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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, Welcome back to the Emorate Territory Podcast. This

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Speaker 1: episode to zero seven. I am your host, Brad Roland.

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Speaker 1: It is Sunday, it's June first, and for the first

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Speaker 1: time in what eleven days, I'm talking to my friend

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Speaker 1: Scott Coleman on a podcast. And Scott, you would think

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Speaker 1: because of that reunited but as might be good, but

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Speaker 1: the brobs are not very good. Scott, I missed you,

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Speaker 1: but I don't miss talking about what we're gonna talking

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Speaker 1: about this podcast.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Brad, I missed you too, buddy. Maybe the universe

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Speaker 2: has upset at us for not doing a podcast in

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Speaker 2: almost two weeks because the last two weeks for the

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Speaker 2: Atlanta Braves have not gone well. I don't know, it's

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Speaker 2: probably us, you know. It's funny in life sometimes metaphors.

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Speaker 2: I live out here in Arizona. It does not really

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Speaker 2: rain out here or storm out here very much, which

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Speaker 2: I'm sure to a lot of listeners in the South

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Speaker 2: and southeast, East coast, Midwest sounds weird. But it never rains.

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Speaker 2: It never storms out here other than like six weeks

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Speaker 2: out of the year. As we sit here on this

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Speaker 2: Sunday evening and record, there is a massive storm coming

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Speaker 2: my way that's supposed to like set rainfall records and

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Speaker 2: all this crazy stuff damage the whole nine yards. Maybe

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Speaker 2: that's kind of like a metaphor for the Atlanta Braves

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Speaker 2: right now and some of the things we're going to

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Speaker 2: talk about tonight.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fairly safe to say. And honestly, one of

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Speaker 1: the reason why we haven't talked very much recently is

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Speaker 1: because there have been rainouts on our podcast, not our

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Speaker 1: schedule podcast night two weeks in a row that I

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Speaker 1: was at a wedding, and it's everything in between. But look,

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Speaker 1: you alluded to it. We're going to dive into it,

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Speaker 1: probably a little bit less detail on the games that

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Speaker 1: we might often do on a Sunday because there's just

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Speaker 1: a lot big picture stuff talk about, I would say,

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Speaker 1: but you and I talked exactly two weeks ago on

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Speaker 1: the show after a nice series win for the Braves

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Speaker 1: over the Red Sox, ironically enough, and it was ten

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Speaker 1: to four on that Sunday. They were twenty four and

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Speaker 1: twenty three at that point. The vibes are pretty good.

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Speaker 1: Obviously not through the roof, but given where they started

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Speaker 1: to go over five hundred and be feeling pretty good.

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Speaker 1: You and I were very optimistic on the show. We

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Speaker 1: was relatively speaking two weeks ago. Since then, they have

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Speaker 1: now lost four consecutive series, have the Braves. They're three

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Speaker 1: and eight overall in the last two weeks with a

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Speaker 1: couple of reinouts sprinkled in and neelss to say, the

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Speaker 1: vibes are not very good today. In fact, I would say,

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Speaker 1: and we'll get into this with more detail right now,

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Speaker 1: probably this might be the lowest Avise' have been all

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Speaker 1: a year long. Maybe you could say at ZH to

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Speaker 1: seven they were similarly dire, and I think that would

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Speaker 1: be understandable. But I'll speak for myself today. June first

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Speaker 1: is the worst I have felt about the Braves this season.

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Speaker 1: And I don't you know, we're trying to be happy.

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Speaker 1: We'll give you the whole picture on this podcast always

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Speaker 1: if you're a new Westerner, wasn't a bore? We subscribe

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Speaker 1: to the podcast all those fun things. But that's where

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Speaker 1: I am right now. On Jude first, I am the

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Speaker 1: lowest I've been on the team all year long.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm in the same boat. And when the Braves

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Speaker 2: got off to the terrible start, you could tell yourself

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Speaker 2: it is so early. Oh, and seven, five and thirteen,

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Speaker 2: they were eight games below, but it was April, and

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Speaker 2: we've seen if the Braves have a five and thirteen

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Speaker 2: is what it is. Everything gets magnified the first couple

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Speaker 2: I think today was truly the first time, in my

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Speaker 2: heart of hearts, I really had to ask myself, is

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Speaker 2: this a lost season or are we heading towards a

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Speaker 2: lost season for the Braves. En sure, there's still one

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Speaker 2: hundred and ten baseball games to go and four months

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Speaker 2: and this time a year ago, the New York Mets

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Speaker 2: Four years ago, the Braves didn't get to above five

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Speaker 2: this year, because there's zero parallels between this year and

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Speaker 2: twenty one, especially with the state of the division, really

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Speaker 2: the state of the whole National League. But today is

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Speaker 2: truly and I know you talk to fans, you get

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Speaker 2: every range of spectrum in terms of pessimistic vers optimistic.

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Speaker 2: I truly feel in my heart of hearts today, probably

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Speaker 2: day and every time they take the field, it's getting worse,

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Speaker 2: which has not been the case for a Braves team

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Speaker 2: that admittedly has gotten off to slower starts in recent years.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't have to do the like will they

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Speaker 1: make the playoffs or won't they? On this show, Like,

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Speaker 1: I think our vibe is gonna tell like it's lower

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Speaker 1: Whatever we said two thirds of the way or whatever

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Speaker 1: would you have to say that just by the math,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's not early anymore. To your point, I

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Speaker 1: did a little bit of poking fun in not even

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Speaker 1: in a judgmental way, about like I do want to

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Speaker 1: stop short, like I think people are some people are

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Speaker 1: being a little bit hysterical, like season's over like, No,

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Speaker 1: it's not over. The season is not over, like there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of there's a lot of room left. They're

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Speaker 1: they're not. There's twenty seven to thirty one. That's bad.

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Speaker 1: No one is saying otherwise. To be very clear on

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Speaker 1: this podcast again, they've been very bad and very maddening

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Speaker 1: so far. They are in the bottom third of the

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Speaker 1: wild Card as we're talking. Look, I don't know about you.

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Speaker 1: I think about the East right now. I know the

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well you mentioned they're ten games back and

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Speaker 2: And that's that's the one big difference from twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 2: the Phillies were in second place with eighty two wins.

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Speaker 2: If the Braves want to shock us all and go

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Speaker 2: In a hurry. But I'm not optimistic in that. I

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Speaker 2: don't think there's a Braves fan on earth. Even the

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Speaker 2: but short of this team just really really turning it on,

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Speaker 2: it's hard to be optimistic about basically anything because when

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Speaker 1: Frankly, well, yeah, we'll get to that in a second.

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Speaker 1: I promise everybody we're gonna get the offense. That's the thing.

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Speaker 1: It's the offense. One thing I want to say, at

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Speaker 1: what you just said? I tweeted some history stuff, and

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Speaker 1: They just want to yell at me about the parallels.

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Speaker 1: And no point was I saying the Braves are going

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Speaker 1: whole point was that the season is not over. That's

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Speaker 1: that's all I'm saying right now. But you already reference

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Speaker 1: by sayings in the past that that was maybe one

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Speaker 1: seven years, and they just happened to win the World

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Speaker 1: and that was the first of fourteen consecutive wins, and

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Speaker 1: over about four weeks this season they've played at that level.

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Speaker 1: We talked about it on this podcast several times now.

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Speaker 1: The unfortunate part is they've now given it back basically

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Speaker 1: problems the players. If there there are times when snit

430
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Speaker 1: is a sleep at the wheel. The smith Shakra thing

431
00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:14,440
Speaker 1: was not a good look for anybody, by the way.

432
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Speaker 1: We as Steven and Seawan covered on our last episode

433
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Speaker 1: on the Feed about how he had they had to

434
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Speaker 1: be pointed out by Strider that smiths Shaver was hurt. Clearly,

435
00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:25,840
Speaker 1: that's bad. That's bad, optics bad bad. Bet Stint's not

436
00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:28,840
Speaker 1: a shaky job this year. I don't think. Sorry, I think,

437
00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:32,640
Speaker 1: but I do think that to your point, hitting coaches

438
00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:36,639
Speaker 1: get too much credit or too much blame. I'm with

439
00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:38,560
Speaker 1: you that there is not any attachment and I don't

440
00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:43,480
Speaker 1: think the adjustments are working with hires in the approach stuff.

441
00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:47,080
Speaker 1: And look, this is not a good thing necessarily, but

442
00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:51,280
Speaker 1: this is a lineup that is full of power guys.

443
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Speaker 1: And if they don't hit for power, if they're not

444
00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:56,440
Speaker 1: ambushing pitches, yeah, we'd all love it if they took

445
00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:59,359
Speaker 1: more walks. Generally speaking, I would, and at least especially

446
00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:02,400
Speaker 1: guys whore just like Ozzie and Harris were. But when

447
00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:04,440
Speaker 1: they were at their best a couple of years ago,

448
00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:06,640
Speaker 1: they were just bashing. Man, they just hit a bunch

449
00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:09,399
Speaker 1: of home runs, like and that's the and that is

450
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Speaker 1: not I don't think that's what hires is necessarily teaching.

451
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Speaker 1: And we're not, weren't You and I are not a

452
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Speaker 1: major league level expert hitting coaches, so we're not going

453
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Speaker 1: to tell you that we are. But it doesn't seem

454
00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:22,359
Speaker 1: like there's a great alignment there. Probably I think if

455
00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:25,159
Speaker 1: you're Alex, the worry would be like, are we just

456
00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,560
Speaker 1: going to fire a coach every three months? Maybe they

457
00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:30,520
Speaker 1: will admit that that. Uh, there's optical questions there, and

458
00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:32,800
Speaker 1: I know worrying at people are saying to you, and

459
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Speaker 1: what you said earlier about snit number one, I agree

460
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Speaker 1: with you, they're not going to fire them, but also

461
00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:40,160
Speaker 1: like I'm okay, I'm okay not firing Snicker. I don't

462
00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:41,800
Speaker 1: think that fire and Brian Snicker would something to make

463
00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:44,879
Speaker 1: you hit. That's my personal opinion. Now, if this season

464
00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:46,480
Speaker 1: goes the way that it might go, as we talked

465
00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:49,880
Speaker 1: about the first segment of this podcast, Snicker probably won't

466
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Speaker 1: be the manager next year. If I had to guess,

467
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Speaker 1: Alex might go to Snitt and be like Snitt's we've

468
00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:56,120
Speaker 1: had we've had a good run. Let's just shake hands

469
00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:58,080
Speaker 1: and go I separate raising a positive direction rather than

470
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Speaker 1: having to fire you. Because if you do admit season,

471
00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:03,200
Speaker 1: that is a firing. Like there's not like any gray

472
00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:04,919
Speaker 1: area there if you if you do it, if you

473
00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:07,520
Speaker 1: do it November, he can retire, you know what I mean,

474
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Speaker 1: There's there's grace there.

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Speaker 2: Almost certainly Snid is retiring at the end of the year,

476
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Speaker 2: and there's grace in that. And in just one little note.

477
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Speaker 2: So let's say hypothetically that Alex Nthopolis is an avid

478
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Speaker 2: reader of Twitter and he's like, you know what, I'm

479
00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:23,800
Speaker 2: gonna fire Brian Snitker.

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Speaker 1: I hope not. By the way, that'd be bad for Alex.

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Speaker 2: That's it. Walt Weiss is almost a guarantee to be

482
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Speaker 2: the interim Walt Weiss based on I mean great baseball

483
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Speaker 2: man has been around the game for a long time.

484
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Speaker 2: But if just reading from the outside, Walt Weiss is

485
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Speaker 2: Brian Snitker, but ten years younger.

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Speaker 1: That's especially exactly it.

487
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is not like Ron Washington who's a madman

488
00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:53,040
Speaker 2: and running around and cussing guys out and then giving

489
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Speaker 2: him a big hug, or you know an up and

490
00:23:54,960 --> 00:24:00,879
Speaker 2: coming fiery uh you know analytics guru who could change

491
00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:05,080
Speaker 2: some things, or you know, this is more of the same.

492
00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:09,760
Speaker 2: It would be right exactly and for better, not for worse,

493
00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:13,040
Speaker 2: but for better. The Atlanta Braves have been the pillar

494
00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:17,720
Speaker 2: of consistency since nineteen ninety. That's a long time, going

495
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:21,160
Speaker 2: on thirty five years here. There may not be an organization,

496
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:24,080
Speaker 2: there's not. There's not an organization in baseball that has

497
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:28,040
Speaker 2: had more stability top to bottom than the Atlanta Braves

498
00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:30,480
Speaker 2: over the last thirty five years, at least in the

499
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Speaker 2: National League. There. They're not going to become the Mets

500
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Speaker 2: and just cycle managers every two years. They're not going

501
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Speaker 2: to It's not I don't think Nthopolis wants to operate

502
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Speaker 2: that way and sure, if you want to kick Tim

503
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Speaker 2: Hires out, kick Tim Hires out. Frankly, he hasn't done

504
00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:50,240
Speaker 2: a single thing. There is not a single hitter having

505
00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:54,200
Speaker 2: a good year other than Drake Baldwin, who's like performing

506
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Speaker 2: above expectations.

507
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Speaker 1: He really is the only It's actually, we could do

508
00:24:57,920 --> 00:24:59,919
Speaker 1: a whole second on this, we won't, but that is

509
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:02,520
Speaker 1: actually true what you said. I mean, you could say

510
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Speaker 1: Ozuna is like where he's normally been overall, but it's

511
00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:07,080
Speaker 1: supposed to be He's just walking all the time, which

512
00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:08,600
Speaker 1: is not a bad thing. You want to walk a lot.

513
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Speaker 1: But Baldwin is literally the only offensive player that is

514
00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,480
Speaker 1: exceeding ampetitions. You could say, maybe Murphy's meeting them, like

515
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:16,879
Speaker 1: there are guys that might be able, like close to

516
00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:19,920
Speaker 1: being at their normal shot Ball is the only one

517
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Speaker 1: that's exceeded, the only one.

518
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Speaker 2: And it's funny. It crossed my mind. It was Friday

519
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:29,639
Speaker 2: night Braves where Ronald Racunya Junior was up and he

520
00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:33,359
Speaker 2: was facing Giledo and in onaned bat. Giledo left a

521
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,160
Speaker 2: belt high change up that Ronald missed, in a belt

522
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 2: high slider that Ronald missed and struck out, and the

523
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Speaker 2: inning ended with runners on base, and my first thought was, well,

524
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Speaker 2: Ronnie's been with the team for a week. He's lost

525
00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:48,200
Speaker 2: his magic juice because he's been with this coaching staff

526
00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:51,639
Speaker 2: that seemingly makes this whole team allergic to hitting with

527
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Speaker 2: you know, situationally and all that. And of course, you know,

528
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Speaker 2: Ronald's just such a freak. He's truly the one, maybe

529
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Speaker 2: one of like three things that has me too in

530
00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:03,000
Speaker 2: every night because he's so damn good and so special,

531
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:06,920
Speaker 2: so vibrant out there. But I mean, just I guess

532
00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:11,000
Speaker 2: to wrap this up, No, I don't think Brian Snicker

533
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,399
Speaker 2: is getting fired. I think they will just ride this

534
00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:15,640
Speaker 2: thing out and shake hands and have a big old

535
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:18,920
Speaker 2: retirement ceremony at the end of the season whenever that is.

536
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Speaker 2: But if the press release comes down that Tim Hyers

537
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Speaker 2: has been let go of his duties, there is not

538
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Speaker 2: a person anywhere who would blame the Brave for making

539
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Speaker 2: that decision.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're at that point where it's like they have

541
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Speaker 1: an off the on Monday. Would not fall out of

542
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Speaker 1: my chair if they made a move like that even tomorrow.

543
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's gonna happen, but it's just we

544
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Speaker 1: are in that point of the calendar.

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Speaker 2: Ft FAM.

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Speaker 3: You might have a boring, old, crusty, unpretty razor and

547
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Speaker 3: it might be expensive, so AJ should they consider another option?

548
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Speaker 4: Look how cool this is?

549
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Speaker 2: Look at the color scheme. Look at it.

550
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Speaker 4: A little sheath what hide the blades when you travel?

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Speaker 1: Works great?

552
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Speaker 4: I mean using this for a couple of weeks now

553
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:10,000
Speaker 4: on Harry's Clean no bumps, no cuts, works great. And

554
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:12,520
Speaker 4: you know the best part, it's a great price, especially

555
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 4: if you use the foul territory code.

556
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 3: Scott, that's right, Harry's dot com slash foul.

557
00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:18,280
Speaker 2: Guess what.

558
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 3: You can also get yourself a no risk trial So

559
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 3: if you don't like your shave, no worries, it's on Harry's.

560
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 3: They're not worried about it. Get the edge on your

561
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:31,680
Speaker 3: shave with Harry's. Normally the trial set is ten dollars,

562
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Speaker 3: but right now you can get it for just six

563
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:40,080
Speaker 3: dollars at Harry's dot com slash foul. Use the exclusive

564
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Speaker 3: link Harry's dot com slash foul for a six dollars

565
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Speaker 3: trial set.

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Speaker 1: All right, Scott, do you want to talk a little

567
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 1: bit about the latest? We don't have to. We won't

568
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:53,400
Speaker 1: do our normal full game breakdowns, but there's some stuff

569
00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 1: to hit on in the last couple of days. And

570
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:56,680
Speaker 1: then Smith Shov, it's anything else you want to add

571
00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 1: a big picture because we can do that if you

572
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Speaker 1: want to.

573
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Speaker 2: We could go for rec Has anyone considered asking if

574
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:06,159
Speaker 2: the Braves would win fifteen games in a row? That

575
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,120
Speaker 2: would go a long ways.

576
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:09,680
Speaker 1: A long way.

577
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:12,560
Speaker 2: Fourteen in a row and twenty twenty two, let's do

578
00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:14,800
Speaker 2: it again, Like, let's just throw it out there. You know,

579
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 2: see what happens.

580
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:19,880
Speaker 1: If the Braves want to reach their preseason expectations, they're

581
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 1: going to have to do something like that. They could

582
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,399
Speaker 1: they could probably get to like ninety wins in a

583
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:27,280
Speaker 1: wild card spot without doing that, but it would be

584
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:28,919
Speaker 1: even even that. You gotta be really good for a

585
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:30,680
Speaker 1: long time now to even do that. If they want,

586
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:32,520
Speaker 1: like it's to like high nineties, they got to win

587
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:34,880
Speaker 1: a lot of games in a short period of time.

588
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:36,919
Speaker 2: And they need a lot of things. We are at

589
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:41,640
Speaker 2: the point now too quickly. They cannot suffer another injury

590
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:42,280
Speaker 2: to the rotation.

591
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,240
Speaker 1: No, that's something let's do it now. Actually, so Smith Scholv,

592
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 1: we already kind of knew. Look. Steve and Shaw talked

593
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 1: about this on Thursday night. It was not a secret

594
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:55,400
Speaker 1: to anybody with eyes. Smith Shov went immediately on the

595
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 1: al after leaving a start on Thursday night with what

596
00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 1: the Braves called a strained right elbow. That's not a

597
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 1: good sign. Within a day he was going to sixty

598
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 1: day a l which is usually you're gone for the season.

599
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 1: Not always, but most of the time. They still have

600
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:13,800
Speaker 1: not said exactly what it is. It's it's torn. I mean,

601
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 1: he tours UCL it seems like, so we don't know

602
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:19,080
Speaker 1: what it's gonna be. Could be Tommy John, could be

603
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Speaker 1: the brace that Strider had. No matter what, that's a

604
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:24,200
Speaker 1: year long injury. Basically, they haven't said what they're gonna

605
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:26,520
Speaker 1: do yet. He hasn't talked yet as a Sunday Night.

606
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Speaker 1: But long story short, smith Shov is not pitching again

607
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 1: this season by all accounts, and look, he was not

608
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 1: a guy they were hoping to have to rely on

609
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:37,480
Speaker 1: this year, but he pitched pretty well at the end

610
00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 1: of this little mini run, and with Lopez already down

611
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Speaker 1: for a while, we don't know how long still could

612
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,960
Speaker 1: be this whole full season. We just don't know. They

613
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 1: don't have margin for air. We were gonna if we

614
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Speaker 1: did a show on Friday. We talked, we thought was

615
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Speaker 1: doing a show on Friday, and then when they lost

616
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Speaker 1: the game, we didn't do a show. It was like, oh,

617
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Speaker 1: Bryce Otter will maybe pitch on two. No, they moved

618
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Speaker 1: Bryce up to today. Uh, and Bryce the usual Bryce thing.

619
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Speaker 1: But the fact that Bryce Elder is now in the

620
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Speaker 1: rotation in pen for a couple of months now, it's

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Speaker 1: a little scary. I mean, I will probably modiately defend

622
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Speaker 1: Bryce Elder later on the show, but that isn't that

623
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Speaker 1: that's not where you want to be. Man Like, if

624
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Speaker 1: they get one more injury, you're talking about like guys

625
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:20,080
Speaker 1: who have never done it, never done it before. You're

626
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 1: talking about Hurston Waldrip or whoever, Scratpep guys or what like.

627
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 1: I'm not saying they those guys can't do it, but

628
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Speaker 1: you're going into uncharted territory with one more injury of

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Speaker 1: any kind of rotation.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, any kind of injury, even for a few weeks

631
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Speaker 2: or a month would be devastating.

632
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Speaker 1: For this pulled pulled a hamster. It's an elbow like

633
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Speaker 1: if if Stryder pulls the hamstring again or something like that.

634
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 1: If Holmes falls out of the shower one day and

635
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:47,400
Speaker 1: like hurts, you know what I'm saying. I mean, I'm

636
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Speaker 1: not joking, but I'm not You turn, you turn an ankle,

637
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 1: lay under landing foot or whatever, and you're out for

638
00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 1: two weeks. Like you're talking about two starts of someone

639
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 1: who maybe has pitched once in the major leagues. And

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00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 1: it's like, uh, and look, we already get the caveat

641
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 1: pitching is up in the problem, but it could become

642
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 1: a problem in a hurry.

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Speaker 2: Oh god, that would be I mean, that would be

644
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Speaker 2: the nail in the coffin. If this team has no

645
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 2: margin of air anymore. When it's so early in the

646
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 2: year and you start out five and thirteen, you have

647
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:20,160
Speaker 2: margin of air because there's so many games left. But

648
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 2: its June. It's not early anymore. They have one hundred

649
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 2: and ten games to go, you know, like that, there's

650
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 2: it is what it is. They have to stay healthy.

651
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 2: They have to freaking hit a baseball at some point

652
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:38,280
Speaker 2: this year if they want any prayer. And frankly, I

653
00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 2: don't even know if it's fair to expect this pitching

654
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:44,600
Speaker 2: staff to be as perfect as it has been the

655
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 2: last couple of weeks, because they have literally been perfect.

656
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:50,280
Speaker 2: I think, like you go back a month from now,

657
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 2: the only blow up by a pitcher was Schwallenbach against

658
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:59,120
Speaker 2: LA that weekend series. Other than that, brave starters have

659
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:02,360
Speaker 2: been phenomenal. A bullpen has been much better lately. After

660
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:04,920
Speaker 2: the first couple of weeks the bullpen was a disaster,

661
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 2: but the bullpen since like mid April, has been awesome.

662
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 2: You can't ask for more than what they've given. And

663
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 2: if the pitching starts to regress or if they get

664
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:17,400
Speaker 2: an injury, then we're in big, big trouble. Short of

665
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:18,920
Speaker 2: this entire lineup waking up.

666
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, like I said, they have a basically a three

667
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:25,800
Speaker 1: e R since May first, and like you cannot expect

668
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 1: them to even do that much less any better than that. Like,

669
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 1: that's not a projection level thing. It could happen over

670
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:32,840
Speaker 1: a month or two months, but like this is not

671
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 1: as currently constructed, a three point zero zero e RA.

672
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 1: Pitching staff talked about him, I don't think over a

673
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 1: large sample size with Elder throwing every fifth day, with

674
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:43,720
Speaker 1: some of the some of the deeper bullpen arms being

675
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 1: what they are. Ye, he's working back in hold is

676
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 1: just a he's fine, but he's just a guy like

677
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,920
Speaker 1: he's not a great pitcher, all these things, you know,

678
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:56,760
Speaker 1: God bless Sale and Schollenbach, I mean obviously, but yeah,

679
00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 1: it's it's brutal for Aj. As Steven It's got Stephen

680
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 1: and lay it out. That's unfortunate. Obviously. It was just

681
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 1: just started running a form, super high upside guy, talented player.

682
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:08,640
Speaker 1: He's still really young, which is very helpful for his

683
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 1: recovery all those things. But it's just brutal news. We

684
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:12,800
Speaker 1: don't need to cover that again, but that just it

685
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 1: sucks for him, sucks with the team and puts him

686
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:16,120
Speaker 1: at that spot.

687
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 2: So it does. And hope AJ's doing all right. I

688
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 2: know Gore of the Deck, who covers Braves Prospects, said

689
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:26,400
Speaker 2: that Aj is a great kid, comes from a great family,

690
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 2: and thankfully he has youth on his side. He's only

691
00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 2: twenty two years old, so I would think we'll probably

692
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 2: see Aja again around the All Star Game next year,

693
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 2: assuming it is Tommy John. It's almost a virtual lock

694
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 2: for Tommy John since the UCL is fully torn. But yeah,

695
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 2: wishing AJ the best. I hope he's doing all right mentally.

696
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 2: I'm sure man. He was on cloud nine just a

697
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:52,120
Speaker 2: week ago and now he's at a kind of the

698
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 2: first real crossroads of his professional career, a major elbow surgery,

699
00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:58,600
Speaker 2: and let's hope he's back and better than ever.

700
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 1: Absolutely, we definitely hope that the other like procedural thing.

701
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 1: Stuart Fairchild hit the aisle this week. Obviously not a

702
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:09,319
Speaker 1: huge loss, like he's fine, but this this located finger

703
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 1: that Braves added a player that no one even knew

704
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 1: they had on the roster, which is kind of funny.

705
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 1: He was kind of signed like overnight. It's jose A

706
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 1: zo Car. I believe that's how you say his name.

707
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:18,759
Speaker 1: He was the one added to the roster. There was

708
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:21,399
Speaker 1: some surprise that it wasn't Jared Kilnick, a familiar name,

709
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:23,799
Speaker 1: because he didn't play the night before, and it was like, oh,

710
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:28,080
Speaker 1: here comes Keelnick. It wasn't Kilnick. Kelnick is not doing

711
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:31,239
Speaker 1: that well in Gwinnette, which might be part of this. Also,

712
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 1: a zoe Car is like more of a bench guy,

713
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 1: like he's a runner, defensive guy, like not he can't

714
00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 1: really hit. He has a sub seven hundred ops and

715
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,080
Speaker 1: the miners in his career, so this is not exactly

716
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 1: a high upside play, but more basically you're just doing

717
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:45,319
Speaker 1: a fair Child thing a game like you want another

718
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 1: guy who can run the basis essentially.

719
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:50,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, quite literally, if Sean Murphy draws a walk or

720
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 2: Marcelo Zuna hits a single and the game is close

721
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:55,520
Speaker 2: in the ninth inning, and seemingly it is close in

722
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:56,840
Speaker 2: the ninth inning every.

723
00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:57,799
Speaker 1: Single night, every night.

724
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:02,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, Speedy can probably play all three outfield spots if

725
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 2: you needed him, And you know, the carousel for that

726
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:07,839
Speaker 2: fifth out fielder spot just kind of never ends.

727
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 1: It never ends. Uh Okay, some some quick game stuff

728
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 1: from the weekend, just observations more than anything else. We

729
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 1: all know the deal. But they lose Friday, they lose

730
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:21,759
Speaker 1: on Sunday. They do win on Saturday Friday. Uh, look,

731
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 1: we should spend a few seconds on what in the

732
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 1: world is happening with a third base coaching. I don't

733
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on over there, But every

734
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 1: single night there's a disaster set. This one actually worked

735
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:36,320
Speaker 1: out for the Braves. Uh, but I don't Uh, I

736
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:38,960
Speaker 1: don't know what's going on. Ronnie was out by four

737
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,399
Speaker 1: steps and it just happened to be a kick away,

738
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:44,359
Speaker 1: so the run scored. The Braves still lose the game anyway,

739
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:48,840
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily matter. Also, there was a controversial play that

740
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,120
Speaker 1: maybe it didn't like decide the game, but the Braves

741
00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:52,680
Speaker 1: could have been alive if they had gotten a little

742
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:53,759
Speaker 1: bit of a break. And there was a kind of,

743
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:55,960
Speaker 1: in my mind a bad overturn. But man, third base coaching.

744
00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 1: Every second day, there's a disaster there. I don't know

745
00:35:58,640 --> 00:35:59,600
Speaker 1: what's I don't know what's going.

746
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, we said earlier in the show that if they

747
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:05,840
Speaker 2: want to move on from Tim Hyers, they have the

748
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 2: full support of this podcast. If they want to move

749
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 2: on or reassign Matt kuyas sopo at third base, please do.

750
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 1: I mean, Okay, So the joke, the joke was always

751
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 1: including from us that Rob Washington had a perennial green

752
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:24,319
Speaker 1: light at third base. Right if he had a green light?

753
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:27,360
Speaker 1: What color is to us? Sooba's green light? You know

754
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:28,840
Speaker 1: what I mean? It's like it it's like, is it

755
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:31,399
Speaker 1: like the bradscre you've ever seen? Like does he stop

756
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 1: any But I mean I'll defend him a little bit.

757
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:37,839
Speaker 1: The Eli White thing the previous week was a one

758
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:39,319
Speaker 1: of the worst things I've ever seen on the basse past.

759
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 1: I never got to talk about this because I was traveling.

760
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 1: That was insane. But I don't necessarily blame too Atisobo

761
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 1: for that one. It was I blame Eli more than

762
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 1: But still you throw that one in with a lot

763
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:52,960
Speaker 1: of these like crazy sins and like they've actually again,

764
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:54,640
Speaker 1: this this one worked out. So maybe you want to

765
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:57,480
Speaker 1: say results of her process. But every I swear to you,

766
00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 1: every two or three days, there's a sin third base

767
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 1: and I'm like, that guy's out by ten feet. I

768
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:04,920
Speaker 1: don't understand what you're looking at. And I'm actually a

769
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:07,680
Speaker 1: proponent of putting pressure on the defense, probably more than

770
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:11,239
Speaker 1: teams do. But he's gone beyond that, like he's he's

771
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:13,319
Speaker 1: he's at the like I've never stopped at any one level,

772
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 1: And I don't know if there has to be an

773
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 1: intervention or what they're by the way a guy everybody

774
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:20,359
Speaker 1: seems to like and respect in the organization, like oh,

775
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 1: but doesn't mean you're a good third base coach. There

776
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 1: are different skill sets, and I think it's not going

777
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:25,839
Speaker 1: very well for two months.

778
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:29,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it is a relatively i mean, not common

779
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:32,239
Speaker 2: thing in Major League Baseball, but you will see the

780
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 2: first and third base coaches swap that. I think the

781
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 2: I think the Angels did did that with Ron Washington

782
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:42,799
Speaker 2: calling the shots. So, man, you just this team can't

783
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 2: score if you were giving away. There was that one

784
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 2: scent of Verdugo up into Fenway. I mean, I could

785
00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 2: have thrown Dugo out. That's I mean.

786
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:56,680
Speaker 1: I know, I know Ronnie is not one hundred percent

787
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:58,320
Speaker 1: on the base pass what he was a couple of

788
00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:01,360
Speaker 1: years ago. That's fair to say. But if Ronnie is

789
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 1: getting thrown out by five steps, like you've made an error,

790
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:07,839
Speaker 1: like you've made a you've made a waving your arm error.

791
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 1: So that's more of an offshoot. But I had to

792
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:11,880
Speaker 1: make sure we thought because that's man, I can't believe

793
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 1: that was that, And again it worked. I had someone

794
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 1: in mynis to say, well, the kid score anyway, I

795
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 1: might as well send him. I'm like, okay, I understand

796
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:19,960
Speaker 1: that thought process. I actually do. I get it. I

797
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 1: actually get it. I promise you I did that. Was

798
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 1: it was so bad that I would?

799
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:27,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, man, just one other thing in

800
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 2: this bad season.

801
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 1: I mean, agreed, what did you make it? The overturn

802
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 1: on Friday?

803
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:38,040
Speaker 2: I mean, I think I did not see from the

804
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 2: angles of the replay available to fans, I did not

805
00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 2: personally see enough for clear and convincing one hundred percent evidence.

806
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:51,320
Speaker 2: We're talking about the throw that took the first basement

807
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:53,880
Speaker 2: off the bag, and then they called him safe, and

808
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 2: then they overturned it and called it basically this.

809
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:58,399
Speaker 1: Ended the game. I mean, like, it didn't end the game.

810
00:38:58,440 --> 00:38:59,879
Speaker 1: It was in the eighth inning, but the brains would

811
00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 1: have ord to run on the play and they had

812
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 1: to run on third base down by one, and instead

813
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:07,839
Speaker 1: it was called and out and it was down by two,

814
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 1: and that was kind of that was kind of it.

815
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 1: And look, I said this in real time, I don't

816
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know if you agree with me

817
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:14,439
Speaker 1: or not. If they called it an out in real time,

818
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:16,759
Speaker 1: I would have had no issue at all with them

819
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,359
Speaker 1: sticking without based on the replays I saw, yep. Yeah,

820
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:22,439
Speaker 1: the problem is they call them safe and like you said,

821
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:25,640
Speaker 1: there was nothing out there that was overturnable. There Also,

822
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 1: there was a little bit of a this might have

823
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:29,279
Speaker 1: just been an Atlanta thing, but there was some drama

824
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:31,240
Speaker 1: about how long it took them a challenge too, because

825
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:33,920
Speaker 1: there was a throwing ear on the like they got

826
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 1: a little extra time. It seemed like on that one

827
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 1: so look, it's it's one thing. They might have lost

828
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:39,920
Speaker 1: the game anyway, but it was a controversial thing, so

829
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:40,960
Speaker 1: we should we spray it up.

830
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, replay is I don't understand it. It you know,

831
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:51,880
Speaker 2: it's frustrating. They also just said today that ABS the

832
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:55,920
Speaker 2: strike Challenge system is likely now delayed until twenty twenty

833
00:39:56,120 --> 00:40:01,719
Speaker 2: seven because of inconsistencies, and I mean, it's you know it,

834
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:02,960
Speaker 2: I hate it.

835
00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:04,800
Speaker 1: I hate it a lot. And also there was a

836
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 1: again people were saying that I was trying to like

837
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:10,240
Speaker 1: considered like the Rays can't score runs. It was independent

838
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:12,479
Speaker 1: of that. Oh, Zuna got absolutely hose on the strike

839
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:15,239
Speaker 1: free call today and I just tweeted the screenshot and

840
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:18,400
Speaker 1: it's like, please, do we do something about this. It

841
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:22,320
Speaker 1: wasn't even close, like anyway, Well, and that does go.

842
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 2: It feels like lately I didn't look this up, but

843
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:29,720
Speaker 2: it feels like lately the Braves just cannot catch a break,

844
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:32,200
Speaker 2: Like they're not a team that's benefiting from the other

845
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 2: team making a ton of errors. Trevor's story alone robbed

846
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:38,759
Speaker 2: not just to play on Friday, but in the ninth

847
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:40,799
Speaker 2: inning today when the Braves were trying to come back.

848
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:45,400
Speaker 2: Story made an unbelievable diving catch that stole a leadoff

849
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 2: single from Assie Alby's. You know, they're just not getting

850
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 2: some of the funky breaks. One other just quick note,

851
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:56,279
Speaker 2: I swear every time a batter hits the ball of

852
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:59,239
Speaker 2: the pitcher, if it's a Braves pitcher on the mound,

853
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:02,320
Speaker 2: the ball ricochets to like the middle of nowhere and

854
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:04,080
Speaker 2: it ends up being a single or a double for

855
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 2: the other team.

856
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:05,360
Speaker 1: Correct.

857
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:07,719
Speaker 2: But when the Braves hit a ball up the middle

858
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:10,360
Speaker 2: off the pitcher, the ball just like perfectly bounces to

859
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:12,440
Speaker 2: first base and the first baseman picks it up and

860
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:15,839
Speaker 2: steps it on the bag or whatever. It's again, it's anecdotal.

861
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:19,359
Speaker 2: We're frustrated, it's been a trying year, but just I mean,

862
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 2: it was like the aj S Mischavver thing. The ball

863
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:23,920
Speaker 2: bounced in the Phillies got a hit out of it.

864
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:26,400
Speaker 2: But it's just another one of those things where if

865
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 2: the Braves not only can they not hit, but the

866
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:32,040
Speaker 2: ball has not bounced their way a fair amount this year.

867
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:38,239
Speaker 1: So on Sunday we were all including us to be

868
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:40,880
Speaker 1: one hundred percent honest behind the scenes with our text messages,

869
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:42,920
Speaker 1: we were all kind of rolling our eyes at the

870
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:44,920
Speaker 1: three to zero start and the Bryce Elter allowed in

871
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:48,239
Speaker 1: the first inning, given the offensive struggles, we were like,

872
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 1: all right, that's might be a rough podcast tonight, and

873
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 1: it was eventually a rough podcast tonight. But to Bryce's credit,

874
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 1: he battled back and by the end of his start

875
00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:58,560
Speaker 1: he did a more than adequate job. In the way

876
00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:00,839
Speaker 1: that I would say it is that five and third

877
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 1: innings and three runs allowed is what a fifth starter

878
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 1: is supposed to do. Bryce Seller did that today? Was

879
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:09,000
Speaker 1: it a great way of doing it? Do you want

880
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 1: to dig a three zero hole? No, but you gotta

881
00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:13,839
Speaker 1: kind of take it. And the office just didn't do anything.

882
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:17,120
Speaker 1: Now before I look, throw it to you. If you

883
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 1: just you can't do this, if you just isolated today's game.

884
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:24,880
Speaker 1: I wasn't really mad about today's game because Garrett Crochet

885
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:28,680
Speaker 1: is a ACE level cy young level pitcher and he

886
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:32,040
Speaker 1: just destroyed them today, and that's gonna happen sometimes. Unfortunately, again,

887
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:34,400
Speaker 1: you can't divorce that and all of our minds, all

888
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 1: of our psychees. But I do think that was obviously

889
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:38,960
Speaker 1: a big part of today, is that Crochet is actually

890
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:41,239
Speaker 1: that good and he just was honestly just dominant and

891
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:43,960
Speaker 1: that's those things happen. It's just hard to take after

892
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:44,440
Speaker 1: everything else.

893
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:48,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is, I mean in a vacuum today's loss.

894
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:51,480
Speaker 2: If the Braves were five games above five hundred, we

895
00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:53,280
Speaker 2: would just said, look, Crochet's awesome.

896
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 1: It's eleverer against Crochet. I mean, it's eleverer against Crochet.

897
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 1: It's like you're supposed to lose, kind of you know

898
00:42:58,120 --> 00:42:58,440
Speaker 1: what I mean?

899
00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:01,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Crochet. I mean that's a that's a bad dude.

900
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:04,760
Speaker 2: I think if the Braves could have gotten him any

901
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:07,360
Speaker 2: way short of giving up Drake Baldwin in the package,

902
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 2: they would have pulled that trigger immediately. And Boston gave

903
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:13,360
Speaker 2: up a ton. And you can see why, you know,

904
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 2: seeing Crochet twice in two weeks for an American League

905
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 2: East Foe is kind of bad scheduling luck and I

906
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:23,520
Speaker 2: mean he's just so dominant. But blindly, if you would

907
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:26,880
Speaker 2: have said, all right, Brad, Bryce Elder is starting against

908
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:30,600
Speaker 2: a Red Sox lineup that is almost exclusively left handed.

909
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:33,120
Speaker 2: So if you're a lefty, you can you can mow

910
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:34,960
Speaker 2: down the Red Sox lineup. But if you're a righty,

911
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 2: that's a lot to ask. But Elder Dealos Santos Bummer.

912
00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:46,000
Speaker 2: Aaron Bummer looked awesome by that. And then and then

913
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:50,719
Speaker 2: Iglesias pitched the ninth, eighth inning, ninth inning, one of them.

914
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:53,000
Speaker 2: You know, blindly, if you said, hey, they're gonna give

915
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:55,680
Speaker 2: up three runs and other than the first inning, Boston

916
00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:58,399
Speaker 2: would basically never even really put up a huge fight.

917
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:01,879
Speaker 2: You would take that all day long and you would

918
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 2: just cross your fingers that maybe the Braves should run

919
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:05,920
Speaker 2: into a couple of runs and steal the game.

920
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:08,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, my cameras precked on YouTube. So that's that was

921
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:11,120
Speaker 1: what I was trying to deal with. But hey, no,

922
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:16,239
Speaker 1: you said it beautifully. I think if Bryce Smeller does

923
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:19,040
Speaker 1: that every game, we'll feel Okay, it wasn't great, but

924
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:20,600
Speaker 1: he was totally fine. Just was the order that it

925
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:23,400
Speaker 1: was in. We should at least I say this for

926
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 1: last on purpose. It's the one positing for the weekend.

927
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 1: Your guy Si Schwellenbach looked like Cy Schwellenbach on Saturday,

928
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:35,000
Speaker 1: six or the third strund on innings, eleven strikeouts to

929
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:38,120
Speaker 1: average ninety eight with his fastball. He was bringing it

930
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:40,840
Speaker 1: on Saturday, and the satin is making the rounds that

931
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:42,960
Speaker 1: it was a crazy one. He's only the sixteenth pitcher

932
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:46,160
Speaker 1: in the history of Major League Baseball to throw back

933
00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:49,280
Speaker 1: to back outings with eleven strikeouts or more and no walks.

934
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:54,319
Speaker 1: A great it's two starts, but he looks like himself again.

935
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:57,080
Speaker 1: Whatever adjustment he made after a little bit of a hiccup,

936
00:44:57,239 --> 00:44:59,360
Speaker 1: his first real hiccup of his entire career so far

937
00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:01,440
Speaker 1: in the Major leagu he seems to have fixed it.

938
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 1: And he was freaking dominant.

939
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, that fastball, and then he had all of his

940
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 2: breaking stuff working too, with the splitter that he throws

941
00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 2: and the slider. I mean, Schwalenbach is just such an

942
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 2: impressive pitcher. And you mentioned the bump in the road.

943
00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:20,440
Speaker 2: But since then, and if you look at Schwanbach's numbers

944
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:24,160
Speaker 2: now on the whole, through thirteen starts, his numbers are

945
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:27,719
Speaker 2: basically equal or even better than what he had during

946
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 2: his rookie year a season ago, and through thirty three

947
00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:34,760
Speaker 2: starts in the major leagues now, Schwenbach has been within

948
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:38,720
Speaker 2: the majors for just over a calendar year. Thirty three starts,

949
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:42,799
Speaker 2: one hundred and ninety eight innings one he has one

950
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:45,359
Speaker 2: hundred and ninety eight strikeouts and one hundred and ninety

951
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:49,719
Speaker 2: eight innings and only thirty seven walks, which is super impressive.

952
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:53,520
Speaker 2: And in those thirty three starts a three point two

953
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:57,240
Speaker 2: seven ERA and his FIP and x FIP and expected

954
00:45:57,280 --> 00:46:01,920
Speaker 2: era are all virtually identical. He is so impressive. I mean,

955
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:04,719
Speaker 2: that was one of the best starts a Braves pitcher

956
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:07,480
Speaker 2: has made all year. And frankly, the pitching staff has

957
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:10,320
Speaker 2: been really good, as we talked about, and when Schwallenbach

958
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:12,440
Speaker 2: is on and if he's going to hit upper nineties

959
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:14,919
Speaker 2: and even one hundred in his starts, I mean, good

960
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:17,759
Speaker 2: freaking luck because opposing hitters are just not going to

961
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:19,839
Speaker 2: hit that with any kind of consistency.

962
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:23,759
Speaker 1: He was great, sales been great recently. Gives you a

963
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:25,400
Speaker 1: lot of hope even what the offense doing, what the

964
00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:27,720
Speaker 1: office has been doing, and office did enough on Saturday,

965
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 1: five runs, nothing crazy, but Matt Olsen RBI double to

966
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:33,239
Speaker 1: lead things off in the first and they got four

967
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:35,880
Speaker 1: runs and one bunch to kind of went at home

968
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:39,480
Speaker 1: runs from Riley and Acunya. Ronnie went deep off Walker Buehler,

969
00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:41,640
Speaker 1: which was a nice warm fuzzy for all of us

970
00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:43,759
Speaker 1: who remember that that big one that he hit off

971
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 1: Walker Bruler a few years ago. And Ryyan has three

972
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:49,000
Speaker 1: home runs in what nine games? That was his eighth game.

973
00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:51,880
Speaker 1: He's pretty good at baseball. By the way, this is

974
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:53,400
Speaker 1: making the rounds today. I'm not sure if you saw it.

975
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:57,560
Speaker 1: Ronnie already leads comfortably the Braves outfield and Fangrafts War

976
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:01,320
Speaker 1: this year. He's played nine games. That's that's also probably

977
00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:03,400
Speaker 1: it's kind of an anti Michael Harris stat to be

978
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:07,279
Speaker 1: honest with you, but hey, Ronnie has been really good

979
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:09,319
Speaker 1: and we'll save Michael Harris talk for later, of which

980
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:12,719
Speaker 1: suffice to say, oh, I okay, I'm gonna do it

981
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:16,520
Speaker 1: real quick. I tweeted this out over the weekend. If

982
00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:18,120
Speaker 1: people are mad at me, because I think they kind

983
00:47:18,120 --> 00:47:20,880
Speaker 1: of missed the point. Michael Harris, as though I think

984
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:25,279
Speaker 1: it was yesterday, was tied for the Braves team lead

985
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:30,800
Speaker 1: and RBI for the season. And my point was that

986
00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:34,200
Speaker 1: kind of tells you the analytical power of RBI and

987
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:36,480
Speaker 1: that the Braves worst hitter this year, other than maybe

988
00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 1: Nick Allen, is the only other guy can might might

989
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:40,520
Speaker 1: be at the same level as Michael Harris is leading

990
00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:43,239
Speaker 1: team a RBI, and part of that's that Harris has

991
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:46,160
Speaker 1: actually been better in high leverage than he has been

992
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 1: and not Hitler. He's probably the only guy that has

993
00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:50,279
Speaker 1: been to be honest with you. But also he has

994
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:52,600
Speaker 1: like a six hor obs this year. He's been terrible.

995
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:55,920
Speaker 1: So it speaks to the offense being bad. It speaks

996
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:57,600
Speaker 1: to Michael being a little bit better in high levers

997
00:47:57,680 --> 00:48:00,000
Speaker 1: than not. But when Michael Harris is leading the two

998
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:03,240
Speaker 1: even in RBI and he is have the six hundred roobs,

999
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:06,160
Speaker 1: you're you're probably in some trouble as an offense.

1000
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:09,800
Speaker 2: Michael Harris is in some trouble. Brad. We won't do

1001
00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:12,200
Speaker 2: an hour on this, but we've done it.

1002
00:48:12,239 --> 00:48:13,839
Speaker 1: We'll do it again. I'm sure it's It's not good.

1003
00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:19,600
Speaker 2: Michael Harris has not hit a home run since April twentieth.

1004
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 1: I have to say, so, you tweeted that out there

1005
00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:24,840
Speaker 1: in the game. I had a quote tweet set up

1006
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 1: ready to press send on it for if he tied

1007
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:29,399
Speaker 1: the game and the ninth that he went the home run.

1008
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:31,680
Speaker 1: I was ready. I don't know why I felt that

1009
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:34,760
Speaker 1: it might happen. That's insane behavior for me. I'm very analytical,

1010
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:37,920
Speaker 1: very normal person who's not think this way, and for

1011
00:48:38,040 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 1: whatever reason, I thought, you know what, Scott's gonna Jinx's

1012
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:43,520
Speaker 1: in the right direction and he struck out. It didn't

1013
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:44,600
Speaker 1: it didn't come to fruition.

1014
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:47,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I was right, not even not even close.

1015
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:51,000
Speaker 2: Harris no power to ship speak of the on base

1016
00:48:51,239 --> 00:48:53,520
Speaker 2: sub three hundred on base percent. It's bad. I mean

1017
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:56,720
Speaker 2: it is full capital letter is bad. Unbelievable as a rookie.

1018
00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:02,040
Speaker 2: Good second season, decent third season, and now bad fourth season.

1019
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:07,160
Speaker 2: He's actually it's a credit to him that he is

1020
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:11,880
Speaker 2: not a sub replacement player this year with his offense.

1021
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:14,440
Speaker 2: That's how good his glove is now Goo's legs are.

1022
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:16,960
Speaker 2: But he's still only on pace for like a one

1023
00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:19,160
Speaker 2: win season and playing every single day.

1024
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 1: That's bad. There is a limit, even at center field

1025
00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:24,840
Speaker 1: or at shortstop, there is a baseline you have to

1026
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:27,040
Speaker 1: hit with the bat. Nick Allen is kind of doing

1027
00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:28,400
Speaker 1: the same thing. I don't know, we don't want to

1028
00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:31,640
Speaker 1: talk about that, but Nick Allen is in the same

1029
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:33,359
Speaker 1: He's actually been a little bit better than Harris because

1030
00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:35,279
Speaker 1: I think shortstop's more valuable in some respects than some

1031
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:38,239
Speaker 1: of the glove metrics. But he has a sixty eight

1032
00:49:38,520 --> 00:49:41,520
Speaker 1: WRC plus I think Harris is sixty three. It's like

1033
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:44,480
Speaker 1: you have to get to like eighty like I mean,

1034
00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:46,640
Speaker 1: that's that's a low bar. But you can live with

1035
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:49,319
Speaker 1: elite defense at center or a shortstop with like an

1036
00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:51,719
Speaker 1: eighty five doub rsity plus, which you can't live with

1037
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:54,640
Speaker 1: is in the sixties, And man, I wish we had

1038
00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:56,480
Speaker 1: to think about this. I wish Michael would just like

1039
00:49:56,640 --> 00:50:00,200
Speaker 1: be like normal, normal bad even like in or in

1040
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:03,439
Speaker 1: Crtay comparison to being thrown around. There were several years

1041
00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:05,960
Speaker 1: but Ender was like a ninety five arity plus guy

1042
00:50:06,239 --> 00:50:07,600
Speaker 1: and that's all he had to be. He was a

1043
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:10,239
Speaker 1: four win player doing that. Michael Harris, we wouldn't be

1044
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:13,800
Speaker 1: excited about this, but Michael Harris was just that he

1045
00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:15,480
Speaker 1: would be a three or four win player every year.

1046
00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:17,560
Speaker 1: He'd be valuable on his contract. It wouldn't be a star,

1047
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:20,480
Speaker 1: but he'd be a good player. He's not that even

1048
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:23,680
Speaker 1: right now. It's it's it's tough. So hopefully he fixes it.

1049
00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:25,440
Speaker 1: I think he probably will fix it. I don't know

1050
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:27,480
Speaker 1: why am I not optimist but maybe I am at

1051
00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:31,040
Speaker 1: the forty eight minute mark, but I will say I'm

1052
00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:32,600
Speaker 1: worried about the heights that we were hoping he was

1053
00:50:32,640 --> 00:50:34,640
Speaker 1: going to hit early in his career. That's kind of

1054
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:37,680
Speaker 1: where I'm worried, all right, Scott. Before we get out

1055
00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:42,080
Speaker 1: of here, briefly, we must preview the the Scott Coleman series.

1056
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:44,960
Speaker 1: As they say, it's not in Arizona this time. The

1057
00:50:45,120 --> 00:50:48,240
Speaker 1: Diamonbacks are coming here, but Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday against Arizona.

1058
00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:51,360
Speaker 1: Arizona is in a similarly frustrating spot of the Braves.

1059
00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:53,879
Speaker 1: They have almost the same record, and Arizona also had

1060
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:56,560
Speaker 1: big time affectations and they spent a bunch of money.

1061
00:50:56,920 --> 00:50:57,600
Speaker 2: And I know you're not a.

1062
00:50:57,640 --> 00:50:59,479
Speaker 1: Diamond Max fan, but I'm sure people in that market

1063
00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:01,759
Speaker 1: are not right now. Is that safe to say?

1064
00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:06,200
Speaker 2: Every night? Man, If you think Braves fans are angsty,

1065
00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:09,520
Speaker 2: I think Diamondbacks fans are right there with you. Here's

1066
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:14,560
Speaker 2: a stat. Diamondbacks started out the year fourteen and nine, okay,

1067
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:19,920
Speaker 2: fourteen and nine. Since then they have gone fourteen in

1068
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:25,239
Speaker 2: twenty two, fourteen and twenty two. That's really bad. That's

1069
00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:27,279
Speaker 2: I mean, that's even worse than what the Braves have

1070
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:30,680
Speaker 2: done over the last thirty five games. Vibes are bad

1071
00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:34,759
Speaker 2: for the Diamondbacks. It's funny. It's like, what's the unstoppable force?

1072
00:51:34,840 --> 00:51:37,399
Speaker 2: First immovable object is kind of what we're gonna see

1073
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:40,359
Speaker 2: because frankly, the Diamondbacks and the Braves can't figure out

1074
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:45,080
Speaker 2: a way to win a game. Diamondbacks bullpen is awful. Now,

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00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:47,440
Speaker 2: that would assume the Braves could actually score if they,

1076
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:49,880
Speaker 2: you know, were in a close game late. But Diamondbacks

1077
00:51:49,920 --> 00:51:53,839
Speaker 2: bullpen has massive problems. The rotation has been pretty good,

1078
00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:56,560
Speaker 2: although it's just I mean, the Diamondbacks just had six

1079
00:51:56,680 --> 00:52:00,239
Speaker 2: games at home against the Pirates and the National and

1080
00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:03,440
Speaker 2: they went two and four and got blown out in

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00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:04,399
Speaker 2: like three of them.

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00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:05,480
Speaker 1: Not great.

1083
00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:08,880
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean, you know, you're kind of getting

1084
00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:11,640
Speaker 2: them at the right time, I guess. And I feel

1085
00:52:11,680 --> 00:52:13,600
Speaker 2: like every Sunday, Brad, we do a show. Maybe this

1086
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:16,200
Speaker 2: is the week, Maybe this is the what if Braves do?

1087
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:18,359
Speaker 2: They wake up, They turn around, they score twenty five

1088
00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:20,840
Speaker 2: runs and they sweep them, and all's good and dandy.

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00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:23,399
Speaker 2: But I'm not betting on it, man, until I see

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00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:26,160
Speaker 2: this routinely for a couple of weeks. I just I

1091
00:52:26,239 --> 00:52:28,920
Speaker 2: think it's fools gold. Anytime this team goes out there

1092
00:52:28,960 --> 00:52:32,480
Speaker 2: and scores like they did in Philly on Thursday Thursday night,

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00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:35,279
Speaker 2: they turn around and they lay back to back or

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00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:37,760
Speaker 2: two out of three, just total stinkers against Boston.

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00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:41,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you could maybe say if you wanted

1096
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:43,759
Speaker 1: to that, you know, pushing Strautter back and go with

1097
00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:47,200
Speaker 1: Elder today and Christians your chances to win in the

1098
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:49,359
Speaker 1: next series. Like it. Obviously, the Christian chances have winning

1099
00:52:49,360 --> 00:52:51,360
Speaker 1: today in the game they lost, but they do have

1100
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:56,360
Speaker 1: Strider sale and homes in the next three games. Strayder

1101
00:52:57,239 --> 00:52:59,319
Speaker 1: with an extra day of rest et est day of rest,

1102
00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:03,320
Speaker 1: which is probably good for him. Salesman's been awesome. I

1103
00:53:03,640 --> 00:53:07,200
Speaker 1: like the setup. I might be wrong. We'll see home

1104
00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:10,640
Speaker 1: games here. By the way, Thursday is a businessman special,

1105
00:53:10,719 --> 00:53:13,400
Speaker 1: the old twelve fifteen, the old breakfast Baseball for one

1106
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:17,520
Speaker 1: Scott Coleman. Well, nine am Baseball on Thursday, Scott. But yeah,

1107
00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:19,560
Speaker 1: we won't go any deeper than that. But the Diamacks

1108
00:53:19,560 --> 00:53:22,799
Speaker 1: are struggling. The Braves are struggling. I would be nice

1109
00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:24,600
Speaker 1: if the Braves on games, because, by the way, after

1110
00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:27,239
Speaker 1: this we teas playing times on the show already. The

1111
00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:29,279
Speaker 1: Braves have to go out on the road after this.

1112
00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:31,719
Speaker 1: They go to San Francisco, who's been playing pretty well

1113
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:34,759
Speaker 1: this year, and you go to Milwaukee. That's a tough

1114
00:53:34,880 --> 00:53:39,319
Speaker 1: road Trip along road Trip and man, I don't want

1115
00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:44,680
Speaker 1: to do another podcast on Thursday about losses. And by

1116
00:53:44,760 --> 00:53:47,400
Speaker 1: the way, we'll look behind the curtain here Scott's traveling

1117
00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:51,400
Speaker 1: this week. I gotta navigate life without you again for

1118
00:53:51,480 --> 00:53:53,960
Speaker 1: a week. Maybe the Braids will win because you're not

1119
00:53:54,040 --> 00:53:55,759
Speaker 1: going to watch them as much. Maybe I don't know.

1120
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:58,480
Speaker 1: Maybe that's not mystic we think is full circle from

1121
00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:00,520
Speaker 1: the beginning of the podcast when we kind of blame

1122
00:54:00,560 --> 00:54:03,719
Speaker 1: the universe, including us, for what's going on. Maybe you

1123
00:54:03,880 --> 00:54:05,160
Speaker 1: going away for a week would help.

1124
00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:07,560
Speaker 2: I don't know, So an idea, just hit me Brad

1125
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:10,800
Speaker 2: and hear me out. I'm gonna be in Hawaii this

1126
00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:11,760
Speaker 2: upcoming week.

1127
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:14,040
Speaker 1: Where you're blacked out from five teams as you tell

1128
00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:17,800
Speaker 1: the sorry crazy.

1129
00:54:19,680 --> 00:54:23,080
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna be in Hawaii this week, probably not

1130
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:26,399
Speaker 2: going to watch a ton of the Braves. But let's

1131
00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:28,279
Speaker 2: say the Braves go like five and one this week.

1132
00:54:29,120 --> 00:54:31,640
Speaker 2: Would you start a gofund me for me to then

1133
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:34,120
Speaker 2: stay in Hawaii for the rest of the baseball season.

1134
00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:37,960
Speaker 1: I clearly I would not. I would not, but I

1135
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:40,799
Speaker 1: bet you there fans that would you know what I mean?

1136
00:54:41,600 --> 00:54:42,520
Speaker 2: Think about clearly?

1137
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:44,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, if they look, if they go five and one,

1138
00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:47,719
Speaker 1: I might we might have to just like, I don't

1139
00:54:47,719 --> 00:54:48,680
Speaker 1: even know what it would be. You might have to

1140
00:54:48,719 --> 00:54:49,880
Speaker 1: just bang you from the show for a while. I

1141
00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:51,239
Speaker 1: don't know what it's gonna be. You want to figure

1142
00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 1: something out. Uh, we'd get another co host in here

1143
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:56,399
Speaker 1: for a little while. What's Chris Willis do with these days?

1144
00:54:56,840 --> 00:54:58,919
Speaker 2: You already tried to ban me from my own show,

1145
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:01,920
Speaker 2: like three weeks ago, remember that. I remember, Yeah, you

1146
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:03,480
Speaker 2: and Steven you tried to kick me off.

1147
00:55:03,560 --> 00:55:05,600
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you were you were well, you pipped for

1148
00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:08,600
Speaker 1: a minute. That didn't work out. What I missed last week?

1149
00:55:08,680 --> 00:55:11,480
Speaker 1: And uh, things happen. There's that's why there four of us.

1150
00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:13,239
Speaker 1: We do have to miss things. I'm going out of

1151
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:16,839
Speaker 1: the country twice this year. Hopefully maybe the Braids will

1152
00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:18,279
Speaker 1: win when I'm going to Yeah, we'll see how this.

1153
00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:20,520
Speaker 2: I tell you what. I have a trip. You don't

1154
00:55:20,560 --> 00:55:22,239
Speaker 2: know this, but I have a trip coming the first

1155
00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:25,200
Speaker 2: two weeks of September. I'm out of the country. When

1156
00:55:25,239 --> 00:55:27,719
Speaker 2: we booked it, I was like, man, there's probably gonna

1157
00:55:27,719 --> 00:55:29,200
Speaker 2: be This was months ago. I was like, man, I'm

1158
00:55:29,239 --> 00:55:31,919
Speaker 2: gonna miss some good braves baseball. Those first two weeks.

1159
00:55:33,360 --> 00:55:34,600
Speaker 2: Maybe not, maybe not.

1160
00:55:35,120 --> 00:55:38,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna counter with this. Uh I

1161
00:55:38,560 --> 00:55:41,040
Speaker 1: think I muted just see at one point, but I

1162
00:55:41,160 --> 00:55:43,360
Speaker 1: have to go out of the country on October second,

1163
00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:49,960
Speaker 1: think about how bad that timing could be, or if

1164
00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:51,759
Speaker 1: the brains make the playoffs, how good it will be

1165
00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:55,560
Speaker 1: for me for a while.

1166
00:55:56,160 --> 00:55:58,400
Speaker 2: Based on the last last two weeks, I think you

1167
00:55:58,480 --> 00:55:59,360
Speaker 2: might be safe.

1168
00:55:59,120 --> 00:56:03,600
Speaker 1: But I hope not. Full circle. I'm not optimistic as

1169
00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:06,400
Speaker 1: then was two weeks ago. We started with that and

1170
00:56:06,520 --> 00:56:08,560
Speaker 1: with it, both of us are not feeling as good

1171
00:56:08,560 --> 00:56:11,000
Speaker 1: as we were for at any point this year. Honestly,

1172
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:12,719
Speaker 1: even when they were zero seven. I do feel worse

1173
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:14,600
Speaker 1: now than I did then. But I do. I do,

1174
00:56:14,760 --> 00:56:16,560
Speaker 1: and it's not just me being optimist. I'm not an optimist.

1175
00:56:16,640 --> 00:56:19,560
Speaker 1: In fact, I'm a pessimist overall, but I also am

1176
00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:23,479
Speaker 1: a analytical person in ain't over man. It's June first.

1177
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:26,480
Speaker 1: They do have the ability to win baseball games. It's

1178
00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:30,279
Speaker 1: still a roster that has some talent on it. I'm not, again,

1179
00:56:30,400 --> 00:56:33,200
Speaker 1: not optimistic necessarily, but I do feel like they have

1180
00:56:33,520 --> 00:56:36,240
Speaker 1: a better chance to write the ship than the current

1181
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:39,440
Speaker 1: vibe speaks to. Does that make sense? Is that reasonable?

1182
00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:44,400
Speaker 2: Kind of makes it makes sense as we sit here today,

1183
00:56:44,640 --> 00:56:48,160
Speaker 2: three teams in the National League have worse records than

1184
00:56:48,200 --> 00:56:48,680
Speaker 2: the Braves.

1185
00:56:49,040 --> 00:56:50,880
Speaker 1: It's just unbelievable. But you say it that way, it

1186
00:56:50,960 --> 00:56:52,640
Speaker 1: really is. I mean, the Nationals are better than the

1187
00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:54,239
Speaker 1: Braves at at this moment. The Dashers are a better

1188
00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:58,080
Speaker 1: than the it's the Colorado Rockies who are nine and

1189
00:56:58,320 --> 00:57:01,680
Speaker 1: fifty nine if did you see that stat We're going

1190
00:57:01,719 --> 00:57:04,440
Speaker 1: along here. I think this came from Tom Fornelli of CBS,

1191
00:57:04,520 --> 00:57:07,800
Speaker 1: good friend of mine. Yes, skya scheffler who is a

1192
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:13,200
Speaker 1: golfer has as many wins in the last month as

1193
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:17,680
Speaker 1: the Rockies. That doesn't make sense. That can't be true,

1194
00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:18,520
Speaker 1: and I know that it is.

1195
00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:22,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's unbelievable. So you have the Rockies, you have

1196
00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:24,960
Speaker 2: the Marlins have a worse record than the Braves, who

1197
00:57:25,360 --> 00:57:28,360
Speaker 2: were in trouble with the Players Association because they spent

1198
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:32,360
Speaker 2: so little money on their roster, and the Pirates in

1199
00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:36,760
Speaker 2: the Pirates who had its hall schemes O'Neil Cruz and

1200
00:57:37,240 --> 00:57:39,680
Speaker 2: like the worst roster you've seen. Otherwise, although they did

1201
00:57:39,760 --> 00:57:42,760
Speaker 2: beat the Braves two out of three, which is okay.

1202
00:57:42,880 --> 00:57:43,760
Speaker 1: Well, let's get out of here.

1203
00:57:43,800 --> 00:57:45,760
Speaker 2: I can't do we should We should stop before we

1204
00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:48,120
Speaker 2: both get worked up and start screaming for twenty months.

1205
00:57:48,120 --> 00:57:50,400
Speaker 1: I'm getting mad again. I gotta go. I gotta talk

1206
00:57:50,440 --> 00:57:53,320
Speaker 1: about the Hawks. It's it's June first. Why are we

1207
00:57:53,360 --> 00:57:54,680
Speaker 1: doing it on June first? God, this is not where

1208
00:57:54,680 --> 00:57:56,360
Speaker 1: I thought might be, to be honest with you, on

1209
00:57:56,520 --> 00:58:00,240
Speaker 1: June first. I mean, have better vies by now. But look, everybody, body,

1210
00:58:01,040 --> 00:58:04,400
Speaker 1: stay tuned. Please subscribe to our podcast. I say that

1211
00:58:04,400 --> 00:58:06,280
Speaker 1: all the time, but we genuinely meet. It'd be great

1212
00:58:06,280 --> 00:58:08,800
Speaker 1: if you did subscribe, follow check out the show. If

1213
00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:10,840
Speaker 1: you want to hate listen after losses, that'd be great.

1214
00:58:11,560 --> 00:58:12,960
Speaker 1: If you don't want to hate listen, what you can

1215
00:58:13,040 --> 00:58:15,160
Speaker 1: do to help us, and I promise not a small thing,

1216
00:58:15,560 --> 00:58:18,160
Speaker 1: is to download the show and click on the show anyway,

1217
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:20,680
Speaker 1: even if you don't want to listen. I understand it.

1218
00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:22,520
Speaker 1: People don't. Everybody wants to listen after a loss. I

1219
00:58:22,560 --> 00:58:25,439
Speaker 1: don't understand that. It helps us If you enjoy our show,

1220
00:58:25,960 --> 00:58:28,080
Speaker 1: help us grow and prosper and be able to do

1221
00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:30,640
Speaker 1: the show. If people listen to it, click on it,

1222
00:58:30,840 --> 00:58:33,560
Speaker 1: download and sponsors and all those things. So our plea

1223
00:58:33,640 --> 00:58:35,200
Speaker 1: to you but we're gonna be here all the way.

1224
00:58:35,400 --> 00:58:37,680
Speaker 1: Like we pledge this. We don't stop doing podcasts when

1225
00:58:37,720 --> 00:58:39,880
Speaker 1: they lose. Other podcast might might do that. We don't

1226
00:58:39,920 --> 00:58:43,360
Speaker 1: do that. So please stay tuned with us. Scott, anything

1227
00:58:43,400 --> 00:58:44,200
Speaker 1: to addfore we sign off.

1228
00:58:45,600 --> 00:58:48,800
Speaker 2: Nothing to add. Let us hope. Man, I don't. I

1229
00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:51,320
Speaker 2: don't want to have a summer where I feel like

1230
00:58:51,400 --> 00:58:54,080
Speaker 2: the Braves are dead in the water. The entire way,

1231
00:58:54,360 --> 00:58:56,560
Speaker 2: I don't. I love this team. You love this team.

1232
00:58:56,680 --> 00:59:00,480
Speaker 2: Everybody listening or watching the show loves this team. I

1233
00:59:00,600 --> 00:59:02,880
Speaker 2: am at my lowest point of the year. You said

1234
00:59:02,920 --> 00:59:06,280
Speaker 2: you are too. It's frustrating and I'm going to tune

1235
00:59:06,320 --> 00:59:10,400
Speaker 2: in on Tuesday night. You can believe that. But goodness gracious,

1236
00:59:10,480 --> 00:59:14,440
Speaker 2: they figure some things out. Yeah, hit the baseball buy

1237
00:59:14,520 --> 00:59:16,280
Speaker 2: or coach if you think it's gonna help the team,

1238
00:59:16,440 --> 00:59:21,600
Speaker 2: or don't whatever. Just start winning some games, score some runs.

1239
00:59:22,520 --> 00:59:24,400
Speaker 2: Not to figure something out. Man, it's now or never

1240
00:59:24,480 --> 00:59:25,439
Speaker 2: for this baseball team.

1241
00:59:26,800 --> 00:59:29,440
Speaker 1: Here we go. So yeah, keep the locked. Everybody, subscribe.

1242
00:59:29,560 --> 00:59:31,280
Speaker 1: Tell your friends and again, I know you have brace

1243
00:59:31,320 --> 00:59:33,000
Speaker 1: fand friends of your life. They may not have found

1244
00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:35,840
Speaker 1: our podcast. Just send them a little note on social

1245
00:59:35,880 --> 00:59:38,760
Speaker 1: media or share it on your Facebook or Twitter or Instagram,

1246
00:59:39,520 --> 00:59:42,000
Speaker 1: maybe even TikTok, where we don't currently live as a show.

1247
00:59:42,240 --> 00:59:42,800
Speaker 2: I'm not on there.

1248
00:59:42,800 --> 00:59:45,080
Speaker 1: I'm too old TikTok. I'm an old person. But hey,

1249
00:59:45,120 --> 00:59:48,640
Speaker 1: somebody's on there, so subscribe. Tell your friends. We appreciate everybody,

1250
00:59:48,760 --> 00:59:49,880
Speaker 1: and we'll see you next time.