Rome

Well, I think it's important.

This is something people are hearing about in great cities like Florence, Rome and Venice, aren't they?

Well, we had a little bit of a new sandwich that we put as a secret menu item.

You know, hopefully it'll be successful.

I think it was in Florence.

Florence.

and at Rome, but it was Rome, Georgia, Florence, Kentucky, and Naples, Florida.

So these were distinctly American Italian cities.

what is going to come of all this, man.

You remember there used to be a long time ago a traffic camera at the Kmart in Rome.

Yeah, yeah.

And it got to be a big fuss, and they took it down.

Okay, we got a question from John on Braves outfielder Eric Hartman.

Is it too much to say his early season numbers with Rome were a mirage? He's hit 200 since the calendar turned to July, tailed off big in high A, bumped to AA and hasn't hit.

Call me crazy, but part of me is more excited about Conor Esenberg than Hartman going into next season.

Yeah, Eric Hartman was like the first half player of the year, I feel like in some ways.

It's hard to say because I think there's a real change and a real jump that Eric Hartman made this year.

I guess this is more of a reminder of how... difficult it still is to jump levels of competition in the minors and how important it is to make those adjustments and not get too carried away with performance and low levels of the minors because Eric Hartman coming into pro ball I think it was just a very raw player who needed a lot of reps so to expect him to just figure it out immediately I think is maybe a little bit too getting a little bit too out ahead of ourselves what are your thoughts on this whole conversation

yeah I mean it was a it was just a huge breakout from being a 20th round pick out of high school in, in 2024, who had a okay, not great year in 2025 to then just like this explosive start when he was in Rome, right.

Coming out of the gate and getting a lot of really strong scouting buzz on him too.

They want to drag you back into the old way of the law.

There's a big movement here in Rome, Georgia, where Christians want to have syncretism with old Judaic law.

and do their seders, and do all these different Old Testament kind of ceremony.

And they feel holy and religious in that.

And as you try forsaking Christ to go back to the law of self-justification, you're slipping under that curse.

And you have forsaken Christ, as Paul tells us in Romans.

I believe there's a religious stronghold over Rome, Georgia.

I believe the leaven of the Pharisees has been taking religious ingredients and enlarging them for decades.

Ladies and gentlemen, from beautiful suburban West Rome, Georgia, in the lovely familial comforts of the Bailey compound, we bring to you American Angst.

And in this era of All Hallows' Eve, it is my privilege to introduce one of the most haunted, one of the most tormented, and one of the most doom-drenched friends I have ever had.

I do what I can.

And then, you know, then they get carved maybe the day of Halloween.

But I think you invited me here because I am running to be your state house rep for state of Georgia.

So the 13th district, which includes most of Rome, it includes the property of this house that we're sitting in.

And then everything east from here, from about where Sam's Club is, out through Silver Creek.

And if we go north of Rome to about the bottom chunk of Armerci, down to the top of Lindale, but not including Lindale.