Woof Part 2

The Fish will have another Bark in the Park to look at tonight, their second one in the past two weeks. On the mound, the Dodgers send Hideki Kuroda and the Marlins bring out Brian Sanches, who'll be making his first ever major-league start.

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Marlins in LA Land

The Fish Fortified themselves to face the Dodgers this weekend. Vazquez and Garland toe the rubber tonight.

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Sweep By The Bay?

While the discussion begins over whether rule changes should be made over what happened to Buster Posey last night, baseball continues to be played today, hopefully retribution-free.

It's the Marlins' last game in SanFran this year- it would've been fun if they were there on June 4 for Cody Ross Bobblehead Day. Anibal and Ryan Vogelsong start today.

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Middle Game in Frisco

In the news today...the Rays took Jay, Josh felt good tossing, Mike almost hit the glove, and Oakland and MLB is watching this series' attendance.

The second game of this series stars Chris Volstad and Madison Bumgarner.

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Watching for Earthquakes

With Buente gone and Cishek back, the Fish deal with West Coast warriors for a while, firstly in San Francisco. Nolasco and Cain start.

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Off Day

Philly and Washington are playing, though.

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Citrus Game No. 3

Kids get a Mike Stanton T-shirt today. Jay Buente and James Shields start.

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Saturday With the Rays

It's an earlier 4:10 start for tonight's Super Saturday game, probably to make sure the Beach Boys don't play past their bedtime (it's been 45 years since Pet Sounds!) There'll be no Brian Wilson, but John Stamos will be reportedly performing with them.

As far as baseball is concerned, the 'perfectionist' Javier Vazquez is fated to start for the Fish. The Rays will put up David Price.

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Ow!

Time for Javier to step it up a few (hundred) notches, as Josh was put on the DL today for shoulder inflammation - Jay Buente was called up to start Sunday.

The Rays Return

The first round of the so-called 'Citrus Series' commences. Anibal against Andy tonight.

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Short Sweet Sweep Defeat

The Marlins hope last night's loss wasn't the start of a new streak. Chris Volstad and Casey Coleman start tonight.

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Two-Fer Tonight

South Florida's war against Chicago is fought on two fronts tonight - Game 2 of the Heat-Bulls series in Chicago (on 790 AM in Miami), and the heroic struggle of the Fish against the Cubs (shuffled off again to 1080 AM). Cubs fans, as usual, are obsessively moaning about the past. Starting for them tonight will be Former Fish Ryan Dempster, while Current Fish Ricky Nolasco starts for the Marlins.

(Which Marlins pitcher has the most wins? Click here for answer.)

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Sweep the Citi?

With Hanley now possibly getting batting tips from the Hopper, and insane man-babies roaming Citi Field, the Marlins attempt a mini-sweep of the Mets tonight. Ricky Nolasco and last-night's-Mets-almost-hero Jon Niese start. Josh seems okay.

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SORTA: Game postponed till July 18 - Fish will fly in from Chicago for one game and then fly home, while the Mets just lose a day off in the middle of two home series.

May Mini-Series Week

This week showcases the scheduling monstrosities that were unthinkable before the guiding hand of Selig - two 2-game series in a row, and then a weekend of interleague play. Of the five NL East teams only the Mets do not have to travel to get from one two-game series to the other (and even their interleague weekend is just across town). That may give a little relief to a team who's probably wondering how they can pay David Wright's medical bills while trying to survive their heritage of financial insanity, having to cough up $1.2 mil yearly to Bobby Bo for the next quarter-century being one example.

The Mets, though, have won 7 of their last 10, and 14 of their last 22. The weather may not be helpful to the Mets this coming week however. Neither will Josh Johnson, starting tonight as is the Mets' Mike Pelfrey. Hanley will be batting second.

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Sunday Sweep?

Vazquez tries to prove his viability today against Jason Marquis. Desmond is still out, and Omar gets a day off.

In other notes: LoMo's pushing Gaby to his Twitter pals, Chris expounds on his encounters with Cal, and Leo (surprise) is the majors' saves leader.

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Woof Without a Roof

The Nats and Marlins start what's predicted to be a rainy weekend with a game at 1:05 today. Tillman, the "World's Fastest Skateboarding Bulldog", is scheduled to lead the parade for the first of three 'Pups in the Park' this season at Nats Park. On the diamond, Livan will push aside his alledged ties with a drug trafficker and concentrate on starting today for the Nats, while undistracted Anibal starts for the Fish. Cora replaces Desmond in the Nats' lineup.

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Back From File Corruption Hell

Now that Blogger is back to where it was, here's some news: Cishek and Petersen get sent down, and LoMo and Javier return, the Marlins are proud of their accomplishments in Haiti, John Baker details the lead-up to his Tommy John, and Cogz talks with his boyhood idol.

The Marlins begin their third road trip of the season with a 3-bagger at D.C. Volstad and Gorzelanny do a re-match from last Saturday.

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Rub-Em-Out Rubber Game

Some News: Clay's slightly broken, Cishek is back, and Logan hits a homer.

Ricky Nolasco and Cliff Lee on the mound tonight.

Once again the Marlins game will be booted off 790 in Miami and end up on 1080 tonight.

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The Big Boys

Tonight it's Josh Johnson vs. Roy Halladay.

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Phillies For Three

First, though...Congrats to Gaby!

Blanton and Vazquez started already. Once again that other team in town has knocked the Marlins off their Miami radio home and onto 1080 AM.

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De-sweep Mode

Many activities at the ballpark this Mother's Day. Kids get free Mike Stanton t-shirts, along with a home-run exhibition pre-game and a faith forum with Chris Coghlan post-game.

But the basic question remains, 'Can The Fish get out of their 3-game funk?'

Anibal against Livan today. I guess John Buck's got a replacement cup.

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Notes and Nats on a Sat.

The Hopper returns after Clay is DL'ed.

Logan's cast goes to an oncologist for $1500.

John Baker is now posting on the Yahoo blog 'Big League Stew'.

It's Super Saturday. Volstad and Gorzelanny will hurl. The King of Auto-Tune, Tallahassee's own T-Pain, will do whatever he does.

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Back For Nats

The Team returns to Florida to battle Washington. They're playing now...after 1.5 innings the Nats lead 1-0.

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Day Game Today

On Five Jars of Mayonnaise Day (or commonly known as Cinco de Mayo) the Fish will go for the series win at Busch Stadium. Josh Johnson and Jake Westbrook will be pitching

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Marlins Lead Cards 6-4 After 4 Innings

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Game Two in St. Lou

Anibal against Kyle McClellan.

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Missouri Loves Company

The Fish are scheduled to play four games in St. Louis this week. The hot Lohse and the hot Volstad start tonight. But the St. Louis weather forecast looks iffy for tonight, though.

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Red Rubber Ball Game

After Edgar did his hero thing against his old team last night, the Fish need a win to win the series. It's Nolasco vs. Arroyo at 4:10 today.

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BOUNCE-BACK: Fish win 9-5.

Ohio Players

On Joey Votto Bobblehead Night, it'll be Josh Johnson and Edinson Volquez on the mound.

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Marlins Beat Reds 7-6

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Marlins Day Off

But there's still baseball being played...

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The View From the Top

The Marlins are alone in first place in the NL East for the first time in almost 2 years. And today, with a stadium overrun with trucked-in children on CBS4 Weather Day (and a hot one it is, too), the Fish will try to sweep the Dodgers out of town. Anibal will try to improve on his last outing, with Billingsley pitching for L.A.

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Tewsday News

Sampson passes physical, being transitioned to starting role.

Gross never gets to physical, retires from baseball.

Former Fish puts gun to wife's head.

Hanley's back in the lineup tonight.

"Omar Infante is the epitome of Clutch RISP performance".

Edwin yells at Logan in a 'mature' way for running to celebrate last night's win.

Trader Jack tells those college kids a thing or two.

Tonight's game: Lefty Clayton Kershaw starts for L.A.; Chris Volstad starts for the Fish. Ethier goes for the MLB record for April hitting streaks tonight.

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BOO-YAH: Ethier breaks the record, but the Marlins win anyway.

Dodge This

The Marlins won 2-of-3 from the Rockies, and now face the recently-repo'd Dodgers. Andre Ethier takes his hitting streak to Miami Gardens. Ricky Nolasco and Jon Garland toss spheroids.

Logan's foot feel better, and Hanley's taking a day off.

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:OMAR: Infante gets the walk-off hit to beat L.A. 5-4.

Rubber Game

As the Fish gather up more players, a game is to be played. Josh against Ubaldo today.

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Holy Super Saturday

Sorry for the late post...at the end of the third the game is tied at 1-1.

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UGH: Rockies win 3-1.

The Mountains Arrive

The hot Rockies come to town. Jhoulys Chacin and Anibal Sanchez start.

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COOL-DOWN: Fish win 4-1. And Anibal almost did it again.

Blanking the Bucs?

Logan's strain will keep him out for a while. As for tonight, the Marlins will be attempting to sweep the Pirates' booty out of Florida, and possibly shutting them out again. Chris Volstad and James McDonald start. McCutchen's back with the Bucs tonight.

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Ouch

Logan is out of the lineup tonight after injuring his arch last night. His foot is being MRI'd. Morrison's been half of the Fish' offense so far this year.

Ricky Nolasco and Charlie Morton are tonight's starters.

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Day-After-Day-Off News

First, for those keeping score, here were the scores from yesterday...

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Samson wants more than just money if you want your company's name on the new stadium. In other stadium news, the site's steel workers are now back on the unemployment line, the (hopefully hurricane-proof) canopy has arrived to be stretched over the roof, close to a third of the seats are already installed, and a year-round restaurant with a "sports theme" (surprise!) is being searched for - all to get ready for the building's first event, which will probably be a college baseball game.

The stadium's upcoming completion leaves Mike Stanton just this season to break Gallaraga's JoeRobbie-ProPlayer-Dolphin-LandShark-Dolphins-SunLife homer record. Mike's slow start, though, has him hitting sixth tonight.

Juan C. Rodriguez had a chat session today.

The Pirates, who are having their best season-beginning road record since 2002, have come to town. Paul Maholm start for the Bucs. Josh Johnson, who has another career ready when he leaves baseball, starts tonight for the Fish.

This game ain't on TV, so get the Herald's Two-For-Tuesday coupon and go.

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Sun-day

A sunny, breezy day is expected in Philly. The go-away game will feature last night's duo, Cole and Anibal.

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OOF: Phils win - Marlins go 5-3 on road trip.

Saturday Showerday?

If there's a game today, the starters would be Cole Hamels and Anibal Sanchez.

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RAIN-OUT: The Fish and Phils will make up today's washed-out game in a split-doubleheader on June 15, which will be the 13th game in a now-21-game stretch unbroken by a day off, the longest such stretch for the Marlins this year. (Philadelphia has a day off scheduled on June 13.)

Chilly in Philly

Craig reports on the shift of three Marlins games to another spot on the Miami radio dial. Since this move is because of the Heat's first-round playoff games, and since these first three moves only cover Games 1 through 4 of the first round of the playoffs, and since the Heat have a good chance to go all the way to the championship round, expect a lot more schedule shifting of Marlins radio games in Miami. I wondered last November, when the Heat moved to the Marlins flagship station, whether the Fish would be awarded the short end of the stick, so to speak. I guess we won't find out until the Marlins make the playoffs and start to interfere with Heat regular-season games.

The Marlins take their 4-2 road record to Philadelphia tonight on Jackie Robinson Day in the majors.

The weather's not looking good for tomorrow's game, and tonight should be the first really cold evening the Marlins have played in this year.

It's Javier against Roy Oswalt tonight.

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Series Finale

Josh almost got a no-hitter last night; hopefully that inspires the team during tonight's rubber match.

It's Nolasco and Beachy on the mound.

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Game Two In Atlanta

The Maniac gives his collection of interesting 'Fish Bites' found this past week. To those I would suggest a new Marlins blog, called "Fish Fry". And also, for an inside look at one of the most fake baseball minds ever, check out the Twitter rumblings of FakeSamson.

Considering how sparse and spread out last night's hits were, Edwin has decided to fiddle with tonight's lineup. The AJC's David O'Brian noticed how small and sparse (and 'Marlins'-like) last night's crowd was, and how Chipper's on the verge of a milestone.

Tonight Josh Johnson and Tim Hudson pitch.

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Marching Through Georgia

Probably less historic than tonight's 150th anniversary of the start of the War Between The States would be the 3-game series the Marlins begin this evening in Atlanta.

This year the Fish arrive at Turner Field much earlier than last season (the 2010 Marlins didn't play their first game in Atlanta until July 2). Concerning first games at Turner, the Marlins lost last year after winning there three years in a row. The Braves are off to a somewhat slow start, which shouldn't bother them at all.

Fredi, Danny and Omar get to re-mesh with their old teammates. Chris Volstad and Tommy Hanson start. Hanley's back in the line-up tonight.

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Very Late Scores

No Marlins game tonight, but plenty of action still going on.

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Sweep in the Heart of Texas?

The Marlins go for their first-ever road sweep of the Astros on Michael Bourn Bobblehead Day in Houston.

Anibal starts for the Fish, J.A. Happ for the 'Stros.

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The Walking Wounded Return

Bruised Hanley's staying out but beat-up Logan and sore Stanton are back in the lineup.

Javier hopes to recover from his last start. Bud Norris pitches for the Astros.

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On The Road, On The Web

Edwin's website/blog has been discovered! (This link should lead to the Google English translation.)

The Fish play their first road game of the year tonight in Houston. The Marlins are 5-13 in first road games through their history, although they have won 3 of their last 4. They lost in 2006, the only other year that they had their first road game in Houston.

It's Ricky against Wandy at Orange Juice Stadium.

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Sweep Out The Nats?

Josh makes his second start of the year tonight. So does John Lannan. Johnson has never lost to Washington, and Hanley has good numbers against Lannan.

EXTRA: The Marlins announced their nwxt 8 Super Saturday concerts, Stanton's still sore, and Wes starts tonight.

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New Blog + New Game

Thanks to the Maniac for discovering a new Marlins blog, called 'Florida Marlins Blog'.

Tonight the Nats will try to drag the Marlins back into the cellar with them. It's Volstad's 2011 debut against "I love you, Wherever!" Livan Hernandez.

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Second Series Start

The Fish spent their first of this season's 19 scheduled days off yesterday trying to forget what happened on Sunday (click here if you want to remember.)

Confident Anibal will be matched by confident Jason as the Marlins start a series against the Nats tonight in Miami Gardens.

Fox Sports Florida is only showing the game live in South Florida. Stanton's still out of the lineup, but Donnie's back.

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Game Three

It's a 1:10 PM start on Jewish Heritage Day at the stadium, as the Mets and Marlins play the rubber game of their opening series.

On the mound knuckleballer R.A. Dickey will try to prove that last year wasn't a fluke, while for the Marlins Javier Vazquez will try to prove that last year was a fluke.

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Game Two

Zounds! As we all ponder Mr. Stanton's recent predicament, the Florida Marlins will soldier on, challenging the Metropolitans to a contest tonight under the blazing lights of the field of Sun Life.

Mr. Niece and Mr. Nolasco are to fling. A Mr. Pitbull will perform his entertainments afterwards, apparently attempting to bedazzle the throng.

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Game Number One

It's the start of the last season of the Florida Marlins. Projected starters are Josh Johnson and Mike Pelfry. Projected give-away is a schedule magnet. Projected guests will be Mike Lowell and Clarence Clemons. Fireworks will be projected afterwards.

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Season Starting

The Marlins lose the last game of the spring to their first opponant of the regular season. Tonight will be the free workout.

MLB starts the 2011 season today. Here are links to today's scores from six different sites - take your choice...

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Fish Win 10th In A Row

And Badenhop is surprisingly sent dwn. (beaumontenterprise)

3-Word News

More Fish cuts. (fishstripes)

World Series odds. (documentedhandicappers)

LoMo with Cardy. (30-Year-Old-Cardboard)

Stanton's early maturity. (miamiherald)

McKeon's still Jack. (mlb)

Marlins worth $360,000,000. (bizjournals)

Topping ceremony Friday. (ballparkdigest)

Ballpark needs businesses. (miamitodaynews)

FREE Marlins workout! (palmbeachpost)

Some Stories

So much for giddy optimism: Ben Pritchett asks and answers 5 questions about the Marlins, and concludes that they will finish last in the NL East.

But there's one less thing to worry about: David Hill reports that the Marlins aren't a contraction target anymore

Jonathan Sumple of throughthefencebaseball.com gives us Part 1 of an interview with Juan C. Rodriguez that explores what it's like to be a beat reporter.

More Bloggage

It's the time of year for new blogs about, or around, or slightly mentioning, the Marlins.

First, a hat tip to Craig for finding a Zephyrs blog, called Catching Z's.

Another hat tip to Marlins Die-hards for linking to the often-times outrageous Strip Club With Stanton. The coverage of FanFest is in itself worth the price of admission.

And now two more from the MLBlogs domain - there's the recently reignited Never A Flamingo, Always A Marlin, and then a blog with only one post so far called Fish Sticks.

MORE: I've added the Florida Marlins Team Fan Blog to my roll. Yeah, it has that automated-advertising look to it, but some of its randomized-text postings makes more sense than the things I write.

New News

Jeffrey seems a little pissed off, as everyone's losing all around him - not only have the Marlins lost nine straight, but his buddy Mayor Alvarez is now an ex-Mayor as he gets resoundingly booted out for, among other things, supporting the unbalanced Marlins stadium deal.

The Fish and Cards agree to do their springs in Jupiter until 2027 (unless the Nats or Mets move away, that is).

Michael Jong wonders how effective Perry Hill's gimmicks actually are in improving defense, while Clark Spencer just hopes our outfielders won't run into each other.

But there's no need to worry as Bart Gadbury says the Marlins will win the World Series this year anyway.

Craig reports on the Marlins' latest cuts, and how, at the moment, it's impossible to get a ticket to the Seattle series.

Today's game against the Cardinals is on the radio.

GOOD-NEWS: Marlins win today 5-2.

Seven-Ugh

Marlins lose today's game to the Twins 9-0.

They've lost their last seven by a combined score of I-don't-wanna-look-at-it.

And now Anibal, whose x-rays look okay, will not be starting tomorrow.

UGH!

The Fish lose bad to the Mets on Friday and the Red Sox on Saturday.

Moves Made

It's reported yesterday that Hand, Rasmussen, Jennings and Downs were sent to minor-league camp. (twitter)

And today Ceda goes to Nawlins; Hatcher, Reed and Poveda goe to Jacksonville; and Caminero to Jupiter. (rotoworld)

Triple-Ugly Day

Not only did the Marlins lose tonight to the Tigers and lose this afternoon to the Mets, but in that first game Anibal suffered a nasty bruise.

Streak Stopped

Marlins lose today 8-4. (rotoworld)

BUT: Dobbs and Donnie both homer. (palmbeachpost)

Some Stories

The new ballpark's season tickets may sell even faster now that the "fire-rated smoke exhaust and stair pressurization ductwork systems" have been installed.

Nolasco's looking good

Mike Piazza hung around and talked about stuff.

Umpire has trouble communicating how good Leo's slider is.

The Roll Continues

Today the Marlins beat the Tigers in Lakeland 9-5. (mlive)

Today's Results

The Marlins continue their winning ways, this time in their first contest against their former manager, as they beat the Braves in 10 innings.

Marlins Smack The Sox 11-2

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Mets at Marlins

The game is on local radio today.

Fish at Kissimmee

The Astros radio crew is doing today's game on XM 185.

Todays Game's in Viera

No local tv/radio in this one, and no XM either. (SunSentinel)

Josh gets rocked - Fish lose.

Thumbs Up

Ricky pitched some today, and felt better.

Chris Volstad starts today against the Cardinals.

RADIO: The Cards' radio team are doing the game on XM Channel 186.

UGH: Some good defense, but the Fish lose 7-1.

Some Good News

The Marlins beat St. Louis today, and Mike Stanton's injury feels much better today.

Let's Get This Party Started

The first of about 195 scheduled Marlins games begins today at the Dean against the University of Miami Hurricanes. Joe Capozzi gives the line-up.

Meanwhile, JJ had a good day today. And Donnie is ahead of schedule.

Pile of 5-Word Spring Headlines

The team gets new T-shirts. (TCPalm)

Chris Volstad should see better. (sun-sentinel)

Dominguez being shadowed by Wes. (mlb)

Jose Ceda - too many potatoes. (sun-sentinel)

Ricky Nolasco's thumb is hurting. (palmbeachpost)

Josh Johnson starts on Wednesday. (palmbeachpost)

Dewayne Wise and 'the Catch'. (palmbeachpost)

VIDEO: Jack on aging well. (sun-sentinel)

Baker's asking about first base. (sun-sentinel)

Infante's different than Dan (duh.) (miamiherald)

Ryan Webb's father has experience. (sun-sentinel)

Repaired Shawn Hill beating odds. (miamiherald)

More Reports

30-Year Cardboard not only had fun at the FanFest but he's been scoping out the training camps of the Cards and Marlins.

Photos From Fanfest

Great weather

A quick shot of the first Q&A session.

At the second session, 'New Marlins' Javy Vasquez and Randy Choate.

John Buck and Andre.

Samson and Johnson.

Omar, Hanley and Edwin at the Session en Spanglish.

You-Know-Who showed up as well.

MORE: Barry Jackson gives a good run-down of what was said at these meetings.

Friday - Pitchers and Catchers Report ...

...and the last season of the Florida Marlins begins. (MLB)

4-Word Headlines

Hatcher's catcher days over? (palmbeachpost)

Logan says trip's life-changing. (mlb)

Frisaro, Jong answer questions. (marlinmaniac)

A Gaby fantasy analysis. (bleacherreport)

Conine promotes fantasy auction. (fishstripes)

Hanley wows Nova Titans. (palmbeachpost)

FanFest's in eight days. (sun-sentinel)

Maniac previews catcher, first.

Maniac previews second, defense

Maniac thrashes unsupported optimism. (marlinmaniac)

More Marlins Mentions

The Marlins Caravan goes all over the planet (including Jupiter) this year.

It seems, as they have always done at least since they were on shortwave years ago, the Armed Forces networks still won't show commercials - even the Super Bowl ones.

Michael Jong gives his preview of this year's position players and the pitchers

Jayson Stark gives the Marlins' offseason a 'B'.

If the Nats leave Viera, how long would the Fish train on the east coast?

Here's Joe Frisaro's season preview.

I guess the training of a Mermaid is different than a Manatee.

More Info From Pinto

David Pinto looks at the last 3 years' worth of games and notices some differences between the Marlins at home and the Marlins on the road. (baseballanalytics)

Vacation From Sun Life

The Marlins get to practice being home team at a retractable-roofed stadium this year.

Because the band U2 needs at least 4 days to prepare for their June 29 concert across the street from the northernmost WalMart in Miami-Dade County, the Fish will begin a West Coast road trip early and pretend to be the NL hosts of an interleague series against the Seattle Mariners in Safeco Field on June 24-26.

There was precedence for this last year, so the Marlins aren't being uniquely singled out.

Samson calls playing in Seattle "the best and only solution" (but if it's the 'best' solution, it couldn't have been the only one).

Google Maps says it'll take Billy the Marlin 2 days and 6 hours to go from Miami to Seattle by car (geez, it takes me 2 days to just get out of Florida).

Agreement

The Marlins sign all their arbitration-eligible players. (miamiherald)

News and Views

Four guys get minor league contracts from the Fish.

This upcoming season the Marlins will be able to get to bed early on Sunday nights, thanks to ESPN.

Gabriel Smith, and Michael Jong of 'Marlin Maniac', take a look at the 2011 team (as it stands now).

Additionally, the Maniac wonders if the 2010 bullpen was really as bad as its reputation, and sees some projected improvement for 2011.

Gregory Pinto attempts to cover all the angles in support of his contention that the Marlins should trade Josh Johnson now.

FORMER-FISH-REPORT: Will's with the White Sox, Taylor's with the Mets and Trevor retires.

Happenings and Yappings

LoMo's Camp For a Cure is this weekend. (palmbeachpost)

Satchel Price discusses the Marlins' 3rd-base situation. (beyondtheboxscore)

Juan C. Rodriguez peruses some Marlins talk. (sun-sentinel)

Some aerial shots of the new stadium. (foxsportsflorida)

Mermaid-Manatee tryouts - Jan. 23, 11:00 am, at the Center for the Performing Arsht. (sun-sentinel)

Happy Birthday, Charlie!

The Fish's first pitcher turned 63 yesterday. Alex Remington reviews his career. (Yahoo)

Some Recent Stories Having Something To Do With The Marlins

Freshly-Former-Fish Hector Luna signs with Boston. (weei)

Greg Norton returns as the Zephyrs' manager. (minorleaguebaseball)

The Marlins' Org. Pitcher of the Year will be at Jamestown for the Jammers' Hot Stove Banquet. (post-journal)

(FIXED DATE) When 2012 rolls around, and you enter one of the corporately-named quadrants of the corporately-named new Marlins stadium, you may not only see the Marlins in their new uniforms, but also football, soccer, "home shows, boat shows, trade shows, baseball tournaments, college baseball tournaments and concerts" (that is, unless a few hurricanes put everything on hold). (mlb)

3 More Years of Ricky

Nolasco reportedly re-signs with the Fish for $26,500,000 (pending physical).

Marlins Sign Randy Choate

Yes, you've heard right, the Marlins actually signed a reliever for longer than a year.

Choate appeared in over half of Tampa Bay's games last year. He gets out lefties, but has trouble with righties.

The problem may be, with the money spent on the bullpen, what's left to fix the rest of the team?

David Pinto Discusses Hensley

He graphs out the intricacies of Clay. (BaseballMusings)

Marlins Get 2 in Rule 5

Michael Jong gives us the low-down on these 2 guys.

More Sadness

Logan's dad loses his fight against lung cancer. Our condolences go out to Logan, his family and friends.

Dave Van Horne Gets The Frick!

(miamiherald)(MLB)

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.

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)

Vazquez Officially a Marlin

Javier passed his physical (including a MRI) and finalized his $7 mil deal with the Fish.