Three-legged-stool concept. If any leg is weak, the stool tips over. Listed in the order of JR importance.
- Leg 1: Financial Stability of Franchise: Check and double check. All investors around the table could NOT be happier. No fans, no problem...no rent. Strongest leg.
- Leg 2: Competitiveness of franchise: Weak leg. Huge fail. But never mind....see Leg 1.
- Leg 3: Fan satisfaction. Weakest leg. One of JR's first moves was to take the Sox off the air and went to magic-box-pay-to-watch. No big deal now, but the Sox lost a full generation of new fans, while alienating the entire fan base.
So we have Leg 1 holding everything else up. To us fans, it's just a crooked mess.
JR barely knows or cares that we exist, and that's been apparent for 40 plus years.