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Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for tuning in.

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Speaker 2: This is Eli Sussman, managing editor at Fish Stripes, the

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Speaker 2: community for Miami Marlins fans. You've been following along fish

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Speaker 2: Stripes recently, you know, we've launched two new podcast shows,

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Speaker 2: Earning Their Stripes, which focuses on the entire minor league

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Speaker 2: system of the Marlins, international free agency, that draft, anything

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Speaker 2: about the long term future of the organization, and a

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Speaker 2: ball with Eric Oas that's specifically on the low, a

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Speaker 2: Clinton lumber King's affiliate and all the developing talent down there.

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Speaker 2: This is our longest running show, Fish Bites, episode fourteen

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Speaker 2: right here, and we're going to keep the focus on

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Speaker 2: the major league team and all the big picture issues

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Speaker 2: affecting the organization on this episode. In particular, we're checking

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Speaker 2: in on Wednesday night, April tenth, entering the game at

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Speaker 2: three and eight. The Marlins are last place in the

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Speaker 2: NL East, but they've had some interesting overachievers so far

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Speaker 2: some disappointments on the team as well, so we're going

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Speaker 2: to go through that also looking at some of the

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Speaker 2: big picture things with organization entering this year and where

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Speaker 2: they stand moving forward. One thing in particular that I

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Speaker 2: want to weigh in on is the new ballpark and

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Speaker 2: well not the new stadium, but the enhanced ballpark entering

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Speaker 2: the twenty nineteenth season, what we saw during the first

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Speaker 2: homestand and tell me do all that.

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Speaker 1: I'm bringing in Alex Contreras.

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Speaker 2: He's really been just a terrific asset to us so

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Speaker 2: far this season, and he spent more time at the

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Speaker 2: ballpark entering this first home stand than anybody else, So

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Speaker 2: I think he's a good authority on what is going

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Speaker 2: on right now with the team. And first off, we're

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Speaker 2: just going to pay attention to what's happening on the field, Alex.

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Speaker 2: On the field, who are the players so far that

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Speaker 2: you would consider the most pleasant surprises for the Marlins?

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Speaker 3: Hands down, Curtis Granderson, the veteran has stepped in. He's

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Speaker 3: playing the game the right way. He's always reminded guys,

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Speaker 3: you know, to just have fun. This guy's stepped in.

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Speaker 3: Hit a key home run in the bottom of the

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Speaker 3: ninth or the top of the ninth, I'm sorry, and

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Speaker 3: you know, hopefully he rubs off the right way. On

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Speaker 3: Lewis Brinson, that's the idea, not only on him and

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Speaker 3: the younger guys looking forward, who else am I impressed

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Speaker 3: with Sandy Alcantra and Trevor Richards by far uh ol

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Speaker 3: Contra had a couple of walks his last time out,

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Speaker 3: but hey, look at his first start. He went eight

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Speaker 3: deep on a beautiful Sunday in Miami. So that contributed

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Speaker 3: to a shutout. Looking at this Marlins team, yeah, we're

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Speaker 3: three and eight, but it couldn't. It's not so bad.

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Speaker 3: We can easily have five wins. We had a couple

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Speaker 3: of bad luck innings, unfortunately, but hey, that's baseball. We're

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Speaker 3: going to go through growing pains with this baseball team.

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Speaker 3: But they're the fighting fish. We're going to learn to

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Speaker 3: love him. We're gonna remember that, Hey Brinson, you had

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Speaker 3: an error, but you're gonna forget about that when he

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Speaker 3: hits a home run. He hits a game win, game

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Speaker 3: winning hit, you know what I mean. Everybody, it's baseball.

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Speaker 3: You always have a clean slate the next day, Trevor Richards,

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Speaker 3: that change up, Jesus, everybody in baseball is finding out

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Speaker 3: about that change up. The whole words out forwards, disappointments, Uh,

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Speaker 3: hands down, you know the obvious. The rhetorical question is

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Speaker 3: way yan chen. Unfortunately, the veteran's he's in a tough situation.

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Speaker 3: He's trying to get it together. He's he's doing his best.

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Speaker 3: We can only hope that he can figure it out

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Speaker 3: in the pen. Another guy's kind of disappointing, Peter O'Brien.

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Speaker 3: You know, it was kind of sad seeing that he

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Speaker 3: didn't make the team off the rip. I know nobody

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Speaker 3: was more hurt than him. I know that he was

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Speaker 3: expecting to make the team and a lot of people

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Speaker 3: were because he was being campaigned heavily all over Miami,

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Speaker 3: and uh, it was a little bit of a shock

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Speaker 3: to see him he sent down to Triple A. But hey,

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Speaker 3: it's a long season and we saw him up in

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Speaker 3: less than a week and he's only connected on one

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Speaker 3: home run. Everything else, it looks like he's just chopping

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Speaker 3: that trees. Man. It's it's it's a little bit hard

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Speaker 3: to see, you know. You wish that these guys, you know,

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Speaker 3: they're trying really hard to keep it together. Unfortunately they

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Speaker 3: haven't had the luck. Brian Anderson has an the best

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Speaker 3: lucky either. He's been hitting the ball very hard. I

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Speaker 3: know we expect a very big year out of him,

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Speaker 3: but hey, it's baseball. You know, some of those balls

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I mean, going back to what you said

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Speaker 2: the worst relief outings in Marlin's history, and you know

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Speaker 1: Keep the ball in the yard.

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Speaker 2: You have four home runs, but what happens is one

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Speaker 2: reason why I was kind of pessimistic about the team

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Speaker 2: this year is I did not like the bullpen at all.

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Speaker 2: Like they They traded Nick Wickrean over the offseason, they

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Speaker 2: traded Kyle berklab for the offseason, They trade Brad Ziegeler

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Speaker 2: down the stretch last season. They just did not have

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Speaker 2: and they were putting a lot of unproven guys into

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Speaker 1: Not Chen.

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Speaker 2: Chen is the one they're hiding for these mop up roles.

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Speaker 2: But what I've been impressed by early on were some

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Speaker 2: they've gotten such good work out of Nick Anderson, who

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Speaker 2: they got really quietly in a trade from the Twins.

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Speaker 2: He's he I mean, to me, I think he's the

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Speaker 2: he has a highest strikeout rate of anybody on the team.

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Speaker 2: Just an excellent combo of a mid nineties fast of

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Speaker 2: mid nineties fastball and then this like low eighties slider.

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Speaker 2: It's a really big differential that you can't prepare for

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Speaker 2: So he's the one that's really surprised me in a

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Speaker 2: good way. But so as Tyrone Guerrero, because if you

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Speaker 2: he has a special arm, no doubt, But if you

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Speaker 2: look at the bottom line results that he had last season,

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Speaker 2: they were not good. He was a low average reliever,

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Speaker 2: he just was not an effective reliever as a rookie

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Speaker 2: far this year. He enters once they having not allowed

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Speaker 1: He's using it.

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Speaker 2: And I think that's one thing like you pay attention

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Speaker 2: they've given him the confidence to use both of his pitchers,

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Speaker 2: both the fastball and the slider, and even as a

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, another guy that really that I that I like,

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Speaker 3: we've seen very little of is Tyler Kinley. What do

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Speaker 3: too early to judge, but this guy's getting the opportunity.

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Speaker 3: That's what it's about. In the Miami bullpen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they were lucky with him because he was

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Speaker 2: He made his debut late last year. And he's another

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Speaker 2: that we've actually seen from this team a little bit

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Speaker 2: But I think more so they just want ones who

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Speaker 2: he's someone that's in his late twenties, right, He's you

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Speaker 1: Really valuable player. So that's encouraging.

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Speaker 2: But I need to put to the other side for

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Speaker 2: some of my disappointments, and I guess I'll be more

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Speaker 2: specific that there's like little things I see from certain

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Speaker 1: And that's with.

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Speaker 2: Really the plate discipline from a lot of the guys

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Speaker 2: last and drawing walks in the National League, and you

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Speaker 2: or fourth different team, you're gonna go into seeing pictures

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Speaker 2: that don't have great control. And if you're getting ahead

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Speaker 2: drawing a single walk when you Because as you were

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Speaker 2: saying with Brian Anderson, that's kind of true, and it's

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Speaker 2: true for several of these guys because they have hit

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, Man Martine Prado thirty five years old and he

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Speaker 3: That's that's a perfect example. These guys are doing it

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Speaker 3: They're building this. They're building the building right. It's not

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Speaker 2: a free giveaway if you get home plate box seats,

432
00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:19,840
Speaker 2: or making a big event out of it, because at

433
00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:23,000
Speaker 2: a time where there aren't that many big events on

434
00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:25,360
Speaker 2: the schedule this year, that certainly seems to be one

435
00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:28,399
Speaker 2: of them. You're going to be at that game, and

436
00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:30,639
Speaker 2: I'm curious, what do you think about what the reception

437
00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:34,000
Speaker 2: will be to JT from the fans the first time

438
00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:37,680
Speaker 2: when he's introduced on the scoreboard prior to the game,

439
00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:40,040
Speaker 2: the first time he comes up to bat, and depending

440
00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:42,200
Speaker 2: what he does at the plate, how do you think

441
00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:45,840
Speaker 2: the fans will react? Knowing that he was really one

442
00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:48,040
Speaker 2: of the most productive players that this team has had

443
00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:50,440
Speaker 2: over the last handful of years. He was an All

444
00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:52,720
Speaker 2: Star this past year for the first time and what

445
00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:55,200
Speaker 2: a lot of us think should have been multiple times

446
00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:57,600
Speaker 2: as an All Star, but he was a really productive player.

447
00:20:57,840 --> 00:20:59,320
Speaker 2: At the end of it, he made it clear, at

448
00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:02,040
Speaker 2: least through his agent, that he was time for a

449
00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:05,239
Speaker 2: different chapter in his life and to move on. How

450
00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:06,600
Speaker 2: do you think he's going to be received by the

451
00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:09,720
Speaker 2: fans and just you personally, like, how do you feel

452
00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:12,679
Speaker 2: about seeing him on a division rival this year and

453
00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:13,880
Speaker 2: potentially for years to come?

454
00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:20,320
Speaker 3: J t Ral Who Yeah, oh man? J t Ral

455
00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:22,840
Speaker 3: mutto man in the Philadelphia Phillies. I'm not gonna lie

456
00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,040
Speaker 3: to you. I saw the game between Philadelphia and the

457
00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:27,720
Speaker 3: Nationals the other night and it just felt weird seeing

458
00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:33,160
Speaker 3: him catching the Phillies And uh, how can how can

459
00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:35,119
Speaker 3: we expect well, Marlin's fans. I think they'll be a

460
00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:37,480
Speaker 3: little bit of everything, right, You'll you'll have your Marlins

461
00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:39,720
Speaker 3: fans there that will, you know, give him a round

462
00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:42,159
Speaker 3: of applause, and then you'll have your hurt Marlins fans

463
00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:44,320
Speaker 3: that will be yelling at him that he's a big

464
00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:48,640
Speaker 3: cry baby. Yeah. I think there's gonna be a little

465
00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:50,040
Speaker 3: bit of everything. I think there's gonna be a lot

466
00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:52,639
Speaker 3: of Philly fans there Obviously, everybody's will want to go

467
00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:55,800
Speaker 3: and see Bryce Harper and the Philadelphia Phillies there. One

468
00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:58,240
Speaker 3: of the contenders in the National League and definitely in

469
00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:01,119
Speaker 3: all the Major League baseball. Uh. As far as what

470
00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:03,159
Speaker 3: he does, I hope he goes up there and he

471
00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:04,560
Speaker 3: strikes out every single time.

472
00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:08,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, that doesn't seem that likely. I think he's I

473
00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:11,840
Speaker 2: think he's a little too good for that. But at

474
00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:14,320
Speaker 2: least let's see that on Friday night, it's gonna be

475
00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:17,320
Speaker 2: Sandy that he's facing, and Sandy Ya when Sandy is on,

476
00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:19,440
Speaker 2: you know, he could dominate. We saw that in his

477
00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:22,520
Speaker 2: first start of the year, So maybe maybe everything's clicking

478
00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:24,600
Speaker 2: and he gets that kind of result.

479
00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:27,159
Speaker 3: Hey, who knows what happens. Man, these guys might be

480
00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:30,080
Speaker 3: pumped pumped up to see j T. You know now

481
00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:32,239
Speaker 3: they have all far behind the plate, and that that

482
00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:34,760
Speaker 3: whole Spanish connection takes it to another level. I know,

483
00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:37,480
Speaker 3: don't be surprised if Tyrone hits over one O four,

484
00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:41,200
Speaker 3: one O five. Uh, Doctor K gets lined up for Saturday,

485
00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:43,719
Speaker 3: he's gonna he's gonna strike out Bryce. I know he's

486
00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:46,719
Speaker 3: gonna strike out j T a few more times, and

487
00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:51,040
Speaker 3: then on Sunday, it rounds up with the RAINA. Uh yeah,

488
00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:53,040
Speaker 3: I think J t O. They'll have a cool series.

489
00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:55,520
Speaker 3: They might be able to name, they might be able

490
00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:57,200
Speaker 3: to know. They're definitely gonna take two out of three

491
00:22:57,200 --> 00:22:59,480
Speaker 3: from the Marlins. We gotta look to avoid the sweep.

492
00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:02,000
Speaker 3: I know that Sandy's going to go and pitch a

493
00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:05,320
Speaker 3: very good game, and so is Doctor Ka. But just

494
00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:07,720
Speaker 3: knowing how it's going this season, we're going to commit

495
00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:11,520
Speaker 3: some bonehead move similar to something that that that these

496
00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:14,640
Speaker 3: guys don't try to do. But somehow, some way, it's

497
00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:16,600
Speaker 3: gonna happen because we've got to learn from these growing

498
00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:19,639
Speaker 3: pains and these are like errors that happen to our

499
00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:22,879
Speaker 3: players that those are errors that should only happen once

500
00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:26,800
Speaker 3: you learn from them and you rebound. Hopefully that they

501
00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:30,240
Speaker 3: can they can take that and they can rebound moving forward.

502
00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:32,840
Speaker 3: I can't wait till these guys start clicking. I mean,

503
00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:35,800
Speaker 3: looking at this schedule, the schedule is intense. The first

504
00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:38,480
Speaker 3: the first month of the season, we faced the Mets

505
00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:41,639
Speaker 3: the Braves Cincinnati. Cincinnati would have been a good time

506
00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:43,879
Speaker 3: to go in there and take a sweep. If we

507
00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:45,600
Speaker 3: had a chance at a sweep, just looking at the

508
00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:49,000
Speaker 3: month overall. After this, we got the Phillies. After that

509
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:52,480
Speaker 3: we got the Cubs. Then that's the Indians, the Phillies again,

510
00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:55,359
Speaker 3: and the Indians again. So it's it's not going to

511
00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:58,080
Speaker 3: get any easier. Got to get it together. Hopefully they

512
00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:00,680
Speaker 3: start clicking. Hopefully we see some better at bad Peter

513
00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:03,760
Speaker 3: O'Brien Lewis Brinton can finally figure it out at the plate.

514
00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:05,800
Speaker 3: He's been hitting the ball very well. Stat Cast says

515
00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:07,840
Speaker 3: that he's been hitting the balls on point. He's been

516
00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:10,840
Speaker 3: getting on top of him, but the balls haven't dropped. Hopefully,

517
00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:12,800
Speaker 3: you know, Brian Anderson can be that guy that we

518
00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:14,800
Speaker 3: need him to be. He can be that right handed

519
00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:17,120
Speaker 3: Nick Johnson. You know what I'm saying, preach, go up there,

520
00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:19,440
Speaker 3: look for something good, to hit it and not take

521
00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:22,320
Speaker 3: your walk. Man, don't worry about it. JT Riddle Man,

522
00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:24,320
Speaker 3: I was at the at the grocery store and some

523
00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:25,840
Speaker 3: guy came up to me. He's like, listen to bro

524
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,560
Speaker 3: jt Riddle is the truth. He's the best guy in

525
00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:31,240
Speaker 3: the Marlins. And I just threw me out. I was like, WHOA,

526
00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:33,880
Speaker 3: I didn't expect that, right. You don't hear that every day.

527
00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:36,560
Speaker 3: But you hope for the best out of JT. Riddle.

528
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:39,720
Speaker 3: He's finally getting the opportunity, you know, the platoon rolling

529
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:44,119
Speaker 3: him with Niggy niggi row And that doesn't mean anything, man,

530
00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:47,280
Speaker 3: it's baseball. They put him against a left handed, left

531
00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:49,240
Speaker 3: handed pitcher and he went yard against him. And this

532
00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:52,240
Speaker 3: guy just needs an opportunity to play. So these guys

533
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,440
Speaker 3: are gonna get opportunities to play. But they got to

534
00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:56,040
Speaker 3: play the game the right way. They got to know

535
00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:58,080
Speaker 3: how to seize the opportunity. They got to get hits

536
00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:00,920
Speaker 3: with runners in the corn and scoring because they got

537
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:02,479
Speaker 3: to go up there thinking it's three to two, I'm

538
00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:04,800
Speaker 3: thinking basic ball four. I'm not just swinging at everything.

539
00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:08,719
Speaker 3: I'm not hacking on everything. You know what else can

540
00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:09,400
Speaker 3: I tell you? Man?

541
00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:12,720
Speaker 2: Well, I want to switch gears because I think we've

542
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:15,800
Speaker 2: squeezed everything we can out of the Firth eleven Games

543
00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:17,679
Speaker 2: of the Year. Because as much as we want to

544
00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:21,040
Speaker 2: like form opinions, it is like such a tiny sample.

545
00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:23,520
Speaker 2: This stuff changes all the time, and just because it

546
00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:26,520
Speaker 2: was the first eleven games doesn't mean it's It really

547
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,440
Speaker 2: just determines anything about who these players are and what

548
00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:31,920
Speaker 2: they're gonna do what I wanted to switch gears too.

549
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:34,560
Speaker 2: Is I want to address the question that I constantly

550
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:38,960
Speaker 2: get on Fish Tribe's official accounts about the new ball

551
00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,640
Speaker 2: It's not it is. It's the same ballpark, but it's

552
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:44,520
Speaker 2: not the same. It's an enhanced Marlins Park this year.

553
00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:47,920
Speaker 2: The figures just came out today actually from a Wells

554
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:51,359
Speaker 2: Douson Barrier the Sun Sentinel, that the Marlins spent about

555
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:54,639
Speaker 2: fifteen million dollars over the off season on these enhancements.

556
00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:58,199
Speaker 2: Everybody has seen the pictures. They know, most notably that

557
00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:00,800
Speaker 2: the home run sculpture is gone. They know that the

558
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:03,760
Speaker 2: colors have changed, and then there are just a host

559
00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:07,399
Speaker 2: of other differences to the ballpark. I am based in

560
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 2: New York. I have not been to the ballpark yet.

561
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:11,520
Speaker 2: I hope to be there this season. But there are

562
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:13,600
Speaker 2: a lot of fans that don't live directly in South

563
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:15,960
Speaker 2: Florida that want to go to games this year. There's

564
00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:20,600
Speaker 2: some that are in South Florida and they're procrastinating. They

565
00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 2: haven't gone to the ballpark yet, but maybe they might

566
00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:25,240
Speaker 2: be interested in this coming home stand or later in

567
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:27,560
Speaker 2: the year, and they want to know what the new

568
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,960
Speaker 2: Marlins Park is like, and you're a great guy to

569
00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:34,720
Speaker 2: tell them, because you saw it as early as anybody did.

570
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:38,360
Speaker 2: You were on a media tour right before opening day,

571
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:41,040
Speaker 2: you were covering Opening Day, and you've been at several

572
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:42,840
Speaker 2: games since Opening Day, and you're gonna go to a

573
00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:46,440
Speaker 2: lot of games this coming weekends and throughout the year.

574
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:50,040
Speaker 2: So I wanted to start with what the difference in

575
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:52,560
Speaker 2: the appearance of the ballpark is When you step in

576
00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:56,920
Speaker 2: Marlins Park and you look around, just the aesthetics and

577
00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:00,560
Speaker 2: the visuals, What is the difference from a year ago

578
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:04,119
Speaker 2: in twenty eighteen. What's a new park look like to

579
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:04,560
Speaker 2: the eye?

580
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:07,919
Speaker 3: Besides the Yankee blue walls. Man, it feels like a

581
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:12,000
Speaker 3: baseball stadium. Jesus is so gorgeous. You walk in there, man,

582
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:15,720
Speaker 3: and it's just like you have little kiosk with Marlin's

583
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 3: gear rocking the Miami Blue and the Calli Into red

584
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,480
Speaker 3: and the slate, and they got like sophisticated jackets like

585
00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:25,639
Speaker 3: stuff that you're like, whoa dude, They got Express printed shirts.

586
00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:28,719
Speaker 3: This is crazy, Like, y'all, I never thought that Express

587
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,199
Speaker 3: wouldn even collaborate with the Marlins. I don't know if

588
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,320
Speaker 3: Jeter has anything to do with that, but the marketing

589
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:36,840
Speaker 3: team they're killing it. Like when I see them on

590
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:39,359
Speaker 3: social media, like the pictures and everything. It makes me

591
00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:40,880
Speaker 3: want to go to the ballpark and I'm thinking, why

592
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 3: are people not here? Man? The cheapest ticket to Marlin's

593
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 3: Park is ten dollars. You go into the social the

594
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:50,159
Speaker 3: socials basically in right field, that's where a section one was,

595
00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:52,840
Speaker 3: and you just stand up over there. You can eat

596
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,960
Speaker 3: you a hot dog, have a beer, enjoy chit chat

597
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,600
Speaker 3: with the people. You can make your way towards center field.

598
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:01,040
Speaker 3: You can make it to where the donation alley is

599
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:05,480
Speaker 3: now that replaced the sculpture Homer. So you know, I

600
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:06,959
Speaker 3: know a lot of people are happy to see that

601
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 3: gun because it was just weird. It wasn't. It wasn't.

602
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:13,480
Speaker 3: It took us five years to really accept the orange right,

603
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:15,640
Speaker 3: And I think it took all the South Florida five

604
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:20,720
Speaker 3: years to really accept this junk jumping around when we

605
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:22,680
Speaker 3: hit a home run right, and I think we really

606
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:25,640
Speaker 3: embraced it because John Carlo was chasing sixty home runs right.

607
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:28,639
Speaker 3: But besides that, it wasn't it didn't feel like baseball.

608
00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:30,680
Speaker 3: I remember walking into Marlin's Park and it was like, wow,

609
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:32,879
Speaker 3: it just hurt your eyes watching the lion green on

610
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 3: the walls. Man, it was like green on the fields,

611
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:36,679
Speaker 3: green on the walls, and it was just like you

612
00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:39,400
Speaker 3: were just looking at too many colors. You had to

613
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 3: red the State farm red. It was just like wow,

614
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 3: it was too much. And you just look at it now.

615
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 3: It's just gorgeous. Man. Like you see the ivy walls

616
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 3: and it's just you thought ivy before and you thought wriggly.

617
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 3: Feel it's like wriggly what? No way, Marlin's Park, this

618
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 3: is it? Like I love how they made the whole

619
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:59,520
Speaker 3: connection with the stairs. You can literally go from AutoNation

620
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:03,000
Speaker 3: Alley down to the Cleveland. There, you can interact, you

621
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 3: can go grab a drink, you can go to the pool.

622
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,080
Speaker 3: You can see the guys in the bullpen. They move

623
00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:10,360
Speaker 3: the Marlins again to that to that side, so the

624
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:12,680
Speaker 3: Marlins are in that bullpen area next to the Cleveland

625
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 3: there and you can actually see these guys and it's

626
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 3: great because before you know what, you're having a beer

627
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:22,480
Speaker 3: and here comes a home run ball. So there's not

628
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:25,720
Speaker 3: a better view in baseball now than those upgrades in

629
00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 3: Marlins Park. Everywhere you're at in that Stadium. You've got

630
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 3: a great view. Tickets. Again, they're super cheap, from ranging

631
00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:35,040
Speaker 3: from ten bucks to one hundred bucks is like the

632
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 3: most expensive, and if you want to spend one hundred

633
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:41,480
Speaker 3: bucks and you want to stay behind in the Decks club,

634
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 3: it's definitely worth it. The food something different every day.

635
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 3: We spoke to the chef chef Michael. Oh my goodness,

636
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:53,960
Speaker 3: he's promising us like a one food something different every

637
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 3: single day. That's that's not common. You know what I'm saying.

638
00:29:57,320 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 3: You're coming to my You're coming to Marlins Park, You're

639
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 3: coming to Miami. We're gonna give you the Miami experience.

640
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 3: We're going to give you a real legit Cuban sandwich,

641
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 3: We're going to give you a truffle fries, all this

642
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:12,240
Speaker 3: crazy stuff. And they even got vegan stuff too. The

643
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 3: one of my favorite places there is a medicalito right

644
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:18,720
Speaker 3: It's just like little Kiosk store that replaced the Hue

645
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:22,280
Speaker 3: Health Gym. And literally you just walked in there and

646
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 3: I was in a rush. That was one of my

647
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:26,360
Speaker 3: days off. I went and grabbed a couple of snacks

648
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:29,760
Speaker 3: ten minutes before first Pitch, grabbed the beer, grab the

649
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:35,000
Speaker 3: juice boom perfect. It was no lines and it was

650
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:38,840
Speaker 3: very convenient. All they really needed was to use Apple watches,

651
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:41,360
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, to use your wallet. You

652
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 3: didn't have to pay any money or anything. But besides that, man,

653
00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:47,479
Speaker 3: everything's very convenient. You got food for everybody. They got

654
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,800
Speaker 3: vegan stuff, they got savice, they got no Viscento's, they

655
00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 3: got like sophisticated stuff. They got Miamis best pizza. They

656
00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 3: got rid of Papa John's. Obviously everybody knows because of

657
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 3: that scandal. But I don't want to get off topic.

658
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, what else has changed? The decks? Oh, what

659
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 3: was formerly known as a diamond club. Uh, it was nice,

660
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 3: it was very nice. But this year is they made

661
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 3: it so much more spacious. They made the walls brown

662
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 3: and it's actually wooden, and it's very sophisticated, and the

663
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:25,240
Speaker 3: at tension is different. It definitely feels different. And they

664
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:27,880
Speaker 3: they made it to the to the part where they

665
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 3: opened up so much. The area where you eat and

666
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:33,040
Speaker 3: you dine and you can actually have dinner. And while

667
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 3: you're having dinner, you can see the players warming up,

668
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 3: hitting the tea. You know, they just they're just getting

669
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 3: it in before the game starts and How exciting is

670
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 3: that before you you didn't have that because it was

671
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 3: it was it was divided by a glass wall, right,

672
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,080
Speaker 3: so there was you could see the players, but you

673
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 3: couldn't see them as up close as you do. Now.

674
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 3: It's pretty surreal.

675
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,000
Speaker 2: Well yeah, I was gonna break that up into a

676
00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:59,239
Speaker 2: few different questions, like look at the sites that talk

677
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:01,479
Speaker 2: about the fight se then talk about the food, then

678
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 2: talk about the different seating areas.

679
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:07,120
Speaker 1: But you got it all covered, dude.

680
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:10,920
Speaker 3: I get go. I just get going, you know. I'm

681
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:13,719
Speaker 3: just excited to get out that information everybody, man, and

682
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 3: I just it's a little bit disappointing to look around. Man.

683
00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 3: There's only seven thousand, nine thousand fans at the stadium,

684
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 3: eleven thousand fans at the stadium, and South Florida needs

685
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 3: to get over their feelings. Man. This is definitely a

686
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:27,320
Speaker 3: great time to jump on board with the Marlins. The

687
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:29,959
Speaker 3: Dolphins are starting from scratch, the heat is starting from scratch.

688
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 3: The Panthers are starting from scratch. So you guys really

689
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:33,920
Speaker 3: need to hop on board now. Man, this is the

690
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 3: perfect time to fall in love with the fighting fish.

691
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 3: The Florida Marlins are Miami Marlins, and what can you say,

692
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 3: oh that you want the Turk Hoise back, man, you

693
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 3: can't tell me that. And now look at this Miami

694
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 3: Blue and don't tell me that's not that close, man,

695
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:48,360
Speaker 3: because this is the perfect time to jump on board,

696
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 3: because yeah, the Teal colors, they brought us a lot

697
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:54,040
Speaker 3: of good memories. They brought us championships. The Orange. The

698
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:57,120
Speaker 3: Orange phase, the Orange era didn't bring us so much joy,

699
00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:01,640
Speaker 3: you know, besides Jose and you know that MVP. But

700
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:04,480
Speaker 3: we didn't have we didn't have winning seasons. And now

701
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 3: we're making this transition back to the Blue. And you

702
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 3: got to understand what Jeter and Sherman are trying to do.

703
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 3: That they're trying to separate themselves, but at the same time,

704
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 3: they're trying to remember the history in the past. They're

705
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 3: just trying to make a mark. They're not trying to

706
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:17,719
Speaker 3: leave a stain like Jeffrey Laurier. And that's what it's

707
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 3: about at the end of the day, man, you want

708
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:21,400
Speaker 3: to leave a market to this community. The mon's really

709
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 3: embracing the community. They're starting to reach outside. They had

710
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 3: the t ball Invitational for the kids announced this past weekend,

711
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 3: and you just love seeing that man You love seeing

712
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:32,760
Speaker 3: them going out of their way, really going out to

713
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:35,760
Speaker 3: the community and trying to make an effort. They're really

714
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 3: trying to plant seeds in the next generation of the fans. Unfortunately,

715
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 3: there's fans that are hurt that don't want to jump

716
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 3: back on board, and you know, there's only so much

717
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 3: that you can preach to them. But you got to

718
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 3: keep thinking about tomorrow because it's tomorrow. The kids of tomorrow,

719
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 3: that's the future, and those are the next Marlands fans

720
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 3: that we got to look up to, man, And that's

721
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:58,640
Speaker 3: what we got. Man. I would have never thought, you know, wow,

722
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:01,959
Speaker 3: I'm here more and covering the Marlins and I love it.

723
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 3: Like I thought about this stuff as a twelve and

724
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 3: a thirteen year old and now I got twelve, thirteen, fourteen,

725
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:09,319
Speaker 3: fifteen year olds hitting me messages up like hey, you

726
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 3: really work for the Marnins and what's it like? And

727
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 3: it's like, hey, man, just chasing jeams. Go out there

728
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:14,719
Speaker 3: and make it happen, and what better way can make

729
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 3: it happen? Then with these Miami Marlins, you.

730
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:21,319
Speaker 2: Know, yeah, And what you were saying, what you skated over,

731
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:24,560
Speaker 2: is that important choice that they made, Like with this

732
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 2: rebrand is that they want to do something new, they

733
00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:30,919
Speaker 2: want to keep moving forward, and there was a lot

734
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:33,120
Speaker 2: of there was a lot of outcry for people to

735
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 2: like embrace the past a little bit more. Not not

736
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:38,400
Speaker 2: the recent past, you know when they've been losing and

737
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 2: dysfunctional and you know, making bad headlines and offending their fans,

738
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:47,879
Speaker 2: but just embracing what happened with the championship years and

739
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:50,360
Speaker 2: some of the fan favorites that have happened that have

740
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:54,000
Speaker 2: really influenced this team and that people continue to hold

741
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:58,239
Speaker 2: deer and they've tried to it. They've really chosen that

742
00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 2: path where they want to totally rebrands, like what it

743
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:06,279
Speaker 2: means to be the Marlins, something completely new that at

744
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:08,480
Speaker 2: the same time, if you do look closely enough, yeah,

745
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 2: you see a lot of the positives that made this

746
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 2: team really likable back in the day. Whether it's in

747
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 2: the color scheme, you see subtle things in there that

748
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:22,399
Speaker 2: really represent Miami. And I mean it's really complicated. I mean, again,

749
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 2: the bottom line is that they this new administration from

750
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:31,840
Speaker 2: Derek Jeter to business operations and Chip Bowers and the

751
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:35,960
Speaker 2: holdover Michael Hill, they did not have a lot to

752
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,680
Speaker 2: work with with this organization. You just had a lot

753
00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 2: of fans that, as you mentioned, were hurt one way

754
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 2: or another by either the performance of the team or

755
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 2: by the way that the team went about its business

756
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:51,200
Speaker 2: from year to year and how they appropriated public money

757
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 2: and all that. And it's been it's a long way,

758
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:59,359
Speaker 2: like to building it into something that's really sustainably successful.

759
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:02,759
Speaker 2: And right now the attendance is rough, as you said,

760
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:05,479
Speaker 2: from that opening homestand averaging less than ten thousand a game,

761
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:09,319
Speaker 2: and it's gonna be Yeah, it's still gonna be a

762
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:10,719
Speaker 2: while until this really.

763
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 1: Turns the corner.

764
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 2: But that's what we're gonna do at Fish Stripes, right

765
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 2: We're gonna be following the entire process, and we're gonna

766
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:20,399
Speaker 2: be keeping track of how that progression goes. And it's

767
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 2: not always a linear path. It's not always one step

768
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:28,279
Speaker 2: forward every single day, but we're gonna be staying on

769
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:31,279
Speaker 2: top of it and hopefully, hopefully saying that it does

770
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 2: lead somewhere that this organization really hasn't been before. They've

771
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:36,880
Speaker 2: won the championships, but they haven't been in that position

772
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:40,160
Speaker 2: where they're set up with a corps of guys that

773
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:44,680
Speaker 2: can succeed a year after year and creating the Marlins

774
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:48,960
Speaker 2: as a destination where reinforcements want to come where from

775
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 2: little kids growing up to the most established veteran free agents. Yeah,

776
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 2: they're trying to make it into something that Miami hasn't

777
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 2: had before. And if they succeed in that, then I

778
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:03,839
Speaker 2: obviously you're going to see the fan base stronger than ever.

779
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:07,279
Speaker 3: Absolutely, Man, you said it best to yourself. Man, A

780
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:10,319
Speaker 3: lot of people they don't realize what a great job

781
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:13,359
Speaker 3: Bruce Sherman, Derek Jeter, Gary Denbow, Chip Bauers and all

782
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:16,399
Speaker 3: of them have done. You know, every season that's going by,

783
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 3: every month that's going by right now, that every loss,

784
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 3: it just means that we're getting closer to the futures

785
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 3: and we're getting closer to seeing guys like Gallon in

786
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 3: the big league six Though Sanchez, Edward Cabrera, Praxton, Garrett Guzman,

787
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:31,359
Speaker 3: holloway Man. The list goes on and on, and it's

788
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:33,840
Speaker 3: the first time that you really look at this franchise

789
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:36,919
Speaker 3: and we got so much starting pitching death. It feels good, man,

790
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:40,080
Speaker 3: It feels good to move from twenty ninth, twenty seventh

791
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 3: last year to now we're ranked thirteenth you know, Lucky

792
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 3: thirteen today, so you don't know what's going to happen.

793
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 3: Hopefully these guys can get it together with some bats.

794
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:51,400
Speaker 3: And it feels good as a fan in the sense

795
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 3: that you talk to these players now and you ask

796
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 3: guys like Lewis Brinson, Hey, how does it feel to

797
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:00,839
Speaker 3: rock out that Marlins uniform? He says that he dreams

798
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 3: about it. He wears number nine because the guy's like

799
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:06,879
Speaker 3: Juan Pierre and yeah, they started off wrong, and Jeter

800
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,560
Speaker 3: came in and cleaned out the house per se. He

801
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:12,399
Speaker 3: left a couple pieces here and there. But you got

802
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 3: to give the guy credit. He's he's doing the whole

803
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:17,719
Speaker 3: dem low campaign, like you touch base and they're continuing

804
00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:20,759
Speaker 3: to listen. Man, they're doing a great job. And this

805
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:22,640
Speaker 3: is just the beginning. You know. I know people were

806
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:25,840
Speaker 3: upset there. Hey maybe we could have usedstripe pinstripe unis.

807
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:27,319
Speaker 3: But if you were thrown that one out, you know,

808
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 3: it's like, oh, but he started with the blue walls.

809
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:32,800
Speaker 3: What are the Yankees in the South? So yeah, little

810
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 3: by little man, Like now I look at it and like,

811
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 3: now we have uniforms, we have we have history. We've

812
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:40,359
Speaker 3: been around for twenty six years, we've got two championships.

813
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,319
Speaker 3: You look around, man, there's been teams that haven't won

814
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 3: it over one hundred years. At the Cubs, you know,

815
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:46,279
Speaker 3: they went how long did they go one hundred and

816
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:50,439
Speaker 3: nine years without winning anything? And yeah, yeah, one hundred

817
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:52,160
Speaker 3: and eight years. Thank god, we don't have to go

818
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:55,520
Speaker 3: through something like that, you know. So I try to

819
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:58,799
Speaker 3: tell the Race fans and all over Florida. You know

820
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,879
Speaker 3: that they're upset the Marlins that they broke their heart,

821
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:03,879
Speaker 3: But hey, aren't you upset that the Rays broke your

822
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:05,839
Speaker 3: heart too. They went to the World Series and choked. Man,

823
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:07,759
Speaker 3: don't get mad at the Marlins because they choked. At

824
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 3: least the Marlins gave you two happy nights. We went

825
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 3: two championships, man, come on.

826
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:18,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we're gonna be chronicling every step of that process,

827
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 2: building the Marlins up into a sustainable contender, trying to

828
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 2: earn back the trust of fans they used to have,

829
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,440
Speaker 2: and even expanding the fan base probably larger than it's

830
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:30,600
Speaker 2: ever been before. We want to thank everybody for tuning

831
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:32,680
Speaker 2: into this episode of Fish Bites. Expect a lot more

832
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:35,840
Speaker 2: of it on a consistent basis throughout the regular season

833
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 2: with a variety of co hosts, not just me and Alex.

834
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 2: Remember to continue listening to our other pod shows, Earning

835
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:45,239
Speaker 2: Their Stripes a Ball with Eric Os. We hope to

836
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 2: see you guys at Fish Stripes Night. Details are in

837
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 2: the podcast description as well as on Fishtripes dot com.

838
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 2: Fish Stripes dot com obviously has everything we do. All

839
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 2: the articles, all the debates, and all the podcast episodes

840
00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:00,880
Speaker 2: are posted over there, just everything. Think of covering the

841
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:03,960
Speaker 2: Marlins on a daily basis, around the clock, all year round,

842
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:07,600
Speaker 2: and we'll check in with you guys again soon, hopefully

843
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:10,840
Speaker 2: with the team playing a little bit better and with

844
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:13,239
Speaker 2: a whole new batch of storylines going on.

845
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 1: In the meantime, Go Fish