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Welcome to The Daily Hammer, your daily news source when it comes to the Atlanta Braves as part of the Talking Chop podcast network.

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When it comes to the Braves,

here's the latest from Atlanta. So yes, we are still currently, obviously, going to be, you know, in the middle of the MLB lockout for quite a bit of time, as it was revealed earlier

this week, that things between the MLB Players Association and MLB itself,

it really is not expected for negotiations or talks at all to really start to pick up until January.

It didn't seem as if there was a small, you know, not really significant meeting yesterday,

discussing things outside of the core issues, the, you know, gist of what needs to be discussed

to get the lockout taking care of. So there's very little progress at all that's been made,

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