Hurricane Irene, or poor baseball? Fan counts people in stands at Florida Marlins game, gets 347 -
If a baseball game happens in South Florida, and no one is there to see it, does it still count in the standings?
Marlins fan Justin Cohen noticed a few empty seats at Sun Life Stadium -not exactly a rarity - on a sunny Wednesday afternoon for Game 1 of a doubleheader with the Cincinnati Reds.
He decided he would count the number of fans in attendance.
By hand.
He then posted his unofficial findings on Twitter (@790Justin): 347 die-hards in the building.
Just in case you were wondering, Sun Life holds 38,560 fans for baseball.
For football (it is also the home of the Miami Dolphins) or soccer the capacity is bulked up to 75,540.
That's a whole lot of empty orange seats, as you can see in the photos.
Cohen's tweet also stated that this may not have been the smallest crowd in the history of the Fish.
He wrote: "Unofficial count of 347 at sunlife for first pitch... myself included! Counted by hand. Still not the smallest crowd I've seen here"
"The Marlins are my team. I didn't mean it negatively, just observing," Cohen, a 24-year-old who attended Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, told the Daily News. "I've been to Fenway Park, Yankee Stadium. I was at Shea that first year the Marlins knocked the Mets out of the playoffs (2007). Those places, obviously have large attendance figures. But I like it (at Marlins games). It is literally our team, those of us that show up."
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/2011/08/24/2011-08-24_hurricane_irene_or_poor_baseball_fan_counts_people_in_stands_at_florida_marlins_.html
If a baseball game happens in South Florida, and no one is there to see it, does it still count in the standings?
Marlins fan Justin Cohen noticed a few empty seats at Sun Life Stadium -not exactly a rarity - on a sunny Wednesday afternoon for Game 1 of a doubleheader with the Cincinnati Reds.
He decided he would count the number of fans in attendance.
By hand.
He then posted his unofficial findings on Twitter (@790Justin): 347 die-hards in the building.
Just in case you were wondering, Sun Life holds 38,560 fans for baseball.
For football (it is also the home of the Miami Dolphins) or soccer the capacity is bulked up to 75,540.
That's a whole lot of empty orange seats, as you can see in the photos.
Cohen's tweet also stated that this may not have been the smallest crowd in the history of the Fish.
He wrote: "Unofficial count of 347 at sunlife for first pitch... myself included! Counted by hand. Still not the smallest crowd I've seen here"
"The Marlins are my team. I didn't mean it negatively, just observing," Cohen, a 24-year-old who attended Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, told the Daily News. "I've been to Fenway Park, Yankee Stadium. I was at Shea that first year the Marlins knocked the Mets out of the playoffs (2007). Those places, obviously have large attendance figures. But I like it (at Marlins games). It is literally our team, those of us that show up."
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/2011/08/24/2011-08-24_hurricane_irene_or_poor_baseball_fan_counts_people_in_stands_at_florida_marlins_.html
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