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The Dugout: Marlins FanFest

Last year I attended the infamous "Wrestle FanFest" in San Francisco and somehow found a way to enjoy a warehouse full of crippled old men (and Nick Bockwinkel) peddling poorly stitched Mexican wrestling masks and printed out 8 x 10s of their glory days for ten dollars a pop. Even having done that, I could not stomach...

From the Windup: Is It Time for a Salary Cap?

From the Windup is FanHouse's extended look at a particular portion of America's pastime.Salary Cap. There's not a more controversial phrase in baseball economics. The prospect of one hung over the strike of 1994 and 1995 before the owners and players managed to settle without implementing a true cap. Since then, baseball...

The Marlins Side With Logan Kensing in the Case of the Helicopter Hijinx

Last month Marlins pitcher Logan Kensing ran into some trouble when he let reporters join him for a helicopter hunting trip on his Texas ranch. Video of the trip portrayed Kensing as a trigger happy, Lt. Col. Kilgore-type who loved nothing more than the smell of wild hogs in the morning. Animal activists got upset and...

The Marlins Front Office Isn't Going Anywhere

There are going to be a lot of questions swirling around the Florida Marlins after their season ends at Shea Stadium today. There will be no shortage of trade rumors involving Miguel Cabrera and Dontrelle Willis as the team continues its never-ending quest to save money at every available turn. There won't be any...

Scott Olsen Isn't Sure What His President Does

And we're not talking about the guy who goes by "W" ... who can really be sure what he does. No, we're talking about Scott Olsen's vocational president: David Samson, who carries that title with Olsen's Marlins. Olsen, who may avoid a felony charge by entering a pretrial diversion program, says that he expects to return to...

DavidSamson News From the Web

05/23/12 NYC Airports To Test 'Ava', The Holographic Customer... Source: TMCnet People from other parts of the country often complain that New Yorkers are rude and abrupt.
05/23/12 Swastikas Found Etched Into Cars In Bay Ridge Source: 1010 Wins Police are looking for a suspect who they said carved swastikas into several cars in Brooklyn.
05/17/12 Marlins remain hopeful for 2015 All-Star Game Source: MLB With Major League Baseball announcing on Thursday that Citi Field will be the site of the 2013 All-Star Game, Marlins Park could be moving closer to landing the Midsummer Classic as early as 2015.
05/15/12 Unusually slow start lands Miami Marlins' Gaby Sanchez... Source: Miami Herald - Miami FL Compared with all other major-league first basemen, Gaby Sanchez has driven in more runs than the Dodgers' James Loney â but only Loney.
05/15/12 : Miami Marlins say fences at ballpark won't be moving... Source: SceneDaily MIAMIâ The hard-to-reach outfield fences at the Miami Marlins' new ballpark will remain that way.