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Speaker 1: Eli Susman alongside Alex Contreras with Miami Marlin spring training

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Speaker 1: rapidly approaching. Many of the players on the team's roster

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Speaker 1: coaching staff are familiar faces, lots of continuity but the team,

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Speaker 1: one of the most important positions around the team. Thenew

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Speaker 1: MLB dot com Marlins Beat Reporter will be providing us

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Speaker 1: with valuable Marlin's info, insight, discussion topics throughout twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully beyond that, we have Christina Dinna Kola. She's our

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Speaker 1: special guest on the show for the first of hopefully

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Speaker 1: very many times. Hey Christina, we are delighted to have you.

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Speaker 2: Oh thanks for having me. Now I feel like it's official.

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Speaker 1: Now, so we're gonna be get into some current events coverage,

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Speaker 1: obviously with the Marlins coming off posts in birth and

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Speaker 1: a lot of expectations, a lot to get to there.

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Speaker 1: But first some background details for the audience on you,

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Speaker 1: now being in this role, being every day on the beat,

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Speaker 1: people are curious about how you got into baseball in

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Speaker 2: Have of being and raised in a county Dade.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, being around the Marlins and rooting for the Marlins.

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Speaker 1: What brought you into baseball in the first place and

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Speaker 2: enough that the team didn't exist, I guess in my

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Speaker 2: My dad's a transplant from New Jersey, but from decades

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Speaker 2: I missed it by a day. I think we tried

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Speaker 2: it was along and wining road, just like this synopsis,

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Where I worked for The Herald, covering everything

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Speaker 1: Right, and if you're doing that one about foreign nations,

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Speaker 5: And Christina, real quick, just thinking about it and like

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's incredible. I mean it happened to me when

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Speaker 5: How you know Kim Ang, she's the first women GM

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Speaker 2: The pace of play? That was something else Manually it

434
00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:59,480
Speaker 2: brought up. It's when you think about a football and

435
00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:03,359
Speaker 2: baseball game, can you know the commercials or like three hours,

436
00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,359
Speaker 2: you know, give or take, But it's the action in

437
00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:10,960
Speaker 2: between that's the issue I found myself during this past postseason,

438
00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:15,080
Speaker 2: especially if page bias was on the mount for the Dodgers.

439
00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:19,040
Speaker 2: It's just like it's almost unwatchable and so many pitching changes.

440
00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:21,760
Speaker 2: How are you going to get the casual fan obviously

441
00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:25,760
Speaker 2: striking the balance of you know, the diehard fans that

442
00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:28,160
Speaker 2: don't want too much change, but that's not even changing anything.

443
00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:29,919
Speaker 2: It's just trying to pick up. It's the pace of play.

444
00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:33,520
Speaker 2: You know, there's too much time in between. And it's

445
00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:37,439
Speaker 2: interesting too, because you know, mentioning the idea of pictures,

446
00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:39,159
Speaker 2: realize that you can maybe you know, gain more their

447
00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:42,320
Speaker 2: velocity in between pitches the longer they have. But for

448
00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:46,719
Speaker 2: a defender, you you know, if there's so many seconds

449
00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:49,200
Speaker 2: in between pitches, you're not on your toes anymore, you're

450
00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:51,320
Speaker 2: on your heels. Like you're more I would assume, more

451
00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:54,760
Speaker 2: prone to errors, and like especially with starting pitchers, and

452
00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:57,000
Speaker 2: so there's a difference, I guess with believers. But you

453
00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:59,480
Speaker 2: want that pace, you want that kind of rhythm you

454
00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:02,399
Speaker 2: want to be and like the longer in between pitches.

455
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:04,000
Speaker 2: It almost seems counterintuitive.

456
00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:10,240
Speaker 5: But speaking of in between performances real quick, since you've

457
00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:13,399
Speaker 5: been since the pro player days of Jackie Robbie days,

458
00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:15,840
Speaker 5: if there's any any tradition that you can bring back

459
00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:18,040
Speaker 5: from those good old days at the old stadium to

460
00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:22,080
Speaker 5: our new park at Morland's Park, what tradition would you

461
00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:22,639
Speaker 5: bring back?

462
00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:30,680
Speaker 2: During the playoffs, I caught my parents a lot singing

463
00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:32,800
Speaker 2: and trying to do the dancers. So everybody's doing the

464
00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:37,199
Speaker 2: fish like everybody's doing the fish?

465
00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:40,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

466
00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:45,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they why not? Right? Probably that definitely

467
00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:48,360
Speaker 2: don't miss the orange seats, or.

468
00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:51,600
Speaker 4: You don't miss getting the tan out there in right field.

469
00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:56,800
Speaker 2: No exactly, No, that's where my family seats were so

470
00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:03,240
Speaker 2: Sundays were never happening. Ever, uh no, now definitely that

471
00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:05,879
Speaker 2: Why not just like the because the nineties are coming

472
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:08,320
Speaker 2: back and all sorts of you know, fashion music.

473
00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:11,959
Speaker 4: So can you get us an inside scoop?

474
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,040
Speaker 5: Can you find out if the guys are finally going

475
00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:17,160
Speaker 5: to rock out the the Miami Blues in season?

476
00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 4: What's up with that?

477
00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 2: Oh? I know the really pretty like skyblw ones that

478
00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:25,520
Speaker 2: they be training and batting practice. I know that's I

479
00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,439
Speaker 2: think one of my colleagues, actually, Mike Patriella even like

480
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:31,119
Speaker 2: had posted something about that once, like why aren't these

481
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:35,320
Speaker 2: they yeah, go to they should be alternates or you know,

482
00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:39,320
Speaker 2: they're beautiful. You know, they're just exude like happiness, like

483
00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:40,439
Speaker 2: it's baseball, it's.

484
00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:43,840
Speaker 4: Smer I wonder, I wonder why MLB.

485
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Speaker 5: I don't know if if it's MLB as a whole

486
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:49,000
Speaker 5: or maybe it's just the Marlins franchise. But sometimes when

487
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:50,680
Speaker 5: you look at NBA, like you look at the Miami

488
00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:53,919
Speaker 5: Heat or just NBA teams, they're wearing all types of jerseys.

489
00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:56,800
Speaker 5: They're wearing their modern jerseys. They want throwback jerseys. They're

490
00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:59,639
Speaker 5: weren't classic like thirty years ago. You know, we're getting

491
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:02,040
Speaker 5: at a point which this franchise got years under its belt.

492
00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:03,600
Speaker 4: You know, we have looks under our belt.

493
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:07,440
Speaker 5: I'm not saying bring back the Lawyer Laurier era Orange,

494
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:10,439
Speaker 5: you know, but let's let's rock out the pinstripes. You know,

495
00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:14,600
Speaker 5: why not incorporate some pinstripe parents to our current uniform,

496
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:15,399
Speaker 5: you know, why not?

497
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:18,920
Speaker 2: Or even I think a couple of years ago. I

498
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:20,439
Speaker 2: don't know if I brought it up to someone with

499
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:26,320
Speaker 2: the Marlins, but like Thursdays having like throwback Thursday, yeah,

500
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 2: like you know, instead of just the weekend when they

501
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,520
Speaker 2: did that, I think a couple of years ago. I

502
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:34,840
Speaker 2: think that'd be cool. You don't have to turn back

503
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:37,879
Speaker 2: you know the prices of food or drink. But you know,

504
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 2: maybe they have the teams where not not the other team.

505
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:44,520
Speaker 4: They don't have to but rock out the old pivull song.

506
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:50,639
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's funny. Never mind, that was gonna be my

507
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:52,480
Speaker 2: other thing I would bring back.

508
00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 4: But yeah, I'm trying to that beat. That beat was cool.

509
00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:58,000
Speaker 2: He could well, I think it was his. I think

510
00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:01,600
Speaker 2: it was his song Fuegel, just like a Marlins, right.

511
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:03,719
Speaker 2: I'd like how the social media team brought it back

512
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:05,760
Speaker 2: during the postseason. I got a good kick out of that.

513
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:07,920
Speaker 4: Yeah.

514
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:11,040
Speaker 1: Here on the official show where with MLB dot Com

515
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:17,359
Speaker 1: Marlins be reporter Christina di Nicola with the last name yep.

516
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:21,320
Speaker 1: Take note, listeners. I'm sure a lot will be confused.

517
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:24,399
Speaker 1: I'm in the strongest case for wearing the blue and

518
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:27,480
Speaker 1: regular season games is that every year during spring training

519
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:29,720
Speaker 1: the last few years, they've been incredible. They've been one

520
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:31,760
Speaker 1: of the best teams in the Great Food League. So

521
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 1: whatever that is bringing out in them during February and March,

522
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:38,399
Speaker 1: I mean, give that a shot of translating during the

523
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:40,200
Speaker 1: regular season itself.

524
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:41,080
Speaker 4: What was that?

525
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, But on that subject of ballpark experience, you

526
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:48,120
Speaker 1: did break the story. I suppose of the fact that

527
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:51,280
Speaker 1: FanFest as we've known it the last few years is

528
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:55,080
Speaker 1: not going to be happening. It's typically in early February,

529
00:27:55,160 --> 00:28:00,920
Speaker 1: right before pitchers and catchers reports to spring training. But I,

530
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 1: at least based on what we've seen, I believe there's

531
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 1: reports out of Tampa Bay that even in their closed dome,

532
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:10,720
Speaker 1: that they're going to be moving forward with having a

533
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:14,119
Speaker 1: limited number of fans in the ballpark. I think around

534
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:18,200
Speaker 1: seven thousand maximum per game there and with the Marlins

535
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:22,080
Speaker 1: they have a slightly larger capacity. They have the retractable roof.

536
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 1: So is it your from your article? I think you

537
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:28,959
Speaker 1: hinted at as well, but it seems more likely than

538
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,280
Speaker 1: not that they're going to try to allow some number

539
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:34,879
Speaker 1: of fans in regular season games once we get going, right, Oh.

540
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:41,800
Speaker 2: Definitely, Yeah, they fully anticipate having fans. Quantity obviously, I

541
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:46,600
Speaker 2: guess to be determined, but there for games, and obviously

542
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 2: the whole situation's fluid, you know, depending on how vaccines go.

543
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 2: How I guess why the spread is in the community

544
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 2: because obviously safety is the most important thing, but there

545
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 2: will definitely be protocols put in place. They're still trying

546
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 2: to figure that out as well. But that's part of

547
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 2: why FanFest won't be happening one in two three weeks.

548
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 2: Gosh's terrifying that it's almost going to be February Arty,

549
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:18,440
Speaker 2: but hopefully closer to opening day, which is April first

550
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 2: scheduled at least, that they could have some sort of

551
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 2: festivities with fans and what capacity they're still trying to

552
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:28,440
Speaker 2: figure out.

553
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 5: I think whoever made this decision in the front office,

554
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 5: whoever made that decision.

555
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:34,600
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's Bruce Sherman or Jeter, whoever.

556
00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 5: Whoever made that decision, I think nailed it because speaking

557
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:41,680
Speaker 5: for the fan base, I think that, yeah, the fan

558
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 5: base is awesome, it's cool, it's a great moment to

559
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:45,720
Speaker 5: interact with the players players on the roster.

560
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 4: Sometimes you get a sneak peek guys are going to

561
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 4: be on the club.

562
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:52,320
Speaker 5: But I think that that emotion kind of got watered

563
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 5: down as guys went out to spring training and then

564
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 5: like a whole month went by, right, and then all right,

565
00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:59,600
Speaker 5: now the season's officially going to begin. And then for

566
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 5: fans that didn't have that knowledge of the diehard fans

567
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:04,000
Speaker 5: that you know that they're going off for spring training

568
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:06,000
Speaker 5: and then that the forty man roster is going to

569
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 5: go down to twenty six, you know, they don't know

570
00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 5: that they have to keep what's the word competing, They

571
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,200
Speaker 5: have to have to keep competing right in spring training,

572
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:16,360
Speaker 5: and then you don't really have an idea of what

573
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 5: the whole four roster is going to be, maybe with

574
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:20,560
Speaker 5: the exception of a couple of guys. So I'm all

575
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:23,720
Speaker 5: for this, this move of being closer to opening day

576
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:26,040
Speaker 5: because now the fans is going to be like, all right,

577
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 5: these are the guys that could be on the team

578
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:29,720
Speaker 5: for opening Day, hands down.

579
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Speaker 2: Well. I think it's interesting too, because different organizations do

580
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 2: their fan fest variation super early. I think the Cubs

581
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:43,000
Speaker 2: usually in December. The Cardinals just had their virtual on

582
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:44,920
Speaker 2: this past weekend, and a lot of the times you

583
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 2: don't know who's going to be on the roster, guys

584
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 2: get traded before after. I'm trying to remember if the

585
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 2: Nationals had that take place a couple of years ago,

586
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 2: and it's just it's a very strange, you know, dynamic

587
00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:01,000
Speaker 2: in that sense. I mean, I'm just remembering last year,

588
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 2: didn't Matt Kemp at ten fan fest? And then obviously

589
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:07,800
Speaker 2: he never actually played in the majors with the Marlins,

590
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:12,480
Speaker 2: you know, so it's always I think this is very

591
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 2: specifically for like COVID nineteen pandemic, but I mean, if

592
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 2: down the road they wanted to do that again. I

593
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 2: think it makes sense, especially to build up excitement closer

594
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 2: to opening day, because there is that month and a

595
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 2: half stretch then from when pitchers and catchers report to

596
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:32,560
Speaker 2: Opening Day where the average fan or just casual fans

597
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 2: is like, oh you mean the season didn't start, and

598
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:37,400
Speaker 2: then why do you have this exactly?

599
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 5: Any any news you can share, any news with us?

600
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 5: Are we any closer to a new sponsor at Marlin's Park?

601
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:49,240
Speaker 5: Maybe Public's Park or Sadano's Park, something like that.

602
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,080
Speaker 2: That's one of the things I haven't been able to

603
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 2: pursue yet, But I know I've always I thought, like

604
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:57,000
Speaker 2: Public's Park, you got a literation which writers love, and

605
00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:00,280
Speaker 2: just you know who doesn't love pubs up you know

606
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:03,720
Speaker 2: just what Publics. I guess the obsession with it down

607
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 2: here seems like it would be a fit. I haven't

608
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:09,680
Speaker 2: been able to pursue that lead yet, but hopefully sometime

609
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:14,720
Speaker 2: soon TV deal musical coming out, even you know, I'm

610
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 2: not giving like an exclusive. It's just I was told

611
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 2: at least that it would make sense for it to happen.

612
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 4: La Canta Park is a second close for me.

613
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 5: You know, I was thinking about how cool it was

614
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 5: that you mentioned with us that in the audience that

615
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:39,400
Speaker 5: you got to be an intern for MLB, And you know,

616
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure that your first day at MLB as

617
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 5: an intern, you had a bunch of emotions in your stomach,

618
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:49,040
Speaker 5: maybe like butterflies. Even what was it like compared to

619
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 5: your first day now taking over the first day you

620
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 5: got the keys, you take the keys of the car.

621
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:55,680
Speaker 5: You know, Joe gave you the keys of the car.

622
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 5: Take it is now Christina, you know, did did he give.

623
00:32:58,520 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 4: You any wise words?

624
00:32:59,480 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 2: You know?

625
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 4: The force is strong with you, young one.

626
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 2: Well, my nickname was whipper Snapper, so there was definitely

627
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:11,200
Speaker 2: that at least once. And I think another time was

628
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 2: like you were my second best intern. That's always our

629
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 2: little running joke. I'm like, gow dare you? But I

630
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 2: just I don't remember the first day as an intern,

631
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 2: but I do know that was the year that Jose

632
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 2: was signed, So that was I remember when he came

633
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:33,000
Speaker 2: to to was it sun Life Stadium that year? Who knows?

634
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:38,200
Speaker 2: He was like starstruck by Hailey Ramier's taking batting practice

635
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:40,640
Speaker 2: And I told you how long ago this was. And

636
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:43,160
Speaker 2: then that was also the same year that Edwin Rodriguez

637
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 2: just disappeared as a manager at Tropic Canna Fields. I

638
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 2: remember Joe and I scrambling like all right, we spoke

639
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:53,480
Speaker 2: to Michael Hill. I'll like go run up and transcribe

640
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 2: while you get whatever else, and like a tag team

641
00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 2: effort on that so that was a lot of learning

642
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 2: to get to this point where now I'm like, all right,

643
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 2: like I've almost seen it, especially covering the Marlins over

644
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 2: the years. I'm sure it's the same thing with the Mets.

645
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,440
Speaker 2: You kind of see it all. Nothing really shocks you anymore.

646
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 2: So yeah, i'd say it was like, Okay, I'm ready,

647
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,520
Speaker 2: nothing knock on woods at this point.

648
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 1: I imagine one of the attractions of being a beat

649
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Speaker 1: writer is well, I suppose there are some things that

650
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 1: it's a little overwhelming sometimes to be covering a team

651
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:32,799
Speaker 1: that plays almost every single day for spring training plus

652
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 1: regular season plus I mean, it could be eight months

653
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:39,319
Speaker 1: of constant travel. But the travel is also something that

654
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 1: can be hugely attractive about being with the team and

655
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:46,640
Speaker 1: exploring other cities and exploring other ballparks as well. I mean,

656
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:49,560
Speaker 1: Marlins Park is pretty good, but elsewhere in the National

657
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 1: League we have some of the best in all of

658
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:56,759
Speaker 1: baseball and some really spectacular views and experiences and all that,

659
00:34:57,239 --> 00:34:59,919
Speaker 1: And with the understanding that this is subject to change

660
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:04,839
Speaker 1: because of the pandemic. I mean I know that specifically,

661
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 1: one of I know one of Joe's one of the

662
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:11,279
Speaker 1: things that bothered him, of course, about the season, is

663
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:15,360
Speaker 1: not getting that element in coverage, not always even needing

664
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:18,560
Speaker 1: to go to the ballpark itself to actually cover games

665
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:24,360
Speaker 1: because of how little access reporters had due to safety

666
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:29,239
Speaker 1: understandable safety precautions. But what is your tentative plan in

667
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 1: terms of how many games you'll be covering yourself versus

668
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:35,640
Speaker 1: ones you can do remotely, and how often you might

669
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 1: be traveling even understanding the risks. I mean, how often

670
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:42,640
Speaker 1: would you want to take advantage of that opportunity or

671
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 1: is that subject to getting a vaccine and all that.

672
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 1: I mean, what are the factors in your head when

673
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 1: it comes to what exactly your itinerary is going to

674
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:52,319
Speaker 1: look like this year?

675
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 2: Well, we had a call amongst the Beat reporters and

676
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 2: our editor basically under the assumption that we probably won't

677
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 2: travel unless you know, something changes later on in the

678
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 2: summer and fall. I plan. I mean, I don't think

679
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:15,759
Speaker 2: the Marlins your a league or whatnot. I've said really

680
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 2: specifically of everything's just going to be on zoom, even

681
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 2: for spring training. We're still kind of it's tricky because

682
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 2: you know, the other teams other than the Rays, and

683
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:27,760
Speaker 2: I guess the Diamondbacks have to travel for spring training.

684
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 2: But we're technically depending on how fast you drive on

685
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 2: ninety five or the turnpike, you know, an hour and

686
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 2: fifteen thirty minutes away, so you can technically, I guess,

687
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:39,360
Speaker 2: you know, go up there, drive up there, or stay

688
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:42,600
Speaker 2: in you know, the Jubray area. And but if it's

689
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:45,319
Speaker 2: all on zoom like call, it's it's I think it's

690
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 2: one of those things like I had mentioned with fan

691
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:50,319
Speaker 2: Fest or whatnot, just the very fluid or with the

692
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:55,720
Speaker 2: fans is a fluid situation. I kind of see hopefully

693
00:36:55,719 --> 00:37:00,680
Speaker 2: as vaccination, you know, distribution becomes more you know, widespread

694
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:06,439
Speaker 2: or more I guess you know better, you know how

695
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 2: things can get better in terms of actual coverage. But

696
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 2: I intend to be in the press box. I think,

697
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:19,759
Speaker 2: I don't you know, I'm not necessarily gonna shy away

698
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:22,319
Speaker 2: from that. I mean, if I'm assuming stuff then is

699
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 2: on zoom, so I'll be doing what Jordan had been

700
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:26,480
Speaker 2: doing and you know, in the press box and then

701
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 2: doing the zoom calls for in the press box. But

702
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:33,319
Speaker 2: it's just I miss seeing baseball in person. It's really weird.

703
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:36,800
Speaker 2: I remember March twelfth was the last day of spring

704
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:39,840
Speaker 2: training last year, and I was covered with Marlins and Cardinals,

705
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 2: and I was filling in for Joe on Marlins, and

706
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:45,839
Speaker 2: we didn't know what was going to happen. And I

707
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:48,759
Speaker 2: remember calling the editors like do I drive home, like

708
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:50,440
Speaker 2: or do I go back to my air and BnB?

709
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 2: And they just go back and we'll kind of figure

710
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 2: out how things go and lo and behold. You know,

711
00:37:55,719 --> 00:38:03,840
Speaker 2: nobody really went back in any capacity. It still feels like,

712
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:07,840
Speaker 2: I don't know, like it's almost a year has passed.

713
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:09,760
Speaker 2: It's just like, how how did that happen?

714
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:14,359
Speaker 1: Right? Selfishly, for me and my staff, it's been very

715
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 1: convenient to have the zoom access and being able to

716
00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 1: ask long responsibilities, whether I've I have staffers in colleges

717
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:23,000
Speaker 1: in different parts of the country, and for them to

718
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 1: be able to check in just like everybody else and

719
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:27,680
Speaker 1: ask their questions and covered in their own way, and

720
00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:29,799
Speaker 1: of course I also have it recorded. I mean, that's

721
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:33,839
Speaker 1: been just totally a novel idea of compared to what

722
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 1: baseball coverage has always been that it's been very convenient.

723
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 1: So shout out to Jason Latnerner in the whole communications department.

724
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:44,640
Speaker 1: Great job, and hopefully even when things are back to normal,

725
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:47,880
Speaker 1: that that could be integrated in the traditional press experience

726
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:50,880
Speaker 1: because it makes it so much easier to get everybody

727
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:54,279
Speaker 1: in context instead of I mean, so many stories are

728
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 1: made out of the fact of being misquoted in the

729
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 1: postgame scrum in the clubhouse. The fact that we could

730
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 1: actually have every moment of it chronicled, I think that

731
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:09,640
Speaker 1: would avoid a lot of unnecessary controversy or misunderstandings about

732
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 1: what's going on with the team. But we're gonna wind

733
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:17,160
Speaker 1: down here pretty soon. Actually looking forward to the twenty

734
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:22,600
Speaker 1: one team, Marlin's obviously coming off a exciting successful year

735
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:26,200
Speaker 1: relative to expectations, despite missing so many games and missing

736
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:28,879
Speaker 1: the actual fan presence, that the fact that the team

737
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:32,240
Speaker 1: had a winning record and had some individual star power

738
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:36,080
Speaker 1: was such a big step forward. And you mentioned earlier

739
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:39,960
Speaker 1: all the evergreen content that you've been doing since you've

740
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 1: been joining on the beat, because aside from the Rosstettweiler signing,

741
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:47,279
Speaker 1: there hasn't been a whole lot in terms of transactions

742
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:51,920
Speaker 1: or really hot rumors with the team to cover. But

743
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:54,840
Speaker 1: they do have some areas that they could address before

744
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:59,240
Speaker 1: this season gets going. They could address a right fielder

745
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:02,280
Speaker 1: or in gen just a power hitting left handed bat.

746
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 1: They could address the catching position after not getting a

747
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:08,399
Speaker 1: whole lot of production from that last year. They could

748
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 1: definitely address the bullpen, and I guess that's the one

749
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:14,680
Speaker 1: that they're most likely to address. And I mean, in

750
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:16,759
Speaker 1: my opinion, people that have been listening to the pod

751
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:19,880
Speaker 1: know that I'm pretty high on adding one more starting pitcher,

752
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 1: even if it's someone on a minor league deal that

753
00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:24,439
Speaker 1: has a lot of major league experience, having some sort

754
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:27,719
Speaker 1: of veteran presence, because right now in their rotation it's

755
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:31,719
Speaker 1: everybody twenty five and younger, which is it's it's a

756
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:36,240
Speaker 1: cool concept from that standpoint, but in terms of actually

757
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 1: realistically being a competitive team when you're dealing with that

758
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:42,880
Speaker 1: much inexperience and these guys with so many question marks,

759
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:49,160
Speaker 1: it's tricky. Which of those areas do you think they're

760
00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:52,839
Speaker 1: most Are you most confident about us seeing a new

761
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:56,200
Speaker 1: addition between now and the start of spring trending what's

762
00:40:56,200 --> 00:41:02,919
Speaker 1: the most realistic from whatever standpoint to you? They could

763
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:04,799
Speaker 1: do a lot of different things, but which of those

764
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 1: do you think they will do?

765
00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 2: I think the safe that from I guess the off

766
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 2: season availability from Kim Ang to Don manningly is just

767
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:20,480
Speaker 2: keep adding to the bullpen they I mean, that's basically

768
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:24,000
Speaker 2: what they've done this off season so far, and they've

769
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:27,439
Speaker 2: made it a priority. Obviously, the starting pitching is young

770
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:32,439
Speaker 2: and there's a lot coming as well. But in order

771
00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:35,880
Speaker 2: to I guess cement those wins, as they put it,

772
00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:38,880
Speaker 2: you kind of need those final few innings or whatnot

773
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 2: to get those. But it's the thing I've picked up,

774
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:46,560
Speaker 2: like when I've been looking at Twitter and fans kind

775
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 2: of seem like distressed about the lack of moves and whatnot.

776
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:53,440
Speaker 2: Is trying to and I addressed it in my first inbox,

777
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 2: is trying to find the balance of not just adding

778
00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 2: for adding's sake. I think it's an interesting situation because

779
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:05,839
Speaker 2: the teammate the postseason, but they're very young and they're

780
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:08,320
Speaker 2: not where they need to be yet to be adding

781
00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 2: that like multi year splash blockbuster player. In my opinion,

782
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:17,759
Speaker 2: that I think happens next year, especially when you look

783
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:20,399
Speaker 2: at the free agent class, especially at shortstop, if that's

784
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:23,719
Speaker 2: what they wanted to pursue. I think this year and

785
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:26,239
Speaker 2: Derek Jeter even alluded to it, like the Thanksgiving event

786
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 2: I covered, is they need to find out which of

787
00:42:28,239 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 2: these everyday position players that are prospects are part of

788
00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:36,279
Speaker 2: that of when they're competing for these titles every year,

789
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:39,520
Speaker 2: and so I think in years past they might have

790
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 2: gotten that stock gap. I mean not that they might

791
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:43,440
Speaker 2: not do that in right field and get let's say

792
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:46,319
Speaker 2: a tweet or a Duvall. You know, there's just some

793
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:48,960
Speaker 2: names I've been thrown out. But how are you going

794
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:51,480
Speaker 2: to know then, which of those prospects are ready if

795
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:55,359
Speaker 2: you're not giving them those playing chances, And especially with

796
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:58,719
Speaker 2: the lost season for the Miners last year, this is

797
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:01,399
Speaker 2: kind of the time there's gonna be growing pains, but

798
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:04,760
Speaker 2: you won't know if they're capable and part of being

799
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 2: those year in, year out competitive teams, those guys if

800
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 2: they don't get the chance, and I think you know,

801
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 2: you're definitely gonna see it at second base between East

802
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:15,839
Speaker 2: San Diez and Gesism. So in right field you've got

803
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:18,680
Speaker 2: a zillion people who could be part of it. And

804
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 2: then you also have the intrigue of you know, Starling

805
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:23,960
Speaker 2: Marte and Corey Gefferson will be in their last years

806
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:26,319
Speaker 2: of their deals, so those are people that are gonna

807
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:29,520
Speaker 2: have to be replaced. So it's you don't want to

808
00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:31,680
Speaker 2: lose if you're the Marlins, right, you don't want to

809
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:35,880
Speaker 2: come back from you know, making the playoffs and suddenly

810
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:37,919
Speaker 2: be like a ninety loss team again. But you also

811
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 2: need to make sure you get Jesus Sanchez and Monte Harrison,

812
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:46,520
Speaker 2: you know, those kind of guys the playing time to

813
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 2: see if they are part of that solution. So that's

814
00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:54,480
Speaker 2: why I say relievers definitely. I don't think it's going

815
00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 2: to be like a Brad Hand. I mean, if they did,

816
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 2: then that's not gonna be on a one deal. That's

817
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:03,560
Speaker 2: one of those things too, is you see trying to

818
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:04,920
Speaker 2: think of every single example, but they're not going to

819
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:07,160
Speaker 2: sign a guy for I Alas signed on thing for

820
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:10,160
Speaker 2: ten million just for this year unless they're gonna flip them.

821
00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 2: But it's like, what's the point. It's not you've got

822
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:15,920
Speaker 2: the Mets going all in, you going on a Tangent'm sorry.

823
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:17,200
Speaker 2: The Mets are going all in because they have a

824
00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:19,799
Speaker 2: lot of money now, but they also have a lot

825
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 2: of arbitration eligible guys and three big free agents at

826
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:25,239
Speaker 2: the end of the year, so they kind of need to.

827
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:28,360
Speaker 2: They have no pharma system left. You've got the Braves,

828
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 2: who obviously have a great farm system, they have, you know,

829
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:36,560
Speaker 2: great players, their rotation proved themselves in the postseason, reliable bullpen.

830
00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:38,680
Speaker 2: You've got the Nationals, who is Strasbourg are going to

831
00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:41,880
Speaker 2: be healthy, but they also have Soto, they have Turner,

832
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:45,160
Speaker 2: they have Schurz, are nearing the end of his career. Corbyn,

833
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:47,759
Speaker 2: who's kind of didn't have a great twenty twenty. So

834
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:52,040
Speaker 2: it's like, where are the Marlins in this? They're can

835
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:55,880
Speaker 2: capitalize on what the momentum they had last year, but

836
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:59,600
Speaker 2: also they're not where they're supposed to be yet. They're

837
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:02,080
Speaker 2: a little head of schedules in terms of twenty twenties,

838
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:05,440
Speaker 2: So don't mortgage the farm and what you're building to

839
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:08,680
Speaker 2: suddenly like, oh made the twenty twenty postseason in the

840
00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:11,759
Speaker 2: sixty game season, Now we need to go and trade

841
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:14,239
Speaker 2: away four top prospects for that one guy just for

842
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:16,600
Speaker 2: the one year that doesn't make Like Lindor, that wouldn't

843
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 2: have made sense in twenty twenty. In my opinion, I'm

844
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one to like trade for Lindor, you know

845
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:25,200
Speaker 2: that type of thing. I just it's gonna be interesting.

846
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:28,080
Speaker 2: I think as a Marlins fan, they you know, should

847
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 2: be excited because you're gonna get great starting pitching as

848
00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:34,080
Speaker 2: long as guys can stay healthy. It's gonna be tricky

849
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:37,320
Speaker 2: all across Major League Baseball in terms of how workloads

850
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:39,840
Speaker 2: are managed, because especially with the Marlins and young pitchers,

851
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:44,000
Speaker 2: they haven't had normal innings in over a year. And

852
00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:45,520
Speaker 2: then the guys who did come up last year, like

853
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:48,719
Speaker 2: six so Sanchez, we all know that he had some

854
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:51,720
Speaker 2: sort of an injury not passed, but you know they were,

855
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:55,799
Speaker 2: you know, purposely being careful with him. And then you've

856
00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:57,759
Speaker 2: got like Braxton Garrett who had Tommy John a few

857
00:45:57,840 --> 00:46:00,319
Speaker 2: years ago, and just all those guys don't have many

858
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:02,640
Speaker 2: innings under them. You have to be careful with them,

859
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:05,239
Speaker 2: which would then tie in with my agreeance with you

860
00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:08,840
Speaker 2: about getting a veteran picture starting pitcher, because what happens

861
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:10,440
Speaker 2: if one of those guys gets hurt. You need like

862
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:11,160
Speaker 2: an innings eater.

863
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, and by the time people are listening to this tomorrow,

864
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 1: there's going to be a workout in Miami with Annie Ball, Sanchez,

865
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:21,359
Speaker 1: and ron I would rise if the Marlins are not there.

866
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 1: I mean they were also at that workout last week

867
00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:28,000
Speaker 1: for Corey Klueber and Steve Schek and Anthony Schorzax. So

868
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:30,440
Speaker 1: I mean they're at least doing their due diligence, So

869
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:32,719
Speaker 1: I'd like to see them do their due diligence with that.

870
00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:36,279
Speaker 1: But this flows into perfectly into my follow up question

871
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:39,799
Speaker 1: that if they do go very young at almost a

872
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:43,799
Speaker 1: lot of their positions, especially at second base, probably in

873
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:46,240
Speaker 1: right field, if they don't add anybody, and of course

874
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:49,319
Speaker 1: with their rotation, that which of those young players are

875
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:53,799
Speaker 1: you most confident in being not a star player than

876
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:57,839
Speaker 1: a really above average contributor breaking out. You can't choose

877
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:01,280
Speaker 1: six to do Sanchez because six no is we've already

878
00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:04,680
Speaker 1: seen the immense talent that he has, and he's based

879
00:47:04,719 --> 00:47:07,400
Speaker 1: on Thatt alone, he is a pretty high floor for himself.

880
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:11,719
Speaker 1: But anybody else, I guess hopefully someone focus on someone

881
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:15,200
Speaker 1: that is still a prospect technically, any of those young

882
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:17,799
Speaker 1: players that maybe those that debuted last year or that

883
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 1: are going to debut this year, that you're most confident

884
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:22,960
Speaker 1: in making that transition very smoothly.

885
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 2: I hope I don't put a curse on this person.

886
00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:29,440
Speaker 2: And I think I also dressed in that inbox. I

887
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:34,759
Speaker 2: think Josh Chisholm, you saw flashes of it, just his persona.

888
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:39,600
Speaker 2: His personality just has that swag, that confidence and having

889
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:41,520
Speaker 2: spoken to him I think two weeks ago now with

890
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:45,840
Speaker 2: the Players Alliance Tour, he just he's focused, he knows that,

891
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:50,640
Speaker 2: you know, he's confident, he's capable. He's that much needed

892
00:47:50,719 --> 00:47:54,960
Speaker 2: left handed back that the Marlins lineup hasn't had. When

893
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:57,440
Speaker 2: you think about it, let's say for twenty twenty one,

894
00:47:57,480 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 2: what it would be protected right now him and Corey

895
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:02,759
Speaker 2: Dickerson if he or Isan, you know, between the two,

896
00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:04,960
Speaker 2: so there's like two lefty bats in that whole lineup.

897
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:08,800
Speaker 2: You know. I MLB pipeline HadAM as a twenty twenty

898
00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:12,640
Speaker 2: guy and just showed off the glove. You know, he showed,

899
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:14,920
Speaker 2: but he had the double in the Game three of

900
00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:18,360
Speaker 2: the NLDS. You know, he had a nice series in

901
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:22,359
Speaker 2: New York. I just see him as someone that then

902
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 2: they need someone like him, you know, on the position

903
00:48:24,680 --> 00:48:29,360
Speaker 2: player prospect front, to you know, show that they belong

904
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:32,319
Speaker 2: as the majors, because that's the next part of the

905
00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:35,440
Speaker 2: re is of the build. You know, starting pitchers have

906
00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:38,480
Speaker 2: been showing it to an extent. Now the position players

907
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:41,799
Speaker 2: need to catch up and that's the next step in

908
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:46,560
Speaker 2: I guess getting to that competitive level where you're competing

909
00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 2: every game with the Braves for the division.

910
00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:53,760
Speaker 1: Right, and you mentioned that most valuators will say twenty

911
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:56,239
Speaker 1: twenty potential. If you listen to Jazz himself, he had

912
00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:59,600
Speaker 1: a tweet, I think just last week about his ideal season.

913
00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 1: He thinks she could go forty forty. We'll see if

914
00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:04,359
Speaker 1: that's possible. Hasn't been done in a number of years.

915
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:06,840
Speaker 1: But he's not lacking in confidence whatsoever.

916
00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:09,120
Speaker 2: He is no, and I think that's huge. I mean,

917
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:12,200
Speaker 2: if you don't if you can't see you know, if

918
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 2: you don't believe it, you can't see it, it can't happen.

919
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:17,480
Speaker 2: You have to, you know, it's better than to be like,

920
00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 2: oh man, I'm going up there. How many times a

921
00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:22,560
Speaker 2: body language with players they just seem like they're defeated.

922
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:24,279
Speaker 2: Not that that's not going to happen to him or

923
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:26,280
Speaker 2: everyone like it happened at some point in their careers.

924
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:30,920
Speaker 2: But you'll take the confidence, you know, any day.

925
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:37,160
Speaker 1: Right, anything else for our guest Alex then you had onlind.

926
00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:40,400
Speaker 5: Oh man, I think she killed every single point like

927
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:43,760
Speaker 5: she she killed like I'm sorry about.

928
00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:45,040
Speaker 2: The ramble at the end, but it's just one of those.

929
00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:47,360
Speaker 2: It's funny because I and I don't you know as

930
00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:49,440
Speaker 2: a former fan, because you know, I've been in the

931
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:51,000
Speaker 2: song of now it's just like, please don't want the

932
00:49:51,040 --> 00:49:53,840
Speaker 2: games to go too long. You want them to be interesting,

933
00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:57,520
Speaker 2: but not like crazy that you know you're coming off

934
00:49:57,560 --> 00:50:02,719
Speaker 2: with postseason you then, but you have to find that.

935
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:05,799
Speaker 4: Balance because absolutely, you know, Corey.

936
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:08,600
Speaker 2: Dickerson and Starling Marteyren part of like twenty twenty three

937
00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:11,200
Speaker 2: or twenty twenty. Well we're in twenty twenty one. So yeah,

938
00:50:11,239 --> 00:50:14,000
Speaker 2: let's say, like you know, it's you have to That

939
00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:15,839
Speaker 2: was the whole point right off this build of those

940
00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:19,319
Speaker 2: trades that Jeter in the ownership group made is that

941
00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:21,719
Speaker 2: these are the guys that they brought in. You're going

942
00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:24,120
Speaker 2: to be part of this regime change, part of this

943
00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:28,120
Speaker 2: new culture that we're building. So now you know like

944
00:50:28,719 --> 00:50:30,920
Speaker 2: that that's this is the time to show it.

945
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:34,719
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I'm she killed it when she said that

946
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:36,600
Speaker 5: we don't need to be trading away our prospects, and

947
00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 5: like the Francisco didn'd door trade, it didn't make sense

948
00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:40,560
Speaker 5: for us at the moment.

949
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:42,360
Speaker 4: There's a lot of people rambling that they want to

950
00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:42,799
Speaker 4: bring in.

951
00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:46,840
Speaker 5: My cousin Wilson Contreros into the into Miami, you know, and.

952
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:50,200
Speaker 4: I think it would be cool. But at the same time,

953
00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:51,680
Speaker 4: I think it's too early to throw the flag on

954
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:52,240
Speaker 4: on Farrow.

955
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:55,719
Speaker 5: Like we got a short, short season last year, you know,

956
00:50:55,840 --> 00:50:57,879
Speaker 5: and this is an opportunity that we got to give him.

957
00:50:58,080 --> 00:51:00,359
Speaker 4: We got to give him his that bass. Chadwailler did

958
00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:01,840
Speaker 4: pretty good last year. You know.

959
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:06,160
Speaker 5: We're obviously not gonna expect him to be a batting

960
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:09,000
Speaker 5: title champion, but if he can do his work as

961
00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:11,839
Speaker 5: a great backup guy, then we got it. And val

962
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:14,719
Speaker 5: Faro can tap into his offensive potential, we got it.

963
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:14,920
Speaker 2: You know.

964
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:17,040
Speaker 4: That's why we got to give these guys opportunities to play.

965
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:18,520
Speaker 4: The same thing to be said for the guys out

966
00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:19,160
Speaker 4: there in right.

967
00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:20,719
Speaker 5: Field that we don't know if it's going to be

968
00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:22,920
Speaker 5: a Hezu Sanchez, we don't know if it's gonna be Monte.

969
00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:24,680
Speaker 5: We don't know if it's going to be a hitting

970
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:26,680
Speaker 5: herald who's raking out there in Columbia.

971
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:27,040
Speaker 4: You know.

972
00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:30,320
Speaker 5: So there is a lot of excitement around this baseball

973
00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:34,000
Speaker 5: team and hopefully what the franchise, the front office has

974
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:36,040
Speaker 5: shown they're not going to make no bonehead move and

975
00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:38,560
Speaker 5: go sign away yan Chen out there. We're gonna go

976
00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:40,279
Speaker 5: out there and hopefully we can get a veteran guy,

977
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:43,759
Speaker 5: maybe bring back, bring back Anna Ball, bring Anniball home.

978
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:45,200
Speaker 5: You know how cool would that be to bring back

979
00:51:45,239 --> 00:51:47,600
Speaker 5: Annibal Sanchez and he can call it a career out

980
00:51:47,640 --> 00:51:50,759
Speaker 5: here in Miami. You know, that would be epic, And

981
00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:52,840
Speaker 5: that would be a guy that wouldn't you know, cost

982
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:55,200
Speaker 5: you an arm or a leg, that would be budget

983
00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 5: friendly for this team, and he would be a veteran

984
00:51:57,200 --> 00:52:00,880
Speaker 5: that would help plant seeds and show next generation of

985
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:02,839
Speaker 5: players how to how to go about the right way.

986
00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:05,479
Speaker 4: Crowd ball.

987
00:52:05,640 --> 00:52:18,480
Speaker 7: This might do it.

988
00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:27,440
Speaker 4: The Coues look big six two.

989
00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:31,600
Speaker 2: Thousand, definitely. And then going back to Alfar, it's a huge.

990
00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:34,680
Speaker 2: It's you know, his career with the Marlins is at

991
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:38,200
Speaker 2: a crossroads. He in his defense for last year, he

992
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:41,480
Speaker 2: in spring training had I think a hamstring strain, so

993
00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:44,359
Speaker 2: he didn't even get going. Then then he had COVID

994
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:47,960
Speaker 2: you know for the first month, so that he had

995
00:52:48,040 --> 00:52:50,160
Speaker 2: no sort of you know, you.

996
00:52:50,120 --> 00:52:52,360
Speaker 4: Can get into it, yeah, right.

997
00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:54,680
Speaker 2: And so but he does. You know, it's very important

998
00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:58,520
Speaker 2: he needs to show, you know, improvements, especially behind the plate.

999
00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:00,680
Speaker 2: You know, you know at the play, we know that

1000
00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:04,560
Speaker 2: he has the raw power but also drags out a bunch,

1001
00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:07,960
Speaker 2: so it's but then you know then he had like

1002
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:10,000
Speaker 2: walk off hit against the phil. It's one of those

1003
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:12,640
Speaker 2: things that needs consistent he needs consistency, but he needs

1004
00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:14,160
Speaker 2: to This is the year he has to show if

1005
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:15,480
Speaker 2: he's part of the future. And that's why I said

1006
00:53:15,480 --> 00:53:19,600
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one is I think that should be almost

1007
00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:21,880
Speaker 2: like the theme or the slogan is like are you

1008
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:25,480
Speaker 2: part of our like you know, championship teams this is

1009
00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:29,920
Speaker 2: and that's even with this past last Springs training. The

1010
00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:34,880
Speaker 2: competition between the guys, you know, it breeds everyone, you know,

1011
00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:37,359
Speaker 2: amping their game, and I think especially like let's say

1012
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:39,200
Speaker 2: for right field, no matter who's there, they bring in

1013
00:53:39,239 --> 00:53:41,000
Speaker 2: someone from the outside or the guys who are already

1014
00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:44,960
Speaker 2: in the system in the organization that they know they're

1015
00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:48,880
Speaker 2: fighting for the shop from Brinston to Monte to hitting Harold,

1016
00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:54,839
Speaker 2: which lovely Frizarro. You know, it lives on to hate

1017
00:53:54,920 --> 00:53:58,040
Speaker 2: Zoos Sanchez, like those are guys that know that they're

1018
00:53:58,040 --> 00:54:01,080
Speaker 2: going in there battling for a job. You know what

1019
00:54:01,200 --> 00:54:02,919
Speaker 2: better motivation than that?

1020
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:07,000
Speaker 5: You can definitely expect to bounce back season from Corey

1021
00:54:07,040 --> 00:54:09,600
Speaker 5: McKenzie Dickerson as well. I know a lot of fans

1022
00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:12,160
Speaker 5: were short change on his production, but again it was

1023
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:13,239
Speaker 5: a short season, so.

1024
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:15,520
Speaker 2: I'm looking at that, and you know, he spent a

1025
00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:17,480
Speaker 2: week in a hotel. I think a lot of the

1026
00:54:17,520 --> 00:54:19,960
Speaker 2: veteran guys, even with going back to Annabal Sanchez, he

1027
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:22,399
Speaker 2: started off really poorly for the Nationals, and then as

1028
00:54:22,400 --> 00:54:24,960
Speaker 2: the season went on, he kind of looked more like himself,

1029
00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:28,400
Speaker 2: especially against the Marlins. He I think for the veteran

1030
00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:31,359
Speaker 2: guys and how truncated the season was a very quick

1031
00:54:31,480 --> 00:54:34,120
Speaker 2: ramp up, especially I would assume for pictures that it

1032
00:54:34,160 --> 00:54:38,000
Speaker 2: didn't lend themselves to being their you know, career selves.

1033
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:43,200
Speaker 2: And yeah, for Corey Dickerson, I mean, as inconsistent as

1034
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:44,759
Speaker 2: he was and not living up to the contract, he

1035
00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:47,239
Speaker 2: hit the biggest home run of the season in that

1036
00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:52,400
Speaker 2: Cubs game, so it's almost like, okay, you know, that's

1037
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:55,040
Speaker 2: that paid for at least this year of the contract.

1038
00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:57,319
Speaker 5: Hey to be fair to everybody in the league, like

1039
00:54:57,400 --> 00:54:59,080
Speaker 5: the rest of the starting pitchers in the league, not

1040
00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:02,440
Speaker 5: everybody can be like Pablo Lopez. Pop came out of

1041
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:04,360
Speaker 5: the hotel room and threw up zeros.

1042
00:55:04,640 --> 00:55:05,400
Speaker 4: That was epic.

1043
00:55:06,080 --> 00:55:08,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's my mom's favorite, and he knows it. I

1044
00:55:08,320 --> 00:55:12,319
Speaker 2: was like, my mom loves him good, He's great here.

1045
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:16,680
Speaker 2: He's honestly one of the best athletes I've had to, like,

1046
00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:19,960
Speaker 2: you know, interact with over the years for work. Hands

1047
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 2: down right.

1048
00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:24,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, this is a tangent on my part,

1049
00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:27,919
Speaker 1: But one thing I've been fascinated with is how few

1050
00:55:28,360 --> 00:55:31,839
Speaker 1: players that were here before the ownership transition are still here.

1051
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:35,120
Speaker 1: And people think of Pablo because he's so young. I mean,

1052
00:55:35,239 --> 00:55:37,480
Speaker 1: at this moment, still twenty four, they think of him

1053
00:55:37,480 --> 00:55:39,840
Speaker 1: as part of this new era, but technically he was

1054
00:55:39,880 --> 00:55:43,640
Speaker 1: acquired at the deadline in twenty seventeen before new ownership

1055
00:55:43,680 --> 00:55:46,560
Speaker 1: took over. And I mean the track record we've seen

1056
00:55:46,719 --> 00:55:49,600
Speaker 1: the last few years or that this front office will

1057
00:55:49,600 --> 00:55:52,840
Speaker 1: see exactly how much Kim Ang affects that mindset. But

1058
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:56,360
Speaker 1: they've been a lot more willing to frankly discard some

1059
00:55:56,400 --> 00:55:58,960
Speaker 1: of the players that were here before the transition, players

1060
00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:03,720
Speaker 1: that they didn't acquire themselves. But thankfully, I'm a huge

1061
00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:06,799
Speaker 1: fan of Pobbles as well, so it's encouraging that he

1062
00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:09,200
Speaker 1: did everything in his power this past year to show

1063
00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:13,200
Speaker 1: that he's part of the solution. Pretty indispensable for them.

1064
00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:16,520
Speaker 1: So even though he technically is connected to the old

1065
00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:20,799
Speaker 1: front office and all that, that, he's as good a

1066
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:23,600
Speaker 1: chance as anybody actually sticking around for their foreseeable future.

1067
00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:29,120
Speaker 5: Shout out to David Phelps who netted us Pablo Lopez. Hah, Yeah,

1068
00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:31,160
Speaker 5: that's one of those great trades that we got.

1069
00:56:31,600 --> 00:56:34,160
Speaker 2: And then he joins the Phillies and kind of does

1070
00:56:34,160 --> 00:56:35,399
Speaker 2: what the Phillies bullpen does.

1071
00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:37,120
Speaker 4: He imploded.

1072
00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:39,239
Speaker 5: He looked out for us, David Phelps, we got to

1073
00:56:39,239 --> 00:56:41,440
Speaker 5: build them a statue outside somewhere little Havana.

1074
00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:45,640
Speaker 2: That's my Harry Potter buddy, isn't that. I'm always like,

1075
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Speaker 2: oh gosh, it's been so long since I was like

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Speaker 2: on the Marlin speed or on that side of the ballpark.

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Speaker 2: David Felps was one of my like Harry Potter buddies.

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Speaker 2: I remember one year they were like, you played quidditch

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Speaker 2: and then they wanted to learn more, so like him

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Speaker 2: and C. C. Shack and then Color would tease me

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Speaker 2: about it, like I'm talking about quidditch again, Like they

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00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:08,480
Speaker 2: brought it up. They found the video wasn't me. But yeah, no,

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00:57:08,560 --> 00:57:11,520
Speaker 2: it's uh, but that's gonna be. Like I mentioned before,

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Speaker 2: one of the big thing is how they manage the pictures,

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Speaker 2: if they get creative, if they do like six man

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Speaker 2: rotation for a bit, if maybe they send people down

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Speaker 2: like they almost do like a shuttle service. You know,

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00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:26,240
Speaker 2: it's there's a lot and that's one of the good

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00:57:26,240 --> 00:57:29,040
Speaker 2: things about having a lot of starting pitching depth in

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00:57:29,080 --> 00:57:32,520
Speaker 2: the system is that they can be creative if they

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00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:35,640
Speaker 2: choose to and be careful. Because I mean, Sandy's the

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Speaker 2: only guy that's come close to two hundred innings and

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00:57:37,640 --> 00:57:40,760
Speaker 2: even then that was twenty nineteen, you know, and he

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00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:44,840
Speaker 2: didn't get many this year because having COVID, So uh,

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Speaker 2: it's gonna be. It's that's why it's I mean obviously

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Speaker 2: as a fandy woman, but like for me as like

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Speaker 2: someone covering the team, it's gonna be interesting and exciting

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00:57:54,160 --> 00:57:57,520
Speaker 2: to see and all assets like past. That's what's gonna happen.

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Speaker 2: How they manage that, how they manage the young guys

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Speaker 2: prospects wise, and how they tackle I guess the Meds

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Speaker 2: and Braves, Billies and the Nationals. There's the whole division

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Speaker 2: is going for it.

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Speaker 1: So I'll get you out of here on this. I

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00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:16,480
Speaker 1: mean a big part of your role is going to

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00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:19,360
Speaker 1: be news coverage, of course with this team, but in

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00:58:19,400 --> 00:58:21,840
Speaker 1: the absence of news or these past few weeks, and

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00:58:22,360 --> 00:58:24,200
Speaker 1: potentially if they stay really young and don't make a

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00:58:24,200 --> 00:58:26,240
Speaker 1: lot of transactions, you may not have a whole lot

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Speaker 1: of news to do. So could are there any special

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00:58:29,560 --> 00:58:32,919
Speaker 1: projects that either you've already gotten started on or are

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00:58:33,120 --> 00:58:37,080
Speaker 1: in your mind percolating about any special features that we

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00:58:37,120 --> 00:58:39,960
Speaker 1: could see on the site. Because Joe Rasarrow did a

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00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:43,400
Speaker 1: couple of these that really impactful about either old Marlins

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00:58:43,400 --> 00:58:46,240
Speaker 1: players that are doing interesting things now or just certain

1115
00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:49,440
Speaker 1: trends in the game that really fascinate him and diving

1116
00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:52,200
Speaker 1: deep into that yet, and you should imagine have the

1117
00:58:53,320 --> 00:58:56,120
Speaker 1: long leash to explore some of those topics as well.

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00:58:56,240 --> 00:58:58,920
Speaker 1: So what have you been thinking about in that department,

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00:58:59,120 --> 00:59:02,640
Speaker 1: Things that either already on the way or potentially at

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Speaker 1: some point during this year we could see on the website.

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Speaker 2: Well, they'll be a story. I don't know if it's

1122
00:59:09,600 --> 00:59:11,520
Speaker 2: one of those things like when is things gonna run?

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Speaker 2: Because if breaking news happens, then he gets pushed back.

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Speaker 2: I'm very a big proponent even during my time with

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Florida. Like they're athletes, but they're humans first.

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00:59:23,160 --> 00:59:26,840
Speaker 2: I'm very big on human interest pieces, seeing what they

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00:59:26,840 --> 00:59:30,000
Speaker 2: are as people. So next week there might be one

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Speaker 2: on a certain guy who's taken a different avenue, not

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00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:35,959
Speaker 2: just baseball, who's doing stuff this offseason. I'll keep it vague.

1130
00:59:35,960 --> 00:59:38,720
Speaker 2: If anyone follows social media, they'll they might know which

1131
00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:42,120
Speaker 2: athlete I'm talking about and what endeavor he is undertaking.

1132
00:59:44,480 --> 00:59:50,280
Speaker 2: I'm trying to track down an origin story of something

1133
00:59:50,520 --> 00:59:53,600
Speaker 2: I alluded to earlier in the podcast, Like I'm putting

1134
00:59:53,600 --> 00:59:56,040
Speaker 2: like very vague Easter egs, like at least Taylor Swift

1135
00:59:56,040 --> 00:59:59,880
Speaker 2: does them like creatively. I'm just like really bad with fine.

1136
01:00:00,360 --> 01:00:01,880
Speaker 2: But now I'm trying to find the origin story of

1137
01:00:01,920 --> 01:00:04,640
Speaker 2: a certain thing that we had wanted to bring back

1138
01:00:04,680 --> 01:00:08,760
Speaker 2: from the Marlins, which is proving tricky right now, but

1139
01:00:09,040 --> 01:00:11,280
Speaker 2: if I get it, it's gonna be like my Holy Grail.

1140
01:00:13,520 --> 01:00:15,240
Speaker 2: And I'm also trying to figure out how I can

1141
01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:18,280
Speaker 2: top Joe's seventh inning stretch. It's gonna be tough.

1142
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Speaker 1: So if you guys have any ideas.

1143
01:00:21,680 --> 01:00:25,480
Speaker 2: More than you know, willing to hear them, because my

1144
01:00:26,440 --> 01:00:29,000
Speaker 2: job announcement. One of my colleagues wanted me to do

1145
01:00:29,040 --> 01:00:31,680
Speaker 2: something on brand, and so I was gonna do. I

1146
01:00:31,720 --> 01:00:34,640
Speaker 2: did write lyrics, but then I didn't record it, a

1147
01:00:34,720 --> 01:00:37,640
Speaker 2: song parody to Lady Goggs do and I but announcing that.

1148
01:00:37,720 --> 01:00:41,960
Speaker 2: I was then you beat, but then I didn't record it,

1149
01:00:41,960 --> 01:00:43,960
Speaker 2: and I'm like, I told my parents and my brother

1150
01:00:44,040 --> 01:00:47,200
Speaker 2: are like, please don't do that. I'm like, if you know,

1151
01:00:48,560 --> 01:00:51,120
Speaker 2: the people would expect that, who know me? Right? And

1152
01:00:51,120 --> 01:00:53,480
Speaker 2: then I didn't do it, So I got to think

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01:00:53,520 --> 01:00:57,800
Speaker 2: of something creative though, like the seventh inning stretch. We'll see.

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01:00:57,960 --> 01:01:00,680
Speaker 2: I don't know you guys have any ideas well?

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01:01:01,440 --> 01:01:03,840
Speaker 1: Well for people that want to follow you along, of course,

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Speaker 1: aside from going to the website's self on Twitter and

1157
01:01:06,640 --> 01:01:12,439
Speaker 1: Instagram at c di Nicola thirteen. I believe that's both, yeah, ig,

1158
01:01:13,720 --> 01:01:15,520
Speaker 1: so they can fall along what you come up with

1159
01:01:15,680 --> 01:01:17,760
Speaker 1: over there, or they could drop you hints over there

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Speaker 1: as well.

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Speaker 2: My nonsense on Instagram too. Yeah, my Instagram stuff once

1162
01:01:21,680 --> 01:01:24,280
Speaker 2: the season starts and if we're at the ballpark, they'll

1163
01:01:24,320 --> 01:01:27,080
Speaker 2: be actual baseball stuff. Now it's just like, oh, I'm

1164
01:01:27,120 --> 01:01:28,360
Speaker 2: reading this book.

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Speaker 4: Or do you do you have any hobbies?

1166
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Speaker 5: Like you know, how like maybe you can incorporate one

1167
01:01:33,560 --> 01:01:36,680
Speaker 5: of your hobbies, Like one of Joe's hobbies was like grilling, right,

1168
01:01:36,880 --> 01:01:39,760
Speaker 5: I know that grilling. So maybe the seventh inning, you know,

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Speaker 5: I'm just throwing this out of a seventh inning knitting with

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Speaker 5: Christina or something like that.

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Speaker 2: Definitely don't know how to knit. I think I did.

1172
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Speaker 2: We learned briefly in girl Scouts decades ago, and I

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01:01:49,320 --> 01:01:51,920
Speaker 2: didn't really care for it. It's gonna, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I'll have to think of something like

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Speaker 2: what are my talents or But it also it's like,

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Speaker 2: am I gonna be at the ballpark? We're going to

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Speaker 2: be at home market? Actually have I guess more like

1178
01:02:04,040 --> 01:02:09,600
Speaker 2: flexibility about what ridiculousness? But yeah, C. D Nicola thirteen

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Speaker 2: to thirteen because I guess there's another CD Nicola across

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Speaker 2: social media. And then as a Miami person, I guess

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Speaker 2: when I still cared about football, I was obviously a

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Speaker 2: big I guess right.

1183
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Speaker 4: Now, obviously did you ever play softball?

1184
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Speaker 2: Did travel and four year varsity and captain? I did soccer,

1185
01:02:29,560 --> 01:02:30,720
Speaker 2: black belt in taekwondo?

1186
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Speaker 4: Were you number thirteen?

1187
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Speaker 2: Then? I was not my freshman years because you know,

1188
01:02:37,960 --> 01:02:42,280
Speaker 2: senior already takes over. But yeah, always thirteen and I

1189
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Speaker 2: had my walk up song for softball was We Ready,

1190
01:02:45,560 --> 01:02:49,600
Speaker 2: which was Swan Pierre's walk up songs. So I was

1191
01:02:49,640 --> 01:02:51,800
Speaker 2: a slat hitter. They converted me because I was fast

1192
01:02:51,960 --> 01:02:57,480
Speaker 2: softball fast, soccer average fast. But yeah, so it was

1193
01:02:57,680 --> 01:02:59,240
Speaker 2: I was like, I have to JP as the man.

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01:02:59,560 --> 01:03:01,800
Speaker 4: How many cross your mind? I know it crossed my

1195
01:03:01,880 --> 01:03:02,320
Speaker 4: mind when.

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Speaker 5: I was a kid growing up two playing ball that

1197
01:03:05,440 --> 01:03:06,760
Speaker 5: I would have go up there to the playing thing.

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Speaker 4: I was like, I'm gonna drop one down. I'm gonna

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01:03:08,840 --> 01:03:10,880
Speaker 4: drop one down. These guys aren't expected.

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Speaker 2: Well see, they would expect it from me because I

1201
01:03:13,120 --> 01:03:17,400
Speaker 2: was a slot hitter. But I remember when one of

1202
01:03:17,480 --> 01:03:20,440
Speaker 2: my first years covering the team and Juan Pier saw

1203
01:03:20,480 --> 01:03:22,200
Speaker 2: me and he goes, man, you and even told Yello.

1204
01:03:22,280 --> 01:03:24,240
Speaker 2: She says she's making me feel old. I remember she

1205
01:03:24,320 --> 01:03:28,440
Speaker 2: was in the stands. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Jade.

1206
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're excited to learn more about your eccentric background

1207
01:03:35,720 --> 01:03:36,400
Speaker 1: and your activities.

1208
01:03:36,520 --> 01:03:39,040
Speaker 2: Oh that's eccentric. I apologize ahead of time.

1209
01:03:39,280 --> 01:03:41,680
Speaker 1: We're excited to get to know you and potentially bring

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01:03:41,680 --> 01:03:43,800
Speaker 1: you back on the pod. In the future. MLB dot

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Speaker 1: Com Marlin's beat reporter, Christina Dina Cola. I think I

1212
01:03:47,720 --> 01:03:48,840
Speaker 1: went three for three with that.

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01:03:49,520 --> 01:03:52,480
Speaker 2: Dead That's that was great. That's a hopefully a good

1214
01:03:52,520 --> 01:03:53,840
Speaker 2: sign for twenty twenty one.

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01:03:54,240 --> 01:03:57,440
Speaker 1: Along here with Alex contrast Elis Susman, the official show

1216
01:03:57,520 --> 01:04:00,560
Speaker 1: here on the Fish Strips podcast. We can the pod

1217
01:04:00,600 --> 01:04:03,560
Speaker 1: again pretty soon, but this was excellent.

1218
01:04:03,640 --> 01:04:06,080
Speaker 2: Christina, thank you for joining us, well, thanks for having

1219
01:04:06,160 --> 01:04:06,479
Speaker 2: you guys.

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Speaker 1: Stay safe and as always, go fish