I understand they have won two World Series, good for them. However they are a shit franchise and act like they are the finest franchise in the sport.
 Had to listen to the Marlins TV last night, they acted like they just got Keith Hernandez instead of Nick Johnson. Johnson is a nice player, but they were talking like he is a perenial All Star.
 Enough, beat this team the next two games, that is the only way to shut this team up. Just beat them every year.
 They have taken over my " team I can’t stand" and that includes the Cardinals. Screw em!

… and to put the link to the article in.

I’m also linking to this post from my recap.

… “Just play baseball” and dump the “celebrity 7th inning stretch.”

Perhaps their marketing team should focus on getting fans in the seats. What a joke of a stadium. Their announcers are atrocious as well.

to try and get people to come to games?

They’re still 2nd to last i think in attendance.

They’re getting three of the biggest gates they’ll see all season and they repay these people putting money in their pockets by insulting them. I really don’t get the thought process. I mean, do you prefer empty seats?

I shouldn’t have to get pissed off because I know we have more class then them.

When there’s a true lack of marketing talent (see the team 9 miles south for an example) one must resort to shit like this. That’s OK. Ignore them as if they were representatives of the team 9 miles south.

The last thing I want to see is Wrigley with some form of fish-ripping the next time they’re here; that would only make the Cubs look as if they stoop down to their level.

Besides, for every fish fan there is across the country, there’s a hundred Cubs fans.

for smaller-market teams who have some sort of ‘history’ against the Cubs. The Padres, of course — celebrated the 20th Anniversary of their pennant — when the Cubs were in town. They wore their 1984 throwback uniforms for the first time.

The 1984 “Cubbuster” logo was back, and they started selling replica t-shirts.
(It’s a confused bear in a blue shirt wearing a blue cap with the universal “stop” or “no entry” shield superimposed over the animal.)

Thankfully, the Cubs won that night and actually took two out of three that weekend at the new Petco Park. At least the Padres didn’t stoop to “goats” and such nonsense.

As Bricks And Ivy says, there is only one way to put an end to this childish ‘marketing’ behavior.

Teams such as the Giants, Dodgers – and even the Mets…don’t pull such ‘pranks’ on other teams. Miami, San Diego — cities with major inferiority complexes.

Paging Randall Simon.

…decsion last season to bring in the Greek Orthodox Priest? I’ve never really had much respect for him after that…

This type of garbage is one of the reasons lemmings buy into the goat and curse BS…

what are we talking about, their marketing ploy to generate conversation about their product.

La Russa chimes in: Cardinals manager Tony La Russa was told Saturday that Piniella was upset the Marlins trotted out a goat during the game Friday.

“He should be [angry],” La Russa said. “Do you think that’s acceptable? I think every organization has these creative types who have to justify their creativity. They come up with this [stuff], and once in a while, it’s cute. But most of the time, somebody gets injured.”

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Maybe the Marlins fans trot out a goat because they just love goats!

this past weekend. Came down from Chicago. They continued with the goat noises all freakin’ weekend but atleast they didn’t put the goat on the score board with the picture of the 1908 Chicago Cubs team. When they brought a Cubs fan on the field to answer a trivia question, I knew something was up and we were yelling for him to get the question wrong as we were not that far away from him. The question was "who was the first Marlin Player to hit 30 homeruns and steal 30 bases in a season? Derrek Lee, Gary Sheffield, Preston Wilson. He aswered Wilson and when they said he was correct he got excited. Then they said “here is your prize” and out came Billy with the goat. I was most disappointed that the Cubs fan actually walked inside holding the rope the goat was attached to. I have always despised the Marlins but now it’s pure loathe. Other than baseball, the weekend in South Beach was great. Lots of Cubs fans out there.