Jeffrey and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat: MIAMI Marlins 2012

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

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and on a more serious note, zips projections!

http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/oracle/discussion/2012_zips_projections_miami_marlins

has hanley and reyes both projected for a 119 OPS+

sorta wonder if they'll be able to lure javy vazquez out of retirement if and when one of the SP gets hurt

kinda like the way they did the numbers on the back.. maybe these new uniforms will grow on me..

i noticed that too. just unconventional enough to catch my attention.

The aquarium converts to a dunk tank, right?

so pumped for this ridiculous team

also like how they installed an aquarium but you can only see it if you're a player or in the first row

i think it's mostly for if you're watching at home

how are they gonna greenscreen ads onto the front of it? (done in every current MLB park I'm aware of)

yeah, that's actually a good question

fish with logos on their sides?

Looking at the Buehrle photo I thought "yeah, i do like how the numbers are unconventional, one number has the drop shadow going down, the other going up". Then I realised they just stuck a nine on upside-down (mfw, etc.)

oh. i was hoping that was an intentional design-y thing :(

Tim Brown of Yahoo! Sports reports that the A's have signed Cuban outfielder Yoenis Cespedes.

Marlins may have dodged a bullet here, but is this comeuppance for Loria if nobody wants to sign with Miami whos worth a damn? (except reyes)

eh i think their interest in him was always overstated... their offer was 6/36, so it wasn't really that far off, it just seems like they didn't feel the need to make a competitive counter offer

and i'm not sure i'd want to be paying yoenis cespedes $9m a year either

@Yoenis_Cespedes
also my fans i will be honest with u on this ok i really like oakland a jerseys and shoes they are very style and miami was just ok really

loooooooool

the perfect complement to the "pig roasting is the new OBP" joke

@Yoenis_Cespedes
james t bondman was my first fan to greet me on twitter now he act like i am a loser and nobody cause i dont play for marlin wow whatever

never a dull day at the circus

Hanley Ramirez felt strongly enough about a negative write-up in the Dominican newspaper “Hoy” to fire off a response on Twitter.

Franklin Mirabal in what appears to be an opinion piece writes that Ramirez’s friendship with Jose Reyes inevitably will be damaged. Ramirez is moving to third base to accommodate Reyes, who the Marlins signed to a $106 million contract. Mirabal goes on to say the signing was a way for the Marlins front office to frustrate and cast down Ramirez.

In Mirabal’s estimation, it’s a show of disrespect and the Marlins ultimately will jettison Ramirez, who he says has not matured sufficiently to take on the face of the franchise role the Marlins were counting on when they gave him a $70 million deal. Mirabal criticizes Ramirez for not taking on a leadership role.

Ramirez’s response via Twitter (translated from Spanish): ”Folks, via this medium I want to let everyone know that what came out in the newspaper Hoy about me, the team and Guillen is a lie.”

In a follow up tweet, Ramirez wrote: “And now what are you going to talk about if the whole world knows I’m going to play third base with the Marlins.”

And yet another: “Trying to soil my image with lies. Third base with the Marlins forever baby”

Third base with the Marlins forever baby
Third base with the Marlins forever baby
Third base with the Marlins forever baby
Third base with the Marlins forever baby
Third base with the Marlins forever baby
Third base with the Marlins forever baby
Third base with the Marlins forever baby
Third base with the Marlins forever baby
Third base with the Marlins forever baby
Third base with the Marlins forever baby
Third base with the Marlins forever baby
Third base with the Marlins forever baby
Third base with the Marlins forever baby
Third base with the Marlins forever baby
Third base with the Marlins forever baby
Third base with the Marlins forever baby
Third base with the Marlins forever baby

Hanley Ramirez
@HanleyRamirez
SS for the Florida Marlins

let's end on a positive note

http://i.imgur.com/D5f5P.jpg

hey, he's not hurt yet

lol didnt notice ozzie in the background there

hey, he's not hurt yet

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, February 17, 2012 2:31 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he's gonna drive around the bases on that golf cart this year

http://yfrog.com/nme1tj

what the hell http://blogs.palmbeachpost.com/marlins/2012/02/29/miami-marlins-slugger-will-go-by-a-new-name-giancarlo-stanton/#more-10706

miami marlins 2012: name changes for all

ha ha this team is so fucked up in a great way

Logan Morrison's reaction?

Giancarlo StanTONE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urCG4A4fa6k
FLAMINGOS ARE A GO? Yes, they look..very nice.

i'll be seeing a game in the stadium on tuesday, really hope to see that thing in action

reyes took nolasco deep today... the more things change, the more they stay the same

lol

http://mlb.sbnation.com/2012/3/5/2846122/marlins-home-run-structure-distraction-dismantled?tw_p=twt

everything about this team is amazing/hilarious

1. Construct a large curtain.

2. Place the large curtain in front of the psychedelic home-run sculpture.

3. Raise the curtain whenever a home run is hit.

4. Drop the curtain prior to the resumption of play.

in Fla, that's harder than designing a ballot

how hard would it be to just move it over to the left a few meters?

i guess pretty hard, now that i think about my post, since no one there is going to have any clue what a "meter" is.

i really have to imagine they'd have figured all this out before they built it, but who knows

yaaaa, this is Florida remember.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/marlins-president-david-samson-says-miami-residents-not-194316181.html;_ylt=AglsEkGQS5sBRpejeOQn1M8RvLYF

seriously fuck this guy

this guy is pretty unfuckingbelievable

fab PR sense

to say all that stuff in public shows such a pretty extreme mixture of hubris and incompetence

i was at the stadium last night -- parking is an insane nightmare, but the park is very nice and the home run feature is not all that garish, tho it wasn't in motion

Stanton's GS off Moyer was fucking epic. Ancient Moyer battles him to 3-2 and then gives up a home run that BREAKS THE SCOREBOARD? It's like something out of a movie.

clarkspencer ‏@clarkspencer
Ozzie Guillen on fabled ballparks: Wrigley is a "dump" and Fenway is a "s---hole." #marlins

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ricky: good job, good effort

IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	PC-ST
R Nolasco	       3.1	9	9	9	1	1	1	64-38

so, uh, carlos lee (?!)

heath bell btw has managed to figure out new and improved ways to blow leads

want someone to turn a four-run lead/non-save opp into an extra inning loss? he's your man.

want someone to follow that up by blowing a seven run comeback by giving up a two-run walk off homer to aramis ramirez? he's your man.

what a weird trade. but hey, at least you got rid of matt dominguez

it's a pretty sensible trade. the marlins have no hitting, lee is the best hitter available at the moment, and both the guys they traded will never do much

Lee vetoed the trade with LA because he didn't want to take a tax hit. Lol thanks Carlos!

showtime franchise show is amazing

the marlins wives lost 14-2 to the rays wives fyi

lol & this btw

http://30fps.mocksession.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/2012-July-11-22-37-42.jpg

heath bell came across like a fuckin jag off imo

fuck him

fire sale? i thot only after World Series

http://mlb.sbnation.com/2012/7/19/3168401/miami-marlins-trade-rumors-deadline-selling

carlos z: six walks, two hit batsmen in 3 1/3

#Z

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http://deadspin.com/5898392/jeffrey-loria-is-spectacularly-unlikable
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/marlins-jeffrey-loria-david-samson-fire-sale-trade-hanley-ramirez-new-stadium-.html

jeffery loria IS spectacularly unlikeable

that passan piece is stupid tho

Well the first two parts of the Passan title (they did con Miami and line their pockets) are correct. The last part is probably not.

well yeah, that part is certainly true

so stanton became the first player in mlb history to hit a homer in his first six games at a stadium -- he has 6 homers in 6 career games at coors

tonight in the first inning he hit a ball into the concourse http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=24010107&c_id=mlb

here's all 5 homers dating back to last year #porn

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=23997285&c_id=mlb

this guy is crazy http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=24079481&c_id=mlb&topic_id=vtp_star_of_the_game

The look on Gibson's face

"I..."

"i... let joe saunders pitch to ginacarlo stanton"

giancarlo = beast mode

yeah the guy has been on another level for the past few weeks

for some reason pitchers seem intent on throwing him pitches right down the middle, not sure why

Pretty impressive:

http://mlb.si.com/2012/08/27/giancarlo-stanton-marlins-home-runs-pace/?sct=mlb_t11_a0

Except for Conigliaro and Horner, Powell's 339 is the lowest career total on that list. Conigliaro was obviously a special case; can't remember why Horner was out of the game so early.

aged like a fat athlete, I think

Shoulder injury, following a year in Japan (which seems to have been prompted by the collusion then going on):

http://bapple2286.wordpress.com/2008/12/28/what-ever-happened-to-bob-horner/

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Jeff Passan ‏@JeffPassan
Congratulations, Twitter. Jose Reyes is trending nationally for committing the 500,000th error in baseball history.

"the veterans have crapped all over themselves"

http://mlb.sbnation.com/2012/9/20/3364884/miami-marlins-larry-beinfest-michael-hill-fired

inevitable. RIP beinfest & hill, you willingly worked for jeffery loria and david samson.

Someone is going to get a really good GM imo

yeah those guys are pretty okay, they'll be nice pick ups and i'm glad for them to be escaping loria & samson

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/8420672/miami-marlins-heath-bell-says-hard-respect-manager-ozzie-guillen

maybe if you didn't give up 2 runs every outing while being paid $9 million, they'd have a better idea of your "role"

a roll with bologna in the middle

heath traded to d backs

http://sweetestdrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/obamabased.jpg

Ha. New climate to blame.

Over the last year (new stadium, new players, new manager, failure of all three on every level, fire sale only one year into the "new regime") has Loria cinched the title of "worst post-WWII baseball owner"?

Dude... marge schott.

what a moran to trade Heath Bell, now he'll never get A-Rod.

Yeah you really have to worked hard to out Schott Marge. I don't think Loria has it in him frankly.