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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Big Fish Smallpod. I'm Andrew Werdahl,

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Speaker 1: and today is May thirteenth. Today what I want to

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Speaker 1: talk with you about is Marlin's general manager Kim Ang

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Speaker 1: and how she's really well poised to take this Marlin's

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Speaker 1: team to October and beyond. So really what is key

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Speaker 1: to her is her extensive knowledge in baseball. She began

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Speaker 1: like working in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White

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Speaker 1: Sox dating back to nineteen ninety. She was with them

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Speaker 1: through like the early nineties into ninety six, where really

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Speaker 1: her responsibilities worked around like well, like initially her responsibility

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Speaker 1: was to like find Rule five draft prospects, so like

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Speaker 1: looking through scouting reports and exploit other team's minor league

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Speaker 1: systems to try to find that like diamond in the

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Speaker 1: rough that's overlooked and not even on your like forty

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Speaker 1: man roster at an extended age for a prospect. So

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Speaker 1: she's always been in this like real like down to

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Speaker 1: earth what is happening on the baseball field and who's

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Speaker 1: bringing that extra little bit of it like a spark

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Speaker 1: to the field with them. That led her into working

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Speaker 1: for the American League processing transactions, approving like waivers for

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Speaker 1: ball clubs as an example again like just gaining like

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Speaker 1: a knowledge base in all of those like small little details.

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Speaker 1: Then that took her to the New York Yankees. Brian

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Speaker 1: Cashman sought her out for to be an assistant to

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Speaker 1: the general manager, and that was at dare I say,

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Speaker 1: the height of the Yankees dynasty nineteen ninety eight to

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Speaker 1: two thousand and one, when they won like three World

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Speaker 1: Series championships, talking about like Derek Jeters Yankees when you're

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Speaker 1: talking about that. And it took her to Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: where she basically continued in a similar position, but with

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Speaker 1: like a less established ball club like the Dodgers. Now

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Speaker 1: they're something of a dynasty. They've been in the playoffs

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Speaker 1: since twenty thirteen, and they were a much different team

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Speaker 1: in like the mid two thousands, mid early two thousands,

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Speaker 1: as they were like getting their footing really as like

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Speaker 1: a growing organization. I mean, they're the Los Angeles Dodgers.

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Speaker 1: They're always somewhat relevant throughout history, but at the time

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Speaker 1: they were really getting their feet off the ground, trying

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Speaker 1: to in some ways build off of what was going

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Speaker 1: on with the New York Yankees, who were one of

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Speaker 1: those like rare teams running that like maximalist like sort

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Speaker 1: of set up where their baseball team gets like full

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Speaker 1: investment from its ownership and from its upper management and

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Speaker 1: fully budgeted to like have a contending team or like

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Speaker 1: a rarity in the sport, and the Los Angeles Dodgers

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Speaker 1: were looking to kind of like in some ways like

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Speaker 1: glom off of that. So kim Ang was brought in

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Speaker 1: and the team had some success through the two thousands,

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Speaker 1: nothing ridiculous. It wasn't really until they like landed like

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Speaker 1: a large TV deal that they were able to extend

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Speaker 1: their budget to the point that they are now. Certainly

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Speaker 1: like kim Eng's efforts helped like the team reach the

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Speaker 1: point where they could get such a contract. It was

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Speaker 1: something of a norm to have these like massive, multi

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Speaker 1: billion potentially contracts for television rights in the like early

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Speaker 1: to like late oughts, early tens, And what we're seeing

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Speaker 1: now is like a different trend because of cable, less

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Speaker 1: people are watching cable than streaming. So the Dodgers, in essence,

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Speaker 1: what they needed to do was just gain traction and

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Speaker 1: prove their importance to people that would then be inclined

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Speaker 1: to like keep their cable bill going and then the

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Speaker 1: Dodgers did lan in a contract like that and gained

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Speaker 1: the ability to make large transactions like one of their

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Speaker 1: biggest deals of the time, like traded for Josh Beckett

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Speaker 1: and Adrian Gonzalez, both former Marlins from the Boston Red Sox.

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Speaker 1: As it were, So that was something of like a

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Speaker 1: real like flip into this like actual active dynasty mode

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Speaker 1: that we saw with the Dodgers as they like became

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Speaker 1: this like current powerhouse really like following like Clayton Kershaw's career, which,

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Speaker 1: like Kim eng overlapped, was a bit early on, but

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Speaker 1: since like separate ways were made of Kim became involved

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Speaker 1: in like the Major League Baseball League Office, engaging with

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Speaker 1: like many Major League Baseball teams. In an article interview

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Speaker 1: for MLB dot Com, she revealed that like that was

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Speaker 1: a really beneficial opportunity for her because it gave her

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Speaker 1: the chance to hear how all these teams were thinking

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Speaker 1: about baseball and the ability to like know the different

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Speaker 1: clubs in a way that's potentially advantageous to her own

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Speaker 1: perspective and her own beliefs of what will grow her

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Speaker 1: ball club. That she's you know, been a part of

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Speaker 1: a practice in numerous winning organizations. Like actually in her career,

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Speaker 1: her like twenty two seasons with Major League Baseball teams,

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Speaker 1: including this past season with the Miami Marlins, she's actually

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Speaker 1: eighteen winning seasons to four losing seasons, like an eighty

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Speaker 1: say that, like she knows how to win. She's not

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Speaker 1: this general manager who's brought in to like do your

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Speaker 1: rebuild to become a contender and then like go over

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Speaker 1: the top in the typical manner of your like small

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Speaker 1: market the club organization. What you have is this like

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Speaker 1: dynasty minded general manager who's thinking out. She's thinking like

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Speaker 1: long term, how to grow the Dodgers, how to you know,

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Speaker 1: like supplement a roster in the ways that maybe the

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Speaker 1: nineteen nineties Chicago White Sox like failed to do. But

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Speaker 1: with the perspective of years and with just the power

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Speaker 1: given to her now, she has the ability to like

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Speaker 1: general manager, even with these like minor transactions, she has

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Speaker 1: an eye for it. Her first like task with the

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Speaker 1: Marlins to find some relief pitching. It was like a

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Speaker 1: huge need at the time, and she went out and

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Speaker 1: found like Anthony Bender as an example of one of

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Speaker 1: the like minor sinees that we're due to the effort

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Speaker 1: she took to just watch a ton of video of

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Speaker 1: those like minor league level players. Really like dating back

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Speaker 1: to her experience in like nineteen ninety the skills are

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Speaker 1: like still there because they've been accumulating since that point.

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Speaker 1: It's like an expert level of a general manager with

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Speaker 1: like a real, like balanced poise. She talked in that

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Speaker 1: same April twenty fifth, twenty twenty two interview with MLB

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Speaker 1: dot Com that it's like she sees her role as

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Speaker 1: in at the right times. It's this perspective that she

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Speaker 1: can anticipate paid to an extent. With that she sees

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Speaker 1: beyond to help set up her people into the right

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Speaker 1: positions to succeed. So I am incredibly optimistic before the

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Speaker 1: future of this team, and it doesn't seem like they've

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Speaker 1: gone out of their breaches for Aby Garcia or Jorge Solaire,

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Speaker 1: and the way the team has played is pretty consistent

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Speaker 1: with the idea that like, these players are your players.

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Speaker 1: It's giving us great drama on the field. I'm curious

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Speaker 1: to see what happens tonight as the Violins take on

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Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Brewers and face Corbyn Burns behind Pablo Lopez.

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Speaker 1: So tonight at six forty is the game before that,

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Speaker 1: leading up to a checkout Fish Stripes Live for hour

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Speaker 1: perspective on the upcoming series