Im not cuban or hispanic for that matter but this guy seems to be making fun of Cubans:

Marcos Bret?n: Let's just accept it: Marlins simply outplayed the Giants

By Marcos Bret?n -- Bee Columnist

Published 2:15 a.m. PDT Sunday, October 5, 2003

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MIAMI -- A play at the plate.

It had to end with a Giants player face-down in the dirt, didn't it? With 65,464 Florida Marlins fanatics screaming as if they really cared about baseball -- or for the many Cuban Americans in the crowd, as if Cuban dictator Fidel Castro were dead. Yeah, it was that impassioned. It was thrilling. And then it was done.

 

 

 

 

A glorious 100-win Giants season was swept away like feeble inner-tube flotillas on the Florida straits.

And you had to wonder: Why do the Giants always end their seasons with victimized looks on their faces?

 

There was J.T. Snow's afterward, all despair and disbelief -- like a guy who was standing on second base one minute and packing to go home for the winter the next. And there was catcher Yorvit Torrealba as if he were going to cry.

 

Who could blame him? The Marlins -- the Marlins!? -- were the first team to qualify for the National League Championship Series, while the Giants were the first postseason victims of 2003.

 

And you know what?

 

There's going to be a lot of finger-pointing today over a sidelight that simply didn't matter -- Giants manager Felipe Alou's decision to start rookie Jerome Williams over ace Jason Schmidt.

 

You heard it here first -- that whole story line is bunk.

 

If you want to scream about how things would have been different had Schmidt started on three days' rest -- something he never does -- go right ahead. Debating the irrelevant in the face of defeat is a time-honored Giants tradition.

 

It's a lot easier and sexier to make a scandal over Alou waiting until Saturday to start the kid instead of the ill-rested ace. Or to pore over Schmidt's confusing pre-game comments.

 

He was ready to go, he said. But he also said: "It would probably be in everybody's best interests if I didn't."

 

Don't chase your tails, folks. And don't repeat the howls of last season after former Giants manager Dusty Baker removed Russ Ortiz in Game 6 of the World Series -- a move picked to death although Ortiz was starting to be hit and had a stellar bullpen behind him. The bullpen failed, but Baker's move made better copy.

 

So did starting Livan Hern?ndez in the ill-fated Game 7. The Giants' total lack of offense that night? Who cares when we can scream about how if only Kirk Rueter had started! ...

 

But in the face of another defeat, answer this question: What if Schmidt had been ineffective on unaccustomed short rest? And if he survived, who starts Game 5 for the Giants? Sidney Ponson on three days' rest? That guy had trouble on four days rest, yet details like that likely won't matter.

 

Just like it didn't matter that the Giants had no offense in their 2000 playoff washout to the New York Mets. Or that the Giants were an inferior team to the A's in the 1989 World Series.

 

Giants fans blame that loss on the Loma Prieta earthquake, and the question now is: Will you perpetuate this madness?

 

Are you going to look past how the Marlins simply whipped the Giants? Are you going to discount the great Ivan Rodr?guez, the Marlins' catcher who single-handily won this series?

 

Are you going to ignore how every time a big play was needed, the Marlins made one.

 

How about:

 

* Jeff Conine robbing Rich Aurilia of a home run Friday.

 

* Third baseman Miguel Cabrera going into the stands to grab a Barry Bonds foul.

 

* Sacramento native Derrek Lee scoring the decisive run Saturday by sprinting for home while Torrealba lost the ball.

 

* Conine making a perfect throw to nail J.T Snow at the plate for the final out Saturday.

 

* The Marlins challenging Bonds more often than not and containing him.

 

"The Giants were considered the powerful team, but we beat them," Rodr?guez said. And in the losers' clubhouse, Giants owner Peter Magowan said: "The Marlins played a little bit better than us in every aspect."

 

They're both right. Schmidt or no Schmidt, the Marlins earned this one.

 

 

 

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The Sacramento Bee...doesn't surprise me. The pun is old, Florida is not full of a bunch of people that came off a Banana Boat!

 

If he thinks so then he is sadly mistaken. He should be ashamed that those of the "Banana Republic" have a better baseball team than of his "Rainbow Republic."

to tell you the truth, marcos breton is probably mexican

hispanic rivilry?

You kinda have to expect this... bunch of Giant fans are pissed.

but making fun of people on rafts????

most of them are NYY fans any way

actually if fidel castro died tomorrow there would be a hell of a lot more than 65,000 people, they would all be sobbing from joy, and it would last at least a month.

 

other than that unecessary comment (plus the one about us acting like we actually cared about baseball) the article was good and very true. they fell asleep and we took advantage. a bad team wouldnt have been able to take advantage the way we did. not to mention we outplayed them in everything.

I know I am going send an angry e mail to this idiot, if anyone else would like to his E mail is...

 

mbreton@sacbee.com