Tiffany, Mike and Beau kick off the final hour of this Thursday edition of The Morning Shift by giving some people Wake Up Calls and letting the listeners hand out Wake up Calls as well! Next, Tiffany, Mike and Beau continue the final hour of this Thursday edition of The Morning Shift by continuing to react to Atlanta United playing to a scoreless draw against LAFC last night. Then, The Morning Shift crew closes out the segment by diving into The Life of Squid! On this edition of The Life of Squid, Beau talks about why his home life is making a major change, and it’s not a good one. Finally, Tiffany, Mike and Beau close out this Thursday edition of The Morning Shift by spending some time with Braves legend and Hall of Famer, John Smlotz! Tiffany, Mike, Beau, and John discuss how much he’s looking forward to the players only broadcast tonight on Bally Sports South with himself, Tom Glavine, Chipper Jones, and Jeff Francour, especially with Spencer Strider taking on Tom Glavine, how they are going to navigate making sure everybody talks and gives their expertise, how they are planning to cover the pitchers' perspective in tonight’s game, especially with Spencer Strider pitching for the Braves and Justin Verlander pitching for the Mets, tonight being a matchup of the old reliable model in Justin Verlander and the new prototype model power pitcher in Spencer Strider, his initial reaction when he got the call about doing the players only broadcast on Bally, his opinion on the Pete Alonso situation, how tough this journey will be for Michael Soroka to get back to where has was in 2019, and what expectations he has for AJ Smith Shawver when he makes his first major league start at some point this weekend.