Since the Padres signed a player for $300 million recently, it’s interesting to note that on this day in 1973 they were sold for $12 million, which would have been a record-high price for a MLB franchise!
But the city wouldn’t let the Padres out of the remaining 15 years on their lease, so the buyer cancelled.
The Padres owner, the notorious C. Arnholt Smith, did sell the team to Ray Kroc – and the rest is history.
Link to SDUT
Probably not the best time to mention that when we were last in Boston we had free tickets for the Fenway Park tour. By coincidence they had just gotten the 2018 trophy so we got to see all of them in one place.
All of ours were in there too, weren’t they?
Clear as crystal. Clearer even.
Like invisible?
Maybe if you lowered ticket prices to those of Fenway. You know, the park that sold out near every game since God invented baseball.
Seriously. This issue transcends bezbol. How long can you continue to charge premium prices for average product and how much does any inevitable correction claw back? Personally, I resent and know where to direct my resentment when There’s no parking anywhere and the gaslamp brings out their game day menu prices. Tasty Burger is Boston gastro priced already but even as the official burger of the Red Sox the menu prices hold.
You get: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arJvpIJZ_P0
Boston gets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5apEctKwiD8
[Admitting to deliberately starting a song war].
https://youtu.be/j6T0WqD7KxM
Oh wait…..
To be clear. I really like SD. I’d have no problem living there. That’s a really, really small list. Still, the “Second City” insecurity attitude is a source of unending amusement.
If I were promoting SD, I’d adopt “SoCal but not LA” as a slogan. Think of all the “vs” pictures you could put up. LA Harbor vs SD Harbor. Gaslight at 10PM vs Flower St. PCH vs PCH. Endless opportunity.