HR2 - Braves badly need Bryce Elder & Austin Riley to return to early season form
In hour two Ali Mac, Dylan Mathews, and Mike Johnson, quickly touch on some of the biggest headlines around the local and national sports scene, continue to react to NFL writer for CBS Sports Jared Dubin’s list where he ranks all 32 NFL supporting casts by grading play callers, offensive lines, and weapons to see which teams have set their quarterbacks up for ultimate success, talk about Jared ranking the Atlanta Falcons 12th out of 32 and putting them in the ‘Above Average Tier’, play a round of Fair or Foul for the halftime portion of the show, discuss if it’s fair or foul to think that the Atlanta Braves’ bad play in the month June cost Braves centerfielder Michael Harris II a spot in the 2026 MLB All-Star Game, and more. The Morning Shift crew also talks about how today is national Fry day, talk about how Mike has stopped eating french fries, continue to recap and react to the Atlanta Braves beating the Pittsburgh Pirates yesterday in Pittsburgh 10-5 in the final game of their three game series, talk about the Braves winning the series and taking two out of three games from the Pirates in Pittsburgh despite losing the first game of the series, talk about Braves starting pitcher Bryce Elder not having a great start again, and explain why they think Elder is once again proving that his career as a pitcher will be hot and cold.