Rowland's Office: Tampa should be ashamed

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Tampa should be ashamed

Tonight's attendance for the first-place Rays, who won their 80th: 12,678. Pathetic.

They deserve arena football, nothing more.

--CB

Posted on August 27, 2008 | Permalink

Comments

It's amazing how the seemingly logical conclusion that baseball-loving spring training devotees and Latins, and transplants from markets with longstanding franchises, would support a pro team in Florida has turned out so completely wrong.

Posted by: Sharon Egan | August 30, 2008 at 09:51 AM

there should be no Major League Baseball in the state of Florida.
...period.

it's for spring training and crappy wanna be thug college football.

Posted by: Scott Munn | August 28, 2008 at 07:43 PM

I watched their game last week against the AL West leading Angels only draw around 19,000 fans. Pathetic, especially for a team having their first round of success with the Yanks and Bosox looking up at them. I know that conventional wisdom says that a team which has surprising success usually gets a spike in attendance the following year. That may be true, but the Rays should be averaging about 25 to 30,000 right now.

Posted by: clete boyer fan | August 28, 2008 at 01:45 PM

I'm surprised. I've seen some decent sized, enthusiastic crowds down there on their broadcasts in the last few weeks.

Posted by: PepeFreeUs | August 28, 2008 at 04:12 AM

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