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Speaker 1: All right, so welcome everybody to the Water Relief podcast

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Speaker 1: on the Fish on First Podcast Network. I'm your host, Noerburger.

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Speaker 1: We are back with a whole new season. We will

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Speaker 1: chat with Marlins relievers and hopefully relievers from other organizations.

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Speaker 1: Stay tuned for that in the near future. I'm very

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Speaker 1: happy to welcome one of the newest members of the

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Speaker 1: Marlins Bullpen, thirty two year old veteran right hander from Danbury, Connecticut.

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Speaker 1: He was acquired from the Boston Red Sox in exchange

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Speaker 1: for a friend of the pod, Richard Blyer, on January thirtieth.

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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, please say hello to Matt Barnes. Matt Barnes,

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Speaker 1: how are you doing good?

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Speaker 2: How are you?

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Speaker 1: I am doing amazing. Let's start with the trade, right,

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Speaker 1: What was your reaction, how did you get the news,

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Speaker 1: and what were your expectations coming into the season On.

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Speaker 2: The actual trade. Yeah, so, I was actually at an

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Speaker 2: airport in Las.

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Speaker 3: Vegas on my way back home, but we were sitting

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Speaker 3: in one of the lounges.

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Speaker 2: Our flight was delayed for five hours, so.

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Speaker 3: You're sitting there grabbing a bite to eat, and got

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Speaker 3: a phone call that said I was being trade to

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Speaker 3: the Marlins.

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Speaker 1: So what was your initial reaction?

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Speaker 3: Like, it's awesome. I mean, honestly, like when you when

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Speaker 3: you get into the process of you know, being dfaid,

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Speaker 3: you really have no control over where you go. Right,

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Speaker 3: it's kind of up to the team where they can

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Speaker 3: strike a deal or a trade or something like that.

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Speaker 2: And if they can't, then you go into the free

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Speaker 2: agency process, which.

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Speaker 3: Then, right you can kind of you can kind of

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Speaker 2: But in that process you're kind of just just waiting.

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Speaker 3: And when I got the news that I was kind

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Speaker 3: of Miami, I moved to my WEF and I was like, honestly,

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Speaker 3: like that's awesome, Like we were pumped. I was like,

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Speaker 3: that's a great landing spot for us, especially being on

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Speaker 3: the East Coast always you know, played the East Coast

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Speaker 3: from the East Coast. Being able to stay here frankly

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Speaker 3: the same time zone is awesome for us, and very

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Speaker 3: familiar with Florida, had been to Miami a number of times,

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Speaker 3: knew that the team had some really fun, exciting talent,

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Speaker 3: and was was honestly really really pumped about it.

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Speaker 1: So in your time here already is already a good

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Speaker 1: spots that you've you've started to like in Miami, specifically

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Speaker 1: to hang out.

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Speaker 3: I don't, Honestly, I don't. I don't do a lot.

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Speaker 3: My wife and I have gone out to dinner a

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Speaker 3: handful of times. We went to uh Carbon when we

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Speaker 2: Went to Komola the other night and that was that

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Speaker 2: was great as well. I mean, like I said, I don't,

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Speaker 3: When I'm away from the field, I'm usually at the

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Speaker 2: So it's, uh, it's fun here.

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Speaker 1: So coming from Boston, what differences have you found between

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Speaker 3: I was gonna say first, if you didn't follow that

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Speaker 3: the weather. And I'll tell you what, man, you know,

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Speaker 2: Until you have one man, is it nice?

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Speaker 3: It came back from that road trip and we had

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Speaker 3: was like, can we just get home to it? Seventy

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Speaker 3: I feel like it's a little more relaxed in a

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Speaker 3: it can be very stressful at times, and it's it's

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Speaker 3: When you're losing, it's hard. I mean just playing and simple, right,

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Speaker 2: Right. It's not just an organizational thing, it's a city thing.

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Speaker 3: The clubhouse here, I think it's I think it's awesome

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Speaker 3: and I touched on a two seconds ago. But you

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Speaker 2: You know, we're a month of the season right now.

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Speaker 3: They're a couple of stretches in which I don't think

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Speaker 3: I think when you look at the overall product of

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Speaker 1: I just mentioned you are very good at this. I've

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Speaker 1: Family Park. It's a very hitter friendly park. It's about

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Speaker 1: the difference you mentioned the weather and now you're in

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Speaker 1: the roof and everything. It's more of a pitcher friendly park.

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Speaker 1: How much does that change help you?

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Speaker 3: The biggest thing for me is I don't necessarily focus

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Speaker 3: is knowing the consistency of what a baseball will feel

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Speaker 3: Days it's cold, right, And that affects the texture and

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Speaker 3: the ball when we were in Cleveland felt different than Atlanta,

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Speaker 3: which feels different than Miami, right, But every home game

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Speaker 3: And those are just elements that you have to kind of.

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Speaker 3: And the interesting part to me is a lot of

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Speaker 3: So like the monster, yes, obviously because it's short, right,

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Speaker 3: Like that entire section of the field is really big, right,

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Speaker 3: And the way that I look at it, the monster

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Speaker 2: So like you get a hit.

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Speaker 1: So along those same lines, you've pitched in almost every

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Speaker 1: haven't pitched in, do you know, leagues, Yeah, I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: I haven't pitched. There's only one park I haven't been to.

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Speaker 1: Which one is that? Do you know the other one

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Speaker 3: It's none out West, is it?

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Speaker 3: I pitched in Arizona, Colorado, San Diego, Anaheim, l A,

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Speaker 3: That's right now that I think about it.

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Speaker 1: So you guys are going to Wrigley this weekend? How

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Speaker 1: much are looking forward and checking off that the ballpark

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Speaker 3: it doesn't happen very often, right, And this is before

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's fun, you know, you kind of get

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Speaker 2: I don't know a thing. I know nothing about Wrigley.

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Speaker 3: So it's crazy that this far in my career I

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Speaker 2: But the first eight nine years of my career, like

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Speaker 3: I played with guys who it was hard to get

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Speaker 1: So I still take two years if you're in the

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Speaker 3: Right, right, So I'm at the public I hold it

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Speaker 3: maybe to a different standard because of that, then what

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Speaker 3: it'll be worth I don't know in three or four years,

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Speaker 3: but for me it's cool.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. It will actually be my first time at Wrigley

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Speaker 1: two one again. So this is my favorite question. I

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Speaker 1: love asking League pictures. What is your ideal bullpens set up?

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Speaker 1: There's different ballparks, like in Tampa, it's completely Tampa. It's

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Speaker 1: But right, So, have you ever asked for the Browns

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Speaker 1: So now, ind the nitty gritty a pitchure you're using

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Speaker 1: The team heype man.

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Speaker 2: It's probably Louis Arise.

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Speaker 1: Your favorite ballpark.

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Speaker 2: To play in or aesthetically to both to play in.

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Speaker 3: I've been out there. The new Texas Stadium is sick.

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Speaker 2: Minnesota Stadium is really nice.

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Speaker 1: It's an underrated ballpark because of it's not you don't

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Speaker 2: And it's probably because I don't throw the ball well

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Speaker 1: So what's your favorite song?

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Speaker 2: I don't have a favorite song.

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Speaker 1: I feel that I don't.

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Speaker 3: I don't know that I have a favorite song. I

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Speaker 1: And who are you giving the oaks to.

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Speaker 2: On the team?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? And the follow up is who are you not

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Speaker 3: I think jazz would probably do a really good job

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Speaker 3: Um?

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Speaker 1: All right, well, this has been an incredible chat and

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Speaker 1: it's about time I let you go back and get

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Speaker 1: ready for today's game. Is there anything you want to

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Speaker 1: add before we end off? A message for the fans,

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Speaker 3: I don't think so say to the fans. I just

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Speaker 3: we appreciate the support. Keep showing up. We're working hard.

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Speaker 3: Trying to win his makeball game as possible for you.

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Speaker 3: So let's get out to Long Depot support the boys.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, Matt, thank you very much for joining me.

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Speaker 1: Fish on First podcast channel. Thank you all for listening.

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Speaker 1: We will be back in the very near future with

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Speaker 1: another Marlins reliever. Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Awesome. Thanks