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@brooksmd I can't keep up!!
Can anyone tell me the purpose of gore carrying his gloves? And Gordon is cold!!! He's due, for sure
@brooksmd Cain, now that's an athlete!!! Stud!!
@wissoxfan83 this pitchers pretty darn big too.
@brooksmd still think he wants attention!
@brooksmd I understand what we do for our buddies!!
@brooksmd In a sea of blue at the World Series, a speck of orange popped out of the rabid Royals crowd behind home plate, in plain view of the TV cameras.
On the man’s shirt: “Marlins.”
The sight so rattled the home team that stadium officials asked him to leave — or at least cover up with a Kansas City Royals shirt.
“Marlins Man” — aka 58-year-old Miami lawyer Laurence Leavy —stayed put in Marlins colors Tuesday night in Kansas City.
A fan stood alone as others cleared their seats follow Tuesday's Kansas City Royals and San Francisco Giants Game 1 of the World Series at Kauffman Stadium on Oct. 20, 2014 in Kansas City, Missouri. The Giants beat the Royals 7-1. | SHANE KEYSER/The Kansas City Star
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“The owner of the Royals was extremely upset that I was there,” Leavy said.
They offered him a private suite if he would move.
They tried enticing him with free World Series goodies if he would get rid of the orange jersey.
No way, Marlins Man said.
He paid $8,000 for that primo seat and he wasn’t about to give it up. So every time the center field camera was used, which was pretty much every single pitch, the orange-clad Leavy was in the frame for the entire country to see.
It wasn’t the first time that Leavy as stuck out in a crowd.
Leavy has been buying the best seats to major sporting events for years. By his count, he’s gone to 27 Super Bowls, more than 200 NBA playoff games, and at least 85 World Series games, not to mention an unknown number of Triple Crown horse races.
He’s been a Marlins season-ticket holder since the team’s first year in 1993, is a rabid Florida State fan (he was on hand for the FSU-Notre Dame showdown in Tallahassee on Saturday before heading off to Kansas City), owns more than 100 thoroughbreds, and rarely misses a Miami Heat or Dolphins game.
“I never had any kids, nor have any wife,” Leavy said when reached by phone Wednesday. “You don’t have to pay for a wife and kids, so you have money in the bank.”
To splurge on sporting events.
And nobody does it like Leavy, who attended North Miami Beach High and practices workers’ compensation law.
In May, for example, Leavy was in San Diego watching the Marlins when pitching ace Jose Fernandez suffered his season-ending arm injury, followed the team up to Los Angeles to watch them play the Dodgers, and thus began a sports-crazed odyssey, criss-crossing the country to catch games in 16 cities in 18 days.
As a guest of thoroughbred racing magnate Frank Stronach, he sat with actress Bo Derek before the Preakness at Pimlico Race Course in Maryland until it was time for her to bark out orders. “I kept her company until she said ‘riders up!’” Leavy said.
The next day he flew to Indianapolis to catch Heat-Pacers, followed by Thunder-Spurs in San Antonio the day after that, back to Indianapolis for Heat-Pacers...and on and on it went.
“It was the coolest thing,” he said.
Leavy said he purchases most of his top-dollar tickets on StubHub.
Sometimes, ticket brokers call him if they have great seats to major events.
He would not reveal an amount on how much he spends annually on plane tickets and seats to sporting events, only to say “it’s a lot of money.”
“I’ve never added it up,” he said.
Somehow, Leavy said he is still able to run his law practice, which he does electronically during the day when he’s on the road. He has offices in Davie, Fla., and in Jacksonville.
For years, Leavy attended sporting events largely unnoticed.
“Nobody noticed me when I wore a Cowboys shirt,” he said. “Nobody noticed me when I wore a Heat jersey.”
But when the Marlins changed their uniform colors in 2012, going from a mostly black and teal to orange and black, everything changed. Leavy suddenly became recognizable.
Last year, he was spotted wearing his Orange Marlins apparel in San Francisco for the World Series. The following day he drove out to the Golden Gate Bridge to take some pictures of the landmark when he was spotted by a couple of park rangers, who drove up in a truck to shoo him away from a dangerous cliff.
“One of the guys goes, ‘Aren’t you the guy we’ve been watching on TV behind home plate?’ ” Leavy recalled. “And the other guy says, ‘He’s the Marlins Man!’ ”
The next thing Leavy knew, the park rangers were asking him to have selfies taken with him with the Golden Gate Bridge as the backdrop.
From that day forward, Leavy became known as the Marlins Man, which is the name found on the back of the six orange Marlins jerseys he owns. He now has his own Twitter handle – @Marlins_Man – and picked up close to 1,000 new followers after Tuesday’s game alone.
Leavy said that after Tuesday’s game, he was contacted by fans around the world, which kept him up all night.
“I’ve been getting tweets from Japan, from Mexico and France,” he Leavy said he isn’t doing it for the attention.
“I didn’t plan any of this,” he said. “I’m not selling anything. I’ve been doing this — going to sporting events — pretty much non-stop since 1999. I dated a girl for nine years who hated sports and when that ended, I started going everywhere.”
Leavy said he will be on hand — sitting in the same seat with his Marlins jersey — for Game 2 of the World Series on Wednesday and possible Games 6 and 7, whether the Royals want him there or not.
Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/sports/mlb/kansas-city-royals/article3226120.html#emlnl=Afternoon_Headlines#storylink=cpy ↗
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@wissoxfan83 he can hit the ball, just not athletic in my eyes.
@brooksmd how old is Mikey?
@brooksmd there's a pretty good article about them trying to give him royal clothes to wear or a suite. Google it. Pretty interesting!
@brooksmd I love it! Don't think you are lonely!!!!
@jayhawkbychoice I don't like the cutsie stuff. Simple.
@wissoxfan83 isn't that what you just said? Don't have to be..... To play baseball?
@globaljaybird pretty sure your buddy wouldn't want you to be w/out a friend!!! I think I will try to get a golden in the summer. To lonely!
Sandivol pretty much proves you don't have to be an athlete to play baseball. Jmo
@jayhawkbychoice I won't get it! Go ahead!
Where's global, glued in chair again?
@jayhawkbychoice definite no in 1-4, jmo
@brooksmd big stick Hos is my favorite. I played first base!!
@brooksmd I remember wille Randolph , Reggie Jackson, Lou pinella. Saw them play royals.
@brooksmd I don't know much baseball outside of royals.
Rookie's impressive, just think what he will do!
@brooksmd that was funny!!!
@brooksmd here we go!!! That was the royals I know!
Guess who's starting tonight?
@HoustonRockets: #Rockets starters:
F: Kostas Papanikolaou
F: @TerrenceJones1
C: @TarikBlack25
G: @JHarden13
G: @patbev21
Howard & Ariza out tonight.
@eastcoasthawk your response always goes to bottom.
@JayhawkRock78 just wanted to add- we ordered from there last week and got the nicer shirts-not the 100 percent cotton. Not where I can look it up, but just wanted you to know there's a choice.
@Jesse-Newell and then there's defense! I agree w/all the other offensive stats.
@JayHawkFanToo think the injury has pushed him back?
@DanR it's under anticipation
@JayHawkFanToo I hope so, bummer tonight!
Watch out! Looked what happened.
@brooksmd I certainly hope so!
@brooksmd Sandoval
@brooksmd no the dh, but he is too.
@brooksmd you're right!! These guys are tough!
That guys huge? Would you say he was athletic?
I'm about to give up.
@wissoxfan83 salvy's got a terrible stroke!
@globaljaybird really, we could have used your help!
@globaljaybird and it's getting worse.... They got some big strong men!
@brooksmd me too
@drgnslayr no way
@brooksmd see that marlins dude behind plate? He was there before. Needs to give me that ticket! Or someone should beat him up!!
@brooksmd great commercial, throw like a girl!
@brooksmd well crap!!
@brooksmd shooting for it, in 4