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Subscribe now. What's up everybody and welcome to episode 218 of the Talking Chop podcast. I am your host,

Brad Rowland, and joining me as often and a voice you've heard as much as mine or more in the last

week and a half on this podcast network. Eric Cole is here. Hello, sir. Hey, Bradley. How are you doing?

I'm all right. We're hanging in there and people probably read the description of this podcast and know what we're going to talk about.

It's going to be a little bit on the negotiations and the standstill that we're under baseball-wise.

And then also the second half or so of the podcast will be mostly Eric's thoughts because everyone knows that my MOUE draft knowledge is not top-notch, but the draft

is this week. So we'll touch on that later on in the podcast. Before we get into that stuff,

we'll save, we won't be talking about baseball, I promise, but first and foremost, I would say,

in the last, you know, two weeks or so, we've not done a ton on this because of when our

podcasts were, you know, arriving essentially,

but there's been, you know, protests across the country in the wake of the death of George Floyd

and others and lots of, in my mind, anyway, I always speak for me, some moving displays of, you know,

protests and fighting, fighting racism, frankly, and fighting police brutality and

bigotry of all kinds and systematic racism. And I really have been moved by that. I think

it's really, really good that that's happening. And I stand alongside those people. The Braves put

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