July 9, 20232 yr The attitude of the team is completely different this year. I hope Don Mattingly is enjoying us from Toronto (or, I guess, Detroit today).
July 9, 20232 yr 4 minutes ago, Erick said: The attitude of the team is completely different this year. I hope Don Mattingly is enjoying us from Toronto (or, I guess, Detroit today). He probably doesn't even realize he's not managing the Marlins yet
July 9, 20232 yr 1 minute ago, SonOfJack said: Does @pollythewog get a reprieve since they won? What about for the 30+ losses he's caused us to suffer with by not starting the game thread? I say he's still an asshole!
July 9, 20232 yr Author BUT WAIT Weren't we supposed to get swept and have a seven game losing streak because we lost game one of this series??
July 9, 20232 yr 2 minutes ago, Michael said: BUT WAIT Weren't we supposed to get swept and have a seven game losing streak because we lost game one of this series??
July 9, 20232 yr 2 hours ago, Erick said: The attitude of the team is completely different this year. I hope Don Mattingly is enjoying us from Toronto (or, I guess, Detroit today). There are STILL people on the bird site saying that this team would have the same record right now with Mattingly managing. I don't know if we're even at .500 with him.
July 9, 20232 yr Author Just now, SongInTheAir said: There are STILL people on the bird site saying that this team would have the same record right now with Mattingly managing. I don't know if we're even at .500 with him. Well well well under. Floro would be the closer until June after blowing seven saves at which point he switches to Barnes and then Scott.
July 9, 20232 yr I really thought this team may fold after that Puk blown save. Glad to be dead wrong. Still think the 2nd half schedule will be brutal but this team will fight to the very end. The playoffs would be amazing but I’m just hoping for a record over .500 that’s a huge year 1 building block for Skip and the club
July 9, 20232 yr Author 3 minutes ago, MarlininIowa said: I really thought this team may fold after that Puk blown save. The last seven years with Don really conditioned us to expect the worst, so I don't blame you. This team believes in itself and wants to win for each other. It's great.
July 9, 20232 yr 11 minutes ago, Michael said: Well well well under. Floro would be the closer until June after blowing seven saves at which point he switches to Barnes and then Scott. Arraez wouldn't play against LHP
July 9, 20232 yr 1 minute ago, Michael said: The last seven years with Don really conditioned us to expect the worst, so I don't blame you. This team believes in itself and wants to win for each other. It's great. oh it goes well beyond the days of Don...it's the organization as a whole that has made us expect the worst for two decades. Last time we saw this was 2003 when they capture lightning in a bottle. The covid season had some fun moments but it wasn't the same as a full season and let's be honest the FO fucked us over after that season too by ignoring the chance to build on something and it's been miserable until this year again.
July 9, 20232 yr 9 minutes ago, SongInTheAir said: There are STILL people on the bird site saying that this team would have the same record right now with Mattingly managing. I don't know if we're even at .500 with him. Thankfully I never signed up for the bird site. Never caught my attention and would probably raise my blood pressure reading so many dumbass people’s comments. And with all the Taco Bell and Mickey D’s I eat I can’t afford to have my blood pressure any higher. 😂 The biggest problem with the bird site is that it made too many stupid people have a platform to spew their stupid illogical and just plain dumbass opinions and make them feel like somehow validated because it’s published on the internet. Anyone with half a brain who has followed the Marlins closely for even the last 3 years will absolutely know that the Marlins would not be in the same position this year if Donnie was still the manager. Any if anyone would like to disagree I would remind them of the time when Garrett Cooper batted leadoff for like a month even though Jazz was also in the lineup. 😂
July 9, 20232 yr 1 minute ago, SirFishFan said: Any if anyone would like to disagree I would remind them of the time when Garrett Cooper batted leadoff for like a month even though Jazz was also in the lineup. 😂 I don't even remember Cooper batting leadoff for a month so I'm guessing they were already well out of it - but I do remember Soler batting leadoff for about a month to start out last season (although Ng kinda backed it up by saying he was a high OBP guy lol during that "daring" opening day interview)
July 9, 20232 yr Just now, hovertical said: I don't even remember Cooper batting leadoff for a month so I'm guessing they were already well out of it - but I do remember Soler batting leadoff for about a month to start out last season (although Ng kinda backed it up by saying he was a high OBP guy lol during that "daring" opening day interview) Well, I don’t know if it was an entire month, although it felt like it. It might have been a couple of weeks but yeah. Was pretty dumb. Cooper added absolutely nothing to the leadoff spot. Besides beginning the game without getting on base more often than not.
July 9, 20232 yr Author 8 minutes ago, hovertical said: oh it goes well beyond the days of Don...it's the organization as a whole that has made us expect the worst for two decades. Last time we saw this was 2003 when they capture lightning in a bottle. The covid season had some fun moments but it wasn't the same as a full season and let's be honest the FO fucked us over after that season too by ignoring the chance to build on something and it's been miserable until this year again. Certainly. Dan Jennings managing was hilarious. Redmond I liked, sorta. But we sign Jeff Baker and Garrett Jones to platoon first base and then they decide to platoon Baker and Dietrich at second. Made no sense. Ozzie. Lol.
July 9, 20232 yr Speaking of leadoff, anyone know why Kyle Schwarber hits leadoff for the Phillies? I've been wondering that and was curious if anyone knows the answer. Seems like such a strange move.
July 9, 20232 yr If Mattingly were the manager: Floro would still be the closer. Arraez wouldn't play against LHP. Yuli Gurriel would be the starting 1B. Garrett Cooper and Jorge Soler would see significant time in the outfield. Nick Fortes would be the DH on games that Stallings catches. Garrett Hampson would play A LOT more. Jean Segura would be the leadoff hitter.
July 9, 20232 yr 3 hours ago, hovertical said: He probably doesn't even realize he's not managing the Marlins yet He’s doing this year roughly the same amount of caring as he did last year, so I get it.
July 9, 20232 yr Just now, mystikol87 said: He’s doing this year roughly the same amount of caring as he did last year, so I get it. last year was so painful to watch. I've never seen an MLB manager act more disengaged from a job than that. It was infuriating, disgusting, and just...awful. It was such a wild juxtaposition from just two years earlier in 2020 when he was having a blast with the team and going all-in and then the ENTIRE season last year he was literally useless and did NOTHING aside from collecting a paycheck.
July 9, 20232 yr I have to make a correction here. I got a couple of players scenarios mixed up in an earlier post. It wasn't Cooper that batted leadoff, it was actually Corey Dickerson who was batting leadoff to start off the beginning of 2021 season. Which actually was just as dumb a move or maybe even dumber. I remember it was such an unpopular move with fans and even Donnie's sister didn't like it and asked him to change it. And he kept Dickerson there for a while before finally putting someone else there. 🤣 In the beginning of the 2022 season Soler was batting leadoff and Cooper hit 2nd to start the season. I wasn't a fan of that either.
July 10, 20232 yr 26 minutes ago, hovertical said: last year was so painful to watch. I've never seen an MLB manager act more disengaged from a job than that. It was infuriating, disgusting, and just...awful. It was such a wild juxtaposition from just two years earlier in 2020 when he was having a blast with the team and going all-in and then the ENTIRE season last year he was literally useless and did NOTHING aside from collecting a paycheck. It was embarrassing last year and it's crazy how it was never publicly admitted. Not that it would have been the right thing to throw him under the bus but I wonder how Kim and Sherman and the players really felt about it cuz they couldn't have been that blind to it.
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