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Rob Reed^2764
Re: The Cannons Don't Thunder: Examining 15 Years of Failure by the Pittsburgh Pirates <FONT COLOR=BLACK><b>[</font>Reply to #<a href="read.pl?1-4778">4778</a>]</b>
7/11/07, 3:38pm
>Well, that depends if you take a short term or long term view
>of things.  It doesn't make any sense in the short run, but if
>everyone in the stadium left to voice their disapproval with
>how the Pirates ownership run things, well that would
>definitely make an impression.  And I'd rather blow $50 bucks
>in one shot then continue to blow $50 each and every time I go
>to a Pirates game to watch them put a crappy product on the
>field.  Shouldn't they have put a team over .500 by now?  1992
>was a long, long time ago.

For me, you convince people to NOT go to the game at ALL.  Imagine a grassroots effort to get NOBODY in the stands on a given day.

Do you think something would happen then?

Going to the game, paying the money, and THEN walking out doesn't hurt the owner at all.

[Rob Reed from Sylmar/CA]
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