Major League Happenings
My (literally) poor Marlins. For the second time in only eight years they've been "forced" to have a "firesale" and get rid of pretty much all their good players who had big contracts. So far the casualty list includes Josh Beckett & Mike Lowell (to the Red Sox), Carlos Delgago & Paul Lo Duca (to the Mets), Luis Castillo (to the Twins), AJ Burnett (to free agency to the Blue Jays), Juan Pierre (to the Cubs), and Todd Jones (to the Tigers). And the sad thing is, they might not be done.
It pretty much just looks like the only two major guys they are keeping are Dontrelle Willis and Miguel Cabrera. And I guess that gives some rays of hope, b/c if you're gonna build a team around any two guys, those are two great players to do it with. But it still really sucks.
And the reasons behind the firesale are just as bad. Basically both Jeffrey Loria (owner of the Marlins) and the city of Miami are being little bitches with each other. Loria and the team just want a new stadium in Miami to call their own b/c right now they play in Dolphin Stadium, so they pay lots of royalties and fees to the football people and basically the team makes very little money. Plus they just need a stadium with a retractable roof, b/c it's always raining like crazy down in Florida and the team loses a lot of money with rain delays and rainouts.
So Loria keeps petitioning the city of Miami to help him out in making a new stadium and for varying reasons (some legit, but mostly stupid) Miami isn't making it happen. So Loria decided to play hardball and threatened to move the team if they don't get a new stadium. Well instead of Miami taking this as a serious threat, they turned that statement AGAINST Loria all like "well we're not gonna give you money for a stadium if you're not gonna be loyal to this city. How dare you threaten to leave!?! Screw you!" (Ok, ok I took some liberties with that last statement but that's basically what happened).
So now the Marlins are being shopped around (most likely to Las Vegas which is BEGGING to have a team) and sadly a team which has won 2 World Championships in the past nine years may no longer be around as of 2008 or 2009, which is just sad. *sigh*
- But as I showed before, many teams are benefitting from all the Marlins good players. Especially the NY Mets who along with the 2 players from Florida also picked up closer Billy Wagner from the Phillies and now look like a pretty good team.
I never hated the Mets. In actuality, when I first started watching baseball (in the mid to late 80's) I LOVED the Mets. But my team is the Yanks and has been for over 15 years now. But even still, I never hated the Mets. I would root for the Marlins over them but that was just b/c I liked the Marlins more. But if the Mets played anyone other then the Yanks or Marlins I wouldn't root against them. But now they look like they'll be quite the exciting team to watch. The poor Mets fans now have something to really cheer about.
-And as for the Yankees, they haven't done much this postseason, but you know what? That's quite alright. There's nothing out there for them TO go after, so why bother? They just offered arbitration to Bernie Willaims the other day, so he's back at least as a parttime player (and who knows he might be the full time centerfielder come May/June b/c he's a better player than Bubba Crosby). So on paper, they're still a pretty damn good team. Do they have holes? Yeah, a few, but I got faith in them. So let's go Yanks! Who knows, another Subway Series could be a possibility.
It pretty much just looks like the only two major guys they are keeping are Dontrelle Willis and Miguel Cabrera. And I guess that gives some rays of hope, b/c if you're gonna build a team around any two guys, those are two great players to do it with. But it still really sucks.
And the reasons behind the firesale are just as bad. Basically both Jeffrey Loria (owner of the Marlins) and the city of Miami are being little bitches with each other. Loria and the team just want a new stadium in Miami to call their own b/c right now they play in Dolphin Stadium, so they pay lots of royalties and fees to the football people and basically the team makes very little money. Plus they just need a stadium with a retractable roof, b/c it's always raining like crazy down in Florida and the team loses a lot of money with rain delays and rainouts.
So Loria keeps petitioning the city of Miami to help him out in making a new stadium and for varying reasons (some legit, but mostly stupid) Miami isn't making it happen. So Loria decided to play hardball and threatened to move the team if they don't get a new stadium. Well instead of Miami taking this as a serious threat, they turned that statement AGAINST Loria all like "well we're not gonna give you money for a stadium if you're not gonna be loyal to this city. How dare you threaten to leave!?! Screw you!" (Ok, ok I took some liberties with that last statement but that's basically what happened).
So now the Marlins are being shopped around (most likely to Las Vegas which is BEGGING to have a team) and sadly a team which has won 2 World Championships in the past nine years may no longer be around as of 2008 or 2009, which is just sad. *sigh*
- But as I showed before, many teams are benefitting from all the Marlins good players. Especially the NY Mets who along with the 2 players from Florida also picked up closer Billy Wagner from the Phillies and now look like a pretty good team.
I never hated the Mets. In actuality, when I first started watching baseball (in the mid to late 80's) I LOVED the Mets. But my team is the Yanks and has been for over 15 years now. But even still, I never hated the Mets. I would root for the Marlins over them but that was just b/c I liked the Marlins more. But if the Mets played anyone other then the Yanks or Marlins I wouldn't root against them. But now they look like they'll be quite the exciting team to watch. The poor Mets fans now have something to really cheer about.
-And as for the Yankees, they haven't done much this postseason, but you know what? That's quite alright. There's nothing out there for them TO go after, so why bother? They just offered arbitration to Bernie Willaims the other day, so he's back at least as a parttime player (and who knows he might be the full time centerfielder come May/June b/c he's a better player than Bubba Crosby). So on paper, they're still a pretty damn good team. Do they have holes? Yeah, a few, but I got faith in them. So let's go Yanks! Who knows, another Subway Series could be a possibility.
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