August 9, 201511 yr I voted Yes because the majority of Marlins viewers want to see more offense, You guys here at the forums are the minority, If more of the general public got to vote i am sure that the Yes counts would be completely lopsided. I know that real hardcore baseball fans don't care about offense and prefer to see a well pitched and even game, But the matter of fact is that 90% of people that watch the Marlins (and any other team for that matter) are casual fans who are looking to see a show, Not a boring game with a total of 3 runs, What do you think revived baseball after the 1994 strike? Sosa and Mcguire's home run record chase.
August 9, 201511 yr Author I voted Yes because the majority of Marlins viewers want to see more offense, You guys here at the forums are the minority, If more of the general public got to vote i am sure that the Yes counts would be completely lopsided. I know that real hardcore baseball fans don't care about offense and prefer to see a well pitched and even game, But the matter of fact is that 90% of people that watch the Marlins (and any other team for that matter) are casual fans who are looking to see a show, Not a boring game with a total of 3 runs, What do you think revived baseball after the 1994 strike? Sosa and Mcguire's home run record chase. this is very true
August 9, 201511 yr im not a fan of this argument because there's plenty of exciting offense to be had with the doubles and triples that Marlins Park can provide. Even inside the park home runs. Offense in general isn't the issue here. I get more excited for home runs. It also seems that every year we have trouble with RISP and are always leaving a ton on base.
August 9, 201511 yr you guys voting yes, forget how absolutely horrendous our SPs are. Check out some of those guys home/away splits
August 9, 201511 yr I voted Yes because the majority of Marlins viewers want to see more offense, You guys here at the forums are the minority, If more of the general public got to vote i am sure that the Yes counts would be completely lopsided. I know that real hardcore baseball fans don't care about offense and prefer to see a well pitched and even game, But the matter of fact is that 90% of people that watch the Marlins (and any other team for that matter) are casual fans who are looking to see a show, Not a boring game with a total of 3 runs, What do you think revived baseball after the 1994 strike? Sosa and Mcguire's home run record chase. The Marlins just suck, they should be putting up more offense in that park. It has big gaps. Good offense comes more from singles, doubles, and triples, Marlins park is built for that. It's not the park that's the problem, it's the Marlins that is the problem.
August 9, 201511 yr Marlins should do promotions based around them winning next year so we don't lose every game may 12 bark at the park may 13 we win regardless of the score day may 14 Jose Fernandez salt and Pepe shakers day
August 11, 201511 yr Voted yes! Im tired of watching weak singles from our team. #BANAdmin so you think those singles become home runs if the walls come in? those voting yes don't seem to be thinking about what betters the team. Yea more runs will be scored but the other team will be scoring those runs as well.
August 11, 201511 yr I voted 'no' because with good pitching all we need is 3 runs per game avg. to win. I agree with 'yes' because we need fair weather fans at the park
August 11, 201511 yr I voted Yes because the majority of Marlins viewers want to see more offense, You guys here at the forums are the minority, If more of the general public got to vote i am sure that the Yes counts would be completely lopsided. I know that real hardcore baseball fans don't care about offense and prefer to see a well pitched and even game, But the matter of fact is that 90% of people that watch the Marlins (and any other team for that matter) are casual fans who are looking to see a show, Not a boring game with a total of 3 runs, What do you think revived baseball after the 1994 strike? Sosa and Mcguire's home run record chase. Follow American league baseball like all the other casual "fans" that root for the Yankees and Red Sox whenever the marlins aren't opening up a stadium or in the playoffs
August 11, 201511 yr Author 121 votes. I didn't know that many people interacted with this site. Bunch of people login but don't post
August 11, 201511 yr so you think those singles become home runs if the walls come in? those voting yes don't seem to be thinking about what betters the team. Yea more runs will be scored but the other team will be scoring those runs as well. yep, those weak singles become mammoth grand salami's blasts.
August 11, 201511 yr Casual fans won't even show up if there's more home runs hit. They wouldn't even know if more homers were being hit.
August 11, 201511 yr Casual fans won't even show up if there's more home runs hit. They wouldn't even know if more homers were being hit. can't argue this one
August 28, 201511 yr just read this lol "MLB.com reports that the Marlins front office built the park with the hope that its large dimensions would increase the number of doubles hit by the team, but Miami is currently sitting in last place for doubles hit at home this season with 86"
August 28, 201511 yr just read this lol "MLB.com reports that the Marlins front office built the park with the hope that its large dimensions would increase the number of doubles hit by the team, but Miami is currently sitting in last place for doubles hit at home this season with 86" yeah pretty hilarious they blame the lack of doubles on the fences rather than ummmm the players?
August 28, 201511 yr Author yeah pretty hilarious they blame the lack of doubles on the fences rather than ummmm the players? You're doing a poor job at being a shill
August 28, 201511 yr You're doing a poor job at being a shill I'm only a shill for Loria's artistic decisions
August 28, 201511 yr I don't think they're blaming the park as much as just stating the facts. It's clearly a player's issue but if the players still haven't figured it out by now it's not crazy to explore the possibilities here.
September 1, 201511 yr Not sure how many of you saw this but Frisaro says one possibility for the fences would be only to move in the section from where the little yellow line is at the base of the home run structure down to the 392 sign just before the Marlins bullpen, and then also making that wall slightly shorter to allow for "home run robbing" catches, which are virtually nonexistent at Marlins Park. That sounds quite reasonable to me, even as someone opposed to bringing in the fences. I think in this way we reward some of those really deep center fly balls yet still keep the park as a pitcher's park in left and right field. My initial fear was they'd shrink the park to make it a hitter's ballpark but this seems to be a fair compromise, if it goes through. Thoughts?
September 2, 201511 yr How about fixing the balls to elastic like they did in Futurama? That would make it more entertaining.
September 3, 201511 yr How about fixing the balls to elastic like they did in Futurama? That would make it more entertaining.
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