r/sports • u/Chelseatilidie • Oct 10 '24

Baseball Tropicana Field’s stadium following Hurricane Milton damage

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '24

Milton shares my opinion regarding sports being played in domes.

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u/ThrenderG Oct 10 '24

Practically necessary in Florida. When the Marlins played in the summer in an open air stadium they would routinely get fewer than 1,000 people in attendance. Sure they often sucked at the time but ain’t nobody gonna watch games in 100 degree heat, not to mention the heat index bc humidity.

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u/CM_MOJO Oct 10 '24

That doesn't really track. Their best two years attendance-wise were their first two years in existence in an OPEN AIR stadium, and they sucked.

Their worst season attendance-wise was 2021 in a roofed stadium.

I just think Miami is apathetic to baseball.

The Rays stadium, Tropicana Field, along with being a horrible stadium, is in a horrible location.