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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Here a Territory podcast. My name is

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Speaker 1: Sean Coleman. Hope wherever you are, and I hope wherever

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Speaker 1: you are and wherever you are listening, you are having

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Speaker 1: a good start to your week. It's Tuesday night, and

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Speaker 1: of course the Braves just played the Reds in the

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Speaker 1: series opener in Cincinnati, and of course we have plenty

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Speaker 1: this week. And as always, I am very happy to

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Speaker 1: be joined by my podcast partner, Steven Talbert. And just

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Speaker 1: before we get into all that's going on, Steven, I

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Speaker 1: just want to tell you this. It's good to talk

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Speaker 1: with you once again. I'm not excited about what we

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Speaker 1: have to talk about when it comes to the Atlanta Braves.

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Speaker 2: Now, what's up Showan, Yeah, I don't really. It's been

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Speaker 2: a long season.

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Speaker 3: It's been a very long season, and this has been

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Speaker 3: one of the longer ones quite honestly, relative to expectation.

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Speaker 3: I mean, the Braves have had worse seasons than this.

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Speaker 3: Of course, the Braves have had much worse teams than

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Speaker 3: this overall, but relative to expectation, frustration level watching kind

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Speaker 3: of the same game over and over, watching the same

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Speaker 3: problems over and over. This has been one of the

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Speaker 3: more frustrating years that I can remember, again relative to expectation.

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Speaker 3: And so in the last you know, three days, and

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Speaker 3: we're going to talk about two of them on this show,

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Speaker 3: you know, have have just kind of been prime examples

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Speaker 3: we're gonna get into it, but yeah, just very I mean,

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Speaker 3: I said it on the last show.

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Speaker 2: I'll say it again.

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Speaker 3: There is part of me that thinks this team doesn't

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Speaker 3: really deserve to be in the playoffs because I think

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Speaker 3: they are critically lacking in certain areas that good teams

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Speaker 3: don't typically lack in, you know, specifically fundamentals and you know,

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Speaker 3: just kind of the small parts of the game that

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Speaker 3: I think that this team specifically is has struggled with

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Speaker 3: so much this year. Is I just I don't know

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Speaker 3: that this team really deserves to be in the playoff.

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Speaker 3: They still have a chance to be even after tonight's loss,

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Speaker 3: you know, primarily because they still have three games against

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Speaker 3: the Mets. But if I if you you know, if

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Speaker 3: an honest opinion, I would say this team doesn't really

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Speaker 3: deserve to be a playoff team.

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Speaker 2: Given on how they play now.

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Speaker 3: The pitching staff does, but the way the offense, the defense,

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Speaker 3: the base running, the way all of that has gone

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Speaker 3: this year, I just have a hard time saying this

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Speaker 3: all the last couple of last couple of days.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, and I'm gonna I'm going to It's been painful

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Speaker 1: to watch the Braves play baseball the past forty eight hours.

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go a hitting go through the pain,

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Speaker 1: I guess for it is the best way I can

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Speaker 1: put it, and just get it out of the way.

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Speaker 1: Early in the podcast, I want to go back a

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Speaker 1: week ago. A week ago, the Braves played in their

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Speaker 1: first of two games against the Nationals in Washington and

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Speaker 1: Stephen That was one of the more complete offensive games

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Speaker 1: that we experienced. We saw a combination of the Braves

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Speaker 1: hitting home runs while also being able to deliver with

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Speaker 1: runners in scoring position, showing that they were capable of

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Speaker 1: doing what they needed to do, showing that this team

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Speaker 1: has a ceiling that can be up there with nearly

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Speaker 1: anybody offensively when it comes to the National League. That's

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Speaker 1: what we saw, and then they went back to be

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Speaker 1: a normal On Wednesday, but then Friday and Saturday over

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Speaker 1: the weekend. Friday it was because of power. Saturday, they

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Speaker 1: scored ten runs without hitting a home run. This team

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Speaker 1: showed three times last week that they are fully capable

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Speaker 1: only to get to the playoffs, but also to have

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Speaker 1: success in the playoffs. And what did that lead to?

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Speaker 1: That led to the fact that forty eight hours ago,

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Speaker 1: Sunday night's game, if the Braves can score a few runs,

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Speaker 1: they had the potential to go into Monday being up

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Speaker 1: from that point on, over the past forty eight hours,

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Speaker 1: I cannot remember a time where a team has gone

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Speaker 1: any scenario that you could think of, the Braves have

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Speaker 1: when they didn't when they weren't hitting home runs. Besides

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Speaker 1: I say all that to say this, that is what

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Speaker 1: just will not get it done. And over the past

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Speaker 1: Monday to now at the end of Tuesday night, we're

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, in the last two games against the Dodgers,

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Speaker 2: they were.

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Speaker 3: One for nineteen with runners in scoring position in the

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Speaker 3: last two games against the Dodgers, and then tonight they

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Speaker 3: were I think one for eight or two for eight.

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Speaker 3: I didn't actually look at the final number because I

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Speaker 3: know they had one at the in the ninth inning.

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Speaker 3: Hold on, I'll tell you real quick what they were tonight,

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Speaker 3: two for nine. So that's three for twenty eight in

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Speaker 3: three for twenty eight. And you know, it's just continued

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Speaker 3: the same thing if they don't hit Homer and tonight

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Speaker 3: they hit homers. They hit what did they hit two homers?

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Speaker 3: Three homers tonight? Yeah, Michael hit one, Olston hit one,

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Speaker 3: and so they're hit one. But of course two of

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Speaker 3: scored one run. And you know, in this ballpark specifically

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Speaker 3: like coors Field. Five runs is like three runs somewhere else.

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Speaker 3: You know, you got to keep scoring. You got to

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Speaker 3: And even then you don't really feel comfortable. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: three for twenty eight with the runners in scoring, pitches

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Speaker 3: positioned the last three games. And honestly, Sean, it's not

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Speaker 3: even the it's not even the results that bugged me

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Speaker 3: so much. It's it's the at bats and the process

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Speaker 3: that goes into these at bats. How many times this

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Speaker 3: they get themselves out? You know, tonight there was a

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Speaker 3: the the bases loaded, Travis Darnaut comes up, the first

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Speaker 3: just like that, stuff like that just drives me insane.

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Speaker 3: Like they just there's just too many guys in this lineup.

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Speaker 3: They just they have no approach. There's just they're just

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Speaker 2: It kills so many rallies.

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Speaker 4: It was.

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Speaker 2: It was amazing watching the Dodgers the last couple.

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Speaker 3: Of games just stack good at bad after good at

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Speaker 3: themselves out. And I can just count on one hand

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Speaker 3: the number of times the Braves have done that this year,

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Speaker 3: Like it just never happens because they always run into

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Speaker 3: somebody who's just up there hacking. Just first pitch, no

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Speaker 3: matter where it is, they're just swinging from their heels.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, I mean three for twenty eight in the

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Speaker 2: Their bats just knows dives. I don't know what.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if it's extra pressure because they failed

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Speaker 3: so many times. But like that Monday's game against the Dodgers,

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Speaker 3: they had they literally the first four innings of the game,

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Speaker 2: They had an.

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Speaker 3: Inning that started with a single, an a stolen base

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Speaker 3: the odd you would have to try to do that

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Speaker 3: to not score in any of those innings, And the

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Speaker 3: like that's the frustrat that's the part that annoys me.

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Speaker 3: Like you don't need a great offense to be able

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Speaker 3: that are just garbage bats. I mean, some of these

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Speaker 2: It's just I don't mean a rant.

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Speaker 3: I don't want I don't want to spend this episode ranting,

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Speaker 3: but it's just it's highly, highly frustrating watching this team

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Speaker 3: a margin for error, and it just seems like every

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Speaker 3: single time they just have the worst possible at bat

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Speaker 3: in that situation, are multiple horrible at bats in that situation,

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Speaker 3: we've just seen that same same story, same play over

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Speaker 1: Well and Stephen. The other thing that it's kind of

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Speaker 1: tailed off a little bit from from when we saw it.

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Speaker 1: I believe before the Braves went on. They're really hot

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Speaker 1: You're talking about this team not really deserving to make

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 3: This is not a fundamentally sound team. Like the little

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Speaker 3: They're not a good base running team. They're not a

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Speaker 3: Like they have the number one pitching staff in baseball

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Speaker 3: But that's why I've said multiple times on the show,

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Speaker 1: And speaking of the playoffs, you know, we've seen a

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Speaker 3: Well, and the funny thing is is they've hit home

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Speaker 3: And we've just watched them over and over and over again,

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Speaker 3: What if you don't hit three hundred and seven home

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Speaker 1: where we face the Phillies lost three out of the four.

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Speaker 1: They got big hits and high leverage situations. A couple

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Speaker 1: of them were homers, a couple of them were not.

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Speaker 1: Look at what the Mets have done. The reason why

438
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Speaker 1: the Mets consistently the reason why the Mets it feels

439
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Speaker 1: like they won't lose to a team that you know,

440
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Speaker 1: kind of like the Braves have done a lot this season.

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Speaker 1: The Mets won't lose to a team that they shouldn't

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Speaker 1: lose to. The Mets are consistently beating teams that they

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Speaker 1: should beat. It's because they're taking advantage of creating and

444
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Speaker 1: converting run scoring opportunities the Dodgers combined power and being

445
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Speaker 1: able to put good at bats together. That is what

446
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Speaker 1: is separating the teams ahead of the Braves and the

447
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Speaker 1: standings right now and the Braves because those teams can

448
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Speaker 1: consistently do what we know the Braves are fully capable

449
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Speaker 1: of doing, but they simply will not get it done.

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Speaker 1: And again I go back to if the braid. If

451
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Speaker 1: we know the Brads are fully capable, but yet right

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Speaker 1: now when they know that they can't afford to go

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Speaker 1: through another one of these stretches where they just cannot

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Speaker 1: score runs, but yet they're still going through it. They've

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Speaker 1: lost three straight. That to me is the ultimate sign

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Speaker 1: that it's just very hard to find reason to have

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Speaker 1: faith that they're going to figure it out offensively enough

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Speaker 1: for them to even really have a shot at making

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. They still do well, obviously have a chance,

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Speaker 1: but it's just very hard to see it actually happening.

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Speaker 1: But the other on the flip side of things, away

462
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Speaker 1: from the offense, for a second, Steven that stands out.

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Speaker 1: Max Reid on the mound against the Dodgers on Monday night,

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Speaker 1: Grant Homes on the mound against the Reds on Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: Grant Holmes, I think he did fine. You know, he

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Speaker 1: did his job. You know, he struggled in the first inning.

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Speaker 1: But Max Read in particular against the Dodgers six innings,

468
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Speaker 1: three runs, only gave up two hits. I think he

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Speaker 1: did good enough to put the Braves in a position

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Speaker 1: to be able to win games. But the problem is

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Speaker 1: is that we've seen Max Freed be dominant, not necessarily

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Speaker 1: to the point of Chris Sales so far this year.

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Speaker 1: But Freed has been dominant at times this year. But

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Speaker 1: if he's not that when he left Monday Night's game

475
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Speaker 1: and it was three to nothing, it felt like it

476
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Speaker 1: was just a mountain the Braves would not be able

477
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Speaker 1: to climb up to be able to get the win.

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Speaker 1: And this goes back to the point I'm not blaming

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Speaker 1: the pitching, not trying in any way, shape or form

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Speaker 1: to shine a negative light. We're at the point in

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Speaker 1: the season where it's going to be hard to expect

482
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Speaker 1: the pitching to be as crisp as it possibly can be.

483
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Speaker 1: But if our pitching is not that crisp. Looking at

484
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Speaker 1: the starting rotation right now, get to the bullpen in

485
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Speaker 1: the moment, If our starting pitching is not dominant, that

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Speaker 1: means there's a good chance to exit the game with

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Speaker 1: the other team having the lead, and that just creates

488
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Speaker 1: a situation where it's hard to believe the Braves can

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Speaker 1: come back.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Max hasn't been you know, since he's come back

491
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Speaker 3: from the IL. I think Max has like a an

492
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Speaker 3: era kind of in the in the low fours. You know,

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Speaker 3: his FIP and x fip and all that are quite

494
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Speaker 3: a bit lower, and he's pitch into a little bit

495
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Speaker 3: of bad luck and Monday's night was a Monday's game

496
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Speaker 3: was a perfect example, and he gave up two hits.

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Speaker 2: But one thing has been his command.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of walks, like he had three walks,

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Speaker 3: he had a hit by pitch, he had a wild

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Speaker 3: pitch that ended up leading to a run.

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Speaker 2: You know, his command just has not been as sharp,

502
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Speaker 2: and you can tell he's fighting it.

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Speaker 3: He's not being very efficient with his pitches. A lot

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Speaker 3: of five and six inning outings, a lot of five

505
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Speaker 3: inning outings, quite honestly, where he's getting you know, eighty

506
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Speaker 3: pitches through four innings or something like that. He's just

507
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Speaker 3: you know, I don't know if he's still searching for

508
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Speaker 3: his command. It certainly hasn't been dominant Max Freed that

509
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Speaker 3: we saw before he got hurt. But it's been good

510
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Speaker 3: enough to win games if the offense, you know, like

511
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Speaker 3: you said, I mean against a really good Dodgers team

512
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Speaker 3: and you know, fighting his command most of the night.

513
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Speaker 3: He gave up three runs and six innings. So you know,

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Speaker 3: if that's your bad night, you take that. And that's

515
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Speaker 3: kind of been what he's doing. He's not really having

516
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Speaker 3: any blow up games, which is obviously, you know, a compliment, like,

517
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Speaker 3: you know, he's giving the Braves a chance to win

518
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Speaker 3: the game, but with their offensive inconsistency and struggles. You know,

519
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Speaker 3: and we've said it all year, like if this pitching

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Speaker 3: staff isn't perfect, if they give up any runs at all,

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Speaker 3: most likely this team does not win. And it's held

522
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Speaker 3: you know, it's held serve almost all year. And you know,

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Speaker 3: again tonight and Cincinnati, the Braves scored five runs, but

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Speaker 3: you're playing in Cincinnati. It's a tiny, tiny ballpark. Like, again,

525
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Speaker 3: five runs there is like three runs anywhere else. You

526
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Speaker 3: gotta keep scoring, you gotta, you know, no pitching staff

527
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Speaker 3: is gonna throw a shutout in that ballpark. Like it's

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Speaker 3: just it's damn near impossible. And the bullpen wasn't great tonight,

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Speaker 3: and we'll get to that in a minute. But Grant

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Speaker 3: Holmes was solid. The Braves had base runners everywhere. They're

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Speaker 3: like fourteen guys on base tonight, but they couldn't add

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Speaker 3: on because they didn't hit any more homers after that

533
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Speaker 3: sol their homer to make it five to one, they

534
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Speaker 3: didn't hit another homer, so they didn't score another run.

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Speaker 3: And it's just the same, the exact same thing over

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Speaker 3: and over again, and yeah, Max, you know, Max wasn't

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Speaker 3: his best, but he gave the team a chance to win.

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Speaker 3: He's given the team a chance to win most of

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Speaker 3: the time he's been out there. I do think it's

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Speaker 3: fair to say he's been maybe.

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Speaker 2: A level below what his normal level is.

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Speaker 3: Since he's come back from the il, but still good

543
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Speaker 3: enough to win if the offense was doing its job,

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Speaker 3: which it basically hasn't done all year.

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Speaker 1: The reason I mentioned this again is not in any way,

546
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Speaker 1: shape or form meant to criticize Max Freed. It's hard

547
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Speaker 1: to expect for anyone to be at the same level

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Speaker 1: as Chris Sale, but that's basically what the Braves have

549
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Speaker 1: needed the majority of Knights. They need someone to be

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Speaker 1: at a Chrissale level to truly get them a chance

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Speaker 1: to win. And when the pitching is not at that level,

552
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Speaker 1: that puts even more emphasis on the need for the

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Speaker 1: offense to be productive. But besides the offense, the other

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Speaker 1: concerning thing that has really stood out. We've talked about

555
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Speaker 1: the fact that the bullpen has really been used heavily,

556
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Speaker 1: especially over the past six weeks, and I give credit

557
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Speaker 1: to Brian Snicker, He's had to be aggressive with the bullpen,

558
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Speaker 1: because the Braves just at some point had to use

559
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Speaker 1: the best parts of their team in order to win

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Speaker 1: enough to stay in this race, and that was through

561
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Speaker 1: using their bullpen, especially their best pitchers Joejamanez as well

562
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Speaker 1: as I'm Rise.

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Speaker 2: Glacias and others.

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Speaker 1: But over the past three nights it's pretty concerning to

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Speaker 1: see the bullpen struggle as it is. Of course, the

566
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Speaker 1: big blow up that right Glacias experienced on Sunday. On

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Speaker 1: Monday night, it was just it was it was more

568
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Speaker 1: of the lower tier bullpen arms that just got rocked

569
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Speaker 1: by the Dodgers' bullpen. But then on Tuesday, I thought

570
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Speaker 1: that Brian Snicker, it probably is not to the level

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Speaker 1: of other decisions he's made this year. I think that

572
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Speaker 1: he left Jesse chobb Is in a bat or too long,

573
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Speaker 1: and then of course Pierce Johnson gave up the home

574
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Speaker 1: or the game winning home run in that seventh inning.

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Speaker 1: I know that the offense being the way that it is,

576
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Speaker 1: probably overshadows the bullpen struggles. But this is three straight games, Stephen,

577
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Speaker 1: where the bullpen has clearly clearly struggled. You have to

578
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Speaker 1: wonder if fatigue is starting to settle in and if

579
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Speaker 1: the offense is performing as it is right now, if

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Speaker 1: we now have to be concerned about the bullpen not

581
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Speaker 1: being reliable, that's just another big, big factor that has

582
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Speaker 1: played a big part in us winning games this year.

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Speaker 1: That if it's not reliable, it's gonna make it even

584
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Speaker 1: harder for us to win at the level that we've

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Speaker 1: got to win at to have a chance to make

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Speaker 1: the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, listen, they have to pitch, they have

588
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Speaker 3: to be perfect. I mean, the number of games the

589
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Speaker 3: Braves have won this year that they would not have

590
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Speaker 3: won if the bullpen wasn't perfect that night is alarmingly high.

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Speaker 3: And again it's it's usually because of the offense they've

592
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Speaker 3: won to you know, I can think of just off

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Speaker 3: the top of my head, ten or eleven games that

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Speaker 3: the Braves won three to two or two to one

595
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Speaker 3: where you know, Johnson, I mean as an Iglesias pitched,

596
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Speaker 3: you know, literally flawless perfect baseball for the last three

597
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Speaker 3: innings and the Braves were it but to hold.

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Speaker 2: On a win a game. But and you and I

599
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Speaker 2: have talked about this a bunch, But like if you

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Speaker 2: just do.

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Speaker 3: That over and over and over and over and over,

602
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Speaker 3: and over and over again for four or five months.

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Speaker 3: At some point that bullpen is gonna start showing some cracks,

604
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Speaker 3: Like you just cannot play all of these super tight,

605
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Speaker 3: close games for this many months and not at some

606
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Speaker 3: point have your bullpen pay the price for it. And

607
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Speaker 3: the Braves have used the Glaciers, they used him in Is,

608
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Speaker 3: they used Johnson, they've used Dylan Lee, they've used all

609
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Speaker 3: of their bullpen quite honestly, because they've played so many

610
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Speaker 3: tight one run games. And yeah, it's been bad the

611
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Speaker 3: last three games. You know, some of that is because

612
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Speaker 3: you know, the Dodgers are the Dodgers, and you know

613
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Speaker 3: Glasias had that bad night the other night in the

614
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Speaker 3: ninth inning. But again, it's a bullpen problem, but it's

615
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Speaker 3: actually an offensive problem masked as a bullpen problem because

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Speaker 3: this was always at some point the bullpen was gonna

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Speaker 3: you know, it's just like the pitching. It's just like

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Speaker 3: the sharters, like at some point they're gonna give up

619
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Speaker 3: runs at some point, they're not gonna be perfect, and

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Speaker 3: you expect the other parts of your team to carry

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Speaker 3: them in those times. Well, with this team this year,

622
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Speaker 3: the offense isn't carrying anything. So you know, when the

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Speaker 3: brids go through periods where they're not pitching very well

624
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Speaker 3: or the bullpen's not pitching well, the offense isn't carry anything.

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Speaker 2: They just lose.

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Speaker 3: And that's what's happened, you know. The bullpens had a

627
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Speaker 3: rough stretch. The Dodgers scored a bunch of runs on them,

628
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Speaker 3: the red score runs on them tonight, and they lose

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Speaker 3: the game because the offense can't cover anything up. So again,

630
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Speaker 3: it is a bullpen problem. The bullpen is definitely shakier

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Speaker 3: than it was, and understandably so well in my opinion,

632
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Speaker 3: it's it's really an offense problem that has required the

633
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Speaker 3: high leverage guys to be used at the rate they

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Speaker 3: have all year, and I think we're probably seeing a

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Speaker 3: little bit of the consequences of that, you know, with

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Speaker 3: these last few games.

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Speaker 1: Well, speaking of the offense, Tuesday brought with it a

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Speaker 1: bit of exciting news. We gotta we got a pretty

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Speaker 1: good indication that this was going to be the case,

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Speaker 1: I believe on Monday it was but Ozzi Alby's it

641
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Speaker 1: was announced that he would be starting rehab a side

642
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Speaker 1: of it with Gwinnette, and he did that on Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: And the good news is is that Ozzi Alby's he

644
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Speaker 1: looked pretty good in that game against Gwinnette. I believe

645
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Speaker 1: he had two hits, may have had three, but one

646
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Speaker 1: included a three run home run. But the key factor,

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Speaker 1: the key factor in all this is that, as we discussed,

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Speaker 1: I believe one or two weeks ago, Ozzy Alby's is

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Speaker 1: going to be batting exclusively right handed. And that's what

650
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 1: he did tonight in Gwinette's. His home run that he

651
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 1: hit did come off against the left hand. Or on

652
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:37,480
Speaker 1: Wednesday night he'll play again, he'll be facing the right hander,

653
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 1: and there's a pretty good indication that if he has

654
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 1: another successful game without any setbacks, he likely will be

655
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 1: back for when the Braves go to Miami to face

656
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:48,720
Speaker 1: the Marlins. But I bring this all up to say

657
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 1: this point, Stephen, Listen, you go with Ozzy Alby's in

658
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 1: your lineup versus not having him in your lineup, especially

659
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 1: with what you know we're playing with right now. But

660
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 1: and I'm perfectly fine with him batty right handed. I'm

661
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 1: not really concerned about you know, do you experiment with

662
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 1: that right now? Yes, just getting in the lineup. I'm

663
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:10,880
Speaker 1: excited about what we could see. But to be honest

664
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:14,240
Speaker 1: with you, I also am kind of like, why are

665
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 1: we doing this now? Why could this not have been

666
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 1: done earlier? Maybe that's a flawed way of looking at things.

667
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:22,200
Speaker 1: We should be excited to see Ozzy Alby's back, but

668
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,959
Speaker 1: you also have to wonder is it a bit too little,

669
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 1: too late? I guess better late than never, But just

670
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 1: your thoughts on you know, Ozzy Alby's you know, a

671
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:32,960
Speaker 1: successful night on Tuesday, and it seeming like his imminent

672
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 1: return to the lineup.

673
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they reported that he was going to

674
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 3: do a rehab game tonight, a rehab game tomorrow, and

675
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 3: then could be with the team as early as Friday

676
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 3: in Miami. You know, of course I'm happy to have

677
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:49,640
Speaker 3: him back. He's you know, he's one of the bravest

678
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 3: star players. The funny thing is, if you look at

679
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 3: the numbers, like what, Mirifield has actually had a better

680
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 3: year offensively than Ozzie has, at least as long as

681
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 3: Wit has been with the brains. I think WIT's got

682
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 3: like a one oh five w RC plus in his

683
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,760
Speaker 3: time at second base, and Ozzie's got like a ninety

684
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:10,320
Speaker 3: seven or ninety eight, So, you know, to be honest,

685
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:13,399
Speaker 3: the Braves didn't really drop in offensive production that much

686
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:16,319
Speaker 3: with Ozzie out, and if I'm being completely honest, I

687
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:18,759
Speaker 3: think they probably improved a bit defensively.

688
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:18,839
Speaker 2: With him out.

689
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:21,920
Speaker 3: I'll be very interesting what they do if they put

690
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:25,719
Speaker 3: you know, if they put Wit at third base. Uh

691
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:29,359
Speaker 3: Gio Rochella's bat has really struggled most of the time

692
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:31,920
Speaker 3: he's been with the Braves. His defense has been solid,

693
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:34,839
Speaker 3: but WIT's a better hitter. So I'm curious to see

694
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 3: when Ozzie comes.

695
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:37,480
Speaker 2: Back, if if Wit moves over to third.

696
00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 3: Now obviously Marrifield still has that broken foot so that matters,

697
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 3: or if they put Mayfield on the bench and and

698
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:48,239
Speaker 3: Geo is still gonna start at third, I'm curious to

699
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:50,919
Speaker 3: see what they do there, because it's not I don't

700
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 3: think it's entirely clear what the plan is. But yeah,

701
00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 3: it'd be good to have Ozzie back back. I do

702
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:57,680
Speaker 3: think it's probably gonna be a little too little, uh

703
00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:02,400
Speaker 3: too little, too late, you know. Of the Kunya Riley

704
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 3: Ozsi trio, Ozzy is certainly the least impactful of those

705
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:08,360
Speaker 3: three in terms of being able to dramatically affect the lineup.

706
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:11,480
Speaker 3: He's just kind of a league average hitter at this

707
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:12,320
Speaker 3: point in his career.

708
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:14,120
Speaker 2: But it's good to have him back.

709
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, that's one less replacement player you're

710
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:21,399
Speaker 3: probably gonna be playing and your everyday lineup, and we'll

711
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:23,760
Speaker 3: see what they do with Wit for a third base.

712
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:25,520
Speaker 3: But yeah, it'll be fun to have him back. It'll

713
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:26,799
Speaker 3: be fun to see him hit right handed. He gets

714
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 3: right handed pitching, assuming that's what they do. We've always

715
00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:32,759
Speaker 3: wanted to see that, so if nothing else, it'll be

716
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:35,879
Speaker 3: a fun experiment for you know. I mean, there's only

717
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:38,239
Speaker 3: ten games left in the season when he comes back

718
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:40,960
Speaker 3: or something like that. So but yeah, it'll be good

719
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 3: to have him back. And maybe, you know, he is

720
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 3: a ball of energy. He's a big leader in that clubhouse.

721
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:47,280
Speaker 2: Who knows, maybe.

722
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:49,919
Speaker 3: Have him back on the field, the team gets hot

723
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:52,680
Speaker 3: and can finish the year strong and maybe sneak into

724
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 3: the playoffs. I mean, it's not it's not dead yet.

725
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 3: They're not dead yet. The fact that they have three

726
00:35:57,040 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 3: games with the Mets left is a big part of

727
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 3: why they're not dead yet. But they're getting very close

728
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:05,839
Speaker 3: to dead, like they're they're right on the edge of

729
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:10,360
Speaker 3: you know, final nell in the coffin because once you

730
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:12,279
Speaker 3: get three or four games back this late in the year,

731
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:15,319
Speaker 3: that's pretty much it. So and they're two games back now,

732
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 3: so they're right on the edge of the season being

733
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:20,960
Speaker 3: over and we'll see if Ozzie can come back and

734
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:25,279
Speaker 3: help with help with any of that. I'm pessimistic that

735
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:28,319
Speaker 3: that's what's going to happen, but it's baseball, you know,

736
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:31,280
Speaker 3: Weird stuff happens, and that could certainly happen.

737
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 1: And I will say this if if you're pessimistic right

738
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:38,840
Speaker 1: now about the bravest chances to miss the playoffs, it

739
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:42,279
Speaker 1: is perfectly logical to have that feeling. Again, what this

740
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 1: team has done over the past forty eight hours. It

741
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 1: just there's really no other choice but to kind of

742
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:51,400
Speaker 1: look at it and be like, how can we expect

743
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 1: this team to turn it around just overnight like they

744
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 1: need to in order to give us a chance that

745
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 1: we need to be and to make the playoffs. But hey,

746
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:03,480
Speaker 1: you know what, that's the point of us discussing the

747
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:06,399
Speaker 1: Braves on this podcast. It's to look at all scenarios

748
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:09,719
Speaker 1: and when Stevens says that they're not dead yet, he's

749
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:13,280
Speaker 1: exactly right. And as a matter of fact, it quickly

750
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 1: can change for the better, just like it changed on

751
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 1: Sunday night, from you know again, the Braves being on

752
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:23,239
Speaker 1: the verge, maybe being a game up on the Mets

753
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:25,880
Speaker 1: sinary Monday, to now forty eight hours through two games

754
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:29,960
Speaker 1: behind the Mets. We can easily see fortunes change moving

755
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 1: forward the rest of this week. And the reason why

756
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:33,879
Speaker 1: that is is because the Braves have two games left

757
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati. The Braves have been the most productive team

758
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:41,040
Speaker 1: national League team when facing the Reds at Great American

759
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:44,240
Speaker 1: Ballpark over the past six years. Nobody has a better nobody,

760
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:47,319
Speaker 1: no National League team has a better ops at Cincinnati's

761
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 1: home ballpark as an opponent than the Braves. They show

762
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 1: tonight they can hit home runs even better than the Rets.

763
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:55,400
Speaker 1: It's just that the Reds hit the home run at

764
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,320
Speaker 1: the right time. The point that I'm getting at is

765
00:37:57,360 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 1: this is that the Braves have Spencer Spelling and they've

766
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 1: got Chris Sale going over the next two days. They

767
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 1: have the better pitchers going each night. This offense also

768
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 1: has the higher ceiling than the Reds. They have a

769
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:12,440
Speaker 1: chance to win this series. They've got to win the

770
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:14,759
Speaker 1: next two games. They absolutely have to. Then you go

771
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:18,439
Speaker 1: to Miami you face the Martins. If the Braves can

772
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:21,839
Speaker 1: win four out of the next five games, I think

773
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:25,040
Speaker 1: they're in at least a decent position going into that

774
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 1: series against the Mets to start next week. But the

775
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:31,759
Speaker 1: problem is is that it's not as if they do it.

776
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 1: They have to do it. There's no choice. Now, we've

777
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:40,319
Speaker 1: said it for two weeks. There's absolutely no other option. Now,

778
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:43,440
Speaker 1: in my opinion, the Braves have to win at least

779
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:47,280
Speaker 1: four out of their next five games. They are more

780
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 1: than capable, fully capable of not only doing it, but

781
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: winning all five games and doing it and convincing to

782
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:59,799
Speaker 1: dominant fashion. It's just that this team has given us

783
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:02,239
Speaker 1: no reason for us to have faith that they will

784
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:04,239
Speaker 1: do it. But with the fact that the Mets have

785
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 1: one game left against the Nationals and then they've got

786
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:11,879
Speaker 1: four against the Phillies, the Braves, if they can win

787
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 1: four out of five or their next five, they could

788
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 1: find themselves still being in a favorable position going into

789
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 1: that three game series with the Mets at home next week. Stephen,

790
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 1: They're at a point where they have no choice, and

791
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:27,560
Speaker 1: they're also at a point where I've got no reason

792
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:30,600
Speaker 1: to believe in them. But I once again will shine

793
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:34,959
Speaker 1: the spotlight on this. This team has bounced back time

794
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:38,360
Speaker 1: and time again in recent weeks. I may be looking

795
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 1: at this from too much of a positive angle, but

796
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:45,040
Speaker 1: it quickly can change if they can just lock in.

797
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:50,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean one hundred percent, like if we want

798
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:53,160
Speaker 3: to be you know, this is certainly not my personality.

799
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:55,279
Speaker 3: It's certainly not how I feel at the moment, but like,

800
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 3: if you just want to be ultra positive, like ultra

801
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 3: you know, you know, sunshine guy. Then the Braves play

802
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:06,680
Speaker 3: you know, the Braids play the Reds, and the next

803
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:09,000
Speaker 3: two games, I've got Schwallen back and Sale they're you know,

804
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:10,960
Speaker 3: two of their probably best pitchers at this point with

805
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:12,560
Speaker 3: how Max has been pitching lately.

806
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 2: So you got to you feel.

807
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:16,440
Speaker 3: Great about those two games that the Braves can win

808
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:18,879
Speaker 3: those two games. And then you go to Miami for three,

809
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:20,719
Speaker 3: and the Braves have played the Marlins really well this year,

810
00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:22,920
Speaker 3: and the Mets have to play Philadelphia for four, and

811
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:25,680
Speaker 3: Philadelphia is still playing for stuff with Philadelphia start still

812
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 3: trying to clinch the bye the first round by for

813
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 3: you know, which only goes to the top two seeds,

814
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:33,719
Speaker 3: and the Dodgers, the Phillies and the Brewers are all

815
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:36,120
Speaker 3: pretty close for that, so like, it's not gonna be

816
00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:41,279
Speaker 3: a situation where the Phillies are packing and in. So

817
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:45,000
Speaker 3: you know, Philadelphia goes or New York goes to Philadelphia

818
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:49,399
Speaker 3: for four games, the Braves go to Miami for three games. Right,

819
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 3: if you if you take care of business these next

820
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 3: two games against Cincinnati, if you take care of business

821
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 3: in Miami, if Philadelphia can help you out, then you

822
00:40:57,160 --> 00:41:00,400
Speaker 3: get the Mets at home for three games. And you know,

823
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:02,719
Speaker 3: if if all that other stuff has happened, then there's

824
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:04,960
Speaker 3: a good chance by that point you're either tied or

825
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:08,200
Speaker 3: maybe only a game back, and then you control your

826
00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:09,959
Speaker 3: own destiny if you just beat the Mets at home.

827
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:13,120
Speaker 3: So like, if you want to be super positive, you

828
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:16,160
Speaker 3: want to be you know, mister Bright's side and light

829
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:18,319
Speaker 3: at the end of the tunnel and you know all

830
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:21,279
Speaker 3: that stuff, then absolutely you can talk yourself into it.

831
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 3: Like this team, the story of this year is not

832
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:27,920
Speaker 3: over yet. But if they play the same style of

833
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:31,080
Speaker 3: baseball they've played all year, which is, you know, score

834
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:32,880
Speaker 3: six runs one night and then get shut out the

835
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:35,719
Speaker 3: next night, and then score five runs, look good, and

836
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 3: then you know, score one run the next two games.

837
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:41,680
Speaker 3: If they do that crap, then you know this season's

838
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:43,400
Speaker 3: going to end pretty quickly and we're all going to

839
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:48,399
Speaker 3: have a pretty wide open October. But it's not over.

840
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:52,360
Speaker 3: As crazy as that sounds, it's not over. The Braves

841
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:55,280
Speaker 3: certainly have the schedule advantage the next week or so,

842
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:56,880
Speaker 3: and then the Braves get the Mets at home for

843
00:41:56,920 --> 00:41:59,279
Speaker 3: three so and Chris Sale is going to pitch in

844
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:01,440
Speaker 3: that series. So that's another big part of this. So

845
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 3: it's definitely not over. You know, the way the team

846
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:09,279
Speaker 3: is playing right now, it feels over, but mathematically and

847
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:11,880
Speaker 3: based on the schedule, there's still.

848
00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:12,320
Speaker 2: A lot.

849
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:19,040
Speaker 1: And history also suggests it's not over. Let's go back

850
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:22,400
Speaker 1: two years. It happened a little bit later in September, Stephen,

851
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 1: but let's go back exactly two years. Two years ago,

852
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:30,800
Speaker 1: as everybody remembers, the Braves were chasing down the Mets

853
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:33,759
Speaker 1: for the division title. We all know what happened in

854
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 1: the second to last series of the twenty twenty two season.

855
00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:41,200
Speaker 1: The Braves sweep the Mets at home, go through de

856
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 1: Grom and Chris Bassett and Matt Sherris are just an absolutely,

857
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 1: you know, incredible comeback, and the fashion that they did

858
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 1: it by sweeping the Mets at home. But what probably

859
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:55,880
Speaker 1: is not remembered that much is that in the eight

860
00:42:56,000 --> 00:43:01,480
Speaker 1: games before, in the eight game stretch before four that

861
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 1: Mets series two years ago, in the first three games

862
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 1: of that eight game stretch, the Braves lost three in

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Speaker 1: a row, and then they won four out of their

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Speaker 1: next five to set up the ability to catch the

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Speaker 1: Mets in that three game series. Fast forward two years,

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Speaker 1: We've now lost our last three games. We've got five

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Speaker 1: games left until we face the Mets with the playoffs

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Speaker 1: on the line. Can the Braves repeat history, win at

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Speaker 1: least four out of their next five games, and then

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Speaker 1: face the Mets at home with the ability to earn

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Speaker 1: that playoff spot. So, if you are a believer in

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Speaker 1: history repeating itself, and you are a believer in fate,

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Speaker 1: we're running the same script, or we have a chance

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Speaker 1: to run the same script that we did two years ago.

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Speaker 1: I'm a lot less confident now than I was then,

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Speaker 1: But we've done it before, and hey, we're fully capable

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Speaker 1: of doing it again.

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Speaker 3: So I'll say this, Yes, I'll say this that twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty two Mets team had a hell of a lot

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Speaker 3: more talent than this than the twenty twenty fourteen like

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Speaker 3: the Braves had to beat the Grahm and Surezer in

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty two to sweep that series. And the Mets,

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Speaker 3: I mean, the Mets have been playing unbelievable baseball for

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Speaker 3: four months. I'm not taking anything away from them, but

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Speaker 3: they've almost I mean, they've certainly been.

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Speaker 2: Playing above their talent level.

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Speaker 3: You know, if you just look at name for name,

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Speaker 3: track record for track record, talent for talent, like, the

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Speaker 3: Mets are much less talented than that twenty twenty two team.

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Speaker 3: Now the Braves are less talented as well, because they

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Speaker 3: have as many injuries as they have. But yeah, it's

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's not inconceivable that the idea that the

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Speaker 3: the Braves could start playing a little better and you know,

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Speaker 3: bada being bada bang, bada, boom, they're in the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: Like that's not it's not a crazy notion. It certainly

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Speaker 3: could happen. It's just if you watch the Braves play

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Speaker 3: the last few games, it's tough to envision it happening.

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Speaker 3: But like you said, they bounce back a lot, and

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Speaker 3: they still have enough talent in my opinion, especially with

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Speaker 3: this you know, the starting staff, and with Sale going

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Speaker 3: potentially three more times before the year's over.

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Speaker 2: It's not over, but.

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Speaker 3: If they don't win the next two games in Cincinnati,

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Speaker 3: it's gonna feel very very much over.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, we're we're It's not the playoffs, but we're in

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Speaker 1: must win territory. The Braves have got to win at

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Speaker 1: least squad in their next five and really the only

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Speaker 1: way that they can do it is the offense going.

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Speaker 1: And when it would be great for it not to

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Speaker 1: be this simple fact that they were just hitting home runs.

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Speaker 1: It would be great to create and convert some run

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Speaker 1: scoring opportunities. But for Steven Tobert, you can find him

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Speaker 1: at be Underscore Outliers on Twitter slash x. My name

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Speaker 1: is Sean Coleman. You can find me at Stat's Sac

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Speaker 1: on Twitter slash x, Hammer Territory. Wherever you choose to

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Speaker 1: Make sure you check out all the great shows from

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Speaker 1: foul Territory. For Steven Tolbert. My name is Sean Coleman. Again.

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Speaker 1: I know that things are dire right now, but the

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Speaker 1: Braves have a very good opportunity to potentially let deja

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Speaker 1: vu happen again if they can just get the offense going.

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Speaker 1: I know we've said it all year long, and I

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Speaker 1: know that there's plenty of reason out there not to

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Speaker 1: have any faith that they'll do it. But if they

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Speaker 1: figure it out, good things can still happen. Until next time,

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Speaker 1: go brace. We'll talk to you again soon here on

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Speaker 1: The Hammer Territory podcast.