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Seven Rooms. Make Magic. Make money. What's up everybody and welcome to episode 283 of the Talking Chop podcast.

I am your host, Brad Rowland.

It is deep into the night here on Monday.

In fact, it will be Tuesday on the East Coast by the time we're done recording.

And because it's a very, very late hour, you know I'm joined by Scott Coleman, the West Coast correspondent.

Hello, sir. Brad, I totally jinxed tonight's game. We were cruising along through six or seven

innings. And of course, I thought, this is going to go to extra innings tonight knowing that

it was already going to be on the late side for you and of course it goes to the 10th and it felt

like the last three innings of tonight's game took like seven hours to complete but here we are

your pros pro doing this so late and there's some good stuff to talk about yeah good stuff in the

middle of a bunch of maddening losses.

That's been kind of the story of the season so far for the Braves.

It's like every game of loss has been pretty maddening slash frustrating.

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