I've got an idea! Let's put a baseball team that can't be funded by public support and team owners, go through players and managers like water and build a brand new stadium with tax payer dollars and do the same thing five years later in the same state! The Florida Marlins are a strange bunch. Ownership has often taken the approach that a team should only be good for one year. See 1997 and 2003. Otherwise it's a firesale on both players and managers. I wouldn't be surprised to see the Marlins make big moves in the offseason (although they did finally pay Hanley Ramirez and Josh Johnson) after firing manager Fredi Gonzalez. Just about everybody it seems, has played for the Marlins. Mike Piazza was once traded to Florida played five games before being traded to the Mets. But yet they have more W.S. titles than 11 teams and have as many as the Cubs, Indians and Phillies who have been around for 100 years now.
Team Breakdown
W.S. Titles:1997,2003
Favorite moment: Marlins beat the Yankees in the 2003 W.S.
Least Favorite: As a part time Indians fan thanks to living in Northwest Ohio and really liking Kenny Lofton, the "off Nagy's glove Counsell scores" is still something that sticks with me.
Franchise Player:Hanley Ramirez/Miguel Cabrera/Livan Hernandez
Forgot he played: Bobby Bonilla
Never knew: Trevor Hoffman
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