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Marlins Reach Agreement On New Ballpark

Submitted by cubsnet on Mon, 2008-02-18 19:40.

Marlins ballpark agreement reached (Sarah Talalay, Sun-Sentinel.com, 2/16/2008) (link via RealClearSports)

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The Marlins, Miami-Dade County, the city of Miami and Major League Baseball reached agreement late Friday to finance a $515 million ballpark at the site of the Orange Bowl, according to a source.

The agreement was not released, but was expected to be distributed to county and city commissioners, who will need to approve it. The city has scheduled a special commission meeting to consider the deal at 9 a.m. Thursday; the county commission is to meet at 1 p.m. that day.

The deal calls for the county and city to contribute $360 million mainly in tourist taxes and a $50 million general obligation bond Miami-Dade voters approved in 2004 to renovate the Orange Bowl, but which will instead be moved to the ballpark project.The Marlins are to contribute $155 million.

No more excuses for the Marlins, who will eventually be called the Miami Marlins. Not that anyone has to excuse two World Series championships over the past decade.

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"Why Couldn't We Have Played Them Every Game"

Submitted by cubsnet on Wed, 2007-09-26 21:58.

That's what the Florida Marlins are saying right now about the Chicago Cubs. With tonight's 7-4 victory over the Cubs (video highlights), the Marlins moved to 5-0 on the season against the Cubs. Dating back to last season, the Marlins have won nine straight. The Marlins even got Carlos Marmol to do something he hadn't done in over 23 innings: give up a run. Marmol gave up a two-run home run to Miguel Cabrera to put the Marlins up by the final margin. (Side note: Marmol has now allowed just three home runs in 68.1 innings this season after allowing fourteen in 77 innings last year, mostly as a starter.)

Jason Marquis had his second straight bad outing, allowing five runs, four earned in five innings on nine hits and two walks. It wasn't all his fault: a likely double play in the Marlins' 3-run 3rd inning was thrown away by Mark DeRosa. Had the double-play been turned, none of those runs would have scored.

Thankfully, the St. Louis Cardinals came through in a big way tonight, defeating the Milwaukee Brewers 7-4. The Cubs stay two games up with four to play. The Brewers begin their series with the San Diego Padres tomorrow. The Padres remain in the thick of tight NL West and Wild Card races. Unfortunately, Jake Peavy is pitching tonight, so the Brewers will miss him. Unless they really need to win on Sunday, in which case it's hard to imaginez them throwing Brett Tomko over Peavy on short rest.

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This Was Not Our Night

Submitted by cubsnet on Tue, 2007-09-25 22:05.

Cubs lose, Brewers win, leaving us with this with 5 games to go:

Team       W      L       Pct.      GB
Cubs      83      74      .529      --
Brewers   81      76      .516      2

The Cubs fell victim to their one-time farm-hand, Dontrelle Willis. The Cubs managed to get just 2 hits off of Willis in his 8 innings. Willis came into tonight's game having allowed 236 hits in 194.2 innings. He's had a better year at the plate (109 OPS+) than on the mound. Nevertheless, two of his ten wins have come in his two starts against the Cubs.

Meanwhile, 1500 miles to the north, Milwaukee blew out St. Louis. In the first two games of their four game series, the Brewers have outscored the Cardinals 22-6. And they did it against the Cardinals' two winningest pitchers, Adam Wainwright and Braden Looper.

Tomorrow, the Cubs have Jason Marquis going against rookie Daniel Barone. Barone has not pitched more than 5.2 innings in his 5 starts this season. His last start came on September 19, when he allowed 4 runs in 4.1 innings against Atlanta.

In Milwaukee, the Cardinals will throw Joel Pineiro against Carlos Villenueva. Villenueva has allowed just 4 runs in 24 innings since being inserted into the starting rotation on September 4.

UPDATE (9/26/07 4:40pm): It appears the Cardinals will throw Brad Thompson instead of Pineiro tonight.

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NY Daily News: Selig Stopped Jones Trade to Marlins

Submitted by Squib Hits on Mon, 2007-07-02 11:46.

Joe Aiello from View from the Bleachers notes a report from Bill Madden of the New York Daily News that Bud Selig prevented the Cubs from trading Jacque Jones to the Florida Marlins last week. According to the report, "Seems Selig deemed the money the Cubs were to absorb on Jones' contract as excessive. Apparently, the pending sale of the Cubs has prompted a 'no more debt' edict from Selig." As Joe notes, the "no more debt" explanation makes no sense, since the Cubs would have been relinquishing debt, albeit minimally given how much of Jones' salary the Cubs likely would have continued to pay.

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Ringolsby: Cubs Not Interested in Girardi

Submitted by cubsnet on Fri, 2006-08-11 08:14.

Tracy Ringolsby of the Rocky Mountain News reports that Joe Girardi was in fact briefly fired on Sunday by Florida owner Jeffrey Loria, but Loria quickly recanted. (HT: Baseball Primer Newsblog.) However, some in the Marlins organization do not like Girardi's micromanaging. Meanwhile, "Girardi has had friends making it known in Chicago that he would like the Cubs job. The Cubs, however, aren't interested."

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Girardi Addresses Cubs Speculation

Submitted by cubsnet on Tue, 2006-08-08 21:40.

The Florida Marlins had a team meeting after being swept by the Los Angeles Dodgers over the weekend, and owner Jeffrey Loria was in the clubhouse. There has apparently been speculation that manager Joe Girardi and Loria argued. Girardi responded today with these comments, as reported by the AP: "If you come and see me after we lose a game, you're going to have tension with me. . . . If there was tension between Jeffrey and I, he wouldn't be here."

"People like to speculate that I am going to Chicago. If I was going to Chicago, I wouldn't have sold my house. ...

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