Why Are The Marlins Always Bad?

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2. Come on Marlins make us proud, come on Marlins make us proud.
   Keep hoping and dreaming that you will Suck!

3. Another thing that never helped the Marlins is the difficulty of their division. The Braves won that division 20 years in a row and then the Phillies were great for a few years and then back to the Braves being great. Plus the Mets always sign superstars.

4. The Marlins are the reason there needs to be a salary floor.

5. This video could be 30 seconds. We are not a small market, but our ownership has always been terrible.

6. The Marlins are the NL East version of the Pirates

7. I'll never forgive them for trading away Miguel Cabrera

8. I hate being a Marlins fan

9. One thing the Marlins almost always seem to get right is being somebody else's bogey team. That's usually about it.

10. Marlins turned down a trade package of Kershaw, Kemp and Loney for Cabrera. Had Kemp been playing with the Marlins he likely doesnt destroy his shoulder in May 2012 and therefore becomes a borderline hall of famer

11. They're a novelty team. I grew up in Florida, and up until 1993, my family were all Yankees fans. Yes 2003 hurts but it hurts less and less because of how abysmally bad this team is for 31 out of 33 years. Before interleague it was possible to root for both teams because they never played each other. They never played each other between 1993 and 1996 because interleague wasn't a thing until 1997. The only time that they would ever play each other would be in the World Series. And for 31 of those years that the Marlins existed the Yankees were a major league team and the Marlins were just barely a double A team.

    But yeah, the Marlins in Florida are a novelty team. You go to their games because you want to see the other team's players play. Interleague play should be a boon for the Marlins because you get to see Roger Clemens or Randy Johnson pitch who spent the mid 90s in the American League. Or you get to see history where the Marlins are no hit by a visiting club.

    The Marlins never made history, they were the team that other teams made history against. And you can go into work the next day and say "I was in attendance when I saw Todd Helton of the Colorado Rockies hit for the cycle against the Marlins that one time in 1995."

    The Marlins are just that team with more championships than fans.

12. Samson & Loria.

13. As a Padres fan, I can absolutely relate with the mindset of "Wait, we actually got good this year? Oh crap, we better trade one or two of our best players!!"
    (I still can't believe we let Adrian Gonzales go to the Dodgers of all teams.)
    The Marlins getting two rings out of it (one of which being completely inexplicable ) leaves me a weird combination of awestruck, confused and (slightly) jealous.
    They're like the Jets of baseball. "The Marlins do not play baseball. Baseball just sort of happens to them."

14. It's like they're allergic to winning

15. The Marlins were on their way to being a really good team in 2015-2016, so much so that I remember playing MLB the show 15 and seeing the Marlins consistantly in the postseason after 2016. It is a shame that we will never know how good the Marlins could have been if Fernandez lived. Some thought that he would have been traded like Stanton, Ozuna, Realmuto and Yelich. But we will never know.

16. and they are still a SIGNIFICANTLY better ran team than cincinnati, who you won’t speak about ever

17. What sucks about the Marlins is how much talent they’ve had on previous teams only to blow them up after two years. That 97 team was pretty good top to bottom and within two years it all blew up. Just sad.

18. Proof that no matter how good a market is for a sport, bad ownership will ruin the team and kill excitement for it.

19. I've always really liked the Marlins fans I've run into at our games against them (I'm a Mets fan). The fish have a reputation for handing us really embarrassing Ls at home, but their fans in attendance at these games are never anything but gracious about it in my experience. Y'all are deserving of a better product on the field, but I'm legitimately worried that someone (us, even) snatches Alcantara away at the deadline this season.

20. Only made the post season twice winning the world series both times.

21. Anytime a community foots the bill for a stadium the people’s representatives should have clauses in that contract that demand investment from the billionaire owners who are getting the free ride.

22. 12:10 Dr. Charles

23. Its crazy a 2 world series win team is mostly unwatchable

24. The Braves should be the real ones pissed at the marlins. Since 1993, the Braves have won 20+ division titles, meanwhile the marlins have never one a single Nl east title. And yet the marlins and braves have the exact same amount of World Series titles in that time frame. The Braves have quadrupled the marlins playoffs appearances (20+ vs just 4) and yet the marlins and braves lead the Nl east in the past 30 years for World Series titles.

25. The Marlins know Baseball is king in south Florida, yet refused to acknowledge that for 33 years. All they want is indefinite mediocrity.

26. In 2012, the first year as the Miami Marlins in the dome stadium, Ozzie Guillen, seven years removed from managing the White Sox to their only World Series title since WW1, had a controversial year guiding the Marlins, including a suspension for offensive remarks about Fidel Castro. I wonder if that Marlins fire sale could have at least been in part to save face over a PR disaster. Jeffrey Loria might be the most despicable owner in major pro sports history, but at least the rechristened Washington Nationals won a World Series title long after the Expos saga, under decent ownership.

27. I always thought this was weird, the Miam Marlins has every tool to be a powerhouse but everytime they build a core they trade everyone

28. This video hurts… I jumped on the Marlins in 92 despite never having visited Florida and living in Baltmore Md and having the Orioles. I remember the expansion draft and getting a Marlins hat for christmas from my uncle. I remember watching as many games as I could when they played on TBS or WGN as well as checking the Baltimore Sun every day for scores and standings. Fun times. The 97 World series is one of my fondest sports memories tbh. Jeff Conine is still my favorite all time player and I was soooooo excited to meet him at a fanfest in Baltimore where I got his autograph and thanked him for being so great for my favorite team and my hometown team. The team blow ups and such were just too much to take. The final draw for me was the Miami rebranding. I was 12 when the expansion draft hit so for me it was the logo that got me started as a Marlins fan. Sorry that is shallow but I was a 12 yr old kid lol. The ownership and such was also just so bad that I felt like I just had to move on. Not like anything I loved was still around that franchise outside of Jeff Conine in the front office. It just got to be too much and I moved on. 20 years of crazy fandom ended but there were good times. I live in Indiana now and am in the Reds market so Ive taken to them. I'm a pro at suffering through bad ownership at this point lol. I still hope the Marlins pull it together again though.

29. An actual travesty this franchise somehow has 2 rings and the Ms havent even been to a WS 🙁

30. The marlins are the expos of the 00s They're everybody's farm team.They get these great prospects build them up.Sell, they can't seem to get all these prospects together and keep them together.And that's how he's been the problem… The always get one or two and like a four year period… I still say if Jose Fernandez didn't pass away.They'd have kept building around him, but they couldn't build around jazz.Yes, but they decided not to.They sold them off and got more picks to make more teams better

31. I was on the marlins for 1 year in the early 2000s. Frankfort square park district little league. We also sucked.

32. The last time I really remember hearing loud cheers at Marlins Park was when Jose Fernandez was pitching. I haven’t heard ovations that loud since then, and I’m not even a Marlins fan.

33. Should have moved the team to Palm Beach.

34. The MLB has done a disservice to the Marlins and Florida baseball as a whole

35. From the 29:49 mark on, SRS, you basically said what a lot of big market fans and players have been saying about the cheap owners!
    Preach it!

36. Lifelong fan. Can name 15+ players from 2003 team. Can't name any player other than Alcantara in 2025.

37. You guys had one of the greatest young rotations of all time for a few years with: Willis, Burnett, Penny and Beckett (then Josh Johnson replaced Penny in 2005).

38. Milwaukee Brewers are so much worse one world series appearance in 1982 followed by 26 year playoff drought sure they made the playoffs more recently still not into another world series appearance really bad

39. Jeter takes blame for gutting the roster, signing bad free agents, bringing in people who helped put together one of the worst far systems in baseball and who could not draft; all while paying himself a salary of 5 MILLION A YEAR!!!!

40. I used to go to a few games a year until they got rid of all the key players right after winning the world series for the 2nd time. Once was heartbreaking, the second time I was done. Have not been to a game since 2004.

41. I was born in Florida but moved so early in life to outside of Cincinnati that I have little to no connection to anything about Florida. However, we went on vacation back to Florida to visit family during the 03 October run. Man, Florida as a state had that team on every tv every night. Cabrera, Willis, Pierre, Lowell, Beckett – it was a fun team to watch and made me a fan of the players and organization from afar.

    Reds experience a similar yet different futility. Reds just don't advance in the playoffs, when they rarely get there. Marlins had that run I got to see within the state. Both though are famous for cheaper ownership, though to wildly different degrees. It would just be fun to see either team get a great run of success with them again. Maybe I just need to root for a richer team 😂

42. I think attendance issues are always prevalent in Miami. All teams face those issues when losing, even when winning. Dolphins, Hurricanes, Heat, etc. I believe it is due to a lot of people that have expendable money to attend these games consistently have better things to do than watch a losing or mid team (beach, nightlife). We just saw a Hurricanes team with the #1 qb prospect and almost make the cfb playoffs barely sellout. This is due to winning for these teams is a not nearly consistent enough

43. 2003 The most utterly pathetic year in MLB history

44. For crying out loud.
    That 2003-2007 Was embarrassing
    Beckett and Lowell to Boston
    Lee and Pierre to Chicago
    Brad Penny to Los Angeles
    Adrian Gonzalez to Texas
    Johan Santana to Minnesota
    Miggy and Willis to Detroit
    Carlos Delgado and jason vargas To The Mets

45. As a lifelong Marlins fan, we simply just have bad ownership. We can’t do anything when the manager decides not to spend a single penny. But that being said, whether we are bad or good, I will still watch and go to games. Go Marlins!

46. lol why is there fighting game music played in the background

47. "And the Expos got…"…a World Series Ring in 2019.

48. I guy from my area got drafted by them.