Marlins' win poetic justice

 

Sometimes, it's actually about baseball. What a concept.

But what folks often forget at times like this is that there are two teams playing in these games. And due to circumstances beyond the control of Bud Selig, the FOX television network, Wood, Prior, Dusty Baker, Bill Murray, Bernie Mac, the Illinois Confederation of Goat Farmers and collectors of red ivy, one of those teams happened to be the Florida Marlins.

 

So the Florida Marlins are going to the World Series. They understand they've screwed up about a zillion romantic plot lines. They understand they're about the last team on earth that the poets, the historians and the ratings counters wanted to see show up at that World Series. But that's a problem only for the poets, the historians and the ratings counters.

 

Sometimes it's about baseball. And the best baseball team is the one still playing.

They've been doing what they had to do for five months now, by the way. Nobody was real interested. Nobody was too convinced. Nobody anointed them as the hot story in baseball. But what else is new?

All so very true.

 

The FISH should now be the "media darlings"

This has to be one of the best Marlins articles yet.

amazing quotes

 

"When we got down like that the other day, I said to these guys, 'Why should we worry about that?' " said coach Ozzie Guillen, between puffs on his NLCS victory cigar. "I said, 'It's been like that for us since June. We had to win every game since June to get here.' And they said, 'Damn. That's true.' "

 

"I think we might have set a record," laughed fellow coach Perry Hill. "What's the record for most playoff games in one year? That's all we've played for four months."

 

"I know the way this will be portrayed is that we sneaked in the back door," said third baseman Mike Lowell. "But you know what? We can sneak in the back door all the way to the world championship. I don't care."

 

"How about that kid, at 23 years old?(Josh Beckett)" Fox gushed. "His start on Sunday put him on the map. Now he owns about three-quarters of the map."

 

"This kid (Miguel Cabrera) starts the season in Double-A and ends up hitting cleanup for a team that's going to the World Series?" mused his hitting coach, Bill Robinson. "That's unheard of."

 

"For two months," Fox said, "I've been calling my wife and telling her, 'I just played in the best game of my life.' So when I called her last night (after Game 6), she just said, 'I know. You just played in the best game of your life.' And I said, 'I did.' "

ya the chad fox one is good. I found this one funny too.

 

"I'm telling you, man," Guillen said. "He's going to be better than Manny Ramirez. He's a better defensive player. He runs better. He's a better baseball player. And I say that with unbelievable respect for Manny. But this kid, there's nothing he can't do. The other day, we put him in right field for the first time in his life. So I told him, 'You're in right field tonight,' and he didn't say anything. He just said, 'OK.' So I said, 'Don't worry. If you screw up, it's Jack McKeon's fault.' "

 

sayin its jack mckeon fault lol

the Chad Fox quote and link to the article is my away message right now (to check it out, my sn is Carter12345)

ya the chad fox one is good. I found this one funny too.

 

"I'm telling you, man," Guillen said. "He's going to be better than Manny Ramirez. He's a better defensive player. He runs better. He's a better baseball player. And I say that with unbelievable respect for Manny. But this kid, there's nothing he can't do. The other day, we put him in right field for the first time in his life. So I told him, 'You're in right field tonight,' and he didn't say anything. He just said, 'OK.' So I said, 'Don't worry. If you screw up, it's Jack McKeon's fault.' "

 

sayin its jack mckeon fault lol

yea i loved that one. i thought i had mentioned it also but i guess i missed it.