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The Dugout: Florida Marlins Spring Training 2010

The Dugout's look at Spring Training for the National League East continues today with the Florida Marlins, a team who has managed to win the World Series twice despite an annual payroll of a dollar twenty-five. However, revenue-sharing regulations are changing the game, and teams like the Marlins and the Pirates (but...

Making Peace With Peter Angelos

Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos isn't all bad? A few years ago that notion would have seemed unfathomable. The Orioles have reeled off 11 straight losing seasons and appear headed for a 12th. Frustration grew so high among fans in the Charm City in 2006 that almost 1,000 fans walked out of Camden Yards in late...

Beware the Dugouts of March: The Florida Marlins' 2009 Preview

I agree with Hanley Ramirez: I hate haircuts. They never turn out looking like I want them to. I tell the barber that I want to look like Mark Paul Gosselaar circa the fifth season of Saved by the Bell (the one with Tori, where it looked like he had yellow toothpaste on his head) and I end up looking like Captain Kangaroo....

Daily Jolt: Fish Finally Have Real Home

The Daily Jolt is a dose of baseball reality every weekday morning.Like it or not, Major League Baseball in Miami is here to stay. That is the ultimate consequence of the decision by the Miami-Dade County Commission to publicly finance a baseball-only facility, a decision sealed by a 9-4 vote Monday evening.There is plenty...

Marlins to Get New Stadium

Ever since 1993 when the Florida Marlins were born into Major League Baseball existence, they've been trying to get a new stadium. Time and time again they failed to get it done. Even after winning two World Series titles in the first eleven years of the franchise history, efforts came up fruitless.Until Monday when...

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05/29/12 Marlins impressed by up-close look at Heat Source: Houma Today - Houma LA Stanton sat with teammate Ricky Nolasco, Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria and Loria's wife Monday to watch the Heat easily beat Boston in Game 1.
04/28/12 Architecture Review: A Ballpark That May Be Louder... Source: The New York Times Lumbering and dizzyingly white in the Florida sun, the new Marlins Park is an elliptical concrete, steel and glass boulder looming above the low-rise houses and empty lots of the Little Havana neighborhood.
04/27/12 Architecture Review: Marlins Park in Miami, Baseball's... Source: The New York Times - New York NY Lumbering and dizzyingly white in the Florida sun, the new Marlins Park is an elliptical concrete, steel and glass boulder looming above the low-rise houses and empty lots of Little Havana.
04/26/12 Mets' homegrown 9 a victory for scouts Source: New York Daily News - New York NY There were barely 10,000 cold and damp souls on hand at Citi Field Thursday to cheer Kirk Nieuwenhuis ' single over the head of Miami right fielder Giancarlo Stanton that brought home Josh Thole with the winning run to complete a three-game Mets sweep of the Marlins â and so the celebration was somewhat muted by both the elements and the circumstances.
04/19/12 Miami Marlins: 6 Alternate Logos That Were Considered... Source: Bleacher Report We are five months, 13 games into the Miami Marlins era, and at this point the vibrant colors that accompany the uniforms, logo and ballpark have all grown on the fans.