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00:00oh you're doing a little uh boys of summer jimmy oh yeah it's the wrong version
00:10it's the right version the right version
00:14is don henley boys of summer this is the ataris right yes yeah weak
00:23i love that strom brought the uh the prop he got the prop i like the prop every appearance better
00:29steven strom is on the toyota of hollywood hotline he's one of the radio voices for your miami
00:35marlins right here on wqam marlins begin a six game homestand tonight at lone depot park got
00:43the mariners in town for three and then the guardians for three and there should be massive
00:48fan support because as we sit here right now the marlins are a wild card team are you shocked
00:55steven at just how good they've been in june now july and the fact that they are sitting here
01:01in a wild card position yes i am i'm shocked uh i'm shocked about the 20 and six i'm shocked
01:10about
01:11how they did it and when they did it yes i i am i am now i thought they were
01:16a good team coming into
01:17this year i liked a lot of the pieces but how they have come together in what was like an
01:24influx starting
01:25rotation it's been incredible and it's no longer a run now guys it's no longer oh it's been a nice
01:31hot team for a couple of weeks they've been one of the best teams in baseball if you actually look
01:35back last year of june they've been the fifth best team from a record standpoint back in 2025
01:41starting in that month of june and they have carried it over they were eight games under 500
01:47on may 31st i mean this is unheard of what we are experiencing they're going for win number 50
01:53on the seventh day of july it took them last year until july 28th to win their 50th game yeah
02:00i am
02:00shocked talk um what's the answer well i know we're getting into the yuri stuff and the pitching stuff
02:06and and clayton mccullough's decisions but like you said from may 31st to now what changed because i
02:12always talk about bats i'm a very you know my son plays baseball hit the damn ball and we'll figure
02:18it
02:19out from there i always talk about bats but everybody else will talk about offense like
02:23what happened from may 31st to now well the offense was definitely a big part and it was a big
02:28part of
02:28the the three game series in sacramento we knew that they were going to hit in colorado and
02:32sacramento those 12 home runs they actually had in sacramento in three games is the most in
02:37franchise history in the three game set but to answer your question like what i believe in truly
02:42it's joe mac like to me joe mac has changed the complexity of the season he has caught 16 runners
02:48they're no longer trying to run on him i use this analogy i forget whose show i was on but
02:53like think
02:54of rudy gobert as a center guys that go to the lane and then pull back out he leads the
02:59league and
03:00neverminds joe mac is doing that now like people don't want to run on the marlins and they were doing
03:05that at an insanely high clip i mean they went from giving up the most stolen bags in baseball to
03:11now having a legitimate arm back there that is also hitting so i think like since joe mac has
03:18gotten up here it's a domino effect he catches runners guys on the mound don't worry about as
03:23much they can throw their breaking balls in the dirt if there's a runner on third guys don't have
03:27to throw as many pitches it's a complete domino effect uh quarterback is the most position uh most
03:31important position in football i think that other than the pitcher having a great defensive catcher
03:37is vital to a team success you tweeted a couple weeks ago i think it was right before maybe it
03:44was
03:44last week right before auto lopez got the all-star nod you compared his stats to hanley ramirez in 2010
03:52when he was an all-star i loved hanley absolutely loved hanley i have vivid memories of going a pro
03:58player with a hanley ramirez jersey um it now auto's a starter or i'm sorry he's going to the
04:05all-star game to represent the fish has he kind of separated himself right now as the the fish's
04:10best position player this season because there were a couple guys last year that we were kind of hoping
04:15would would carry over that momentum but it feels like auto lopez is that dude right now and i i
04:22didn't
04:22get to watch hanley obviously down here in miami i wasn't here it's i was in new jersey watching
04:26you know a rod and all those guys but uh yes he has and this is something that we were
04:32told over
04:32the offseason uh by the manager clayton mccullough told us he usually gives us a guy to click over the
04:38offseason actually last year it was edward cabrera who ended up clicking and this year it was auto lopez
04:44completely i mean the defense that we get every single day at shortstop him running the bases it's
04:51hard like when you look at his baseball savant this is a good one for you hawk to get advanced
04:55analytics so
04:55we can really get a baseball in your hands all right i'm ready baseball savant.com if you go to
05:00auto lopez's heat zones which is showing the plate all right everything is hot i mean it's you don't
05:06even know how he's hitting balls out of the zone he's getting balls in the zone it's hard to pitch
05:10to him right now what is he hitting like 330 i mean it's unbelievable let me see here auto lopez
05:17player of
05:17the week 346 he's 123 hits he's 39 multi-hit games it's july 7th i mean it's unheard of 39
05:26multi-hit
05:27games it's the most since miguel cabrera here he broke the record so yes to answer your question
05:32auto lopez has been the best position player and uh i don't even know if it's honestly close right now
05:37i hate his i hate his pre his his batting stance though why it just looks weird he's all down
05:44low and
05:44he wiggles yeah high and his back foot his front foot is working for him i know it's working for
05:50him i just hate it i don't i would enjoy his i don't enjoy his pre-pitch stance i like
05:55the fact
05:55though that if laurie catches me on my phone checking out an internet site late at night i can
06:00say well i'm checking out a heat zone looking for heat zones here let's see where that leads
06:08all right let's get to let's bring the heat here so let's talk about the decision to pull
06:13yuri after seven perfect innings on why didn't we just start with this we knew this is where you
06:18wanted to go you media jackals so clayton mccullough has explained his decision making and we all
06:24understand it by the way i do understand i even said yesterday on the show had yuri been pitching
06:28a no hitter i'd have been all for pulling him because a no hitter while special is not as special
06:34as a
06:34perfect game i totally disagree with clayton mccullough stealing an opportunity from someone
06:40that they will probably never see again in their career so i'll ask you and i know you i you
06:47and i
06:47have texts about it i know you that you ultimately agree with the decision to pull him were you shocked
06:52though when you saw at the end of the seventh that he really wasn't going to be back out there
06:58no no i wasn't shocked you're a liar again like yuri so it's funny i'll get to your i'll get
07:06to the
07:06question in a second but you know two weeks ago we had a chance to watch sandy break the all
07:11-time
07:12franchise lead in in strikeouts and in the dugout was 23 year old yuri perez who is next to sandy
07:19with
07:20his locker who has followed in his footsteps and you know looking at yuri taking that moment was kind of
07:26like you're gonna break all of those records like that is going to be you should be the strikeout
07:31leader you should be the innings pitch leader you should be the game started all that kind of stuff
07:36so i think it's just funny you know a week and a half later we have this big thing i
07:40was not surprised
07:41because he's coming off the il and for what clayton said in his post game is 100 true we need
07:49yuri in the
07:49second half now what what do we do if he throws 110 pitches is he fine we don't have that
07:55we don't
07:56have that answer you know but we do have a guy that had tommy john surgery that um that hurt
08:03his
08:03gracilis which is on the inside of your thigh have fun with that hock i'll check that out this is
08:15down to a 23 year old lori i'm sorry i'm just doing what steven strong told me to do on
08:21the
08:22checking out the grillers i knew what i was doing there but it comes down to the yuri perez is
08:30is a
08:30prize jewel in this organization and as much as i know there's a lot of fans it was actually really
08:36surreal being in that environment and listening to that crowd in sacramento i'm the first to say that
08:42but the reasoning behind it it's like and clayton said opposed to like we need him if we want to
08:47get
08:47to the post season like we need him he was on a pitch count we we felt good about where
08:52he was at
08:53and uh and that's that you know marlins thank goodness because this could have gotten way worse
08:57and i know that if the marlins would have lost that game it you know we're probably still talking about
09:02it
09:02but uh i just for me i love at this point on july 7th that we are having this is
09:09the complaint
09:09like oh my god like yuri had a perfect game and i gotta be honest with you like there's going
09:15to
09:15be another time where yuri's going to be in that situation i don't know if it's going to be the
09:18seventh
09:18i don't know you want to bet yes there's been 24 perfect games in major league baseball history he
09:23will never go into the seventh pitching a perfect game again all right let's and i love yuri perez
09:28and by the way i wore a marlins head yesterday saying i think it's funny that we can have this
09:33conversation about a terrible decision and still we can celebrate the marlins and everything that
09:37they're doing but no rod allen said he'll take that bet too he's just tell rod that i'm in on
09:42that
09:42one i asked rod to come on the show a few weeks ago and he couldn't come on the show
09:48put on your
09:48headset rod i mean we could we could put you up real quick hey i got your back because we
09:54got to hear
09:54how radio voice supposed to sound right here hey what's going on fella look at that rod allen you you
09:58you text me very politely and i very politely answered and said i was traveling that day which i was
10:04true
10:04and get back at me i'll be happy to do it and did he get back never got back oh
10:09he didn't get back
10:10i was in europe uh admittedly i was uh i was in europe and i was uh unavoidably detained
10:17roddy took a two he took two weeks off rod yeah anytime you want to talk some baseball man i'm
10:22around
10:22and i love talking face but rod you can you can acknowledge yuri perez will never have another
10:27perfect game going after seven again in his career i watch verlander pitch every fifth day
10:32i watch randy johnson pitch every fifth day when i started my broadcasting career in arizona and
10:38every time they took the mound dude you thought they were going to throw a no-hitter i'm serious
10:44when he gets older he will fall into that same kind of category go ahead and say what you're going
10:49to say go ahead i was going to say you talk you brought up verlander and randy johnson now like
10:54that's what that's what we're doing yeah man do you not think geary at some point in time could
10:59end up where those guys are i just i hope so i'm a marlin fan but man he can i've
11:05been doing this for
11:0550 years man the eerie he could very easily if he stays healthy and he plays on a team that
11:11wins some
11:12games he could end up right where verlander and and and and and randy johnson maybe not the way
11:18maybe not the wins because the game has changed but stuff wise he takes a back seat to very few
11:23yeah
11:23especially here guys like loan depot is a really picture friend again i get like i get why people
11:29were so ticked off like that's why i i wrote on on x i was like i get people are
11:33ticked off whatever but
11:35when you look at what the bigger picture here is and that's getting to the playoffs and that's
11:39ultimately winning a world series it's like we can legitimately say without laughing uh we need
11:45yuri paris and and he's going to be an integral part to the starting rotation and i will say that
11:50he
11:50will have a situation i don't know if it's the fifth sixth seventh there will be another time
11:54where he is that good where he can have his a stuff and a team can maybe not be great
11:58and he can get to
11:59a a sixth or a seventh inning with a perfect first inning second inning i mean i will i will
12:04say this
12:05i will say this guys that those of us are kind of in the know here with this ball club
12:08and kind of
12:08watch how they've gone about their business the last number of years we weren't surprised by what
12:13he did on sunday with yuri what the rest of the country was and i'm sure you guys are in
12:18that same
12:18category so uh you guys aren't alone in thinking the way that you think about a special situation but
12:24it was just different regarding yuri and this team and the circumstances i was i i get where you guys
12:29are though i was so angry when i realized he was getting pulled after the seventh that i would have
12:34fought rod allen that's that's how angry please please let me come when you do that because
12:41i just don't want that's how angry i was and sunday i think i could have taken rob
12:45that's how angry i was
12:50i'm gonna apologize for him i'm gonna apologize for him bro
12:59i'd be hiding behind crowder but but but like the thought the thought i know the analytics the
13:06pitch counts all the stuff the numbers the everything that people put into it the
13:10doctors saying this and that but like when you have a moment like that we talked about it with
13:15the dolphins when mike mcdaniel had a chance to score 73 and he just and he you know he just
13:22ran
13:22the ball not to do it where like you see this moment that can happen that's only been done 24
13:27times don't you throw that all that stuff out the window and just see the moment you have an
13:32individual player football is different like you can put in your third string guys and try to get
13:3770 points like you can't like well i guess it would have been cool to pitch a perfect game for
13:41a a combined perfect game but like this is an individual again like if he was fully healthy if
13:47he didn't have tommy john if he didn't just go off the il like yeah if he didn't i'd be
13:51like yeah i'm
13:52i'm in your your group but again like baseball is every day you need these pictures especially what
13:57is what has happened like we we lost yuri we lost jansen junk um so again that that's where we
14:03stand
14:03and i will say this too because i have managed i mean not in the big leagues but i have
14:07managed
14:07in the lower minor leagues and one of the things as a manager that you do not want to do
14:11uh you do
14:12not want your pitchers to get hurt on your watch so you want to do everything that you could possibly
14:16do to protect them and you really can't protect them but you try to protect them anyway there you go
14:22rada allen and steven strong we got the uh we got the quinella today that was fun i had to
14:29force my
14:30way in here i'll tell you what no we'll have you on this week but i would tell you what
14:33to to
14:34reiterate what strom was saying earlier we can talk about that decision just because it happens to be
14:41great content and to have something to talk about about the marlins coming off that game on sunday is
14:48interesting but it is july 7th they are a wild card team they are playing the best baseball in major
14:55league baseball and they've got a six game home stand starting tonight and by the way sunday is
15:01top gun hat day marlins have had some of the best giveaways in all of sports not just baseball the
15:08flanagan's jersey this season was the most badass flannies mashup jersey that they've done the yacht rock
15:14captain's hat is one of my all-time favorite sports giveaways but when the marlins host the guardians on
15:21sunday there's a top gun hat if you buy the special marlins ticket you get a top gun hat and
15:27it looks
15:27really cool i've seen it it looks really cool it's got oh look at what he's uh look what strom
15:31is
15:32wearing right now that a bucket hat you got a marlin it's reversible they do some good stuff i want
15:37that top gun hat though i may come to the game on sunday i want that top gun when are
15:41you coming to
15:41the booth boys it's a long walk up there oh come on i got bad knees i got bad knees
15:48the ice cream
15:49machine working yeah it is all right well then i'll be out there it's working gentlemen we'll be
15:58listening tonight thank you for your time we appreciate it thanks for having us guys appreciate
16:01talking to y'all i'm gonna text you rod you're gonna come on this week i'm good anytime all right
16:05rod allen joining steven strom and you can listen to the marlins tonight right here on 104.3 fm wqam
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