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Sports Agenda For Monday (6/20/11)

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These agendas are getting slim right now because there's not much to write about football, basketball, or hockey; and the Marlins, yeah about that.
In sports, there are ways to know you are really, really freaking bad. The easiest ways are to get compared to the Detroit Lions winless season, the Cleveland Cavaliers post-LeBron, or just in general compared to the Cincinnati Bengals.
At least in that respect, the Marlins are 3-3.

Marlins: (vs. Anaheim Angels, 7:05 p.m., Fox Sports Florida)
So how bad have the Marlins been this month? They have exactly 1 more win than the CBSMiami.com Web team. Think about that one!
Here's how bad the Fish have been. They were 4-41 with runners in scoring position in their road trip. I mean, you have to try to be that bad.
They started by firing the hitting coach. What happened there? The hitting got worse.
Way to go upper management!
Then, likely under pressure from Samson and Loria, manager Edwin Rodriguez quit on Sunday.
Who do the Marlins turn to now?
80-year-old Jack McKeon, who will be the oldest manager in MLB history outside of Connie Mack.
McKeon was born in 1930, which makes him the same age as…the jet engine, sliced bread, the Chrysler building, Mickey Mouse, Scotch Tape, the first recorded cure of an eye infection using penicillin, and when the Nazi party became the second largest party in Germany.
He was even a manager in the farm system of the Washington Senators franchise.
Damn.
He's also only won .518 percent of his games over his career.
Old "Trader Jack" is likely to take over for the rest of the season.
So let's see, the Marlins are so bad that they're turning to a guy who's nearly as old as Bobby Bowden to right the ship.
He may be able to stem the tide, but he's not going to get this team anywhere fast.
This team has a lot of problems and it lies with the most craptastic owner in baseball, Jeffrey Loria.
He's proven to be the most inept owner this side of Mike Brown of the Cincinnati Bengals.
There should be college classes of how to run pro teams into the ground led by Loria and Brown.
Loria has swindled more money out of South Florida than the Cocaine Cowboys.
I mean, this guy is so bad, he makes Matt Millen look competent to run a team.
You want to know why they only put 37,000 seats in the new stadium?
So that when 1,000 people show up to a game, it doesn't look quite as bad as it does now.
The Marlins are only around .500 under Loria's tenure and haven't sniffed the playoffs since 2003.
Oh well, hopefully the NFL lockout ends soon so there's something else to write about other than just how bad the Marlins have become in 2011, cause I'm running out of things to say!

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