The timing isn't ideal, no, as the Marlins celebrate their 25th Anniversary Weekend following another offseason fire sale that has the club unsurprisingly in the midst of a start-over season wrought by lousy crowds and on pace to top 100 losses.
It's sort of like a neighborhood block party being hosted by a dysfunctional family in a house on fire.
Then again the anniversary is perfectly timed in another way, coming just as Derek Jeter is digging into his first year as the new owner-out-front. It is a reminder that what modest legacy this franchise does have must be grown.