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- Marlins HR sculpture to be relocated
- Rumors: Red Sox, Devers far apart in extension talks
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- Derek Jeter is removing the Marlins' home run sculpture because he hates art
- An Ode To The Marlin’s Bizarre Home Run Sculpture, 10 Years Later
- Marlins are removing the home run sculpture from their stadium and it could cost them $2.5 million, report says
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- Derek Jeter will reportedly get his way when it comes to the work of baseball art
"I am a fan of it. I think it brings fans out, so I think they should keep the home run structure," another fan said. "Everybody is used to it and they are so accommodating with it. I do not think it is a good idea," baseball fan, Amelia Concepcion said.
Relocating the piece is better than destroying it, but this was a lot of effort — The Herald detailed the contentious process — for a change that had literally nothing to do with making the Marlins a better baseball team. I’ll be the first to admit that I didn’t like the Marlins home-run thing when they first unveiled it. But it grew on me — it became part of the Marlins’ identity. It as weird and fun, and baseball needs more weird and fun.
Marlins HR sculpture to be relocated
Were he to disavow the sculpture after its displacement, the art value of the piece could be reduced to nothing, according to the Miami Herald. Chip Bowers, president of business operations, said the team plans to dismantle “Homer” as quickly as possible to make room for the new spectator area by opening day next season, according to the Miami Herald. We promise that once we're bought by a billionaire or millionaire looking for a fun new vanity project, we'll stop asking for money.
"There are no plans to move it at the moment," Spring said. "Everyone would love for there to be more news, but it isn't at the top of our agenda." "There's not really much I want to trade out of DC," Nationals left-hander Gio Gonzalez said.
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The same team that had won World Series titles in 1997 and 2003 was mired in mediocrity. From 2012 through 2018, the team never finished above .500 even as stars like Giancarlo Stanton, Christian Yelich, JT Realmuto, the late Jose Fernandez and an aging Ichiro Suzuki graced the field. From the start, it was pure Miami, the most on-brand thing about the South Florida baseball experience. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting.
Gods of the exploding scoreboard, the bullpen car, the canned-trumpet “CHARGE! He can trade away players who hit lots of homers, but Homer seems here to stay. "We're not interested in trading public art," Spring said. Marlins reliever Brad Ziegler said his kids enjoy the sculpture, which springs into motion whenever the home team homers. It stands beyond the center field wall at Marlins Park, the towering legacy of former owner Jeffrey Loria, and nearly as unpopular. Which all makes the idea of needing to make standing-room space for fans in the outfield laughable.
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If you can't afford to become a patron, please sign up to our mailing list. It's free and we're asking here instead of a pop-up. So Homer was dismantled and its place was built a new standing-room section that the team could sell tickets for so that fans could gather, drink overpriced beers and cocktails and try to ignore the awful play of the home team. Or, maybe, just maybe, where the rest of the world saw baseball’s largest tribute to marine life and blinking lights, Derek Jeter saw dollar signs.
More fans on average attended LSU home baseball games than Marlins games last season. Sending the sculpture to another ballpark might appease Grooms, and Spring laughed at the idea of a trade. But he declined to endorse even a straight-up deal for, say, the Gateway Arch in St. Louis or the Mets' home run apple.
Tacky like their tacky new uniforms are tacky. Tacky like the Miami Marlins’ tackily alliterative revised name, highlighting the tacky metropolis they call home. Move the $2.5 million sculpture over Grooms' objection, and it could lose almost all of its value, said Michael Spring, director of the county's department of cultural affairs. If there's no trade to be made, Jeter would probably be happy to relocate Homer at the bottom of Biscayne Bay. But like Marlins Park, the sculpture is the property of Miami-Dade County.
New ownership, with Jeter as its face, has not fared much better with the public since taking over in 2017. The approval to move the county-owned sculpture came down Tuesday from Miami-Dade County officials at the behest of minority owner Derek Jeter, who has made clear since joining the team that he wanted “Homer” gone. Not the fans, not the players, not the critics. And that’s saying something when you consider the then-new stadium also boasted a fish tank with live fish behind home plate.
MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) — There are going to be a lot of changes when the Miami Marlins take the field this season. In its place will be a new standing-room only section to make way for more Marlins fans. An icon of the Jeffrey Loria era in Miami is being removed from Marlins Park.
Perhaps it was the Marlins’ 2003 World Series win over Derek Jeter and the New York Yankees that eventually sealed Homer’s fate. See, in 2017, maligned owner Jeffrey Loria sold the team to a group led by Jeter. A blaring fever dream that bridged the gap between reality and mimosa-and-mescaline-fueled weekends along the Miami Beach Boardwalk. It was loud, it was wonderfully absurd, it made no apologies for any of the fun and havoc it caused , and even the local wildlife loved it. Jeter and company might have to reimburse the county the $2.5 million cost of the structure if the move lessens its value as a piece of art. Loria, who sold the Marlins a year ago, commissioned the $2.5 million sculpture for the opening of Marlins Park in 2012.
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