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CCard wrote: ↑28 Jul 2025 18:07 pm

desertrat23 wrote: ↑28 Jul 2025 08:51 am

CCard wrote: ↑28 Jul 2025 08:13 am

3dender wrote: ↑28 Jul 2025 07:29 am

Futuregm2 wrote: ↑28 Jul 2025 07:02 am I just hope they allow Bloom to get the payroll back to previous levels pretty soon.

I'd temper that hope if I were you... there have been many indications that this $150M level is the new normal and DeWitt is done trying to have a #10-15 payroll in the league.

A team makes $350 million a year and they cut payroll. Disgraceful.

If they continue to cut payroll, they can continue to expect and deserve more empty seats. Garbage in, garbage out.

Agreed. It's a slap in the face of 3 million fans that helped make this brand great.

AtillaTheBlue1 wrote: ↑28 Jul 2025 18:24 pm

CCard wrote: ↑28 Jul 2025 18:07 pm

desertrat23 wrote: ↑28 Jul 2025 08:51 am

CCard wrote: ↑28 Jul 2025 08:13 am

3dender wrote: ↑28 Jul 2025 07:29 am

Futuregm2 wrote: ↑28 Jul 2025 07:02 am I just hope they allow Bloom to get the payroll back to previous levels pretty soon.

I'd temper that hope if I were you... there have been many indications that this $150M level is the new normal and DeWitt is done trying to have a #10-15 payroll in the league.

A team makes $350 million a year and they cut payroll. Disgraceful.

If they continue to cut payroll, they can continue to expect and deserve more empty seats. Garbage in, garbage out.

Agreed. It's a slap in the face of 3 million fans that helped make this brand great.

Whats really a big eye sore, is that when tickets aren't being sold, they will dump them to ticket brokers, to bring fans in, to pay for food, parking,etc

This year, they are keeping thousands of tickets to claim as losses, I'm guessing at least 3-4K are being held, so 3-4K at (average ticket price) $60 a seat= $210-$250K a game, 10 games=2.5mil in losses, 50 games -12.5 million in losses they claim.

I've watchedthe after markets and buying for 15+ years, and they have never kept tickets to claim losses like this They always let brokers get what they could, and made money back with concessions etc. But with people not going, they aint releasing these tickets, and claiming them as losses. 80 games is 20+million in losses they can claim.

Ownership has lost touch with the base, and base deserves much better