pats1

Thought this was one pretty funny. Or sad.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/brea...ry/670592.html

Boston Jay

As I am probably the only Marlins fan here (lol).. day games suck suck suck! I only go to night games (except opening day) because otherwise I'll get a heat stroke. Screw 90+ degree temps at 1 or 4 PM.

alvinnf

Any word on the beach report for today or the tides. might not be coincidence.

DynastyDriven

Reminds me of a Bruins game

Deus Irae

Don't blame the Miami fans. Blame MLB and the Marlins owners. It's not just a coincidence that attendance plummeted after the 1994 strike. Hell, I haven't watched a game since then, myself.

Attendance dropped 10k per game, until the owner decided to buy a title in 1997. The result was that the attendance went back up 8k per game. Then Huizenga decided to have a fire sale and have the team go from 92 wins and a World Series title to 54 and 64 wins in the next 2 seasons. The result was that a fanbase which had not come back all the way after the strike just decided to spend the time doing other things. Being that it's in Miami, it wasn't hard to find other things to do.

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/teams/marlins3.shtml

Couple that with a terrible stadium for the heat and rain of south Florida, and a pretty lousy location for the stadium to boot, and you've got a recipe for empty seats.

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Zeke_Mowatt

What they need is a dome...sounds stupid to say, but part of the reason attendance is weak here is that it's just flat out brutal esp. spring/summer/fall...you just can't sit in the sun for 4 hours, drink, and not actually run out of fluids in your body. I'm an avid open air fan, however, for this unique environment, it's almost necessary. Either that or go to 100% night games

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borg

Are you kidding...the hockey arena is half full, the Dolphins rarely sell out the corners of the stadium, they had tarps on the upper levels of the Heat arena, pre Shaq, the Hurricanes have sold only 28,000 seasons tix. Miami is a bandwagon town. No stadium will solve the Marlins problems, it is just a lousy sports city...just like the rest of Florida. Half the residents are from another state with other allegiances.
Two years ago, I dropped the family off at Fort Lauderdale airport and drove over to the Marlins game, a summer midweek day game. As I'm walking through the empty parking lot, this guy drives up and tries to sell me founders club seats for $135. I laugh at him, offer him twenty bucks ...and he says...Aw forget it, come sit with me as my guest, (I was wearing a Pats hat and this guy was from RI) and I end up sitting next to the Marlins owner practically inside the dugout. That day I counted 335 people in the stadium.

borg

Also, one evening a few years ago, I happened to be sitting next one of Huizenga's accountants at a dinner party, and he detailed the losses that Wayne H was taking on his hockey team and the Marlins. They had just dumped both teams with Henry getting the Marlins. The accountant said that the Marlins lost $35 mill that year and the Panthers lost $25 mill. Money is money, and except for the NFL guaranteed revenue, sports is a losing business in Florida.

Double G

And to think that pathetic excuse of a fan base got to see not one but two World Series titles.................

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Boston Jay

I enjoyed the 2003 title very much (was still in MA for the '97 one).