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Speaker 1: What's up, guys, Alex Controls alongside Eli Sussman. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: another episode of Marlin's Barbecue. Today we got another special guest.

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Speaker 1: He had the barbecue. We've been hot lately.

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Speaker 2: Huh.

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Speaker 1: We had a Joe for Sorrow join us. We had

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Speaker 1: Andy Slater and now we have ladies and gentlemen with us.

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Speaker 1: Paul Severino, Paul, welcome to the barbecue.

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Speaker 3: What's going on?

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Speaker 2: How now?

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Speaker 4: I know that I know Joe does some barbecuing and

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Speaker 4: grilling and smoking.

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Speaker 3: Does Andy do it too?

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Speaker 2: We know? And Andy? Andy?

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Speaker 1: We had a really cool podcast. And actually missus Slater

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Speaker 1: is all about barbecues. But all right, he's all about

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Speaker 1: winding and dining as well, So okay, chop it up

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Speaker 1: with him.

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Speaker 2: He's got good taste, good steaks, all right.

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Speaker 3: Because I got the barbecue.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I've got I've got three grill in the back.

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Speaker 4: It's a long story, but I've got three grills in

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Speaker 4: the back. So I'm all about it myself.

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Speaker 2: I'll tarcole or what.

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 4: I've got one gas and then I've got two smokers.

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Speaker 4: One was a vertical smoker that I'm If you guys

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Speaker 4: are interested, I could make you a good deal on

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Speaker 4: that one. I just I wanted to move back to

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Speaker 4: like a.

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Speaker 3: Normal grill.

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Speaker 4: Shape and size, so then I ended up getting a

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Speaker 4: different grill. So now I've got like two wood pellet

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Speaker 4: smoker types, one vertical that's up for auction and then

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Speaker 4: one gas grill and one regular wood pellet grill shape grill.

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Speaker 4: And that's and believe it or not, that's not even

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Speaker 4: the long story of it. So I shortened that and

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Speaker 4: it was still long and boring.

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Speaker 3: So there you go.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we have Paul leave a lot of mutual listeners

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Speaker 5: between fish stripes and a fish across the pond. And

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Speaker 5: so I know with that conversation you want about two

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Speaker 5: hours long with Peter. With this one will be a

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Speaker 5: little bit more concise.

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Speaker 4: If Peter's listening, I'm gonna blame that whole thing on

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Speaker 4: him because he was just asking too good of questions

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Speaker 4: and then I just start rambling and that and the

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Speaker 4: fact that well I've worked for two months out of

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Speaker 4: the last eighteen, so I've got a lot of words

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Speaker 3: I'm just trying to get them all out.

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Speaker 1: I feel you sometimes I find myself talking in the mirror.

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Speaker 1: I good little therapy, you know, anyway, So.

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Speaker 2: How's your how's your off season been you? What have

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Speaker 2: you been up to.

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Speaker 3: Other than grilling?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think probably just like everybody else,

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Speaker 3: It's been pretty low key.

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Speaker 4: Not not traveling too much, not going out to dinner,

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Speaker 4: so doing a lot of the uh doing a lot

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Speaker 3: But you know, it's been it's been nice.

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Speaker 4: You know, this is uh going into my fourth year,

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Speaker 4: uh doing Marlin's games. And you know, even though I'd

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Speaker 4: worked at ESPN, so that's weekends and nights and crazy

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Speaker 4: hours and holidays and stuff, and and MLB network same thing. Nights, weekends, holidays,

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Speaker 4: the whole thing, this particular job, which which I love.

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Speaker 4: Even though you have those six months in a normal world,

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Speaker 4: six months where you're pretty much working every single day,

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Speaker 3: So you know, you just you get to enjoy that time.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 4: My son is ten and a half years old, so

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Speaker 4: he's a fun age and so it's it's again trying

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Speaker 4: to find the silver lining and all of this stuff

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Speaker 4: that's been going on. And I've been able to spend

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Speaker 4: a lot more time at home with him and my

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Speaker 4: up for the season to start, I think everybody wants

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Speaker 1: I want to touch so many bases with what you said.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about. You say you like grilling, right, yeah,

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Speaker 1: just grill for you, for your for your family, like

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Speaker 1: like take it to another level and you can like

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Speaker 1: I feel like it's a whole different type of pressure.

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Speaker 1: Like I can absolutely you crack one open and it's like, damn,

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Speaker 1: what the hell did I get myself into?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 1: Now I gotta way about fifteen people, and I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to cook the steak at medium, and it's like, ook,

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Speaker 1: can I get this well done?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 2: Why you want a well done steak?

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Speaker 4: Right? Go to go to Ruth's tress or outback or

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Speaker 3: But you're getting it whatever I can get it at.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it's so far it's been just the family

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Speaker 4: and and some close friends. But even then some close

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Speaker 4: friends who I don't think would be too upset with

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Speaker 4: it and overcooked or over salted steak or or chicken

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Speaker 4: wings or something like that, they wouldn't be too judgy.

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Speaker 4: of it all.

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Speaker 3: But I'm working on I have haven't gone too crazy.

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Speaker 4: I tried a couple of briskets that that's an advanced

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Speaker 4: that's an advanced skill.

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Speaker 3: The brisket.

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Speaker 4: I haven't mastered it yet, still working on that. Figured

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Speaker 3: I didn't figure it out, but I used everybody.

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Speaker 4: Else's three two one method on the ribs. So the

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Speaker 4: last time I made ribs were really really good. Chicken

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Speaker 4: wings are pretty good. What I make the other day, Oh,

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Speaker 4: I just boneless, skinless thighs. I smoked them for like

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Speaker 4: the open flame for like ten or fifteen minutes.

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Speaker 3: Exquisite, exquisite.

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Speaker 2: We got any evidence, any pictures?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's all gone. I hate it all now. I

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Speaker 3: think I've actually posted a few.

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Speaker 2: That's the thing.

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Speaker 3: In the off season.

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Speaker 4: I lead such a boring life that like the only

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Speaker 4: I hope, I don't know I have enough some followers.

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Speaker 4: I guess that people are interested in some of the

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Speaker 4: stuff that I'm doing. It's not baseball related, but it

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Speaker 4: seems like that's the only thing that's of any excitement whatsoever,

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Speaker 4: is me on the grill. So I've posted a few

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Speaker 4: on my Instagram, but that's been the extent of it.

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Speaker 1: Hey, you mentioned you had your dog. Your dog's name

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Speaker 1: is Homer. Yeah, I got a dog myself. His name

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Speaker 1: is Strike.

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Speaker 2: Nice. Nice. How'd you come up with Homer's name?

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Speaker 4: We were trying. He's a Boston Terrier. He's fourteen years old.

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Speaker 4: He's still going strong, as strong as a Boston Terrier

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Speaker 4: up as Homer the Philosopher or whatever he is.

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Speaker 3: Or Homer Simpson. But I was like, no, Homer works

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Speaker 3: that's cool.

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Speaker 4: And you know what, it all worked out because the

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Speaker 4: If I ever, I haven't settled on one yet. I

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Speaker 4: don't know if I ever will, but like an actual

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Speaker 4: signature home run call, but if I ever do some

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Speaker 4: as a as a two pronged effect to satisfy a

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Speaker 2: We'll see, like like how do you so? How do

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Speaker 2: you come up with a home run call? Right?

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Speaker 1: Because like you just caught up in the moment, like

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Speaker 2: Right, But it's like what I like, how you how

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Speaker 2: you stampedia? It's Marlin's win? Can we get it? Can

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Speaker 2: you do it better than me?

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Speaker 3: It's Marlin's win?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: No, I that was the thing.

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Speaker 4: It's interesting, I think because I got a lot of

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Speaker 4: And I and puts some thought into it, but more

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Speaker 4: But then nothing really hit me. That was all that

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Speaker 4: be overly cheesy because you know, haven't really there's a

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Speaker 3: Of stuck with it.

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Speaker 4: And then it sucks and you suck, and it's all

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Speaker 4: it's just a whole things suck. So so between that

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Speaker 4: and you know, not every home run.

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Speaker 4: You know, some are no doubters, high arcing home runs,

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Speaker 4: I just I never really settled on anything, and I

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Speaker 4: You know, like last year, for example, I don't know

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Speaker 4: in a couple of places, the Starling Marte home run

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Speaker 4: natural thing where, you know, Todd and I were talking,

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Speaker 4: it was late in.

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Speaker 3: The game and who's going to come up with the

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Speaker 4: And you know, welcome back for the eighth inning, and

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Speaker 4: here's the guys that are due up, and Holly says

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Speaker 4: Maybe he said san Diez, And he said, maybe it'll

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Speaker 4: be san Diez it comes up with a big hit,

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Speaker 4: we'll see. And then the next pitch, I said, then

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Speaker 3: Oh maybe it's Marte. It's Marte.

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Speaker 4: It's definitely Martin hold On in his first Marlins game,

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Speaker 1: Honestly, I understand what they're saying, where the producers are

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Speaker 2: It's just it's just like things, which.

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Speaker 5: What EX was saying there? Though, it's about it's flat.

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Speaker 5: It's supposed to be flattering that we I think you're

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Speaker 4: It absolutely is, and it's flattering, and I appreciate it,

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Speaker 3: But whether it was uh, I think it was like a.

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Speaker 4: If Rich would have, let me say, ballgame, if I

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Speaker 4: play by play in my job description there, but a

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Speaker 4: lot of it was studio.

443
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Speaker 3: Stuff, which was also good.

444
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Speaker 4: But then going to MLB Network, it was like, okay, well,

445
00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:38,400
Speaker 4: even though you know, there's kind of like two career

446
00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:40,600
Speaker 4: there's a lot of career paths, but two general career

447
00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:44,600
Speaker 4: paths to get to a big league booth would be,

448
00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:47,480
Speaker 4: you know, either go down the minor league route and

449
00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:49,600
Speaker 4: and work your way up through the minor leagues the

450
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Speaker 4: same way a player would, or hopefully make a big

451
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Speaker 4: enough name for yourself.

452
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Speaker 3: I guess that if a major.

453
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Speaker 4: League job opened up, people kind of know how you work,

454
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Speaker 4: and you know, obviously have to get some some experience

455
00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:07,280
Speaker 4: calling games along the way, but just kind of go

456
00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:12,479
Speaker 4: about it that way. And that was not necessarily a plan.

457
00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:15,919
Speaker 4: It wasn't like, Okay, I'm I'm going to go that

458
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Speaker 4: studio route and see where it takes me.

459
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Speaker 3: You know.

460
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Speaker 4: It's just like anybody out of college, it's like wherever

461
00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:25,560
Speaker 4: that first job takes you, then you have to adjust

462
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Speaker 4: from there. And obviously ESPN was great, and then once

463
00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:31,639
Speaker 4: the M WILLB Network opened up, it was, you know,

464
00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:33,840
Speaker 4: two hours down the road from me, and I just

465
00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:37,040
Speaker 4: had to move the family down and obviously a lot

466
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Speaker 4: of sacrifices to make that happen, but but we did

467
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Speaker 4: and spent seven years there, and uh and that was

468
00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:46,199
Speaker 4: great too, because you know, then I became kind of

469
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Speaker 4: part of the baseball world and the baseball family and

470
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Speaker 4: you know, ultimately hope that that would help to land

471
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Speaker 4: me a big league job, just having worked around baseball

472
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Speaker 4: and met with a lot of different people and talked

473
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Speaker 4: with a lot of different players and managers and gms

474
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Speaker 4: along the way and just kind of again just make

475
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Speaker 4: those connections.

476
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Speaker 3: And so it's it's always.

477
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Speaker 4: Cool, you know, back in back in the old days

478
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Speaker 4: when we got to hang out by the batting cage,

479
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Speaker 4: you know, when you'd go up and like, I remember

480
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Speaker 4: the probably the biggest name to ever do it is

481
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Speaker 4: Nolan Arenado.

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Speaker 3: Like I went up to him my first year it

483
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Speaker 3: was the uh.

484
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Speaker 4: God, I think it was. It was my first year

485
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Speaker 4: down in Miami and went up to him. I said, hey,

486
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Speaker 4: Paul Saverna with the Marlins, and he recognized me from

487
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Speaker 4: MLB network.

488
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Speaker 3: He's like, oh, yeah, you're You're with the Marlins now. Honestly, yeah, So.

489
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Speaker 4: You know, it was it's like, wow, I guess it.

490
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Speaker 4: Uh you know, the player. We knew that the players watched.

491
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Speaker 4: But to be able to differentiate me from twelve other

492
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Speaker 4: guys that bet our hosts and anchors there was pretty cool.

493
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Speaker 4: And you know, and then obviously every time I see

494
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Speaker 4: Nolan around the cage anywhere, Actually, I I am Seed.

495
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Speaker 4: The Gold Glove Awards in twenty nineteen, a few months

496
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Speaker 4: before the world turned upside down, and of course Nolan

497
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Speaker 4: won a Gold Glove and he.

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Speaker 3: Was there in New York.

499
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Speaker 4: For I shouldn't say I am see, I'm giving myself

500
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Speaker 4: too much credit. I was the voice of God, so

501
00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:19,200
Speaker 4: I would say, you know, this starts in ten minutes,

502
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:20,880
Speaker 4: please get to your seats. And then once they went

503
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Speaker 4: through the once they went through the awards ceremony, they said,

504
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Speaker 4: all right here the winner is Nolan Aronado and then

505
00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:30,800
Speaker 4: they go to a voice so a video package and

506
00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:33,560
Speaker 4: I was voicing it over live. This is Nolan Aronado's

507
00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:35,800
Speaker 4: seventh Gold Glove and nobody's ever won that many and

508
00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:39,360
Speaker 4: blah blah blah. So it was Joe Piscopo, who am

509
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,480
Speaker 4: seed it. He's a little more famous than me. But anyway,

510
00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:45,760
Speaker 4: long story long. You know, I bumped into Nolan there too,

511
00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:46,679
Speaker 4: and I said, hey, what's up.

512
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Speaker 3: It's good to see it. Hey, how you doing it?

513
00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:49,520
Speaker 3: You know, we just chat.

514
00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:51,919
Speaker 4: So it was just, uh, it was cool again to

515
00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:54,000
Speaker 4: be able to make those connections. And it makes it

516
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:55,919
Speaker 4: a lot easier when you see a guy like our

517
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Speaker 4: not only you know, five, six, seven times during the season,

518
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Speaker 4: and he doesn't owe me anything but to just sit

519
00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:03,840
Speaker 4: there and chat with him for a few minutes and

520
00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:06,040
Speaker 4: then might give you a couple of nuggets through the broadcast,

521
00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:09,439
Speaker 4: and you know, hopefully in part a little bit of

522
00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:12,399
Speaker 4: a connection back to the fan that you know, whether

523
00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:14,560
Speaker 4: he's the guys playing for the Marlins or any other

524
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:17,199
Speaker 4: team that these are still uh, still human beings, and

525
00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:19,400
Speaker 4: they still have a story to tell, and they're still uh,

526
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:22,800
Speaker 4: you know, generally good, good people. And you know that's

527
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:24,560
Speaker 4: kind of that's kind of what we do too, is

528
00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:27,680
Speaker 4: just humanize them all a little bit. So it makes

529
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Speaker 4: it easy when you have the connections.

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Speaker 3: So that you can do that.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe you had a connection to Nolan Anato

532
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Speaker 1: and you kept it to yourself, like you could have

533
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Speaker 1: called them and tell.

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Speaker 2: Them, you know, you don't want to be a Marlin.

535
00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:39,040
Speaker 2: He went to the Cardinals.

536
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Speaker 3: I'm not saying I got his cell phone. I said,

537
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Speaker 3: I bump in and around the cage.

538
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Speaker 2: I'm saying, bump into. Hey, you never thought about being

539
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:51,720
Speaker 2: out here? How fun with how he drink coffee? I'm

540
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Speaker 2: Joe good.

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Speaker 3: You give it me too much credit, man, I don't

542
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:55,440
Speaker 3: make personnel moves.

543
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Speaker 5: Well as cool as that that, but are not kind

544
00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:04,679
Speaker 5: of coming full circle. It's probably even more surreal to

545
00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:08,080
Speaker 5: be the broadcaster for a Marlins team that's managed by

546
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Speaker 5: Don Mattingley, a guy you grew up rooting for as

547
00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:15,320
Speaker 5: a Yankees fan in Connecticut, and you probably saw this

548
00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:17,000
Speaker 5: coming as a year was going on. We knew what

549
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:20,239
Speaker 5: this team had to overcome in twenty twenty, and that

550
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:23,200
Speaker 5: Mattingly deservedly was getting a lot of praise for the

551
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Speaker 5: job he was doing with all these interchanging parts, all

552
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:29,800
Speaker 5: these strangers that were popping onto his team so that

553
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Speaker 5: they could fill out a roster and compete, and then

554
00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:34,160
Speaker 5: when they had that success to get them in contention,

555
00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:37,720
Speaker 5: how unbelievable that was. So you saw coming, but officially

556
00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:39,639
Speaker 5: we got the news in November that he was named

557
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:43,680
Speaker 5: National League Manager of the Year. So just your thoughts

558
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:48,240
Speaker 5: on how proud you must be or whatever emotions you

559
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Speaker 5: have seeing him succeed as a manager after of course

560
00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:54,000
Speaker 5: watching him be one of the better players in baseball

561
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Speaker 5: back in the day. Now having this really long and

562
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Speaker 5: successful second act in a.

563
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Speaker 4: Different part of it, for sure, and I think that

564
00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:06,200
Speaker 4: I listen to a World Series win would be great

565
00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 4: for him. But for me, I thought that he was

566
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:13,040
Speaker 4: a borderline Hall of Famer as a player. As you mentioned,

567
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:15,480
Speaker 4: he's had a terrific second act as a manager, and

568
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Speaker 4: I think a Manager of the Year award with a

569
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Speaker 4: team that those on the outside thought overachieved last year.

570
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Speaker 3: I know that the expectations within the.

571
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:29,960
Speaker 4: Marlins family were high and are always going to be high.

572
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 4: But some of those quote unquote experts probably didn't expect much.

573
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Speaker 4: But to see what you know, last year is my

574
00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:39,520
Speaker 4: third year. So the first two years I was there,

575
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:43,119
Speaker 4: Marlins ended up losing over two hundred games. And every

576
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Speaker 4: day Donnie was accessible, and every day Donnie was accountable,

577
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Speaker 4: and every day Donnie was teaching something. I mean, never

578
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:56,360
Speaker 4: was it a situation in you know, early August when

579
00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:58,439
Speaker 4: the team is way out of it that you know

580
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:02,800
Speaker 4: he blew off the media or ever gave anybody any

581
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:05,640
Speaker 4: sort of attitude or it just didn't want to talk

582
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:08,600
Speaker 4: or anything. He was always willing to say something and

583
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:13,760
Speaker 4: to us, but always just again, I do a lot

584
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 4: of watching when I'm around the cage for batting practice

585
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 4: and just you know, see how people interact and stuff

586
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Speaker 4: like that.

587
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Speaker 3: And Donnie's just such a good teacher.

588
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:27,120
Speaker 4: And I think that I think he'll tell you this too,

589
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:30,359
Speaker 4: is that he's one of the thrills that he gets

590
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 4: in being a manager is not just drawn up the

591
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Speaker 4: lineup card, but being able to teach.

592
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Speaker 3: He loves doing it.

593
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,480
Speaker 4: And you know, with such a young team that they've

594
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:42,879
Speaker 4: had these last few years or you know, major league

595
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,640
Speaker 4: inexperienced type of team that they've had the last few years.

596
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,119
Speaker 4: He's been able to do that a lot, and I

597
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:51,480
Speaker 4: part just his boundless wisdom on these.

598
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 3: Guys, and.

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Speaker 4: You know, that's that's been fun to watch, and that's

600
00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 4: been what's been so rewarding is that all of those

601
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:01,600
Speaker 4: guys that you know, may have had some ups and

602
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:06,119
Speaker 4: downs in eighteen and in nineteen, that something clicked for

603
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,920
Speaker 4: him in twenty where they found a way to contribute,

604
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,040
Speaker 4: even though it might have been a different role than.

605
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 3: They had the previous two years.

606
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Speaker 4: Was all really for me due to his his leadership

607
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 4: and the fact that he had a bunch of guys

608
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Speaker 4: that were able to buy into the plan and the

609
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 4: belief and the mindset that he and you know, the

610
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Speaker 4: rest of the coaching staff in front office kind of imparted.

611
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Speaker 4: And yeah, I mean, you know, I said it toward

612
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Speaker 4: the end of last year. Jase Tingler did a phenomenal

613
00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 4: job in San Diego and David Ross a great job

614
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 4: in Chicago as first year managers under you know, the

615
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:44,720
Speaker 4: strangest of conditions. But yeah, for me, it was a

616
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Speaker 4: no brainer. There were no brainer that Don Mattingly was

617
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Speaker 4: the manager of the Year last year in the National League,

618
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Speaker 4: and deservedly so. And you know, I think again just

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Speaker 4: just to see the way that you know, he he

620
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Speaker 4: keeps everybody together, and there have been some downtimes in

621
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Speaker 4: terms of wins and losses. There have been some uncertain times,

622
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Speaker 4: obviously in the first week of last season, probably at

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Speaker 4: the top of that list. And he's been able to

624
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Speaker 4: weather the storm man and he's been so much fun

625
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Speaker 4: to watch, And yeah, I love the guy, and I

626
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Speaker 4: think that I think that the Marlins and their fans

627
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Speaker 1: I remember when I met Derek Jeter at a FanFest,

645
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Speaker 1: the first fan fest after they acquired the team, and

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Speaker 1: I remember I told them, thank you so much for

647
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Speaker 1: buying the Marlins. You know, it's about time that somebody

648
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Speaker 1: bought the team that cares about the team. And it

649
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Speaker 1: feels good knowing that we're not going to be the

650
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 1: laughing stock of the league anymore, you know, and like

651
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Speaker 1: and just telling him that it sunk, like I know,

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Speaker 1: he was like, hey, thank you, you know. And right

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Speaker 1: now we're at a point where it's like, man, it

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Speaker 1: feels really good to be a Marlins fan.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, we had tough years, like really really tough.

657
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:04,240
Speaker 2: Is everybody came at us again because they blew it up.

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Speaker 1: But everybody that brought into the plan and understood everything

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Speaker 1: that this front office is doing, like it's Flourisia like

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's blossoming, like the whole plan, and we're

661
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Speaker 1: really happy. Like with everything that's going on, I wanted

662
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 1: to make a transition real quick and talk to you

663
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:22,600
Speaker 1: about your kid.

664
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 2: You were telling us that your kids around.

665
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:27,600
Speaker 1: Ten years old right now, right right right, So it's

666
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:30,479
Speaker 1: beautiful that you get to enjoy them during the off season.

667
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 1: Like is it are you starting to notice like his

668
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 1: talents or what's his curiosity is leading into? Like I'm

669
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:38,560
Speaker 1: sure at that age, you know there's something that you

670
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 1: used to like maybe you used to watch sports or

671
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 1: something like that, like like wrestling for example. Like I

672
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 1: used to be a big wwfan, and I would find

673
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 1: myself like like imitating the narrators and stuff like that.

674
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 1: You know, like just like you would imitate narrators in baseball, right,

675
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 1: And I'm just curious, like at that age something was

676
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:00,360
Speaker 1: tickling in your head. Where did you find yourself you know,

677
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 1: narrating pauls Ever, you know, w w F or something

678
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 1: like that.

679
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 4: You know, that's where that's where it started for me, honestly,

680
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 4: Like when I was three or four years old, and

681
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 4: you know, I had like the little wrestling figures and stuff.

682
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 4: I didn't geez, I could barely tell the difference between

683
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:18,440
Speaker 4: hul Cogan and the Iron Cheek, but I could, you know,

684
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 4: sit there and and and and like announce the.

685
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 3: Wrestlers and off the top roll body slamon And that's honestly,

686
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 3: like that's where it started.

687
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 4: And then it kind of morphed into you know, playing

688
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 4: some some video games and baseball video games or Madden

689
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 4: or whatever it was, and just like you know, sitting

690
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 4: there and like, ah, this is fun and this is cool,

691
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:40,960
Speaker 4: and like turn the announcers off. Don't tell Vascursion that

692
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 4: I used to do that on the show, but you know,

693
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,520
Speaker 4: just turned the announcers off and like call call the game,

694
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 4: and uh, that's yeah, that's where it kind of started

695
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 4: for me. And uh, it was probably around my son's age.

696
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 3: That that I started to do that.

697
00:32:56,400 --> 00:33:00,960
Speaker 4: He's, uh, he's not announcing game, probably because he wants

698
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 4: to listen to me, or at least that's what.

699
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 3: I tell myself, but he's not muting the TV to

700
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 3: do it.

701
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:10,040
Speaker 4: But there were a few times last year when you know,

702
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 4: I would do a little prep work in the morning

703
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 4: or whatever, I was looking at my scorecard.

704
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 3: He's he's going through.

705
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:17,440
Speaker 4: He's like, can you print out a scorecard for me

706
00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:18,720
Speaker 4: so I can keep track tonight?

707
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 3: And it's like, yeah, sure.

708
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 4: So for like a solid week it was every night

709
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 4: and I'm showing him how to score and everything else,

710
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:26,160
Speaker 4: and he goes, you know, when you get to work

711
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 4: and you get the lineup, send me the lineup. And

712
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 4: I said, send him my lineup card that's all filled out.

713
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 4: I sent it to him and he sends me a

714
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 4: picture back and it's all filled out. So it was

715
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:38,560
Speaker 4: it was pretty cool, and you know, that's one of

716
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 4: the things I think it was my first year.

717
00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 3: My wife was up in the booth with.

718
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 4: My son and she took one of my favorite pictures

719
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 4: that I have. Was like from the back of the

720
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 4: booth looking out towards the field and I'm down on

721
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 4: like the bottom row where we have our little perch,

722
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 4: and then my son was like up top kind of

723
00:33:56,960 --> 00:34:01,000
Speaker 4: looking over and she took the picture over his shoulder

724
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:05,719
Speaker 4: watching me watch the game, and it was I I

725
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 4: just I just love that because it's you know, there's

726
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 4: only thirty people that have these jobs, and it's a

727
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 4: job that I worked at and hope that eventually I

728
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 4: would I would get and you know, hopefully I don't

729
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 4: screw it up too too bad, where I get to

730
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:22,759
Speaker 4: enjoy this for hopefully the rest of my career and

731
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:26,880
Speaker 4: and be able to share these experiences with with my

732
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 4: wife and my son. And uh, it's been it's been

733
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:31,840
Speaker 4: a lot of fun because, like I said, not.

734
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 3: Many people get to do it. So it's it's been awesome.

735
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 2: That's beautiful. You just said that you wanted to spend

736
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 2: your whole career here as a mar thy man. O, Yo,

737
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:44,279
Speaker 2: I'm giving you a virtual guy. He sold, He sold me,

738
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 2: he sold. I was thinking about. I was thinking about.

739
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 1: I was like, yo, can I really push that by?

740
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:51,320
Speaker 1: And asked, like, Paul, Paul, what's what's like? What's the

741
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:53,400
Speaker 1: dream like? Was paula trying to get I was like, no,

742
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 1: I don't want to put them on the spot like that.

743
00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:56,440
Speaker 1: But you just answered that you would be like a

744
00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 1: varlet for life.

745
00:34:57,239 --> 00:35:02,480
Speaker 6: But man, yeah, listen, unless the PGA tour calls and

746
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:05,960
Speaker 6: and they want me to go on tour and play

747
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 6: in in all the majors, and then then yeah, that

748
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 6: would be.

749
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:12,319
Speaker 3: The only thing I think I would want to leave for.

750
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 2: But so I don't.

751
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,840
Speaker 4: I don't think my twenty some odd handicap is going

752
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,439
Speaker 4: to get me on the PGA tour anytime soon.

753
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 2: Have you Have you been in touch with Holly?

754
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:26,399
Speaker 4: Yeah, we spoke, uh just the other day. Yeah, we're

755
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:29,720
Speaker 4: we We miss each other. It's amazing how much time

756
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 4: we all spend together. And again, in a normal season,

757
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 4: it's you know, it's just like the players, man, you know,

758
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 4: they talk about it being a family and everything else.

759
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:41,440
Speaker 3: It's the same for broadcasters.

760
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:46,080
Speaker 4: And it's important that we have a good relationship and

761
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 4: and I think we do. And I think that you know,

762
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:54,279
Speaker 4: you hope that you can have that chemistry on air

763
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:58,760
Speaker 4: so that people actually enjoy listening. You know that I

764
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 4: am smart enough to know that, no but he tunes

765
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:04,359
Speaker 4: in to watch me or listen to me. They tune

766
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:06,839
Speaker 4: in to watch the Marlins. But if you know, if

767
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:09,359
Speaker 4: Holly and I have a decent enough relationship and make

768
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:11,279
Speaker 4: each other laugh a little bit and hopefully make the

769
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:15,360
Speaker 4: people at home laugh and inform with a stat or

770
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:17,560
Speaker 4: a nugget or an experience or two along the way,

771
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:18,560
Speaker 4: then that's all gravy.

772
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 3: But yeah, we spend a lot of time together.

773
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 4: We sit next to each other on the planes, We

774
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:29,600
Speaker 4: usually take the same bus to the ballpark. You know,

775
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 4: we're up in the booth of the games at seven,

776
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:35,440
Speaker 4: we're probably on the road. It's a two thirty bus,

777
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:38,720
Speaker 4: so we're together from about, you know, probably three o'clock

778
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 4: once we get up in the booth until the end

779
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 4: of the game at ten o'clock. And the bus leaves

780
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:45,040
Speaker 4: forty minutes after the game, so that's another forty minutes

781
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:48,440
Speaker 4: that we're hanging out together and do it all again tomorrow.

782
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:50,920
Speaker 3: So it's I take it on.

783
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 1: I take it on an off day at least if

784
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:55,440
Speaker 1: you guys are doing grilling, like I'm sure you're doing

785
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 1: the grilling, because Holly looks like he would just burn everything.

786
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 3: I tell you over the course of six months.

787
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:07,160
Speaker 4: If there's an off day, it's probably spent with each

788
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,759
Speaker 4: other's families. I think he probably gets enough of me

789
00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:12,960
Speaker 4: during the season that if there's a Monday off day,

790
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,200
Speaker 4: I'm probably the last person he wants to see.

791
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:18,760
Speaker 2: That's funny.

792
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:23,400
Speaker 5: We're here with Paul Severino, TV Voice of the Marlins,

793
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:27,280
Speaker 5: Fox Sports Florida very soon to be Bally Sports Florida.

794
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,719
Speaker 5: I guess a bunch of the questions that we want

795
00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 5: have time to get to all of them. But one

796
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:35,880
Speaker 5: of the unique wrinkles obviously of last season was the

797
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:40,400
Speaker 5: shortened schedule and fewer reps for you. As someone personally

798
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:42,879
Speaker 5: that does a lot of podcasting, if I do an

799
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 5: hour or two or three in a week, my voice

800
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:48,720
Speaker 5: starts to waver a little bit. And I'm always curious

801
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 5: about the stamina that you have to have to be

802
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 5: on air every single night for six or seven months,

803
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 5: and not just the game broadcast, but little check ins, pregame,

804
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 5: postgame and other media responsibil these that you have to

805
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:04,320
Speaker 5: talk a lot, and you have to maintain that audio quality.

806
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:07,799
Speaker 5: One of the concerns around baseball this year is with

807
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 5: like starting pitchers coming off a shortened year, how much

808
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:12,960
Speaker 5: of a workload can we expect from them? And the

809
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 5: expectation is with a lot of teams that Marlins included,

810
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:19,320
Speaker 5: they're gonna limit their innings because it's a difficult transition

811
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:21,800
Speaker 5: to ramp it up from sixty games to one sixty

812
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:25,160
Speaker 5: two like that. As a broadcaster, I'm kind of worried

813
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 5: about you. Is there any sort of conditioning that you

814
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:31,959
Speaker 5: have to do during the offseason, or at least during

815
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:36,600
Speaker 5: like this particular offseason, that you think you're gonna adjust

816
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 5: well to going back to a full schedule for yourself.

817
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:41,880
Speaker 4: Well, I'll tell you this, up until about forty seven

818
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 4: seconds ago, I hadn't even thought of it.

819
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:49,320
Speaker 3: So thanks, No, No, I'm lucky.

820
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 4: I think I've been okay in terms of you know,

821
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 4: the voice holding up.

822
00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 3: You're right, though there.

823
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:02,480
Speaker 4: Are certainly in I have gotten this question a few times.

824
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:10,240
Speaker 4: I don't do really anything special. The only thing, like, honestly,

825
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 4: and it's it's not even like for the work portion

826
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:18,879
Speaker 4: of it, but like if I'm driving to work, maybe

827
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:20,759
Speaker 4: i'll like sing in the car and like warm the

828
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:22,600
Speaker 4: voice up that way without even I mean, I have

829
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 4: a horrible voice. I'll go, I'll go all over the

830
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 4: spectrum a little bit. But here here's one right, So

831
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:33,400
Speaker 4: here's one.

832
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 3: Hip hop.

833
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:42,680
Speaker 4: So I try to sing or rap hip hop in

834
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 4: a way to that I guess would be one one

835
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 4: exercise in an effort to get the lips and the

836
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:53,319
Speaker 4: tongue and everything moving fast. You know, I will not

837
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:57,360
Speaker 4: You haven't even asked, but I will not do because

838
00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:02,239
Speaker 4: because I I I have conducted an interviewer two and

839
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:05,120
Speaker 4: I gave you a wide open spot right there to

840
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:07,759
Speaker 4: ask me to do it, but I will not. But

841
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:09,879
Speaker 4: you know, just like that, that might be like one

842
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:12,720
Speaker 4: thing just to you know, be able to speak quickly

843
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:15,600
Speaker 4: because sometimes you know, there might be a tight game

844
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 4: and double down on the gap in the corner and

845
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 4: here he's going a third and Trey Hillman's gonna wait

846
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:22,360
Speaker 4: and you start talking fast, and you need to be

847
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:26,920
Speaker 4: able to enunciate and uh and speak clearly and inflect

848
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:31,160
Speaker 4: in different ways and stuff like that. So yeah, I'll

849
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 4: every once in a while throw on a little bit

850
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:36,359
Speaker 4: of hip hop. But yeah, I mean, I'm I'm I'm

851
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:38,799
Speaker 4: all over the map with you.

852
00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 1: You're doing modern hip hop, you're doing you're going old.

853
00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:46,400
Speaker 4: School, probably more old school, probably more like like nineties

854
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:51,040
Speaker 4: two thousands type. I'm nearing forty, so I can't I

855
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:52,840
Speaker 4: can't keep up too too much.

856
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 3: But yeah, I.

857
00:40:53,920 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 4: Would say, you know, Nelly, Eminem, some Tupac and jay Z,

858
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:03,239
Speaker 4: you know the classics stuff like that.

859
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:05,799
Speaker 2: So yeah, man, come on, man, let me hear something.

860
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 4: Man, Oh, I'm going I'm going through a tunnel right now.

861
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:10,279
Speaker 3: You're breaking up.

862
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:17,319
Speaker 1: Hey, but I could definitely see that, like uhh, that's

863
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 1: some of the things that like people don't really think about, like,

864
00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:22,480
Speaker 1: like the whole breathing process as you're narrating, like what

865
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:24,520
Speaker 1: you were talking about, there's a part of the left field.

866
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:27,480
Speaker 1: It's to really guy, you know, you're describing the whole thing.

867
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:29,400
Speaker 1: Do you just go like with one breath and it's like,

868
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 1: all right, here's the pitch and like and then you

869
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 1: just go with that whole breath or well, I.

870
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:34,400
Speaker 3: Think you know.

871
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:36,680
Speaker 4: The other thing too, is that it's an adjustment that

872
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:39,319
Speaker 4: I've had to make, and I hope that I've made

873
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:41,480
Speaker 4: it pretty well. Is that in doing a game on

874
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 4: TV is different than doing a game on a radio,

875
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:46,399
Speaker 4: Like you just need to be more efficient with your

876
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:47,280
Speaker 4: words on TV.

877
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 3: You know, for example, a radio call from Dave.

878
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 4: Or Glenn might sound like, uh, you know, here comes

879
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 4: the two to one pitch and Jones swings and grounds

880
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:01,400
Speaker 4: the ball and a couple of hops to Rojas is

881
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 4: sure he's up with it over across the diamond and

882
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:06,239
Speaker 4: Aguilar puts away. That's the first out here in the

883
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:09,920
Speaker 4: first inning. Whereas on a TV you don't need to

884
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:12,880
Speaker 4: paint every single portion of that, so it would be

885
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 4: like Sandy set and the pitch, Rojas and Aguilar, there's

886
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 4: one a way, so it's the same thing. So you're

887
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 4: a little bit more efficient with your words, and it's

888
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 4: it's just kind of cleaner that way. So it's you know,

889
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:33,879
Speaker 4: I think once you understand that that pacing, I think

890
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 4: that that that can be kind of what separates, you know,

891
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:42,160
Speaker 4: the the the guy who and I've been that guy,

892
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 4: trust me, who wants to sound like a broadcaster, and

893
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:46,760
Speaker 4: then the guy who actually.

894
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 3: Is a broadcaster.

895
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:50,360
Speaker 4: Once you figure out that that pacing and that cadence

896
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:54,759
Speaker 4: a little bit. But but yeah, I but and to

897
00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 4: get back to Ellie's point, was like the so, yeah,

898
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:02,920
Speaker 4: I don't do any exercises really, but just to finish

899
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:06,839
Speaker 4: the point there, like it you there is a different broadcaster.

900
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 3: Voice, Like you don't just sit and talk. You do

901
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:10,440
Speaker 3: have to project a little bit.

902
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:12,680
Speaker 4: And you know, when I go back downstairs, my wife

903
00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 4: would probably tell me, every time you do these podcasts,

904
00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 4: you always sound like super loud and you're billowing through

905
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:18,400
Speaker 4: the house.

906
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 3: And it's like, yeah, I don't know why I do that.

907
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:21,960
Speaker 3: It's just like a natural thing.

908
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,839
Speaker 4: Anytime I feel like there's some sort of like broadcast

909
00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:27,880
Speaker 4: thing going on, like it just gets bigger and it

910
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 4: just gets louder so I but normally if I like it,

911
00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:33,120
Speaker 4: this is me like normally talking, hey honey, do you

912
00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:34,280
Speaker 4: need anything at the grocery store?

913
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 3: Like that's me normally talking.

914
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's very he's very recoal swave up and closed. Yeah.

915
00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:41,200
Speaker 1: You should see him when when the world was normal,

916
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:43,359
Speaker 1: when he asked for the coffee at Marley's Park.

917
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:50,360
Speaker 2: Oh oh dang fall.

918
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:54,560
Speaker 4: Okay, but that was me just saving it for because

919
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:56,719
Speaker 4: in ten minutes I'd have to go uh, I have

920
00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 4: to go nuts.

921
00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:02,120
Speaker 1: That's why good times good normal times.

922
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:04,880
Speaker 2: Man, have you heard anything about the ice cream machine?

923
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:06,800
Speaker 2: It's always broken?

924
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:09,800
Speaker 1: The famous What are the Morlands Park and McDonald's have

925
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 1: in common? The ice cream machines always broke.

926
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 4: You know.

927
00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 3: I think we're all using it too much. That's probably

928
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:18,480
Speaker 3: what it is.

929
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:21,239
Speaker 4: The amount of times like it's it's it's sad, but

930
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:23,880
Speaker 4: the amount of times that like I'll be caught up

931
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 4: in a conversation with somebody and or or doing my scorecard,

932
00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 4: or there's a late change in the lineup or something

933
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:31,480
Speaker 4: going on, and it's like, oh, shoot, I haven't eaten dinner,

934
00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 4: and then my dinner consists of like the popcorn and

935
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:35,799
Speaker 4: the ice cream with some M and m's in it.

936
00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:38,680
Speaker 3: It's like, what kind of dinner is this? But have

937
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:40,160
Speaker 3: done that plenty of time.

938
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 1: Plenty talk to me about this relationship with with uh,

939
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:50,600
Speaker 1: with geff They've they've got go ahead, what's.

940
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:51,160
Speaker 2: The who's Who's?

941
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:51,239
Speaker 4: Like?

942
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 1: I love the whole like it's it's like a bromance

943
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:55,839
Speaker 1: or it's like a little I don't know who's it's

944
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:58,520
Speaker 1: like I think about like mad Damon, Jimmy Kimmel.

945
00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:03,360
Speaker 2: Who's over here right now? Who's the dvo?

946
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:06,920
Speaker 3: He Glenn Gefner is the handsomer of the two. How

947
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:09,800
Speaker 3: about that? So whichever one is Jami or Ben Affleck?

948
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 2: No.

949
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:14,879
Speaker 4: He he reached out to me shortly after I got

950
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 4: the job and I had not met him before, and uh,

951
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:22,439
Speaker 4: and I appreciated that he sent me a long text.

952
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:24,799
Speaker 4: I forget where he got my number from somebody, but

953
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:26,840
Speaker 4: he sent me a text and said, hey, you know,

954
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:29,400
Speaker 4: Glenn Geffner, I'm on the radio side of things.

955
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:31,280
Speaker 3: You know, Uh, welcome aboard.

956
00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:33,680
Speaker 4: A lot of times we get to a to a city,

957
00:45:33,719 --> 00:45:35,839
Speaker 4: and you know, mostly on you know, a Sunday night,

958
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:36,719
Speaker 4: we'll get to a city.

959
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:38,959
Speaker 3: We get to Atlanta at seven thirty eight o'clock whatever

960
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:39,239
Speaker 3: it is.

961
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:41,680
Speaker 4: You know a lot of times we'll go out and

962
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:45,280
Speaker 4: grab a bike to eat and stuff like that, and uh,

963
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:47,320
Speaker 4: and that's kind of how he introduced me. And then

964
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:50,840
Speaker 4: you know, we'd always go down to the field and

965
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:55,040
Speaker 4: chat with Donnie at at the same time and just

966
00:45:55,200 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 4: exchange ideas and exchange broadcasting tips. And so the amount

967
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:04,680
Speaker 4: of the amount of how do you keep your notes, Glenn,

968
00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:08,560
Speaker 4: and what's your scorecard look like? Paul, Like, the amount

969
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:11,400
Speaker 4: of conversations that we've had, I have just been countless

970
00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:16,440
Speaker 4: and and Gef is such a pro and yeah, and

971
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:18,880
Speaker 4: I really like him and we have a we have

972
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:23,799
Speaker 4: a funny, silly, goofy relationship. And last year when when

973
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:26,560
Speaker 4: everything went upside down and we knew that people were

974
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:31,120
Speaker 4: begging for some form of Marlin's content, and by that,

975
00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:34,279
Speaker 4: I mean people just wanted to hear me talk. We

976
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:37,880
Speaker 4: just I said, Gef, what if we did like some

977
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:42,799
Speaker 4: Instagram live thing together and just you and I chit

978
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:45,120
Speaker 4: chat or you know, in a perfect world, we get

979
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 4: a Marlin on and talk to him and like a

980
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:50,480
Speaker 4: long form thing and He's like, yeah, I love it.

981
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:51,120
Speaker 3: I love it.

982
00:46:51,239 --> 00:46:55,160
Speaker 4: And and so that was what probably April ish March

983
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:57,080
Speaker 4: April ish last year that we started that.

984
00:46:57,160 --> 00:47:00,360
Speaker 3: And yeah, I mean it was it was fun for

985
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:01,799
Speaker 3: the time being. It's a lot of work.

986
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:04,480
Speaker 4: So I credit you guys with all the podcasts and

987
00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:07,120
Speaker 4: all the content that you're putting out there, because it's.

988
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:10,360
Speaker 3: You know, it's not just this conversation.

989
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:12,480
Speaker 4: There's a lot of pre and post production that goes

990
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:15,359
Speaker 4: into it, and it's it's a lot of work. And

991
00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:19,319
Speaker 4: we just weren't getting paid enough for that to keep

992
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 4: it going for too long. You know, I had I

993
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 4: had high contract demands. Yeah, I wanted ten million an episode.

994
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 4: I wanted I wanted Chandler bing money on friends, Like,

995
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:35,799
Speaker 4: what the hell, I'm doing a job here. I want

996
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:38,600
Speaker 4: to get compensated now. It was just it was just

997
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:40,239
Speaker 4: a fun thing, and you know, I think we kind

998
00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 4: of shut it down once the season was getting close

999
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:47,200
Speaker 4: to starting. And you know, Glenn, like I said, Glenn's

1000
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:50,000
Speaker 4: a true pro, and I would like to think that

1001
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:51,879
Speaker 4: I'm the same way. So once we kind of knew

1002
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 4: when the season was starting, it was like, okay, we

1003
00:47:53,719 --> 00:47:56,719
Speaker 4: need to focus on prep here and our own prep

1004
00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:58,680
Speaker 4: and getting ready because it's a sixty game season.

1005
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:01,960
Speaker 3: We're not going to get many days off. We just

1006
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:02,760
Speaker 3: got to make sure.

1007
00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:05,319
Speaker 4: That we're loaded for bear with our information, uh for

1008
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:08,240
Speaker 4: our broadcast, which is obviously where our bread is buttered.

1009
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:11,399
Speaker 4: So we said, all right, we need to we need

1010
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:14,120
Speaker 4: to stop this for now and and focus on focus

1011
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:15,760
Speaker 4: on the big thing, the season itself.

1012
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:17,920
Speaker 3: So but I love gifts.

1013
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:21,960
Speaker 2: Hey, let's focus on the season. Talk to me about

1014
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:22,839
Speaker 2: these Marlins.

1015
00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he talks about this.

1016
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:27,200
Speaker 2: Who's who's your who's your guy?

1017
00:48:27,719 --> 00:48:31,120
Speaker 1: Who's somebody under the like, imagine you're on You're not

1018
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:34,239
Speaker 1: on MLB network, but you're on Marlin's Barbecue? Is that

1019
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:38,239
Speaker 1: Marlin that the media needs to know about. Everybody knows

1020
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:41,800
Speaker 1: about before you get started. Everybody knows about Miggy, everybody

1021
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:46,600
Speaker 1: knows about uh six though somebody that that we should

1022
00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:48,880
Speaker 1: be on the lookout regardless.

1023
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:53,640
Speaker 3: Well see, that's that's ridiculous here. This is going to

1024
00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:54,799
Speaker 3: be a compliment to you guys.

1025
00:48:54,920 --> 00:49:00,040
Speaker 4: You guys, and I'm on fish Stripes every day and

1026
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:03,560
Speaker 4: nobody on this in this franchise is under the radar

1027
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:07,400
Speaker 4: thanks to you guys. I mean, you know, like, given

1028
00:49:08,080 --> 00:49:10,200
Speaker 4: you guys are giving love to people. You know, I

1029
00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:12,360
Speaker 4: don't even know that there are in the organization.

1030
00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:15,200
Speaker 3: Oh the heck is this guy and you guys have this.

1031
00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:18,160
Speaker 4: This whole setup with everything about him and you know

1032
00:49:18,239 --> 00:49:20,359
Speaker 4: what his favorite food was when he was twelve. And

1033
00:49:20,640 --> 00:49:22,399
Speaker 4: I mean the content that you guys put out there

1034
00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:25,720
Speaker 4: is fantastic. And I mean that no, I mean, listen,

1035
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:28,719
Speaker 4: I don't want to single any one person out, but

1036
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:34,279
Speaker 4: I will say that there's because there's no one that's

1037
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:36,399
Speaker 4: under the radar, like I just said. But also there's

1038
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:39,799
Speaker 4: just there's so many different avenues that the Marlins could

1039
00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:42,520
Speaker 4: possibly go here. I mean, so like I think more

1040
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:45,279
Speaker 4: in terms of this time of the year, like kind

1041
00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:48,359
Speaker 4: of like position battles, like you know, I mean to

1042
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:50,440
Speaker 4: I don't want to look too far into the future

1043
00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:52,840
Speaker 4: and say in twenty twenty seven, this guy's going to

1044
00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:55,400
Speaker 4: be their all star, you know, And you guys have

1045
00:49:55,440 --> 00:49:58,319
Speaker 4: done a fantastic job kind of looking into the crystal ball.

1046
00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:01,120
Speaker 4: But you know, I look at the those position battles,

1047
00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:04,160
Speaker 4: the second base position, and you know, how's the fifth

1048
00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:07,000
Speaker 4: starter gonna shake out? Like things like that, like it'll

1049
00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:11,400
Speaker 4: be interesting to see, you know. I know Jazz is

1050
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:14,160
Speaker 4: put together some good numbers. I know, Isan Diaz get

1051
00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:16,759
Speaker 4: a nice little write up in Baseball America the other day.

1052
00:50:17,560 --> 00:50:19,560
Speaker 4: So that's gonna be that's gonna be fun to watch

1053
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:21,719
Speaker 4: and just kind of see how these guys continue to

1054
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:25,840
Speaker 4: develop and and how they how they handle these these

1055
00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:27,000
Speaker 4: types of springs.

1056
00:50:27,040 --> 00:50:31,359
Speaker 3: You know, where you might be coming off maybe you're

1057
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:31,960
Speaker 3: coming off.

1058
00:50:31,840 --> 00:50:34,360
Speaker 4: A down year, or maybe you're trying to win a

1059
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:38,480
Speaker 4: job like so there's that there's that internal pressure before,

1060
00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:42,000
Speaker 4: you know, within the organization or with yourself to earn

1061
00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:45,120
Speaker 4: for example, let's just say that second base everyday job.

1062
00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:50,200
Speaker 4: Before the external pressure starts once the season begins, and

1063
00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:52,520
Speaker 4: now it's like, well, now I've got to do something

1064
00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:54,520
Speaker 4: to help my team beat the Nationals and beat the

1065
00:50:54,560 --> 00:50:57,840
Speaker 4: Mets and the Braves and the Phillies and and all kinds.

1066
00:50:57,640 --> 00:51:01,600
Speaker 3: Of stuff like that. So yeah, I mean, like I said,

1067
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:03,000
Speaker 3: you guys dough such a great job.

1068
00:51:03,040 --> 00:51:06,239
Speaker 4: I can't go under the radar too far. I mean, jeez,

1069
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:07,319
Speaker 4: you guys cover it all.

1070
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:08,040
Speaker 2: My god.

1071
00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:09,640
Speaker 3: Go to fish Stripes dot com.

1072
00:51:11,880 --> 00:51:13,239
Speaker 5: I'm going to click that from this.

1073
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:15,520
Speaker 2: Thank you.

1074
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:21,879
Speaker 5: One other well, one big question that I have for

1075
00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:25,279
Speaker 5: this upcoming season is for you whether you'll be able

1076
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:28,200
Speaker 5: to actually be with the team throughout the entire year

1077
00:51:28,239 --> 00:51:31,080
Speaker 5: in twenty twenty one. Obviously, last year, the way it

1078
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:34,560
Speaker 5: shook out really the majority of games last year for

1079
00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:36,600
Speaker 5: the Marlins you had to call from Afar on the

1080
00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:41,160
Speaker 5: monitors because also the way that the schedule changed following

1081
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:44,600
Speaker 5: the COVID outbreak. They played more road games and home games,

1082
00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:47,279
Speaker 5: and they had some of the biggest moments on the road,

1083
00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:51,080
Speaker 5: including I mean, you really stepped up in that key

1084
00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:53,799
Speaker 5: moment at Yankee Stadium when they clinched it there it

1085
00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:57,879
Speaker 5: is there, it is after seventeen years, but doing it

1086
00:51:57,920 --> 00:52:02,200
Speaker 5: from one thousand miles away, have you, well, one, I guess,

1087
00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:05,319
Speaker 5: did you get more comfortable with that setup using the

1088
00:52:05,320 --> 00:52:08,040
Speaker 5: screens as the year went on? And do you have

1089
00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:11,040
Speaker 5: any assurances this year that you'll be able to travel

1090
00:52:11,160 --> 00:52:14,000
Speaker 5: with the team as you normally would, you know, pre pandemic.

1091
00:52:14,640 --> 00:52:17,320
Speaker 4: The way that it worked out last year was exactly

1092
00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:18,719
Speaker 4: how I thought it was going to work out.

1093
00:52:19,120 --> 00:52:21,080
Speaker 3: Was we did You were right.

1094
00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:23,560
Speaker 4: We were at the ballpark every day home games, obviously

1095
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:25,440
Speaker 4: there were human beings in front of us, and that

1096
00:52:25,520 --> 00:52:27,400
Speaker 4: was normal when we'd sit in our normal perch, and

1097
00:52:27,440 --> 00:52:29,399
Speaker 4: then when the Marlins were on the road, we were

1098
00:52:29,400 --> 00:52:31,480
Speaker 4: on the other side of the booth doing it off

1099
00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:33,719
Speaker 4: a monitor, and I thought, well, as soon as I

1100
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:36,080
Speaker 4: get used to calling it off a monitor, the road

1101
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:38,279
Speaker 4: trip's going to end. And then Emantha, get used to

1102
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:40,759
Speaker 4: calling it with real people in front of us. And

1103
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:44,319
Speaker 4: then once I get used to that, and then get

1104
00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:46,680
Speaker 4: used to the monitor thing and the real life thing.

1105
00:52:46,680 --> 00:52:48,320
Speaker 4: Once I get used to them both, the season is

1106
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:51,200
Speaker 4: going to be over. And that's pretty much exactly what happened.

1107
00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:56,440
Speaker 4: So it was different, but I will say it, I

1108
00:52:56,480 --> 00:53:01,440
Speaker 4: think without even really knowing it, just by happenstance, my

1109
00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:04,720
Speaker 4: time at MLB Network kind of prepared me for last season,

1110
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:06,480
Speaker 4: just because, you.

1111
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:08,600
Speaker 3: Know, when we would do MLB Tonight.

1112
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:12,160
Speaker 4: And live games are going on, you know, we have

1113
00:53:12,440 --> 00:53:14,719
Speaker 4: you know, behind the cameras we can see all the

1114
00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:18,440
Speaker 4: all the games and we're watching seven, eight, nine, ten,

1115
00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:21,719
Speaker 4: twelve games at once, and then once we kind of

1116
00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:24,480
Speaker 4: go into a live look, you know, if it's late

1117
00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:26,400
Speaker 4: in the game, I always like to step out of

1118
00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:30,160
Speaker 4: the way and let the broadcasters call it, and you know,

1119
00:53:30,239 --> 00:53:32,480
Speaker 4: they've had a feel for the game and you know

1120
00:53:32,560 --> 00:53:34,120
Speaker 4: who might be up in the bullpen.

1121
00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:34,279
Speaker 3: Stuff like that.

1122
00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:35,759
Speaker 4: So I would always say, all right, let's listen in

1123
00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:37,719
Speaker 4: live on MLB Tonight and get out of the way.

1124
00:53:38,080 --> 00:53:39,480
Speaker 4: But if it's you know, early in the game or

1125
00:53:39,520 --> 00:53:42,239
Speaker 4: middle innings, you know, we would always talk over the

1126
00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:45,480
Speaker 4: live look, and when we would do that, we're kind

1127
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:47,480
Speaker 4: of doing a little bit of radio where it's you know,

1128
00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:51,600
Speaker 4: big picture stuff that may or may not be pictures

1129
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:54,479
Speaker 4: that are on the screen. And then sometimes if things

1130
00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:56,879
Speaker 4: would happen bang, you got to break right into play

1131
00:53:56,880 --> 00:53:59,680
Speaker 4: by play. You know, we're talking about something, but there's

1132
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:03,200
Speaker 4: a Grand Slam happens, and you can't keep talking about

1133
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:06,120
Speaker 4: you know, their bullpen options as a as a Grand

1134
00:54:06,160 --> 00:54:08,319
Speaker 4: slams leaving the ballpark, so you have to break into

1135
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:11,840
Speaker 4: play by play a little bit. And I think that

1136
00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:15,520
Speaker 4: that paired with the fact that again with MLB Tonight,

1137
00:54:15,560 --> 00:54:17,360
Speaker 4: we had no control over any of the cameras or

1138
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:19,800
Speaker 4: any of the pictures, right because we're taking the Fox

1139
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:22,640
Speaker 4: Florida feed or we're taking whatever, you know, sn Y

1140
00:54:22,840 --> 00:54:23,560
Speaker 4: or whatever.

1141
00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:23,880
Speaker 3: Feed it was.

1142
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:27,719
Speaker 4: So you're just at the mercy of whatever those directors

1143
00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:30,360
Speaker 4: and producers decided to put up on the screen. And

1144
00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:32,120
Speaker 4: last year was the same sort of thing. I want

1145
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:36,240
Speaker 4: to say that we had six there were six cameras

1146
00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:38,840
Speaker 4: in the ballpark, six or seven cameras in each ballpark,

1147
00:54:39,360 --> 00:54:43,839
Speaker 4: and we personally Fox Florida had control over one of them.

1148
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:47,000
Speaker 4: So they are our guys in the truck who did

1149
00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:50,280
Speaker 4: a phenomenal job under crazy circumstances last year, were able

1150
00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:54,480
Speaker 4: to kind of override the quote unquote world feed and

1151
00:54:54,960 --> 00:54:56,880
Speaker 4: maybe take a shot if we're talking about Don Mattingley,

1152
00:54:56,920 --> 00:54:58,960
Speaker 4: take a shot of Don Mattingley, so that it makes

1153
00:54:59,040 --> 00:55:02,800
Speaker 4: it somewhat makes somewhat sense that of what we're talking about.

1154
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:06,040
Speaker 4: So that that kind of prepared me, I think for

1155
00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:09,880
Speaker 4: for last year. In terms of this year, I do

1156
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:13,719
Speaker 4: not believe, at least to start, we are not traveling

1157
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:18,400
Speaker 4: with the team, and I've listened by the end of

1158
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:20,600
Speaker 4: the year, of the end of the season, I don't

1159
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:24,040
Speaker 4: know how things will change. But you know, I think

1160
00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:25,319
Speaker 4: and I and I get it.

1161
00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:28,359
Speaker 3: I mean it. Hopefully it doesn't affect it too much.

1162
00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:30,480
Speaker 4: But you know, not being able to chitchat with the

1163
00:55:30,520 --> 00:55:34,480
Speaker 4: players and coaches and manager and you know, talk to

1164
00:55:34,520 --> 00:55:36,799
Speaker 4: them on the bat, on the on the plane or

1165
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:40,120
Speaker 4: you know downstairs in the hotel, bumping to them, grabbing

1166
00:55:40,120 --> 00:55:42,520
Speaker 4: a cup of coffee like you do, miss out on

1167
00:55:42,560 --> 00:55:43,120
Speaker 4: those things.

1168
00:55:44,280 --> 00:55:47,240
Speaker 3: And again, whether it's whether it's something that I would.

1169
00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:50,800
Speaker 4: Talk to Pablo Lopez about getting coffee in the morning,

1170
00:55:50,800 --> 00:55:53,560
Speaker 4: if that's something that was broadcast related, great, If that

1171
00:55:53,719 --> 00:55:58,040
Speaker 4: was just me asking them about anything else that that

1172
00:55:58,120 --> 00:56:00,720
Speaker 4: would never make it on air. It's it's just those

1173
00:56:00,800 --> 00:56:02,879
Speaker 4: connections that we do miss out on. But I I

1174
00:56:03,040 --> 00:56:07,000
Speaker 4: totally understand, I totally respect why why we're not traveling.

1175
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:10,680
Speaker 4: But to start, no, we're not traveling. We'll see how

1176
00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:14,560
Speaker 4: how this the the year goes. But hopefully we we

1177
00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:16,200
Speaker 4: do get a chance to go back out.

1178
00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:23,319
Speaker 3: On the road a little bit. I guess.

1179
00:56:23,360 --> 00:56:27,200
Speaker 5: The other thing that's timely as of this recording is

1180
00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:30,799
Speaker 5: that we're just basically from the official rebrands of the

1181
00:56:30,840 --> 00:56:35,800
Speaker 5: network into Fox, Bally Sports Flirt, Yeah, Baally Sports Flord.

1182
00:56:35,840 --> 00:56:37,160
Speaker 3: I'll have to get used to that.

1183
00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:39,120
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1184
00:56:39,160 --> 00:56:42,680
Speaker 5: So well all of this yeah uh, but just for

1185
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:45,480
Speaker 5: people on the outside, just so they're not confused, that

1186
00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:49,399
Speaker 5: doesn't change your job description whatsoever as far as you.

1187
00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:52,680
Speaker 4: Know, No, everything is the same in terms of that.

1188
00:56:53,440 --> 00:56:56,720
Speaker 4: You know, it's the same channel number and everything else.

1189
00:56:57,800 --> 00:57:01,320
Speaker 4: It's just a it's just a rebrand, it's a new logo,

1190
00:57:01,440 --> 00:57:05,719
Speaker 4: it's new graphics, it's new music, you know. Like I

1191
00:57:06,280 --> 00:57:10,120
Speaker 4: tweeted out the other day, I retweeted it out. I said,

1192
00:57:10,200 --> 00:57:12,719
Speaker 4: new look, same great taste, you know. So it's it's

1193
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:16,160
Speaker 4: a lot of, if not all of the same people

1194
00:57:16,680 --> 00:57:18,360
Speaker 4: behind the scenes and in front of the camera and

1195
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:18,959
Speaker 4: everything else.

1196
00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:23,000
Speaker 3: It's just, uh, it's just a rebrand and and we're

1197
00:57:23,040 --> 00:57:23,720
Speaker 3: excited for it.

1198
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:26,440
Speaker 4: Saw some of saw some of what things are going

1199
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:28,320
Speaker 4: to look like and sound like and feel.

1200
00:57:28,120 --> 00:57:30,280
Speaker 3: Like, and uh, and it's cool.

1201
00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:33,680
Speaker 4: It's cool, and it it it will be you know,

1202
00:57:33,720 --> 00:57:37,120
Speaker 4: obviously regionally, it's gonna have a little bit of a

1203
00:57:37,160 --> 00:57:40,480
Speaker 4: different feel. You know, we'll have Marlin shots in it,

1204
00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:43,280
Speaker 4: and you know in in.

1205
00:57:42,640 --> 00:57:44,960
Speaker 3: Texas they'll have Dallas Mavericks shots in there.

1206
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:47,280
Speaker 4: A little opens, but for the most part, there's kind

1207
00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:50,840
Speaker 4: of a really cool shell and it uh for some

1208
00:57:50,920 --> 00:57:53,360
Speaker 4: of these opens and graphics and animations and stuff like that,

1209
00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:53,880
Speaker 4: and it's.

1210
00:57:53,880 --> 00:57:55,840
Speaker 3: Uh, it's exciting. It looks cool.

1211
00:57:56,040 --> 00:58:00,040
Speaker 4: And saw it a few weeks ago, and yeah, I

1212
00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:01,120
Speaker 4: was ready for opening day.

1213
00:58:01,920 --> 00:58:03,920
Speaker 1: Are you are you do you get like a special

1214
00:58:04,040 --> 00:58:05,480
Speaker 1: ballet sports card or something?

1215
00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:08,720
Speaker 3: Uh again, not that I know of.

1216
00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:12,160
Speaker 4: You should be my agent. I'm not giving you ten percent.

1217
00:58:12,280 --> 00:58:12,960
Speaker 4: That's for damn sure.

1218
00:58:13,080 --> 00:58:15,440
Speaker 3: Hey man, you're asking a lot of these good questions.

1219
00:58:15,600 --> 00:58:18,320
Speaker 2: I'm not greedy man that I'll look good at my resume.

1220
00:58:21,600 --> 00:58:25,560
Speaker 1: Hey, now, I could see the transition being like, first

1221
00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:27,360
Speaker 1: of all, I think all the fans are super happy

1222
00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:29,560
Speaker 1: that the steal's going through and that we're going to

1223
00:58:29,600 --> 00:58:32,480
Speaker 1: finally be able to see our Marlins baseball on TV again.

1224
00:58:32,840 --> 00:58:34,880
Speaker 2: We feel like we got the short end of the stick.

1225
00:58:34,960 --> 00:58:38,080
Speaker 1: We've been limited to like a go pro at times,

1226
00:58:38,360 --> 00:58:42,120
Speaker 1: and like for for baseball fiends as you you, you guys,

1227
00:58:42,160 --> 00:58:44,240
Speaker 1: everybody in this group and everybody listening right we're all

1228
00:58:44,240 --> 00:58:47,120
Speaker 1: big baseball fans. Like we're happy with content that we

1229
00:58:47,240 --> 00:58:49,880
Speaker 1: get to at least see that. Like myself, I think

1230
00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:51,760
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what, we could probably just put

1231
00:58:51,800 --> 00:58:53,960
Speaker 1: on some VR glasses and pretend we're at the Dean

1232
00:58:54,040 --> 00:58:54,800
Speaker 1: right now and that's it.

1233
00:58:54,880 --> 00:58:56,960
Speaker 2: Like enjoy the game. What can I tell you? Just

1234
00:58:57,080 --> 00:58:59,680
Speaker 2: enjoy like that listening Glenn on the radio or Kyle

1235
00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:03,360
Speaker 2: se Off and we take the best of what we can.

1236
00:59:03,680 --> 00:59:05,800
Speaker 1: That being said, it also feels really good to hear

1237
00:59:05,920 --> 00:59:08,760
Speaker 1: other media that the few times that we have been

1238
00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:11,920
Speaker 1: on TV, well we played the Astros and AT and

1239
00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:15,000
Speaker 1: T did a good job with the broadcast and they

1240
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:17,040
Speaker 1: were throwing us flowers. They were talking really good about

1241
00:59:17,080 --> 00:59:18,160
Speaker 1: the Marlins and it felt good.

1242
00:59:18,200 --> 00:59:19,040
Speaker 2: Like it wasn't like.

1243
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:21,400
Speaker 1: Your typical like I don't want to thil dirt, but

1244
00:59:21,440 --> 00:59:22,840
Speaker 1: like the Mets would throw a little bit of dirt

1245
00:59:22,880 --> 00:59:23,320
Speaker 1: at us.

1246
00:59:23,200 --> 00:59:25,680
Speaker 2: And it was like, come on, man. Obviously it's because

1247
00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:26,920
Speaker 2: you're your our rival, but.

1248
00:59:27,320 --> 00:59:28,960
Speaker 3: That's a division thing. But yeah, I mean, it make

1249
00:59:29,040 --> 00:59:29,400
Speaker 3: a good point.

1250
00:59:29,440 --> 00:59:31,240
Speaker 4: I mean, I know you mentioned the Astros, but that's

1251
00:59:31,280 --> 00:59:32,720
Speaker 4: the thing. I mean, look at where the Astros were.

1252
00:59:32,720 --> 00:59:34,960
Speaker 4: The Astros lost like I think it was three hundred

1253
00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:37,640
Speaker 4: games over the course of a three year stretch, and

1254
00:59:37,680 --> 00:59:41,360
Speaker 4: then you know, and then now they're they're always seemingly

1255
00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:44,720
Speaker 4: in the playoffs or fight for a pennant or a World.

1256
00:59:44,480 --> 00:59:45,080
Speaker 3: Series like that.

1257
00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:48,160
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, you in order to experience joy,

1258
00:59:48,200 --> 00:59:48,760
Speaker 4: you need pain.

1259
00:59:48,920 --> 00:59:51,160
Speaker 3: I think that's a d m X line. See I told.

1260
00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:57,360
Speaker 4: You, you know, so it's like, uh that that that's good.

1261
00:59:57,360 --> 01:00:00,160
Speaker 4: And I think like for me, like I'm not as

1262
01:00:00,200 --> 01:00:02,280
Speaker 4: a broadcast, like I'm not in the business of wanting

1263
01:00:02,280 --> 01:00:06,040
Speaker 4: to go to a city or whatever thinking, oh, only

1264
01:00:06,120 --> 01:00:09,120
Speaker 4: Marlins fans are watching, so I can sit here and

1265
01:00:09,240 --> 01:00:10,120
Speaker 4: bury this team.

1266
01:00:10,600 --> 01:00:15,480
Speaker 3: They stink. They're terrible. This guy's awful. I hate their bullpen.

1267
01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:16,919
Speaker 3: Let's go Marlins.

1268
01:00:16,960 --> 01:00:19,200
Speaker 4: Like that to me, like that doesn't really serve the

1269
01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:22,120
Speaker 4: fan too much either. And maybe that just comes from,

1270
01:00:22,320 --> 01:00:25,240
Speaker 4: you know, my time at the at the more national

1271
01:00:25,280 --> 01:00:29,680
Speaker 4: stops of ESPN and MLB Network, where you know there

1272
01:00:29,720 --> 01:00:34,400
Speaker 4: is certainly you know, the pro Marlins feel. I certainly

1273
01:00:34,440 --> 01:00:38,760
Speaker 4: hope to my voice and on our calls and stuff

1274
01:00:38,800 --> 01:00:40,400
Speaker 4: like that. But at the same time, I think that,

1275
01:00:41,040 --> 01:00:43,680
Speaker 4: you know, I knew that if I ever got a

1276
01:00:43,800 --> 01:00:46,760
Speaker 4: job like this, that I wanted to make sure that

1277
01:00:46,840 --> 01:00:49,960
Speaker 4: the person at home and you guys are dialed in.

1278
01:00:50,040 --> 01:00:51,360
Speaker 3: Trust me, I know that.

1279
01:00:51,480 --> 01:00:53,440
Speaker 4: But there's a lot of folks at home that might

1280
01:00:53,560 --> 01:00:57,360
Speaker 4: only pay attention to baseball from seven to ten every night.

1281
01:00:57,440 --> 01:00:59,320
Speaker 4: And they're not on Twitter, and they're not on eight

1282
01:00:59,360 --> 01:01:02,000
Speaker 4: thousand webs and they're not on Fangrafts, and they're not

1283
01:01:02,040 --> 01:01:05,920
Speaker 4: on Baseball Savant, and they're not watching that kind of stuff.

1284
01:01:06,280 --> 01:01:10,720
Speaker 4: So they may not know an awful lot about Pete Alonso,

1285
01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:13,600
Speaker 4: even though we seem to know everything about Pete Alonzo.

1286
01:01:14,040 --> 01:01:18,160
Speaker 4: So what good would it be and listen. There's not

1287
01:01:18,280 --> 01:01:20,360
Speaker 4: much negative to say about the guy. But I'm just saying, like,

1288
01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:24,280
Speaker 4: what from my perspective, what negative or what purpose would

1289
01:01:24,280 --> 01:01:27,200
Speaker 4: it serve for me to be negative about Pete Alonso

1290
01:01:27,320 --> 01:01:30,840
Speaker 4: on a Marlins broadcast, just because I'm broadcasting the Marlins.

1291
01:01:30,360 --> 01:01:31,440
Speaker 3: Fans, you know.

1292
01:01:31,520 --> 01:01:34,040
Speaker 4: So it's like, Hey, the guy's a special player. He's

1293
01:01:34,040 --> 01:01:35,680
Speaker 4: a really fun player to watch. And I say it

1294
01:01:35,680 --> 01:01:40,680
Speaker 4: all the time. I say it about Freddie Freeman. Like, however,

1295
01:01:40,720 --> 01:01:42,840
Speaker 4: I phrase it exactly if I say something to the

1296
01:01:42,880 --> 01:01:46,720
Speaker 4: effect of, respectfully, I cannot stand this guy anymore, you know,

1297
01:01:46,840 --> 01:01:49,440
Speaker 4: like and I mean that, like he's such a great ballplayer,

1298
01:01:49,440 --> 01:01:52,880
Speaker 4: and it's such a good guy and so much fun

1299
01:01:52,920 --> 01:01:56,360
Speaker 4: to watch from a distance. That's what I always say,

1300
01:01:56,360 --> 01:01:58,600
Speaker 4: He's so much fun to watch from a distance, Like

1301
01:01:58,640 --> 01:02:01,880
Speaker 4: you want to see the guy win the MVP or

1302
01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:05,520
Speaker 4: win a batting title or something, just not because he

1303
01:02:06,320 --> 01:02:10,680
Speaker 4: doubles seemingly every first inning against the Marlins. Usually it's

1304
01:02:10,720 --> 01:02:13,200
Speaker 4: like with two outs and it just laces one into

1305
01:02:13,280 --> 01:02:14,760
Speaker 4: the gap, like it's unbelievable.

1306
01:02:14,800 --> 01:02:16,200
Speaker 3: Like I'm just tired of seeing it.

1307
01:02:16,720 --> 01:02:20,200
Speaker 4: So again, I think that we are all baseball fans

1308
01:02:20,240 --> 01:02:24,120
Speaker 4: deep down and some of us are just more Marlins

1309
01:02:24,120 --> 01:02:28,560
Speaker 4: fans now than anything. But you know, for example, like

1310
01:02:29,080 --> 01:02:33,360
Speaker 4: my first year, we were in d C and Max

1311
01:02:33,400 --> 01:02:36,600
Speaker 4: Scherzer was on the doorstep. I think he needed ten

1312
01:02:36,680 --> 01:02:40,800
Speaker 4: strikeouts that night to get to three hundred. And you know,

1313
01:02:41,280 --> 01:02:44,720
Speaker 4: as it was going, I didn't really talk to my

1314
01:02:44,800 --> 01:02:47,880
Speaker 4: producer about it before, but I just, again, just having

1315
01:02:47,960 --> 01:02:50,280
Speaker 4: the experience that I had, I thought, well, three hundred strikeouts,

1316
01:02:50,280 --> 01:02:52,440
Speaker 4: that's a big deal. So that's kind of the storyline

1317
01:02:52,440 --> 01:02:54,440
Speaker 4: of this game. It was late in September, Marlins were

1318
01:02:54,520 --> 01:02:57,160
Speaker 4: kind of out of it, so you know, to sit

1319
01:02:57,200 --> 01:02:59,200
Speaker 4: there and try to pretend like this was Game seven

1320
01:02:59,240 --> 01:03:01,200
Speaker 4: of the World Series is just not it. The storyline

1321
01:03:01,240 --> 01:03:02,600
Speaker 4: of the game was his Max Sure's are going to

1322
01:03:02,640 --> 01:03:06,120
Speaker 4: get three hundred strikeouts this year And with every one

1323
01:03:06,200 --> 01:03:08,560
Speaker 4: you could sense a build in the ballpark and and

1324
01:03:08,600 --> 01:03:11,000
Speaker 4: hopefully on the broadcast as well. And I you know,

1325
01:03:11,040 --> 01:03:13,360
Speaker 4: he's probably got like four or five six strikeouts at

1326
01:03:13,360 --> 01:03:15,200
Speaker 4: the time. And I asked my producer on the talk back,

1327
01:03:15,240 --> 01:03:18,400
Speaker 4: I said, am I, am I is it too much? Like?

1328
01:03:18,440 --> 01:03:20,760
Speaker 4: Am I pumping it up too much? You know, because

1329
01:03:20,760 --> 01:03:22,720
Speaker 4: he's on the other team and he goes no not

1330
01:03:22,800 --> 01:03:25,760
Speaker 4: at all. He goes, this is this is potentially history here,

1331
01:03:25,800 --> 01:03:26,960
Speaker 4: and that's what we're here to do.

1332
01:03:27,000 --> 01:03:29,080
Speaker 3: We're here to document the game. And you know, we're

1333
01:03:29,160 --> 01:03:30,480
Speaker 3: root for the Marlins.

1334
01:03:30,080 --> 01:03:34,080
Speaker 4: But if if there's history to be made, we get

1335
01:03:34,080 --> 01:03:34,880
Speaker 4: excited for it.

1336
01:03:35,040 --> 01:03:38,200
Speaker 3: And you know, and that was that was really cool.

1337
01:03:38,240 --> 01:03:42,040
Speaker 3: The place was packed and the place was going nuts.

1338
01:03:42,040 --> 01:03:45,200
Speaker 4: And unfortunately he struck out Austin Dean for number three hundred,

1339
01:03:45,320 --> 01:03:47,960
Speaker 4: but you know, it was cool to just I think

1340
01:03:47,960 --> 01:03:51,000
Speaker 4: I even I even posted something about it that night.

1341
01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:51,680
Speaker 3: I remember it.

1342
01:03:52,320 --> 01:03:54,120
Speaker 4: I can't remember what my wife says to get at

1343
01:03:54,120 --> 01:03:57,320
Speaker 4: the grocery store, but I remember that I instagram something

1344
01:03:57,320 --> 01:03:59,600
Speaker 4: about appreciate greatness when it's in front of you, and

1345
01:03:59,680 --> 01:04:03,000
Speaker 4: I think that that's kind of the mindset that we have.

1346
01:04:03,120 --> 01:04:05,600
Speaker 4: I mean, we saw Jacob de Gram in four straight

1347
01:04:05,640 --> 01:04:08,800
Speaker 4: starts last year. What am I going to say bad

1348
01:04:08,800 --> 01:04:12,880
Speaker 4: about Jacob de Grom? Seriously nothing. So it's like, just

1349
01:04:12,960 --> 01:04:15,400
Speaker 4: appreciate it and hope that the Marlins can do something.

1350
01:04:15,440 --> 01:04:19,200
Speaker 4: Scrape together a few runs, and you know that his

1351
01:04:19,480 --> 01:04:22,520
Speaker 4: blow ups, his seven run outings are few and far between.

1352
01:04:22,600 --> 01:04:24,800
Speaker 4: You know you're going to be in for a fight

1353
01:04:24,880 --> 01:04:28,960
Speaker 4: against them. So just here's one thousand career notes for

1354
01:04:29,040 --> 01:04:32,000
Speaker 4: one of the best pitchers of our generation. Let's enjoy

1355
01:04:32,040 --> 01:04:34,439
Speaker 4: this next three hours and watch Jacob de Grom work

1356
01:04:34,480 --> 01:04:37,240
Speaker 4: and hope with all our heart that the Marlins are

1357
01:04:37,240 --> 01:04:40,120
Speaker 4: able to squeak something by. And they did for sure

1358
01:04:40,200 --> 01:04:42,919
Speaker 4: in that one makeup game in the sixth inning last

1359
01:04:42,960 --> 01:04:45,760
Speaker 4: year in New York, and that was one of their

1360
01:04:46,040 --> 01:04:47,320
Speaker 4: pivotal wins last year.

1361
01:04:47,360 --> 01:04:49,480
Speaker 3: So you know, that's that's kind of it.

1362
01:04:49,560 --> 01:04:51,480
Speaker 4: You know, Like I said, I'm root for the Marlins

1363
01:04:51,480 --> 01:04:55,720
Speaker 4: every single night, but if there's something great that's on

1364
01:04:55,720 --> 01:04:57,560
Speaker 4: the other side of the field, I want to appreciate

1365
01:04:57,600 --> 01:04:58,520
Speaker 4: and document that too.

1366
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:02,640
Speaker 1: I can tell you what's wrong with uh with Pete A.

1367
01:05:02,680 --> 01:05:05,760
Speaker 1: Lonzo and Jacob An they both met.

1368
01:05:09,080 --> 01:05:13,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, right, But I get exactly and I get that.

1369
01:05:13,440 --> 01:05:15,120
Speaker 3: I get that, and hopefully if.

1370
01:05:15,000 --> 01:05:17,960
Speaker 4: I made a joke like that on the air, I

1371
01:05:17,960 --> 01:05:19,680
Speaker 4: would say it in such a way that people would

1372
01:05:19,760 --> 01:05:22,000
Speaker 4: understand that I still respect the hell out of these

1373
01:05:22,040 --> 01:05:25,320
Speaker 4: guys because and honestly, I've said this. I've probably said

1374
01:05:25,360 --> 01:05:27,080
Speaker 4: it on the air, I've definitely said it off air,

1375
01:05:27,560 --> 01:05:30,400
Speaker 4: like he's got no matter how bad a guy might

1376
01:05:30,400 --> 01:05:33,600
Speaker 4: be going that guy's worst day in the big leagues

1377
01:05:33,680 --> 01:05:36,440
Speaker 4: is way better than mine because I don't have any

1378
01:05:36,480 --> 01:05:39,720
Speaker 4: you know. So it's like, it's uh that that's one

1379
01:05:39,760 --> 01:05:42,680
Speaker 4: of the areas where as a broadcaster you do have

1380
01:05:42,760 --> 01:05:45,160
Speaker 4: to separate your fandom a little bit, you know, like

1381
01:05:45,360 --> 01:05:48,320
Speaker 4: you do there is a line that you can cross

1382
01:05:49,880 --> 01:05:53,880
Speaker 4: where you don't want the fandom to overtake it because

1383
01:05:53,880 --> 01:05:56,480
Speaker 4: at the same time, like you know, if I did

1384
01:05:56,520 --> 01:05:58,520
Speaker 4: say something like that, hopefully, like I said, I would

1385
01:05:58,560 --> 01:06:00,760
Speaker 4: make light of it enough that people know that I'm

1386
01:06:00,840 --> 01:06:04,040
Speaker 4: just joking around. I've probably even said it to a

1387
01:06:04,040 --> 01:06:07,440
Speaker 4: couple of guys around the cage on opposing teams, like, man,

1388
01:06:07,480 --> 01:06:08,880
Speaker 4: you're a lot of fun to watch, but I just

1389
01:06:08,880 --> 01:06:11,960
Speaker 4: can't wait for you to leave town like something like that,

1390
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:15,840
Speaker 4: because because they're they're doing something that I couldn't dream

1391
01:06:15,920 --> 01:06:20,960
Speaker 4: of doing. Like I, uh, I played four years of

1392
01:06:21,040 --> 01:06:23,360
Speaker 4: high school baseball and that's where the dream stopped for me.

1393
01:06:23,560 --> 01:06:26,080
Speaker 4: So it's like these guys, oh, they can't catch up

1394
01:06:26,120 --> 01:06:28,120
Speaker 4: with ninety eight. Yeah, well, Paul, you couldn't catch up

1395
01:06:28,120 --> 01:06:30,160
Speaker 4: with seventy eight, So why don't you just pipe down?

1396
01:06:32,360 --> 01:06:34,479
Speaker 2: Hey? Would you play what positions? You play?

1397
01:06:34,800 --> 01:06:39,160
Speaker 3: First base, First base. Remember you remember Doug men Kavich.

1398
01:06:39,880 --> 01:06:42,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I was my I was like a Doug

1399
01:06:42,480 --> 01:06:43,480
Speaker 4: men Kvitch type.

1400
01:06:43,880 --> 01:06:45,360
Speaker 3: I like to think of myself.

1401
01:06:45,040 --> 01:06:50,440
Speaker 4: As a phenomenal defender, but didn't exactly put together big

1402
01:06:50,480 --> 01:06:53,479
Speaker 4: offensive numbers. I did have one career home run, though,

1403
01:06:54,160 --> 01:06:57,480
Speaker 4: one career home run, and that was, uh, that was

1404
01:06:57,520 --> 01:07:02,800
Speaker 4: special because for the longest time, going back to Little League.

1405
01:07:02,840 --> 01:07:06,320
Speaker 3: Even so, my dad.

1406
01:07:07,240 --> 01:07:10,280
Speaker 4: When he met my mom, he had a mustache and

1407
01:07:10,360 --> 01:07:14,280
Speaker 4: my mom never saw him without a mustache. And he

1408
01:07:14,680 --> 01:07:16,600
Speaker 4: had a heart attack when I was like eighteen months

1409
01:07:16,600 --> 01:07:17,920
Speaker 4: old or something like that. So he went to the

1410
01:07:17,920 --> 01:07:20,320
Speaker 4: hospital and he did not shave when he was there.

1411
01:07:20,360 --> 01:07:22,520
Speaker 4: So he had a beard. So as long as I

1412
01:07:22,720 --> 01:07:26,240
Speaker 4: remembered him for the most part, not in pictures but

1413
01:07:26,320 --> 01:07:28,800
Speaker 4: actually remembering him, he had a beard. And I said,

1414
01:07:29,000 --> 01:07:31,080
Speaker 4: as I got older, I said, Dad, shave your beard.

1415
01:07:31,080 --> 01:07:32,800
Speaker 4: I've never seen you without a beard. And he goes,

1416
01:07:32,880 --> 01:07:34,720
Speaker 4: I'll shave my beard if you hit a home run.

1417
01:07:35,360 --> 01:07:40,000
Speaker 4: Little league goes by, Pony League goes by. Senior year

1418
01:07:40,000 --> 01:07:42,920
Speaker 4: of high school, I finally hit a home run and

1419
01:07:42,960 --> 01:07:46,400
Speaker 4: he shaved his beard, but he said, I'm not getting rid.

1420
01:07:46,320 --> 01:07:47,200
Speaker 3: Of the mustache.

1421
01:07:49,000 --> 01:07:51,400
Speaker 2: So funny. It's a great feeling, huw when you hit

1422
01:07:51,400 --> 01:07:52,080
Speaker 2: that home run.

1423
01:07:52,520 --> 01:07:55,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, especially because I didn't know really what to do.

1424
01:07:55,280 --> 01:07:58,160
Speaker 4: I think I might have missed first base. I definitely

1425
01:07:58,200 --> 01:08:00,280
Speaker 4: made an error at first the next inning, like I

1426
01:08:00,320 --> 01:08:01,680
Speaker 4: just did. I was on cloud nine.

1427
01:08:01,960 --> 01:08:05,040
Speaker 2: But what'd you hit it to left field?

1428
01:08:05,480 --> 01:08:08,520
Speaker 3: Nice left field and between us?

1429
01:08:08,880 --> 01:08:11,120
Speaker 4: The jury still out if it got over the fence

1430
01:08:11,320 --> 01:08:12,960
Speaker 4: or if it rolled under the fence.

1431
01:08:12,960 --> 01:08:13,680
Speaker 3: We're not quite.

1432
01:08:13,480 --> 01:08:14,280
Speaker 2: Shift by the time.

1433
01:08:14,960 --> 01:08:16,880
Speaker 3: By the time the left field we didn't have stat

1434
01:08:16,960 --> 01:08:18,040
Speaker 3: cast back then.

1435
01:08:19,640 --> 01:08:21,519
Speaker 4: But yeah, by the time the left fielder got to it,

1436
01:08:21,560 --> 01:08:23,240
Speaker 4: or the empire ran out there or something, it was

1437
01:08:23,280 --> 01:08:25,920
Speaker 4: on the other side of the fence. But I remember

1438
01:08:25,960 --> 01:08:29,640
Speaker 4: there being some some mumblings and rumblings that perhaps it

1439
01:08:29,680 --> 01:08:32,000
Speaker 4: had rolled under I'm not I'm not sure.

1440
01:08:31,760 --> 01:08:34,000
Speaker 3: But it was whatever it went over, it was. It

1441
01:08:34,040 --> 01:08:35,519
Speaker 3: was an upper deck shot. How about that.

1442
01:08:35,800 --> 01:08:39,719
Speaker 2: I'm mighty here Sararna with the shot to left feel

1443
01:08:39,720 --> 01:08:40,800
Speaker 2: that balls going back?

1444
01:08:41,200 --> 01:08:44,479
Speaker 3: It's gone there, it's under the wall. I don't know,

1445
01:08:44,560 --> 01:08:45,920
Speaker 3: but he was running around the bases.

1446
01:08:49,520 --> 01:08:51,439
Speaker 4: I was like, I was like Mark McGuire on number

1447
01:08:51,520 --> 01:08:53,720
Speaker 4: sixty two, like I feel I had they I got

1448
01:08:53,720 --> 01:08:54,320
Speaker 4: it with like my.

1449
01:08:54,360 --> 01:08:55,519
Speaker 3: Back foot on the way by.

1450
01:08:55,560 --> 01:08:57,040
Speaker 4: But I remember my best friend when I got the

1451
01:08:57,040 --> 01:08:59,720
Speaker 4: home plate, you know, the whole team comes out and

1452
01:09:00,040 --> 01:09:01,400
Speaker 4: slap me high five my friend.

1453
01:09:01,400 --> 01:09:03,559
Speaker 3: He gets in my face and he goes, what the

1454
01:09:03,600 --> 01:09:09,120
Speaker 3: hell was that? I go, I don't know, wasn't exactly

1455
01:09:09,120 --> 01:09:09,800
Speaker 3: a power hitter.

1456
01:09:10,439 --> 01:09:12,479
Speaker 2: Hey, you kind of Hey, you kind of gave me

1457
01:09:12,560 --> 01:09:15,720
Speaker 2: like a like I know, you said, Doug mccavige, you

1458
01:09:15,800 --> 01:09:19,400
Speaker 2: kind of got me like the John Oleru vibes. Yeah.

1459
01:09:19,439 --> 01:09:20,920
Speaker 4: I mean I didn't wear a helmet on the field,

1460
01:09:21,080 --> 01:09:23,360
Speaker 4: but yeah, I could see that too.

1461
01:09:24,040 --> 01:09:26,519
Speaker 3: I could see that. Yeah, But I was.

1462
01:09:26,600 --> 01:09:27,000
Speaker 2: I was.

1463
01:09:27,040 --> 01:09:29,479
Speaker 4: I was a better defender. I was better on defense

1464
01:09:29,520 --> 01:09:30,080
Speaker 4: than offense.

1465
01:09:30,120 --> 01:09:33,960
Speaker 3: How about that. That's that's how we'll put it. And

1466
01:09:34,000 --> 01:09:35,720
Speaker 3: I and I say this too, I liking it.

1467
01:09:35,840 --> 01:09:38,080
Speaker 4: I likened myself to Doug man cavitge because when I

1468
01:09:38,160 --> 01:09:42,200
Speaker 4: was a kid in uh in Connecticut, every Friday when

1469
01:09:42,280 --> 01:09:44,479
Speaker 4: the New Britain rock Cats, the double A affiliate of

1470
01:09:44,520 --> 01:09:46,599
Speaker 4: the Twins, had a game, my dad and I would

1471
01:09:46,640 --> 01:09:49,519
Speaker 4: go and sit by first base and I would watch

1472
01:09:49,640 --> 01:09:53,479
Speaker 4: Doug play every Friday night for the year or two

1473
01:09:53,520 --> 01:09:55,160
Speaker 4: that he was in New Britain. And I and I

1474
01:09:55,240 --> 01:09:57,080
Speaker 4: just loved him. He was so slick around the bag.

1475
01:09:57,120 --> 01:10:00,519
Speaker 4: And when that whole group, when it was Man and

1476
01:10:00,560 --> 01:10:04,880
Speaker 4: Tory Hunter and Jack Jones and all those guys graduated

1477
01:10:04,920 --> 01:10:08,720
Speaker 4: to the major leagues and ended up getting to the

1478
01:10:08,760 --> 01:10:12,040
Speaker 4: Alcs in whatever year that was two oh three something

1479
01:10:12,120 --> 01:10:14,760
Speaker 4: like that, it was awesome because it was like, I

1480
01:10:14,840 --> 01:10:16,639
Speaker 4: watched these guys all the time, so I'm up close

1481
01:10:16,680 --> 01:10:18,360
Speaker 4: and personal, and here they are in the big leagues,

1482
01:10:18,360 --> 01:10:21,599
Speaker 4: and you know, those guys were cornerstones of that Twins

1483
01:10:21,600 --> 01:10:23,000
Speaker 4: team for a few years.

1484
01:10:23,880 --> 01:10:26,559
Speaker 2: All right, Well, we're about to get going over here.

1485
01:10:26,640 --> 01:10:27,599
Speaker 2: We're gonna get ready for.

1486
01:10:27,560 --> 01:10:31,920
Speaker 1: The final segment of Marley's Barbecue. We're gonna introduce you

1487
01:10:32,000 --> 01:10:36,519
Speaker 1: to this or that you ever heard of this or

1488
01:10:36,520 --> 01:10:39,720
Speaker 1: that it's a world famous little segment that we have here.

1489
01:10:39,960 --> 01:10:42,479
Speaker 3: I'm excited to take part in it for the first time.

1490
01:10:43,800 --> 01:10:46,719
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a post to the pretty much rapid fire.

1491
01:10:46,800 --> 01:10:48,920
Speaker 5: But I know you're not a rapid type of person.

1492
01:10:49,040 --> 01:10:51,160
Speaker 3: I will try to be rapid as rapid as I

1493
01:10:51,200 --> 01:10:52,040
Speaker 3: possibly can be.

1494
01:10:52,520 --> 01:10:54,200
Speaker 5: All right, we'll be the judge of that.

1495
01:10:54,560 --> 01:10:57,120
Speaker 3: Yeah right, I know, Alex, go ahead.

1496
01:10:57,040 --> 01:10:59,880
Speaker 2: All right, more swag monte jazz.

1497
01:11:00,680 --> 01:11:13,800
Speaker 3: Oh geez, you're swinging. I'm gonna say, Monte.

1498
01:11:11,240 --> 01:11:14,120
Speaker 2: The spring training jerseys or the batting practice jerseys.

1499
01:11:15,760 --> 01:11:17,400
Speaker 3: You mean like those Miami blue ones.

1500
01:11:17,600 --> 01:11:21,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, the ones that they never wear in the season, right, Yeah,

1501
01:11:21,360 --> 01:11:24,280
Speaker 2: you can't fail. You can't fail hashtag wear blue, never lose,

1502
01:11:24,560 --> 01:11:25,240
Speaker 2: right Yeah.

1503
01:11:25,080 --> 01:11:27,640
Speaker 4: I know that's the thing for you, guys. I do

1504
01:11:27,840 --> 01:11:29,880
Speaker 4: like the blue ones. I do like the blue ones.

1505
01:11:30,520 --> 01:11:31,479
Speaker 3: I'll go with the blue.

1506
01:11:32,080 --> 01:11:33,640
Speaker 2: Yeah it was I was setting you up. There was

1507
01:11:33,680 --> 01:11:36,759
Speaker 2: no fail because they're both like, they're both the blue.

1508
01:11:36,720 --> 01:11:38,599
Speaker 3: The Miami Blue. Yeah exactly.

1509
01:11:39,120 --> 01:11:40,600
Speaker 4: You just want me to say that they should be

1510
01:11:40,600 --> 01:11:42,160
Speaker 4: wearing them more often during the season.

1511
01:11:42,400 --> 01:11:44,559
Speaker 2: Can you get can you like push the buttons? Can

1512
01:11:44,560 --> 01:11:46,639
Speaker 2: you move some zoom calls? Talking?

1513
01:11:47,280 --> 01:11:48,840
Speaker 3: Can you give me way too much credit?

1514
01:11:49,240 --> 01:11:52,400
Speaker 2: Talks some smack around the cages, Hey, what's up? Guys?

1515
01:11:52,439 --> 01:11:54,759
Speaker 2: And y'all should wear those in the season and translates

1516
01:11:54,800 --> 01:11:55,639
Speaker 2: some more w's.

1517
01:11:55,680 --> 01:11:56,960
Speaker 3: You know, I don't even know, honestly.

1518
01:11:57,040 --> 01:11:59,479
Speaker 4: I think I think part of it's up to the

1519
01:11:59,520 --> 01:12:02,559
Speaker 4: starting picture that gets to choose. But I don't know,

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Speaker 4: like if if that blue is even in the rotation

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Speaker 4: for a game jersey, I don't even know how that works.

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Speaker 2: Can you what's up with that now, man, we're gonna

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01:12:10,760 --> 01:12:16,639
Speaker 2: get off subjects. Ask the two questions, Hey, what are

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01:12:16,640 --> 01:12:20,000
Speaker 2: we gonna do? Like, we can't have a throwback this year.

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Speaker 1: If they're not gonna put it the Blues in rotation,

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Speaker 1: they might as well have a throwback, can you?

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I can ask, but I can't make anything happen. That's

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Speaker 4: really all I can do.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. Teal era or current era.

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01:12:33,840 --> 01:12:39,080
Speaker 4: Oh geez, the Teal era had the championships, but the

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Speaker 4: Blue era seems to be brighter for a longer extended

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01:12:44,200 --> 01:12:46,920
Speaker 4: period of time. So I'm gonna go with the current man.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, going uh steaks or ribs at the barbecue.

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Speaker 4: Ooh, that's a good one because I figured out how

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Speaker 4: to nail a hanger steak.

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Speaker 3: Nail it. I'm gonna go with.

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Speaker 4: The steak just because it's uh, it doesn't take six hours.

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Speaker 2: What type of cut is it?

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Speaker 3: Uh, it's the It's just it's a hangar steak.

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Speaker 4: And you what I do is for like a half

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01:13:13,040 --> 01:13:15,840
Speaker 4: hour forty five minutes before a little oil on there

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01:13:16,200 --> 01:13:19,640
Speaker 4: and then one of the one of the rubs that

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Speaker 4: I've got on, just like sprinkle that on, let it

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01:13:21,840 --> 01:13:24,559
Speaker 4: sit let it get to room temperature and then just

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01:13:25,320 --> 01:13:28,360
Speaker 4: sear it, sear it until it gets to like one

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01:13:28,479 --> 01:13:32,640
Speaker 4: twenty five and then take it off and it's glorious.

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01:13:33,400 --> 01:13:35,519
Speaker 2: Well, you what's what's your go to spot? Where are

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Speaker 2: you buying the steaks that you going? Like Sadano's publics?

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Speaker 2: Like you know what I like?

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Speaker 3: I like wild Fork.

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Speaker 4: I do wild Fork down here, the frozen the frozen

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01:13:45,120 --> 01:13:46,000
Speaker 4: meats and stuff.

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Speaker 3: Awesome, awesome.

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Speaker 1: I got I got one in the corner of my

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Speaker 1: house here and there. I'm gonna go check it out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, do it. They got so much stuff.

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Speaker 4: It's not like we'll walk in and walk out of

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01:13:55,360 --> 01:13:58,559
Speaker 4: there and it's like seventy bucks for like six dinners

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01:13:58,560 --> 01:13:59,080
Speaker 4: worth a meat.

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Speaker 1: So, so, what what are you bringing to the barbecue?

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01:14:02,120 --> 01:14:03,800
Speaker 1: Since we're on that subject.

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Speaker 4: I guess I'm bringing the steaks, you know.

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Speaker 1: You know, I can't believe Andy Slatery was talking about

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01:14:11,320 --> 01:14:13,320
Speaker 1: he was gonna bring chicken because he thought he was.

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Speaker 2: I'll bring chicken if it's like a thing. Right now,

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Speaker 2: I say, hey man, we gotta wait on the steaks.

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01:14:18,360 --> 01:14:19,320
Speaker 2: And we wait on the steaks.

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Speaker 3: Well, maybe I asked how many people are there? Because

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Speaker 3: if it's stay. If there's a lot of people, steak

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01:14:24,280 --> 01:14:25,320
Speaker 3: might get a little costly.

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01:14:26,160 --> 01:14:28,439
Speaker 1: Hey man, it's just a cool It's just it's a

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01:14:28,520 --> 01:14:30,960
Speaker 1: cool little No more than nine.

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Speaker 4: People, all right, fine, it's a CDC approved gathering than steaks.

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Speaker 1: You're drinking your choice a beverage. You're going beer, or

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01:14:40,040 --> 01:14:40,759
Speaker 1: you're going liquor.

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Speaker 3: Uh, around the grill.

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01:14:43,520 --> 01:14:46,040
Speaker 4: Sometimes I'll just crack open like a corona around the grill.

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01:14:46,360 --> 01:14:49,600
Speaker 4: I'm a simple man. But I did stumble upon this.

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Speaker 4: It's a little healthy too, actually, which is great. I

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01:14:52,360 --> 01:14:55,519
Speaker 4: had Costco letting in behind the curtain. At Costco, they've

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01:14:55,520 --> 01:14:59,280
Speaker 4: got you know, the Souja juice, that cold pressed vegetable

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01:14:59,360 --> 01:15:02,439
Speaker 4: juice that the Suoja is the brand. But one of

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01:15:02,439 --> 01:15:05,639
Speaker 4: the things is, uh, it's like an immunity booster. It's

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01:15:05,680 --> 01:15:08,160
Speaker 4: like a really healthy orange juice. It's got coconut in

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01:15:08,200 --> 01:15:09,480
Speaker 4: there and mango and pineapple.

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Speaker 3: Put that in there with a little bit of the

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01:15:12,040 --> 01:15:17,920
Speaker 3: rocks tarra Mona tequila. Oh mod on, that is like awesome.

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01:15:18,280 --> 01:15:20,479
Speaker 3: Just mix that up a little bit. That's good. That's

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01:15:20,520 --> 01:15:21,920
Speaker 3: that's that's fresh. I like that.

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01:15:22,840 --> 01:15:25,400
Speaker 1: Hey, it sounded like a whole snippet, like you can

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01:15:25,479 --> 01:15:27,720
Speaker 1: cut that up for a promote a promotion.

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01:15:29,000 --> 01:15:30,800
Speaker 3: If I get a case of the Teamanna at my

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01:15:30,880 --> 01:15:31,800
Speaker 3: house and that's good.

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01:15:34,160 --> 01:15:37,799
Speaker 1: Well, guys, uh, that's it for this episode of Marlon's Barbecue.

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Speaker 1: You want to thank Paul sev Reno for joining us. Paul,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: And my pleasure.

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Speaker 4: Good to talk with you guys, and hopefully we see

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Speaker 4: you around the ballpark soon.

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Speaker 1: For more inciting information content, visit fish Stripes dot com

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Speaker 1: Marlons dot com. I'm Alex Contreras alongside Eli Sussman and

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Speaker 1: pauls Averno signing out everybody, stay safe and go.

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Speaker 2: Fish at that att