Shame(s) on You: Marlins Fans

Shame(s) on you so called followers of Floridian baseball. Your support of your home town team is making me sick.

You can't blame it on the weather since it hasn't rained all season. You can't blame it on the product on the field because you didn't even go when they were good the last two seasons. You can't even blame the ticket prices because they aren't even that bad. Not even by cheap Jew standards. In fact, there's no one to blame but yourselves.

Your apathy is self inflicted and I can't understand why for the life of me. This is South Florida for crying out loud. This is a baseball hotbead where a majority of the American born players in MLB come from since you can play year round. This is where the majority of spring training is held after all. This is the one place where baseball should be thriving. Having poor attendance at Marlins and Devil Rays games would be like having poor attendance at Montreal Canadiens games in the NHL. And that obviously won't be happening anytime soon.

That analogy leads me to the last remaining excuse that I've heard which is that people don't support the Marlins since they don't have the history of say the Canadiens or the Yankees. That it's hard to build up a fan base in only ten years especially when you've had two fire sales in that time span.

In reponse to that I say that I'd rather root for an expansion team because you can follow them from day one and never be accussed of becoming a front runner if you join too late. And as for those pesky firesales, yeah they suck, but you've also one two world championships and have a good young core that could easily win again in the next five years. And the Colorado Rockies can't say that.

So stop making excuses and get your asses out to the ballpark. It's really pathetic that there were more people at the Houston 500 than were in the stands on Tuesday night against the Braves. Friday night against the Cardinals was even worse as they actually ran out of people to show up on the Titantron and had to start repeating people by the fifth inning. Luckily for Brian and I they weren't desperate enough to put us up on the kiss cam. But the fact that it almost came to that is inexcusable.

So to all you so called Marlins fans out there I strongly suggest you start going out to games and supporting your team or before you know it they're going to be playing in Las Vegas and you're going to be watching Bass Fishing Championship at your local sports bar.