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The Miami Marlins lose their 9th in a row getting swept by the Houston Astros with a 5-2 loss. We evaluate Clayton McCullough's comments discussing how things are going with the Fish. Should the organization remain aggressive or consider trading pitcher Sandy Alcántara as the team falls further back in the wild-card race?

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00:00fish lose last night uh they lose 5-2 to the astros nine use me nine straight losses
00:07for miami uh you got my buttons up vlad i'm gonna play uh this is the uh the swing moment
00:13yesterday yordan alvarez uh going deep against sandy one one pena on the go alvarez smacks the
00:20ball out to left center field that is back that is gone sounds like mike biamani he is steph curry
00:32for
00:33three yordan alvarez on a 1-1 pitch peels a go-ahead two-run home run out to left center
00:42field
00:42over the high wall and left center atop the marlin bullpen and his major league leading
00:4934th home run this year gives houston a 4-2 lead in the bottom of the eighth the words of
00:55craig mish
00:58yikes he always tweets that out when things are going bad yeah uh here's clayton mccullough after
01:04the game this is uh what the manager had to say on where things are with his fish
01:10good i know that it wasn't the end sandy wanted but it felt like he gave you everything he had
01:14tonight yeah i feel i mean he was he was fantastic and i mean i thought he really was in
01:19control most
01:20of the night he had a very efficient you know pitch count and you know really moved things along well
01:26you know after the first couple of innings and um you know yeah so um hate how things we know
01:32went
01:32down there but you know i thought he threw the ball fantastic there was no answer for alvarez either
01:37the last couple of days yeah good hitter i mean he is and he kind of you know again he
01:40covers a lot of
01:41different you know pitches he covers you know both sides of the plate um you know and he's having a
01:46you know an all-star worthy season you know mvp type season and he did he uh put some really
01:51good
01:51swings on balls and you know he got us were there any encouraging signs offensively though tonight
01:56i thought we had a lot of really good at bats and i thought there were you know we created
01:59some
01:59opportunities that we hit some balls hard and um you know so that's really i think we just kind of
02:04keep plugging along with that you know you just i think the back quality as a whole was good
02:08tonight again i thought we squared some balls up you know griff drove a ball you know well to the
02:12big part of the field you know bert continues to swing the bat well so uh yeah there were i
02:17mean
02:17i think for me tonight offensively like you know we felt like this was one of those games you're just
02:21kind of in it you know the whole way and um you know we couldn't get one to you know
02:25squeak through
02:25there in the middle to to take over but um how it goes what what did you like about sandy
02:31tonight
02:32again how he just continues to me he's got a ton of ground balls now he's uh you know ability
02:37to like
02:37use all of his stuff use both sides of the plate um most part you know he's he's has count
02:41leverage
02:42it feels like you know most every at bat so he's just on the attack and he's using his entire
02:46arsenal
02:47and stuff's been great so i mean kind of what he's been doing now for a month plus which is
02:52going to
02:52deepen the games and giving us every chance to win just all right there you go that was uh
02:57clayton mcculley yesterday after the loss uh marlins dropped to 52 and 51 they're eight back now in the
03:05nl east uh in the wild card they are now a game and a half out of the final wild
03:11card spot so yeah
03:12just a complete and they have uh two teams on top of them uh rough can you tell ethan uh
03:21smith and
03:21spolnik to go to hell what do you say bro cover up your chesticles be a damn professional i can't
03:28moron
03:31i thought you were just trying to be sexy oh yeah come get somebody
03:39i'm not just a little wrapped up oh no not feeling that right now he was a yeller
03:48so uh yeah the marlins uh got san diego coming in this week they're 50 and 52
03:54uh they're kind of mulling around trading some of their top guys oh they gotta feel worse because
04:01they spent a boatload of money they do spend a lot of money but i mean you know all money
04:07ain't good
04:08money i don't know who feels worse than a team that's lost nine in a row that's not in a
04:12row that's
04:12true i don't care what level i don't care what level uh of expectations you have or what level of
04:22team you are at that level um nine in a row sucks it's the same thing in football you lose
04:30three four
04:31or five games in a row i mean it it's terrible i don't care what people think like when you
04:39get
04:39into that arena you think you can win i don't care how bad your team is and i don't know
04:45why people
04:45just think that athletes go in there and say oh we're not very good we're gonna get our asses kicked
04:51it really doesn't work that way yeah i guess the question is now going to be like do the marlins
04:56go
04:56into this thing because it's it's so fragile like we were talking about the idea that they were going
05:00to add to this team and maybe add to the roster now do they go you know and go the
05:06opposite direction
05:06the opposite way you know it's going to be one of those things where they they do take offers for
05:10sandy because they the owner's been very out front we're not trading sandy alcantara but this is the
05:15i always say that i think part of the problem is is that i think before you make a major
05:22decision like
05:23that right like take a step back right don't like as an organization you can't be on the same level
05:37with fans you got to see big picture you got to see a little further down the line instead of
05:42oh let's
05:43just tank because two weeks ago we were talking about adding guys to get them over the hump yeah
05:53but so how in two weeks two weeks later nine straight losses dude like that's how it goes yeah like
05:58you
05:58what that's like that's a disastrous losing streak it is i'm not losing it's not losing three straight
06:04series and you're three and six you lost every game no i i again i understand all of that
06:13but you're gonna choose nine games out of 162 to say we ain't that let's go the race is the
06:21race but
06:22the race is the race like it would be like saying then okay one month turned around the season is
06:26that
06:26us you know what's more representative of the team it's not right you know like it's it's one of these
06:31things where you are where you are like you're on the doorstep and then you just completely wet the bed
06:36in that situation so yeah i mean i'm sure they're not gonna trade them next week but like let's say
06:43the marlins don't first of all i mean you have to win this series coming up here against san diego
06:48have to because you got philly you got philly coming in on monday okay and we already i mean they've
06:55pile-drived you like the undertaker dude like it's been rough what philly's done to the marlins this year
07:00so you're talking about a situation where you're going to get absolutely buried uh potentially if
07:06you don't take two out of three coming up here and yeah this is as dire a situation as it
07:10is like i
07:11know people want to say hey it's a big season it's a long season yeah the season can get short
07:15pretty
07:15quick it can get short pretty quick because this is a it's a very competitive national league um the
07:21only thing that's kind of a shining light and mish pointed this out yesterday they have kind of sucked
07:26on the road this year and they've been really good at home so hopefully getting back in the friendly
07:31confines of lone depot will get them turned around a little bit but so can i ask you this this
07:37is this
07:37is this is what i'm curious about so say they go and sweep you know sweep uh san diego and
07:46then
07:47they win two out of three against uh philly are you going to change after six games am i going
07:56to
07:56change am i saying is your mindset i mean am i going to be more positive after going five and
08:00one and yes i probably but like right but you're you're you're talking about a big ask of like hey
08:06all of a sudden are you going to go from the worst team in baseball to the best i understand
08:09that but
08:10when they went on this run in june nobody saw it coming uh i yeah but that was and that's
08:16it but
08:16but that's what i'm saying about about baseball in this team like how many losses does it have to be
08:22for you to claim it a disaster does it have to be 12 no i would say four straight sweeps
08:30what's the
08:30answer i would say when they're no longer in touch of the wild card then i would say it's over
08:38yeah and i'm not even saying it's over but what i'm telling you is you can't like people can't sit
08:45here and be like that is a disaster like you can't be in striking distance of a division and then
08:51all
08:52of a sudden three series later you're on the outskirts of your three teams back now the final
08:57wild card spot right that's that's that's a heinous drop it doesn't mean that you're it doesn't mean
09:03that you're out of it and the season's over but if you don't like you're going i mean you're very
09:08greedy you're going five and one if i honestly i would take three and three right now at this point
09:12over the next two series i'm just saying the way this season has gone like when they went on that
09:19run in june right like everything just like it's in them it's in them to turn it around whether it
09:29happened or not uh maybe that was it you know maybe that was their one you know run that baseball
09:38teams
09:38have regardless of how good or bad you are during the course of a year it was epic okay but
09:45what
09:45i'm saying is is that to go from that to a two or three bad weeks terrible weeks terrible i'm
09:54not
09:55they were terrible right to just be totally you know like well what are they going to start doing
10:03what are they going to who are they going to get rid of who's it i'm like are we really
10:07really ready
10:09to make moves like that after three weeks three series no but i'm telling but that's why i'm
10:16telling you like the next two series yeah it's pretty urgent especially with who you're taking on
10:22like because i don't know what you're like again i'm going back to what's your magic because so like
10:26let's say they lose these next two series i'm not even saying like let's say they snap the
10:29loose streak and they go two and four yeah man like that's a that's a pretty that's a pretty rough
10:34ball once you get and and here's where i start to to wonder if moves are going to be made
10:43once you get out of reach of the wild card right and the only thing that's going to get you
10:51back in
10:52it is another june which is not going to happen that's why it was a record right um then i
10:59would
11:00consider it i would consider okay what can we do here but like i know nine games is a lot
11:11i'm not
11:11even disputing that no they look and i've been as frustrated as everybody but as an organization
11:20you can't be the one to react to the ebbs and flows of your team during the course of a
11:27season
11:27like a fan would and so i wonder if they're i doubt if they're even considering any of that stuff
11:33at this point yeah i probably think right now they're not but i'm saying that they're knocking
11:40on the door of it like this is that's how big these next two series are and then they go
11:44on the road
11:44for mets and and braves right so yeah it gets it gets pretty pretty uh tough your next 10 days
11:53is
11:53going to determine your season is what i'm saying they're either going to pull themselves out of this
11:57thing or they're or this is going to get really dicey especially with two of the opponents that
12:04have absolutely head kicked them all season right right and don't don't you lose a series to the
12:09that's i mean i swear to god i hate that team i mean so does half of their players but
12:18they're not the ones who are getting checks huh not the ones whose checks are clearing
12:25we'll take a break just sign somebody to 700 million yeah soto soto and he's miserable
12:32he doesn't look miserable in that celsius commercial they play all the time
12:38he's on the beach hitting home runs he goes ah playa vibe
12:43did we finally find him yeah that's where he was did we finally find him on the bus
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