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Atlanta Sports Outlook: Braves in Postseason, Falcons Host Bucs
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10/2/2024
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00:00
We go to Chris D'Amino from the fan in Atlanta, and they got a lot of stress in Atlanta today
00:09
with the Braves up against it tonight at Petco in the final game of the Wild Cards on a Wednesday
00:16
night at around 830 East, 530 West at Petco.
00:22
We'll get into Max Fried Chicken in a minute, Chris.
00:25
I want to talk about Monday first with you.
00:29
What did you think when you saw them up 3-0 in the eighth inning, give up six runs, and
00:38
then, you know, Nimmo hit the shot above the chop house, a bomb, then the Albies double
00:44
off the wall.
00:45
They score four runs and take a 7-6 lead.
00:48
And then when Doar hits that bomb to the bullpen in right center, and the Mets win the game
00:55
8-7 and Diaz closes the door, they celebrate, they get drunk, then the Braves have to win
01:02
game two.
01:04
They win, they get drunk, then they got to fly six hours to San Diego.
01:10
And I thought they looked lifeless last night.
01:13
But what did you think of Monday and the toll it took on the Braves?
01:17
Yeah, so everybody who kept telling me whoever wins the first game is going to lose the second.
01:22
And I didn't really understand that because anybody playing, that's a 1-0 game.
01:27
You're a three-run poke away from actually being down in the game that, wink, wink, you're
01:31
supposed to win.
01:32
I'll tell you what happened to me, and I don't do a lot of questioning, managers got to figure
01:36
out what they got, they know who's ready and who they can use out of the bullpen.
01:40
But Ronaldo Lopez was used in game two because he had to be, which was basically a side session
01:45
because if there's a game three tomorrow, he starts that one.
01:48
I would have pitched him in the ninth inning in the first game instead of having Pierce
01:51
Johnson out there.
01:52
It's the only thing I didn't understand.
01:54
Francisco Lindoor is better than Pierce Johnson.
01:56
The fact that that happened is not shocking to me.
01:59
You had the guy on the mound you didn't really want on the mound at the end of that game,
02:04
so it doesn't play out.
02:05
The second game, you're just nervous that some backup second baseman that doesn't know
02:09
any better, he's going to go hit the three-run double, and you're going to end up going home
02:14
instead of going out to San Diego.
02:16
So it was a little bit more nerve-wracking than I wanted it to be.
02:20
And I found out, and I didn't, I found out Chris Sayle wasn't going in game two earlier
02:24
than everybody else for a reason.
02:27
And I texted a couple of guys and said, I can't tell you anything, but wait till you
02:29
hear what's about to happen between games.
02:31
And that was Alex Anthopoulos saying Chris Sayle can't go.
02:35
So then all of a sudden, people in the building didn't know quite honestly until they threw
02:38
the lineup up on Twitter, their social media account, there was no Chris Sayle.
02:43
And I think for a minute, everybody was like, well, sort of like last night, I got a 21-year-old
02:47
going out to San Diego, and AJ Smith-Scharber to throw that game.
02:51
All of a sudden, game two didn't feel as good as it would have been had Chris Sayle been
02:55
on the mound for it.
02:57
So if they lose tonight, they're finished.
03:00
And his triple crown season basically is one he can brag about to his kids and his wife.
03:07
And other than that, it won't matter.
03:09
I mean, honestly, he'll get a Cy Young, and it won't matter.
03:13
Their season ends because he couldn't pitch.
03:16
It's like returning to Boston again with this guy with the injuries.
03:19
What is wrong with him?
03:20
Is his back really fried?
03:22
Yeah.
03:23
So he was down about four miles an hour the last start.
03:27
And everybody kept saying, oh, maybe it's his arm.
03:30
But I believe it's his back.
03:32
And it's one of those where you wake up and you go, OK, how do I feel today?
03:34
Well, I can't go get a side session in.
03:37
Now all of a sudden, even if he felt great tomorrow and you said, or today, fly him out
03:42
to San Diego, he hasn't thrown a baseball enough.
03:46
Now, I will tell you, based upon the way he's attacked it this year, this has got to be
03:50
killing him.
03:51
It's got to be.
03:52
And Scotty, I agree with you.
03:53
Whether it's Otani, whether it's Judge, whether it's Lindor, whether it's Jackson Merrill,
03:56
Churio, everybody starts at 0-0.
03:59
Everything is gone in October, and you have to prove it all over again.
04:03
It would be incredible if after all the injuries this year, the one given that you had, and
04:08
he was the one given that you had, he's not able to go at all in a postseason series that
04:13
you get bumped.
04:14
It would just be, I don't want to say fitting as to how this year went, but it would be
04:18
closer to fitting than anything else.
04:21
They have, I think, been really average with all of the problems that they've had with
04:27
injuries.
04:28
And it's not your fault, my fault.
04:30
It's nobody's fault.
04:31
It's not their fault.
04:32
They had a brutal season.
04:34
And when you don't have a cunea, and it goes on and on, and now you lose this guy, it's
04:41
almost like the writing's on a wall that it was just never meant to be.
04:44
Now I have to ask you, I already said on this show today that I don't believe Max has been
04:51
the Max Fried that everyone knows.
04:54
I think a few years ago, he was way better than he is now.
04:58
I think he's not dominant.
05:00
And I just think that his numbers reflect that.
05:04
And I'm surprised.
05:05
People are like, oh, they got, you know, Snickers said, we got the best pitcher going
05:09
and tonight we just need to win one game.
05:12
The guy, Musgrove's favorite over him.
05:15
He's like, minus about 18, minus about 20, whatever it is.
05:18
And that team is for real that you're playing.
05:21
Like they barely had to try last night and they beat you four nothing.
05:24
This guy's a tough customer tonight.
05:26
Do you think Fried can step up and win this game, or is it going to be another average
05:30
performance by him?
05:31
Yeah.
05:32
Well, he's got a 671 percentage going into his first free agency year.
05:36
And what he needs is two GMs, two.
05:40
He'd like five, but he needs two GMs not to think the way that you think.
05:43
That at 30, now moving forward, he's not worth X amount of money, Rodon money, and maybe
05:48
a little bit more.
05:49
Because he's been a better pitcher for his career than Carlos Rodon, who got $160 million.
05:54
That should be the starting point.
05:56
Don't have a good outing tonight.
05:57
I don't know how much it changes his money, but it certainly is going to change a little
06:01
bit of the narrative.
06:02
I can tell you he threw last Friday against Kansas City, who needed to win eight and two
06:08
thirds, nine punch outs, two walks, no runs.
06:10
It was phenomenal.
06:11
It was ace stuff.
06:14
And I keep telling everybody that night we were doing a pregame.
06:16
And then again tonight when I do the pregame, he can't look like an ace.
06:20
He actually has to be an ace because that line by San Diego is favored.
06:24
That's the Braves offense.
06:27
Everybody has picked up on what the Braves offense isn't.
06:29
They're terrible with runners in scoring position, atrocious.
06:32
They still were fourth in Major League Baseball on home runs.
06:35
As a guy who watched every game, I can tell you it didn't feel anywhere close to that
06:39
because man on third, less than two outs, nothing.
06:42
Second and third, one out, nothing.
06:44
That's been going on all year.
06:45
Their numbers, they went through a stretch where they were three for 29, runners in scoring
06:50
position, trying to ensure a postseason spot.
06:53
So that number is must grow, but it's also must grow up against this Braves offense this
06:56
year.
06:57
Very interesting.
07:00
Let me ask you, do you think they're going to lose tonight or do you think they're going
07:05
to win in San Diego and keep their season alive?
07:08
So my favorite thing in baseball is the three-run homer.
07:13
And I know you guys are talking about deficits, down two-nothing, down three-nothing.
07:17
That seems insurmountable now, whereas last year it was whatever, three runs in a fourth
07:21
inning.
07:22
I got plenty of that.
07:23
They struck out 15 times last night, and I'll do the basic math.
07:26
That means you had five innings of nothing.
07:28
You had four innings to find runs, and they're not a good enough offensive team to do that.
07:32
Could Loreano hit one out?
07:33
Could Soler hit one out?
07:34
Could Ozuna hit one out?
07:35
Absolutely.
07:36
You're going to have to, because playing small ball and winning, that's not really what this
07:40
team could do.
07:41
I like them enough today because I've seen them with their back up against the wall,
07:45
but Scott, here's the difference.
07:46
They don't thump anybody.
07:47
They don't win three games in a row by beating the dog out of people.
07:51
It's just not who they are, which means their margin of error is really smaller and thinner
07:56
than it's been for the last few years around here.
07:58
I got, respectfully, a minute.
08:00
What do you think of the Falcons tomorrow night at home against Baker Mayfield in that
08:04
offense with Evans and Godwin, and the Bucs are pretty tough?
08:08
Yeah, the problem is the Falcons' offense isn't.
08:12
$100 million quarterback, three top 10 picks, and they didn't score a touchdown.
08:15
Now, they won the game, but they've been involved in two games.
08:18
Pittsburgh didn't score a touchdown against them, and Pittsburgh won.
08:21
It's really kind of strange that it's happened to this team two times in four weeks.
08:24
I wish I trusted the offense more.
08:26
I just don't.
08:27
I don't know if it's a learning curve.
08:28
I don't know if it's play calling.
08:30
The first week was a disaster.
08:31
That was just nobody really understood what happened, but if you can't score touchdowns
08:36
in this league, you're asking your defense to do too much.
08:39
There's been too many three and outs.
08:40
They are on a six for 27 stretch trying to pick up third downs.
08:45
Two for nine, three games in a row is what they did, and you don't win football games
08:50
doing that.
08:51
You've got to get into the end zone.
08:52
Thank God they got a kicker who can hit a 58-yarder at the end of the game.
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