After reading some of your posts, I am just embarresed. You guys treat Girardi like dirt. He's about to get fired by Jeffrey Loria and nobody cares. You are too busy thinking about who will replace him. And you know what the saddest thing is? One of you will make a poll in the near future asking whos fault it was we didn't make the play-offs, and most of you will vote for Girardi! EVEN THOUGH WE SHOULD HAVE NEVER SNIFFED THE PLAYOFFS!!! Girardi had a team of over 20 rookies and a 15 million dollar payroll play meaningful games in September. Go ahead and say it was ALL talent. Don't praise Joe like Loria won't. Give all the credit to Beinfest. Well gues what? We had a great team last year but Jack couldn't get us to the play-offs.

 

I've been listening to interviews with Girardi and he really is a great guy and he gets treated like crap in South Florida and it's so embarressing for this team. He makes a mistake (all manageres obviously make mistakes) and he is ASKED TO APOLOGIZE IN FRONT OF THE TEAM. He handles it like a man and keeps winning, and he just gets punched in the face by those sleazeballs Sampson and Loria. But Joe is a class act and doesn't say one bad thing about them. And have you ever thought maybe the reason we dont have a stadium is because people just dont like Loria? He's just not a nice guy. They don't want to give their money to him.

 

Go ahead and pick out every dumb mistake Girardi made, but it's easy to gamble with a play and have a rookie mess up and make you look bad. He's done a great job, and people (and Loria) would realize that if they went to more than two games.

 

So forget about Joe and what he did for us in 2006. Let him go. He deserves better than the way he gets treated. Go get Jack off the rocking chair in Carolina. Go get Fredi for the 4 spanish players on the team. Go get Lou Pinella so he can scold Olsen.

 

 

In general, this post sucks. You seem to be a bigger fan of Girardi than the Marlins so go on and follow Girardi to whatever club that ends up buying the lazy, national media hype surrounding him. Hey, maybe your dreams will come true and he'll mandhandle you and verbally dress you down in front of everyone like he did Olsen.

forget it. u guy are nuts. you'll miss him.

I happen to think that the Marlins front office/scouting is damn close to being the very best in baseball.

 

But in terms of pure business ownership I don't find the same faults that most do with Loria. I don't blame him for the lack of a stadium at this point. I blame Florida government officials and the Florida public.

 

 

I don't blame the government. They took one look at the attendance figures and came to the conclusion that SF dosen't care much about MLB here. I blame the fan base for that. Attendance does matter. Despite what those that don't go to the games want you to believe.

Loria and crew have us a hair away from a new stadium. Alot closer than any other ownership group ever got us.

Like I say, it's a combination of both. Other cities have gotten ballparks with less than spectacular attendance. What makes South Florida any different?

 

South Florida is different because it's made-up of 3 counties who subscribe fully to the parochial approach of doing business meaning each county doesn't care one bit about regional needs. Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach rarely ever cooperate in anything meaningful. Foreign countries cooperate more than the South Florida counties.