SirFishFan

I feel like they are more likely to sign a “special veterinary assistant to the GM dogs”

Would any of you guys take him back if you were the Marlins GM?

Dodgers NationDodgers Veteran Announces He's Retiring After Next Season...The Los Angeles Dodgers veteran told Dodgers Nation that he's going to retire at the conclusion of the 2026 season. He is publicly announcing he will retire and he wishes to retire as a member of the Dodgers. So most likely he will sign with the Braves as a free agent during spring training after the Dodgers do not grant him his wish. 😂

Not surprised at all. When he signed with the Rangers front office people were already speculating that he was going to be their manager after Bruce Bochy left. Doesn’t make much sense to have a young recent manager of the year winner who hasn’t even reached his prime as a manager yet, just toiling away as some special assistant to GM role. 😂 I’m actually more surprised that Gabe Kapler didn’t become the Marlins manager first. 😂

Reminds me of this old joke from I think Mad magazine.. it was a cartoon of a nude beach with a bunch of old fat nude men standing around staring at each other because they scared all the ladies away. 😂

You see. This is another example of why I am such a valuable member of this forum! If I wouldn’t have made this thread and brought the 5 year badge to attention.. probably admin would not have ever gotten around to making a 20 year badge. I deserve at least an 8 minute sneak peak of the vip forum for my excellent in membership!

I discovered that you can swap out the fries for mozzarella sticks. So I’ve been doing that ever since.

Ironically, I almost never eat actual hamburgers. I’m a chicken sandwich guy and for some reason the bk Swiss cheese chicken bacon ranch sandwich and also the chicken wraps especially the fiery chicken wrap always seems to hit the spot for me! And yeah.. you will get that 15th anniversary badge soon!

How is that related to anything else in the thread? Are you trying to say I’m a fake fan or just making a general comment?

You were giving real “leave Britney alone” energy with your defending Vesia. 😂

Thank you! At least someone recognized the great achievement of being an active and contributing member of this forum for 5 years already. Some of my highlights include: Creating a long running Vesia joke with @Michael Coming up with the @pollythewog as SonofJack/Admin’s wife theory as well the the #pollyamory and all the related backstory of @pollythewog being a real Casanova and traveling around the world for romantic trysts while Admin had to stay home and do chores and run the website. Requesting (many times) the history of Marlinsbaseball.com until it was finally written and it was a hit! Creating the Marlinsbaseball.com the movie thread. And just being an all around great guy along with many other highlights of the past 5 years! Serious talk though.. I actually do appreciate this site. When I joined back in August of 2020, it was right smack in the middle of the Covid19.. so I had a lot of time just staying at home and I decided to start watching baseball again after many years of not watching at all, as baseball and the Marlins had always been my favorite pastime as a youngster. So you know.. joining this site was a way to have some fun interactions with others during those weird times when everything seemed like it was shut down. And since then, no matter what was going on in personal life: moving, changing jobs, breakups, gaining 50+ lbs because I love Burger King. The one thing that always was around and didn’t change was Marlinsbaseball.com. I don’t know if I will still be an active member in 5 years from now, but you know there are still some people who pop in from time to time that joined in like 2002. So I think that after all the time MB.com is probably one of those sites that I will be a part of however long it is around.

Hey I just got a notification that I’ve been here for 5 years! What kind of special rewards do I receive for this honor? In addition to the badge I mean. How about a 5 minute access to the VIP forums?

I just had the thought that probably sometime within the next 20 years I would not be surprised at all to see a complete AI broadcasting duo in the booth. Once the technology becomes so advanced that the ai can recognize every single nuiance of a baseball game. It’s probably already there as far as being advanced. But maybe a few more years before people will be ready for that. However I would still prefer human announcers although I would have to admit it would be an slight improvement over Rod Allen to have a computer voice that doesn’t always say slide piece or change piece after every pitch. 😂

😂 Great! Another Tommy Hutton classic soundbite. I haven’t really paid much attention to the Marlins since the first week of the season. So I haven’t seen Agustin Ramirez play in an actual game. But I’ve just seen highlights. I don’t know much about him but I have seen that he has some good power numbers. The only thing I kind of didn’t like from the highlights of him hitting HR is it seems like he stands and watches the HR before running. I don’t know if that is still an unwritten rule in MLB to not do that, but for a rookie player he should be taking off running as soon as the bat makes contact and not run the risk of making an easy double into a single. He can then wait a couple of seasons before doing the stop and admire HR thing before running. I could be wrong because I am just going based off highlights so I could be completely off the mark on this one. That is just what I noticed. I know this might be a controversial topic about players who stop and watch the HR before running. I remember all those seasons ago being so annoyed with Brian McCann being a big crybaby and making a bit scene when Jose Fernandez hit that HR and watched the HR before running. I also remember McCann being a big crybaby with some other players too about breaking the unwritten rule as well. 😂

“A large amount of forum members decided at the beginning of the year that if in the extremely unlikely event that all 4 Marlins infielders had 25+ HRs at the end of the year they would all leave the site for good. If all would have hit 30+ the site would have shutdown permanently. But thankfully Jorge Cantu couldn’t deliver and he finished with 29 hrs on the year leaving the site around but with most members gone.” - @SirFishFan ’s fan fiction history of Marlinsbaseball.com

Who is Larry? We need a history of Marlinsbaseball.com part 2 that tells the story of Larry and then about how SonOfJack Admin became the new Admin after he was playing poker and won this website in a game. At least that’s my fan fiction version. 😂

And also lasts 30 minutes or so the legend goes.

Actually now that you posted this pic: Someone came to mind. It’s a more obscure name that probably only millennials readers of this site would get the reference. But around 15+ years ago there was this show on the Disney channel called Wizards of Waverly place and the actor who played the older brother on the show is who just came to mind. Just put a beard and hat on him and could pass. 😂 But if it is going to be a Hollywood movie of moneyball part 2 you know that they will have to get a bigger name actor so probably they would pick this guy from Superman just to sell tickets:

Yeah and they would have had to have that record by August 9, 2003 since they apparently did it four times in 2003 with the last stretch of 44 games with a 30-14 record ending on August 9th. 😂

I asked an AI chat which actor looks like Peter Bendix and it told me

I stopped following the Marlins weeks ago. But I’m maintaining my preseason prediction of 54-108

I was thinking that maybe just Sandy was going to to ASG just on name recognition only. As in just having to fill the required minimum one player per team in the all star game rule. I honestly have only watched about 3-4 full games all year and then tune into a couple innings every few weeks so I’m not really familiar with Stowers. But good for him I guess. 😂

Imagine if @rmc523 was Bruce. That would explain the obsession with the Marlins attendance figures..

54-108. Sticking with my preseason prediction. 😂