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Speaker 1: Hey, Welcome to Big Fish, Small Pond.

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Speaker 2: Today is September twenty third, and I'm Andrew Werdau. Marlins

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Speaker 2: had a Thursday off, so there's not a whole lot

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Speaker 2: to talk about with the major league club. Really a

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Speaker 2: couple like minor news notes, just to get you up

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Speaker 2: to speed with what you'll see today as the Marlins

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Speaker 2: face off against the Washington Nationals against Josiah Gray yet

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Speaker 2: again a six forty start time, pretty typical. As the

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Speaker 2: Marlins face the Nationals at home, Raxton Garrett really likely

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Speaker 2: to get the start. He's coming back to the major

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Speaker 2: league roster along with Peyton Burdick, as Trevor Rodgers and

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Speaker 2: Joey Wendell are headed to the IL Trevor Rodgers with

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Speaker 2: that lap issue and Joey Wendell with a hamstring strain

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Speaker 2: probably going to be the end of Trevor rodgers twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty two season. Wendel pretty up in the air as

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Speaker 2: for whether or not he will return, with the hamstring

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Speaker 2: being like much more like I mean, truly minor to

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Speaker 2: deal with when compared to a lat for a pitcher.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you heard.

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Speaker 2: Jazz Chism Junior will be playing shortstop for Great Britain

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Speaker 2: in the World Baseball Classic, and really I want to

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Speaker 2: like kind of draw attention to something Miami Harold put

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Speaker 2: out a well. Barry Jackson is working on a six

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Speaker 2: part series currently examining the Marlins franchise, their first up

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Speaker 2: he's dropped yesterday titled the Team that Can't Hit? Why

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Speaker 2: the Marlins rebuild derailed in What an analysis revealed a

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Speaker 2: little tease of that though, And this is like a

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Speaker 2: direct quote from the article of the thirty three position

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Speaker 2: players ranked among MLB dot COM's top thirty Marlin's proc

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Speaker 2: pot prospects from twenty eighteen through twenty twenty, the first

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Speaker 2: three years of Sherman's ownership, only one shortstop Jazz Chism,

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Speaker 2: has become an above average hitter. Barry does go on

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Speaker 2: to get into many of those prospects, certainly some that

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Speaker 2: are still contributing to the team, some that have already

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Speaker 2: gone other ways. Really great breakdown of just every individual player.

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Speaker 2: It's really like, I don't know, I think it's going

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Speaker 2: to be an interesting series, to say the least. And

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Speaker 2: that's like totally aside really from what's going on with

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Speaker 2: the Marlins. I know, like as fascinating as like things

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Speaker 2: that like roster construction are I mean personally, I'm I mean,

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Speaker 2: I'm just the person that loves baseball really, so I

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Speaker 2: mean often even like approaching it from different angles, like

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Speaker 2: I'll play like the daily fantasy games all I buy

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Speaker 2: baseball cards, I swing a bat every now and again.

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Speaker 2: I just love the sport, really And that's in addition

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Speaker 2: to like regularly watching games Marlins or otherwise, Major League

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Speaker 2: or otherwise. So really I want to talk about just

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Speaker 2: like finding joy in baseball. Obviously, like this year hasn't

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Speaker 2: been what any of us really expected for the Marlins.

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Speaker 2: And by any of us, I mean literally any of us.

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Speaker 2: I think we all, Oh, we're under the impression that

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Speaker 2: the Marlins we're making like those desired strides, And at

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Speaker 2: this point it's like clear that there's something there. Thus

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Speaker 2: the importance of berries reporting, but thus the importance of

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Speaker 2: us as fans to find it.

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Speaker 1: Just like joy wherever we can.

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Speaker 2: Really this weekend, we have Sandy al Cantre set to

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Speaker 2: go on Saturday against the Nationals for what could be

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Speaker 2: the last start of what could be a cy Young

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Speaker 2: and there's other great baseball going on in the organization

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Speaker 2: as well. Really want to draw some attention to the

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Speaker 2: Pensacola Blue Waho's because tonight they have a game that

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Speaker 2: you might want to check out for yourself. It will

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Speaker 2: be at seven oh five Eastern time. Dax Fulton will

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Speaker 2: be giving the start for the Blue wa Who's after

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Speaker 2: the Marlin's affiliate made a great comeback against the Montgomery Biscuits.

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Speaker 2: The Tampa Bay Rays Double A team, they lost the

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Speaker 2: first game of the playoff series, Game two, they were

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Speaker 2: down by five runs, came back to win it on

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Speaker 2: like a Nazi Nuna's home run, like a go ahead

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Speaker 1: His first in Double A.

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Speaker 2: That's the sort of thing that I'm talking about with

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Speaker 2: like the joy of baseball really, because it is so

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Speaker 2: easy to get caught up in the expectations and the

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Speaker 2: probably you know happen on the the play, and I

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Speaker 2: to go exactly. The hitter doesn't know exactly what they're

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Speaker 2: going to be doing with that ball. Yet it's this

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Speaker 2: action that has to happen on the field and We're

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Speaker 2: at the crunch point of the season for many many

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Speaker 2: of these professional baseball players, and it's exciting because it's

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Speaker 2: all stuff that just like has to be done. Really,

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Speaker 2: you can't be reliant on what you think might happen,

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Speaker 2: even like checking out MLB dot com. They're all the hubbub,

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Speaker 2: of course, is about Aaron Judge's pursuit of the Yankees

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Speaker 2: in the American League home run record, but they're like

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Speaker 2: showing his like like the pace he's on taste for.

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Speaker 2: And it, I mean, I don't know how you really

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Speaker 2: figure that out when it seems like everyone just might

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Speaker 2: walk the guy uh totally, like I think rude. But

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Speaker 2: it's so tough to like have some expectation past some

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Speaker 2: sort of like newly defined precedent for all the possibilities

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Speaker 2: and for all the like the probabilities.

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Speaker 1: There really isn't that. That's not at play. The game

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Speaker 1: is and that's where things will be decided.

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Speaker 2: Like you know, the Blue whose players are not thinking

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Speaker 2: at any point beyond this Friday night game against the

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Speaker 2: Montgomery Biscuits. Just another quick note to get you kind

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Speaker 2: of caught up headed up to this six forty start time.

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Speaker 2: Peyton Verdick is back to the Marlins. He did not

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Speaker 2: do very well with the Joe Bushrimp after he was

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Speaker 2: sent down, really like four for forty one with twenty

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Speaker 2: one strikeouts. That first game down in Jacksonville against the

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Speaker 2: and those were you know, literally four like half of

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Speaker 2: So he's certainly been in a slump. Barry Jackson did

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Speaker 2: a great job breaking down Peyton Burdick, really like articulating

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Speaker 2: thanks to his like open stance. So again, that's another

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Speaker 2: guy where we're looking at something's going to happen and

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Speaker 2: change on the field. Well, or it's not going to

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Speaker 2: filling in a need for another bat on the Marlins.

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Speaker 2: Pretty fun though that he was five for five with

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Speaker 1: But really, yeah, we're talking about baseball.

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Speaker 2: We have another weekend of baseball ahead of us, and

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Speaker 2: I'm excited for it. This Marlins and National Series, both

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Speaker 2: teams well out of playoff contention, and maybe that's your

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Speaker 2: sort of pretension to watch that like impetus to like

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Speaker 2: take in a game because it has some meaningful consequences

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Speaker 2: down the line, or like whatever you want to talk about.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I personally love the World Series, so like

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Speaker 2: that's a huge thing for me as a fan. But seriously,

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Speaker 2: on today, September twenty third, I totally encourage you to

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Speaker 2: engage with baseball in your own way. Find what's fun

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Speaker 2: about it, what like really like gives.

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Speaker 1: You that spark, and yeah, go for it.

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Speaker 2: Maybe it's watching the Blue Jays, maybe it's watching the Marlins.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's buying baseball cards.

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Speaker 2: Maybe it's you know, putting some money on some players

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Speaker 2: or something on you know, one of those daily fantasy sites.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what to do for you, not gonna

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Speaker 2: act like I'm some baseball fan doctor, and I certainly

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Speaker 2: hope you never mistake.

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Speaker 1: Me to be such the be.

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Speaker 2: You.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I regret even saying it, but anyhow, that's basically it

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Speaker 2: for today. Fish Stripes Live will get you totally set

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Speaker 2: for the matchup leading up to the six forty start time.

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Speaker 2: Check it out on Twitter, fish stripes or whatever. You

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Speaker 2: get your fish stripes really, so yeah, thanks for listening.

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Speaker 1: I've been Andrew Berdahl.

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Speaker 2: I'll be back with you on Tuesday, after this National series,

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Speaker 2: after this Blue One Whose Biscuits series.

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Speaker 1: And with you for the rest of the season. So

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Speaker 1: thanks for listening.

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Speaker 2: I'll be back on Tuesday, but until then, don't act

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Speaker 2: like you're waiting for me or something that'd be weird.

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Speaker 2: Go go forth into Baseball or check out Atlanta on Hulu,

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Speaker 2: so long as you also check out The Miami Herald's

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Speaker 2: coverage of this like deep cutting organizational issue.

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Speaker 1: But seriously, take it with joy too,