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."

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. ...