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    Do you think that the Red Sox would be so stupid as to lump ticket purchasers in with the millions who watch TV? I doubt it. I purchased between $4,000 to $5,000 in regular season tickets last year. Are there millions of me? In 2008, total gate receipts were $176 million. Mathematically, there couldn't be more than $40,000 fans who spend more than me. The actual number is probably much closer to 10,000 fans. If I walk away, sure they don't miss me, but if a thousand fans (a modest number) like me walk away thats $4 million. There aren't enough of you once a year fans to close that gap. If 10,000 were to walk away, that would be a financial disaster of a loss of $40 million in revenue. My point is that losing interest in relatively small numbers of ticket buying fans can have a major financial impact.
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    Revenue is revenue whether from ticket receipts, TV, radio or merchandising. Let me ask this. Revenue is indicated as $269 million and $176 million was attributable to ticket receipts. That leaves a difference of $93 million. it is your position that the $269 million is only stadium revenue. What type of stadium revenue would this $93 million come from?
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    Team value includes the value of Fenway. That is the 22% ($182 million) in the pie chart-- the value of Fenway. Similarly, the portion of the pie chart called "Market" is according to the legend the "Portion of franchise's value attributable to its city and market size." It is not the portion attributable to it's marketing efforts net of ticket sales. I think you are mixing apples and oranges.
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    The legend for Revenue #4 states the following: What makes you think that it only inludes stadium revenue? The number is net of the Stadium Revenue used to pay down the debt. It is not "Net Stadium Revenue".
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    The legend for revenue is as follows: The legend for Gate Receipts is as follows: Which legend are you referring to?
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    I'm not sure about baseball's finances being public. One of the biggest points of contention that they have had with the Players union has been the owners' steadfast refusal to open its books to the union.
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    Gate receipts represent about two-thirds of revenue year over year. Team value includes capital assets like the Stadium which is owned by the Red Sox. Gate receipts have been consistently about two-thirds of revenue. TV and Radio revenues are much smaller than the gate. They don't even account for one-third of total revenues.
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    Your charts are a breakdown of team value, not revenue stream. This link indicates gate receipts of of $176 million in 2008 and revenue of $269 million. They get $16 million for radio and probably less than $50 million from NESN. I read that the Yankees get $80 million from YES and that is double what every other team gets, except the Mets who get $50 million. http://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/33/baseball-values-09_Boston-Red-Sox_330700.html
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    Is this a multiple choice test? The Yankees are the better team, and the Red Sox have not closed the gap. They are divisional rivals, so that leaves the Sox scrapping for the Wild Card, but even if they win the Wild Card they are not good enough to take the Yanks down in the playoffs. So, you are in agreement with me that the Sox can't beat the yankees. I should take comfort in the fact that no one else can beat the Yankees? The Sox will be his 4th major league team in 9 major league seasons, and at age 34 he has been a starter for 2 seasons. He's a journeyman. So, you are against a trade to get Gonzalez? What is the most you would give up for him? I realize that you will not commit to anything like that, because you are only comfortable agreeing wiht the FO after they make their moves. When asked for an opinion ahead of time, you come back with some kind of cop out, rather than an answer. What about Cabrera? What would you give up for him?
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    ...and when we were sending out inferior teams all of those years, Fenway was not sold out and they weren't charging the highest ticket prices in baseball. The fans are spending the high prices for tickets and filling Fenway every night to see a team that can beat the Yankees and win the whole thing. The fans will catch on fast if they are made to wait and they will no longer be fill Fenway and team revenue will be impacted. I don't think the owners will want to damage the franchise that they have worked so hard to build.
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    Pujols is a pipe dream, and Mauer will be a yankee target to replace a 39 year old Posada. I don't think there is much of a chance either of them end up in a Red Sox uniform. They need to pull the trigger on Adrian Gonzalez. I think they are wrong if they think that the asking price for AG will go down at the trading deadline. It is just as likely to go up if he is tearing up the league.
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    I don't see them making another big signing either, but I think that will be a big mistake.
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    If Theo doesn't want to sacrifice the future, he should forget about Gonzalez and sign Holliday who will not cost any prospects-- just $. Together with Lackey, he would build a very competitive bridge to the future.
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    There's no dealing with crazy, and that man is crazy
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    The offense was very inconsistent especially in big games. These moves will weaken the offense and make it more inconsistent. Lineups without big power threats and little speed (other than Ellsbury) are very prone to inconsistency, because most of the time they will need to get 3 hits/walks in an inning to score runs.
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    The problem the team had down the stretch last year was the inability to consistently produce runs. I think it was pretty obvious that the team had no big thumper in the middle of the lineup and that the acquisition of a big bat could put them back on par with the Yankees. Instead of improving the offense, the took a significant step back. Last season they finished 8 games behind the Yankees after being 3 games up on the Yanks at the All Star break-- an 11 game swing in less than half the season. Is a 15 game deficit by the 2010 All Star Break out of the question? IMO it is a very real possibility if they do not upgrade the offense.
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    If the last deal that the Sox make this offseason is to trade Lowell, and break camp with Kotchman and Cameron replacing Lowell and Bay in the lineup, they will be 15 games out by the trading deadline IMO.
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