Take a look at that photo, baseball snob. Yes, I know it would never happen in Chicago, St. Louis, New York, Boston, bla bla bla bla bla. Look, I have sat in those uncomfortable, orange seats Sunday day game after Sunday day game all season long but you cannot expect others to do the same.
First of all, it’s Florida for pete’s sake. There is no roof and it’s 95 degrees one inning and raining cats and dogs the next. Build a fucking roof and maybe you will get some more fans to come out. Another thing that might help a little is to stop getting rid of your best players.
Also, please stop charging $8 dollars for beer and even more for food that might have been cooked in the lunch lady’s sweat. Those fries seriously make me sick each time I eat them. I know I shouldn’t eat them but it’s the only reasonably-priced meals on your menu and after 3 innings of Florida baseball, you not eating might mean an early death.
Sean Flynn, Mr. Vice-President of Marketing for the Marlins—YOU ARE THE WEAKEST LINK. Goodbye.
Dude, 1999 called and got your answering machine. So it called me and told me to tell you that they want their line back.
Yeah, where exactly did that come out of? I have never even watched the show….I guess I just went into a writing trance.
How can a MLB game have only 600 people in attendance? I just don’t get it. Even if the teams are both falling out of contention, it’s still baseball with some great players.
I live in central Arkansas, and I have to drive over 5 hours to go to any MLB game (which I’m about to do this weekend, to see a couple games of the Rangers & Red Sox). So I don’t understand how so many people take it for granted.
It’s a shame, I know. Trust me, it’s not Tatiana and I.
I ran so fast through the stadium and to two levels just to get a good spot to watch batting practice that I almost had to call paramedics when I almost passed out.
http://completist.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/new-york-vs-florida/
Here in IA we get to driv to KC, the Twin Cities or Chicago…..My favorite team, the Royals, haven’t had a winning season in a decade or so and usually have more fans cheering for the opposing team. Then charge what I thought were high prices for seats and for food as well! Took my son to a game this summer and for a large pop, nacho’s and peanuts cost $16. atleast the staduim look nice….oh wait not really. they are redoing the whole thing and it looked like crap on the outside and there were cranes out past the fountains! What a view. But we did get to see the largest HD screen in the world, small favors huh?!?
Well, they are building a new stadium in Miami, right? And they signed Hanley Ramirez to a long term deal this year. So things will get better for the Marlins…
Guys, here is the fact. Yes, the Florida Marlins attendance sucks. Truly, it does, but the 600 is excusable for three reasons. #1: The game was held on Wednesday at 12:30pm, #2: people in Florida work during that time, and if people aren’t working, chances they are broke and won’t have money for the game, the parking, the overly priced food, or the $7.00 beer; and finally # 3 the kids that enjoy baseball and baseball games are now in school, if they aren’t in school, chances are it’s because they are cutting class and if that’s the case, I doubt mommy and daddy are going to take their future high school drop out to a game.
So, yes. Attendance for that game completely sucked… but look at the circumstances people!
Valid points have been made about the time, temperature, costs for concessions, etc. but I heard on Sportscenter that the paid attendance for the game was 11,000. So that means 10,400 paid to watch a game in which they didn’t attend.
Now I’ve never been to Miami but this entire week I’ve been working with two guys who have been before. Each time they mention it they talk Miami about the awesome beaches, and cool clubs. Never once did they mention the Orange Bowl. Maybe MLB needs to come to a realization that Miami just isn’t a baseball town.
PAB,
So because you spoke to two knuckleheads that only cared about clubbing and going to the beach that is a valid enough reason to take away our team?
Here is the reality. The Marlins have only been around for 15 years. They haven’t had time to build up an enormous fan base. Look at the Cubs or the Yankees. They have been around for generations. Great grandfathers, grandfathers, fathers, and now their children have all been taken to those games to witness those teams play. People have been able to take going to Yankee games, or Cubs games as a ‘passing down’ experience.
We don’t have that.
No, my solution is keep the team, build a new stadium in a better location than Little Havana, and do more advertising for the team. There are no commercials being played except for two on FSN, there are no billboards promoting the team, nothing.
And I am sure that the 10,400, or at least most of that number, was season ticket holders. Not everyone can just skip work to go see a baseball game.
We are in a recession, people!
Tatiana, you should know more than anyone else for every 1 Marlins fan, there are 100 people who do nothing but go to clubs in South Beach.
Fine. I’ll admit it, but I refuse to give up my team. So there.
Boston used to be empty, how soon people forget! 600 is bad, but I became a Tigers fan 25 years ago, and I am 25. Not sure how devoted I could be to a new franchise when I was already a huge fan of my former home town.