What's up everybody and welcome to episode 183 of the Talking Chop podcast. I'm your host,

Brad Rowland. It is Sunday evening. It is September. We are talking about Braves baseball and

joining me as often. Scott Coleman is here. What's up, man?

How's it going, Brad? It's been a couple weeks since I've been on just traveling and life and all that good stuff. So good to be back and obviously the Braves have been playing really well.

Sunday notwithstanding, they've been doing pretty fantastic over the last few weeks. So lots of

good stuff to talk about. Yeah, for sure. And while today's

game did not go particularly well, I sort of made a funny passing mention of how we have to talk

about today's game. We don't really have to talk about today's game much, but we'll come back

to some, we'll do more results a little bit later on the podcast. We're going to handle a little bit

of roster stuff early, just to kind of get it out of the way and we'll

push the game stuff because it was very very good as everybody I think knows if it wasn't in

this podcast we'll save that for the end and quickly what's I want to thank I want to thank

Eric for pulling double duty in the last couple weeks and also Zach Dillard for

pinch hitting for Scott because Scott just is too big for us that's all

traveling across the country brother weddings non Weddings nonstop, it seems like.

I understand.

All right, let's dive in a little bit here.

In addition to the big topics, which is what's going on on the field, there was roster expansion.

Kind of a slow trickle this week.

First, it was AJ Minter and Bryce Wilson coming up. Then it was

Adam Duval and the great Darren O'Day, making his long-awaited appearance on the roster. And then

Austin Riley came back on Friday, lined up with facing a lepti, which made a lot of sense of Patrick

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