tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13039824.post3345425283485608637..comments2023-10-15T10:05:15.901-04:00Comments on The Fraser Faithful: State of Fraser / Pride UpdatesJoe Gravhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06883597644631048767noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13039824.post-39732207778887945112007-10-04T06:16:00.000-04:002007-10-04T06:16:00.000-04:00I care about the Pride. I don't want to see any te...I care about the Pride. I don't want to see any team go away. It hurts the players, league and fans. Besides it was always fun to watch the Pride play. I especially like it when Hobson took first base.icesk8ingtrezzafanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09348631027993192433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13039824.post-67441184894518134012007-10-03T22:53:00.000-04:002007-10-03T22:53:00.000-04:00Finger pointing, Broad assumptions riddled with se...Finger pointing, Broad assumptions riddled with self-serving opinions and, last-but-not-least: ridiculing a 9 yr. old girl's attempt to save the team she loves.<BR/>Gee Spike, do you have anything of real substance to say or are you just full of shit as usual?.<BR/>Who gives a shit about the Pride?.<BR/>I, for one, wish you hadn't gotten "to the front page", seems to have gone right to your head; as if you needed more incentive.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13039824.post-39419576513860149252007-10-03T18:20:00.000-04:002007-10-03T18:20:00.000-04:00My petition is not signed by people out of state. ...My petition is not signed by people out of state. Almost everybody who signed it on the Internet and in person lives in Lynn, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. I don't know 1 person that signed it that hasn't been to Spirit games. Maybe it won't do any good but at least I am trying to do something.icesk8ingtrezzafanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09348631027993192433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13039824.post-21549372722223933392007-10-03T18:12:00.000-04:002007-10-03T18:12:00.000-04:00Did anyone see the front page of the Lynn Journal ...Did anyone see the front page of the Lynn Journal today? Victoria Glidden is on the front page with Trezza in a story about the Spirit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13039824.post-48565386432382379792007-10-03T10:31:00.000-04:002007-10-03T10:31:00.000-04:00Am honored to have my last report moved to the Fro...Am honored to have my last report moved to the Front Page! There is no further news yet from the Pride Death Watch. Prospective advertisers are being pitched the hope that their ads will play to a full stadium. Prospective fans are being shown Butch as the face of the team. We would all walk through the door...if we knew everyone else would be inside. But if not, who takes the first step?<BR/><BR/>Let's again go in a different direction--back in time, to the Massachusetts Mad Dogs. The Spirit were a vehicle to plow $2 million in renovations into Fraser. The Mad Dogs were a scheme to get money out of Lynn. The Spirit charged premium prices. The Mad Dogs let you in for $1 with a copy of the Lynn Item, or you could go to the Item offices and pick up a free ticket from the stack at the reception desk, although not even Item employees did so.<BR/><BR/>The Mad Dogs had a single entrance (Western Ave.), a single dirt parking lot next door (where food service was under the Spirit), and no commerce except on the smoking-permitted concourse behind the seating area. No web page; no management buildings (souvenirs were sold out of a rented house across Western Ave.); of course no web site.<BR/><BR/>The City didn't support the Spirit, and the City didn't support the Mad Dogs--at least until the roof concrete started cracking and falling, then they obligingly brought in some snow fence to condemn the entire center sections.<BR/><BR/>A ball club doesn't survive with petition signatures from out-of-staters. It survives with revenues. The Mad Dogs were cheap. The Spirit were premium. Neither has made the numbers work. Is there any way to make the numbers work? Is there any level of spending that will attract a greater amount of revenue?<BR/><BR/> --SpikeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13039824.post-29917777891345423782007-10-02T23:37:00.000-04:002007-10-02T23:37:00.000-04:00I believe they left it upI believe they left it upDaveCohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01719609246334513024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13039824.post-70262352241263569072007-10-02T21:26:00.000-04:002007-10-02T21:26:00.000-04:00Did they take that stuff down every year for the w...Did they take that stuff down every year for the winter or leave it up?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com