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<\/p>\nYou probably read that headline and thought to yourself, “Yeah, and the sky is blue. Where are you going with this?”<\/p>\n
I realize the Miami Marlins aren’t exactly the picture of a model MLB franchise, with their myriad firesales and crappy attendance numbers, but every once in a while, even when the team starts to show signs that they aren’t completely destitute, a sign from God comes down and reminds their fans that they aren’t meant to have any fun.<\/p>\n
A couple of weeks ago, the Marlins sat at the top of the NL East with an 8-5 record, taking two of four games off of the Cincinnati Reds and could have even had a series win if not for a boneheaded pitching change courtesy of embattled manager Clayton McCullough.<\/p>\n
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(Megan Briggs\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
They were the toast of the town.<\/p>\n
MLB Network was devoting entire segments to talk about how dangerous, young, and talented this club was.<\/p>\n
Hell, even I was getting in on the fun and double fisting the Kool-Aid.<\/p>\n
Since that moment, the Marlins have dropped seven of their last eight games and look to be in complete free-fall mode.<\/p>\n
But there was light at the end of the tunnel; a glimmer of hope in a sea of sewage.<\/p>\n
The Marlins were set to get their best position player back in outfielder Kyle Stowers.<\/p>\n
Stowers was going to be activated after starting the season on the injured list, and that meant the Fish were getting an All-Star and a home run machine back in the heart of their lineup.<\/p>\n
And in his very first plate appearance back, rocking the Sunday throwback uniforms, this happened.<\/p>\n
Oh, no! We suck again!<\/p>\n
Nothing like taking 102 off the pinky to welcome you back to the Majors, huh kid?<\/p>\n
Although Stowers eventually returned and even hit a double in his next plate appearance, I can’t think of many other franchises that would see their franchise player come so close to another long term injury immediately after being taken off the IL.<\/p>\n
The fans were just as miffed about the whole situation, taking to X to voice their concern while realizing this is just another day in the life of a Miami Marlins supporter.<\/p>\n
Not many people know the torture that is being a Marlins fan, but I can assure you, nothing in life prepares you for it.<\/p>\n
You don’t even get disappointed, you just know something bad is going to happen and never get your hopes up in the first place.<\/p>\n
It looks like Stowers will be fine, but I’m sure everyone has already moved on and prepared themselves for the next unfortunate series of events to unfold.<\/p>\n
Rinse and repeat, Fish fanatics.<\/p>\n
Austin Perry is a writer for OutKick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You probably read that headline and thought to yourself, “Yeah, and the sky is blue. Where are you…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,105742],"class_list":{"0":"post-238434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-miami","9":"tag-miami-headlines","10":"tag-miami-news","11":"tag-outkick-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}