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Musings about the Marlins (with some segues for all of MLB). This blog will provide me with the space to comment (and fuss a bit). As a lifelong Expos fan and a relatively new Marlins fan, it will be easy to dismiss my blathering!

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If I, If I Were King (Well, Commissioner of Baseball, Anyway) - Ten Edicts

As a child, I loved the Cowardly Lion's "If I Were King" number in The Wizard of Oz. It wasn't only Bert Lahr's iconic emoting, but the idea of being so wonderfully and totally in charge, setting things right with the wave of a regal hand. Of course, such ruminations are fanciful. Not.  I want to pontificate on the changes I would implement as Commissioner of Baseball. Moreover, since this is my fantasy article, there are no MLBPA, CBA, umpires' union, owner, or legal obstacles to my will. Boom.

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Do not sweat the managerial situation.

I am not sweating the managerial situation. It's far less important than other moves in the scheme of things. I suppose keeping someone around, continuity, has some merit. But let's not act as if there is a need to genuflect to the Tom Kellys of the world, as much as I liked Tom. More power to them and their organizations. But, to steal a line from Men in Black, that means exactly what to me?  We've already seen the obligatory "Roberts does not get enough credit" blather. He's a magician wh

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Oh, no! I don't worship Miguel Cabrera!

(Another beautiful rant from a bit ago.) I agree that Miguel Cabrera has a HOF career resume. Moreover, Marlins fans identify him with their World Championship. But we need to be very real about the unmitigated disaster that his 8-year extension has been. The first year, 2016, was excellent (with a 7.4 WARP) and this would have been the time to move him at his peak value point, setting up the team’s future. Instead, the next seven years, SEVEN, are horrific by consuming a huge percentage

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2020 was a disgrace and utterly predictable

(Another archived rant that I wrote a while back.) The oddness that was the 2020 season? Sixty games, ever-changing rules, no fans, neutral sites, and on and on with the inane pile emanating from that entire year of dog crap. I put no stock in any of it, including the so-called World Championship, which is a disgraceful doppelganger of real championship seasons. MLB should be embarrassed that they rammed through that makeshift crap. Of course, the owners are hardly guardians of the game's i

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Old Timers versus Modern Players

(Putting my Marlins and general baseball comments/rants here to get my new blog started. Here is one of 'em.) Of course, Greg Maddux, Gaylord Perry, and Bert Blyleven would be slaughtered if they pitched in today's game. They didn't throw 97 mph. Pretenders! Then, the endlessly parroted gibberish goes like this: Starters don't go deep into games anymore. Those short starts add up and diminish the bullpen over the season. But we can't allow starters to go into the dreaded third time through

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