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Seven Rooms. Make Magic. Make money. Hello everyone and welcome to episode 286 of the Talking Chop podcast.

I am your host, Brad Rowland.

It is Sunday evening, May the 2nd, and I am joined as often by Eric Cole.

Hello, sir.

Sir, it is very soon to be Meyer League Baseball season, and I am here to talk about Major League Baseball, so it's a good day.

How are you?

Yeah, I mean, better than the Braves.

We'll talk about the Braves, obviously, on this podcast throughout.

It was a positive start to the week.

They won three games in a row, and then they lost the last four.

We'll get into all of that stuff.

I want to ask you at the top, though, where your meter is on the panic meter?

Because this is almost a bit every week segment right now because somehow even when

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