When Justin Upton was called out on a take out slide of Kaz Matsui at second last night, the fans in Arizona didn't like the call. Like they have any room to talk. They are so behind their team that they protested the call (which was the right one) by throwing bottles and other garbage onto the field. All of them that showed up that is.
How in the world do you make it to the NLCS, bitch about your team not getting any love from the national media, and then fail to sell the last 891 tickets to the game? This is a team who also failed to sell tickets to the NLCS the last time they were there in 2001, despite their big names like Shilling and Johnson. They told us that they were growing a fan base and that they were still a new team, but it's 6 years on and they still can't sell out a LCS game. The only reason they sold out the World Series in '01 is because there were a ton of Yankee fans who retired to the desert and they snatched up the tickets. And it's not as if the fans are staying away out of apathy or diminished expectations like the Atlanta fans who wait for the World Series either. They just don't come.
The answer is clear: no regular season baseball in an area that is accustomed to Spring Training baseball. Florida and Arizona get their hard ball every March, and that should be all.
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