Today in contrived populist outrage

March 24th, 2008 | Posted by PostmanE

Golly jee, rich people sure are mean!

It’s hideous enough that every night features another player-coach confrontation, followed by another double-digit collapse, followed by more boos in a building where six championship banners have been disgraced by the poisonous futility below. But you know what’s really pathetic about the Bulls?

The greedy, Reinsdorfian dopes in the front office are raising ticket prices next season, which not only adds insult to internal dysfunction but belittles paying customers as suckers. They want you to pay MORE for so much LESS when, in truth, I’d rather spend my disposable $1,350 on an Illinois-shaped corn flake, as some guy from Texas did on eBay.

Of course, the problem with this outrage is that if fans continue to pack the United Center each year — and they do — why wouldn’t the front office raise ticket prices? If fans aren’t going to sack up and spend their money elsewhere, it behooves the franchise to make money whenever possible. Talking about a Mariotti column as if it’s supposed to be anything else than a thinly disguised pander to the non-thinking sports fan is folly, but seriously: Does anyone think, if demand for Bulls tickets remains stable, the franchise shouldn’t raise ticket prices? Are people in Chicago really this stupid?

Don’t answer that.

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