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You can still find stray bits of confetti around downtown Miami, remnants of the championship parade, but the Heat is now off the main stage it so dominated. The coming big events that would demand our sporting attention — Dolphins training camp, the Summer Olympics — don’t start for another month, one summoning the power of 47 years of local tradition, the other tugging on patriotic heartstrings.
The window in between has opened, the window that looks out on to baseball.
This is the Marlins’ time, in theory, at least. Now is when the calendar invites casual fans and South Florida at large to reacquaint with the team in the new ballpark, that chance to retake the stage accentuated by the team’s starring role in Showtime’s ...
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