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Speaker 1: Hey, Welcome to Big Fish, Small Pod. I'm Andrew Wardahl.

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Speaker 1: Today is June twenty ninth, Marlin's last night faced off

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Speaker 1: against the Saint Louis Cardinals, second game of their series

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Speaker 1: in Saint Louis, the third being tonight seven forty five

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Speaker 1: Eastern time in Missouri. The Cardinals never really follow that

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Speaker 1: like expected sort of like development cycle that teams go through.

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Speaker 1: I mean, to my eye, what they do is intelligently

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Speaker 1: invest in good baseball consistently, just like putting that like

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Speaker 1: top of the line in Saint Louis, along with just

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Speaker 1: like a key like pitching nexus sort of like Yadier

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Speaker 1: Molina Adam Lean right, that like brain trust of veteran

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Speaker 1: in pitching catching that can help out like with any

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Speaker 1: sort of pitch that comes up. Like there's not something

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Speaker 1: that like Yadi and Rolanna Molina hasn't seen that they

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Speaker 1: can't deal with. It's not like someone like Braxton Garrett

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Speaker 1: comes up like a curveballer who like has to like

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Speaker 1: come up and like establish himself, like coming up to

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Speaker 1: a Saint Louis sort of organization. Braxton might have been

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Speaker 1: like more quick to catch on with that curve and

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Speaker 1: quick to catch on like and making those like really

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Speaker 1: like confident pitches that he's been doing now that have

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Speaker 1: been giving him that sort of success we've been seeing

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Speaker 1: last night Tuesday night not quite what you hope to

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Speaker 1: see from Braxton at this point. It's certainly one of

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Speaker 1: those like resetting nights. He started out fairly strong in that,

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Speaker 1: like he was really showing this Cardinal's lineup that he

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Speaker 1: belonged out there, but they really like caught up to

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Speaker 1: him pretty apparent. Seemed to be in that like fourth

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Speaker 1: Internet bat against Paul Goldschmidt. It's hard to even talk

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Speaker 1: about like Cardinals hitters and Marlin's hitters in comparison. That's

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Speaker 1: just been an ongoing thing throughout the years. I feel

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Speaker 1: like every time we watched the Cardinals, we see them

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Speaker 1: solid at bats and fine runs. Really is like getting

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Speaker 1: it done offensively. Three is kind of like getting something done.

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Speaker 1: But I don't think you'd have any argument that the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals had the more productive bats throughout the game Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: Carls let's a high fly ball. Yet the deep pint

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Speaker 1: that Carl is down, it's a Carbal double and the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals happily. Then what did he do here? Too much

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Speaker 1: play and that is a great swing by Dylan carl

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Speaker 1: So they're gonna stay back and just literally instead of

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Speaker 1: trying to pull it, you started to stay inside it.

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Speaker 1: But anyhow, Wednesday Knew Day really like something I want

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Speaker 1: to put a pin in for the podcast. So there

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Speaker 1: is a like ongoing like inquiry by like the Senate

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Speaker 1: Judiciary Committee, and they've like reached out to the Advocates

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Speaker 1: for Minor League Baseball requesting some like questions answered from them.

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Speaker 1: This advocacy organization made up mostly of like former minor

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Speaker 1: leaguers that have gone on in their life Harry Marino

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Speaker 1: to work in like the legal profession while keeping like

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Speaker 1: measures to the pulse of the state of the minor leagues,

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Speaker 1: being that like this is a life that he lived.

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Speaker 1: It's a certainly like a passion that he could certainly

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Speaker 1: talk about. But he's throughout the years been working with organizations,

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Speaker 1: talking with players and like publishing information on the status

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Speaker 1: of like the minor league world, really saying that just

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Speaker 1: in the sense that it's so much different than like

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Speaker 1: the major league players world, much more discrepancy and just

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Speaker 1: like the income of players and just the general like

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Speaker 1: ability for these players to like find proper like housing

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Speaker 1: and like nutrition and all of those things that like

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Speaker 1: wouldn't necessarily be as difficult if they were not on

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Speaker 1: that like contract as exhibited by like the current state

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Speaker 1: of the minor leagues. Really, like the thing in question

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Speaker 1: is the anti trust exemption of Major League Baseball. It's

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Speaker 1: given this status as like free from monopoly. Here's America's

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Speaker 1: permission to be the baseball of the land, and the

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Speaker 1: minor leagues are like integral to that in like the

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Speaker 1: legal understanding. But what we're getting to today is this

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Speaker 1: like point where the Senate has turned back around and

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Speaker 1: it's starting to ask, like whether or not they should

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Speaker 1: have this exemption that's been there for one hundred years.

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Speaker 1: But now they're asking Harry Marino, like what effect does

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Speaker 1: the entry trust exemption have on the instance of lockouts

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Speaker 1: work stoppages at the Major League Baseball level? What impact

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Speaker 1: the incidents have a minor league players and teams? They

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Speaker 1: also go on to say that Major League Baseball requires

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Speaker 1: all minor league players to sign a major league uniform

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Speaker 1: player contract. What role, if any, does major League Baseball's

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Speaker 1: anti trust exemptions play in enabling this conduct? And please

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Speaker 1: discuss the impact of the anti trust exemption on the

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Speaker 1: negotiation of minor league player's length of contracts, wages, housing,

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Speaker 1: in other working conditions. What effect would removing the anti

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Speaker 1: trust exemption have on minor league player working conditions? And

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Speaker 1: if a more tailored approach like extending the Kurt Flood

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Speaker 1: Act to cover minor league players was taken, what would

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Speaker 1: be impacted. Essentially, they are asking what is going on

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Speaker 1: as like extending certain coverages to minor leaguers or what

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Speaker 1: have you. There, it does get to the point and

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Speaker 1: the Senate Committee does dig deeper into like like then

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Speaker 1: they themselves identify quote rampant corumption and abuse in the

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Speaker 1: market of international prospects, giving performance and nancy drugs to teenagers,

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Speaker 1: for shady dealings between scouts and trainers, and further stating

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Speaker 1: that like Major League Baseball in lobbying for the Save

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Speaker 1: of America's Pastime Act, which was necessary to prevent minor

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Speaker 1: league contraction according to Major League Baseball, they got to

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Speaker 1: call out that Major League Baseball, despite its enactment of

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Speaker 1: that sa PA Act. Prior to the twenty twenty one

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Speaker 1: baseball season, dozen of minor league teams lost their affiliation

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Speaker 1: with Major League Baseball clubs as a result of the

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Speaker 1: organization reorganization of the minor leagues, basically kind of calling

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Speaker 1: but kind of to air that action by Major League

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Speaker 1: League Baseball to express exactly, well exactly the truth on

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Speaker 1: these matters and what they're doing for baseball. It's just

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Speaker 1: like a really interesting letter to be released. Certainly, like

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Speaker 1: the optics of like, oh, this app to gate for

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Speaker 1: minor leaguers, revealing the questions that the Senators asked is

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Speaker 1: very much like a sort of like come look at

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Speaker 1: me sort of moment, So kind of like if you

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Speaker 1: want to both sides, so to speak, you could certainly

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Speaker 1: like take some real link shots at that. But the like,

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Speaker 1: the reality is that this Senate is interested in exploring

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Speaker 1: this issue further and they're taking all these perspectives into

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Speaker 1: consideration as they go about making well kind of as

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Speaker 1: we all go about making just a better future for

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Speaker 1: ourselves and for the sport. However we impacted ourselves. So yeah, anyways,

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Speaker 1: for the podcast today, I've been Andrew Werdahl, figure sign off,

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Speaker 1: leave you for that seven game not a whole lot

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Speaker 1: to say to update you before this one, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: just a lot to share with that letter to the

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Speaker 1: advocates for minor leaguers should be really like shifting stuff

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Speaker 1: throughout the major leagues and the minor leagues in the

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Speaker 1: years ahead. Like if somehow everyone has to significantly invest

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Speaker 1: in their minor league system fully, like supporting like the

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Speaker 1: cost of living and the financials for these minor league players,

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Speaker 1: the implications could be pretty great for your major league teams,

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Speaker 1: not in the sense that it would be like backbreaking

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Speaker 1: for their finances, but in the sense that it would

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Speaker 1: be like a real commitment. I think in like the

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Speaker 1: tens of millions maybe more for like some real sustainable solutions,

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Speaker 1: perhaps paid for over years. And anyhow, Today is Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: June twenty ninth. Marlin will face the Cardinals to get

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Speaker 1: out of Saint Louis Sandy's on the Mount. Game starts

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Speaker 1: at seven forty five. For the Fish Strip podcast, I'll

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Speaker 1: be here with you on Friday,