Members Thunderbroom Posted September 14, 2007 Members Share Posted September 14, 2007 with game attendance like this: MIAMI, Sept. 12 -- After 4 hours 9 minutes of laboring in the tropical midday heat in a cavernous and virtually empty stadium Wednesday afternoon, the Washington Nationals got stuck with this: a 5-4 loss to the Florida Marlins in 12 innings that was sealed when a .226 reserve player chopped a single through the infield to drive home the winning run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MrJoshua Posted September 14, 2007 Members Share Posted September 14, 2007 Ouch. What's the attendance? 42? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMS Author Craig Vecchione Posted September 14, 2007 CMS Author Share Posted September 14, 2007 Hey, I didn't ask for a 3-division league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jasper383 Posted September 14, 2007 Members Share Posted September 14, 2007 I was at a Pirate game late in the season in the early 80s where the attendance was 1,700. It was eerie. You could hear individual conversations on and off the field. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jasper383 Posted September 14, 2007 Members Share Posted September 14, 2007 It's odd how awful a baseball city Miami is. It looks, on paper, like a great place for MLB; older fans, Latinos, vacationers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members King Kashue Posted September 14, 2007 Members Share Posted September 14, 2007 Jeffrey Loria crippled, then sold the Expos, and now he's doing it again with the Marlins. The Marlins had a payroll of 21 million last year (less than several individual players), and when Joe Girardi, on the way to contending for the wild card (with that piddly payroll) and winning 2006 manager of the year, had the audacity to ask Loria to stop insulting and alienating umpires during games, Loria fired Girardi. The man has no business anywhere near the game of baseball. He's a {censored}ing cancer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMS Author Craig Vecchione Posted September 14, 2007 CMS Author Share Posted September 14, 2007 It's odd how awful a baseball city Miami is. It looks, on paper, like a great place for MLB; older fans, Latinos, vacationers. Too. {censored}ing. Hot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMS Author Craig Vecchione Posted September 14, 2007 CMS Author Share Posted September 14, 2007 Ouch. What's the attendance? 42? 10,121, smallest of the season for the Marlins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jasper383 Posted September 14, 2007 Members Share Posted September 14, 2007 Jeffrey Loria crippled, then sold the Expos, and now he's doing it again with the Marlins.The Marlins had a payroll of 21 million last year (less than several individual players), and when Joe Girardi, on the way to contending for the wild card (with that piddly payroll) and winning 2006 manager of the year, had the audacity to ask Loria to stop insulting and alienating umpires during games, Loria fired Girardi.The man has no business anywhere near the game of baseball. He's a {censored}ing cancer. They had grievous attendance issues before Loria, didn't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Emprov Posted September 14, 2007 Members Share Posted September 14, 2007 There was just over 500 people at an A's game a few years back. Wasn't there but man, that's sad. I wonder what the attendance was at the game in the pic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Psilocybin Posted September 14, 2007 Members Share Posted September 14, 2007 10,121, smallest of the season for the Marlins. Thats the smallest looking 10k people I can recall seeing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMS Author Craig Vecchione Posted September 14, 2007 CMS Author Share Posted September 14, 2007 Thats the smallest looking 10k people I can recall seeing. The pic was probably sometime after the 9th inning. The 10k was the official paid attendance at the start. Probably optimistic...the post-game article listing attendance said it appeared to be about 400...... An open-air stadium down there is the pinnacle of stupidity. Floridians run from their air-conditioned houses to the air-conditioned car and drive to air-conditioned stores, offices and malls. Why would they go outside to watch....baseball????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members King Kashue Posted September 14, 2007 Members Share Posted September 14, 2007 They had grievous attendance issues before Loria, didn't they? Yeah, but one of the big reasons is because both their original owner (Huizenga) and Loria conducted fire sales after both World Series wins. Think about it, why does a team that is 14 years old, and has already won two World Series championships have so many issues? Ownership is a huge reason. Both Huizenga and Loria have horribly mismanaged the team. Huizenga dismantled the 1997 WS winners about five minutes after the parade. That alone doomed the team in a lot of fans eyes. To do something similar (though not quite so drastic) after the second WS win only made things worse. They drew almost 2 million in 1994, which was the strike year. They drew 2.3 million in 97. They drew 1.3 million in 2003, the second world series year, but had an increase of 40% over the next two years as the team hung on despite payroll cuts. Can baseball work in Miami? It did until Huizenga gutting the team after the 97 season. I don't know if it can work long term, but Loria is certainly not the man who's going to save a struggling team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gruntollio Bass Posted September 14, 2007 Members Share Posted September 14, 2007 Wow...............did the players parents at least show up?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bnyswonger Posted September 14, 2007 Members Share Posted September 14, 2007 That's really sad. I went to an expos game in the early '90s that was pretty pathetic too. That stadium looked cool in pictures but inside it was an energy black hole. Sterile and really filthy at the same time. Even when the Reds sucked year after after, it never got THAT bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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