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About Jorge Costales

- Cuban Exile [veni] - Raised in Miami [vidi] - American Citizen [vici]

The Real Culprit: The Houston Rockets

As Miami Heat fans turn on the team in a manner which would make Tolai tribesmen recoil with indigestion, let us not lose sight of the real culprits for the Heat’s first round demise. The Houston Rockets. As a Miami … Continue reading

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The Guiding Light

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Marlins Finances: Another Year, Another $40M

Please click on image above to enlarge or print. Forbes recently released its annual Business of Baseball issue for 2009. One year ago I started this blog by looking very closely at the Forbes numbers as they pertained to the … Continue reading

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The MLB Roller Coaster

Paying close attention to a major league baseball team would cure any casual fan of any preconceived notions of how things should be. In 2009 alone, the Marlins have had 7-game winning and losing streaks. Sandwiched between two Lindstrom blown … Continue reading

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Dwyane (Go Go) Gadget – New Back

I’m half asleep trying to read an economics book as the TV in the background is still on TNT. My Miami Heat had been crushed earlier and I was bummed. Then Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley reminded me of why … Continue reading

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An Idiot’s Guide to a Non-Pitching Change

Winston Churchill described a fanatic as follows, “one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.” Regarding Matt Lindstrom’s blown save against the Philadelphia Phillies last Friday night, Marlins fans resemble the latter and seem incapable of the … Continue reading

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Dear Straw [Hat] Man: Ni Tu Te Lo Cres

The straw man argument defined: An informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent’s position. To “attack a straw man” is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by substituting a superficially similar proposition (the “straw man”), and … Continue reading

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Salute to Miami Senior High: The Wheel Deal

With apologies to the Norman Maclean character in A River Runs Through It, I am now haunted by cogs. But, in the words of a future saint — be not afraid — it is a friendly haunting. It all began … Continue reading

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Isiah Thomas: The Anti-Cristobal

The hiring of Mario Cristobal as the football coach at FIU was a welcome departure from the safe practice of hiring ‘names.’ He was a young coach with extensive roots in the area, personal and professional. The perception was that … Continue reading

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The Daily Gospel

The most practical and effective email list a lot of my friends and I are on is the The Daily Gospel [DGO]. As the title suggests, it is a daily reminder of that day’s Gospel reading. DGO is produced by … Continue reading

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