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	<title>Comments on: The Marlins shuffle their front office</title>
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		<title>By: Old Gator</title>
		<link>http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/09/07/the-marlins-shuffle-their-front-office/comment-page-1/#comment-190449</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Erk. Stanton = the Iron Giant.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Erk. Stanton = the Iron Giant.</p>
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		<title>By: Old Gator</title>
		<link>http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/09/07/the-marlins-shuffle-their-front-office/comment-page-1/#comment-190305</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the Feesh&#039;s problems this year - though it showed up more in the standings of their minor league teams than on their blighted big league field - is that their minor league system is pretty well bereft of major talent. This may be true for one of the very few times since Dave Dombrowski fled to....&lt;i&gt;Detroit&lt;/i&gt;????

Anyway, the Feesh have pilfered the farm of their best bets, including Stanton, the apparently chastened Tweeter, Alex Sanabia, Jose Ceda, Brad Hand - not all of whom seem to be panning out, at least not yet. Their top current prospect, Matt Dominguez, is a slick fielder at third but bats in the .250 range in AAA and couldn&#039;t cut ML peetching this past spring. The Feesh P/R department - dwarfed, of course, by their Department of Redundancy Department and by whatever department it is that the Chihuahua heads, charged directly with alienating fans in droves (aside from which it has never been clear just &lt;i&gt;what&lt;/i&gt; the Chihuahua does, except maybe falsify financial records for his suzerain)  - has been cranking out occasional press releases to the beat writers that always refer to Top Prospect Matt Dominguez, as though his mother wrote that entire name on his birth certificate. 

It&#039;s not that the Feesh couldn&#039;t use someone at third who can stop a ball heading down the line before it reaches the outfield wall - they haven&#039;t really had anyone like that since Mike Lowell - but given their demonstrated penchant for orphaning baserunners this lost planet season, someone with a hotter stick than Dominguez&#039; would probably be better fit.  That there isn&#039;t one down in the ethanol fields is more of a reason for this little rejiggering than anything else.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the Feesh&#8217;s problems this year &#8211; though it showed up more in the standings of their minor league teams than on their blighted big league field &#8211; is that their minor league system is pretty well bereft of major talent. This may be true for one of the very few times since Dave Dombrowski fled to&#8230;.<i>Detroit</i>????</p>
<p>Anyway, the Feesh have pilfered the farm of their best bets, including Stanton, the apparently chastened Tweeter, Alex Sanabia, Jose Ceda, Brad Hand &#8211; not all of whom seem to be panning out, at least not yet. Their top current prospect, Matt Dominguez, is a slick fielder at third but bats in the .250 range in AAA and couldn&#8217;t cut ML peetching this past spring. The Feesh P/R department &#8211; dwarfed, of course, by their Department of Redundancy Department and by whatever department it is that the Chihuahua heads, charged directly with alienating fans in droves (aside from which it has never been clear just <i>what</i> the Chihuahua does, except maybe falsify financial records for his suzerain)  &#8211; has been cranking out occasional press releases to the beat writers that always refer to Top Prospect Matt Dominguez, as though his mother wrote that entire name on his birth certificate. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s not that the Feesh couldn&#8217;t use someone at third who can stop a ball heading down the line before it reaches the outfield wall &#8211; they haven&#8217;t really had anyone like that since Mike Lowell &#8211; but given their demonstrated penchant for orphaning baserunners this lost planet season, someone with a hotter stick than Dominguez&#8217; would probably be better fit.  That there isn&#8217;t one down in the ethanol fields is more of a reason for this little rejiggering than anything else.</p>
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		<title>By: Old Gator</title>
		<link>http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/09/07/the-marlins-shuffle-their-front-office/comment-page-1/#comment-190295</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Normally, his just sits upstairs in the big clock, picking the dog hair from between the bristles of his big broom, occasionally sniffing the Simple Green to be sure that it&#039;s still fresh, and  looking sagely down at the world. I think he&#039;ll make a fine, sad paymaster.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Normally, his just sits upstairs in the big clock, picking the dog hair from between the bristles of his big broom, occasionally sniffing the Simple Green to be sure that it&#8217;s still fresh, and  looking sagely down at the world. I think he&#8217;ll make a fine, sad paymaster.</p>
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		<title>By: kellyb9</title>
		<link>http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/09/07/the-marlins-shuffle-their-front-office/comment-page-1/#comment-190291</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The team janitor is now in charge of paying the team&#039;s payroll.]]></description>
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