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Speaker 1: We're here with the Marlins radio play by play man

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Speaker 1: Kyle Selof Kyle as always, thank you for taking the time.

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Speaker 2: How you doing, I'm doing okay. How are you guys?

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Speaker 2: We're doing all right.

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Speaker 1: I feel like if we've had you on more than well,

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Speaker 1: I guess we've had you on live streams, podcast and

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Speaker 1: Jeopardy two.

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Speaker 2: I won the Jeopardy that night. I won Jeopardy Yeah right, yeah, Well,

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Speaker 2: let's get into it.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, it's your second full season as the Marlins main

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Speaker 1: radio play by play man. Any differences on yourself that

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Speaker 1: you've seen from last year this year.

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Speaker 3: I actually I feel a little more comfortable the stuff

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Speaker 3: that people probably don't care about, like my preparation.

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Speaker 2: I feel a little bit better at.

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Speaker 3: I feel like I like, I guess maybe I trust

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Speaker 3: my preparation. I think it's so easy, like when you're young,

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Speaker 3: and I'm still young. Obviously it's just my second year

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Speaker 3: that I feel like I need to spend all day preparing.

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Speaker 3: It's almost like you almost feel lazy if you don't,

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Speaker 3: or like you do all this work and like you're

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Speaker 3: supposed to use it. And I think I've come to

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Speaker 3: and like the information I have going to every game.

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Speaker 3: It's kind of like the same thing every game. Now

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Speaker 3: I feel pretty good. Does it sound okay?

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Speaker 1: Sounds great? From where we said? I think I speak

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Speaker 1: for most Marlons fans. They really enjoy the job that

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Speaker 1: you do. And obviously it's also a sophomore season for

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Speaker 1: mister Stephen Strong. Yes, as what have you seen from

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Speaker 1: mister Stephen as well?

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Speaker 2: Growth maturity. No, Stephen does a very good job. He does.

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Speaker 3: He works his tail off. Last year was tough, dude.

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Speaker 3: He was hired on opening day. I mean we hired

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Speaker 3: him on opening day. He took his hand and I said,

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Speaker 3: hour long pregame show, and we took young Steven on

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Speaker 2: Ride, which was really cool in his first year.

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Speaker 3: But No, Stephen does an amazing job, and I know

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Speaker 1: Good. I'm glad to hear it. And obviously just to

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Speaker 1: get the stuff on the field. The team is not

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Speaker 1: where they want to be, where Marlins fans want them

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Speaker 1: to be. And for you personally, how are you able

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Speaker 1: to maintain the excitement that you do when things do

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Speaker 1: go right and not let the negativity, I guess, permeate

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Speaker 3: Well, it's easy for me. I am living a charmed

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Speaker 3: in dream life, and every day that I get to

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Speaker 3: come to the ballpark and watch a team play, no

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Speaker 3: matter how good or how bad they may be, doing

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Speaker 3: to me, it's awesome. And I promise you that, regardless

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Speaker 2: What they're capable of doing.

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Speaker 3: That's always the one thing that side note that drives

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Speaker 3: There's a reason we're up here and there down there.

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Speaker 3: There's a reason they're getting paid really good money. We're

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Speaker 3: I told you guys this last year, Like, wins and

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Speaker 3: But I do feel like we are an extended part

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Speaker 2: Man, Like, you know, we're in people's homes.

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Speaker 3: People have a crap day at work, and they come

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Speaker 2: For a couple of hours.

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Speaker 3: So like, I will never let wins or losses affect me.

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Speaker 3: the people in this organization. There's unbelievable people here, and

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Speaker 2: But I'm gonna keep showing up and having fun.

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Speaker 1: I think fans appreciate also when you sort of share

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Speaker 3: Well, I you know, I I just think honesty is important.

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Speaker 3: Like I don't feel an obligation to get on the

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Speaker 3: let's be honest about what's happening. Let's let's take apart

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Speaker 3: saying like in pregame availability and what is said postgame,

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Speaker 3: listen to other broadcasts and it's usually West Coast games,

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Speaker 3: not just like asking people like, hey, like, I'm honest,

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Speaker 1: I would agree, And just let's sort of pick We

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Speaker 2: Mean, I think you have to start with the starting rotation.

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Speaker 2: Now, I mean, that's that's that's.

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Speaker 3: On the pitching front, obviously offensively, a lot of ground

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Speaker 2: You know, we we we we we you you toe the.

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Speaker 3: Line of like like honesty and like I don't even

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Speaker 2: And that's okay. That is honest, and there's no reason

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Speaker 3: Bruce Sherman doesn't care. He owns this team. He is

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Speaker 3: He cares about this. The people in the front office,

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Speaker 3: Don't go up without a foundation, folks, and that foundation

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Speaker 3: Okay, So I think that's all fair, and I really

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Speaker 3: What moves did you want them to make? And I

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Speaker 2: There's a long term vision.

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Speaker 3: They are not, at least in my opinion, going to

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Speaker 2: We'll see how that plays out. But Peter deserves an

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Speaker 3: They have what the sixteenth or seventeenth pick this year,

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Speaker 2: we need to stop this? Kevin?

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Speaker 3: Just tell me when we stop this? But here with

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Speaker 3: Forget that when they are kicking everybody's butts every single year,

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Speaker 1: I couldn't agree more. I think they took a huge

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Speaker 1: playoff Rosser. Last one for you, Kyle, just so far.

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Speaker 1: Obviously you've done this for a year and a month

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Speaker 3: Probably Tanner Scott closing things out, in Pittsburgh. That was

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