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  1. THOMAS JOSEPH
    It's nice to be on the OD roster, but we all know it's ineluctably fluid.
  2. THOMAS JOSEPH
    I wager Norbs will be one of the best players on the team this season.
  3. THOMAS JOSEPH
    The Marlins will likely use a ton of bullpen guys again this season. Don't all teams?
  4. THOMAS JOSEPH
    Damn, I hope I am not turning into a David Samson, because my first thought here was how sweet it would be if McCambley got the last out in the game that eliminated the Phillies from the playoffs this year. Come to think of it, any Marlins pitcher would be fine in that scenario. Lol.
  5. THOMAS JOSEPH
    Interesting perspective. I don't know who this Bam fellow is, nor am I even motivated to search, but I get the premise. Cheers.
  6. THOMAS JOSEPH
    This means two years of precious career time.
  7. THOMAS JOSEPH
    It is early, indeed. I don't find it necessary to hope traded players fail - that's bad karma - but frankly, Cabrera's injury proclivity was the factor for me. I figure about five starts before there is an issue. Weathers, same thing. To my mind, physical injury issues just follow players, keeping them from gaining career traction and adding them to the what-might-have-been discussions between fans. As always, we will see, especially in the context of "winning a trade." Cheers.
  8. THOMAS JOSEPH
    I appreciate Fish on First content.
  9. THOMAS JOSEPH
    I think we can see Alcántara's path with the Marlins more clearly now. Without much payroll pressure as the team is now constituted, we can realistically envision Sandy stays with the team. The CBA (and to a lesser extent, the television revenue projections) are the wild cards, as I see it, He can be reasonably extended with a properly revamped CBA, especially if we take him at his word that he wants to remain in Miami. So, if he is not moved at the trade deadline (which likely means a significantly underachieving team performance), I see hope and options that will go a long way to breaking the streak of obligatory trading of stars, especially homegrown ones.
  10. THOMAS JOSEPH
    It is wonderful to have true depth competitions and the infrastructure for conveyor belt talent to the Marlins.
  11. THOMAS JOSEPH
    Plenty of reasons for pitching optimism, to my mind. The other side of the coin is how the player's union will once again hurt the younger, lesser paid players during next year's lost season. Average careers and the associated income path raise every season to huge, irreplaceable value for these young guys without long-term deals. Many will not recover their careers or income paths at all. Meanwhile, safeguarding the top ten or fifteen percent of players is the union's hill to die upon. I'm fine with no caps and raising minimum salaries as long as the CBY decuples (or somewhere close). To my thinking, such huge penalties would serve the low- and mid-revenue teams, combined with the heretofore poor performance of monster contracts themselves and low drafting, the high-revenue teams would be sufficiently punished.
  12. THOMAS JOSEPH
    Enjoyed the show and repartee.
  13. THOMAS JOSEPH
    Yes, there are big differences that won't be settled until it hurts both sides badly.
  14. THOMAS JOSEPH
    I don't think anything can prevent it. The financial and associated on-field inequity is the bedrock issue of the sport. The players will do anything to protect an open-ended system, and the owners (at least half of the league that are low- to mid-revenue teams) cannot allow it any longer, especially with the drastic fall of the local TV money. Top-end players, representing the union's best-case scenarios, essentially lock out the majority of players, the rank-and-file for whom unions used to exist. Given the developmental challenges of baseball, the sport cannot replicate the NBA- or NFL-style program. Most baseball players need years of minor league seasoning, which is very expensive and often a crapshoot. The give-and-take has always been incremental, but now the gulf between the top eight or so teams and the rest of the league is so vast that there is no tweaking that will overcome it. It will require significant changes, and those types of changes are the fodder for a serious and long impasse. This will be quite painful for everyone associated with the sport.
  15. THOMAS JOSEPH
    The current ownership group borrowed hundreds of millions to wrap up their purchase of the team. Interest must be paid on loans. Stanton's backend $30m payments are now due. The pandemic season generated huge losses. Attendance and related income haven't surged. Now, despite the fanfare, TV money is not replaced. Yet, without any information whatsoever, the howls that Sherman and his group are actually taking profits out of team ludicrously continue like a mantra. Even the team valuation, which has nothing to do with cash or cash flow, is still lagging behind the purchase price. Don't like Sherman? Fine. I don't particularly like him, either. But the continuing absence of financial reality is boorish. Counting on the CBA to chance MLB's ecosystem? I sure hope so, but the cost of reality will likely be that there is no baseball in 2027. The players know this is a reckoning, there isn't a kicking the can down the road option. Hence the ouster of their ridiculously ineffective and short-sighted leader. So, enjoy and savor this season.
  16. THOMAS JOSEPH
    It's not difficult to pronounce that everything depends on the team's start. Not only does that affect the trade deadline strategy, but also a half-dozen player vectors. I think the short leashes will continue. Who will grab the brass ring and who will stumble?
  17. THOMAS JOSEPH
    Saw all of these videos on YouTube. Man, you guys are really getting at it. Spring baseball adrenaline?!
  18. THOMAS JOSEPH
    My first thought is always geared toward the many Marlins fans with their howling and gnashing of teeth - the perpetual mantra of the need for vastly increased spending. We know, you don't care about financials or even the idea that teams, as a distinct entity from their ownership's other businesses or personal fortune, should operate within a reality of revenue and expenses. But one would think, Marlins fans understand the deal by now. Maybe the CBA will change things, or Elon Musk will buy the team and pull a Steve Cohen-esque spending fest. Until then, unless being a miserable fan with a forever pity party is one's goal in life, savor the team's progress, and let's shock the baseball world again in 2026. Or not. Be unhappy if you wish, or let's discuss things within some modicum of reality. Winning as an underdog is so much more satisfying, n'cest ce pas? Eff the Dodgers. Go Fish.
  19. THOMAS JOSEPH
    Excuse me, in advance, for repeating my usual spiel about the amazing drafting and developmental prowess of my beloved Montréal Expos. As the Marlins approach the total years of Expo existence, I firmly acknowledge the Fish and the two World Series titles as an unassailable measure of success. Still, in their 35 seasons, the Expos produced six (6) Hall of Famers (Gary Carter, Andre Dawson, and Tim Raines - in the Hall as Expos; Vlad Guerrero, Sr., Larry Walker, and Randy Johnson - in the Hall wearing other caps). One Hall of Famer every six years on average. Now, my allegiance is with the Marlins, and I wish them to be the drafting/developmental heirs to the Expos.
  20. THOMAS JOSEPH
    I'm excited about this band of young overachievers, and anxious to see who this year's surprise Spring Training performers are. Just enough intrigue and position challenges to make things interesting. Hoping to be in Jupiter for a few days in mid-March to watch a few games.
  21. THOMAS JOSEPH
    Informative and enjoyable episode.
  22. THOMAS JOSEPH
    Garrett returns with nothing but upside, and the Marlins are in an enviable cost position with him. In addition, the team's pitching composition allows it to manage Garrett's workload as he eases back to form. Along with Norby and Conine, I like Garrett as top Marlins improvement/comeback candidates for the upcoming season
  23. THOMAS JOSEPH
    This is exactly why we fans shouldn't become too attached to the MLB player and his carny lifestyle. That's not impugning any player as a person, simply an acknowledgement that players are entirely replaceable (and getting more so all the time). I recall being devastated when the Expos traded Gary Carter to the Mets. That was my last time being so committed to an individual player's career vector. It's simply neither controllable nor prudent to become too attached to any entertainer, to my mind.
  24. THOMAS JOSEPH
    When I am in Louisville, the only Marlins games I missed on MLB.tv were games against the Reds, but some of those were on the local channel. I suppose it comes down to my Jacksonville time this season vis-à-vis the cost of purchasing the new package. I figure somewhere in the 60-game range, so that's worth it to me. If Miami were closer, I'd attend thirty games in person, but the drive is simply too taxing, and Miami traffic/logistics are a freaking mess, frankly. Two road trips a year is about all I can handle. Back in the day, I shared four Club 4192 seats at Great American in Cincinnati with two other companies. We handled ticket selection like a draft before the season, and it worked out great. Even back then, a third of the games (four seats and a parking pass for each, mind you) was over $5,000.
  25. THOMAS JOSEPH
    Decidedly out of the market!
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