2018 Marlins Thread: Featuring the sport's most hated owner

[nymr83]

Jeter tries to explain himself to unhappy fans

[Centerfield]

He may be hated now, but I can’t find fault in anyone committing to a rebuild. Tearing it down and investing in player development is an actual plan.

Where the credibility of an owner is tested is when the plan progresses, will they spend money and commit to win?

Or will they be the Wilpons?

[Ceetar]

They (Jeter has very little say) have not commited to a rebuild, they just needed to make money. Now, is that Loria's fault? is it about getting the franchise in order?

It's funny that the team changed hands but the most hated owner thing probably didn't.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'm officially rooting for the Marlins to lose 121 games this year.

And 18 or 19 to the Mets.

[Ceetar]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I'm officially rooting for the Marlins to lose 121 games this year. And 18 or 19 to the Mets.

You could argue that the difference in the division could be decided by who beats up the Marlins more. It'd be a poor argument, as it's more likely to be the 19 head to head games, but it could play a part.

[Benjamin Grimm]

It really could be a difference maker. If the Mets and Nationals essentially split their season series, but the Mets dominate the Marlins but the Nationals don't, it could tilt the division. (Assuming, of course, that the Mets manage to contend this year.)

[Ceetar]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: It really could be a difference maker. If the Mets and Nationals essentially split their season series, but the Mets dominate the Marlins but the Nationals don't, it could tilt the division. (Assuming, of course, that the Mets manage to contend this year.)

Assuming the Nationals do as well.

[MFS62]

He fired the mascot!!
He's even viler than I had ever imagined.
Think of the children, Derek.

Later

[Guest 41Forever]

MFS62 wrote: He fired the mascot!! He's even viler than I had ever imagined. Think of the children, Derek. Later

Technically, he fired the guy in the suit. But there will be someone -- presumably someone earning less -- filling the mascot suit.

I read that he's bringing back the teal uniforms for a throwback series, which is cool.

But in the article, he says both that he's going to do unpopular things, but that he also needs people to buy tickets.

The Marlins had a decent core of players that I thought they could build around. I know the Fernandez tragedy set them back, but I didn't think they were all that bad. Some stability will help them.

[Guest 41Forever]

http://www.mlive.com/sports/2018/03/marlins_man_is_a_free_agent_an.html

Jeter, apparently not doing well without the MFY PR machine at his disposal, alienates the team's most high-profile fan. Because having a guy sitting prominently wearing your jersey at major events is generally not a bad thing.

He needs to change the narrative, because right now it looks like he's dismantling everything his meager fan base likes and not giving them anything positive in return.

[Gwreck]

The look-at-me thing is annoying.

But one would think that would at least make sense to have him at the Marlins’ ballpark...

[HahnSolo]

First pitch of the year...and they're trailing.

Thanks to a Happ home run.

[Edgy MD]

Phillies 20
Marlins 1

The Phils got grand slams from Maikel Franco and Aaron Altherr. One doesn't want to gloat, because anybody who watched the 2017 Mets knows bad days happen and sometimes truly awful ones occur. But those 20 runs represent more than the (MLB best) Mets have allowed all season.

[Frayed Knot]

- The Marlins actually led that game 1-0 and had briefly pushed their 'projected win pct' to as high as 62%. Six batters into the bottom of the 1st that same measure was down to just 14%
- Miami starter Dillon Peters faced 19 hitters and retired 7 of them. In his only other start this season he got the win after hurling six shut-out innings at the Cubs. Go figure.
- Philly's 1-2 hitters, Cesar Hernandez and Carlos Santana, each batted in the 1st, in the 2nd, in the 3rd, and in the 4th innings. They did not bat in the 5th (Phils went down 1-2-3) and then
were both pulled from the game. Maybe they were tired.
- The Phils had two Grand Slams by the 3rd inning and by the 4th had tacked on a 3R HR

[nymr83]

Wish it had been an AL team since I dont like seeing the Phillies do well, but nice to see the Jeters gets smacked around like that

[MFS62]

Nymr83 wrote: Wish it had been an AL team since I dont like seeing the Phillies do well, but nice to see the Jeters gets smacked around like that

It couldn't have happened to a "better" team.
I'll pretend it wasn't the Phillies that did it.

Later

[batmagadanleadoff]

• Phillies 20
  Marlins 1

Well, that score explains it. Because I was looking at the standings and noticed that the Marlins, this season, were already outscored by 31 runs and by a ratio of more than two to one and thought to myself, "holy shit is this team bad. Small sample size and all, but you know what? The Marlins may actually be that bad.

[Guest 41Forever]

From Deadspin:

Last month Miami radio host Andy Slater joined Marlins Man on an investigative trip to the British Virgin Islands, where they learned that the corporate address of the Miami Marlins was a post office box, listed in order to establish the Marlins as a foreign company, for the most cynical of reasons. This was an embarrassing moment for the Marlins, and the organization appears to have responded in spectacularly petty fashion— it retaliated for the report by pulling Slater’s press credentials to cover the team.

https://deadspin.com/petty-ass-derek-jeter-yanks-credentials-from-radio-host-1826168084

[MFS62]

Attack or fire the whistle blower.
Hmmmm. Where have we heard that before?

That makes the Marlins a "foreign owned" company?
Doesn't that need a MLB approval, or is it legal at all? (Thinking about anti-trust or tax regulations)
I'm getting all giddy thinking of seeing Jeter walking out a Federal Prison carrying a gift basket from his cell mate.

Later

[bmfc1]

What a jackass:
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-marlins-david-samson-brags-about-12-billion-team-sale-10956381

[smg58]

I'd care more if people like him were only running a baseball team as opposed to, say, the country.