1 00:00:01,480 --> 00:00:05,360 Speaker 1: Welcome to August eighteenth on Big Fish Small Pod. I'm 2 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:11,000 Speaker 1: at Wardahl, your host here on Wednesdays and Fridays. Kind 3 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:17,720 Speaker 1: of a baseball day. Yesterday, wasn't it. Sandy Great Marlins 4 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:23,079 Speaker 1: shut out. Jorgel Farrow started at first, bast really interesting, 5 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 1: Jesus Sanchez back in action again, but that full outfield 6 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:32,159 Speaker 1: of him, Brian De la Cruz, Lewis Brinson. It's like 7 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:36,400 Speaker 1: a fun group that has room for growth still, and 8 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:44,840 Speaker 1: Korge could fit in somewhere. Sandy Great gives you reason 9 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:50,720 Speaker 1: to win, but the offense didn't do anything right. Now. 10 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:54,960 Speaker 1: I'm just feeling like, yeah, the Marlins do need a 11 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,840 Speaker 1: center fielder and a catcher, because they need bats and 12 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 1: a centerfielder and a catcher. It's a strange place to be. 13 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:05,759 Speaker 1: It's like the Marlins know they need some firepower up 14 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:12,119 Speaker 1: the middle, scarce positions, rare people, and they're taking their 15 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 1: time to figure it out. That's what can happen over 16 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:20,600 Speaker 1: these next few months leading into the offseason. The Marlins 17 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 1: have essentially just a block of marble. They have something 18 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:29,840 Speaker 1: like ten potential rotational pieces for next year. I'm getting 19 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 1: that number just like looking at their rotation now. Adding 20 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 1: some forty man guys talking about some prospects that might 21 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:39,920 Speaker 1: make that jump to get to the point that Miami 22 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 1: could soon really start to mean something in baseball. It's 23 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:48,320 Speaker 1: kind of the time to figure out what that is. 24 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:53,880 Speaker 1: Looking at these players watching these games, scene like who's 25 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:59,200 Speaker 1: necessary for that message? Yeah, I am asking for Like 26 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 1: this is a this is a high standard. The Marlins 27 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 1: have talked about sustained success, and in the past we've 28 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:10,240 Speaker 1: seen like these teams fully rebuild like the Astros and 29 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:12,920 Speaker 1: then go on to win a World Series, and that 30 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 1: seemed to be like what the fans wanted. I mean, 31 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 1: the Cubs World Series. They were like people crying in 32 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:24,520 Speaker 1: the streets. How do you like really rationalize yourself that 33 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 1: there's anything different to be had from the sport, Because 34 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 1: I've been reading National Baseball headlines this year and mostly 35 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 1: they've made me upset. They'd have you believe that pitching 36 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:43,960 Speaker 1: is about just spin rate, and that the people that 37 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 1: play baseball are all terrible, that Major League Baseball is 38 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 1: mostly platforming that while also looking to become more and 39 00:02:56,360 --> 00:03:02,640 Speaker 1: more exclusive and more about gam and more about well 40 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 1: really just like whoever wants them to be about baseball 41 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:13,000 Speaker 1: It's weird just looking at your inbox knowing that you 42 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:15,600 Speaker 1: voted in the All Star Game, so you gave Major 43 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 1: League Baseball your email address, so now they are sending 44 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:31,960 Speaker 1: like spam about prepaid master cards. Truly bizarre behavior. I 45 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 1: don't follow the sport for anything beyond the sport. I 46 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 1: like baseball. I want to watch baseball. It's like compelling 47 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 1: to me. I like just like the drama at the plate. 48 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 1: I like the drama between people in the World Series. 49 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 1: How just kind of all comes to a head where 50 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 1: there has to be that confrontation that isn't necessarily so 51 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 1: much who wins and who loses. It's more about Clayton 52 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:03,839 Speaker 1: Kersha got his ring and that like experience to get 53 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 1: to that point. That's drama. And if this was like 54 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 1: a like a film company, one point two billion dollars 55 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 1: is a lot. That's a lot of huge budget films. 56 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:21,040 Speaker 1: You can do so much with that to illuminate humanity, 57 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:26,040 Speaker 1: I'd fully argue that baseball does not do anything different 58 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 1: than film. Obviously, there's like a game to it, it's 59 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:34,240 Speaker 1: a sport. There's a controlled kind of violence to it, 60 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:41,480 Speaker 1: generations of masculinity in it. Frankly, I get it when 61 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:44,280 Speaker 1: people are like, wait, I don't want to watch baseball. 62 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:51,360 Speaker 1: I just have no interest. So how can Miami take 63 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 1: this time look at these players, understand who they are, 64 00:04:55,920 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 1: understand what they're building, build a winning team, and nullify 65 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 1: those objections by actually being something worth watching that makes 66 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 1: people's lives better, that provides inspiration. I genuinely think that 67 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:16,800 Speaker 1: we as a people just need it. People are out 68 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:18,799 Speaker 1: there saying that it's a game and it's not worth 69 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:22,280 Speaker 1: taxpayer money and that there's so many more important things 70 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 1: to focus on. For me, I've always found baseball kind 71 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,600 Speaker 1: of like ingrained into my life, not through my own actions, 72 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:32,600 Speaker 1: but because I have a cousin that currently plays at 73 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:36,920 Speaker 1: the Triple A level. So it's just like I think 74 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:42,679 Speaker 1: that's intimately embedded into my life. Just like directly to 75 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:47,280 Speaker 1: talk to family is to talk about baseball. Quite often, 76 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:52,680 Speaker 1: sometimes it's even been a matter of talking about baseball 77 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:57,160 Speaker 1: talking to my family, talking about just the minutia of 78 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 1: forty man roster been involved in my like just like 79 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:06,840 Speaker 1: trying to like talk to my mother, and I have 80 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 1: like the utmost certainty that baseball can like be an 81 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:18,279 Speaker 1: important part of American culture. Still again or whatever, that 82 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 1: it doesn't need to just bait on nostalgia to be relevant, 83 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 1: that it doesn't need to just have merciless talent to 84 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:33,280 Speaker 1: be relevant. That this is a game that's played every day. 85 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:40,159 Speaker 1: You need consistency, you need success sustains success. I mess 86 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 1: up my esses. The Marlins have seemingly all the time 87 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 1: in the world, certainly all the time it would take 88 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:55,080 Speaker 1: to know intimately who they have on their roster and 89 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 1: where they need to go next. I trust that this 90 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:02,960 Speaker 1: organization can play cards right leading up to an offseason, 91 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:10,680 Speaker 1: looking at free agents and potentially targeting, you know, like 92 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:15,679 Speaker 1: an actual star in the trade market. But they're putting 93 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 1: the player first, and hopefully they get players that their 94 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 1: current players want to play with, so they have that 95 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 1: cohesion and friendship and just the bond that can be 96 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:34,240 Speaker 1: built in a team sport that we might need to 97 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:38,400 Speaker 1: see more of in life. Like I've certainly had employers 98 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 1: much less competent than baseball teams, there's still something potentially 99 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:48,360 Speaker 1: ascendant about the platform, and what we're talking about could 100 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:54,280 Speaker 1: really be anything. And I'm really excited to see Derek Jeter, 101 00:07:55,040 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 1: Kim ang Don mattingly figured out and to see these 102 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 1: players that I really do like to watch. I'm like 103 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 1: literally watching the fifth inning from yesterday's game right now, 104 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 1: fully knowing how it ends, and I have no doubt 105 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 1: that life is better with baseball checking him quickly on 106 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:22,920 Speaker 1: the miners. Daniel Costano pitched for the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp. 107 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:28,040 Speaker 1: Pitched five innings, allowed one run, while Eddie Alvarez returned 108 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 1: two to the Marlins organization. Hit a three run home 109 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 1: run an RBI double. To me, he looked like a 110 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 1: Marlin won Miami Marlins. He was picked off a pretty 111 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:46,319 Speaker 1: sick joke. In double A. Kyle Nicholas got the start 112 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:51,200 Speaker 1: for the Blue wah He went five allowed three hits, 113 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:55,240 Speaker 1: four walks, while striking out seven. His ERA at double 114 00:08:55,280 --> 00:09:01,840 Speaker 1: A now ato point nine. Offensively, team has generally struggled. 115 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:05,200 Speaker 1: A Griffin Conine was hitless with two strikeouts, now down 116 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 1: to one seventy nine. Will two hits by J. J. 117 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:12,920 Speaker 1: Bledey a double single have helped keep him above water, 118 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 1: now hitting two two in Beloit, Victor Victor Mesa had 119 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:22,040 Speaker 1: a single in the first scored to run, while Marcos 120 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:25,840 Speaker 1: Rivera came through twice in the clutch to put Beloit 121 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:30,160 Speaker 1: ahead three while Antonio Velez was good for four scoreless. 122 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:33,760 Speaker 1: Brady Puckett came in for the three inning save, allowing 123 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:38,280 Speaker 1: to run while the Snappers won three to two one. 124 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:45,200 Speaker 1: Victor Mesa Junior and Jupiter scored the team's only run 125 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:50,120 Speaker 1: with an RBI triple, bringing Orisis Johnson home for the 126 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:54,280 Speaker 1: team's only run. Interestingly, a Johnson playing right field, perhaps 127 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:57,880 Speaker 1: freeing up his bat from the more demanding shortstop position. 128 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 1: And despite a solid start by Michael Given, the Flying 129 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:06,280 Speaker 1: Tigers got to Troy Cruz for two under and runs 130 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:09,440 Speaker 1: to seal the win three to one. Today, the Marlins 131 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:12,560 Speaker 1: will play the Braves again at seven ten, sending Jesus 132 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:14,640 Speaker 1: Lozardo against Charlie Morton.