I was almost certain that every possible joke about baseball attendance in Florida had been exhausted over the past 20 years. Then I saw Joe Capozzi’s tweet with the photo attached below from the Miami Marlins Winter Warm Up event on Saturday morning and realized we haven’t even scratched the surface.
The line for single-game tickets outside #Marlins Park, less than 30 min before they go on sale twitpic.com/c26y8q
— Joe Capozzi (@joecapMARLINS) February 9, 2013
It doesn't matter if the photo was taken thirty minutes early or even an hour before the gates at Marlins Ballpark opened, that's... not good. Very troubling even. And sad.
Then, one full hour later, the scene was somehow more depressing.
Concession stand at #marlins winter warm up twitter.com/clarkspencer/s…
— clarkspencer (@clarkspencer) February 9, 2013
I think this is where I suggest that the Marlins will have more players — 74 in total once full practices begin in the next week or so — in training camp than people who showed up to buy tickets on their first single-game on sale date.
Seriously. Either the fresh stadium smell has worn off already, or the fan base isn’t too happy with the direction owner Jeffrey Loria has taken the franchise in general, but especially after taking millions of dollars from taxpayers to build his stadium and buy baseball players, only to turn around and trade most of them to the Toronto Blue Jays.
I'm going with the latter, by the way.
#marlins fashion protest (front) twitpic.com/c277so
— Joe Capozzi (@joecapMARLINS) February 9, 2013
Definitely the latter.
Lawyer Don Chase says he wore Blue Jays cap to protest #marlins trade to Toronto twitpic.com/c280d5
— Joe Capozzi (@joecapMARLINS) February 9, 2013
Even if the final attendance for the Warm Up event isn't nearly as dismal as the early photos would suggest, there's little denying the Miami Marlins franchise is a sad state of affairs.
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