National League (MLB)

Miami Heat Won't Stay at Haunted Hotel in Milwaukee

The Miami Heat are in Milwaukee to resume their first-round best-of-seven series against the Bucks. Games 3 and 4 will be played at the BMO Harris Bradley Center tonight and Sunday.But according to 790 the Ticket's morning radio show, the Heat has decided to stay at a different hotel than usual. Pri ... More >>

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Yunel Escobar, the Marlins' New Shortstop, Was Recently Suspended for Gay Slur

Well, this seems rather fitting. The owner of the Marlins, known for insulting the South Florida community by lying and then gutting the ball club, just traded for a guy who is known for insulting the gay community. It's like assholes just gravitate to each other. Yunel Escobar, Miami's new short ... More >>

Mike Redmond Named the New Miami Marlins Manager

According to John Heyman of CBS Sports, the Miami Marlins have hired former Florida Marlins catcher Mike Redmond to be their next manager to eventually be fired by Jeffrey Loria. Heyman reports that it's a three-year deal.

Miami Marlins To Lower 2013 Payroll, According to Report

The news regarding any South Florida sports team not named the Miami Heat continues to be miserable. After trading away Hanley Ramirez , Anibal Sanchez, and Omar Infante for prospects in order to clear up their finances, the Marlins were pretty adamant about using that left over cash to spend on so ... More >>

A Change(-up) is Gonna Come

Showtime Is Canceling The Franchise

The Marlins have been so bad this season, even Showtime is giving up on them. MLB Productions, Showtime and the team have announced that Wednesday's episode of The Franchise will be the last of the season. The Franchise, which shows the ins-and-outs of a major league baseball team, was origina ... More >>

Marlins Are on Pace to Draw the Fewest Fans Since the 1990s; Also They're Trading Everyone!

On the heels of the Miami Marlins' trading away Hanley Ramirez to the Dodgers and Anibal Sanchez to the Tigers and working on a possible deal to send Josh Johnson to the Rangers comes a Forbes report that the Fish are on pace to set the record for drawing the fewest fans to a first-year ballpark sin ... More >>

George Zimmerman Has More Support Than the Miami Marlins, New Florida Poll Finds

Public Policy Polling decided to pick Florida's collective brain last week, and results released yesterday shed light on some very interesting trends. The most interesting: 26 percent of Floridians polled said George Zimmerman is innocent of the second-degree murder charges filed in the February kil ... More >>

Ninety-Seven F-Bombs From Ozzie Guillen Won't Erase That Awful Stadium Deal

Showtime released a 30-minute preview on Saturday to its show The Franchise: A Season With the Miami Marlins, which will chronicle the travails of baseball's version of a court jester. There's a scene near the start of the show where loudmouth manager Ozzie Guillen is addressing his new players for ... More >>

New York Mets Plan to Honor Marlins Shortstop Jose Reyes, Give Away Last of Team Dignity

The Miami Marlins' new shortstop is missed by his former team. Jose Reyes spent the first nine seasons of his career with the New York Mets, leading the National League in stolen bases three years in a row (2005-2007), hitting for 99 triples and winning the NL batting title last year before signing ... More >>

Logan Morrison Serves as the Wild Child for the Already Loony Miami Marlins

Miami Marlins Home Run Sculpture Video Leaks; Everyone Pukes

​Less than two weeks after we found out the Miami Marlins were testing their new aquarium backstop/aquatic nightmare tank by throwing baseballs at it, a video of their long-mocked home-run sculpture in action has made its way to YouTube -- and it looks even worse than the pictures.The thing looks ... More >>

Drink and Food Events This Week in Broward/Fort Lauderdale/Palm Beach

Wednesday night: Pucker up to dinner with the lovely ladies of Lips. ​With New Times Beerfest merely days away, it's understandable that you'd want to hunker down this week and save your energy and cash for the weekend. For those who can handle multiple days of fun in one week, there are a few opt ... More >>

Marco Rubio Butt-Kissing Won't Help GOP Candidates Win Florida, According to Poll

​There's been a common theme among this year's GOP presidential candidates -- firmly planting their lips on the buttcheeks of Sen. Marco Rubio and dropping his name as a potential running mate.If that's a ploy to win Florida in a general election, it won't help, according to survey results release ... More >>

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Tonight: World Series Watch Party at Duffy's

ajleon​It's October -- the time of year when the Florida Marlins either go to the World Series or end up with their best players being traded away and fans bitching about evil owner Jeffrey Loria. Tonight, it's the Texas Rangers and San Francisco Giants who are meeting at AT&T Park in Californ ... More >>

Tyler Colvin Is Not a Vampire (And Other Things We Learned This Weekend in Sports)

FlickrTyler Colvin got staked by a shattered bat in yesterday's Marlins game, but he'll live to play again.​What would it take for a Florida Marlins game to overshadow a Dolphins victory on a Sunday in September? An act of God? No, just a freak accident in which a shattered bat impales itself in t ... More >>

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Harriette Gubel Celebrates 96 Years With a Seventh-Inning Stretch

Charlie and Hattie, sittin' in a tree...​Last year, the Juice brought you a feel-good story about Harriette "Hattie" Gubel celebrating her 95th birthday. The Fort Lauderdale lady is a big baseball fan, as it turns out, an even bigger fan of the Philadelphia Phillies, and an even bigger fan of Phil ... More >>

Trade Bait

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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 >>

Sophomore Slump Busters

Reloaded Fish

Lauderdale High School Baseball Stars Taking Different Paths to Big Leagues

Flickr: jajohnson19Eric Hosmer​Eric Hosmer and Deven Marrero starred at first base and shortstop, respectively, for a 2008 American Heritage School team that won a state and national title. They were separated by a year, but both players were heavily recruited by the nation's elite baseball progra ... More >>

Fredi's Right; Hanley's Wrong. But Can Marlins Manager Afford to Make an Enemy?

Flickr: Michael G. BaronHanley Ramirez​Hanley Ramirez is acting like a diva following his being benched last night for an error. Check that; it wasn't the error so much as Ramirez jogging casually after the ball he kicked into the outfield, while opposing base-runners were hustling toward home pla ... More >>

Meet the Mets, Beat the Mets

Morning Juice: Ethics Reform on Track in Broward; Marlins Lose Heartbreaker

​Let's see what's happening in South Florida:Faced with two terrifying evils, members of the Broward County Commission appear ready to pass an ethics reform package they aren't sure they can work within, but it's still better than the other option of scrapping the reform package and facing the wra ... 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 >>

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