This would have been September of 2012, late in the inaugural season of the new Marlins Park. It was a nightmare, really. Acrimony and lawsuits were flying over the financing of the stadium. And the big-name team assembled to christen the new park was failing to such a degree manager Ozzie Guillen was about to get fired.
Ah, but not all was lost!
There was an epiphany happening then. A spark. You didn’t know it. No one did, until now.
Phil Sklar and Brad Novak, lifelong buddies from the midwest there on a bucket-list tour of major-league ballparks, were ambling along the concession concourse when their life changed.