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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome to episode fourteen of the Hammer

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Speaker 1: Territory Podcast. I am your host, Brad Roland, coming to

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Speaker 1: you on a Sunday. It is Themorrow of day weekend,

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Speaker 1: and I'm recording of this podcast about eight pm Eastern time.

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Speaker 1: That will become important in a moment when we get

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Speaker 1: to our guest on today's podcast, and that is Great

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Speaker 1: McAuley and ninety on the game. He covers the Braves

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Speaker 1: So without you've heard to lay, here we go myself

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Speaker 1: at Grant McAuley diving into All Things Braves on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: May twenty sixth I am joined now by the Great

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Speaker 1: Grant McCauley. How are you, sir?

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Speaker 2: I am doing well. I appreciate that very very friendly intro.

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Speaker 1: It's true I will have already talked about it before

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Speaker 1: I bring you in, but you are everywhere on the internet,

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Speaker 1: and we'll plug all that stuff along the way here.

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Speaker 1: Of course, we are recording this Sunday evening, a little

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Speaker 1: bit of a interesting timeslot. I'd already had you booked

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Speaker 1: to do this appearance before the Ronald Racoonya news broke

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Speaker 1: today and how will happen and all that, and we

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Speaker 1: got to start there. So I think probably people listen

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Speaker 1: to this podcast, especially on a World Day weekend, and

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Speaker 1: probably seen the replay at this point in time. And

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Speaker 1: in case you missed it, there's this kind of bizarre

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Speaker 1: play in the first inning on Sunday in which Ronnie

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Speaker 1: essentially went down in a heap going the wrong way

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Speaker 1: and I'm not even sure what the best way to

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Speaker 1: describe it. It's hard. I've always trying to figure out

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Speaker 1: how to write this down. It's like, how do you

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Speaker 1: even describe this play rant? Anyway, the long short of

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Speaker 1: it is he hurt his knee in some fashion and

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Speaker 1: he after the game talking to I believe it was

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Speaker 1: Mark Bowman justin Cascado up in Pittsburgh, was a little

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Speaker 1: bit upbeat, like it wasn't the same feeling as the

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Speaker 1: acl taar all that stuff. But it didn't look good

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Speaker 1: number one and we're all guessing, again, this is Sunday

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Speaker 1: even when we're recording this, but what was your reaction

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Speaker 1: and like what happens now? Because everybody's kind of doing

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Speaker 1: the same thing, which is basically holding your breath until

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Speaker 1: there's news.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well there was that part, the holding your breath part,

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Speaker 2: and then there was the oh no, here we go

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Speaker 2: again part that you you can't unsee Ronald Lucuna Junior

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Speaker 2: going down like that and not think about, you know,

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Speaker 2: three years ago when he went down and his season

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Speaker 2: was over. So I think that was the initial worry.

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Speaker 2: As he started to kind of work through it and

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Speaker 2: was able to, you know, limp off the field, he

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Speaker 2: did have some help, but he didn't have to be

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Speaker 2: small moral victories and signs that say, hey, maybe he's

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Speaker 2: going to be all right, those are a couple of

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Speaker 2: things I think you needed to see. But yeah, hearing

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Speaker 2: from him after the game, and I was talking about

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Speaker 2: the game, which is my local show, which you know,

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Speaker 2: I had everything written up, and then the rond La

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Speaker 2: But what it sounded like from those comments was it

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Speaker 2: you know, it felt a lot like the twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 2: I thought it was a hyper extension. I know, they

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Speaker 2: on Monday, and then figure out what the Braves have discovered.

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Speaker 2: And hopefully for Ronal La Cuny Junior, we're talking about

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Speaker 2: Those are the things, you know, fingers crossed here that

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Speaker 2: But we won't have confirmation of that for you know,

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Speaker 1: Yes, the listeners may do this before we do, obviously,

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Speaker 1: But he did say he didn't feel a pop, you know,

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Speaker 1: just to say this out loud, that doesn't mean that

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Speaker 1: And you know, Mark Bowman said, I believe he used

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Speaker 1: No surprise, it didn't look good like there was no

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Speaker 1: you know, today they could they could shift do Vall Center,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I would say this, I mean, these are

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Speaker 2: all three outfield spots that you could put in in

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Speaker 2: what are you going to do for ten days? And

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Speaker 2: I'm not knocking Forest Wall or you know, some of

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Speaker 2: Eli White and some of those guys, But Adam Duval

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Speaker 2: just no pun intended hits different, So when they brought

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Speaker 2: a lot of people focused on, well, this will take

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Speaker 2: based on two or three slow weeks in spring training.

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Speaker 2: Now you have an Adam Duval. I'll call it insurance policy,

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Speaker 2: and I think that you know, you can't expect him

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Speaker 2: you know, prime Acunya can do. But Adam Duval has

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Speaker 2: I think as he plays more on an everyday basis,

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Speaker 2: interested to see how this plays out for Jared Kelnick,

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Speaker 2: Duval thing kind of changed out. But talking to both

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Speaker 2: I think that Kelnick's even said, look having Duval here.

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Speaker 2: I've learned a lot from him. It's allowed me to

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Speaker 2: feeling like young player playing every day, figure it out,

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Speaker 2: Austin Riley back this week. That would make a big difference.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure we'll get to all that stuff later, but

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Speaker 2: and all of those things kind of coming together. There's

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we agree, and I think it will be forced

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Speaker 1: Wall if I had to guess, they do have Dappy

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Speaker 1: going they don't want them to hit, but he can

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Speaker 1: do other things and out be around and we will

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Speaker 1: see again it's worth coming back to and we will

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Speaker 1: get somebody in the future and we'll save all of

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Speaker 1: that for later, but it is in the short term

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Speaker 1: they do have three starting calibro out fields to play,

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Speaker 1: which is that not everybody has that one quick one grant.

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Speaker 1: Because somebody asked me today, you probably won't be surprised.

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Speaker 1: Go check it out, all right, Grant, I had this

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Speaker 2: The Braves has scored eighty seven runs in their prior

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Speaker 1: No, we're one hundred percent agreement there, and I think

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Speaker 1: people keep asking me and I'm like, just wait another week.

431
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Speaker 1: I guess I'm not really sure.

432
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Speaker 2: I mean, I've said, look, I'm I don't have the

433
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Speaker 2: answers for this, and I feel like I keep saying

434
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Speaker 2: this thing and I want to do shows that are

435
00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:05,000
Speaker 2: compelling and interesting, and I don't have the answers for

436
00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:07,359
Speaker 2: how this all happens at once, other than to say

437
00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:09,959
Speaker 2: sometimes it's just baseball. When you think you've got it

438
00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:12,639
Speaker 2: figured out, it's the old rowdy roddy Piper line. Just

439
00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:14,520
Speaker 2: when you think you have all the answers, I changed

440
00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:16,960
Speaker 2: the questions. That sometimes is the game of baseball. But

441
00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:19,160
Speaker 2: you're right about the lineup in that you know when

442
00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:22,080
Speaker 2: you've got Riley going, and obviously Ronald sets the tone

443
00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:26,080
Speaker 2: for the whole thing. Ozzy Alby's, Matt Olsen, Marcelo Zuna,

444
00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:29,639
Speaker 2: the catching duo of Murphy and Darnault, basically counts for

445
00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:33,600
Speaker 2: another thirty home one hundred RBI guy Michael Harris. It

446
00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:37,159
Speaker 2: allows for the Orlando Arcias and the Jared Keelnicks, and

447
00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:39,520
Speaker 2: even to a lesser extent, the Adam Duvalls did not

448
00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:42,960
Speaker 2: really have to be a featured bat because other guys

449
00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:44,840
Speaker 2: are going to do the heavy lifting. But you're seeing

450
00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:47,560
Speaker 2: this year that with Ronald struggling, Ozzy goes in the

451
00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:49,520
Speaker 2: ill he comes off, he's not the same as he

452
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Speaker 2: was before. And I don't know if that's injury related

453
00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:54,360
Speaker 2: or just Hies and Low's of the baseball season right

454
00:18:54,359 --> 00:18:55,800
Speaker 2: on through the middle of the order, the only guy

455
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Speaker 2: who's really been able to swing it consistently has been

456
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Speaker 2: Marcelo Zuna. And I don't know about you, And I

457
00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:03,040
Speaker 2: said this quite a few times already this year. I

458
00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:05,520
Speaker 2: did not know that. If you told me a year ago,

459
00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:07,840
Speaker 2: I would be saying, where would the Braves be without

460
00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:10,399
Speaker 2: Mark Telozuna. I would not have had that on my

461
00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:12,200
Speaker 2: bingo card either. And I feel like I have worn

462
00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:14,680
Speaker 2: out the bingo card joke this year because I'm still

463
00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:16,960
Speaker 2: grasping for answers and trying to figure out how there

464
00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:19,160
Speaker 2: was a scenario where this Braves team and this offense

465
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Speaker 2: has this much trouble for this long.

466
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Speaker 1: We totally agree on that. And you know, one more

467
00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:26,240
Speaker 1: thing on the offense before we get to a little

468
00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:28,840
Speaker 1: bit of pitching talk on this podcast, you know, as

469
00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:32,000
Speaker 1: soon as Monday, we could see Riley and or Murphy.

470
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Speaker 1: We don't know that, but that's kind of the consensus.

471
00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:35,760
Speaker 1: That's kind of an out there from the Beat writers,

472
00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:37,600
Speaker 1: the guys around the team this week could be both

473
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Speaker 1: of them, even I mean, I don't want to go

474
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Speaker 1: over my skis just people listen to this. Maybe after

475
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Speaker 1: the game because it's a Monday afternoon game, so TBD,

476
00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:47,320
Speaker 1: but soon seems to be the general consensus on both

477
00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:49,119
Speaker 1: those guys. Before we get to that, I have a

478
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Speaker 1: question for you. Do you care about the Braves handling

479
00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:56,639
Speaker 1: of Riley in the Eyel situation, I tend to not

480
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Speaker 1: very much. All I would say is that like, yeah,

481
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Speaker 1: in a vacuum, would you to have two full weeks

482
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Speaker 1: with one guy down on your roster? You would say

483
00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:05,359
Speaker 1: no to that. But for this team in particular, how

484
00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:06,800
Speaker 1: they handle their roster, it seems like it's not a

485
00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:09,280
Speaker 1: big deal to me. But I'm sure you've seen the discussion.

486
00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:11,760
Speaker 1: It's been everywhere, like especially nationally, and I get it,

487
00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:13,359
Speaker 1: like you see a guy who's a star in Austin

488
00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:15,840
Speaker 1: Riley and being out for two full weeks without being

489
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Speaker 1: on the IL. It's kind of like, what's going on here?

490
00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:19,760
Speaker 1: But that's a long setup. But like, does this bother

491
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Speaker 1: you at all the way to handle this or is

492
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Speaker 1: it just kind of like what the way it broke

493
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Speaker 1: down and.

494
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Speaker 2: Just may not surprise you, But no, it really doesn't.

495
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Speaker 2: And I mean, in hindsight, if you knew he was

496
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Speaker 2: going to be out for two weeks, yeah, I think

497
00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:31,320
Speaker 2: they put him on the IL, but that kind of

498
00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:34,240
Speaker 2: arrived here was okay, he went out, then they got

499
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Speaker 2: the MRI done and it didn't show anything major and

500
00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:38,560
Speaker 2: it was just kind of an inflammation thing. And then

501
00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:40,840
Speaker 2: I talked to Austin Riley, like, what about a week

502
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Speaker 2: into this old thing, He's like, I'm better, you know,

503
00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:44,959
Speaker 2: it's just kind of I still feel a little bit.

504
00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:47,080
Speaker 2: It's not pain anymore, but they don't want me to

505
00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:48,720
Speaker 2: swing the bat yet, and until I can do that,

506
00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:51,119
Speaker 2: you know, there's not much I can do. Then it

507
00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:53,000
Speaker 2: started to become all right, we can only backdate it

508
00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:54,880
Speaker 2: three days. So if he's missed a week or eight

509
00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:57,320
Speaker 2: days or whatever it is, now you're ruling him out

510
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Speaker 2: for a whole nother week. Do you really want to

511
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Speaker 2: do that or do you feel like he's gonna get

512
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Speaker 2: on the other side of this thing and come back.

513
00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:03,840
Speaker 2: They don't want to miss more time with him than

514
00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:06,040
Speaker 2: they have to. But you pointed out some of the roster,

515
00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:10,040
Speaker 2: you know, restrictions for the club in that. Well, here's

516
00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:12,000
Speaker 2: the restriction is, you can't bring up another pitcher. If

517
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Speaker 2: they could have done that, think he ended up on

518
00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:16,040
Speaker 2: the IL. Yeah, I think they would have done it

519
00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:17,640
Speaker 2: and just said, Okay, that's just kind of what we're

520
00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:20,359
Speaker 2: gonna do. But you have to have thirteen hitters and

521
00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:23,680
Speaker 2: thirteen pitchers on your roster, and that's it. But yeah,

522
00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:26,080
Speaker 2: you had Zach Short came over. It played pretty well

523
00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:27,800
Speaker 2: for a minute. They just went out and got Joey Wendell.

524
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Speaker 2: We'll see if he factors in, and Luke Williams kind

525
00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:33,160
Speaker 2: of filled in there. Nobody's going to replace Austin Riley.

526
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Speaker 2: You're not calling anybody up that's going to play as

527
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Speaker 2: well as he would. But they were able to get

528
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Speaker 2: through it. The Universal DH certainly helped out with that,

529
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Speaker 2: and I think there was maybe a time or two

530
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Speaker 2: where I looked and thought, yeah, if they had one

531
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Speaker 2: more guy, they could have pinched run. I think in

532
00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:47,080
Speaker 2: an extra ending game it would have been helpful. But

533
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Speaker 2: otherwise there really hasn't been that much, to be honest

534
00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:52,119
Speaker 2: with you, that you felt like, Okay, they've done themselves

535
00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:55,159
Speaker 2: a major disservice here. Now it's dragged on for two weeks.

536
00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:57,720
Speaker 2: If they continues to go then I think you have

537
00:21:57,760 --> 00:21:59,680
Speaker 2: to make a decision. But it finally sounds like he's

538
00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:02,159
Speaker 2: moving in the right direction, which is great. Could be

539
00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:03,840
Speaker 2: back in the Brais lineup as soon as Monday.

540
00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:08,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that also. Generally, it's almost taken a

541
00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:10,680
Speaker 1: long time. I know it's been kind of commonplace now

542
00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:12,960
Speaker 1: that the university, the age, the roster restrictions, but not

543
00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,240
Speaker 1: everybody thinks about that yet. I think it's still kind

544
00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:17,240
Speaker 1: of kind of new, and it's like, hey, the way

545
00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:18,399
Speaker 1: you put it is perfect. If they could use it,

546
00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:19,760
Speaker 1: they could have had a picture there, they would have

547
00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:21,359
Speaker 1: done it. But look, this has been a team that

548
00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:23,720
Speaker 1: has had a twenty sixth man that's not played for

549
00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:25,480
Speaker 1: I don't want to overstate it, but a month at

550
00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:27,400
Speaker 1: a time, I mean, how long woul the Culberson sid

551
00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:30,480
Speaker 1: on the roster last year without playing a single second

552
00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:33,359
Speaker 1: of any game. Like it's just the reality of the

553
00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:36,080
Speaker 1: situation of this team. And also the other thing is

554
00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:38,080
Speaker 1: not having anybody that you terribly are in love look

555
00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:39,960
Speaker 1: to call up, Like you know, it's not a shot

556
00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:41,600
Speaker 1: at any of those guys that particularly you name some

557
00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:43,720
Speaker 1: of them, but they don't. The forty men is limited.

558
00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:45,520
Speaker 1: They have a ton of guys there. So I always

559
00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:47,520
Speaker 1: want to ask the questions people keep people keep asking us.

560
00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:49,280
Speaker 1: I'm sure you get to like what's going on here,

561
00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:51,240
Speaker 1: and it's as simple as they thought he was gonna

562
00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:53,480
Speaker 1: be back earlier. And but what I've been saying, I

563
00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:55,960
Speaker 1: think you would certainly agree with this. A guy like

564
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Speaker 1: Austin Riley. I know the Rays have been not playing

565
00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:00,760
Speaker 1: that well recently, but a guy who's signed forever, a

566
00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:02,840
Speaker 1: star player, the last thing you want to do is

567
00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:05,800
Speaker 1: rush the guy like it's may like you don't want to.

568
00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:08,359
Speaker 1: There's no reason to take any fraction of a chance

569
00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:10,960
Speaker 1: on Austin Riley reinjuring something and being out for another month,

570
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:11,800
Speaker 1: like there's no reason.

571
00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:13,680
Speaker 2: And that's what he said. He said, Look, I mean,

572
00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:15,840
Speaker 2: I don't like not being out there either, but the

573
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:17,440
Speaker 2: thing they're telling me right now is to go day

574
00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:19,280
Speaker 2: to day with this. To get the treatment. He was

575
00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:21,160
Speaker 2: able to do some fielding work and kind of ramp

576
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,479
Speaker 2: up and do some baseball activities, but he said, and

577
00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:25,880
Speaker 2: I quote, I don't want to have to revisit this,

578
00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:28,080
Speaker 2: And that's why he did it the way that he did,

579
00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:32,000
Speaker 2: following their protocols in place, and even though it seemed

580
00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:33,760
Speaker 2: weird and he didn't end up on the injured list,

581
00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:35,720
Speaker 2: I think everybody will be happy to have him back

582
00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:38,399
Speaker 2: and having given him enough time to feel like this

583
00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:39,520
Speaker 2: is truly behind him.

584
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Speaker 1: This is not the most sophisticated insight in the world, Grant,

585
00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:44,800
Speaker 1: but let's just say, for example, the Brids get Murphy

586
00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:48,399
Speaker 1: and Robbie back on Monday, Tuesday, whatever, the just the

587
00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:51,080
Speaker 1: vibes looking at a lineup and seeing those guys in

588
00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:53,880
Speaker 1: the lineup compare what they've had, maybe maybe that'll help

589
00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:56,200
Speaker 1: unlock some other just the bats in general, it's like, hey,

590
00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:58,840
Speaker 1: you know, I think the murket thing has almost been underplayed.

591
00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:01,359
Speaker 1: I think Sean Murphy I really gets under discussed like

592
00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:03,800
Speaker 1: he's a star player and does not always get discussed

593
00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:05,600
Speaker 1: that way. And part of that's how ened our know's

594
00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:07,560
Speaker 1: or you know, I take the best backup cutcher in

595
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:09,879
Speaker 1: the league. That's what I've always said about Travis. But

596
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:13,320
Speaker 1: still you're still going from Sean Murphy to Chadwick Trump

597
00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:15,520
Speaker 1: and that's a that's a that's a big drop and

598
00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:17,480
Speaker 1: then you throw a rawish. So it's not as simple

599
00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:18,720
Speaker 1: as this. It doesn't fix all the issues we are

600
00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:21,280
Speaker 1: talking about. This, it's not a one, one thing solution.

601
00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:25,280
Speaker 1: But having two more All Stars come back, even if

602
00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:28,879
Speaker 1: Ronnie is down for a while, just the difference there,

603
00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:30,720
Speaker 1: just the depth of the lineup more than anything else,

604
00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:32,359
Speaker 1: should in theory help lot.

605
00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,320
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean maybe, you know, again, there's never a

606
00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:37,119
Speaker 2: good time for an injury. But if something was going

607
00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:39,399
Speaker 2: to happen to somebody. If it times out where you're

608
00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:42,800
Speaker 2: getting a couple of other big somebody's back and they

609
00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:45,000
Speaker 2: can't hurt, you know, it has to help at least

610
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:49,120
Speaker 2: a little bit through just you know, pure osmosis of okay,

611
00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:51,480
Speaker 2: well we look a little bit more like our lineup

612
00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:54,159
Speaker 2: or our old selves. And you know, hopefully with a

613
00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:57,119
Speaker 2: short term prognosis of this injury for ron Lucuney Junior,

614
00:24:57,440 --> 00:24:59,199
Speaker 2: they can have the whole band back together at some

615
00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 2: point very soon. If not, you know, three four weeks

616
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,359
Speaker 2: from now. Ronald seemed to think it might be a

617
00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:06,760
Speaker 2: month long thing for him. But you know, Sean Murphy

618
00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:08,760
Speaker 2: being gone for two months, I don't think people talked

619
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Speaker 2: about it a lot. In fact, the last couple of

620
00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:12,479
Speaker 2: weeks the only time I've heard his name brought up

621
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Speaker 2: is people want to know why they traded William Contreras,

622
00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:18,959
Speaker 2: and yeah, well, good for him. He's doing great. I mean,

623
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,000
Speaker 2: if he was around, that would certainly be helpful. But

624
00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:23,320
Speaker 2: to get good players. He got of trade good players

625
00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:25,480
Speaker 2: sometimes and you know you can't have them all, you

626
00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,000
Speaker 2: can't keep them all, and certainly hindsight is not going

627
00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:30,439
Speaker 2: to undue trades for times when people got hurt that

628
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:32,639
Speaker 2: you didn't plan because you never planned for guys to

629
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:32,960
Speaker 2: be hurt.

630
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Speaker 1: And Sean Murphy is very, very good. People will be

631
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:39,399
Speaker 1: remembering that once again in the near future. I'm not

632
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:41,639
Speaker 1: gonna keep you forever, grant, but some pitching before we

633
00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,840
Speaker 1: get out of here. Number one, Chris Sale has been unbelievable.

634
00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:46,560
Speaker 1: Now we all kind of understand this, but he was

635
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:51,280
Speaker 1: again fantastic on Sunday. Seven innings, one run, eight strikeouts.

636
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:53,800
Speaker 1: He's got an error in the in the low twos.

637
00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:56,720
Speaker 1: My favorite stat of the year for Chris Sale is

638
00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:59,360
Speaker 1: the seventy eight strikeouts and nine walks that he has.

639
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:01,760
Speaker 1: That's an thurd ratio. It's been even better than that

640
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:04,679
Speaker 1: in recent days. My colleagues Scott Coleman, who you know,

641
00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:07,400
Speaker 1: made this bit all whether long. We look smart. Now

642
00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:09,560
Speaker 1: it's more of a you know, squirrefying and that every

643
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 1: once in a while about how Chris Sale has always

644
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:13,520
Speaker 1: been good when he's been healthy. It's basically never been

645
00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:15,280
Speaker 1: the case. He's never been bad. He's either been hurt

646
00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:17,600
Speaker 1: or he's been good. Yeah, and even us we were

647
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,440
Speaker 1: not anticipating this because he's been just unbelievable so far.

648
00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:22,560
Speaker 1: But what do you make of this? It's a very

649
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:24,560
Speaker 1: broad question, But like a guy who's in his mid

650
00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:27,760
Speaker 1: thirties who's been banged up for several years now performing

651
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:31,000
Speaker 1: at a top five song level, to be conservative is

652
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 1: just crazy. I know it's ten starts, but it's two

653
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:35,760
Speaker 1: months worth of activity. And by the way, it's not fluky.

654
00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:38,560
Speaker 1: The peripherals are fantastic. It just he looks great. Yeah.

655
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,720
Speaker 2: No, he's not outperforming any particular metric that makes you think, Okay,

656
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:44,520
Speaker 2: well this is all smoke and mirrors. No, you watch him.

657
00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:46,959
Speaker 2: Me passes the eye test. You look in the numbers

658
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,960
Speaker 2: at every possible level, he looks like vintage Chris Sale

659
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,560
Speaker 2: and talking to him in spring training, he was so

660
00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:57,639
Speaker 2: excited about being healthy, finishing twenty twenty three, having a

661
00:26:57,680 --> 00:26:59,960
Speaker 2: normal winter, and then I know there had to be

662
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,959
Speaker 2: some motivation getting traded, not because he was angry at

663
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 2: the Red Sox, but the excitement of coming to a

664
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 2: new team and a new opportunity and getting extended on

665
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 2: top of that. I mean, he wanted to prove that

666
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:12,160
Speaker 2: he had plenty left in the tank, and he has

667
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:15,240
Speaker 2: proven that here in his early go in a Braves uniform.

668
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:18,400
Speaker 2: I mean, he has dominated in a way that it

669
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 2: was the it's the Chris Sale of old and you know,

670
00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:23,119
Speaker 2: he doesn't walk a lot of guys. He racks up

671
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,240
Speaker 2: a lot of strikeouts, but he's given the Braves innings

672
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:27,560
Speaker 2: and I think that's the number one thing that everybody

673
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:29,720
Speaker 2: can look at and say, Wow, I guess he's not

674
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,200
Speaker 2: a five and dive pitcher. He's a guy that wants

675
00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 2: the ball and wants to stay out there, cover those innings,

676
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 2: put the bullpen in a good position when he pitches,

677
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:39,040
Speaker 2: and you know, those are all things either the go

678
00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 2: into the competitor that is Chris Sale. I know a

679
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:43,399
Speaker 2: lot's made out about that, and for good reason. I

680
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 2: think that's just something else the Braves really loved about him.

681
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 2: But you know this is with all respector Ryanaldo Lopez

682
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:51,879
Speaker 2: being a very pleasant surprise getting back into rotation, and

683
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:54,639
Speaker 2: he could end up being one of the best offseason

684
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:57,360
Speaker 2: signings at ten million dollars per year if he continues

685
00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:00,160
Speaker 2: to perform this way. But getting Chris Sale, I thought

686
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,040
Speaker 2: was the potential for kind of a coup for the

687
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:05,159
Speaker 2: Braves because I don't think too many people expected him

688
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 2: to even be on the move because how many clubs

689
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:08,760
Speaker 2: are going to look at the injury history and say, yeah,

690
00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:10,880
Speaker 2: we'll take that on. But I think the Braves really

691
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:13,119
Speaker 2: looked at it and thought, Okay, there was some major

692
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:15,639
Speaker 2: injuries in there, but lately it had been fluky stuff

693
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:18,040
Speaker 2: and not things that were really all in his control.

694
00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 2: So if he is healthy and I know it was

695
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,200
Speaker 2: a big if at the time and it will continue

696
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 2: to always be an if because he's a pitcher and

697
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 2: that's always be the case. But this is a guy

698
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:29,159
Speaker 2: that could be really, really good and that's exactly what

699
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:31,480
Speaker 2: he's been and then some. So this is one of

700
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:33,359
Speaker 2: those cases where we can move the goalpost in a

701
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,560
Speaker 2: good way because Chris Sale has far exceeded the guarded

702
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:38,040
Speaker 2: expectations of most.

703
00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, he's probably gonna win Picture of the

704
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 1: Months in May given his numbers, like two earned runs

705
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 1: allowed in a month, but this is almost made up

706
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 1: forty five strikeouts and two walks.

707
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 2: He's got a way.

708
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you do with that? But yeah, I mean, look,

709
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:56,760
Speaker 1: we already covered it in depth about the lineup underperforming

710
00:28:57,360 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 1: this team is I mean, I feel that way, but

711
00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:01,840
Speaker 1: this tame is thirty and twenty which is still very

712
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 1: very good. Ninety seven one pays all those things. Most

713
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:06,440
Speaker 1: of that's because the pitching has been excellent so far,

714
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:08,520
Speaker 1: So sales a part of that. Lopas is a part

715
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 1: of that. Even the guys who were returning fre It's

716
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 1: been really good recently. Morton's been his usual rock solid

717
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:17,040
Speaker 1: self despite being four years old. It's been exactly what

718
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:19,960
Speaker 1: you want from those four guys. But I have to

719
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:21,760
Speaker 1: ask about the fifth spot before we get out of here.

720
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,400
Speaker 1: So they used Smith Shauber this well, well, first of all,

721
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:26,480
Speaker 1: we go back, they had to use they had two

722
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:28,440
Speaker 1: spots because of the way that it broke with the rain,

723
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 1: dealt with the rain and all those things, they had

724
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 1: to fill two spots. Once they decided to send Brycellar

725
00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 1: back down, et cetera. They go with Ray Kerr got

726
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 1: to start this week, and they just saw got to

727
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 1: start this week. And unfortunately for aj he had a

728
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 1: Grade two oblique strain, which nobody knew about until after

729
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 1: the start. He pitched fairly well. Apparently he told in

730
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:50,240
Speaker 1: the media that he actually fuilt it in the third

731
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 1: inning and didn't tell anybody else until later. By the way,

732
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 1: the year of the oblique. Huh, nobody's really I'm not

733
00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 1: enjoying that, but you know that's obviously just brutal. There

734
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 1: was a whole guessing game online about whether it was

735
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:03,920
Speaker 1: just like some Phantomiel stuff and obviously it was not

736
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 1: great too oblea straight is a real thing, and ray

737
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 1: Kerr like was a weird situation for him. He didn't

738
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 1: even know he even was starting till the day of

739
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:13,000
Speaker 1: the game. I'm not saying you close the door on

740
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 1: ray Kerr as the starting option, but what we could

741
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 1: probably agree on is they don't have a god they

742
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 1: love right now. In the fifth spot, Bryce Elder struggled

743
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:21,800
Speaker 1: badly in this first starting back on Whenette. It's one start,

744
00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:24,200
Speaker 1: but you know what happens here? Man, They have a

745
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:26,120
Speaker 1: big TVA on the on the list this week, as

746
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 1: you I'm sure have seen. What would you do? And

747
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:31,479
Speaker 1: also what are they just going to cycle this till

748
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:33,240
Speaker 1: they find something they like, like you know, waldrops and

749
00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 1: everybody always wants to see a waldrope sit around them later,

750
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 1: where's your head on this?

751
00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think that they have to kind of you know,

752
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:42,200
Speaker 2: hit that shuffle button for a little while with that spot,

753
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:44,720
Speaker 2: And yeah, I mean the rain delayed that happened, or

754
00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 2: the rain now that pushed. I mean you could tell

755
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 2: they wanted to win that or at least split that series,

756
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,719
Speaker 2: I should say, at the San Diego Padres, because I mean,

757
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:53,840
Speaker 2: who wants to go out potentially losing three out of

758
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 2: four are being swept in a home stand And I

759
00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:57,480
Speaker 2: think that's kind of why they wanted to go with

760
00:30:57,600 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 2: Ronaldo Lopez and Chris Sale on that day. It just

761
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,720
Speaker 2: unfortunately didn't work out in that first game, but then

762
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 2: it did create like that secondary option. And we'll get

763
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 2: into the other stuff. But the ray Kerr thing, to

764
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 2: me is a little bit curious because I looked at

765
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 2: him as like, Okay, well this guy has proven they

766
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 2: can throw multiple innings. He could be kind of the

767
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:16,960
Speaker 2: long guy there. I know Jesse Chavez often gets that call,

768
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 2: but wouldn't it be nice to have a lefty that

769
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 2: throws hard and has good strikeout stuff that could also

770
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 2: kind of serve that role. And with all the minor

771
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:25,240
Speaker 2: league guys that they do have, and I know that

772
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 2: Darius Vines and Alan Winings and Dylan Dodd and Bryce

773
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 2: Elder to a certain extent as well, though he's had

774
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 2: more big league success than the other guys I mentioned.

775
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 2: I mean, do they not have enough guys that could

776
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 2: kind of fill in that fit spot. Maybe throw Ian

777
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 2: Anderson back into that mix here in a couple of months. Obviously,

778
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 2: Hurston Waldrip is a name that everybody's going to gravitate towards.

779
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 2: But it just to me was curious why you would

780
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 2: even bother moving Kerr into that starting role. I'm excited

781
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 2: for the opportunity, if he's excited for the opportunity, But

782
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 2: I guess we'll kind of see how that all plays out.

783
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 2: I just think he can make a bigger impact in

784
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 2: the bullpen. And I'll put my soapbox over to the side.

785
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 2: All to make a long story short, Yeah, I think

786
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 2: that they in the short term have to figure out,

787
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 2: you know, who is lined up, who's available? What is

788
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 2: the deal with the ten day option window because you

789
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 2: can't bring guys right back up. And then they had

790
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,680
Speaker 2: some optionable problems in the bullpen where they don't have

791
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 2: too many guys that they can't option, and Ray Curry

792
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 2: is one of those guys. And I don't know if

793
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 2: that really matters in the bullpen and the big scheme

794
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,440
Speaker 2: of things, If everybody's healthy, and you know, at some point,

795
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 2: you know, Tyler Matsi gets it figured out and jumps

796
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 2: back in there. Maybe the need for Ray Kerr and

797
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 2: relief is not as great as it is without a

798
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 2: Tyler Matsik, But you know, it's not a position that

799
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,120
Speaker 2: you want to be in. But the four starters that

800
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:40,800
Speaker 2: you do have, even without Spencer Strider, have been pretty unbelievable.

801
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 2: The proven big league guys. I went back over that

802
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 2: same twenty six game sample where I told you the

803
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 2: offense was the bottom in baseball in terms of run scored,

804
00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:52,400
Speaker 2: looked at the starting rotation, they have been terrific. And

805
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:54,280
Speaker 2: if you do and I know this is cherry picking,

806
00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:57,080
Speaker 2: but if you take that twenty six game sample, remove

807
00:32:57,160 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 2: the four starts by Bryce Elder and just look at

808
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:03,080
Speaker 2: Max Freed, Chris Sale, Rinaldo Lopez, and Charlie Morton, these

809
00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 2: guys have pitched to an ERA just over two. That's

810
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:09,240
Speaker 2: four starting pitchers over the course of that time. In

811
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:12,720
Speaker 2: twenty two starts. They've been posting up. So the rotation

812
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:14,520
Speaker 2: is in pretty good hands, but they do want to

813
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 2: get to least some consistency, some continuity, some quality starts

814
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:19,840
Speaker 2: out of that fifth spot if possible. But with those

815
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 2: other guys doing so well, it is helping out the

816
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 2: bullpen a lot. And we've seen Max Freed really leading

817
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 2: as well in this regard. I mean, we talked a

818
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:29,640
Speaker 2: lot about Chris Sale. Max Freed getting back to being

819
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:32,240
Speaker 2: who he truly is has been a pretty good development

820
00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 2: for the braz with no Spencer Strider.

821
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's been unbelievable for sure, and it's a good problem.

822
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:41,160
Speaker 1: I always try to stress that almost no one has

823
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 1: a fifth starter that they like. That's not satisfying the

824
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 1: Braves fans, but it's just this is that this every

825
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:48,480
Speaker 1: team has this problem. It's just a little bit magnified

826
00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 1: because in fairness, if they had Strider and suddenly Lopez

827
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,160
Speaker 1: was a fifth starter, you'd be on cloud nine right now.

828
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,160
Speaker 1: I mean everybody would be dancing in the streets. And

829
00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:58,480
Speaker 1: I get that. But most teams don't have a perfect

830
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 1: six seventh eith option. And maybe we'll see Waldrop, maybe

831
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 1: we'll see En Anderson. You references a good time to

832
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 1: keep him, keep him in mind. He's still not like

833
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 1: imminently there, but another arm throw in the mix, and

834
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:09,479
Speaker 1: they have options. I mean, that's the one thing that

835
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 1: they that they do have and necessarily the most impressive

836
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:14,520
Speaker 1: allotment of guys, but they have several of them, and

837
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,000
Speaker 1: and honestly, as much as like pick a guy, Winans

838
00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:20,200
Speaker 1: or Darius Spines that those guys are as good or

839
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 1: better than most teams, most teams fifth starters are They

840
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 1: just they just are. They're just not the same as

841
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:27,919
Speaker 1: Morton or Sale or Az or Freed. The big drop

842
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 1: off from there. Uh, Graham, I'm gonna let you go.

843
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 1: But the Braves do have a seven game homestand this

844
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 1: week that begins on the Moral Day afternoon against Washington

845
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:39,720
Speaker 1: and Oakland. If that's all I tell you, it sounds

846
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:42,640
Speaker 1: pretty appetizing, right, two teams that are not necessarily fantastic,

847
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 1: now they both are. They're both are better than they

848
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:47,800
Speaker 1: were a year ago. So far, they've been competitive. Oakland

849
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 1: in particularly, was a disaster last year. They've been more

850
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 1: competitive this year. But it's still objectively true to say

851
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:55,440
Speaker 1: injuries all that stuff. These are two teams they are

852
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:56,799
Speaker 1: not as good as the Braves, and they're playing them

853
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 1: at home opportunity you would imagine to wreck up some wins.

854
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:02,440
Speaker 1: Theory Again, it's baseball. I can't predict it, but on paper,

855
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 1: a pretty favorable spot here.

856
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you certainly hope that a couple of

857
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:07,200
Speaker 2: series wins are out in front of the braves here.

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Speaker 2: But as we know, the game is not played on paper.

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Speaker 2: And both of these teams are better than they were

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Speaker 2: a year ago, and they have been competitive, and maybe

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Speaker 2: surprisingly so in the case of Oakland, who everybody was

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Speaker 2: just pretty much riding up as maybe a chance to

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Speaker 2: be the worst team in baseball. This year, they've had

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Speaker 2: some younger players that have kind of stepped up. They've

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Speaker 2: been a little bit surprising and dare I say a

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Speaker 2: little bit fun despite the fact that their situation has

867
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Speaker 2: been anything but fun for you know, baseball fans to

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Speaker 2: talk about little on stomach. So I'm interested to see

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Speaker 2: what the Oakland Athletics look like. I'm kind of happy

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Speaker 2: that I don't have to see the Washington Nationals nineteen

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Speaker 2: times a year, and not because you know, it's not

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Speaker 2: a knock on the on field staff, but it just

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Speaker 2: the last few years it hasn't been the most competitive

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00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 2: matchup between the two clubs, and that was a lot

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Speaker 2: of divisional play. But they're you know, doing some things

876
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Speaker 2: this year they're taking a step in the right direction,

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Speaker 2: I feel like, and maybe some of their you know,

878
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Speaker 2: bigger prospects and those guys will jump in at some

879
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:01,440
Speaker 2: point this year year and they'll start to turn a

880
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Speaker 2: corner a bit. But I feel like the Nationals have

881
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Speaker 2: kind of taken the spot I thought the Marlins would

882
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Speaker 2: be in, and the Marlins have more or less just

883
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Speaker 2: evolved into a worse version of last year's Nationals, most certainly,

884
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Speaker 2: and that was a bit surprising. But yeah, this is

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Speaker 2: a homestand that if you feel like, if you've got

886
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Speaker 2: seven games there, the Braves could win five of them

887
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Speaker 2: and feel pretty good about it. You got to win four,

888
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Speaker 2: I think of these seven to feel like you took

889
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Speaker 2: advantage of this homestand in this run of teams at all, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: At least that many you would imagine. And yeah, look,

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Speaker 1: as I record this, the Nats are five and a

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Speaker 1: half games ahead of the Marlins. That would have been

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Speaker 1: a surprise. Yeah, even as someone who was skeptical of

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Speaker 1: the Marlins coming into the year, being five and a

895
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Speaker 1: half games worse than the Nationals was not something that

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Speaker 1: I had to use your phrase, Grant, I'll my big

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Speaker 1: go kart come there to the season. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: all the time, my friend. Please, I know you have

899
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Speaker 1: like one hundred things to plug. You and I are

900
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Speaker 1: a line in this regard where we have like seven jobs.

901
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:52,520
Speaker 1: But please tell people where they can find you if

902
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:54,400
Speaker 1: they somehow. I'm sure most people that listen to this

903
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:56,359
Speaker 1: podcast know your work, but if they don't, where can

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Speaker 1: they find Yeah?

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Speaker 2: No, I really appreciate you having me. It's always good

906
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Speaker 2: to talk Braves you guys, And sorry I missed Scott

907
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 2: on the way through, but maybe we can get like

908
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Speaker 2: the whole trash.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure he's ever coming back. I mean, Scott,

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Speaker 1: he might just move to Italy at this point, I

911
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Speaker 1: think it's pretty still is he's over there somewhere Europe.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I didn't realize he had taken that kind of.

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Speaker 1: A Oh yeah, he's been gone for two weeks. I

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Speaker 1: mean I can't. Every once in a while will text

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Speaker 1: me back, but it's every once in a while.

916
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Speaker 2: International Braves correspondent Scott called it's pretty good. But no,

917
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Speaker 2: I appreciate you guys having me as always really enjoy

918
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:24,759
Speaker 2: listening to your stuff as well, and if anybody would

919
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:26,360
Speaker 2: like to listen to some of mine, I've got plenty

920
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 2: of places for you to go, from the Diamond where

921
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:30,800
Speaker 2: you get your podcasts, as well as from the Diamond

922
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:32,319
Speaker 2: dot Com, which can give you a link to all

923
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 2: the other things that I'm doing. I do a Battery

924
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:38,280
Speaker 2: Power YouTube show. I also do the Lockdown Braves postcast,

925
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 2: which will be my next stop after we record this

926
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Speaker 2: to talk about the Braves Crazy Sunday. You can find

927
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Speaker 2: that at Lockdown Sports Atlanta on YouTube. I appear on

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00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 2: eleven Alive here locally. I'll post those videos on from

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Speaker 2: the Diamond dot Com. I also write for The Mary Out,

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00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:53,399
Speaker 2: a daily journal, and you can check those things out

931
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 2: links on social at Grant McCauley on most platforms, And again,

932
00:37:56,719 --> 00:37:58,680
Speaker 2: I really appreciate all the time and thank you for

933
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:00,959
Speaker 2: letting me take so much time plug all those things,

934
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 2: because it's hard to get to very quickly these days.

935
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Speaker 1: It's an incredibly long list of outlets. Most of those

936
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:08,279
Speaker 1: are Braves. I mean, that's the thing like that, it's

937
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 1: hard to cover the same team for that many places,

938
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 1: So I certainly admire your work. Grant. Thank you for

939
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:15,600
Speaker 1: being here and also not canceling on me in the

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Speaker 1: midst of what could have been is a very busy

941
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Speaker 1: day now, especially with the Rold news. So thank you

942
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:21,880
Speaker 1: for doing this. I really do appreciate it. Please subscribe

943
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 1: to this podcast, please follow all of Grant's work. We'll

944
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Speaker 1: sign off here for now. We'll have more come up

945
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Speaker 1: this week. I'm not sure exactly when, Monday or Tuesday.

946
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Speaker 1: If we get Rynie news, maybe we'll do an emercy podcast.

947
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 1: Hopefully not if it's bad news, emergency podcast. If it's not,

948
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Speaker 1: probably not. Let's stay tuned, subscribe to podcast, all all

949
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Speaker 1: of Grant's work, and we'll see you all next time.

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Speaker 3: After Tracher F B M.

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Speaker 1: Trach