Three Questions Miami Marlins Owner Bruce Sherman Needs To Be Asked

Once again, the time has come for what is always one of the more bemusing times on the Miami Marlins calendar.

Every year, as do many other MLB organizations, the Miami Marlins put on a show at the home ballpark meant to push optimism and ticket sales for the upcoming season. For Miami, the event is Fanfest, and goes back to the earliest days of the franchise. Unlike most MLB teams though, the Marlins often find themselves in the position of having to market a new season in the wake of recent unpopular trades or with players just as surrounded by trade rumors as they are with adoring fans. Equal parts exciting and ominous, it's the official kickoff to another year of Marlins baseball.

Oftentimes, select fans are even presented an opportunity to ask questions of Marlins brass. A time when ownership patiently lends the paying public a ear, and gives well-reasoned, understandable answers to all their....

Alright, legitimately shaking with laughter now. Obviously, that last bit doesn't really occur. However, the bit about Marlins higherups like the general manager and owner generally at least making themselves available does happen. If not at Fanfest itself, then certainly on the first day of spring training. It's the acceptable answers part that is rare. Still, it's pleasant as a long suffering Marlins fan to picture Bruce Sherman sitting before a crowd and some cameras, fielding questions like the following:

Fan: Mr. Sherman, what were your thoughts on the Super Bowl?

Bruce Sherman: Great question! I mean, it's hard to bet against a talent like Mahomes, but....

Fan: No, Mr. Sherman, sorry to cut you off...but I wasn't finished. I meant, what do you think of the fact that both teams that played actually tried to win and did all they could to get there?

At this point in the fantasy, he has a Dennis Green style breakdown before storming off the podium. Though long as we're pretending, I certainly wouldn't say no to him starting a successful revolution for an MLB salary cap and floor. Sadly, Mr. Sherman's answers are generally lacking in that kind of earnest insightfulness.

Nevertheless, it's nice to dream. With the Miami Marlins having once again shed more salary and dealt away more talent than they've added, it seems more than reasonable for the team's owner himself to be held publicly accountable for his team's lack of effort to compete to the best of their ability entering a new MLB season. To be forced to answer some hard-hitting questions, and what's more, be forced to answer them himself, rather than hide behind President of Baseball Operations Peter Bendix or new manager Clayton McCullough.

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