Maybe I was delusional at the time, but I actually expected to see more Rays fans than Sox fans Saturday night.

I noticed on TV that Thursday's game had a lot of empty seats in the lower bowl.  The attendance was reported to be 20,341.  Friday, was a little better with 27,045.  Saturday night was dissapointing.  The attendance was reported at 34,910, but it was very apparent early on that more people were there to support the Red Sox.  I know that the local fans of opposing teams always seem to come out in droves for the first series their team is in town, and then as the season moves along you tend to see them less and less during the next two series they play here.  Maybe the Sox fans jumped on these Saturday tickets sooner than the Rays fans did.  Maybe a lot of Rays bandwagon fans have jumped off already after only being 1/6 of the way into the season.  From the time I stepped out of my car and saw some yahoo who was sporting a Sox shirt under his open Rays jersey to the time I sat down in my seat in the upper infield and observed way more red shirts than I cared to see to watching Jeff Neimann giving Sox fans to act like, well, Sox fans, it was a disappointing night.  Thanks Evan, Carlos, Pat, and bullpen arms for trying to keep the game close.  Nice catch, BJ.

So, you have my Saturday night report.  To those that went to the Trop on Thursday and/or Friday nights, did you think the Rays fans were outnumbered?