Thank you.

I'm going to What's going on, everybody.

As you can tell, this is not Brad Rowland.

Normally his dulcet tones are the ones

that are gracing these airwaves when we're on the Talking Chop podcast. My name is Eric Cole. You may

recognize me from a workover at Talking Chop. We're on the deputy site manager and minor league editor.

This is a little bit of a different podcast. We weren't actually planning, at least as far as I'm aware, to have a podcast this week

because Brad wasn't going to be available Sunday, and we had kind of covered a lot of the news,

other than the non-tenders, which we'll kind of talk about in a little bit.

But we did have some news today.

So joining me this evening is Scott Coleman.

You can follow me, him on Twitter at Scott Coleman 55, and we're going to sit down and talk about the big signing of the Braves for the Braves today

of Cole Hamels. Uh, it's touching on the non-tender decisions also from earlier this week as well.

Scott, how are you, man? I'm good. I was under the assumption. This was the, uh, the Raphael

Ortega released podcast and not the Cole Hamill's podcast and I am not prepared at all.

Yeah, that's what you get for me in the Central Times Zone being all messed up and just assuming that, you know,

that we're going to talk about Raphael Ortega and then just read and then what I was originally

planning on was just reading all the angry tweets I got about Charlie Culverson being untendered. Yeah, that would have been actually been high comedy. I got some really angry ones,

really angry ones, really, some very upsetting DMs and things like that. And I was like, okay,

that's what we're, that's what we're doing today. That sounds awesome. But fortunately, we don't

have to do that. We're just going to get right down to it

This isn't going to be particularly long podcast

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