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Team is 7 for 59 so far on offense... .119 average. ONE NINETEEN! Bob Uecker is offering us hitting tips.

I think it's a valid point. I thought that wounded pride might be an issue with Hanley ever since the Reyes talks started. Will be interesting to see what transpires with these two from now until Spring. It will be interesting to see how your comments are taken. I said the same thing and was bullied by the usual suspects on the board. I wouldn't sweat it. Pointed comments on a flat sceen are unlikely to draw much blood.

Most of what i remember from your posts was rampant speculation. As a general rule, that is the main purpose of message boards like this.

To say the "public," meaning or implying local M-D or City taxpayers, built the Marlins anything is absolutely false. It's absolutely accurate. Last time I checked, the public had no need for a baseball stadium, but the Marlins did. It was a public expenditure to cover the expense of private enterprise ... and it was designed to make sure that private enterprise reaped all the profits from the "public facility".

Samson is exactly right, and it didn't take any type of balls to tick off a few facts. The City owns the garages. The Marlins obligated themselves to buy spots. The City didn't get a triple-net lease, they agreed to a fixed price per spot. The public just built them their brand new stadium.

My favorite part of the parking garage fiasco ... “We don’t own the garages,� Samson said. “We bought spots. It’s the same thing as you buying a parking spot in the building where you live and being asked to pay a percentage of property tax. Not that anyone has asked us because it wouldn’t make sense to have a private company pay property taxes of a publicly-owned building. For a midget he's got ginormous brass balls.

The logo on the hat needs to be a few feet bigger. :lol

whoa marlin fans! Chill out. Cody was obviously not expecting to get the car. Obviously. If he was serious, it would be his attorney doing the talking.

lol @ our offense losing nothing Baseball is a team game. Uggla is certainly a phenomenal hitter, but Buck can hit and Infante is an enormous upgrade over "Maybin." As long as they can get production from 3B/CF, wherever Coghlan doesn't play, this isn't an issue. And really, I'm ignoring improvement from Stanton, Morrison, Coghlan, and Gaby. Big. Defense better everywhere. Bullpen has gone from bottom 10 to top 10 overnight. It's cool you don't get it. You'll just be that much happier when the Marlins are a better team in 2011 than they were in 2010. Apparently the Marlins didn't "get it" until just now either.

There is a reason Uggla's FMV was Infante and a LH RP. It would be naive to think otherwise. There obviously is a reason. Desperate sellers get hosed every single time. If you know that the other guy is not willing to walk away empty handed ... you can get anything for pennies on the dollar.

First of all, the opinions of a bandwagon fanbase are completely irrelevant. The real fans will support the team regardless, and the bandwagon fans will come out as long as the team wins. In order to win, you make moves that believe help the ballclub, regardless of the player you are trading. Very few players in the big leagues reach irreplaceable status, and Dan Uggla is not one of them. I'm sure the fanbase was disheartened when the likes of Josh Beckett, Juan Pierre, etc. were traded, yet those worked out very well for the organization. The front office has to do what's best to put a winning product on the field, with the limited resources it has. That's the attitude of a team that likes playing in front of empty seats. The Marlins have been making moves that "help the ball club" for years ... and bleeding fans all the while. Because of its history, this team needs to pay its fan favorites until they can no longer play in order to prove to fans that the goal isn't to field a AAA ball club and pocket the savings. Guys like you may have a deeper understanding of the benefits of trading Uggla for prospects, but to 90% of fans and 100% of the general population ... it just looks like another round of the Marlins shipping off its best players to avoid paying them. The fact that the Marlins are getting a new stadium is just going to make it look even worse.

We knew they weren't staying, but we should've at least offered arbitration to get those sandwich picks. Those high picks are too expensive to sign.

he's not lying. i don't know why you people are getting all butthurt about it. you would think after all these years of other fans/players/broadcasters poking fun at marlins attendance that fans would have thick skin. Again, that's not the problem. The problem is with the lack of a professional courtesy from Penny. You don't bash another team's fanbase like that.Honestly I look at it as Penny taking a swipe at the folks who don't turn out for the games, rather than taking a swipe at the ones that do.

Dick. Maybe so ... but he ain't lying.

I'm sure there's any of a number of douchebags, both that matter (Sarnoff, et al.) and that don't matter (Norm Braman), that would love to see the bonds fall through. I would be one of those douche bags.

"They still have a verbal agreement to try to give at least 15% of the stadium construction to companies owned by African-Americans." Technically speaking ... verbal agreements aren't worth the paper they are written on.

Someone should make a list of all of our players ... and how long it will be before they become too expensive to keep around.

Of course it should. Otherwise what is your allegiance to...the owner, the front office? It can't be the players, they change every few years. You think some guy living in Grand Rapids should have allegiance to some city he has never even been to just because his favorite team happens to play there? When I was a kid I was a Yankees & Lakers fan ... and I couldn't give a rip about either city. Yeah, but that's because you're a front-runner :whistle Good thing that I didn't mention that the Steelers are still my favorite team.

Of course it should. Otherwise what is your allegiance to...the owner, the front office? It can't be the players, they change every few years. You think some guy living in Grand Rapids should have allegiance to some city he has never even been to just because his favorite team happens to play there? When I was a kid I was a Yankees & Lakers fan ... and I couldn't give a rip about either city.

$40,000 bonus for free trip to Japan? That's rich Wallace Matthews March 20, 2008 ... But to threaten not to perform a duty you are contractually obligated and monetarily compensated to perform is not heroism and it is not admirable. Pure and simple, it is a shakedown. The players weren't the ones who attempted to violate the terms of the deal. Damn right it was admirable.

It took Joe Capozzi (or more likely some editor with a grudge because if you'll notice the headline gets changed to make it seem worse than it is) ten paragraphs to get to what should have been in the lead or second graph - the Marlins, even after this increase, ranks 26th among all MLB teams in ticket prices. With the lowest payroll in baseball, they should be the cheapest.

I have no idea where you are getting your facts from. The 1st sentence in the article states clearly ... "yet costs the county more long term." Further on it also states clearly ... "Yet the team would end up paying less in the long haul for the facility, now budgeted at $525 million. Before, the team's overall burden over many years would total $207 million. Now, it stops at the $155 million." Those are the facts.

I prefer Florida ... but whatever. And I would like to see our original uniforms make a comeback.

Lets see ... 1) Public financing increases significantly. 2) The Marlins contribution drops significantly. 3) The County Manager announces this great new breakthrough with a big grin on his face. Does anyone know what day the County Manager's perp walk is scheduled for? :whistle

That's OK ... this can't be said enough times.