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Miami Marlins: exchanging money is a two-way street

By James Simmons

JUPITER, FLORIDA - FEBRUARY 24: Derek Jeter, CEO of the Miami Marlins speaks with the media at the Miami Marlins spring training complex at Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium on February 24, 2020 in Jupiter, Florida. (Photo by Mark Brown/Getty Images)
JUPITER, FLORIDA - FEBRUARY 24: Derek Jeter, CEO of the Miami Marlins speaks with the media at the Miami Marlins spring training complex at Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium on February 24, 2020 in Jupiter, Florida. (Photo by Mark Brown/Getty Images) /
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The Miami Marlins will be providing financial aid for food distribution to those affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

The Miami Marlins Foundation has partnered with the group Feeding South Florida, to launch a weekly drive-thru food distribution program. The program will run through the end of April for the communities which have been hit hard by the coronavirus outbreak.

I applaud this move and think it is phenomenal the Miami Marlins are going to be giving back to the community they have taken so much from. Don’t get me wrong, this is such a nice gesture on the part of the Marlins brass.

The Foundation will be donating $100,000 and be feeding people for the month of April. This coming just three years after the Marlins held out their hands and accepted $650M for the new retractable-dome stadium which houses a losing team no one goes to see.

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The city of Miami and Miami-Dade County are paying 3/4 of the amount of the stadium which will cost over one billion dollars over the life of the bonds it took to build said stadium.

In reality, the taxpayers will be paying on this stadium well into the future, and the best the Marlins Foundation can do is put up $100,000 to feed its fans for one month.

Less than one million of those fans walked through the turnstiles last year, giving the Marlins the worst attendance for seven straight years. Those fans were rewarded with a 57-105 record and a management team unwilling to spend money for on-field talent.

This isn’t about baseball though, this is about humanity. The Marlins Foundation made a step in the right direction, but they need to follow this up with more steps, and faster walking. True, the Marlins have ponied up $1M to pay out-of-work ballpark employees, but all Major League Baseball teams did the same. Here is an opportunity for the franchise to do more for the people of its city.

I commend the efforts put forth by Derek Jeter and his boys, just think they owe the Miami Marlins fan base a little more.

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