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Morgan Stanley Smith, Barney, coming to you live and not. What's up, everybody, and welcome to episode 204 of the Talking Chop podcast.

I am your host, Brad Rowland, coming to you live and not from my normal studio.

So if it sounds a little bit funny, my apologies.

But this is an emergency podcast, so we have a little bit of additional leeway, I think.

And joining me this evening is the great Eric Cole.

What's up, ma'am?

And in some cultures, we'd be married. This is like two weeks in a row with an emergency podcast.

And, you know, speaking of being married, you know, I'm here because Scott got married.

Scott did get married.

Shout to Scott. Congratulations to Scott.

He, I guess, saw the Ozone signing that we're going to talk about because he tweeted about it right away and replied to me.

So that was funny. But yeah, we're recording this podcast on a Tuesday evening,

about 8.30 Eastern time because the Braves signed Marcel Azuna on Tuesday. And I want to say,

this is somewhat typical Braves fashion because the negotiations didn't really get leaked out

and all that stuff. But on the flip side, this was one of the primary options that we've discussed.

So this isn't quite as blind as we've been in the past on Alex Anthopoulos moves.

As we often do on this kind of thing, I'm going to ask you first, what was your first reaction?

I think I actually broke this news to you,

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