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Is Spencer Strider's career following the path of Mike Soroka? The Morning Shift analyzes the Atlanta Braves ace's injury concerns and explores why a bullpen role might be the best option moving forward.
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00:00So we'll start with the Braves. Had some trouble in the pitching department. Which Braves pitcher
00:05has you more concerned right now? Spencer Strider or Hurston Waldrop? I'll go first here. Spencer
00:10Strider. When Alex Anthopoulos joined the steakhouse the other day and he was kind of,
00:18it was like, oh, can you update us on some of these pitchers? And he's like, well, Spencer
00:21Strider's not throwing. And I just don't know that we ever see the version of Spencer Strider
00:27we got a couple years ago. I don't know if that guy even exists. Hurston
00:32Waldrop, obviously there's a high level of concern about just because of the
00:36recency of everything and the news that broke just a couple days ago. But I don't
00:39know. I feel like the Spencer Strider thing to me is getting to the point of
00:46kind of getting to the Soroka
00:47level. You know what I mean? Where you're just like, God, I don't know if we ever see it.
00:51Yeah, I'm probably in the minority here. When he first came up, I said I thought
00:55he should be the closer because of his stuff. He only had, he didn't have enough
01:00pitches to me to be a starter. I would just throw him in the bullpen as a eight,
01:08a setup or a closer at some point in his career and be done with it. I don't know.
01:13I don't know how that's going to affect his arm, but this going out there and
01:16throwing a hundred pitches in five innings every fifth day ain't it, chief.
01:22Chief. So we got to figure something out. And I, so I'm, I'm more worried about
01:27Strider as well. Yeah. I want some information to come back because he was
01:31going to take four weeks off and then we're going to reassess. Yeah. We've heard
01:35nothing. Let's reassess. Let's reassess. Let's reassess. Which quarterback would you
01:38rather have? Gunnar Stockton, Arch Manning, or Trinidad Chambliss?
01:42This one's a, this is a really, this is a tough one. I'm going to, I'm going to go
01:48with Trinidad Chambliss. I'm going to go Trinidad Chambliss. I don't, Arch Manning's
01:52not in the conversation for me. He's just not. And look at the, what, look at the
01:57difference between Arch Manning and Trinidad Chambliss going against his Georgia
02:00defense last year. And to me, Trinidad Chambliss, now you can make the argument
02:05Gunnar Stockton's a gamer, but Trinidad Chambliss, the show he put on against
02:07Georgia, that was one for the ages. So I'm going to go with him.
02:12Trinidad Chambliss is a phenomenal player. To me, it's between Manning and Chambliss.
02:19And I'm going to go Manning only because I think the continuity of keeping
02:25Sark, obviously he, you know, I'm interested to see what Trinidad is going to do.
02:29And then you can, we can talk about the, the playoff run all we want, but I need
02:33to see him, you know, away from lane and with, with, with the new coaching staff.
02:39I need all that. See what it looks like. I would be blown away.
02:45Yeah. Arch Manning might be the all time bus if he doesn't come out and have a
02:48gangbuster type year because he's his, this is what for this is his, this is his
02:55fourth year. I think second full-time year, but I know, but I think it's third
02:58year at Texas. Yeah. He's, there's no way he didn't work with his uncles and his
03:05granddad at some point and like go through stuff and they didn't help him.
03:09And along with Sark, I would just be shocked if Arch Manning doesn't have a
03:11great year.
03:13Which dating app that we learned about yesterday, would you rather try your hand
03:17at? Even though I know none of us will ever have to use these.
03:20Smell dating or dead meat. If you need a refresher, smell dating is where you wear
03:26a t-shirt for three days, no deodorant, send it off. They send you back t-shirts
03:29and you pick the scent you like.
03:31And then dead meat, M-E-E-T, is where people who work in the death profession,
03:38taxidermists, funeral home directors.
03:40I, this is so bad. Floor's yours because I have nothing.
03:45I'll take the one that we hate things for 500, Allie.
03:49Hater.
03:50Between these two, I got to pick between these two?
03:52These two.
03:55I, I, I, I, I, you know what? I would, I don't want to smell people, but I'd
04:00rather see what you smell like than hear about the dead person you cut open
04:04today.
04:05I, I, I, yeah. I, the smell thing, like, I don't understand and I get it why you,
04:10why you don't wear deodorant. But like, to me, that's part of somebody's smell.
04:13You know what I mean? Like the smell thing, I think smells are really applicable in
04:17terms of how people meet and, and love and everything, chemistry. But like, I don't
04:21need the don't wear deodorant thing. Like, and I realize why that's important,
04:24but I don't know. I, I guess I'm picking that one too.
04:27Yeah. I agree with you on that though. I, I do a hundred percent believe that is
04:30part of the, for sure, the, the, the, the aroma, the draw. Like, you know, you,
04:35you walk, you know, I don't know. I'm not going to go down.
04:37Also, justice for funeral directors. I mean, justice for funeral directors.
04:43Dan Aykroyd and My Girl, come on, man.
04:45Yeah, but the funeral directors always also cut the bodies open.
04:49No, they're not morticians.
04:50No, they're more like the event planner.
04:52Oh, well, I mean.
04:53My thing is like, do the, do the morticians have to date other morticians? I mean,
04:56I guess they have to, we talked about this yesterday, but it's like a funeral
04:58director can date, can date like a principal.
05:01I don't feel like. Yeah. Yeah. It's also just if you're okay with it.
05:03Yeah, I guess.
05:03I don't feel like you find a lot of female, uh, funeral directors. Maybe I've just
05:07been in a wrong funeral home.
05:08Major Parks on Real Housewives of Atlanta. Thank you.
05:10I also feel like.
05:12My bad.
05:12I don't know. Like morticians wouldn't really want to date more. I mean, maybe they
05:16could, but like, would you really want, how was your day? You know.
05:19I don't know.
05:21They're probably not very lively, right?
05:24They're probably competitors.
05:25They're not very lively.
05:26Imagine if your spouse is a mortician. They come in from work. You're like, wash your
05:29hands.
05:32You got the most gnarly industrial soap of all time in your house.
05:36Oh my goodness.
05:37Which record would you rather break? The fastest mile that we talked about the
05:41other day, Josh Kerr at three minutes, 42.66 seconds, or the hundred meter,
05:45like Usain Bolt at 9.58 seconds.
05:49Oh, Usain Bolt all the way.
05:51Yeah, a hundred percent.
05:51Let me get this over with. I don't want to run for four minutes or three minutes
05:55before you say, let me go like 10 seconds or eight, whatever would break his record
05:59all day long.
06:00This is a hundred percent Usain Bolt. What's the guy's name? Josh what?
06:03Josh Kerr.
06:03Nobody's ever going to say Josh Kerr, the fastest man on the planet. No, that's not
06:07the conversation. Usain Bolt, fastest man on the planet.
06:11When we were in Jamaica, we drove by where he went to high school and our driver was
06:15like, hey, that's where Usain Bolt went to high school. And I was like, I was like,
06:19really?
06:19That's cool.
06:19I was all in. That's the only time I even interacted with the conversation.
06:23Yeah.
06:23But it took 27 years to break the fastest mile record. Like your record will stand longer
06:29or if you break the fastest mile, 2009 is when Usain Bolt did that.
06:3317 years, Allie.
06:34We're coming up on it.
06:35Yeah.
06:36Coming up hot.
06:37Yeah.
06:37Allie Mack, that's all fine and dandy about how long it takes the record and how long
06:41you're holding the record. Like that's all fine and dandy. But at the end of the day,
06:44let's be real. That record ain't getting you on the cover of no Wheaties boxes. It ain't
06:48getting you no Puma deals.
06:50Did you see Josh Kerr?
06:51It's probably getting you a Puma deal, though.
06:52I mean, maybe.
06:54It might get you a shoe deal.
06:55It might get you on the box of Wheaties. I don't know really where the box of Wheaties is at
06:58these
06:58days. Well, I just think the I even care the sexier, the sexier, maybe more lucrative record
07:07is Usain Bolt. So without a doubt, that was a good one. Which celebrity would be more cringe
07:13in a WWE match? Tom Brady, who's probably going to be in one or Dick Van Dyke, Tom Brady,
07:21Tom Brady all the way. Where did Dick Van Dyke come from? Like of all people,
07:27to find someone that would be more cringe. He's like 99.
07:30Chitty, chitty, bang, bang.
07:31Yeah, but wasn't that his, that was his lane, though, is being like doing awkward stuff.
07:35I mean, like Tom Brady is Mr. Serious, Mr.
07:39Yeah, for sure. You're right.
07:40Tom Brady tries to be funny or goofy. It's just like weird. I mean, I don't know.
07:45At least Dick Van Dyke's good at playing a role.
07:48Tom Brady, like you, you, you're supposed to be above this. I'm sorry. I know that that sounds
07:53like such a curmudgeon thing is that you're supposed to be above this. You know what I mean?
07:55Michael Jordan didn't, he didn't get in the ring during, during Monday Nitro. Like, let's
08:00just, come on, man. You're supposed to be above this.
08:02Dick Van Dyke is very good at tripping over an ottoman as well.
08:04Yeah, 100%.
08:05He's very good at it.
08:06He can look clumsy and just trip his way out of the ring.
08:08Dylan, this one's for you. Which Morning Shift member will be last to training camp on Wednesday
08:13next week?
08:15Oh, okay. So I'm assuming you are going to wait for each other in the parking lot like you
08:20did last year. And so it's a, it's a, it's a question of who's going to be last to the
08:24parking lot. Yeah. Who's going to be about last to the parking lot? We all know. Yeah.
08:28That person has to go the furthest. Yeah. I was going to say it's, it's both. It's definitely
08:33both, but he does have to go. Yeah. But you know, the funny part is, is we're all ridiculously
08:40early for sure. So, I mean, it's like being last ain't a bad thing. Well, we're going to
08:46see about that now. For whatever reason, since I've added breakfast back into my morning routine,
08:50I cannot seem to get it, get it down and get out of the door. Like it's just like some
08:55days it's just, it's longer than others. Hey, Dylan. Yes. Ask these, ask Mike, who was,
09:01who was last today? I was, that's what I was just about to say. I was last today. I was
09:05like, I couldn't get my, are you going to get my yogurt bowl together, man? Oh, so you're
09:10like preparing the breakfast. Yeah. I got the granola in there with the blueberries and strawberries.
09:14Like, come on, it's good. I feel that. But man, it just, I can't get it. No matter how much
09:18I move up my alarm clock, I still always fade back to the same time even before.
09:22My problem is I wake up at the same time every day and I have a, but there is like,
09:27there
09:27is, there is a stall in my morning where I'm like, like I'm all, like I, I, I got up
09:33this
09:33morning. I was like, man, I'm gonna be early today. And then sure is same time walking out
09:39the door. And I'm like, I know it's going to take me five, 10 extra minutes to eat my
09:44breakfast. For whatever reason, that thing just gets zapped and I can't make it out like
09:48I used to. This is probably why I love big brother so much. It's like, you get to observe
09:52human behavior and I just don't understand being late. Like I don't understand what happens.
09:57I would love to see what occurs because I don't get it. To be clear, neither one of us
10:06I just don't understand like how you wake up at the same time, but it, it fades back
10:10like that. I will say on Monday, on Monday, I was at the gate going into the parking deck
10:17and Allie was in my rear view and I was like, that's right. That's right. It was like, it's
10:22like 4 52 AM. I was like, that's right, Allie. Just learn, learn to take the back seat
10:27back there.
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