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Subscribe now. What's up everybody and welcome to episode 268 of the Talking Chop podcast.

I am your host, Brad Rowland. It's been two weeks. Nothing, and I mean nothing, has happened really, for the Braves,

at least that was not covered by Road to Atlanta last week, but we're due for a podcast,

and I'm joined on this fine Wednesday evening by Scott Coleman. Hello, sir.

Hey, Brad. How's it going? Good to be on. It's been a little while since I've been on for one of these, but hopefully it brings some luck. We, of course, have the history of any time we do a podcast. It seems like within 24 hours, sometimes not even. There's a move that's made, and who knows if that's going to be the case. But, hey,

if it means recording a podcast on this on this Wednesday evening, if it helps move things a little bit, I am all for it. Yeah, that is part of the appeal of doing a podcast tonight. Also,

we haven't done a mailbag for a while, so we're due for one of those. I would certainly encourage people that have not heard it yet to go back and listen to Road to Atlanta from last week.

That actually allowed us to not do a podcast a week ago because I wanted to let that one breathe.

Those guys led by Eric, of course, talked about the Rule 5 draft, all the affiliate information for the minor league stuff.

Really interesting stuff that I learned actually from that podcast.

So check that one out on this same feed and please subscribe to all of that. But as I said

before, that's really the only news and they covered that last week. Two weeks ago, it was Eric and I

talk about the non-tanner deadline. And the non-center deadline is the last piece of real news and that

was two weeks ago. So before we dive into some mailback stuff, there's a little bit of scuttle butt we can discuss,

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