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Speaker 1: Hello Marlins fans, and welcome to this edition a Big

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Speaker 1: Fish Small Pod for October first. I am now recording

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Speaker 1: this on September thirtieth, twenty twenty three, about half an

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Speaker 1: hour since your Miami Marlins clinched a postseason birth for

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Speaker 1: the first time since two thousand and three in a

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Speaker 1: full season swing and a miss strike three beds Marlins

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Speaker 1: playoff clinching win and a postseason party in Pittsburgh. This

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Speaker 1: is incredible. Everyone should be up in arms celebrating this.

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Speaker 1: Oh Miami Marlons fans, we have been begging for this,

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Speaker 1: We have wanted this. We have gone through so many

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Speaker 1: bad times, so many downs, barely any ups to now

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Speaker 1: the Marlins are in the postseason, a team of destiny,

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Speaker 1: and truly we could just go back and just recap

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Speaker 1: some of this game, the Marlins clinching it in the

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Speaker 1: seven to three victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Starting off,

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Speaker 1: it was a bullpen game and the Marlins just isn't

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Speaker 1: so many pictures on this whole picture, almost a picture,

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Speaker 1: almost an inning yet J T. Shard, Wall, Steven Oker,

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Speaker 1: George Soriano who had a really decent nice outing there

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Speaker 1: with four strikeouts and two innings, did not give up

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Speaker 1: a walk, only one run. J Puck had two innings

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Speaker 1: himself with three strikeouts. Really great to see David Robertson

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Speaker 1: who has just been phenomenal over the last month after

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Speaker 1: he got dealt to the Marlins. He had a really

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Speaker 1: bad slump starting off, but really after that slump, going

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Speaker 1: into the second month with the Fish has Billy has

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Speaker 1: really been what the Marlins have hoped for from the

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Speaker 1: veteran and Matt Moore again continued to just show that

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Speaker 1: how good he's been this season. Sadly the Marlins can't

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Speaker 1: put him onto the playoff roster, not eligible for the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: but when he has been with the Fish, it has

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Speaker 1: been really good, such a great player for the Fish.

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Speaker 1: Just to really end this season, Andrew Nardi gave up

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Speaker 1: an earned run, was really shaky during that eighth inning

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Speaker 1: for the Marlins, and Skip had to come out and

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Speaker 1: bring Tanner Scott to get four outs, and Tanner Scott

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Speaker 1: got three of them with a strikeout, including that last

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Speaker 1: one to get the Marlins to the postseason. It's just

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Speaker 1: been incredible to see everything go on with the Fish

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Speaker 1: this year. So many up, so many downs. Marlins at

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Speaker 1: one point fourteen games over five one hundred and and

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Speaker 1: everyone thought this team cannot only make it to the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: but potentially win the division. And then a huge slump

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Speaker 1: for the Marlins going back after the trade deadline. You

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Speaker 1: had everything losing to the Orioles and you also had

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Speaker 1: the Phillies during that trade deadline. But really, these new

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Speaker 1: players for the Marlins has just stepped up in every way,

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Speaker 1: has just changed the entire culture of this team. Josh Bell,

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Speaker 1: Jake Berger, even now David Robertson took a little longer

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Speaker 1: compared to those other guys, but again has has proved

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Speaker 1: to be very good over this last month for the Marlins.

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Speaker 1: Against Jake Berger, like I mentioned, Josh Bell, who's hit

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Speaker 1: practically gave the Marlins a whole season birth. Against Pittsburgh

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Speaker 1: has just been really incredible to see and really how

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Speaker 1: the Marlins have done this. They still have a game

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Speaker 1: to go, They still have the final game of Pittsburgh,

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Speaker 1: and then they still have that four out mess against

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Speaker 1: the Mets at City Field on Monday. We'll see how

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Speaker 1: that will be played out, if it even will be

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Speaker 1: played out, but this has just been so incredible to

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Speaker 1: see from the Marlins. Almost I'm I'm doing this podcast

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Speaker 1: and almost have tears in my eyes just from everything

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Speaker 1: that's just been going on. Riot is injured, hasn't played

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Speaker 1: a full game and quite a minute. Sandy, who's gone

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Speaker 1: for the rest of the season, is not gonna pitch

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Speaker 1: in the postseason. Trevor Rodgers not gonna pitch, Yuri who

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Speaker 1: knows what's happening there. All these guys down, and the

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Speaker 1: Marlins have still stepped up. Lozzardo stepped up, Brack stepped

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Speaker 1: up this season. Even you could say Johnny Quaito has

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Speaker 1: given to Marlin some quality innings as of late. That's

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Speaker 1: gonna get up some RUMs. But what you're expecting from

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Speaker 1: Johnny Quitlo this year and what he's been providing has

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Speaker 1: not been as bad as you would think. You would think.

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Speaker 1: Guy out there, go through half an inning and up

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Speaker 1: eight Aaron runs Bud. He's at least a bit better

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Speaker 1: than expected from Johnny Quato, and it just really incredible.

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Speaker 1: The Marlins and what they've been doing this season. Every

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Speaker 1: member of this organization should be proud of what they've done.

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Speaker 1: Home run higher by Kim and Bruce Sherman and getting

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Speaker 1: Skip Schumacher has just been so incredible to finish well

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Speaker 1: above five hundred and do this in its first season

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Speaker 1: as a rookie manager. Run away an L Manager of

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Speaker 1: the Year. I can't really think of anyone that can

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Speaker 1: potentially win a an L Manager of the Year. You cannot.

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Speaker 1: If they go with Snicker, you can go with Dave Roberts,

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Speaker 1: you can go with Arizona. But just the way that

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Speaker 1: I see it personally, with no Bodas at all, I

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Speaker 1: think you have to give it to Skip. Just what

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Speaker 1: he's done with this roster and the injuries that have

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Speaker 1: and you often look at the division they're in to

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Speaker 1: do what he's done with this team and the resources

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Speaker 1: provided with him, and and you look at the cap

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Speaker 1: and the salary that the team has, just everything going on,

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Speaker 1: and to do what he did with this team is

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Speaker 1: just incredible. Skip is that guy and has just been

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Speaker 1: incredible for the Fish. Just home run hires by Bruce

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Speaker 1: and Kim. Please give Kim an extension. What she's done

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Speaker 1: to this to this team is just masterful. It's just incredible.

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Speaker 1: You're looking at trade to online what you gave up

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Speaker 1: for Josh Bell and and looking at the Jake Berger acquisitions,

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Speaker 1: has just been incredible. Please give her an extension, Bruce,

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Speaker 1: if you're listening to this even at all, please it's

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Speaker 1: just incredible. I've been the lost for words. What what's

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Speaker 1: happened to this team over the last year, you should

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Speaker 1: say six months, has just been incredible. And we do

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Speaker 1: have to look ahead to now. The Marlins are either

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Speaker 1: going to face the Brewers or they're either going to

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Speaker 1: face the division rival of the Phillies, both difficult teams

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Speaker 1: that you want to don't want to match up with.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be very difficult. The Marlins do know the

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Speaker 1: Phillies very well in the division. Again, the more Phillies

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Speaker 1: are pretty hot. Bryce Harper, krsh Warber, Alec Baum, Zach Wheeler,

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Speaker 1: Aaron Nola. We know what you're gonna have there. But

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Speaker 1: if you face the Brewers, you're most likely gonna get

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Speaker 1: in those three games. If the Marlins could take one

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Speaker 1: and Freddy prawl to again. When they faced here Miami.

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Speaker 1: Miami faced those three pitchers exactly and took the final

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Speaker 1: two and what was some strange games from Woodroof and

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Speaker 1: Freddy Parole to where. Albeit the first game against kobur Burns,

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Speaker 1: I believe it was sixteen to two, whatnot, It was

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Speaker 1: basically over in the second inning. But if Miami could

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Speaker 1: if that same result will happen, but it is something

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Speaker 1: seed they get in that wild card at the end

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Speaker 1: of the season. But take in this moment, Marlins fans,

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Speaker 1: this has been a long time coming since two thousand

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Speaker 1: and three in a full time season, only the fourth

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Speaker 1: time in franchise history, making the playoffs four times, like

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Speaker 1: one hand. You can count it them making the postseason

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Speaker 1: again twenty twenty with a short season, if you want

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Speaker 1: to do count that again make the playoffs there, but

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Speaker 1: just in a full one hundred and sixty two game season,

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Speaker 1: grind only the third time in Marlin's history that they

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Speaker 1: made it in a one hundred and sixty two game season,

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Speaker 1: And it took everyone. It took everyone to get to

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Speaker 1: this point. It took every player on that roster. It

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Speaker 1: took everyone in that forty man roster. It took guys

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Speaker 1: They still played a role into getting where the Marlins

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Speaker 1: are right now. Everyone should be proud in this entire organization,

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Speaker 1: with this team has done a team which no one

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Speaker 1: thought well even be in this position. When people thought

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Speaker 1: the Marlins are twenty twenty three, they thought, oh, a

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Speaker 1: team's gonna lose seven, that's gonna win seventy games, not

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Speaker 1: make the postseason. They're gonna go ahead and get a

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Speaker 1: top five pick next season just because how bad they

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Speaker 1: were in twenty twenty three. Marlon said, Nope, that's not

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Speaker 1: gonna happen. They changed everyone's perspective. They said, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: do it our own thing. We're gonna do our own

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Speaker 1: thing in twenty twenty three, and that is what they did,

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Speaker 1: and their own thing was making the playoffs. They proved

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Speaker 1: every hater, doubter, or wrong. And that is what this

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three Marlins team is all about, is proving

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Speaker 1: people wrong. This has been big fish, small pond, always

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Speaker 1: go fish