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The alleged “sellout streak”...via Boston Globe
Lucchino took exception to the notion that Red Sox fans are tired of the team keeping the sellout streak alive.
“I haven’t heard a single fan or received a single e-mail or gotten a single letter where that happens,” said Lucchino. He went on to defend the streak. “The Boston Globe has taken a very different definition. We’re battling definitions. Their definition is a literal one, and that every possible seat must be sold. And the operating definition that was here for years and years and was here long before we got here, and it’s in place for most Major League baseball teams, although there are some variations, but most baseball teams define a sellout as when you have more people in the ballpark, because you’ve sold more tickets and distributed more tickets than there are seats.
“It has been a source of pride. We thought for our fans as well as for the organization. It is what it is. When it ends—and it will end—I doubt this year, because we sold so many tickets in September. We’ve averaged 37,600 people, somewhere around there. That’s an average for every game this year. You can quibble about definitions, ‘Is this a sellout? Is that a sellout?’ But that’s an extraordinarily consistent record. You can quibble that there are some seats behind the post that didn’t get sold. Yeah, well there are several people in standing room instead. “
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>>There has been speculation that the ownership group of Lucchino, John Henry, and Tom Werner might be interested in selling the team soon. Lucchino said that wasn’t true.
“Oh nonsense,” he said. “They feel the same kind of competitive juices that I feel, that our fans feel, to put this team back on the track it was on for a decade. For better or worse, we are the guys that you’re going to have to kick around for awhile.”