WATCH: Marlins broadcast offers free hot dogs to fans who can name a single player on the team

Drew Smith
September 13, 2025
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The Marlins broadcast crew was literally out there bribing fans with hot dogs if they could name just one player on the team.

One. Player. That’s not a gimmick. That’s a cry for help.

Marlins broadcast offers free hot dogs to fans who can name a player on the team

Marlins' broadcast was dying to hand out hot dogs to anyone who could name just one player on the Marlins 😂 pic.twitter.com/GwxuXXgL48
— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) September 13, 2025

Honestly, I get the bit. I’d call myself a baseball sicko. The kind of person who can rattle off a lineup at random on a Tuesday night while flipping around on MLB.TV. Even then, when it comes to the Marlins… I’m stuck after Sandy Alcantara. Maybe one or two more if I really dig deep. But that’s it.

Check out this lineup from the Marlins last night. It was bad.

New series on deck.

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👂: @MarlinsRadio , @FoxSports940
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— Miami Marlins (@Marlins) September 12, 2025

So why would the Marlins do this? Why would a broadcast team throw their own roster under the bus coming down the stretch of the regular season?

Personally, I think they are sending a message to the organization. Nobody knows anyone on the Marlins and they are calling out ownership who doesn’t even care that’s the case.

The Marlins have made a business model out of apathy. They notoriously don’t give a shit about the team, the fans, or the product. They sit near the bottom of the league in payroll every year, and in 2025 they’re sitting at the second-lowest number in all of baseball, ahead of only the Washington Nationals.

They trade away their best players as soon as they cost money. They build no continuity, no stars, no attachment. So if the broadcast wants to point that out? Good. Do it often.

Hand out hot dogs every inning if you have to. Blast the ownership on live TV if that’s what it takes to wake people up because when your own broadcast booth is mocking the anonymity of your roster, it says more than any box score ever could.

The Marlins don’t have an identity. They don’t have stars. What they do have is a team that even their own fans can’t name and a broadcast that seems more interested in trolling them than selling them.

At least someone’s telling the truth down in Miami, right?

Honestly, between the Mets collapsing before our eyes, the Braves season ending in April, and now the Marlins being, well… the Marlins, I couldn’t be happier with the kings in the National League East.