{"id":3432,"date":"2006-11-16T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-16T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3432"},"modified":"2017-12-12T15:59:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T21:59:28","slug":"sporting-community-up-in-arms-over-personal-seat-licenses-psls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/16\/sporting-community-up-in-arms-over-personal-seat-licenses-psls\/","title":{"rendered":"Sporting Community Up In Arms Over Personal Seat Licenses (PSLs)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sportswriters around the country have discovered their disdain for having to prepay merely for the right to pay for something.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, wait, it&#8217;s not PSLs; it&#8217;s paying for the privilege of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/sports\/columnists.nsf\/danoneill\/story\/6539C4CBD8E1C3B2862572280011E82D?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">negotiating with a player<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Boston Red Sox can afford to and made the choice to pay $51 million just for the right to negotiate with a Japanese ballplayer. Sickening.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When the sports teams do it to loyal fans, it&#8217;s a creative revenue strategy.  When agents do it to sports teams, it&#8217;s sickening.<\/p>\n<p>I <i>do<\/i> see the subtle differences that make the moral equation opposite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sportswriters around the country have discovered their disdain for having to prepay merely for the right to pay for something. Oh, wait, it&#8217;s not PSLs; it&#8217;s paying for the privilege of negotiating with a player: The Boston Red Sox can afford to and made the choice to pay $51 million just for the right to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18441,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions\/18441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}