I'm not sure what doug was talking about with his Marlins rant... one owner had a fire sale one time. after the 97 world series. then the club was sold in 98. then the club was sold in 2001. other than that they made good trades and made good use of their farm system for 2003 world series. i guess you could argue delgado and lo duca, but still hardly a fire sale. I don't see anything wrong with making trades to bring in young and therefore lesser paid talent. As far as the Miami fans that are being "driven away," they averaged 16,000 in 2003. There's a beach and supermodels in Miami. The rest of us have baseball.