Local Hour: Happy Marlins Opening Day

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It's like his bag, Jack.

Let's keep on doing it every year.

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What a run.

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 pal.

Dave Damacek.

He's out there on the west coast.

Hello, Dave.

Good morning.

Yo, yo, yo, 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 chicharrones.

No, we did not have chicharrones.

We did not have chicharrones.

We didn't have.

We had croquetteicas.

We had patalitos.

We had a little bit of a Cuban sandwich situation.

We had a little bit of a whole 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 get a spread every morning here,

every lunch, they couldn't believe it.

They actually served dinner too.

It's odd.

I don't know why I know it's every year.

I mean granted, you know, they get Christine Lee sees cookies and that's certainly.

Those are fire.

You know, come on.

But they just have a jar of salt.

They couldn't believe 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 in 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 about this guy.

So, 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 do they sport besides MMA or football?

I'm on to you, Tony.

That's not true.

I'm basketball too.

All right, you get three.

Any outside of those three, I'm on to you.

Okay, hold on.

Before Jeremy gets into, you know, 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?

If I've been to an opening day.

I'm like, really?

Yeah.

So many great memories.

Emilio Bonifacio's inside the park home run.

Who can forget?

Yep.

I mean, that year was so funny because, you, I mean, obviously Mike, like that year,

oh, Dan was getting hit with it from all angles because of Emilio Bonifacio.

Like, Dave, do you even know, have you ever even heard the name Emilio Bonifacio?

I like it.

Well, if you want me to say no, I'll say no for the sake of the best.

Yes, I've heard of him.

I've heard of him.

Yes.

You know what's going on.

Yes, there you go.

You know what's going on.

Dave watched sports.

I mean, Dan got crushed after the start of that season if I'm remembering it correctly, right?

Yeah.

Like, Bonifacio, like three hits and then 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, Dan was right, but nobody cared because we had all had our fun.

Wow.

So Tony, you've never been to an opening day.

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 even been to a major league baseball game before 19.

I mean, how would I, right?

How would I have been to a major league baseball game before we got the Marlins in 93?

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 taken out of school early

by their father to go to major, to go to opening day down here, obviously, for the Marlins.

I was always so jealous, Dave, I never got to do that.

Yeah, I mean, what are my dad had a job that he couldn't just leave in the middle of the day?

He's, you know, like, I never got a pad, pay it forward.

First of all, I think I mentioned it a week ago during the tournament.

Mo Damacechek once boosted me from school.

So I could go home and watch the pit Panthers play in March Madness against Carl Malone and Louisiana Tech.

The pit Panthers lost that day, but the big winner, Dave Damacechek, 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.

You can see the Dodgers at Chavez Reveen.

It was, 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.

Oh, is 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 know clearly Tony and do that either.

There is no if he's been to an opening day period.

I've been to a lot of closing days.

What?

Yeah.

You felt like instead of going to the first game.

I'm going to go to the last game.

There's pop and circumstance.

Right.

You got a lot of hope.

Let me go to the last game.

Yeah.

When it means nothing.

Right.

Those are great games.

I had an appreciation.

Not only that, it was the concert series.

That's all the Steve Miller band.

Oh.

It was Pirates.

It was Pirates, Marlins, the last game of the season.

Wasn't Willie Chorino?

No, no.

Steve Miller band.

Like he said, the idiot.

Thank you.

Steve Miller band.

And it was the last day.

I think it was the last game at Pro Player.

Who was an Elkron combo?

If it was the last game of Pro Player.

So it was 2011 then.

Yeah.

That was the last somewhere around there.

All right.

They had some bangers and some like regrettable ones.

Like Diddy played.

Ooh.

Yeah.

I want to see that one.

What a shock.

What a 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.

Oh, let's not do that.

Why are we doing that?

This is the most exciting day of the year for Marlins fans.

They're expecting a good crowd.

According to the Travel King Sportsbook.

This is because the Rockies are terrible.

Yes.

And have been for a little bit here.

The Marlins are favored, expected to win.

Yeah.

I put my finger on the pulse of Marlins fans.

They're excited about this.

Yeah.

Oh, you've pulled Marlins fans?

I'm doing my best.

I'm done being like, the NBA sucks and baseball sucks.

I'm trying again.

I'm done saying that.

You know, it's boring because I don't watch it.

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 do they do last year?

That would tell me I missed something.

They 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.

Wow.

They had the best run in franchise history tied with the 2003 season

where they won the World Series.

So really, 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.

Well, I don't understand why we have to roll our eyes out.

I just don't know if I can actually follow it because I believe the package that I got was

keep raise.

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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 ahead of NBA now, right?

Do we agree on that?

Absolutely not.

Baseball in NBA ahead of NBA.

And what metric?

In any metric.

In pleasure.

No, I know.

All right.

So that's one of the metrics.

That's a no.

Do you have any other metrics?

Any other metrics?

I don't care about what the ratings are.

I'm not one of those people about like, well, look at where the audience.

That is neither here nor there.

So not a single metric.

Straight up.

Visually.

Right.

Yeah.

My opinion is is that I am much more interested in Major League Baseball.

But I also feel that there's something in the air 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 pastime.

Well, 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 Baseball has done a much better job

at adapting and being progressive with the times than the NBA has where you look at the things

that the NBA and that nothing Adam Silver have tried to do to fix the league.

Nothing has worked.

And you look at Major League Baseball, the changes that they've made when it comes to

pay supply.

And now we're going to see the ABS this year.

Like, I think, I think pretty much everything that Major League Baseball has done to try and

help the game along has worked.

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 as a team that needs to do some drastic rule

changes to adapt to the style of play because the math has kind of gained the system.

Much like Baseball.

And Baseball was always reputed to be the sport that was so against change.

Yep.

And here they are trying to change with the times and the NBA inexplicably because there

was a clear and 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.

Well, and the commissioner Adam Silver, you know, 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, Dave.

I mean, we're taught where 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%.

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% of the season.

I mean, 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?

Zaz who said let's not do the the world baseball classic versus Amarlin's regular season baseball

game.

But if they can somehow bridge some of that energy, I understand it's not going to be a sellout

with people going, gaga, inning to inning.

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.

Dodgers make baseball more compelling than the NBA, which is intentionally trying to create

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It's not going to work in the NBA or other sport.

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I mean, the Dodgers dynasty was a huge storyline in a world series

had injected a lot of enthusiasm around the sport.

I mean, Jeremy makes orgasm noises anytime that you mentioned.

I mentioned that's real pitch.

I watched it again the other night while I was sitting in a bar.

Tasha.

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 fall classic.

I can't get over it.

Now I'm going to get excited.

Andy Pah has collided with Kike Hernandez in the album.

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 is a lot of momentum.

Hopefully there's a good crowd today at Lone Depot Park.

There should be.

There should be.

Hopefully there's enough concession stand workers.

They did a great job doing it.

But to Dave's point.

I've seen some ball parks 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 in my family.

I don't think the Marlins are totally incapable of recapturing that energy,

but it is highly dependent on the Marlins putting on track.

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 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 while play by play.

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 God knows how long.

But because they were great in the childhood of so many people that are now in their 60s.

I don't think this rule that you are putting out there applies to the NFL.

The NFL is like 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.

I mean, the heat had been 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 house.

Says they've won two world series.

It's doing it.

Oh, no.

But you can't tear.

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 Heitzinger at the parade in 1997 says enjoy it now while it lasts.

And he tore the whole team down.

Yeah, there was, there was a point after 03 where I will give credit to Jeffrey Laurie and David Samson.

They were trying to compete.

Oh, four, they were good.

Oh, five.

They spent money.

No five post.

Oh, God, they were good too.

Yeah, they made big time acquisitions.

They were, they were going for it.

And, you know, like the attendance did reflect that.

It wasn't uptick 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 while, you know, it's world class now.

But for baseball every day, sometimes in the middle of the day, holy shit.

Like unbelievably hot.

Tough.

Like you missed that.

I missed 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, cause Dave's here and I'm trying, 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 ballclub and playoff talk.

I am, 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, I think both.

It's, it is wild that one franchise in the span of 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 or 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 or put a chip on your shoulder.

Sincerely also Mike fellow driptriller.

How much does the lack of consistency in the look and really bring it home for me.

Give me the one two three Marlins outfits, their uniforms because the teal is where they start.

And then they just decide like one day I can't stay in one team.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well, I know we used to be.

Yeah, now we're, now we're black in orange.

Like what, what the hell?

You don't get to, you know, what, what kind of food are you trying to work on us?

You don't get to just change your color scheme because you decide it's convenient for you.

You chose teal and black.

Now deal with it.

So yeah, Dave, I actually agree and I've argued this point.

It's why I'm excited that the teal is coming back on Sundays 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, oh, 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.

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're we have the troubling choice of thunder singular like we've talked about before.

What the hell?

And why why why couldn't you just go twisters?

Why couldn't you just be the OKC twisters?

That would have been cool instead 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?

No, 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, calliente red.

And that's where they are right now.

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.

The connection point that would always take me back down a nostalgia trip would be those uniforms.

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 were wearing,

the 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.

Yeah.

Hard to sell.

That's why the MLB went away from that because guys don't want to buy vest on fanatics or whatever.

I guess you're right.

It's hard to rock that attitude about that vest.

Who's most likely to wear that in that room right now.

I'm going to go with in a surprise, a slight upset over Tony.

Mike Ryan Ruiz is the most likely to wear one of those out on the street unironically.

I would, I would rock a vest to a game.

I like Tony Kinnigliero.

I think that I have my own frustrations with Lone Depot Park.

Hopefully they turn it around.

It's not just the atmosphere.

It's a concessions.

Like, look, I like college baseball.

I love going to Mark Light 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 a 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 Lone Depot Park.

I'd go more.

That's it.

I'd go more.

Yeah, it's a bad ballpark, dude.

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.

Lone Depot Park doesn't do it for me.

Do we know what the setup is tonight, Jeremy?

Are we doing roof windows?

Do we know what the deal is?

The plan is always roof open on opening day.

So long as the weather allows it, right?

The last thing you want is an opening day rain out.

So if the weather is holding on.

It was good.

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 tonight.

Yeah.

That is actually a real rarity for this friend.

Yeah.

No, he's, I think the next most history.

It is a record.

It is a record.

It was probably a record four years ago.

Yeah.

It was a record probably before the time.

He said the record twice.

Yeah.

It's crazy.

Who was the three?

That's a great idea.

That's a great idea.

That's a great idea.

That's a great idea.

Josh Becket I think had a few.

I think there's a few guys Johnson.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Josh Johnson might have had a few there as well.

You'd be surprised how.

Josh Johnson was kind.

Josh Johnson was one of the best pitchers in this franchise.

But very good.

He got great.

He got all those battles with Roy Halliday.

Dude, Doc.

One of my least favorite memories is I was supposed to go to the Roy Halliday perfect

game.

But I had a J.V.

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.

And it was Josh Johnson against Roy Halliday.

Johnson throws seven, seven innings one run.

He was amazing Roy Halliday.

There's a perfect game.

And I wasn't there.

I'll never.

I'll never give my dad a last go.

I 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 Becket did it three times.

3, 0, 3, 0, 4, 0, 5.

But with Sandi, I'll conjure on the mound.

Like, that's one of the things to look forward to here, right?

Is this opportunity for a guy in Sandi to come back

and have a great year, Dave?

Well, I just think it's it.

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 doesn't bother me more 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 a beer and all of that.

Dave, I get that.

I get that.

But again, playing a pro player and sitting in the stands of pro player

was playing on the surface of the sun.

I'd prefer it.

I prefer it.

The surface of the sun.

I prefer it, honestly, than the ambient home of the AC.

And the AC set to set to work.

I just don't like it.

It needs to do something that happened to character.

It doesn't have character.

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Our Panther Group Chat, we're confident against the lighting.

This is a different team.

You're a Panther Group Chat.

No, I think there's no, but dude, 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.

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Why can't they do a thing like soccer stadiums do in Europe?

And now more and more, you even see NFL stadiums Seattle.

It 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.

At Dolphins Games, 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 way to do about it.

They just don't want all the rain closes it.

Yeah, they don't.

That's simple.

Rainouts plagued this market for such a long time.

And it was something that I would openly complain about.

Because we're like half the time I would go to a Marlins 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 a better park.

I think they miss a mark with the 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 fielding a mash unit at this point.

Like Evan Rodriguez is now going to miss the remainder of the season.

He broke his finger.

Why are you loving a mash unit on 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, these 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.

You know, you follow the sport.

I think you have an idea of 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 day anyway.

He has a hurt finger.

Really tough loss last night.

The Panthers scored a tie with the empty net.

And then they gave up the winner with five seconds left.

Tough loss.

It could have used the point.

So last night, apparently in the middle of the game, and it's a photo, you can see on video,

we'll put it up there.

Some guy named Anthony La Planta.

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, the 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.

This guy hasn't seen a bad crowd for months.

No, no, I've seen plenty of bad crowds.

And most importantly, he's has in that photo to boost his argument.

It's club red.

He's, Dave, so you got to understand here.

He's pointing the picture at the club red, although it's not called that anymore,

whatever it's called.

Amorant.

Amorant vault.

This is 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 Amorant vault,

I'm probably going to spend a few minutes at the all you can eat buffet before I get to my seat.

And you get drinks.

It's a big time hospitality area for the Panthers.

So he points there and does the whole die hard lifelong Panther fans have gone back into hiding.

Let me also remind everybody, okay, that this dope doesn't point out to everyone.

Let me remind everybody, 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.

The team moved to Texas.

Texas.

The city of Minnesota is, in fact, two cities.

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 that goes 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's, that explains Zazzleau's confusion.

You also have to understand NHL people as 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.

It's like liking an indie band versus a major label band.

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 Zazzleau.

But I haven't Rodriguez isn't playing because he has a hurt finger.

You think I'm going to sit there and watch the game now.

I'm going to go down in the bow and eat all you can eat.

I'm going to go for plate number four watch world series from several months ago.

If anyone was unclear what this guy has 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 in his profile picture.

It's the dumb draper me.

I don't think about you at all.

What is it? 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 outsides.

Jeremy, Tony needs some opening day tips.

He's going.

He doesn't even know if he's ever been to an opening day.

I don't think so.

I mean, what a childhood.

I don't like what he's doing.

It's closing days.

I go to closing days though.

And Steve Miller bank.

And you have a Marlins 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 Marlins 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.

So good rookies.

Good rookies.

There are guys coming back for their second year.

The question will become in the long run.

Who are the guys that come up this year and contribute?

Is it Thomas White or Robbie Snelling?

The left-handed pitchers 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 Kemp Alderman, a power-hitting outfielder that they could go to for some right-handed pop Tony?

Say two of the names he just said.

Mack, Mack, Jack Mack.

Was it Jack Mack?

Joe Mack.

But Jack Mack.

Jack Mack's back, Jack.

Another OLI.

The Marlins calling pitches from the dugout.

So the Marlins and the Mets followed suit.

I don't like this.

The Mets followed suit here.

But the Marlins pitching coaches will be the ones calling the game.

They'll be signaling to the catcher and the pitcher through pitchcom.

It's their scouting, their control, and they're taking that out of the thought process for the catcher.

It's just, hey, here's what we're executing and we're ready to go.

They were doing it at the minor league system last year to a lot of success.

Where is the pitchcom?

In their ear.

In their ear.

He has an earpiece in it.

Yeah, they all have.

The catcher and the pitcher both have an earpiece.

And 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,

anytime they want to like slow an offense down and get away from the pitch clock,

you just act like you're having an issue with the monitor.

I kind of tie your shoes.

I thought I saw that during the WBC when I first discovered that our time-honored tradition of signs from the catcher.

It's a way to throw people off without breaking your rules.

That's interesting.

I'm going to try to pay attention to that.

Wait, so they will pause the pitch clock if you're having a problem with your...

If you're like, yeah.

So you don't mound visit.

The tech issue almost.

I mean, 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 fare this season in Augustine Ramirez and Jacob Marcy?

I thought that was the first though alive.

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, check back up back to see tonight.

Joe Maggard, I'm going to see tonight.

Jacob Marcy.

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Jacob Marcy and Gus Ramirez.

Augustine Ramirez.

Those were the two star rookies for the Marlins of the first half of the year.

It was Augustine Ramirez who came up lit the world on fire as a catcher.

Could it be?

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.

A star in the making.

Could the Marlins.

Building block.

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, but Joe Mac is a, like going back to him,

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 that they can focus on ABS.

They just put up on our screen.

What it looks like.

That's the pitchcom.

Split or 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 because he's starting the year on the IL,

but he should be coming back soon.

He said yesterday that he's feeling, you know, a lot better than it was.

It's called IL now.

It's called IL.

It is called the IL.

Not the deal.

Have some sensitivity.

Yeah.

Injured list.

So Kyle Stowers last year was an all star.

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 candidates throughout most of the season.

Really?

He was.

No.

Until he got hurt.

Really?

Yeah.

He was in the National League.

That's not that surprising.

He was having a great season.

And as of I think it was July, it was like him and Shohei were the only guys here.

He and Judge were the only guys who were hitting above a certain average with a certain amount

of homeruns.

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 Otto Lopez.

It could be Graham Polly.

It could be Gus Ramirez.

Number two.

Is Sandy the guy?

Is he back to be 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 an ace?

He and Yuri Perez can be the best one to punch in baseball if they're both that their best people are predicting him for the sayon.

And number one.

Which one?

Sandy or Yuri?

Yuri.

Number one.

The little Jeremy Tashay Fair is the in-game host for the start of this season.

We talked about it on our live stream yesterday.

He's got the first two series.

I do.

I think Marlins are giving him a little tryout.

I think my man cleans up here.

Or they go six and no.

I can't stop.

Sorry, Jeremy.

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