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Put him back at the Clevelander as a former celebrity bartender.

Beautiful. Nice body paint also. this one I'm not sure that's her hand over her right, um, base. Doesn't look the same as the left hand. Yeah.. it's on the middle finger, not the ring finger.

153 to go. Bell will get it straightened out eventually, I think ... he really does need to mix his pitches better, though. Can't rely on 90% fastballs. Soon you are going to say we have 50 games to go. Every game does count. It might seem less important now but it is very important to win the games like tonight. We still have a long season to go but these games might come back and haunt us. Mike likes to have unrealistic ideas about the Marlins as do many others with him... it's ok to be a realistic fan like myself and realize good teams don't play baseball like this. Angels, Red Sox, Reds, Phillies, Rays.. all in similar spots. Are they not teams you look at as a "good team"?

The team was scheduled for a day of festivities and a game the night before having to travel to Cincinnati to play at 4pm and there are people freaking out.

Did they have to take the picture sitting on the doctor's table?

This is not an unusual story to hear about such a large project. Contractors cut corners all the time, it's a non-story.

Classy, classy guy. Nothing but good things to say about John Buck. Except he sucks at baseball. Does he?

Lock him into a 10 year while he still thinks 100 million is a lot of money.

Why are would people be upset by the guy rejecting a 6 year deal? The last 2 years of that contract will most likely not be worth it. Beuhrle's deal is great because they kept it shorter.

I don't know how anyone can say, "c'mon Loria" at this point.. the guy offered Pujols more than 200 million dollars.

Off-topic but has anyone seen next year free agent class Next year's FA signings will tell you something about the direction of the Marlins. Will they be as aggressive next year if they aren't selling out?

What happens if we don't get CJ? Is there any other FA we are working on? Apparently we are not in on Fielder.

200 pages won't get Pujols. He's looking for 240.

Gaby Sanchez says: Marlins out on Pujols: "Yes!!!" Marlins interested in Fielder: "What the f***!" Gaby Sanchez will play 1B somewhere regardless.

What incentive would Pujols have, if given similar offers, to come to Miami instead of St. Louis?

It would make no sense to have a press conference announcing that you are not in a race anymore unless it really is all about staying in the media's eye.

#Marlins announce 11:15 am press conference -Cappozi Ok what 11:15am? Huh? Edit: CT..

What is our offer at? I don't think there is any solid figure. This is still a very fluid situation. I'm guessing nothing happens until later tonight. This guy is going to give it a day to pick.

They better know that they've hyped us up a lot, if we don't land pujols they better either go for fielder+buehrlenor Wilson+buehrle, if we simply get buehrle some fans will be disappointed I still don't know how we can be disappointed with Buehrle, Reyes and Bell. We didn't sign Buehrle. Right now we are sitting at Reyes and Bell, which isn't a bad offseason for this franchise. But pretty disappointing if that is it.

How about we celebrate a signing instead of a page number.

Fielder for 6 years 120.

@Buster_ESPN Buster Olney A huge question in the Pujols situation is this: How much chip-on-the-shoulder factor is alive, given past failed negotiations with STL? What does this mean, I'm bad at these idioms. Basically asking if Pujols has soured in general towards the Cardinals based on their low-ball offers.

With our luck the world will actually end in 2012.. right before the first pitch at the new stadium.

Is anyone else snapping their fingers right now?! I'm trying several variations to see which sounds positive. Sounds like a *snap*, "Almost had him."

Is there a way to get a Reyes jersey with the old Florida uniform? NO! GO AWAY! They say that a lot in North Carolina.