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Anyway, just when it seemed like things could not possibly get worse around here, the Boston Red Sox announced last Friday that they are raising ticket prices...
...price hike in and of itself comes as a surprise to no one, seeing as how the team has made it an offseason tradition these past four years. But a spike as steep as this one--the largest ever by the Red Sox and, as far as anyone can tell, the biggest in baseball history as well--was enough to make you cough up your Thanksgiving dinner...
...complain. To others in Red Sox nation, however, everything about this price increase stinks, right down to the timing of the announcement. Never blessed much in the way of PR savvy, the Red Sox stupidly sent out a press release announcing the price increase in the late afternoon on the day after Thanksgiving. Apparently their thinking was their could catch people away for the holiday weekend and maybe avoid the Saturday morning papers...
...Bush loses, he might devote time to standing on the beach at Padre Island with pebbles in his mouth, orating at the gulls. The Boston Red Sox are up for sale; Bush should resist the temptation. Instead, he should devote months to reading books on history, foreign policy, science, technology and economics. He should call in tutors...
...tough to have a serious rivalry between two universities that are so incredibly similar. The Game seems more like an annual convention of intellectuals than a true sports competition. Ah well, at least we still have Sox-Yankees...