Miami Marlins 2016 (Jose Fernandez RIP 9/25/16)

that fireworks photo on fangraphs is really wrenching

i can't stop thinking about dee gordon out by the mound by himself yesterday https://twitter.com/AFFerrer_/status/780077228285505536

http://m.mlb.com/images/3/5/6/188728356/070816_cinmia_jose_fernandez_LO_xh1eq1ih.gif

i didn't get around to this my piece but i always felt like... a certain urgency in watching jose. given his past TJ surgery and the sheer explosion of all his pitches i couldn't help but think about his elbow snapping again, even when he was in the midst of mowing some team down. watching him was like 98% exhilaration and 2% fear that it would all just be taken away again, maybe this time for good, but obviously his fucking death just does not feel real in any way shape or form.

i got to see him earlier this season vs the tigers from two rows behind home plate. he had one of those weird games where he was practically unhittable but when he did get touched the ball went a long way. he struck out 13 in 5.2 innings but also gave up 5 ER--i think it was the only time a loss went onto his record in a home start. needless to say, seeing him from that close, i literally have no idea how anyone ever got a hit off him, his breaking pitches seemed inconceivable

As soon as Waltz's voice started trembling, man...

Juan Pierre in the crowd with his son.

This game is going to make us tear up every other pitch, huh?

p much, the effect of seeing his jerz on every player is like a weird bittersweet being john malkovich reality

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/203512406/marlins-dee-gordon-honors-fernandez-homers/

i'm crying uncontrollably

unbelievable

yeah that was just unreal

Wow.

http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/mlb/miami-marlins/article104329251.html

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/09/jose-fernandez-miami-marlins-baseballs-checkbook-bag-crash

not sure why i'm doing this to myself, but i'm watching the pre-game and 1st inning on mlb.tv now. it was blacked out for me last night.

:'(

Jeff Passan:

This sounded bad. Bernal had ridden on a boat at night once, and it was terrifying. Not just the darkness, but the choppy waves from the rain earlier in the day and the threat of other boats and the objects obscured by the night.

“I told him it was a horrible idea,” Bernal said. “Do everything you can to get him off the boat. Do whatever you can to get him on land.”

... After Saturday’s game, Fernandez had asked a number of teammates to join him on the boat. One by one, they declined. And there they were Monday, back in uniform, the uniform he was supposed to be wearing, too, thinking that if not for the instinct that told them to say no, it could’ve been them.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/the-tragic-final-night-of-jose-fernandezs-life-023645408.html

bonds supposedly out as marlins hitting coach

the marlins have exercised their 2017 option on ichiro suzuki

http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2016/10/13/must-click-link-chris-johnson-on-jose-fernandez-he-changed-me

aw thats great

supposedly loria has a 'handshake agreement' to sell the marlins

rumors going around that the buyer is charles kushner loooool

I can't believe it's only been like 4 months since Fernandez died. Feels like it's been ages...

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4vg7kaWYAA6r9z.jpg

https://twitter.com/darenw/status/841698434637811716

http://deadspin.com/report-jeb-and-jeets-team-up-to-make-bid-for-marlins-1794465949

yeah jeets

please clap

http://deadspin.com/reports-jeb-and-jeets-got-the-marlins-1794640432

yeah jeets

i have already seen the "well, neither could go to their left" joke

Jeb out! love to hear tapes of the 'dispute'

http://miami.cbslocal.com/2017/05/30/jeb-bush-out-miami-marlins-sale/

Public funding for Marlins Park has been a disaster. Who could have seen that coming? (Everyone.) https://t.co/pHoTT594Bb

— keithlaw (@keithlaw) July 5, 2017

I'm sure many of you caught this already

It's almost unheard of for professional sports teams to sue their own fans. Leave it to Loria to change that. https://t.co/lhlMTjga0T

— Miami New Times (@MiamiNewTimes) July 10, 2017

fernandez would have been 25 today

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/miami-marlins/fl-sp-jose-fernandez-birthday-25-story.html

The photo with his daughter touching a picture of her dad (scroll down) is really something.

Schoenfield, espn:

Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria has reportedly agreed to sell the team to a group led by New York businessman Bruce Sherman and some guy named Derek Jeter.

He also reports that Jeter will be running the day to day operations of the team??

paychecks delivered via gift basket

will the home run sculpture survive the ownership change

Stanton's got 21 in 33 games by my count--gotta be one of the best stretches ever. Found a 24-in-32 stretch for Bonds in 2001, and I'm sure he had a couple more like that at some point that season. McGwire in '98, too, maybe Sosa.

another one tonight, #43

10 in the last 11, 22 in 34 games

Chasing Maris, if you think that's worth anything. (I recall a similar watch for Ryan Howard in 2006.)

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/giancarlo-stanton-will-need-to-slug-like-barry-bonds-to-beat-roger-maris/

ha, i do! hey, i'm not an enemy of all counting stats :)

I meant more the idea that there's two HR records, the official one and an unofficial one. (Which is inherently ironic in that Maris went through exactly the same thing for different reasons.)

he's chasing the steroid record (because the ball is on steroids)

will the home run sculpture survive the ownership change

Before the #liberals find a reason to deface, destroy or degrade this one, I thought some of you might like to see it one more time... pic.twitter.com/Va0OUsWliS

— Grant Brisbee (@mccoveychron) August 15, 2017

another one tonight!

anotherone.gif

THE THING IS SAFE (I guess)

http://deadspin.com/miami-dade-county-to-derek-jeter-you-cannot-move-home-1797958928

#45 for Stanton.

Marlins pull one out in Philly, Stanton hits 47th

Whoa! #48 and #49 first two times up tonight.

the Marlins still have 35 games to go