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• Marlins HR sculpture to be relocated
• Rumors: Red Sox, Devers far apart in extension talks
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• Derek Jeter is removing the Marlins' home run sculpture because he hates art
• An Ode To The Marlin’s Bizarre Home Run Sculpture, 10 Years Later
• Marlins are removing the home run sculpture from their stadium and it could cost them $2.5 million, report says

Like the Marlins, however, Homer does have a few fans. They consider the pop art very Miami, and right at home in a ballpark with garish green walls, a nightclub in left field and fish tanks behind home plate. According to The Miami Herald, the team won permission from the county to remove the home-run thing from the stadium and place it outside in the plaza. So while the artwork isn’t leaving Miami , it won’t be in the stadium to celebrate the occasional dinger from a Giancarlo Stanton-less baseball team. The vote was a victory for Marlins CEO Derek Jeter, who can now remove from the ballpark one reminder of unpopular previous owner Jeffrey Loria's regime. Former Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria, an art dealer, played a major role in the design of the retractable-roof ballpark.

Relocating the piece is better than destroying it, but this was a lot of effort — The Herald detailed the contentious process — for a change that had literally nothing to do with making the Marlins a better baseball team. I’ll be the first to admit that I didn’t like the Marlins home-run thing when they first unveiled it. But it grew on me — it became part of the Marlins’ identity. It as weird and fun, and baseball needs more weird and fun.

Marlins HR sculpture to be relocated

Less than two weeks ago, the Marlins were granted permission by Miami-Dade County commissioners to relocate the mechanically operated sculpture to outside the park. In its place, the Marlins will be adding a standing-room deck that is part of a series of stadium enhancements for 2019. Open your image file to the full size using image processing software. But Miami-Dade County’s Art in Public Places board voted unanimously to approve the Marlins’ plan. Not the pinched Puritan baseball deities worshipped by the likes of George Will and Ken Burns—those false, flinty idols, consecrated in Green Cathedrals where only organ music plays. No, the real gods, the gods of a game popularized by breweries to get people to sit around in the sunshine drinking beer and hollering.

"There are no plans to move it at the moment," Spring said. "Everyone would love for there to be more news, but it isn't at the top of our agenda." "There's not really much I want to trade out of DC," Nationals left-hander Gio Gonzalez said.

Rumors: Red Sox, Devers far apart in extension talks

The same team that had won World Series titles in 1997 and 2003 was mired in mediocrity. From 2012 through 2018, the team never finished above .500 even as stars like Giancarlo Stanton, Christian Yelich, JT Realmuto, the late Jose Fernandez and an aging Ichiro Suzuki graced the field. From the start, it was pure Miami, the most on-brand thing about the South Florida baseball experience. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting.

The team won county permission Tuesday to move the kitschy, widely disliked Red Grooms sculpture out of Marlins Park to the plaza outside the ballpark. The vote was a victory for Marlins CEO Derek Jeter, who can now remove from the ballpark one reminder of unpopular previous owner Jeffrey Loria’s regime. An icon of the Jeffrey Loria era is being removed from Marlins Park. “Homer,” the mechanical sculpture featuring flashing lights and dancing marlins that come to life with every home run, is being shipped out of the outfield. Public art is protected in the county, and the Marlins argued that the sculpture can be enjoyed more in a public place, rather than only by ticket-buying fans. The plan received opposition from Red Grooms, the New York-based artist who designed the sculpture, which complicated matters because it risked devaluing the piece if Grooms disavowed it.

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The artwork, which has been located beyond the center field fence, will be replaced by a tiered standing room-only area for spectators. It seemed inevitable when Derek Jeter took over with the Miami Marlins that the super-fun-home-run-sculpture thing in the outfield would be removed. Jeter and the mayor had been scheming about the $2.5 million piece’s removal since January. Loria left town as a villain, having made a fortune while orchestrating a publicly funded stadium and fielding a team that hasn’t made the postseason since 2003. As for Homer’s fate, it appeared to be in limbo after being removed from the park.

To celebrate home runs, he had New York-based artist Red Grooms create the sculpture, and it has been a much talked about centerpiece since the stadium opened. Twitter account, tweeted a photo of the early stages of the dismantling of the seven-story sculpture that has been a fixture in left-center field since the retractable-roof ballpark opened in 2012. Workers will take apart the 73-foot-tall sculpture and reassemble it on the plaza.

Tacky like their tacky new uniforms are tacky. Tacky like the Miami Marlins’ tackily alliterative revised name, highlighting the tacky metropolis they call home. Move the $2.5 million sculpture over Grooms' objection, and it could lose almost all of its value, said Michael Spring, director of the county's department of cultural affairs. If there's no trade to be made, Jeter would probably be happy to relocate Homer at the bottom of Biscayne Bay. But like Marlins Park, the sculpture is the property of Miami-Dade County.

Eventually, the sculpture will be placed on the plaza outside the ballpark, where it will be visible to the public. Marlins CEO Derek Jeter and his lamentable inclinations have reportedly won a grim victory. Personal prints, cards and gifts, or reference for artists. Pre-pay for multiple images and download on demand.

An Ode To The Marlin’s Bizarre Home Run Sculpture, 10 Years Later

MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) — There are going to be a lot of changes when the Miami Marlins take the field this season. In its place will be a new standing-room only section to make way for more Marlins fans. An icon of the Jeffrey Loria era in Miami is being removed from Marlins Park.

Perhaps it was the Marlins’ 2003 World Series win over Derek Jeter and the New York Yankees that eventually sealed Homer’s fate. See, in 2017, maligned owner Jeffrey Loria sold the team to a group led by Jeter. A blaring fever dream that bridged the gap between reality and mimosa-and-mescaline-fueled weekends along the Miami Beach Boardwalk. It was loud, it was wonderfully absurd, it made no apologies for any of the fun and havoc it caused , and even the local wildlife loved it. Jeter and company might have to reimburse the county the $2.5 million cost of the structure if the move lessens its value as a piece of art. Loria, who sold the Marlins a year ago, commissioned the $2.5 million sculpture for the opening of Marlins Park in 2012.