It is the Pollin family NOT the Pollard family.
Just saying. Show some respect. Do some basic research. Thank you.
Ted's Take
It is the Pollin family NOT the Pollard family.
Just saying. Show some respect. Do some basic research. Thank you.
Really, Mr. Suarez? Are you sure your numbers are accurate?
Did you factor in the costs of: paying the folks who cook, serve and sell the products; electricity, etc. to keep VC operating; paying the folks to maintain VC; equipment/products to maintain VC; taxes/payments to operate in DC, etc. etc. etc? I haven’t even mentioned the salaries of the personnel working directly for each team. Is the WNBA part of the operation making money? Have you ever executed an extremely complicated operation populated by individuals (the athletes) with extremely high salaries?
“You’ll lose many of us permanently with a work stoppage.”
Actually fans have quite a history of making such claims. They’ve never turned out to be true in the past.
“but the least important part of a very good article”
Agreed, and the offending typo was a copied from Matthew Yglesias’s blog, not the original writing of Berri.
If the owners choose to stop the season then it’s alot more accurate to call it a lockout. “Work stoppage” is one of these vanilla terms the owners want to use to obscure the fact that it will be their decision.
George,
Interesting fact, the “Respect-less” blogger that Ted linked to wrote a book a few years back called the “Wages of Wins”, in it the first cool story is that terrible events (e.g. strikes,lockouts, scandals) do not actually deter fans once they’re over. No work stoppage has been followed by a decline in attendance (the NHL of course had some repercussions due to their ESPN contract)
Ted,
I agree! What do you think of Dr. Berri’s next post?
True, but the least important part of a very good article. Very valid points about the labor issues brewing in the NBA. Can only imagine revenue from wiz broadcasts etc over an 82 game season. Concession costs are utterly ridiculous, 6 bucks for a popcorn which costs you 40 cents to produce including packaging. 8 dollar hamburgers which cost you 75 cents?
I hope you do everything you can personally to avoid a work stoppage. You’re fighting very hard to build up the fan base again in DC. Most valid point to me was you paid a half billion dollars for the team. If you were bleeding money from day one you wouldn’t have picked up the option to buy the Wiz.
You’ll lose many of us permanently with a work stoppage.