Confidence Vote

Lowell batted a grand slam against the Rangers of Texas, helping the Marlins in winning this game and raise, at least until next game, the morale of the entire team. Anyway, I still think it was simply a lucky strike for Mikey, who went 1-5 in that game. An yes Mike, it's easy for the other teams to beat us at any time if you guys don't make any effort in fighting against that.

'It just seems like everything is not clicking for us, and it's very hard for us to score runs,' Lowell said. 'It just seems like it's easy for the other team, and it's really difficult for us to put runs on the board.'

When McKeon became manager in May 2003, he introduced a motto of 'winning is fun, and fun is winning.'
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On the subject of having fun, Lowell said: 'I think winning definitely brings the fun back to the game, because I don't know too many people who have fun losing. Everyone says it's a game. But when you're not doing well and you're losing, it's still a game, but you're not having fun. I kind of get a kick out of people who say, 'You should have fun.' I think if we start winning, we'll start having fun.'

Over their dry spell, the Marlins have dealt with criticism from the media. Lowell said much of it is justified.

'I think it's been two weeks now where we've been playing terrible baseball,' he said. 'I don't think it's the end of the season. But I don't think it should be short-played. If we play like this for two more weeks, we might ruin our season. You don't want to dig yourself into a huge hole. We're already past the lucky part, where we went 2-8 and lost a game in the standings. Well, someone is bound to get hot in our division.'

Well Mike, just for today we're going to give you a confidence vote and we'll recognize you did not completely suck. But better try to keep that pace or we are going to change back our minds.

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