As we sit here in the second week of January, in a Red Sox offseason that most of us had high hopes for but which, so far, has merely featured the re-arrangement of a whole bunch of deck chairs, let’s try to put a few things aside for a moment to discuss the rumors of a Kenley Jansen trade.
Let’s put aside the fact that the Red Sox are valued at $4.5B, just a smidge below the Dodgers at $4.8B (and yes, $300 million is a smidge for MLB team valuations). Let’s ignore the fact that the ticket cost at Fenway for a family of four will be tops in MLB this upcoming season by $17 on average, and that the full experience of taking this family of four to Fenway is just a smidge behind the Dodgers in all of baseball (in this case a smidge = $4)
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Let’s ignore that the owners scraped the town hall meeting at this year’s Winter Weekend because people booed too much a year ago.