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

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Speaker 1: is episode two one five. I am your host, Brad Rowland,

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Speaker 1: coming to you on a Sunday evening here in mid June,

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Speaker 1: and I'm joined as I always am, by Scott Coleman. Scott,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw things out at you right off the bat. Here.

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Speaker 1: The Braves went four into this week and one both series.

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Speaker 1: Can you possibly think of a less exciting or more

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Speaker 1: underwhelming way to go four into and have two back

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Speaker 1: to back winning series?

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Speaker 2: Isn't it almost like poetic that usually most of the time,

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Speaker 2: for people who have listened to the show for a

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Speaker 2: long time, we would say, hey, two series wins, four

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Speaker 2: and two weeks, I step in the right direct. A

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Speaker 2: lot to talk about. But yeah, when you get embarrassed

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Speaker 2: by the worst team and maybe the history of baseball

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Speaker 2: on Father's Day and Happy Father's Day to all the

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Speaker 2: dads out there, you get embarrassed in your home park,

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Speaker 2: there's an off day on Monday, you have a huge

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Speaker 2: series on the horizon with the Mets, and then you

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Speaker 2: just get beat down. It just it totally killed the vibe,

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Speaker 2: and man, in some ways, it was fitting for this

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Speaker 2: whole season.

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Speaker 1: It absolutely was. And you and I talked a few

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Speaker 1: days ago about that previous series, which actually was a

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Speaker 1: good series win. It would have been nice to sweep,

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Speaker 1: but going in on the road to beating Milwaukee two

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Speaker 1: out of three is actually a good result. But also

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Speaker 1: in I would say uncharacteristic fashion for us in particular,

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Speaker 1: we kind of said they got to sweep this weekend.

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Speaker 1: And when you win the first two games and you're

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Speaker 1: a minus three hundred and something favorite and the Benny

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Speaker 1: market on Sunday and you get a really really good,

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Speaker 1: like stand out starting pitcher performance and you still lose

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Speaker 1: by nine runs, It's like, how are we supposed to

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Speaker 1: sell that? You know what I mean? There's not really

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Speaker 1: a lot of upbeat to be sharing with people today.

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Speaker 2: And series win be damned. The Braves really did not

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Speaker 2: play that well this weekend against the Rockies.

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Speaker 1: No, they had a nice sunny explosion for like three innings.

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Speaker 2: Yes, they were dead in the water for six innings

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Speaker 2: in game one. They I mean game Game two of

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Speaker 2: the series was a normal game, scored early, no offense.

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Speaker 2: After that, pitching was great, and then we know what

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Speaker 2: happened on Sunday. It wasn't like the Braves just beat

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Speaker 2: the beat the Rockies down, like quite literally everybody else has.

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Speaker 2: The Colorado Rockies have fourteen wins fourteen. Two of them

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Speaker 2: came against the Atlanta Braves, kind of both.

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Speaker 1: In series finales. Both were of the Braves not being

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Speaker 1: able to score against the Rockies. There's some synergy there,

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Speaker 1: but you're right, it's it's maddening. As always, we'll get

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Speaker 1: into the games. If you're a new listener, first of all,

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Speaker 1: so to speak. If you're someone like Scott who was

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Speaker 1: living in a nice mansion there in Arizona, I'm kidding,

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Speaker 1: but one more joke. It was half of the shif

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Speaker 1: we have to throw out there because I a lot

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Speaker 1: of time listeners will know this. The Braves are three

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Speaker 1: and eight on Sundays this season. Is there anything more

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Speaker 1: on brand than that? Even when they're good, they don't

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Speaker 1: went on Sundays, especially, and this year it's even it's

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Speaker 2: So even in the years where the Braves win one

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Speaker 2: hundred games, they just have this thing on Sundays. It

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Speaker 2: maybe it's a podcast curse, maybe it's just something weird

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Speaker 2: we getaway day. I don't know, but yeah, for years now,

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Speaker 2: the Braves have not been very good on Sundays, and

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Speaker 2: they have been awful in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: We're going to dive into the games like we always

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Speaker 1: or typically would. I want to ask you a big

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Speaker 1: picture thing to kind of reset this at the top,

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Speaker 1: because this is this is the seventieth seventieth game of

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Speaker 1: a season. Nice round number. The Braves have played forty

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Speaker 1: three percent of their games. Rough they're not halfway yet,

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Speaker 1: but in a week and a half they'll be at

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Speaker 1: the halfway point of a season. You pulled this today

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Speaker 1: about how well the Brays have to play now to

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Speaker 1: even get to ninety wins, and ninety win is not

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Speaker 1: a guarantee of anything. As we're talking, there was a

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Speaker 1: blockbuster trade the Giants, who are a team that Brace

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Speaker 1: Raphael Devers for potentially a song. We don't know what

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Speaker 1: it's posting what he is. So obviously ninety wins no guarantee.

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Speaker 1: But Scott, I'll ask you this because I know you

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Speaker 1: play from this point forward to get to ninety wins,

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Speaker 1: which again is not guaranteed anything.

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Speaker 2: So from this moment moment on, the Atlanta Braves have

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Speaker 2: to play at a one hundred and four win pace

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Speaker 2: from now until the end of the season if they

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Speaker 2: want to win ninety games, which as you just said,

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Speaker 2: does not guarantee anything. I think ninety games is going

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Speaker 2: to get you in with the Giants adding Devers, I

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Speaker 2: think the Giants are looking good for it. They're tied

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Speaker 2: with La in the West to the Phillies are right there,

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Speaker 2: and then you know San Diego, Milwaukee, Saint Louis. I

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Speaker 2: think that third wild card spot is probably open and

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Speaker 2: maybe you could get in with like eighty eight or

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Speaker 2: eighty nine wins as the Braves did a year ago.

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Speaker 2: But let's not overlook the point here. The Braves have

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Speaker 2: to go upwards of one hundred wins the rest of

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Speaker 2: prayer of making the postseason that. I mean, have you

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Speaker 2: seen anything from the Steam Brad that makes you think,

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Speaker 2: all right, here comes one hundred plus win pace for

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Speaker 2: the next three and a half months.

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Speaker 1: The only framing of that is that they did it

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Speaker 1: for a month. They went nineteen and ten over about

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Speaker 1: four and a half five weeks. But that's not enough

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Speaker 1: to say that's all because you asked me, have you

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Speaker 1: seen have you seen anything? If there's one big a

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Speaker 1: them to do it. It can every time they lose.

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Speaker 1: I don't know about you. I got a deluge of

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Speaker 1: that's fine, I get it. People or the vibes are awful.

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Speaker 1: much different winner lose today, even though they will have

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Speaker 1: much different than would have been if they won the game. Yes,

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Speaker 1: It shouldn't be that way. It shouldn't be that way

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Speaker 1: and the game we're favored in and all these things

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Speaker 1: I do believe that, but it's such a hard sell

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Speaker 1: But when one of those series is at home against

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Speaker 1: after the game they all knew. I mean, it's also

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Speaker 1: funnier in some respects that they lost by a million,

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Speaker 1: Like if they lost two to one, it would have

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Speaker 1: and I stand by it like it's about the worst

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Speaker 1: it's hilarious, but like, given worth, giving where they are

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Speaker 2: Of all time. Yeah, maybe that's the title of this podcast.

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Speaker 2: The least, it might be the least exciting series win,

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Speaker 2: maybe the most frustrating series win of all time. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: just just more the same for this baseball team. We're here,

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Speaker 2: they're they're what nine games below five hundred still and

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Speaker 2: you know what's been so frustrating this year is so

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Speaker 2: many of the losses have been those one run, skinny

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Speaker 2: it's just again, it's somehow fitting with all the just

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Speaker 2: the last few weeks. This one was a little unique,

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Speaker 1: It absolutely was, and we will dive in in our

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Speaker 1: Bottled All right, Scott, Let's discuss the two wins because

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Speaker 1: So if you missed anything before the the for of

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Speaker 1: Friday's game was the blowout win ends up being a

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Speaker 1: Bryce Olver got rocked. He did not look good after

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Speaker 2: It was. And for the first six innings of that game,

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Speaker 1: At four to one, it was gonna be I guess

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, man, Brian Sticker has won a lot of

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be a bad decision. Certain he's been

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Speaker 1: like he's just ludicrous. And there's this discussion happening about

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Speaker 1: like if he can't And look, maybe there were some

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Speaker 1: Angels parallels that we don't want to get that we

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Speaker 1: don't want the Braves to have with some of the

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Speaker 1: numbers that happened today, Like if you weren't familiar with this,

436
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Speaker 1: when when Otani and Trout were on the Angels, they

437
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Speaker 1: did these crazy things and it was like and the

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Speaker 1: Angels lost six sixty three, it was like Mike Trout

439
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Speaker 1: hit five home runs, you know, all these things, and

440
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Speaker 1: then today with grand Holmes was basically that it's like

441
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Speaker 1: grand Holmes did this and the Braves lost ten to one.

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Speaker 1: Roland Cuny is doing this and the Braves are thirty

443
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Speaker 1: one and thirty nine. It's not his fault. He's been incredible.

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Speaker 1: There's I think they were probably trolling. I saw some

445
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Speaker 1: people talking about like impact on winning today. I don't know.

446
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Speaker 1: I think they're maybe making fun of different Core, my

447
00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:08,720
Speaker 1: old classmate. Oh yeah, but Runnald's been everything he could

448
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Speaker 1: possibly be, and it's baseball. You can only do so much.

449
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Speaker 1: But is he has been a very shining bright star

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Speaker 1: since his return.

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Speaker 2: I mean the home run he had on Saturday wasn't

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Speaker 2: even in the zone. It was ninety eight miles an

453
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Speaker 2: hour and above the strike zone and he just launched it.

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Speaker 2: And he's such a special hitter. I will continue to

455
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Speaker 2: tune in every night to watch Rondacunya Junior play baseball.

456
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Speaker 2: It may not be a lot of fun other than

457
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Speaker 2: Acunya and a couple of the starking pitchers. And Matt

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Speaker 2: Olsen's having a good year, well he's had. He's turned

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Speaker 2: it on lately, I would say. And but you know,

460
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Speaker 2: we're looking for positives with this team right now, and

461
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Speaker 2: Acunya is one of the very few on a nightly basis,

462
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Speaker 2: and he's just such a fun player.

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Speaker 1: To watch, he really is. And the bottom of five

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Speaker 1: guys in the order on Saturday combined to go one

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Speaker 1: for seventeen with no walks, and that unfortunately let into

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Speaker 1: we'll talk about in a second Sunday's game, I promise everybody.

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Speaker 1: We'll try to be diligent with our brevity on Sunday's

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Speaker 1: All right, scott an offense. First loss. It's gonna sound

490
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Speaker 1: funny when they allowed ten runs, but the game only

491
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Speaker 1: played off that way because of the inability to score runs.

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Speaker 1: I think that's probably fair to say. I have a

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Speaker 1: qualm that I'll share in a minute with bullpen management.

494
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Speaker 1: But you gotta score runs. I mean, you score one

495
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Speaker 1: run against the Rockies, you get what you deserve to

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Speaker 1: some degree. Whether you lose ten to one or three

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Speaker 1: to one or whatever, you're probably gonna lose one. Nothing

498
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Speaker 1: is not a good it's gonna do a good expectation

499
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Speaker 1: any night. You gotta score more more than one run,

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Speaker 1: and you pull this number the race scored one run

501
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Speaker 1: in the last twelve gangs of a series, Like, you

502
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Speaker 1: just have to score. And maybe, honestly, maybe the most

503
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Speaker 1: braves part of Sunday's game, other than the weird loss,

504
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Speaker 1: was the fact that they when they did score their

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Speaker 1: one run, they probably should have scored more than one

506
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Speaker 1: run and then any which has been a brave staple

507
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Speaker 1: all year long. So I'll want you talk about it,

508
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:07,800
Speaker 1: but it was just, you know, did they get six hits.

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Speaker 1: It's like, that's not a terrible number for a game.

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Speaker 1: It's not as two walks like you should have beat

511
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Speaker 1: up on the Rocky, you should just scorre more one

512
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Speaker 1: run and offensively like almost no one was good today,

513
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Speaker 1: and the fact that no one got multiple hits, it

514
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Speaker 1: was just an outage that happened. And it's one game,

515
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Speaker 1: but it's also you can't afford it well.

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Speaker 2: And Austin Gomber, who is pitching, who's not like a

517
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Speaker 2: total nobody, but he's not good, was making I believe,

518
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Speaker 2: his first start of the season for Colorado, and the

519
00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:37,959
Speaker 2: Braves were being no hit until the fifth inning and

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Speaker 2: it was on a bloop down the line that just

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Speaker 2: hit the foul line. So I mean the Braves had nothing, man,

522
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Speaker 2: they weren't hitting the ball hard. And you said it

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Speaker 2: a minute ago. Hitting four singles in a row with

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Speaker 2: your first, second, third, and fourth hitters four singles in

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Speaker 2: a row to start an inning with the top of

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Speaker 2: your order only resulting in one run is maybe the

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Speaker 2: micro cosm. That inning might have been the micro cosm

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Speaker 2: of this entire season.

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Speaker 1: And they got six is in the game. That was

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Speaker 1: two thirds of their hits in the game. They got

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Speaker 1: four the six hits within like three minutes, so with

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Speaker 1: they secrets in the right. They just think you can

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Speaker 1: get out of the base paths, Like, what are we doing?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I couldn't even tell. Did Acunya overslide the base

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Speaker 2: and that's why he kept running home? It was kind

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Speaker 2: of an awkward play.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, in the in the in the box,

538
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Speaker 1: it was kind of it was funny. I looked up

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Speaker 1: to see how it was ruled because I was like, Wow,

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Speaker 1: that was a weird play. They wrote it to be

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Speaker 1: a single. Yeah, but Acunya, who started to play on

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Speaker 1: first base, made it out at home. Yes, Like how

543
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Speaker 1: often do you see that like that? That doesn't happen

544
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Speaker 1: like Ronald. I love Ronald for taking the extra base.

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Speaker 1: He's always ing great at that. You don't usually see

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Speaker 1: a guy making it out at home on a single

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Speaker 1: when he starts at first. That's just one of those

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Speaker 1: things that happened in this game.

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Speaker 2: It was a weird play. And then Olsen follows with

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Speaker 2: a single. Ozuna drives in a run, so it's now

551
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Speaker 2: we're tied. It's one to one. Okay, Okunya's base running,

552
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:11,719
Speaker 2: whatever you want to call it, weirdness didn't come back

553
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Speaker 2: to bite him. Now you have Ozzy Alby's who we

554
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Speaker 2: should talk about here in a second. You have Sean

555
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Speaker 2: Murphy do up, you have Michael Harris do up. And

556
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Speaker 2: it turned to nothing and just more the same to

557
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Speaker 2: stop meing heard this before, but it was just the

558
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Speaker 2: Braves offense in a nutshell all over again, and to

559
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Speaker 2: only get one to run and then like eight seconds

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Speaker 2: into the top of the seventh, Grand Holmes gives up

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Speaker 2: a homer and then the you know, the avalanche was

562
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Speaker 2: on and the Braves just got embarrassed in their home park.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't want to overstate how much this matters.

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Speaker 1: That's my caveat. I really hated the win. That the

565
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Speaker 1: menace of bullpen there. You know, Holmes pitching again in

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Speaker 1: that ending is fine with me. Whatever. He looked great

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Speaker 1: in this game. We already kind of talked about it.

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Speaker 1: Holmes fifteen strikeouts, six and a third, Like, cannot pick

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Speaker 1: on Grand Holmes. He allowed a home run there to

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Speaker 1: lose them, to lose the tie game. I don't care,

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Speaker 1: but I mean it's great. It's with a benefit that

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Speaker 1: didn't happen. He isn't the problem. They didn't score in

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Speaker 1: a fronts Now it's two to one, you're losing. Then

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00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:17,640
Speaker 1: bringing Dana Santos, we have not that high on him.

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00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:20,880
Speaker 1: I would say as a podcast, I will at least

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Speaker 1: acknowledge he has gotten good results for the last couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks. Like hasn't a lot a lot of runs.

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Speaker 1: Peripherals are not great, but like whatever era, run prevention

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Speaker 1: has been fine. So down a run. I was not

580
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Speaker 1: losing my mind when he came in the game, didn't

581
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Speaker 1: love it was losing my mind. My issue was he

582
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Speaker 1: comes in, looks awful right away, allows a single, a single,

583
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Speaker 1: then walks in a run with the bases loaded. You

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Speaker 1: gotta face three batters. So like, once he comes in,

585
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Speaker 1: he's facing three batters, you're you're stuck at that point.

586
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Speaker 1: But now he's faced three batters, he's allowed a single,

587
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Speaker 1: a single and a walk for a run. But it's

588
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Speaker 1: only three to one. The game's not over, and for

589
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Speaker 1: reasons passing understanding, they visit the mound and leave him in. Yeah,

590
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:07,199
Speaker 1: and then he allows basically the two run double that

591
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Speaker 1: breaks the game open and then you get blown out. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying they would have won the game. They

593
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Speaker 1: were down three one. They probably would have lost the game.

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Speaker 1: I don't understand why he was still the game. You

595
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Speaker 1: got an off day tomorrow. He just looked terrible for

596
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Speaker 1: three batters. I don't, I don't, I don't get it.

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Speaker 1: So here we are. It's if this was Friday night

598
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Speaker 1: when I said this on the podcast. Maybe not, but

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Speaker 1: I just that one blew my mind. I was like, wait,

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Speaker 1: he's staying it. I mean, I assume there was there

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Speaker 1: taking him out. I was doing something else. I looked

602
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Speaker 1: up and I was like, well, he's still in the game.

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Speaker 1: Why is he still in the game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, it's him. Look, man, this was

605
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Speaker 2: at the start we said this is an offensive loss,

606
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 2: which is very weird to say when your team loses

607
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 2: ten to one. But we never should have gotten in

608
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Speaker 2: this place in the first place. Against the runs.

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Speaker 1: I should have been a competitive game, and it would

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Speaker 1: have been different relievers coming in, and you still might

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Speaker 1: have lost. If the Braves had scored two runs on

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Speaker 1: that ending instead of one, he still might lose the game.

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Speaker 1: But I am confident it would have been ten to one.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't even remember his name. Who's this reliever

616
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:06,080
Speaker 2: they keep bringing in, who's like absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Awful, Luise, it's Ruiz who they brought it. He was

618
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Speaker 1: a guy that got a lot of the especially like

619
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Speaker 1: on on Facebook, got a lot of the like Craig

620
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Speaker 1: Kimberl backlash because he's the guy they ended up with

621
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Speaker 1: after they got rid of Kimberl. He's not good.

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Speaker 2: We could I mean, he's awful, and I mean, at

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Speaker 2: least with Kimberl, he's cool and like, we love Craig

624
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Speaker 2: and it's it'd be fun to watch him. I mean,

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Speaker 2: if Kimberrell didn't have it, at least it's you know,

626
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Speaker 2: a future maybe Hall of Famer we could watch or

627
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Speaker 2: Scott blew it. We don't have to have the conversation,

628
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Speaker 2: but really, this is your guy.

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Speaker 1: Oh I almost forgot that Luke Williams pitching this game.

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Speaker 2: I turned it off so fast.

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Speaker 1: Oh I know I did. I put it on my

632
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Speaker 1: second TV. It was I have my two TV set up.

633
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Speaker 1: It was on my first TV and when the game

634
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Speaker 1: was over, I moved my second TV and I put

635
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Speaker 1: the golf on my first TV. And I kind of

636
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Speaker 1: looked up and I was like, who is that pitching?

637
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Speaker 1: And I was like, Oh, that's Luke Williams. That's a

638
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Speaker 1: utility infielder.

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Speaker 2: That's uh.

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Speaker 1: How you know things went well? Today is that Luqwys

641
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 1: pitched for the Braves. But it was bad. It was

642
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Speaker 1: all bad. We should give a stat because it's hilarious.

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Speaker 1: This is the one I kind of referenced earlier about

644
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Speaker 1: the Crazy Angels like stat. Grant Holmes became the first

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Speaker 1: pitcher or first team how do you want to put

646
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Speaker 1: it in baseball history to have fifteen strikeouts in a

647
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:20,160
Speaker 1: game in which this team lots by six runs or more?

648
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 2: Geez, So if you strike.

649
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 1: A fifteen player that matters in a game. It takes

650
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,600
Speaker 1: some real machinations to lose by even five. But he's

651
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 1: the first pitcher ever to have in the history baseball

652
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 1: history is a long time ever to have the histrikeouts

653
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Speaker 1: and lose by six runs or more, and that else

654
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 1: by nine. It wasn't like it was only six. That's

655
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 1: by nine months. So hey, not your fault, Grant, you

656
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:44,040
Speaker 1: were awesome.

657
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:48,320
Speaker 2: What are the odds? In the last eight days? Bryce

658
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 2: Elder goes eight innings and strikes out twelve. Grant Holmes

659
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 2: goes what six plus strikes out fifteen, which was tied

660
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Speaker 2: for second in franchise history for strikeouts by a storting

661
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 2: picture with John Frickin' Smaltz and the only picture who's

662
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 2: had more than fifteen in Braves history with Spencer Strider

663
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:10,680
Speaker 2: a couple of years ago. You have the second most

664
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Speaker 2: strikeouts in the franchise history of the Atlanta Braves. You'll

665
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 2: lose that game, You'll blue the elder game. It's just

666
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:20,440
Speaker 2: I mean, this is like a science experiment, Brad, to

667
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 2: see how dumb a baseball team can be and how

668
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 2: many dumb losses they can have until their fans like

669
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:29,440
Speaker 2: just hit a total wall and breaking point.

670
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 1: I think we're almost there if you listen to the

671
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 1: podcast regularly. We might be there now, let's just say

672
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 1: we might be there now. I'm not sure, but we're

673
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 1: we're getting close. I do have one more non game

674
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,720
Speaker 1: thing to discuss from the weekend kind of, and it's

675
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 1: actually about this week coming out, and that is the

676
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:49,240
Speaker 1: fact that Jerks and Profar or he that will not

677
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:51,080
Speaker 1: be talked about by a lot of Braves fans because

678
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:54,120
Speaker 1: he's been suspended for a long time, is getting closer.

679
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:57,080
Speaker 1: In fact, we got word this weekend that he'll be

680
00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:01,360
Speaker 1: able to start his rehab assignments. Like basically, when you're suspended,

681
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 1: they let you start ramping up. He can play the

682
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 1: miners as early as Tuesday, which that's two days from now,

683
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:12,000
Speaker 1: and he is now, according to Mark Bowman, projected to

684
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 1: return unless there's a rain out or something like that

685
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 1: in the meantime, on July second, So that's like two

686
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 1: weeks from now. And given just how dire, slash awful,

687
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:26,040
Speaker 1: whatever adjective you want to use, leftfield has been all

688
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 1: year long, we can probably assume he's gonna play every day.

689
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 1: Because they paid him, he's probably the best option, even

690
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 1: with a downgrade of talent from last year. Talent in

691
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 1: quotation marks all those things. I just want to bring

692
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 1: this up because like we're not there yet, but he'll

693
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 1: be on the field in a minor league game on Tuesday,

694
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:46,480
Speaker 1: so it's like a story that matters, and hopefully season

695
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:49,040
Speaker 1: isn't over when he comes back in two weeks, but

696
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:50,720
Speaker 1: it's a thing we should keep.

697
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 2: An eye on, you know, Jerks and prof are he

698
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 2: has some goodwill that he needs to garner back because

699
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 2: for everything, and we don't have to rehash everything that

700
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 2: happened over the last twelve months, but you ask a

701
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 2: player in Major League baseball, there is zero tolerance for cheating,

702
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:12,959
Speaker 2: and that's what jerks and Profar did. He got caught cheating.

703
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:15,560
Speaker 2: He did the same thing that many Ramirez got caught

704
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 2: cheating with fifteen twenty years ago. And when you get

705
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 2: popped for peds after just an unbelievable career best year

706
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 2: and then get a team to commit forty two American

707
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 2: million dollars to your name, and then you get caught

708
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 2: cheating four days into the season, This dude better perform

709
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 2: or he is going to become even more of a

710
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 2: whipping boy for the whole fan base because he put

711
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:45,640
Speaker 2: the Braves in such a bad position to lose an impact.

712
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 2: I mean he was going to lead off for the

713
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:49,920
Speaker 2: first two months Untilacuna came back. Then he was going

714
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 2: to be a middle of the order hitter. I mean,

715
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:54,960
Speaker 2: clearly the Braves believed in him enough to give him

716
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 2: this contract, and then he gets caught with peds. It's

717
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 2: just Profar, man, you were going to have an enormous

718
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 2: magnifying glass on you from day one, and this guy

719
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 2: better performer. I mean he might get booed. Honestly, I

720
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:11,480
Speaker 2: think that's where my my mentions I mentioned Profar's name,

721
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 2: and half my mentions I think fairly are like f

722
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 2: that guy, Yeah, this team over.

723
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:19,360
Speaker 1: I don't think it's yeah. I think he's going to

724
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:22,840
Speaker 1: have to be good to not be booed lustily. And

725
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 1: it might happen in his first I don't know, I

726
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 1: don't be his first over four he'll he'll he'll get booded.

727
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 1: That's what's gonna happen. I get it too, Like I'm

728
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:34,440
Speaker 1: I'm not emotional about it, but like it's obviously it's

729
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:36,239
Speaker 1: hurt the team quite bad. I mean we can go

730
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:37,920
Speaker 1: through the numbers. We talked about it all season long,

731
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,719
Speaker 1: but just the current left field numbers are insane. I

732
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:42,040
Speaker 1: mean they have a team.

733
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:44,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead, No, I was gonna say it has

734
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 2: killed this team. They have a zero in left they

735
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:50,239
Speaker 2: have worse than a zero. They have negative war in

736
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 2: left field because of Profar getting suspended.

737
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Speaker 1: That's right. I'm just to put a number on it.

738
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Speaker 1: That might be reference point raves. Left fielders, according to

739
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:04,360
Speaker 1: as of right this second, have combined for a five

740
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:09,759
Speaker 1: fifty four ops this season. That is impossibly bad. Like

741
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:11,919
Speaker 1: that is Nick that that is worse than Nick Outen.

742
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:15,719
Speaker 1: Just for reference, that's worse than Nick Allen's offense. And

743
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:19,399
Speaker 1: Nick Allen is a platinum glove level shortstop and he's

744
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:23,200
Speaker 1: okay despite his offense, and that's worse than Nick Allen's

745
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:25,919
Speaker 1: offense with not great defense, like not terrible, but not great.

746
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:29,800
Speaker 1: So that's a to your point, that's a negative below

747
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 1: replacement level performance for an entire position group. And I

748
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:35,799
Speaker 1: don't know they got some money back for Profar that

749
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 1: went into paying for Verdugo for example. But he's been

750
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:42,160
Speaker 1: awful since the first week of the season. So since

751
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 1: he got here, Eli White predictably has cooled off to

752
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:48,960
Speaker 1: a large degree. So it's been it's been a disaster.

753
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:52,320
Speaker 1: Like I would say, there are other issues. Michael Harris

754
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 1: has been one. We don't have to go through all

755
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 1: of them. But the worst position on the fuel for

756
00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:59,360
Speaker 1: the Braves this year has been left field, and that

757
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:01,680
Speaker 1: is the position. And that you signed the guy you're

758
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:05,399
Speaker 1: one splash signing from the winner. So I will take

759
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 1: the bold stance that he can't be worse. Knock on wood,

760
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,400
Speaker 1: I guess he can't be worse. I can't imagine that

761
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:12,439
Speaker 1: because even though his defense, by the way, his depen

762
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:13,840
Speaker 1: is not good and we knew we knew that, we

763
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,160
Speaker 1: knew that ahead of time. That was baked in but

764
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 1: the one thing he even when he was bad at times,

765
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 1: he does take a walk for instance, which is useful

766
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,239
Speaker 1: in this lineup all these things. He also isn't like

767
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:26,480
Speaker 1: a lefty masher. But the Braves soundly can't hit left

768
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 1: handed pitching like I found this today. The Braves have

769
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:33,319
Speaker 1: a six fifty seven ops gets lefties this year. That's

770
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:37,279
Speaker 1: terrible as a team. Like last year when they had

771
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:40,839
Speaker 1: a bad season offensively, they had a seven seventy three

772
00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:44,840
Speaker 1: ops I gets lefties. That's one hundred and eighteen points

773
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,799
Speaker 1: higher than it is right now. Pfar will help with that,

774
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:51,279
Speaker 1: you would think too. So he isn't a savior, very

775
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:53,879
Speaker 1: clearly not a savior. He's not wrong with Kunya, none

776
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 1: of that, but he should help. And again the hope is,

777
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 1: as we'll talk about in a second, we talk about schedule,

778
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:03,439
Speaker 1: they could be out of it in two weeks. They're

779
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 1: not out of it now, as much as it feels

780
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:06,959
Speaker 1: that way. They're not out of it now. They could

781
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:08,560
Speaker 1: be in two weeks when he comes back. And if

782
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 1: that happens, he'll get boot even more because it's like,

783
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:12,839
Speaker 1: hey man, you're ruined this for us, and it won't

784
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:14,759
Speaker 1: be all his fault. No one's saying that, but he

785
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 1: has been a contributing factor his absence.

786
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,120
Speaker 2: And for reference point you talk about being out of it,

787
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:23,840
Speaker 2: the Braves are eight games out of the third and

788
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 2: final wild card.

789
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 1: Spot, which is a lot undred fifteen a lot.

790
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:30,800
Speaker 2: With four teams ahead of them. I believe maybe five.

791
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 2: I think it's five teams ahead.

792
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:33,160
Speaker 1: Think it's five. Yeah.

793
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, So it's not impossible, and I promise you we

794
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:40,239
Speaker 2: are not about to do a hopium. Everything's gonna be

795
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:42,760
Speaker 2: fine segment here. That is the farthest thing on Brad

796
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:47,160
Speaker 2: and I's mind. But they're not dead yet. But as

797
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 2: we're going to talk about now, if the next two

798
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 2: weeks are bad and they're about to play maybe two

799
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:55,719
Speaker 2: of the three best teams in the National League and

800
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:58,279
Speaker 2: maybe two of the five best teams in Major League

801
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:00,799
Speaker 2: Baseball over the next two weeks, we could be in

802
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 2: a really dark place come July first.

803
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 1: As Scott just said, this is a big stretch, and

804
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:12,120
Speaker 1: we're not saying anything about the current state of affairs

805
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:14,080
Speaker 1: to say that, like, unless they were out of it,

806
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:17,719
Speaker 1: or unless they were you know, fifty and twenty right now,

807
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 1: anything in between. This is gonna be a big stretch

808
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 1: because the schedule of the way it is so just

809
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:25,360
Speaker 1: broadly speaking, the Braves have ten of their next thirteen

810
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 1: games aka three to the next four series against the

811
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 1: Mets and Phillies. There are two rivals. And I want

812
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 1: to be very clear. We said this before, I'll say

813
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:39,480
Speaker 1: it again now. Yes, they are division rivals. That's not

814
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:41,839
Speaker 1: why I'm bringing this up. The division is so far

815
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 1: off my radar right now, I'm not even thinking about it.

816
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:44,600
Speaker 2: Yep.

817
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:47,640
Speaker 1: It's that that they are really good teams. That's the

818
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:49,719
Speaker 1: thing here. This is a challenging bit of schedule. Yes,

819
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:52,960
Speaker 1: there's one Marlin series in there that's obviously lighter in

820
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 1: terms of challenge, But when you're playing when you have

821
00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 1: to win, and we alreay established nobodys have to win

822
00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 1: a lot of games. Now, when you have to win,

823
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:04,799
Speaker 1: and you're playing teams that are at the moment flow

824
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:08,359
Speaker 1: out better than you, but even in the rosiest thing imaginable,

825
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:11,480
Speaker 1: comparable to you, at the absolute words, they're better than

826
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:13,279
Speaker 1: They're better than you, that's what they are right now.

827
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 1: But that makes your life hard. And that's ten of

828
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:19,640
Speaker 1: the next thirteen games, including yes, this series is at home,

829
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,560
Speaker 1: this first one on Tuesday. It's the Mets, it's rivalry,

830
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:24,360
Speaker 1: it's rafted it up. We didn't mention this before, we

831
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:26,759
Speaker 1: should talk about it now. The Bridge did shift the

832
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:29,400
Speaker 1: rotation around a little bit to line up the Mets series,

833
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:33,399
Speaker 1: which I actually liked, and people, predictably after they lost today,

834
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 1: were like, well, if they hadn't changed, guys, short of

835
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 1: Chris Sale throwing a shutout today, which I guess could

836
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:41,960
Speaker 1: have happened, that was not why they lost today. So

837
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 1: if Holmes got blown up today, they would have gotten

838
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:50,200
Speaker 1: killed for making the change, and rightfully so. But when

839
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:52,600
Speaker 1: Holmes pitches like that, I don't really care. But basically

840
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:54,880
Speaker 1: what they did was if we missed this, they pushed

841
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 1: Chris Sale back to face the Mets, which I was

842
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:00,279
Speaker 1: okay with. It made total sense to me. You're playing

843
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:02,560
Speaker 1: the Rockies, You're still massive favorites with homes on the mound.

844
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:05,319
Speaker 1: I know you lost. It is what it is, but

845
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:11,360
Speaker 1: it does set up headline grabbing matchups schwallow Bach, Sale,

846
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:14,680
Speaker 1: Strider one, two, three in some order on this rotation

847
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 1: facing the Mets, and like, you don't want to overstate it,

848
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:18,680
Speaker 1: but like, if they get swept this week, if they

849
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:22,359
Speaker 1: get swept on the Mets with Strider, Sale and swallow Bach.

850
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:26,319
Speaker 1: I don't know, Scott, You'll have trouble getting me, the

851
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 1: eternal rational person, to not come on here and be

852
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:31,880
Speaker 1: like it's over. If they get swept, I might have

853
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:33,479
Speaker 1: to I might be the one saying this over, and

854
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:35,400
Speaker 1: I never do that. So don't get swept.

855
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:39,759
Speaker 2: Please don't get swept. And you know, I know they

856
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:42,000
Speaker 2: just came off one of the worst losses of the season,

857
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:45,280
Speaker 2: but taking two out of three against the Mets would

858
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:48,720
Speaker 2: be a successful series, no questions asked.

859
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:51,040
Speaker 1: This is not the Rockies. Yes, with a series.

860
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:53,720
Speaker 2: Correct, And then you have the Marlins, who are pretty terrible,

861
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 2: and then you have the Phillies and the Mets again

862
00:40:57,080 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 2: next weekend. So this is going to be real challenge.

863
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:02,920
Speaker 2: This kind of feels like not kind of This feels

864
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:05,320
Speaker 2: like the season hangs in the balance over the next

865
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:10,279
Speaker 2: two weeks. They have thirteen games I believe. Yeah, And

866
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:14,120
Speaker 2: again we're not talking to NL East. The Braves have

867
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:17,240
Speaker 2: thirteen games left against the New York Mets. The Braves

868
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 2: are thirteen games back of the New York Mets, so

869
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:24,480
Speaker 2: Atlanta could sweep the Mets in all four series. The

870
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:28,160
Speaker 2: rest of the way and they would be tied atop

871
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:31,279
Speaker 2: the division Brad tied. So NLST just take it, throw

872
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:32,799
Speaker 2: it out of your hat. We'll try again in twenty

873
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 2: twenty six. But the wild card is still there. And

874
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:37,759
Speaker 2: if you want to have any prayer of having a

875
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:40,400
Speaker 2: fun summer where you're playing catch up and you're gonna

876
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:43,320
Speaker 2: have to keep winning series, it starts with the Mets.

877
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:46,280
Speaker 2: They're a very good team. The Braves have their pitching

878
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:48,399
Speaker 2: lined up as best as they can have it lined up.

879
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 2: See what happens, and if they, dear God, if they

880
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 2: get swept on this week at home by the Mets,

881
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 2: that would be like, we might do a four man

882
00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:01,200
Speaker 2: podcast and I'll just take turns screaming for five minutes

883
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,719
Speaker 2: and then say thanks everybody, visit our sponsors, have a

884
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:04,120
Speaker 2: good night.

885
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:07,400
Speaker 1: I'm good. Yeah, no, I And look what I I

886
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:08,759
Speaker 1: think you'd agree with me. But if you don't, let

887
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:12,840
Speaker 1: me know. I am not saying they can save the

888
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 1: season over the next two weeks, but they can put

889
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:22,480
Speaker 1: the season in the grave over the next weeks. Like obviously,

890
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 1: if they go twelve and one, then yeah, maybe you

891
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 1: saved the season. I'm not saying you can't save the season.

892
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:30,560
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say that. Like, if they go twelve and one,

893
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 1: that's not likely at all to happen. But if they

894
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 1: did it, all right, you're over five hundred again, you're

895
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:37,880
Speaker 1: feeling pretty good. You're twelve, that would be enough to

896
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:39,920
Speaker 1: be like get me excited again to.

897
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 2: Be or even like ten and three or something.

898
00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, ten and three, you're back to five hundred. Basically, Yeah,

899
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:47,640
Speaker 1: I get that, Like the job is not even close

900
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:49,360
Speaker 1: to done at that point, but you may have like

901
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:52,400
Speaker 1: somewhat kept it on the rails. What I am saying

902
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 1: more is like naked honestly, here's to bring a full

903
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:57,239
Speaker 1: circle from the game of this podcast. They could go

904
00:42:57,280 --> 00:43:02,360
Speaker 1: out in the next four series and win all four,

905
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 1: go eight and five and be in trouble still, you

906
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:10,920
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Like we are all about stacking

907
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 1: series wins, and I stand by that, but that doesn't

908
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:17,920
Speaker 1: do anything for it. I mean, it helps you, obviously,

909
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:20,520
Speaker 1: but what you can't do is go out and go

910
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 1: four to nine and dig the hole even further.

911
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 2: I guess right.

912
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:27,839
Speaker 1: So I don't want to we don't we don't want

913
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 1: to overstate it. But between the challenge of playing good

914
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:34,160
Speaker 1: teams numbers are not good, but the Mets and Phillies

915
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 1: are legitimately good teams. And the stakes and the hole

916
00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 1: you've dug, it's a lot of emphasis, Like it's crazy

917
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:44,759
Speaker 1: how big this feels. In June, it's the Mets, Like

918
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:47,399
Speaker 1: I hate the Mets. I'm the age where the Mets

919
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 1: are the team that I hate, of grapes people we

920
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:53,960
Speaker 1: thought about before. I'm of that age. I shouldn't feel

921
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:56,040
Speaker 1: this way about a series in mid June even then

922
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:59,000
Speaker 1: with the Mets, like this is big man. And they

923
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:01,320
Speaker 1: also placed I don't know if this is on purpose,

924
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 1: they also really did put a spotlight on this series

925
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 1: by doing the pitching that they did. It was like,

926
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:08,520
Speaker 1: hey man, we are going balls to the wall here

927
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 1: for a three gamer in June, and they did. And

928
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 1: if you lose a series, we weren't doing that. Who man,

929
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:18,080
Speaker 1: the vibes, I mean, we talked about the vibes all

930
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:20,680
Speaker 1: the time Thursday. I don't know which some of us

931
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:22,480
Speaker 1: will be on the podcast after the game on Thursday.

932
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:26,160
Speaker 1: If they lose a series, man, I it's gonna be muddled,

933
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:29,600
Speaker 1: mirroring perhaps some of the ones why you were in

934
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:31,719
Speaker 1: Hawaii in terms of vibes. I don't know.

935
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:36,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's tough. Win please, yes, win some baseball games.

936
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:40,480
Speaker 2: It's it is. It is make or break, truly and

937
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:44,200
Speaker 2: full circle. They went four and two this week. That

938
00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:47,919
Speaker 2: is fine. In a vacuum five they we we said

939
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:49,880
Speaker 2: they need to go five and one. They should have

940
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:51,960
Speaker 2: gone five and one. They should not have lost to

941
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 2: the Rockies again. But four and two is not going

942
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:57,719
Speaker 2: to kill you the second week of June. But these

943
00:44:57,760 --> 00:44:59,880
Speaker 2: next two weeks, man, Brad, this is it, this is

944
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:03,120
Speaker 2: season they I agree. I think what you said a

945
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:05,719
Speaker 2: moment ago is perfect. They can't come all the way

946
00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:08,200
Speaker 2: back unless they go crazy and like sweep three of

947
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:09,120
Speaker 2: these series or something.

948
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:10,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, but.

949
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:14,200
Speaker 2: If they have a bad next two weeks, it could

950
00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 2: be like actually over not not like I tweet something

951
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 2: and the same eleven people go, oh, this team sucks.

952
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:23,839
Speaker 2: I'll trade everybody other than a Conye. No, I'm not.

953
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:24,160
Speaker 2: I'm not.

954
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 1: No. There is a way, you're right, there's there is

955
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:30,719
Speaker 1: a way. Two weeks from today, you and I do

956
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:34,680
Speaker 1: a podcast June twenty nine, there is a way this

957
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:39,360
Speaker 1: goes where even like joking aside, I might be like

958
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:43,240
Speaker 1: the series is the season is over, like if they again,

959
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:45,200
Speaker 1: if they go, if they go three and ten, four

960
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:49,880
Speaker 1: nine in the next two weeks, they won't be mathematically eliminated,

961
00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 1: but will you'll you'll be down to five percent. Yeah,

962
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 1: and right now they're not like im I feel that way.

963
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:57,719
Speaker 1: Right now, they're like twenty percent, which isn't a great

964
00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:00,160
Speaker 1: which isn't great either, but that's not five percent. That's

965
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:03,120
Speaker 1: four times less in fact, So I don't know, man,

966
00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:05,000
Speaker 1: it's big. We don't want to overstand it, but it's

967
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:08,400
Speaker 1: a big, big time and this first series is maybe

968
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:10,160
Speaker 1: the biggest of all because the way they line this up,

969
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:12,640
Speaker 1: like you got your three big guns, the three s's

970
00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:16,760
Speaker 1: in order at swallow Block Tuesday, Sale Wednesday, Strider on Thursday,

971
00:46:18,239 --> 00:46:21,080
Speaker 1: you're firing your bullets. Schwelly against David Peterson on Tuesdays

972
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 1: and awesome match. We won't pre the whole series in detail,

973
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:26,319
Speaker 1: but that's an awesome matchup. Peterson's really good. That's not

974
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:28,920
Speaker 1: even a huge Braves advantage. Schwallow Bock's better, but not

975
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:31,399
Speaker 1: by a ton like Peterson has a sub three RAF

976
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:34,439
Speaker 1: last two year, is really good and the Mets are good,

977
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:37,279
Speaker 1: so let him up boys.

978
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:40,359
Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, really good. I mean good pitching in all

979
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:44,960
Speaker 2: three games. David Peterson against Schwellenbach, Paul Blackburn just returned,

980
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:48,840
Speaker 2: but Blackburn against Chris Sale probably the biggest advantage the

981
00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:52,080
Speaker 2: Braves have of the three pitching matchups, and then Clay

982
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:56,120
Speaker 2: Holmes against Spencer Strider in the finale. Holmes has been

983
00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:58,839
Speaker 2: good this year. Maybe not, there might be a little

984
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 2: bit of smoking mirrors with his performance so far. But

985
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:04,160
Speaker 2: on the whole, Holmes, who is converted to being a

986
00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:06,439
Speaker 2: reliever a year ago, has been good for New York.

987
00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:08,839
Speaker 2: I mean, the Mets are a really well rounded team.

988
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:11,960
Speaker 2: They hit for power, they have a deep lineup. I

989
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:15,360
Speaker 2: think though Francisco indoors battling. I think New York actually

990
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:19,000
Speaker 2: got swept this weekend by the Tampa Bay Rays, so

991
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:21,439
Speaker 2: maybe the Braves are getting them at a bad time.

992
00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 2: I don't know. They also got the Diamondbacks when they

993
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:26,319
Speaker 2: were really, really bad, and we know what happened there.

994
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:30,720
Speaker 2: So big week, big series ahead against New York. We'll see.

995
00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:33,279
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it is truly now or never for

996
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:33,920
Speaker 2: this season.

997
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:35,680
Speaker 1: We will see.

998
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:36,200
Speaker 2: Scott.

999
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 1: First of all, thank you for doing this on Father's Day.

1000
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:42,719
Speaker 1: Here we are anything to plug before we get out

1001
00:47:42,719 --> 00:47:45,560
Speaker 1: of here and if not work, if folks find your

1002
00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:49,520
Speaker 1: day to day musings, which which include Tiger Woods memes

1003
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:55,440
Speaker 1: and general anger. Sometimes it's positive but not lately.

1004
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:59,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, and my Wildcats. My Arizona Wildcats got eliminated for

1005
00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:03,600
Speaker 2: the College World Series on Sunday. So baseball has just

1006
00:48:03,719 --> 00:48:06,040
Speaker 2: not been real fun the last couple of weeks for me, Brad.

1007
00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:09,719
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, College World Series is a great event.

1008
00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:11,640
Speaker 2: I would love to get to Omaha one day and

1009
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 2: take that in with all the fans and everything, but

1010
00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:17,600
Speaker 2: maybe do some Gello shots. I am at Scott Coleman

1011
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Speaker 2: fifty five on Twitter socials if you want to follow there,

1012
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:23,480
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1013
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Speaker 2: tuning into the show.

1014
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