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There was an article in the New Yorker about the ballpark around spring training, lots of interesting tidbits about the owner and the whole thing surrounding that team right now.
Miami is weird when it comes to stadiums. None of the teams down there have an extensive die-hard fan base (I've gone to Jets games down there and we were the majority one year), so unless the team is on a magical run (like every Marlins World Series, or when the Phins won the division running the wildcat) or undeniably superior (Heat vs. pretty much anyone), the fans simply don't show up. At all. Even when teams are good they barely show up. So I don't know how or why the Marlins got the $ for a new stadium, to be honest. They announced the attendance at a game a week or two ago in the high 20-thousands, and watching on TV there were entire sections empty in the field level, not even the upper deck.
As a Mets fan I'm pretty much an expert in fudged attendance figures. Last year the Mets had "10,000+" fans at a game in September that I was at. We counted, every single person we could see (added 20% to the total since we figured people were moving aroudn the stadium), and it wasn't even over 1,000.
Loria (the owner) is pretty shady from what I remember. I know he was a part of that sketch Expos buy/sell in the Early 2000s (he basically traded the Expos for the Marlins at Bud Selig's request - so goes the conspiracy), and he tried to extort the city of Montreal for a new stadium before jumping ship to Miami.
And flanzo, I don't think it's so much that the Marlins were media darlings so much as that it's not New York.
Oh, absolutely. Just when it was the Yankees, the treatment was the complete opposite of that the Mets received (because majestic, historic Yankee Stadium - which literally looks like a giant cinderblock with Yankee symbols around the outside - is a beautiful piece of modern architecture, but Citifield is a travesty).
I'm used the Mets being kicked while they're down and picked on for being the little brother in NYC. I'm used to it. But I missed the day when the Marlins suddenly because above the Mets in the MLB pecking order. Neither team should be viewed that high on the list, anyway.
Post by EthnicallyCrimean98476 on May 29, 2012 16:00:24 GMT -5
Verlander's taking the mound against the Red Sox tonight on ESPN at 7. If you haven't had a chance to see him yet this year, at least check out a couple of innings.
I was at one of his "bad" outings this season where he "only" went 7 and gave up two earned.
The Mets trotted out a minor leaguer to start last night, 6 IP, 6 hits, 4 k's, 3 ER. But more importantly, he hit a bomb to give himself a 2-run lead.
I have no idea what's happening at Citi this year, it's weirding me out that the team isn't horrible. Their power hitting 1B's bat has a canyon-sized hole in it, they are starting an outfield right now that consists of Mike Baxter, Lucas Duda, and Kirk Nieuwenhuis (who? exactly). Terry "Tom" Collins has done a tremendous job. I still hate the owners, and I'm wearing my "Sell The Team" shirt tonight.
I honestly have lost count. I've had to eat my ticket twice so they didn't revoke our seats, and they had a plain-clothes security guard follow us around the stadium last year waiting to see where we sat (we intentionally sat in the wrong seats).
We rarely ever got kicked from Shea. Once when a guy (Phils fan) threw a beer at my Mom, but other than that I can't remember getting tossed.
The great run of ejections started in '09, the first year at Citi. Since then....easily 50 games (25 game package each year, about 20-25 individual games bought each season). I know that sounds outrageous, but it's really easy to get kicked out in the bullpen.
Kicked out of 50 games? Jeez. Way to go Bobby Cox there Flanzo...
Then again, if I was a Mets fan I'd probably be an asshole. If I was a Marlins fan (assuming they exist), I'd set up tents near the new stadium and Occupy that shit till the scumbag Loria left town. 1% asshole.
Then again, if I was a Mets fan I'd probably be an jerkstore.
Don't you root for the Red Sox?
I mean I guess if the Mets had been good in recent memory (excluding 2006 NLCS) it'd be easier to hate their fans, but as it stands I don't see how they approach Yankees/Red Sox.
I mean I guess if the Mets had been good in recent memory (excluding 2006 NLCS) it'd be easier to hate their fans, but as it stands I don't see how they approach Yankees/Red Sox.
They don't. Mets fans aren't arrogant a-holes like Yankee fans, and aren't "new money" a-holes like the Sawx. And the Mets have a better record than both, whatever that's worth.
Post by Alberto Balsalm on Jun 1, 2012 0:21:24 GMT -5
You've been kicked out of 50 games? I am a consistent and vicious heckler in the left-field bleachers at the Jake ("Progressive Field") and have never been kicked out. Although with me turning 21 here next week that might start changing soon...
You've been kicked out of 50 games? I am a consistent and vicious heckler in the left-field bleachers at the Jake ("Progressive Field") and have never been kicked out. Although with me turning 21 here next week that might start changing soon...
I honestly have lost count. I've had to eat my ticket twice so they didn't revoke our seats, and they had a plain-clothes security guard follow us around the stadium last year waiting to see where we sat (we intentionally sat in the wrong seats).
We rarely ever got kicked from Shea. Once when a guy (Phils fan) threw a beer at my Mom, but other than that I can't remember getting tossed.
The great run of ejections started in '09, the first year at Citi. Since then....easily 50 games (25 game package each year, about 20-25 individual games bought each season). I know that sounds outrageous, but it's really easy to get kicked out in the bullpen.
Oh man, if you've been kicked out tonight...
Edit: Or I hope you were the guy who ran on to the field and made it to the pile on the mound.