On the Marlins

I see where my Yankees acquired Ron Villone from the Marlins for some minor league guy.  Normally, I wouldn’t spend much time on such a minor deal, but I got to thinking about something:  Who the hell do the Marlins have left?

Needless to say, I felt the need to find out just that.  So I went to the Marlins page from the MLB.com and pulled up the roster.  Well, I recognized precisely THREE guys:  Brian Moehler, Dontrelle Willis, and Miguel Cabrera.  This is just sick.  Worse, they have a grand total of SEVEN guys who were born before 1980, and two of them were born in February of ’79.

For the most part, I don’t really care what the Marlins do, but given the fact that they just hired Joe Girardi as manager, I care a little bit.  I honestly thought Girardi was going to end up taking over the Yankees whenever Torre decides to quit (I don’t think George will fire him).  Since he’s gone (and he didn’t go someplace horrible like Boston), I hope he does well, much like I hope Willie Randolph does well with the Mets (a discussion for another time).  It would appear that these guys now may be lucky to win 50 games.  What’s worse is that they’re raising their ticket prices.  

I know I’m not the commissioner (and thank heaven that I’m not Butt Selig), but if I was, I would have to step in.  I don’t mind the fire sale that’s going on.  If you can be profitable doing this, that’s fine.  But to let them raise ticket prices when you obviously are going to have a lousy team?  That’s just wrong.

This whole thing may be good news for Tigers fans.  This team may have a chance to be as bad as the ’03 Tigers, meaning a second team in 3 years is making a run at levels of incompetence known only to the ’62 Mets.

Honestly, I can’t wait until I’ve made enough to own a professional team.  Just can’t wait.