Should there be more fans in the stands? Absolutely. I'd be there every night if I had the wherewithal to do it. I don't believe the excuses in April-June. Even though the team deserves to have more people in the seats, you have to consider the weather and why getting a stadium with a retractable roof is so necessary. We have gotten more than 5 inches of rain over the past two days. I haven't seen the sun in 60 hours. Somehow, in another miracle for this team, it seems to clear up just early enough before game time that they can ready the field, but the fact of the matter is, my family and I are not willing to drive the 40 minutes each way, spend the amounts of money on tickets, parking, and food, and invest the hours of time it takes to attend these games on a weeknight when there's no guarantee that the game will be played. I am as diehard a fan as you will find. I honestly thought we'd win 75 games this year, and they'll surpass that. But when the sun does not come out all day, how many people who have work and/or school the next day can go out to the park not knowing if the game will have a 2-hour rain delay? Especially when you can just watch it on TV. I've been in that park for regular season games when there were 57,000 people in the stands and when there were 5,700, and it pains me to see the latter. But it's just not fair to expect the same core group of fans to show up night after night when the weather is as bad as it is.
Most of you that don't live here caught at least some of the action in the Miami-FSU game Monday. That's the kind of rain I'm talking about. You don't play baseball in that rain. A 7:05 game might have been postponed or, if played, delayed to the point that the game would have ended around 1 in the morning. They got lucky they were playing a day game when the sun was out.
I love this team and have invested more time and energy than I care to admit, but put yourselves in our shoes and ask yourself if you'd go to the game when you have to swim out of your own neighborhood.