NL East

Jeffrey Loria Wrote Everyone A Letter, All Is Well Again!

Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria has had just about enough of all the criticisms and finger-pointing at his taking a giant heaping dump on South Florida and baseball in general, thank you. So it's time to tell HIS SIDE OF THE STORY. And so he did. Loria took out a full page ad in the Sunday morning edi ... More >>

Miami Dolphins Want $400 Million to Renovate Stadium but Swear They're Totally Not the Marlins

Remember when the Florida Marlins were all, if y'all don't give us millions and millions, we're just gonna go ahead and take our ballclub somewhere else, and the City of Miami was all, nooooo here ya go! and then threw millions and millions at the Marlins and now taxpayers are stuck paying for a $51 ... More >>

Boycott the Marlins and Sue Jeffrey Loria for Racketeering: A Note to Carlos Gimenez and John Rodstrom

Now is when you step up, Mr. Mayors of Miami-Dade and Broward.Now is when you two political leaders of South Florida join forces, head to New York, and demand a meeting with Commissioner Bud Selig. You tell that twerp to nix yesterday's trade of Marlins stars Jose Reyes, Mark Buehrle, and Emilio Bon ... More >>

Miami Marlins Piss Off Fans By Trading Players: Four Ways to Protest with Your Food

As if we didn't already hate Miami Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria (and don't worry, we did), he just alienated every last person willing to give him the benefit of the doubt by selling off all the good players we had started to like (he holds fire sales every time a roster gets half-decent), and tradin ... More >>

Miami Marlins Have Traded Everyone: Jose Reyes, Mark Buehrle, Emilio Bonafacio, and Maybe More

After swindling the entire city of Miami, then building their tax-laden $560 million stadium and promising everyone they were going "all in," the Miami Marlins have decided to gut their roster and trade away ace pitcher Josh Johnson, Mark Buehrle, Jose Reyes, John Buck, and Emilio Bonifacio to ... More >>

Dolphin's Owner Stephen Ross Donates $130K To Romney, RNC and Super Pacs

Go long, Mittens. Miami Dolphin's owner Stephen Ross has thrown down $133,000 in donations to support the Romney campaign. A $100,000 of that has gone to the Restore Our Future super pac, while the remainder was divvied up among Romney, the Republican National Committee, the Repu ... More >>

Giancarlo Stanton Grand-Slammed a Scoreboard in the Face Last Night (VIDEO)

The batting stud formerly known as Mike Stanton hit his second grand slam in eight days last night, busting a bunch of lights on the Marlins left-field videoboard in the process. If he'd swung a moment earlier, he could have destroyed that home run statue instead. Ah, what could have been.Stanton wa ... More >>

Burrito Bros. in Jupiter a Favorite For Miami Marlins Outfielder Logan Morrison, Which is News to Them

​ This week's wildly entertaining/engrossing cover story on Miami Marlins outfielder Logan Morrison doesn't exactly paint the portrait of a shrinking violet, but he obviously knows how to fly under the radar. Or at least he does when he's getting his daily fix at Burrito Bros., a "surfer joint in ... More >>

Logan Morrison's Obnoxious Twitter Feed Is Exactly What's Great About Baseball

​There are a lot of ways to describe Marlins outfielder Logan Morrison's attitude. Brash, maybe, or better yet, obnoxious. Some would say inappropriate, and the Marlins brass would most certainly add unprofessional. Take a look at his much-followed Twitter feed and you'll see posts that are all of ... More >>

Fish May Not Like Being in the Miami Marlins Stadium's Aquarium Backstop

​The new Miami Marlins stadium has a backstop that could only have originated in South Florida -- rather than have a normal-people brick wall or those nice green pads, the stadium will have 40 feet of aquariums separating the area behind home plate from the first row of fans.Though Marlins Preside ... More >>

Spring Training

Mug-Shot Friday: The Bed-Head Crew, Florida Pride, and the Hurricane Hairdo

​Welcome to this week's post of the Broward-Palm Beach edition of Mug-Shot Friday, a longstanding franchise focusing on the week's most eye-catching mug shots from South Florida's tat heads, tough guys, and femmes fatale. Check out Miami New Times' Riptide blog for the Miami-Dade edition ... More >>

Best Rookie -- Gaby Sanchez

bleacherreport.comFlorida Marlins first baseman Gaby Sanchez​New Times Best of Broward-Palm Beach edition is here, folks.In his rookie season, Marlins first baseman Gaby Sanchez hit .273 -- the third-highest amongst regular starters, behind Hanley Ramirez and Dan Uggla.His rookie counterparts -- L ... More >>

Turf Wars

Fish Are Jumping

Fish at the Well

Marlins Spring Training? Bring on the Hot Dogs!

​On Sunsay, February 27, up there at the Roger Dean stadium in Jupiter, spring training begins for the Florida Marlins. That's great news for people who want to see them go up against ... the University of Miami Hurricanes. It's also nice for people who want to believe the two teams'll t ... More >>

Brazilians in South Florida Spend Millions, but They Aren't the Only Foreigners to Thank

farm3.static from Flickr.com​Shop till you drop has a whole new meaning. At least for Brazilians, that is. With a strong currency and booming economy, they've been flocking to Florida for lengthy shopping sprees, buying everything from designer jeans and handbags, to cheap shoes and cosmetics ... More >>

Five Most Surreal Moments From the Lackluster Marlins' Season

flickr.comVolstad versus Morgan was possibly the most memorable moment of the year.​The Marlins mercifully finished their 2010 season this weekend, ending the year with 80 wins and 82 losses, good enough for third in the division. The longest winning streak of the year was all of four games, and o ... More >>

See Stanton Go

Our Other Big Three

Trade Bait

Marco Rubio Has Risen With Lightning Speed, but Conservatives Alone Can't Carry Him to the White House

Treasure in the Trash

Morning Juice: Lamberti Stung by Minority Report; Miami Archdiocese Installs New Leader

​The news in Broward and Palm Beach this Tuesday morning:An internal report concludes that Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti's agency has neglected measures meant to increase diversity. The sheriff is already being criticized for steering layoffs toward jail staff, which is dominated by minority deputie ... More >>

Buy Us Some Cracker Jack

The Complete Idiot's Guide to: Arepas

Flickr: yobosayoHow ballparks usually prepare arepas.​Since migrating to South Florida 16 years ago, I cannot leave (the place formally known as) Joe Robbie Stadium without eating an arepa. Introduced to me on a class field trip to see the Florida Marlins one year, I tried an arepa -- a South Ame ... More >>

Bling Brothers

Mermaid You Look

Hello, 2003. We Missed You.

Florida Wood Versus Pennsylvania Iron

Roger, Dodgers

Spring Training

Marlins Vs. Mets

We Have Mets the Enemy

Chipper Shredder

Rays Gun

Phillin’ it

’Backs in Black

Savoring April

Talk Sporty to Me

Spring Sprang Sprung

Phalling Phast

Braves’ New World

No longer great, Atlanta’s still playing for postseason against Marlins

Cool Your Fins

Hot baseball goes great with ice cream

Snakebitten

Wind Beats Rocks

Do Something Fishy

Legends Go to Bat

Best Hot Dog

Roger Dean Stadium

More than Peanuts and Cracker Jacks