Tampa Bay has one of the best records in baseball, are in first place, and still can't draw any fans. In the last two games against our Yankees, Tampa has drawn 21,629 and 25,215 fans. They're in the middle of a pennant race in September and can't even draw 30,000 fans for a game against the Yankees? What's wrong with these people?
The Rays are 26th in the league in home attendance in the league, averaging just 21,376 per game, and they aren't even close to the worst of the Florida fans, that "honor" goes to Marlins fans.
The Marlins are dead last in MLB in home attendance with an average crowd of just 16,576 per game. But less than 600 fans were in the house to watch the Marlins defeat the Braves 5-3 yesterday. There was 11,211 tickets sold, but obviously there were many no-shows. I understand that Florida may be out of the race (8 games out of first), but they've been a big surprise this season, are two games over .500, and deserve a better following than this.
Lonely Fans
Watch as five fans dodge this flying bat.
8 Comments:
These people are lame, and youre right they dont deserve a team in that stupid state. Oh and thanks for the 2000 election as well.
Florida sucks, its too hot and there's too many old people. They should move one or both of those teams. Some spots I would think about is New Orleans, San Antonio, maybe even Nashville or Portland Oregon. And just move them to the AL West. I see enough front running Rays fans in NY to fill Tropicana, so can NY have another team? Hopefully not.
New York did fine with three teams in the past, it's better than the two Florida teams, that's for sure.
Ive always said the Rays should move to Vegas and make the AL West a 5 team race, since the Rays never factored into the 4 Major teams of the AL East.. Well I was wrong. But its still a good idea for either the Marlins to move to a Western City and put them in the AL west, then you can slide the Pirates into the NL East in their place since the central has six teams in it.
What happens to the Rays when their players do not sign team friendly contracts because they do not have the revenue stream from their lame fan base and the loss of revenue from the Yankees?
Florida fans do not deserve any team, ESPN reported that about a week ago, the Devil Rays had about 12,000 fans, they stated that the Tampa Bay Lightning drew 17,000.
Go figure.
that would make both leagues uneven, meaning some one would have no games for however long a series would be since there would be 15 teams in each league. i like the idea of them moving to vegas, and the pirates moving to the nl east though. we just need another team in each league so there would be 8 series per league, instead of 7 and 1 team having no one to vs. it would work out if they would make it when an al team would vs an nl team at any point, so every team would have someone to play. that probably would never happen( b/c the dh and everything)
the last statement in response to derek.
I'm a transplanted Cardinal fan that's been living in Miami for two and a half years now, and I couldn't agree more. Marlins fans are pathetic.
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