Jeffrey Loria: Worst Owner In Sports

We all knew this, but Loria is ceaseless in efforts to remind us.

Florida Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria had to be talked out of firing manager Joe Girardi after a loss last Sunday, the Palm Beach Post reported Saturday, citing unnamed sources with knowledge of the situation.

According to the newspaper report, Loria had made the decision and only reversed it after a postgame meeting with Girardi and other front-office officials. Girardi, for his part, apologized to Loria in front of a subsequent team meeting, the newspaper reported.

For those who haven't followed the story, the reason Loria almost fired the man who took his team with his 79 cent payroll and made it a fringe wild card contender is because he had the gall to tell him to shut up. During last Sunday's game with the Dodgers Loria was screaming at the umpire for some perceived bad calls and Girardi told him, "Just stay out of it. I'm the manager." Reportedly there was some profanity in there as well.

Loria took in the situation and decided that this perceived insult warranted the ultimate penalty. Damn the season, damn the progress, damn the players. If Mr. Jeffrey Loria can't go around feeling like he's packing a 12-incher then no one will be seeing a competitive baseball team.

I wish he had fired Girardi. Any other organization in MLB is more worthy of his services, and any with an opening would immediately scramble for them.

This is just the latest example of Loria's indiffeence to baseball. He ruined baseball in Montreal, and he's in the process of ruining baseball in south Florida. If he moves the team, he'll ruin baseball wherever he goes. He's like the anti-Steinbrenner: all the dictatorial tendencies without even the slightest interest in winning.