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Learning
\n to live with the dissolution of a prime element of the Red Sox ethos
\n – the mantle of the noble loser
\n – has not been easy this off-season. Like a person suffering from bi-polar
\n disorder, who finally finds the magic ingredients and equalizing dosages
\n of a pharmaceutical cocktail, and who understands that this new steady-state
\n existence is a good thing, a chance to leave the bad craziness behind,
\n yet somehow misses the intoxicating highs and lows, Red Sox fans are
\n growing nostalgic for their disease.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, there are still plenty of areas in which The Sox are worth a handsome $563 million – not bad But that’s before George Steinbrenner’s gold-plated Yankees weigh While the Sox are world champs, they still wound up from The Boston Herald<\/a> <\/p>\n original article from Forbes, "The Learning to live with the dissolution of a prime element of the Red Sox ethos – the mantle of the noble loser – has not been easy this off-season. Like a person suffering from bi-polar disorder, who finally finds the … Continue reading
\n the Sox find themselves in distant second place, eating the dust of the
\n evil empire in pinstripes. Finance, for example. Scott Van Voorhis, in
\n today’s
\n Boston Herald Business section<\/a>, covers an article
\n in Forbes Magazine<\/a> on the market value of professional sports
\n teams in America. Guess what – despite
\n the
\n first Boston world championship in 86 years, the Yankees are worth almost
\n twice what the Sox are. Even in the bottom line,
\n the
\n Yankees dwarf the hapless Beantown Nine; while the owners of the Red
\n Sox lost $11.3 million dollars last year, George Steinbrenner lost a
\n whopping $37 million. No wonder taking a family of four to a Sox
\n or Yankee game costs more than the total annual income of a quarter of
\n the planet’s
\n population… <\/p>\n\n
\n when the New York Mets,
\n even
\n with Pedro,
\n are priced
\n at $505
\n million and Hub business executive Frank McCourt’s Dodgers trail
\n at a disTant $424 million. <\/p>\n
\n in at No. 1 with a stunning value of $950 million, Forbes reports.
\n Will the Sox ever catch up?\n <\/p>\n
\n losing $11.3 million last year, Forbes reports. Meanwhile, the Yankees,
\n who were one game shy of the World Series, lost a whopping $37.1 million <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n Business of Baseball<\/a>" with a ton of features, including Historical
\n Team Valuations and a cost-per-victory analysis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"