Hundreds see Marlins pull out win
By CARLOS FRÍAS
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 13, 2007
MIAMI GARDENS — It would have been a great crowd for a spring training game. Played on a back field. In the rain.
But not for a major-league baseball game on a sunny Wednesday.
Rows of empty seats greet the Marlins and Nationals on Wednesday. It was so quiet that one player's profanity could be heard clearly by the television audience, prompting the announcers to apologize.
Forget the announced attendance of 10,121 for the Marlins-Nationals game at Dolphin Stadium. When Byung-Hyun Kim threw the first pitch, 375 spectators could be seen. That is what happens when two of the worst teams in baseball meet for a 1:05 p.m. game on a 91-degree September afternoon.
"It's a little sad when you can pretty much count how many people are in the stands," Marlins first baseman Mike Jacobs said.
The Marlins, who prevailed 5-4 in 12 innings, moved the game from the usual 7:05 p.m. slot in deference to the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, which began at sunset.
Palm Beach PostAnd the Marlins marketing department pulls off another masterpiece.
Oh, and this Carlos Frias that wrote the article - never heard of him before. The PBP regular Marlins guy, Joe Capozzi, must not have bothered attending, either - even though
it's his job.The same thing happened with the Sun-Sentinel. Their
article on the game was also written by a new guy, Craig Barnes. Apparently neither Mike Berardino nor Juan Rodriguez attended.
And to complete the tri-fecta, Mike Phillips, who covers high school games and writes the little blurbs about the other MLB games, did the article for the Miami Herald. Tuesday's game was his first time covering the Marlins, so he's was veteran writer covering the game. Of course, to offset the fact that it's not the first piece he's ever written, the link to his article is dead so you can only read the tag-line.
