Marlins to brush off Bobby Cox?

by craig on Sep 5, 2010 9:52 AM EDT in News and Rumors

As most of you know, the legendary Bobby Cox is making his final rounds as manager of the Atlanta Braves and every team they have faced has honored the long time skipper in some form or fashion. Well, except for maybe one.

The Marlins have nothing planned to honor Cox -- not even a simple scoreboard goodbye or good-luck salute -- even though he has managed the Braves longer than the Marlins have been in existence. Cox will manage his final game in South Florida on Sunday.

The Marlins aren't saying why they're giving Cox the cold shoulder, but there's a chance it has something to do with his comments critical of Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria when Fredi Gonzalez -- a Cox friend and protégé -- was fired in June.

Leave it to the Marlins front office to revert back to middle school playground behavior. Forget that crap about turning the other cheek or being the bigger man. Oh, no, we can't have that. I would go on and on but what is the point?

However, there is still time to send someone out to the store to buy $200 worth of heartfelt crap and put something on the scoreboard to save face. And maybe, just maybe, they will do it. And I hope they do. 'Cause if they don't, they will only be embarrassing themselves for the..... I can't count that high time.

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Bobby Cox

You can’t argue with Bobby’s success. It should be acknowledged. On the other hand, it’d be a mistake for the Braves to replace him with Fredi. Assuming Chipper is done, the Braves will be led next year by Heyward, Prado and Gonzalez…Fredi’s Hialeah atttitude won’t work.

by Pelu Maad on Sep 5, 2010 11:02 AM EDT reply actions

Hialeah attitude?

by craig on Sep 5, 2010 12:24 PM EDT up reply actions

yea for real, whats a hialeah attitude? lmao

by xquiles21x on Sep 5, 2010 11:53 PM EDT up reply actions

Just another slap in the face of baseball tradition.

The Marlins mgmt. needs to remember there part of a long tradition that need to be respected. Just what we need to do is piss off the powers that be in baseball once again.

by GREGS on Sep 5, 2010 12:34 PM EDT reply actions

Loria ia POS

I hope he sells this team soon.

by Gokyle45 on Sep 5, 2010 5:07 PM EDT reply actions

So because everyone else does a stupid thing, the Marlins have to do it too?

Don’t get me wrong, Bobby Cox is a very good manager. But what is this — do the Marlins need to put together some silly ceremony every time someone on another team is retiring? Because I feel like there are at least 2-3 players every season who are more important than Bobby Cox. (Or any manager.)

And last I looked, the Braves were the rivals of the Marlins — since when was this even a thing?

If retiring managers have historically been awarded things by home teams, this is the first I’ve heard of it. And yes, if this is the case, the Marlins should’ve followed suit.

But if someone’s trying to sell this as a “new tradition” or something. they should stop, because it’s dumb.

Unless, of course, it takes playing time away from Ryan Anderson.

by 3.3seconds on Sep 5, 2010 10:44 PM EDT reply actions

Ikinda agree with all points of this

Many met fans hate the phils much more than. The braves, but I was 13-14 during the 99-00 seasons and remember at one point we were something like 35-70 at Turner field since it opened back in those days. I absolutely hate the Braves just as much as the Yankees. I could care less if he gets a proper sendoff, to hell with baseball tradition.

P.s. Thanks for 2003, this is my first time posting over here. Watching the yankee fans in anguish that post-season was a thing of beauty

by MetsKnicksRutgers on Sep 6, 2010 8:19 AM EDT up reply actions

My point is, this isn't even "baseball tradition."

This is just some thing the Braves made up, or something. Either that, or it’s some very obscure “baseball tradition.”

I ask again: does anyone have any evidence of anything like this happening before — a retiring manager being greeted with gifts by all the league’s teams? I definitely recall a few isolated instances of players being honored in this fashion during road games… but even then, it wasn’t a league-wide thing. (It was a situation where it was the player’s home town, a team he used to play for, etc.)

Because if this is in fact a thing the Braves just made up, then why the hell should the Marlins be expected to play along?

Unless, of course, it takes playing time away from Ryan Anderson.

by 3.3seconds on Sep 7, 2010 4:22 AM EDT up reply actions