The Florida Marlins play at Joe Robbie Pro Player Dolphins Stadium in South Florida. It’s a football stadium, and with the usual afternoon showers that plague South Florida it’s not an ideal place for baseball. Add in the heat and humidity of South Florida and it’s no wonder the Marlins are near the bottom in attendance.
The Marlins want a new stadium, and the Orange Bowl was just torn down. So there’s a natural location for the new stadium. Just one problem: New stadiums are expensive, and sports teams don’t want to pay for them. The estimated cost is $515 million, and the local officials (both city and county) want assurances from the team before tax money is raised. The Miami-Dade County Commission was going to vote on Friday but the vote has been delayed at least another month.