All eight Florida Marlins fans You see, if you host 3-hour baseball games in unimaginable humidity and heat in the middle of a weekday when your not a marquee franchise with an awesome fanbase, you're going to have poorly attended games sometimes. It happens . Not just to the Rangers . And the Marlins have won three World Series and the Braves always draw well.

As you probably well know by now, the Marlins and Braves squared off yesterday under the scorching hot Florida sun in front of hundreds of fans. Yes, that's incredibly pathetic. But just how pathetic was it? Marlins reliever Joe Nelson guessed there were 418 fans in attendance during the game. He was only slightly off. There were 600 . And it was so hot that Bobby Cox got himself ...

It’s not like we should really expect people to show up for a Braves-Marlins day game in the 95-degree heat index of Miami in September, what with both teams out of the playoff hunt and all. But this is just ridiculously pathetic : Hanley Ramirez homered and doubled to lead the Marlins past the Atlanta Braves 5-3 Wednesday in front of an incredibly sparse crowd of just 600 fans at the ...

Florida residents must abhor professional baseball, which would explain why there are currently two franchises in the state. And apparently, it has nothing to do with winning; the Tampa Bay Rays lead the AL East, and the Florida Marlins are two games over .500 and eight games back in the NL East. Yet nobody cares , and that’s not an exaggeration: 600 people showed up to Dolphins ...