May 2, 200620 yr I just watched Major League today for the first time in a year or so and I couldn't help but notice the similarities to The Marlins this year. It's halarious.
May 2, 200620 yr I just watched Major League today for the first time in a year or so and I couldn't help but notice the similarities to The Marlins this year. It's halarious. The only thing we're missing is a sexy owner. Both have no balls though.
May 2, 200620 yr Except that Miami was going to build a stadium for the Indians and these guys can't even build a stadium for the Marlins. Gotta love Hollywood :thumbup
May 2, 200620 yr Reed needs a lot of work if he wants to be Willie Mayes Hayes. :confused Aguila sure has the out-of-the-norm cultural thing with the fire dancing, but can he hit like Cerrano? Cabrera sure is fielding like Dorn. :confused
May 2, 200620 yr We're in a period where we're all a bit clueless. It's easy to latch onto these ideas, but it is far from the best example and offers absolutly no insight on the future. Yes, fans have been treated poorly. Yes, some (in this case, fans) distrust ownership. Yes, this team is full of unknowns. But there's nothing stopping the Marlins from leaving South Florida, but the lack of a credible market with a profitable stadium and the team's commitment to work out a deal with Dade County. The actions of this past offseason were in no part an effort to sour the market, they were simply to match the real revenues of the club, help recoup past losses and/or help invest in the future. The firesale of 1998 wasn't all about Huizenga enacting penalty on the market either, he wanted to cut costs as he was transferring ownership.
May 2, 200620 yr rferry, replace "distrust" ownership, with "loathe & hate" and you are correct. Even with a new stadium the Marlins will not prosper until a new ownership team is in place. The present one simply DOES NOT have the money to be a real ownership group. Two or three years of low budget payrolls will not make up for the chronic problem this ownership has -- and that is this ownership group doesn't have the fund necessary, and never will to run a 1st class baseball operation, even if they get a new stadium.
May 2, 200620 yr rferry, replace "distrust" ownership, with "loathe & hate" and you are correct. Even with a new stadium the Marlins will not prosper until a new ownership team is in place. The present one simply DOES NOT have the money to be a real ownership group. Two or three years of low budget payrolls will not make up for the chronic problem this ownership has -- and that is this ownership group doesn't have the fund necessary, and never will to run a 1st class baseball operation, even if they get a new stadium. You are under the false perception that owners fund their teams from their personal checking accounts. The time that was true disappeared many years and a World War or two ago. A team is operated from its revenues and return on related investments, not the wealth of its principal owner(s). The John Henry experience should have taught you this. George Steinbrenner and Peter Angelos too. Fact is a team with an undefinable future, little stadium revenue and unrealized market is not an investment you sink much of any amount of equity into, whether it be the equivalent of your daily allowance or your life savings. Ownership of a major league baseball team is not and has never been a charitable act! You, as a fan, are not entitled to anything.
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