The truth of the matter is, anytime we have any kind of athlete on the bird show, I get a little on the smitten side.

And I just couldn't refrain from telling Chipper Jones that I had a guy crush on him.

Morning Chipper Jones.

How you doing, dude?

I'm doing all right, y'all.

There you are. What's going on, man?

Fishing the head out to the ballpark now at now

what time do you guys have to get to the ballpark to start practicing uh usually about seven o'clock in the

morning but we uh we had a night game last night so bobby uh allowed us to come in about uh 1030 today

let me ask you this chipper i know you've only been in the Braves organization, correct?

Correct. Correct. Because I know, you know, like, I'm from San Diego, so I've unfortunately had to root for the Padres year and a year out. So, I mean, it's been god-awful for 20 years. You've had a couple good years. Yeah, two good years, actually. And, you know, there's always this optimism around teams that really bite, really badly, that this is going to, anything can happen this year. This is going to be the year the Padres. This is going to be the year the Brewers. This is going to be the year, you know, Tampa Bay wins the World Series. You guys have a bit of a different attitude, I got to believe,

because you're constantly independent.

Well, we feel, you know, every year is going to be the year.

Obviously, we're probably a little spoiled, you know, and some of the success that we've had,

and that's the reason for the lofty expectations.

But, you know, I think it's good.

It's great for baseball that those teams, you know, have the optimism because, you know,

year in and year out, there's one team that is sort of the Cinderella and, you know,

a new kid on the block.

And, you know, who's to say what team that's going to be?

You know, obviously, if you stay healthy the whole season,

you have a couple guys, have career years, you know,

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