Okay okay, the wild card hopes are gone...I accepted that earlier last week. Bandwagon though? It's called building a fan base and is extremely hard to do when asshole Yankee and Redsox fan's move down to Tampa and bring their team with them. I'm sure Marlin fan can relate.
I will tell you one thing though...the Rays aren't going anywhere...they'll be in the mix again next year and years to come, and even IF they aren't, at least I'll still be at the games.
I didn't mean any offense. I had just finished listening to Bill Simmons' podcast on ESPN, and he and his guest were discussing how Rays fans had suddenly disappeared in the wake of their team's struggles. I just ported it over to here. I think it's gonna be hard for any new MLB team (or any new team in any professional league) to build a fan base. Most sports are so old now that, if your team hasn't been around for a while, then it's gonna be quite a while til you get a solid class of fans of your own. To make matters worse, the Yanks and Sox have a built in fan base everywhere... because they win. So, the Rays'll get there. Just not yet.
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