It was a busy day, spent in my office recording and editing, so it was one of the only jokes I made today. It’s at the end of a comment I left to this interesting post contextualizing the absurdity of the 2008 Marlins payroll now that they’ve dumped their two highest-paid players, I wrote this:
With the revenue Loria’s drawing, you’d think he could dredge his own island off the Miami coast and build a stadium on it, plus a bridge connecting it to the peninsula without public financing.Something like these man-made islands in the UAE could be super cool. Imagine it, an island shaped like a Marlin with nothing on it but a ballpark, parking garages, and a few resort hotels with views into the stadium.
I gotta say, though… The 2008 Marlins might be the best $10,000,000 baseball team since the 1989 Cubs!
You see what I did there? Totally flouting the tenet not to compare across eras. Totally high-larious.