Marlins Fail to Impress Anyone on the Field, Fall 4-1 to World Champion Cardinals

[MiamiHomer]

I'd like to add to the awkward list, they had a race between innings with a stone crab, octopus, sea horse and shark.

OMG how could I forget that. I literally double face palmed when I saw them come out of the center field wall.

[lou]

And the upside down Trapeze/Cirque de solei entertainer at the CF Budweiser bar

[Beef]

I'd like to add to the awkward list, they had a race between innings with a stone crab, octopus, sea horse and shark.

That was Hugg's favorite part.

I've said Hugg in 437 posts now. One time I said Hugg, bobbob and bobjob in the same post.

[HUGG]

Not really what I was saying. Furcal has fallen off a cliff the past few years, either Schumaker or Descalsco are pretty bland at 2B, its unrealistic to think Berkman or Molina repeat their amazing 2011s, Jon Jay is a huge question mark, and its hard to imagine that Freese continues to hit as he has over his last 40 or so games, postseason included.

Their lineup is full of question marks.

Hanley sucked last year. Reyes gets hurt all the time. Infante sucked last year. Gaby sucked in the 2nd half. Buck sucked last year. Who knows what LoMo is gonna do.

Our lineup is full of question marks.

We could do this for almost any team.

[Beef]

But he's not doing it for almost any team

[HUGG]

I didn't look at it from that angle.

[lou]

I can also say, I got back to downtown fort Lauderdale before 11:00. Traffic was not bad either way. $25 to park no blockey in some dudes yard. My friends from brickell took the trolley over and said it was easy. Key lime chicken tacos were good, but expensive.

Hard to judge on one game too, but the ball does not carry at all. This is going to be Petco east. Infield grass seems quick though. Sure that's intentional for Marlins current order.

[HUGG]

They did it to keep Stanton's arbitration numbers down.

[Bobbob1313]

Hard to judge on one game too, but the ball does not carry at all. This is going to be Petco east. Infield grass seems quick though. Sure that's intentional for Marlins current order.

This seems like it is backwards

[Swifty]

Pregame stuff was terrible. I just cannot imagine what goes on in these production meetings. Didn't anyone think that it might be a good idea to somehow incorporate the Marlins into the thing?

Traffic wasn't bad. Concourse and concessions were an absolute nightmare. Whoever designed the concourse didn't account for lines. The moving foot traffic constantly comes in contact with the line(s). Just terrible.
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Reyes is fun. Johnson didn't look good, stadium gun I think had him top out at 93.

Cliff Floyd was sitting next to us, definitely the highlight of the night.

[Beef]

Yeah, I think I recall a story about them making sure the grass would be long (for the speed in their lineup)

[MiamiHomer]

Pregame stuff was terrible. I just cannot imagine what goes on in these production meetings. Didn't anyone think that it might be a good idea to somehow incorporate the Marlins into the thing?

Traffic wasn't bad. Concourse and concessions were an absolute nightmare. Whoever designed the concourse didn't account for lines. The moving foot traffic constantly comes in contact with the line(s). Just terrible.
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Reyes is fun. Johnson didn't look good, stadium gun I think had him top out at 93.

Cliff Floyd was sitting next to us, definitely the highlight of the night.

He hit 95 a few times.

[Bobbob1313]

Johnson didn't look good, stadium gun I think had him top out at 93.

Already went over this in the game thread, but it's worth reposting: He averaged 93.02 MPH on his fastball tonight. He averaged 93.8 last year. Almost certainly nothing to worry about.

Topped 94 a bunch of times early, then tailed off. Which isn't really surprising, considering how early it is.

[Namaste]

Ali woulda done as well as Gaby at the plate though

How does this guy do it?

POTM for April. No contest.

:bowdown

[MiamiHomer]

I was surprised that they decided to play the game with the roof open. I know the weather was nice but I was kind of hoping it would be closed. I know they needed it open for the fly over but I'm it wouldn't have been a big deal to take 13 minutes to close it after.