Comments on: The Marlins are probably going to fire Ozzie Guillen

By: chumthumper

chumthumper — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:10:05 +0000

Calabash-style is really good.

By: denny65

denny65 — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:06:50 +0000

Yeah, but can Ozzie bicycle and text at the same time?

By: scratchnsniffnblog

scratchnsniffnblog — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 23:18:03 +0000

How do you kick that which is not there?

Are you in the Matrix?

By: orangeclipper

orangeclipper — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 22:52:33 +0000

Adios, boga grande. The hijo de P$$A deserves to get fired. What a big jerk.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:59:29 +0000

Get in line behind the entire population of Montreal.

By: classygentleman7

classygentleman7 — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:18:15 +0000

Just throwing this out there: Not even 5 minutes after watching The Franchise, I wanted to kick Jeffrey Loria square in the nuts.

By: drewsylvania

drewsylvania — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:03:28 +0000

Oh please. You say this like Ozzie’s just a garden-variety manager. Ozzie is a train wreck, both inside the clubhouse and out. Sometimes I think you just invent things to rail against.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:52:21 +0000

Shows how little you know about Feesh. Once water stops flowing over his gills, he suffocates.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:43:37 +0000

The salve in this case would be Slobbering Ozzie’s head on a platter. It’d be the Feesh’s equivalent to Captain White’s head in a jar of cheap tequila in Blood Meridian.

By: lew24

lew24 — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:32:36 +0000

The Marlins…flounder…excuse the pun!

I love it!

By: whit0101

whit0101 — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:25:01 +0000

The Marlins front office is a train wreck, from the owner to his stepson who is club President. Just ask the fans in Montreal about these two. The Marlins will not ever be competitive on an ongoing basis under the current ownership.

By: thejotapee

thejotapee — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:16:51 +0000

The problem with the Marlins has never been the manager or the players. It’s the ownership and front office. This team needs changes from top to bottom. We want Mickey Arison!

By: scratchnsniffnblog

scratchnsniffnblog — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:01:09 +0000

Issue: Will Ozzie be fired?

Rule: Managers are often scapegoats for under-performance of the team. Loria doesn’t like to spend money if he doesn’t have to. Loria does not get along well with managers. The Marlins need a manager.

Analysis: The team did not perform as expected and Ozzie may be partially to blame. However, Ozzie did not add or subtract any personnel from the team, and firing him would not necessarily improve the performance of the players on the current roster. It would cost a good bit of change to fire Ozzie so early into his contract. That money would not be immediately recouped on the balance sheet through higher ticket sales. Chances are Loria would love the new manager only as long as it took for him (or her) to get on Loria’s bad side.

Conclusion: Unless Loria can find a way to reduce the cost of firing Ozzie, I think he’ll be around for another year. Especially if Loria can find another scapegoat who is replaceable at a much lower cost.

Alternate Conclusion: Loria’s first love is art and his decisions often defy logic. So, I expect Art Howe to be hired as the next Marlins manager within days based on his experience of having a desirable first name.

By: scratchnsniffnblog

scratchnsniffnblog — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:45:20 +0000

I thought it was Samson’s job to rub salve on Loria’s “ego.”

By: Brinke

Brinke — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:29:58 +0000

Every photo of OG, his mouth is open.
IMAGINE that.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:23:06 +0000

The local spawrts tawrk raydeeo and print media scuttlebutt on Slobbering Ozzie has been oscillating keep/fire for weeks now. Scrooge McLoria needs a scapegoat – not for P/R reasons so much as to salve his ego over his stewardship of such a monumental bust of a team. Yesterday the slob-o-meter was twitching over to the green side, today the red. Tomorrow, who knows? Another thing to consider: who knows, really, how much input Scrooge had on the signings last season – or the season before, when the ridiculous $18 million commitment to Black Hole Buck got made? I’m still shaking my head over that one. But Scrooge is reputedly as hands-on as a grope on the Broadway Line at rush hour. As far as the repeated comments about how much money the team spent on free agency last year, that’s been a bit of a red herring all along. It’s easy and proper to blame Larry Beinfest for the Buck signing, which set the precedent for Heath Bell this season (and really, of the three big 2012 signings, it was only Bell who badly tanked – the rest of the disaster was having holdovers like Buck, the Hanster and Tweeter continue to non-produce, and some of the holdovers from last year’s boolpen, Dunn especially, follow Bell down the drain).

I’m no fan of Slobbering Ozzie’s, but to hang the blame for this season’t mega-fusterflunker while leaving Beinfest and the teflon Chihuahua in place, unscathed, strikes me as hypocrisy in motion.

By: cavemanna

cavemanna — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:20:28 +0000

I can’t imagine in what way Ozzie is a positive for any organization or it’s players. Ya they made a mistake. So live with it for a couple more years? Nah.

By: mazblast

mazblast — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:59:18 +0000

If he is offered and accepts another managerial job, he forfeits the remaining Marlins salary. Why do that? He’ll get a job with ESPN and collect two big salaries while being his usual blowhard self.

By: ndirishfan1

ndirishfan1 — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:41:06 +0000

This is what the kids would call an epic fail.

By: mrwillie

mrwillie — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:40:14 +0000

I’d say it’s past the point of no return now anyways. If he were to stay, Ozzie is not the type of guy to let the talk of him being potentially railroaded go quietly. He’ll never have trust on Loria again, nor should he.

It would make a colorful year in Miami if he were to stay, but even then he’d never make it the full 4 years. Simply put Ozzie will be better without Miami than Miami will be without Ozzie.

By: pisano

pisano — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:49:41 +0000

The sooner the better, send this loud mouth back to Venezuela and keep him there. Maybe he and Bobby V. can team up down there.

By: ptfu

ptfu — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:44:09 +0000

Hmm. Good point. They don’t call him Scrooge McLoria for nothing.

Then again, it wasn’t Ozzie who gave up so many walks, homers, and late inning leads. So if the Feesh care more about winning games than saving a few bucks…ahahahah never mind.

By: brewcrewfan54

brewcrewfan54 — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:43:41 +0000

At least you can accuse Snyder of trying to buy a championship. Until this past year you could never accuse Loria of that.

By: vallewho

vallewho — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:36:24 +0000

By: kiwicricket

kiwicricket — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:23:43 +0000

‘splash’. I get it.

By: gogigantos

gogigantos — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:22:10 +0000

He is, and behaved all season as, the same dude he has always been. His still the same guy they hired. This speaks of some way poor management, that is not news for this club.
So, does the slobbering one go home, or travel, Cuba might be a good spot, and collect some checks, or does he get another job?

By: chill1184

chill1184 — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:19:23 +0000

I wonder if this is the icing on the cake or is their more Marlin goodness to follow

By: sdelmonte

sdelmonte — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:16:36 +0000

Waiting for Old Gator to check in on this.

But while he didn’t do anything wrong on the field, he seems to be a distraction in ways that would justify trying to change things. I wouldn’t fire him so fast, but I suspect he will never do well there.

Then again, I think no one will. His predecessors are proof to some degree that the best thing that can happen is leaving for better venues.

By: bloodysock

bloodysock — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:15:09 +0000

Haven’t the Marlins suffered enough?

By: kkolchak

kkolchak — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:13:21 +0000

Classic example of wanting to make a splash by bringing in a “name” without regard to whether it made sense for the team.