Fun time
Boy, it just got interesting!!!!
If you love baseball, you have to love this!
As to Ray's attendance: IMHO Don't know that it's a fixable issue.
1) As with Marlins, much of the population is from elsewhere, coming with their team preferences set. I go to Yankee games at Trop when I am there (Sox and Angles-good bb teams - sometimes when I was in Sarasota) but not other games
2) Previous ownership turned off fan base with ill advised moves on field and off - like charging high school bands there for Star Spanbled banner - for seats if they wanted to stay an watch game. Hard to overcome that negative publicity!
3) The Stadium itself and it's location are problems that will never be overcome.
4) Marketing is NON-existant. I spent 9 winter / spring seasons in Sarasota and would never have known they existed.
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