Who Cares?: High School Soccer Outdraws the Marlins

Baseball is America's pastime, and soccer will never work in the US.

Both of these are well-known, widely-accepted facts.

So try to figure this out for me:

At a 3A high school soccer game on Monday, about 400 people came out to watch Western Guilford play rival Western Alamance.

It's estimated, meanwhile, that fewer than 400 people attended the Florida Marlins' 5-4 extra-innings victory over the Washington Nationals on Wednesday.

After seeing highlights of this game, I'd say that 400 is a generous figure.

How can this happen? Granted, the soccer game was between the two top teams in their conference, and the Marlins game was meaningless, but still...

Only about 1,500 people attend Western Guilford High School. Soccer isn't popular. The tickets to the games cost five dollars, and you can easily sneak in the back for free.

It's just not very important.

South Florida is home to well over a million people, and the Florida Marlins get paid to play. IT'S MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL!

I mean, we actually care about Major League Baseball, don't we?

Obviously not in Florida.

The Devil Rays are atrocious every year, so it's acceptable that people don't care about them. But the Marlins have won two World Series titles...and even then they were overshadowed by football.

Can we please do the Marlins a favor and get them out of there? I'm sure they'd attract more fans in, say, Greensboro, NC, where the organization's Single-A farm team occasionally outdraws the big league club in a 9,000-seat stadium.

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