Aquarium exploded, tropical fish flopping all over the place: 2013 Miami Marlins thread

Step 1: Trade all your players
Step 2: Sue your most loyal fans

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/03/19/great-moments-in-customer-service-the-marlins-threaten-to-sue-longtime-season-ticket-holders/

Opening Day: http://www.groupon.com/deals/gl-miami-marlins-1-6

anyone want to make guesses on the 2013 attendance? at what point does mlb talk about moving the team if ticket sales never rebound?

Florida Man
http://sports.cbsimg.net/images/mlb/photogallery/98144774.jpg

MLB just needs to buy Loria out and try to start over.

lol

loria's only problem is that he was too blatant. every other mlb owner wishes he could have pulled this shit off, except for maybe mike illitch cause he wants a title before he dies

Yeah but a lot of guys get into sports teams to make money, but it's really not their main business, it is the business that's fun.

It does seem dumb for the MLB to kind of go out of its way to keep a guy like Mark Cuban out of baseball, who while annoying DID take a total in the dumpster NBA club and turn it very profitable and successful on the court and yet go out of it's way to let crooks like McCourt and Loria - who never really had the money to even own the club and have made a mockery of their sport.

although he is from pittsburgh and i wish he owned the pirates, mark cuban is kind of a prick.

every single day the nba wishes that it had more racist asshole donald sterling owners and fewer loudmouth mark cuban owners. no other league (save one absolutely desperate for money, which mlb and nfl aren't) will ever accept cuban.

cuban is a shit-stirrer. mlb is perfectly happy with jeffrey loria if it can avoid having its fundamentals questioned.

Contract the Marlins, move the Rays to their stadium

rays deserve a better stadium than that

rays to the big o tbh

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-03/is-jeffrey-loria-the-worst-owner-in-sports-.html

lol why u run into catcher juan pierre?

jose fernandez today; 20 years old, never pitched above a ball

yep. The BP podcast guys were salivating in anticipation this week. J0rdan may be going?

“I’ve been in jail, I’ve been shot at, I’ve been in the water. I’m not scared to face David Wright. What can he do?”

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/sports/baseball/miami-marlins-phenom-jose-fernandez-makes-debut-su/nXFJS/

yep. The BP podcast guys were salivating in anticipation this week. J0rdan may be going?

― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Sunday, April 7, 2013 9:02 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no but i will be watching (for the first time this year)

perfect through two, struck out the side in the second, hit 96 on the gun

this guy is fun

i mean really

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPw-3e_pzqU

intersting how often fernandez shook off his catcher (tho brantly's a kid too). i couldn't tell if they were getting signs from the dugout, but i don't think so.

hope he stashed a turd in steve cishek's and/or juan pierre's luggage

Cishek = nu Heath Bell

http://i.imgur.com/KtlIWpp.jpg

Cishek = nu Heath Bell

― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Sunday, April 7, 2013 8:30 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

not as long as the real heath bell is still kicking

had no idea John Maine was up with the Marlins.

http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/05/back-in-majors-pitcher-maine-denies-lying-to-mets-in-2010/

Marlins rookie Chris Valaika, who started at 1B, said he never played the position before, not even in Little League. He mishandled his first chance for an error.

If they were in another division I'd feel a little sorry for them -- the players and fans, anyway. In the meantime, O_O.

Let's play ball!

https://twitter.com/ryanlawrence21/status/322849889799266304/photo/1

i guess jumping from a ball to the majors is nbd

MLB Network's Peter Gammons reports that the Red Sox are among the teams that have "checked in" with the Marlins on OF Giancarlo Stanton.

Nightmare top of the first here

Giancarlo Stanton should be embarressed of himself in how he has played this weekend in Cincy. I know playing for a crooked owner on a bad team is a bad deal, but Stanton has walked around like a zombie all series. 3! errors in the field and probalby should have just been charged for a fourth jogging around and not cutting off a ball then ole's the cut off throw to the pitchers mound. He's just as bad at the plate.

Miami's manager isn't helping leaving his young starter 100 pitches into a game to load the bases with no one out then leave Jon Rauch to pitch his whole way out of the jam on his own only getting pulled after like 50 pitches.

FUGLY.

Cincinnati Inning Summary

- S. Choo walked
- X. Paul singled to shallow right, S. Choo to second
- J. Votto singled to left, S. Choo to third, X. Paul to second
- G. Dobbs at first
- J. Rauch relieved A. Sanabia
- B. Phillips singled to shallow right, S. Choo scored, X. Paul to third, J. Votto to second, X. Paul scored on right fielder G. Stanton's fielding error
- J. Bruce walked, J. Votto to third, B. Phillips to second
- D. Mesoraco singled to shallow left, J. Votto scored, B. Phillips to third, J. Bruce to second
- C. Heisey hit for L. Ondrusek
- C. Heisey popped out to second
- C. Izturis popped out to shortstop
- T. Frazier doubled to right, B. Phillips, J. Bruce and D. Mesoraco scored
- S. Choo doubled to right, T. Frazier scored
- T. Koehler relieved J. Rauch
- X. Paul ground rule double to right, S. Choo scored
- J. Votto struck out swinging
- End of Inning (8 Runs, 7 Hits, 1 Error)

Jose Fernandez proving he's mortal today.

giancarlo

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=26643077

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-V5gj_59nlDI/UXxiqSKzF-I/AAAAAAAAC1A/SZlD6pfW8c0/s500/giancarlohr1.gif

wau

holy shit

That is a heck of a homer.

Man, it is a delight to watch Jose Fernandez outpitch Asscole.

he's very good

This team is slugging .321.

rebuilding year

ed lucas

now above '62 Mets' .250 win%

i do appreciate the marlins bringing up ed lucas after 10 years in the minors

i might even like them if they signed john lindsey

lindsey got a cup of coffee with the dodgers in torre's last year, I think

tru

ozunas got a nice arm

he's kind of awesome

8 wins vs the Mets, 10 against everybody else

have they announced how many more starts Fernandez gets?

OK, tom'w night is his finale.

Mike "Naked BP" Redmond:

"The way I've talked to these guys all year is to go up there and play hard," Redmond said. "We don't show teams up. We hit the ball and we run, that's it. We go out there and play hard. We respect the game. We respect the other team. We're 30-something games under .500. Those guys are going to the playoffs."

"This is a tough game," Gonzalez said. "You like to play loose and you like to have fun. But it's serious. Our guys take this serious. I know there are a lot of guys on that team over there that take it serious too. It will be taken care of."

http://cdn3.sbnation.com/assets/3209189/fernandez.jpg

fernandez handled it exactly how you'd want a kid to in the presser. should blow over

that was a p good Reggie impression

gratuitous 9/11 mention in apology was major offense in my book

haha yeah that was a little forced, the kid's cuban though he's probably just trying to stay under the radar

http://25.media.tumblr.com/5ce84a8754670cb0b0a4402689d08dbe/tumblr_mtrm1cWSkn1qzb8z0o1_1280.png

it was all larry beinfest's fault

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20131127&content_id=64162816&c_id=mlb

did we see this? v moving

so fernandez calls his curveball 'the defector'?

it defects right off the table

Real bright bulb of a first-round draft pick here:

https://twitter.com/Viner20Niner/status/417671133291229185

It really irritates me that people fail to recognize how racist things like BET, Ebony Magazine, and the United Negro College Fund are.

Also:

@Viner20Niner
Come home & my mom cleaned most of my room for me. #turnip

#turnip

i still don't understand why pro ball players are allowed to have twitter.

31st round pick.

Yeah, oops. #turnip

lol taxpayers. what a scumbag.

Miami Marlins President David Samson will be a castaway on the new season of "Survivor."
The series begins Feb. 26 on CBS. The cast also includes an ex-NFL cheerleader and former NBA All-Star Cliff Robinson. Asked why he thinks he'll win Survivor, Samson, who once convinced Miami to contribute over $350 million to build a new park in the middle of the recession, an accomplishment which eventually cost the city's mayor his job, Samson said, "I always win, because people underestimate me."

I hope he drowns

red sox gm apologizes to marlins for boston's spring-training roster, which lacked the required number of big-league players.

. . . and a heartfelt follow-up . . .

John W. Henry ‏@John_W_Henry -- They should apologize for their regular season lineup.

giancarlo: http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/6479266/v31492493/mianym-stanton-crushes-a-shot-in-the-seventh

we will be champions, my friend

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/18/travel/disney-fish-tank-bursts/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Sorry guys. I always see this thread pop up when I'm on mobile device interface (since SNA preferences don't carry over) and wish that it was an actual thread about tropical fish flopping all over the place.

or that it was still 2013

can we get the Marlins fan to stop watching the NBA for a sec

it's my thread so i say it's about flopping fish now

The gazelle-like Yelich picked a fine time to do a pratfall on the tying hit last night

jose fernandez's last three starts: 23 IP, 0 ER, 9 H, 2 BB, 32 K

wow.
record for longest streak without coughing up an earned run belongs to Hershiser with 59... so still a ways to go for that one.

fernandez is not from this world

also had an rbi single, took an extra base, and made an awfully slick pump fake on a comebacker to get a runner from third

BJ & Uggla were held out of lineup cuz that would be too sad

I turned that one off mid-game to watch Belle de Jour. But that pump fake and flick to home were siiiiick.

that pump fake was so cold-blooded

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2014_04_29_atlmlb_miamlb_1&mode=video

:28

love it. shame there's hardly any fans down there to appreciate it.

Awesome flip by Fernandez

didn't see it, but supposedly a marlins ballboy made an incredible play today

quite a pitcher's park this week

17-5 @ home

lol @ keith and gary

http://m.mlb.com/video/v32680207/nymmia-ballboy-dives-over-fence-to-attempt-a-catch/?c_id=mlb

Koehler is now 3rd in NL in pitching WAR

Wow, how strong is Stanton? It looks like he got caught flat footed and hit the ball out to center using just his arms.

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2014_05_08_miamlb_sdnmlb_1&mode=video&content_id=32723137&tcid=vpp_copy_32723137

FIGGINS

.176/.417/.176

As a Mariner, he slugged .283 in 1209 plate appearances.

.283!

randy wolf has exercised his out clause from triple-a reno, is expected to join the marlins

http://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000058183015-71wsv2-original.jpg?30a2558

Entering the Furcal Era

Only 3 out in the WC race!

"Five months doesn't change five years."

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2014/8/26/6070471/giancarlo-stanton-marlins-contract