Does This Look Like 10,000 People To You?
This is from yesterday's Marlins-Nationals game in Florida. Announced attendance 10,122. Some reporter counted 375 people.
Now, Florida is a miserable place for afternoon baseball in September (and most of the baseball season unless you like to sweat) and neither team is any good, but 375 people??
MLB really needs to take charge of the situation in Florida and a few other places. Lousy ownership that just pockets the revenue-sharing money is cheating the fans of South Florida and pretending that 10,000 people came to the game because that was the amount of tickets sold is also a joke.
This is a wonderful game, but I worry that is falling further and further behind football in most of the rest of the country outside of the Northeast.
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Announced attendance is typically based on season ticket holders + luxury box subscriptions + walk ups, etc.. 10K just means they sold that many seats for that game - but 9K+ never showed.
Any yes, MLB needs to fix the Fla baseball mess.
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September 13, 2007 10:25 PM
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And Kennedy threw one heck of a game tonight, even if it goes as a loss.
If Hughes can continue on his road to recovery his stuff, Kennedy can throw more like this, and Joba can eventually start - then maybe life in 2008 might not be too bad for a Yankee fan.
Ohlendorf also looked pretty decent the other night, although one inning doesn't make a trend.
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September 13, 2007 10:30 PM
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I heard it was more like 240. There had been a rain delay and as a local newscast put it (Boston newscast), "Neither team is in jeopardy of making the playoffs..."). But still, a pathetic turnout. Move this team to a place where the fans will attend...I'm not sure a new stadium will solve their problem.
Posted by: Andy | September 13, 2007 10:50 PM |
Can you blame them? They win in '97 and '03 and then dismantle the team the next year.
Posted by: corey | September 14, 2007 03:14 PM |
They won in '03? I have no recollection of that :-)
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September 15, 2007 01:47 PM
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