The Brewers Receive a Warm Welcome at Tropicana Field

Tonight, for the first time in 18 years, the Rays are hosting a World Series game in Tampa Bay.

Even though the Brewers lead the series 2-0, this is still a World Series game. That means a big crowd is expected.

And sure enough, Tropicana Field in St. Pete is packed tonight. You don't see that every day, to be honest.

The problem? There are quite a few Brewers fans in the stands.

We saw it during player introductions: several Brewers players got a pretty big round of applause from the crowd.

There's a large contingent of Brewers fans in the stands. Enough for the applause to be noticeable, at least.

If these were Yankees fans or fans of a major team, we'd understand. But we doubt Milwaukee has many fans in Florida.

This probably means that fans traveled from Wisconsin to snap up quite a few tickets in Florida. That says a lot about Brewers fans…

But it also says a lot about Rays fans in general. The more things change, the more they stay the same over there, apparently.

The stadium may be in a bad location, and it may be a weeknight, but it's still a World Series game.

Home-field advantage isn't as significant in these circumstances. And it wouldn't be like that in Montreal…

We'll see if that makes a difference in the game. But let's just say the Rays aren't looking good right now, even though most of the crowd is rooting for them.

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