Tuesday 9 April 2013

Miami Marlins fans wear bags on their heads for home opener

The Major League Baseball season is barely a week old, but these Miami Marlins fans already are embarrassed enough to wear disguises. Meet Benjamin Avery on the left and Cate Avery, fans of the Marlins who pulled paper bags over their heads at Miami's home opener against the Atlanta Braves on Monday.

This photo was snapped in the fourth inning, so perhaps the home team allowed the civil disobedience to continue for the entire game and didn't snatch the bags away under some baloney pretense. Other fans protesting the state of the team, however, reportedly were kicked out. Quick, guys, hide the bags! The Man is coming!

Fans putting bags over their heads goes back, at least, to the darkest days of the New Orleans Saints. It's Guy Fawkes meets "nobody can know I was here."

The fans aren't upset simply because the Fish are 1-6 and lucky to be that, but because of the manner in which owner Jeffrey Loria conducts experiments on his own team. Fire sales, bait-and-switches, cynically bad stadium deals, boldly wrong pronouncements, etc.

Yahoo! Sports' own Eric Adelson captured the sentiments of other fans in attendance, which was inflated to near-sellout status because of a Groupon giveaway that provided deep discounts. But there are reasons to see Marlins games. Giancarlo Stanton is one, and the ballpark bartenders at the Clevelander will tell you the others:

This should at least cover some of the team's demographic.

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