NL East Enemies: 2017 Miami Marlins

[Benjamin Grimm]

Bobby Valentine managed 1,003 games. And Davey Johnson managed 1,012. Terry is in very elite company.

FUN FACT: The list of 1,000-game managers and the list of more-than-one-postseason managers will soon be exactly the same.

[Frayed Knot]

It was only a matter of time ...

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South Florida, a hot babe as someone's "guest" in the prime seats dying for attention, TV cameras on and pointed.
The full show was about a 3 or 4 second long 'dance'. My only surprise is that it took this long.

[Edgy MD]

Howie reporting that Jeter is being a total Trump wimp, firing team president David Sampson, but first insisting that he fire everybody else for him.

[bmfc1]

He probably told his flunky to tell Sampson that while he was still on the payroll it was his responsibility to fire 4 famous Marlins. If the excuse is that he's not officially the owner, then he could have waited until he was the owner. Jerk.
http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2017/09/23/what-in-the-heck-is-derek-jeter-doing-with-the-marlins/

[Guest 41Forever]

bmfc1 wrote: He probably told his flunky to tell Sampson that while he was still on the payroll it was his responsibility to fire 4 famous Marlins. If the excuse is that he's not officially the owner, then he could have waited until he was the owner. Jerk. http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2017/09/23/what-in-the-heck-is-derek-jeter-doing-with-the-marlins/

Horrible. This whole Jeter as owner thing is not going to end well. Marlins fans screwed over again.

[Edgy MD]

But have we hit a press-coverage tipping point? And no longer will we decide what is classy after-the-fact, attributing that adjective to anything Jeter does?

Hiding behind a hatchet-man is so weak.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Yeah I go with Yelich, he's like Olerud young and spright

[Guest 41Forever]

What possible benefit could come from firing those legends other than trimming some costs?

I think we read earlier that Jeter plans on slashing the team's already low payroll to recoup some of his upfront costs. But I can't figure out how gutting a team and firing heroes like Jeff Connie put fannies in the seat. Does he figure that attendance is already so low that these fans already coming are ones who will show up no matter what? Is he thinking that South Florida Yankee fans -- and there are many -- will show up just to support him?

Or does he believe the intangibles hype and think that things will be better just because he's there?