Chris Domino Talks Braves' Struggles and Phillies' Rise

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00:00Chris Domingos, our good friend from Atlanta and our source for everything in Atlanta from

00:08the fan in Atlanta 680.

00:10Chris, good to see you as always.

00:13What is it like seeing the Braves suffer through all these injuries and watch the Phillies

00:21doing what they're doing?

00:22Because it was always the Braves that were owning the division, the Braves that were

00:26the best team, and then they'd lose to the Phillies in the playoffs.

00:31And now the Phillies are better than the Braves, and the Braves have all these problems.

00:36But think about this, they win the World Series in 2024 and do the 10-year reunion and talk

00:41about all the things that went wrong until they went right.

00:44It'll be a better story if they're able to do more than they've done the last couple

00:47of years.

00:482021, there was no expectation because they weren't a very good baseball team.

00:52They were a very good baseball team.

00:53They're talented now, but less talented.

00:56And we know Philadelphia is going to make a play.

00:58Scott, listen, I know you know the game of poker.

00:59My analogy is you're playing poker, but your whole cards are up because everybody knows

01:05you need a starting pitcher.

01:06They know you want a corner outfielder.

01:08Ozzie goes down and all of a sudden you might want an infielder.

01:11You don't get to play the cat and mouse game that usually comes with poker.

01:14You don't get to bluff anybody.

01:16Everybody knows what it is you want.

01:17Fewer sellers than really ever before.

01:19So Alex Anthopoulos has pulled off some good ones.

01:22It's a different set of circumstances to try to go make this team better by the trade

01:25deadline.

01:26So you're not, uh, you don't think they can catch Philly.

01:31You're just get that wild card, get in and see what they do.

01:34Yeah, I can tell you back in February, I went down to Florida and I said, I don't care.

01:38It's just another little banner they hand up on a light tower, like in February that

01:42says you want a division.

01:43It's a certain color.

01:44Could care less.

01:45That is not necessarily paid the bills around here with one world series and one world series

01:49going back to the old days with 14 straight divisions.

01:52Nobody's conceding anything, but I don't think anybody really cares at this point because

01:56we've seen the way it can be played with Arizona, Texas, and a whole bunch of other teams recently.

02:01You don't have to be the best team in baseball to play in the world series.

02:04What about Chris sale?

02:06What's it been like watching him dominate personality wise?

02:10He's everything you could ask for.

02:11I love the fact that he apologized to the Red Sox organization and Red Sox fans because

02:16it didn't go well the last few years.

02:18This version of him has been a blast to watch.

02:21First half Cy Young award winner.

02:22If there's a first half comeback player of the year award winner, he's that as well.

02:26Scotty, he's such a different guy on game day.

02:30He's sort of, he's got presence.

02:32He's never, you know, the story with him.

02:33He's never shaken off anybody in his life ever.

02:36He's never shaken off a catcher ever because his whole thing is I want to throw with conviction.

02:41Every pitch has to be with a hundred percent conviction.

02:44If I think he thinks we're not on the same page, I might throw it at 80%.

02:47He doesn't think that's really good for any pitcher to do.

02:51This has worked really well for him and he's obviously healthy again.

02:55Chris D'Amino with us from the fan in Atlanta.

02:57Always good to have him on coast to coast.

02:59The Falcons have Kirk Cousins and some lofty expectations in hot town and around the league

03:05and with betters.

03:06I mean, they're getting all the action in that South.

03:10Yeah, look, it's hopefully addition by subtraction because for all, you know, I'm not a shot

03:15taker.

03:16I don't want to ready fire aim on guys who are out of town, but it didn't work with the

03:20last head coach.

03:21Who was supposed to be an offensive genius.

03:23If this was the play card, this is what it looked like every day in the sideline.

03:27B.

03:28John Robinson was non-existent.

03:29You certainly didn't do anything to help the quarterback out over the course of the year.

03:33So this group being in, including with Zach Robinson, the OC, here's the good news.

03:37Bad news.

03:38It could be so good this year that you lose Zach Robinson.

03:40He becomes a head coach someplace else, but I'd love for it to be that because that would

03:44mean you're going to the playoffs.

03:45And I do think with Kirk Cousins, anything short of that, plus with the new system in

03:50plus a new defensive coordinator, this team should be better than they've been for the

03:53last five or six years.

03:55So everyone down there is stoked that they got cousins.

03:59Oh yeah.

04:01Look, they knew that they needed an upgrade.

04:03Desmond Ritter just drove people crazy.

04:04He drove the building crazy too.

04:06Nice guy just wasn't ready.

04:08Marcus Mariota a couple of years ago up and quit.

04:10It has not worked around here since Matt Ryan's heyday.

04:13Obviously, Kirk Cousins is a bonafide.

04:15You know, he was as good as anybody in the league the first half of the year before he

04:18got hurt.

04:19This guy smells like 30 and 10.

04:21You go 30 and 10 B.

04:22Sean Robinson becoming a factor in this thing the way he wasn't last year.

04:26This is a team that look, the defense isn't great, but they might outscore you 30 to 24,

04:3128, 24 and everybody around here will take that now.

04:35So my Steelers got Art Smith to be their offensive coordinator and I want to jump in the river.

04:42What do they think of him down there?

04:45Oh, listen, I didn't want to do this, but Coach Moron, I mean, you know, play sheet

04:50guy.

04:51This is, this was a disaster.

04:52I've never seen a guy get a job because he could do something and all of a sudden forget

04:56about B.

04:57Sean Robinson, not pimp.

05:00Kyle Pitts to be a better player.

05:01Never really used Drake London.

05:03It was amazing around here, Scott.

05:04I'm not kidding.

05:05Listen, I don't know what he'll be back as an offensive coordinator.

05:08He wasn't a guy who on game day could run the whole ship.

05:11Guaranteed because that either was too fast for him.

05:15He didn't figure things out in three years.

05:16How you win NFL games as a head coach.

05:19He might be better going back to the OC, but nobody around here is really going to miss

05:23what they didn't have, which was an offense that was supposed to be better.

05:26So the Kirby Smart Bulldogs are everyone's feared team in college football favored to

05:35win it all again, favored to win the SCC again, 23 players popped for reckless driving or

05:43speeding or causing trouble.

05:46I compared it to Dukes of Hazzard on this show and Daisy Dukes and the general Lee.

05:53I said, if I lived in Athens, Georgia, I'd drive fast too.

05:57And what a whiskey bottle hanging out of the, you know, passenger side.

06:02What is the season going to be like for him with these expectations that they never lose

06:07a game ever?

06:08Yeah.

06:09So not making a playoffs last year could end up being a really, you know, if you play that

06:13game of you tasted it, you tasted it.

06:15A bunch of guys still here have tasted winning last year, not being in a playoff, some short

06:19burn them.

06:20This is a really good coaching staff.

06:22It's a really good recruiting machine.

06:25The driving thing has just gotten ridiculous.

06:27I'll push that aside for a second.

06:29This idea of Texas and Oklahoma coming in with no divisions, people might not know that

06:33there are no divisions down here.

06:35Now some schedules are going to be harder.

06:36Some are going to be easier.

06:38Oklahoma's already claiming that they got the hardest schedule in Texas did, but I think

06:42it sets up for three teams.

06:44Certainly being in part of the 12, you don't have to win the division.

06:47You don't have to win the sec championship game, no divisions.

06:51You can be the third best team in the sec or lose that game.

06:54And still, I'm assuming you're going to get in.

06:56There are people that have visions of four teams being part of the 12 game playoff or

07:0012 team playoff down here.

07:01And that's not unreasonable.

07:04Do you think that Ole Miss is the third team or someone else?

07:09Yeah.

07:10I think Ole Miss is probably the one.

07:11I think LSU has probably got a shot even though they lose the quarterback.

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