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Subscribe now. What's up everybody and welcome to episode 284 of the Talking Chop podcast i am your host brad roland it is saturday

evening it's been a busy yet frustrating yet all kinds of things kind of weak for the atlanta braves

and i am joined today by eric cole hello sir yeah with a busy week uh in real life for me as well

this has been kind of a bit of a whirlwind sort of week

for kind of what's going on with the professional baseball club of record in Atlanta, Georgia.

It's been kind of a, yeah, it's been kind of a weird one. There's been a little bit of good,

but a lot of it's been that, you know, not so great. So we'll see. I guess we get to talk about it. Yeah, not so great indeed. You know, they finally, I should say, I'm not even sure that's the right frame, but

they finally did not have a four game winning or losing streak because they lost today.

They were sitting there.

Oh, yeah, they broke the pattern. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

They, of course, lost four row, one four in a row, and then we're on their way, you know, and lost four in a row

again, and then they were on their way, but then they, it fell short. Earlier today on Saturday,

just for some record-keeping stuff here, we're recording Saturday night because they play a

night game on Sunday, number one, which is always tough. And also, the Braves have a five-game

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