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What will go down as one of the most bizarre moves in Marlins history, the firing of the manager of the year.

Yes, because I don't equate steroids to Barry Bonds. Steroids is all over baseball and bonds is just the escape goat. Ban his record and erase all of the 80s and 90s from the history records as well.

Good for Fredi, but he is sloppy seconds. At least he is getting his chance now.

oh well

Girardi hired as Marlins manager Miami, FL (Sports Network) - The Florida Marlins have named Joe Girardi their manager and have signed him to a three-year contract. Girardi, who made his coaching debut as the bench coach and catching instructor for the New York Yankees this past season, becomes the eighth manager in Marlins history. He replaces Jack McKeon, who resigned at the end of the season. The 41-year-old Girardi also interviewed for the managerial position of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. He spent parts of 15 seasons as a player in the majors, accumulating a .267 batting average, 36 homers and 402 RBI. Girardi played for the Chicago Cubs, Colorado Rockies, St. Louis Cardinals and Yankees. Girardi was a member of three World Series championship squads in New York. McKeon stepped down as manager of the Marlins on the final day of the season, ending three successful years with the team. He accepted a position as special advisor to Jeffrey Loria, the team's owner and CEO. "I am extremely pleased to have Joe in our organization and I look forward to his input as we start focusing on next year," Loria said. "Joe was known as an intelligent player with great leadership skills, and he will bring those traits to his new position. He is the right man to lead our team and I'm proud that he will start what will be a long, successful managerial career here in South Florida." The 74-year-old McKeon managed the Marlins to a record of 241-207 during his three seasons at the helm, winning the 2003 World Series. This season, he became the all-time winningest manager in club history, surpassing Rene Lachemann's mark of 221 wins from 1993-96. Girardi retired as a player after playing 16 games for the Cardinals in 2003. "This is an exciting day for the Marlins organization," said Marlins general manager Admin Beinfest. "After several discussions with him it became clear that not only was Joe ready to manage, but he is the right guy to manage the Florida Marlins. Joe has a tremendous reputation throughout the game and I am eager to start working with him." 10/19 18:27:09 ET A little less than a year ago

You made a great team and a great season out of a bunch of kids who weren't supposed to do anything. You stood your ground against executive stupidity and have the support of your players and a lot of the fans. Thanks and good luck :thumbup :thumbup

but he is a liar for saying he didn't know it was a no no until the 8th. Just tell the truth man why lie

This article is spot on the money. Hyde has risen to the top of my list of local journalists. Bravo!!

goes right along with the payroll numbers

I think Girardi was fired at one point, but they took it back.

Please link me to a stream or youtube of this glorious MVP candidate defining moment :notworthy :notworthy :notworthy :notworthy :notworthy :notworthy :notworthy :notworthy :notworthy :notworthy :notworthy

A rain delay to get Pedro out of the game would be nice.

No doubt. Alex Gonzalez and Mike Lowell were the best defensive SS/3B combo in the league, and now we have the best hitting combo in Ramirez and Cabrera.

Would Joe be heavily criticized if that was the team's record right now? Yes he would because he is the one making the pitching changes and putting Herges in there all the time

I'll go if it won't rain

Promotion in exchange for free sunglasses

Extorsion. Marlin fans always getting milked for an extra buck.

It's been a bad year for the Miami Dolphins: first they lost Heisman Trophy-winning running back Ricky Williams for the upcoming season, and soon their "biggest HD display in the world" may have to play second fiddle to a new scoreboard being installed this summer for the University of Texas Longhorns. At 7,370 square feet, the 134-foot by 55-foot 'board being built for the school by Daktronics (who also manufactured the Miami display) has a slightly larger screen area than the current 7000-sqaure-foot title-holder, but nitpickers may argue that since the UT model will be almost a foot shorter diagonally, that it doesn't qualify as the "world's biggest." The argument may turn out to be moot, though, as a horse track in Tokyo is supposedly planning to install a ridiculous 197-foot-wide monster of a screen later this year that will overshadow all who came before it. UT's project comes as part of a multi-million dollar overhaul of their stadium, which will also include several other large displays, a new sound system, and a $150 million renovation of the north end zone meant to enable a 90,000 person capacity.

wasn't like we had a team of minor leagers playing in a huge thunderstorm or anything.

Samson asked for the firesale, well he got it. All on him.

bless matt

me > Thursday, May 04, 2006 Posted on Thu, May. 04, 2006 email this print this LEGISLATURE Marlins stadium funding gets a new life In an unexpected maneuver, feuding Miami Republicans united in the state Senate to try to help the Florida Marlins win a tax subsidy for a new ballpark. The vote is today. BY MARC CAPUTO AND MARY ELLEN KLAS mcaputo@MiamiHerald.com TALLAHASSEE - In the unlikeliest of ways at the unlikeliest of times, the Florida Marlins' hopes for a state tax subsidy to build a new ballpark were revived Wednesday night when Miami senators put aside their feuding and backed a plan to bring the team to Hialeah. With Hialeah Sen. Rudy Garcia in the lead, Miami Sens. Alex Villalobos and Alex Diaz de la Portilla quietly collected votes for their plan for the $60 million subsidy and tacked it onto a bill that guarantees the Orlando Magic basketball team the same type of tax break. The measure will be voted on today -- just two days before the end of the two-month lawmaking session -- in the full Senate, which has been the death chamber for a Marlins subsidy since 2000. Last year, Senate President Tom Lee refused to allow the proposal to come up for a vote. In the House, sentiment for the Marlins is stronger and many expect it will pass there if the Senate approves the subsidy. On Wednesday, Lee -- along with Marlins President David Samson -- said he was unaware of the plan when it was sprung after 7 p.m. Lee said he was preoccupied with other matters in the Senate, which has been riven by bitter factionalism ever since Diaz de la Portilla helped oust Villalobos from his future post as Senate president. ''When things are important to Miami-Dade County, we should work together,'' Diaz de La Portilla said, noting it was good for the county, for baseball and for the Senate as well. ''This will help bring the chamber together . . . it will keep the Marlins in Florida,'' he said in reference to the Marlins' discussions about moving to San Antonio. There's no guarantee that the Senate vote today will go the Marlins' way; Republicans from North Florida and the Tampa Bay area oppose giving the team the subsidy, saying it's a handout the team, under previous owner Wayne Huizenga, already received. REVENUE ESTIMATES Under the state program governing the seven existing subsidies for ballparks, teams must show they can generate more than $2 million annually in sales tax collections. That money is then returned to the sports franchise for 30 years to pay for the ballpark. However, once a team qualifies for the subsidy, it gets the money from the state even if it doesn't generate the tax money. Sen. Jim King, a Jacksonville Republican, compared the expectations of sports teams for subsidies to welfare recipients. ''It's almost an entitlement attitude,'' said King, who helped kill two other Marlins subsidies when he was Senate president in 2003 and 2004. Traditionally, the issue has divided the Senate and ground the Marlins' hopes to a halt. This time, though, it had an odd unifying effect. The Senate was divided and paralyzed Wednesday morning in the fallout from the defeat of two education votes dear to Gov. Jeb Bush. Lee had managed to resurrect one of the defeated items the previous night on a procedural move, so Democrats retaliated with a maneuver of their own Wednesday morning: requiring a few bills to be read in their mind-numbing entirety. Democrats dropped the tactic after they proved they could stop the Senate in its tracks. Villalobos, who sided with the Democrats in defeating the education initiatives, angered Miami-Dade leaders last year when he backed Lee's opposition to the stadium. Lee fired Villalobos Monday night as leader of the Republicans, freeing the Miami senator to stitch together the ballpark plan with the aid of Democrats. They first tried to tack the proposal onto a spring-training bill, but that bill's sponsor, Republican Mike Fasano of Tampa, kept it off. Many then thought the Marlins' proposal was dead -- until the three Miami-Dade senators revived it by successfully attaching it to the Orlando Magic measure. The Marlins' Samson said he knew nothing of the plan but was so ''excited'' by the news he could barely watch Wednesday's game against the Washington Nationals. ''Getting a full vote tomorrow is a step that hasn't happened in the past number of years,'' Samson said, crediting the state senators, the city of Miami and county officials. Another man sure to be pleased: Armando Codina, the Miami developer and former Bush business partner who pushed for the Marlins plan last year and was offended when Villalobos refused to meet with him over it. Codina has offered to donate part of the land -- a construction-debris landfill near Florida's Turnpike and Northwest 170th Street -- for the ballpark to Hialeah. The city would then give the land to the Marlins. The Marlins are about $100 million short of what they need for a $430 million retractable-roof stadium. The team has offered $212 million -- $182 million in rent and $30 million in equity. Miami-Dade County Manager George Burgess has said the county can offer between $110 million and $120 million. INDUSTRIAL PARK City officials are also considering using property taxes from a proposed industrial park to finance construction of a stadium with a retractable roof. ''Hialeah is a baseball town,'' Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina said. ``Baseball is in our culture. Hialeah will support the Marlins.'' The governor, who killed the first Marlins tax-break plan in 2000, supported the subsidy concept last year. And the House will likely approve it as well, said Miami Rep. David Rivera. ''Just as the House led the way to support the Marlins last year, I'm confident we'll do it again,'' Rivera said. ``As for the Senate, better late than never.'' Miami Herald staff writers Barry Jackson, Clark Spencer and Jennifer Mooney Piedra contributed to this report. Recent Comments AU'RIGHT MIAMI!!! Baseball has grown to be a large part of the lifestyle in South... FINALLY!!!! BASEBALL IS OUR CULTURE....OUR CITY NEEDS THIS FOR OUR... ?Read More Post Your Comment Notable is how DAVID SAMSON the Marlins President has no clue about what is going on BECAUSE HE WANTS THE TEAM TO LEAVE. A real president would have been backing this move since before it started.

Does anybody seriously like him? Does he bring anything to this team?

ouch

Hialeah isn't the ideal place compared to FLL and Miami but cmon now Opa Locka and Miramar were far worse at the time too. The area around Dolphins Stadium isnt known for its golf clubs and ritzy shopping centers