Grantland:Kruse:The Big Show—Behind the scenes with The Franchise’s dysfunctional Miami Marlins

...it’s perfect for the second season of the series on Showtime called The Franchise. One team, all access, almost all season. Last year’s series on the Giants won an Emmy for editing. For this season, Showtime and Major League Baseball Productions, the creative partners, targeted the Marlins. No hard sell was needed….

The show’s cameras first showed up at the winter meetings in December. They were there when spring training started a couple months later and Guillen greeted the players with a profane preseason pep talk.

“A lot of people, probably half of you guys, think I’m ###### up and crazy,” he told them, their uniforms as unsmudged as their 0-0 record. No, he said. He’s just honest, he said. He just tells people what he wants to tell them, not what they want to hear, he said. “They like it, they like it; they don’t, #### it.”

Loria, the owner, sat in a folding chair and listened to his new manager’s speech with a clicker in his hand. He wore a black jacket and a mischievous grin, clutching the clicker, counting the #####.

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