In a show of thanks to Red Sox fans who’ve supported the team through their recent success by filling up Fenway for 388 consecutive games despite the highest average ticket cost in baseball, Boston management has raised ticket prices by an additional 9%.
The Boston.com article continues,
A little more than two weeks after the Red Sox won their second World Series in four seasons, the team decided it needed more revenue to fund everything from Fenway Park improvements to free agents to draftees…According to Team Marketing Report’s 2007 Fan Cost Index, which includes two average adult tickets, two average children’s tickets, four small sodas, two small beers, four hot dogs, two programs, parking, and two adult caps, the Red Sox far surpassed the runner-up Yankees, $313.83 to $222.53.
The new Yankee Stadium, which is set to open in 2009, will drastically increase revenue for Boston’s arch-competitor, and prompted a Boston VP to state, “Right or wrong, we do feel like we’re trying to keep up with the Joneses.”
It is because of the ridiculous sums that free agents are getting now that Boston is forced to raise ticket prices to remain competitive. $70 million for J.D. Drew? Come on. That being said, it’s very clear to me whose fault this is: Catfish Hunter, major league baseball’s first free agent. That bastard ruined everything.
Also, what kind of a name is “Catfish”? If you’re going to be nicknamed after an animal, at least make it something like “Polar Bear” or “Water Buffalo”, am I right? Because then he would have been called “Polar Bear Hunter” and he could tell people that he got the nickname by strangling three polar bears with his bare hands in an Arctic storm when he was eight years old.
The lesson for today is that a nickname has got to be descriptive. Mine is “Richster McCashBastard”, because I’m extraordinarily wealthy. I’ve also been called “Norman Bates”, because I stab women in the shower. I’ll answer to either one; it’s your choice.
^ Isn’t that cute? The one on the left was my dinner last night. Don’t tell PETA.
