tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5877884879189850105.post8787814680167371576..comments2023-09-08T04:43:40.687-07:00Comments on MLB Roadtrip 2007: Game #10: Beyond ThunderdomeGranthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17727806895221745877noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5877884879189850105.post-32463003633865335742007-08-07T11:02:00.000-07:002007-08-07T11:02:00.000-07:00Perhaps people in Florida are so busy enjoying the...Perhaps people in Florida are so busy enjoying the nice weather they do not have time for sports?<BR/><BR/>The bad extrapolation in attracting sport teams to Florida might also apply to ice hockey...<BR/><BR/>We were at a Panthers game in South Florida last December that was sold out. I was ready to believe it was the norm until we were reminded that the visiting team was the Montreal Canadiens and 50 percent of the fans in the arena were snowbirds from Quebec. (This was easily verified by the licence plates in the free parking lot.) Normal crowds are apparently similar to the Thunderdome for baseball i.e. much more sparse.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5877884879189850105.post-21022848295889412782007-08-07T05:02:00.000-07:002007-08-07T05:02:00.000-07:00I wonder how much of the excitement for getting te...I wonder how much of the excitement for getting teams in Florida (or Arizona, for that matter) consisted of bad extrapolation from spring training crowds. Famous last words: "Look, we got 2000 people to show up to a municipal field and watch pre-season ball! Think how many people we could get with a real stadium..." Thoughts?Ianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12078272643875377562noreply@blogger.com