MLB 2024 Off Season

igotid88

If only Donnie had this bullpen last year or the year before.

Cliffy6745

Wobbie said:

my god!? pete rose and a-fraud both on FOX?

paging barry bonds.....

Arod is the best talking baseball

DewieCox

Yeah, say what you will about him, but Aroid clearly loves and knows the game. His delivery can be plastic-y aometimes, though.

Pete Rose, on the other hand, he just gives an air of skankiness to everything he's a part of. I know he was a helluva player and on the field a style that's impossible not to like, but every time i hear him speak I'm a little more glad he isn't a HoF'er.

Ernie Vedder

Cubs>VaGiants

Wobbie

people need to quit selling their seats to Marlins Man

pureoc

Wobbie said:

people need to quit selling their seats to Marlins Man

Something we can agree on!

Wobbie

pureoc said:

Wobbie said:

people need to quit selling their seats to Marlins Man

Something we can agree on!

pretty sure we're not agreeing about the upcoming game at camp randall

not happy how this toronto/texas series is going.....dislike of toronto > like of texas

cutz

pureoc said:

Wobbie said:

people need to quit selling their seats to Marlins Man

Something we can agree on!

I thought the same thing until i read this about him: http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/mlb/miami-marlins/article20600751.html

Marlins Man: A fan with a plan

BY CLARK SPENCER
cspencer@MiamiHerald.com

MAY 9, 2015 7:44 PM

SAN FRANCISCO — The rendezvous point was the Willie Mays statue, just outside the main turnstiles at AT&T Park. That’s where they gathered.

There was the dentist from Los Altos.

There was his sister, an oceanographer, who had flown in from Hawaii.

There was the lead singer of an all-girl Motley Crue tribute band from nearby Sausalito, just on the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge.

And there was the ringleader of this hodgepodge group.

There was “Marlins Man,” all decked out in his blinding bright, blood-orange Marlins jersey and visor.

Marlins Man is Laurence Leavy, a Miami lawyer and self-proclaimed “spectator sports geek” who travels around the country buying front-row box seats to ballgames.

Always wearing his impossible-to-miss outfit, he has become arguably the nation’s most recognizable fan, something of a Forrest Gump-like character with a knack for showing up in live shots of batters taken from the center-field camera. He was just as big a star at last year’s World Series as any of the players.

“You’re great, Marlins Man,” says a man in a Giants T-shirt, who approaches Leavy after spotting him standing outside the ballpark before Friday’s game. “I love seeing you on TV.”

Leavy is here to see his favorite team, the Marlins.

But Leavy has taken his fandom to a new extreme this season. Instead of buying the primo seats only for himself, he’s using his Facebook account (3,192 friends and counting) and inviting total strangers — three and four at a time — to sit with him.

And not just at Marlins games in Miami.

He went to Boston to catch a Red Sox-Yankees game at Fenway Park. He traveled to St. Louis to see the Cardinals-Reds game at Busch Stadium. He is heading to Detroit on Sunday for Tigers-Royals. At every stop, he has bought tickets for fans who want to sit with Marlins Man in the best seats in the ballpark.

“It was a blast; amazing,” said Jeremy Mathis, a 35-year-old home security manager from Joplin, Missouri, who took up Leavy’s offer to see a Cardinals game in St. Louis a few weeks ago. “It was neat taking that in with him. The three of us looked at each other at one point and said, ‘We’re his entourage right now.’ ”

Said Cindy Andresen, who was part of Leavy’s contingent Friday: “It was incredible. Everywhere we went, people wanted a picture with him. He was nice to everybody. He made everybody’s day it seemed.”

Andresen is a die-hard Giants fan when she’s not performing for Cruella, a Motley Crue tribute band with a female twist. She goes to about 25 Giants games a season and sits on the first-base side. But she ended up in Leavy’s band of $300-a-pop box seats behind home plate on Friday.

“It’s effected my life positively, just the new people I met and being around someone so awesome,” Andresen said.

Leavy said he is not doing it for the attention. He receives plenty of that just from being who he is — an eccentric sports fan who darts across the United States in jets and drives around South Florida in a 1970 Cadillac DeVille convertible that’s painted in the Marlins’ colors.

The other day, Leavy said he was contacted at his hotel in San Francisco by someone wondering whether he would mind being the subject for a book, perhaps even a reality TV show.

“Told him I’m not interested,” Leavy said. “I told him no book, no reality show. I’m not in it for that. I just want to experience in person what I used to watch on TV.”

Meaning baseball games and other sporting events.

Leavy, who is not married, used to go with a girlfriend. But they broke up a year ago, and he started going alone to games. That is, until he came up with an idea to give away tickets and involve others.

See, the free tickets he’s giving away come with one simple request from Leavy: that those receiving them “pay it forward” by performing some benevolent act of kindness for others in need.

So Mathis, for example, bought groceries for a woman and shoes for one of his son’s classmates after seeing the Cardinals game with Leavy.

Andresen, after taking in Friday’s game with Leavy, said: “Now I’m going to look harder for ways to be nice to people.”

Once they have proved to Leavy they have performed some act of kindness, he sends them a T-shirt with a profile of the Marlins Man face and the words “Pay It Forward” written on the front.

“I’m actually having a positive influence on strangers’ lives, and I feel like I’m making a difference,” Leavy said. “When I see the smile on these people’s faces, all the problems they have in their life — a guy’s sick wife, or his mother’s passed away — all their problems are gone for a three-hour sporting event.”

Leavy said that after going to Detroit to see the Tigers and Royals on Sunday, he will head off to Baltimore for next Saturday’s Preakness — the second leg of the horse racing Triple Crown — followed by a full itinerary of major-league games the rest of the summer.

All along the journey, he will be joined by strangers-turned-friends.

“It’s been an incredible feeling,” he said. “It’s like a drug. It makes me want to do more.”


Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/mlb/miami-marlins/article20600751.html#storylink=cpy

pureoc

Cool what he is doing for others, no doubt. If he's turned down book and tv show offers cause he's not doing it to be noticed why wear the bright notice me jersey. Just go dressed normal or in gear of a team that's actually playing. Thats my main issue, regardless of what he says, it comes across as "look at me"

Wobbie

thanks, cutz.....but it's a little too "look at me"..... and there are better seats for a fan experience.

the "debate" is over and whaddaya know? ballgame!

Wobbie

oh, fuck me....looks like they're gonna give bautista a chance to win it.

Wobbie

people and their goddam phones. figure you won't be able to find any video of a game winning hit?

Wobbie

bad, bad decision to try to turn two.

looking at it again....maybe not the dumbest decision but bad throw; bad one hop catch; bad catch at home. fuck.

pureoc

That was an unreal ending. Wow.

Wobbie

by "unreal", you mean "bullshit"?

pureoc

Wobbie said:

by "unreal", you mean "bullshit"?

Zero rooting interest for the most part for me. As a baseball fan it was hella entertaining. All i can ask for.

smarchee

haha, thank you baseball gods for making Odor the goat, quite fitting
neutered Texas in Game 1 and kept them from breaking out tonight
bring on Cleveland or Boston
Go JAYS !!!

smarchee

Wobbie

thought it was real dumb for a team on the brink to even take that chance....take the out at 2nd or 3rd....but I guess that's how they're wired.

there's a dude in the Cubs thread who could break it down, for sure.

tvismyfriend

Wobbie said:

thought it was real dumb for a team on the brink to even take that chance....take the out at 2nd or 3rd....but I guess that's how they're wired.

there's a dude in the Cubs thread who could break it down, for sure.

A good throw though and they're out of the inning. Martin didn't seem to be particularly close to the bag when it went wide.

pjhawks

Wobbie said:

thought it was real dumb for a team on the brink to even take that chance....take the out at 2nd or 3rd....but I guess that's how they're wired.

there's a dude in the Cubs thread who could break it down, for sure.

i thought he should have went to third. his body was taking him that way and would have been an easy out. that being said the shortstop has got to make a better throw than that. that was awful.

Wobbie

Cliffy6745

Should have left Miller in

igotid88

Good-bye Boston

igotid88

http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/pedro-martinez-recognizes-columbus-day-by-stereotyping-1787643203?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

Degeneratefk

I'm not sure if it was mentioned, but the best sign read "better to be hit in July than to be knocked out in october!"

igotid88

Over managing by Maddon that inning?

igotid88

YES!!!

Degeneratefk

KRIS FUCKING BRYANT!!!!!!

igotid88

Now who will the Cubs use from the bullpen?