And it was only two years ago that the Rays clinched a playoff spot against Minnesota and the Trop was busting at the seams.
By the time a family of four buys game tickets, pays for parking and kicks in for some concession stand delicacies, they could buy a beachfront condo in Naples. Many would prefer staying home and watching the game in high definition.Wholesale NFL hats It has become a hard sell.
The area is not immune from the current financial problems affecting everyone. Unemployment and the sagging economy heavily factor in.
The Rays are also at a disadvantage because they have to play in the Trop, which has a capacity to seat 45,000 fans.Cheap NBA hats It's a dump of a stadium that carries no appeal, no bells or whistles. Getting there is a hike few want to make.
It's not confined to baseball. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers played the Steelers last Sunday, and Raymond James Stadium was awash with fans from the Steel City.
Hundreds of thousands of Tampa Bay-St. Petersburg residents grew up in another part of the country. Most of them still hold cradle-to-grave allegiance to those teams Wholesale NBA hats where they grew up. People from New York are Yankees or Mets fans. People from Cincinnati are Reds fans. People from Chicago are either Cubs or White Sox fans, depending on which side of Chicago they lived.
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