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

starting tonight, so excited to witness possible Counting Stats event

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Friday, July 29, 2016 10:11 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

the marlins broadcast showed a clip of jeff conine at the SABR convention

or as the irritating Dave Van Horne called him, 'Niner'

Ozzie Guillen revealed that Jack McKeon calls him "mira mira"

at least morbs is being spared the counting-stats horror

Kind of a messy game, but Ichiro threw out a runner at home which made for a pretty good night.

The Marlins Park PA pumped out maybe the most godawful musical sewage i've heard at a major-league game. I can only imagine what the clubs are like down here.

Besides Mattingly and Barry!, we got pregame talks from Andre Dawson and Tony Perez. And saw the Red Grooms thing go off.

aww

wait, how are you posting this?

I bring my laptop when i travel, u clown ;)

Eduardo Perez asked his dad (for our benefit) how you drive in runs, and i said under my breath "Hit behind Rose, Morgan and Bench"

hmmm well i'm glad you've had a pretty good night

ugly

Congrats Ichiro -- would have been funny if it had gone out.

I'm bored out of my skull right now, so I tried to name all 30. Got 27; put down two incorrect names; of the three I missed, one is really embarrassing, one moderately, and the other would probably be a common miss.

my watch has ended

https://www.instagram.com/p/BI1OG_lhjDJ/

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cpr8oqlXYAAcPAW.jpg

robert andino back! first mlb ab in 3 yrs

tough to be facing chris sale

2003 nostalgists may enjoy this panel. I can't give you the timestamp, but McKeon tells a tall story about using a clothesline to rein in a baserunner when he was managing the Missoula Timberjacks in the '50s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BER9g4Lm6eI&feature=youtu.be

oh hell... try this

http://sabr.org/latest/sabr-46-2003-marlins-championship-panel

i am skeptical

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/marlins-exec-says-giancarlo-stanton-is-going-to-be-back-late-this-season/

@clarkspencer
Sadly, I can confirm that Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez was killed in a boating accident.

Terrible. "I'm glad I saw him pitch" doesn't cover it.

today's game vs Atlanta is cancelled.

@pgammo
A third of the way through writing why Jose Fernandez is the best pitcher in the game in 2016, I got the news...God bless his grandmother...

@pgammo
and everyone in his intrepid, great family

Awful. This is tough to process.

Fernandez was killed Sunday morning after a boat crash in Miami Beach, the team announced.

The 24-year-old Fernandez was one of at least three people killed in the early morning collision. He announced on Instagram recently that he and his girlfriend were expecting a child, Local 10 reported.

Chief Petty Officer Nyxolyno Cangemi told The Associated Press that a Coast Guard patrol boat spotted an overturned boat at 3:30 a.m. on a jetty near Government Cut. The bodies were discovered a short time later.

Because the boat was on a jetty, the Coast Guard notified Miami-Dade police, which turned the investigation over to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Fernandez was on a 32-foot vessel that had a "severe impact" with a jetty, said Lorenzo Veloz of the Fish Commission. A news conference was planned for later Sunday morning.

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2016/09/25/marlins-pitcher-jose-fernandez-2-others-killed-in-miami-boat-crash.html

Ugh. RIP. :(

Can't think of anybody in any professional sport who was this dominant and died this young. Len Bias, the college basketball player, is the only name that comes to mind.

no no no no no no no

FUCK

This is terrible.

So awful

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CtNd0wvWEAAITlf.jpg

I am unable to process this. RIP.

press conference with the whole team on ESPNnews now

girlfriend announced pregnancy last week :/

i'm so happy that i watched his last start. and he was dominant -- according to fangraphs' version of game score, it was the best start of his career. 8 IP, 12 Ks, 3H, 0 BB

http://www.fangraphs.com/statsd.aspx?playerid=11530&position=P&type=0&gds=&gde=&season=all

http://images.ftw.usatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/tulojose.gif

After Kershaw, I'm not sure there was a better pitcher in baseball. Who knows what kind of career he could have gone on to have.

Very sad news. Rest in peace.

horrible, horrible. rip.

Really devastating. Reminds me of nick adenhart of the angels not so long ago

RIP -- terrible news.

this is just awful. what a talent, what a character. should have been one of the greats.

http://m.mlb.com/assets/images/8/6/4/184414864/cuts/DiazLittleLeague1280_0hzgnvt4_hsuzv7b2.jpg

Jose Fernandez, front row, third from the right in the yellow hat. (His good friend Aledmys Diaz also in the front row, wearing a red hat)

That infamous GIF above is so good because you can just tell how well liked and respected Fernandez was, even when he was trouncing people. He will be missed.

this is so fucking unfair

i can't remember ever being this upset about a celebrity death

http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/jose-fernandezs-final-pitch-is-as-perfect-as-it-is-painful-092516

i've been unable to process this all day, i just can't comprehend it

Casey McGehee and Fernandez were teammates in Miami in 2014 and half of 2015. The news hit him every bit as hard as it hit Iglesias. Fernandez formed a special bond with McGehee’s son Mack, who has cerebral palsy.

“The toughest part for me is having to tell my son what happened,” McGehee said. “A lot of people, they don’t really know how to treat Mack. For some reason, Jose had a heart for him. You get to the field, and it wasn’t like ‘Hey, Jose, do you want to keep an eye on him?’ Jose would come and grab him, and they were together from the time they got on the field to the time my wife came to pick him up.

“I think that really says a lot about what was truly in his heart, and what kind of guy he was.”

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2016/09/25/iglesias-tigers-grief-stricken-over-death-jose-fernandez/91080104/

Project Wolverine in full effect: 2018 Miami Marlins

2 years ago today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vXTdfxgyl0

or, you know, next tuesday