Comments on: Fire sales have cost the Marlins two All-Star Games

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:44:32 +0000

Honest to God, bartender, he is not with us. We were just talking and he came over and sat down. I guess he can’t read the “No Shirt No Shoes No Service” sign. I think he’s a foreigner or something. Please don’t kick us out.

By: Chris Fiorentino

Chris Fiorentino — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:44:08 +0000

You two should get a room already!

By: Chris Fiorentino

Chris Fiorentino — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:22:56 +0000

OG, I am only guessing here, but I am willing to bet that the Marlins bottom line in 2013 will be higher than teams like the Rays and the Orioles who may have success but will spend double or even triple what the marlins will spend. As long as they have to compete with teams like the Yankees, Phillies, Angels, Red Sox, etc, why should these small-market teams try to win when they simply can not consistently do so? Tampa is the outlier in this current system, and even they will probably never be able to get over the hump because they won’t be able to keep all these guys together the way teams like the Yankees do.

By: cur68

cur68 — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 07:05:05 +0000

I look like Roger Bernadina (in my mind). I don’t wear a shirt.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 03:18:44 +0000

Neither Craig nor Passan hate the Feesh. They both think Scrooge McLoria is a liar and a crook, and incompetent to boot. And they’re both right.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 03:13:12 +0000

Oh, I don’t doubt that’s what he’s doing. He’ll be sure to make X million by doing nothing and playing Chainsaw McLoria with his overhead, as opposed to trying to make X+Y million by investing consistently in his product with the risk of winding up making less than X if the endemic ineptitude of his choices and those of his front orifice prove insurmountable again.

By: leoimpr

leoimpr — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 02:43:25 +0000

if I was the Yankees I refuse to pay revenuew sharing, what is the league going to do, take them to court? with this evidence, no judge will force them to pay.

By: leoimpr

leoimpr — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 02:42:28 +0000

He will be stealing 58 million dollars this year, while playing a team with a payroll less than 15 million.

By: ptfu

ptfu — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 02:30:10 +0000

I refuse to believe that Jeff Loria doesn’t know the best way to make money. Sure, maybe he realizes he’s useless at building winners and so he’s going with what he knows. But then again, you can spend big money and not win, but revenue sharing’s always there. Maybe Loria’s taking the sure bet. Let revenue sharing provide the bulk of your income instead of increased tickets and concessions following a winner.

By: vipod4ever

vipod4ever — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 02:21:58 +0000

Al Davis, for all his faults, loved the game. Not sure if we will see that again in pro sports.

By: jimmymarlinsfan

jimmymarlinsfan — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:47:47 +0000

But all owners do these types of shenanigans.

Let me put it this way, given the choice between having John Henry back as owner or keeping Loria as owner I’d take Loria a million times and twice on Sunday.

Besides, again. It’s the all star game. Who cares?

I’m just trying to figure out who hates and disrespects the Marlins more. Calcaterra or Jeff Passan over at Yahoo sports who quite simply hates everything about Miami

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:32:07 +0000

Henryd3rd – how do I really feel? Well, if you genuinely want to know, my hemorrhoids are bothering me a little more than usual today.

Mention of Scrooge McLoria does that.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:29:58 +0000

Jimmy, that’s because on yet another day, yet another one of Scrooge McLoria’s numerous contemptible peccadilloes comes back to bite him on the ass. It’s part karma, part free market. There will surely be more anti-Scrooge McLoria articles because Scrooge McLoria will surely do something else penurious, disingenuous, dishonest or otherwise reprehensible to merit them.

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:26:56 +0000

Oh, and on the flip side, if I saw you in jeans w/ white stitching and an Affliction t-shirt, I would troll the hell out of you.

By: gloccamorra

gloccamorra — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:15:15 +0000

Actually, Loria has done his share of sticking it to the other owners, too. He ran the Montreal Expos into the ground, and when Selig wanted to make Marlins owner John Henry the owner of the Red Sox to keep it out Frank McCourt’s hands, Loria got the Marlins, leaving MLB to run the Expos at a loss and find a new owner. Montreal was so poisoned, DC interests finally got the chance to steal the franchise.

Don’t forget all the revenue sharing money Loria has been pocketing. He may have outdone former Mariners owner George Argyros in that department. At least the Commish engineered the cashiering of Argyros, getting Joan Kroc to agree to sell him the Padres, forcing him to sell the Mariners first, and getting Kroc to back out of the deal, leaving Argyros on the outside looking in. I don’t know who pulled that off, Ueberroth or Giamatti, but it was brilliant. Why can’t Bud Selig think up something like that?

By: cardsfanindelaware

cardsfanindelaware — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:49:14 +0000

Too bad this shitheal can own a baseball team and be allowed to do what he does.

Mark Cuban would love to spend some of his billions on a baseball team and be a real owner, yet MLB won’t let that happen because Cuban would speak his mind…

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:47:33 +0000

Well, personally, I don’t want a guy who’s a suit. I don’t like ‘em too pretty or all country club either. It’s just you don’t want a guy who doesn’t make any effort with himself. I like to wear dresses & heels. I don’t want to go out dressed up & my date has on short pants & sandals. Own a nice pair of shoes. Have something you can wear to a wedding or funeral. That’s really not a high bar. What’s wrong with a button-up w/ your jeans…or a nice ochre sweater.

By: dcfan4life

dcfan4life — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:47:11 +0000

Are you sure that jubilant moment of his wasnt done with the knowledge that he knew immediately hes was now worth more money after that out than before? One out may have made him $50 million in net worth. Id jump for joy to that too.

By: paperlions

paperlions — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:41:16 +0000

Fair enough….I am just always suspicious of the superficial (or, at least, people that gravitate to it). Wearing a suit and tie seems to be the epitome of superficiality, designed so project and conform with little to no correlation between the person in the suit and the suit itself….rather than a suit saying “this is who I am” they always say to me “this is who I want you to perceive me to be”.

By: henryd3rd

henryd3rd — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:25:44 +0000

I miss the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Baseball Giants.

By: henryd3rd

henryd3rd — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:24:22 +0000

The deal Loria negotiated with those crooked Miami officials would give him all the concessions, i.e., booze, food, souvenirs and let’s not forget the parking. Oh did I mention that the residents in Little Havana can’t park on the streets near their home during home games? He gets it all.

By: henryd3rd

henryd3rd — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:18:44 +0000

Now tell me how you really feel? Come man! Now you are getting nasty and you are beginning to sound like Norman the Car Salesman. Next you’re going to want us to believe that Little Jeffrey the antique seller has done this before in another country?

By: henryd3rd

henryd3rd — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:18:36 +0000

Now tell me how you really feel? Come man! Now you are getting nasty and you are beginning to sound like Norman the Car Saleman. Next you’re going to want us to believe that Little Jeffrey the antique seller has done this before in another country?

By: henryd3rd

henryd3rd — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:17:22 +0000

Now tell me how you really feel? Come man! Now you are getting nasty and you are beginning to sound like Norman the Car Salewsman. Next you’re going to want us to believe that Little Jeffrey the antique seller has done this before in another country?

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:37:56 +0000

I’m not saying guys aren’t appealing in jeans and a T too, but sometimes it’s nice to see something that requires a little more effort — and that often indicates a higher level of self-care in a guy. I’d imagine it’s like the difference for you in seeing a woman in a dress & heels instead of always in her comfy pants & oversized sweatshirt.

By: nothanksimdriving123

nothanksimdriving123 — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:36:59 +0000

jarathen, sorry but Bud Light told me that last season’s attendance numbers clearly indicate that no one anywhere wants any of MLB’s problems to be fixed.

By: paperlions

paperlions — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:22:34 +0000

I’m honestly curious. What is the basis for viewing a guy in a suit differently than the exact same guy in jeans and a t-shirt? Is it just aesthetics?

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:15:59 +0000

Wish I could agree with you so easily. The sad fact is, he really is a baseball fan – who also happens to be a corrupt, lying weasel. When Jeff Conine threw out J. T. Snow at the plate to clinch the playoffs for the Feesh, I was sitting not even five rows behind Scrooge McLoria in a field box and had a perfectly clear view of him. When Pudge’s hand thrust up from the dust cloud with the baseball and the umpire rang Snow up, Scrooge leaped to his feet with both hands held high over his head, hands wide open as though trying to launch his fingers like a bunch of little skyrockets and spun around the face the crowd, and there was a look of such boyish, unalloyed joy on his face that it made me smile even more broadly than the just-concluded proceedings on the field.

Of course, this was before the…er…real Scrooge McLoria embittered us all by breaking his promise that there would be “no dismantling” – his own words; I heard him speak them at the Series victory parade a few weeks later – and the first of his several “market corrections” (the Chihuahua’s phrase) and a litany of his misrepresentations and bunko schemes ensued. It would be easier to detest him if I had never seen that expression on his face. Unfortunately, as Nabokov noted, once it has been seen, it cannot be unseen. So if I want to detest him, I have to do it with the knowledge that there’s a little kid with a big smile buried somewhere underneath all that viscid, grasping avarice. Ah well.

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:13:20 +0000

I’m insulted. One of the things I like about going to DC is seeing all the dudes in ties & jackets around…which is such a nice change of pace for me, as I am normally surrounded by guys in khaki pants (sometimes, not even pleated — yea!) and golf shirts stretched tightly around a beer belly. HOTT!!!! But, okay, yeah, we’re all gold-diggers.

By: paperlions

paperlions — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:03:23 +0000

I humbly (not really) submit that women that are crazy for a sharp[ly] dressed man are not interested in the man found in the sharp dress, but in what the sharpness of the dress represents about the man from a resource base perspective.