Thirty-three years later, a World Series offers Miami Marlins fans some perspective

Obviously, it hasn't always been easy being a Miami Marlins fan.

Yet, despite all the lows, it's important to remember that there have been some extreme highs. Since coming into the league in 1993, only seventeen of MLB's thirty clubs have won a World Series. The Miami Marlins are one of them. More to the point, they are also one of eight teams to have done it twice. Say what you want about the Miami Marlins rags or riches, with way more rags, existence. A sizable chunk of the league's fanbases would kill to be in the shoes of a Miami fan old enough to remember those two title runs.

Which brings us to this current World Series between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Los Angeles Dodgers. By the way, that seventeen team count will remain the same no matter who comes out on top in the battle of shades of blue taking place this week- both teams are already on the list. For when you stack up the final results of all those seasons since the Marlins set up shop in South Florida, the fortunes of both these championship caliber clubs offer Miami fans something very precious:

Perspective.

For the Blue Jays, they were the main inspiration for this article. Whereas the Marlins first started playing in 1993, today's Blue Jays fans want to party like 1993. Following Miami's inaugural season, the Blue Jays won it all that year, capping off the first back to back championship in baseball since the 1970s. To date, only two teams have done that in the last fifty years, though the Dodgers could shortly change that. Since 1993 though, for Toronto? Fifteen winning seasons yes, but zero rings. Multiple times, Blue Jays fans have seen their team move on from Hall of Fame caliber talent. Much of the last thirty-three years has been spent being beat up by more powerful teams in their division. Sound familiar, Marlins fans?

So despite having far more resources, from that flags fly forever perspective, the Blue Jays have needed thirty-three years to put themselves in a position just to tie the championship tally the Marlins have accomplished.

As for the Dodgers? Okay, no question that Marlins fans would see their club trade places with the Dodgers in a heartbeat. Fans of nearly every team would, certainly over the last decade. They spend. They develop. They do it all.

And yet...since 1993? The same championship tally as the Marlins. Heck, they even had to trade one of their home grown, Hall of Fame level players to the Marlins back in 1998, unceremoniously unloading a superstar in their prime just before Miami started making it a regular thing.

Kidding aside, the point is that even when an organization does everything right, it doesn't always work out. Lovers and haters of baseball alike know well that cliche about the season being a marathon, not a sprint, and a 162-game season (same goes for 154 by the way) is a lot of time for even superteams to get derailed.

All of which goes to show that when it comes to final results, at the end of the day, Miami Marlins fans haven't it that bad at all.