Marlins fans - What do you want?

[MaineDolFan]

Spider - it's this particular player, what he means to the franchise, what the franchise's "motto" is supposed to be based around, and the potential for this to be a future pattern.

It's more than wins and loses, and it's more than Jon Lester.  And unless you have grown up living and breathing a team like we do here in New England, you'll either get...or you won't.

There have been moves by this particular ownership group which has made me raise my eyebrows.  Winning a World Series is great.  I appreciate it.  Last year was fun.  My ass was in the stands, or watching on TV, or listening to the radio, well before 2004.  It's easy to forget now.  The Sox have won three in ten years.  Before 2004 there constant re-loading for "another one."  Just a constant dream, and then the subsequent nightmare.  You seem to forget this portion of your stance.

There was a lot before 2004.  2007.  2013.

Say, like, 2002.  The year Jon Lester was drafted.  Watching the kid move from the Gulf Coast league and being in the car, literally, to pick up him in '05 to bring him to Hadlock field when he arrived in Portland in '05 to introduce him him to his host family.  Watching him start 2007 in single A and finish 2007 as a World Series Champion (ESPN isn't saying a ton about that, huh?), with another stop in right here in Portland.  Knowing how much this organization means to him, and what I thought he meant to the organization.  And, again, what I thought the organizational pattern still held true to.  It's believing one thing to be true about the organization, only to find out another is the reality. 

I'm not Al Davis.  "Just win, baby" isn't my M.O.

I have zero issues getting behind a scrappy team, losing.  No one heard a word from me complaining this year.  It's not about wins and loses for me.  If it were, I would have bailed on the Miami Dolphins decades, literally, ago. 

It's about something more, about something deeper.  So, again, you don't get it.  I don't care.  Continue to not get it.

[el diablo]

Especially fans of teams like the Padres, who have never experienced a championship...or a no-hitter, or a hit-for-the-cycle, or pretty much anything that would allow us to talk trash to fans of any other team.

Take every big-market, big budget team, put 'em in a line and fuck 'em all...sideways...lubeless

GO PADRES!!

You just swept my hitless Braves. What more do you want?

[Thundergod]

I won't stop rooting for the Marlins.  I just won't support them financially until Loria is outta there. 

^^^
Add another to this bandwagon.

You can almost bank on the fact that ownership will sell off their talent once their salary demands go up, so that I don't have to worry about. However the Marlins win is fine by me. But if they continuously suck for years on end I won't shed a tear, only then can I hope that one day ownership will take off.

F Loria and Samson

[Sunstroke]

You just swept my hitless Braves. What more do you want?

A rare thing for the Friars...

On a positive note, and proof-positive that the Sports Gods reward fan loyalty... There is a baseball fantasy pool game called "13-Run" that I got into with 12 other local friends. We each put $20 in the pot, and we picked a major league team, with no 2 players having the same team. The objective of the game is to have your team score each number between 0-13. The lower numbers are easy...most scores are low, but when you get into the double digit runs, it gets tougher. Smart money goes with a team with a potent offense, as they are the most likely to put up 11, 12, 13 runs...

So, of course, I picked my juggernaut Padres and their historically weak offense.

SD got all the low numbers early, but most of the other entries were several points ahead of me. Suddenly, my Padres found their hittin' shoes and knocked off both 13 & 12 within a week, giving my Padres the unfathomable pool win.

The $260 I won almost pays for my fantasy football season.

Go Padres!!

[AZ Fins Fan 55]

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That actually sounds like a lot of fun. I have never heard of it before. I may have to strike something like this up with some friends for next season. Congrats on the win!!!!

[DZA]

I won't stop rooting for the Marlins.  I just won't support them financially until Loria is outta there. 

I agree I went to a game last season and my  family was so bored we left at the 7th. Until Loria is gone the Marlins is not gonna get another dime from me

[Brian Fein]

^^ been hearing this a lot from a lot of fans.  Sadly, not enough, as the Marlins are still drawing crowds this season.

Although, I thought this picture from opening day was interesting: