Who owns marlins park

According to the Miami Herald , the Marlins sold out only two games in , one of which was the very first regular-season game played in the stadium. That means that one of the next 81 games the Marlins played at home in was played in front of a capacity crowd. There are rational explanations for the poor attendance figures. Marlins Park is out of the way for many, and the club did little in to prove it was worth paying to watch.

They were flying a white flag by August and September after trading away Hanley Ramirez and other key players in July. Then there's the other rational explanation that should have been a huge red flag when funding for Marlins Park was being put together: the Marlins never had a big fanbase to begin with.

Poor attendance figures have been a fact of life for the Marlins for close to 20 years now. Per BallparksofBaseball. The team certainly has its diehards, as every team does. What it has always lacked is casual fans, and winning such fans over is not as easy as it sounds. It takes time, and it also takes more than a fun ballpark. The team that occupies the ballpark has to be fun too. It's up to the owners to make the product on the field fun. The Marlins, alas, are run by a man whose priorities lie elsewhere.

The club's payroll rose the following year, and the Marlins won the World Series. The writing was on the wall that Loria is a businessman above all else when he was trying to get a new stadium built. He clearly has no reservations whatsoever about angering customers to protect his wallet. At the first sign of trouble, Loria is going to cut his expenses to avoid losing money. This is not the kind of guy you want to build a new stadium for.

When they did choose to invest in a new stadium for Loria, county officials had no guarantee that he would return the favor by continually investing in the product out on the field. To be sure, Loria did make an effort to build an exciting team. He spent a couple hundred million dollars last offseason to bring in Jose Reyes, Heath Bell and Mark Buehrle, who joined a roster that already had a fair amount of talent. But investing once and continually investing are two different things.

Loria proved last offseason that he was willing to give spending a shot, but we know now that he was never sure of his experiment. If he had been, he would have put actual no-trade clauses in his new players' contracts.

Special interests buy candidates votes and then get a piece of the pie. Almost as curious was the cash flow of Barreiro's colleague Joe Martinez. Why the flip-flop? Still have doubts about for whom the stadium's political backers were really working? Look at the financial reports of the political action committee Mayor Alvarez formed last year to fight his recall. The Marlins are a struggling team that can't survive without a new park at taxpayer expense.

The soft-spoken year-old, a Miami resident since his parents came from Cuba when he was 2 years old, has rooted for the Fish since the team's first pitch in But when his favorite club traded slugger Miguel Cabrera and ace Dontrelle Willis in late , supposedly because it was broke, he couldn't resist crunching the numbers to see if the team owners were honest.

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Team chief executive officer Derek Jeter announced the move on Wednesday , the day before Opening Day, calling it "beneficial to our organization" and citing the company's belief in the Marlins and greater South Florida community.

He wants to make an impact here as well. The initiative is certainly a noble pursuit worth commending, but back to the name. I'm quite certain this will be the first Major League ballpark whose words begin with lowercase letters, creating a real pop artist track listing feel. It's a style Hsieh believes "looked pretty cool," but it also breaks conventional rules of capitalizing proper nouns. If the goal was to come up with a name that stood out from its peers, mission accomplished.

If the goal was to also choose a name guaranteed to be the most mis-capitalized, a job well done on that front as well. Whatever your feelings on lowercase letters, loanDepot park joins the ranks of the previously-lambasted Guaranteed Rate Field White Sox and RingCentral Coliseum Athletics as the league's worst-named venues.