Jeffery Loria, you are a douchebag.
A pure, true-blue no-holds-barred douchebag. And I never dedicate an article to just purely insulting one individual. But this man deserves every ounce of negative press that he could possibly receive.
I don’t think there’s enough time in the world to forgive your actions. You already destroyed the Expos last decade and pretty much ruined baseball in Montreal for eternity (Toronto baseball still surviving is a miracle, pure and simple), just because they would not help you build a stadium. Instead of finding alternate means, you went behind the back of Major League Baseball and moved the entire front office of the Expos to Miami, forcing the league to actually buy the team temporarily while finding a solution.
And now you have not only destroyed the Marlins for the third time in 10 years, but did so in a most disgusting manner....one that seemed planned from the beginning.
The city of Miami FINANCED your damn stadium. The PUBLIC mostly paid for that beautiful ballpark. You managed to con the entire city to build a stadium for you, only for you to shred the team merely one year after making all the pickups. And there’s no way it’s because you were losing money, because with most of the new changes already paid for and the attendance increasing vividly throughout the 2012 season, I can guarantee you and bet you my entire life he was profiting off of this.
Loria (may have) wanted to win in one season, wanted to win immediately, and like a whiny little runt he engaged in a tantrum when things didn’t go his way. Let’s neglect the fact that we have had 9 different champions this millennium already (including…the Marlins, which got blown up quickly after) and neglect the fact that baseball is the toughest sport to win immediately and win consistently. Let’s also neglect the fact that the Marlins are in a nasty division with the Braves, Phillies, and even Nationals kicking arse in the second half.
He wanted to win as soon as possible.
And when it wasn’t soon enough, he blew up the team again, once again neglecting the city of Miami an opportunity to warm up and get used to the ragtag group of players in the Marlins uniform.
Just like in 2004.
And just like in 2006.
And remember the Marlins already lost a good group quickly after success back in 1998.
Can you imagine the Rays reacting that quickly towards Joe Maddon when he first started? Before Game 162, before winning the AL East in 2010, before the Surprise-Surprise 2008 season, Maddon had a 127-197 record in Tampa. Imagine if they had fired him and destroyed his young team before we had the chance to get to know them. Then NONE, repeat, NONE of the low-budget, subculture success would have occurred. It takes time for a baseball team to mold into a successful commodity. The Giants required years of building before becoming the oddest, yet most successful franchise in baseball currently with two of the last three championships.
And as a seemingly intentional spit at the face on Montreal, his Marlins trade away plenty of great talent to Toronto for pennies. The Marlins got essentially nothing but salary clearance, more savings, and more money for Loria to blow away doing stupid nonsense. So now the question is, with not even giving Marlins fans a full season to test out the lineup, is there a chance he baited the taxpayers with big names, only to send them all over Major League Baseball to save money on spending and cash in what he got from the Marlins Park?
It’s funny because before the season, I questioned the safety of rooting for the Marlins after its history of overreaction and cost-cutting on the oddest and stupidest of moments. And it is happening again. But this time, at the expense of all the locals in the area….which allows for this to sting a bit more….much more in fact.
So this will bear repeating:
Jeffery Loria: You are a douchebag.
Thanks for killing any chance of the Marlins building an eventual fanbase…again.
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