Do you go to games?
You live further from Fenway than I do, and I’m exactly 1,040 miles away (per Google Maps.)
Let’s not pick on the people actually financing the team. If Fenway tickets only went to diehard fans, the team would never draw 10,000 fans ever again. The Baseball Junkies Crowd isn’t as large as represented on these forums, especially among people close enough to attend games.
Stop the “pink hats” from going and you reduce the Sox revenue even more and give ownership even more reasons to cut payroll. Or to sell the team to someone who now has legit business reasons NOT to invest in the payroll to the satisfaction of diehard fans. If you look at the type of people who own MLB franchises, most of them spend much less than Henry already.
Spending on payroll isn’t the panacea fans think it is. Only 4 of the top ten payrolls are over .500, and only 3 are more than 1 game over. And all of this fuss is because the Sox didn’t add Pete Alonso, who has a .581 OPS, 1 HR, and 5 RBI…