TAMPA is pathetic.....game tonight is FREE to ATTEND

[HenPrivilege]

Ha ha ha ha...Tb is pathetic, they battling for 1st place and no one shows up!
My sorry dodgers still have at least 35,000 people show up everynite...

That's what happens when the second largest city in the country lacks a football team

The Raiders should go back to Los Angeles.. Atleast they will be on TV locally because you know Angelenos will buy the tickets

The Raiders are blacked out every home game because they can't even fill the minimum requirement for that dump they call the (recently renovated) Coliseum

[jjgold]

Florida is a poor state, Fishhead get out of that fukkin hell hole and come to NJ

Tampa should just leave, people to poor down there to go to a fukking game

[lunchbawks]

Dude, you obviously know nothing about Tampa, Rays or Florida for that matter. Stop making stupid comments.

you're probably right haha sorry

[drfunkmaster]

Fishhead will spend money on a train ticket to travel across the country to get the free ticket. Once he is there, he will try to sweet talk the lady at the door into letting him into the VIP club for some free drinks. He will try this until he gets rejected, then he will go to the bathroom, change his shirt and put on a hat, and try it again. Once the game is over he will check into a nice motel no more than $20 per night. He will try to bargain for it and get it for $15. At night he will walk three miles to the nearest grocery store and by a value dinner. When he walks back he goes into the motel lobby and tells the manager that he just put in two dollars into the pop machine and it ate his bills. She refunds him the money. On his way back to the train station he brings with him a few things he finds in the motel that could be useful.

that was a interesting story.

[yisman]

Keith Law:

Tampa attendance

David Price caused a stir on Twitter on Monday night when he called attendance at the Rays' potential clincher that evening "embarrassing" -- and I can't imagine he was any more pleased with the slightly higher turnout on Tuesday when he pitched.

[hanco21]

Thats what the Padres should of done, maybe they could get more than 20,000 people at Petco park.

[Jimmy0607]

Its Florida who the fukk wants to be at a baseball game when you can be at the beach

[ryanjep]

Crazy that a pro team would have to do this

[smarmy]

the fan base may suck but I'm betting on them tonight anyway.

[Snowball]

Rays are the play tonight

[smarmy]

Alot of people are talking about Price's and Longoria's twitter remarks and I think that it speaks volumes that the night that they made those remarks, they were shut out by the Baltimore Orioles.

[james4512]

well on the brightside the rays had the best road record in the mlb because they were use to having no rays fans in the stands

[Smoke]

It's the stadium.. That tropicana field looks like a shithole.. Been there once when i was in Florida and it fukkin sucked. They need a new stadium build that motherfukker

[Smoke]

Florida is a poor state, Fishhead get out of that fukkin hell hole and come to NJ

Tampa should just leave, people to poor down there to go to a fukking game

New Jersey is a shithole too, sorry JJ

[THEGREAT30]

yeah the Atlanta Hawks of baseball

[milwaukee mike]

last time i went to a tampa baseball game was inaugaral season and we got bleacher seats for $3
awesome time, i'm shocked more people don't go to the games

here in milwaukee (a smaller and poorer market) we got almost 3 million fans for a losing team

[Kellen]

Atlanta should do this

[chimp]

give away 20,000 then get 1-hit by milwood? shame

[Slim]

Its Florida who the fukk wants to be at a baseball game when you can be at the beach

There you go. Watch guys playing with sticks and balls or watch beautiful girls wearing thong bikinis. Tough choice.

[Fishhead]

2-0 in the 9th.............this is disneyland stuff.


LOL

Probably 2,000 fans in attendance that have never been to a game...........and will be walking out saying, "PEOPLE PAY TO WATCH THIS?"

LOL

[thomas6512]

a bunch of rednecks down there
to cheap to spend 15 dollars
the stadium is'nt bad at all
ive been in there many times
rednecks

[Fishhead]

a bunch of rednecks down there
to cheap to spend 15 dollars
the stadium is'nt bad at all
ive been in there many times
rednecks

It actually does get to much bad attention............it isn't THAT BAD.

Hell, it's pretty cool in its own unique way.........I kinda like it and enjoy it there.

[Jimmy0607]

Baseball is pathetic

[Fishhead]

Baseball is pathetic

Jimmmmmmyyyy


LOL

[thomas6512]

It actually does get to much bad attention............it isn't THAT BAD.

Hell, it's pretty cool in its own unique way.........I kinda like it and enjoy it there.

the party deck is really cool
free parking
you can buy a ticket for 12 dollars
the temp is always 72
its not the stadium or the team its the people down there

[Jimmy0607]

FH can you imagine the ppl that actually paid for a ticket I would be fuming

[Fishhead]

FH can you imagine the ppl that actually paid for a ticket I would be fuming

[yisman]

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=caple/100929_SF_giants&sportCat=mlb

Meanwhile, this week's award goes to Tampa Bay fans for producing this line Monday night when the Rays could have clinched the second postseason berth in club history:
A-12,446.
That crowd prompted third baseman Evan Longoria to say, "We've been playing great baseball all year. Since I've been here in (2006), the fans have wanted a good baseball team. They've wanted to watch a contender. And for us to play good baseball for three years now, and for us to be in a spot to clinch again and go to the playoffs, we're all confused as to why it's only 15,000 to 20,000 in the building." Cy Young candidate David Price commented on the crowd in a tweet: "Had a chance to clinch a post season spot tonight with about 10,000 fans in the stands ... embarrassing.''
Now, it's risky for millionaire players to complain when fans don't spend money in a down economy to watch them play a game. It's just as dangerous for sports writers who sit in the press box eating hot dogs for free to criticize those fans. But why aren't the Rays drawing better? Florida has been hit hard by the recession but so has Detroit, and the Tigers packed their stadium with just under 40,000 fans per game last year.
Is it the stadium? The economy? The location and traffic? A lack of enthusiasm for the team and baseball in the area? Some of the above? All of the above? The fans in Tampa must have their reasons -- all I know is it can't be because the team isn't good enough. If it is the economy, that shouldn't be a problem for Wednesday night's game -- the Rays are giving away 20,000 seats.

[MarlinsFan2212]

Rays blow. Yankees will win title.

[bigsmitty]

Haha, Jesus GoatMilk...I don't understand the lack of fanbase in TB, is it just like hockey in Nashville or Florida? I guess you can have the best team in the world but if people don't value it then there you go. Good luck in the playoffs!

[gafl]

It is embarrassing when TB has to give away tickets to get fans to watch a playoff team. Might be the economy, but football still draws. Florida has always been more of a football state.

[daneblazer]

FWIW, UCF is giving away 10,000 or so free tickets for next Wednesday's game.

[gafl]

Looks like UCF is trying to set a national student attendence record by giving all students and faculty free tickets. Guess not only baseball is hurting.

[OldSchool75]

Free tickets for a team in first place with a few games to go.....unreal

[Gtawatson]

no one wants to go to a game in Tampa. look at who lives in that area of the country. its either old people who retired living in New York and moved to FLA or young people with no money. not typical baseball fans. and it doesnt help that the stadium blows