'Los Marlins' for Every Friday Home Game

[emkayseven]

you're missing an s

[Goodfella]

am I?

[Omar]

It's better than West Palm White Night, cause I mean Miami is over 70% hispanic and they are building a stadium in Little Havana.

Horrible idea? No. Know your audience.

I don't speak for all hispanics.....but this idea sucks. We don't need to be pandered to.

The proportion of Hispanic people at Marlins game is greater than the general population. http://floridafishfan.blogspot.com/2...da-part-5.html

However this is completely silly.

If you're going to throw out a nod to the Hispanic community, have a retro night once a month where the Marlins where a jersey from an old Cuban or Puerto Rican league team. Throwing 'Los' on the jerseys every Friday is excessive and accomplishes nothing.

Now THIS would be awesome, if done right. Almendares!

[CrimsonCane]

If they really wanted to appeal to the Hispanic fans, let them bring bongos, pots, pans and any other percussion item they would like to use to make loud noises. It's part of the Hispanic baseball experience and IMO creates a really fun environment to watch a baseball game.

I understand that this would never fly in the MLB, but it would be awesome if it did.

[Beef]

Pots and pans would fly

[Chewford]

I love to hear percussion and to turn the beat around.

[Namaste]

Jeez, Daft

Calm down

He was implying that I have a problem with Spanish speaking people. I take that stuff seriously. JJ seriously.

[Beef]

I did not see it that way

[fauowls44]

He was implying that I have a problem with Spanish speaking people. I take that stuff seriously. JJ seriously.

Really?? You thought I was calling you a racist? Why would I do that? That certainly wasnt my intent. All I was saying is that you have to realize that we live in an area that has a lot of Hispanics and they are building a stadium in Little Havana...therefore they have to market to Hispanics...just like other teams and sports have done. That was my only point. It wasn't a personal attack.
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I did not see it that way

Thanks. At least someone read it like I thought I wrote it.

[Beef]

Anytime!

Daft, stop being so uppity

[Mainge]

Oh please. This will do nothing to hurt the credibility of the franchise any more then the NBA teams wearing "Hispanic Heritage" uniforms or the NFL having Marc Anthony singing the Monday Night Football theme. I fail to see what harm adding the word "Los" to the jersey 10 or 15 times a year will do. They already have Fiesta Fridays all the time and Hispanic singers at Super Saturday. Why is this such a big deal? Just accept the fact that we live in an area with a lot of spanish speaking people and get over it. I don't speak a word of spanish and I have no problem with it. In fact, if not for the Hispanic population, odds are we may not be building a stadium right now. A lot of the most supportive commissioners that voted for the stadium represent areas that are mostly hispanic.

This sounds like that to me.

[Chewford]

I lived in an area of South Florida with a lot of jews. Where is free bagel with smear day at the ballpark!?

[Beef]

It doesnt sound like it to me. He is just saying:

1) Its not a big deal, oh no, we add a patch on Fridays!

2) It is one small way they go after the hispanic market which we need to understand is going to be a big part of this operation.

This thread was ridiculous enough on page 1

[Branch]

Jajaja! Es verdad que piensan escribir "Los Marlins" en sus uniformes honra la cultura Latino? Ridiculo! Jajajajajajajajajajajaja

[Swifty]

Ay chi chi.

Now Daft has his very own pierremvp1. He's all growns up.