Sweet Valentine! The saga of the 2012 Boston Red Sox

[Priceless]

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My only hope for optimism is that they don't determine the playoff participants until after the last day of the season.

Priceless - The sellout "streak" is becoming a joke. I can remember when my Dad was flabbergasted that the Sox played to 90% of capacity in the late 70's. NOBODY did that back then.

The Indians are in town on Thursday night -- good seats are still available. Loge 132 Row MM $35 for 2 seats.

Wait for the deals on StubHub. Those tickets will be $20 or less by then. But it's still a sellout! Sean McAdam was on the Felger & Mazz show on Friday and he spelled out that this is actually costing the team money. Since the gate receipts are split with the visiting team receiving a share, if the Sox report 37,500 and only sell 30,000 tickets, the visiting team still wants the revenue from those 7500 tickets. They don't care that the Red Sox "sold" them to StubHub so the precious sellout streak can continue.

[mookie1995]

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oh, so the team is selling unsold seats on stubhub?!?!? get out!!!

[Priceless]

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oh, so the team is selling unsold seats on stubhub?!?!? get out!!!

Selling is one way to put it. Giving them away is another... StubHub isn't in business to lose money. John Henry on the other hand...

[Priceless]

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The Red Sox are all over Twitter saying 5/14 vs Seattle (College Night) is sold out, so they're extending their college discounts to Tuesday. Sold out, meaning there are "only" 4500 tickets on StubHub, for as little as $6. Tickets atop the Green Monster are as low as $200/seat. They must have hired the old Iraqi Information Minister to announce ticket sales.

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[Rover]

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This guy's usually an idiot, but this is a very good article comparing two Boston sports teams right now...

http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/c...co#articleFull

[REDMEN2002]

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When are the Sox going to get rid of Beckett? Last Tuesday its announced he is missing his Saturday start. The Thursday inbetween he goes golfing with Bucholz???? Is he serious? He's a ******* and needs to go. He needed to go last offseason.

[Priceless]

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When are the Sox going to get rid of Beckett? Last Tuesday its announced he is missing his Saturday start. The Thursday inbetween he goes golfing with Bucholz???? Is he serious? He's a ******* and needs to go. He needed to go last offseason.

But who would want him? He's damaged goods with a HUGE contract. It would be difficult to see what team would trade for him now. MAYBE as we get closer to the trade deadline a contender will take a flier on him, but I bet the Red Sox pay the bulk of his salary and get very little back in return. Same with Youkilis.

They should have traded them in the offseason but they didn't.

No word from NESN about the Beckett golfing thing. I bet they're as quiet as possible about the whole thing.

[REDMEN2002]

But who would want him? He's damaged goods with a HUGE contract. It would be difficult to see what team would trade for him now. MAYBE as we get closer to the trade deadline a contender will take a flier on him, but I bet the Red Sox pay the bulk of his salary and get very little back in return. Same with Youkilis.

They should have traded them in the offseason but they didn't.

Eat his salary, get a bucket of balls back. I don't care. He is just going to further poison the clubhouse.

[Priceless]

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Eat his salary, get a bucket of balls back. I don't care. He is just going to further poison the clubhouse.

The Red Sox aren't going to do that. Not a good business decision.

[Priceless]

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Fenway Park PA announcer Carl Beane was killed in a one-car accident in Sturbridge.

[joecct]

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Fenway Park PA announcer Carl Beane was killed in a one-car accident in Sturbridge.

YIKES!! My condolences to his family.

[REDMEN2002]

The Red Sox aren't going to do that. Not a good business decision.

Right. Keeping that idiot around to influence younger players on the team sounds like a great business decision to me.

[joecct]

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No word from NESN about the Beckett golfing thing. I bet they're as quiet as possible about the whole thing.

NESN's the Pravda (or Trud) of the Red Sox.

[Priceless]

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Right. Keeping that idiot around to influence younger players on the team sounds like a great business decision to me.

Ah, but that's a baseball decision, not a business decision. From a baseball perspective, of course you get rid of him and Youk...but this ownership group isn't interested anymore in baseball decisions. As Tanguay said today on F&M, it would have been too hard to try to move them in the offseason, especially since John Henry was more worried about what was happening in Liverpool (and boy, aren't we Reds fans pleased as punch with his attention) than focusing on Boston. Heck, he didn't even call Carl Crawford until Spring Training when a reporter asked him about it.

[joecct]

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D. Lowe vs. Josh Beckett tonight. Will the Sox turn anyone away who is dressed in Plus Four's???