What's up everybody and welcome to episode 181 of the Talking Chop podcast.

I am your host, Brad Rowland, coming to you live on a Monday night, and my apologies for the slight delay this week.

But I'll make up for it right now because I have a special guest in the podcast this week.

First time in a while, but a past guest, I wouldn't say frequent guest, but a pretty

regular guest of the podcast.

And his name is Zach Dillard of Fox Sports South.

What's up, man?

Disappointing guests, too, because since the time that we finalized this time for this

podcast, the Brazier 0-1s.

We've really messed things up for Atlanta by doing this podcast together.

Yeah, absolutely. We can discuss today's game as little or as much as we want to.

I've made fun of the existence of today's game plenty over the last three plus months,

and I advocated openly for them to take the skeleton crew to Denver, which they did not do.

In fact, they had someone actually come back and debut, not debut, I guess, return in that game,

which definitely surprised me in some ways, but we'll come back to that in a second.

There's been some transactions,

which isn't normal for August, especially in the post-deadline weirdness where now there's

only one deadline, but the Braves actually added pretty, I would say two pretty high-profile

names over the last week since I recorded last. So I have to ask you about them to get things

started here. Billy Hamilton is now

on this team and as is Francisco Cervelli, both of whom I think obviously Hamilton is a little bit

smaller of a move in some ways because he's just basically a pure role player at this point in time.

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