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Official 2006 Florida Marlins Thread

FinsNYanksFan13 said:
Yeah......all 500 of them. Sorry I couldn't help myself!




All kidding aside, the Marlins are the best story in baseball right now. This is a good team and they're playing well enough to make the playoffs. Props to Sanchez for pitching a heck of a game. The young guys are making this team a scary opponent for the NL not only for the future, but for right now as well!

paid attendence was over 12,000, thank you
 
FinsNYanksFan13 said:
Yeah......all 500 of them. Sorry I couldn't help myself!




All kidding aside, the Marlins are the best story in baseball right now. This is a good team and they're playing well enough to make the playoffs. Props to Sanchez for pitching a heck of a game. The young guys are making this team a scary opponent for the NL not only for the future, but for right now as well!

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.
 
RWhitney014 said:
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.

Great post I totally agree

Now we are tied with Philli 2.5 back of SD (who is tied 0-0 in the 8th with Colorado)

This series with Philli is huge, we can essentially knock them almost out of the race with a sweep.
 
Alex44 said:
Great post I totally agree

Now we are tied with Philli 2.5 back of SD (who is tied 0-0 in the 8th with Colorado)

This series with Philli is huge, we can essentially knock them almost out of the race with a sweep.

The Phillies are the ones who will do the sweeping. :wink:
 
icephinfan said:
I don't get to see many White Sox games here in Cali, so I watch as many as I can get.:D

Well Miguel Olivo (ex-white sox player) was the catcher, so there is your white sox connection to the game :lol:
 
Colorado and SD are tied at 0 in the 11th

SD has a very unfavorable schedule, they play the Giants and Dodgers a lot along with the Cards and Arizona (hopefully they see Webb in that series)

If we can go 7-3 against the Phils we have a great shot
 
Alex44 said:
Well Miguel Olivo (ex-white sox player) was the catcher, so there is your white sox connection to the game :lol:



Or the connection was that Anibal Sanchez was a former Red Sox player and we beat them, good thing he wasn't pitching for them tonight:lol:
 
Pads win in 10. They go on a 10-game roadtrip through SF, CIN, and LA (4 there) before returning home. We need them to go something like 3-7 or 4-6. But as far as I'm concerned, if we keep winning, we'll make it.
 
RWhitney014 said:
Pads win in 10. They go on a 10-game roadtrip through SF, CIN, and LA (4 there) before returning home. We need them to go something like 3-7 or 4-6. But as far as I'm concerned, if we keep winning, we'll make it.

Hey all it takes is a 3 game losing streak on their end and a three game winning streak on ours to pull into a tie

23 games left id say we need to go around 16-7 or better to have a REAL shot to assure we make it

Anything below that will be cutting it close
 
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