Hey, everybody, welcome back to the 12-6 podcast. I'm your host, Colin McHugh. It's February 2020. So you know what that means. That's right, baseball fans. Spring training is right around the corner. Report date is usually a bittersweet day in the McHugh household because it has meant in the past driving down to Florida on Valentine's Day or the day before. And if you follow me or my wife

Ashley online, you might know our yearly Valentine's Day tradition of eating dinner at some

random chilies along the way. But I'm still a free agent right now. So we'll see if I report

with the team in the next couple of weeks or if I get to spend a Valentine's Day at home for the

first time in nearly a decade.

Anyway, today's conversation is with someone who is right at the top of my dream guest list.

He's a Hall of Fame pitcher who played 22 seasons with the Atlanta Braves and my childhood

hero, John Smoltz.

We talk about our mutual 100 lost seasons, the drama behind the chick-stig the long ball commercial,

and if you stay till the end, you'll understand why you just heard Swedish pop band Abba in our intro.

So without further ado, I hope you enjoyed today's conversation with John Smokes. John, and sweet, only 17.

Dancing queen,

d'n't be from the tablo

John, thank you for being here, man.

I've told a lot of people about this,

and people have asked about the podcast a lot and thought,

if you could have anybody on here, who would it be?

Do you have a dream guest?

And I always said, I think it would be John Smoltz.

Well, thank you.

Yeah, so you're here now.

This is kind of a dream for me.

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