker 1: who's sixteen? Yeah, we did it?

1169
00:56:46,560 --> 00:56:50,160
Speaker 2: Take that baton two fifty. The Braves aren't hitting two fifty, Brad,

1170
00:56:50,200 --> 00:56:50,560
Speaker 2: but are.

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00:56:52,080 --> 00:56:55,600
Speaker 1: Certainly or not. No no more, no more. I just

1172
00:56:55,600 --> 00:56:58,560
Speaker 1: want to slipping in there just say we were all

1173
00:56:58,560 --> 00:57:00,719
Speaker 1: we were thinking that maybe one of mcfinal fort and

1174
00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:03,520
Speaker 1: that it didn't happen. All four one seats all right, everybody,

1175
00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:06,200
Speaker 1: please subscribe to the podcast. Tell your friends about the show.

1176
00:57:06,200 --> 00:57:08,000
Speaker 1: We appreciate you listening. As Scott said, we really do

1177
00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:10,080
Speaker 1: appreciate you checking out the podcast and staying with us

1178
00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:12,879
Speaker 1: through the thick and thin brain Er Shine and we'll

1179
00:57:12,880 --> 00:57:14,439
Speaker 1: have more later on this week, so please stay tuned.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you all next time.