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Saturday, May 31, 2008
The third of four games between division leaders drew a sellout crowd of 36,048, up from 12,636 and 14,679 the previous two nights. It was the third full-house of the season, and mostly could be attributed to a post-game concert featuring country music star Trace Adkins.
“I never saw as many people out here,” said White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen, who played one season with the Rays in 2000. “It’s real nice to see the fans. They should have cowboy night every night.”
JH (in DC)
Posted: May 31, 2008 at 11:15 PM | 23 comment(s)
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EDIT: Tampa Tribune - Even When On Top, It's Lonely At The Trop
Of course, the Marlins are in first, too, and they're not burning up the turnstiles themselves.
Soon, with the balkanization of genres and the disappearance of traditional distribution methods, that's going to be a relic of a past time like the 8-track. :P
Isn't this even more surprising? I strongly suspect I'd rather see a concert with the Commodores than Trace Adkins (I can only imagine, since I wouldn't be able to pick out a Trace Adkins song from any of the other cowboy-hat-wearing, moustachioed-country music set), but at least he's a current act. The Commodores haven't recorded anything new for 20 years, and I'd have thought they'd be on the state or county fair circuit by now.
And I love Ozzie's "They should have cowboy night every night" quote.
It is Florida.
I'd be more drawn to the Commodores than Grace Atkins. But I've heard of the Commodores.
Of all people it was Kay's partner on YES I think last night who realized that the stadium was in a bad place, and the team has never won, so it will take a little bit, eh?
Cohen especially got on his high horse about the lack of attendance. I can't believe how much I can't stand him anymore. Maybe he could get promoted to FOX or something?
Long term I'm not worried about it at all. They were terrible for 10 years and for most of those years had an owner that didn't care about winning or marketing the team and just sat around being an ass and blaming the fans for not coming to see a bad team. It's the double whammy of bad product and actively doing things that erode any goodwill from the potential fanbase. Takes more than 2 months to erase that, especially for a team that has no previous winning tradition to draw people back from. Plus it's often the next season that attendance really spikes for bad teams that suddenly become good.
They have an upcoming show at a casino here, which is the 21st Century equivalent of the state fair circuit.
Reality (& I post this as someone who'll give up my Porter Wagoner albums when they pry them out of my cold, dead hands)?
Carlos is doing well.
I'd stick around for the Commodores' ode to Jack Brickhouse.
I really like Robert Earl Keen. A lot.
And luckily for him and the record label. Country music fans are still getting into the new fangled and shiny techno gizmo: compact disc players.
Probably cause it's easy.
I do like country music.
You mean BJ Upton or Trace Adkins?
I've heard it a few times, particularly when talking about politics: Northern Florida is the Deep South, Tampa is the midwest, and Miami is the sixth borough of New York City.
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