What's up, everybody, and welcome to episode 170 of the Talking Chop podcast.

I am your host, Brad Rowland.

I'm alive and well, despite being gone for a week plus.

I'm pretty exhausted and didn't see a ton of baseball, but it was a fun week to cover the

Atlanta Braves and join me to talk about the week that was and much more is the great Eric Cole.

What's up, man?

Hey, man, what's going on? I'm glad you got back home safe and we're glad to have you back in the

state of Georgia. And it's been a really fun week to talk about for a brave fan. So I'm actually kind of looking forward to this. Yeah, absolutely. Good, good stuff to be with the family and all

that and, you know, good celebration of my grandfather, et cetera. But here we are. And

we're going to save the game stuff for the second segment of the podcast to give people what they

want a little bit later. We'll talk about all the wins that took place,

which was a lot of fun over last week. A couple of news items to hit on before we get to the actual

baseball from this week. Let's start with the draft, which seems like it was a lifetime ago,

but because you and I have not talked in this space and because the Braves are now signing players

and all the slot stuff's coming in.

And I always say I have no idea what's going on with the draft.

I just read you and Matt and everybody else.

But I want to open the floor up to you to share anything that you would like about any of the picks and signings.

I know you've talked about this stuff on Road to Atlanta, and people should be subscribing to this feed and listening to Road to Atlanta.

But in case they missed it, where are you on the draft?

And has anything changed since the night of the draft?

So I was really surprised.

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