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So. This almost made me cry. I guess the tears will come tomorrow. Loria and several key members of his front office are Jewish, so no "business" was to be conducted today. (It's Yom Kippur.) They're having a meeting with Joe in the morning, which is when they will undoubtedly fire him. Good job, Loria. Angelos had 9 years to make me hate him, and I hate you as much if not more, and it only took you 3 months.
"I refuse to allow myself to think about it," left fielder Josh Willingham said, "because I want him to come back so bad."
Other Marlins said they want Girardi, who has two years left on his contract, to come back.
"A lot, a lot, a lot!" third baseman Miguel Cabrera said. "He brings confidence, he brings everything for us. We'd love to have him back."
"No doubt," shortstop Hanley Ramirez said. "I can say he is the best man in the world." - Girardi makes poignant speech after final game.
This is insane, Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria and General Manager Larry Beinfest. Extend to your rookie manager the same patience you showed a roster of rookie players this season.
Enroll the three of you in conflict resolution classes if you must. Take a wilderness retreat and practice falling backward and letting Girardi catch you.
Anything. But don't can your National League Manager of the Year candidate. - It's not too late to make amends.
Late Sunday afternoon, long after the crowd had filtered out, after the Marlins players were gone and the clubhouse had emptied, as work crews were turning the baseball diamond back into a football field, Girardi stood on the right-field grass, pitching underhanded tosses to his young son, Dante.
It was a family affair.
Girardi's daughter, Serena, skipped about on the grass. And Girardi's wife, Kim, was out there, too, pushing a stroller containing their newborn daughter.
Hardly anyone noticed the family, enjoying itself in the lengthening shadows of an empty stadium. - An emotional finale.
Sigh.
Scott Olsen on the Marlins season - mpg, 5mbs
Miguel Cabrera on the Marlins season - mpg, 9mbs
Dontrelle Willis on the Marlins season - mpg, 13mbs
Joe...looking and sounding so very tired :( - mpg, 10mbs
The big hitter hadn't gotten the batting title. The No. 1 pitcher, by career if not for this season, hadn't lasted two innings. But the remaining fans, larger than the crowds at games that mattered, gave their third standing ovation of the day to a team that finished six games under .500. They felt something akin to what starting pitcher Dontrelle Willis, who got the first of those ovations, felt.
"I think it's a big success," Willis said of the Marlins' 2006 season. "I don't think anybody who had a sub-.500 season could say they were more successful than us. It's kind of an oxymoron, but to me, this is the funnest season I've ever had in baseball, at any level." - Fans made it feel like it mattered.
I miss them already.
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um, i flove your new header. that is all.
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he's a good coach, what he did this year was amazing.
Go Girardi
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Loria was reportedly so mad he ordered Girardi fired right after the game, but the Front Office talked him out of it, and told him to wait until the season was over. And now the season is over :/ The word is that there was just too much difference of opinion regarding how things should be run, and things just weren't working out. I say Loria has a big ego and a small dick and doesn't like that Joe won't lick his shoes. Would you believe he had Joe apologize to him, IN FRONT OF THE TEAM, for what happened? Ugh. I mean, I know it's not good form to curse at your boss, but Loria sounds incredibly obnoxious and I'm sure he doesn't do the team any favors trying to manage from the field seats.
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I'd be pissed and curse at my boss too if he was like Loria.
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I can't believe that this has turned into such a sorry situation. Stuff like this hurts all of baseball.
Loria should be banned from baseball.
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Me neither, really. It honestly hurts my head. They were such a great story, and all that drama just diminished that. What was happening on the field was so special, and I'm sorry for Joe that he couldn't enjoy that more these last few months.
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& hearing the players love for Joe, plus the idea of them "never being the 2006 Marlins" ever again makes me want to bawl my eyes out. Miggy especially, what with his A lot, a lot, a lot!"
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& hearing the players love for Joe, plus the idea of them "never being the 2006 Marlins" ever again makes me want to bawl my eyes out.
I really got choked up yesterday watching the last few innings. I was surprised. I'd barely watched the Marlins this last week, just catching a couple innings here, or just checking the score there. But watching the game and realizing, man, this really is it? And at the end, when they all spilled out onto the field, and they're hugging each other like they just won the world series? It was something. They make me so happy and so sad at the same time! What a crazy thing baseball fandom is :P
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(that is a lot of hate)
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;_;
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(But Danny got a curtain call yesterday! It was so sweet.)
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So.
Fucking.
Much.
I can't even bring myself to make a Jew joke about Jake.