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First of all, I love for Mike Lowell to stay. But if he goes we move Cabrera to third, bring Aguila to play left field, and with the money we save we have more chances of keeping Loduca and or Pavano, Armando well Mota would not be a bad option at closer especially with spooney coming back, its not a bad situation. 570468[/snapback] Our lineup is weak enough with Lowell in it, removing lowell's place in the lineup and replacing it with Chris Aguila would be devastating.

If I was told in 2002 that the marlins would win it all in 2003, but miss the playoffs in 2004, I would be estatic. 568768[/snapback] They were missing the chemistry they had last year and allowed small slumps to turn into protracted slumps. Was Ozzie Guillen's presence missed? 569063[/snapback] Oh yeah of course, this team slumped because Ozzie Guillen wasn't in the clubhouse slapping asses. :lol :lol :lol :lol Get real.

You gotta think someone is gonna hit one out eventually off liddle... They are just smoking the ball right to the fielders.

team just looks flat out there. cant blame em, they have to be tired. but a philly choke is inevitable. marlins will be victorious.

Nice play by Jeff there. Another reason to name the street Conine Street. Now we need a number. 93 or 1 or what number do you suggest? 567496[/snapback] What street??

tough inning. good sign is enc & trelle smoked the ball. and gonzalez hit the ball pretty hard too. im confident we'll get on the board the second time around with the top of the lineup coming up in the 4th.

It'd be nice if we come out and get a run or two on the board this inning with the bottom of the lineup.

What are you talking about? Give us a link or something.

Giants don't play tommorow. None of the wildcard contending teams play tommorow except for the Cubs of course. So if we sweep the doubleheader we gain 2 games on the Cubs and 1 game on the giants, padres, and astros.

If the Giants lose today, and we can somehow sweep the double header tommorow, we might just be back into this and only 2.5 games back or so. I might be dreaming here but let's play out what the standings will look like tommorow if the Giants, Astros lose today, and we sweep the doubleheader against the Cubs of course. San Fran 83-67 Chicago 82-67 0.5 Houston 82-68 1.0 San D. 81-69 2.0 Florida 80-69 2.5 So, if everything goes as planned, we'll go into a 3 game series against the Phillies at the Pro who are very sweepable. This thing might start looking pretty good. Tommorow's double header & the Phillies series is where we need to pick up our pace and get on fire. These series against the Expos & the Braves are just bumps along the road. Does anyone remember when we got swept last year in September at Pittsburgh? Also, after tommorow... San Fran will have 12 games left. Chicago will have 13 games left. Houston will have 12 games left. San Diego will have 12 games left. Florida will have 13 games left.

my favorite would have to either be that phillies game or the night gagne fell.

that looks absolutely ridiculous

about 30 mins from coral gables

one pitcher make a team not. 561849[/snapback] Exactly. We won it all without one of our best pitchers last year. Hmm... 561853[/snapback] -burnett + penny and redman

1 IP, 4 walks, 2 runs. Howard starts the second and goes: 8 IP, 0BB, 24 K's, 0 hits, 0 runs. 561887[/snapback] :lol :lol :lol

You guys realize you're argueing with someone who probablly doesn't watch Cabs or the Marlins on a daily basis like we do, right? Basically, these guys don't know s*** lol.

Oswalt - 17-9, 203 IN, 3.59 ERA, 181 K's, 52 BB, .255 BAA Pavano- 16-5, 186 IN, 3.09 ERA, 115 K's, 46 BB, .248 BAA Schmidt-15-7, 189 IN, 3.19 ERA, 215 K's, 66 BB, .204 BAA (ERA should get worse after tonight) .204 batting average against looks good for Schmidt, but he's dropped off lately... 3 poor starts in a row now. If that keeps up.... Three or four really good starts might do it for Pavs. 546910[/snapback] Pavano is more valuable to the Marlins than Oswalt and Schmidt are to the Astros and Giants respectively. 546977[/snapback] no way, take the marlins goggles off, schmidt is pretty much the only GOOD pitcher on the giants staff, he is huge to them.

f*** 'em. Just forfeit the games and hold a press conference calling out Selig favoring the big money teams that Fox wants in the playoffs and WS. I'd rather miss the playoffs then give in to this crap. If we had to play the games in Chicago we should have done it this past weekend. Screw this crap. 545560[/snapback] And exactly what will this accomplish? Nothing.

haha this thread is hilarious

No, if you want better seats, pay for them. It's one thing to sit in outfield reserve and sneak down a few rows, but to go from the fish tank to founders club or an extreme upgrade like that is just plain wrong and you shouldn't do it. IMO it's only OKAY to sneak into unoccupied seats located in the same or similar price range as the seats you purchased, otherwise it's wrong to buy a 5 dollar ticket and steal 45 dollar seats. Just because nobody is sitting them is not an excuse nor does it justify it, if you wanted those seats so badly you should have paid for them like everyone else. 542959[/snapback] haha quit being such a stiff

He has definitely been stepping it up. This team will need him to keep showing up down the stretch if we want to take that wildcard spot.

you people are dumb. well some of you. billy has an era of 3.51 he has given up a grand total of 3 earned runs since july 1. thats an ERA of somewhere around 1. you people are stupid. 535932[/snapback] but it when he gets on and walks people, the onl; reason he has only3 EARNED runs....? His name: Armondo Benitez. Billy WALKED the bases loaded, and had 1 out. Armondo came in, during a 3-1 count, and struck him out and then got the next guy to pop out. Billy is always beeing bailed out. 535959[/snapback] not only that, but most of the situations he was put in have been mop-up roles and such. im not knocking billy or anything, just pointing it out.

The game isn't even over....and you're already home???

metallica sucks 523509[/snapback] :thumbup why are you so awesome?

who cares about what they say. i dont give a f***.do u all get your jollys off by hearing mention of the marlins? we flew under the radar last year and if it were up to me i would not wanna hear anything about them at all on BBTN. u watch the games and u know what happens so why do u care if a national network lets u know something u already know. 522956[/snapback] I agree 100%.