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Speaker 1: Hello Marlons fans, and welcome to the tradition of big

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Speaker 1: Fish Small Pod for Thursday, October sixth, two thousand, twenty two.

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Speaker 1: And if you are new to the small Pod, he

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Speaker 1: would like to give you all the information about the

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Speaker 1: Marmins for that particular day all season long, in ten

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Speaker 1: minutes or less, and Marlins fans, one sixty two is over.

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Speaker 1: Last night your fish played their last game of the season,

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Speaker 1: game one sixty two. I was there along with Hector

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Speaker 1: covering this final game of the season, and what a

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Speaker 1: game it was. Don man Lee's last game with the Marlins.

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Speaker 1: It was emotional, it was just, you know, really all overall,

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Speaker 1: it just felt like a great day in terms of hitting.

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Speaker 1: An also sad day cause everyone, you know, some guys

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Speaker 1: aren't gonna be here in the next season. Some guys

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Speaker 1: are gone. You don't know what's gonna happen with some

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Speaker 1: other guys. But if we want to go ahead and

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Speaker 1: talk about first what happened on the field, It was

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Speaker 1: definitely a great game if if you love offense. The

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Speaker 1: final score was twelve nine, Marlons scoring a dozen runs

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Speaker 1: to beat the Braves, and they did it with their

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Speaker 1: young guys. It was a career game for Payne Verdick

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Speaker 1: for sure. He even robbed Matt Olson of a home run.

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Speaker 1: Go check that out. It was really incredible him catching that,

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Speaker 1: catching a round the wall to rob Matt Olson, went

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Speaker 1: up go over the wall to medicate. Tremendous catch and

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Speaker 1: if you look at it, the Marlins combined for thirteen hits.

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Speaker 1: Eight out of their nine players position players had a hit,

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Speaker 1: which is also just really great to see. Again, Payne

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Speaker 1: Burdick had probably the best night of course, robbing Mendelson,

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Speaker 1: getting three hits, four RBIs one home run, finishing off

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Speaker 1: the year strong, which is what you want to see.

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Speaker 1: These young players finish off strong as they get ready

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Speaker 1: for twenty twenty three. Just everyone really had a great day.

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Speaker 1: Nick Ford Tes launched a home run, getting his ninth

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Speaker 1: on the season, just getting close to ten. But for

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Speaker 1: the young catcher and his rookie year, just an amazing,

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Speaker 1: really great, amazing season for mister Forourtes. Pitching wise, not

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Speaker 1: really the best pitching wise for the for the Marlins

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Speaker 1: multiplet owen Rons, but it was the last game. It

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Speaker 1: was just a hitting fest, especially for both teams. The

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Speaker 1: Braves going with a bullpen game. But overall, Jacob Stallings

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Speaker 1: first game as the manager turned out to be a

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Speaker 1: pretty fun one with just so many, so many runs, scored,

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Speaker 1: so many hits. He had Randan the cruise with two,

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Speaker 1: Badat two, Birdie two, Hip Verdick with three. Just a

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Speaker 1: early fun game and just overall the experience of sending

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Speaker 1: this game was just a lot of fun. In the

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Speaker 1: press box, everyone's saying goodbye everyone getting ready for twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three, all the players after the clubhouse, just getting

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Speaker 1: ready say everyone's saying goodbye to everyone. Was you know,

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Speaker 1: it's sad, it's a little emotional, but it's also it's baseball.

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Speaker 1: It's just the way it is every year. It's emotional.

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Speaker 1: Some guys are gonna go, some guys will stay. But

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Speaker 1: just saying goodbye and knowing that everyone had a great

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Speaker 1: season altogether was really great. And talking to everyone about that,

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Speaker 1: But overall, I kind of want to reflect on the

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Speaker 1: season as a whole. Covering this as my third season

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Speaker 1: with Fish Strips and I did have a lot of

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Speaker 1: fun just covering with with multiple Fish Straps reporters. It

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Speaker 1: was awesome talking to every single one, getting to know them,

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Speaker 1: covering the games, talking to other reporters, whether it's from

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Speaker 1: the way teams or just here other Marlins reporters. It

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Speaker 1: was really great just watching this team, watching Pablo Pitch,

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Speaker 1: Sandy Sous, Eddie Brax, just all these guys pitching, getting

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Speaker 1: to know a lot of players, talking to them, interviewing them,

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Speaker 1: interviewing just even players from away teams. Just getting that

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Speaker 1: experience was a lot of fun covering this team, even

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Speaker 1: though the performance on the field isn't what a lot

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Speaker 1: of people expected. It was just great meeting everyone on

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Speaker 1: it's for five minutes or or fifteen minutes. Talking to

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Speaker 1: Donnie one of the best not just minds in baseball,

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Speaker 1: but just one of the best people, one of the

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Speaker 1: best people in baseball. Just how much he loves not

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Speaker 1: just the Marlins, just how much he loves Miami, how

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Speaker 1: much he loves just everyone that's a part of the team,

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Speaker 1: part of the organization, how much he loves the fans,

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Speaker 1: how much he loves just helping players grow. I got

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Speaker 1: the opportunity to ask him just, you know, his takeaways

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Speaker 1: uh as manager, and he says, you know, uh, I said,

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Speaker 1: take away for him maybe fifth, top five ten fifteen,

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Speaker 1: twenty years down the line, he says the biggest thing

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Speaker 1: for him is just watching players grow. When when you're

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Speaker 1: a manager, the best thing to do is it's different

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Speaker 1: than the player player. It's usually just you're looking for

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Speaker 1: yourself with you're a manager, you're a coach. It's helping

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Speaker 1: these players grow into into better players, into better uh people.

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Speaker 1: And that's really the big thing for Donnie what he

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Speaker 1: really wants to look at when looking at it for

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Speaker 1: the future, ten fifteen, twenty years down the line. From

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Speaker 1: my own experience, it was just really great talking to

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Speaker 1: everyone over the season. I wanna thank Eli a lot

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Speaker 1: for for doing this, for making everything possible, giving me

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Speaker 1: a h another run at it for my third season.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait for my fourth. It's even incredible to

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Speaker 1: say that starting back in August of twenty twenty during

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Speaker 1: the COVID year, we're literally no one wasn't the you

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Speaker 1: can hear a pin drop, just you can hear the

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Speaker 1: players talking in the dugout, no fans at all. To

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Speaker 1: now experience it with fans experiencing Sandy sayn. He's being

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Speaker 1: able to watch his starts, being able to watch Polo,

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Speaker 1: be able to just get involved, ask questions, talk to everyone.

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Speaker 1: Finally in person, getting to the clubhouse for the first time,

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Speaker 1: not having to do everything in zoom. For me, it

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Speaker 1: was just really great experience. I just had to give

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Speaker 1: a little just my thoughts and everything, because I really

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Speaker 1: did enjoy and I really appreciate everyone listening to Big Fish,

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Speaker 1: Small Pod as we just continue to grow this and

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Speaker 1: just a little more on the game. Jacob Stallings as manager,

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Speaker 1: Joey Wendel was the bench coach, BA as hitting coach,

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Speaker 1: and then Pablo has Sandy as co pitching coaches, with

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Speaker 1: Pablo really getting into it, even having a mound visit

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Speaker 1: later in the game. He had graphs he was writing

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Speaker 1: stuff down. Paolo was one hundred percent into being a

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Speaker 2: I think I went deeper into the character of being

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Speaker 2: a pitching coach, like I went and grabbed tools. I

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Speaker 2: have the pitch counter, I have. I asked for my

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Speaker 2: own like reports reach I hold here. These are not males,

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Speaker 2: these are actually mine. I had them printed nice, and

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Speaker 2: then I just like I don't know, like I got

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Speaker 2: deeper into the character that Sandy dude, but no, like

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Speaker 2: we just we just wanted to be co pitching coach.

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Speaker 1: He was made to do that after pitching. It was

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Speaker 1: really great this season with everyone involved in everyone Harry

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Speaker 1: fitz Straps and just it was a really fun game.

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Speaker 1: One sixty two put everything in into a perspective while

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Speaker 1: you're watching the game, just how much everything goes into

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Speaker 1: a game, how much all the players just talk to

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Speaker 1: how emotional everyone gets on that level. And it was

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Speaker 1: just a lot of fun. Covering one sixty two really fun.

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Speaker 1: I can imagine for the fans watching that it was

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Speaker 1: a very exciting game, and for myself just talking to

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Speaker 1: everyone else in the press box of players. It was

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Speaker 1: really eventful day. But I think it's one that that

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Speaker 1: be there and cover it. I wanna thank you for

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Speaker 1: listening to big Fish, Small Pod and always always go

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