But I'm not too optimistic and won't be attending any games until deep into the season, if then. I'm kind of curious as to what the stadium looks like and how many shootings will occur when trying everyone tries to exit the parking garages after the game, but I'm thinking all that can be satisfied in one trip. Plus, the drive from Broward into the bowels of Little Havana isn't exactly the most scenic.
How about you? Are you planning on attending any games this year?
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I went to the exhibition game with FIU and got prepaid parking and have tickets for a Met game in May with prepaid parking. If I go more, I'm pretty sure I will get prepaid parking.
Before, the determining factors for me were weather, crappy stadium, and distance. Now I suspect they will be overall cost, parking, and distance. The stadium is nice. I wish it were closer. I usually go alone, so I'll have to see how safe it seems to me.
Basically no. I can't bring myself to support an organization that so blatantly screwed a populace over as much as this one. I thought we got hosed when AAArena went up and they made it not-so-easy to get to the park that was supposed to be on the waterfront. This fiasco is many times worse. Hosing taxpayers to pay for the stadium, hosing residents out of parking on their own streets for 80+ nights a year, hosing ticketholders that don't have parking with almost zero public transportation options. There's no way I'd contribute to this cluster. Unless there's a U2 concert at the stadium, then I'll go.
When the Orange Bowl was there, we had no garages and we still managed to accommodate 85,000 fans. They are making this parking thing the only issue they can throw at the Marlins. The neighbors will welcome the extra cash they had gotten used to renting out their yards.
Fight my way in or out of downtown with a mess of cars trying to cram in or bust out at the same time? No way.
Ditto what LAX2MIA stated.
I will not attend any events there.
Season tickets for me! Love that the stadium is actually in Miami proper. Sure the first couple games will be a clusterf*ck for traffic, parking, etc. If you go early, like I will be, it shouldn't be an issue. Gone are the days when you can hop off the Turnpike and park within 50 yards of the home plate gate at Joe Robbie Stadium.
Only if the Marlins played the Detroit Tigers.
There will be plenty of parking for a majority of the games if attendance is anything like last year. With 6000 spaces, the low number of fans would be able to bring 2 cars!
I love the optimism! I also think that with that reasoning perhaps they could have gotten away with a 10,000 seat stadium, too.
I miss Miami!
Since you don't live in Miami, perhaps you have missed the news. We taxpayers are on the hook for millions of dollars for a stadium we actually voted against. The majority of us are not baseball fans, and the owner has called us all a bunch of morons for allowing this stadium to go through. On top of that, there is no parking and they expect the residents in the area to park elsewhere for the games. After all that, I have lost my optimism.
If you think we should be optimistic about this whole fiasco, then by all means, come back and help pay for the stadium. When I said that there should be plenty of parking if the fan base is the same as last year, I was, in fact, making the only optimistic positive statement that I could come up with!
Oh, I thought I was being optimistic! I was saying that there will be lots of parking for the fans. People are complaining that there will be no parking, but they've forgotten that the Marlins don't have a large fan base. This is evidenced by the low turnouts at the games over the past few years.
You should come back to Miami. The taxpayers need your money to help pay for this stadium while the owner is laughing at us all the way to the bank!
I'm a long time Marlin fan who used to catch 20+ games a year live. This year? One, to say I saw the stadium. ONE.
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