their way in to a significant degree is hilarious. It's not convenient. It's how long both franchises have been around together. Nice job attacking me for picking the least arbitrary timeline I could though. Don't you mean two championships to none? Are the Marlins really a bigger embarrassment to MLB than the Oilers are to the NHL? Funny how that problem didn't happen in Edmonton when the Oilers tanked. It's hard to say this when you don't know if the Marlins are going to keep the payroll low in perpetuity or if they are rebuilding. Signing a bunch of free agents to long term deals then trading them for prospects the following off season after the team doesn't contend seems like a smart way to rebuild a farm system quickly. I hate to say this, but the Oilers aren't an embarrassment, they were a garbage team that continued to be a garbage team. They didn't go out to actively sabotage the team in order to make more money, they just suck. That's the issue. It also explains the lack of an attendance drop off, this isn't ownership explicitly showing a complete lack of an interest in being competitive (although the continued employment of some of their front office is baffling) it's a team rebuilding. Fans will stay for a rebuild, fans won't stick around when ownership spits in their face and asks them to pay for the privilege. Colorado and Detroit didn't win because they outspent everyone. They won because