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Fotog

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  1. It's playing just as Manfred wants it to. When he chose Jeter/Sherman over Mas part of his equation was handcuff the franchise by picking the cheap guy who will eventually move the franchise (it looks like to Nashville right now). Despite the lease restrictions I still do believe the Marlins will be moved. The diehard fans are now starting to leave and if they move towards a trade deadline 10-15 games below .500 and you're bleeding even the diehards now....it's over for any chance for this franchise to survive in Miami. Loandepot will be repurposed as the football home for the Hurricanes.....pooh pooh it now, but I know this town, that will probably happen . The Ruiz family have committed their $60 billion to making the U of Miami a power again in college football landscape. Life Wallet is a legit NIL company, and is not going to be shut down by the NCAA as what looks like many other schools NIL helper companies (which are nothing more than pay-for-play schemes) and they will be shut down.
  2. If I was Sandy I would demand a trade
  3. Sherman owns the most irrelevant franchise in MLB, and he loves it, because he's still making 10's of millions of $$$. He's got a big grin on his cheap ass face tonight
  4. this tonight is why no one in Miami cares about the Marlins. Sherman is fine with this....has to be or there would be change.
  5. no but's been implied a number of times....and of course they haven't said it out loud, but people have implied that on twitter and just recently in talking about Jeter leaving.
  6. Well said, and is the same delimma I have going on in my brain. I desperately want to support the Marlins, but the team kills my enthusiasm each & every year. I'm near retirement age, I don't want to follow them into the golden years being frustrated & getting high blood-pressure spikes nearly everyday. Also tired of the broken promises from management. And seeing opposing teams fans outnumber (sometimes significantly) the home fans & management be seemingly baffled by this. Giving the fans more "theme nights" doesn't move the meter one bit either. You have the 9th largest metro area in the USA to drawn from yet there are mights when the University of Miami baseball team might outdraw the MLB team. (I'm not kidding)....yet blame the fans, and defiantly proclaim, "we aren't spending until the fans show up"...easy cop out to continue with abhorently low payroll. We all know you aren't losing money, and might be in the top 10 earners in baseball. The national TV & radio & internet contracts make sure of that.
  7. Which I contend is the strategy all along. Sherman has $$$ in his eyes from those new TV and naming rights contracts. Remember even if they sign someone, there is a better than 50% cchance they are traded at or just before the deadline
  8. Good for business.....of course they say this....
  9. Sounds like to me they are trying to stall just long enough so that all the high priced players are gone & then when they go the cheap route again, they can shrug the shoulders & say well we tried what ya gonna do ?
  10. Well it can't be worse...Bally, thank you for getting rid of Hollingswoth(less)
  11. But he's David Samson, Prick Extraordinaire
  12. Remember Ng and Dembo are still here right now...they have ties to the Yankees too
  13. I think that a big part of it....he's always been baseball's "Golden Boy"....and now we see his real character....when he isn't seen as "Mr Pefect" and people aren't kissing his ass, he leaves...shows me a lot
  14. I think that is pretty harsh. I think Sherman just did not feel he was getting the results he should have going into Jeter's 5th year....5 years and ZERO bats developed, and you just can't compete on pitching only....also the team wass boring to watch, the fans had no interest in watching yet another year of 1-0, 2-1, 3-1 and 3-2 losses where inevitably there just can't get a clutch hit to win a game late in the game...you purists might disagree, but low scoring games do not draw fannies to the seats as a general rule. Attendance was actually cut by more than half since Jeter got here...he promised big but delivered very little actually...is the organization stronger, yes, but the future doesn't look that great actually....and it all stems from Jeter's lack of developing bats
  15. I think that's what was kind of implied, I got that. Or her vision aligned up better with Sherman.
  16. I'm still skeptical....I haven't seen enough to make me think they want to win. Right now this team is a 73/75 max win team....and it'll be a boring 73/75 wins....this team has nothing to get excited about & put fannies in the seats....and watch them win 75 and blame the fans for not coming out, so they'll say "we just can;t spend unless the public comes out. It's a scam, and they're masters of it...no intentions of winning, just skating by
  17. that is what I was thinking, but a lot of you guys are more connected with the team and I thought I'd pass it by you guys 1st
  18. One of the better voices on youtube, Fuzzy, says that the Marlins have offered BA a contract ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGW9_y6CwCA
  19. I still think they are setting up the team to be sold...perhaps after 2022 or 2023 season. Jeter is entering the last year of his contract & not heard of anything on an extention contract. Sandy is the only long-term deal, and that is very team-friendly....they are mostly debt free....sounds like a team that will be given to an owner that will have a blank canvas to do what his billionaire's heart desires.
  20. They're not idiot bandwaggoners, they are being discretionary about their limited dispoable income. The Marlins are not worth it when you weigh it all out...even the Dolphins are a more enjoyable experience than the Marlins....the Marlins are not only bad, but a BORING team to watch. Last offensively, last or near last defensively. They lost more 1-run or 2-run games than anyone else, and that does not fill the stands up ANYWHERE let alone in a town that offers a lot more to do than most any other city. People have choices, and the Marlins are WAAAAAAAY down on that list. The Marlins also have a reputation around MLB for just not being a smart or good organization. Players will only sign here, and it'll be late because they're desperate they won't get a deal before Spring Training starts or the regular season.
  21. So are you saying you don't believe me ? Check out the podcast then
  22. We know about Mattingly....and Stottlemyre should be retained....but How can you bring back the same staff that led the league in errors & getting picked off (almost the most guys picked off in 10 years too) ???
  23. just listening to the podcast, and Mish is saying Nick Castellanos
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