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The Tampa Bay Rays have no fans

The link is to an ESPN article about how despite the team’s success, fans don’t come out.

Here’s a local newspaper article about the Rays saying history suggests they won’t move anywhere before their lease ends in 2027. But I don’t buy that. Of course, I’m a Toronto Blue Jays fan and I would be surprised if they lasted in that city another 20 years either. SkyDome won’t be gleaming forever…though I could see political will to keep them there and there won’t be any dearth of deep pockets like Montreal.

Just move the Rays to New Jersey already and change their horrendous name. The NYC market is gargantuan, and why keep the team in a market that despite it’s media market size has a hard time putting butts in the seats. The Marlins already held up their taxpayers for a new stadium, so we know they’re not going anywhere. 

They can share a stadium with another team. Not so much CitiField with the Mets, but perhaps Citizens Bank Park with the Phillies, since Philadelphia is the largest baseball market with only one team in it. Boston would be great, given how much Fenway is sold out, but only if they could be moved to the NL.

The Trop is an awful place to watch a baseball game and came before the stadium boom or else it’d look a lot better. Bottom line is, there’s no reason for the team to draw as poorly as it does with all of those stars on it and if it were in a better baseball market, they’d be doing a lot better. 

Couple that with the ownership group’s ties to NYC and I feel like if Washington D.C. could get a team, a deal could be worked out eventually for a 3rd team in NYC, but not under the regime of Selig, it’ll take a new Commissioner with some vision to orchestrate that. Just put them on SNY or YES and the Yankees and Mets will get over it. 

  1. yami85 reblogged this from mssnglnk and added:
    sorry for ranting, but shit like this pisses me off to no avail. How can...have no fans?...
  2. mssnglnk posted this

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