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Fish Fillet

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  1. The bullpen as an abject failure has gone from an anomaly, to a trend....and now a given. And we're only 40+ games into the season. It's hard to pronounce time of death this early, but this team is sunk. Seriously. Hopper is the workhorse of the pen, and he's 0-5 in May????
  2. :thumbdown He's just gotta go..Simple s that.
  3. I've always contended that those that call out "Broward & Palm Beach" fans won't come to the new park, so its gloom and doom. Hellllllllooooooooooooooo those people aren't coming now anyways, :banghead and when you put the stadium 20 miles closer to people in Kendall, Cutler Ridge, Perrine and Homestead, they will easily supplant the Broward & Palm Beach numbers, and add more. Screw them up there. They had their chance and blew it by not going to Marlins games. It seems the Panthers (who only had success while in downtown Miami BTW) moved to West Broward, you never hear about how they have "abandoned their fan base", those of us in Miami-Dade who went to the games. Its tit-4-tat. Broward can have the Panthers, I'd rather have the Marlins anyday. :thumbup Is that right?? 3 or 4 years AFTER the new pond is in place, when the new stadium smell has worn off, then what will be the new and improved excuses for the low attendance?? Start compiling a list now. You are going to need it. As usual you try your best to subvert the real point in my post. That is the people in Broward & Palm Beach counties have failed to attend the games in great numbers, when the stadium is closer to them. The fact if the attendace does or doesn't go up when the new stadium is built will then be on Miami-Dade citizens, but it won't change the fact that the Broward & PB folks didn't go to the games when they had the chance, and shouldn't b*tch about the stadium being built further south. Its their own damn fault. :whistle I fail to understand your logic.....You think that since PBC and BroCo fans don't attend as much....It should be moved farther away from them? I must of missed management 101 the day they taught that it's good business practice to make your product less-available to a potential customer base, especially a potential customer base that is more economically capable, by and large, to afford the rise in ticket prices that are sure to come with the new stadium. Anyways.... As much as it may hurt your civic pride, the only reason this stadium is being built in MIA is b/c of tax dollars, not b/c you and your neighbors down there are more willing to go, or me and my neighbors up here are less wiling to go (which is an absurd assumption anyways.) Please stop beating your chest like Miami fans may be more inclined to go to games, or that there is some other inherent benefit to having it built down there. If the tax dollars were being offered up North you'd be loading yourself in a car and driving up here if you wanted to see a game in the new ballpark, simple as that. But civic pride aside, attendance has very little to do with location. It's about winning. I don't care if you're from Kendall, Cutler Ridge, Perrine, Homestead or Houston, if they don't win you won't go, simple as that. Ask anyone who went to Comerica before the Tigers return to relevance last year and they'll be happy to tell you how poor the attendance was. Much of the same goes for Pittsburgh, Cincy and Baltimore. Seen the home attendance figures for their downtown ballparks this year? Look, I also think the column is garbage, and panders to the general public's preconceptions, lack of understanding and general apathy towards the situation. But please don't start turning this into an us versus them argument about attendance between counties. There will be plenty of opportunities for that argument after the stadium is built should the Marlins have a couple of down years, because no one will show up then either.
  4. It's not even suspenseful when he comes in...It's a given that there will be issues and he's gonna let people on base. And now apologists will have an excuse for him tonight b/c of Hanley's error.
  5. Blaming this one on Fredi..... I don't know how you leave MH out there for 10 earned in any amount of innings, much less 3 2/3.
  6. Dontrelle is the perfect exemplar for all that is wrong with the Tigers. Outside of Zoolander the starters just won't be consistent enough to compete with the division, much less the AL. (Cleveland's starters, anyone?). And as troubling as the starters are, that's the least of their worries. The bullpen is full of the usual suspects, a'la Cliffhanger Jones and China Syndrome Grilli. You got to be scared when hopes of bullpen improvement hinge upon Zumaya and Rodney, who appear to be made out of porcelain. Plus, Dombrowski should of realized the minute he moved into his office in CoPa that outslugging people ain't gonna work in the AL, especially when you play half of your games in a cornfield. 2nd highest payroll in the league, and they aren't gonna finish in the same zip code as CLE, NYY or BOS, let alone sniff the playoffs.
  7. Isn't Dontrelle just 25 years old with his best years ahead of him? Isn't he the heart and fist-pumping soul of this team, its natural leader? Isn't he the most fun player to watch, one of the few players in the major leagues that you WANT to do well because he is exerting maximum effort for your team? Isn't he the same player that reinvigorated the 2003 team and led to the happiest sports memories that anyone on this board has EVER had? Everyone, take a deep breath and relax. Dontrelle is not regressing every year; he has been largely inconsistent from year to year. He hasn't even hit his prime yet and people are already set to see him retire. He will have better years than the last two in front of him. Frankly, he should mean more both in terms of emotional attachment and in terms of 2008 potential to all of the people on this board than the constant "ditch Dontrelle" posts have shown him. Relax. He is going to be with us next year at a relatively low price; if he doesnt make our team contend again and we aren't in a position to sign him next year, he could be traded. Now is not the time for doom and gloom and to throw away those d-train rookie cards. Dontrelle is a Marlin. In five years he won't be. You will tell your kids about Dontrelle. Conclusion: Enjoy him now. As much as like 18 year old prospects that could be/should be/may be pretty good in 2-4, I'm willing to enjoy Dontrelle now. He's had a bad season. He is not a bad pitcher. I'm not asking for blind faith, just measured faith with an eye for premium returns from a premium player. Pass the Kool-Aid.
  8. This is as good as it gets as far as value. He'll be gone very soon.
  9. I've had the Linksys WRt54G for awhile with Comcast. The router works like a sodomy champ. Then again, if you're using Comcast what router you use is the least of your worries.
  10. "Ground Zero" is 16 vertical acres of some of the most valuable commercial real estate in the world. Millions of square feet of commercial space was lost. It is a multi-billion $ spae that is co-opted betwen the Port Authority and private ownership. What to build there is a highly charged, emotional issue that was debated for years between government agencies, private companies and the tens of thousands of survivors and relatives of the killed. Yes, some initial designs were presented by the LMDC relatively soon after the diaster, but all were rejected, either in whole or in part. The construction of the new highrises, "reflecting pool" and all other reconstruction are parts taken piecemeal from other proposed designs. As for Olbermann, his position simply uses emotionalism as it's guiding motivation without granting consideration to any other myriad issues. Actually, it's somewhat insulting that he would pander to people's heatstrings by grossly oversimplifying one of the most complex legal, commercial and bureaucratic issues the country has had to deal with. Should we have filled in Pearl Harbor and made it a monolithical memorial instead of keeping it as a functioning military complex, even decades after WWII? Don't get sucked into Olbermann's trap.
  11. Lowell + Fenway bandbox = career year. He'll be playing raquetball against the mawnstah all year.
  12. Try looking at it from another perspective for a sec...... Ever wonder how well off "low-ranking" military members would be at this stage in their lives had they not entered into military service? I'm guessing that if you compared military/non-military within the same demographics that those who entered the military are substantially better off that those who didn't.
  13. they MIGHT make it to the playoffs...but if they do they wont last...sorry 848927[/snapback] Good point. Even if the Nationals' team bus drives off a cliff and the Marlins back their way into the playoffs, I just can't see them getting any traction and accomplishing anything of significance once they got there. So the question becomes whether you'd like Beinfest to be forced into making trades that sell out future potential for short-term upside in what will rpobably be a futile and wasted effort, or would you rather he approch the trading deadline with an eye towards keeping the farm stocked and securing some quality MLB talent that is affordable long-term? I'd like to see him do the latter.
  14. It's not like code enforcement was waiting on the doorstep for his return...It's been 10 months. Good job with serving your country, protecting freedom and all that...Now fix up your dump and stop making excuses.
  15. First off, let me say that the complete games are very encouraging, and are indicative of what I think is becoming one of the premier starting staffs in MLB. BUT.... Anyone else have memories of Torborg come popping up lately? Remember him overworking SP's early on and then having to pay the piper in the form of DL visits and dead arms as the season grinded into August and September? Come September in the middle of a pennant chase no one is going to give a squirt of pee on a hot day how many CG's the staff had when there was still snow on the ground up north.
  16. The neocon and religious contingents of the GOP have finally figured out a way to exert their influence from the top down. Instead of the grass-roots efforts and heavy influence in local/state and regional politics, they've moved on to federal meddling thanks to the confluence of a favorable electoral attitude and their man in office. The Schiavo debacle just further proved the amazing amount of influence they now have. As someone whose been a Republican all his life, I'm almost to the point of jumping ship. GOP Congressman Shays summed it up best last week after his dissent during the Schiavo debate....."This Republican Party of Lincoln has become a party of theocracy."
  17. His role as the most traveled pope was really his biggest contribution. I remember Boris Yeltzin once saying that the biggest mistake the Soviets made was allowing a papal visit and underestimating the effect it would have on the Russian people.
  18. Anyone else feel like the rivalry has had something taken off of it since the Sox won? Watching tonite I realized that NY and Bos are really the exact same thing... Overpriced and over paying big market teams who attempt to buy (at different levels of success) championships. Without the poor Sox history it all seems so ho-hum. And now I have no reason to like the Sox, they're just another pig at the trough. And while I'm at it, is it time for the BoSox backlash to start yet? If I see another documentary about the Sox winning, or read another feel-good article, or have to suffer through another teaser of a painfully bad romantic comedy that involves Boston baseball I'm going to go puke on Yawkey way. Sigh.
  19. It's on the duece. I've got a bunch of friends going, and I'll be watching. Still not sold on Bonderman and the rest of the purported wunderkind staff. Call me a cynic, but we've been fed the line of promising young pitching outta the D since Justin Thompson. Believe it when I see it.
  20. I can't believe no one has mentioned the Burger King spots where the dude wakes up with the Burger King in his bed. Seriously, that thing distrubs me on sooo many levels. All I can think about is that this guy went on a bender down in Key West and ended up taking home some transvestite with some freaky fetishes that included costumes and an unantural fixation on fast food. Bad things, man. Very bad things.
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