Teams best known for their home run hitter - who drew the fair-weather fans and the TV commercials - were eliminated.

There are benches outside for fair-weather fans and a good dining room upstairs.

"You get to understand that you've got to go out every day and produce or you won't have those fair-weather fans - and reporters, too."

Likely to tempt fair-weather fans back to the Malkmus name.

"I see you're not a fair-weather fan," the judge said.

But if you're a fair-weather fan whose attention drifts between main events, chances are you've never heard of Michael Moorer.

"It's sad that we have fair-weather fans here," Mitchell said.

He added that if those miserable fair-weather fans felt that way, then they shouldn't even come to the games.

Other fighters will revel in beating them and many of their fair-weather fans will lose interest.

"I guess you could call me a fair-weather fan," he said.