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Let's keep on doing it every year.
So at the first step on the world the two potential looks like shotguning bears and an escort ride.
If you say this game the best I'll say the gag looks like his back jack. Northwestern is gone from the tournament. Jim Harba looks like a caskah salesman. Fairly Dickinson 16 seed rep by might man Daniel look like a college student on the floor high scholarship for esports on the wrong We did it everybody.
We made it. We made it to Friday. Give it up for making it through the week. We did it everybody. Let's say hello as well. To our pound Dave damage check. He's out there on the west coast. Hello Dave. Good morning.
What was being served in the Miami headquarters there? What did you have? You have some of those nice pork things.
I like for breakfast. He likes the pork things. Dave misses the good. Rich Arronis. No, we did not have chicken. Rich Arronis. We did not have a little bit of a Cuban sandwich situation. We had a little bit of a sandwich. Oh, ham sandwich.
Dave misses the breakfast and lunch spreads every day we get here. That's one of the things. When I told the folks at ESPN when I told the producers at ESPN radio, how we we get a spread every morning here every lunch they couldn't believe it. Actually, they served dinner too. It's odd. I don't know why. Yeah. I mean, granted. You know, they get a Christian leases cookies and that's certainly a fire. You know, come on, but they just have a jar of salt.
They couldn't believe this. They couldn't believe that we get the food and clearly Dave misses the food that we get here. So hey, we had sweet 16 action get started last night. You got major league baseball opening day yesterday, Tony. You going opening day today. I'm going opening day.
There's been a lot of talk in the front row here about my involvement in baseball and my love for baseball on the sport. I'm going opening day. I'm going to be boots on the ground. I don't know who they're playing. And I don't know anything. I don't know. I'm on this guy. So I like, I need Jeremy to let me know what's going on with the Marlins.
“Who do I need to look out for? What are the story lines? What am I getting myself into?”
Outside of copious amounts of beer and how does any sport besides MMA or football? I'm on to you, Tony. That's not true. I'm asking about to. Okay. You get three. I didn't hit any outside of those three. I'm on to you. Okay. Hold on. Before Jeremy gets into the opening day tips. And it's the Rockies, right? Marlins have the Rockies this weekend.
Yes. You, you, like everyone here's been to an opening day before, right? Uh, I've been to an opening day. I'm really, yeah. I'm really great memories. Amelia Bonifacio's inside the park home run. Who can forget? I mean, that year was so funny because you, I mean, obviously Mike, like that year.
Uh, Dan was getting hit with it from all angles because of Amelia Bonifacio.
“Like, Dave, do you even know, I've even even heard the name of Amelia Bonifacio?”
I like it. Why if you want me to say no, I'll say no for the sake of the bass. Yes. I've heard of him. Yes. Yeah. Oh, you know what's going on. Dave watch sports. I mean, Dan got crushed after the start of that season.
If I'm remembering it correctly, right? Yes. Because it was funny, but Bonifacio, like three hits. And inside the park home run on opening day. Yeah. He went, he got out in front of Bonifacio's not that good. And then Bonifacio had a very hot first month.
And then by the end of the season, Dave was right, but nobody cared because we had all had our fun.
Wow. So Tony, you've never been to an opening.
I always get jealous, Dave, where, you know, the Marlins, the Marlins only came into action here in 1993. All right. So I was 12 years old when the Marlins began playing before that.
I never had an opportunity, obviously.
I don't think I'd ever have even been to a major bass ball game before 19. I mean, how would I, right?
“How would I have been to a major bass ball game before we got the Marlins in 1993?”
But I used to always be jealous for the several years after that when I'm in middle school
where you would have some kids who were taking out a school early by their father to go to a major, to go to opening day down here obviously for the Marlins. I was always so jealous, Dave, I never got to do that. Did, yeah, I mean, whatever my dad had a job that he couldn't just leave in the middle of the day. Please, you know, like I never got to pay it.
Pay it forward. First of all, I think I mentioned it a week ago during the tournament. Modamashek once boosted me from school. So I could go home and watch the pit Panthers play in March Madness against Carl Malone to see and attack the pit Panthers lost that day, but the big winner Dave Damashek, an ally for
life he found in his mother. I went and picked up my two boys from school and we went off to a getaway game. A good father.
The Dodgers at Chavez ravine.
“It was grand stuff and it really, of course you should be doing that kind of stuff.”
That's good parenting right there. But like Chris, you probably didn't ever do that either because when your father had been working, that's true. My mom took me though. Was that right?
I've been to so many opening days. Yeah. So your mom would come to school take you out early and you would go to opening days? Of course. I can't believe it.
Good parenting. Wow.
I never clearly Tony and do that either.
There's no if he's been to an opening day period. I've been to a lot of closing days. What? You thought like instead of go to the first game where you're going to go to the last home in circumstance.
Right. You got a lot of hope. Then they go to the last game when it means nothing. Right. Those are great games.
I appreciate it. Not only that. It was the concerts. That's all the Steve Miller band. It was Pirates Marlins.
The last game of the season. Was it watch orino? No. No. Steve Miller band.
Like he said. Idiot. Thank you. Steve Miller band. And it was the last day.
I think it was the last game at pro player. What was it? El Gron combo. It was the last game of pro. So it was 2011 then.
Yeah. That was the last summer on there. All right. They had some bangers. Some like regrettable ones.
Like did he play? Ew. Yeah. I want to see that one. shock though. What a shock though. It's going to be though today. That crowd, the atmosphere when you compare it to the last time there was a baseball game in that ballpark with the world. Let's not do it. Why? Why not do it today? The year for Marlin Span's. They're expecting a good crowd according to the draft King sports book. This is because a rock user terrible. Yes, and have been for a little bit here. The Marlins are favored expected. Yeah, when there's there's I put my finger on the pulse of Marlin's fans. They're excited about this year. Oh, you.
You've you've pulled Marlin's fans. I'm doing my best. I'm done being like the NBA sucks in baseball sucks. I'm trying again. I'm done saying that you know, I don't it's boring because I don't watch it. That that carried me for three years. I'm back in it's funny. You say that because last year I went the whole year last year out on the Marlins. I'm giving the Marlins zero of my time. Well, how's that a fool? What did they do last year? That would tell me I missed something that were the best team in baseball for a month and a half in the middle of the year.
They got them back into the wild card race in a way. They had the best run in franchise history tied with the 2003 season where they won the world series. So we're like this is something that I should regret that I missed that it was a lot of fun. It's entertainment in the middle of the summer in a sport that's a lot of fun. Like I don't understand why we have to roll our eyes. I just don't know if I can actually follow it because I believe the package that I got was keep raised. So let's go. Hey new new broadcast deal. Marlins.tv you can get the entire season for a hundred bucks. Can we now agree?
I think this I might even be late to the party to say this on this show, but this is something I've been saying for a couple of years. Baseball I had of NBA now, right? Do we agree on that? Absolutely not. Baseball and I had of NBA and what metric in any metric. It's one of the metrics that's a no. Do you have any other maps? I don't care about what the ratings are. I'm not one of those people about like well look at where the audience I that that that that is neither here nor there.
“So not a single straight up, except you're a really right. Yeah, okay, all right, that's what opinion is is that I am much more interested in major league baseball, but I also feel that there's something in the end.”
There that we have become cynical about the NBA for a number number of reasons and the major league baseball has kind of fixed itself up addressed some of the issues that people had with it and it has amounted to I think a little more interest in our former national past. I will tell you, you know, between the two sports MLB and NBA and baseball being the, you know, old, funny, dirty white guy sports. Major league has done a much better job at adapting and being progressive with the times then the NBA has where you look at the things at the NBA and that nothing at him silver and tried to do to fix the league.
The thing has worked and you look at Major league baseball, the changes that ...
That's a terrific point by Zaz and I guess it's a point for Dave Damishek too. I can't believe it, but like we're now talking about the NBA is a team that needs to do some drastic rule changes to adapt to the style of play because the math has kind of game the system. Much like baseball and baseball was always reputed to be the sport that was so against change and here they are trying to change with the times and the NBA inexplicably because there is a clear obvious problem with the sport, but I'm not going to get into that because I'm trying to give it another chance is still dragging its feet.
And the commissioner Adam Silver, who again, is a nothing. His solution to everything is let's do a tournament. Any problem that the NBA has you got to do a tournament. I mean we're taught where the the entire debate this season once again kind of is the amount of games being played and a lot of people who love the NBA advocating for a lot fewer games like let's cut the season down by 10 or 15 percent.
“That doesn't sound like a sport that's booming to me when people are trying to rationalize their way around how we can have an MVP if he only plays.”
Let's say 75, 80 percent of the season. That's the rolling discussion. It's dissatisfying obviously and baseball is booming. The only question is that I hear you Mike.
Let's not do or who was it's as we said. Let's not do the the world baseball classic versus a Marlins regular season baseball game. But if they can somehow bridge some of that energy. I understand it's not going to be a sell out with people going. But if they can somehow get some of that spirit, I thought it was a bad look during the world baseball classic when MLB is tweeting out and otherwise like look at the energy in this place. Like yeah, that's exactly what you don't have. And in fact, that's what you sort of did you discourage formally as a league. You don't like individual celebration. But if they can bring more and more of that in there. Yes, I continue.
I think that MLB's rise continues. By the way, very quickly, dynasties, whether people say they hate them or not are good for sports and the Dodgers make baseball more compelling than the NBA, which is intentionally trying to create some parody. That works in the NFL because it's wildly popular. It's not going to work in the NBA or other sport.
You know that energy shift when the game gets good and everybody all together in unison knows to stand up on their feet. Oh, absolutely, Mike. Yeah, you've been at many big time sporting events.
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I mean the Dodgers dynasty was a huge storyline in World Series and injected a lot of enthusiasm around the sport. I mean Jeremy makes orgasm. Noises any time that you mentioned that game savage and that's three-year-old pitch. I watched it again the other night while I was sitting in a bar sachet. It was up on the screen and I mean from the eighth inning through the completion of that game. It is, I can't believe that was game seven of the World Series and only our collective cynicism has gotten in the way of us celebrating that moment.
That hour or whatever it was in real time for the full classic. I can't get over. Now I'm getting excited. Andy Pah has collided with Keek and Hernandez in the Alvin Conto. I mean the season is over. If he drops up all they collided and he catches them off. What a stretch that was and we haven't celebrated it enough. There was a lot of momentum. Hopefully there's a good crowd today at Lone Depot. There's a good crowd. There's enough concession standwork. It did a great job during the day of this point.
“I've seen some ballpark try to replicate the athletics. I think had a drum section like 15 years ago.”
It takes a full house to capture that energy. Yeah, there are instruments. Yeah, there's dancing, yeah, there's chanting. But all that stuff is sad. If there's only a smattering of like 400 folks doing it. We're replacing a bunch of Dominicans with me and my family. I don't think the Marlins are totally incapable of recapturing that energy, but it is highly dependent on the Marlins. I'm going to try on field product that gets the people in that building and then that stuff will take care of itself.
But first and foremost, the Marlins have to be good. That's the whole thing with them, right? Like that's
that's this town in general. You've got to be good for a sustained period of time to get people to show up. And they might not leave once you do. Or they might stop showing up if you don't make the playoffs according to a Minnesota wildplay by play guy. Well, that's a whole other conversation that we can get into. But with the Panthers, right? They've had a couple of good years. The crowds continue to show up in a year where they've struggled. The dolphins haven't been good and got
knows how long, but because they were great in the childhood of so many people that are now in their cities. I don't think this rule that you are putting out there applies to the NFL. The NFL is like sure, a completely separate. So even look at the heat, your teams can be horrible and people are still going to go to NFL. But the other sports. Yes, you're right. Heat Panthers. Once you win a championship, you're golden. Yeah. The heat up in golden attendance wise since 2006. The
Panthers now, because you have the generation. You have captured the generation of fans and they're
never going to go anywhere and they're going to pass it down to their kids as well. You're golden
“once you win the championship. And that's why you see the Panthers in a year that, yeah, they're”
not making the playoffs. And we've really known it for a while now. It's still a very big has says they've won two world series. It's it's doing. Oh, no. But you can't care. You didn't you have to give the fans an opportunity the next year when you're going to have packed houses because he just won a world series. You have to give the fans an opportunity to celebrate the world series and Wayne Heisinga at the parade in 1997 says enjoy it now while it lasts and he tore the whole team down.
Yeah, there was a point after O3 where I will give credit to Jeffrey Lorie and David Samson. They were trying to compete. Oh, they were good. Oh, five. They spent money. No five. Yeah, they were still goto. They were good too. Yeah, they made big time acquisitions. They were going for it. And, you know, like the attendance did reflect that. It wasn't upticking in attendance.
“But you were going from a very low point to a point that wasn't really impressive. And then”
everybody argued well, we're trying this hard. But no one's showing up because the stadium is bad. People don't understand, Dave. Like the stadium? Well, you know, it's world class now. But for baseball every day, sometimes in the middle of the day, holy shit, like unbelievably hot. Like you missed that. I miss it too. And there were rain delays like every game. June in the middle of the day. Just for nostalgic purposes. But they were competitive there. And they were
trying. And I do think that there was an uptick in attendance just a little bit even though it was hard to get to. And then they threw it all away once they got the new ballpark because everything that they told us ended up being lies because they look, I don't want to do. Look, let's restart. No, it's opening day. Yeah. I'm just because Dave's here and I'm trying like, I'm trying to like explain why we're here. And how this is a new day and how there's momentum for the sport. And
for the first time in a long time, there's actually genuine enthusiasm and optimism surrounding
this ball club and playoff talk. I could listen to you guys talk about this for a few hours. I would the the lore sincerely of the Florida Marlins Miami Marlins and all the rest of it
From a distance nationally.
a half dozen or so years, one two championships and both are deeply resented by the rest of the nation. I mean, really in the history, in the last 50 years of big-time American sports, I don't think people nationally are more dismissive about a couple of championships. Then they are about those two Marlins World Series titles. What that does to you, I don't know, down in if that makes you guys puff your chest out even more or put a chip on your shoulder.
“Sincerely also Mike fellow driptriller. How much does the lack of consistency in the look?”
And and and really bring it home for me. Give me the one two three Marlins outfits, their uniforms because the deal is where they start. And then they just decide like one day, I can't stay him with you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, well, I know we used to be now we're black and orange. Like what what the hell? Yeah, you don't get the you know, well, what kind of voodoo are you trying to work on us? You don't get the just change your color scheme because you decide it's convenient for you.
You chose T-Lin black. Now deal with it. So right, yeah, Dave, I actually agree and I've argued this point. It's why I'm excited that the teals come and back on sun days because for a franchise
that's roster construction has always been very transient. There haven't been players that have
been here long enough to really put the roots down. And the second that you start feeling like, ah, this guy's a face of the franchise in all time or they end up getting moved. So for me, the connection point to my childhood when I watched every game, when I really loved the game,
“when I could honestly say baseball was my favorite sport. They were wearing teal. And so they”
move into this new ballpark. That's a shock to the system, whatever. And for their color scheme, you said black and orange. No, Dave, they picked every color. I think they like their logo was the entire color spectrum. Pick a color. It's outrageous. It's like OKC did the same crap. Like we're a new franchise. Now we're going to, we're, we're, we have the troubling choice of thunder, singular. Like we've talked about before. What, what, what the hell? I'm why, why couldn't you just go
twisters? Why couldn't you just be the OKC twisters? That would have been cool and said thunder, now the grammatical conundrum. And then on top of it, what's your color scheme? All, we're taking all. What do you mean? You know, you need like a couple of colors. No, we want them all. We're taking orange and we're taking two or three shades of blue. We're working some black. No, no, choose your colors. I'm with you. So then they decided to move to like black blue, caliente red. And that's
where they are right now. And for me, like, since I don't have luminaries really hanging around, since I don't have a player that has been around long enough during the time that I've been
really actively following the sport, I, the connection point that would always take me back
down in a solid trip would be those uniforms. To, I want to see a team on the field reflect that of my childhood. And I'm excited about the teal thing on Sunday, even though the teal jersey that they're wearing, they never actually wore during game. But I think that this franchise, it's the most obvious thing in the world. When you look at the problems that face this franchise and the connective tissue to the community, it's the easiest solution for me to say, let's go back to our
old look. That way, people can start feeling like they have some kind of connection. I used to like the cutoffs, the sleeveless that they used to wear. Hard to sell though. With, yeah, hard to sell.
“Like, that's why they, the MLB went away from that because guys don't want to buy vest on fanatics”
or whatever. I guess it's hard to rock that out of it. You know about that vest? Who's most likely, who's most likely to wear that in that room right now? I'm going to go within a, in a surprise, a slight upset over Tony. Mike Ryan Ruiz is the most likely to wear one of those out on the street on Ironically. I would, I would rock a vest to a game. I like Tony Connectley, Arrow. I think that I have my own frustrations with loan depot park. Hopefully they turn it around. It's not just the
atmosphere. It's the concessions. Like, I, look, I like college baseball. I love going to Marclite Stadium. There is tradition there. There is a community there. And I like the ping of the baseball bat. I have a team that, that, you know, it's college baseball. So I don't actually get attached to the
players. It's always the program. And those colors ain't a change in. Right? If the Marlins
can just guarantee me a good time because I've been there about like 10 times and say moved in the loan depot park, I'd go more. That's it. I'd go more. Yeah. It's a bad ballpark. Do you it? I don't like it. And I've gone to so many ball parks. I, even as somebody that would admit, I don't like the sport all that much anymore. I love sitting outside drinking a beer here in the crack of the bat, smelling the grass. It reminds me of a bygone era. I like it. Loan depot park
doesn't do it for me. Do we know what the set up is tonight, Jeremy? We do an roof window,
We know what the deal is.
allows it, right? The last thing you want is an opening day right now. So if the weather's holding
on, it would be a roof open if the weather is holding up. And it really plays into what Mike is talking about where you're looking for a reason to have connection. Sandial Contra is making his sixth opening day start to me. Yeah, not that is, that is actually a real rarity for this brand.
“No, he's, I think the next most history. It is a record. It is a record. But I was”
by the, it was probably a record four years ago. Yeah, it was a record probably before the time that the record twice. Yeah, it's crazy. Who was the three, like, Rikino Lasko? I think an Alaska Josh Beckett, I think had a few. I think there's a few guys Johnson. Yeah, Josh Johnson might have had a few there as well, but you'd be surprised how, how short of his time, he was. Josh Johnson is one of the best pictures in this franchise. Josh Johnson, he got great. He got
those battles with Roy Halliday. Dude, Doc. One of my, are these favorite memories is I was supposed to go to the Roy Halliday perfect game, but I had a JV baseball game and my dad was like, you know, you have commitments. You have commitments that you made to your team. You're supposed to be there. It was Josh Johnson against Roy Halliday. Johnson throws seven, seven innings, one
run. He was amazing. Roy Halliday throws a perfect game. And I wasn't there. I'll never, I'll never,
I'll never give my dad. Alaska, actually, never did it. A bunch of guys have done it twice. Only Josh Johnson did it three times, 10, 11 and 12. And then Beckett did it three times, three, four, three, four, five. But with San Diego conjure on the mound, like that, that's one of the things to look like. I got to hear, right? Is this opportunity for a guy in San D to come back and have a great year, Dave? Well, I just think it's, there's a weird paradox for Miami-based baseball
fans, baseball is huge in your part of the country. But playing it under a dome, like my kind of hints at, isn't terribly satisfying. It's just not the aesthetic that you want for, oh, that's
“us in bothersome or time. I hear you. That's, I think you have to accept that. If you're going to be”
a Marlins fan and be a regular at the ballpark, then you're going to go and sit under the dome.
But I suspect that a lot of people in theory, at least are purists about it. I want to be under the sun drinking up here and all of that. Dave, I get that. I get that. But again, playing it, pro player and sitting in the stands of pro player was playing on the surface of the sun. I prefer it. I prefer it. Then the surface of the side, prefer it, honestly, then the ambient home of the AC. And yeah, they said to set me to the heart. I just don't like it. It needs to do so. I can't take
in a character. It doesn't have character. Don't live a part. Our Panther group chat, we're confident against the lighting. This is a different team. Your Panther group chat. No, I think there's no, but dude, you're, you're so wrong on that. We've been terrified of this team forever. And I think there's a different energy where the Panthers, they want the lightning. Still gots. I want T-shirts made for this Panther run. What could be this Panther run? Our Panther group chat. We're not afraid of the
lighting. That's a tagline for World R3. This is the Dunlib at our show with this two gods. Why can't they do a thing like soccer stadiums do in Europe and now more and more you even see NFL stadiums Seattle kind of has that buffalo with their building. Looks like that where you cover at least the fans and get out of the severe sun. I know they have that adult, the dolphins game. They have that at hard rock. It's just not a complete covered thing, but I don't know. They made it covered
and like there's another we can do about it. They just don't want to read it. Yeah, they don't, it's that simple. Right now it's plagued this, this market for such a long time. And it was something that I would openly complain about because they were like half the time I would go to a Marlin's game. I was in the con course for like two and a half hours. It wasn't a short amount of time. I get it, but I would like to have the roof open a little bit more. I'd like to have the breeze running
through there a little bit more, but also I would just like, I would just like a better part. I think they miss a mark with a park and it's not like they can do much with it. But let's switch gears because we alluded to it as earlier. There was a Minnesota wild guy that really tapped into what little energy we had left about this disappointing hockey season. You want my attention? You got it. So the wild beat the Panthers last night, three, two. I mean the Panthers are really
feeling a mass unit at this point. Like Evan Rodriguez is now going to miss the remainder of the season. He broke his finger. Why are you laughing? I'm mass unit. I'm purpose. Why? I mean, what is it with the with the Florida NHL team? She's trying to game the system all the time. Anyway, all of a sudden, all of a sudden, the the species injuries are cropping up all over the way. It turns out we have to shut down two thirds of our team. All of a sudden. I don't think, you know,
“you follow the sport. I think you have an idea how much hockey this franchise has played and how”
beat up they've been in those runs. But I'd like to let Zaz continue to speak. There's a
Thing right?
with the empty net and then they gave up the winner with five seconds left. Tough loss. It could
“use the point. Anyway, so last night, apparently in the middle of the game and it's a photo,”
you could see on video, we'll put it up there. Some guy named Anthony Laplanta. All right, he apparently is the he's the play by play guy for the Minnesota wild. So get this. All right, mid game, if you were to zoom in, video team does not have to. But if you were to zoom into the scoreboard, this is almost six minutes into the start of the game. All right, it's very early in the game. And the Minnesota wild play by play guy decides in the middle of calling the action. I'm going to take
a photo of the crowd. And I'm going to post on Twitter. And I'm going to accompany that caption by saying, good to see all of those, quote, die hard life long Panther fans that were seen in
public for the first time ever during the Stanley Cup finals have gone back into hiding and end
of tweets. So now this isn't this isn't some podcaster who follows the Minnesota wild. This isn't some blogger who follows the Minnesota wild. This is their actual play by play television announcer who decides we are going to come after Panther fans for not showing up at the end of the season, which by the way, the announced crowd last night, just under 19,000. It was a good crowd just under 19,000. It hasn't seen a bad crowd from us. No, no, I've seen plenty of bad crowds. And most importantly
is as in that photo to boost his argument, it's it's clubred. He's giving Dave. So you got to understand here. He's pointing the picture at the clubred, although it's not called that anymore. Whatever it's called, amaran, amaran vault. This is the the two sections center ice, which have the all you can eat buffet, which I don't know about you Dave, but if I purchase those seats in the amaran vault, I'm probably going to spend a few minutes at the all you can eat buffet before I
get to my seat to get drinks. It's a big time hospitality area for the Panthers. And so he points there and does the whole die hard life long Panther fans have gone back into hiding. Let me also remind everybody, okay, that this don't doesn't point out to everyone. Let me remind everybody, he told the Minnesota, the city of Minnesota, had their hockey team taken from them. And I'm sure it had nothing to do with fan support. Their team moved to Texas. Texas. The city of
Minnesota is in fact two cities. It's I like it very much too. By the way, it's the twin cities. What goes on there, by the way? It's the same thing. They're good with Tampa and St. Pete. I don't understand. I don't get the I didn't take civics class. What goes on that you're allowed to be Minneapolis and St. Paul and just count as one. That explains Zazlo's confusion. You also all have to understand. NHL people is somebody who has been an NHL die hard for 25, 40 years now.
There's a collective there's a collective chip on the shoulder about the sport and how people support it or don't and all of that. People are much it's like liking an indie band versus a major
“label band. If you feel like you you have to defend it a little bit more. You know, like you”
too, doesn't need to be defended, but built to spill or modest mouse does or pavement. They need you to perpetuate them a little bit more. I think that but but nevertheless, pretty crappy stuff out of the play by play guy from from Minnesota. Of course, I'm with Zazlo. I haven't read as isn't playing because he has a hurt finger. The music I'm going to sit there and watch the game though. I'm going to go down in the bowels and eat all you can eat. I'm going to go for
play number four and watch world series from several months ago. If anyone was unclear what this guy Anthony does for a living. He clearly has the microphone in his profile picture. That's when you know someone's really made it is when they put the microphone. It's the Dom Draper me. I don't think about you at all. Why why you're a Minnesota wild play by play guy. I don't I barely think of you. What is a wild. That's right. See outside. Jeremy, Tony needs some opening day tips. He's going.
He doesn't even know if he's ever been to an opening date. I don't think so. Maybe. I mean, what a childhood. I don't like what he's doing. I go to closing this. And Steve Miller,
and you have a Marlin's storyline top five for us. Yeah, I do. I have basically everything that
“you need to know and be thinking about in terms of what this season is going to look like for”
the Marlin's based off last year. So a couple of OLIs last year. There were several rookies.
First year players who contributed to that roster in a big way.
There are guys coming back for their second year. The question will be coming in the long run.
Who were the guys that come up this year and contribute? Is it Thomas White or Robby Snelling, the left-handed pictures who were at the very top of their prospects list? Is it Joe Mack, the star catcher who could come up maybe by May or so? Is it Camp Alderman, a power hitting outfielder that they could go to for some right-handed pop Tony? Say two of the names he just said. Uh, Mack, Mack. Jack Mack was it Jack Mack? Joe Mack. But Jack Mack's back, Jack.
Another OLI. The Marlin's calling pitches from the dugout. So the Marlin's and the Met's followed suit. I don't like this. The Met's followed suit here, but the Marlin's pitching coaches will be the ones calling the game. They'll be signaling to the catcher and the pitcher through pitchcom. It's, they're scouting. They're control and they're taking
that out of the thought process for the catcher. It's just, hey, here's what we're executing.
I'm ready to go. They were doing it at the minor league system last year to a lot of success. There is the pitchcom in their year. He has an earpiece in there. They all have a catcher and the pitcher both have an earpiece. The entire field has it so that they can know what's coming. I heard Clayton Kershaw say last night on the NBC broadcast that he's skeptical that a lot of teams are using this to, like, any time they want to, like, slow an offense down and get away from the pitchclock,
you just act like you're having an issue with the monitor. I like the tire shifts. I thought I saw that during the WBC when I first discovered that our time on our tradition of signs from the catcher. It's a way to throw people off without breaking it. That's interesting. I'm going to try to pay attention to that. Wait, so they will pause the pitchclock if you have an problem with your earpiece. If you're like, yeah, pseudo mound visit. The tech issue, almost. I mean, they don't, they don't pause the NFL,
play clock when you're having a problem with your headset, you know? All right. I mean, it's something that happens here, but the marlins are going to be calling pitches from the dugouts, so we'll see how that impacts their pitching. Number five, how do those two productive rookies from last year,
fair, this season in Augustine, Ramirez and Jacob Marcy? I thought that was the first of a lot.
How the rookies do? No. Those are the guys that could come up. This is how will the guys do in their software or years. Also, Jack. Go back with us. He tonight. Joe Mac you're not going to see tonight. Jacob Marcy makes a bar stool influencer. Jacob Marcy and Gus Ramirez, the gustine Ramirez, those were the two star rookies for the marlins of the first half of the year. It was the gustine
“Ramirez who came up, lit the world on fire and it's a catcher. Could it be us? That's, that's what”
we have to see. It's can he do it. And as Jacob Marcy is good as he was last year, because if he is, he is a building block for this organization, he's star in the making of the marlins. Could the marlins calling pitches from the dugout be that they don't trust Augustine Ramirez defensively at all. Whether it's Gus, whether it's Liam Hicks, whether it's Joe Mac is going back to him a star like a star in the making defensively in particular. And they were doing this with him in the
minor leagues as well. This is them just wanting to execute from the top down everything that they have and they're taking that out of the hands so that they can rely on defense. So the they can focus on ABS. Put up on our screen. What it looks like. That's the pitch come splitter low inside low middle. Like it just seems very complicated. Number four, how will Kyle Stowers fare this season? Now you're not going to see Stowers tonight. He's starting the year on the I.L. But he should
be coming back soon. He said yesterday that he's feeling, you know, a lot better. Tony's called I.L now. It's called I.L. It is called the I.L. Not the vehicle. I have some sensitivity. Um, injured list. So Kyle Stowers last year was an all star. It was one of the best left-handed hitters in baseball for pretty much the entire time he played. He was a top five to eight
“MVP candidate throughout most of the season. Really, he was can't until until he got hurt. Really?”
Yeah, he was and then actually not that that's not that surprising. He was having a great season um and and as of I think it was July. It was like him and show hey where the only guys are he and judge where the only guys who were hitting above a certain average with certain amount of home runs. He was great. What happens from here? Number three. Who is this year's Kyle Stowers? Who's the guy that shows up and has a year where
you think he's going to be good and then he's great. They're going to need at least one of those. It could be out of Lopez. It could be Grand Polly. It could be Gus Ramirez. Number two is Sandy. The guy. Is he back to the back Jack? Is Sandy back Jack? Is he the guy from the first half of the last season coming off Tommy John? Is he the guy from the second half of the season where he's in ace? He and Yuri Perez can be the best one to punch in baseball if they're both
that they're best people are predicting him for the psi on. And number one. Which one? Sandy or Yuri?
“Yuri. Number one. How will Jeremy Tashay fare as the end game hosts for the start of this season?”
We talked about it on our live stream yesterday. I'm looking he's got the first two series. I do. I think marlins are giving them a little try out. I think my man cleans up here. They go six and oh I can't stop. Sorry Jeremy. I'm a Ryan Baskai because of the the nature Sure, my subscription. - Damn.
