Josh Beckett

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over the years like it happened with josh beckett it happened it happened with some of the some of the best players ever and it happens and it happens with soccer players too like sunny like he ended up like for a couple of seasons you just had the yips you just couldn't couldn't get his foot on the ball he couldn't find space that he needed like these kinds of things and you lose a little bit of confidence in yourself um so okay like let's actually talk about how this game is going to play out um I expect Everton to kind of make this game pretty uncomfortable.

David Moyes isn't going to come in here and volunteer to play that open, chaotic game that we want them to, right? So the question, I guess, is how do we break them down? Do we need quicker circulation? Do the fullbacks need to be pushing higher up? Do we need to just keep peppering the goal? Or does someone actually need to just...

attack the six yard box like also can we just stop for a second passing fucking sideways and backwards

You take a look back at their 2003 World Series team.

Could you imagine if the Marlins kept that young core and we had a young core of – Mike Lowell, Miguel Cabrera, Dontrell Willis, Josh Beckett, Brad Penny, for the next five to ten years? You're telling me that the fan base wouldn't have grasped onto that? They wouldn't have, you know, become lifelong Marlins fans getting behind these guys? Miguel Cabrera, Josh Beckett, Dontrell Willis coming off of a World Series championship? Come on! That's...

ridiculous to say that the fire sale right after the world series didn't have anything to do with the lack of attendance and we've seen this time and time again regime and regime again with the miami marlins with the florida marlins um When I was growing up, I was really excited about the core of guys we had.

Giancarlo Stanton, Christian Jelic, Marcelo Zuna, JT Riomuto, Dee Gordon, Jose Fernandez.

Hard for me to remember, Coca.

And we attached him to Josh Beckett, and we were with...

It was me, Beckett, and Lowell.

I should've sent you the photo, Coca, to put on the screen, the three of us sitting at the game together, as we are basically talking about that season before which we had traded Beckett.

The skill, the quality, it just leaves you.

But the thing is, as an executive, you have to decide for yourself which way it is, and then you have to tell the public, you have to tell your fans, "Hey, just so you know, I'm smarter than you.

I'm really thinking about this in ways you're not." Mike Lowell went on to have an amazing, amazing resurgence with the Red Sox, and if I had known then what I know now, there's no way I would've attached him to, uh, Josh Beckett.

I would've wanted him to stay on the team, quite obviously.

They've got nothing from Edwin Diaz this entire year, and they're still in this spot.

position um if he comes back in time if and if otani is back in some form even if it's just as a hitter they're likely going to be favorites again heading into the postseason um and understandably so i'm glad that you mentioned the d train thing i uh overlooked that for whatever reason of course josh beckett just got inducted into the marlins hall of fame last sunday And now it is D train's turn as the second and final member of this 2026 class.

And he has an offense to Beckett, but I think D train has the, he resonated with fans in a different way.

Like there, I think a lot of people are going to be there and those who will be there are going to be super passionate about him.

We got Sean Millerick, Nate Karsmer, and one of our valued super subs, Marcel Sparks, who was on once last year on the stream and glad to have him back here to talk about the fish and where things stand at this crucial stage of the season.

We're going to start from a slightly different angle than usual because today they held a big pregame ceremony for Josh Beckett going into the Marlins Hall of Fame, waited all the way until September to induct people from the 2026 Hall of Fame class.

He's a well-deserved one, a legend for this Marlins team, an indispensable member of the 2003 World Series team.

I want to get Sean's take on it, given the fact that, Sean, you more vividly experienced his career than the rest of us did as it was going on, or at least the Marlins portion of it.

That's neither here nor there.

But you got a win on the day you honor Josh Beckett, a franchise legend, had that classic game six where Jack McKeon went to him a game early.

The Marlins get the win.

Josh Beckett's a legend.

You honor him.

You get a good win yesterday in teal.