Sunday, December 05, 2010

A Marlins Fan Passes Away

Not just any fan, but the Pin Man. Anyone who has seen him knows who he is. His funeral is Monday morning at 10. Our condolences to his family and friends.

Friday, December 03, 2010

Marlins Go To Gotay

Ruben, who hasn't been in the majors since the end of the 2008 season, signs a minor-league deal with Florida. (sun-sentinel)

MORE: Fish reportedly sign LF Chris Lubanski. (Twitter)

Marlins Hold on to the Hopper...

...while Paulino and Veras recede down the waters of free agency. (palmbeachpost)

Sunday, November 28, 2010

2011 - The Year of Javier

(FIXED) Vazquez turned down two 2-year offers to sign a one-year deal with the Fish.

This Xmas-season deal is reported to involve Santa's brother, a Mr. No-Trade Claus. (Wow...Jeffrey had never believed in Santa's brother before).

"The Yankees will receive a supplemental pick between the first and second rounds of the 2011 draft as compensation for losing Vazquez".

Javier had a rough 2010. Michael Jong thinks the complete-the-deal physical should be "highly important for the Fish in this case".

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Tuesday Stuff

Happy 80th to Trader Jack! (MLB)

The Marlins are dishing out Thankgiving meals in Hollywood and Hallandale. (cbs4)

Old-Fish D-Train signs with Cincinatti. (seedol)

Almost-Fish Seth McClung is coaching girls' basketball. (tampabay)

Marlins should go after Eric Chavez? (bleacherreport)

Marlins should go after Brandon McCarthy? (marlinsbaseball)

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Sunday Shots

Atlanta leaves Uggla hanging. (rotowire)

Here's how John Buck looked last year...(bluebirdbanter)

Many clubs want Javier. (cubbiescrib)

But will the Yanks offer 'arb' to Javier? (theyankeeu)

How the Marlins look in the AFL...(sun-sentinel)

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Observations

The Fish seem to want to keep Leo. (nbcsports)

Edwin met Javier, but Javier's pricey. (nbcsports)

James Bondman gives 5 other options besides Javier. (bleacherreport)

Kyle Smith tells why the Marlins do not need Uggla. (bleacherreport)

Cody gets his own parade. (currentargus)

Friday, November 19, 2010

Happenings

Both John Buck and Dan Uggla get their new numbers.

Saturday begins a new year of the Marlins Insider radio show.

The Marlins put Caminero and Reed on the 40-man but leave Sinkbeil exposed to the Rule 5.

The Marlins (with a bunch of sponsors) distributed hundreds of turkey feasts to the people of Little Havana.

Some Thots

Bottom line: Loria wants results. People now claim that the Cabrera trade was a bust for the Fish now that Miller and Maybin are gone. Bottom line: Since that December 2007 trade the Marlins have a better win/loss record than the Tigers. The fact that Detroit was finally better than the Marlins (by a game) in 2010 may have been an early suggestion to the front office for some direction shift.

Who knows?...Omar Infante may have been a lost piece of the Detroit trade, just missed by the Marlins as he was traded (for Jacque Jones!) three weeks before Miggy and D-Train were shipped. (He got to the Braves in a trade with Will Ohman - geesh, once and future Marlins were hovering around this guy).

One thing's for sure: when Loria says they're not done doing deals, that's when everything starts to quiet down and nothing begins to happen, for some reason.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Anything Happen Today?

Well, let's see...oh, the Marlins seem to have signed Toronto catcher John Buck to a 3-year deal...

...Oh yeah, and they also have traded Dan Uggla to the Braves for lefty Mike Dunn and infielder Omar Infante.

Other than that, not much.

OH-WAIT-THERES-MORE: Brett Carroll signs with the Royals (Twitter)

Monday, November 15, 2010

Fish Release Spring Schedule

It's a schedule that screams 'Let's pack up and move to Arizona!' They're in Kissimmee on the 3rd, then they take the bus all the way back to Jupiter on the 4th, go all the way to the west coast of Florida (Ft. Myers) on the 5th, then all the way back to Jupiter on the 6th. Then again, they take the bus from Jupiter all the way to Ft. Myers on the 12th, then all the way back to Jupiter on the 13th, and then right back to Ft. Myers again on the 14th. At least on the 16th they start a whole week at home. (MLB)

Gaby Comes in 4th In NL ROY Voting...

...(just as he suspected). (palmbeachpost)

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Arrivederchi Cameron

Pending a physical, Maybin heads to San Diego for pitchers Edward Mujica and Ryan Webb (Twitter)

Sunday, November 07, 2010

Getting Burned

The Marlins' flagship radio station is now the Heat's flagship radio station.

Since the Heat felt they were put on a lower level compared to the Dolphins on their last radio station, they exercised their option to move to 790theTicket, where it's a question at what level the Marlins will be placed in this new arrangement.

The Heat's last seven regular-season games smack right into the beginning of the Marlins' new season.

And since the Heat should be a shoo-in for the playoffs, this scheduling conflict will have an open-ended continuity.

Fearless prediction: a solution will be decided sometime within the next six months.

Friday, November 05, 2010

Fish Report

The Fish do some promoting. (mlb)

Former-Fish and WS MVP Edgar Renteria was bought out by the Giants. (allheadlinenews)

Former-Fish Kevin Gregg has been let go by the Blue Jays. (miamiherald)

And Former-Fish Miguel Olivo was a Blue Jay for about an hour-and-a-half last night. (lookoutlanding)

Stadium Fallout

The County Commission want the Marlins to increase their share of the stadium costs. The Marlins probably won't oblige them, as they're spending too much defending their buddy Mayor Alvarez against Norman Braman's recall petition.

Tuesday, November 02, 2010

News On The Nodes

Clark Spencer says Edwin's returning. (msnbc)

Meanwhile, Bo Porter is the Nats' new 3rd-base coach. (masnsports)

And the Marlins want Perry Hill to come back. (sun-sentinel)

Here's an off-season preview...(rototimes)

Monday, November 01, 2010

This Could Be It (2010 World Championship Edition)

The Giants can take it all with a win in Arlington tonight.

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EDGAR_DOES_IT_AGAIN: Renteria's 3-run homer in the 7th wins the World Series for the Giants. (he's the World Series MVP!)

News in the 'Nets

Cameron's back home inspiring kids. (fishstripes)

Former Marlins minor-leaguer accepting award for Bill Buckner. (napavalleyregister)

Try to figure out if Clint Hurdle's a manager candidate for the Marlins or not...(sun-sentinel)

Marlins job fair tomorrow. (mlb)

Ozzie has a blog. (mlblogs)

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Saturday, October 30, 2010

WS Moves to TX

While the Marlins and Dan Uggla's guys continue to talk, there's at most 5 games left to be played in the 2010 season, and at least 2 games will be played in Arlington, the first one tonight....

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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

World Series Game One

Cody, Edgar and Guillermo go up against Jorge, Matt and Darren for the ultimate supremacy of the baseball world.

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Monday, October 25, 2010

C-O-D-Y

Just celebrating the fact that Mr. Ross was named Most Valuable Player of the Championship Series. (bettor.com)

Friday, October 22, 2010

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Both Playoff Series Today

It could be curtains for the Yankees, and then the Giants and Phils play tonight.

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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Friday, October 15, 2010

AL LCS 2 Night

It's the Yankees at Texas...

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Some News

Former Fish owner John Henry adds the Liverpool soccer club to his porfolio. (yahoo)

Former Fish coach Carlos Tosca rejoins Fredi. (fishstripes)

Former Fish Jeremy Hermida and Ross Wolf are trying the open market. (sfgate)

Recovering Donnie Murphy outrighted to AAA. (mlb)

Future Fish play in the AFL. (fishstripes)

Edwin loses his cell phone, may not need it. (palmbeachpost)

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Bobby, We Hardly Knew Ye

Once again, Valentine won't be the Marlins manager. (ESPN)

Fredi's A Brave

According to "multiple media outlets" Fredi will be introduced as the new Atlanta manager on Thursday. (ESPN)

OOPS: Make that "today".

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Saturday, October 09, 2010

Friday, October 08, 2010

NL Playoff Games Today

Philly already won. And I fixed the links to the ESPN, CBS, and MLB scoreboards.

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Thursday, October 07, 2010

Playoffs Day 2

The Rangers have already put the Rays on the ropes. And they're 2 more games tonight.

(And more Former Fish in the playoffs?...how 'bout Joe Girardi?)

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Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Playoffs Start Today!

And a hat tip to 'CubsTalk', who in responding to a post about Former Fish Mike Redmond retiring listed out the Former Fish playing in the playoffs this year...

Alex Gonzalez - SS
Derrek Lee - 1B
Ross Gload -1B
Arthur Rhodes - RP
Guillermo Mota - RP
Edgar Renteria - SS
Cody Ross - OF
AJ Burnett - SP
Sergio Mitre - SP
Carl Pavano - SP
Matt Treanor - C

OOPS: He missed Jorge Cantu. OOPS-AGAIN: And Darren Oliver, who pitched today on his 40th birthday.

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Monday, October 04, 2010

A Loose End

Time to check back on one of my crackpot theories, and see whether those 'predictive streaks' I obsessed on in the early part of the season actually predicted anything.

Back in this post I listed out the 'streak' days of each NL team and how each team did on those days.

The Marlins, Braves, Reds, Cardinals, Diamondbacks, Dodgers, Giants and Padres were the only teams that gave unambiguous results in their streak games. Of those 8 teams' streak results, 6 of them pointed towards those teams' eventual win/loss records. The two that didn't were the Padres, whose two losses in their streak games didn't stop them from ending up 18 games over .500 (and almost in the playoffs), and unfortunately the Marlins, whose April 10th predictive streak had lasted since 1996 but came up the wrong way this year.

The streak that continues to fascinate is the one on May 25 with the Dodgers, because it has gone on since 1994 (or 1990 depending on how you look at it), and because on May 25 when the streak predicted a losing year the Dodgers were 5 games above .500 and would eventually get to 12 games over before ultimately ending the year 80-82.

Saturday, October 02, 2010

Friday, October 01, 2010

Crunch Time No. 2

The Marlins are 5-7 in Friday home games this year. The 2010 Pirates are 1-10 in Friday away games and have lost their last 7. They are 4-0 in their last 4 Series Game 2's, although 3 of those series were at Pittsburgh.

Malohm's knee is sore, so Daniel McCutchen will be the Pirate's starter. Adalberto Mendez starts for the Fish, and will hopefully get back to earlier form.

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HISTORIC-HELL: Marlins lose 5-1. The Fish will be under .500 for the year, the Pirates will not break the most-road-losses record, and Chan Ho Park becomes the winningest Asian pitcher in MLB history.

Four-Word News

Bullpen almost blew it. (fishstripes)

Marlins' games off Dish. (sun-sentinel)

Maniac: Gaby's not ROY. (marlinmaniac)

West playing this winter? (foxsportsflorida)

Edwin wants Boni bunting. (foxsportsflorida)

Marlins DJ explains himself. (nbcmiami)

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Crunch Time

The Marlins need to win all 4 games against the Pirates to finish with a .500 record. The Pirates, if they lose all 4 games, will break the record for fewest road wins in an 81-road-game season. Pittsburgh has had only one win in each of their last three road trips, and they won two nights ago in St. Louis. This year, in road games played from Thursdays through Sundays, the Pirates have a record of 5-39 (and four of those wins happened before May 16). The Fish won 3-out-of-4 in Pittsburgh on August 16-19.

Starters: The last time Chris Volstad lost was in Pittsburgh on August 16. He has never won against the Pirates, but Zach Duke has never won against the Marlins.

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Four-Word News

Uggla in 30-100 club. (mlb)

Pujols would come here. (sun-sentinel)

Writers vote Marlins awards. (miamiherald)

Marlins campaigning for Gaby. (palmbeachpost)

Mermaid-Manatee auditions in January. (mlb)

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Afternoon De-Sweeping

The Atlanta paper's calling today "the year¹s biggest game" (good, let them put pressure on themselves).

The 2010 Braves may be 8-3 in Wednesday home games, but the 2010 Marlins are a respectable 7-4 in Wednesday away games. Florida puts the magical Miller on the mound, while Atlanta drags out the short-rested Derek Lowe.

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MILLER-GOES-POOF: Marlins get swept, go 1-6 on road trip.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Tuesday at Turner

The Braves this year in Tuesday home games, after winning their first three, have since then gone 3-4. The Marlins are 4-6 in Tuesday road games in 2010, and have lost their last two. The Fish have to go 4-2 to end the season at .500.

The plumb-tuckered-out Anibal Sanchez and the pitching-on-short-rest Tim Hudson start tonight.

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Four-Word News

HBO to do Marlins. (palmbeachpost)

Leo may close again. (mlb)

Guillen stays with Sox. (sun-sentinel)

More Hensley and Hoffman. (mlb)

"Happy birthday, Ed Vosberg." (lonestarball)

Burns' "Baseball" update tonight. (courant)

Gaby, Uggla do 'Synchronized-Buckner'. (yahoo)

Monday, September 27, 2010

Cox's Last Stand

The Marlins start their final road series of this season tonight at Turner Field, where they are 2-4 so far this year. Atlanta returns home after losing 5 of their last 6 games - the Braves went 3-4 in their last home stand. And yet in Monday home games this year the Braves are 7-1, and have won their last six (they haven't lost one since May 17). The Marlins this year are 4-3 in Monday away games.

Alex Sanabia and Tommy Hanson start tonight.

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Four-Word News

Will Will be back? (fishstripes)

Edwin's on short list. (palmbeachpost)

Cishek makes his debut. (capecodonline)

Rookies stylin' to hotel. (fishstripes)

LeBron wears Marlins hat. (palmbeachpost)

VandenHurk's first Orioles start. (americanchronicle)

Cousins' historic back-to-back triples. (miamiherald)

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Oh, well....

The Fish are eliminated from the playoffs, and Logan's streak has stopped. Time for the Marlins to try to get back to .500. Milwaukee lost their last Saturday home game after winning the previous five - they are 6-6 for the season. Florida won their last Saturady away game after losing the previous two - they are 3-8 this year in Sat. away games. Chris again pitches against Chris tonight.

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Friday, September 24, 2010

Edge of the Cliff

The Marlins are 9.5 games behind Atlanta in the Wild Card, and have 10 games left to play. Logan goes for No. 43 tonight.

Today's game features someone making his first MLB start and someone possibly making his last.

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Four-Word News

Hanley can pinch run. (miamiherald)

Ballad of Ozzie Martinez. (sun-sentinel)

Marlins scout watches Loux. (mlb)

Marlins' November job fair. (miamiherald)

Hensley lunches with Hoffman. (miamiherald)

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Grab a Beer

The Marlins start their last road trip of the year with a four-gamer in Milwaukee. This is also the Brewers' last home series of the year - they're off to New York and Cincy after Sunday. The Brewers have a home record of 37-40 - this year they are 13-12 in first games of home series, but have lost their last three. The 2010 Brewers are 9-19 in four-game series.

The Marlins won 3 of 4 from Milwaukee in Miami earlier this year. This year they are 13-11 in first games of away series, but have won their last three. The 2010 Fish are 38-36 on the road, and are 20-12 in four-game series.

Anibal Sanchez and Yovani Gallardo start tonight.

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Four-Word News

Hanley may be done. (rototimes)

FanFest is February 19. (palmbeachpost)

John Baker's open letter. (miamiherald)

Marlins: worst infield defense. (sbnation)

Minervini's wrestling past exposed. (scrippsnews)

Marlins' stadium infield disappears. (phinphanatic)

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Bye Bye Mets

Alex Sanabia and Jonathon Niese are the starters in the battle to stay uneliminated.

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TOUCHE: Marlins hold on to win 7-5.

Four-Word News

Colvin released from hospital. (google)

Ozzie's, Marlins' "intermediaries" talking. (chicagonow)

Emilio back next week? (sun-sentinel)

Hanley again not starting. (twitter)

Logan's dad seeing Logan. (mlb)

Florida's offseason shopping list. (miamiherald)

Monday, September 20, 2010

Fighting the Dark Forces

Hanley's still out, and now Bonifacio hurt his hammy. Might as well bring up the entire Suns team.

With all the crazy calamities this season, from Coghlan's celebration injury to what happened to Tyler Colvin yesterday, I wouldn't be surprised if flaming meteorites come crashing down on the field today.

The Cards flew in all the way from San Diego (WRONG: from St. Louis) to play this game, and they'll be flying to Pittsburgh afterwards. They won 3 out of 4 from the Pads, after also being swept by the Cubs.

It's Chris against Chris today, on this historical day of no-hitters.

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BRAD!: Davis hits a grand slam in the 2nd!

UPDATE: After 3.5 innings it's still 4-0 Marlins.

FINAL: It Stays 4-0! Complete Game for Volstad!

Friday, September 17, 2010

Choices

If you're not in the mood to peruse "anticlimactic" games in a "funereal baseball atmosphere", why not listen to Game 3 of the Southern League Championship between the Jacksonville Suns and the Tennesee Smokies?

Or, for those holding on to faint glimmers of hope, it's tonight's game between the Cubs and Marlins.

The Cubs are 8-15 in first games of road series this year, but they've won 3 of their last 4. After Pinella left the team the Cubs have a record of "14-7 and 9-3 on the road" and are 5-1 on this road trip. Last year in Miami Gardens they won 3 out of 4 games. Former Fish Ryan Dempster starts tonight after making some history of his own, in his last start becoming the 4th Canadian to have achieved 100 MLB wins.

Starting for the Marlins will be the returning fighter Alex Sanabia.

MORE-PILING-ON: Hanley's left elbow's been sore for 10 days - he's out of the line-up. And Buente's shoulder's sore too. (sun-sentinel)


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MINORS-GET-IT-DONE: The Suns beat the Cubs-affiliate Tennessee Smokies 2-0, but the Cubs get past the Marlins 2-0.

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Breather

It's the last day off for the Marlins this season. After today, 17 straight days of games are scheduled, 7 on the road.

4 NL games today.

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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Adios Phillies

The Phillies go away after tonight's game - the Marlins won't have to play them again until the playoffs (back reality, back).

In 2010 the Phils are 6-5 in Wednesday away games. In road series finales they are 14-8 and have won their last 8 (that includes a makeup game with the Rockies). The Marlins are 14-7 in series finales in Some Life Stadium this year, but are 3-7 in Wednesday home games (they won 2 of their last 3 though).

Roy Halladay may make it past six innings tonight. Jorge Sosa will head the conga line of Marlins relievers expected to be summoned.

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The 2011 Marlins - Now With Even Fewer Home Games

The Marlins are discussing not only going back to Puerto Rico but also moving a few more home games to Canada. (sun-sentinel)

Four-Word News

Brett Sinkbell called up.....Edwin: .500 not good.....Cameron may play Wednesday.....Mets-Marlins start 2011 season. (miamiherald)

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Next Game

The weather's been ugly most of the day. The 10-game pattern looks ugly too, so I don't think about it. Cole Hamels and Adalberto Mendez are the starters.

I found one hopeful stat: "PHI are 2-9 in Hamels' last 11 starts vs. FLA."... and the Phils are 3-6 this year in Tuesday road games.

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FUDGE: Fish lose 2-1.

Four-Word News

DAN UGGLA MAKES HISTORY! (fishstripes)(sun-sentinel)

Josh Johnson shut down. (allheadlinenews)

Leroux claimed by Pittsburgh. (fishstripes)

Minervini announcing USFL games. (boxscorenews)

Willingham's trials of faith. (bpsports)

Monday, September 13, 2010

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Friday, September 10, 2010

Last Nationals Series for 2010

In their last 20 games the Marlins are 11-9 and the Nats are 9-11. The 60-80 Nationals are 16-6 in the first games of home series this year. The Marlins are 13-10 in the first games of road series in 2010, and they swept the Nats the last time they were in D.C.

It's Marlins game #140 - if the 10-game cycle means anything the Marlins are going into their best 3-game stretch of the cycle.

As of 5:20 Hanley is back in the line-up and so is Nyjer. Sanabia and Lannan start.

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Three-Word News

Stanton's workout ingenuity. (kffl)

"Marlins Rookie Hazing" (fishstripes)

Barden's on Team-USA. (osubeavers)

Logan's family updates. (fishstripes)

Uggla's one away. (mlb)

Robertson's again DFA'd. (mlb)

Marlins "offseason checklist" (bleacherreport)

Marlins rookies' projections. (marlinmaniac)

Cabrera trade results. (marlinsmaniacs)

Thursday, September 09, 2010

Relax!

The Marlins take a day before a three-gamer in D.C. Not only are no more Nat fights expected, but the two teams will perform a rare act of symmetry this weekend.

Four NL games are on tap for today.

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Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Bye Bye Philadelphia

Damn if that 10-game cycle isn't showing up again - The Marlins' last two games were #137 and #138; both were losses, and both were in the losing end of the Marlins 10-day cycle. One more down-cycle game tonight, game #139 (the Phillies are playing their game #141 tonight - they are 10-4 this year in games whse number ends in 1).

Philly is 5-4 this year in the last games of homestands. The Marlins are 13-8 this year in road series finales.

It's Mr. "One Pitch is the Game" Cole Hamels against "Mr. Mustache" Andrew Miller.

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Three-Word News

Josh's season over? (miamiherald)

Baker for Clemente. (fishstripes)

No Lidge tonight. (philly.com)

Bonifacio's third fastest. (palmbeachpost)

Tuesday, September 07, 2010

One-For-Tuesday

8 back in the WC with 33(WRONG - that's 23) to go. So far this year the Marlins are 4-3 at Citizen's Bank Ballpark. The Phillies this year are 4-5 in the next-to-last games of homestands. Chris Volstad and Joe Blanton toss tonight.

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Monday, September 06, 2010

Late Update

Was out all day - came back tonight to find Marlins and Phillies split doubleheader.

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Saturday, September 04, 2010

4-J Club

The Marlins are on a 3-game home win streak and the Braves are on a 4-game road losing streak. The last time the Marlins lost a Saturday home game, and the last time the Braves won a Saturday road game, was here in Miami on July 24.

Anyone taking seriously the ten-game cycle investigation I put out here a couple of days ago may be concerned that today is Game No. 134 for the Fish and that they are 4-9 in games whose numbers end in 4 this year. But I counted up the Braves games too - today is Game No. 136 for the Braves, and they too are 4-9 in games whose number end in 6. Here's the whole list for the Braves, if you're interested...

Atlanta
#_W-L
1_7-7
2_9-5
3_9-5
4_8-6
5_8-6
6_4-9
7_9-4
8_4-9
9_9-4
0_10-3

It's Josh Johnson and Jair Jurrjens on the mound, and Pitbull in the air tonight.

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Friday, September 03, 2010

Braves This Weekend

My internet was out today - couldn't get around to this or this or anything else.

The Marlins lead 2-0 after the first inning.

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Thursday, September 02, 2010

Fish Recovery Day

With pieces of Marlin lying all over, and enforced vacations a distinct possibility, the boys who until recently were in teal take a much-needed scheduled day off to somwehow find some more players. The Phils, Braves and Mets see action tonight.

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Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Game No. 132

Tonight it's Chris Volstad vs. Former Fish Scott Olsen.

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More Crack

Expanding on yesterday's cracked stat, here's this year's Marlins' win-losses as they relate to the last digit in each game's number ("#1" means Game Number 1, Game Number 11, Game Number 21, and so on, up to last night' Game Number 131; "#2" means Game Number 2 and so on to Game Number 122; and all the way through up to #9)....

#__W-L
1__9-5
2__9-4
3__7-6
4__4-9
5__7-6
6__8-5
7__5-8
8__4-9
9__5-8
0__8-5

Looking for contiguous 10-game cycles? How about this?
Games whose numbers end in 0, 1 and 2 - 26 wins, 14 losses.
Games whose numbers end in 3, 4, 5, 6 - 26 wins, 26 losses.
Games whose numbers end in 7, 8 and 9 - 14 wins, 25 losses.

Pattern of Aggression

Brett Hayes being put out of commission by Nyjer Morgan may be excusable if Morgan hadn't plowed into the Cardinals' Bryan Anderson on Saturday and wasn't suspended for hitting a fan with a baseball, and hadn't even cursed out a fan last night.

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Game No. 2

In the second game of road trips the Nationals this year are 3-6, and have lost their last five. In the second game of home stands the Marlins are 4-5, and have won 2 of their last 3.

CRACKED-STAT-OF-THE-NIGHT: In 2010 the Marlins are 11-3 in games played on days of the month ending in the number 1 (the 1st, 11th, 21st and 31st). The Nats are 8-8 on those dates.

Dealing with the pressure are Anibal for the Fish and Jordan Zimmermann for the Nats.

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WON: Tracy hits Hanley in from second for the walk-off 1-0 10th inning win.

Monday, August 30, 2010

Nats to You

A few minutes before game time, and there's a wall of water coming from the sky about five steps away from the stadium. More rain's possible tonight. The game's being delayed.

The Nats are having a mini-spurt - they've won three from St. Louis in their just-finished four-game series. The last time the Nats played the Fish in Miami they won the first game of the series, then lost the next two.

After playing every game this year, Danny's day-to-day with a groin strain. Hanley's in the line-up. Nunez, for some reason, is still the closer.

Sanabia against Marquis tonight.

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DROWNING-FISH: Marlins lose 9-3.

Three-Word News

Hanley was dizzy. (miamiherald)

Braman: stadium scam. (miamiherald)

McKeon in Omaha. (timesnews)

Logan and Dad. (usatoday)

Logan on Twitter. (miamiherald)

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Friday, August 27, 2010

Marlins Lead Atlanta 7-0 After 6 Innings

Maybin and Morrison hit homers in the game's first two at-bats. Uggla and Gaby homer too.

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WOW: The Marlins dominate the Braves 7-1. It's more amazing since this was a first game of a home stand for Atlanta, and this year the Braves were 9-1 in the first games of home stands (the one loss was to that other Florida team on June 15).

Schedule News

This Saturday's game will not start at the originally-scheduled time of 4:10 ET, but at 7:10, and it will be shown on FSFlorida.

Also, the Cardinals will come back to Miami on September 20 to make up that rained-out game.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

RETRACTION

Craig actually read and attempted to understand the newly-revealed
Marlins financial documents, and one conclusion he makes is that Loria
and Co. did not 'pocket the profits'.

http://www.fishstripes.com/2010/8/24/1647621/marlins-financial-statement

Fish vs Mets in NY

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FUGGEDDABOUDIT: Fishlose another one-run game,

Monday, August 23, 2010

Mourning Monday

As Cody headed west, the Marlins headed up to New York, to start a string of 21 games against the NL East, with the knowledge as they left that the Front office believes that's the season's over, and now with the undisputed revelation that Loria and Co. has for years been pleading poverty while pocketing piles and piles of profits.

I wonder how the players will react. After winning 5 of their last 6, will they now just go through the motions, or step it up a notch to make some point to themselves, if not to their undeserving, money-grubbing overlords?

Here's Monday's scores...

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Cody Goes

The cheap-ass Marlins send Cody Ross to the Giants so he'll be sitting on the bench by the bay. The Marlins did not get anything in return for Cody because, as we all know, Cody is priceless.

Cameron is coming back to once again see if his great minor-league numbers can translate to the majors.

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Mystery Meniscus

"Ricky Nolasco has been diagnosed with a torn meniscus in his right knee" (don't tell me someone left another pie lying around)...

"Andrew Miller will move out of the bullpen and fill in for Nolasco on Sunday." (msnbc)

UPDATE: The Marlins may now ban changing shoes. (foxsportsflorida)

Houston We Have a Problem

So far the Paulino Wonder Diet and the Giants' efforts to screw up the Padres hasn't stopped the Marlins winning ways. The supercomputer, though, thinks tonight's game is in the 'Stros favor. This despite the fact that the last time Houston has won a Saturday road game was on April 17 (that's eight losses in a row). The Marlins this year are 5-4 in Super Saturday games.

Volstad against Wandy tonight. And then it's Tito "El Bambino" featuring Zion y Lennox, playing all their classics.

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TEMPERED-JOY!: On a rainy night the Marlins get 2 triples in a row and win 6-3.

Friday, August 20, 2010

Catch'em Quick

I wonder if a 3-game home series placed between a 10-game road trip and a 6-game road trip feels, to the players, almost like just another stop in a 19-game travel marathon?

The returning Fish come back to the news that the owners of the stadium are planning a water park to open when the Marlins leave, which is kind of redundant considering the stadium sort of turns into a water park during those evening storms.

The forecast is somewhat drier this weekend. (CORRECTION) The Marlins lost 2-of-3 from the Astros way back on April 20-22. And the Fish are still recovering from the last time they were home. The Astros are coming off a 10-game home stand where they went 6-4. They have won the starting game of their last three road trips.

Anibal against J.A. Happ tonight

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HOORAY!: It rains anyway, but Anibal was unaffected as he gets his first RBI since 2006, and Cody and Hector homer - Fish win 9-0.