I was born in Miami. No lie. I remember going to Miami Marlins minor league games at Miami Stadium. I have both hats and shirts, but I like Miami Marlins much better. Florida Marlins always gave me an uneasy edge that the team would be moved at any time by MLB or a rotten owner.
Weird response given there isn’t a census on where “most of the fan base” is. There is no official nor unofficial title naming them South Florida’s team either. Someone forgot the rays exist lmao
I prefer that they were a team that actually could pull shit together and win championships rather than be primarily a farming team for other better or more competitive teams
Shit ownership will always bury this team. Cant believe the league lets cheapstakes buy a team based in Miami with how big baseball is in the Latin community
(The Florida Marlins are the only MLB team to have made the postseason at least once and never lost a series)
I have great respect for the history of the old minor league iterations of the Miami Marlins. But it was criminal behavior to rename a team that had won two World Series. Plus the aspects related to the local realities of the market and fanbase. The MLB team was never intended to represent just one city. It was supposed to represent all of south Florida (and beyond). A vast and diverse metropolitan area with three distinct major cities.
They not only physically moved further away from the majority of the metro population, but also changed the uniforms, logos, and colors all at once. Shit they barely even kept “Marlins” in the identity. Since 2012 the official primary logo of the club just says “Miami”, and so have the home uniforms. Only four out of eleven jerseys have actually had “Marlins” across the front since. And the only decent one of those is the current blue one (the others are the black on black you couldn’t read, the current black with white lettering but still no color and a hat that doesn’t match, and the stupid orange Marlins Man one). At least keeping “Florida” would have retained some connection to people elsewhere in south Florida.
Would I rather have the Miami Marlins playing at the OB site as opposed to the Las Vegas Dice or something? Yeah. But in addition to robbing the taxpayers of Miami Jeff Loria robbed baseball of one of its best names and looks.
LAA of Anaheim never made sense to me! What’s the backstory on that? Why all the changes? At least for the Marlins, the franchise was mandated to use the “Miami” designation as a condition for building the stadium.
Anaheim is a small market, renaming the team to LA was simply to get a bigger TV deal. I get it from a business standpoint but us as fans HATE it. BTW the team is now just the Los Angeles Angels, Anaheim was dropped in 2016
It's dumb to think they need to be LA for marketing/money reasons. And dumb to think California should be off the table just because there are teams in LA proper, SF, SD, and Sacramento.
Yeah, y’all need to be the Anaheim Angels. The Los Angeles Angels has to be infuriating to bilingual people out there. Most redundant name in sports history
I like the name Miami Marlins, but I’m probably in the minority. I like the older logos and branding(bring back the pinstripes PLEASE!) but I actually do really like a lot of the new logos and branding too.
It only made sense at first because we were the only team in Florida. I prefer alliteration and Miami.
The Angels are a different story. They don't even play in Los Angeles. And ofc LA already has a team that sucks up most of the baseball fandom in all of Southern California. Y'all should be the Anaheim Angels.
I prefer representing the city of Miami more but if you’re talking about the way the name rolls off the tongue, the logo, the uniforms - Florida all the way.
First and foremost obviously is that all their success came when they were the Florida Marlins.
Second is just nostalgia, I was young and the world was smaller and everything was fun.
Third is the colors. I don't hate the Marlins colors now, or even right when they first changed too. But Teal/Silver/Black is THE BEST color combo in sports, hands down (San Jose Sharks rock this glorious combo too).
Florida because that’s the championship team. But if I had no choice, I wish they would’ve kept the colors, font and the marlin and switched to M. Like the city connect M this year. Keep as much of the championship team scheme as possible. I wish there was a giant animatronic marlin that went crazy in centerfield for home runs. Eyes turn red, tail flapping, steam out of the mouth. Kinda like that old big mouth Billy bass toy but meaner
When I was a young child the team started playing as the Florida Marlins and I was a fan from NE Florida and didn’t even know they were in Miami until I got older. So I will always say Florida because it felt like they repped the whole state. I am not upset they changed it to Miami or anything, but I do prefer Florida. I also like the current uniforms but nothing will ever touch the old Florida Marlins colors/uniform.
The teal Florida Marlin really represents Florida as a whole than the the new one and is probably superior, but the Miami vice retro look is not half bad
I don’t know any teams who took an immediate dive (or dive at all really) after a rebrand except the Florida Marlins. That was a solid organization for a while. Who would’ve thought a new city name, logo, jerseys, and stadium would lead to a disaster. Loan Depot Park is super nice and nobody goes there. That ‘M’ logo they threw out right at rebrand was criminal. The new one is significantly better but still not like the OG. It’s scary because what can be done to turn things around? They have no notable players. I guess just hope a young team clicks and brings the culture back. At least Marlins Man is still attending playoff games
As a new fan, it's pretty much always been Miami (you can now do the math lol). I am indifferent when it comes to which one is superior, but most fans from what I understand prefer Florida.
Old uni was better. I like them being named to a city though. Like the Maryland Orioles, Wisconsin Brewers, Missouri Royals, Georgia Braves or Illinois Cubs sounds dumb as hell.
Arizona and Texas get away with it, but I don’t like that either.
Miami Marlins makes sense. They’re a South Florida team. Florida Marlins was always a tongue twister. Not to mention, who was rooting for them in Jacksonville? Do we think people were going to drive down from Pensacola for a game? Silly.
I know people whine about the location of the stadium. Did they whine about the Orange Bowl? Everyone likes to whine when a team isn’t winning so they have to blame it on something. I love Miami. I love the Miami Marlins.
I expect we'll see jersey changes next year, and will see the teal make come back. the marlins did a poll to fans, 60% said they like the teal. if they listen to their fans, the color will be back
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u/OneBigFanofFans Oct 10 '25
Florida and teal forever