What's up everybody and welcome to episode 171 of the Talking Chop podcast.

I am your host, Brad Rowland.

Things are going well for the Atlanta Braves right now, and joining me, I guess it's not

even really a special guest because he really kind of runs the show in my life.

Chris Willis is here, the managing editor of Talking Shot.

What's up, man?

Hey, Brad.

How are you doing, buddy?

I'm all right.

It's good to have you.

Normally, people are subjected to the cast of characters that is myself, Scott, and Eric.

But when the boss is around, we've got to get him on the podcast, so I

appreciate you joining me.

Well, I appreciate the end, but it's been a while.

It has been, and you and I go way, way back to Hawks Days, and I replaced you running the

Hawk's side of SB Nation's outlet and all this this kind of stuff so we have a lot of history

going on here and we'll hopefully uh navigate this thing together but um listen it's it's a good time to

have you and just a good time to talk about the braves right now because the braves are scalding hot

as everybody knows uh you know even with a couple of losses this week was like they were uh

of course they're not going to win every single game every single day but even with a couple of losses this week, it wasn't like they were, of course, they're not going to win every single game, every single day.

But even with a couple of losses and some weirdness that we're going to talk about in terms of Mike Fulton-Davich, etc., etc.,

the Braves are now an even better position than they were last week because, in part, Philly is just dying, a slow and kind of beautiful death if you're a Braves fan.

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