With the offseason acquisition of LeBron James and Chris Bosh, the Miami Heat are poised to bring home their second NBA championship in five years. But there will be few dozen people who won't be too happy if that happens.
With season-ticket sales rocketing, Heat executives decided to fire 30 members of its ticket sales team on Friday. The work was already finished, and why not save a few bucks to give to the team's newest members? Pretty classless move, if you ask me.
The team confirmed the firings on Friday as team vice president of sales Steve Weber delivered the bad news. With an "exhausted inventory of season tickets, we no longer require a season ticket sales team to sell tickets," the statement said.
The waiting list for season tickets is about 6,000.
"While the decision to release part of our sales force was a difficult one, we greatly appreciate their contributions to our company," said the statement, which went on to wish those fired success in future endeavors.
The translation is "Thanks for doing all of the year's work in three weeks, now go find a new job." With their new deep pockets, maybe LeBron and Bosh can offer a little severance package?
Speaking of LeBron, a fan wearing a No. 6 Heat jersey recently was escorted from Jacobs Field, home of the Cleveland Indians. The fan was booed heartily, and I can only imagine what happened when he reached the boundaries of the stadium.
Sure, this guy is a bonehead, but does it give anyone the right to get angry or assault him? I went to a Red Sox-Yankees game in 2004 at Yankee Stadium and wore a No. 15 Kevin Millar shirt. I was pelted with peanuts for most of the 2-0 Boston victory.
All because I liked a different team. I know the same thing likely happens at Fenway, but why? God forbid someone else roots for a different team. When assaults occur - either verbal or physical - those fans have lost all touch with reality.
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