Marlins Stadium Update to Air Tonight on HBO's 'Real Sports'

[Beef]

To be fair, they first made the jump from indifferent to angry.

[Erick]

I was never really angry.

[Namaste]

To be fair, they first made the jump from indifferent to angry.

You mean the Namaste's, Party's, MK7's, CC's, MIBS's, MiamiHomers etc?

Them peoples?

[Beef]

I mean the people it sounds like they were referring to on the radio.

[Namaste]

There's no denying that there has been a ton of indifference in South Florida over the years as far as attending the games but that indifference has now spread to television ratings.

[Mainge]

TV ratings have always been bad with the exception of one year.

I'm sure they're even worse this year, but yeah.

[Namaste]

TV ratings have always been bad with the exception of one year.

I feel like this is not a correct statement.


I will ask Party to confirm this.


If I am wrong I will receive 20 lashes.

[Mainge]

Okay.

[HUGG]

20 lashes seems a little extreme

[Mainge]

2012:



2011:



2010:




I believe 2009 was the good year.

[HUGG]

2009 woulda been around 53,000 then right? If 46,912 represents as 12.6% drop.

[Party]

That's impressive considering the market.

Miami is never going to be this great baseball or sports market. There is a lot to do in town, a lot of people are not from here, yada yada yada. It will always be at best an average market both in TV ratings and attendance. It is not truely a market of 5.5 million people. It has three distinct centers spread out evenly over a strip of land 15 x 100 miles.

[Todd]

I always assumed MLB hoped the Miami and West Palm markets would kind of merge and form one big media market behind the Marlins, because the two combined would be what...the 5th or 6th biggest in baseball?

[Swifty]

I always assumed MLB hoped the Miami and West Palm markets would kind of merge and form one big media market behind the Marlins, because the two combined would be what...the 5th or 6th biggest in baseball?

At Sun Life, a significant portion of the season seats were from Palm Beach County. It's a reason that when Henry set about proposing a site for a new park, he targeted Delray Beach as a viable option.

I think the hope was that Miami businesses would pick up the slack from the individuals lost as the team moved away from Broward / Palm Beach but now that seems a little too ambitious.

[Party]

Palm Beach only made up 10% of the season ticket base in JRS.
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Henry had sites all over the map and the market research determined Miami would be the most viable location. How can you make a determination that things were too ambitious when we had one season to look at?

In the short and long term, moving to Miami proper will be the best decision this franchise made. Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach will always be Miami's little brothers in economic clout.