MIA 6, CHW 5: Miami Magic

[Louis Addeo-Weiss]

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[Guest OneRegend]

Okay, okay. Let's not get caught up in the fact we're 8-1 in our last 9 games and took 2 of 3 from the White Sox and remind ourselves of some important facts.

 

We struggled to even take the series against one of the worst teams in baseball. We could have very easily been swept by them. They were leading against us in the late innings in all 3 games. There is an alternate universe where us being swept could have happened. And that would have been embarrassing.

 

Even the games against the A's and Royals were problematic. Sandy couldn't dominate against the A's. The goddamn A's. If he's giving up 5 runs against the worst team in baseball with the worst offense in baseball, how is he going to perform against real contenders?

 

There was also a Royals game we were losing in the late innings too, that we could have lost. This 8-1 stretch could have easily been 4-5. And it's easy to lose sight of that when we're on the type of roll we're on now.

 

They could have gone 4-5 against some of the worst teams in baseball. They didn't dominate in more than half of these games. If this is their performance against the worst of the worst, imagine what they're like when theyre pitted against the best of the best. It's not a pretty sight. It's moments like this where this is why I can't buy this team's success.

 

If they can go 8-1 against the Braves, Dodgers, and Diamondbacks, then they've got my attention. Until then, I will continue believing that this team's highest upside is getting their asses kicked by a real contender in the Wild Card round.

[Guest Thomas Joseph]

As the season deepens, I am experiencing a bit of deja vu. I watched the Nationals in 2019 almost daily with a friend who tried to convert me into a fan of the DC-based team. As a lifelong Expos fan, I simply could not do it, but the season turned out amazingly and improbably with the Nationals' WS title. After May of 2019, soon after Fernando Rodney arrived fresh from a release in Oakland, a weird inevitability. Now, the Marlins are quite a different team - the Nationals were a veteran team. Still, the Nationals rode their pitching to the wild card and then one underdog playoff series win after another. Could the Marlins have a splash of that magic? I'm not convinced, but this is a lot of fun. Certainly, more than I ever thought it would be when the season started.

[Guest DolphDrill]

I'll admit, I was not excepting this team to be at the position they're in. Sure, this was an easy week, but the fact that we're over .500 this late (granted we're not half way) into the season is sort of sheer amazement.