Devil Rays Lose 6-1
Good seats for a boring game. We were sitting directly behind home plate about 20 rows. What helped the game pass was sitting next to a delightful 84 year old season ticket holder. She has held season tickets every year the Rays have been in existence. She goes to about 70 games a year, which is about 70 more than the rest of the Tampa Bay area. Of the 11,000+ in attendance, about half were rooting for Chicago. This gives credence to the notion that most Floridians aren't from Florida. In fact our season ticket holding neighbor, said it's like that for most games. People come to see the opponent and not the Rays. The Trop is your typical sterile dome environment. It has decent sight lines and a very nice video screen. It's too bad no one goes to see it.
The reason the game was boring is that the White Sox just hit the ball at will. Despite 11 strikeouts, they got on base and scored in the traditional station-to-station way. While it's good solid fundamentals, this game lacked excitement of any variety. That probably has something to do with the lackluster crowd. Rays' fans should be embarrassed. Your team won't get better until you get your butts in the seats. To help boost attendance the Rays are not collecting one dime for parking all season long. It doesn't appear that is incentive enough. Of course, that's less revenue to improve the team as well.
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Have you no personal pictures of the interior? Say there's a full house, would the game have been better and what about food?
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