[SoFloFreeper]

So if the guy in charge of the Marlins insults an entire city, will sponsors begin to drop the Marlins? Will musicians tell them to quit playing their music between innings? Where are the leftists, calling for a boycott of baseball?

By the way, local media are covering for the Marlin chief, saying he just needs to "clarify" his statements. This same media continues to attack Rush Limbaugh.

[Carriage Hill]

I lived in Coral Gables for 7 years; they’re not the smartest people. Samson’s right. Miami can’t take the truth.

[raccoonradio]

>>He said voters in Miami are not the smartest people in the world

I understand the owners of the Marlins changed the name from “Florida” to “Miami” as a condition of getting a taxpayer-funded stadium to play in. Voters are not the
smartest, yet guess who’s financing the stadium..?

>>The new park’s name is a temporary one until naming rights are purchased. Per agreement with the city and Miami-Dade County (which owns the park), the Marlins officially changed their name to the “Miami Marlins” on November 11, 2011. They also adopted a new logo, color scheme, and uniforms.

>>Owner Miami-Dade County
(Wikipedia: Miami Marlins, Marlins stadium)

[mmichaels1970]

“Nothing bothers me more than a community that cries about all the ills in the community itself and then doesn't vote,’’ Samson is recorded saying. “Either they're too lazy or they're watching ‘Oprah’ or whatever they're doing.”

2008 - Obama 58, McCain 41
2004 - Kerry 53, Bush 46
2000 - Gore 53, Bush 46
1996 - Clinton 57, Dole 38

[Buckeye McFrog]

as long as he didn’t say it in Spanish he should be fine...

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

I don’t know about the voters in Miami, but I can tell you that this guy has taste for s**t in designing baseball uniforms.

Those new uni’s are absolutely hideous. Also, why did he have to put the city’s name on the front of the home uniforms? Are they the “Miami Miami” or the “Miami Marlins”? I note the good folks in Arlington Texas have the same problem with the “Texas Texas” playing at Rangers Park at Arlington.

[AntiScumbag]

By the way, local media are covering for the Marlin chief, saying he just needs to "clarify" his statements.

Ah, no they're not. Most of them are just suffering from and manifesting their usual incompetence. Samson was taken completely out of context. By the pitiful New Times, a total joke of a rag of the first order.

The local ABC-TV affiliate, to their credit, put it well:

Marlins president David Samson was quoted in a local newspaper as making some very controversial and insulting comments about the people of Miami during a speech to the Beacon Council on Tuesday.

I just listened to his speech. We had a reporter at the event as part of our coverage of the opening of Marlins Park.

Let me make one thing clear. Listening to Samson, he came across as arrogant at times, but in his defense, his quotes were taken out of context.

[snip]

Okay. Did you get that? Samson is speaking to the audience and not the people of Miami. He didn't say people in Miami are dumb. To me, he merely pointed out that the people in the room were some of the smartest and most successful people in our community. He was speaking directly to them.

[snip]

All that said, his words were twisted in this case, and that's why we didn't run the story.

ABC-TV10 commentary

When ABC-10, a bunch of anti-business liberals in their own right won't run a story, you know it's totally toxic. As in bogus.

The whole thing is a figment of the New Times' imagination and penchant to warp and twist anything to do with the Marlins (and most anything else,) picked up by other undiscriminating media who hate the Marlins and then parroted by individuals who hate the Marlins.

The entire thing is typical of New Times "reporting." But notice how it brought out ignorant Marlins-haters in this thread.