tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142331012012-01-20T23:37:38.104-05:00Henry Louis Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03167391252653145914noreply@blogger.comBlogger571100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14233101.post-56493937179076291912008-10-30T09:15:00.002-04:002008-10-30T09:20:01.833-04:00

I was born in Philadelphia. The first sporting event I ever attended was a Phillies game. I remember the 1980 World Series like it was yesterday. The 1993 World Series is one I'd like to forget. I was at Skydome when Joe Carter hit that homer to win it for the Blue Jays. I'm not conflicted about my loyalty. I became a 100% Marlins fan when I had season tickets for the club. But if the

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Miami Today published a report based on pro forma financial statements that it apparently obtained from Norman Braman. The second I saw the report I contacted Jorge Costales who is, to my mind, the most knowledgeable person about Marlins finances that doesn't work for the organization or Forbe's magazine. He has posted his interpretation of this recent development here.

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and Jorge Costales thinks that's a good thing.I don't.I think what the judge did was weak. She passed the buck. Her job is to rule based on current law as she understands it, not to wait for guidance from the Supreme Court to do it for her. What precedent does that set?There is a time-sensitive nature to this case and now it's in limbo indefinitely for what Jorge rightly points out could be

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I'd like to take a minute to address some of the criticisms of the plan for the new Marlins ballpark. Opponents to the plan center their argument around two basic premises. The first is that the money could toward more worthwhile things like education, mass transit, etc. And the second is that public funds should not be used to help private business.There is no doubt that despite the many

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And I respond.

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Marlins fans no doubt are aware that one of the big sponsors on TV this year is the "Campaign for a Tobacco Free Florida". The ads in the campaign feature Marlins players pledging that they don't smoke, dip or chew tobacco. Well, tonight during the game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Marlins, just seconds after the announcers mentioned the Campaign for a Tobacco Free Florida, the camera

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Dear readers,Today I received an appeal about Ana-Alicia Fernandez. Ms. Fernandez is a 19-year old woman who was injured by a hit and run boater in 1995, when she was only six years old. Ms. Fernandez requires a ventilator to stay alive and moving her to doctors appointments and otherwise getting her out of the house is an incredible task because her family does not have the proper vehicle.

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Just a week ago I was listening to ESPN radio and the host was asking Tim Kurkjian when the wheels were going to fall off of the Marlins and the Rays. Kurkjian said something like "I think we're seeing that right now."He claimed that the Marlins lack of pitching would eventually catch up with them.Of course the Marlins had just lost 3 in a row to the pitiful Cincinnati Reds and a couple of games

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Part 4 in my ongoing look at who is getting the most and who is getting the least for their money. Below you will find a spreadsheet with my analysis (click to enlarge).Next to each team's name is the projected 2008 payroll for that team. The next column is the payroll number divided by 162 (the number of games in the full season), this is essentially the payroll cost per game. Then we have

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Part 3 in my ongoing look at who is getting the most and who is getting the least for their money. Below you will find a spreadsheet with my analysis (click to enlarge).Next to each team's name is the projected 2008 payroll for that team. The next column is the payroll number divided by 162 (the number of games in the full season), this is essentially the payroll cost per game. Then we have

Henry Louis Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03167391252653145914noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14233101.post-43409943879758841962008-04-24T17:21:00.001-04:002008-04-24T17:22:47.155-04:00

Gone are the days when the talking heads would actually talk about baseball skill, instead they focus on who spends the most money. As if that were a testament to worth.-Johnnylons blogging at MarlinsNation

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I thought it would be interesting to analyze who is getting the most and who is getting the least for their money. Below you will find a spreadsheet with my analysis (click to enlarge).Next to each team's name is the projected 2008 payroll for that team. The next column is the payroll number divided by 162 (the number of games in the full season), this is essentially the payroll cost per game.

Henry Louis Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03167391252653145914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14233101.post-37354492777755902432008-04-13T02:21:00.002-04:002008-04-13T02:39:19.221-04:00

When I started this blog back in 2006 I came up with the name "Fish or Cut Bait" thinking it was a cool name that kind of went with the Marlins. I can't remember if I tried to register the URL fishorcutbait.blogspot.com and found that it wasn't available or if I simply registered floridafisfan.blogspot.com before I came up with the name. But today I was considering changing it to the former so

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A couple of weeks ago I posted about an on-air debate I had with talk radio host Jorge Sedano about the Marlins. The argument boiled down to what the intentions of the owner Jeffrey Loria are. Because talk radio isn't really a medium conducive to a rational discussion of complex issues, it really went nowhere. My premise then (and today) is that only Jeffrey Loria knows whether his intentions

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A little more than one week into the season and the Marlins are in first place by 1.5 games. Obviously, this is a very small sample size but given all the talk about the Marlins tiny payroll I thought it would be interesting to analyze who is getting the most and who is getting the least for their money. Below you will find a spreadsheet with my analysis.Next to each team's name is the projected

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This morning I had an on-air debate with Jorge Sedano of 79o the ticket about the Marlins finances. He referenced an apparently recent Forbes article about the team's situation and claimed that Forbes reported the Marlins made $40 million during the 2007 season before selling a single ticket. I can't question the article because I haven't seen it (nor have I been able to find it). I do know

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I've heard a lot of arguments for not building a ballpark based on the idea that we could find better uses for the money. Does anyone honestly believe that NOT building the ballpark will solve any of the major problems we face in the area? Really? Is our broken school system going to be fixed if we don't build a ballpark? Are our streetlights going to be synchronized for more efficient flow of

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The Associated Press is reporting that the Marlins and MLB have finally come to the realization that if a new ballpark is going to be built, that it's going to be on the property that the Orange Bowl currently sits on. "In terms of the county and the city, that's the only site that's on the table right now," Bob DuPuy, baseball's chief operating officer, said Tuesday. "And while we believe that

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Fifth in a series In the past some have said that south Florida simply can’t support a Major League franchise. Some have debated whether a new ballpark for the Marlins should be in Miami-Dade or Broward. Some have said that Hispanics don’t support the team the way MLB had hoped they would. This series of posts is an exploration into these issues. All of the data that I will be using in this

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4th in a series In the past some have said that south Florida simply can’t support a Major League franchise. Some have debated whether a new ballpark for the Marlins should be in Miami-Dade or Broward. Some have said that Hispanics don’t support the team the way MLB had hoped they would. This series of posts is an exploration into these issues. The data that I will be using in this analysis

Henry Louis Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03167391252653145914noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14233101.post-80387417943658977472007-03-29T22:24:00.000-04:002007-04-01T22:53:53.908-04:00

Third in a series In the past some have said that south Florida simply can’t support a Major League franchise. Some have debated whether a new ballpark for the Marlins should be in Miami-Dade or Broward. Some have said that Hispanics don’t support the team the way MLB had hoped they would. This series of posts is an exploration into these issues. All of the data that I will be using in this

Henry Louis Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03167391252653145914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14233101.post-86314360830408562702007-03-29T16:45:00.000-04:002007-03-30T12:27:10.728-04:00

Second in a seriesIn the past some have said that south Florida simply can’t support a Major League franchise. Some have debated whether a new ballpark for the Marlins should be in Miami-Dade or Broward. Some have said that Hispanics don’t support the team the way MLB had hoped they would. This series of posts is an exploration into these issues. All of the data that I will be using in this

Henry Louis Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03167391252653145914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14233101.post-91458205930528689232007-03-28T22:05:00.000-04:002007-03-29T17:22:59.946-04:00

First in a seriesIn the past some have said that south Florida simply can’t support a Major League franchise. Some have debated whether a new ballpark for the Marlins should be in Miami-Dade or Broward. Some have said that Hispanics don’t support the team the way MLB had hoped they would. This series of posts is an exploration into these issues.All of the data that I will be using in this

Henry Louis Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03167391252653145914noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14233101.post-51846352231668746382007-03-16T12:33:00.000-04:002007-03-16T18:06:23.459-04:00

I was reading FishStripes today and saw a note about State Senators from Broward county grousing about the two proposed locations for the Marlins stadium.Broward senators also say it's time for Miami-Dade County and Miami officials to settle on a site, preferably closer to the county line. But the two options being considered are in downtown Miami and at the Orange Bowl. The Marlins currently

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Well, it seems as if there's a lot of momentum at county hall to get the Marlins stadium deal done. Miami-Dade County commissioners voted overwhelmingly (11-1) yesterday to back a plan that would keep the Marlins in the county. The question is where should it be built. Several of the commissioners expressed interest in using the site the Orange Bowl currently sits on as opposed to the site

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Well it looks like we're the closest that we've ever been to getting the new ballpark deal done for the Marlins. My personal feeling is that this is going to happen regardless of what some may say. I never understood why people are so viscerally against the spending of public funds on a Stadium but the same people never complain about the huge amounts of money wasted on other projects.And we're

Henry Louis Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03167391252653145914noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14233101.post-66101523677223613222007-03-03T17:42:00.000-05:002007-03-04T23:49:49.664-05:00

Well after battling the blogger gremlins I was finally able to recover control of this blog and migrate it to the new blogger platform. I've updated the look and intend to blog more this season than I have in the past. Hopefully I can build some traffic to this blog that I have neglected for too long in favor of my others.I'm looking forward to good season for the fish this year. First of all

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So here's the second in a 2-part post about the Marlins and how did NOT buy the World Series in 1997. In the first post I looked at the position players and here are the pitchers.SP: Kevin Brown. Signed as a free agent before 1996 season.SP: Alex Fernandez. Signed as a free agent before 1997 season.SP: Al Leiter. Signed as a free agent before 1996 season.SP: Livan Hernandez. Broke into Majors

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I was reading one of my favorite blogs today (about college football) and of course Wayne Huizenga was mentioned because of the ongoing saga with the Dolphins, which he owns, and Nick Saban, the head coach who is bolting to Alabama. Someone posted this comment in the comments section.And yes, I am also still bitter that he bought the 1997 World Series back when I was a baseball fan.This is

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If you are a baseball fan, you should read this article in the Wall Street Journal that describes how one of baseball's greatest home runs was the result of an elaborate sign stealing set-up.

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the impossible has happened!"Vin Scully's words were never more appropriate than tonight.Congratulations Anibal Sanchez and the Florida Marlins

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The recent success of the Florida Marlins is ironic in the sense that the manager of the club almost got fired a few weeks back. Many people are looking at the simmering feud between Manager Joe Girardi and owner Jeffrey Loria as another example of a bush league owner not "getting it." It is entirely possible that Joe Girardi will be the manager of the year and be promptly fired at season's

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I have to admit that I was one of those fans that predicted that the fish would lose 100-110 games on marlinsbaseball.com this year. I even tried to dispute my season ticket account through American Express (and that's another extraordinary story that I won't go into detail about here) so I was really upset about the what I saw as a destruction of all the good will that this ownership had

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Now that MLB is showing an interest in getting a stadium deal done in Miami, perhaps it's time for that organization to step up to the plate (pun intended) financially.When Jeffrey Loria wanted out of Montreal, MLB bent over backwards to accommodate him. They lent him money to purchase the Marlins and purchased the Expos from him. Both were unprecedented actions.MLB bought the Expos for $150

Henry Louis Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03167391252653145914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14233101.post-1154020033139377072006-07-27T13:05:00.000-04:002007-03-04T16:39:38.470-05:00

I heard this from someone in the Marlins organization:An announcement will be made in late September and shovels will be breaking ground in February of 2007.Keep your fingers crossed.

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Ok, I went to the ballpark today for the first time this season. I couldn't go to the home opener because my flag football team was having it's playoffs and the first game was at 7:00 in Coconut Grove. So rather than taking the day off yesterday to catch the game and have to leave early I took today off and went to the ballpark.It was just me and about 800 of my closest friends in attendance.

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Because I work in advertising, I get daily emails from Advertising Age. Sometimes they poll their readers. A few weeks back the poll was about Barry Bonds and whether Major League Baseball should market his breaking of the Homerun records (There are two, Ruth still has the record for career homeruns by a left-hander). Well on March 20th they published the results (I know I'm a little late on

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#1

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I've been debating whether or not to post this because this is supposed to be a fan blog, but I think it deserves to heard. When the Marlins arrogant management bamboozled me into renewing my season tickets then conducted a repeat of the 1998 fire sale while treating us season ticket holders like crap, I decided to fight back. I disputed my charges on American Express on the grounds that I had

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Normally I'd be jazzed right about now. Here we are 5 days away from the start of baseball. But the uncertainty surrounding the Marlins has me really down. I want to root for the club but I'm insulted by what the front office did to me and so many other season ticket holders. They've stolen the joy from baseball in South Florida and for that I'll never forgive them. And I'm not talking about

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I just received the Beisbol '06 edition of Sports Illustrated Latino and Miguel Cabrera is on the cover with the headline "MIGUEL CABRERA, the best player on the worst team in the Majors."Let's hope that not the case and let's hope SI Latino doesn't have a jinx either.

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...what qualified Buck Martinez to be the Manager of the U.S. team in the World Baseball Classic?Just wondering?

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1993 - The inaugural year with the largest single season attendance in the history of the franchise: 3,064,847. On the field the Marlins almost lost 100 games. Final record: 64-981994 - This season was shortened by the now imfamous player strike that caused the cancellation of the World Series. Attendance at Major league parks would suffer for several seasons as a result. Marlins attendance

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Now that the Orange Bowl seems to be in danger of succumbing to the wrecking ball, I have an idea that is a compromise. Since it's a compromise it's, by definition, not the best solution for each of the parties involved but it solves everyone's problems. Here's the idea:The Orange Bowl gets destroyed and a new dual purpose dome is built in its place. It would be a fixed dome that is designed to

Henry Louis Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03167391252653145914noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14233101.post-1132965678827135992005-11-25T19:41:00.000-05:002007-03-04T16:30:40.969-05:00

In the last few days since Marlins President, David Samson announced the fire sale of its best and highest paid players as well as the team's intentions to search for another market to relocate to, the south Florida fans have taken a real beating in the media. Statements like "Florida fans are front runners who don't support their team." and "Winning sells in every market except South Florida."

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Robert at 26th parallel has posted his opinions on the latest developments on the Marlins possibly leaving the Magic City. While I agree with some of his opinions I thought I'd share mine. I became a Marlins season ticket holder before the 2003 season. I was convinced that baseball wasn't going to last in South Florida. I said to myself, "if the Marlins leave it won't be because you were

Henry Louis Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03167391252653145914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14233101.post-1129524080040281352005-10-17T00:40:00.000-04:002007-03-04T16:28:09.939-05:00

The first time I heard the name Jose Contreras, was during a pair of exhibition baseball games between the Cuban National Team and the Baltimore Orioles. I remember being pissed that this sham was even allowed to happen. What really disgusted me was seeing the Orioles owner, Peter Angelos, and Baseball Commissioner, Bud Selig sitting there schmoozing with castro. The Oriole players didn't want to

Henry Louis Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03167391252653145914noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14233101.post-1126646338286357532005-09-13T17:12:00.000-04:002007-03-04T16:26:59.207-05:00

I just became a subscriber to baseballprospectus.com and there's a lot of interesting stuff on there. Something that caught my eye was a model they use to play out the rest of the season. They actually use the model and a bunch of complicated algorithms (that I don't understand so I can't explain) and run it 1 million times. Of the one million times the Marlins actually won the division 2.76%

Henry Louis Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03167391252653145914noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14233101.post-1126298391066626742005-09-09T15:42:00.000-04:002007-03-04T16:26:11.755-05:00

Our upcoming series against Houston could determine whether the Marlins or the Astros will be in the post-season. With the Astros currently scheduling Clemens, Pettitte and Oswalt for the weekend series against the Brewers, it looks like we may face some combination of Astacio, Backe, or Rodriguez in the first two games, and then Clemens and Pettitte on Wednesday and Thursday. However, I would

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I was listening to a podcast of the baseball prospectus radio show today and something they mentioned reminded me of the conundrum that is facing Jack McKeon these days. Mike Lowell could be considered as much of a "Mr. Marlin" as Jeff Conine but his offensive production is down this season. Not only that, but it's been down since the second half of last season. Mike is an upright citizen, a

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I was doing some research on Dolphins Stadium and came across this article that is very enlightening. I have republished it here in it's entirety with attribution to the author and publisher.A Miami Fish Story Far from losing $30 million in '97, the Marlins made a hefty profit. So why did their owner destroy the team?By ANDREW ZIMBALISTHow could a baseball team in a major media market win the

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In the off-season between the 2002 and 2003 seasons I became a Marlins season ticket holder. I had been a fan of the team since its inception. But I went through personal financial problems, a failed business, a serious illness and a failed marriage during the mid 90's. I was ecstatic of course when the fish won it all in 97 and was just as disappointed as everyone else when Huizenga broke the

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I travel a lot for business. When I'm in a new city during the summer I try to get to a ballgame if the home team is having a homestand. Well, I just got back from Los Angeles and although it's not a new city for me, I had never been there when the Angels were in town. My business concluded at 7:00 PM and game time was 7:05. I had to beg off of going to dinner with my clients so I could get on

Henry Louis Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03167391252653145914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14233101.post-1120624474923167402005-07-06T00:32:00.000-04:002005-07-07T13:28:45.880-04:00

This is my first post. I intend to create a blog here about my favorite pro sports team, the Florida Marlins. The other posts you see below are essays or pieces I have written in the past. I have backdated them to their original creation dates.Hopefully enough people will find this interesting so that it'll be worth my time to post here.Enjoy.

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That’s right, as if it weren’t enough to applaud the Florida Marlins heroics of last fall, this summer their fans will get enjoy a long-delayed victory lap from the 1997 World Series win. The Florida team that won in 1997 was derided as representing everything that was wrong with the game: free agency, expansion, wild cards. It’s subsequent, lightning-fast, dismantling gave the critics even more

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When the Florida Marlins decided they wanted to make a managerial change they knew who they wanted to hire. Jack McKeon had a history of taking teams over in mid-season and somehow turning them around. McKeon was available and wanted the job. Open and shut case, right? Wrong! The Marlins were fined by Major League Baseball for failing to interview a minority candidate.A similar rule exists in the

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The following post is a piece I wrote for the forum "Fans on Base" on MLB.com: The Marlins are in the thick of the Wild Card picture, and that is one of the best stories of this season. Just one short year ago, they were considered a laughingstock. It was easy to mock owner Jeffrey Loria and his front office for failing to produce programs for the 2002 season, running out of hot dogs on Opening

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