Let me introduce you to a baseball team. Endearing as possible. With a fraction of the financial means of its competitors, this team almost always manages to climb among the leaders. This season, she has the best record in the American League.
In major league baseball, she compiled the third best record tied with another… out of 30 teams. Ah yes, this group of players is a major baseball finalist, having lost to the team with, by far, the biggest payroll of any major baseball team … and baseball on the planet as a whole, so much. than to be there.
Not too far from where this charismatic roster plays their home games, their professional hockey team has won the Stanley Cup twice in less than a year. The local football team has attracted the biggest star of the present millennium and perhaps even of all time. She also won the championship of her circuit. The Vince Lombardi Trophy.
Wow, Daniel! It must be quite a party in this city of sports champions. With the baseball team having a legitimate chance of being the third to win a championship in the same region in less than a year, the vibe going into the playoffs must be crazy. Much like New England, when the Bruins, Celtics and Patriots were all in the playoffs on their respective circuits.
Yeah… not completely no. You see me coming with my big hooves, don’t you?
The Rays, my friend. The Rays.
Misery in Tampa
Under the circumstances just listed, Tampa Bay broke a crowd mediocrity record at Tropicana Field yesterday with 4,795 spectators. This sad mark of course excludes matches where we had to play behind closed doors due to health restrictions.
Tonight’s crowd of 4,795 is now the smallest ever for a #Rays game at Trop without COVID-related restrictions on capacity (as earlier this season). Smallest was 5,460 on Monday.
– Marc Topkin (@TBTimes_Rays) August 18, 2021
Because yes, no sanitary measure in Florida restricts the number of spectators admitted to a game.
“Yeah, but even then maybe people are scared of going to the stadium anyway?” “
First, finding a safe place in a stadium that can accommodate 42,735 people and manages to attract 5,000 is, say, quite a task.
We will take them
Well, that’s what time we can bring out the classic: “Bring this here. We’ll take them from us. “
Yes yes, we too have already attracted 5,000 people for an Expos game in the big building with yellow and blue bleachers. Except that Valentino Pascucci hit third, Mike Mordecai, fourth and Masato Yoshi had the start.
When the Expos made us believe in championship races, there were lots of people ordering a sundae in the plastic mini batting helmet.
There were 35,000 of us who wanted to drop the skate in the pool by hitting the target with our throw.
Ah yes and I forgot to tell you. The record for mediocrity broken by the Rays on Tuesday was… 24 hours old. 5,460 spectators, Monday.
We are not giving up and we are taking it one step further this evening!
