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12-09-2007, 07:26 PM
Marlins Forget To Win the World Series Before Dismantling This Time
With stars Miguel Cabrera and Dontrelle Willis off to the Detroit Tigers, the latest dismantling of the Florida Marlins is under way. Only this time the team forgot to do one thing first.
“Oh, right. Crap,” said general manager Michael Hill. “I knew when I was signing off on all the paperwork to trade Miguel and Dontrelle that something was missing. I thought it was that I had to sign everything in triplicate instead of just duplicate. But, no, it turns out that we forget to win the World Series.”
The Marlins won the World Series in 1997 and 2003, and immediately dumped payroll after each victory. Now this offseason they are doing the same thing. “I think in a way this is showing progress for this organization,” said Hill. “We don’t need to sit around and wait for major milestones anymore in order to gut our team. We are more proactive in doing that these days.”
With Cabrera and Willis gone and the payroll back to embarrassingly low levels, Florida’s roster is again populated by young, cheap – but talented – players such as Hanley Ramirez, pitching prospects and the bounty of young prospects acquired from the Tigers.
“This team has a lot of young talent,” said Hill. “I could see us competing for a World Series in 2010. And, either way – World Series or not – I see us gutting the entire roster and getting rid of anyone making decent money by 2011. Maybe even before then.”
With stars Miguel Cabrera and Dontrelle Willis off to the Detroit Tigers, the latest dismantling of the Florida Marlins is under way. Only this time the team forgot to do one thing first.
“Oh, right. Crap,” said general manager Michael Hill. “I knew when I was signing off on all the paperwork to trade Miguel and Dontrelle that something was missing. I thought it was that I had to sign everything in triplicate instead of just duplicate. But, no, it turns out that we forget to win the World Series.”
The Marlins won the World Series in 1997 and 2003, and immediately dumped payroll after each victory. Now this offseason they are doing the same thing. “I think in a way this is showing progress for this organization,” said Hill. “We don’t need to sit around and wait for major milestones anymore in order to gut our team. We are more proactive in doing that these days.”
With Cabrera and Willis gone and the payroll back to embarrassingly low levels, Florida’s roster is again populated by young, cheap – but talented – players such as Hanley Ramirez, pitching prospects and the bounty of young prospects acquired from the Tigers.
“This team has a lot of young talent,” said Hill. “I could see us competing for a World Series in 2010. And, either way – World Series or not – I see us gutting the entire roster and getting rid of anyone making decent money by 2011. Maybe even before then.”