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Mac & Bone Show - Brandon Gaudin Interview · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Bit of Braves. What a series coming up starting tonight
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  Speaker 1: as the Braves host the Dodgers, two division leaders right now,
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  Speaker 1: two ridiculously talented teams, and I know so many Braves
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  Speaker 1: fans Bone are watching these games on Brave's Vision. Well,
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  Speaker 1: they've got expanded coverage for the Dodger series which includes
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  Speaker 1: Braves on Deck extended to a full hour six to
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  Speaker 1: seven tonight through Thursday, huge game to night, huge series.
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  Speaker 1: And the man that will call the action in this
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  Speaker 1: series at every darn I said, Darnbone Braves game, and
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  Speaker 1: now go make up for it. I'm oversweetening it every
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  Speaker 1: darn Braves game out there is Brandon Gordon, the voice
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  Speaker 1: of the Braves on their TV network on Brave's Vision,
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  Speaker 1: and he joins us here in Charlotte on the Mac
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  Speaker 1: and Bone Show. Brandon, what's going on, man? How you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Guys?
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing great. How are you doing? We're just glad
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  Speaker 3: to be here still, Brandon. It was it was icy
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  Speaker 3: there for a couple of minutes, but.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, that's all good, clean fun. You're good.
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  Speaker 1: Wiley would never you know what I mean right now,
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  Speaker 1: he would never do such a thing.
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  Speaker 3: Not sitting there with CJ or Frenchie or Glavin or
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  Speaker 3: any of these guys thinking, boy, this conna be it
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  Speaker 3: for us.
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  Speaker 4: We never have fun, We never toe the line.
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  Speaker 2: We just try to keep it just a.
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  Speaker 4: Nice fairway wood right down the middle. Oh man.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so let's let's talk about the Braves in
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  Speaker 1: this series. The one thing I will point out is
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  Speaker 1: they don't, you know, roll in with a lot of momentum.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's seven of the last ten they have
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  Speaker 1: lost in this ten game sample.
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  Speaker 4: Brandon, what what have you seen?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, listen, we saw, we saw the rough stretch
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  Speaker 1: before and then they bounce out of it and get
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  Speaker 1: on fire again. What are you seeing with his team?
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  Speaker 1: And where where do you think they need to pick
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  Speaker 1: it back up at?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the offense, There's no question they have not been
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  Speaker 2: hitting the ball very well here over the last couple
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  Speaker 2: of weeks. And that's kind of what happened in June,
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  Speaker 2: and then the calendar flipped the July and all of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden they were the best offense in baseball and
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  Speaker 2: the pitching everything just came together again like.
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  Speaker 4: It did earlier in the season.
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  Speaker 2: So is there mild concern anytime that this happens? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: but I think what I've learned that over there, And
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  Speaker 2: you hear this a lot, but it's not just a cliche.
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  Speaker 4: It's really just true.
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  Speaker 2: Over the course of one sixty two, you're going to
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  Speaker 2: have peaks and valleys. So you look at the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 2: Right after the All Star break, the Dodger struggled, and
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  Speaker 2: the Dodgers went through a stretch where they were not
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  Speaker 2: playing very good, and now all of a sudden they've
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  Speaker 2: won six in a row. The Phillies had lost I believe,
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  Speaker 2: nine of ten, and then all of a sudden they
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  Speaker 2: go on a nine game win streak. So I think
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  Speaker 2: what you're seeing right now is one of those dips
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  Speaker 2: for the Braves. But it's time to turn it around,
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  Speaker 2: and there's no time like the present. What's big about
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  Speaker 2: the Dodgers series, Well, there's a couple of things. Obviously
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  Speaker 2: it's the Dodgers, but what could come into play later
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  Speaker 2: in the year is ultimately the tiebreaker scenario. So you
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  Speaker 2: split three with Milwaukee, or there's split six, I should
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  Speaker 2: say with Milwaukee, and right now you're up to one
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  Speaker 2: over the Dodgers, and if you could find a way
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  Speaker 2: to take two or three and hold the tiebreaker over
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  Speaker 2: the Dodgers. It could really come into play later in
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  Speaker 2: the year because those top two playoff spots they're coveted,
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  Speaker 2: and they're coveted for a reason to get a little
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  Speaker 2: extra breathing room after the regular season ends. So that's
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  Speaker 2: another reason that this upcoming series is so critical for Atlanta.
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  Speaker 3: Brandon, as you know well, one of the dominant discussion
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  Speaker 3: points of this MLB season is the Dodgers, and they're
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  Speaker 3: never ending. Whether it's a spending spree or acquiring talent
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  Speaker 3: via trade like Scooble, it just never seems to end.
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  Speaker 3: Are you on the side of, yeah, this has gotten
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  Speaker 3: to the point where it's really hurting the sport, or
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  Speaker 3: do you look at it as, hey, the Dodgers are
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  Speaker 3: just they're able to do it and they're allowed to
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  Speaker 3: do what they're doing. Or do you have the take
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  Speaker 3: of this is really ultimately not good for baseball.
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  Speaker 2: So I think there's two sides to this coin. Overall, overarching,
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  Speaker 2: I think that baseball needs to find a way to
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  Speaker 2: rain this in and I do think that that will
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  Speaker 2: happen this offseason and we'll see how that all plays out.
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  Speaker 2: The part that I don't agree with is when people
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  Speaker 2: say that the Dodgers are cheaters or they're mad at
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  Speaker 2: the Dodgers. You shouldn't be mad at the Dodgers. The
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  Speaker 2: Dodgers are playing within the rules. The Dodgers that they're
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  Speaker 2: doing what they should if they've got the money and
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  Speaker 2: it's legal to go out and buy all these players. Well,
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  Speaker 2: that they're GM and their front office is hired to
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  Speaker 2: win the World Series every year. So absolutely, if i'm them,
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  Speaker 2: I go out and get Trek Scoble, if I am able,
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  Speaker 2: and absolutely I assemble everybody that I can and pay
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  Speaker 2: Otani all the money that he's paying. They can afford
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  Speaker 2: to do it, and I think I would.
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  Speaker 4: Look.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have access directly to their books, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: pretty sure that they're making money while doing all of this,
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  Speaker 2: even though they're spending a lot, because they're the Dodgers,
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  Speaker 2: and because there is so much international interest in a
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  Speaker 2: guy like Otani and Yamamoto and Sasaki, So it's just
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  Speaker 2: good business. So I think the people that are getting
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  Speaker 2: mad at the Dodgers, I don't think that that's fruitful
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  Speaker 2: or worthwhile. But I do think that it's gotten a
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  Speaker 2: little out of control to where a team like that
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  Speaker 2: has an advantage that some of these smaller market clubs
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  Speaker 2: just cannot ultimately compete within the long term. And I
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  Speaker 2: think that's where baseball needs to come together this offseason
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  Speaker 2: and try to figure out what ultimately is best for
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  Speaker 2: the game and not just call it the top one percent.
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  Speaker 4: We're talking with Brandon Gordon.
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  Speaker 1: He is the voice of the Braves and he will
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  Speaker 1: have a front row seat for Braves Dodgers starting tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Braves on deck on. Brave's vision is an hour for
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  Speaker 1: all these games. They're doing it big for this Braves
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers series. And Brandon, you talked about in this last
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  Speaker 1: ten games or so stretch the offense. I mean they're
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  Speaker 1: around two and a half runs a game during that stretch.
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  Speaker 1: To your point, when the trade deadline passed, though, I
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  Speaker 1: know Braves fans were, you know, they wanted a bigger
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  Speaker 1: name starting pitcher. They added Mally and my god, he's
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  Speaker 1: actually pitched pretty damn well since he's been added. How
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  Speaker 1: do you feel about the starting rotation? Is there enough
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  Speaker 1: there for when you get to October Baseball? How do
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  Speaker 1: you feel about it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I was surprised that there wasn't a
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  Speaker 2: starter added too, and I didn't have any inside information.
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  Speaker 2: I do have a great relationship with Alex Santopolis. I
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  Speaker 2: think she's a wonderful general manager. I would be surprised. Look,
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  Speaker 2: there's some things and I don't have any inside information
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  Speaker 2: here from Alex. I want to be clear on that,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm not saying this comes from him. I would
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  Speaker 2: be surprised if he didn't take big swings at starting
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  Speaker 2: pitchers that unfortunately just did not come through for whatever reason.
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  Speaker 2: So I know that after the fact, if you're Alex,
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  Speaker 2: you have to stand there and say, hey, we did
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  Speaker 2: what we thought we needed to do, and we believe
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  Speaker 2: in the guys we have. That's your job. But I
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  Speaker 2: would be surprised if he didn't take swings at other
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  Speaker 2: pictures that unfortunately just didn't come to fruition. So I
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  Speaker 2: was surprised too, because I thought that that frontline starter
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  Speaker 2: seemed like the obvious go to. Now Mally has pitched
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  Speaker 2: extremely well and hopefully that will continue. I will be
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  Speaker 2: fascinated to see what the Braids do after Chris Sale
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  Speaker 2: four games two or three for a series. Now here's
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  Speaker 2: the one thing I will say, and you guys know this,
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  Speaker 2: but baseball has changed, right the twenty five years ago
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  Speaker 2: of throwing Glavin eight innings to get to your closer,
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  Speaker 2: or small seven innings to get to a setup man
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  Speaker 2: and a closer, those days are pretty much gone for
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  Speaker 2: everybody in the postseason. The Dodgers have won the last
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  Speaker 2: couple of years with yes, they've had excellent pitching, but
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  Speaker 2: what they've done. You see what they did in Game
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  Speaker 2: seven last year. Your starter goes three, another pitcher comes
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  Speaker 2: in and goes four or five to six. And the
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  Speaker 2: Braids do have a really, really good bullpen, And so
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  Speaker 2: when you get the rest, the extra rest that you
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  Speaker 2: do in a postseason, if you've got a guy like
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  Speaker 2: Diddier Fuintz who can come in and give you a couple,
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  Speaker 2: Dylan Dodd who can give you a couple, Dylan Lee
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  Speaker 2: and the Brave have those pieces. They need to get
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  Speaker 2: Robert Torres healthy, and it looks like they're going to.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm not as concerned maybe about the starting pitching
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  Speaker 2: as other people are, because of the reliance of the
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  Speaker 2: modern day on the bullpen in the postseason and how
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  Speaker 2: the schedule lays out.
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  Speaker 4: So we'll see, we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: But bottom line, it will be very interesting to me
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  Speaker 2: to see what the Braves do starting pitching wise, after
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  Speaker 2: Chris Sale in game one of a series.
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  Speaker 3: Rannon, what's led to the struggle at least average wise?
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  Speaker 3: It's your of Austin Riley? And is there any hope
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  Speaker 3: down the stretch? I know he's moved down the order,
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  Speaker 3: but is there any hope down the stretch that vintage
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  Speaker 3: Austin Riley? Could you up here and help carry this thing?
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  Speaker 2: Well? I want to say yes, because it would be
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  Speaker 2: huge and it's certainly part of the reason that the
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  Speaker 2: offense has struggled here as of late. He has had
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  Speaker 2: two separate stints this year for two weeks. Both were
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  Speaker 2: two week stretches where it looked like he was fully
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  Speaker 2: coming out of this and all of a sudden he
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  Speaker 2: was slugging. He was hitting balls really hard, hit a
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  Speaker 2: couple of balls over the wall, and he thought, man,
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  Speaker 2: that's Austin Riley. And then unfortunately the swing and myths
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  Speaker 2: comes back in the game and he's going through another
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  Speaker 2: one of those stretches right now. But look, I wish
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  Speaker 2: that I had the magic formula. I wish I had
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  Speaker 2: the answer. I know. Hitting coach Tim Hyers says that
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  Speaker 2: nobody and I see it down at the cage. Nobody
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  Speaker 2: is working harder than Austin Riley. So you know, sometimes
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  Speaker 2: these guys press and they want it so bad that
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  Speaker 2: you can kind of dig yourself in a deeper hole.
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  Speaker 2: But man, if he could flip the switch somehow or
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  Speaker 2: at least show more consistent spurts than those two week stretches,
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  Speaker 2: it would really go a long way to linked in
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  Speaker 2: this offense. But I also think I also think the
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  Speaker 2: Braves really need to get a.
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  Speaker 4: COONa going offensively.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, by and large, you look back at the
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  Speaker 2: twenty three season that was so amazing, and with the
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  Speaker 2: health issue since then, when he's been on the field,
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  Speaker 2: he just hasn't been able to perform at that same level.
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  Speaker 2: You know what he can do when he puts it
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  Speaker 2: all together, And so that is a guy to me
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  Speaker 2: that if the Braves are ultimately going to get things,
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  Speaker 2: I would say going offensively back in the right direction.
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  Speaker 2: He's got to be that threat toward the top of
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  Speaker 2: the lineup that he always has been earlier in his career.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, he is Brandon Gordon, Voice of the Atlanta Braves.
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  Speaker 1: Watch the big series against the Dodgers starting tonight on
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  Speaker 1: Brave's Vision six o'clock, a full hour for braves on deck,
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  Speaker 1: and it's a seven game homestand too if you want
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  Speaker 1: to make the trick to Atlanta, support your bravos. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: so much Brandon for coming on enjoy this series.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 2: We appreciate you absolutely. Guys, thanks for having me.