LoriaLovesVegas

Did Kalil forget about the wind gusts or is he superior to mother nature?

NOBODY will be hitting a HR today. The wind is nuts. Now this guarantees a slugfest and every pitcher knocking one out of the park

NOBODY will be hitting a HR today. The wind is nuts.

Samson-Loria want to bury us like they did with Montreal

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Shadez Hermida Cabs Jake Hammer Uggz Olivo Kool Aid Sergio whats with the stupid names

Everytime I turn on the radio, tv or pick up a local newspaper I can't help but get excited about this team. Not. Loria must have stepped on a lot of peoples toes ih the local media

Doesnt sound like this happened

IN MY OPINION S. Florida apathy rules Opening Day By DAN LE BATARD dlebatard@MiamiHerald.com Today is supposed to be about joy, hope and renewal, but it isn't, because we are the single strangest market in the history of Major League Baseball. The unwanted, unappreciated Florida Marlins return home for a new season this afternoon, but what greets them is something between yawns and neglect. It is -- this is not the right day for this word -- sad. It's Opening Day. Capital letters. Opening. Like what you do with your gifts, with your eyes, with your heart. All across our country, parents call in sick and kids skip school on this national holiday. But here? All that gets moved are our shoulders. Like our team, up and down. So the Marlins will field the cheapest squad in the entire sport and possibly the most inexperienced team in the game's history. Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez sometimes finds Florida's payroll in his couch cushions. Or his butler does, anyway. Twelve major-leaguers, Rodriguez included, will earn more this season than the entire Marlins roster. Today's feeling? Imagine excited kids running up to a new neighborhood toy store and being met with a single-syllable sign. Grand Opening? Closed. NO PRECEDENT On a day of worship, we blaspheme. There is no precedent for the way South Florida treats this sport, our nation's most historic. Not any time, not any place. You will find no champion franchise that inspires this little loyalty, support, help, love. Despite the oxymoronic juxtaposition of emotions, South Florida somehow leads the league in both indifference and hostility. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig says he has never seen anything like it and that only a taxpayer-funded stadium will fix it. So he has granted Marlins ownership permission to seek a new home in another city, and that explains both the distrust of the fan base and management's issue with the lopsided stadium lease: the Marlins, always renting. But in order for extortion or blackmail to work, the extorted must care. You might pay to get something beloved back. You aren't paying if someone threatens to take your toilet-paper dispenser. So the crowd at today's 4:05 start against the San Diego Padres promises to be embarrassing (a stadium built and named for the local football team not even half full?) but not quite as embarrassing as the 80 home games after this one. No team this young season has won fewer games than the 1-4 Marlins. You might want to get used to that. The eager Marlins will be fun to watch? No, they won't. Winning is fun to watch. The Miami Heat are plenty exciting with Shaquille O'Neal and Dwyane Wade, but watching them fall behind by 20 points against Orlando on Sunday was not fun to watch. This won't be, either. This area didn't support a champion. You think its going to support a bunch of kids trying? We build two basketball stadiums less than a mile apart for a Heat team that has never won anything. But we won't support in any meaningful way a baseball franchise that has given us as many champions in the past decade (two) as tradition-rich Boston and Chicago (with three teams) have had in the past 80 years. And that's why Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria, the third owner to try and fail here, insulted what little remains of his fan base while at a Marlins-Houston Astros game last week by hosting a San Antonio contingent of power players intent on stealing our team. DESPERATE TIMES Can't blame him. He is desperate, and should be. His team is going to be homeless in 2010 if he doesn't do something, and all local efforts for a new stadium are gasping like flopping fish fighting for life on a boat deck. So maybe Loria will pad stadium attendance today by hosting baseball-hungry Las Vegas. Maybe sit next to Siegfried and Roy, Wayne Newton, Tom Jones, the Blue Man Group and a dozen topless showgirls? Wouldn't be any stranger than what we've already witnessed from this franchise, which is two championships and two dismantlings. And it might actually do what the Marlins can't, even on baseball's holiest day. Draw a crowd.

Game Details Umpires: HP--Bill Welke. 1B--Fieldin Culbreth. 2B--Tim Mcclelland. 3B--Bob Davidson. Time: 2:42. Attendance: 26,589. Weather: 78 degrees, partly cloudy. Wind: 16 mph, out to center.

Chan Ho Park's 2006 salary is more than the entire Florida Marlins payroll. :banghead

Hank Goldberg said they were worse than an expansion team

Hit - Ramirez Double - Cabrera Triple - Abercrombie HR - Cabrera RBI - Hermida Run Scored - Ramirez Stolen Base - Abercrombie Caught Stealing - Ramirez Error - Uggla Win - Willis

Read it in the Herald today So much for being a young promise.

won't change a thing. voters here dont want a public stadium.

Straight to Samson's pockets

Is there gonna be any events for the Houston series?

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/14218874.htm Scalping may become legal Lawmakers are trying to change a decades-old law that bans Floridians from selling event tickets for more than $1 over their face value. BY JENNIFER MOONEY PIEDRA jmooney@MiamiHerald.com ALAN FREUND/MIAMI HERALD STAFF A HIT: Would Marlins season tickets, distributed this week, be sold for a profit? TALLAHASSEE - Matthew Adams is getting desperate. He has less than a month to sell six tickets to a Kenny Chesney concert at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise. He recently posted the tickets for sale on the popular website Craigslist.org. The asking price: $75 each -- exactly what he paid. Even though Adams lives in Virginia, he knows he'd be committing a crime in Florida if he tried to sell the tickets for more than $1 over their face value. But Florida lawmakers want to change that. A measure filed in both chambers of the Legislature would drastically change the 61-year-old ticket-scalping laws, allowing Floridians to resell tickets at any price to sporting events, theater shows and concerts on authorized websites that offer consumer protection guarantees, such as full refunds if the event is canceled or the tickets are not delivered in time. The measure comes as Internet ticket sales are skyrocketing -- some legal, others not. ''There's a current market out there that is booming,'' said state Rep. Marcelo Llorente, a Miami Republican who introduced the House version of the bill. ``We want to be able to offer the consumers the protections they deserve and the ability to resell their tickets for whatever price the market will bear.'' The proposed changes also will affect scalpers who stand outside arenas and other event venues hawking tickets. Current law says someone caught selling an admission ticket for more than $1 over its original selling price can be charged with a second-degree misdemeanor, punishable by a maximum of 60 days in jail and a $500 fine. If the law is changed, those same people will make money: Scalpers who make hand-to-hand transactions would be able to resell tickets for 25 percent over face value. Proponents of the measure say it will do away with laws that limit free enterprise. ''A free market is by far the best for the consumer,'' said Gary Adler, general counsel for the National Association of Ticket Brokers, a nonprofit group that represents the ticket brokering industry. Current law says licensed ticket brokers are exempt from the $1 cap as long as they resell the tickets as part of a travel package. That exemption allows many of them to resell tickets at exorbitant prices, Llorente said. The proposed bills wouldn't affect them. Llorente and his co-sponsor, state Rep. John Stargel, a Lakeland Republican, won unanimous support for their bill from a House committee Wednesday. It must pass through another committee before it can be voted on by the entire House. Its Senate counterpart, filed by Sens. Mike Bennett, a Bradenton Republican, and Mike Fasano, a New Port Richey Republican, has passed through two committees. If approved by one more, it can be voted on by the full Senate. The bills have won support from online ticket retailers, such as Ticketmaster and StubHub. Jeffrey Sharkey, a lobbyist for Ticketmaster, which already has anti-fraud measures in place, said, ``This bill really does advance consumer protection.'' Among those who may benefit if the law is enacted are season ticket-holders to sporting events, such as Rosy Guerra, a Coral Gables resident who has tickets to all Miami Heat and Miami Dolphins home games. There are days when Guerra is unable to make a game. Rather than giving the ticket to a friend or client, she would be able to post the tickets online on an authorized website -- for whatever price she wants. ''I would go for that,'' she said, ``as long as it's legal.''

Treanor will probably start since he is a legacy

Willingham at catcher is a mistake. Runners advancing at will.

There is hope for something good come October! :notworthy

Samson is a big NYer so he keeps us as the minor league affliate of both the Mets and Yankees

Its awesome having your insights on this forum. Question for you, who is the most hardcore nutrionist on the team? What does he eat for breakfast?

good luck.

The fact that Samson isn't outright denying this means there are deals in play. Not good.