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https://www.marlinsbaseball.com/gallery/album/1-fanfest-2024/

Just click "Add Images" on that link.

Thanks for sharing your view of FanFest with the rest of us!

Someone get me a hair from burgers mustache 

Starts at 4 on a Friday, nobody is going!

5 minutes ago, Michael said:

Starts at 4 on a Friday, nobody is going!

Not going .....I'm protesting, remember 😉 haha.

Why on earth would they make it a Friday?  Seems like it's just asking for people to not go.

Edited January 26, 20242 yr by rmc523

51 minutes ago, rmc523 said:

Not going .....I'm protesting, remember 😉 haha.

Why on earth would they make it a Friday?  Seems like it's just asking for people to not go.

Scheduling issues with the Serie del Caribe the next 2 weekends coming up. This was apparently the best available date before they have to report to Spring Training. 

59 minutes ago, Michael said:

Starts at 4 on a Friday, nobody is going!

Bunch of real fans.

This is a deep cut, lets see who gets it

Going, but the timing is annoying.  Yea, they could not do it tomorrow as Skip out of town to accept award etc.  But a Friday night, rush hour traffic etc.  If my Gkids didn't love going so much, I would avoid it but they have been going for 6 years now, since the oldest was 3 and she loves baseball and the Marlins.  So, I leave my office early for them.  I expect that Marlins do expect a much lower turnout and could also skimp on activities.

This fanfest was terrible. Besides players autograph there was no entertainment or activity. No on field access. No bullpen access. Kids couldn't do much. 

16 minutes ago, Marlins Phenom said:

This fanfest was terrible. Besides players autograph there was no entertainment or activity. No on field access. No bullpen access. Kids couldn't do much. 

Glad the Marlins went all out for this events for the fans.

Just continues the flat out disasterous and quite frankly embarassing offseason of this franchise.

Top 5 disasters in the history of the franchise easily. 

16 minutes ago, Marlins Phenom said:

This fanfest was terrible. Besides players autograph there was no entertainment or activity. No on field access. No bullpen access. Kids couldn't do much. 

Bendix : This team would have a "sustainable success " for the FanFest in the future. 

I excuse you all from the lack of images in the FanFest album (0 at this moment).  It sounds like there wasn't much there to document.

Since FanFest 2024 was a bomb for the Site Gallery, I recommend you check out some of the other images added there yesterday by @rmc523

Some good classic stuff!

https://www.marlinsbaseball.com/gallery/

Also I hear Jazz wasn’t there yesterday?  How many other players didn’t come?

7 hours ago, Marlins Phenom said:

This fanfest was terrible. Besides players autograph there was no entertainment or activity. No on field access. No bullpen access. Kids couldn't do much. 

Completely accurate assessment. And the autograph sessions had lines so long that it made it not worth waiting for. About the only thing better than previous years was all the concession stands were open with not long lines. So at least you didn't have to starve

They phoned it in much like they did the entire off-season

8 minutes ago, Admin said:

They phoned it in much like they did the entire off-season

Yeah. Kim never phoned anything in - that's for sure!

8 hours ago, Marlins Phenom said:

This fanfest was terrible. Besides players autograph there was no entertainment or activity. No on field access. No bullpen access. Kids couldn't do much. 

I definitely felt there was less to do. I felt the crowd was less and there was just less of a buzz. The scheduling definitely was part of that. It was still fine but it felt like I was back in the years where the team was God awful and nobody went to fan fest. 

2 hours ago, Admin said:

How many other players didn’t come?

That's not your business, pervert. 

Just now, SilverBullet said:

That's not your business, pervert. 

I still want to know anyway

Lines were long for autographs but they almost always are. I myself never stand in those because who cares but I took my son so I had to do that for him, we stood about 90 minutes in a line but thankfully it was one with 6 players at the end so we got 6 autographs and got that all out of the way at once. 

There was no dugout and clubhouse walk through this year. Lame.

There were a couple of those silly fun things like swinging in a batting cage that I put off because I knew the event was until 10, so at 8 pm I went to let my son hit in the cage and they closed it. Several activities ended at 8. I'm like how the hell you gonna close activities 2 hours before the event ends? So in that sense the event is until 8 because you're telling me it's until 10 but say it's 8:30 and I can't do certain things? 

Fireworks show was excellent, Caroline O'Connor walked in and sat right in front of me to enjoy the fireworks with her son which I thought was cool to see her get to enjoy that and I just thought it was cool to see her within the crowd probably looking around and proud of her work. But I was disappointed that she didn't turn around and ask for a pic or an autograph of me, the one and only SilverBullet, her son would have loved that so that was very rude of her.

3 minutes ago, SilverBullet said:

But I was disappointed that she didn't turn around and ask for a pic or an autograph of me, the one and only SilverBullet, her son would have loved that so that was very rude of her.

Did you announce "I'm SilverBullet from MarlinsBaseball.com"?

And I was in that State of the Marlins thing and those are nice on paper and it's nice to sit there and hear it and I appreciate it but man they avoid any real questions, they purposely pick softball questions and if a serious question gets in, obviously Skip and especially Bendix know how to give those vague answers that ultimately say nothing. Also many people don't know how to ask good questions. 

Dumb questions like what do you plan to do with this team and obviously they just say create a winner. 

One good question was how do you replace Solers production but obviously Bendix just says we have a lot of great players still on the team and they'll all do great.

Best question was someone who said she wants to be able to buy a Marlins jersey with a name on the back meaning someone who she knows won't be traded away in 3 years so when will we get that and Bendix was just like yea that's definitely a goal but we have to get there and so on. 

Just now, Admin said:

Did you announce "I'm SilverBullet from MarlinsBaseball.com"?

Why would I have to do that? She saw me when she came to sit. How wouldn't she know?

1 minute ago, SilverBullet said:

Why would I have to do that? She saw me when she came to sit. How wouldn't she know?

Cause your photo isn't on here, unless you look like a marlins logo

The one thing Bendix repeated that did make sense even though we're all tired of it is that the offseason still isn't done and things are still being worked on.

I still believe there's at least one significant trade coming and probably some fringe free agent signings. The roster is absolutely not set, I don't believe there's any chance that the roster we have today is the one they have at the end of March.