Marlins to be sold?

[seawolf17]

I love love love that now both Don Mattingly AND Cap'n Intangibles will be tainting their pinstriped memories with a franchise with the most garish color scheme in the majors.

[Frayed Knot]

MFS62 wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Derek Jeter to run the baseball operations. Price is said to be $1.2 Billion That means we'll be seeing TV shots of him (if not interviews) in the owner's booth on every single telecast, both when the Mets play them and all nationally telecast games. The fucker is harder to get rid of than a condo in Florida.

Jeter never did interviews when he was a player and the press had access to him on a daily basis. I don't see him starting now when he's got an office suite in which to hide.
The scribes will have better odds of getting a Jimmy Hoffa interview.

[bmfc1]

We'll be force-fed shots of Jeter in uniform during ST showing young Marlin SS's how to do it the Jeter-way. Harold Reynolds will cackle: "why doesn't he show them the patented Jeter leap and throw?"

[Lefty Specialist]

seawolf17 wrote: I love love love that now both Don Mattingly AND Cap'n Intangibles will be tainting their pinstriped memories with a franchise with the most garish color scheme in the majors.

Not for long, I'd bet. Expect new pinstriped Marlins unis next year.

[ashie62]

This is all too effin funny.

The MFY'S helped to make my life miserable in the nineties and now the guy with the hockey mask is back!

[Edgy MD]

Guys, a Marlins team with Jeter as the president of baseball operations will be awful.

[Guest 41Forever]

Jeter's about to make Marlins fans yearn for the Wilpons. Check this out -- from Sports Illustrated:

https://www.si.com/mlb/2017/09/04/derek-jeter-owner-miami-marlins-salary-cap

Some glorious nuggets:

On Sunday, the Miami Herald’s Barry Jackson reported that Derek Jeter, who agreed to purchase the team from Loria last month, wants to cut Miami’s payroll drastically—potentially by as much as $60 million—once he takes over, consigning the Marlins yet again to irrelevance just as they seemed to be climbing into a better place.

But for as bad as the Marlins have it, MLB can’t be happy with the idea that Jeter doesn’t seem to have any desire to put money into the franchise. According to Jackson, the Sherman/Jeter group has said that it has little liquid capital to afford adding to payroll. Even worse is that Jeter reportedly wants to pay himself $5 million a year to own the team so as to recoup the $25 million he put into the winning bid. MLB team owners are a rapacious group by and large, but the thought of new tenants dropping a billion dollars on a franchise and immediately shipping all the high-priced talent out of town while pocketing payroll for themselves may be too much even for them.

It would be a colossal mistake and deeply wrong on the part of Jeter and Sherman to come to Miami and immediately tear things down. To give up right from the get go would be to admit openly that professional baseball isn’t worth the effort in Miami, and if the new ownership group can’t commit to doing what’s right for the franchise and its fans, then they shouldn’t be allowed to purchase the team. Manfred and MLB may desperately want Jeter back in the fold, and they likely want to sell fans on the idea of a new day coming in Miami. But should Jeter buy the team, it looks like it’ll be the same old story for both players and fans.

[Edgy MD]

Relegate the Marlins!

[Frayed Knot]

MLB unanimously approves the sale to the Sherman/Jeter group pending only the finalization of the financial stuff between them and Loria expected to be completed by next week.
So Jeter is free now to go about firing people - or more accurately to have someone else do it for him.

[seawolf17]

Can't wait until they retire #2 next season.

[Frayed Knot]

Why next year? They'll be home this weekend.

[bmfc1]

If Jeter wants to save $ and build for the future, then how about Corey Oswalt and Nimmo for Stanton?

[metirish]

Does this group have the $$$ to splash big on players? Semms like this was a complicated sale

[Frayed Knot]

metirish wrote: Does this group have the $$$ to splash big on players?

Considering that their immediate plans seem to be to slash payroll drastically in order to stop the club's money bleed and/or to start to recoup their own investment, initial indications point to a 'No' on that one.

[Edgy MD]

Continuing their brand new role of playing the heel, the Marlins fire longtime scout Marty Scott while he's in the hospital recovering from colon cancer surgery.

[MFS62]

Edgy MD wrote: Continuing their brand new role of playing the heel, the Marlins fire longtime scout Marty Scott while he's in the hospital recovering from colon cancer surgery.

We should take it as our solemn duty to tell that to any YLDB who tells us what a great person Derek Jeter is.
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