What's up, everybody, and welcome to episode 174 of the Talking Chop podcast.

I am your host, Brad Rowland, back after a one week absence, and joining me as frequently

the great Scott Coleman is here.

What's up, man?

What's up, Brad?

Welcome back.

We missed you last week

as Eric and I had to hold down the fort, and you were missed. So welcome back from almost two weeks

in Vegas. Yeah, I'm not sure I was actually missed. I got some, I think they were probably

joking, but maybe not. Some people asked me never to come back, essentially, because they enjoyed the podcast with you and Eric. And I can't blame them. You guys did a good job.

I did listen to that.

That was part of my very little, I would say, Braves consumption while I was gone.

I was definitely in NBA mode, having been out there in Vegas to cover NBA Summer League for 11 straight days.

You kind of lose track of all things when you're in that bubble. But I did get to enjoy the All-Star game stuff.

And, you know, we can start there real quickly before we'll definitely come back and talk about

what happened on the field over the weekend with the brave sweeping the Padres on the road,

which, you know, the Braves don't usually go out to the West Coast of sweep team. So that's very nice to

see. We'll come back to that in a minute. First things first is the

beginning of the week. I guess we can touch on the fact that the futures game included a couple

braves guys. Ian Anderson was out there. Christian Pache was out there. And just for the record,

I know you're probably listening to this. If you are a fan of this podcast, I should probably listen

to Road to Atlanta as well. But those guys broke down their top 30 mid-season talkie chop prospect list, and that's a good time for us to plug

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