00:00it is dukes and bell zeno is here guys uh you're going wait a minute you said you were worried
00:04you're concerned you're you're yes i am what the hell is going on with the braves
00:11this is going from bad to worse and everybody who's going to say well calm down we're almost
00:18to the all-star break day day don't even say it don't say be patient day day here's the deal
00:24guys
00:24when you've lost 17 in your last 24 when you're playing a team that's hit more home runs than
00:29you this season in the pirates when your starting pitcher last three and a third and in hurston
00:36waldrip last night what a disaster this has become and all of a sudden look you know i have been
00:43pretty optimistic all the way through this thing like oh well we'll be fine okay hold on let me
00:48run this down perez on the il strider on the il acuna making his way back smith charvert making
00:55his way back murphy making his way back lopez okay he looks good uh what else is going on oh
01:02there's a guy on this team that's not hitting the place third base and he hits every now and then
01:06what is going on with this team and oh by the way beyond chris sell we don't have a number
01:11two
01:12well because the two and three are all hurt i mean
01:16the only thing i can do is is hit the rewind button and ask you where you were in march
01:24because there was a lot of expectations in march that they would be better i don't know that there
01:30was expectations that they were going to run away with the division i don't know there was
01:33expectations they were going to jump out to a double digit lead as far as game in the standings
01:38but more that was a product of philadelphia having such a bad start not the braids necessarily being
01:44that much better than the phillies or the rest of the national league for that matter so yeah i
01:50understand the concern and i'm not saying you shouldn't be quote concern concern i am in panic
01:56mode well that's that's probably no no no no no no we had a 10 game lead yeah but again
02:01that's
02:02because the phillies decided to stumble out of the gate like a bad thoroughbred that's their
02:07problem it's not our issue so they got better and we got really bad well you we went through a
02:13it's a bad she had a bad june they're a bad month they were dead last and batting average
02:18ops and wrc plus in the month of june yes but what makes you believe that this is going to
02:23turn
02:24well exactly look you know the evidence is not there yet um and you're limping into the all-star
02:32break and it doesn't feel good and there aren't necessarily signs that things are going to get
02:39better um particularly because some of the guys you had hoped to rely on all season long are either
02:45hurt or not producing and that's problematic so it's justified but also again i mean for everything
02:52that that uh austin riley isn't doing michael harris is batting 308 again i mean that's you know
03:00that wasn't on your bingo card no it's a plus so you know where's drake baldwin uh drake drake drake
03:07drake's pretty good i mean he's at 253 15 bombs for a catcher that's not not terrible at this point
03:13crushing it at the beginning of the year he was carrying us but that's that's you know you have
03:17stretches where guys are hot for a month month and a half and then they and then you have a
03:20team that
03:20goes cold for a month well and the problem is everybody went cold at the same time and the
03:24injuries happened at the same time i just i would remind braves fans that if this was march 8th not
03:30july 8th and we said hey we want to be in first place at the all-star break and probably
03:36a couple
03:37games ahead of the phillies everyone would have said that's great position no one would have said
03:40that's a bad position to be in so that's the only context you can put this in where it feels
03:46good
03:46because nothing else feels good about it right now and i understand that um and the other thing
03:53and i don't know you know everybody keeps hearkening back to 21 when they won the world series
03:58and the moves that double a made everyone's hearkening or hoping and banking on the fact
04:03that double a should be able to fix this at the deadline uh i don't think you need to wait
04:09till
04:09the deadline to be honest with you at this point in time you need to start addressing things and and
04:13figure out what you're going to do you should have a pretty clear idea of at least from a pitching
04:17standpoint when these guys are going to be back and ready to go and what the likelihood is if you
04:21don't have answers on that then you got to make moves 4047-260929 um let me
04:29yeah thank you that's where i'm at and look you wake up you yeah because well i hope they do
04:35but you can tell me all you want we'll be fine we've been saying that for 30 plus days now
04:44you play every day in this league this is not a league like the nfl world all right next sunday
04:49we'll get after it oh the following sunday we'll get after you can lose two in a row three in
04:54a row
04:55in the nfl you lose five in a row falcon fans we know we've been there it feels different and
05:02when
05:02you've lost 17 in your last 24 it feels different regardless of the start real quick let me put this
05:08in perspective because i'm glad you brought the 21 season up i'm so i'm so glad you brought this up
05:13because i keep hearing it and you guys need to stop you need to stop when acuna goes down july
05:2110th
05:21and 21 okay we go get four guys to take his spot four seems excessive solaire rosario
05:33peterson jock peterson and duvall they were all done at different times okay so there was with
05:41kansas nobody even knew the hell who the hell he was rosario wasn't even playing guys he was hitting
05:47192 when we made the deal to get him from cleveland duvall comes from miami and we knew him so
05:53it felt
05:53good and then here comes jock peterson july 15th what i'm telling you is we became the first team
06:03ever with two postseason mvps who were acquired in the midseason those two mvps guys if you don't
06:09remember happen to be rosario in the nlcs and solaire in the world series guys that crap is not
06:16happening stop it it'd be hard to find that hit hit have lightning strike twice it's unrealistic
06:22so when we start talking about oh 21 and by the way i have all the confidence in alex but
06:28he can't
06:29fix everything yeah you got guys on your team and look zeno i've been saying this you got guys on
06:34your
06:34team that you've already paid that are not living up to the expectation you can't just go add another
06:40hundred million dollar player another 200 million dollar player and say oh there it is so there are guys
06:45who are going to have to do better at their job but do you also realize in 21 from those
06:49four guys
06:49we got 59 home runs from players who begin the season somewhere else that's not happening the
06:56the probability is very low i i think too the other sort of context or window dressing around this is
07:02if
07:03you look at july june 9th to now right that's the last last 30 days where which as you mentioned
07:08they're they're 7 and 14 so uh it hasn't been good that said it was against the mets the giants
07:18the white socks the cardinals and the brewers the crazy part is you took two or three from them one
07:23of the best teams in baseball and the brewers everybody else sort of beat beat you up and
07:27that's been part of the problem these haven't been great teams and the padres too you got swept by the
07:31padres forgot about them but you know i think in general it's just that's the difficult part is
07:37that the competition you played was inferior and you haven't you didn't sort of at least go 500 in
07:44that stretch you know if you're 500 in that stretch it's not a two-game lead it's a six-game
07:48lead
07:48right and everything feels and looks different that's just the unfortunate part but i still think
07:55for the most part there is a world where this is easily recoverable but you just have to assume
08:04the phillies are going to keep on coming and the reality is is that for the national league and
08:11you know particularly for the braves like does the division really matter yes yes and no yes unless
08:19you're the one seed you're playing three series regardless yes right you to get to the world
08:25series unless you're the one seed you're playing the wild card you're playing the ds you're playing
08:28the cs correct but i always want home field because we know what it's like to go to philly
08:32okay true but we know what it's like to have to go to la for the record this team has
08:36scored a lot
08:37more runs on the road this year than they have at home but i i hear you but yes it
08:41still matters
08:41i'm not telling you it's the end all but it would be a damn shame if we don't end up
08:46winning the
08:47division with the way this team has started and for whatever reason if you don't get everybody back
08:52everybody's just going to be okay with it and go question you know what it's okay we could be the
08:56wild card and you can but i would much prefer to win the division and have home field because we've
09:02been there but you know what you know what you're not going to have home field in what's that the
09:05lcs
09:07okay so that's not happening let's just let that pipe dream slip away because you're not going to
09:13catch the dodgers nobody is and in reality okay the if i asked you tell me the two teams in
09:20the
09:20postseason you're most afraid of you'd probably say philly and la that's correct okay you're going
09:25to see them regardless you're going to see at least one of the two of them if not both of
09:28them
09:29regardless so are you scared of milwaukee maybe i'm not you know they just have a lot of problems
09:35in the postseason you're scared of chicago no marlins no cardinals no d-backs if they can get
09:41their padres no like in reality i'm not you know the window dressing of winning the division
09:48certainly helps and it makes you feel better but the reality is you got to win three playoff series
09:54to get to the world series and one of them at least one is going to be against the dodgers
09:57yeah
09:57i want to give my team as much of an advantage as i possibly can that is why you play
10:02for home field
10:02if it doesn't matter again let's just go ahead and make the playoff rosters now
10:07and start the series is on the road let me ask you another question if you had okay let's just
10:13say
10:13he's killing me how am i killing you he's killing me you are being the most pragmatic sensible person
10:23about this situation when in fact the braves have collapsed okay that is what happens you know and
10:29you're acting as if it's not that big of a deal we'll be in the playoffs we'll still have to
10:33play
10:33three series and win give me a break this is that how i sound yeah well not exactly okay but
10:39this is
10:40a situation where i am wanting to have home court or home field advantage i want our stars to play
10:47like damn stars and they're not i want a pitching to be better and it's not and everybody's just
10:51putting this on alexanthopoulos as if he's got like some magical potion no i don't think he's got a
10:55magical potion it's not gonna happen but if i told you that you had a rotation heading into the
11:02playoffs all right you're where your top three what was it let me finish the question there is
11:08no rotation schwellenbach coming back who spencer coming back who schwellenbach coming back spencer
11:14stride strider strider 60 day il okay if i if i told you you had sale if you had the
11:20three s's oh my
11:21god sale strider and schwellenbach heading into the postseason how worried are you somebody help me
11:26out oh okay somebody help me out am i the only one who is it's thinking reasonable about this and
11:34is a little bit pissed off about the way this is going down do you want me to talk to
11:37you about the
11:38yankees nobody wants to hear it but you want me to tell you how miserable that experience is
11:40they're bad right now bad bad they're bad they're bad but you know what they're waiting on just like
11:45we are they're waiting on their star to come back yeah they're waiting on aaron judge to get back
11:49just like we're waiting on acuna to get back 404-726-0929 somebody help me out on this
11:56i mean the bats versus the arms braves 36 and 110 that's a 327 batting average at the plate in
12:04the
12:04last three games opponents in those three games are hitting 330 in a combined 29 runs the point is
12:10even when we're good we're not good enough it's dukes and bell mark zinno's in for mike
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