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That title shoud read “Marlins spoil the Mets”. It was the least we could do after a bad season hampered by injuries and bad pitching all season long. Glavin was on the mound for the Mets and only lasted 2 1/3 innings as the Marlins pounded out 7 runs in the first inning. Yea now the good part. Ross hits an opposite field double to score two runs, slides into third on a cut off from Glavin, Glavin throws to third and has a bad throw into the outfield and Cody scores. By the end of the first half of the inning which has taken 30 minutes, the Marlins are up 7-0. Ross ends up on the day going 2-5 with a double, single, two RBI’s and a run. He also got alot of action in left field. Didn’t miss a beat in the sun. Cody ends the season with a career high .335 batting average with 173 at bats. His OBP wha .411. Catch all the stats on the Marlins board. That leads the team by the way. Play him Fredi. OK enough of that.

 Seems like all the announcers liked Cody this year. He was interviewed by Mike after the game again. Mike commented how he loved that smile. Signature Cody. With his sweet talking voice and positive attitude why would they not want him on camera. Cody had a frustrating year with his hamstring problems but came back the second half to put up some strong numbers. The announcers were always asking Fredi about Ross. “So is he in line for centerfield? Well as long as he is hitting was Fredi’s response. Beinfast got asked the same question twice in the last week. His second responce was better than his first. I think Larry got flack over that first response from the e-mail tuesday game when he was asked about Cody starting centerfield. His response was come to spring training. Yea right…….The second time was more positive about Ross’s envolvement with the mix. I can’t remember what he said, but it was more positive. (that is why I am not a sports writer). De Aza did have a good week at the plate getting out of his slump. No I do not have his numbers for the last week.

I think the most positive thing for the Marlins this year was the bullpen. Mostly new faces that performed very well. This last game summed that up with Willis out of control and the bullpen comming into the game and not giving up a run to hold the game in check. Kudos to Kensing coming back with a succesfull Tommy John surgury, Tank having early season control problems and being sent down comming back and pitching his butt off. Pinto keeping us on our seats as to how he would pitch today. Lindstrom who threw his ass off, Miller who came out of nowhere and did his job. Owens being sent down twice and comming back doing an excellent job. And then there is Clark Kent, I mean Kevin Gregg. He was not even considered in the closer spot untill the Marlins had no one else to close thanks to the demize of Julio and Benitez. Marlins: leave Gregg as the closer. Period. He will only get better. I am sure that they will listen to me. I told them last year that Ross should be the everyday centerfielder. Ha ha ha ha.

As all Marlins fans know, Fish needs to go for starting pitching. This season was horrible with our starting pitchers. This should be the first thing on the agenda for the Marlins.  That is hard to find unless you have money to spend. Marlins do not. Still no stadium deal. No long term contracts for players. The only thing we have to look forward to in the off season is trade deals with possibly Willis, Olivo, Boone, Amezega, Lindstrom, Benitez, Kim,  and whoever doesn’t have a contract. I am probably not the right person to be writing this as to not being sure as to who has what.  I do think next year the players that will come back are Ross, Willingham, Jacobs, Hermida, De Aza, Ramirez, Uggla, Olsen, Nalasco, Sanchez, and Johnson who will be out next year with TJ surgury. I can’t believe I sucked myself into this conversation without the facts. Sory. I think Traynor will be back also as I scratch my head.

Well this is a Cody Ross site anyway, so back to Cody. In the off season Cody has stated that he will try to work on his hamstring to make it ready for next year. Good move Cody. Your patience at the plate has improved 100% and it shows in your averages. You did an excellent job coming off the bench to pinch hit and an even better job starting when you were called upon. Your greatness is just a matter of time and opportunity. We are very proud of you and wish you all the best of luck for 2008. We all back you, believe in you, and thank you for giving 110% for your fans. Without you, the summer would really be a drag. Now I am going to go into my depression mode of no baseball for six months.

Sweep, sweep, and sweep the Cubs. Thats what the Marlins did today beating the Cubs 6-4 in an exciting game. For all you Ross fans you know his hamstring got tight last week and has not been playing. He got his chance to pinch hit in the 8th inning today. Marlins were leading the Cubs 5-4. Ross comes to the plate with two outs and a runner on second base. Ross takes the count 2-0, it then goes to 3-1. Cody gets a breaking ball over the plate and slams it to centerfield. Going going, off the scoreboard wall for a double and an RBI. Just like that off the bench Cody gets the insurance run for the Marlins. To give you guys some more stellar stats. Cody is 5-9 as a pinch hitter. 2 home runs, two doubles and 5 RBI’s. THAT is comming off the bench my man. With his batting average at .338 his numbers are very very strong. Did I say strong? Did I say very? Add it up Beinfast. Marlins go on to the Mets tomarro night. Let us spoil some more hopes Marlins.

1. Cody with son Hudson, niece Kinley, and nephews Conner, Jackson Sailor, Hunter, and Cade. 2. Cody with Kinley 3. Brother in law Eric with Uggla 4. Eric Josh, Mckenzie (Codys sister) and kinley. 5. Eric and Matt

Marlins could not hit that $ucking left hander tonight but Cody did get his hit to extend his hitting STREAK to like 14 of 16 games out of 17. or something like that. Still batting .338. The big story is on Uggla and Soriano. Last night Kim had hit three batters unintetntional. When Soriano came in to close the game, He hit Uggla in the head with a pitch. If looks could kill it was Uggla staring down Soriano. So tonight with the Braves leading 5-0 in the 8th inning, Soriano is pitching and Uggla comes up to bat with this look on his face that could kill. Kill it he did right out of the park. After rounding home instead of turning to the right to the fans, he turns left and gives Soriano a go to hell look. Best play of the game. You go Uggla. That is one of those plays where you had to be there…….. I bet you four readers wish I would get my act together. By golly I am trying. I just completed a course in journalism. My first….Did I spell that right? More pictures comming soon from the Ross family to Denver trip. I posted a picture of my grandaughter in the image section of this site and low and behold I got it wrong. I thought all the grandkids were at Coors staduim with the organ player. I wondered how they got there. They were never there, it was at Stevens house, Codys older brother. Nobody tells me anything. How can I be a responsible poster when I don’t get the right info? Well it my be my fault since I assumed. You all know what that means. Steven get a real organ. Yea a B-3 with a leslie. What was that a Thomas or a Lowrey or something like that doing in your house. You should know better………..No true rocker would do anything less. I want some history on that organ.  Get rid of it, it is ugly and probably sounds like a uh Lowery. Hammond my man. That is the only organ to have. I bet it sounds like the organ at the field. You don’t play that stuff do ya? Those colored presets remind me of school. lol

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Yea he would have had another homerun tonight with that one foot. Matt Diaz of the Braves took that shot away along with Uggla’s slam one foot away. To make it worse Jones took another long ball away from us with a web jam catch against Hanley. Cody still got a hit and a walk and a run. And that one foot from a home run. If it had gone the other way for the Marlins we would have had another 7 runs. Darn.