August 17, 200322 yr Miami has no excuses. The Marlins are winning and the seats are still rather empty. Get your butts in those seats! The Marlins could draw better in Fort Myers if we added more seats to Hammond Stadium.
August 17, 200322 yr Miami has no excuses. The Marlins are winning and the seats are still rather empty. Get your butts in those seats! The Marlins could draw better in Fort Myers if we added more seats to Hammond Stadium. Just think of it as us getting 18,000 last night and today. I mean, the 26,000 last night was a nice suprise, so it kinda evens out today.
August 17, 200322 yr 18,835 average attendance in the Padres series. Now that's a solid number, especially considering the fact we played the worst team in the NL.
August 18, 200322 yr Miami has no excuses. The Marlins are winning and the seats are still rather empty. Get your butts in those seats! The Marlins could draw better in Fort Myers if we added more seats to Hammond Stadium. Yes! :w00t Bring the Marlins to Lee county. J/K. I do belive that we should average more then 20,000 a game the way this club has been playing. South Florida isn't a very good place for baseball, The stadium is horrible and the heartbeat of the area is football. Where did the 3,000,000 people go who showed up in 93'?
August 18, 200322 yr Author Where did the 3,000,000 people go who showed up in 93'? slowly, but surely coming back
August 18, 200322 yr South Florida isn't a very good place for baseball, The stadium is horrible and the heartbeat of the area is football. Where did the 3,000,000 people go who showed up in 93'? Kinda contradicting yourself there, huh? SOuth Florida isn't very good for baseball, despite drawing well over 2,000,000 fans a years for what, 4-5 years? The new ownership needs to instill trust in everyone of the S. Fla fans (including myself) before he gets everyone back. I have nothing against Jeff, but he won't for the life of him comment on next year, which makes me wonder.
August 18, 200322 yr no other city in america has gone through the crap Miami has gone through (including 94 strike, post-97 firesale)
August 18, 200322 yr no other city in america has gone through the crap Miami has gone through (including 94 strike, post-97 firesale) Umm... The other 29 teams went through the '94 strike, too...
August 18, 200322 yr Boston: Bill Buckner, Bucky Dent, Babe Ruth to the Yankees and 1918, need i say more? and all the strikes Chicago: Black sox scandal, white sox havent won since 1917 or something like that. Cubs havent won since 1908 and all the strikes of course LA: Watts in the 60's, LA in '92 and lost two football teams and the strikes and of course New York, obviously not baseball wise but its gone through crap, bad smelly crap but i see where youre going with this
August 18, 200322 yr lol..Boston, Chicago, LA...they all went through a lot....but had they been in the league only 2 years before the strike happened? Did they have a firesale after a World Series title, 5 years after the team was created? No.
August 18, 200322 yr but had they been in the league only 2 years before the strike happened? Did they have a firesale after a World Series title, 5 years after the team was created? No. Good point(s).
August 18, 200322 yr South Florida isn't a very good place for baseball, The stadium is horrible and the heartbeat of the area is football. Where did the 3,000,000 people go who showed up in 93'? Kinda contradicting yourself there, huh? SOuth Florida isn't very good for baseball, despite drawing well over 2,000,000 fans a years for what, 4-5 years? The new ownership needs to instill trust in everyone of the S. Fla fans (including myself) before he gets everyone back. I have nothing against Jeff, but he won't for the life of him comment on next year, which makes me wonder. So your saying south florida is a good baseball town. :banghead 1 year of great attendance doesn't make a baseball town. If this was a good baseball town Pro Player stadium wouldn't have resembled a ghost town last year. If this was a good baseball town then 1 single fan wouldn't have had to purchase 15,000 tickets just so the hometeam wouldn't be last in attendance. If this was a good baseball town then we wouldn't be third to last in attendance.
August 18, 200322 yr So your saying south florida is a good baseball town. :banghead 1 year of great attendance doesn't make a baseball town. If this was a good baseball town Pro Player stadium wouldn't have resembled a ghost town last year. If this was a good baseball town then 1 single fan wouldn't have had to purchase 15,000 tickets just so the hometeam wouldn't be last in attendance. If this was a good baseball town then we wouldn't be third to last in attendance. You can't magically build a baseball town in 10 years, especially if you take apart an amazing team. NOW, if that team stayed together and had gotten a new stadium, we would magically be a baseball town in 10 years. South Florida actually IS a great baseball town. A great sports town/area in general. There is a HUGE fan base to be had, which was shown in the early years of this franchises history. IF Loria can regain that fanbase, liek he has stated, this will be a top 10/5 baseball market, easy.
August 18, 200322 yr SOuth Florida isn't very good for baseball, despite drawing well over 2,000,000 fans a years for what, 4-5 years Year Record Attendance 2002 79 83 813,118 2001 76 86 1,261,226 2000 79 82 1,218,330 1999 64 98 1,369,420 1998 54 108 1,750,395 1997 92 70 2,364,387 1996 80 82 1,746,767 1995 67 76 1,700,466 1994 51 64 1,937,467 1993 64 98 3,064,847 WildCard, Please look at the facts before you post. We have drawn well over 2,000,000 only once,we edged it in 97' when we should have drawn over 3,000,000.
August 18, 200322 yr can you guys stop with all of this whining bulls*** about the firesale, and that management should be sorry for us. just shut up all of you, you sound like a bunch of little girls.
August 18, 200322 yr sooo anyways, we are in a Wild Card race. So fans aren't showing up. Worse has happened.
August 18, 200322 yr Author sooo anyways, we are in a Wild Card race. So fans aren't showing up. Worse has happened. attendance is improving, im not too worried
August 18, 200322 yr Most of the team who lead MLB in attendance have a rich baseball tradition.You can't expect a franchise been around for 10 years to just build up a fan base comparable to others considering firesale '97 and years of "prospects".
August 18, 200322 yr you forgot flaming WOOOO! Flaming! The lost art of message boards. Hey #1 FishFan, do me a favor. Put a stadium in the actual city, a management that proves time and time again that it cares, erase the 97 firesale, and keep the attendance levels the same with all that. Then you can say Miami is not a baseball town after ten years.
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