Pleading for Interest

The Herald's Greg Cote today practically begs the typical South Florida fan to actually attend the games.

He says this after witnessing Tuesday's miniscule crowd, even though the Fish had just lost two straight, and with his own paper pegging Olsen as a perennial loser against the Braves, and with the two other papers in town spewing stats that delegitimize the Marlins' early first-place run, and of course with the overriding influence of the Cabrera-Willis trade that knocked the wind out of any promotional sails during the off-season and that commentators everywhere called the death-knell for fan interest in South Florida.

Of course Mr. Cote's motives are good and the team as it is now is very much deserving of our support. But I think we should give the fans just a little slack for at least last night's game, and maybe for a while more. It'll take a while for new habits to establish themselves. (Besides it was free on cable.)

(Note: post edited to make more sense to myself.)