Meno,
He basically said he’s surprised that there are people in Miami Beach who would get up for an early minyan.
If I were to say, “I’m surprised there are people in MD who actually get up early to daven with a minyan”, you wouldn’t find that cynical?
Ah, ok, I understand how you interpreted golfer’s comment.
I didn’t see what golfer wrote as a knock on the Miami Beach frum community at all, but rather a comment on the conduct of frum Jews even when they are on vacation. To expand on golfer’s statement as I understood it:
This is a great thread.
It made my day.
Who’da thunk it?
[Even when on vacation in] Miami Beach, home of the hibiscus, the palm tree and the long sandy beach, [where people spend lots of money to go just to relax,] there are people who won’t leave to catch a morning flight [even after a late night hassle to pack up] without first finding [an early morning] minyan!