In other news, water is wet and the sun rises in the east. As soon as sell outs became something to brag about venues began to massage the numbers.

This is absurd. Only one comment at 8:06 Friday morning about this? Only Larry and John H believe this is real.

What's absurd is that a professional journalist spent a few hours of his time figuring all this out.  This piece has got to win the 'who cares?' award for 2013...though I admit it's only April and the Globe will probably be publishing well into the Fall, if not till year's end...so there may be some stiff competition before we turn the calendar to 2014.