Derek Jeter takes away the Marlins Home Run Sculpture

The Marlins dinger sculpture moves away and Derek Jeter is a monster. Before I begin, I want you to honestly look at the kind of art Jeter has at home. Certainly posters Toulouse-Lautrec, but it is rich, so they are framed. He certainly has one with the black cat in his kitchen. He could have a Starry Night, as well.

Think of Jeter's favorite movie. It's probably beginningunless it is Saints of Boondock. Maybe, maybe, maybe that's Shawshank Redemptionbut only if he feels arty.

His favorite album is certainly something that has sold to six million copies or more. You can not dispute that.

The fact is that Jeter has the aesthetic taste of a Williams-Sonoma catalog. He was hitting, hitting, jumping and throwing for 20 years, and he did not have much time to think about "the art". In addition, he makes aerial citations when he pronounces the word "art" aloud.

Jeter is dismantling the Marlins' sculpture because he has no vision. He's completely New Yorkers before Michigan, and when he walks in Miami, he does not have it. He does not know why there are so many[[[[wrinkles the nose and gestures savagely]colors.

Anyway, he's just there to lead a team and make clams. You did not know it was a human buyout when he was playing because, hey, the players are supposed to succeed. But he was so successful that other teams were taking their own resources to maintain themselves, and the Yankees would then acquire them. That's all that Jeter knows. He knows a world where everyone has to destroy everything, but he remains completely safe.

I loved this sculpture. It's real for me, damn it.

Just to catch up with you, I have a story with this beautiful, horrible and beautiful thing. My very first viral message happened because of the sculpture, and it was based only on a GIF found on Reddit. I, too, lacked vision.

Then I found myself in the belly of the beast.

A few months before I could enter the sculpture, I had an epiphany. This thing was beautiful. It was perfect and it was something that would define the team for decades, like the ivy in Chicago, the water in San Francisco and the green exterior wall in Boston. I based all my function around that.

In 75 years, the Home Run Sculpture will be emblematic. It will be a destination. the stadium will be antique and adored, and people will enter this classic piece of Americana, borrow the tunnel to get to their seat and see it off, with 80 years of climate and air conditioning aging more than a touch, but in the most charming way possible. A father will put his arm around his son or daughter and just watch.

In fact, I based this feature on two things. The first was that the new owners would not be so strange and short-sighted that they would rip the whole team. The second was that the sculpture would stand, a visionary art work that helped define all the experience of Marlins Park. The weather would make it beautiful. Time is one way to do that.

These two ideas have been proven horribly, inevitably inaccurate. The new owners would be absolutely as weird and short-sighted. They would do everything they could to recreate the Marlins Park experience, even though they did not really know what it was.

Before the shareholding group Jeter-head figure took power, the Marlins were not known for many things. Giancarlo Stanton. The sculpture. Two unlikely leagues, but no division title in the history of the teams.

The new owners have stripped what they could. The big historical field was dropped, and it was the rare kind of fire sale where a team has not one of the top 100 prospects. The Marlins are so much worse off than they were. The laughable expectations of a group of over-enthusiastic owners turned out to be ridiculous, oddly enough.

Look at this headline about silly people who expect silly things:

Derek Jeter's Business Plan Provides Big Profits and Increased Marlins Attendance

This projection was as stupid as shit. Imagine taking the Marlins and thinking, "Ah, now this is a fan base that can definitely appreciate the strategy behind another rebuild. The presence will be increase. "

No, it was a healed fan base, waiting for a knight in shining armor. They did not just want to avoid the well-known star trope for the prospects. They wanted add to their superstars. A wild concept, no? Imagine a team wanting to build on a talented field of history.

But with the players gone, at least the Marlins had the sculpture. This strange, wild, beautiful sculpture, entirely from Miami. That's the only thing that let you know, unambiguously, that you're watching Miami baseball. The rappers would sneak into the sculpture, they would slap it and it would be a delightful little quirk. Stanton would reach one meter ninety and the flamingos would dance, baby, would dance. It turned out that it was in an air-conditioned stadium to fame, as no stadium previously in Miami.

Now you have the CGI green screen that covers the outside field, and that's it. Unless you're fond of a spitting runner or J.T. Realmuto, here's what your Marlins experience is now:

They are a baseball team. They play in a geographical area, but do not worry about that. They are a baseball team! One of 30! Is not enough?

Well no. It's now Jeter and Co.'s turn to reinvent the Marlins experience. I can not imagine what will have to be done for Miami fans to trust baseball again. Remember, this strangeness did not start with the Marlins. It started with Triple-A teams and the failure of minor league experiences dating back several decades. The entire history of baseball in Miami is centered on the rich who make disappointing decisions.

Maybe the new Marlins have understood it. The plan may be to excise the superstars, get rid of Dinger's remarkable monstrosity, and start from scratch with an unknown and unsung team and fan experience. The next step is to move on to the new experience of the team and the fans. Everyone will be happy.

I'm sure you trust them completely, right?

Now that the superstars are gone, they will work to make the stadium completely harmless. It will be about 65º inside, there will be an aquarium behind the house and the fence of the outdoor field will be green. You do not know any of the players, but in the future, you may know it. This is the promise of the Marlins ™.

This is still the promise of the Marlins, but in the last two attempts, the team played in a boring football stadium. Then they played in a unique and sweet park with more than a little character.

Too much character. It's gone. And the new Marlins continue, implementing their plan of … whatever their plan.

1. Piss off the fans
2. Make the stadium more boring and homogeneous
3. Increase attendance, according to Project Wolverine?
4. Benefit, of course.

The Marlins have been busy acquiring international bonuses recently, so they are ready to do something. It is not inconceivable that a team can spend two to three years on a core team. We look again at the Astros in the ALCS, for example.

For the moment, however, the 2019 Marlins will be so much more than it was last year. It's instant delivery. A marked fan base, not knowing if they should one day join a player or team, was immediately notified, nah. It will take a while before you have to tie up again.

The next step was to make the baseball stadium less noticeable.

If you can think of a better plan, I would like to hear it.

From there, it looks rather silly. The new owners of the Marlins took over a team and immediately gave up everything that made her unique. It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays them.

The Marlins were something, and now they are nothing. If they will become something again, we will have to trust the new quirks to understand what it is.

They probably will not do it. In my opinion, the next owners will have to solve the problem. It's a pity. It was such a good start. It was such a good start!

In the end, Miami baseball always seems to find a way to disillusion everyone. We should not be surprised, but we can certainly be disappointed.