What's up, everybody, and welcome to episode 179 on the Talking Chop podcast.

I am your host, Brad Rowland.

It's Sunday night a little bit, I guess, later than normal, but not crazy late.

And a lot happened this week.

And joining me to Chronicle, all of it is Scott Coleman.

What's up, man?

Yeah, for being past the trade deadline and kind of in the dog days of August,

usually the weeks get a little bit quieter and it's more just game-focused and preparing

for the playoffs.

But yeah, it was a pretty busy week, all things considered.

Certainly. And I promise we both tease this individually on Twitter.

We're going to talk about the bullpen.

That's going to happen in a little bit here.

I promise we did not forget about the bullpen.

We're coming back to it.

But as Scott noted, there was more news than you would expect in a post-deadline world in August.

So we're going to start with that, and we'll come back to the gameplay and the bullpen

and how ugly things got at times this week,

and I guess the long national nightmare that continues with that unit.

But we'll come back to that in a second.

First things first, this happened like almost seven-fold days ago,

but we have to talk about it because we did not talk about this last week

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