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Old 02-27-2008, 07:26 AM
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Cool Florida Marlins reach new embarassment but maybe I will try out
South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
Marlins looking for tubby men for cheerleading squad
The Associated Press

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The Florida Marlins are looking for some footloose fat men.

The Major League Baseball team is creating an all-male, plus-size cheerleading squad to be dubbed the Manatees. Tryouts were scheduled for Sunday.

The team hopes to recruit seven to 10 tubby men to dance, cheer and jiggle during Friday and Saturday home games this season.

Real manatees, 1,200-pound (540-kilogram) mammals sometimes referred to as "sea cows," are not considered the most agile of creatures and often get caught in boat propellers.

The Marlins want their Manatees to have the same dimensions, but to be decidedly more agile. Men will be judged on how well they dance a choreographed routine.

The Marlins already have a cheerleading squad, the considerably more svelte Mermaids.

Men selected for the Manatees won't be paid. They'll get tickets to games they perform at, and the honor of dancing in front of crowds that have been smallest in MLB for the last two seasons.

The Marlins aren't the only pro sports team capitalizing on Americans' expanding waistlines. The Chicago Bulls basketball team have the Matadors, a big-man dance troupe that's entertained fans at home games since 2003.

And although cheerleaders might be an unfamiliar site in MLB, big men aren't, as fans have long cheered on the likes of Babe Ruth and Kirby Puckett.
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Old 02-27-2008, 07:28 AM
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already had my audition. they said they would call me and not to call them
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Men selected for the Manatees won't be paid. They'll get tickets to games they perform at, and the honor of dancing in front of crowds that have been smallest in MLB for the last two seasons.

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tickets to the game they are performing at? big fricking deal...
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Old 02-27-2008, 08:03 AM
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like $5 value here Rev
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also, being here in Chicago and going to several Bulls games a year let me be the first to say that its pretty disturbing to see the MATADORS dance and its not exactly a PG kind of dance either.

think Chris Farley in the SNL skit with Patrick Swayze
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windy - any truth that the loser of the bet between you and Deck will be a matador?
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Jack, remember when they were paying their mascot like $150k a year lol
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Billy the Marlin broke the Marlins. lol
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tickets to the game they are performing at? big fricking deal...
revnecro is there any truth to the rumour, you go to Christmas parades and boo Father Christmas?
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Billy the Marlin broke the Marlins. lol
i think he was actually making more than Dontrelle that year
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revnecro is there any truth to the rumour, you go to Christmas parades and boo Father Christmas?
lol - good stuff Dave
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i think he was actually making more than Dontrelle that year
Is Billy the Marlin the first mascot to be traded for financial considerations?

Our South Florida teams can't even keep our mascots.

Where the hell is Billy the Marlin or the Dolphins mascot "TD"? I think they told TD that it's not a good fit until we actually can score some TD's
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like $5 value here Rev

yeah...and they don't even get to use them because they are working...pretty lame imo
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revnecro is there any truth to the rumour, you go to Christmas parades and boo Father Christmas?

naw man...i am not from philadelphia...don't have it in me


besides...i detest christmas...i am not relgious nor do i support the commericialization of holidays and brainwash the masses so they can make a profit...., but i won't preach my ways to people...
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