Sells Tickets I Guess

It's all about selling tickets I Guess. New Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine decided it was quiet enough & thought he'd stir the pot. Like the Yankees & Red Sox needed it. The Bronx Bombers & BoSox have a storied history & rivalry so it doesn't take much. The Yankees had their 27 flags while the Sox after winning the first World Series in 1903 & five of the first fifteen World Series went 86 years before their next Championship in 2004 & again in 2007. The 2004 Championship is especially tasty to Sox fans after their 7 game come from behind victory over those rival Yankees in the division chamionships. Over the past 4 years the two teams have both been in the hunt with the Yankees winning their 27th championship in 2009 and the Sox collapse in 2011 highliting those years.

But their rivalry & anything connected to it will continue to be fodder for any sports reporter. So when new Sox Manager Bobby Valentine commented on Jason Varitek's retirement by mentioning how he "beat up" A-Rod in a 2004 confrontation or how the famous"flip"to home relay that Derek Jeter made in the 2001 playoffs was unnecessary its going to give those sports reporters something to run with & run they did. Those comments were then followed by comments by A-Rod & Jeter with A-Rod totally downplaying it & Jeter c0mmenting that Bobby must be bored & why did he have to say that. It made front page sports news.

It was nothing, but it proves my point that today's "Sports" reporting is more about things happening off the field & comments & behaviors of athletes & others involved with the sport then the actual Games themselves. It's what sells tickets. How else can you explain people paying exhorbitant prices to attend these sporting events when we are cutting in our schools and people are starving all over. This kind of stuff sells tickets & fills the sport's pages & sport's casts.

Then again, you know it's spring training time when you start hearing about the Yankees & the Red Sox. What about my Mets? Just My Two Cents. About what the Mets spent on Free Agents this winter.