Expiring Fish Could Spoil the Braves
The Marlins have nothing better to do, so...KILL KILL KILL.
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Perhaps the Marlins could spank someone else for a change.
Not good enough to make the playoffs, but good enough to ruin someone else's chances: these are your Marlins, and this is your slot in baseball fandom. Embrace the schadenfreude, cackle like a spoiler, and reset your fan-juju to "stun."
Feels good, doesn't it?
The Fish have clinched their 5th winning season in 7 years, but are all but eliminated in the wild card race. They'll get the official "X" tonight should they lose in Atlanta or the Rockies win...wherever it is the Rockies are playing (we lost our ability to care when they came out with purple-trimmed uniforms). Lest that sound like a reason to hope, allow us to squash that for you: these Fish are well done. Blackened, even.
But there's still a reason to watch tonight at 7: the Marlins can drag the smuggity Braves into the abyss with them with just one win. Anyone's who's ever been subjected to that horrible chop can appreciate that.
The Braves, who start Tim Hudson, need to win out the rest of their games to see the playoffs. The Marlins, who are suffering a variety of ailments and look like a collection of Ichabod Cranes, according to the Clark Spencer, will start the formidable Josh Johnson. Our glorious righty's coming off the flu, but is still deadly enough to play Holmes to the Braves' Moriarty.
If only that meant Chipper Jones would actually be flung into a waterfall.
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Posted Tuesday, Sep 29, 2009 - 5:04 PM EST
