Why is nobody visiting this forum? [Archive]

TonyStarks

02-22-2006, 06:57 PM

Because if the Organization & City doesn't care about the Team...then why should the fans.
The Organization just had a fire sale and the city won't give the team a home to play in.

The Marlins are my favorite NL team.
But I just cannot take another Rebuilding period.
The team that the Marlins would have fielded this year would have been a contender. I mean this team just recently won it's 2nd World Series.

Jeff Loria is a cancer and MLB should strip him of his team and no longer offer a team to any group which he's a part of.

brooklynboy

02-22-2006, 08:30 PM

Isn't MLB the same ones whom control the Nats..The same Nats with a
restricted payroll, no stadium deal, and for 3 years a prospective set of
buyers?? And you want these people to ban Loria???

lolol

tyberesk

02-23-2006, 08:03 PM

maybe its the fact, that there is only room for one team in the state of Florida, The D-Rays or Rays ....(future tarpons) lol jkin

brooklynboy

02-23-2006, 08:19 PM

Perhaps once you get passed spring training, Florida forgets about baseball..Of course, decent ownership migh be a factor too!!

Amazin...Simply Amazin!!!

Yankeebiscuitfan

02-24-2006, 05:47 PM

maybe its the fact, that there is only room for one team in the state of Florida, The D-Rays or Rays ....(future tarpons) lol jkin

Two years ago, my brother in law went to Florida (Miami) on vacation. I asked him to get me a TB Devil Rays cap or a Marlins cap. He couldn't find any. It was during Spring Training, so you can't say that is had something to do with the off season.

The stores were filled with Dolphins mercandise, but no baseball merchandise.

When I look to this board and to yours, and when I think of the story of my brother in law, I can only come to one conclusion: Baseball just is not popular in Florida. :( Too bad.

brooklynboy

02-24-2006, 06:14 PM

I had a similar experience in Tampa Bay no less...A ton of
Buccaneer and Lightning stuff but literally no D'Ray gear...Makes ya
wonder....

:ughh

Two years ago, my brother in law went to Florida (Miami) on vacation. I asked him to get me a TB Devil Rays cap or a Marlins cap. He couldn't find any. It was during Spring Training, so you can't say that is had something to do with the off season.

The stores were filled with Dolphins mercandise, but no baseball merchandise.

When I look to this board and to yours, and when I think of the story of my brother in law, I can only come to one conclusion: Baseball just is not popular in Florida. :(

Yankeebiscuitfan

02-24-2006, 06:20 PM

I had a similar experience in Tampa Bay no less...A ton of
Buccaneer and Lightning stuff but literally no D'Ray gear...Makes ya
wonder....

:ughh

When you had the same exerience, I think that my conclusion may be right.

Ontarioguy

02-24-2006, 10:47 PM

brooklynboy

02-25-2006, 07:44 AM

With the way things seem to be going, this forum will soon be moved to the 'Teams of YesterYear'.

I hope that doesn't happen because no fans deserve to lose a team. But with Loria at the helm and Selig in his usual daze, I just don't see things working out in FLA. Hope for the fans sake I'm wrong.

No fan deserves to lose their team...However, one has to wonder...Teams
charge outrageous prices for everything from tickets to hot dogs to jerseys
($150 for an authentic jersey?:grouchy ), players charge for autographs,
then go where they get more money. Teams then demand fans build them
stadiums...Baseball is in a sad state...

:hp

Coal Cracker

02-25-2006, 10:04 PM

Two years ago, my brother in law went to Florida (Miami) on vacation. I asked him to get me a TB Devil Rays cap or a Marlins cap. He couldn't find any. It was during Spring Training, so you can't say that is had something to do with the off season.

The stores were filled with Dolphins mercandise, but no baseball merchandise.

When I look to this board and to yours, and when I think of the story of my brother in law, I can only come to one conclusion: Baseball just is not popular in Florida. :( Too bad.
Baseball isn't unpopular in Florida. The problem the Marlins and Devil Rays have is that they play in a state that has baseball fans who already have allegiances to teams up north. Considering outside of the Marlins two championship seasons, both have been horrendously bad for the majority of their team histories. Why are Yankees, Red Sox, Mets, Cardinals, Cubs, etc. fans going to root for two teams that play bad baseball and/or they didn't grow up around. Go to the different spring training locales and at most of them you will see plenty of baseball fans wearing merchandise of whatever team happens to train there.

brooklynboy

02-26-2006, 12:48 PM

Point well taken about the franchises themselves...Give the fans a winner and they will come!!!!

TonyStarks

03-01-2006, 04:05 PM

Point well taken about the franchises themselves...Give the fans a winner and they will come!!!!

So 2 Championships in 9 years doesn't mean that franchise is in good shape?
I know some teams that have NONE or just ONE in the last 80 years.

This team was still a good contender IF they hadn't traded any pieces and kept the same team it had.

brooklynboy

03-01-2006, 04:32 PM

True...but has the franchise which has only one dismember itself the next year??? 2 WC and 2 dismemberments is not really condusive to keeping your fans..

:noidea

So 2 Championships in 9 years doesn't mean that franchise is in good shape?
I know some teams that have NONE or just ONE in the last 80 years.

This team was still a good contender IF they hadn't traded any pieces and kept the same team it had.

TheKingofKings

03-02-2006, 06:59 AM

You want a simple answer to your question wilk , well its because they traded away all there stars except Cabrera and are in a rebuilding mode wich no fan likes and the loss of Florida Fans is getting bigger and to that is due the disinterest of Marlins Fans to talk about there team (but i am sure there aren't too many 100% Marlins fans anymore)

TonyStarks

03-02-2006, 11:03 AM

True...but has the franchise which has only one dismember itself the next year??? 2 WC and 2 dismemberments is not really condusive to keeping your fans..

The Marlins front office has a plan for this franchise by going younger. Yes they did this in '97 and it panned out for them because down the road it led to another WS. I am all for giving the Franchise some leanacy here. At least they are not afraid to Destroy to Rebuild...unlike other franchises. (I only wish the Knicks would learn this too)

brooklynboy

03-02-2006, 09:30 PM

i'll agree with you Tony on the possible motive..However, don't even start to say they're rebuilding unless you say they're "rebuilding" their bank account...

Outta Here

06-05-2006, 12:37 PM

Marlins 4 World Champs 2010 :gt
Hanley 4 MVP!
(whether in or out of FLA)

Chelle

06-05-2006, 12:43 PM

Hmmm....I thought the team was traded to another city. You guys still there?

brooklynboy

06-09-2006, 07:00 AM

Yup Still here...Actually not a bad team...They show flashes of brilliance at
times..They've become a symbol of a bad situation and it shows....They
need to move and settle that before this team will do anything...

IMO

:)

Brownie31

06-09-2006, 07:37 AM

Hmmm....I thought the team was traded to another city. You guys still there?

Chelle:

Shades of 1934! Is Brooklyn still in the league?

Brownie31

KCFAN11

06-10-2006, 09:41 PM

Why would anyone visit.

They have to start over again.
The fans dont want to watch that again.

Eddiey

06-12-2006, 04:39 PM

It's been so cold recently.

After 2 salary dumps and no guarantee that the Marlins will be here much longer folks are reluctant to get attached to the team. At this moment in time the Marlins are a bad team (but improving) with a terrible stadium that is muggy and hot most of the year, so there is little to get excited about.

brooklynboy

06-14-2006, 09:41 AM

The Marlins cudda been a contender for a solid franchise..However, along came Jeff....:(

thecoach

06-15-2006, 12:24 PM

After 2 salary dumps and no guarantee that the Marlins will be here much longer folks are reluctant to get attached to the team. At this moment in time the Marlins are a bad team (but improving) with a terrible stadium that is muggy and hot most of the year, so there is little to get excited about.

Man you can say that again, and again. Management has sold this team, and dumped on its fan base. Now, that the Nationals have new ownership, MLB must take this team away from it current owners and find new ownership. It may mean moving the Team, and that would be a shame, but at least the players would know that the owners wanted to win and not destroy all that they are working for.

GO MARLINS!!!!

Captain Cold Nose

06-15-2006, 12:31 PM

Man you can say that again, and again. Management has sold this team, and dumped on its fan base. Now, that the Nationals have new ownership, MLB must take this team away from it current owners and find new ownership. It may mean moving the Team, and that would be a shame, but at least the players would know that the owners wanted to win and not destroy all that they are working for.

GO MARLINS!!!!
The problem is MLB allowed the current owners to already dump on a team and its fanbase until they were forced to move to survive after he sold them, and they're doing it again. MLB won't step in this time, either. And it's a shame, because they're good people down there who love winners. Football is No. 1, but baseball does well when things are going well. The Marlins have been cursed with having investors as owners, not baseball people.

thecoach

06-15-2006, 12:54 PM

The problem is MLB allowed the current owners to already dump on a team and its fanbase until they were forced to move to survive after he sold them, and they're doing it again. MLB won't step in this time, either. And it's a shame, because they're good people down there who love winners. Football is No. 1, but baseball does well when things are going well. The Marlins have been cursed with having investors as owners, not baseball people.

Here is an idea. Have the membership of Baseball Fever buy the team.
Only joking, but you would have people with passion if this could be done.:rolleyes:

Captain Cold Nose

06-15-2006, 01:06 PM

Here is an idea. Have the membership of Baseball Fever buy the team.
Only joking, but you would have people with passion if this could be done.:rolleyes:
No doubt, coach. Of course, there are people here who have mastered every single aspect of the sport itself.

thecoach

06-15-2006, 04:04 PM

No doubt, coach. Of course, there are people here who have mastered every single aspect of the sport itself.

Now surely you do not think all owners have mastered every single aspect of the sport itself. If you do look again. What makes this idea a pipe dream is the money it would take over and run a team! :ughh

marlins rule

06-19-2006, 07:43 PM

I hate to say it, but I don't really care about those Marlins. They practically traded their entire lineup.
they might of traded away superstars like mike lowell, juan pierre, josh beckett, luis castillo, and carlos delgado but we got some young talent from return. these young guns have enough talent to have what it needs.once they get used to this league they will start hitting like miguel cabrera.:gt