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Offline KnorrForYourMoney

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Re: Marlins trade franchise to Blue Jays
« Reply #400: April 18, 2013, 06:04:20 PM »
Blue Jays have a much healthier prognosis than the Marlins.  Once upon a time, just about everyone in Canada outside of Ontario rooted for the Expos...now some are Nats fans, but the great majority of Canadian baseball fans root for the Jays.  That's a pretty huge fanbase, even if it is distributed over a huge geographic area. 

Studies have shown that they have one of the smallest fanbases in all MLB.

Canadians don't give a crap about baseball.

Offline OldChelsea

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Re: Marlins trade franchise to Blue Jays
« Reply #401: April 26, 2013, 12:48:01 PM »
More Loria/Marlins fun: sources say he dictated pitching assignments in a recent doubleheader: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/sources--marlins-owner-jeffrey-loria-personally-mandated-lineup-change-150755500.html

Offline Copecwby20

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Re: Marlins trade franchise to Blue Jays
« Reply #402: April 26, 2013, 12:58:09 PM »
My parents will be at the Cubs/Marlins game tonight. We are convinced that my mom curses the Cubs whenever she goes to a game (even more than they already are) She was there when Marmol blew the save in Atlanta this year and has never seen the Cubs win in person. My stepdad said that going to Florida to watch them play the Marlins may be the only way she will ever be able to witness the Cubs win at a ballpark.  :rofl:

Offline Ali the Baseball Cat

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Re: Marlins trade franchise to Blue Jays
« Reply #403: May 01, 2013, 02:56:06 PM »
Not true, though between hockey playoffs through mid June and then competitive log rolling, canoe racing, and beaver shows running until the start of winter in mid August, baseball does have a relatively small window north of the border. 

Canadians don't give a crap about baseball.

Offline Tyler Durden

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Re: Marlins trade franchise to Blue Jays
« Reply #404: May 02, 2013, 11:51:10 AM »
Marlins may have traded their best players to the Jays, but it's not helping the Jays win any games.  They might be out of the race in the next month or so if not sooner.

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Re: Marlins trade franchise to Blue Jays
« Reply #405: May 02, 2013, 01:46:34 PM »
Marlins may have traded their best players to the Jays, but it's not helping the Jays win any games.  They might be out of the race in the next month or so if not sooner.

they didn't trade stanton.

Offline welch

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Re: Marlins trade franchise to Blue Jays
« Reply #406: May 02, 2013, 04:52:51 PM »
they didn't trade stanton.

But it's still an interesting point. I looked at the standing a few days ago, and, behold: Yankees with a winning record (magic?) and Blue Jays sinking.

Offline HalfSmokes

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Re: Marlins trade franchise to Blue Jays
« Reply #407: May 02, 2013, 05:39:45 PM »
is Anthopoulos still considered a genius?

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Re: Marlins trade franchise to Blue Jays
« Reply #408: May 02, 2013, 05:51:22 PM »
is Anthopoulos still considered a genius?

sadly, the Blue Jays' performance could make Loria look better.

Offline Tyler Durden

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Re: Marlins trade franchise to Blue Jays
« Reply #409: May 05, 2013, 12:35:44 PM »
Dickey got beat around (chuckle) again yesterday.

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Offline Ali the Baseball Cat

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Re: Marlins trade franchise to Blue Jays
« Reply #411: May 08, 2013, 06:08:46 PM »
ouch

Offline spidernat

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Re: Marlins trade franchise to Blue Jays
« Reply #412: May 08, 2013, 06:23:41 PM »
:lmao:

Offline nats2playoffs

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Re: Marlins trade franchise to Blue Jays
« Reply #413: May 08, 2013, 11:35:49 PM »
So, Miami voters, how's that new stadium working out for ya?

http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/Marlins-to-Start-Closing-Upper-Bowl-206536011.html?_osource=SocialFlowFB_MIBrand
"The Marlins are drawing an average of 18,864 fans per game through the first 16 home games of the season (down from 27,401 in 2012, the first season it was open). Only the Seattle Mariners, Kansas City Royals, and Cleveland Indians draw fewer fans."

The Cleveland Indians attendance was 11,125 tonight.  They need to bring THIS MAN to their ball park, to throw out the first pitch, and become the stadium announcer, or whatever else he wants to do:


Angel Cordero, 1st to arrive, NOT Charles Ramsey. Angel knocked down the door to rescue kidnapped women
Let him sign autographs for $10 apiece

Offline sph274

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Re: Marlins trade franchise to Blue Jays
« Reply #414: August 24, 2013, 09:55:39 PM »
The Mets fleeced the Jays. This is beginning to look like an awesome trade for the Marlins as well. I wouldn't be surprised if the jays clean house after this season. What a complete failure for them.

Offline mitlen

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Re: Marlins trade franchise to Blue Jays
« Reply #415: August 24, 2013, 09:57:00 PM »
When I saw the "bump", my first thought was the Jays became the Marlins.

Offline brec7

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Re: Marlins trade franchise to Blue Jays
« Reply #416: August 27, 2013, 06:07:01 PM »
The Mets fleeced the Jays. This is beginning to look like an awesome trade for the Marlins as well. I wouldn't be surprised if the jays clean house after this season. What a complete failure for them.

Unfortunately, for those of us in Canada the Jays will still headline all the sports shows all summer long even if they're 25 games out of first because the networks have so much invested in them that they have to keep pumping them up.  Of course as a Nats fan and an even bigger Loria hater, I'm disappointed that this might actually work out for the Marlins in some way.  And the Jays failure would be a lot funnier to me (given all the fans they have around here) if the Nats weren't failing at almost the same level, in a much weaker division too, over in the NL.