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Smith, Barney, LLC, member SIPIC. E-Trade is a business of Morgan Stanley. Hello everyone and welcome to episode 350 of the battery power podcast. I am your host, Brad

Roland. It is Sunday, May 22nd. And I am joined as often by Eric Cole. Hello, sir. How are you on

this fine Sunday evening? I am doing okay, which is a pretty apt sort of way to be considering

how this week went. Yeah, doing well. How are you doing?

Yeah, that sounds about right. I'm hanging in there. We're getting close to Memorial Day,

which is, of course, the unofficial time where you can start checking the standings, although we've

kind of been doing that already on the show. And as I sort of noticed when I was preparing the podcast

today, the Braves have now completed a quarter of their season.

Obviously, it's not exactly a quarter.

It would be 60 and a half games, but they've played, sorry, 40 and a half games, but they've played 41 games.

So they're not past the first quarter of the campaign.

And I think no one would be thrilled with the way it's gone. They are,

of course, 19 and 22. Right now, they are on a 75 win pace, which is not what anyone drew up

for this season, particularly coming off the World Series and the high expectations as they were.

We'll get into it a little bit more later on, of course. But they are eight games behind

the New York Mets. And granted, it's the Mets, so anything is possible there. But still,

when you play a quarter of your schedule and you are an eight game hole, that's kind of ominous.

And speaking to what you just sort of alluded to,

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