Now that it's been established that the Red Sox can't make a penny off of their new Japanese import, we have a clever suggestion for the team: an alteration to the recipe for Fenway Franks and a new brand name. Sox fans need the quality beef. It's time for a "Dice Dog".
I did the math. Let's speculate that he Sox sell somewhere around 300K hot dogs every year at Fenway. Those hot dogs cost $5.00. If they add a small amount of beer-fed Japanese cattle (say, one ounce) in each dirty water dog, they could then set a sell price of somewhere around $23 (the beef sells for $300/lb retail). Assuming a profit margin of somewhere in the 40-50% range on food concession items, that would siphon an additional $10 in profit per dog. So:
- 300,000 x $10 = $3,000,000
- $3,000,000 x 6 (duration of current Dice-K contract) = $18,000,000
If maniacal Sox fans would be willing to part with $20+ for a Matsuzaka beef hot dog (hey, the team is throwing money around like it's confetti, why shouldn't the fans take their lead?), that's a nice dent in the posting fee, right?
(And we haven't even started in on the value of a specially branded Japanese peanut and popcorn mix, either!)
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...i think you're on to something buddy..."wash it down with [a $15] sapporo!", and you got a double dip...
Posted by: dc | Thursday, January 18, 2007 at 09:41 AM
George Steinbrenner is stealing your patent as we speak SF.
Posted by: walein | Thursday, January 18, 2007 at 11:28 AM
Heres an idea to help the Sox recoup the posting fee.
Every Sox fan in New England go buy a nice new shiny Sox jersey (doesnt have to be a Matsuzaka #18).
If you dont live in New England, take a vacation there this summer and buy one while your there (Any jersey sales outside of New England are subject to profit sharing with the other29 MLB teams, to me thats just STUPID)
That should help recoup the fee very quickly and then they will have the $ to sign Clemens in early June.
Posted by: TJ Sox Fan | Thursday, January 18, 2007 at 12:06 PM
You guys made Deadspin with this thread.
Posted by: Triskaidekaphobia | Thursday, January 18, 2007 at 03:00 PM
"Any jersey sales outside of New England are subject to profit sharing with the other29 MLB teams, to me thats just STUPID"
Not a fan of the quest for financial parity eh?
Posted by: Rob (Middletown, CT) | Thursday, January 18, 2007 at 04:51 PM
"Not a fan of the quest for financial parity eh?"
im all for revenue sharing, and luxury taxes, but teams should receive a larger amount of profits off there own product not the same as the other 29 teams.
Why should Tampa Bay get 3.33% of Red Sox merchandise sales outside of New England while Boston only gets 3.33% of it.
A team should get like half the profits from there own merchandise and then have the other half split between the other 29 teams.
Posted by: TJ Sox Fan | Thursday, January 18, 2007 at 09:08 PM
I bet those hot Boston babes will be swallowing Dice Dogs all this summer.
Posted by: Bronxyf | Friday, January 19, 2007 at 01:10 AM