You Should Get What You Pay For

[wayray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Apparently the small (4th in the Boston Pro Sports Market) but enthusiastic
core of Celtics fans have embraced the mammoth ticket price increase sans
any management expenditure for other than the bottom of the barrel free agent
signings.

Well, you should get what you pay for, and if the other teams in the EC 
outperform the Celtics, because their ownerships weren't so parsimonious
in the redistribution of cap space for quality free agents, then the fans have no 
one to blame but themselves for supporting the situation. 

Myself, I have no problem with sports teams gauging the fans for every cent 
they have, as long as they give back something, ala what the Red Sox
have done these recent seasons, with the most costly ticket in baseball, but 
balanced by a high and competitve payroll.

The Celtics have sadly failed in this department the past few years.
One  can only hope, that either management rewards the fans for their
loyalty in future years by becoming active in the free agent market or
the fans vote with their feet and reject further abuses of goodwill.
Ray