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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Hammer Territory Podcast. My name is Sean Coleman. Hope,

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Speaker 1: wherever you are and wherever you were listening, you're having

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Speaker 1: a great evening, if you can call it that. We're

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Speaker 1: coming to you from Tuesday evening. The Braves are are

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Speaker 1: are are are making history tonight and not in a

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Speaker 1: good way. But as always, my podcast partner here with

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Speaker 1: me is Stephen Tolbert. Stephen, It's always a pleasure to

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Speaker 1: talk with you. But I'm gonna be honest, and I

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Speaker 1: know that I've said that this time and time again

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Speaker 1: this year. It's just not fun to talk about the

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Speaker 1: Braves tonight.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what's up, Sean? Yeah, I don't really know what

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Speaker 2: to say about this team right now. You know, you

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Speaker 2: and I talked last week about, you know, things were

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Speaker 2: going well and is it time to get excited, And

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Speaker 2: you know, I remember saying I'm not I'm not gonna

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Speaker 2: get excited about this offense until they showed me like

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Speaker 2: two three weeks of like sustained production because we've just

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Speaker 2: been fooled too many times where we see, you know,

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Speaker 2: a four or five game little run where the offense

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Speaker 2: does well and you're like, all right, here we go,

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Speaker 2: we're back, you know, we're back to being a productive offense.

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Speaker 2: And then it just, you know, it just disappears again,

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Speaker 2: and you know, the exact same thing has happened. You know,

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Speaker 2: had that nice run one two and the last two

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Speaker 2: against New York one in Milwaukee, won that series, won

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Speaker 2: the first two against Miami. You're like, all right, things

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Speaker 2: are rolling, and then since then, you know, Saturday, Sunday

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Speaker 2: and tonight's game have just been miserable. Rady scored three

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Speaker 2: runs total in about twenty six innings. They're on a

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Speaker 2: twenty four to twenty five scoreless inning streak at the moment.

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Speaker 2: They got shut out on Sunday, they're being shut out tonight.

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Speaker 2: They've last two home games have been outscored seventeen to nothing.

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Speaker 2: It's just bad. I mean, it's just all bad. Like

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Speaker 2: there's not typically we can find some silver lining for

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Speaker 2: you stuff. I mean, I guess it's still August, and

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Speaker 2: you know, the Braves still have a chance to do

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Speaker 2: everything they want to accomplish, but in terms of vibes

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Speaker 2: and just how they're playing, it's just it's all bad.

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Speaker 3: Right now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just to give a little bit of perspective, you

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Speaker 1: know what what the brew You know, where the Braves

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Speaker 1: are in terms of their game on Sunday against the

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Speaker 1: Marlins and their game tonight against the Brewers. You know,

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Speaker 1: we're I'll be honest, we're recording this, you know, as

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Speaker 1: the game is wrapping up, Braves down ten to nothing.

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Speaker 1: If the Braves were to lose this game, it'll be

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Speaker 1: the first time that they have been shut out in

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Speaker 1: consecutive games since April twenty fifth of twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: which was a doubleheader when we had the seven inning doubleheaders.

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Speaker 1: They were shut out both games in that doubleheader. Even

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Speaker 1: more eye opening, this will be the first time in

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Speaker 1: nearly a decade, since September one and second of twenty fourteen,

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Speaker 1: that the Braves have been shut out in consecutive games

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Speaker 1: on different days. You just you don't see this team

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Speaker 1: this bad offensively. And we'll talk about Bryce Elder in

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Speaker 1: just a second, Steven, But the thing that I'll ask

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Speaker 1: you is this, when we're hitting homers the Braves. You know,

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Speaker 1: we just saw it last week. The Braves can still consistently,

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Speaker 1: you know, win. They are among the best teams in

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Speaker 1: the National League against teams above five hundred. But to me,

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Speaker 1: the biggest thing that stands out is that this team

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Speaker 1: is so frequently ice cold, especially against teams that just

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Speaker 1: aren't that good. I could point out, you know, the

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Speaker 1: spiking k rate this year compared to the last few years,

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Speaker 1: but I can't really put an answer on it, Steven,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not expecting you to. But just what stands

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Speaker 1: out about this offense as a whole is we know

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Speaker 1: that they're streaky, but it's the frequency of which they

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Speaker 1: maddening at times.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, on an individual level, it

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Speaker 2: seems like every guy on the team, their hot streaks

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Speaker 2: are measured in days and their cold streaks are measured

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Speaker 2: in weeks. You know, We've seen Matt Olsen go through

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Speaker 2: Jared Kelnick has been cold for a month, and then

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Speaker 2: like even like tonight, like I was looking up tonight,

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Speaker 2: like Marcella Zuma has been cold. You know, he's got

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Speaker 2: like a seventy five WRC plus over his last ten

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Speaker 2: no it's never consistent and it's never consistent for any

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Speaker 2: the cold streaks. Like the hot streaks have just been

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Speaker 2: I mean, we're gonna talk about the pitching stuff, and

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Speaker 2: Like if Brice Ellard given up three tonight, they still

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Speaker 2: would have lost because they ain't scoring runs. And you know,

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Speaker 2: and in some ways, like this is the team, Like

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Speaker 2: there's nobody else coming trade dead Night's past. There's no

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Speaker 2: like top prospects to bring up and help. You know,

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Speaker 2: about that stuff in a second. But like on the

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Speaker 2: offensive side of the ball, these are your best players.

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Speaker 2: Like in the lineup, there's not like better players sitting

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Speaker 2: and if they're not gonna hit, then nothing duds really matters,

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Speaker 2: Like you're not just not gonna win. So until they

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Speaker 2: then nothing else really matters.

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Speaker 1: To be honest, obviously, the Braves need to find that consistency,

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Speaker 1: the consistency that defined last year. And it's just it

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Speaker 1: seems like two miles often this year we're playing like

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Speaker 1: we have in the last couple years worth the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: But while consistency is certain certainly something that the Braves

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Speaker 1: So Stephen will jump back to the offense in just

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Speaker 1: a second. But the other thing that certainly stood out

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Speaker 1: And the thing is this is that Bryce Elder against

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Speaker 2: Oh no, they had a choice, Like they like Chris

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Speaker 2: They've lost like thirty points on that in the last

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Speaker 2: But they're staring that dead in the face. And at

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Speaker 2: some point you got to pitch your best guys and

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Speaker 2: if they get hurt, they get hurt, like there's it's

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Speaker 2: That's that's literally the only answer. Like, yes, the results

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I guess there are there are a

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Speaker 2: And that's been the frustrating part. And until they hit,

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Speaker 2: that's that's a tough way to go through life. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: They got a chance. But if it stays like this,

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Speaker 2: then I hope, I hope for Chris's sake, he goes

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Speaker 1: Yeah, as fun as the recurring themes were last year

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Speaker 1: But hey, you go with the ups, you go with

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Speaker 1: multiple times throughout this podcast, But it simply comes down

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Speaker 1: best players in the position to help them win consistently

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Speaker 1: when it comes to who's on the mound. The Braves

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Speaker 1: had no choice but to do that now and hopefully

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Speaker 1: better results will start tomorrow with Chris Sell on the mound. Steven,

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Speaker 1: do you have anything else for us as we wrap

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Speaker 1: up this edition of the Hammer Territory Podcast.

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Speaker 2: No, I do want to give a quick shout out

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Speaker 2: to the fans. Last week with the trade deadline and

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Speaker 2: all the stuff we did, last week was our biggest

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Speaker 2: week for the show, so we obviously very appreciative that.

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Speaker 2: Obviously the team was playing well, so that helps. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: very appreciative of the fans and yeah, of course the

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Speaker 2: Foul Territory guys. But yeah, we had a really good

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Speaker 2: week and you know, thanks to you guys, So we

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Speaker 2: appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. And for Steven Tolvert, my name is Sean Coleman.

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Speaker 1: We are certainly hoping better conversation and better times are ahead.

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Speaker 1: I know that we've said that multiple times this year,

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Speaker 1: and hey, we've had it happen before. Now is the

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Speaker 1: time that we have no choice. Now is the time

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Speaker 1: for better times to be ahead for this Braves team,

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Speaker 1: and of course we will have you covered and thankfully

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Speaker 1: with all the support from the fans and listeners. You

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Speaker 1: can find Hammer Territory part of the foul Territory family

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Speaker 1: of podcasts wherever you get your podcasts. Just hit that

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Speaker 1: subscribe but and you'll get it wherever you subscribe. Until

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Speaker 1: next time, go Braves. We'll talk to you again soon

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Speaker 1: here on the Hammer Territory podcast