How Many Pink Hats do the Red Sox Have to Sell?
Friday, December 10, 2010
The recent trade for Adrain Gonzalez and the free agent signing of Carl Crawford have made the Red Sox relevant again the Patriots, Celtics and even the Bruins for the valuable ticket and TV dollar. In the past year, the Red Sox TV and radio viewership have fallen farther than a Tim Wakefield knuckle ball. So, have these bold moves by the Sox rekindled the excitement or was this level of investment too much? Combined, the price tag for the two is expected to be $296,000,000. Chump change when you can sell the merchandise.
GoLocalProv explores the numbers - exactly how many pink hats now have to be sold?
The pink hats are the new icon of the Red Sox - cost: $18.99. The Red Sox need to sell just 15,587,151 of them to pay for the two new Sox. The sale of 15.5 million pink Red Sox hats would spread cuteness throughout the region. Just imagine what Ted Williams would say about a Fenway Park littered with 11-year-old girls in "cute" pink hats?
The only problem with being dependent on the sale of baby shirts - regardless of how cute the little things are - is it requires the birth of a lot of little Red Sox faithful. How many little tikes need to join Red Sox Nation - 9,869,956 and everyone of their parents needs to buy a set of 3 at a cost of $29.99. The outcome a 60% growth in the population of New England.
Youkilis Jersey
The Sox first baseman Kevin Youkilis is now turned third baseman to make room for Adrian Gonzalez. Youk is a fan favorite which is good because the Causeway brass only need to sell 3,084,297 on his jerseys to make payroll for the new guys. MLB charges just $95.97 per.
The best seats in baseball are just $165 each. The view is great, but to pay for Crawford and Gonzalez the Sox will need to add a few thousand more Green Monster seats. Over the course of the contracts the Sox need to sell 1,793,939 Green Monster seats.
The smart solution may be to focus on a baseball staple - hot dogs. After all, everyone loves hot dogs and you can eat more than one when you go to Fenway. At $4.00 per Fenway Frank, the total number of dogs needed to be hocked is just 74 million hot dogs. "Get your hot dogs here...and here...and here."
Each New Englander needs to down 5.6 hot dogs to pay off these salaries - heck one little Japanese guy in a hot dog eating contest ought to be able to handle Rhode Island's obligation.
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