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re: Are there any Florida baseball fans?
Posted on 5/8/14 at 10:00 pm to Cheese Grits
Posted on 5/8/14 at 10:00 pm to Cheese Grits
Why are they playing so late?
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Posted on 5/8/14 at 10:00 pm to Broham
Maybe you should move to Florida. Plenty of cheap seats at the Mac. Better yet nah, you have a bad attitude.
Posted on 5/8/14 at 10:02 pm to CNB
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Why are they playing so late?
ESPN carried all 4 of the SEC softball games first as they are in the tourney. Gators and Dores started after the last game (like 8:30) EST
Posted on 5/8/14 at 10:18 pm to Cheese Grits
Only 5 total hits between both teams (2 for VU and 3 for UF) and the Gators still clinging to 1-0 in 8th.
Posted on 5/8/14 at 10:21 pm to Broham
Yeah, we know
Posted on 5/8/14 at 10:45 pm to Broham
Go look at your basketball numbers first
Posted on 5/8/14 at 10:49 pm to GatorsGators
The fans are there, but not going to get on people for deciding not to go to a game that started at 8:30 on a Thursday night. Also school is out for summer and when students aren't in Gainesville the population takes a serious hit.
This post was edited on 5/8/14 at 11:03 pm
Posted on 5/8/14 at 10:54 pm to bgator85
What 85 said. Attendance was 2800 or so.
Posted on 5/8/14 at 10:57 pm to Broham
School is out... and summer has begun...
Posted on 5/8/14 at 10:57 pm to Broham
We don't have any fans, but our team swept LSU's garbage arse team this year 
Posted on 5/8/14 at 11:13 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
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We don't have any fans, but our team swept LSU's garbage arse team this year.
This. Guess fans in the stands don't equal wins on the field.
Actually first 500 got "Late night at the Mac" t-shirts. Got mine.
Gators scored 1 run bottom of the first and with our pitching it was enough to seal the deal. New school record 12 SEC wins in a row. Now home watching MLB - Zunino throws runner out at 2B.
Posted on 5/8/14 at 11:58 pm to Gatorgal04
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12 SEC wins in a row
Pretty incredible
Posted on 5/9/14 at 12:03 am to Broham
A college baseball game starting at 8:30 pm on a Thursday night. Sorry everyone cant be unemployed drunken swamp rats.
Posted on 5/9/14 at 12:22 am to Broham
Would LSU sell out if the Lady Tigers were the top Women's hoops team in the conference? If not why is Florida struggling to sell out in an even more niche sport a big deal?
Posted on 5/9/14 at 11:25 am to socraticsilence
Gators should have drawn well but it was a thursday night and the kids were probably out drinking. Earlier game might have helped but Gators AD should have put in something to draw a big crowd with the nature of the game. Vandy is a top team, it was not like the bottom of the SEC was in town for a series.
Posted on 5/9/14 at 11:34 am to Cheese Grits
Pay attention. The kids are gone. Graduation was last weekend.
Posted on 5/9/14 at 11:37 am to Cheese Grits
You mean like a free t-shirt giveaway?
Posted on 5/9/14 at 1:20 pm to Gatorgal04
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Pay attention. The kids are gone. Graduation was last weekend.
I get that part, what I was referring to was who fills in when the kids are gone. Then you market to "family night" type things. Having a game at 8:30 on a thursday night kills any hope of tapping that market. If you tap that market you do 5 or 6 pm and free hot dogs and popcorn for the kids attending that game.
Posted on 5/9/14 at 1:27 pm to Cheese Grits
Gainesville is a college town-it's students and professors and their families that make up the city. It isn't like Lexington, Knoxville, Baton Rouge or Nashville. Tuscaloosa's crowd vs. the Gators was sparse last week because it was during Bama's graduation.
It's close enough for people from Jax and Orlando to travel (like during basketball season), but on a Thursday night?
It's close enough for people from Jax and Orlando to travel (like during basketball season), but on a Thursday night?
Posted on 5/9/14 at 2:10 pm to cornhat
We didn't have a choice on the start time. ESPN moved the originally scheduled 7:30 time, supposedly due to the SEC softball tourney coverage. Trust me, I'm barely hanging on this afternoon, and getting grumpier by the minute.
Tonight we start at 7:00. I hope we have lots of strike outs so an usher will throw a t-shirt at me and wake me up.
Tonight we start at 7:00. I hope we have lots of strike outs so an usher will throw a t-shirt at me and wake me up.
This post was edited on 5/9/14 at 2:14 pm
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