November 9, 2011

If you are a Red Sox fan and think you deserve some reward for enduring the 2011 turmoil, think again. Bargains on Red Sox tickets are hard to come by in any given year. The organization has announced that the prices of tickets in 2012 will remain the same as last year.  What do you expect for a team that has sold out every single game for the past 9+ seasons?

There will be a lot of mystery going into the 2012 season. For starters, manager Terry Francona and general manager Theo Espstein have left Boston. Free agents like David Ortiz could also make an exit from Boston this offseason. The prices for tickets may stay the same but the demand and consumption of tickets will likely decrease for the upcoming season. Especially if the Red Sox are slow out of the gates as they were in 2011.

In related news, Brian Cashman has acknowledged interest in free agents such as C.J. Wilson, Mark Buerhle, Edwin Jackson and Roy Oswalt. Adding only two of these aces will deflate the Red Sox hopes of reaching the playoffs next season. Count on it.