Glenn, your article is both parts depressing and true. I love the Marlins. In terms of teams, they are my baby. I remember waiting for them to be born in the early '90s, seeing the birth of my hometown franchise being in love with them from the start.
It is how much I love this team that makes it all the harder to see what happens time and again to them with them.
I wanted Mas to be the owner and was disappointed when did not happen. So I justified to myself that Jeter was a better move because of his baseball background his winners mindset, his Hall of Fame resume is a player and leader. But I was fooling myself. It was a disaster.
They got rid of top talent, beloved names and loyal and loved alumni and broadcasters. It was like they were trying to alienate what little fans they had left.
I don't know what the future of my Marlins will be, but I'm feeling very little confidence it will be positive.
I really like Schumacher and the way he runs the team manages the team makes decisions leads and so forth. But I worry about management in the front office and ownership and their ability to build a winner a consistent winner.
What do you think about the future of this franchise? Do you see any cause for hope or optimism and I don't mean in comparison to the behemoths in this market like the the dolphins, who I also love and grew up with, where the heat or now the Panthers and the soccer team too. I mean in terms of their competitiveness and confidence as a baseball franchise.
I respect your opinion and your experience and you're honesty and wonder if there's any hope for this misguided, this managed mess of a franchise.
I could write a book to answer your question. I’ll leave it at this: they need to get some smart and experienced people in there to run the business side of the operation. Sales, corporate partnerships, marketing and communications especially. The people they have in there now don’t know what they don’t know.
And at some point, they’re going to have to spend significantly--and smartly--on the roster to give people a reason to care. If they’re waiting for 30,000 people a night to start showing up to spend, it’s never going to happen. They were happy with their 14,092 last night. They’ll tell you that’s above their season average and more than last year. Yeah. Only the historically awful A’s who are trying to abandon Oakland drew fewer in MLB last night (and all season).
If you as an organization are celebrating 14,092 on a Friday night in your 6th year in charge with a team you want people to think has a chance to go to the playoffs, you really need to take a long hard look in the mirror.
That was a damn engaging article and it's easy to vicariously feel the elation of the community. That's weird for me to state as I have never been interested in soccer. Still not, but it is exciting. Points taken, most assuredly, especially refardy the direct entertainment dollar competition and ownership group culture.
Crazy question, but do you know people that have influence on the people in charge of the Marlins, people that might listen to reason and open their eyes to the disaster that's continuing here and the low expectations that they're using as high standards?
Bruce Sherman is the owner. The buck stops with him. Beyond that, I don’t know what else to tell you on the business side. Since the brought him back, Jeff Conine has his ear on the baseball side.
Glenn, your article is both parts depressing and true. I love the Marlins. In terms of teams, they are my baby. I remember waiting for them to be born in the early '90s, seeing the birth of my hometown franchise being in love with them from the start.
It is how much I love this team that makes it all the harder to see what happens time and again to them with them.
I wanted Mas to be the owner and was disappointed when did not happen. So I justified to myself that Jeter was a better move because of his baseball background his winners mindset, his Hall of Fame resume is a player and leader. But I was fooling myself. It was a disaster.
They got rid of top talent, beloved names and loyal and loved alumni and broadcasters. It was like they were trying to alienate what little fans they had left.
I don't know what the future of my Marlins will be, but I'm feeling very little confidence it will be positive.
I really like Schumacher and the way he runs the team manages the team makes decisions leads and so forth. But I worry about management in the front office and ownership and their ability to build a winner a consistent winner.
What do you think about the future of this franchise? Do you see any cause for hope or optimism and I don't mean in comparison to the behemoths in this market like the the dolphins, who I also love and grew up with, where the heat or now the Panthers and the soccer team too. I mean in terms of their competitiveness and confidence as a baseball franchise.
I respect your opinion and your experience and you're honesty and wonder if there's any hope for this misguided, this managed mess of a franchise.
Oh, Stephen, Stephen, Stephen. (Deep sigh.)
I could write a book to answer your question. I’ll leave it at this: they need to get some smart and experienced people in there to run the business side of the operation. Sales, corporate partnerships, marketing and communications especially. The people they have in there now don’t know what they don’t know.
And at some point, they’re going to have to spend significantly--and smartly--on the roster to give people a reason to care. If they’re waiting for 30,000 people a night to start showing up to spend, it’s never going to happen. They were happy with their 14,092 last night. They’ll tell you that’s above their season average and more than last year. Yeah. Only the historically awful A’s who are trying to abandon Oakland drew fewer in MLB last night (and all season).
If you as an organization are celebrating 14,092 on a Friday night in your 6th year in charge with a team you want people to think has a chance to go to the playoffs, you really need to take a long hard look in the mirror.
Amen. Amen. I just don't know if they Will ever realize that. Who's going to tell them? Who will they listen to? It just seems futile
That was a damn engaging article and it's easy to vicariously feel the elation of the community. That's weird for me to state as I have never been interested in soccer. Still not, but it is exciting. Points taken, most assuredly, especially refardy the direct entertainment dollar competition and ownership group culture.
As I referenced above, that’s the danger of putting people in charge who don’t know what they don’t know.
I know many of them read what I write every day. But you know the story: people tend to disregard inconvenient truths.
Crazy question, but do you know people that have influence on the people in charge of the Marlins, people that might listen to reason and open their eyes to the disaster that's continuing here and the low expectations that they're using as high standards?
Bruce Sherman is the owner. The buck stops with him. Beyond that, I don’t know what else to tell you on the business side. Since the brought him back, Jeff Conine has his ear on the baseball side.
Well ... Perhaps that's something, but ... Sigh
I have twin daughters that are 12 and play soccer. We went to see Leo Messi last night and I don’t think any of us will ever forget the evening.
What a memory you guys made!