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Message: [QUOTE="Huskygrad88, post: 1987524, member: 3812"] You do have to weigh those...the guarantee vs X # of people being annoyed short term. Right now I'd take the guarantee six days a week and twice on Sunday. Here's the math as I see it (and assume Benedict does as well) --This game being at Fenway impacts season tickets very little. We only have 16k season ticket holders...if we used people on the boneyard either buying or cancelling tix as a proxy for reality there would either be 160,000 or -50,000 season ticket holders each year. --If they have a great (decent?) year , he assumes the fairweather CT fans (at least an offsetting #) will be back, after either forgetting about the game (if annoyed) or remembering the game (if they actually enjoyed Boston for a day) --He will have achieved a short term gain and a long term win. We desperately need both. It really makes me crazy that people don't understand how dire the financial straits are around here. The state is about to have a $1.5 billion dollar deficit, and the AAC/TV pays us pennies. We are almost the worst team in FBS. He's trying to get revenue and exposure....its like Thursday night games in the middle of the season...has to be done when you are in our situation. [/QUOTE]