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Speaker 1: Hi, Sam, how are you doing today?

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Speaker 2: Okay, Alex, sorry for the crazy game and after the game, and.

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Speaker 1: No worries. I completely understand. All right, Well, you were

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Speaker 1: covering the game yesterday, so I'm sure you you saw

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Speaker 1: the craziness that happened yesterday with Ronald d'acunya and Sandy

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Speaker 1: al Contra once again, the fifth time Akunya has been

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Speaker 1: hit by the Marlins in the last three seasons. Uh,

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Speaker 1: from just from your viewpoint, what was your take on that?

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Speaker 1: Because I know a lot of pitchers try pitching inside

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Speaker 1: on Acunya, but a lot of people are once again

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Speaker 1: wondering whether or not that was intentional since it came

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Speaker 1: right after a big home run by him.

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Speaker 3: It was not intentional. It's a playoff game.

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Speaker 2: You can't put a runner on base, any runner on

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Speaker 2: base with the braves lineup with the people coming up

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Speaker 2: behind him.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you hit Acunya Junior, and you've.

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Speaker 2: Got Freddy Freeman, Marcelo Zunba, Travis Darnau coming up the

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Speaker 2: next three.

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Speaker 3: So he got away from alt Contra.

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Speaker 2: I understand that he's been hit five times by the Marlins,

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Speaker 2: and not more than two times by anyone else. I

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Speaker 2: understand all the jose Urania stuff from a few years ago,

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Speaker 2: but that was not intentional. I don't blame Akunya for

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Speaker 2: being upset. I'm sure it hurt like hell. You should

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Speaker 2: have just walked to first.

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Speaker 3: Instead of doing anything else.

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Speaker 2: But personally, I think this is the end of it

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Speaker 2: in this series because it has to be the end

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Speaker 2: of it. It's a playoff game and we can't have

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Speaker 2: any of these shenanigans get in the way of a

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Speaker 2: playoff game.

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Speaker 1: And speaking of the playoffs, of course, we're now two

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Speaker 1: rounds into this new postseason format, eight teams in each league.

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Speaker 1: The extra round at the very beginning, best of three

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Speaker 1: is something that you'd want to see moving forward, or

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Speaker 1: something that you'd expect to see moving forward.

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Speaker 2: Look, I love it for this year, the strangest year ever,

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Speaker 2: and I think it has really generated interest in baseball,

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Speaker 2: But frankly, I'm not interested in it after this season.

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Speaker 2: I think when you put sixteen teams in the playoffs,

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Speaker 2: you detract from the integrity of the regular season. The Brewers,

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Speaker 2: for instance, made the playoffs this year as a sub

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Speaker 2: five hundred team, and we're not above five hundred for

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Speaker 2: any day of the season. That simply can't happen during

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Speaker 2: a one hundred and sixty two game season, especially with

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Speaker 2: the beauty of baseball that a sub five hundred team

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Speaker 2: could beat the best team in the league two out

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Speaker 2: of three. Those things happen more than occasionally. So I

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Speaker 2: would like to see going back to ten playoff teams

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Speaker 2: next year, assuming we play one sixty two. But I

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Speaker 2: think I'll be overruled on this. I think we'll have twelve,

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Speaker 2: maybe more playoff teams next year. I just think sixteen

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Speaker 2: is way too many for one hundred and sixty two

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Speaker 2: game season.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I might have to agree with you on that.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of other new rules, were there any rules from

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Speaker 1: the season that you actually enjoyed. I know that a

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Speaker 1: lot of people are assuming that the DH will stick around,

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Speaker 1: but were there anything? Was there anything that you saw

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Speaker 1: the season where you're kind of hoping that it sticks

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Speaker 1: around next year?

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Speaker 3: No, only the DH.

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Speaker 2: Look again, I'm in favor of whatever you want to

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Speaker 2: do this year, just to get us through safely and finish.

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Speaker 3: The World Series, whatever it takes.

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Speaker 2: And I think, but I really like the DH rule

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Speaker 2: because I think it allows a star player to get

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Speaker 2: off his feet for a day and still take four

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Speaker 2: at BADS. I think the Universal DH also is going

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Speaker 2: to keep our pitchers healthier. But frankly, the reason I

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Speaker 2: like the Universal DH now we'll have the same set

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Speaker 2: of rules in both leagues. I've found it ridiculous for

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Speaker 2: the last forty seven years that we've had two different

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Speaker 2: sets rules for each league. I don't care if the

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Speaker 2: pictures back in both leagues. I just want the same

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Speaker 2: set of rules. But logically the best thing to do

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Speaker 2: is stay with the Universal do it DH, and I

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Speaker 2: think we will.

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Speaker 1: And then moving back to this winter, the upcoming winter, JT.

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Speaker 1: Real Muto, he's going to be a really big commodity

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Speaker 1: in free agency talks. Who do you think is going

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Speaker 1: to be at the top of that short list when

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Speaker 1: it comes to those negotiations? And then as a follow up,

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Speaker 1: do you think that the Marlins might find themselves anywhere

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Speaker 1: on that list?

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Speaker 2: I guess is the Marlins aren't going to be there,

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Speaker 2: even though they love JT.

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Speaker 3: Real Muto and he loves them from what I can tell.

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Speaker 3: But I think there are a lot of big.

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Speaker 2: Market teams out there, led by say the Mets, that

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Speaker 2: are really gonna need a catcher, And to me, that's

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Speaker 2: where this is all going to start. I think real

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Speaker 2: Muto is going to be pursued heavily by the Phillies

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Speaker 2: to come back. But a bunch of teams out there

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Speaker 2: are really going to need a catcher. He's really going

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Speaker 2: to get paid given his talent level, his age, his toughness,

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Speaker 2: and the fact that he plays a premium defensive position,

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Speaker 2: produces and is in the prime of his career. So

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Speaker 2: look for a lot of teams to be in line

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Speaker 2: to do something with j Trio Muto. I just don't

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Speaker 2: think the Marlins are going to have the funding to

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Speaker 2: do that.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: You have seen a lot of rebuilds over the last decade, especially,

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Speaker 1: you know, you saw the Cubs the Astros really turn

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Speaker 1: things around. Looking at Miami what they were able to

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Speaker 1: accomplish this year. Now, granted it was only a sixty

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Speaker 1: game season, but where do you think that they are

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Speaker 1: when you compare them to the Astros and the Cubs,

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Speaker 1: And do you think it's realistic to see them in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs next year in a one hundred and sixty

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Speaker 2: Well, anything's realistic in baseball. I don't like their chances

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Speaker 2: next year because I think the talent level catches up

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Speaker 2: after one hundred and sixty two much more than after sixty.

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Speaker 2: But there's no way around this, Marlins fans, you have

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Speaker 2: a lot to look forward to. There are more players coming.

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Speaker 2: They have young pitching right now in al Contra and

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Speaker 2: Sanchez and Lopez, and a lot of teams with trade

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Speaker 2: a lot of people to get those three guys.

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Speaker 3: Their bullpen.

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Speaker 2: Despite the game one, performance has been really good lately,

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Speaker 2: especially at the back.

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Speaker 3: End of the bullpen.

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Speaker 2: They have some position players that are are good at

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Speaker 2: getting better. So you know, they have a long way

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Speaker 2: to go on this rebuild. But that's the encouraging part.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot more players in the pipeline in pitching.

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Speaker 3: So this came.

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Speaker 2: Along a lot quicker than I thought it would, and

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Speaker 2: I think this is going to have a happy ending

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Speaker 2: for the Marlins, and it's off to a really good

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Speaker 2: start this year.

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Speaker 1: All Right, that's all I got for you, Tim. I

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Speaker 1: really appreciate the time, all.

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Speaker 3: Right, Alex, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, this is a crazy day, comes up until three

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Speaker 2: o'clock in the morning, and I don't have much time

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Speaker 2: this morning, so.

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Speaker 1: Hopeball, no, I appreciate any time you can give me

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Speaker 1: to him, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: Pleasure