Hello, everyone, and welcome to episode 435 in the Battery Power podcast.

I am your host, Brad Rowland.

It is Sunday, January 28th, and I'm joined as I always am.

I'm my friend Scott Coleman.

Scott, how are you on this Sunday evening?

Hey, Brad, I am doing well.

I hope everybody out there is doing well.

Great weekend of football. And we're inching closer and closer to some real baseball.

So an exciting time, a busy time of the year on the sports calendar.

And we're really about two and a half weeks away now from pitchers and catchers reporting.

Yeah, we're almost there. And we should

timestamp this podcast. I am probably a little bit delirious. I just covered a Hawks game in

person and did a Hawks podcast and you watch football. And apparently the Detroit Lions pulled a

either a Detroit Lions or at Atlanta Falcons, how do you want to refer to that in the second

half of a football game today and on a pretty big stage?

But beyond that, like you just said, we're getting there.

We weren't sure we were going to do another like non-position preview podcast last week.

But we decided to do one more where we kind of rip up things beginning probably next week or something like that.

And I guess we just dive right in.

I mean, it's kind of an unofficial kickoff of

sorts. I don't want to overstate it because it's still just a fan event, but the first official

event on the Braves calendar for any given season is their fan fest slash Braves fest. It happens like,

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