the_dengle said:
Euphoria14 said:
[The Mariners are] one of only (2) teams to never appear in the World Series (Other team being the ~3-4 year old Nationals)
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The Nationals franchise is actually over 40 years old. Before 2005 they were the Montreal Expos, and yes, technically they are the same team, even though they now play in a different city and have a different name. They have never been to the World Series in their 40+ years of existence.
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I know who the Nationals were before, they play in my team's division.
They were the team destroyed by Jeff Loria who somehow was allowed to aquire the Marlins afterwards, which is the team he is dismantling after not even 2/3rds of a season after handcuffing Miami for the next 40 years in taxes to pay for the new stadium, signing a TV deal for "The Franchise" and buying hundreds of millions of dollars worth of players, all strangly possible after crying poverty...
Now that right there is another no good owner. That man is a flat out crook. It is bad when you do all this stuff and it is all nationally televised on a TV program. Nationally televised destruction of a team in the same year they got a new stadium and brought in hundreds of millions of dollars worth of top free agent talent. OUCH!
If I were a Marlin's fan I would be pissed right now.
Luckily for Loria, not many of those exist these days.
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