I go to about 10 games a year with my son. Each time, I end up spending around $150.00. It's no cheap night out...and that is leaving the rest of my family behind (wife and two girls). I simply can't afford to take them all.

And now that they are moving south (I live in Davie), I'll go to zero games.

Good luck in Miami!

I go to about 10 games a year with my son. Each time, I end up spending around $150.00. It's no cheap night out...and that is leaving the rest of my family behind (wife and two girls). I simply can't afford to take them all.

And now that they are moving south (I live in Davie), I'll go to zero games.

Good luck in Miami!

I go to about 10 games a year with my son. Each time, I end up spending around $150.00. It's no cheap night out...and that is leaving the rest of my family behind (wife and two girls). I simply can't afford to take them all.

And now that they are moving south (I live in Davie), I'll go to zero games.

Good luck in Miami!

I go to about 10 games a year with my son. Each time, I end up spending around $150.00. It's no cheap night out...and that is leaving the rest of my family behind (wife and two girls). I simply can't afford to take them all.
And now that they are moving south (I live in Davie), I'll go to zero games.
Good luck in Miami!

I'll take a Cameron Maybin jersey, but not season tickets.

Rain, rain, heat, rain, heat, heat, rain.

In that order.

And who cares, sports and athletes right now are so mundane and irrelevant. What jobs do they create anyway that really helps the economy. Hot Dog vendors 6 months out of the year. Now we are going to use money for a stadium for a millionaire or is it billionaire. Really who is happy about this under our current situation. And who cares if they take their ball and bats and leave town, MLB does not bring any real value to community. This is not from a sour fan, but from a middle class tax paying resident who is tire of seen money being use for bad investments that really does not bring anything of value to our city while we cut our school budget and fire school teachers. Please someone answer What real permanet jobs ? What real permanent benefits ? do MLB or NBA or NFL team brings to our community. Please answer this and make me change my mind.

The reason attendance is so bad is because South Florida is home to the worst fans in all of sports!!!! The Marlins have won 2 World Series in the past 10 years, and they can't even get 20,000 people to show up to games on a consistent basis????? PATHETIC!!!!!

And how about the Dolphins??? Opening day at home against Brett Favre and the Jets and there were more then 15,000 empty seats???????

Just don't go crying when your teams leave for Boise, Idaho and they sell out every game there!

>>>South Florida......home to the most whiny, bandwagon fans in all of sports!

Large crowds usually are against the better teams so the not-so-good record may reflect that.

The tickets, the food, the drinks, and the parking are more expensive. I mean 7 dollars for a beer? And then to see this manager lose games with his wrong moves at the wrong times... who needs that? At home I can eat cheap, drink cheap, and change the channel when Freddy makes a bonehead decision like putting in Gregg to blow the save. (He changed the pitcher at the wrong time to blow enough leads to lose the pennant. Check the stats.

Excellent points and I was going to bring up the price of gas and the economy. I was just wondering beyond those issues, why people aren't attending. A full season ticket package is a huge time commitment and as you point out, you can't give the tickets away. But the Marlins have priced season tickets - even smaller packages: 15-game plans, vouchers - to make them more affordable than individual game tickets. What else could or should the team do to encourage more people to buy season tickets?

honestly, Sarah there is huge differences not being taken into account.

Gas prices- just really horrible, if I have to spend 5 gallons of gas (20 dollars) to go to a game, plus another 10 for parking, plus 30 for decent seats, all of the sudden it is adding up.

Lack of time- I have no idea why there are afternoon baseball games during the weekdays, a majority of people are working.

I plan to go to games, but it is a little more spontaneous, meet with friends week before and we decide what to do, I have done the season tickets up until 2005. It's extremely difficult to go to that many games, and sad to say, you can't give those tickets away, not too many people have interest.

I never see a reason to purchase Marlins season tickets. I can get tickets easily the day of the game whenever I want to go, and I can sit wherever I want. If I bought season tickets, surely there would be quite a few of the 81 games I either don't want to attend or flat out can't make.