As the last month of the MLB season comes, the Miami Marlins are on the verge of another losing season. Mainstream media outlets like to focus that on the surface it looks like business as usual for the Marlins that fans have gotten used to for the last decade. To casual fans, it appears that nothing has changed.
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Star players have been traded away in an attempt to reduce payroll, finishing the season at the bottom of the division and bottom in Major League attendance. But if you look online at Marlins’ fan twitter accounts and fan sites there is an overwhelming optimism.