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Noel Rodriguez sipped a beer and watched his favorite team lose by
seven runs Monday night. He wore a bright orange jersey, No. 7, with Jose
Reyes’s name stitched on the back. He paid $100 for it last year, he said,
and within months it was obsolete.
在星期一晚间的比赛中，Noel Rodriguez边喝着啤酒边看着他支持的马林鱼输球，他身上
穿着Jose Reyes的7号亮橘色球衣，去年还值100美元的球衣，不过才几个月就已经过时
了。
“I was going to put a sticker on it that said, ‘SOLD,’ ” said Rodriguez,
31, who works in customs at the Miami airport. “But they might push me out of
the park.”
Actually, the Miami Marlins, off to a 3-12 start — including a loss Wednesday
night — after their latest purge of expensive players, need more fans like
Rodriguez. He does not believe ownership cares much about winning, he said,
and still wishes the team had not traded Miguel Cabrera in 2007, let alone
Reyes and the others dumped since last summer.
在迈阿密机场担任海关的Rodriguez说：我本来打算在衣服上贴"已售出"的贴纸，这位忠
实的球迷也在考虑不再进场了，马林鱼截至星期三为止，开季以来的战绩为3胜12败，
"我觉得管理阶级根本不在乎赢球，如果07年球队没有把Miguel Cabrera交易出去，去年
没有清仓大拍卖该有多好。"
The Marlins, who have struggled to draw fans through good times and bad in
their two decades, rank 29th in the majors in average attendance, ahead of
only the Cleveland Indians. Through Tuesday, they averaged 19,247 per game
and did not sell out their opener despite offering fans a free ticket to
another game.
过去20年马林鱼不管战绩好坏，球迷都不太捧场，平均进场人数倒数第二，仅胜过克里
夫兰印地安人，开季以来平均一万九千余人，即使开幕战进场可以多拿到一张免费票，
当天也没有满座。
The reason for the fans’ bitterness, by now, is well known. After building
Marlins Park, largely with taxpayer money, the owner Jeffrey Loria splurged
on free agents before last season and pushed the payroll to $107 million,
according to baseballreference.com. Now, after a last-place finish and several
trades, the payroll is $33 million and the team is starting over again.
马林鱼球迷现在的痛，众所皆知就是在用纳税人的钱盖好Marlins Park后，老板Loria
虽然在当年自由球员市场上带回许多大鱼，也把团队薪资推到一亿美元大关，但现在
球队在大拍卖后又进入重建期，今年薪资是全大联盟最低的三千三百万美元。
As a franchise, the Marlins are used to patience. After the team won the 1997
World Series, its first owner, H. Wayne Huizenga, gutted the roster. Five
losing seasons followed, but several players acquired in the overhaul helped
the Marlins win again in 2003.
对马林鱼团队来说，他们以耐心见长，在1997年拿下世界大赛冠军后，重整阵容，把队
中核心卖掉，经过五个球季的等待后，当时换来的潜力球员开始大放异彩，在03年再度
夺下冠军。
“I was on the team in ’98 that lost 108 games,” Redmond said. “They had
made a lot of changes and went with a lot of young guys who played a lot of
years in the big leagues and won World Series. I think the message here is
there’s an opportunity for guys to get a chance to establish themselves at a
young age. And they’re good players, too, which is exciting.”
现任马林鱼教头Redmond说：我当时也在球队阵中，在拿下冠军后的隔年，我们输了108场
比赛，管理阶层做了很多的改变，让一些小伙子年纪轻轻就在大联盟磨练，然后又再次赢
得世界大赛，我想这表示只要这些年轻球员有机会表现而且建立起信心，他们都是很出色
的球员，这让我们很兴奋、很期待。
原来去年世界大赛冠军是 Florida Marlins
December 4, 2007: Miguel Cabrera Traded by the Florida Marlins with Dontrelle
Willis to the Detroit Tigers for Burke Badenhop, Eulogio De La Cruz, Cameron
Maybin, Andrew Miller and Mike Rabelo.
Camron Maybin...
Andrew Miller...
下次再整理03年那批拍卖