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347 fans show up for a Major League Game!!! WOW!

ProfJohn

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Only 347 people showed up for the game between the Reds and Marlins today!!

Wow.
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/bi...-Irene-wipes-out-Marlins-atte?urn=mlb-wp17025
What would happen if they staged a Major League Baseball game and no one came?

The Florida Marlins and Cincinnati Reds almost found out on Wednesday afternoon.

According to @justincohen790, there was an unofficial headcount of 347 fans in the stands for the first pitch of Wednesday's doubleheader at Sun Life Stadium. Cohen counted five sections with three or fewer people in it and three completely empty sections. The Marlins haven't announced the official attendance, but it likely won't challenge the record of the smallest crowd in modern history (believed to be 653 during a Oakland Athletics game in 1979).

That's because the Marlins will count all of the tickets were sold, not just the number of fans that moved through the turnstiles. Back in 2007, someone counted 375 fans in the stands for the first pitch of an afternoon Marlins game in mid-September and the "official" attendance announced by the team was still 10,121.

The empty orange seats at Marlins games, of course, has been a conversation topic for years and the upper deck at Sun Life has been closed since the All-Star break. Still, I don't think anyone can blame the thousands of Marlins fans for not attending this one. With Hurricane Irene bearing down on the East Coast, today's first game was moved from its original spot on Thursday so the teams would be guaranteed to complete it.

And, really, what would you rather do: Make sure your home is safe and flee the area? Or stick around on a hot day in south Florida in a lame duck football stadium to watch a baseball game between two teams that are going nowhere?

Considering the weather situation, 347 actually seems kinds of high.
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Awesome comment in the comment section:

"instead of the announcer introducing the players, the players can go in the stands and introduce themselves personally"
 
LOL Holy crap, even a couple thousand is considered crazy low for an MLB game. There are simply no words (except the ones I just typed)
 
It's a football stadium. It sucks for baseball. There's a hurricane heading their way and its ungodly hot and humid.

All that considered, it's not all that surprising IMO.

I've been to a number of Marlins and Dolphins games there over the years. In both cases its horribly hot and miserable. It was a huge mistake to not make it an enclosed dome.
 
LOL! No one likes going to all the way out to Joe Robbie anymore for a baseball game, only the diehards(yes there are still diehard Marlins fans) or people who got free tickets. It's also been raining a fuck ton here and with the hurricane, you're just begging to waste your time by going to a game. Next year with the new stadium(roof) attendance will improve dramatically. Might actually sell out the first game!

People have just basically given up on the team till they go to their new home.
 
How in the hell did Marlins get a new stadium? Investors crapping their pants about now.

Went to away game last year we had around 10K and most of the crowd were us Phillies fans. Even then stadium at least 75% empty
 
JHoNNy1OoO said:
People have just basically given up on the team till they go to their new home.
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The ownership really screwed the fans when they took their World Series team apart.

The team won two World Series titles in 6 years. Amazing feat for a small market team with no history of baseball.

And then the owners took the team apart. Sad.
 
HomerJS said:
How in the hell did Marlins get a new stadium? Investors crapping their pants about now.

Went to away game last year we had around 10K and most of the crowd were us Phillies fans. Even then stadium at least 75% empty
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Attendance will pickup dramatically with the new stadium. It'll be up to the owners to invest in the team again to make them relevant long term to new fans. They'll also be competing with the new supercharged Heat and Miami has always been about the Dolphins. They'll survive if they play it right.
 
ProfJohn said:
The ownership really screwed the fans when they took their World Series team apart.

The team won two World Series titles in 6 years. Amazing feat for a small market team with no history of baseball.

And then the owners took the team apart. Sad.
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It's so true. :/ Loyalty is a hard thing to earn and easy to lose. That said, I got season tickets for next season since I live 15 minutes away from the new stadium and can park at a buddies house and walk the 5 minutes. It'll be fun.
 
This is nothing new the attendance for marlins games is kinda shitty. I live only a few miles away from the stadium but we dont go any more, partly because my dads a Yankee Fan lol and the seats flat out suck for guys with long legs. The cup-holder dig into your knees.
 
MLB needs to sell that team and Tampa and get some cities where people will go to the games (Charlotte/Raleigh, Boise are two that come to mind). FL is experiencing double digit unemployment, shtty traffic, and old people. Not the best environment for any sports team.
 
Twins got stomped by Orioles the other day.

Anyway, I once heard the theory there should be many less baseball games and they should be hyped up more, kinda like football.
And none of this double header bullshit. If they have any energy left at the end of the first game then they failed miserably.
 
JHoNNy1OoO said:
Attendance will pickup dramatically with the new stadium. It'll be up to the owners to invest in the team again to make them relevant long term to new fans. They'll also be competing with the new supercharged Heat and Miami has always been about the Dolphins. They'll survive if they play it right.
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The Pirates used that same argument to shang-hai the city of Pittsburgh into building them a new stadium. That didn't work out very well for the taxpayers...
 
shortylickens said:
Twins got stomped by Orioles the other day.

Anyway, I once heard the theory there should be many less baseball games and they should be hyped up more, kinda like football.
And none of this double header bullshit. If they have any energy left at the end of the first game then they failed miserably.
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Fail.
 
Jeeze, I thought Toronto was bad. The Jays get a steady couple thousand each game, and they were practically giving tickets away at that point.

I don't think baseball is as popular as it once was. At least outside where the major dynasties are.
 
shortylickens said:
Twins got stomped by Orioles the other day.

Anyway, I once heard the theory there should be many less baseball games and they should be hyped up more, kinda like football.
And none of this double header bullshit. If they have any energy left at the end of the first game then they failed miserably.
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It's baseball. I'm usually more tired after a round of golf than I am after a baseball game.
 
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