scadder21 wrote: Domeboys- actually it was 1997 and 2003. The Yankee's beat the Braves in 96.

Here are a few hilarious tweets from TrippingOlney.   

"MEANWHILE, SOMEWHERE IN MONTREAL, YOUPPI SIGHS DEEPLY, LAUGHS TO HIMSELF, AND RETIRES TO BED."

"MITT ROMNEY HAS JUST COME OUT WITH A NEW AD HITTING OBAMA FOR ALLOWING THE MARLINS TO OUTSOURCE JOBS TO CANADA"

"JUST THINK, ALBERT PUJOLS, THIS COULD HAVE BEEN YOU."

"SOURCE: LEBRON JAMES IS ALSO GOING TO TORONTO IN THE DEAL"

"THE MARLINS MAY HAVE JUST DONE THE IMPOSSIBLE: MAKE JOSE REYES REGRET LEAVING THE METS."

"SOURCE CONFIRMS HOME RUN THINGY IS INVOLVED IN DEAL. WILL BE REENGINEERED TO SPEW MAPLE SYRUP AFTER BLUE JAY HOMERS."

cardinalnationhouston wrote:

scadder21 wrote: And if people remember. One of the sites I posted on I was ripping on the Marlins right around the time they had signed Buerhle, Bell and were targeting Pujols. I stated that they would disband this team very quickly and it was an embarrassment to baseball. So they had a master plan of getting people to the park with Latin Players start winning some and then build on that. They gave it less than half a year. It's criminal that they duped the county and the fans. MLB should really take the team back because they are a utter joke.

Lets not forget the rodeo clown they allegedly hired to manage! I honestly think they pulled a fast one on their fans. I would suspect that Bud pulls the plug on this trade. They will trade these guys but not in this one deal.

BornInOrange wrote: I am not sticking up for Loria. Pro baseball just doesn't work in florida.

JenniferMarie wrote:

If you build a new ballpark, hire Ozzie and dramatically increase payroll Jeffrey, people will come.  Jeffrey. They'll come to the park for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll arrive not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive as innocent as children, longing for the past. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack. And they'll walk out to the stands; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon.  And they'll watch the game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Jeffrey. The one constant through all the years, Jeffrey, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Jeffrey. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Jeffrey. People will most definitely come.

Or not!

BornInOrange wrote:

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Orange the fact is this. Loria sold the community a new beginning to the franchise. He said they would work to contend every year. He scammed the community to pay for the stadium and spent millions of dollars to bring fans in and to sell luxury boxes. They then give it half a year and then start to scrap the team. What do you have now? An empty new half billion dollar stadium with a 16 million dollar payroll. University of Miami baseball will probably be more entertaining than the Marlins next year. Just a sorry management group and baseball shouldn't allow them to continue to own the Marlins. They intentionally set out to ruin baseball in Montrel and now they are destroying(not sure if it's intentional or not) baseball in Miami.

What a joke. Though i wouldn't be surprised though if Arod allows himself to be traded from New York to Miami. He seems like the type that no longer cares about winning championships and just wants to go to an city where he won't be boo'ed and that will allow him to play out his contract and career in peace.
K
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I stick by my original thought, they wouldn' t have sold seats even if albert was there and they won't with Arod either.
Florida does not support baseball, no one shows up at Rays games either. UM baseball deals with the same, just too much going on. Marlins do not even draw fan crowds in jupiter during spring training, the teams they play against do

TCRedbird wrote:

BornInOrange wrote:

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--- scadder21 wrote:

Orange the fact is this. Loria sold the community a new beginning to the franchise. He said they would work to contend every year. He scammed the community to pay for the stadium and spent millions of dollars to bring fans in and to sell luxury boxes. They then give it half a year and then start to scrap the team. What do you have now? An empty new half billion dollar stadium with a 16 million dollar payroll. University of Miami baseball will probably be more entertaining than the Marlins next year. Just a sorry management group and baseball shouldn't allow them to continue to own the Marlins. They intentionally set out to ruin baseball in Montrel and now they are destroying(not sure if it's intentional or not) baseball in Miami.

What a joke. Though i wouldn't be surprised though if Arod allows himself to be traded from New York to Miami. He seems like the type that no longer cares about winning championships and just wants to go to an city where he won't be boo'ed and that will allow him to play out his contract and career in peace.
K
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I stick by my original thought, they wouldn' t have sold seats even if albert was there and they won't with Arod either.
Florida does not support baseball, no one shows up at Rays games either. UM baseball deals with the same, just too much going on. Marlins do not even draw fan crowds in jupiter during spring training, the teams they play against do

Loria lied to the city that is the end of it, he is a punk owner who needs to be forced to sell the team.  It doesn't matter what the fans do if you are promising the city one thing just to get a new stadium built and once it is built you go back on your word you are pretty much a thief.