The Annual Rookie Posture Clambake

Casey: It's a vicious circle.

Dan: Yep. Just keeps going around and around.

Casey: Never stops.

Dan: That's what makes it vicious.

Casey: And a circle.

-Sports Night

Every year the same thing happens in DolphinLand. You can just about set your calendar to it. The front office demands that the rookies be brought in right quick and also evey year the rookies' agents tell the front office what to do with themselves. Beck and Booker are one thing, but Ginn isn't signing anything until numbers eight and ten have been slotted. That's the process, and for all of the things Huizenga does in a hands-off process, this is the thing he's a stickler about, except that it has the honor of not working yet.

Like Throwing A Gas Can On A Fire

On the bright side, Troy Percival wouldn't be a comeback case that would cost $28M. On the downside, while pitchers with Percy's fastball don't exactly grow on trees, they don't necessarily stay on the tree that long. But yet, because there are teams that need bullpen help there's always someone willing to take a chance on someone like him, even if he threw his last competitive pitch two years ago. But it's not like Florida doesn't need the help. Jorge Julio, we hardly knew ye, yo.

Introductions Are A Pain

My name is Josh. I blog. I make blogs. I tell non-exciting stories about the birth of said blog. Like this one...

I realized that as long as I was going to have a blog that was just me putting articles in it-- mostly sports articles involving Miami sports, that the logical thing would be to create this blog...but what to call it was another matter. The blog that is this blog's spiritual daddy (read: the template I'm going to blatantly steal over time) is Chris Gates' The Daily Norseman. And like Brock Landers and Chest Rockwell, that's a great name. And also, Daily Fish/Daily Sauna/A Mighty Wind was a little bit not good.

My first instinct was to call it the Miami Sports Espresso (hence the subtitle) but the other name in my head was Hot Stormy Fish Tank-- which covers the Heat, the Hurricanes, the Marlins and the Dolphins. I realize there's nothing in my wizard bag at the moment for the Panthers, but the Panthers are on my personal ON NOTICE list at the moment. But of course, in the spirit of Miami fans, if they ever show anything resembling a pulse ever again, likely I will be there to cover it. Actually, this is how I show the Panthers tough love.

I also plan on having help with this-- by of course creating this blog first before even asking so that there's something concrete and asking certain people to contribute later. And it'll be more exciting than this...I promise. Introductions are a pain.