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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome back to the HEMMI Teratory Podcast.

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Speaker 1: This is episode three five seven. My name is Brad

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Speaker 1: Roland and I'm joined on this Sunday evening in early April.

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Speaker 1: I'm a good friend Scott Coleman. Scott, the Sunday curse

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Speaker 1: strikes us once more. How are you hello?

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Speaker 2: Brad? You know I was really hoping for a Sunday

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Speaker 2: win on like a personal level. I could really use

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Speaker 2: a Braves win right now. We'll get it out of

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Speaker 2: the way. Congratulations. I'm just so happy for you and

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Speaker 2: your Michigan Wolverines. That was an ass whooman on my

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Speaker 2: Wildcats on national television for the entire country to see. Congratulations,

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Speaker 2: go in one more, go get another championship. I'm I'm

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Speaker 2: just thrilled.

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Speaker 1: For you, Brad.

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Speaker 2: That's that's really. That's the important thing, the happiness of

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Speaker 2: my co host and not my own happiness. That's that's

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Speaker 2: what we're after tonight.

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Speaker 1: Number one, I wasn't gonna bring it up. Number two.

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Speaker 1: We've known each other for more than a decade now,

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Speaker 1: we were we're we are fans who are respectful enough

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Speaker 1: of each other. We were able to exchange texts yesterday

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Speaker 1: during the game, which is all you need to know

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Speaker 1: about Scott and I. We're tiptoeing. It's it's it's a

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Speaker 1: high level. It was a bit strange that we were

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Speaker 1: facing off and that's in a situation. But I appreciate

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Speaker 1: the congratulations. I did not see that game going that way.

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Speaker 1: We could leave it there for now on college basketball,

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Speaker 1: but uh yeah, a little weird. I think it would

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Speaker 1: have been. I don't know how it would react. We

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Speaker 1: joked about it last week. It's like one of us

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Speaker 1: has to lose this game. So it's all like one

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Speaker 1: of us is going to be not very happy about this.

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Speaker 1: So I appreciate that the well wishes here in Indianapolis.

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Speaker 1: And I'm in a hotel room in Aapolis right now.

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Speaker 1: So if things go wrong on this podcast, blame it

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Speaker 1: on the city of Indianapolis, which is a curse to

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Speaker 1: you at this very moment and to our podcast. Anyway, Listen, Scott,

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Speaker 1: we are Hami territory engineered by Fast and all people

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Speaker 1: should be checking us out, and we are part of

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Speaker 1: foul territory. We come with braves all the time. That

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Speaker 1: was a special circumstance leading with college basketball. But it's

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Speaker 1: time to talk about some baseball and we have a

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Speaker 1: let's just start here. We have this incredible stat from

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Speaker 1: one of our co hosts. There are four of us,

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Speaker 1: the two of US Sean Coleman, Stephen Tolbert. Steven Tolbert

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Speaker 1: manually because he's a sicko, pulled this stat for us,

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Speaker 1: and it has to do with the Braves losing on Sundays.

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Speaker 1: Since the start of the twenty twenty three season, so

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Speaker 1: you're talking about three plus seasons now, the Braves on

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Speaker 1: Sundays only are thirty five and forty seven, twelve games

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Speaker 1: below five hundred over that sample. Every other day of

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Speaker 1: the week, per Steven, the Braves are two hundred and

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Speaker 1: forty and one hundred and seventy four, which is sixty

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Speaker 1: six games over five hundred every other day of the week.

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Speaker 1: So on Sundays they are a forty two percent ishwenty

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Speaker 1: percentage team, on every other day fifty eight percent. And

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Speaker 1: as Steven rounds it out, if you're watching on YouTube

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Speaker 1: already to see this. But Steven rounded out this tweet

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Speaker 1: by saying, why do the Braves hate Brad and Scott?

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Speaker 1: And Scott I have to ask you, why do the

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Speaker 1: Braves hate us? Because clearly that's what's going on here.

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Speaker 1: It's it's clearly motivated by something. But if you did,

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Speaker 1: if anybody didn't see this, today, the Braves lost in

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Speaker 1: frustrating fashion on this Sunday, and I thought that was

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Speaker 1: a the right way to begin the podcast, the shouts

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Speaker 1: of Stephen and not shouts of the Braves for Sundays.

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Speaker 2: You know, anecdotally, for years it's been like, why do

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Speaker 2: the Braves seemingly always lose on Sundays? And now we

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Speaker 2: know we're not crazy, and not just us podcasters, but

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Speaker 2: all the good guys and gals you tune in every

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Speaker 2: single week. You know we're not crazy like this is.

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Speaker 2: That's a wild stat for three years now, that's a

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Speaker 2: huge split in just baseball terms. And I don't know

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Speaker 2: what's in the water. Of course, on this Sunday, the

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Speaker 2: Braves played a fifty to fifty game and just I mean,

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Speaker 2: they kind of gave it away. They should have won

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Speaker 2: They would have then won their first three series.

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Speaker 1: Of the year.

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Speaker 2: Vibes would have been better, more energetic, more upbeat. Of course,

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Speaker 2: capitalize late and then lose in the tenth inning. It's

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Speaker 2: I wanted to ask you, this team has played ten games.

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Speaker 2: The Braves are six and four, and if you would

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Speaker 2: have told me ten days ago, Scott, the Braves are

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Speaker 2: And there are some like legitimately good signs under the

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Speaker 2: But it's also been kind of a maddening especially last

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Speaker 2: So I mean, where are you at with this team

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Speaker 1: You're right, it has been a pretty strange six and four,

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Speaker 1: and baseball is pretty strange sometimes, right, So it's ten

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Speaker 1: it's just what happens sometimes. So in the end, you're right.

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Speaker 1: I agree with you. Six and four is six and four,

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Speaker 1: but it kind of almost parallels this weekend. So you

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Speaker 1: and I did a show four days ago and I said,

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Speaker 1: series against the Diamondbacks, that's not a bad outcome, right,

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Speaker 1: And I was like, hey, I'll come on the podcast

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Speaker 1: its frustrating of a possible way to split that you'll

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Speaker 1: kind of go There's probably many things like that. We

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Speaker 1: can go either way on this, but I think that

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Speaker 1: overall it's fine. I feel fine. I'm not doing a

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Speaker 1: I'm not where we were last year this time, where

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Speaker 2: You know, it's kind of been the opposite of what

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Speaker 2: The starting rotation in particular has been superb, and we

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Speaker 2: like he might be a legitimate MVP candidate in year two.

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Speaker 2: But other than Drake, like you know, Mauricio Dubon has

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Speaker 2: we really wanted to see bounce back. You know. It's

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Speaker 2: just it's been a weird path to get here. And

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Speaker 2: But it's been a narrow you know, there's been some

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Speaker 2: and then there's also been some really good moments at times,

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Speaker 1: The other night.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, it's been a weird journey through the

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Speaker 1: The things that you and I might look at to say, hey,

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Speaker 1: offensive numbers. They're top six in the league, and this

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Speaker 1: the more reactionary responses on Twitter, Blue Sky other places

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Speaker 1: today and again I get it. Back to back one

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Speaker 1: But you're right player for player, team for team, aspect

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Speaker 1: and that's where it's gonna have to be until it changes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know what, I'd feel a lot better

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Speaker 2: if they go out and win at least two games

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Speaker 2: against the Angels, a pretty bad Angels team. For being serious,

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Speaker 2: I think you have to hope that guys like Akunya

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Speaker 1: Bryce Eld he's been really good, like flat out really good,

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Speaker 1: two starts, lights out stuff. Honestly, he made a pretty

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Speaker 1: costly throwing her on a bunt that he was responsible for.

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Speaker 1: But on the pitching only side, Bryce Older was fantastic

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Speaker 1: in this game, and I was doing a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a deep out. I was sure some numbers on

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Speaker 1: in a second, but we have to just you know,

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Speaker 1: tip of the captain Bryce Older. Like I've doubted Bryce

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Speaker 1: Older openly. I may be wrong. I'd love to be wrong,

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Speaker 1: and that's the always the tenor of our podcast. It's like, Hey,

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Speaker 1: if we're ever questioning, I'd like to be wrong when

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Speaker 1: I'm on the low side, and so far through two starts,

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Speaker 1: I have been wrong about Price.

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Speaker 2: Older Bryce looks great and with that, you know, I mean,

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Speaker 2: that slider has been really effective and it feels like

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Speaker 2: he's just been in command and just locating his pitches

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Speaker 2: and not walking people. Is a huge thing for Bryce,

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Speaker 2: especially knowing that he doesn't have the greatest stuff in

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Speaker 2: the world. He did have eight strikeouts on Saturday night,

448
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Speaker 2: eight strikeouts over seven innings, which is really good. But

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Speaker 2: we know that's not really Bryce's typical game, or at

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Speaker 2: least it has not been for the course of his career,

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Speaker 2: but really impressive. Just such a bummer that he let

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Speaker 2: that errant throw go on the bunt. I mean, that

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Speaker 2: was basically the only offense in the game right there

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Speaker 2: for Arizona. Unfortunately, the Bats couldn't do more to kind

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Speaker 2: of back up Bryce, because I mean, he did not

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Speaker 2: deserve that loss by any means.

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Speaker 1: No, definitely not. And the slider, like you said, is

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Speaker 1: as his best pitch it has been for a while,

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Speaker 1: but he's been really good. He's throwing it more than ever,

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Speaker 1: like forty percent of the time almost, and the opponent

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Speaker 1: numbers are like comically good against it so far. It's

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Speaker 1: like an opposing like one fifty ops this season against

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Speaker 1: the slider. It's like some crazy number like that. It's ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: He has five pitches now, I know that's been talking

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Speaker 1: about a little bit. The cutter that he's been throwing

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Speaker 1: has been interesting. And I looked at his stuff plus,

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Speaker 1: which is that, you know, Van Spetrick, basically how good

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Speaker 1: your stuff is. It's actually down from last year, which

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Speaker 1: is interesting given how good he's been. But what's up

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Speaker 1: is that he is locating at the best level he

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Speaker 1: ever has in his career. He has a one to

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Speaker 1: ten location plus, which is like really really strong. And

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Speaker 1: that's always been the thing with Bryce. He's not gonna, like,

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Speaker 1: like you just alluded, to strike out a lot of

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Speaker 1: guys usually in his profile, which means he can't afford

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Speaker 1: to walk guys. And when he was in that dip

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Speaker 1: for like two years, basically two and a half years,

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Speaker 1: his walks were up, and not like terribly up in

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Speaker 1: the way that like somebody couldn't live at. But when

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Speaker 1: you have his lack of strikeout stuff. Historically you can't

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Speaker 1: walk guys too. Yeah, and he's not. He's really locating.

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Speaker 1: He's a four percent walk right this year two starts.

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Speaker 1: But he's not just not walking guys. He's also putting

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Speaker 1: the ball where he wants it to go basically all

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Speaker 1: the time. And he has enough stuff or if he

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Speaker 1: does that with that slider, he can really live. So

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Speaker 1: two not that awesome offenses, but still like I'm encouraged.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I would suddenly take Bryce Elder

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Speaker 1: to have a mid three is era for the season,

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Speaker 1: I probably would not, but I do like what I

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Speaker 1: have seen, and I'm a little bit higher on even

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Speaker 1: the over even ignoring the results. Like just the profile

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Speaker 1: I like a little bit better than I did two

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Speaker 1: weeks ago.

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Speaker 2: And you know, having five pitches for Elder to go to,

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Speaker 2: you know, he's been working in a cutter and seems like,

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Speaker 2: as you said a moment ago, just his location has

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Speaker 2: been a really big part of this kind of mini

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Speaker 2: renaissance and hopefully it continues. And I said a moment ago,

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Speaker 2: it's just a shame the offense was awful. I guess

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Speaker 2: tip your cap to Michael Soroka, who was really good again,

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Speaker 2: But I mean the Braids really didn't have much of

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Speaker 2: anything all night. Three singles, one double, three walks, and

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Speaker 2: that was it. Shouts to Dom Smith who continues to

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Speaker 2: hit the ball really well and just put together really

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Speaker 2: good plate appearances even if he's not getting a result.

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Speaker 2: It feels like a lot of Dom's plate appearances go six, seven,

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Speaker 2: eight pitches and really makes the pitcher work. Dom drove

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Speaker 2: in the only run in the second inning and that

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Speaker 2: was pretty much it. I mean, I think there was

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Speaker 2: a double play that happened a little bit later that

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Speaker 2: kind of killed the mini rally, but it was I mean,

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Speaker 2: it was pretty lifeless. And again it cuts back to

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Speaker 2: what we talked about off the top. They score seventeen

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Speaker 2: runs on Thursday night, they basically get shut out for

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Speaker 2: eight innings on Friday night and only get those two

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Speaker 2: runs on back to back homers, and then on Saturday

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Speaker 2: they don't score at all. They get the one run

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Speaker 2: and that was basically it. It wasn't even like they

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Speaker 2: ran into bad luck. It's not like their sequencing was poor.

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Speaker 2: It's not like they just hit a bunch of rockets

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Speaker 2: right at people. There was none of that. It was

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Speaker 2: very very few and far between, and just kind of

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Speaker 2: a Debbie downer after a couple of really fun wins.

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Speaker 1: For sure, we'll tell you if the Braves got unlucky,

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Speaker 1: I'm not above shirting that. That was not that night.

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Speaker 1: Saturay night was not a luck thing other than if

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Speaker 1: you want to say Bryce Older's fielding is a little

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Speaker 1: bit unlucky, like okay, but on the offensive side, No,

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Speaker 1: they just didn't hit very well. That was basically what

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Speaker 1: happened in that game on Saturday. Okay, Scott, Let's get

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Speaker 1: Scott's a want to talk about with this game on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately for the Braves, lots of storylines from this one

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Speaker 1: as of being a six to five loss Intenetings, and

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Speaker 1: actually the storyline started before the game begins. I want

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Speaker 1: to go there with you. Now. We've said, and I

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Speaker 1: know Walt has said since he took over the job,

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Speaker 1: basically that they're gonna be willing to give some guys

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Speaker 1: some days off, right, And that's fine. I'm all in

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Speaker 1: favor of that, right and I'm not trying to go

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Speaker 1: against what I what we said before. I thought the

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Speaker 1: Braves played their guys a little bit too often in

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Speaker 1: the past. That was my own thought. It is what

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Speaker 1: it is. I did not think necessarily that we would

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Speaker 1: see Austin Rolly get a day off on April fifth. Now,

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Speaker 1: granted it was a Sunday afternoon. That's kind of the

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Speaker 1: typical day off spot if you're going to do one

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Speaker 1: every once in a while. But I think it had

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Speaker 1: a lot to do with the fact that Austin has

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Speaker 1: been totally lost through the first week and a half

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Speaker 1: of the season, and by the way he ended up

575
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Speaker 1: getting into the game because they had to pitch it,

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Speaker 1: they had to pitch hit him and he went over

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Speaker 1: to and wasn't impressive when he got in the game either.

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Speaker 1: So multiple things to get to here, like what do

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Speaker 1: you make of Thoroway day off? But also like more importantly, Austin'

580
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Speaker 1: struggles are getting a little bit alarming at least, I

581
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Speaker 1: don't know how you feel.

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Speaker 2: I was really happy to see Austin get at least

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Speaker 2: most of the day off, and I was also good

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Speaker 2: to see that Ronald got the day off as the

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Speaker 2: DH and makes sense it's a big outfield. He's played

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Speaker 2: every day, He's played right field every day, so all

587
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Speaker 2: for it, you know. I gotta be honest, I am

588
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Speaker 2: getting pretty concerned about Austin Riley. And before anyone calls

589
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Speaker 2: it an overreaction, I think we have documented well on

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Speaker 2: this show that for two plus years now, Austin has

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Speaker 2: not been himself and to be blunt, since signing the

592
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Speaker 2: biggest contract in franchise history in the middle of twenty

593
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Speaker 2: twenty two, he has not been nearly good enough for

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Speaker 2: a player who still has like seven years and one

595
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:37,119
Speaker 2: hundred and forty million bucks left on his contract. He

596
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Speaker 2: looks awful and it's a shame because Austin had a

597
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Speaker 2: great spring. I kind of bought the kool aid a

598
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Speaker 2: little bit. I'm like, you know what, all right, maybe

599
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Speaker 2: this is the jumping off point and Austin establishes himself

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Speaker 2: and becomes a legitimate MVP type of third basement for

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Speaker 2: this team. It's only ten games, but I mean I

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Speaker 2: am legitimately. I mean he's swinging through pitches in the

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Speaker 2: middle of his own. He's hitting a bunch of infield

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Speaker 2: pop flies, which are virtually guaranteed to be out he's

605
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Speaker 2: not driving the ball, he's not hitting for power. It's

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Speaker 2: it is a it is a concerning trend for a

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Speaker 2: player who we had some real concerns with coming into

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Speaker 2: the year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, And the sample size caveats have to apply, right, Like,

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Speaker 1: so it's ten games, it could be noise. It could

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Speaker 1: just be a slump with nothing to worry about.

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Speaker 2: Possible, right if he hits, If he hits a homer

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Speaker 2: and a double on Monday Night, then it all goes

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Speaker 2: at His ops will jump by one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 2: five points and it'll be a silly conversation.

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Speaker 1: Right. I know that, you know that. I'm just saying,

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Speaker 1: like we're not saying this is for sure panic time, right. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, when you combine what he has not been

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Speaker 1: the last couple of years with the bad at ball data,

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Speaker 1: it's really not good. It's it's ten games, but it's

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Speaker 1: not good. It's a lot of blue on the stackcast page.

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Speaker 1: If that's what you like to follow. You don't want

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Speaker 1: blue on this guy on the sat on the stack

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Speaker 1: guy page. You want writ a lot of blue right now.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned the nice spring in Florida. That's that's better

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Speaker 1: than not having it. It would be almost more concerned

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Speaker 1: if he hadn't had the good spring, but it's the spring,

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Speaker 1: Like there's a little noise in there as well, So

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Speaker 1: I'll be interesting to see how they react to that,

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Speaker 1: because like he's gonna he's gonna play, I mean, you

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Speaker 1: know bad he'd have to be for how long to

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Speaker 1: not be playing all the time, Like it would be

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Speaker 1: a crazy story if that would happen. We're nowhere near

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Speaker 1: that for the record, but I would man, he could

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Speaker 1: probably use a good couple of days to get everybody

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Speaker 1: calm down, because like I did see a lot of

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Speaker 1: people kind of lumping in Acunya and Riley together and

638
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Speaker 1: their struggles today. I don't agree with that framing. I

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Speaker 1: think Ronnie has it's not been good this year by

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Speaker 1: his full, full, full acknowledgment of that. But we just

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Speaker 1: saw Ronnie like be electric MVP level Ronnie in the WBC,

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Speaker 1: which I trust a lot more than spring training. Is

643
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Speaker 1: that's that's max effort, like playing hard, and that was

644
00:30:55,880 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 1: literally like two weeks ago. So I plus, he's always

645
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 1: been awesome in a way that Austin has not been

646
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 1: the last couple of years, and even today, Ronnie's in

647
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 1: the lineup has two hard hit singles and like, looks fine,

648
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 1: So I could not be less worth. Maybe maybe I'm

649
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 1: a hypocrite. I don't know. Maybe I'm sure someone somewhere

650
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 1: is gonna be like, why are you guys solo on

651
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 1: Riley and not worried about Acunya. To me, they're different

652
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 1: caliber of players, unfortunately for I think Ronnie is in

653
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 1: a different tier of hitter, and that's why I'm not

654
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:24,640
Speaker 1: worried about him, honestly.

655
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:28,960
Speaker 2: So, yeah, Ronald's Yeah, Ronald's big problem so far has

656
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 2: been kind of inside fastballs.

657
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 1: There's the stance stuff that's going on. I understand the

658
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 1: concern about that. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna handway

659
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 1: of that. I'm not. We do have enough data yet

660
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 1: and I'm not a swing expert, but I do understand

661
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 1: and be like, why do you change his stance again?

662
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 1: Like what's going on? I mean, I get that concern,

663
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 1: I do for sure. Yeah.

664
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's that's it for me. But you know what,

665
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:52,239
Speaker 2: I was mildly concerned about Ronald, but then he hit

666
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:55,280
Speaker 2: two very hard hit baseballs for a couple of singles

667
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 2: on Sunday, and I just don't worry about Acunya. He'd

668
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 2: have to be in like a four weeks week slump

669
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 2: before I would even entertain the thought of being concerned.

670
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,440
Speaker 2: I just I feel like Ronald's breakout is imminent, and

671
00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 2: maybe we saw the early early stages of it on

672
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 2: Sunday today, But yeah, Austin is a is a real

673
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 2: concern for me, Like this guy, the Braves need Austin

674
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 2: Riley if this offense is going to be at its maximum,

675
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 2: they really really really need Austin. And again one more time,

676
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 2: it's been ten games. If Austin has a bad ten

677
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:29,760
Speaker 2: game stretch in June or in August, like sure, we

678
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 2: might note it and talk about it for thirty seconds,

679
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 2: but it's not magnified nearly as much as it is

680
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:37,960
Speaker 2: at this point in the calendar. But a legitimate concern

681
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:40,520
Speaker 2: and man alive. We really need to see Austin get

682
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 2: going sooner rather than later.

683
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:47,520
Speaker 1: Right, if we were trying to clickbait this, we would

684
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 1: have live with Austin Riley, Like first off the top,

685
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 1: we didn't do that, Like I'm not we're not panicking.

686
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:54,400
Speaker 1: It's not time to burn the place down, Like we're

687
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:57,160
Speaker 1: not doing that. I can see the chiron right now.

688
00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 1: We're not doing that because it's ten and because of

689
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 1: what it is. You're right to acknowledge that, But I'd

690
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 1: like to see more to ease everybody's collective mind on that.

691
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 1: I would imagine speak of guys who are not struggling.

692
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 1: Drake Baldwin. We've talked about a lot resly, so we'd

693
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:12,880
Speaker 1: have to do the whole thing again. But Drake Baldwin

694
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 1: has been ridiculous. I was sending text to our group

695
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 1: chat today like statue when for Drake Balwin, basically like

696
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 1: what are we what are we waiting on? Just go

697
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 1: ahead and construct the Cooperstown plaque right now. I'm kind

698
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:26,840
Speaker 1: of kidding, but man, he's been ridiculous. Yeah, he looks

699
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: like an awesome, awesome player, no surprise, but it's like, hey,

700
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 1: just another strong week for Dick Balwin.

701
00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 2: Oh cool, A very real chance that Drake Baldwin is

702
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:38,720
Speaker 2: the best catcher in the National League when it's all

703
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 2: said and done this year, and he's not better than

704
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 2: col Rally and I caveated that with National League.

705
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, people now having sixty home runs last year is

706
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:51,480
Speaker 1: probably like, uh, can't, can't, can't deal with that To syey. Hey,

707
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:53,959
Speaker 1: but hey, two years, it wouldn't surprise me if Baldwin

708
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 1: was just because like it's catcher, like it might be

709
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 1: a little bit of volatile. You're right, yeah, I'm glad

710
00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 1: I SAI National Leagues people a gonna get mad, But

711
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 1: you're there's Ashley that's like crazy. You know. Riley's kind

712
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 1: of been one player tier catcher and maybe Drake, maybe

713
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:08,360
Speaker 1: Drake joins him. Maybe that's the way to frame this.

714
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:10,359
Speaker 1: Maybe he joins KYL. Raley in Tier one.

715
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, he is ridiculous head. The homer on Sunday, drove

716
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 2: in four runs, including the game tying single in the

717
00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 2: ninth inning. Just such a pure hitter, I mean, just

718
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:24,120
Speaker 2: he can do everything. And we made the comp last

719
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 2: year early in the year that, honest to goodness, watching

720
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:30,359
Speaker 2: Drake Baldon reminds me of Freddie Freeman, where he can

721
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 2: do basically everything up there. He can go to all fields,

722
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:35,080
Speaker 2: he can hit a homer, he can hit a ball

723
00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 2: in the gap, he can just kind of poke one

724
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 2: off the end of the bat and go to left field.

725
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 2: He can pull a ball. I mean, he is so complete.

726
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:44,239
Speaker 2: He doesn't really strike out. He has such a good

727
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:46,440
Speaker 2: command of the strike zone for being all of what

728
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 2: one hundred and forty five games into his major league

729
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:52,520
Speaker 2: career at this point, just a remarkable hitter and a

730
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 2: legitimate like every time Drake comes to the plate, I

731
00:34:56,080 --> 00:35:00,560
Speaker 2: feel like something good is going to happen, Yeah.

732
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 1: For sure. And shots to him for keeping them in

733
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 1: the game, and they, of course they end up losing it,

734
00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:06,799
Speaker 1: so he's probably not quite as much shying, but he

735
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:09,759
Speaker 1: was the best player on the field today for the Braves.

736
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 1: Also shots to Jorye Mateo for having a good, good

737
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 1: day to day at shortstop and with Riley sitting, they

738
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 1: moved to Bond to third and had Butteo play short

739
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 1: He's been good so far, so not not too much

740
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:22,760
Speaker 1: to add on that, but just like another guy, valuable

741
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:26,240
Speaker 1: depth is valuable depth, Like, yeah, it's good to have somebody.

742
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 1: I mean, he's not gonna hit like this regularly, I

743
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 1: don't think, but hey, meaningful contributions on a Sunday.

744
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:35,200
Speaker 2: So if the break, Yeah, if the Braves would have

745
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:36,839
Speaker 2: found a way to win today, I think we really

746
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 2: would have given Jorge Mateo a shout out at the

747
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 2: top of the show. Got on base three times. He

748
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:44,840
Speaker 2: can fly like this guy gets on base and he

749
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:48,239
Speaker 2: can go first to third or second to home. Really

750
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 2: nice job. Again, just kind of goes on to the

751
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 2: depth of this team, even if the Stars aren't playing

752
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:55,800
Speaker 2: it the way this we want the Stars to play.

753
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 2: The depth for this team is undisputably better than it

754
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:00,160
Speaker 2: was last season.

755
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:05,160
Speaker 1: For sure, and unsurprisingly, if you watch this one unfolded,

756
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 1: all the Braves finished two for fourteen with burn and

757
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:12,600
Speaker 1: scoring position in the game on Sunday. And that is

758
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:14,279
Speaker 1: a quick way to lose, you know what I mean,

759
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 1: That's basically why they lost. I meant this. If you

760
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:17,840
Speaker 1: want to just say one reason why I lost the

761
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 1: game on Sunday, that's the one, and it's gonna happen.

762
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:26,520
Speaker 1: Sometimes I do find myself being in contrarian sometimes because

763
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:28,880
Speaker 1: the instinct of every and we do this too, I

764
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 1: do this. The intidctent of everyone is to say, man,

765
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:34,080
Speaker 1: they're doing it again with the with what They've actually

766
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:38,319
Speaker 1: been good this year in those positions until today. So

767
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 1: I want to just say that out loud. Last year

768
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:43,319
Speaker 1: it was maddening all year long that happened. I want

769
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:45,959
Speaker 1: to credit them for not doing that until today that much.

770
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:48,719
Speaker 1: But today it was like a throwback, you know, two

771
00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 1: for fourteen especially, I think they went over was an

772
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,239
Speaker 1: oh for three over four for five in the last

773
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 1: two innings, something like that. Like it was just opportunities

774
00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:58,000
Speaker 1: that were wasted all the way around.

775
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:01,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, the real crushing moment. So in the ninth inning,

776
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:06,200
Speaker 2: the Braves rally mateo singles, Acunya singles, Baldwin singles. You've

777
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 2: tied the game, and you have two on and nobody out,

778
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 2: and you have the Diamondbacks reliever on the ropes, and

779
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:17,760
Speaker 2: you have your three four five hitters coming up, Olsen Yestreemsky, Harris,

780
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:20,719
Speaker 2: and you get nothing out of it. I mean, that's

781
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 2: that's pretty crushing. One more hit and this very easily

782
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:26,719
Speaker 2: could have been a not even one more hit would

783
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:29,560
Speaker 2: have been a Braves win. Even two deep fly balls

784
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:31,799
Speaker 2: would have scored Acunya to get him to third and

785
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 2: then get him home. I also wondered if they would

786
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,320
Speaker 2: try to steal third with Akunya, who was just standing

787
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:39,439
Speaker 2: on second base the whole time. Just it was such

788
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 2: a missed opportunity. And of course we know how the

789
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 2: tenth inning went. It was over very quickly.

790
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:47,360
Speaker 1: Well, even in the tenth like Ozzy does his job,

791
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,239
Speaker 1: rolls over a ground ball Harris to third base. So

792
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:51,960
Speaker 1: they had a guy with third one out in the tenth,

793
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 1: Like you have to score. And we've been on this

794
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:56,360
Speaker 1: many times, but like if you don't score in the

795
00:37:56,360 --> 00:38:00,800
Speaker 1: tenth inning, your what probability is not high? Yeah, it's

796
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:03,440
Speaker 1: a mus score situation. And they didn't score. So that

797
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 1: was that. On the pitching side, we should talk about

798
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 1: Martin Perez got his first brave start today. We discussed

799
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:12,160
Speaker 1: this last week about how Jose Suarez got rocked. They

800
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:14,840
Speaker 1: brought in Martin Perez in relief. This time they flipped it.

801
00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:17,400
Speaker 1: Perez started. That was the exception kind of all week.

802
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:21,880
Speaker 1: He wasn't terrible, but he was not particularly encouraging. I'm

803
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 1: curious what you saw and what you thought about the

804
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 1: old man plugging in today.

805
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 2: Martin Perez. He was okay, five plus innings, five hits,

806
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:35,360
Speaker 2: four runs, only one walk, but also only one strikeout.

807
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 2: This stuff is very mediocre, you know. Honestly, the Diamondbacks.

808
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:43,240
Speaker 2: I think against Perez, the Diamondbacks had an expected batting

809
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 2: average of like three to ninety five, so he was

810
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 2: not confusing them. Like could tell Marte hit a ball

811
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 2: one hundred and seventeen miles an hour that happened to

812
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 2: go right at Jorge Mateo, so there was no there

813
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:58,200
Speaker 2: was no soft contact today for the most part. You know,

814
00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:01,400
Speaker 2: I think Martin Perez probably gives the Braves the best

815
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:04,840
Speaker 2: chance to win among at least the fifth starter options

816
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 2: in Atlanta. I wish this was Diddy or Fuentes or

817
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:10,839
Speaker 2: j R. Richie making these starts, but I get it.

818
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 2: It's a long year. You probably want to get those

819
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:15,880
Speaker 2: guys some seasoning and all that. But yeah, pres was okay.

820
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:17,919
Speaker 2: I guess he technically gave him a chance to win,

821
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:21,760
Speaker 2: but you know, also not encouraged by any means.

822
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 1: I started to say, you would kind of take five

823
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:28,279
Speaker 1: innings four runs. That's pretty bad. So I don't want

824
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 1: to say that because it's like kind of bad. But

825
00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 1: you're right, they had a chance to win, and we

826
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:35,759
Speaker 1: just said, like they had opportunities to win this game

827
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 1: even with him doing that. So I don't want to

828
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 1: that's not the right baseline. You want to be a

829
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 1: little bit better than that, even for fifth guy. But Forerez,

830
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 1: he was better than Suarez. Was that that's a low

831
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:47,560
Speaker 1: bar to clear, but he was I agree with you though, like,

832
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 1: and I think if you gave Alex and Company true here,

833
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:53,400
Speaker 1: and that's if it was game game three of the

834
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:56,840
Speaker 1: World series tomorrow and you said, did your Fuintes or

835
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:59,400
Speaker 1: Martine Perez, they would take did you er Flintes. But

836
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 1: that's not the situation at this moment. So every gad counts,

837
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 1: but they will take the long view, particularly for the

838
00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:08,719
Speaker 1: guy who's twenty years old, which I do understand on

839
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:11,640
Speaker 1: some level. Oh, we have our first maybe it is

840
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:15,520
Speaker 1: this our first, Walt. Weis cracism, yes, like legitimately the

841
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 1: first time. You were ahead of me on this one today,

842
00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 1: so you're take take the reins.

843
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's unfortunate and it didn't ultimately determine the game.

844
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:27,200
Speaker 2: But in the sixth inning, Walt I think got a

845
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:30,720
Speaker 2: little greedy. I think he the old habits of Brian

846
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:34,160
Speaker 2: Snicker kind of, you know, he had that itch. He's like, look,

847
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:37,160
Speaker 2: I can get I can try to get through at

848
00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 2: least one more inning here with Martin Perez and save

849
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:43,479
Speaker 2: my bullpen which is mostly fresh. So but Walt sent

850
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:46,040
Speaker 2: Martin out there for the top of the six to

851
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:49,600
Speaker 2: face Corbyn Carroll for a third time. And I know

852
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 2: it was lefty lefty. I'm sure that was part of

853
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:56,040
Speaker 2: his calculus, but it did not go well Corbyn Carroll.

854
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:58,759
Speaker 2: I think the second pitch he saw lined a very

855
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 2: well hit ball to the outfield. Then Walt took Martin

856
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 2: Perez out and shortly after Corbyn Carroll steels second base

857
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:10,239
Speaker 2: and then comes around to score against Tyler Kinley, who

858
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:13,120
Speaker 2: was not at his sharpest. Just kind of a bummer.

859
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:16,040
Speaker 2: I think Walt has been really good for the most part,

860
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:19,400
Speaker 2: Like he did some crazy double switching on Saturday night,

861
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:22,600
Speaker 2: which was like legitimately encouraging to see where he moves

862
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:25,360
Speaker 2: some pieces around and had somebody pinch hit for his

863
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:27,719
Speaker 2: catcher and he gave up the DH in order to

864
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:30,440
Speaker 2: make it happen. Like There's been some really strong in

865
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 2: game managerial stuff from Walt so far, but that was

866
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:35,760
Speaker 2: the first time. I guess, hey, once every ten days

867
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 2: is not going to kill you. But even to other

868
00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:40,320
Speaker 2: people on Twitter too, were like, oh man, you really

869
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:42,680
Speaker 2: don't need to send Martin Perez out there a third

870
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:46,360
Speaker 2: time to face Corbyn Carroll, who's one of the twenty

871
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 2: five best hitters in baseball right now, Yeah.

872
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 1: I agree with you, first and foremost, I agree with you.

873
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:55,719
Speaker 1: Second of all, I do want to say that I've

874
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:58,759
Speaker 1: been impressed largely with Walt Weiss. I did from the

875
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 1: Diamond today with great mcauleague shots to Grant form from

876
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:03,640
Speaker 1: and I'm sure we'll be guessed again on our on

877
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:05,759
Speaker 1: our podcast grat it's very smart. And he asked me,

878
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:07,719
Speaker 1: like to kind of grade what wise early on and

879
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:10,920
Speaker 1: I was like, really good, I mean B plus a minus, Like,

880
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:13,480
Speaker 1: I mean, it's been really I have very little to

881
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:16,799
Speaker 1: say negative about the what Why's experience so far. And

882
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 1: if him leaving my team president for what extra batter

883
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:21,439
Speaker 1: on April fifth, it's the worst thing that happens. We're

884
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 1: gonna be in great shape. But you're you're right, but

885
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:25,400
Speaker 1: you're also you're right. You're also right, like that might

886
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:26,799
Speaker 1: have cost him the game. I mean I'm not saying

887
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 1: it did, but it might have, so that you know,

888
00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:32,360
Speaker 1: that's a little bit stuff that could happen. But yeah,

889
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 1: we we try not to go crazy about this stuff

890
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:37,799
Speaker 1: until the playoffs when it becomes, you know, a much

891
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:40,200
Speaker 1: bigger story. But that was one where it was like,

892
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 1: so it's kind of obvious too, Like even in real time,

893
00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:46,080
Speaker 1: I always try to mark when people are being revisionous

894
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:48,680
Speaker 1: and when they're not like we were. I would say

895
00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:50,279
Speaker 1: people that I follow on twit, I don't know about you.

896
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:53,319
Speaker 1: People were saying that before the hit happened, that's how

897
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:55,359
Speaker 1: you know, that's how you know. It's like, oh, that's

898
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:57,240
Speaker 1: not that was. It was not just because of the result.

899
00:42:57,320 --> 00:42:59,760
Speaker 1: It was a process failure, which I that stuff bobbished

900
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:01,959
Speaker 1: me in and is the process failures? Yeah?

901
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 2: No, I said the same thing. I was like, why

902
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:06,040
Speaker 2: is he still in there? Whatever, It's not the end

903
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 2: of the world. I think, Walt, I agree with you completely.

904
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:10,640
Speaker 2: I think Walt whis has done a fantastic job these

905
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:13,240
Speaker 2: first ten games, and I think he's also still learning.

906
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 2: This is new to him. I mean, I know he

907
00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 2: was a manager back in the day with the Rockies,

908
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 2: but this is also relatively new to him. And overall,

909
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:22,719
Speaker 2: I have very very few complaints with how the first

910
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:23,719
Speaker 2: week and a half has gone.

911
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:28,879
Speaker 1: I would agree, Scott, you have anything else to add

912
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 1: about this weekend? If not, we can dive into what's

913
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:35,480
Speaker 1: to come for the Braves, because they do have a

914
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:39,040
Speaker 1: boy very winnable series on the horizon beginning on Monday.

915
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 1: They do.

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Speaker 2: You know, we got to take advantage against the Angels.

917
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Speaker 2: I mean, I know, also Mike Trout might not play.

918
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:49,440
Speaker 2: He got hit in the hand. Yeah, yeah, it didn't

919
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 2: look great. I have not admittedly I haven't seen any update.

920
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:55,520
Speaker 2: But I mean, even if the Angels have Mike Trout,

921
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 2: that that is a not good baseball team. Of course,

922
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:00,120
Speaker 2: now watched they're going to play their best series of

923
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:02,320
Speaker 2: the year so far and take it to the Braves.

924
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 2: But this is a series that you really would like

925
00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 2: to win two games, especially with your one, two and

926
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:09,000
Speaker 2: three going in the rotation.

927
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Speaker 1: Officially Trota's day to day, I'm gonna assume that means

928
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:16,439
Speaker 1: he's not gonna play Monday would be my guess. Maybe

929
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:18,440
Speaker 1: by the end of the series, but we'll see. And

930
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 1: the Andrews are five and five, like they've they've been

931
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:23,040
Speaker 1: fine so far. I think if you look at their

932
00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 1: preezes and expectations they were lower than that. They're not

933
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:30,359
Speaker 1: Rockies bad. Like, they're not absolutely horrible, I don't think.

934
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 1: But it's a series where you know, on the road

935
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 1: I always try to leave the bar a little be

936
00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 1: a little bit higher. But yeah, very winnable games, especially

937
00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:41,279
Speaker 1: because Chris Sales pitching and and it's time Chris Sales

938
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:42,879
Speaker 1: pitching in a three game series. You feel pretty good

939
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:46,680
Speaker 1: about the rest of the situation. Monday and Tuesday are

940
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:49,239
Speaker 1: late nights for those of us in the Eastern time zone.

941
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 1: I think they're like nine to forty is starts or so.

942
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:58,240
Speaker 1: Scott loves those games. And then Wednesday is an afternoon contest,

943
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:00,920
Speaker 1: not as early as the noons start last week in Atlanta,

944
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:04,200
Speaker 1: but it's like a four o'clock Eastern game on Wednesday.

945
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:08,000
Speaker 1: Chris Sale has has the ball on Monday. Presumably he's

946
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:10,640
Speaker 1: feeling back to his old self, and the last start

947
00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:13,120
Speaker 1: he was quote sick as a dog. I would assume

948
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:15,640
Speaker 1: he's back to being normal. Four days, five days later

949
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:19,240
Speaker 1: he faces this was at Soriano pretty much showdown. Honestly,

950
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:21,160
Speaker 1: this story has been pretty good for the angel so far.

951
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:24,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jose Soriano maybe not a household name, but was

952
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:28,840
Speaker 2: legitimately good last year. Had was a three war pitcher

953
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:34,399
Speaker 2: for the Angels and just a solid, solid option for them.

954
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:36,799
Speaker 2: So hopefully the Bats get going and they can really

955
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:39,360
Speaker 2: support Chris. We always feel good whenever Sale is on

956
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:41,880
Speaker 2: the mound, but you know, just some consistency out of

957
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:44,759
Speaker 2: this offense. Would be really appreciated after kind of the

958
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:47,000
Speaker 2: Jekyll and Hyde nature that we had this weekend.

959
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:50,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the Braves won't win every single Chris Sales

960
00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:52,880
Speaker 1: start this season, but they need to win a lot

961
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:56,720
Speaker 1: of them. And that's the baseline I'd like to follow

962
00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:58,480
Speaker 1: if that was the Braves just when most of Chrisale

963
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:02,440
Speaker 1: starts good foundation. And then it's Ronaldo on Tuesday against

964
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:05,520
Speaker 1: you say, Kakuchi, who is historically pretty good. He's been

965
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:07,479
Speaker 1: shaky this year starting the season, but he's a pretty

966
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:10,319
Speaker 1: good pitcher usually, and the Gret Holmes against Reed debt

967
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:15,000
Speaker 1: Meers on Wednesday, a couple lefties in there. Always interesting

968
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:16,960
Speaker 1: to see what the Braves might do against lieutenant pitching,

969
00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 1: So I'll be following that closely. Yeah, I'm curious to see.

970
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:23,400
Speaker 2: You know, Kakuchi and debt Meurs are not necessarily like

971
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:27,240
Speaker 2: lefties who light up the radar gun. So I wonder

972
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:31,200
Speaker 2: if they might give mike Yastremsky a start in either

973
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:35,320
Speaker 2: the outfield or a DH and sit Jonaheim, although Jonah's

974
00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 2: been really good catching, so of course, then the Jonaheim

975
00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:41,040
Speaker 2: starts behind the player when Baldwin has been dhing, so

976
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 2: I wonder if Baldwin maybe catches one of those games

977
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:46,640
Speaker 2: against the lefty and they have somebody hit. Kyle Farmer

978
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:50,080
Speaker 2: hasn't really played a whole lot this year. Eli White

979
00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:52,200
Speaker 2: has been off to a pretty bad start, if we're

980
00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:54,400
Speaker 2: being honest. But maybe they'll try to get Eli in

981
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:56,880
Speaker 2: there a couple of times. We'll see what they ultimately do.

982
00:46:57,080 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 2: But yeah, a solid opportunity to start. I mean, let's

983
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 2: just we need a win, you know, Like I think

984
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:05,879
Speaker 2: it's still early in the year, but these last two

985
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:08,400
Speaker 2: losses have really kind of left a bad taste in

986
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:10,840
Speaker 2: everybody's mouth. And if you can get a win behind

987
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:13,000
Speaker 2: Chris Sale and then you just got to split the

988
00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:16,200
Speaker 2: Ronaldo and home starts, then you go two and three

989
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:18,239
Speaker 2: or two and one in the series, you go four

990
00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:20,480
Speaker 2: and three on the West Coast road trip. Sure nobody's

991
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 2: throwing a parade for four and three on the West Coast,

992
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:26,080
Speaker 2: but it would just continue to win series and finally

993
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:28,000
Speaker 2: get a day off on Thursday, which I'm sure all

994
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:29,359
Speaker 2: the players are looking forward to.

995
00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:31,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna circle that just now, because it

996
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:34,520
Speaker 1: also lets you be a little bit more aggressive if

997
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:37,560
Speaker 1: you need to be with bullpen management, with maybe, like

998
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:39,879
Speaker 1: you said, maybe Baldwin catches all three or something like that.

999
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:42,920
Speaker 1: You know, there's ways to make it, to push a

1000
00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:45,320
Speaker 1: little harder when you know that the light at the

1001
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:46,799
Speaker 1: end of the tunnel is finally there, and you get

1002
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:48,480
Speaker 1: a day off on Thursday. It's a long it's long

1003
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:50,920
Speaker 1: travel back from la for sure, but at least a

1004
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:53,120
Speaker 1: full day off in advance of the weekend series back

1005
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:56,799
Speaker 1: in Atlanta. So one to circle and we will have

1006
00:47:56,840 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 1: you covered throughout the week as we always would. I'm

1007
00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:02,160
Speaker 1: not exactly sure with days just yet, but you could.

1008
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:04,839
Speaker 1: You could make on it if big things happen, even

1009
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:07,560
Speaker 1: when they don't happen. We tend to have podcasts about

1010
00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:10,719
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Braves in this podcast feed. Yeah we do.

1011
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:12,839
Speaker 2: And you know, get some wins against the Angels would

1012
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:14,920
Speaker 2: be great, and then you have the day off Thursday,

1013
00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:17,080
Speaker 2: and then you know, you go back home and you

1014
00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:20,600
Speaker 2: play the Cleveland Guardians, who are not a bad team,

1015
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:23,440
Speaker 2: but you know Cleveland, they don't spend any money whatsoever

1016
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:26,799
Speaker 2: and just kind of lack star power. And whenever you're

1017
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 2: home against a team like that, you would like to

1018
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 2: win this series against Cleveland, and then you welcome the

1019
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:34,440
Speaker 2: Miami Marlins to Atlanta and similarly, the Marlins have been

1020
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 2: pretty pesky so far. But a team that you can

1021
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:40,040
Speaker 2: say with a straight face, the Braves should be able

1022
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:42,520
Speaker 2: to beat more times than not. So it just kind

1023
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:44,520
Speaker 2: of plays on this fact that the schedule early in

1024
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:47,759
Speaker 2: the year has been light. The Braves more times than

1025
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:50,480
Speaker 2: not have done a pretty decent job the last forty

1026
00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:53,080
Speaker 2: eight hours, notwithstanding to win those kind of fifty to

1027
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:55,759
Speaker 2: fifty games. But let's keep it rolling, let's keep winning,

1028
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:57,960
Speaker 2: Let's get back on the winning track and really just

1029
00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:00,120
Speaker 2: try to make hay early in the year. See, you

1030
00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:03,440
Speaker 2: don't find yourself like squandering this early lead that you

1031
00:49:03,560 --> 00:49:06,840
Speaker 2: kind of built into the standings. Nobody wants that, especially

1032
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:08,640
Speaker 2: after the way this team has had to climb out

1033
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:10,120
Speaker 2: of a hole in the last couple of years.

1034
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:14,600
Speaker 1: Absolutely stay ahead of the curve by stacking up series

1035
00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 1: wins and they haven't lost the series yet. If you

1036
00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:19,840
Speaker 1: don't lose series, you generally do pretty well. So that's

1037
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:22,280
Speaker 1: the name of the game when it comes to I'm.

1038
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:24,120
Speaker 2: Gonna quote you, yeah, that's It's not.

1039
00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:25,439
Speaker 1: The old Bobby Cox thing. I know he was alway

1040
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:27,799
Speaker 1: talking about winning series, but like, hey, you can also

1041
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:29,239
Speaker 1: say if you don't lose series, it's kind of the

1042
00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:31,200
Speaker 1: same thing. If you just display refour gamer or whatever

1043
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:34,080
Speaker 1: three gamer, you're a playoff team. I can tell you

1044
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:37,160
Speaker 1: that right now. So yeah, okay, Scott, let's get out

1045
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:40,200
Speaker 1: of here. Everyone should be subscribed already, but if you're not,

1046
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:45,200
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1047
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1049
00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:54,239
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1050
00:49:54,239 --> 00:49:56,799
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1051
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1052
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Speaker 1: five star rating in a review, leave a comment, follow

1053
00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:05,319
Speaker 1: us on social media at Hambory Territory, and then importantly,

1054
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:08,799
Speaker 1: you must follow Scott Coleman on Twitter at Scott colem

1055
00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:12,560
Speaker 1: fifty five because he announced yesterday he's now in full

1056
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:15,800
Speaker 1: baseball mode. Did an make troll you for not already

1057
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:18,040
Speaker 1: being baseball mode? I was. I thought that when I

1058
00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:19,719
Speaker 1: saw that, I wasn't. I wasn't in a spot to

1059
00:50:19,719 --> 00:50:21,759
Speaker 1: make fun of you about for obvious reasons, but I

1060
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:23,880
Speaker 1: did see I was like, someone's gonna be mad. At

1061
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:25,560
Speaker 1: you for saying that you weren't already a baseball mode.

1062
00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:30,440
Speaker 2: Did that happen nobody directly? I mean, dude, my mentions

1063
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:33,480
Speaker 2: are a wild place these days, but I have no doubt.

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Speaker 2: I retweeted a funny video and a funny tweet of

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Speaker 2: a girl who was twenty one years old who was

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Speaker 2: chugging a Budweiser at a Nationals game, and I somehow

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Speaker 2: had people arguing in my mentions over whether or not

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Speaker 2: it was her first sip of alcohol, Like, how do

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Speaker 2: these people find me? I don't know. I am fully

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Speaker 2: locked in. I very sadly do not have a basketball

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Speaker 2: game to watch on Monday night. For your sake, go Blue,

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Speaker 2: I hope you win. I don't want to see Danny

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Speaker 2: Hurley when three of them in four years. But you

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Speaker 2: know what, because you're gonna be occupied, I will be

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Speaker 2: even more locked in to Braves Angels nine to forty

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Speaker 2: five Eastern Time, first Pitch. I will carry the podcast

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Speaker 2: whenever we meet next and break it all down as

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Speaker 2: we always do here on Hammer Territory.

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Speaker 1: Guys, I have to miss something to you before we

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Speaker 1: get out of here on this podcast. I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: watch the game live on Monday. I'm just I'm not

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Speaker 1: gonna watch the Braves game one Monday. I'm live, I'll

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Speaker 1: catch up, I'll do my homework. We always do a

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Speaker 1: hark on this podcast. I'm literally going to be in

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Speaker 1: a football stadium watching my team play for the championship

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Speaker 1: one Monday. So I'm not gonna watch the Braves game.

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Speaker 1: I love I love Chris Sale more than literally anyone

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Speaker 1: in my life. I think I think about like Christale

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Speaker 1: more than you. It's one of those things, Scott, I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: Chris Sale here, Scott Coleman here. Wait, Shawn's probably above Christale,

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Speaker 1: but Shawn sa Sean, that's my guy anyway, locking at everybody.

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Speaker 1: We'll have podcasts, I promise, probably not Monday night. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna have to say, I don't want to speak for you.

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Speaker 1: I would be surprised if something happened Monday that would

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Speaker 1: MANNA podcast. It would have to be.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, oh no, don't say that, because it's like,

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Speaker 2: unless it's a no hitter or a perfect game, there's

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Speaker 2: like a ninety five percent chance that news that would

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Speaker 2: demand a podcast on Monday would be bad.

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Speaker 1: So don't even say that. Trade for star X could

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Speaker 1: tell Marte or something I don't know. Terrek, Google, come

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Speaker 1: on down. I'm sure he's all sweens readily available. All right,

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Speaker 1: we're off the rails. Thank you Scott for being here

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Speaker 1: one more time. Everybody, please subscribe, check out our sponsors,

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Speaker 1: Fast at All Seat, Geek, et cetera, Patriotize them, check

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Speaker 1: out Fellow Territory, and we'll see everybody next time.