Pathetic

[SunCoastBlueHen]

The Tampa Bay Rays are tied for the best record in baseball, are in the middle of a heated pennant race, were playing a competitive division foe, and yet were only able to attract 11,968 to last night's game.

[AshevilleApp]

The Tampa Bay Rays are tied for the best record in baseball, are in the middle of a heated pennant race, were playing a competitive division foe, and yet were only able to attract 11,968 to last night's game.

How would they do if the Yankees or Red Sox were in town?

[tampajag]

The Tampa Bay Rays are tied for the best record in baseball, are in the middle of a heated pennant race, were playing a competitive division foe, and yet were only able to attract 11,968 to last night's game.

How would they do if the Yankees or Red Sox were in town?

the place would be full. I don't even bitch about it any more. New stadium or not people aren't gonna come to games.

[SunCoastBlueHen]

The Tampa Bay Rays are tied for the best record in baseball, are in the middle of a heated pennant race, were playing a competitive division foe, and yet were only able to attract 11,968 to last night's game.

How would they do if the Yankees or Red Sox were in town?

When the Yankees or Sox are at the Trop, half the crowd is there to root for the visiting team.

The Sox were in town this past weekend and attendance was as follows:

Fri. 29,461
Sat. 36,973
Sun. 23,438

[andy7171]

When the Yankees or Sox are at the Trop, half the crowd is there to root for the visiting team.

Tampa isn't the only place where this occurs. Though to be fair, if the O's were tied for first like the Rays, The Yard would be mobbed.

[JoltinJoe]

How would they do if the Yankees or Red Sox were in town?

When the Yankees or Sox are at the Trop, half the crowd is there to root for the visiting team.

The Sox were in town this past weekend and attendance was as follows:

Fri. 29,461
Sat. 36,973
Sun. 23,438

The Yanks did three sell outs there recently, no?

[89Hen]

The Sox were in town this past weekend and attendance was as follows:

Fri. 29,461
Sat. 36,973
Sun. 23,438

Even the lowly Nationals had:

Fri: 22,871
Sat: 30,688
Sun: 24,782

This past weekend.

[UNHWildCats]

When the Yankees or Sox are at the Trop, half the crowd is there to root for the visiting team.

Tampa isn't the only place where this occurs. Though to be fair, if the O's were tied for first like the Rays, The Yard would be mobbed.

Atleast the O's can fill the place with bandwagoners.

But lets be fair too.... who wants to spend an August weekend inside the dump that is Tropicana?

This proposed stadium would do wonders for attendance

[DJH]

A new stadium would not do wonders for attendance. It is just a gigantic waste of money, because sports fans in south florida are among the worst in the country when it comes to support. The Marlins and Heat have both won championships in the last 10 years and they can't get people to come to their games either. They have a hockey team that is a joke as well.

Also, regarding sitting in a dome, I don't know how much more willing people are going to be to sit outside in 100 degree heat with a ton of humidity either. I would rather watch a game in a dome in south florida in July, than I would sitting outside sweating my ass of for 4 hours.

[SunCoastBlueHen]

The problem is that most people who live here are from somewhere else. As such, there is no inate loyalty to the local teams. People root for the trams they grew up rooting for and that loyalty actually gets carried on to the next generation. I'm actually a perfect example - I live in the Tampa Bay area, but am still a fan of all the Philly sports teams (and the Ravens too and my oldest daughter wears her Phillies gear to school all the time. Like me, all of the people who moved from big city areas to the north still hold loyalty to those teams.

That being said, I for one would go out to more games if the stadium wasn't such a shit hole and I know many others who feel the same way. It would certainly help attendance. Enough to be worth building? That I'm not so sure about.

[tampajag]

The problem is that most people who live here are from somewhere else. As such, there is no inate loyalty to the local teams. People root for the trams they grew up rooting for and that loyalty actually gets carried on to the next generation. I'm actually a perfect example - I live in the Tampa Bay area, but am still a fan of all the Philly sports teams (and the Ravens too and my oldest daughter wears her Phillies gear to school all the time. Like me, all of the people who moved from big city areas to the north still hold loyalty to those teams.

That being said, I for one would go out to more games if the stadium wasn't such a **** hole and I know many others who feel the same way. It would certainly help attendance. Enough to be worth building? That I'm not so sure about.

You hit the nail on the head, everybody has another favorite team. I know everyone isn't like me, I have no problem going to Rays or Bucs games even though their not my favorite teams.
I know almost for sure that a stadium won't be built on this side of the bay. The Trop isn't the best but it's better than it used to be.

[Fact]

It's Expos disease.. If the Expos didn't play in the worst stadium in the history of sports, there would be no such thing as the washington nationals.