You need to go down to Miami and talk to some Cuban fans like I have - they aren’t feeling the love for Jeff Loria. I didn’t post my point of view, I posted what I personally heard from Cuban fans I met and spoke to down there when I was in Miami Beach recently. Miami Beach is very Cuban and a baseball team does to some extent need to consider the demographics of its fan base. Also remember that the Cubans playing pro ball in the USA, like the hardworking Cuban Americans in South Beach, chose to be in this country and most risked their lives to be here. So they have a different mindset. Many feel the Marlins under Loria ignored Cubans- you would have to ask them why but DJ’s ownership has apparently changed that perception. This is a fervently baseball loving community and they need to be made to feel welcome, hopefully the Marlins will succeed in doing that.
You are right about the Rays Stadium, it’s awful. It’s a huge negative for them. And that they closed the upper decks is an unbelievable joke. To have a whole part of a stadium closed to the public is a tacit admission of failure that is unbelievable and it’s also incredible that it’s allowed to stand.