RE: RE: You Should Get What You Pay For

["Wright, Cecil" <Cecil.Wright@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well you want the team to get more aggressive in the FA market on one hand.  Yet you don't think that raising ticket prices is a good idea.  What time and proof are you looking for?  Like it or not, this team has advanced to the playoffs the last two seasons...I know it's only due to the total ineptitude of the conference.  However true that may be, the teams don't take that into consideration.  They play to make it to the playoffs where anything can happen.

If those increased ticket prices, which I do not mind paying if it can help us attract the
player(s) which will help us make it to the finals, go up, so be it.  I have already purchased my package and will be making several trips from Nova Scotia to catch games. 

I have to ask why you have used the Sox as an example?

Cecil  


-----Original Message-----
From: wayray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wayray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: September 22, 2003 1:27 PM
To: celtics@xxxxxxxx
Subject: re: RE: You Should Get What You Pay For


That works both ways, Cecil. Shouldn't new ownership give the fans some
time and proof, before they wallop them with the largest ticket increase in Celtics 
history?  

You say give them time to produce results, well I say: produce the results
and then raise ticket costs, ala the Patriots and Red Sox. 

Generally quality ownerships wait until they have accomplished something
and then hit the fans up.  Or they raise ticket prices and then go out 
and sign quality free agents and take on considerable extra payroll. 
Celtics management has done neither (excluding the Vin Baker morass).

Bad owners like the Bruins' Jacob Brothers operate in this fashion.

Ray  


> ** Original Subject: RE: You Should Get What You Pay For
> ** Original Sender: "Wright, Cecil" <Cecil.Wright@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ** Original Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 07:52:11 -0700 (PDT)

> ** Original Message follows... 

>
> I believe you must give the new ownership time to produce some results.  Some folks can complain and berate them for what they have done thus far (Ray), or some choose to see the actual product sent out to the parquet before they make up their minds (most other fans).
> 
> 
> Cecil  
> 
> -----Original Message-----From: wayray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wayray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: September 22, 2003 12:35 PM
> To: celtics@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: You Should Get What You Pay For
> 
> 
> 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 

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