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Loria, Trainers, and the Marlins


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http://miamiherald.typepad.com/sports-buzz/2013/01/more-loria-behavior-criticized-dolphins-heat-canes-chatter.html

 

This is as damning an article as I've seen about him. Nevermind his bottom line budget, but this look into how poorly run the Marlins are from top to bottom and the players feelings towards the owner and trainer is as ugly as I've seen.

 

 

### Four agents told me their players cannot trust that their injuries and rehabilitations will be handled correctly because of lack of confidence in the training staff -- a problem that a former Marlin attributes to Loria’s loyalty to trainer Sean Cunningham.

 

Who do you think the player is? I think it's Hayes or even Ozzie Guillen based on the amount of F bombs, with the language edited a bit to read easier. Maybe it's Lomo too (based on the rehab comments).

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I dunno about this... in some ways he's way too deep in everyone's business but at the same time can't someone say that Loria is just a hands on owner who cares so much about his team? Its a fault but is it a totally bad fault?

It's a bad fault when he forces the organization to keep employing incompetent personnel (trainers) and forces the people in baseball operations to make moves that hurt the team (signing guys like Buck and Bell).

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I dunno about this... in some ways he's way too deep in everyone's business but at the same time can't someone say that Loria is just a hands on owner who cares so much about his team? Its a fault but is it a totally bad fault?

Pro baseball down here in South Florida has monster potential. But this organization is run terribly. And since he is "hands on" he has to bear the brunt of responsibility. It's as simple as that.

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I certainly have no confidence in the Marlins trainers either

Monday: Player X stubbed his toe, out for Tuesday's game.

Wednesday: Player X's stubbed toe still not fully healed, out til next Monday.

 

Monday: Player X's stubbed toe will require a trip to the DL.

Friday: Player X's stubbed toe appears to be healing just fine.

 

Two Tuesday's later: Player X's stubbed toe requires Tommy John Surgery.

 

 

Seems to be how things go in the trainers room.

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Loria's never going to sell, nor can he be forced out, barring pictures of a dead girl or a live boy in his bed.

 

I do find anything quoting miscellaneous whiners and losers faintly amusing. Oh, my goodness! He looked at us in the dugout!

 

I'm not pro FO by any means. But I gotta agree with ya here. Add in an agent or two that are disgruntled for whatever reason, plus one agent that believes he knows more than the doctors. The Miami Herald is apparently on a very anti Loria campaign. Using hearsay and quotes from either ex-players or disgruntled current players is no way to objectively report. Matter of fact, it's not a report at all. It's a smear campaign. I never take these "unnamed sources" quotes very seriously. As far as I know, the writer is making them up just to "prove" his point. No matter how much I dislike ownership, I refuse to jump on this and start screaming out, "I told ya so," simply because it is what I want to hear about our ownership.

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