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Speaker 1: Jeka Field, Hear the Rule the Crown Drum Crown. Hey, Hi, Hello,

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Speaker 1: welcome to Big Fish Small Pod. I'm Andrew Riddall, your

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Speaker 1: host here on Wednesdays and Fridays, and we'll be throughout

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Speaker 1: the season. So today is opening day game today at

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Speaker 1: four point thirty East Coast time against the San Francisco Giants.

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Speaker 1: Sandy el Contra be facing Logan Web. On Wednesday, I

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Speaker 1: took a look at Logan Web a bit and what

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Speaker 1: the Marlins offense can't expect from that. So if you're interested,

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Speaker 1: take a check there. But I'm sure there'll be like

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Speaker 1: subject for conversation of Fish Stripes Live happens today at

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Speaker 1: three o'clock out, a ninety minute show leading up to

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Speaker 1: the game. Be there and you might be on. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: what I'm doing today really is talking about the year.

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Speaker 1: I have some bold predictions just to kind of do that.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, bold prediction number one, Jazz Chishom junior scores

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Speaker 1: one hundred and ten runs. That put him in a

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Speaker 1: great company. He'd be like one of the best in

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Speaker 1: the league by like just he'd be up there with

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Speaker 1: like people I obsess about, like one Soto. But so

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Speaker 1: that would be lock that in and hold my perspective

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Speaker 1: firmly accountable to it. If I'm wrong, don't listen to

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Speaker 1: me ever again. But Jazz Chishom Junior one hundred and

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Speaker 1: ten runs, also Starling Marte of a former Marlin some

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Speaker 1: fun there. I'm predicting that he doesn't hit more than

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Speaker 1: fifteen home runs this year. Why because of his oblique

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Speaker 1: I think he either has to kind of like dial

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Speaker 1: it back or not play the full year. So we'll

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Speaker 1: see what happens there. I like the Mets all right,

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Speaker 1: just for the record, and they're fund team to watch.

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Speaker 1: But we'll see on that kind of more leading into

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Speaker 1: my next prediction that Kim Ang makes her first real

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Speaker 1: blockbuster trade this year. Could happen really at any point.

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Speaker 1: We know kind of the places for upgrade, so we'll

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Speaker 1: see how that goes down when it does go down,

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Speaker 1: which again is a thing that I am staking my aptitude,

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Speaker 1: my understanding, my whole like baseball life and knowledge on

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Speaker 1: that choice. There. I have a couple more predictions there.

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Speaker 1: This is the one time I will talk about pictures.

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Speaker 1: Jesu's Lozardo. I think he'll get some down ballot sy

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Speaker 1: Young Award votes. That's he's gonna do that. Just he'll

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Speaker 1: have a great enough year to be in consideration as

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Speaker 1: one of the games the best. Maybe not like up

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Speaker 1: there with you know, Sandy, but he'll be up there.

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Speaker 1: And also Anthony Bender, I think that's your your real closer.

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Speaker 1: I think he has forty saves, all pretty in line

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Speaker 1: with my consistent vision of like the Marlins really contending

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Speaker 1: this year, and I think they will. Yeah, I'm putting

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Speaker 1: all my attention towards the Marlins, so, like, I really

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Speaker 1: really hope it works out for them. I think they're cool.

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Speaker 1: They're good people, is really what it boils down to

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Speaker 1: for me. But yeah, so I also really want to

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Speaker 1: dive into something that I did see yesterday. Something I

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Speaker 1: really saw was Bobby Witt, junior rookie for the Kansas

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Speaker 1: City Royals. I know there wasn't really much Marlin's news,

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Speaker 1: so it's hard for me to focus on that. It

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Speaker 1: I promised I won't really focus on any other player

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Speaker 1: like that for the rest of the year. You can

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Speaker 1: just stake my sense of me as a liar or

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Speaker 1: truth teller on that fact right there. But so what

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Speaker 1: I saw with Bobby Witt is that he came to

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Speaker 1: the plate in the eighth inning against Tristan McKenzie of

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Speaker 1: the Cleveland Guardians with like a really strong just intent

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Speaker 1: to hit. So it was a tight game. The winning

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Speaker 1: the game really was on his bat in that instance.

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Speaker 1: So he took the first pitch ball, a fastball down

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Speaker 1: in a way rightfully held off. It was a pitch

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Speaker 1: If you get the bat there, it's going on the ground.

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Speaker 1: So he took it for the ball that it just

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Speaker 1: And then the next pitch a slider up with a

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Speaker 1: It's a pitch that if you're working the count, you

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Speaker 1: just don't look to swing at it. But Bobby Witt

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Speaker 1: ability to reach up to his numbers while taking a

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Speaker 1: run from second, and he did turn that into a double.

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Speaker 1: So he came up to the plate knowing what he

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Speaker 1: and he was open to any of the pitches that

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Speaker 1: he couldn't any hit. What he did he was able

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Speaker 1: to react to the picture. And maybe admittedly he is

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Speaker 1: a player without much of a physical limit, like you're

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Speaker 1: it is an instance where Tristan McKenzie the pitcher had

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Speaker 1: proven himself to be pretty wild, not exactly like making

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Speaker 1: anyone work from behind. So Bobby Witt kept his poise

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Speaker 1: and did what he could, and there's a lot to

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Speaker 1: like that as the mental side of like winning, Certainly

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Speaker 1: there's a downside when you're batting within just like the

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Speaker 1: limit of the strike zone. It's a whole differ thing

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Speaker 1: like just target that just like work you to your worst.

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Speaker 1: Really it takes you off of that like big full

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Speaker 1: swing that bobbylit Junior was able to get off. But

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Speaker 1: because he came to the fields ready as himself to

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Speaker 1: be at the top of his limits and came with

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Speaker 1: that like aggressive intent to hit, he had a debut

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Speaker 1: that was gonna be something to remember it, and he

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Speaker 1: demonstrated a really resilient mindset that'll keep him strong through

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Speaker 1: more than just his first cup of coffee in the

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Speaker 1: major leagues. And it will be a bit more than

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Speaker 1: just one day of work for these clubs and players.

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Speaker 1: A full year starts today, a whole new season with

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Speaker 1: many a different series. So stay tuned to the Fish

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Speaker 1: Strips podcast will be with you every weekday of the

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Speaker 1: year with some interviews and talk with big Fish Small

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Speaker 1: Pod and our other shows, and today at three o'clock

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Speaker 1: Fish Stripes Live. Check it out, enjoy the games again.

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Speaker 1: Start time today is four thirty