To at least retain the people who will believe whatever as long as there is some kind of excuse. You can't really excuse ****ing over every orifice and office they could get a hold of because Marlins management insisted they were going to move(despite the fact they've admitted they didn't want to and that didn't make financial sense for them). There was almost certainly some ethical, financially sound way the Marlins could have stayed in South Florida without doing what they did. They chose not to, to the extent that there was almost certainly literally fraud committed. Oh, excuse me, it's of the newer ballparks. http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomvanr...ns-at-a-first-year-ballpark-in-over-a-decade/ Regardless, that coupled with the fact that the Marlins are drawing pretty mediocre % of capacity for a first year team in a small stadium, and that they're not drawing all that good numbers relative to what they drew in their old venue pretty much disproves the idea that the Marlins just needed a new stadium.
You should have just skipped this part of my response. You were wrong. Accept it. You said they don't care about winning and they clearly do. I'm not. However, let's not pretend the Marlins are first to threaten to leave to get permission for public funding. The Pirates did this, too. It's business. They wanted public funding, and they got it. I said that already. In the 21st Century, we're in line with the MLB stadiums built. We MIGHT fall a few hundred short. If you really want to nitpick about a few hundred for attendance, that's pretty pathetic. The season isn't over yet. We could surpass them, too. The percentage of the ballpark attendance is 12th in baseball. That isn't mediocre. It surpasses Washington's and Cincinnati's for 21st Century stadiums built. In our old venue, the attendance was horrible. In the beginning of the Marlins era, we drew well. Then we fell off and stayed that way. Not sure what you're trying to say here. We definitely needed a new stadium. The conditions in that stadium were bad for baseball.
Ironic that the onion put out this article about the Marlins building a new stadium lol: http://www.theonion.com/articles/struggling-marlins-begin-construction-on-new-stadi,29042/ Go Fish.
