General Sports Water Cooler

The Marlins have managed better than 28th in attendance exactly once in the past 11 seasons, when they managed 26th. They won the damn Series in 2003 and still only managed 28th. I'm not convinced South Florida cares about baseball at all.

It's ownerships' fault, not the fanbases. Even the most optimistic fans will stop coming to the park when you constantly turn over your roster and keep payroll at a minimum all while pocketing mountains of cash through baseball's revenue sharing.

Add in a terrible stadium and the Miami weather during summer and it's not hard to understand why they don't draw well. Miami's middle of the road TV ratings indicate better fan support than their attendance does.

they responsible for the dolphins pathetic attendance over the years too? miami is just not a good sports town........

Living in Miami for the past 8 months, I can tell you, nobody here cares about the Marlins. To be fair, I obviously don't have the pulse of the entire fanbase, but this is just not a sports town.

They have exciting players, so it's hardly ownership. Besides, I'd rather the Orioles go the Marlins route than the middle of the road garbage we try every year. That's not to say ownership isn't money-pocketing dbags, but their roster turnover strategy is actually pretty smart..

I suspect they will draw much better this year due to the stadium, but that will fall off drastically imo. The fanbase here is the #1 issue, no doubt imo.

As bad a dropoff as the Orioles have had, they've never sunk to Marlins level. And they've had absolutely nothing to cheer for over the past decade, while Marlins fans have.

Marlins fans simply suck. I have no doubt attendance will get a bump this year, but I don't expect it to be huge. If they can get back into the top 2/3 of the league and stay there for more than a single season, I'll admit I was wrong.

Classy, Ubaldo.

Braves with a move today that I thought was kind of interesting. Acquired Juan Francisco from the Reds for a pitching prospect. He was out of options, so the Reds couldn't send him down without risking losing him. Francisco will fill in for Chipper to start the season.

Wasn't televised. Only video will be fan videos on youtube.

Yeah, the video pretty much proves that it was 100% intentional, imo. Its going to be so awesome when someone finally snaps and charges the mound with a bat and takes them out at the knees. Nyjer Morgan, I believe in you

I saw the other day Angels were playing KC and hit 3-4 consecutive HR's. Next guy up gets plunked, and the ump didn't even toss the pitcher. I thought for sure Scosia was going to kill the guy but all he did was yell at him from the dugout.

Its pretty ridiculous when the ex-player (like Leiter) is significantly more intelligent than the play-by-play guy. Singleton's OK, but too much of homer. Michael Kay is actually dumber than the average Yankee fan I think

Yikes.