Postgame: Marlins Fall In Extra Innings To Giants

[Swifty]

First reality check of the season for me; good teams don't lose that kind of game: inexplicably leading a game they had no business being in only to slow bleed it to death.

[Beef]

Good teams lose games all sorts of ways in a long season. I don't think we are all that much of a good team, but I've seen good teams lose in lots of shitty ways

[Swifty]

It's not a "season over" statement. It's more of me agreeing that we're not that good. Not bad, but not that good.

[Party]

Maybin continues to suck.

This game was a microcosm of this team. Hang in there for most of the season, win in unexpected ways and fizzle out in end as all the roster [payroll] related holes are exposed.

[Mainge]

It's not a "season over" statement. It's more of me agreeing that we're not that good. Not bad, but not that good.

I think it's probably too early to tell what kind of team we are, but I agree our play has been lacking.

[m26555]

I think it's probably too early to tell what kid of team we are, but I agree our play has been lacking.

I agree with this.

Let's remember that at one point in May last season, we were 19-25 (I think) and had gone 8-24 over a 32-game stretch where we were losing games in seemingly every way possible, yet we turned out to be a pretty solid team.

[MiamiHomer]

Pretty solid team that failed to make the playoffs.

[Fritz]

You're pretty solid at being ugly. OH BURN!

[Chewford]

Oh snap!

[m26555]

Pretty solid team that failed to make the playoffs.

Because them not making the playoffs has everything to do with my statement. You can be a good team and not make the playoffs.

[MiamiHomer]

Then I don't consider us a solid team.

[Mainge]

I wasn't aware solid = playoffs. I always perceived solid to be above average. I suppose it's in the eye of the beholder.

[MiamiHomer]

Solid team in my opinion is defined as one with few weak areas, if any. The Marlins do not fall in that category for me right now.

[Mainge]

Fair enough. I've always used it differently.

[Chewford]

I've always used it to refer to a state of matter.

As someone with a Bachelor's of Science degree with a minor in Biomechanics, I can attest that the players on the team perform by utilizing three states of matter.