Marlins fans - What do you want?

[Dave Gray]

So, you hate the team's management, right?

What do you want?  Win now?  Try to build mercenary teams, then tear down?  Sell off talent to get younger, longer-term guys who will stick around?

Or do you want to punish ownership, almost rooting for their bankruptcy and failure, until a better owner can be put in place?

[Fau Teixeira]

as a former marlins fan .. i want the owner to sell or otherwise lose ownership in the team . .that would make me happy

[Sunstroke]

as a former marlins fan ...

I'm trying to imagine referring to myself as a "former Padres (or Suns, or 49ers) fan"...and I just can't see it. A fan is a fan, in good times and bad, and nothing (not even marrying a fan of another team) could ever change my allegiance.

[RichThrawn]

as a former marlins fan .. i want the owner to sell or otherwise lose ownership in the team . .that would make me happy

I won't stop rooting for the Marlins.  I just won't support them financially until Loria is outta there. 

[Brian Fein]

as a former marlins fan .. i want the owner to sell or otherwise lose ownership in the team . .that would make me happy

This

I won't stop rooting for the Marlins.  I just won't support them financially until Loria is outta there. 

And this...

I want to see Loria burn in hell.  I still like the Marlins, I am still a fan.  But I refuse to go to another game or buy any merchandise to support the Marlins until Loria and Samson are gone.

(and yes I know about profit sharing...)

I'd like to see the Marlins win.  I'd like to see them keep their guys, starting with Stanton and Fernandez.  I'd like to see continuity.  This season's trade deadline was the first step in the right direction.

[Spider-Dan]

I'm trying to imagine referring to myself as a "former Padres (or Suns, or 49ers) fan"...and I just can't see it.  A fan is a fan, in good times and bad, and nothing (not even marrying a fan of another team) could ever change my allegiance.

So you'd still be a fan of the Seattle Suns, then?

For most fans, a move would rather quickly change their allegiance.

[MaineDolFan]

I'm trying to imagine referring to myself as a "former Padres (or Suns, or 49ers) fan"...and I just can't see it. A fan is a fan, in good times and bad, and nothing (not even marrying a fan of another team) could ever change my allegiance.

I always thought the same thing.  The last few things have really shaken me to the core with the Red Sox.  I've been through it all.  I've been through Bucky F'N Dent, I've been through 1986, I've been through Fred Lynn (which was awful).  I've been through 2003 (which might have been harder than 1986).  I've been through Bobby G-D Valentine.  But yesterday?  Unless Lester is wearing the B on his hat again after this offseason, I just don't know.

I can UNDERSTAND finally losing patience...

[Spider-Dan]

Maine, the Boston Red Sox are the reigning World Series Champions and you're talking about how losing Jon Lester might be the last straw?  Seriously?

This takes "but what have you done for me lately?" to stratospheric new heights.

[Sunstroke]

So you'd still be a fan of the Seattle Suns, then?

For most fans, a move would rather quickly change their allegiance.

As long as the move wasn't to Los Angeles or New York (I have a genetic predisposition against those two particular levels of Hell), I would continue to support my team in their new location.

[Spider-Dan]

I stopped being a Rams fan when they left L.A. (which was when/why I became a Dolphins fan) and I hate the Oklahoma City Thunder like deadly poison.

[Sunstroke]

My dad was an LA Rams fan back in the day, mainly because he was good friends with a guy named John Cappelletti, who played RB for the Rams for a few years.

[MaineDolFan]

Maine, the Boston Red Sox are the reigning World Series Champions and you're talking about how losing Jon Lester might be the last straw?  Seriously?

This takes "but what have you done for me lately?" to stratospheric new heights.

No, it's not.

I wouldn't expect you to get it.  It's fine you don't.  I was fine World Series winless until 2004 without feeling this way.  It's so much more than winning and losing.

[Sunstroke]

You almost have me hoping that Lester doesn't go back to Boston (I'm feeling a Dave Loggins vibe here) this offseason, just to see if you'll jump from that ledge or climb back in the window. It just seems a little extreme for a standard "baseball is a business" situation.

[Spider-Dan]

You're right Maine, I can't understand it.  Are you saying you would be happier if they had kept Lester and BOS didn't make the playoffs for the next 10 years?  Because normally, wins and losses are the entire point.

The current front office brought you a ring less than one year ago, and you have so little faith in what they are doing that unless they bring back one specific player, you're saying you might be done with the team?  Does this still apply if BOS wins the World Series again next year?  Or will that championship be too bitter to accept?

It's total insanity, man.  The idea that you could be the current reigning champs (and not sell off the team like the Marlins) and be so disgusted with the ownership that you're ready to write off the team is unfathomable.  It's that kind of entitlement-on-steroids that makes fans of other teams wish for another 80-year Red Sox streak.

[Sunstroke]

It's that kind of entitlement-on-steroids that makes fans of other teams wish for another 80-year Red Sox streak.

Especially fans of teams like the Padres, who have never experienced a championship...or a no-hitter, or a hit-for-the-cycle, or pretty much anything that would allow us to talk trash to fans of any other team.

Take every big-market, big budget team, put 'em in a line and fuck 'em all...sideways...lubeless

GO PADRES!!