Unmotivated by baseball: the South Florida edition
May 27, 2008 at 12:00 pm by Wayne GarciaSubstitute the word “Rays” for the word “Marlins” in this Michael Mayo column and you get the exact same baseball apathy that exists here in Tampa Bay. So I wonder, is Florida just not a baseball state? Despite spring training locations dotting the peninsula? Do we have too many leisure choices and not enough time or money for the grand old game?
Mayo writes that despite the Marlins leading their division:
… I still haven’t gone to a game yet.
If I didn’t have a 2-year-old daughter, it might be different. But as of now, taking the family out to a ballgame just doesn’t make logistical or economic sense. My girl wouldn’t last more than 3 innings in a stadium environment, so baseball isn’t on our activity radar.
I suppose I could to a game on a boys’ night out, but I’d rather just stay home and watch it on the tube. I don’t know what they’re getting for parking now, and $10 beers just don’t appeal to me.
What about you? Have you been to any Marlins games this season? Has your thinking changed since March? Will you eventually succumb to a team’s lure if they’re successful enough? Or is there no amount of winning that makes you want to endure the hassles and expense of a big-league ballgame?
