Hello everybody, I want to thank you and wish you good luck.

Real reason I'm here tonight is not only to wish you good luck,

but talk about for 30 seconds what it takes to win a championship and to be a champion.

Good morning and welcome to episode 380 of Effectively Wild of the Daily Podcast

from Baseball Perspectice. I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh, we

continue our journey from the bottom of the standings to the top.

Today we're going to be talking about the Miami Marlins, and we have with us the

author of the Marlins essay in the Baseball Perspectice Annual, David Roth, who is a staff writer

at Espionation, as well as co-founder and editor of the Classical. I should note that at the end of

this, sorry not the end, in the second half of this show, we will be talking, we will not be

talking, but we will be talking to one C Rodriguez, is that the middle initial?

That is the correct initial? Of the Miami Sun Sentinel.

All right, so anyway, onward and upward, David wrote the essay for the Marlins.

I don't like to play favorites, but I will say that it is one of my favorite things written

on any topic in history. It is the only essay that has both Latin and profanity in it,

and as well as the phrase to describe the front office, Dufhuntah, that would be D-O-O-F,

hyphen, J-U-N-T-A, Dufhuntah. And this wonderful sentence, which I will read in full,

and it's basically captures the whole essay, it is difficult not to see the Marlins as a bigger

and sadder and more emblematic thing, and precisely the sort of towering crude pop art that

wouldn't be out of place in Jeffrey Laurie as esteemed personal collection, a garish crystallization

of all the shameless, ravenously predatory pastel brutality at work in the Miami's,

of Charles Williford, Elmore Leonard, and Michael Mann and Rick Ross, a bleak example of the

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