Posted on 03/29/2018 7:35:29 PM PDT by Enchante
Ah, opening day, a fresh start, a chance for teams to put their best foot forward — and for the Miami Marlins, the team that traded away all its best players this offseason and became baseball’s punchline again, none of that fresh-start stuff happened.
The Marlins threw out the first pitch of the 2018 season to the Chicago Cubs and they totally Marlins’d it.
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That first pitch, from Miami opening day starter Jose Urena was promptly deposited over the fence by Cubs leadoff man Ian Happ. That’s not what new CEO Derek Jeter wanted, guys. Neither was the result of the game.
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Not a good idea to groove the first pitch of the season.
Happ has the potential for a breakout year in Chicago. This may have been as much about him coming out of spring strong as it was the pitcher.
They’ll be a good rival for my Pirates in the basement of the NL.
Michael Cerami jumping into Lake Michigan was awesome.
I don't understand, why would they do that?
Shedding big salaries for new owners to do a total rebuild, I guess.
Meanwhile, ex-Marlin Giancarlo Stanton had a rather monster day for the Yankees, with 2 HRs, a double, and 4 RBIs.
Maybe Derek Jeter is just an agent of his lifelong Yankees franchise.....
There’s precedent. The Late ‘50s KC Athletics were shamefully just a Yankees farm team.
“I don’t understand, why would they do that?”
I dont’ know, this is literally too “inside baseball” for me, but IIRC the Chicago Bulls basically did the same thing after Michael Jordan departed, or maybe his leaving was part of it, but as I recall they sort of self-deconstructed, it seemed weird.
But, I’m a girl from New York so I might be wrong, someone will correct me if I am.
It was Jeterized.
Marlins once again sell the team
After screwing florida amd miami for hundreds of millions for a stadium in a horrible location
Marlins can kiss my rear
Go Rays
I miss the tradition of the Major League starting each season with the first pitch thrown off of a mound in Cincinnati.
Another tradition ruined and travesty upon the game brought to you by Bud Selig.
Pro sports teams do sometimes de-construct and rebuild, but not usually in such extreme ways as the Marlins tend to do. It’s one thing to shed top players at the end of their careers, when you know things can’t continue much longer anyway, but in the case of Stanton he’s right in the prime of his career.
Happ was hot in Spring Training. Hope he keeps it up.
GO CUBS!
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