Marlins Fans Stay Away as Owner Loria’s Popularity Plummets
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Russell McBride has been a Miami Marlins fan since the Major League Baseball team’s first season in 1993.
For the past decade, he’s attended the home opener with about 20 friends. McBride was there last April when the Marlins played the first game in their new 37,000-seat, retractable roof stadium -- a gaudy gem of a facility that owner Jeffrey Loria filled with $191 million in free agent talent, including players signed away from big-time franchises in New York and Chicago.