*official 2007 red sox thread*

[kidcolin]

hmmm.. I wonder how many seats they could add without reducing the price.

[kyro]

lol at portsmouth. That would be funny. P-town wouldn't be able to handle that at all.

[TMTTR]

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most of all, having enough seats so it doesnt cost a days work to see a game AND having enough revenue from tickets to even the playing field w the MFY;s.

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More seats is a good idea, but you know that revenue from general-public ticket sales (or at least ticket revenue in excess of Fenway's) is a very small part of the total revenue base of the Yankees...

New Yankee Stadium is going to have less seats... but more corporate boxes, of course...

[Toro]

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i would put the team in the burbs ala the pats.

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Football is different, obv. There are only 8 home games and they are events unto themselves with the tailgating etc where people make a day of it and will travel long distances. So usually, a baseball team needs to be in the City in the population center with Mass Transit to make it easier to attract that large fan base for an 81 game home season.

Perhaps, the Sox, with their unbleievable popularity could still draw gangbusters in the burbs, but I think the preferred location is in the City.

[kidcolin]

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lol at portsmouth. That would be funny. P-town wouldn't be able to handle that at all.

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p-town = provincetown. I'm guessing he meant portsmouth, nh, which doesn't make much sense.

[sylar]

i was just throwing out town names of cities that are close. i wasn't really proposing any of them.

imo, they'd have to stay in boston. south seems pretty good and metropolitan, as there are some new complexes down there, but i understand there are local politics issues. if it were upto me, i'd put it anywhere between brookline to newton. keep the boston suburbs feel, revitalize the area a bit.

rant: if somerville is on the T by virtue of one Davis Sq station, then that's pretty sad. Lechmere is the station i traveled to daily. i guess it could go further north, but the green line sucks donkey balls. if it weren't for everyone in boston being so retAHrded, they'd blowup the T and build a better one. /rant

[Toro]

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if it weren't for everyone in boston being so retAHrded, they'd blowup the T and build a better one. /rant

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You think the Federal Government would give Boston big bucks for Mass Transit rebuild after giving $14 Billion for the big dig?

[kyro]

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lol at portsmouth. That would be funny. P-town wouldn't be able to handle that at all.

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p-town = provincetown. I'm guessing he meant portsmouth, nh, which doesn't make much sense.

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I was talking about Portsmouth. I'm from Rochester which is about 20-30 minutes from Portsmouth, and we call it P-Town. But yeah, if any NH city is going to get a Professional Team, it'd be Manchester, maybe Nashua.

[sylar]

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if it weren't for everyone in boston being so retAHrded, they'd blowup the T and build a better one. /rant

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You think the Federal Government would give Boston big bucks for Mass Transit rebuild after giving $14 Billion for the big dig?

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20 years ago, given the choice of the big dig or a rebuild of the MBTA, i'd choose the latter.

you can potentially double or triple the number of people using the subway system. the big dig didn't improve the roads by that much.

[craig]

Hawk "Its like that old baseball adage: 'A good baserunner (long pause) doesn't need a 3rd base coach' "

I have not heard, nor can I find anything similar to this 'adage' anywhere. But, I guess its like they say "A crappy baseball announcer, ummm, packs the sacks dab gummit
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