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  1. A pitcher will be traded before the second game, but who? hmmmm :mischief2
  2. direct tv just told me that the was going to be played on fox sports 635 or 634 for those in florida and yes net for those in ny
  3. The "real" FAN posted a post in a topic in Sports
    Listen, to me, Marrero and Drabek might be the two best players in the draft after Miller, Stubbs and Longoria but I doubt either fall to 19. Realisticly, Conger would be a smart pick if Drabek is gone, even if he is a bit of a reach. In a perfect world I'd want Drabek, realisticly though, I think we'll end up with someone like Brett Anderson or David Huff. hey parrot you sound an awful like the baseballamerica guy in his pre-draft column, but hey I guess you have to throw your two cents in even if it isn't yours. I'll throw my hat in the ring and say Drabek just because Mr. Know It All says he won't be there.
  4. The "real" FAN posted a post in a topic in Sports
    Is draft today or tomorrow???
  5. The "real" FAN posted a post in a topic in Sports
    Better Call Geico Triple-A Albuquerque catcher Paul Hoover hit a grand slam in Friday's 7-5 win against Oklahoma, but the biggest winner in the game was Isotopes fan Admin Trujillo. Nine months ago, Trujillo won a white Nissan XTerra when Albuquerque third baseman Jason Wood hit a grand slam in the third inning of a game, triggering a free-car drawing sponsored by a local casino. The drawing happened again last night after Hoover's blast, and against all odds, Trujillo was again the winner--this time taking home a red Ford Escape. Trujillo's name was chosen out of about 60 entries. "I'm still in shock," Trujillo told the Alburquerue Tribune. "I'm shaking." The 45-year-old is not an Isotopes season ticket holder, but said he goes to 23 games a year and proclaims himself to be the team's biggest fan--and likely the one with the highest car insurance bill every month. Of course, the back-to-back SUV victories were the talk of the clubhouse. "I just can?t believe a guy is that lucky," Wood told the paper. "I don't know how that even works." http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/prosp...ews/261234.html
  6. The "real" FAN posted a post in a topic in Sports
    DOWN ON THE FARM Most of the organization's outfield prospects are in the low minors, but the Marlins have created one at Double-A. Signed out of the Dominican Republic as a shortstop, Jose Campusano is playing center and left in his fourth pro season. Through 19 games for Carolina, Campusano is batting a Southern League-best .397. That's 64 points higher than the league's second-best hitter. Campusano, who turns 23 in December, was among the players Girardi shuttled in from minor league camp for Grapefruit League games and he loved the tools. Not only does Campusano have a league-best 13 steals in 15 attempts, he is adapting well to the outfield. His biggest problem right now is overrunning balls. Other notables in the system: Left-hander Renyel Pinto took the Pacific Coast League's eighth-lowest ERA (2.29) into Thursday's start against Oklahoma. Teammate Yusmeiro Petit isn't far behind with a 2.70 ERA after four starts. Pinto continues to need improvement on his strikeout-to-walk ratio. He was at about 1 to 1, but Petit is at 3 to 1. Acquired from the Yankees for Ron Villone, Ben Julianel is winless in five appearances (four starts), but he has the Southern League's seventh-lowest ERA (2.25) with four walks and 14 strikeouts in 24 innings. Teammates James Russ and Anibal Sanchez also rank among the league's ERA leaders with 2.31 and 2.38 marks, respectively. At high Class A Jupiter, outfielder Brett Carroll is the Florida State League's third-best hitter with a .361 average. Acquired from the Mets in the Carlos Delgado deal, infielder Grant Psomas ranks ninth (.338). Dominican right-hander Jose Garcia is 1-1 with a 1.57 ERA (tied for seventh). Low Class A Greensboro teammates Gaby Sanchez and Jeff Van Houton are leading the South Atlantic League with seven homers apiece. Sanchez has a league-best 20 RBI and fourth-best batting average (.389), just ahead of teammate Andrew Jenkins (.373). West Palm Beach native and 2005 first-round draft pick Chris Volstad is 3-0 with a 2.84 ERA in four starts, but fellow prospects Ryan Tucker, Aaron Thompson and Sean West are a combined 0-3 with a 5.10 ERA. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/basebal...-sports-marlins
  7. The "real" FAN posted a post in a topic in Sports
    DOWN ON THE FARM | PAUL MILDREN, FLORIDA MARLINS Everyone knows there's no crying in baseball. But perhaps less widely known that there are no guarantees, either. Which is why left-hander Paul Mildren knows he might never get a chance to see how he would do against big-league hitters in a major-league game. Then again, that's not really much of a mystery anymore anyway. Not after the way he pitched against some big-league All-Stars in last spring's World Baseball Classic. ''It's massive in the first place for me to be able to pitch in a situation like that,'' said the 21-year-old Australian, who retired Frank Catalanotto, Willy Taveras, Alfonso Soriano and Miguel Tejada, among others, in two WBC appearances. ``. . . Just that experience seeing how my stuff, not changing anything, goes against them [was great]. And then using that confidence to come back here and throw in Double A.'' That confidence has obviously carried over for Mildren, who won his first two starts for the Marlins' Southern League team in the Double A Carolina League. That comes after a 2005 season in which he went 10-3 with a 3.08 ERA for Single A Jupiter. ''I've learned in this game that you can't worry about other people,'' said Mildren, who is in his fifth professional season. ``I know if I put up some numbers, maybe there's a chance to get up there. But . . . I've got to do my game first.'' http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/sport...ll/14408474.htm
  8. The "real" FAN posted a post in a topic in Miami Marlins
    A Cubs fan at today game was talkin about Willis being traded by the deadline. He said he read it on some Cub chat board( I didn't get the name b/c I tried to block out what he was saying) that they would love to have Willis back and that Lee/ JP have already gone to management about it with Felix Pie being the centerpiece. I think its BS this guys down here can't be that stupid...or could they?
  9. You guys aren't satisfied with Abercrombie in CF?? I'd prefer Reggie in LF, we don't know yet if he can handle CF at Dolphins stadium, let alone be an effective MLer
  10. Samson is such a prick, he should realise that the vast majority of the public can care less about his team, even with its 2 world championships. Alienating the Fins is not the way to attract new fans, we all know that the Dolphins rule the sporting community in South Florida. I wish that they would sell the team, the current leadership are PR nightmares. then what are you doing here, I agree though the leadership at the top is a PR nightmare
  11. MLB nixed Marlins By BARRY JACKSON [email protected] As San Antonio pursues the Marlins, fans should know it might not have come to this if Major League Baseball had been proactive. We're told Marlins management -- knowing baseball values the South Florida market -- asked MLB to contribute toward stadium financing, but baseball balked, citing lack of precedent. MLB will pay $20 million for the Washington Nationals' new stadium (though that will be passed on to the team's eventual owner). If the same offer had been extended to owner Jeffrey Loria -- and if he had chipped in another $20 million and kept the promise to cover over-runs -- that would have covered the funding gap that existed last spring. (The gap has grown to $100 million.) Citing the D.C. deal, Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina wants baseball to ''be part of'' a deal here. But a ballpark in Hialeah appears unlikely, partly because Robaina has decided not to ask residents to vote on a tax to help finance it (unlike San Antonio's approach). Miami-Dade County also seems unwilling to take the referendum route. ''It's a South Florida team, not a Hialeah team,'' said Robaina, who met with Marlins president David Samson last week. ''I'm not committing anything but land to this deal.'' (The land's iffy, because the proposed sites are privately owned.) ? Samson has been taking light-hearted tweaks at landlord Wayne Huizenga in public speeches. At a Miami Chamber of Commerce luncheon, Samson bemoaned how the Marlins get only 16 season tickets. ``We're forced to pay for our suite under our lease, which is one of the great documents of all time for those who negotiated it, who were fired, of course.'' In another forum, he was asked about Huizenga wanting the Marlins out of Dolphins Stadium. Samson responded that ''maybe'' Huizenga ''thinks the play of his team since 1972 has been impacted by the field.'' Ouch. And at a Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce event, Samson noted: ``The best sports tradition we have is the '72 Dolphins open wine when a team loses a game. Without the Marlins, there would have been no world championships in Florida in pro sports since 1972. Get over it. It's time to focus on other teams.'' I LOVE SAMSON!!!!! finally someone comes out and says it like it is. I wish he would have gone in more detail on the Huizenga wanting the Marlins out of Dolphins Stadium the stuff in Tally, in the city of Miami the backstabbing, but I still don't like Samson as the face of this team
  12. The "real" FAN posted a post in a topic in Miami Marlins
    One last thing do I feel the organization will make a move? YES Who? the centerfielder from TB
  13. the new BIG COUNTRY Josh Johnson
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    Sergio Mitre pitched two scoreless innings yesterday in his debut for Hermosillo of the MPL. He struck out two and walked one. Mitre almost surely will occupy a spot in the Florida rotation next season after being acquired from the Cubs in the Juan Pierre deal. Renyel Pinto allowed three runs -- two earned -- and seven hits in 4 2/3 innings yesterday for Anzoategui of the VWL. At least he seems to have found his command. In his first three appearances of the VWL season, he walked eight batters over the course of one inning. Rotoworld