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Thought this was one pretty funny. Or sad.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/670592.html
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/670592.html
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.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.
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.
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.
That's really terrible. It must be so discouraging for the players on that team to come out to see that. Even when the Sox were terrible I doubt they ever sunk that low.
Imagine all the money being lost be concessions, etc. Ouch.
miami is not a good sports town but the marlins play in the middle of the two cities and have a bad baseball stadium plus the weather is always a factor. i think the marlins will draw when they get the new stadium in 2011
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.
Reminds me of a Bruins game
Thought this was one pretty funny. Or sad.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/670592.html