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Speaker 1: Today is April sixteenth, twenty twenty one, and this is

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Speaker 1: Big Fish Small Pod. This is a part of our

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Speaker 1: audio coverage here at Fish Stripes of the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: one Miami Marlins season, and specifically today's podcast is to

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Speaker 1: just catch you up on the Marlins as they are today,

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Speaker 1: and there is a lot to talk about because we

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Speaker 1: are just twelve games into the full one hundred and

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Speaker 1: sixty two game season, and over the last week we've

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Speaker 1: seen this Marlins team climb out of a one in

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Speaker 1: six hole to go at Division rivals the New York

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Speaker 1: Mets and Atlanta Braves, and come out as they are

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Speaker 1: today five and seven. It's much too early in the

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Speaker 1: season to talk about record win loss in that sense,

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Speaker 1: but what we've seen is enough to show us that

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Speaker 1: the Marlins are in it. And no matter your perspective

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Speaker 1: on baseball, beit you like fantasy sports or you're a

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Speaker 1: diehard Marlins fan, or you're a Braves fan that wants

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Speaker 1: the Marlins to just be quote bottom feeders, what we've

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Speaker 1: seen is a Marlins team that does demand respect. And

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Speaker 1: last night, April fifteenth, game against the Braves was no exception.

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Speaker 1: As it were. Last night was Jackie Robinson Day, a

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Speaker 1: day meant to honor Jackie Robinson, the man that broke

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Speaker 1: the color barrier in Major League baseball. Prior to that

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Speaker 1: point in nineteen forty seven, there had never been a

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Speaker 1: black baseball player. There had never been a non white

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Speaker 1: Major League baseball player less than seventy five years ago. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of time, a lot of attention, a

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Speaker 1: lot to just be made of the man that is

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Speaker 1: Jackie Robinson. And if you'd like to catch up on him,

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Speaker 1: check out Fish Stripes. Nicole Cahill has a great article

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Speaker 1: up that gives us a fresh take at what Jackie

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Speaker 1: Robinson Day is in the year twenty twenty one. It's

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Speaker 1: a great read as we all address, which is what

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Speaker 1: is this just abstract life we live? And over this

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Speaker 1: last week, this Marlins team has taken the abstract and

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Speaker 1: run with it. Last night, they faced the Atlanta Braves

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Speaker 1: at Truest Park with a chance to sweep. The Marlins

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Speaker 1: sent Trevor Rodgers to the mound against Ian Anderson and

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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Braves, who were trying to fight off a

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Speaker 1: four game sweep, having already lost the series and currently

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Speaker 1: standing three and one against the Marlins. I did just

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Speaker 1: spoil the outcome for you. But seriously, if you're listening

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Speaker 1: to this podcast before knowing who won the game on

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Speaker 1: this day, I questioned you, I think that you need

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Speaker 1: to watch the highlights for this game. It was full

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Speaker 1: of clutch hits and great plays. John Birdie made an

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Speaker 1: amazing grab in center field and he was playing second base.

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Speaker 1: It was the sort of play that got me just

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Speaker 1: out of my seat. All be's out to shallow center.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be Birdie making an acrobatic playing center field.

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Speaker 1: How did he get there? And how did he hang

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Speaker 1: on the speed on display again like a wide receiver

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Speaker 1: at the back of the end zone. Are you kidding me?

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Speaker 1: He got both feet down. Yeah, he got it down.

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Speaker 1: He got it down. Wow, what a catch. This s

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Speaker 1: Marlins team is a lot of fun. There, I said it.

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Speaker 1: And Trevor Rodgers in this game went five innings. He

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Speaker 1: struck out seven Braves, only gave up two earned runs,

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Speaker 1: and very much kept his team in it. It was

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Speaker 1: a successful start and his team gave him some run support.

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Speaker 1: And that's where I get to the point of my

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Speaker 1: concept of this game, where I have to think that

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Speaker 1: we all jinxed it. We just jinxed it. We were

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Speaker 1: talking all day all week about how Adam Devall has

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Speaker 1: these great games against the Braves, how he did have

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Speaker 1: a great game against the Braves earlier this week with

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Speaker 1: seven RBI, an earlier series broadcast with jpiery Sieba on

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Speaker 1: the Marlins radio. He called out Pablo Sandoval, quote donkey hacks,

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Speaker 1: that the Braves just make him go to the plate

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Speaker 1: as a pinch hitter and they tell him just to

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Speaker 1: quote make some donkey hacks try to hit the ball out.

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Speaker 1: And that's where I know we are jinxed. Where jinxd

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Speaker 1: in this game, I'm gonna even back away from the

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Speaker 1: pronoun we in that the Marlins were jinxd by JP

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Speaker 1: and a donkey heck against Zach Pop went out and

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Speaker 1: made the Marlins trail. Zach Pop one of two Rule

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Speaker 1: five draft picks on this Marlins roster, so it's hard

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Speaker 1: to imagine him as like a like a lynchpin of

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Speaker 1: this franchise going forward. But for today and at the

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Speaker 1: end of a road trip, this Marlin's bullpen was light.

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Speaker 1: Zach Pop was the first man out and as the

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Speaker 1: Marlins battled back after that home run in the ninth

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Speaker 1: as Miguel Rojas came in to pinch it for the

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Speaker 1: ninth spot, followed by Adam Devaal getting a chance to

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Speaker 1: hit for Corey Dickerson prove his worth as a Braves expert.

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Speaker 1: I insist that he is that, and he proved me right,

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Speaker 1: coming through with a double and letting the Marlins catch

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Speaker 1: up and eventually taking the lead on a Garrett Cooper

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Speaker 1: single just right up the middle and then into the ninth.

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Speaker 1: The Marlins turned to a man that you might have

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Speaker 1: heard Eli hype earlier today on this podcast stream. You

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Speaker 1: can even listen to it right after this. He has

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Speaker 1: some great things to say about jess Chism Junior, so

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Speaker 1: you might want to tune in for that, regardless of

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Speaker 1: whether or not you want to hear more about Dylan Flora,

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Speaker 1: who came in with a save opportunity, notably not going

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Speaker 1: to Yimmy Garcia, who had pitched multiple games prior to tonight.

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Speaker 1: So it's easy to imagine why, even if Yimmy is

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Speaker 1: the clear best option out of the bullpen. Heard Don

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Speaker 1: matting Lees, Eyes and other decision makers perspectives, Dylan Floro

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Speaker 1: makes sense as a part of this closer committee on

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Speaker 1: a Marlins team that's shy a lockdown option that might

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Speaker 1: be a great opportunity, that might be a great room

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Speaker 1: for improvement as the season goes along, in as this

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Speaker 1: Marlins team looks to stay in contention with the class

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Speaker 1: of the NL East, like the Mets and the Braves,

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Speaker 1: who they faced and have now come out the other

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Speaker 1: end four and two indivisional play so far. Obviously, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's way too early to say anything at all. But

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Speaker 1: last night Dylan Floro, who faced the Braves in the

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Speaker 1: National League Championship Series as a Dodger, giving up a

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Speaker 1: home run in that series, actually to Marcelo Zuna. He

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Speaker 1: didn't have enough tonight to lock down his first major

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Speaker 1: league safe and instead Dansby Swanson hit the off as

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Speaker 1: the Braves had already loaded the bases with Ender and

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Speaker 1: your ncrtag into the top of the order. A hard

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Speaker 1: just chunk of hitters to face for any pitcher. But

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Speaker 1: last night it exposed that Dylan Floro didn't have it

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Speaker 1: in him to lock them down when it mattered. But

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Speaker 1: like Eli says in the most recent Fish Stripes podcast,

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Speaker 1: the Marlins were playing with house money last night. It

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Speaker 1: isn't even their only Jackie Robinson Day game, as much

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Speaker 1: as it is their only game on the day Jackie

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Speaker 1: Robinson broke the color burial barrier April fifteenth, Today tonight

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Speaker 1: at Lone Depot Park when they faced the San Francisco Giants,

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Speaker 1: and Anthony Desclafini, the former Marlin, gets the start. The

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Speaker 1: Marlins will be wearing two. Everyone on the field be

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Speaker 1: wearing forty two, as the Giants had off on the fifteenth.

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Speaker 1: They will be celebrating in Miami tonight, and this is

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Speaker 1: a Giants team that the Marlins are now five and

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Speaker 1: seven on the season, haven't seen since twenty nineteen, and

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Speaker 1: looking at their roster, a few names do stand out.

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Speaker 1: Evan Longoria, the Ray's Great, and Buster Posey, this possible

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame catcher for the San Francisco Giants former

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Speaker 1: and Florida State Seminole stand out as headliners old friend

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Speaker 1: Donovan Solano, the former Marlin, is their everyday second baseman

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Speaker 1: and he is quite justifiably holding on to it. This

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Speaker 1: Giants team has been off to a hot start with

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Speaker 1: an eight and four record, and the Marlins will send

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Speaker 1: Daniel Costano to the mound for his first start of

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. After making five starts in twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: he will take to the Mound as the Marlins come

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Speaker 1: home after taking his series from the National League East

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Speaker 1: champion