Athlon Sports goes 2 for 4 with Florida Marlins Mount Rushmore selections

Athlon Sports is working its way through the major league franchises and giving each its own Mount Rushmore. In other words, if each franchise had a granite mountain in which to carve four seminal faces from its history, who would merit that honor? The Marlins’ Mount Rushmore per Athlon would consist of Hanley Ramirez, Jeff Conine, Dave Dombrowski and Miguel Cabrera. Hmm. I can live with Conine and Cabrera, and maybe Ramirez would be on there eventually, but I don’t think you can omit Luis Castillo. I’m not crazy about Dombrowski either, althought he deserves consideration as the architect of the 1997 World Series team. Athlon put Castillo, Jim Leyland, Mike Lowell, Livan Hernandez, David Samson, Jack McKeon and Josh Beckett on their “close calls” list. If we’re going with a quartet of players, I would add Beckett or Willis. You can certainly make a strong case for McKeon as the club’s all-time winningest manager. I’m sure you guys cri...