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Marlins C.E.O. Derek Jeter touched briefly yesterday on the future of manager Don Mattingly as skipper in Miami. Or did he? Jeet'z "There hasn't been a decision yet". "At the end of every year we evaluate all members of the organization, weather it's the manager, weather it's coaches" etcetera etcetera.  It's in that 'evaluation' process where it doesn't take a baseball genius to know Mattingly & Co. don't get it done. I know D.J also said "I think it's easy for fans and media to look at wins and losses and that's how you evaluate the job, but there's a lot of things that go into it". Maybe Derek wants us to forget just how ugly Mattingly’s record is as Marlins manager. Try 262-340 🙈 heading into today's game. I know the Fish have been in rebuild mode the last 2 years, but they sure as hell were not in Don's first 2 seasons as skipper in Miami. Mattingly had the Marlins in Playoff conten...

May 24, 2006. The Fish complete the sweep of the Chicago Cubs defeating Greg Maddux in front of 7,720 fans at Dolphins Stadium. It would mark the turnaround for a special season in South Florida. You’d be justified to think a team full of rookies would struggle, and struggle mightily at that, living in the everyday grind that is Major League Baseball. The extremely young 2006 Marlins got off to a horrid start. Worst start (Up until this year 🙈) in Franchise History and on pace to be one of the worst in BASEBALL HISTORY! They were ‘walked-off’ 6 times through their first 24 Road Games, while at Home things weren’t much better. Attendance was in the 💩-ter again (Not drawing over 15 thousand after Opening Day).. Not good for a Club with just as much off-field issues as on-field ones...  But like that corny phrase from ESPN’s 30 for 30 series, “What if I told you” this particular group of ‘miss-fits’, ‘youngsters’, ‘outcasts’, and above all else ‘Underdogs’ would shock the bas...

May 23, 2006. The Marlins walk-off the Chicago Cubs in the bottom of the 9th via a clutch hit from current LumberKings manager Mike Jacobs, as they commence to achieve a feat no other baseball team had/has ever done. Last time we blogged  😉  we were talking  🔥 ‘Fire Sales’ 🔥  and how there may of not been one as massive as what occurred post 2005. The modern game had never seen as much Roster turnover between the end of one season and the start of the next. Even by Marlins standards  😉 . The 2005 Florida Marlins were built to be a Playoff Team. Their lineup featured the likes of All Stars Carlos Delgado, Miguel Cabrera, Paul Lo Duca, Mike Lowell, Luis Castillo. The Rotation was ‘All World’ like with Josh Beckett, Dontrelle Willis, A.J. Burnett, Al Leiter. The Club was a winner, but it missed out on Postseason play for the 2 nd  consecutive campaign. The Marlins were not only optimistic of reclaiming the Title at the beginning ...