Were you one of those "Marlins suck" people?

[RagingInMiami]

Two World Series wins in 12 years of existence with a strong possibility of winning a third this year. And we don't even have a stadium yet.

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[Patsy Stone]

1. No

I love the Marlins and I am REALLY ready for baseball! Go, Juan Pierre! And we signed Delgado. Nice day!

[RagingInMiami]

3. Yes, you used to have a Marlins avatar

[Patsy Stone]

13. Yes I did

I changed for the off-season! :)

Go, FISH!

[KitchenWitch]

2. I was disappointed when the team was totally dismantled

after the first WS win. What a way for ownership to treat the fans. The only possible owner who is nearly as bad would be Carl Pohlad, who offered up the Twins for contraction...Carl Pohlad, with all of his business interests is far richer than Steinbrenner, but is classically cheap when it comes to signing talent to the Twins.

[pres2032]

5. oh, i HATED that!!!!!

i remember seeing the paper and just saying "this is the worst trade EVER!"

[pres2032]

4. hee hee! i love 'em to death!

i'm loving that we have a better winning percentage in the playoffs than the yankees and the Red Sox and we have a better rate at winning them than either team!

I can't beleive how strong our team is this year! i'm loving our chances!

[JohnKleeb]

6. Thanks for beating them in the world series

:).

[RagingInMiami]

8. Not just beat them, but them twice in Yankee stadium

That was the best ever

[JohnKleeb]

9. yes, hah right in their playhouse

and you avenged the defeat of my orioles in the 1997 ACLS to Cleveland.

[pres2032]

11. yes, and i loved that they camped out on the field for HOURS

after the game. I read that players took bottles of champagne and just laid out in the field and drank the night away.

[RagingInMiami]

12. My dad was a huge oriole fan. He would always call them the birds

[JohnKleeb]

15. So much history, sigh

Its been really been tough since Ripken left, but they're making a comeback, god I hope that the Yanks and Sox both get off to bad starts.

[RagingInMiami]

7. How did you become a Marlin fan?

[pres2032]

10. went to a phillies-marlins game at the Vet when i was ten

It happened to be their first season. i went with my cub scout group and decided that i would cheer for the Marlins and have stuck with them ever since.

[RagingInMiami]

14. Good for you

I saw them in their very first spring training game up in Melbourne and I saw them in their very first regular season game, in which they beat the dodgers, 6-4, I believe it was.
Before that, I was a Red Sox fan because my dad was an orioles fan and all my friends were yankee fans. I had to go against them.
But I'm born and bred in Miami and I still haven't been to Boston so now I'm a diehard Marlins fan, although I always hold a soft spot for the red sox.

[JohnKleeb]

16. I have a softspot for the sox too because they're always against

the yanks who I despise, yes the sox have beaten us just as much but they never stole my heart like the Yanks have.

[pres2032]

17. i still remember the score, we lost 4-3

and i remember the score of the Phillies-Marlins game i saw this past october. the phillies won 6-4.

hehe, it was fun being one of only about 30 rooting for the marlins in a stadium of 50,000.

[RagingInMiami]

19. The Marlins had a pretty long win streak against the phillies last year

[pres2032]

22. they did, too bad it ended there at the end.

[JohnKleeb]

23. you know what I'd like to see end

The Braves getting all those division titles, but hell you guys werent even in existance when that started and yet the Marlins have won more world series than the Braves in that time. Cox is a good manager..........until October.

[KitchenWitch]

24. I hate Bobby Cox

I am also sick of the Braves...Liked them when they were in Milwaukee!

[JohnKleeb]

26. he has so many division titles under his belt but only one championship

I would prefer him to keep on winning division titles then choking, because hell Earl Weaver only got one series ring too damnit.

[pres2032]

25. haha, that never occured to me before.

that's awsome! I may have to include that in my AIM profile.

[JohnKleeb]

27. hey you got AIM, gimme an IM sometime, I am on often but not now

[pres2032]

30. sure, click on the AIM buddy icon and send me a note

i'm not at my comp with AIM now, but i'll see it when i get back. I have an away message up now.

[JohnKleeb]

32. added ya

neat.

[pres2032]

34. sweet!

[JohnKleeb]

36. yep

god it would be nice for a change if the Sox and Yanks fans didnt rule the lounge, I was happy to see the Sox win but now I want a division title, ok ok I want 80 wins, can I have that god? yeah pleeeease.

[pres2032]

38. yah, i think if the marlins seriously compete

you will see people jumping on the bandwagon. and yeah, the sox and yanks need some serious competition.

[JohnKleeb]

40. I hope my orioles will give them their best

Its my dream to see the orioles at least make the playoffs hopefully w/o either the yanks or the sox.

[pres2032]

18. anyone know when tickets go on sale?

[RagingInMiami]

20. It should say on here

http://florida.marlins.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/index.jsp?c_id=fla

[pres2032]

21. sweet, thanks!

totally forgot their schedule was out now. I might get to see them in april in Philly, hehe, right before final exams!

[pres2032]

28. you what i love? how us Marlins fans have taken over the lounge tonight!

we're posting everywhere! I love it! now let's keep this up throughout the season. we have to end the yankee and red sox fans' dominance of the lounge!

[JohnKleeb]

29. I'll support that

:)

[RagingInMiami]

31. Here's something for the Yankee fans

[JohnKleeb]

33. did the yanks blow a lead in that series?

God, I want the Yanks to become known as chokers.

[pres2032]

35. um, kinda, not really

Marlins won game 1
Yanks win games 2 and 3
Marlins win games 4-6

not much of a contest. When Cabera hit that two run homer off of clemens, you knew the marlins had it wrapped up from the beginning.

[JohnKleeb]

37. ok so even cooler, the yanks flat out didnt do good

I think its aswesome that the Marlins won the games in NY.

[pres2032]

39. yeah, made it even sweeter

i have a great article online saved on my other comp. will have to show it to you when i get the chance. talks about how Marlins ruled new York city

[JohnKleeb]

41. Yanks havent won a series since 2000

I want to be 90 and that to be still.

[pres2032]

42. i second that

i hope that when i'm 90, the Marlins will have one their 35th World Series.

[JohnKleeb]

43. ha

The Yankees being cursed, oh I live for that. God, I got so personally involved in the past ACLS' that some Yanks fans even thought I was a Sox fan, no I just hate the Yankees, its how I was brought up.

[KitchenWitch]

44. I have a funny story about that

During the ALCS my family and I were on vacation, and at night were hanging around the poolside bar (which had the games on TV). Most of the people at the bar were from Boston (a few from NY) and I became an honorary Sox fan those evenings. We were all running around hugging each other and high fiving everyone...but the Yankees fans went back to their rooms.

[pres2032]

45. lol, yeah

i'm not so much in favor as a yankee curse as for the marlins to have a 21st century like the yanks had the 20th century.

[DaveinMD]

46. and yet

no one goes to their games. Rather sad.

[pres2032]

47. hey, they come! we had 70,000+ for the playoffs!

[DaveinMD]

48. playoffs don't count

that is the definition of fair weather. Support your team during the year. Anything less than 2 million in attendance is poor.

[RagingInMiami]

49. You have to understand that the fans were still pissed off at Wayne

Huzienga for dismantling the team after the first world series

[DaveinMD]

50. I understand

but you have new ownership. Support your team or the same thing could happen again.

[pres2032]

51. we have been getting bigger crowds

they didn't all disappear, but it is gonna take awhile.

[DaveinMD]

52. you guys have a good team

and the owner is spending money. You guys better show up this year. If not, its bad news.

[pres2032]

53. yeah, i hope so too

[RagingInMiami]

54. You know the phrase "once bitten, twice shy"?

Even with the new ownership, fans were still pissed off and skeptical. After all, the loyalty thing goes both ways. A team owner has to not only be loyal to the team, but to the community as well.
Even after the Marlins beat the Yankees, fans were still expecting the team to be dismantled.
But last year, when it was obvious the owner was going to keep the core of the team -- even though he had to get rid of pudge rodriguez -- the fans remained loyal and supported the team.

[DaveinMD]

55. he did the right thing on Pudge

they are running their team well. I hope we get another shot at you this year.