May 8 Scores

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Fish Lose 5-1

Ozuna drives in the Marlins' only run. Valaika is injured...
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/stults-pitches-padres-5-1-050956973--mlb.html

May 7 Scores

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Padres Defeat Marlins 5-0

The Fish get shut out for the fist time since April 10th. LeBlanc
hasn't won since August 22. Solano goes on the DL and Green comes
back...
http://tinyurl.com/bwhf3b6

May 6 Scores

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Marlins' Overpowering Weekend

Jose Fernandez gives up one hit as the Fish win 2-0 on Saturday...
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/fernandez-dominates-phillies-marlins-win-014035928--mlb.html

...and on Sunday the Marlins feasted on Halladay's pitches, giving
Slowey a win by the score of 14-2...
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/hechavarria-7-rbis-marlins-rout-215322019--mlb.html

May 5 Scores

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May 4 Scores

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Marlins Lose 4-1

Philly had only two more hits than the Marlins, but they had two more
home runs also...
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/pettibone-3-homers-push-phils-015137849--mlb.html

May 3 Scores

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Phils Foil Fish

The Marlins begin their road trip by losing to Philadelphia 7-2...
http://tinyurl.com/dxxsoxu

The Fish activated Adeiny, recalled Diaz, designated Green, and optioned Hand...
http://tinyurl.com/cnhn62c

May 2 Scores

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Fish Lose 7-6

http://tinyurl.com/cwwyoqx

May 1 Scores

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Three-In-A-Row

Suddenly the Fish are on a winning streak, and at the same time the
Nats are down to a losing record...
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/marlins-rally-again-beat-reeling-mets-2-1-015353596.html

April 30 Scores

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Victory & Frustration

The Marlins' first win streak of the season came about early this
morning when they fought back from a one-run deficit in the 15th
inning...
http://tinyurl.com/cb7ygwg

but Stanton hears a pop in his leg in the 10th inning and will again
be out of action who knows how long...
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/marlins-beat-mets-4-3-15-innings-045939802.html

April 29 Scores

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Sunday De-Sweeping

The Cubs won on Friday and Saturday, but the return of Stanton's power
stroke led the Fish to a win on Sunday...
http://tinyurl.com/c9bgyq4

April 28 Scores

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April 27 Scores

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April 26 Scores

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Cubs Beat Fish 4-3

Pierre takes the blame for the loss...
http://tinyurl.com/dy99c7s

Marlins pitchers did not give up any walks, struck out 9...
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/boxscore?gid=330425128

The Fish claim Duane Below off waivers from Detroit...
http://tinyurl.com/c8dcz5b

April 25 Scores

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Knuckleball Update

Steven Wright gets called up, sits around for 9 days, finally pitches
on Tuesday, and is sent back down on Wednesday...
http://tinyurl.com/a2xl3ml

April 24 Scores

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Cold-Weather Fish

Marlins bats perked up in the Minnesota cold - maybe Marlins Park
should turn up the air-conditioning...
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/marlins-beat-twins-split-day-035854776--mlb.html

April 23 Scores

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Snow-Day Double-Header Today

Jose wants to get into the snow...
http://tinyurl.com/bv8enss

Check to see what the weather will be...
http://tinyurl.com/c23txu3

April 22 Scores

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Weak Weekend

The Fish spent 8 innings not scoring a go-ahead run on Saturday...
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/phillips-sac-fly-13th-wins-215217161--mlb.html

...and scored 4 runs in the 9th when they needed 8 on Sunday...
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/phillips-sparks-8-run-7th-204235831--mlb.html

April 21 Scores

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A Couple of News Notes

Maine's out, Koehler's in, and Turner's still struggling...
http://tinyurl.com/bn373jd

The previous team that used to call itself the Miami Marlins has
started this season with a 12-game win streak and is now 14-1...
http://tinyurl.com/d4kfarm

April 20 Scores

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Fish Win 2-1

Slowey contained Cincinatti to 1 run and 4 hits in 6 innings. Ruggiano
homers and Cishek saves the win.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ruggianos-hr-9th-sends-marlins-020147478--mlb.html

April 19 Scores

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Marlins Lose in Cincy 11-1

Jose Fernandez did not shine his third time out...
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/reds-beat-marlins-11-1-022347994--mlb.html

Fish pitchers strike out 11 but walk 8.
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/boxscore?gid=330418117

April 18 Scores

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Nats Beat Fish 6-1

An ill Harper still hit Nolasco's best pitches. But Suzuki drove in
the runs. The Marlins' lone run came on a disputed call. A bigger
crowd surprisingly showed up...
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/detwiler-harper-lead-nationals-past-021539544--mlb.html

April 17 Scores

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Knuckleball News

R.A. Dickey gets profiled on last Sunday's 60 Minutes...
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50144818n

Steven Wright is called up by the Red Sox...
http://tinyurl.com/csbu8d9

...which is probably why Wakefield is now a "special assignment
instructor" for Boston...
http://tinyurl.com/c59nuhf

Gooder News

The Marlins wallop the Nats 8-2...
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/marlins-8-nationals-2-022126297--mlb.html

April 16 Scores

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Good News

Yeah the Marlins lost 10-3. But they actually scored 3 runs in a
game. Coghlan threw out 2 runners from center field. And they went 4
for 7 with runners in scoring position...
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/zimmermann-zimmerman-lead-nats-past-015348231--mlb.html

April 15 Scores

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Fishy News

Halladay gets his 200th win today...
http://tinyurl.com/cqyxorl

The Fish sign David Aardsma to a minor-league deal...
http://tinyurl.com/bskek99

The Marlins are heading for a team record...
http://tinyurl.com/c9q2a3h

Get Well Austin

Kearns went to the hospital today...
http://tinyurl.com/cdnvbh4

April 14 Scores

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Marlins Win 2-1

Coghlan brings in Polanco from third on a ball that Utley couldn't
handle, and wins the game for the Fish in the 9th inning...
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/coghlan-singles-run-ninth-miami-023023862--mlb.html

April 13 Scores

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Phils Beat Fish 3-1 in 10

Polanco's the 'star' of the 'offense' so far, hitting .351 this year
and going 2-for-4 yesterday with the team's only RBI...
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/boxscore?gid=330412128

April 12 Scores

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April 11 Scores

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Fish Swept, Lose to Atlanta 8-0

Braves' Gattis hits homer into the pool. Valaika plays 1B for the
first time in his life, gets an error. Marlins now 1-8. Redmond says
"It's snowballing a little bit"....
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/gattis-minor-lead-braves-past-020951241--mlb.html

Again attendance was miniscule, but far from being surprising, it
signals a return of a hearty South Florida tradition...
http://tinyurl.com/cwojk4x

...and disgruntlement finds new means of expression in our
multi-cultural land...
http://tinyurl.com/c6bk9e7

At least the outfield is nice and green...
http://tinyurl.com/bvampjp

April 10 Scores

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Fish Lose 3-2

14,222 official attendants see 2013 Marlins go to 1-7...
http://tinyurl.com/cflcvj9

...while up north, the 2012 Marlins go to 2-5...
http://tinyurl.com/cl3dess

Marlins pitchers walked 1, struck out 9 - Braves pitchers walked 5,
struck out 2. And Juan Pierre finally steals a base...
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/boxscore?gid=330409128

April 9 Scores

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Home Opener Won By Braves 2-0

Justin gets two more hits than all of the Marlins, and he scores both
runs. Unprotected Stanton walks three times. Brantly strikes out
three times but gets half of the Marlins' hits. Marlins' pitchers gave
up no walks - Slowey threw 5 fewer pitches than Maholm but tossed 8
more strikes. Marlins bullpen gives up no runs...
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/boxscore?gid=330408128

April 8 Scores

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Marlins Beat By Marlon

Redmond brings the infield in, and Marlon Byrd slaps a ball past
Valaika, bringing in two Mets runners to beat the Fish 4-3 in the 9th
inning...
http://tinyurl.com/d28gwwg

April 7 Scores

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Mets Beat Fish, Rubber Game Coming Up

Pierre getting called on interference after Buck bloodies his toe, and
other misfortunes, lead to a 7-3 loss for the Fish on Saturday.....
http://tinyurl.com/ctp8wzr

April 6 Scores

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Home Stretch

The Marlins say that, with the help of Groupon, they have sold more
than 30000 tickets for the Home Opener.
Every game this year will have some cut-rate or free tickets, or some
other promotion....
http://tinyurl.com/cr4s547

Marlins Beat Mets 7-5

It's Redmond's first MLB managerial win...
http://tinyurl.com/crpgod2

April 5 Scores

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Fish Score a Run...

...in their 6-1 loss to the Nats...
http://tinyurl.com/bvtbq47

April 4 Scores

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Things Be Happening

Kotchman strains his string, and Gorkys stays in the system...
http://tinyurl.com/bsh9949

Fish Shutout Again 3-0

http://tinyurl.com/d8hryab

April 3 Scores

The Marlins return to fighting Washington...

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More Schedule Observations

---The 2013 Marlins play their longest stretch without a day off from
September 6th through the 25th. Their second longest breakless
stretch happens from July 19 to August 4.

---The Marlins this year finish up with the West Coast teams
relatively quickly - their last scheduled game against a team on the
West Coast is against San Francisco on June 23.

---The Fish finish with Cincinatti even faster - their last game
against the Reds this year is on May 16.

---On the other hand, 126 days separate the Marlins first meeting with
the Cubs (a Miami series ending April 28) and their second series (in
Chicago starting on September 2). Atlanta's two meetings with the
Cubs are separated by an even longer period of time - their first
series ends April 7, their second series starts September 20.

April 2 Games

Already, the delicate National League East takes a day off from its enormous exertions. However, other MLB teams can't be stopped from demonstrating their skills...

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Harper, Strasburg Beat Marlins 2-0

http://tinyurl.com/cfky89m

Game No. 1

The Fish begin the National League Season with a 1:05 PM start in Miami against the Nationals on April Fools' Day, which may or may not be an omen.

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Fish Finally Finalize Roster

Adios Gorkys...
http://tinyurl.com/cynq85c

Bye Bye Booty

The Snakes release Josh...
http://tinyurl.com/csqafhb

Schedule Observation

The different thing in this year's MLB schedules is the reshuffling of
inter-league play, from specific times of the year to scattered
instances throughout the entire season.

In the NL East inter-league games this year are to be found as early
as April 5-7 (PHI vs. KC) and as late as the last series of the season
(MIA vs. DET).

But there's still one time of the year when all teams play
inter-league. And that's that mystic, probably numerologistic time of
the year, on the last week in May, which has for the last several
seasons played host to two straight two-game series, this year being
no exception.

Except that this year those four games are the difference in the
schedules. In the NL East for the rest of this year, all five teams
will be playing inter-league games against Minnesota, the White Sox,
Cleveland, Kansas City and Detroit. But on May 27-31, each team will
be playing two home and two away games against their supposed 'natural
rivals', AL teams that the rest of the NL East aren't scheduled to
play.

These match-ups are MIA and TB, NYM and NYY, WAS and BAL, PHI and BOS
(uh, okay), and ATL and TOR (huh?).

And They're Off!

Tonight the MLB 2013 season begins with a game between Texas and what-used-to-be-the-NL Houston Astros. Back to tradition, here's the scoreboards of six different services - pick the one that works for you...

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Fish Rotation Gutted

Jose Fernandez, John Maine and Alex Sanabia are called up after
injuries to starters Nathan Eovaldi and Henderson Alvarez...
http://tinyurl.com/ct2f3ga

Grabbing Whoever

The Fish sign Wilson Valdez...
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/03/24/3303239/wilson-valdez-added-to-the-miami.html

...and Matt Diaz...
bit.ly/X6uCAw

No Chone

The Fish release Figgins, without having a reasonable alternative...
http://tinyurl.com/bsloffl

Money Money Money

Politifact considers Jeffrey's statement that tourists are paying for
the Marlins stadium only half-true....
http://tinyurl.com/a9h6uuy

The Marlins get around $17 mil a year through their TV contract, and
they're getting $26 mil this year in the national TV deal, which will
raise to $52 mil next year, and Samson is complaining rich teams
finding ways to hold on to some revenue-sharing money is the "biggest
danger in our game today"....
http://tinyurl.com/a3vvgue

And the city of Miami want the Marlins to pay for all those garage
spaces they are using for storage space...
http://tinyurl.com/aunjkje

Differing Takes On Jeffrey

Here are two views veering somewhat from the usual "Loria the
Destroyer" drumbeat, first from Dan Le Batard...
http://tinyurl.com/a99c8wn

...and then from Tim Marchman...
http://tinyurl.com/alnj3wr

Booty Bolstered

The Marlins actually do a goodie, giving Josh Booty a chance with the
Diamondbacks by signing away all claims to him...
http://tinyurl.com/bchxlhp

Why I Didn't Mention Loria/Samson This Week

Because it was too depressing.

Michael Jong tried to extract sensible info out of their blabberings...
http://tinyurl.com/aouehxs

...but we all know that, one of these days, it will ultimately end up
in some ugly battle royale...
http://tinyurl.com/afr6lpj

Booty Returns?

Ken Rosenthal reports that if Josh Booty's knuckler is successful
enough to put him on the Diamondbacks' roster, then the Marlins can
sweep him up...
http://tinyurl.com/a8ult3m

Marlins Beat Cards 8-3 in 1st Spring Game

http://tinyurl.com/aoh7ykc

The Next Knuckler

Former Fish Josh Booty wins the chance to pitch knuckleballs in a
Diamondbacks game...
http://tinyurl.com/agnsua6

The Games Begin

The long trail to October starts today for the Fish as they face the
Cardinals in Jupiter...
http://tinyurl.com/alw6or3
http://tinyurl.com/bcueoze

Ouch!

Stanton seems to be okay after a scary Fernandez fastball bounced off
MLB's new technically-advanced batting helmet...
http://tinyurl.com/beop2no
http://tinyurl.com/bd54wce

Psycho Reaction

The new members of the Blue Jays continue to struggle with the
emotional scars caused by putting trust in management....
http://tinyurl.com/bghma87

And in Jupiter, the latest Marlins acquisition is already cutting himself...
http://tinyurl.com/atfr2lj

Pile 'Em In

Casey Kotchman signed by the Fish, can barely find room in the
overcrowded clubhouse...
http://tinyurl.com/andlfnz

Not on TV for 2-0-1-3

The FoxSportsFlorida Marlins 2013 broadcast schedule has been
released. They will be showing 150 games this year, broadcasting in
high definition and low expectations.

Of the games they won't be showing, 3 will be Fox Games of the Week
and 1 game may conflict with the exclusivity of another Fox Game of
the Week. Two games will be broadcast by the Rays on SunSports. Two
games could also be picked up on WGN America, but their schedule has
not been announced yet. So at this point here are the games that
probably won't be on basic cable in South Florida....

Sat. April 20 @ CIN
Sat. April 27 vs CHI
Fri. May 24 @ CWS
Thurs. Aug. 8 @ PIT
Sat. Sep. 7 vs WSN
Sat Sep. 21 @ WSN

OOPS! There's also Thurs. Sep. 12 vs. ATL

CHANGE: The Aug. 8 Pirate game will now be on FSFlorida; to keep it at
150 games they won't be showing the home game with the Braves on
Monday, April 8. Here's the TV schedule... http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/team/Marlins/schedule/71614?q=Marlins

The Last Straw

Now this is too much. You can get rid of the players, the coaching
staff, the execs - all of them. But now, the Marlins are getting a
new Organist??? This is the end of civilization as we know it...
http://tinyurl.com/bsyd73s

We're No.29

Vegas oddsmakers think the Marlins will Not be the absolutely worse
team in the majors this year...
http://tinyurl.com/c5fr2ge

Weekend Watch

Today the Marlins are having what they call the Winter Warm-Up. This
was previously called the FanFest, but the Marlins do not have enough
fans to hold a Fest for them. The press delineates the desperation...
http://tinyurl.com/apsfo5w

The Fish yesterday signed Chone Figgins to a
minor-league/spring-invite deal. Michael Jong is laughing to the
point of tears...
http://tinyurl.com/asaebs6

But at least Figgins and Juan Pierre are good friends - that might
give the dugout a laugh or two during this long season...
http://tinyurl.com/af63pzu

Marlins Sign Jon Rauch

http://tinyurl.com/bhvuhgh

Relating to the Public

The Jeffrey Group (no, not the Jeffrey Group that owns the team) is
the new PR firm for the Marlins. This firm says they will help "the
Miami Marlins to communicate their point of view on a whole host of
issues". Good luck - it seems it's that very same 'point of view'
that has been the Marlins' problem, and why Jeffrey and Ironman have
been quiet lately ...
http://tinyurl.com/9wz7l9b

The In and Outs

I'm back after some time off. The Marlins were busy though. Here's
my likely incomplete list of who's in and out of the Marlins
organization since the end of last season...

Out
Scott Cousins
Sandy Rosario
Heath Bell
Ozzie Guillen
Eduardo Perez
Randy St. Claire
Gary Thurman
Joey Cora
Gil Velazquez
Nick Green
Donnie Murphy
Sean West
Tim Cossins
Brett Hayes
Josh Johnson
Jose Reyes
Mark Buehrle
John Buck
Emilio Bonifacio
Kevin Mattison

In
Yordy Cabrera
Kevin Gelinas
Mike Redmond
Perry Hill
Kevin Kouzmanoff
Jordan Smith
Alberto Sanchez
Tino Martinez
Scott Maine
Chuck Hernandez
Rob Leary
Juan Pierre
Adeiny Hechsvarria
Henderson Alverez
Anthony DeScalfani
Jeff Mathis
Justin Nicolino
Jake Marisnick
Joe Mahoney
Derek Dietrich
Braulio Lara
Zach Phillips
Jordan Brown
Amaury Rivas
Jonathan Albaladejo
Joe Mahoney
Ed Lucas
John Maine
Alfredo Silverio
Braulio Lara
Tyler Kehrer
Austin Kearns
Doug Mathis
Chad Qualls
Kevin Slowey
Mitch Talbot
Michael Wuertz
Matt Downs
Craig Tatum
Nick Green
Chris Valaika
Audy Ciriaco
Sam Dyson...

http://tinyurl.com/awdl39j
http://tinyurl.com/b88y4bx
http://miami.bloglockers.com/marlins/

Possibly In
Pat White...

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/pat-white-baseball-try-191300248--nfl.html