On 3/10/2025 at 6:55 AM, rmc523 said:

Make the decision?

The decision is made - he's gone when he gets the deal he wants.

Sounds like Cole is going for TJ surgery - we'll probably ship Sandy to the Yankees soon.

The moment I saw Cole is done with TJ for the season I immediately thought this same thing. Sandy will go to NYY.

1 hour ago, hovertical said:

The moment I saw Cole is done with TJ for the season I immediately thought this same thing. Sandy will go to NYY.

Bendix and Bruce probably started drooling when they heard the news. Less for Bruce to pay, and Bendix can get 2 people nobody's ever heard of.

Just get the Dodgers involved in Sandy talks and every other team interested raises their offer.

On 3/9/2025 at 4:32 PM, TheMarlinsProject said:

His most important task is maximizing the trade value for Sandy.

That means showcasing he is healthy and making sure he isn't injured again as well as trading him for a maximum return regardless of when that happens.

The fact is Sandy will be 30 this year and will most likely start declining in production.

Most will cry and throw a tantrum when he is traded and question the return but it is inevitable he is gone and we need to get as much as possible back for the long-term benefit of the club.

“Crying and throwing a tantrum” because the team is without a doubt going to trade a franchise-building one of a kind SP on a very team friendly deal.

Okay dix Jr.

10 hours ago, pollythewog said:

“Crying and throwing a tantrum” because the team is without a doubt going to trade a franchise-building one of a kind SP on a very team friendly deal.

Okay dix Jr.

Right. that's the same excuse with every player year over year. "we'll get x people back for long term benefit....blah blah" over and over.

1 hour ago, rmc523 said:

Right. that's the same excuse with every player year over year. "we'll get x people back for long term benefit....blah blah" over and over.

I get that they are a paid plant by the daddy dix FO to drum up support for the most watched marlins blog online, but not understanding why trading cy young Sandy or minimizing his value to fans is silly

15 minutes ago, pollythewog said:

I get that they are a paid plant by the daddy dix FO to drum up support for the most watched marlins blog online, but not understanding why trading cy young Sandy or minimizing his value to fans is silly

Yeah, he's definitely a plant lol. Nobody's that invested in the "vision"

Why does daddy even get such goodwill to begin with? The rays were 80-82 last year with a team built mostly by him over the last decade. Can’t wait until we win 80 games in 2028!

18 minutes ago, pollythewog said:

Why does daddy even get such goodwill to begin with? The rays were 80-82 last year with a team built mostly by him over the last decade. Can’t wait until we win 80 games in 2028!

Let's check their last decade!

80, 99, 86, 100, 40* (108 equivalent), 96, 90, 80, 68, 80

Compared to ...

62, 84, 69, 67, 31* (84 equivalent), 57, 63, 77, 79, 71

Yeah give me the Rays model that he built over the last decade, please.

42 minutes ago, Michael said:

Let's check their last decade!

80, 99, 86, 100, 40* (108 equivalent), 96, 90, 80, 68, 80

Compared to ...

62, 84, 69, 67, 31* (84 equivalent), 57, 63, 77, 79, 71

Yeah give me the Rays model that he built over the last decade, please.

Neander deserves a lot more credit for 2017 to 2020 or whatever, but point valid from 2021-2024.

1 hour ago, pollythewog said:

Neander deserves a lot more credit for 2017 to 2020 or whatever, but point valid from 2021-2024.

You said last decade, fam. You slut.

11 minutes ago, Michael said:

You said last decade, fam. You slut.

I say lots of things but they’re only true if they fit my narrative m8!

The 2023 Rays were the best team in baseball until that "thing" happened and it unraveled.

They won the first 13 games and at one point were 27-6.

They had five seasons of winning records and playoff berths in a row. All while playing in a tough division at an economic disadvantage.

Every Marlin fan would kill for those results.

1 hour ago, TheMarlinsProject said:

The 2023 Rays were the best team in baseball until that "thing" happened and it unraveled.

They won the first 13 games and at one point were 27-6.

They had five seasons of winning records and playoff berths in a row. All while playing in a tough division at an economic disadvantage.

Every Marlin fan would kill for those results.

The 2023 rays made it just as far as the 2023 Marlins m8

Your pedantic arguments and cherry picking are tiresome and juvenile. Have a great evening.

51 minutes ago, pollythewog said:

The 2023 rays made it just as far as the 2023 Marlins m8

But the 2023 Marlins still had Kim Ng.

You know, I’ve noticed a trend here over the years. Whoever is the Marlins GM or whichever ownership group is here gets tons of criticism while they are here. However when someone new comes they seem to be less popular which makes a lot us miss the previous owner and GM and reminisce for the “good ol days” 😂

I can clearly remember how much people couldn’t stand Loria. Seriously I’m sure most of here remember that. However with the new ownership in place some have even gone as as saying they actually miss the Loria and Samson days.

Same with Michael Hill.. he was pretty well liked overall I think but did have some people who weren’t crazy about his moves or lack of moves. Then Ng came in and some people started missing Hill.

Then Bendix came and some people were happy to have a new GM at first and now Bendix makes some of us miss the Ng days. 😂

The point I’m making is that I wish the Marlins could one day sell the team and get a new ownership group and GM that would make of all us pretty much universally say.. ok yeah these new guys are definitely better than all the past groups of the last 20+ years.

It wouldn’t be that hard.. just have to find an owner that really wants to see the team win and have people in the seats every night instead of just viewing the team as another “business venture” in his portfolio. So they can put like a $120+ mil budget and tell their GM. “I wanna get to the playoffs this year. Make it happen!” 😂

Hey I’m allowed a little bit of unrealistic wishful thinking from time to time.

I suggest that Admin sell a few of his and Polly’s houses and put in a bid to buy the team one day! Then Admin can be the owner and Polly can be the new GM!

Edited March 14, 20251 yr by SirFishFan

6 hours ago, SirFishFan said:

I suggest that Admin sell a few of his and Polly’s houses and put in a bid to buy the team one day! Then Admin can be the owner and Polly can be the new GM!

@pollythewog already risked homes 1 and 2 on a first pitch strike in the Tokyo Series.

11 hours ago, TheMarlinsProject said:

Your pedantic arguments and cherry picking are tiresome and juvenile. Have a great evening.

Says the one that worships the ground Bendix & co walk on...

11 hours ago, SirFishFan said:

But the 2023 Marlins still had Kim Ng.

You know, I’ve noticed a trend here over the years. Whoever is the Marlins GM or whichever ownership group is here gets tons of criticism while they are here. However when someone new comes they seem to be less popular which makes a lot us miss the previous owner and GM and reminisce for the “good ol days” 😂

I can clearly remember how much people couldn’t stand Loria. Seriously I’m sure most of here remember that. However with the new ownership in place some have even gone as as saying they actually miss the Loria and Samson days.

Same with Michael Hill.. he was pretty well liked overall I think but did have some people who weren’t crazy about his moves or lack of moves. Then Ng came in and some people started missing Hill.

Then Bendix came and some people were happy to have a new GM at first and now Bendix makes some of us miss the Ng days. 😂

The point I’m making is that I wish the Marlins could one day sell the team and get a new ownership group and GM that would make of all us pretty much universally say.. ok yeah these new guys are definitely better than all the past groups of the last 20+ years.

It wouldn’t be that hard.. just have to find an owner that really wants to see the team win and have people in the seats every night instead of just viewing the team as another “business venture” in his portfolio. So they can put like a $120+ mil budget and tell their GM. “I wanna get to the playoffs this year. Make it happen!” 😂

Hey I’m allowed a little bit of unrealistic wishful thinking from time to time.

I suggest that Admin sell a few of his and Polly’s houses and put in a bid to buy the team one day! Then Admin can be the owner and Polly can be the new GM!

Well, it sadly just keeps getting worse.

It's a shame we couldn't have had the Mas brothers buy the team and do what they've done with Inter Miami. They understand this market needs a winner and are ponying up to do it (granted, MLS payrolls are much lower than MLB, so devil's advocate argument they may not have spent here either, but still....).

14 minutes ago, rmc523 said:

Says the one that worships the ground Bendix & co walk on...

Well, it sadly just keeps getting worse.

It's a shame we couldn't have had the Mas brothers buy the team and do what they've done with Inter Miami. They understand this market needs a winner and are ponying up to do it (granted, MLS payrolls are much lower than MLB, so devil's advocate argument they may not have spent here either, but still....).

it hasn't gotten worse, it's not fondly reminiscing over Loria, etc. - we all still hate Loria AND Sherman. Sherman's outfit has just been (unbelievably) worse than Loria. It's like if you had to pick amongst all the owners in MLB when creating a franchise - Sherman would be dead last and Loria would be 2nd last basically. I sure as shit didn't think Ng was much above average, if that, and I also was NOT excited to see that smarmy fuck Bendix coming over either because i fully known Sherman wanted him here to run as cheap as possible of a team. I don't think anyone here outside of that Marlins Project dude likes Bendix or was excited to have him come over as GM. We all saw and knew what his arrival meant.

One final note, saying Bendix's most important task is to maximize trade value to Sandy and to come across as "hey, that's ok because it'll give us more prospects for the future" is also just flat out disgusting at this juncture with this owner and team because that's ALL they'd done since buying the goddamn team. They just keep dumping and dumping guys the moment they start costing money. We should have already had our cheapass owner stretch with Loria and were, and are, owned so much more by MLB with a better class of owner than shit stain Sherman. If you legitimately believe he's doing ANY of this for the benefit of the future of the franchise you are an outright ding dong.

27 minutes ago, hovertical said:

it hasn't gotten worse, it's not fondly reminiscing over Loria, etc. - we all still hate Loria AND Sherman. Sherman's outfit has just been (unbelievably) worse than Loria. It's like if you had to pick amongst all the owners in MLB when creating a franchise - Sherman would be dead last and Loria would be 2nd last basically. I sure as shit didn't think Ng was much above average, if that, and I also was NOT excited to see that smarmy fuck Bendix coming over either because i fully known Sherman wanted him here to run as cheap as possible of a team. I don't think anyone here outside of that Marlins Project dude likes Bendix or was excited to have him come over as GM. We all saw and knew what his arrival meant.

One final note, saying Bendix's most important task is to maximize trade value to Sandy and to come across as "hey, that's ok because it'll give us more prospects for the future" is also just flat out disgusting at this juncture with this owner and team because that's ALL they'd done since buying the goddamn team. They just keep dumping and dumping guys the moment they start costing money. We should have already had our cheapass owner stretch with Loria and were, and are, owned so much more by MLB with a better class of owner than shit stain Sherman. If you legitimately believe he's doing ANY of this for the benefit of the future of the franchise you are an outright ding dong.

I'm confused......you open by saying you disagree it's gotten worse, and then spend 2 paragraphs explaining how it's.....gotten worse?

Did I miss something?

Edited March 14, 20251 yr by rmc523

Believe god dammit!

22 minutes ago, Michael said:

Believe god dammit!

2 hours ago, rmc523 said:

I'm confused......you open by saying you disagree it's gotten worse, and then spend 2 paragraphs explaining how it's.....gotten worse?

Did I miss something?

i guess my phone changed has to hasn't? clearly i was supporting the fact that it has gotten worse. would you like me to go back and edit that for you?

53 minutes ago, hovertical said:

i guess my phone changed has to hasn't? clearly i was supporting the fact that it has gotten worse. would you like me to go back and edit that for you?

Lol, just making sure!

Maybe someday we'll have a competent owner and FO.....

4 hours ago, rmc523 said:

Says the one that worships the ground Bendix & co walk on...

Well, it sadly just keeps getting worse.

It's a shame we couldn't have had the Mas brothers buy the team and do what they've done with Inter Miami. They understand this market needs a winner and are ponying up to do it (granted, MLS payrolls are much lower than MLB, so devil's advocate argument they may not have spent here either, but still....).

Yeah. I agree. You know to be honest I wasn’t really paying attention at all back in 2017 when the Marlins were for sale. But after just spending a few minutes reading some articles from that time especially at the time when Mas had a 1.1 billion offer on the table and it looked like a done deal..

Dang.. what a shame things didn’t turn out that way.

I found this article from after Jeter and Sherman bought the team where Mas said that his intentions as owner were to have a $130 mil payroll, keep Stanton and hire a new GM. 😮

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/marlins-bidder-jorge-mas-reportedly-planned-to-increase-payroll-if-he-bought-team/

So I think you are correct he definitely would have been the owner that would have made a real difference here. People can talk up all they want but actions speak for themselves.. the fact that Inter Miami has signed players like Messi and Luis Suarez definitely shows the ownership actually wants to win and to put an entertaining product on the field.

I have a feeling that had the Mas bros become the Marlins owners and with their stated intention that they wanted the Marlins to be “MLB’s Latin American team” I’m guessing would have most likely signed Correa and eventually Soto or at least seriously made an effort for him and that would be in addition to most likely keeping Stanton around and JT and Yelich for a few more seasons. Imagine what could have been..

Instead we got what we currently have. But but.. Derek Jeter!

😂 Then the guy left and now Marlins stuck with what they have and I don’t see it changing anytime soon maybe another 15 years before a new ownership group. Maybe the Mas family at that time if they’re not too old by then. 😂

Damn.. the more I think about it.. yeah it’s annoying. The Marlins really had a chance to build something special starting back in 2017 with the Mas family as owners. I feel like they could have had a realistic chance to become a top 10 team year after year instead of 28-29 out of 30 team. Oh well. It is what it is. That’s the life of a Marlins fan. 😂