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Sirspud

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  1. Bitter, much? :lol What a pleasure to be on a board where almost no one understands how business operates, never mind MLB business, or even the odds of winning. It's narcissism in the extreme -- you, Loria, didn't satisfy my expectations, therefore, you are totally worthless. Guess what? You will always be frustrated because that's the nature of baseball. Ask the Cubs. Meanwhile, Loria will continue to do what he wants to do. He may or may not be a great baseball mind, but he is certainly a great fan and he owns it and he calls the shots. And you simmer in your rage. Guess what else? After Loria comes Samson. So get used to your powerlessness and resultant rage. Here's a fact. The odds of the Marlins winning a WS in any given year is 1 in 30, maybe less. That they haven't won anything since '03 is not surprising. That they won 2 WS in 7 years is shocking. Don't expect a repeat soon, or maybe ever. It would just be nice to see the freaking playoffs. Who told this team that they couldn't be in the playoffs if they weren't going to win it all?
  2. I was very shocked when I heard this news. But I try to understand it. Because everything has its own reason. I wish Guillen's luck I just hope FO would bring Newly good manager and I want to see the W. That's it. I wouldn't have been shocked three weeks ago. But it coming now is just more evidence of the dysfunction in this organization. It took them three weeks to figure out they wanted to fire a guy they had to be pretty sure about wanting to get rid of to even consider it after only a year.
  3. Luis Gonzalez is a potential candidate...Hmm Player-manager? Can't be any worse than Cousins, Peterson or Coghlan have been. The big thing we have to ask ourselves when getting our hopes up for the next Marlins manager is how we are going to feel when they are either fired or resign in less than two years.
  4. ugh. Beinfest in this ESPN article about the firing of Ozzie is really pissing me off. "We could definitely use some stability in the dugout," said Beinfest, who has been with the Marlins since Loria bought the team in 2002. "We're looking for a winner. At times we've done a better job of identifying that individual. Other times we haven't. We're going to try to find the right guy this time." O RLY? Everyone knows Miami did a great job when they hired Joe Girardi.
  5. "We need to spend some time redefining ourselves in conjunction with a new manager," Beinfest said. "I can't tell you exactly what the Marlin way is today." That redefinition should have started in the front office and that's what makes me so angry. It wasn't Marlin managers that traded away Miguel Cabrera but invested in Hanley Ramirez, it wasn't them that seems to be the only small market front office that is unable to make good trades to get top young players because everyone knows they are small market, it wasn't them that invested in mosty laughably bad free agents the few times the pcoket book was opened up, and it wasn't them that wasted the majority of its first round picks on pitchers without high end potential that couldn't even come close to living up to that, it was the front office. Beinfest can't tell you what the Marlin way is because he hasn't know it since 2003. We're simply a reactive organization who overpays mediocre free agents to fill holes, trades talented players for spare parts when they become too expensive, and ships out talent when it is at its lowest value.
  6. Worst organization in sports, and it's not just because they fired a manager who had a bad season and made some bad publicity. It's just another chapter in manager failures, horrific trades, and other poor personnel decisions. If nobody can have success with what you are giving them to work with, at some point you have to wonder if the crap that you are giving them to work with is the bigger issue. The Florida Marlins, the team I grew up with, are dead, and in their place is a team I'd like to root for, but except for a new stadium that is extremely nice in person but ugly as hell on TV (which is where most of my Marlins viewing is done, considering I'm now 5 hours from the stadium) thanks to excessive lime green, I can hardly find something rooting for in. Maybe Mike Stanton, but that's only until we trade him for an entire minor league team (without any actual talent) or just give him up for nothing because we don't want to pay him anymore. this is exactly how I feel about the situation. other than Stanton the only likable player on the team is a guy who is still a New York Met in my mind. Reyes is a great player, but I haven't yet developed the sentimental attachment to him that I share with most good players on my favorite sports teams mostly because he wasn't performing up to his contract for the early part of the season, and by the time he really picked it up, the Marlins were already shifting into horror-movie of a season mode, so I simply wasn't as engrossed in the games anymore (or past a certain point in the year, watching them at all).
  7. I've said it before, but I'd certainly welcome McKeon back. He's kind of like Loria's Billy Martin too but with less animosity. I want McKeon back because Loria firing him wouldn't be OK at all with anyone in SFL. Maybe in baseball. I just want to know who the damn manager is going to be and have him around for longer than 2 seasons. McKeon may not be fired and still not be around for more than two seasons, if you get my drift.
  8. Worst organization in sports, and it's not just because they fired a manager who had a bad season and made some bad publicity. It's just another chapter in manager failures, horrific trades, and other poor personnel decisions. If nobody can have success with what you are giving them to work with, at some point you have to wonder if the crap that you are giving them to work with is the bigger issue. The Florida Marlins, the team I grew up with, are dead, and in their place is a team I'd like to root for, but except for a new stadium that is extremely nice in person but ugly as hell on TV (which is where most of my Marlins viewing is done, considering I'm now 5 hours from the stadium) thanks to excessive lime green, I can hardly find something rooting for in. Maybe Mike Stanton, but that's only until we trade him for an entire minor league team (without any actual talent) or just give him up for nothing because we don't want to pay him anymore.
  9. This isn't Hanley Ramirez we traded, arguably one of the top players at a valuable position who has had a down season and a half. This is a reliever who was probably overpaid even if he had performed but was an abysmmal performer at the least valuable position in the game, so we were lucky to be able to get rid of it at all. I highly doubt that ridding the organization of the Heath Bell is what gets Beinfest fired. He may indeed be cut loose, but it will have nothing to do with what he got back. It is funny to think that years ago the Padres were starting the bidding for Bell at something like Maybin AND Morrison.
  10. Reggie Abercrombie is one who got away. He's a star now in the independent league! In one swing, Abercrombie hit one further than the total footage of all of Cousins' hits combined.
  11. Just logged into facebook and apparently it's Velazquez's birthday. Happy birthday?
  12. Gotta make room for David Wright & Josh Hamilton.
  13. Relieved to see we won't be subjected to more Cousins. I'm surprised the Giants didn't claim him just so they could beat him in their clubhouse.
  14. Jason Vargas was a clusterf*** until 26 years old. He has only been good since 27+. This crowd wants to dump 23 year old pitchers because they don't yet have success, they certainly don't earn the ability to talk about guys that bloom 4 years after they were moved. I think we should have kept him, but I thought that back then also. 2009 Marlins had 87 wins, without injuries to Hermida and Johnson we are talking about a likely playoff team. There were legitimate roster pressures to move de Aza that season. Not to mention that his performance this season is less impressive than Ruggiano's. Vargas was a disaster in his second year with us, which is I believe when we ditched him. He didn't really have impressive stuff, at least when he was with us, so when he was absolutely terrible it just seemed like the legue had figured him out. I'm honestly happy to see he is doing well, as I felt him easy to root for (who couldn't root for "The Crow"), but I can't say that I feel not sticking with him was a bad move. We ditched him during or after 2006, when we had a wealth of pitching prospects, and he quickly went to the back of that.
  15. That happens with ever team, not just the marlins. Favre to the Vikings? Chad Pennington to the Dolphins? Jason Taylor to the Jets and then ack to Miami? Johnny Damon to the Yankees? We hate the player when he's our rival, but the moment he joins our team, all is forgiven. I didn't hate Pennington when he was a Jet. I didn't like the Jets, but I respected him a lot as a player.
  16. Renyel Pinto. Pinto was a legal liability. He had such poor control that he was bound to hit some poor fellow in the head. And the sad thing is, that person wouldn't even have to be near home plate, because Pinto never was.
  17. The only one that I really agree about is De Aza and we've discussed him before, I thought he looked pretty good in his brief stint his last year here but that was after two injury plagued seasons where he had really been lucky to even earn a shot in the first place. Clearly the organziation wrote him out of their plans a year before they cut him loose for nothing. Teams tire on giving players chance after chance with no payoff and that's what happened with De Aza. These guys are good change of scenery/buy low prospects and it worked out for the other team.
  18. However, I just think it's funny that when terms like blue-collar are used, all the guys are white. Jose Reyes is totally not blue-collar. I like Jose Reyes and liked the signing but he was also a top dollar free agent and (although FA contracts can't be judged in the first couple months) was underperforming in the first part of the year. The guys I've enjoyed rooting for were at least home grown in the sense that they made their breakout years here.
  19. I have an emotional involvement with my two favorite sports teams (Dolphins and Marlins) that I just can't ever feel for another team. There are other teams that I root for, but only time it carries a true emotional attachment is when there are playoff implications involved for any team (like 162 last year with the Rays, Red Sox, Cards, and Braves). But my fascination for the game of baseball really wanes when the team is going through a bad year, especially once football season starts. This year was still the first year that I really shut down on the Marlins and stopped watching after a certain point in the year. I watched maybe the end of 3 games in total after the all-star break. I love the team that came out when I was a kid, but I can get disinterested in what is happening day to day with it when yet another train wreck hits it. This year was the worst though because I looked out and realized that all of the blue collar players I had been rooting for the last couple years were all gone, at least when Stanton was out. There was no Cody Ross, Josh Willingham, Dan Uggla, etc. Instead I was just left looking at guys like Hanley Ramirez, and when he was gone, guys with no talent. I'm sure I'll watch the startof next year, but I'm not wasting my evenings watching these games long into the year just to watch a poorly constructed, drama infused organziation scrape through another season. I'd rather be watching a movie, playing a video game, or writing/recording music when I'm at home.
  20. I don't really care what the Marlins do at all with the managerial position because at this point it's got to be pretty clear that we aren't going to win or lose based on who is putting a lineup of some combination of mediocre major league players together, and who is deciding to remove one unproductive pitcher for another.
  21. shouldn't LoMo be in that list? It seems like he means cumulative WAR, which is less than 1.0 in Morrison's case. That's why you don't see Coghlan there, either. By the way, Coghlan had a -1.2 fWAR this season. That makes him worse than Gorkys Hernandez over a similar number of plate appearances. Hopefully those people who still professed their faith in Coghlan before this season have given up on that by now. I have more faith in Coghlan long term than Gorkys Hernandez. Especially when Coghlan only played in 39 games compared to Gorkys 67 this season. I agree that Coghlan is probably going to be a much better AAA player than Hernandez for the remainder of their careers.
  22. If he had a dream about baseball, I bet it was to play in the majors and he already did that. People get played so easily. I've got some pictures of babies and email addresses of their parents if you want to tell them their baby is ugly.
  23. This is the only thing that's made me pay attention to the Marlins for the last two months. I don't care if it's just for PR, Greenberg still benefits from it and I'm sure everyone who has followed that story (and those like me who remember seeing the hurricane-influenced game happen live) can feel happy about that.
  24. Nice to see that this board isn't full of blind Dolphin homers who simply believe that because a QB was drafted high and he has a strong arm that he is the second coming. Yesterday was brutal.
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