TBSportsFan
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| | 04/24/09 at 10:40 AM | Reply with quote | #1 |
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I'm addressing this to all the so-called "fans" of the Tampa Bay Rays. For over 10 years hardly anyone came out to see the Rays play ball. When they got hot beating the Red Sox and Yankees all of a sudden "everyone" is a Rays fan! When they went to the World Series, no one could do without them.
Now that they hold a 6-10 record and back at the bottom of the division, where are all the fans? Hey, I bet if they get hot after the All Star break, maybe the "fans" will come back to the ball park!
Baseball season has hardly just begun and all you people can think of is should the Bucanneers draft Percy Harvin or some other college pot head? You people are pathetic. You don't deserve a MLB team in Tampa Bay!
While I don't make it to all the games, I do try to make it to as many as possible. Maybe if they moved the team to the Tampa side of the bay, I may go to all the games. That is if the Rays don't leave town altogether because of the lack of fan base.
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PaulyKnuckles
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| | 04/24/09 at 02:26 PM | Reply with quote | #2 |
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As far as fans not coming to the ball park this year... we have had 7 games in the Trop and besides Thursday's game the attendance was pretty good. Obviously the Yankee series was full all 3 games and if you noticed the weekend games against the White Sox all had good attendance. If you're upset because people aren't talking about them, then so be it. The fan base is ultimately bandwagon fans since the Rays are only 10 years old. Its kind of tough to grow into a fan base when the team has only been around for a decade. People who started liking this team more than likely watched baseball cheering for a different team and then jumped to the Rays wagon. I'm not posting to tell you how long I've been a Rays fan or how many games I go to, I don't believe thats what this post is about. I do know this. I've lived here since 97 and for the last decade all I've heard was "if they move the stadium closer to Tampa more fans will go". If you think that then you're blind. Getting a fan base to go to games takes time. Parents will have to go to games with their kids and then their kids will have to bring kids and so on and so on. You can complain about the stadium or the location or the team, but I work in Bradenton and never hear people in Bradenton complaining that RayJay is too far for them to go watch a football game. Society today always wants something immediately instead of having to wait. Stop complaining... when the Rays start being consistent(which they will this year)they will get more and more fans.
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WesleyWildcat84
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| | 04/24/09 at 02:54 PM | Reply with quote | #3 |
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Here's one of my shorter posts:
1. Bucs were losers, changed their uniforms and everyone made it to RayJay with the winning tradition.
2. Lightning were losers, made the playoffs and everyone showed up at the now-Trop and set then-NHL records for attendance. They regressed and the fans backed off, then we won the Cup and everyone showed up again, and now they need to win to keep the fans coming.
3. The Rays got to the World Series once, it's 81 home games (twice the Tampa Bay Lightning and 10 times the Bucs) with a stadium that holds over 40,000 people. If we're around 25,000 and growing on the regular, then that should be considered a pretty good take for now. It's not like football where it's once a week or Hockey where there's half as many games.
I do think the Rays should get back to .500 soon just in case though.
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JustaBuc
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| | 04/28/09 at 08:41 AM | Reply with quote | #4 |
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My initial reaction to this topic when broached in this way is usually this, I am sure the Interstate that brought you here also has a return lane....
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WesleyWildcat84
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| | 04/28/09 at 09:27 AM | Reply with quote | #5 |
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Is that a reference to I-275 as well as 175 and 375?
Try taking the subway that we don't have to get to the game... it takes more coordination for the big city people and probably just as long.
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Mr_Lucky
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| | 04/29/09 at 06:46 AM | Reply with quote | #6 |
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Quote: Baseball season has hardly just begun and all you people can think of is should the Bucanneers draft Percy Harvin or some other college pot head? You people are pathetic. You don't deserve a MLB team in Tampa Bay!
Hey TBSport - I'm NOT a Rays fan. I freakin despise baseball and if the Rays move I won't shed a single tear. Move the Rays to Tampa, build a new stadium, etc., I STILL won't care because I don't like baseball - PERIOD.
So just because I'm honest I'm pathetic? I think not.
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carl
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| | 05/04/09 at 07:28 AM | Reply with quote | #7 |
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To many games on TV and today people enjoy watching from the comfort of their own homes. different time and different era. A new park isnt going to help either. The threat of the team moving because the owners say they need a new park is BS. I will site Wrigley and Fenway. You do not have to go to the game to be a fan. |
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TBSportsFan
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| | 05/04/09 at 03:56 PM | Reply with quote | #8 |
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I've been listening to Dan Sileo and think he is right!
Although Dan, it looks as though seating room on the bandwagon was limited this past weekend. I went to all four games and did notice that Sunday's crowd by far had the best showing of Rays "fans" than any other day.
Could be because it was family day too, but at the end of the game, there were definitely more Rays blue than Red Sox red in the stands.
Saturday night was a damn close game, but still the Rays "fans" started leaving at the end of the 5th inning. Come on let's hear the excuses now. "It was late, I didn't want to get stuck in traffic". "I had church on Sunday morning." "I wanted to get home to see the highlights on ESPN." Say what you want, but if you are a "real" fan you would have stayed until the last inning (unless it was a 20-1 blowout) and even then I would have stayed close to the end of the game too.
So sound off now Rays "fans"!
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JustaBuc
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| | 05/04/09 at 04:34 PM | Reply with quote | #9 |
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TBSportsfan, go to the games and root for your team, that's it, other than that there is nothing for you to do about game attendance by other people. Every single baseball game played on Saturday where the home team was getting beat fairly handily had fans pouring out of the stadium and going home early. This happens in every single team sport in the United States.
"Real" fans are concerned about their team, not who is sitting next to them.
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TBSportsFan
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| | 05/04/09 at 05:06 PM | Reply with quote | #10 |
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Justabuc, I could care less who sits next to me. I don't go to count fans or see sore losers leave early. But if a team I have wanted for so long to come to my home town leaves because it's city can't (or won't) support it then I take it personal.
One person does NOT make up a fan base to keep a franchise in a city. Get up and support your HOME TOWN TEAM TAMPA BAY. GO RAYS!!
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WesleyWildcat84
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| | 05/05/09 at 03:04 AM | Reply with quote | #11 |
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Let me throw this out there. When we get to June and then onward, the attendance should pick up. This isn't because the Rays will go on a tear, although that'll help, but it's Summer Time, when everyone that has discretionary income spends it. This is especially true with children.
Good news is that the Rays get a lot of walk up and the TV ratings have picked up, and that does bring in revenue through advertising, so that is a good thing.
If the Rays don't start blowing up over the summer, my theory doesn't hold, that's fine. However, I think that the children will help.
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JustaBuc
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| | 05/05/09 at 09:28 AM | Reply with quote | #12 |
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Wasn't it reported somewhere that attendance was up 60% from last season at this point? In these economically challenged times, what is to complain about?
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TBSportsFan
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| | 05/05/09 at 10:42 AM | Reply with quote | #13 |
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I will agree with you on that point Wesley. While it is difficult to make day games (I never could figure out why they do them) weekends have seemed to be fairly good. Ian did make a point that out of the 60% increase in fan attendance, the majority of the attendance was from Yankee and Red Sox fans. I'm not trying to convert people, just make the ones that claim to be "fans" stand up and prove it! |
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WesleyWildcat84
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| | 05/05/09 at 12:01 PM | Reply with quote | #14 |
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I'm impressed, we have more hockey fans than baseball fans... then again, hockey is more fun when you're there, while baseball is just as fascinating on the tube or radio waves (more often than not). |
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JustaBuc
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| | 05/05/09 at 12:59 PM | Reply with quote | #15 |
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Quote: ...we have more hockey fans than baseball fans...
No we don't, we have a significant number of fans of other clubs (former northerners...and yes that is a bad word) that live here and are hockey fans, not fans of the Lightning. We also have a bunch of lazy Tampa people that have something stuck up their butt about driving to St. Pete. FYI, unless you have decided to live in Timbuctu a/k/a New Tampa, it's takes me just as much time to drive from the IRB area to the Trop than it does to drive from lets say the Palma Ceia area to the Trop.
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