Jeffrey Loria makes Miami Marlins a laughing stock in Major League Baseball - MLB Part 1
It appears Jeffrey Loria considers the whole population of South Florida as mad while believing himself as the solution of all the problems. He does not care what others think.
He makes a decision one day and takes it back the other putting a silly excuse to justify it, the one that only he can understand. Assured that his position cannot be challenged by anyone, just like a despotic ruler who performs every method of brutality
but nobody speaks out against him, he is leading the bunch of fans in the Marlins.
Loria inaugurated the Marlins new ballpark on the assumption that the revenue collected through the greater number of fans visiting the stadium will be used for paying out to the star players that he will hire in the future. When he fails to get the expected
level of attendance, he starts unloading those players from the roster that were expensive and requiring long-term cash outflow from the club.
He gives the same old justification for the move that it was indispensable and that without doing so they will be under debt. The question here is why he banked on merely the attendance by the fans to add expensive players on the roster. Were fans the only
source of investment into the team?
Whenever strategic decisions such as Loria taken in the last few years are implemented they should never be based on hollow assumptions. Never put all your eggs in one basket. Unfortunately Loria put them there actually by relying entirely on fans attendance
and not thinking about other areas from where the money could come.
City Commissioner, Marc Sarnoff has stated that after the mega-trade by the Marlins involving their five high profile players, the trust deficit between the fans and the club has widened.
“Everybody in the world wants to talk about the Marlins and the fact they’re now a Triple-A team,” said Marc Sarnoff. “The Marlins have lost pretty much all credibility with fans. Even if this trade is a positive move from a baseball standpoint, it won’t
be viewed by the general public as a positive move.”
Instead of finding some investment partners and accumulating capital, Loria is getting rid of players due to an inability to meet their expense over the next few years.
He built expectations of the fans by hiring them in the first place and now he is bringing those down dramatically by rendering the Marlins a Minor League type of club.
Five players who form the backbone of the team or should one say the only reason why the fans will turn to stadium next year are about to be removed by him from the roster.
What boggles the mind is what will stimulate fans to support the Marlins when they have rookie, inexperienced and unproven players sitting on their roster. They say that having hope is a far different situation than not having it. When hope is dead, frustration
that leads to the change in the loyalty of the fans takes birth.
That is when one starts disowning what used to belong to one’s own self. It is sad that an organisation which constructed such a beautiful ballpark last year is on the brink of making it deserted and an empty place next year.
Barely anyone will have the motivation to visit the park if the Marlins enter into 2013 regular season with the tag of mediocrity labelled to their roster.
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Continued in Part 2
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