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Speaker 1: Hey, you're catching big Fish, small Pod. I'm Andrew Widahll.

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Speaker 1: Today's Friday, and we're looking ahead a bit at this

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Speaker 1: Marlin's and Braves series tipping off at Truest Park tonight

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Speaker 1: at seven twenty, and we're talking a bit about the

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Speaker 1: little bit of humiliation we feel about this Marlin's Braves matchup.

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Speaker 1: I will say that I'm personally really excited to watch

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Speaker 1: this game, this Sandy Charlie Morton start. Probably gonna watch

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Speaker 1: it on Saturday morning. Just fits my schedule better, to

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Speaker 1: be honest, So that's where I'm at. But I am

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Speaker 1: really excited. I like the Apple TV Plus broadcast. I

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Speaker 1: watched the Mariners game last Friday and thought that was

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Speaker 1: like a great well honestly, last Saturday, I thought that

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Speaker 1: was really great coverage. It just let the game really resonate.

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Speaker 1: More So, I'm excited to watch a Marlin's game with

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Speaker 1: like that framework of just like solid production that highlights

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Speaker 1: the sport and lets it really resonate. So like, I'm

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Speaker 1: totally up for that, but totally like feeling like it's

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Speaker 1: on Sandy's back to win this game, and that's a

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Speaker 1: tough spot. It's like feels risky you don't expect to

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Speaker 1: pitch it to bring in every single day. You feel

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Speaker 1: like absolutely blessed when someone like Sandy does what he's doing.

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Speaker 1: So that's about all I've got for like aligning your

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Speaker 1: expectations on this one. But I do want to talk

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Speaker 1: a bit about where the Braves are and where the

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Speaker 1: Marlins have been and how that's all kind of like

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Speaker 1: gotten us to this point tonight ahead of this Braves

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Speaker 1: and Marlins game. So anyhow, I do think it's like

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Speaker 1: really critical to this season that the Braves feel like

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Speaker 1: they've gotten more complete as a team as the season

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Speaker 1: has gone along with like Spencer Strider, Michael Harris.

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Speaker 2: Let's go Sweet sixteen first stritch Er Strider and a

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Speaker 2: new in Atlanta record swung on belt, a deep right

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Speaker 2: low line Drives got a chance that's gone home run

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Speaker 2: Michael Harris makes it two to nothing in Atlanta.

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Speaker 1: I'm even missing more contributors for this Braves team that

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Speaker 1: I can like think of off the top of my head,

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Speaker 1: and that's something I don't really feel. With the Marlins

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Speaker 1: having batted under two hundred for the month of August,

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Speaker 1: performed poorly in a way that's almost certainly unsustainably poor.

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Speaker 1: You almost want to take that moment with humility so

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Speaker 1: that like that becomes the grounding or else you do

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Speaker 1: really start to get into this like cursed like mindset.

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Speaker 1: That's you know, speaking purely in terms of like baseball

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Speaker 1: and talking like the Curse of the Bambino where the

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Speaker 1: Red Sox let Babe Ruth go to the New York Yankees,

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Speaker 1: notably an event that happened in Tampa, Florida, which is

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Speaker 1: like now home to the Tampa Bay Rays, and that

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Speaker 1: like whole penny pinching mentality is now the overlord over

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Speaker 1: the Boston Red Sox. I personally tie that back into

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Speaker 1: the Curse of the Bambino, which might be more considered

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Speaker 1: broken due to the actual shatter of the eighty sixth

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Speaker 1: year World Series drought that the Red Sox went through

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Speaker 1: attributed to this in just like what do you even

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Speaker 1: call what the Red Sox did. They forewent perhaps the

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Speaker 1: greatest talent in baseball history for what really as a

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Speaker 1: baseball club, that's you're number one thing. But anyhow, I

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Speaker 1: personally think that the curse talk is kind of insane,

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Speaker 1: worthless thinking, if you will, But it's like really compelling

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Speaker 1: to see where these teams stand, with Miami having struggled

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Speaker 1: to like a sub two hundred August, the Braves having

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Speaker 1: committed more money to Michael Harris the second who wasn't

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Speaker 1: even a part of their recent World series, and like

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Speaker 1: the recent history of this rivalry, which really I think

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Speaker 1: dates back to twenty twenty and the National League Divisional

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Speaker 1: Series sweep of Miami by Atlanta, Miami's been whose Miami

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Speaker 1: has been, Atlanta has been who they are, and it's

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Speaker 1: not that like they try to stay out of their

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Speaker 1: business fully really in recent memory, like the Atlanta Braves

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Speaker 1: did offer Austin Riley for j Tabriel Muto, and well,

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Speaker 1: Miami maybe should have taken that traded. It really does

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Speaker 1: track with the idea of Miami not really holding tight

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Speaker 1: to hitters and coveting that like every day at bat

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Speaker 1: in the consistent pressure. It brings two opposing pictures to

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Speaker 1: have those stars in your lineup. And even if you

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Speaker 1: think they've gone away from the ways of penny pinching

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Speaker 1: and cost cutting like that, diving the talent of the

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Speaker 1: team down for savings in the financial side of the organization,

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Speaker 1: it's hard to say that the Marlins have really put

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Speaker 1: the discipline at the plate enough as high enough a priority.

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Speaker 1: So it isn't that there's so much a curse, it's

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Speaker 1: that the offense hasn't been addressed. And personally I feel

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Speaker 1: a bit humiliated thinking that the Marlins offense had been

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Speaker 1: addressed and thinking that that offense had a shot in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. Hindsight, really they've lengthened the lineup, just

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Speaker 1: like we've seen the team in recent memory lengthened the bullpen,

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Speaker 1: and we could even argue that Miami has lengthened their

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Speaker 1: rotation with more competitive starters than that twenty twenty playoff push.

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Speaker 1: So like, it's in this area where like what the

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Speaker 1: Marlins need is like something transcendent to find any like

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Speaker 1: sort of like success that they can sustain when they

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Speaker 1: haven't had that success, they need to get something just transcendent.

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Speaker 1: It's a common pattern of growth, addressing and then amending

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Speaker 1: and then progressing. We've seen players on the Marlins do this.

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Speaker 1: We've seen certainly real progress from like Sandy in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty versus Sandy now. Jazz as a player now versus

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty is also a pretty like night and day

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Speaker 1: comparison Anyhow, Apple TV Plus is promoting the game with

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Speaker 1: talk of Harris Spencer Strider, and personally, I didn't even

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Speaker 1: know who they were before this year, which is maybe

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Speaker 1: even a little bit humiliating in of itself, makes me

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Speaker 1: think that maybe I should have been watching more of

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Speaker 1: other teams to best understand the Marlins themselves. So the

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Speaker 1: Marlins being promoted with Jazz Chism Junior in their like,

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Speaker 1: who won't even be participating in this game, and I

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Speaker 1: do want to cut Apple some slack there. I'd personally

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Speaker 1: do really like the broadcast. It does really let the

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Speaker 1: game resonate and hopefully you check it out yourself, even

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Speaker 1: if you have not been up on every game for

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Speaker 1: this team. So it's a Sandy start facing against Charlie

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Speaker 1: Morton seven to twenty start time. If you're into it.

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Speaker 1: Fish Strips Live will be happening before the game, and

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Speaker 1: I'll be back with you next week