MikeO said:
so I guess it doesn't rain during playoff time? For those magical 4 or 5 weeks of the MLB playoffs there is neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeever a chance of rain. Never. So, when the 30,000 to 40,000 people show up rain isn't a concern!
This is the weakest excuse I have ever seen from Marlins fan. 4 rain delays all year. Just 4, and "rain" possiblity is the reason not to show up in a playoff chase to watch games.
I would buy it MORE if you said a reason not to show up in April or May when the games don't matter as much, is because it might rain. I would buy that!!!!!! But now, in September and late August when these games have so much meaning (and when there have only been 4 rain delays all year) YOU GO TO THE GAMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please go bash other fans as you obviously don't understand what goes on here.
Do you live here? Do you know where Dolphin Stadium is located? Just about 40 minutes away from all neighborhoods and businesses [through Miami traffic, argueably the worse traffic it gets in the nation (I used to work at the Marriott Hotel at NW 36 ST; 79TH Ave in Doral, and just about every guest visiting b!tched about traffic)]. A bad location overall for a ballpark. The neighborhoods around Dolphin Stadium such as Carol City are as bad and ghetto as it gets here in South Florida.
We don't have a [4] [5] [6] subway trains that takes you from the bottom of Manhattan, through lexington avenue, and two stops at the Bronx by Yankee Stadium. We aren't located at a major tourist location such as South Beach, to have visitors come to a game, and witness a splash homerun on the ocean or what ever.
Hell, people don't come to Miami on vacation to watch the Florida Marlins play, they come to see the Miami Heat and the Miami Dolphins. This isn't a nation wide beloved team, if you haven't noticed in 2003, everyone wanted to see the Chicago Cubs win the NLCS, everyone wanted to see the New York Yankees win the World Series.
We don't have a historic ballpark such as Oakland, Chicago, and St. Louis. WE DON'T HAVE A BALLPARK. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, CAN YOU NOT UNDERSTAND THAT?
Bud Selig is working hard to get us a stadium, and wants to keep the Marlins here in South Florida. You don't want them to exist for some odd reason, is it because we owned your Yankees in 2003 and you still hate us for that?
You keep comparing Baseball fans to Football fans, when most of the Marlins fans are located in Dade and Broward county. There are Dolphins fans around the nation who would come here occasionally to take a plane to South Florida, drive those 40 minutes on a Sunday, and watch the Dolphins play.
The Miami Dolphins play 16 games in a regular season, once a week. The Florida Marlins play 10 times more games, about 6 a week [currently 7 on a tough schedule]. There is no rain delay on football games, but there is one on baseball games, and when it does rain here in Miami, it will create ponds on the playing field, which usually ends up postponing the games.
