What's up, everybody, and welcome to episode 176 of the Talking Chop podcast.

I am your host, Brad Rowland.

It is Sunday evening for record-keeping purposes.

It's about 9 o'clock Eastern.

So when and if a trade breaks during after this podcast, you will know that we caused the trade to happen,

because that's kind of our track record in the past.

But joining me on this episode that could be re-recorded at any point in time is the great Scott Colvin.

What's up, man?

What's up, Brad?

Yeah, it was nice to finally get a little bit of movement, at least nationally, with some trades today.

And obviously, we're less than 72 hours to go until the deadline on Wednesday.

So hopefully these final three days are action-packed and not just in Atlanta, but across the league.

Because nobody wants to see another dreadful trade deadline after sitting through that winter we just all sat through.

Absolutely.

And, you know, for the most part, most of the big deals could wait until Wednesday.

That's kind of the usually what happens is you might get one or two early.

We got one today with Marcus Stroman going to the Mets in a truly bizarre transaction that

no one understands.

Like I saw a clip of Jeff Passon of ESPN reacting on the air and was kind of

like, you know, my phone's blowing up with people and trying to figure out what the Mets are doing,

because the Mets are buying maybe, which is bizarre for a team in their spot. Uh, the Mets are

11 and a half games out of the eastern, of the, uh braves in the east and they just went and bought a good starting pitcher which is interesting but that's one that's one name off the market for the brays but

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