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Speaker 1: Welcome to Big Fish Small Pod. I'm Andrew Wardahl, and

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Speaker 1: today what I want to talk about is the home

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Speaker 1: field advantage. As always we are talking about the hitters

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Speaker 1: here on Big Fish Small Pod. That is Wednesdays and

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Speaker 1: Fridays at least when I'm the host Andrew Wardahl, as

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Speaker 1: opposed to the other days when you can listen to

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Speaker 1: Daniel Rodriguez with the mic and Eli with the other mic.

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Speaker 1: So what we have for you today really is that

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Speaker 1: it's the home field advantage. What I really saw this

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Speaker 1: weekend of the Marlin Toast and the Mariners, a series

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Speaker 1: that I was really excited for being that these teams

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Speaker 1: don't really play each other much. It's such a rare

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Speaker 1: pairing that it's just like it's a cool matchup just

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Speaker 1: for just how abstract the result is. It's not like

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Speaker 1: you see Logan Gilbert pitch every week for example, like

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Speaker 1: just something neat. So the fans were out and it

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Speaker 1: was like incredible to watch. I'm not local at the moment,

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Speaker 1: so what I saw on the TV broadcast was just amazing.

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Speaker 1: Crowds fully in support of the team.

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Speaker 2: And even.

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Speaker 1: That like Saturday and Sunday games when the Marlins were

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Speaker 1: kind of like pushing back when they were down. The

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Speaker 1: fans just seemed to give like an actual, like palpable

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Speaker 1: advantage to the Marlins.

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Speaker 2: Like I mean that's.

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Speaker 1: In a sense that like there has been like certainly

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Speaker 1: some like generalized studies of like playing at home and

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Speaker 1: playing away.

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Speaker 2: Within the sport, but specifically it seemed like.

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Speaker 1: The crowd for the Marlins being so like fervently behind

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Speaker 1: the team and in such a loud space with the

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Speaker 1: roof closed, that the energy of the building just was

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Speaker 1: behind the team's like attempt to like find itself, recompose

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Speaker 1: the offense and go at the next pitcher, like loading

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Speaker 1: the bases on Saturday and getting nothing, but then, like

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Speaker 1: JP noted, a feeling like the team was just like

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Speaker 1: ready to go out there and do that again, Like

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Speaker 1: that itself was a repeatable act like amid hitting and

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Speaker 1: the struggles of that loading the bases and getting to

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Speaker 1: that point against a relief pitcher just another attempt to

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Speaker 1: go at it. And that's like how a game could

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Speaker 1: feel at Marlin's Park, And like the playoffs, just if

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Speaker 1: the team is down, just every inny another solid chance

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Speaker 1: to get the lead, and that's like an amazing advantage.

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Speaker 2: It was.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, I haven't seen that so much as

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Speaker 1: a fan for like over like a decade at this

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Speaker 1: point of the Marlins at home in South Florida in

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Speaker 1: you know, Lone Depot Park, So it's that's.

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Speaker 2: New. And this week.

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Speaker 1: It seemed just like such a long term shift that

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Speaker 1: these couple of games so far against the Diamondbacks, both

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Speaker 1: like one one run losses five to four with Arizona.

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Speaker 2: Came with like.

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Speaker 1: Much smaller crowds during the week, different like flow to

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Speaker 1: the day, like fans getting used to going to the

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Speaker 1: ballpark might just be there for the weekend for now,

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Speaker 1: kind of getting established into the years. School is still happening,

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Speaker 1: so there's not quite that like traffic of like families

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Speaker 1: that you'd like to the ballpark. So these couple of days,

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Speaker 1: it was much quieter in the stadium. You would just

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Speaker 1: like hear fans whistle, like an individual whistle would be

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Speaker 1: like the sound between pitches, very like tense atmosphere and

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Speaker 1: very much an atmospherehere, like the players had to like

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Speaker 1: bring their like motivating energy to the field with them.

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Speaker 1: And it's not that that's like too big of an

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Speaker 1: ask at all, Like that's a really like that's like

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Speaker 1: the ask of being a professional athlete. But we are

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Speaker 1: literally at this point where it's obvious to like the

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Speaker 1: best teams in the game that even your best players

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Speaker 1: can't really play exactly at the highest level day in

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Speaker 1: and day out. They need days off, they need rest

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Speaker 1: like that. So the particularly draining games this weekend against

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Speaker 1: the Mariners and like huge.

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Speaker 2: Home series win, it seemed to be.

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Speaker 1: Really like balanced out these last couple of days where

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Speaker 1: the team was able to find like that toughness get

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Speaker 1: those late runs both cases, really like chasing Diamondbacks relievers

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Speaker 1: who you don't like that sort of relief pitcher middle

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Speaker 1: of the game ahead, not like your seventh inning, not

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Speaker 1: quite your like ninth inn and eighth inning, and it's

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Speaker 1: not necessarily like the best relief pitchers you're going to

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Speaker 1: like face on the Dimeonbacks team. So it's hard to

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Speaker 1: feel like the Marlins were like close to that win

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Speaker 1: so much as like they stayed in it but didn't

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Speaker 1: quite hit like the highs that they need to do

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Speaker 1: to win the series. And that's like still totally like

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Speaker 1: just a tangible thing this season, just like four straight

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Speaker 1: against the Dimonbacks doesn't sound like an unreasonable thing to

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Speaker 1: this point, but it hasn't come with that like beat

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Speaker 1: yet to really recover. And maybe that's the trip out

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Speaker 1: to San Diego. But maybe it's just like right now,

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Speaker 1: as this is being recorded night before twelve thirty start time,

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Speaker 1: facing Madison Bumgarner in Miami ahead of that trip out

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Speaker 1: to San Diego, it's like a tense moment for the

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Speaker 1: ball club. Certainly the series hasn't gone how you want,

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Speaker 1: but certainly like things could be looking in the right direction.

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Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what, Like Garrett Cooper specifically seems

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Speaker 1: like a player that's just like about to erupt, like

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Speaker 1: having those like big bats, like if one of them

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Speaker 1: gets going, that'd be a really big deal.

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Speaker 2: We'll see today at twelve thirty.

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Speaker 1: The Marlins face the Arizona Diamondbacks, then going into the

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Speaker 1: weekend as they fly out to San Diego before going.

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Speaker 2: To Phoenix again.

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Speaker 1: We'll be with you for Fish Stripes with the Fish

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Speaker 1: Stripes live before the game on Thursday, and I'll be

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Speaker 1: back with you specifically Friday, May sixth to talk more

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Speaker 1: about these Marlins bats. So it's been a really exciting

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Speaker 1: season to this point, really glad to still be in

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Speaker 1: there with you.

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Speaker 2: Talk to you then