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I was hoping something like this was going to happen.. this is what it is all about.. all in it together
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Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
Just curious about that. Every time I saw a Rays highlight during the season (usually a game they won), the stands were EMPTY.
<< <i>Just curious about that. Every time I saw a Rays highlight during the season (usually a game they won), the stands were EMPTY. >>
It's Florida people have about 100 better things to do there than to go to a game. I know if I was going to be staying in Florida
for the summer the last thing on my mind would be going to a baseball game it would be girls and the beach and girls.
James
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<< <i>Just curious about that. Every time I saw a Rays highlight during the season (usually a game they won), the stands were EMPTY. >>
It's Florida people have about 100 better things to do there than to go to a game. I know if I was going to be staying in Florida
for the summer the last thing on my mind would be going to a baseball game it would be girls and the beach and girls.
James >>
James, thanks very much for your Lothian, Maryland perspective on Tampa Bay Rays baseball attendance.
<< <i>James, thanks very much for your Lothian, Maryland perspective on Tampa Bay Rays baseball attendance. >>
Don't feel bad here in Baltimore the local fans would rather rob and shot each other than go to a Oriole's game.
James
<< <i>You're one of probably a few hundred, Matt. Seriously, WTF is wrong with Rays fans that you have a first place team getting no more than 11K fans/night when they were playing so well >>
Dan, Alot of it has to do with the stadium, saying that its terrible isnt a strong enough word. Its a pit, and a terrible place to watch a baseball game. The other, and probably more important factor is the location. They built the dome on the St. Petersburg side of the bay, and the population isnt there to support it on a nightly basis. They put the dome in an area where there is really nothing else to do, so the draw in miserable. Until the ownership can get support to build a new open air stadium on the Tampa side of the bay, near downtown Tampa, it doesnt matter what kind of team they put on the field, the draw will be terrible.
It's really a shame, Andrew Friedman's (Tampa Ray GM) mother-in-law lives 4 or 5 doors down from me here in Davidson NC. We talk baseball all the time when I am out watching my kids play and such. She has told me how frustrating it is on Andrew and the Executive management team at Tampa, to put such an exciting HOME GROWN team together that plays the game the right way, and noone supports the team. The only time there is a decent draw at Tropicana Field is when the Yankees are in town playing the Rays.
We will be letting Carl Crawford (foregone conclusion he is going to NY), Carlos Pena and Rafael Soriano walk this year. That's $27+ million off the books from a $72 million dollar payroll. Tampa is saying they will have to have a payroll this year (2011) of $45-$50 million as they just aren't generating the revenue to support a $70+ million payroll.
To say its tough to be a Rays fan, would be an understatement, even though we have won the AL East 2 of the last 3 years, knowing your developing players that will eventually walk away when they get to expensive to afford, frankly SUCKS! I hope beyond hope that Evan Longoria is the lone exception!