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Moe_Rahn posted:while there are a shitfuckload of reasons to hate Jeff Loria, the Marlins' attendance numbers have loving skyrocketed compared to what they were before (home attendance so far on the year is ~1.42M per ESPN, versus ~1.52M for all of 2011 and ~1.53M for 2010; they've already bested the entire season's paid attendance for each year from 2006-2009)
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 03:38 |
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I think it also helps that Marlins games are not something you give to enemies to suffer from the outside heat.
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 03:44 |
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Tae posted:I think it also helps that Marlins games are not something you give to enemies to suffer from the outside heat. There's a roof on the new stadium
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 03:47 |
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Groucho Marxist posted:There's a roof on the new stadium I meant to add "anymore." I like the new stadium.
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 03:48 |
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The Marlins attendance being up is an additional reason to hate Jeff Loria.
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 04:31 |
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Mornacale posted:The Marlins attendance being up is an additional reason to hate Jeff Loria. It'll start going down as soon as fans see that Loria is doing the same poo poo as before with firesales after the team gets good.
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 04:59 |
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Mornacale posted:The Marlins attendance being up is an additional reason to hate Jeff Loria. how much input did he have on the dinger machine, though?
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 07:13 |
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ElwoodCuse posted:how much input did he have on the dinger machine, though?
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 07:15 |
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FlamingLiberal posted:It was entirely his idea. He had the work commissioned by a local artist, Red Grooms. What a lovely person. lovely, lovely person.
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 07:36 |
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Harlock posted:
hahahahahahaha that owns so much
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 08:16 |
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BasicFunk posted:What a lovely person. lovely, lovely person. gently caress you the dinger machine is the only good poo poo he's done
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 15:45 |
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:gently caress you the dinger machine is the only good poo poo he's done You like horrible things.
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 16:26 |
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BasicFunk posted:You like horrible things. man you have come to the wrong place.
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 16:46 |
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BasicFunk posted:You like horrible things.
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 16:57 |
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I stand with the newbie! To arms!
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 20:23 |
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Dinger machine best machine.
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 20:42 |
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The Dinger Machine is the gaudiest part of an rear end-ugly stadium that cost the residents of Miami an ungodly amount of money to build and will only serve to fill the pockets of Jeffrey Loria, who is one of the worst people on this earth. But it lights up and spits water so wooooooo dingers.
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 21:15 |
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ThatsMyBoye posted:I stand with the newbie! To arms! oh you're going down.
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 21:22 |
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The Goog posted:The Dinger Machine is the gaudiest part of an rear end-ugly stadium that cost the residents of Miami an ungodly amount of money to build and will only serve to fill the pockets of Jeffrey Loria, who is one of the worst people on this earth. Between you and me, I like the stadium just fine. And Miami is Miami. It is governed by morons. It is unfortunate and Loria is a swindler who probably shouldn't be owning a baseball team, but that doesn't mean you have to take it out on the Dinger Machine
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 21:22 |
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Bread, circuses, and dinger machines.
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 21:31 |
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If we weren't allowed to like things that make profits for evil people, we wouldn't like pro sports. Or college sports. Or Something Awful.
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 21:48 |
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Yeah, what the hell is wrong with the Miami Herald that they weren't publishing a story every day about how that stadium is a huge money pit?
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 22:03 |
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:Yeah, what the hell is wrong with the Miami Herald that they weren't publishing a story every day about how that stadium is a huge money pit?
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 01:11 |
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The Goog posted:The Dinger Machine is the gaudiest part of an rear end-ugly stadium that cost the residents of Miami an ungodly amount of money to build and will only serve to fill the pockets of Jeffrey Loria, who is one of the worst people on this earth. I think a bigger problem than Loria are the local Miami politicians who signed off on the deal. They blew it big time. Unfortunately, as someone who grew up in Miami, local politics in that city are insanely corrupt.
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 01:35 |
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BasicFunk posted:You like horrible things.
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 03:50 |
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Here's a good one: SportsCenter lifted a report literally word-for-word from RealGM.DeadSpin posted:Last Night’s SportsCenter Featured A Dwight Howard Story Plagiarized Word-For-Word From RealGM.com
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 03:53 |
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Crazy Ted posted:Someone get a rope. I know you aren't racist, but I just got a natural urge to call Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. Also, the dinger machine is an ugly, tacky, piece of poo poo in an otherwise nice stadium. This is my opinion. Take it or leave it.
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 04:18 |
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Crazy Ted posted:Here's a good one: SportsCenter lifted a report literally word-for-word from RealGM. Not only is this a lazy and fireable offense but it implies that someone actually read a RealGM article.
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 04:19 |
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:Not only is this a lazy and fireable offense but it implies that someone actually read a RealGM article. Some of their articles have comedic value. Like when one of their writers tried to invent his own "sabermetric" stat. http://baseball.realgm.com/src_fromtheupperdeck/48/20080114/the_mlb_reina_value/
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 04:36 |
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Crazy Ted posted:Here's a good one: SportsCenter lifted a report literally word-for-word from RealGM. How does it even enter one's head to do that? "Yeah, we're a very popular network that's constantly watched (and scrutinized) by a web-savvy audience. No one will ever notice!"
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 04:43 |
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midwat posted:How does it even enter one's head to do that? "Yeah, we're a very popular network that's constantly watched (and scrutinized) by a web-savvy audience. No one will ever notice!" I assume it was breaking news, a producer copied and pasted it into the script, someone was supposed to rewrite/reframe it and they didn't for whatever reason and it made it to air unedited.
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 04:55 |
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BasicFunk posted:I know you aren't racist, but I just got a natural urge to call Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. i'll leave you dead in a ditch you bad opinion having motherfucker
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 05:11 |
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morestuff posted:I assume it was breaking news, a producer copied and pasted it into the script, someone was supposed to rewrite/reframe it and they didn't for whatever reason and it made it to air unedited. Yeah, that's really the only plausible explanation. Even if they had reworked it, though, it remains incredibly shady to air something you've put no original reporting into.
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 05:12 |
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Maybe ESPN just stopped giving a poo poo and didn't think someone would match up an article on RealGM to a random SportsCenter story. If Rudolph hadn't been watching, nothing probably happens. The Lynn Hoppes and Chris Broussard stuff got swept under the rug. Doesn't seem to be a priority for them.
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 05:20 |
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Maybe ESPN is just doing a scientific study on exactly how bad at journalism you can be before you lose credibility. Unfortunately, they're way behind cable news.
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 05:50 |
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Here's ESPN's explanation:ESPN posted:The story was unfolding during the live SportsCenter and the RealGM report was cut and inadvertently pasted by someone else into the anchor's script. We have apologized to the writer and are taking steps so it won't happen again.
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 05:52 |
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Groucho Marxist posted:i'll leave you dead in a ditch you bad opinion having motherfucker Well you can suck my big, black, bad opinion having dick. gently caress the Marlins.
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 06:58 |
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In a more positive ESPN story, if any of you have Netflix and missed out on the 30 for 30 series all of them went up on streaming last night. Watch them. All of them. Well, except for maybe the Red Sox one, which added nothing new to the narrative.
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 13:12 |
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The Prisoner posted:In a more positive ESPN story, if any of you have Netflix and missed out on the 30 for 30 series all of them went up on streaming last night. Well this is a great way to start my Friday and ensures I'll be doing a lot of nothing this weekend. The Two Escobars is must-watch for anyone, it's brilliant. Really all of them are good, but that one in particular is exceptional. Other great ones: Pony Excess, Who Killed the USFL, and Run Ricky Run
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 13:42 |
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Capt Murphy posted:Well this is a great way to start my Friday and ensures I'll be doing a lot of nothing this weekend. The Two Escobars is must-watch for anyone, it's brilliant. Really all of them are good, but that one in particular is exceptional. Other great ones: Pony Excess, Who Killed the USFL, and Run Ricky Run
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