This is why you guys are tanking -- along with the LYING and DIVISIVE OBFUSCATIONS and OMISSIONS, the AGENDA-PUSHING and WAR-PROMOTING, the ELITE INSULTS and CENSORSHIP!!!!!!
And consider this as you read this trash upon a Sunday Morning (which the managers develop on Thursday; they decide what is going to be featured in the paper then):
WHERE are the ENVIRONMENTAL PROTESTERS at the SPORTS and NASCAR EVENTS when the PAPER OWNS INTERESTS in THOSE AREAS?! NO WONDER the SPORTS are always on the FRONT PAGES SO MUCH!!!!
But the paper is OBJECTIVE and UNBIASED in ALL THINGS, uh-huh.
When you START TO THINK IT THROUGH, folks, it turns out exactly as someone said!
I hope you enjoy chomping on s*** for breakfast as much as I did, readers. Sorry.
"Joy and jitters; Red Sox Nation has been hit hard by the recession, and the team is feeling the pain as well" by Bob Hohler and Jenn Abelson, Globe Staff | April 5, 2009
Oh, the poor ballclub and their over-priced everything!!!!
In truth, SPORTS are where RICHERS BLOW THEIR more-then-know-what-to-do-with $$$$$!!!!
Whatta ya want 'em to do with it, PAY FOR NATIONAL HEALTH CARE?
Much will seem right with the world again, and winter will officially end, when baseball returns to Boston tomorrow and the Opening Day crowd of corporate titans, glitterati, and everyday folks fills the little old ballpark that lives near the emotional center of a sports-mad region.
Make you sick or what?
Yeah, GO BACK TO SLEEP, America, because THAT'S ALL WATCHING a BASEBALL GAME EVER DID FOR ME!!!! And LOOK at the AGENDA-PUSHING, GLOBAL-WARMING FART-MISTERS HOLDING ON to WINTER!!!! Ummm, SPRING was MARCH 21st!!!!!!
That was OVER TWO WEEKS AGO!!!!!
Hey, I DON'T BLAME THEM FOR THAT, because WE ARE STILL FREEZING UP HERE, world!! It is not frozen ground, but TEMPERATURES are BELOW NORMAL -- which is probably why the Globe hasn't shoveled any fart mist lately.
Even they aren't that stoo-pid; they already look like big enough liars that are failing. That would cinch the case and close the deal!
But something is different this year. Good times may never have seemed so good, or so the fans will sing, but hard times have seldom felt closer.
Excuse me; I need to hit the head.... pffffffffffftttt!
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The Red Sox Make Everything All Right
Retreating corporate sponsors, waning television ratings, fretful retailers, and lagging premium seat sales all confront the Red Sox this year, as the worst recession since the Citgo sign rose in Kenmore Square has dulled the passion of some fans and taken a toll on the team's bottom line.
Indeed, the Sox have rarely faced a stormier financial climate. Buffeted by the loss of some corporate sponsors, including major partners Nikon and
Like I GIVE a CRAP about the MULTIMILLION DOLLAR BALL-CLUBS PROBLEMS!!
COME ON HEY, Globe!! PUT IT in the SPORTS (or better yet, up somewhere else. Let me use a word you would understand: tucchus. Got it?)!!!!!!
A team that counts on the legendary loyalty of its fans also now finds itself needing to win back customers like Jamie Andrews, a human services worker from Wey mouth and former Fenway diehard. When the Sox acquired Pedro Martinez in 1997 and Manny Ramírez in 2000, Andrews named his cats Pedro and Manny. And when his second child was born the night the Sox won the 2004 World Series, Andrews named the boy Damon after Sox center fielder Johnny Damon.
But Andrews has since lost his taste for the Sox, partly because of the financial pinch. "I just don't have the money to take my family to Fenway Park anymore," Andrews said. "I have better things to do."
I COULD NOT have said it BETTER myself!!!!
Sox management are proven masters at maximizing revenues from a comparatively small ballpark and at winning, with two World Series trophies in the last five years. But the team is not exempt from the larger economic trends. "Part of me always thought the Red Sox were recession-resistant, that somehow some way, even in the worst conditions, they wouldn't be affected," said Pat Moscaritolo, president of the Greater Boston Convention and Visitors Bureau.
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"Fenway Park's food stands flunked city health inspections on more than a dozen health and safety measurements on Red Sox opening day April 8, from storing food at unsafe temperatures to failing to clean food preparation counters.... and rodent droppings underneath service counters, city records show.... The inspection reports paint an unsettling portrait of the Fenway dining experience."
See: Hot Dog!
Had enough? Sure you wanna head down to the old ballpark?
He knows better now. The Sox not only lost a seven-figure deal with Nikon and a six-figure pact with PC Connection, but they were unable to renew smaller sponsorship contracts with
What, they didn't get a share of the bailout loot?
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The Sox also rely on revenues from the New England Sports Network, which pays a fee to air the team's games. But NESN last year lost a significant share of viewers...
The Sox own 80 percent of the network, which means the team's revenues are affected by changes in advertising rates based on viewership. NESN spokesman Gary Roy said network executives were not available to comment. (The
You know, until the war-promoting, agenda-pushing papers and the enviro-cultists start PROTESTING the WAR MACHINE and NASCAR, well, I don't want to hear the.... what's that? Whatcha say?
"NASCAR coverage was also expanded on the cable channel New England Sports Network, which is owned by New England Sports Ventures, the parent company of the Red Sox and Fenway Sports Group. The New York Times Co., which owns The Boston Globe, holds a 17 percent stake in New England Sports Ventures."
Yeah, TELL ME AGAIN about GLOBAL WARMING and the ENVIRONMENT!!
While the economy deteriorated over the winter, the Sox braced for the backlash by freezing ticket prices for the first time in 14 years. They also froze concession prices for the first time since 2002. Then they designated nine menu items for discounts up to 50 percent for the first hour after the gates open for games in April. Merchandise prices also will drop during "Fenway Family Hour."
Oh, how generous of them to remove the dildo halfway; the PRICES were ALREADY WAY TOO EXPENSIVE!!!!!!
If it where UP TO ME there would be a SALARY CAP of $50,000 for pro sports (with the understanding of NATIONAL HEALTH CARE for INJURY) and SCALE BACK the ENORMOUS LOOT RICHERS are HIDING and WASTING through the CULTURALLY INDOCTRINATING and INCULCATINGLY DISTRACTING agenda known as SPORTS!!!
And you are reading someone who likes some sports!!!!
Despite the price freeze, the team's ticket sales, while still robust, are down a bit for the first time in recent years. Seats remain available for most games in April and more than 30 games the rest of the season, suggesting that Fenway's major league record for consecutive sellouts (469) could be in jeopardy should the team experience a major slump and nasty weather. The streak dates to May 15, 2003.
Like I give a damn about their sold-out streak; are there not MORE IMPORTANT WORLD ISSUES and TRUTHS that could be placed on the FRONT-PAGE of the "NEWSPAPER" -- rather than the AGENDA-PUSHING, SELF-SERVING, BUSINESS PROMOTION?
"They have everything in the world going against them right now, from the economy to interest in the Celtics and Bruins," said Jim Holzman, president of Ace Ticket, which resells tickets....
Isn't that "SCALPING" -- another subtle linguistic prejudice directed at the red man who was AmeriKa's first genocidal victims, like the term "ambush" -- TICKETS and ILLEGAL??!!!!!!
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Meanwhile, hope springs eternal for many recession-weary businesses and fans.
Have you had enough bowls of Globe diarrhea masquerading as breakfast oatmeal like me, readers? Sorry for the terminology, but THIS is REPORTING?
And it GETS WORSE!!!
At Kenmore Collectibles on Commonwealth Avenue, proprietor Peter Leventhal said he hoped the new season would help boost his sluggish memorabilia sales. On the Brookline Avenue bridge over the Mass. Pike, Walter Green, a homeless panhandler wearing a Sox cap, said he eagerly anticipated the return of baseball crowds. And at The Best Sausage Co., on Yawkey Way, owner Bob Onessimo looked forward to cash-strapped fans lining up for his fare rather than dining in restaurants.
Yup, mention the HOMELESS GUY as if it's NO BIG DEAL!!!!
That's your GLOBE ELITISM SHINING THROUGH right there!!!
I'm actually surprised the cops didn't bust him:
"Earlier this month, police wrapped up a 30-day sting involving plainclothes officers mimicking tourists and other pedestrians. Once they were panhandled, they essentially became victims guaranteed to show up for a trial"
Yeah, the Boston cops got time to cruise the strip, bust brothels, hang out in bars, buy drugs, and worry about cellphones while ROBBERIES, RAPES, and MURDERS go UNSOLVED!!!
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TRILLIONS for WAR-LOOTERS and BANKS, the SPLENDOR of the MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR BALLGAME and yet NO ONE can help the HOMELESS GUYS?
That's what happens when you MOVE FROM the COUNTRY to the CITY!!!!
Like thousands of others, three boyhood friends from Western Massachusetts are unswayed by the staggering economy. They were sophomores at Northampton High School when they watched the Sox unfurl their 1967 American League pennant on Opening Day in '68. They have returned every year since, sitting for the last 35 years in Mike Noonan's box seats.
Noonan, 56, an associate court officer at Northampton District Court, said he may attend 25 games this year instead of 30, partly because of the recession. But he said it would take more than an economic crisis to keep him and his pals from joining the throng on Opening Day.
"Even if we didn't have jobs," Noonan said, "we would find a way to go."Not me; I'll save the outlay for some food, thank you.
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