What's up, everybody, and welcome to episode 172 of the Talking Chop podcast.

I am your host, Brad Rowland.

It is Sunday evening.

It's about to be July in about 39 minutes on the East Coast.

And joining me to commemorate the turn of the month.

I'm kidding.

To talk about the Atlanta Braves, as always, is the great Scott Coleman.

What's up, man?

What's up, Brad?

Yeah, as far as June goes, the Braves were, I believe, the best team in baseball and

obviously been playing really well lately.

So it was a good month for the team. And as we kind of hit the second half of the year, which is crazy to think, we're already in the second half.

When it feels like just yesterday we were doing the season preview podcasts, things are pretty good.

Yeah, they are.

You know, obviously we're recording this late Sunday night mid-NBA free agency.

So my brain is kind of fried.

But just logistics here. And of course,

the Braves lost earlier tonight in sort of frustrating fashion. But even with that said,

the Braves are the second best team in the National League right now, fairly comfortably,

at 15 and 35. And, you know, they're six and a half games behind the Dodgers who have been ridiculously good.

But other than that, they're in fantastic shape.

And we've been referencing this point in time for quite some time now.

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