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Speaker 1: on what you really care about. The one win recently

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Speaker 1: It is only the sixth complete game in Major League

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Speaker 1: Cody morrisseaid Hi a beloite, he had a huge week.

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Speaker 1: At the time where the view of him across baseball

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Speaker 1: He ended up missing only two and a half weeks,

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Speaker 1: one hundred games. From May sixteenth onward, he was a

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Speaker 1: below average hitter for all the tools that he had.

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Speaker 1: He hit two thirty six with a six eighty oneps

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Speaker 1: and he had fourteen home runs, but that's nothing special

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Speaker 1: over one hundred and two games. He just was not

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Speaker 1: He's not gonna blame it on the injury. The reality

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Speaker 1: just fingers crossed. We're not gonna get too far ahead

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Speaker 1: of ourselves about what this injury could be. I'm simply

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Speaker 1: this point at that time when he was pushing himself

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Speaker 1: in a situation where he could worsen the injury that

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Speaker 1: was already developing in him back on Saturday night. If

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Speaker 1: he misses time, it's a scary situation. You don't know

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Speaker 1: perhaps more so in Birdie's case than Wendell, but in

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Speaker 1: either one, I mean they could be going on minor

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Speaker 1: It's hard to overstate how impactful Jazz has been to

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Speaker 1: this point the season. He is produced about two wins

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Speaker 1: above replacements. At the one quarter mark of the season,

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Speaker 1: He's on an eight war pace, which would be right

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Speaker 1: there with Gean Carlos Stanton twenty seventeen MVP. It's a

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Speaker 1: short list of Marlin seasons that have been at that level.

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Speaker 1: It's peak Stanton, it's peak Dontrelle Willis, is peak Kevin Brown,

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Speaker 1: and that's pretty much the end of the list as

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Speaker 1: to how valuable he's been because of what he does

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Speaker 1: in all these facets of the game. And it's coming

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Speaker 1: out of time where the other players that can help

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Speaker 1: at his particular position at second base are not available,

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Speaker 1: so you're going to some really unideal options. Frankly in

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Speaker 1: both Aer Gonzales and Joe Dunanz, even if it's for

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Speaker 1: one game, two games, all these games are so precious

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Speaker 1: when if you're this Marlins team, aside from Sunday, you've

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Speaker 1: been losing so many of these one run games. They've

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Speaker 1: dug themselves a hole. I mentioned before how they are

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Speaker 1: right there for contending for second place in the National

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Speaker 1: League East, but that doesn't mean shit. That doesn't mean anything.

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Speaker 1: They don't there's no automatic berth for second place in

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Speaker 1: the division. It is not relevant at all. And you

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Speaker 1: that one team in the division that they didn't have

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Speaker 1: last year that is running away from the rest of

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Speaker 1: the pack. Mets are up by I can't believe this

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Speaker 1: are they up by eight and a half games over

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Speaker 1: the Marlins. The season just started, and it's an eight

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Speaker 1: and a half game deficit that I think even the

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Speaker 1: most optimistic Marlins fan would agree is not going to

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Speaker 1: be able to overcome. So that is no longer a route.

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Speaker 1: This is a team that is playing for the wild card.

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Speaker 1: I don't think we've said that phrase at all much

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Speaker 1: on the podcast this season. It's not too early to

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Speaker 1: make it clear that this team their mission the rest

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Speaker 1: of the year is to sneak in as one of

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Speaker 1: three National League wildcard teams. There are not any excuses

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Speaker 1: for this Marlins team to be playing sub five hundred

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Speaker 1: for this point forward. They are pretty close to full strength,

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Speaker 1: intriguing players knocking on the door at tripa A Jacksonville

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Speaker 1: that are going to ultimately be needed to get this

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Speaker 1: team exactly where it's trying to go at the end

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Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty two season. So I've been eli Susman.

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Speaker 1: This has been the official show on the Fish Tripes

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Speaker 1: podcast channel. As always, go Fish