I am a full season ticket holder, and chose to get my seats in left field because the cowbell kid sits in right.

If I wanted to scream in someone’s face, I’d go to a football game.

Keep winning.

Winning solves everything when it comes to getting home fans out. Remember, how Buc games would be Packer home games? Remember that? Or when Philadelphia fans would show up in numbers? Now all you see is a sea of Red.

If you look at a families lineage, you will find that only a few families have been here in the Tampa Bay area longer then two or three generations. The main population boom has just been over the last few decades (thanks to the invention of central air.)

I know of three Red Sox fans who have season tickets to the Trop, same can be said with my friends who are Yankees fans.

People like being associated with winners, with exception to Cubs fans.Ask yourself: how many Bucs or Lightning fans do you know that root for another baseball team? I know a few fans who will go full throttle on Bucs knowledge but will want to talk about the Yankees or Red Sox.

I used to talk a lot garbage. Mainly I bust balls when a Yankee fan says he is a die hard fan but doesn’t know who played shortstop before Jeter. Same with Red Sox fans can’t name anybody on the 1975 team besides Carlton Fisk. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Let’s root for the boys in blue to keep on winning and I guarantee you the fans will show.

Bottom line: The fans WILL come. Winning will solve everything.

the last yankee series they stopped coming out. Obviously there are enough “baseball” fans in the area to sellout the trop every night. it was basically a sellout tues-thurs. They are just fans of another team. When the “Pit” is packed and loud like last night, its electric. All those cubs fans should put on a rays jersey tonight and come back out, root for the home team.

Normally I will not heckle opposing teams fans if they are few and far between, but the trash talking is in full swing when a big-market team visits the Trop. It is damn unacceptable to be the minority in your own stadium (case and point last night). I booed so loud my head almost exploded numerous times because there was so much cheering going on in my section when the Cubs did something good. As long as its cleanly executed, I’m totally with making the Trop an uncomfortable a place as possible for Yanks, Sox, Cubs, etc fans. They’ve had free reign for far too long!!! Convert or fall forever!!!

where the home team fans arent subjected to trash talking by the visitors. It has really started to become embarrasing for our team. The players have to be thinking: “We are one of the most competive teams in baseball and every double from the visitors gets a standing ovation.” i dont know if these northerner will ever stop cheering for their beloved yankees and red sox. they hate the south and our teams, but they love living here.

But i agree, i have seen the Gators play away games in most of those stadiums. you know you have to take it, but that makes the wins that much sweeter. we need to dish it out here as well.

The number of very young kids who were dressed in Cubs gear like their parents were too many to count.

An outside opinion, not that anyone asked. The last thing that would make me convert would be someone yelling, shouting, and waving a broom in my face.

Loyalty is tough to come by anymore, in any facet of life. I think team loyalty begins at a young age. There is no doubt that as kids are born and raised with trips to the Trop, Rays fans will soon begin putting down roots and reaping the seeds you have sown. It ain’t gonna happen overnight, but the winning ways of the Rays right now is a good way to attract young and impressionable fans who want to be a part of something special.

Give me a heads up when you’re the Trop so you can avoid my broom next time.

I’m doing my best to steer him in the right direction.

and call out wife beaters and evolution-deniers.