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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Fish Stripes podcast network, where we

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Speaker 1: all cover the Miami Marlins in our own way. This

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Speaker 1: is an episode of Big Fish Small Pond. I'm at

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Speaker 1: word all. You're a host here bringing you the latest

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Speaker 1: in Miami Marlins baseball in less than ten minutes. So

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Speaker 1: as we check in on this beautiful Friday wherever you

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Speaker 1: may be, a day of a total lunar eclipse. Kind

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Speaker 1: of neat, not totally irrelevant. Looking at baseball today, it

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Speaker 1: feels like there's certainly like something blocking it. And that's

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Speaker 1: the best I got without research behind it. So we'll

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Speaker 1: get started some real bright spots to talk about this

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Speaker 1: week in baseball.

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Speaker 2: Yesterday, Jose Barrio spoke to.

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Speaker 1: ESPN really like excited about playing for the Toronto Blue Jays.

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Speaker 2: He signed a seven.

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Speaker 1: Year, one hundred and thirty one million dollar contract after

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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Twins traded him. They didn't seem likely to

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Speaker 1: meet his demands and like weren't going to so he

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Speaker 1: found a new home in Toronto, going as far as

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Speaker 1: to say to ESPN that he was like treated better there,

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Speaker 1: showing like a bit of light on the fact that

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Speaker 1: there is room in Major League Baseball, and I mean

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Speaker 1: maybe Minneapolis, Saint Paul, or maybe just America on the whole,

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Speaker 1: or maybe just period for people to just be better

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Speaker 1: to each other.

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Speaker 2: Pretty good.

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Speaker 1: They're just like blast of light to get this Eclipse

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Speaker 1: Day off to a start.

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Speaker 2: But that deal is big news.

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Speaker 1: Toronto's shown like an inclination to pay for star players.

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Speaker 1: George Springer signed one hundred million dollars deal with them recently,

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Speaker 1: as well as Marcus Simeon came over from the Athletics.

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Speaker 1: It's been like a development internally for the Blue Jays.

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Speaker 1: They're like whole, like practically like class of former major leaguers,

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Speaker 1: kids like Bobashett vlat Junior Griffin Conine who were all

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Speaker 1: coming up with them, plus.

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Speaker 2: Paying for star talent.

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Speaker 1: And maybe doing things right into personally that we're looking at,

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Speaker 1: you know, like an exciting team in Toronto. I always

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Speaker 1: view them as something as an analog to the Marlins.

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Speaker 1: I might be because they changed their logo in twenty twelve,

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Speaker 1: or that they just sit in like a stacked division

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Speaker 1: with like the Blue Jays, Yankees and these huge market teams,

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Speaker 1: kind of like how the Marlins do. But it really

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Speaker 1: does feel like inspiring. Bit that that star players are

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Speaker 1: capable of being compensated like it and finding the right

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Speaker 1: place for them to be as a person within Major

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Speaker 1: League Baseball. This does sit like totally in tandem with

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Speaker 1: a couple of big contracts that came out this week,

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Speaker 1: justin Verlander back to the Houston Astros and Noah Cinderguard

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Speaker 1: going to the Los Angeles Angels. Digging deeper into that

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Speaker 1: a bit, the New York Mets will be receiving a

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Speaker 1: compensation pick for that signing. They reportedly offered him the

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Speaker 1: qualifying offer of eighteen point four million dollars, then like

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Speaker 1: ghosted him on it. That no ways, Kindergarten, this is

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Speaker 1: like thor this is like a Major League World Series

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Speaker 1: like talent in a Met's uniform that's like an icon

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Speaker 1: and fits, I mean really well with like Mike Trout,

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Speaker 1: Shoheo Tani other like stars.

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Speaker 2: Of the game.

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Speaker 1: But the Mets were willing to let that go in

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Speaker 1: favor of the value of a draft pick.

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Speaker 2: Not like.

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Speaker 1: News in the sense that other teams have like always

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Speaker 1: like done that thing, continually do do that. But along

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Speaker 1: with Steve Cohen saying in August on Twitter, like praising

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Speaker 1: like the investment quality of like draft dollars. It shines

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Speaker 1: a bit of a light on the like learning curve

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Speaker 1: of baseball. Owners come in thinking they like know the

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Speaker 1: game or can figure out the game and do things

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Speaker 1: without better advisement. The New York Mets did hire a

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Speaker 1: general manager this week, bringing in Billy Eppler from the

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Angels, and it might be like a really

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Speaker 1: like well needed mind.

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Speaker 2: Offering, like a buffer for like learning curve.

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Speaker 1: For an ownership to really respect the worth of it's

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Speaker 1: star talents and just like the demand for them across

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Speaker 1: the league. It's been like a pretty expensive week for

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Speaker 1: starting pitchers. Well, the Marlins have shown that they're like

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Speaker 1: pretty well on top of what they're doing at this

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Speaker 1: point in the off season. They've made an offer to

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Speaker 1: Startling Marte, like a formal contract offer, so that's on

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Speaker 1: the table a possible center field solution. The Marlins spoke

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Speaker 1: with the Blue Jays about Alejandro Kirk again, another player

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Speaker 1: that could really help solve the catcher spot in the lineup.

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Speaker 1: Some pretty big conversations have been had to this point.

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Speaker 1: They also re established their like coaching staff, putting forth

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Speaker 1: like who that will be for this coming year. Kevin

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Speaker 1: Barrel has a really good write up and interview with

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Speaker 1: Al Perique on Fish Stripe, so check that out. While

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Speaker 1: Miami also brought in Marcus Thing to be their new

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Speaker 1: hitting coach and stacking their staff with the quality assurance

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Speaker 1: coach and continuity on the coaching staff front. Well, this

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Speaker 1: offseason they've also gone forth and brought aboard some new

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Speaker 1: strength and conditioning staff, and this past weekend they were

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Speaker 1: able to bring in a major.

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Speaker 2: League reliever, Louis Head.

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Speaker 1: So they've taken action and they've started having the big

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Speaker 1: conversations that need to happen at some point ahead of

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. But it's not a matter of feeling

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Speaker 1: anchored into it yet. Really where we stand is ahead

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Speaker 1: of a lockout, which is like the whole like I

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Speaker 1: don't know, like the eclipse of it. That's the big

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Speaker 1: object blocking the other big object. Yesterday, Rob Manfried claimed

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Speaker 1: the power in the negotiation, saying that a lockout would

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Speaker 1: be better than a work stoppage during the season, in

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Speaker 1: essence saying that negotiations need to happen on the terms

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Speaker 1: of the league, not that of the players association. It

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Speaker 1: sets forth like a bad precedent as far as like

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Speaker 1: good faith goes meaning like by using your power to

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Speaker 1: set the terms of the negotiation, how are the players

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Speaker 1: supposed to trust that you trust them and are approaching

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Speaker 1: it in good faith. You wouldn't need to use your

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Speaker 1: power and change the terms if you really trusted the players.

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Speaker 1: Just along with that, Major League Baseball has just said

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Speaker 1: that they are going to be covering housing four minor

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Speaker 1: league players going forward, So they've basically established that they're

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Speaker 1: willing to like set forth a floor and clearly teams

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Speaker 1: It's just a matter of like finding all that room

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Speaker 1: in the middle for it all to fit together, and

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Speaker 1: it doesn't. Based on the language, you just feel like

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Speaker 1: they're going to avoid that December one lockout, but really

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Speaker 1: who knows.

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Speaker 2: At this point.

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Speaker 1: Today forty man rosters are due ahead of the Rule

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Speaker 1: five draft. This is before the non tender deadline. So

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Speaker 1: really what we're just gonna see is some movement of

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Speaker 1: those near major league players that haven't yet made it

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Speaker 1: to the bigs. But it is movement and we will

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Speaker 1: see it. But for now, that is all I've been

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Speaker 1: eighteen were doll This is a big fish, small pot

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Speaker 1: and don't forget to check out the Mesas Solar Socks

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Speaker 1: competing for the Arizona Fall League Championship Tomorrow night Saturday

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Speaker 1: at seven pm Eastern on MLB Network.

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Speaker 2: By now