Now that the trading deadline is over, we can all go back to focusing on our respective teams. I'd love for the Red Sox to have pried AJB away from the Marlins but, truthfully your team did the right thing in keeping him.

 

As you know, we had our own drama over the past few days and in the end, the front ooffice decided to keep Manny on the team. Time will tell whether that was the right decision.

 

I enjoyed reading your posts on this board over the past couple of weeks. There is much more passion for your team than I would have imagined. Good luck the rest of the way.

 

GoNM

Now that the trading deadline is over, we can all go back to focusing on our respective teams. I'd love for the Red Sox to have pried AJB away from the Marlins but, truthfully your team did the right thing in keeping him.

 

As you know, we had our own drama over the past few days and in the end, the front ooffice decided to keep Manny on the team. Time will tell whether that was the right decision.

 

I enjoyed reading your posts on this board over the past couple of weeks. There is much more passion for your team than I would have imagined. Good luck the rest of the way.

 

GoNM

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We have a small fan base, but a passionate fan base. When today's kids are adults the Marlins will have a much larger passionate fan base

I am proud to have you as a fellow Red Sox fan. But my Marlins loyalties are first in my heart. Thanks for the kind words and I look forward to an exciting run to the playoffs.

Thank you good sir. I'm a Marlins/Red Sox fan (in that order) and the Manny situation has been pretty captivating. I'm glad he is staying...watching today's game on NESN and seeing the crowd reaction hopefully showed both Manny and the front office all they needed to know.

It's been nice around the deadline for some fans of other teams to see the dedicated base of supporters that the Marlins do have (despite a perception to the contrary).

thanks for the kind words. Visit anytime, and we hope to see Clement back throwing soon.

Ghost, thank you very much for your remarks and allow me to compliment on always being a gentleman here.

 

Good luck :thumbup

Well first let me thank you for the kind words. I think most people would be truly amazed that there are as die-hard Marlins fans such as us around for a team that unfortunately doesn't draw very well. We are very happy that the F.O. did what they did and it shows that they believe in this team so much that only a few minor tweaks here and there were really needed for us to make a run.

 

 

So thanks again and I wish you the best of luck for the rest of the season :thumbup

Thank you kind BoSawx fan. Good luck the rest of the way. I listen to the song Tessie everyday(song celebrating their WS victory), and Arroyo is my fav non-marlin.

I am a Red Sox fan too. :thumbup

 

Thank you for the kind words. Good luck this season.

Sox fan by birth, Marlins fan by residence. Both teams are hot, I'm lovin' it.

 

And I have to say, I've been to plenty of games at Fenway, had great seats for many years... but I LOVE going to games at The Pro/Do. Fenway has it beat for aesthetics, but that's about all. Parking, comfort, weather, you name it. The seating is really pretty good, I like the steep slope at The Pro/Do, it puts you a lot closer to the field than most parks. Fenway has about 5,000-7,000 great seats and the rest are garbage.

 

Even the crowd is better here. Sox fans are noted for being passionate and all, and it's true... when the Red Sox are in the playoffs, it's the only news in town... bombings, murders, elections, wars all take a back seat. Unfortunately, since the Sox are so popular, a lot of people at the games are there simply because it's trendy and they had connections to get tickets. So the people around you are often totally clueless, and the better your seats are, the worse it is. At Marlins' games, everybody is there becasue they wanted to go to a ballgame. Even if they just want to ogle Miggy, at least they're having fun. Everybody is in a good mood, even the drunks.

 

Fenway it's all so damned serious. Every time I go to a Marlins game, I think about the reaction in Fenway if they ever had mermaids dancing on the dugouts between innings. Yipes. And the whole city went into crisis last week when... Manny sat out of a Tampa game that they won easily.

 

If they both make the Series this year, I'll probably be a Sox rooter, but the longer I'm here, the less it's so.

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Even the crowd is better here. Sox fans are noted for being passionate and all, and it's true... when the Red Sox are in the playoffs, it's the only news in town... bombings, murders, elections, wars all take a back seat. Unfortunately, since the Sox are so popular, a lot of people at the games are there simply because it's trendy and they had connections to get tickets. So the people around you are often totally clueless, and the better your seats are, the worse it is. At Marlins' games, everybody is there becasue they wanted to go to a ballgame. Even if they just want to ogle Miggy, at least they're having fun. Everybody is in a good mood, even the drunks.

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Good points, Mr. bobk; and great post, overall.

 

 

And thanks to Mr. Ghost also for the nice gesture; and good luck.

Thanks for the kind words, being a gentleman, and all that good stuff...But is this the wrong post for me to let it be known that after the Marlins my favorite team is the Yankees?

Red Sox fans aren't scared of the Yankees any more, and Marlins fans never were.

Just went to Fenway for the 1st time last month (July 2nd). It was amazing. The Red Sox are my 2nd favorite team (my girlfriend's from Boston).

 

Good luck and hopefully we will meet in the World Series.

Just remembered one my better clueless Fenway fan stories... unfortunately, I was the enabler in this particular instance. In the early 80's I had access to some front row box seats through business, and one day I brought an engineer friend and his wife to a game. They weren't baseball fans (as you'll soon learn), but they really enjoyed it, feeling special about getting good seats and all that.

 

Anyway, the Sox were ahead, and after the visitors made the third out in the top of the ninth, I stood up to leave. My guests just sat there. Finally I said, "Are you ready to go?", and they said, "Sure, if you are. We thought you'd want to watch the rest of the inning."

 

They didn't know the game was over.

 

Good story... It's those people that populate most of the good seats at the PRO during the playoffs. Kind of frustrating for us loyal fans sometimes; but the bottom line is: they're there to have fun, just like we are.

 

Good story... It's those people that populate most of the good seats at the PRO during the playoffs. Kind of frustrating for us loyal fans sometimes; but the bottom line is: they're there to have fun, just like we are.

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dont ya know it! I couldnt get tickets to post season games while people who probably can't pronounce Conine were there.. heh.. :banghead