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LSUMASTERMIND · Feb 25, 2013

If you think the Astros is the worst team in MLB, you are simply wrong (hopefully this brings Tirk back)

Its the Marlins and its not even close.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/25/letter-to-marlins-fans-jeffrey-loria_n_2756712.html

How To Ruin A Franchise, Step 41: Write a full-page letter in the newspapers blaming the media, attendance, general ignorance -- anyone but yourself! -- for your decaying franchise a year after a publicly-funded stadium was built.
That's the only explanation, right?
Sunday was some suicidal next-step from the how-to manual Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria is following into baseball oblivion. Because no one can be naturally this tone-deaf, can they?

No one can deny, deny, deny reality and expect fans to buy in, can they?
It was a laugh reading Loria's self-serving screed in South Florida's three newspapers on Sunday until you realized he's taking baseball down for the count with him in this market. (See full text below.)
On what planet is the flabbergasting fire sale the Marlins had in November rationalized by Loria's line that, "Objective experts credited us with going from the 28th ranked minor league system in baseball to the fifth best."
Is he serious? What franchise can't improve a depleted minor-league system by selling off its best major-league players?
And does he think it really matters the $450 million he received in public money to build a new stadium is a, "burden incurred by tourists who are visiting our city," as he writes. "NOT the resident taxpayers."
The fact is Loria received a publicly gifted stadium, signed marquee players one year, dumped them the next and now will line his pockets with tens of millions in a brazen bait-and-switch.
Loria also blamed "columnists" who dared, "unleash a vicious cycle of negativity" in the aftermath of this fire sale. Imagine that. Who could he possibly be talking about?
Blaming the media is a common game that any public official can play when it suits them. But how does Loria explain his traded shortstop, Jose Reyes, saying the owner told him to buy a house in Miami -- and two days later traded him?
Or discuss how his former pitcher, Mark Buehrle, was shipped to one of the cities he expressly didn't want to go in Toronto because his beloved pit bulls aren't allowed there. So his family will live in Chicago this season. He'll play in Toronto.
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Cajun Sensation · Feb 25, 2013

You should start a thread that reads, 'As the Martin Turns'

mobius481 · Feb 25, 2013

Let's put together a collection and go buy them. They can't be worth more than about 150 bucks after all this dude has done.