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  "path": "/the-fish-dont-stink",
  "publishedAt": "2026-07-01T18:58:07.000Z",
  "site": "https://defector.com",
  "tags": [
    "MLB",
    "joe mack",
    "max meyer",
    "miami marlins",
    "nl east",
    "otto lopez",
    "gangrenous Mets"
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  "textContent": "The Miami Marlins are a winning baseball team. For now. That revelation comes after one of their finest months ever, a 20-6 run that began, hilariously enough, after being swept in a three-game series by the gangrenous Mets and falling behind them in the NL East race. This would be a point of deep shame for most teams, but the Fish have been coated, breaded, and fried in shame for most of their existence, and utterly wretched since their last World Series championship 23 years ago. They ended May with a 26-34 record. Getting swept by the Mets, even these Mets, fell safely under the category of \"Things I Don't Have To Notice For Any Reason Whatsoever.\"\n\nBut the curative powers of the Mets beating you are apparently underappreciated: Since that moment, the Mets haven't beaten any one team twice in a row, while the Marlins are 46-40 on the season and suddenly mere percentage points out of a wild-card spot for the first time in ... oh god, don't make us look this up. We've waded through enough of the Marlins' historical cesspool as it is.\n\nStill, the Marlins have won more games in a calendar month only one other time in their history—May of 2012, when they won 21—and had a run differential of plus-53, their best in any month ever. They are the best team in baseball if the season had started on June 1, and it's hard to comprehend why, because any thought when it comes to the Miami Marlins begins with \"What?\" then sails past \"Why?\" and lands on \"Leave me alone, you quivering bag of coleslaw in human clothes.\"",
  "title": "The Fish Don’t Stink"
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