Fixed

 

Angels with another walk off win and another bite into the Rangers lead.

I may have to buy my playoff tickets after all.

 

Now here is a man to admire.

Jered Weaver bucks Scott Boras advice with new Los Angeles Angels deal - ESPN Los Angeles

 

You're welcome.

 

Sox spank the Rangers again.

 

Thanks to the Red Sox the Angels are now only 2.5 games back!!

 

I am as giddy as a schoolgirl!!

Chicago White Sox vs. Los Angeles Angels - Recap - August 24, 2011 - ESPN

 

347 people show up for a marlins game...

Hurricane Irene, or poor baseball? Fan counts people in stands at Florida Marlins game, gets 347


If a baseball game happens in South Florida, and no one is there to see it, does it still count in the standings?

Marlins fan Justin Cohen noticed a few empty seats at Sun Life Stadium -not exactly a rarity - on a sunny Wednesday afternoon for Game 1 of a doubleheader with the Cincinnati Reds.

He decided he would count the number of fans in attendance.

By hand.

He then posted his unofficial findings on Twitter (@790Justin): 347 die-hards in the building.

Just in case you were wondering, Sun Life holds 38,560 fans for baseball.

For football (it is also the home of the Miami Dolphins) or soccer the capacity is bulked up to 75,540.

That's a whole lot of empty orange seats, as you can see in the photos.

Cohen's tweet also stated that this may not have been the smallest crowd in the history of the Fish.

He wrote: "Unofficial count of 347 at sunlife for first pitch... myself included! Counted by hand. Still not the smallest crowd I've seen here"

"The Marlins are my team. I didn't mean it negatively, just observing," Cohen, a 24-year-old who attended Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, told the Daily News. "I've been to Fenway Park, Yankee Stadium. I was at Shea that first year the Marlins knocked the Mets out of the playoffs (2007). Those places, obviously have large attendance figures. But I like it (at Marlins games). It is literally our team, those of us that show up."

Hey! There's a person! No! Two people at the Marlins-Reds game! (Hans Deryk/AP)

While some blame the storm looming on the horizon - Hurricane Irene is preparing to slam the East Coast very shortly - or, as Cohen notes, school is back in session in Florida, it would be foolish to ignore the Marlins' awful 58-72 record.

Florida has the third-worst mark in the National League and is last in the NL East, even behind the struggling Mets.

After the second game of the double-dip, the official attendance number was 22,505, but don't try convincing one of the few actually at the game in person.

Cohen later tweeted the attendance was "only for game 1. Remember it was a rescheduled game on a workday with a hurricane coming...but still."

The Marlins average an MLB-low 18,241 paid fans per game.

That may change next season, when the Marlins are slated to open a brand new stadium with a retractable roof.

"As much as I would like to see a full ballpark every night, it's a unique experience here. You get to know people, get to know the ushers," Cohen said. "I worked in the Independent League, so I'm familiar with small crowds - 300 is a little extreme for the Major Leagues, of course - but with the new stadium, some of that atmosphere is going to go away."



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Tomorrow the Angels begin the most important 3-game series in two years.

 

^^ must suck not to be in first place huh?