southsider2k5

That's what scares me too. Baseball is the sport with the cheapest tickets out of the major 4 (NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB) and they are quickly pricing the average fan out of the park. In places such as NY and Boston, I can't see the average fan hitting many games anymore.

The amazing this was, I fully believe he would have been an excellent NBAer as well.

Man are some of you missing the point...

LMAO. You go ahead convincing yourself that one single 1/2 price ticket from 1999 makes a better arguement than average ticket prices for the whole year.

so that would mean full price = $17x3=$39 uh ok

OMG ticket prices have gone up 3000% and we have only gotten a doubling of payroll what a rip off, JR Screws up again!!!!

Except for the fact you have a half price ticket, quite obviously, which makes your arguement garbage. Once again I have provided you with actual stats and figures, but you have convienetly buried your head in the sand to make your irrational rantings.... Have at it, since logic obviously has no place in your world.

And where is the evidence of the 1999 ticket prices?

BS? Yeah, I guess actual stats are BS in your world. All I have to do is say I have a ticket that has a face value of $50 in section 132, oh wow, so tickets are actually cheaper now... Saying something isn't proof of anything. Especially since if you actually have that ticket, it isn't a full price ticket, and isn't valid for the arguement anyway. To put it simply, the White Sox did not have a full price ticket that sold for $8.50 in 1999. But I can see how basing a ticket price arguement on one single half price ticket, would have a bearing on ticket prices, while average ticket prices would not. :rolly

There are much better things we could do with the couple of million dollars needed for Randa. There are plenty of quality pen arms we could look at, or even a fifth starter if everything else falls through...

I must have missed your reply to this, Anthrax?

How about setting up a humanitarian food for oil program to skim 50 cents a barrel off of, and then use to bribe people so no one wants to do anything about the bad things that you do?

Trades are going to happen.

That is exactly what it is. It gives them a cheap back up if it works out, and they can use that cap space to try to extend someone like Alex Brown. Low risk, cheap gamble. If it doesn't work out, there are the usual back ups and the draft to try. George is coming in as the 3rd stringer, and most likely couldn't even play until the last couple weeks anyway.

I do like the fact that Clement seems to want to be here...

Hey Minny, are you even playing anymore? You have IL guys in your starting line up

The shear size of the boulders is amazing

NIU and DePaul tipping off on Comcast SN.

Somebody else likes Meyer too, they have him with an 80% chance of being picked, which basically one other guy on there has.

They are impressing the s*** out of me. Then again the Zags don't have nearly the depth or outside shooting they have had in the past, but I sure am not going to take anything away from Ill.

Any accompanying numbers for what corporations gave to 527's?

Actually I am not sure if you are full of it again, or if that particular ticket is just an aberration, because I don't ever remember tickets being that cheap in the OF. When I was going to games in the mid 90's the UD reserved were $8. More than likely you have a half price ticket, which would put the full ticket price at $17 each (which would fall under LD reserved in sec 105), which makes much more sense. Now for the facts. If you look at average ticket prices 2004 was $21.56 http://www.teammarketing.com/fci.cfm?page=fci_mlb2004.cfm In 2000 it was $14.30. http://www.teammarketing.com/fci.cfm?page=fci_mlb2000.cfm Doing the math that is a 50% ticket increase, to accompany a 110% increase in payroll ($31mil to $65mil) So in reality, your arguement has holes in it. In reality you have gotten twice as much in payroll for what you are paying in tickets. So I guess that means (gasp) that JR and company has dipped into revenues to make up that difference.

Worst records pick first.