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Speaker 1: Welcome in, family and friends to the newest episode of

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Speaker 1: fish Bites, a fish Stripes Espionation production, also heard via

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Speaker 1: Slam Radio XM Sirius XM channel one four five on Mondays.

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Speaker 1: My name is, of course Danny Martinez, and I know

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Speaker 1: that you are out there, and I thank you for

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Speaker 1: being out there and choosing to listen to us. I

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Speaker 1: say that because we never really know, at least I

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Speaker 1: don't personally know how many people are listening to us.

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Speaker 1: I have a good idea, I have a good concept

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Speaker 1: from the fact that I get a lot of emails

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Speaker 1: and I get a good amount of feedback from it,

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Speaker 1: and the reality is that I keep doing it because

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Speaker 1: of that. But these last few weeks I was given

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Speaker 1: a better understanding of how great this fan base really is,

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Speaker 1: because if you remember a few weeks ago, I introduced

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Speaker 1: the Fishies, right kind of a sell off and a

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Speaker 1: route off of the Emmys. That that's Eli's idea, completely

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Speaker 1: trademarked by him. The Fishies was the twenty nineteen Awards

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Speaker 1: for the Marlins, and I told you all to go

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Speaker 1: and vote, and almost three thousand votes were collected across

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Speaker 1: the poles. And you might sit back for a second

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Speaker 1: and say, hey, three thousand is a nice number, but

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Speaker 1: that's not actually that impressive. Well, here's the catch. It

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Speaker 1: could have and it should have been a lot more

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Speaker 1: if your host oven here wasn't so dumb all the time.

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Speaker 1: Because I capped off the polls at twenty four hours.

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Speaker 1: I capped off the poll in one day, and you

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Speaker 1: guys still gave me three thousand votes. I can only

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Speaker 1: imagine that it would have been double or triple the

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Speaker 1: amount if I had done what I should have done,

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Speaker 1: which is have the polls open for a full seven

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Speaker 1: days or the maximum that it's allowed for us to

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Speaker 1: have the polls going. But I was dumb. I don't

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Speaker 1: know what I was thinking. Maybe I was just sad

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Speaker 1: the season was coming to an end, and I capped

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Speaker 1: it at twenty four hours. By the time I realized

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Speaker 1: that I had capted at twenty four hours, so many

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Speaker 1: votes had already come through, so many conversations had taken

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Speaker 1: with the three thousand votes that were sent our way,

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Speaker 1: and of course, I want to thank you for that,

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna talk about the results. You guys gave

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Speaker 1: me a lot of really good results that I agree

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Speaker 1: with and then some results that I don't agree with,

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Speaker 1: but that after seeing them, you may have persuaded me

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Speaker 1: with your vote. So that'll be the first thing that

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Speaker 1: we talk about, but not the only thing that we're

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Speaker 1: second thing that we're going to cover is based off

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Speaker 1: of an article that was published over the weekend on

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Speaker 1: fishstripes dot com. I'm the author of that piece. It

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Speaker 1: was taking a look at what the twenty nineteen Marlin's

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Speaker 1: attendance figures tell us tell the organization the good, the bad,

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Speaker 1: and the indifferent. As always on this show, it's more

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Speaker 1: of a summary. It's more of a talking point situation,

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Speaker 1: because I want you to go on fishstripes dot com

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Speaker 1: and read the content yourself. But it's something that we're

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Speaker 1: you hear the voting results so that you can hear

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Speaker 1: what the numbers tell us again some good that you

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Speaker 1: And then what needs to improve, and then third an

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Speaker 1: email question from one of the listeners. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: all of you that continue to send me email questions

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Speaker 1: regarding Donnie Baseball's extension. I was very clear on last

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Speaker 1: week's episode that this is likely something I would not

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Speaker 1: have done if I was quote unquote Danny GM. But

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Speaker 1: that that's why I'm not Danny GM. There are fields

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Speaker 1: in my life that I am absolutely an expert in

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Speaker 1: my own personal career, I'm not going to pretend to

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Speaker 1: be an expert in what the Marlin should or should

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Speaker 1: not have done. So after a lengthy body of that email,

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Speaker 1: and I like lengthy bodies of emails, so don't worry.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to be concise for me. The final

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Speaker 1: thinks in twenty twenty the managerial position should be more

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Speaker 1: It'll be towards the end of the show. It's something

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Speaker 1: that the Braves are good at. It's something that the

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Speaker 1: I'm sure the person that sent the email will, but

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Speaker 1: into the results, right These votes came from you. I

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Speaker 1: didn't have one vote in this. My wife voted, so

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you know, maybe I influenced her vote,

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Speaker 1: but this comes straightly straight from you, guys. Just to

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Speaker 1: remind you, the options were top starting pitcher. The brackets

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Speaker 1: were top starting pitcher, Top relief pitcher, top hitter, most

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Speaker 1: improved Marlin for the year, most disappointing, biggest Surprise of

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Speaker 1: And each selection had three player designation options and then

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Speaker 1: an other where you can write it now spoiler alerte alert.

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Speaker 1: No one voted enough for others, So we're not going

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Speaker 1: to talk about the others or the right ins at

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Speaker 1: this in this episode, but you can go ahead and

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Speaker 1: check on fisstripes dot com and on my Twitter account

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Speaker 1: at Danny m Underscore Miia and you could see some

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Speaker 1: of the right end votes. But for the most part,

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Speaker 1: or for the entire portion of it, the three candidates

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Speaker 1: we put out were the ones that people wanted to

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Speaker 1: vote for. So let's start off with top starting pitcher

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Speaker 1: for your twenty nineteen Miami Marlins. The candidates here were

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Speaker 1: listed as Caleb Smith, Sandiel Contrera, and Pablo Lopez. Pablo

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Speaker 1: Lopez didn't get many votes, and that's not a surprise here, right.

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Speaker 1: Pablo has had an inconsistent year. Some of the analytics

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Speaker 1: and it's something that he needs to work on moving forward.

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Speaker 1: Be a little bit more aggressive, trust his stuff a

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Speaker 1: vote for the top starting picture of your Miami Marlins,

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Speaker 1: which is also your twenty nineteen All Star, Sandy al Contrera.

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Speaker 1: Sandy al Contrea deserves this vote, and I'm in a one

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Speaker 1: same tune. Sandy al Contrero was more aggressive this year.

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Speaker 1: He used his movement better. His sinker was disgusting. He

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Speaker 1: He is almost at an elite level. When you look

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Speaker 1: his k numbers aren't where they should be. Yes, his

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Speaker 1: But Sandy al Conturur was absolutely your best pitcher, and

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Speaker 1: Sandy's just going to eventually be a bullpen piece. Sandy

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Speaker 1: which is really just a backhanded compliment that they give

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Speaker 1: al Contrera is absolutely your twenty nineteen top starting pitcher

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Speaker 1: on this selection. But congratulations, Yarlen Garcia got the vote.

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Speaker 1: The options here were Yarlen Garcia, Austin Bryce, and Tyler Kinley.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's not the best unit in the team.

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Speaker 1: after some savvy I would not overspend in free agency

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Speaker 1: going to just one more, congratulations to Yarlin Garcia, who

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Speaker 1: took this designation per the fans, your next one top hitter.

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Speaker 1: Completely agree. Harold Demirez has possibly been more consistently elevated

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Speaker 1: be and is Brian Anderson the top hitter for the

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen Miami Marlins, the player who, unless than Marlin's

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Speaker 1: Baseball can pencil into his lineup on opening Day twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: Anderson is your best hitter on the Miami Marlins. So so far,

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Speaker 1: your Fish. But the streak has to end sometime. The

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Speaker 1: I couldn't have disagreed Moore with this election, and clearly

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Speaker 1: that makes me into the minority. And I like this.

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Speaker 1: I like the fact that we're not lockstep this entire time,

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Speaker 1: because goodness gracious, that would be a boring episode. But

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Speaker 1: we're on the same beat because I agree with you,

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Speaker 1: Harold Dermirez had a great year, but he is mister

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Speaker 1: runner up to a Sandi al Contrera. We've discussed both

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Speaker 1: of them in top hitters and in most improved and

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Speaker 1: in top starting pitchers, so we're not gonna discuss too

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Speaker 1: We're gonna push the envelope too far here. But what

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Speaker 1: Sandi al Contrera did this year, what he proved to

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Speaker 1: his skeptics, would he proved to his team and the

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Speaker 1: organization absolutely allows him to be Rookie of the Year. Now,

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Speaker 1: he won't get a single vote in the actual National

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Speaker 1: League Rookie of the Year because that belongs to Pete A. Lonzo. Okay,

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Speaker 1: and I know this is a Marlins podcast on a

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Speaker 1: Marlins Show. But you know, if there is one single vote,

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Speaker 1: if one single first place vote from these writers, that

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Speaker 1: does not go to Pillanzo, and you throw out the

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Speaker 1: system because he's the National League Rookie of the Year.

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Speaker 1: But when you're talking about Sandi al Contran, you're talking

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Speaker 1: about the Marlins. Is the match made in pitching Heaven?

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Speaker 1: Marlin's Rookie of the Year twenty nineteen Sandy al Contrera

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Speaker 1: the last two moments of the year. This was the

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Speaker 1: most exciting and conversation inducing poll that we put out,

448
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Speaker 1: and it was interesting because it proved something that I

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Speaker 1: had been thinking, but I didn't want to say it

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Speaker 1: because then I would be called homer that I've been

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Speaker 1: thinking this entire year, which is that for a one

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Speaker 1: hundred loss season, this has been fun. Look, make no

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Speaker 1: mistake about it. There are games where I'm sure you

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Speaker 1: at home clicked and it's the bottom of the second

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Speaker 1: and the team is down seven zero and you licked

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Speaker 1: it back to law and order, and I don't blame you.

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Speaker 1: But there were sees. There were parts this year where

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Speaker 1: it was another Harold Dumira's walk off, where we were

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Speaker 1: dropping two touchdown on the Brewers when East San Diaz's

460
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Speaker 1: dad was going berserk because they just homered off to Gram.

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Speaker 1: There were parts of this year where Sandi al Contrera

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Speaker 1: shoved it to his critics and had a dominant inning

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Speaker 1: at the All Star Game. And all of these options

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Speaker 1: were just four three of the fifteen sixteen options that

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Speaker 1: people flooded my timeline with. Because it's true, the Mamey Marlins.

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Speaker 1: If you look at the box score and you look

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Speaker 1: at the standings, I get it, that looks like a

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Speaker 1: really boring year. But that's not the case. The Fish

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Speaker 1: really gave their fans a lot to cheer for this

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Speaker 1: year and a lot of excitement. And this was one

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Speaker 1: of the most voted four polls. The winner was the

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Speaker 1: TV Magic with Isan Diaz hitting a home run while

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Speaker 1: his dad's being interviewed because he can't beat that, Okay.

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Speaker 1: Garret Cooper hitting a Grand Slam was great, but that

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Speaker 1: happened in the middle of the day, you know, hapened

476
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Speaker 1: two touchdowns on the Packers over there in Milwaukee, the Brewers.

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00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:08,760
Speaker 1: That was great too. Slapping the Brewers social media team

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Speaker 1: over and over again. Whoever's on the social media for

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Speaker 1: the Marlins needs a raise, Okay. I don't care if

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Speaker 1: they had a you know, a joke that was inappropriate,

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Speaker 1: I guess with the Rays and with that gentleman who

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Speaker 1: I'm losing his name, Steve or when I believe no,

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Speaker 1: the person who's there needs a raise because they've been

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Speaker 1: fantastic year. So that was great too. And seeing Sandy

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Speaker 1: pitch and be dominant, throwing one oh one against the

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Speaker 1: al was fantastic. But now the selection here is Esandia's selection.

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Speaker 1: Here is Isan Diaz hitting a homer in his first

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Speaker 1: day in the big leagues off of the cy Young

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Speaker 1: with his father being interviewed. You're not going to beat

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Speaker 1: that ever, you know, if the Marlins didn't have, unfortunately

491
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,520
Speaker 1: that tragedy that led to that amazing moment with Dee Gordon,

492
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Speaker 1: this might be one of the best TV moments of

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Speaker 1: the franchise outside of winning it all, of course, So

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Speaker 1: you know, it's great. It's great that we had a

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Speaker 1: lot to cheer in a one hundred lost season, as

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Speaker 1: oxymoronic as that might sound, but moment of the year

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Speaker 1: definitely goes to Isan Diaz hitting a home run with

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Speaker 1: his dad being interviewed, and we're gonna finish it up

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Speaker 1: with most valuable player, and this one again should be

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Speaker 1: incredibly obvious. And you know what the response is, Extend

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Speaker 1: the two thousand and nineteen Miami Marlin's most valuable player,

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Speaker 1: Brian Anderson. Now extend him. Now you extended the other

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Speaker 1: option on this list, which was Miguel Rojas and Sandi

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Speaker 1: al Contrera should be in line for an extension if

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Speaker 1: he repeats next year what he did this year. But

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Speaker 1: Brian Anderson needs to be extended by the time that

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Speaker 1: opening Day twenty twenty is here. I already took off

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Speaker 1: that day with my employer. I'm ready, So I don't

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Speaker 1: know if you could do that. I don't know how

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Speaker 1: far in advance you could take off a day for

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Speaker 1: your employer. Make sure you take off that Thursday. I

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Speaker 1: think it's March twenty six. If I'm incorrect, you know,

513
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Speaker 1: just send me an email. You guys send me emails

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Speaker 1: all the time for my corrections, So I'm okay with that.

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Speaker 1: But take off the day and go to that opening day.

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Speaker 1: And by the time that you're there and you're cheering

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Speaker 1: for Brian Anderson when they announce him at third or

518
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Speaker 1: at right field, he should be a little richer than

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Speaker 1: he is. Right now, Brian Anderson is your twenty nineteen

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Speaker 1: MVP of the Year, and there's no doubt about it.

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Speaker 1: What he does defensively, like your selection showed, what he

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Speaker 1: does offensively like your top hitter showed, is the reason

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Speaker 1: that he's the MVP. He is one of the best

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Speaker 1: defensive third basement in all of baseball. He backed it

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Speaker 1: up with power this year, with slugging, with isolated power.

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Speaker 1: Everything you want from a Brian Anderson, everything that you

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Speaker 1: want from a quarter piece, from a centerpiece, from a

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Speaker 1: rebuilding team, from your own Freddie Freeman. And no, I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying that he's on the caliber of Freddie Freeman.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that, but from the competent, cores, veteran

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Speaker 1: piece who's going to lead this team to when they're successful.

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Speaker 1: In every single young p but comes up and knows

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Speaker 1: who that person is. From that perspective, you got yourself.

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Speaker 1: Brian Anderson MVP without a doubt. In my mind book,

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Speaker 1: it struggled last time out. Good Chia went down the line,

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Speaker 1: Yochnie around third. Crian Anderson is the hero today the Marlins.

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Speaker 2: With a walk off win.

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Speaker 1: And Miami Marlins pay the men. So what do you think,

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Speaker 1: how did you do? Is there any any particular ones

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Speaker 1: that you disagree with heavily, anyones that you think that

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Speaker 1: I'm off my wagon here for disagreeing with you, Or

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Speaker 1: is there anyone that we all got wrong, all the fans,

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Speaker 1: all the three thousand votes and myself that you think

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Speaker 1: should have been there? Of course, let me know at

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Speaker 1: Danny m underscore in my earf fist stripes dot com.

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Speaker 1: But do not hit stop quite yet, because, like I

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Speaker 1: mentioned in the beginning, we have two conversations in peace,

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Speaker 1: two conversation pieces in place rather that I really want

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Speaker 1: to get to. The first one is off of the

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Speaker 1: article that I published over the weekend on fazstripes dot com.

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Speaker 1: What does the twenty nineteen Marlins attendance figures tell us?

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Speaker 1: The Marlins had their last homestand we now know the

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Speaker 1: attendance figures for the year. We know if there is

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Speaker 1: an increase, if there is a decrease average per game,

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Speaker 1: And the conversation piece is exactly what the title is,

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Speaker 1: what does this tell us and what might we be

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Speaker 1: missing and not understanding of the context of that when

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Speaker 1: we first look at the numbers and here's here's the

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Speaker 1: piece and again I told you know this is a

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Speaker 1: summary because I want you to go and read it.

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Speaker 1: Here are the two pieces that I want you to

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Speaker 1: think of before we go into the conversation. The first

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Speaker 1: one is something I've stated before, which is, remember that

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Speaker 1: due to revenue sharing, you know, a tendance is simply

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Speaker 1: not the primary piece of the profit pie and the

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Speaker 1: budget pie chart anymore. It just isn't. It just isn't.

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Speaker 1: Before if if you weren't drawing in fans, your team

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Speaker 1: was going to go bankrupt, just forget it. It was

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Speaker 1: going to be done. That's just not the case anymore.

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Speaker 1: Are the Marlins possibly losing money, Sure, let's wait till

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Speaker 1: the Forbes report comes out in a year, but it's

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Speaker 1: not the drastic situation that it was before. It simply

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Speaker 1: isn't because of revenue sharing. That's the first point. The

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Speaker 1: second point is what I have said it overstated over

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Speaker 1: and over again, and I think at one day you

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Speaker 1: guys are going to get it, or you're going to

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Speaker 1: tell other people so that people stop not knowing this,

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Speaker 1: which is that the Marlins new regime measures and reports

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Speaker 1: the attendance rates differently than every other team in all

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Speaker 1: of sports, almost sure, there's a sum that report it

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Speaker 1: without the inflation, without the giveaways, without the no shows.

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Speaker 1: But the Lauria Marlins were not one of them. So

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Speaker 1: when we see a huge decrease in the reported numbers,

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Speaker 1: it is because the new regime is showing you actual

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Speaker 1: attendance rates. This is not inside information. This is not

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Speaker 1: something from another reporter. This is from Forbes and from

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Speaker 1: the Marlins. This is public knowledge. Okay, the Marlins only

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Speaker 1: report if you paid for your seat, and if you're

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Speaker 1: sitting in those nice, beautiful ocean blue seats at the park.

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Speaker 1: If you were a giveaway, you do not count. If

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Speaker 1: you if you have a ticket but you were a

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Speaker 1: no show, you do not count. Forbes in twenty eighteen

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Speaker 1: stated that the rates or the attendance figures for twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 1: the real attendance was exactly the same. They said, approximately

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Speaker 1: a flat change. So no, there's no change from twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 1: But the reporter numbers were almost cut in half because

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Speaker 1: the Marlin era of before would almost double those numbers

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Speaker 1: with giveaways and with no shows in order to make

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Speaker 1: the franchise, I guess, look a little bit more hospitable

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Speaker 1: for the purchasers. Or just to not be embarrassed. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. You choose your fiddle in which are way

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Speaker 1: you want to play it. But when Forbes says that

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Speaker 1: when the Marlins back that up, I'm gonna choose to

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Speaker 1: believe them. So remember that when we're talking about attendance figures.

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Speaker 1: Also remember that the Marlins are beating and competing against themselves,

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Speaker 1: because when we're talking about attendants and they're the only

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Speaker 1: ones that report attendants like this, it's really incredibly unjust

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Speaker 1: to do what so many people do, even in the media,

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Speaker 1: and compare it to the rest of the league who

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Speaker 1: still inflates their numbers. For instance, hint, hint, no surprise,

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Speaker 1: the Marlins had the worst attendance in baseball this year.

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Speaker 1: But if you use the formula that Forbes is basically

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Speaker 1: giving you, which is that you double it up and

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Speaker 1: that's what would have been reported prior or by other organizations,

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Speaker 1: suddenly they have like the twenty fourth or the twenty fifth.

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Speaker 1: It's still not good, but it's also not the worst,

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Speaker 1: and it tells you something about the market. So those

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Speaker 1: are the things that I want you to consider for

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Speaker 1: the moment. But we're talking specifically about twenty nineteen and

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. What changed. Well, the good news is that

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Speaker 1: there is a slight increase. More people paid for their

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Speaker 1: tickets and showed up to Marlins games in and nineteen

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Speaker 1: than they did in twenty eighteen, which ironically means that

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Speaker 1: more people showed up for Brian Anderson and Harold Jmirez

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Speaker 1: than they did for JT. Reumoto in twenty eighteen. And

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Speaker 1: because remember for as reported that it was flat from

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen twenty seventeen, and John Carlos Stanton and Christian Yelcham,

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Speaker 1: Marcel Zun and Digor and everyone else in twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 1: Think about that. Think about that and tell me what

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Speaker 1: it tells you. I know what it tells me. I

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Speaker 1: want you to consider and you text me, and you

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00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 1: tweet me and you email me. What that tells you

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Speaker 1: That the twenty nineteen Marlins outdrew the twenty seventeen Fish.

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Speaker 1: So don't give me the crocodile tears about the rebuild

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Speaker 1: because people weren't showing up back then. If anything, people

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Speaker 1: are showing up now. It tells you that the fan base,

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Speaker 1: the ones that are here, actually get what's happening. Nonetheless,

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Speaker 1: I get off my soapbox. There's a slight increase in

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Speaker 1: the attendance from last year to this year. The bad

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Speaker 1: thing is that it's literally, and you're gonna think I'm joking,

641
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:03,440
Speaker 1: it is literally only an average of two more a game.

642
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:07,920
Speaker 1: An average of two more a game. Now, that's pathetic.

643
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:12,239
Speaker 1: I understand that that's pathetic. That's also good news. And

644
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:15,760
Speaker 1: here's why. Number One, it wasn't a decrease. Like many people,

645
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:18,479
Speaker 1: including a lot of writers that commented on the Fist

646
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:21,960
Speaker 1: Stripes article that we did in the preseason about attendance.

647
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:26,400
Speaker 1: Many people said, Danny, you're off your chair. You're going bonkers.

648
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:27,920
Speaker 1: You must be zonked. If you think that they're not

649
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,480
Speaker 1: going to lose attendance figures, well, guess what they didn't.

650
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:33,920
Speaker 1: They remained roughly flat with a slight increase, so they

651
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 1: did not lose attendance figures. But here's what's more important.

652
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 1: Everything about this season was set up for them to

653
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:47,760
Speaker 1: lose attendance figures. See in twenty eighteen, they had three

654
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:50,919
Speaker 1: marquee series with the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox,

655
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 1: and Chicago Cups. Now you might be thinking, what are

656
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:57,160
Speaker 1: three series going to do? Well? One hundred and forty

657
00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 1: five thousand, nine hundred and twenty three fans show up

658
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:03,719
Speaker 1: for those three series alone, and a few of those

659
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:07,239
Speaker 1: series were actually only two game series. I believe both

660
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 1: the Red Sox and the Yankees were two game series,

661
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:14,960
Speaker 1: and almost one hundred and fifty thousand people showed up.

662
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: When you do the numbers, that is eighteen percent of

663
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 1: the twenty eighteen total attendance was found in those three series.

664
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 1: The Marlins had zero zero series of trios, so three

665
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:32,359
Speaker 1: series put together that came even remotely close to one

666
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:39,000
Speaker 1: hundred thousand. There's nothing there. The schedule makers did them

667
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:41,719
Speaker 1: no favors this year, and it feels like cheating, like

668
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:44,960
Speaker 1: you're using the aura of another franchise. But you know,

669
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:46,719
Speaker 1: just so you know, the Yankees and Red Sox and

670
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:49,320
Speaker 1: Cubs traveled to the other teams too, so it's a

671
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:52,440
Speaker 1: level playing field. Except that this year the Yank the

672
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 1: Marlins got none of those three series, and I had

673
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:58,400
Speaker 1: no three other series of twenty nineteen that came close

674
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 1: to bringing in one hundred and fifty thousand fans. So

675
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 1: right off the bat, you are trying to recover one

676
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 1: hundred and forty nine hundred and twenty three fans elsewhere,

677
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 1: because you don't have it from the Yankees, the Socks,

678
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 1: or the Cups. Something else to consider. You don't have

679
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:18,280
Speaker 1: the aura of having an elite player every day. Twenty eighteen,

680
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 1: Marlins still had J. T Romudo. They still had the

681
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:25,040
Speaker 1: best catcher in baseball. A casual fan might still come

682
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 1: out to see the best catcher in baseball. The Marlins

683
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:31,319
Speaker 1: did not. They had an amazing San Diego Contrera. They

684
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 1: had a good of three run homers or whatever the

685
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:36,440
Speaker 1: case may be, your flashy plays from Anisan Diaz. At

686
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 1: the end of the year, they had a Puplopis, They

687
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 1: had elements, but they had now one player to the

688
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:43,920
Speaker 1: caliber of J. T Romuto where you could say, I'm

689
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:48,440
Speaker 1: going tonight just to watch him. So that they're not

690
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:52,920
Speaker 1: only recovering one hundred and fifty thousand fans that they're

691
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:56,279
Speaker 1: not gonna get from Marquis series, they're also trying to

692
00:38:56,320 --> 00:39:00,920
Speaker 1: convince people to come out for a superstar less team

693
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 1: and they started out ten and thirty one. Because that's

694
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 1: the third thing I'd want you to consider here is

695
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 1: imagine what would have happened if the Marlins played in

696
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 1: March and April like they ended up playing around June,

697
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:17,319
Speaker 1: July and mid year, where they were an above five

698
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:20,799
Speaker 1: hundred team for about a quarter of the season. They

699
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,040
Speaker 1: were a well above five hundred team for about a

700
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:25,359
Speaker 1: quarter of the season, but they had dug themselves such

701
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 1: a hole at ten and thirty one that there was

702
00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:30,680
Speaker 1: no way they were coming out. Sure, the diehard fan

703
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:34,839
Speaker 1: is still there, You're still there. I'm still there, But

704
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 1: the casual guy is not getting up and going to

705
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 1: see a ten and thirty one team. And when you

706
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 1: start off at ten and thirty one, I can guarantee you.

707
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 1: I can guarantee you this from people with the Marlins.

708
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 1: That's the worst thing that could have happened. If there's

709
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:51,759
Speaker 1: anything that they could ask for twenty twenty is to

710
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,560
Speaker 1: start off, you know, thirty and ten or twenty and

711
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:57,880
Speaker 1: ten and watch what happens to attendance. First impressions matter,

712
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:01,799
Speaker 1: and the Marlins just lapped their first impression on this

713
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:07,279
Speaker 1: fan base in twenty nineteen. It makes a difference. And

714
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 1: yet with no marquee series, which meant that they had

715
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 1: to work for one hundred and fifty thousand extra people

716
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:16,879
Speaker 1: that were not there when it was the Yankees Red

717
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:21,759
Speaker 1: Sox and Cubs opening series without a superstar and with

718
00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:26,360
Speaker 1: the team starting ten to thirty one, the Marlins still

719
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:33,920
Speaker 1: had an increase in attendance. That's promising all of a sudden,

720
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:37,920
Speaker 1: the only one hundred and ninety eight extra fans to

721
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 1: get two fans per game seems a lot more impressive

722
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:46,920
Speaker 1: when you realize what they were up against, when you

723
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 1: realize that the outcome could have been a lot more dire.

724
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 1: That the outcome could have been not even just one

725
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:54,239
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety eight fans less, it could have been

726
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:59,719
Speaker 1: tens of thousands of fans less. Kudos to the fact

727
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:02,719
Speaker 1: that the fans came out. Kudos to those of you

728
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:04,839
Speaker 1: that listen to this podcast. I know where the fish

729
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 1: are going. I'm gonna remember you. I really promise you

730
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:09,800
Speaker 1: that I am when all of the casuals come back.

731
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 1: And kudos to the Marlins for what they did to

732
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:15,920
Speaker 1: their stadium, for the ticket prices decrease, for the increase

733
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:19,799
Speaker 1: in quality of food, for the rebranding. Kudos to them

734
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 1: because that has a lot to do with the fact

735
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 1: that they were able to have a slight increase even

736
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:27,640
Speaker 1: when those three factors were put up against them. Now

737
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 1: let's make sure that continues happening, and it continues happening

738
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:34,800
Speaker 1: with a few ways. One is if for whatever reason,

739
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 1: they kind of expedite this rebuild and they spend in

740
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 1: twenty twenty offseason instead of twenty twenty one. I am

741
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:42,960
Speaker 1: not personally a fan of that. I do think that

742
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 1: they could spend wisely. They have to spend somehow, you know.

743
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:49,960
Speaker 1: But if you bring in a Jose abre and Nicostilianos

744
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:52,720
Speaker 1: or a Yasi old Puig, my goodness, all of a sudden,

745
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 1: now fans are going to come out a little bit

746
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 1: more frequently. So that's the first thing they could do,

747
00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:00,600
Speaker 1: which is kind of a cheap trick, right, like, Okay,

748
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:03,680
Speaker 1: we're spending, we're spending. Come out to the game. It's

749
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:07,240
Speaker 1: risky because if you lose, it doesn't matter. The second

750
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 1: thing you can do, which is the more important situation here,

751
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 1: and goes into our email question with Don manningly, is

752
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:18,719
Speaker 1: guess what they could win. They could win if you

753
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:21,279
Speaker 1: start off thirty one and ten, if you start off

754
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 1: fifteen and ten, If you start off ten and ten,

755
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:27,239
Speaker 1: but you avoid ten and thirty one, the numbers are

756
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:31,239
Speaker 1: going to go up. When you have the flashes of

757
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 1: Isandias when you have the other prospects that come up.

758
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:35,879
Speaker 1: When you have six Dol Sanchez, the numbers will go up.

759
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 1: So if you win, if you compete, Miami will show up.

760
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:42,280
Speaker 1: I've documented this with the Heat. Go check the Heat's

761
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:46,080
Speaker 1: attendants before Dwayne Wade got drafted, and even the year

762
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:50,239
Speaker 1: he got drafted, and even the year after. And then

763
00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 1: look what happened when Shack came. Go ahead and look,

764
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 1: this will be a live in vivo experiment. What the

765
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:58,200
Speaker 1: Panthers attendance is going to look like this year as

766
00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:02,440
Speaker 1: they show that they've spent and they're winning. Look at

767
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 1: the Mark Wright era for the Hurricanes. Oh, I'm going

768
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:10,719
Speaker 1: to upset some Kines fans today, and go ahead and

769
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:12,840
Speaker 1: let me know about the attendance when they were all

770
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 1: so mighty against Notre Dame and then all of a

771
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:18,240
Speaker 1: sudden completely fall off, and we're trying to suffer against

772
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:23,880
Speaker 1: Central Michigan. This is Miami. If you want people to

773
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:27,239
Speaker 1: show up, you win. And part of winning in Baseball's

774
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:32,760
Speaker 1: managerial decision, which is the third conversation piece today, Danny,

775
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:34,520
Speaker 1: what is it that you want Donnie to be doing

776
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:37,440
Speaker 1: differently next year? What is it that would be important

777
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:40,200
Speaker 1: to you, Well, here's one of the things that would

778
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:44,880
Speaker 1: be important to me. I'd like to see more consistency

779
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:50,439
Speaker 1: and lineup construction from the Marlins in twenty twenty. I'm

780
00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:56,240
Speaker 1: tired of watching the Marlins kind of play Russian Roulette

781
00:43:56,239 --> 00:44:01,279
Speaker 1: with their lineup every single day. And I understand that

782
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 1: part of this comes from the fact that we do

783
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:05,680
Speaker 1: not have enough established players to say, well, he's hitting

784
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:07,799
Speaker 1: first every day, he's hitting second every day, and he's

785
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:11,280
Speaker 1: hitting third. I understand that there's injuries that take place,

786
00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:14,399
Speaker 1: and that there's below replacement level performances like from Lewis

787
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:17,040
Speaker 1: Bridston that takes place in center field where center field

788
00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:21,240
Speaker 1: is just a revolving door. I understand all of those points.

789
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:25,360
Speaker 1: I still don't care. By twenty twenty, this team should

790
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 1: be a little bit more competitive, should be a little

791
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:32,239
Speaker 1: bit more established, and Donnie Baseball and the analytics team

792
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:37,320
Speaker 1: needs to start having more solidified roster construction and lineup construction.

793
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:43,120
Speaker 1: The Marlins most used lineup in twenty nineteen was only

794
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:49,400
Speaker 1: used four times their most used lineup, which means that

795
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:52,720
Speaker 1: one through eight they were the same. They only used

796
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:59,920
Speaker 1: that lineup four times they've used one hundred and forty

797
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:05,040
Speaker 1: two different lineups this year. Ten different players have led

798
00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:09,279
Speaker 1: off the team the game. Fourteen different players have been

799
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:11,640
Speaker 1: in the two hole, in the second hole behind the

800
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:15,759
Speaker 1: leadoff hitter, which means you have had a combination of

801
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:25,400
Speaker 1: twenty four different one to two punches in your lineup. Ridiculous, ridiculous,

802
00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:28,000
Speaker 1: And that's not the way that good teams do it.

803
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:32,359
Speaker 1: If you look at certain teams right now, you'll find

804
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:34,680
Speaker 1: that they have a lot of matchups and a lot

805
00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 1: of different lineups. The Dodgers and the Astros are both

806
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 1: the best teams in baseball. They have a lot of

807
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:42,239
Speaker 1: different lineups, but do you know why, because they've been

808
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:45,440
Speaker 1: getting hurt the entire year. The Dodgers have one of

809
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 1: the longest injured lists in baseball, as do the Astros.

810
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:53,799
Speaker 1: But when their core is together, they're one through four

811
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:57,640
Speaker 1: is the same. You have a lineup against lefties, you

812
00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:00,000
Speaker 1: have a lineup against Riety's, and maybe one guy chain

813
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:03,240
Speaker 1: is two guys change, But you don't have one hundred

814
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:07,759
Speaker 1: and forty two different combinations throughout the year like the

815
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:12,120
Speaker 1: Marlins have had. For instance, an example of a team

816
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:16,480
Speaker 1: that's been relatively as healthy as the Marlins, and much

817
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:18,400
Speaker 1: more successful because of the talent, not because of the

818
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:21,440
Speaker 1: lineup construction, but because of the talent. Are the Atlanta Braves.

819
00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:28,160
Speaker 1: The Atlanta Braves have had thirty two games where they're

820
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:30,279
Speaker 1: seventh through eight, or rather they're one through eight. But

821
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 1: seven of the eight hitters, is what I'm trying to

822
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:34,920
Speaker 1: get at, have all been exactly the same. The Marlins

823
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 1: have had four. But more importantly, I remember how I

824
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:41,920
Speaker 1: said that the Marlins have had ten different leadoff hitters.

825
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:45,400
Speaker 1: They've had fourteen different players using the two hole, and

826
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:47,400
Speaker 1: that goes on and on. It gets to like seventeen

827
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:51,120
Speaker 1: different players that have hit in the seventh hole. The

828
00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:55,680
Speaker 1: Braves one, two, three, and four spots, only five hitters

829
00:46:55,719 --> 00:47:00,720
Speaker 1: have hit in those spots across the season. Four spots.

830
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:06,240
Speaker 1: Five hitters have hit across those spots. That's called consistency.

831
00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:09,799
Speaker 1: That's called knowing. Every day that Ronald Decugna walks up,

832
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:13,000
Speaker 1: he knows where he's at, Freddy Freeman knows where he's at.

833
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 1: Ozzi Albi's knows where he's at. And I understand what

834
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:17,960
Speaker 1: you're saying, Danny, how can you compare the talent and

835
00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:21,359
Speaker 1: the job that Snicker has with the Braves to what

836
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:25,400
Speaker 1: Mattingly has with the Marlins. I understand it's very different.

837
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:29,880
Speaker 1: I really do understand that. But then allow your players

838
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:34,879
Speaker 1: to become established. Don't have then Diiaz hitting really well

839
00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 1: in the three hole for three games or in the

840
00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:39,239
Speaker 1: two hole for four games, and then push him to

841
00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:42,319
Speaker 1: the eighth spot because he strikes out two days, two

842
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:44,440
Speaker 1: at bats a row, or three at bats in a

843
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:47,719
Speaker 1: row one day. We saw that with Lewins Sprinson his

844
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:50,879
Speaker 1: entire last year. The man hit all over the place.

845
00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:54,920
Speaker 1: He let off. He was second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth.

846
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:57,200
Speaker 1: And we're doing the same pattern with the Sandias. It's

847
00:47:57,200 --> 00:47:59,760
Speaker 1: like it's like we write someone up in the lineup

848
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:01,759
Speaker 1: and if they don't hit a Grand Slam that day,

849
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:06,480
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, they're being demoted down a few spots. No,

850
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:11,520
Speaker 1: that's my opinion. Don Mannally knows baseball much more than

851
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:14,400
Speaker 1: I do. I really like Don Mannally. I've said it

852
00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:15,840
Speaker 1: the entire year. I like him as a person. I

853
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:17,799
Speaker 1: don't agree with some of the managerial things he does.

854
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:20,480
Speaker 1: Not sure that if I was hypothetical GM, he would

855
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:23,239
Speaker 1: have gotten the extension. But I understand why and I

856
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:26,320
Speaker 1: understand that I bow down to him and his understanding

857
00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:30,200
Speaker 1: of baseball, but it makes no conscientious sense to me

858
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 1: to have one hundred and forty two different lineups cio

859
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:40,880
Speaker 1: quadentios over a year. No, and that that number is

860
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:42,799
Speaker 1: going to grow over It'll be probably be one hundred

861
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:47,239
Speaker 1: and forty four over the last two days. Allow your

862
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:50,880
Speaker 1: players to struggle in the position that they're at, allow

863
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:53,719
Speaker 1: them to grow and develop at the position that they're at,

864
00:48:54,719 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 1: and if it then becomes an issue, a long term issue,

865
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:01,440
Speaker 1: then you make the change. But I'm tired of seeing

866
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 1: and it's already happened, like the Sonia has been here

867
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:05,920
Speaker 1: a month and a half. I'm tired of him having

868
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:10,440
Speaker 1: three good, good, good games and then going oh for

869
00:49:10,560 --> 00:49:12,239
Speaker 1: four the next day and he gets demoted down to

870
00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:14,920
Speaker 1: the seventhal or the sixth hole. I'm tired of it.

871
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:17,440
Speaker 1: So next year that is something that I would like

872
00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:20,960
Speaker 1: to see. Because the theory behind the extension, like I mentioned, is, look,

873
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:23,279
Speaker 1: here is a more competent roster show us that you're

874
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:27,080
Speaker 1: the guy. We know that everyone loves you already, but

875
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:29,200
Speaker 1: here's a more competent roster show us you're the guy. Well,

876
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 1: part of that. Part of that is when you have

877
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:36,560
Speaker 1: a more competent roster with more established players, stop moving

878
00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:40,200
Speaker 1: Brian Anderson up and down the entire lineup. Put him

879
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:42,439
Speaker 1: at two, put him at three, put him at four,

880
00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:47,239
Speaker 1: and he's done. Garrett Cooper two, three, four done. Haroldimirez

881
00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:49,279
Speaker 1: shouldn't be hitting eighth. I don't understand why he is,

882
00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:52,279
Speaker 1: but whatever, find yourself a lead off hitter. If it's

883
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:57,840
Speaker 1: Migaul Rojas, leave him there for the emailer. If you

884
00:49:57,960 --> 00:50:02,319
Speaker 1: want one thing to look at from my perspective, it's

885
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:07,040
Speaker 1: lineup construction. We can talk about bullpen management. I can't

886
00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:10,920
Speaker 1: even blame him for that, even remotely. God, a bullpen's

887
00:50:10,920 --> 00:50:14,200
Speaker 1: been awful. Can't blame him for that. Oh well, he

888
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:15,680
Speaker 1: never makes the right call. Hey, he doesn't make the

889
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:17,399
Speaker 1: right call because the pictcher doesn't make the right call

890
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:23,040
Speaker 1: because it's hindsight. It's not hindsight, however, that every time

891
00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:26,080
Speaker 1: the Marlins Media Info sends me the lineup, I look

892
00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:27,719
Speaker 1: at it and have to roll my eyes because again

893
00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:31,040
Speaker 1: Newsndia's has been moved, or Harold Rmurez is hitting eighth,

894
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:37,080
Speaker 1: or George Afferra has been moved again. Stick with a

895
00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:42,000
Speaker 1: lineup work with analytics, but I can guarantee that there's

896
00:50:42,040 --> 00:50:46,279
Speaker 1: no one analytical individual that is telling Don Manningly to

897
00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:51,400
Speaker 1: move every single player every single game, one hundred, one

898
00:50:51,520 --> 00:50:55,400
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty games, one hundred and forty two different lineups.

899
00:50:56,719 --> 00:51:00,839
Speaker 1: The Marlins need to have more consistency. The Marlins need

900
00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:06,080
Speaker 1: to compete. Competing will allow for more fans to come out,

901
00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:11,080
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, what we experienced here

902
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:14,240
Speaker 1: at home almost every Saturday, where the team was filled

903
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:17,600
Speaker 1: with energy, whereas another walk off where people left home

904
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 1: smiling and laughing becomes the consistency of what it means

905
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:25,719
Speaker 1: to be a Miami Marlins fan, and man, do those

906
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:28,000
Speaker 1: of us that have stayed with this team deserve to

907
00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:36,040
Speaker 1: experience that type of euphoria. I think you guys got

908
00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:40,759
Speaker 1: it right with the fishies. I think that attendance will

909
00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:44,880
Speaker 1: continue to climb as the team continues to climb. I

910
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 1: believe that it's an okay call to make Dotting Manningly

911
00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:51,319
Speaker 1: a person and a manager who the players love the

912
00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:55,520
Speaker 1: captain throughout these next two years, but look for a

913
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:57,840
Speaker 1: little bit more consistency as he starts to get some

914
00:51:57,920 --> 00:52:03,799
Speaker 1: more consistency from his players as always family. I love you,

915
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:06,120
Speaker 1: I appreciate you, and I thank you for listening. I

916
00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:08,600
Speaker 1: thank you for who you are. I thank you for

917
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:10,719
Speaker 1: all the interaction and all of the emails and all

918
00:52:10,719 --> 00:52:13,920
Speaker 1: of the correspondence. I really do. I love this little family,

919
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:15,920
Speaker 1: and it's why I hope that this rebuild gives you

920
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:20,759
Speaker 1: all what you deserve. I appreciate you, and I'll be

921
00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:34,800
Speaker 1: here next week. Go Fish,