August 19, 200718 yr Todays attendence was over 42,000 for a day game at steamy hot DS! How great would it be to see many more days like today. Baseball is alive and well in S. Fl. It gives me chills to think that as much as The Marlins baseball fan have been abused and kicked around they are just waiting for ownership to extend them an olive branch. If you build it they will come!
August 19, 200718 yr 42,000 still felt small. Most of the crowd wasn't into the game, let's be honest. Tomorrow its back to the smaller crowds. We all know 80-90% of the fans were there to see Bonds.
August 19, 200718 yr Yeah, it wasn't steamy hot imo. Great day at the Ballpark though, seemed like if we were back in the 2003 NLDS with all those fans.
August 19, 200718 yr Opening Day 2005 I wonder when's the last time we hit that number, besides opening days...
August 19, 200718 yr I wasn't able to make it but good to know so many others did. I heard a couple guys on the radio yesterday saying there was no way we were going to hit 30,000 with Bonds not going for 756 anymore. I don't know if this proves that a new stadium would solve attendance problems, but I think it's nice to be able to show that we got nearly 43,000 out there tonight.
August 19, 200718 yr Note to FO: Barry Bonds = Lots of Fans Sign him this off season. :mischief It would bring lots of fans indeed....Festa would be first in line to cheer the guy too and all of the haters would suddenly love the guy.
August 19, 200718 yr 42,000 still felt small. Most of the crowd wasn't into the game, let's be honest. Tomorrow its back to the smaller crowds. We all know 80-90% of the fans were there to see Bonds. Well, I don't know where you were sitting but all the people sitting around me were most definitely into the game. I also thought the majority of the fans were supporting the Marlins. In my area even the ones who were taking pictures of Barry were rooting for the Fish.
August 19, 200718 yr Opening Day 2005 I wonder when's the last time we hit that number, besides opening days... Sat, Apr 10,2004 vs PHI: 45,725. 5th game of the season which started at home and 2nd game of the series against the Phillies.
August 19, 200718 yr Note to FO: Barry Bonds = Lots of Fans Sign him this off season. :mischief It would bring lots of fans indeed....Festa would be first in line to cheer the guy too and all of the haters would suddenly love the guy. Where is that emoticon with the smilee rolling his eyes making a jerking off gesture when I need it? HC, 8-10-2004 versus the Mets was the last non-Opening Day game the Marlins drew 40k+.
August 19, 200718 yr The overwhelming # of Sheffield/Alou/Conine (19) jerseys running around tonight showed that the Marlins still can be fashionable on occasion through the season and that the fans haven't written the team off as completely irrelevant. We need to do something to legitimize the franchise...I was shocked at the number of fans, and that the overwhelming majority of them were Marlins fans. Non-playoff non-opening day crowds with over 40K are usually 50/50 splits...not tonight.
August 19, 200718 yr about 15,000 of the tickets were sold to UM Bingo. UM's Faculty and Family Day, or something like that. The number of fans that left when Bonds exited was also very telling. Which was okay by us. The 4 guys sitting next to us (just how did they get those seats anyway?) knew absolutely nothing about baseball. Comments like, "If they catch it in foul territory it's an out? That's not fair.", were common place. It was a big crowd for sure. But I don't think it was any louder than when the normal 15-16K show up. The UM crowd was really being babied. Anyone else notice all the in game prizes were won by folks wearing UM shirts? But that's cool I guess. After the fireworks alot more left. And by the time Blues Traveler had tossed the last harmonica to the crowd we were able to exit the stadium and drive right onto the turnpike.
August 19, 200718 yr Todays attendence was over 42,000 for a day game at steamy hot DS! How great would it be to see many more days like today. Baseball is alive and well in S. Fl. It gives me chills to think that as much as The Marlins baseball fan have been abused and kicked around they are just waiting for ownership to extend them an olive branch. If you build it they will come! LOL Yea, right. If you got chills, see a doctor. I think you are coming down with something. Without even disputing the Marlins baseball fan thing your other "facts" also lead me to that conclusion. A game that starts at 7:05 PM is not a day game. And it was not "steamy hot" by any stretch of the imagination.
August 19, 200718 yr UM and Bonds.......if no Bonds and Um its 20K. lets do it more consistently before we get excited....... lets see what we draw the next sat game
August 19, 200718 yr I was there last night and it didn't seem much different from a regular saturday crowd.
August 19, 200718 yr The overwhelming # of Sheffield/Alou/Conine (19) jerseys running around tonight showed that the Marlins still can be fashionable on occasion through the season and that the fans haven't written the team off as completely irrelevant. We need to do something to legitimize the franchise...I was shocked at the number of fans, and that the overwhelming majority of them were Marlins fans. Non-playoff non-opening day crowds with over 40K are usually 50/50 splits...not tonight. How about a stadium and long term contracts? :mischief
August 19, 200718 yr The overwhelming # of Sheffield/Alou/Conine (19) jerseys running around tonight showed that the Marlins still can be fashionable on occasion through the season and that the fans haven't written the team off as completely irrelevant. We need to do something to legitimize the franchise...I was shocked at the number of fans, and that the overwhelming majority of them were Marlins fans. Non-playoff non-opening day crowds with over 40K are usually 50/50 splits...not tonight. How about a stadium and long term contracts? :mischief I'm of the mindset that the former will not happen in the near future and that the current ownership is too cheap/stupid for the latter. However, nothing screams "get attached" like 10 year deals for Miggy and Hanley.
August 19, 200718 yr I am not surprised that it was a big crowd. It was nice, actually. I am surprised that they did not announce it, actually.
August 19, 200718 yr It was refreshing to see our stadium with people IN it. That's what baseball's about.
August 19, 200718 yr about 15,000 of the tickets were sold to UM I doubt that all the UM tickets were used. Even then, you're talking around 28,000 besides them. At the very least, it seems like a few people are willing to come out if they'll see history. After all, who knows which HR will be Barry's last? The guy could blow out his knee the next inning or the next day and retire for good. That said, I'd be willing to bring him in for it next season. Even if he takes a game off every series, imagine him batting behind Cabrera. And hell, if we could get a rotation together, it could be his best shot at a ring as well.
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