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1 hour ago, SilverBullet said:

A bunch of college kids who wanna be journalists running a Marlins fan site. Translation: don't take them to seriously but support their fandom and their way of compiling Marlins news for the rest of us. They mean well.

Sounds like a bunch of dumb kids.  Why would anyone fucking pay attention to them?

15 hours ago, Das Texan said:

Sounds like a bunch of dumb kids.  Why would anyone fucking pay attention to them?

Sounds like how we keep asking you why you pay attention to this team lol

 

Who cares if a group of kids want to have a blog about a sports team?  Don't like it, don't visit the site...

 

Even though I don't frequent their site, as a lot of the articles are the "yeah, and?" type/more for casual followers of the team, I enjoy having there be some more Marlins content out there to peruse, as opposed to absolutely nothing.

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35 minutes ago, SonOfJack said:

This site needs some casual reading material for the bathroom. Get on it, @Admin

"It" meaning? Sewer clown? Tech support? Please finish your thoughts!

Alright, back to the Marlins.

I think Soler is actually fine as a DH. Should he be playing outfield?  No.  But, he's probably the biggest power threat on the team and would have had 30+ homers last year if not injured.  I'm not sure why everyone is so keen on getting rid of him.  I'd rather replace Avisail Garcia, but yes, I am well aware of why he's on the team......

 

23 minutes ago, hovertical said:

"It" meaning? Sewer clown? Tech support? Please finish your thoughts!

Everyone has a kink....

Waving Stephen King GIF by Maudit

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30 minutes ago, LordMagnus said:

Alright, back to the Marlins.

I think Soler is actually fine as a DH. Should he be playing outfield?  No.  But, he's probably the biggest power threat on the team and would have had 30+ homers last year if not injured. 

He actually seems ... decent? in right field?

46 minutes ago, LordMagnus said:

Alright, back to the Marlins.

I think Soler is actually fine as a DH. Should he be playing outfield?  No.  But, he's probably the biggest power threat on the team and would have had 30+ homers last year if not injured.  I'm not sure why everyone is so keen on getting rid of him.  I'd rather replace Avisail Garcia, but yes, I am well aware of why he's on the team......

 

I would never trust Soler in a big situation because he has zero situational awareness. He guesses himself into some HR streaks every once in a while and will probably hit 30 HRs while leading the league in strikeouts. I'd be okay if he was like our #7 hitter, but the fact we count on him so high in the lineup is... not good. 

21 minutes ago, Iowa said:

I would never trust Soler in a big situation because he has zero situational awareness. He guesses himself into some HR streaks every once in a while and will probably hit 30 HRs while leading the league in strikeouts. I'd be okay if he was like our #7 hitter, but the fact we count on him so high in the lineup is... not good. 

No, he's not someone who should be the center piece of a line up, but yeah he's the only real option for this team when it comes to power hitting at the moment.  His contract is only a problem because the owner is cheap, not because Soler isn't living up to what someone should expect of him.

2 hours ago, rmc523 said:

Sounds like how we keep asking you why you pay attention to this team lol

 

Who cares if a group of kids want to have a blog about a sports team?  Don't like it, don't visit the site...

 

Even though I don't frequent their site, as a lot of the articles are the "yeah, and?" type/more for casual followers of the team, I enjoy having there be some more Marlins content out there to peruse, as opposed to absolutely nothing.

its a byproduct of this stupid generation of idea of 'reality tv' where everyone's business is everyone's right.

Who cares where Avisail Garcia lives.  Write a fucking story on why the fuck he sucks at hitting baseballs.

You know what real baseball journalism is about.  Though I acknowledge that requires a few brain cells and more than 2 minutes of attention span, so I'm probably asking for way too much. 

1 hour ago, LordMagnus said:

Alright, back to the Marlins.

I think Soler is actually fine as a DH. Should he be playing outfield?  No.  But, he's probably the biggest power threat on the team and would have had 30+ homers last year if not injured.  I'm not sure why everyone is so keen on getting rid of him.  I'd rather replace Avisail Garcia, but yes, I am well aware of why he's on the team......

 

probably because he is a modern day Dave Kingman or Rob Deer or even an Adam Dunn (though at least he could get on base via a walk)

Remind me how many World Series were won with those three on a roster again...  

 

I know, I know.  Soler himself won a World Series and MVP award with the Braves in 2021, that woudl be an outlier.  Don't hold you breath on that happening again or him getting onto that kind of white hot streak again when it counts.

 

I'll make it easy.  Zero. 

So that means while its great of Soler to put up the power numbers he does, they are largely empty stats.  Like empty calories.  They exist, but they dont really do you wonders in terms of success.

 

Here's Fish Stripes literally spoiling the Marlins Museum for everyone. Why bother going now? I wonder what the Marlins think of this post. 

32 minutes ago, SilverBullet said:

 

Here's Fish Stripes literally spoiling the Marlins Museum for everyone. Why bother going now? I wonder what the Marlins think of this post. 

As someone who can't go to a game there I appreciate it?

On 4/13/2023 at 5:07 PM, Das Texan said:

probably because he is a modern day Dave Kingman or Rob Deer or even an Adam Dunn (though at least he could get on base via a walk)

Remind me how many World Series were won with those three on a roster again...  

 

I know, I know.  Soler himself won a World Series and MVP award with the Braves in 2021, that woudl be an outlier.  Don't hold you breath on that happening again or him getting onto that kind of white hot streak again when it counts.

 

I'll make it easy.  Zero. 

So that means while its great of Soler to put up the power numbers he does, they are largely empty stats.  Like empty calories.  They exist, but they dont really do you wonders in terms of success.

This post doesn't make any sense.

I don't think anyone is accusing this Marlins team of being a World Series contender, but not only is it incredibly myopic to insinuate that a team can't win a World Series title because of one player's hitting archetype, but you literally acknowledged that it happened two freaking years ago with the same freaking guy you are trashing.

Yeah, if Soler is your top guy, it's a problem, but essentially saying that winning a WS with someone like him on the roster is impossible is just silly and blatantly, factually wrong.

As for Adam Dunn, put him on literally any team that won the World Series and they still win so long as he is not replacing a superior player. The guy had a lifetime .854 OPS and was getting on base at around a .390 clip in his prime. Not his fault he spent his career on garbage teams.

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On 4/13/2023 at 5:07 PM, Das Texan said:

probably because he is a modern day Dave Kingman or Rob Deer or even an Adam Dunn (though at least he could get on base via a walk)

Maybe not to the level of Adam Dunn, but Soler does walk at an above average rate.

14 minutes ago, hovertical said:

Dodgers have a dude with the last name of Outman.  Seems like he'd be a great fit for Miami.

Problem is he's good, so he actually wouldn't fit in here. 😭

On 4/15/2023 at 6:56 PM, SilverBullet said:

 

Here's Fish Stripes literally spoiling the Marlins Museum for everyone. Why bother going now? I wonder what the Marlins think of this post. 

So don't click play if you don't want it "ruined"?

I'll still check it out whenever I next go even though I watched this.

 

A few initial thoughts on it:

1) That stupid Pitbull jersey doesn't belong there, especially not at the beginning.  Just because you have it doesn't mean you should put it there.

2) It looks like they just threw a wall up in front of the old concession stands with how narrow it is.....I'm now in the camp of "why did that take so long?"

3) With that narrow setup, there doesn't seem to be room to add much going forward.

4) It overall is set up in chronological order, but then there are random items out of order on the right side - for example, the Luis Castillo cutout is displayed after the 2012 park opening display.  Same with the lockers and trophies - why not make it all chronological on both sides?  I guess to aesthetically have stuff lined up as 'every other space' they couldn't do a proper chronological setup?

5) Overall, this seems like a "what do we do with this space? A museum!" effort than a "let's make the best museum we can" effort.  I'd have had mannequins with every iteration of each jersey and things like that, but obviously you can't fit that in that narrow space.  It would've been double the width if they fully removed the concessions, which gets back to point #3 of they won't be able to add much going forward with the size of the space.

Maybe my thoughts will change seeing it in person.

I just wanna know if Fish Stripes got permission to film that as if they were working for some major news channel. Those guys give me the creeps, like if they came to my house and would film my house like an episode of Cribs without permission. They post a lot of weird stalkerish things like that.

4 minutes ago, rmc523 said:

I'm now in the camp of "why did that take so long?"

3) With that narrow setup, there doesn't seem to be room to add much going forward.

I'm assuming once this was finalized they just saved it for this season to coincide with the 30 year anniversary. 

And fwiw they said things would occasionally be swapped out so that's how they'll deal with the space issue.

8 minutes ago, SilverBullet said:

I'm assuming once this was finalized they just saved it for this season to coincide with the 30 year anniversary. 

And fwiw they said things would occasionally be swapped out so that's how they'll deal with the space issue.

Oh I meant like why not open it opening day vs. a few weeks into the season.  I don't have a problem with it appearing this season.

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