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Tubesox Nation Stiff-o-Meter
About the stiff-o-meter: Giants management continues doing very little to improve the on-field product (clean-up hitter, anyone?) while expecting fans to pay outrageous prices for tickets, parking, food, drink, and merch. Tubesox Nation says stiff 'em. If you follow any branch of the Five-Fold Path, click here or on the pile of money in the right-hand sidebar to add your DOOSH to the stiff-o-meter and join in the Improbable March to the MLB minimum and beyond.
Blechhh . . . 2009 SF Giants PABAW* Ratio is an Unsightly 0.85
One imagines fourth-generation San Franciscan Larry Baer and brainy, bow-tied William Neukom at the bygone birthday parties of their youth. Baer was the one canvassing the rumpus room as the birthday boy’s mother cut the cake, using reverse psychology to persuade the gullible kids to go for smaller pieces without much frosting. Neukom, for his part, was applying a proto-bundling strategy, quietly promising the weak and the impressionable that he’d let them jump past him in the pin-the-tail-on-the donkey queue for agreeing to take a less desirable piece.
Things have changed over the years. Baer and Neukom have ascended the ladder to become Giants top brass. Birthday cake has been replaced by obscene amounts of money. And those gullible suckers at the party, well, they’ve turned into you and me. But as the four-color pie chart capably illustrates, one thing has remained constant: wee Larry Baer and Little Billy Neukom still like to take more than their share.
PABAW* Ratio is a proprietary metric developed by Tubesox Nation to measure how freely team management spends the money that they ask loyal fans to shell out. It compares opening day payroll to yearly attendance multiplied by the cost of the minimum experience that should be within the budget of a loyal fan (bleacher seat, one beer, one hot dog).
A PABAW of 1.5 is acceptable. For example, if the Giants charged $10.50 for a bleacher ticket, $6.00 for an Anchor Steam, and $3.00 for a Giants dog, their PABAW would be approximately 1.50.
A PABAW of 1.25 indicates inflated prices accompanied by Scrooge-like parsimony. For example, if the Giants charged $14 for a bleacher ticket, $6.50 for an Anchor Steam, and $3.00 for a Giants dog, their PABAW would be approximately 1.25.
A PABAW of 1.0 is considered extortionate on the order of the 19th Century robber barons. For example, if the Giants charged $18 for a bleacher ticket, $7.50 for an Anchor Steam, and $3.75 for a Giants dog their PABAW would be approximately 1.0.
*PABAW = Payroll/ yearly Attendance x [average Bleacher ticket + Ale + Wiener]
**payroll data obtained from Cot's Baseball Contracts
Things have changed over the years. Baer and Neukom have ascended the ladder to become Giants top brass. Birthday cake has been replaced by obscene amounts of money. And those gullible suckers at the party, well, they’ve turned into you and me. But as the four-color pie chart capably illustrates, one thing has remained constant: wee Larry Baer and Little Billy Neukom still like to take more than their share.
PABAW* Ratio is a proprietary metric developed by Tubesox Nation to measure how freely team management spends the money that they ask loyal fans to shell out. It compares opening day payroll to yearly attendance multiplied by the cost of the minimum experience that should be within the budget of a loyal fan (bleacher seat, one beer, one hot dog).
A PABAW of 1.5 is acceptable. For example, if the Giants charged $10.50 for a bleacher ticket, $6.00 for an Anchor Steam, and $3.00 for a Giants dog, their PABAW would be approximately 1.50.
A PABAW of 1.25 indicates inflated prices accompanied by Scrooge-like parsimony. For example, if the Giants charged $14 for a bleacher ticket, $6.50 for an Anchor Steam, and $3.00 for a Giants dog, their PABAW would be approximately 1.25.
A PABAW of 1.0 is considered extortionate on the order of the 19th Century robber barons. For example, if the Giants charged $18 for a bleacher ticket, $7.50 for an Anchor Steam, and $3.75 for a Giants dog their PABAW would be approximately 1.0.
*PABAW = Payroll/ yearly Attendance x [average Bleacher ticket + Ale + Wiener]
**payroll data obtained from Cot's Baseball Contracts
Average Giants Bleacher Seat Price Revealed!!!
After an exhausive study involving a propietary methodology*, Tubesox Nation's research division has determined that the average 2009 left field bleacher ticket at The Big Mortgage costs $21.77. So, on the typical game day, a crisp, new Jackson fresh from an ATM machine is insufficient to score a seat with an unobstructed view of the left fielder's backside.
*Bleacher prices at Regular, Feature, and Premium games were weighted according to number of games, and then averaged. Average does not reflect K-Zone discount offers.
The Great NBC-11 Experiment--Volunteers Needed on 5-29!!!
With the digital TV transition impending, time is running out to document an important chapter in the screwing of The Fans by fourth generation San Franciscan Larry Baer and the greedheads at Comcast.
Friday night's Giants-Cardinals game will be the final NBC-11 broadcast prior to the transition to digital. Tubesox Nation is searching for Bay Area baseball fans experiencing crappy NBC-11 reception who can take a brief break from their Friday night plans to take a photo(s) or brief video of the game as it appears on their TV screen. Documentation of associated gizmos/techniques used to improve reception will also be helpful. The data will be collected into an an easy-to-use pin map and statistically significant musical slideshow to be emailed to the aforementioned greedheads.
Click here for eligibility requirements. Eligible parties who are willing to participate in this important exercise in democracy should confirm participation by leaving a brief comment here (catchy cyber alias, SF district or other city name, diagonal inches, color or b&w).
Friday night's Giants-Cardinals game will be the final NBC-11 broadcast prior to the transition to digital. Tubesox Nation is searching for Bay Area baseball fans experiencing crappy NBC-11 reception who can take a brief break from their Friday night plans to take a photo(s) or brief video of the game as it appears on their TV screen. Documentation of associated gizmos/techniques used to improve reception will also be helpful. The data will be collected into an an easy-to-use pin map and statistically significant musical slideshow to be emailed to the aforementioned greedheads.
Click here for eligibility requirements. Eligible parties who are willing to participate in this important exercise in democracy should confirm participation by leaving a brief comment here (catchy cyber alias, SF district or other city name, diagonal inches, color or b&w).
How to Use the Stiff-o-Meter
Rules:
1. There are no absolute stiff-o-meter rules. The DOOSH that you enter into the stiff-o-meter will not be audited--this is a grassroots movement, not the flipping IRS.
2. Click on the pile of money in the right-hand sidebar of any Tubesox Nation page to get to the spreadsheet.
3. Enter a catchy cyber alias and date of Giants game attended in columns A and B, respectively
4. (optional) Enter dollars paid (hopefully $0) to Giants in spreadsheet columns C, E, G, I and K.
5. Enter DOOSH* in spreadsheet columns D, F, H, J and L where applicable
*DOOSH is dollars NOT paid to Giants because you used outside sources to purchase goods and services that you would have otherwise purchased from them (e.g., outside the ballpark, you buy a bottle of water from the Peanut Man for a buck . . . if you had bought a similar bottle of water inside the stadium it would have cost $4.75, so your DOOSH is $4.75).
6. The spreadsheet and the stiff-o-meter do the rest of the heavy lifting . . . all you need to do is navigate back to the Tubesox Nation homepage and enjoy a look at your contribution to the ever-growing pile of DOOSH.
Thanks for contributing . . . we'll see you back in the stiff-o-meter real soon.
1. There are no absolute stiff-o-meter rules. The DOOSH that you enter into the stiff-o-meter will not be audited--this is a grassroots movement, not the flipping IRS.
2. Click on the pile of money in the right-hand sidebar of any Tubesox Nation page to get to the spreadsheet.
3. Enter a catchy cyber alias and date of Giants game attended in columns A and B, respectively
4. (optional) Enter dollars paid (hopefully $0) to Giants in spreadsheet columns C, E, G, I and K.
5. Enter DOOSH* in spreadsheet columns D, F, H, J and L where applicable
*DOOSH is dollars NOT paid to Giants because you used outside sources to purchase goods and services that you would have otherwise purchased from them (e.g., outside the ballpark, you buy a bottle of water from the Peanut Man for a buck . . . if you had bought a similar bottle of water inside the stadium it would have cost $4.75, so your DOOSH is $4.75).
6. The spreadsheet and the stiff-o-meter do the rest of the heavy lifting . . . all you need to do is navigate back to the Tubesox Nation homepage and enjoy a look at your contribution to the ever-growing pile of DOOSH.
Thanks for contributing . . . we'll see you back in the stiff-o-meter real soon.
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