Red Sox Must Stop Offering Open Bar With Premium Ticket Packages
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Red Sox' Offering Of Open Bar With
Tickets Violates City Regulations |
Boston city regulators plan to order the Red Sox to "stop offering an open bar as part of $1,000-and-up packages for some of Fenway Park's most coveted seats," according to Jack Sullivan of the BOSTON GLOBE. Boston Licensing Board Chair Daniel Pokaski said that the team "will be told to 'cease and desist' the practice but apparently will not face further sanctions." Pokaski: "This is in violation. But if they don't know about it, and they don't have an issue with (ending the practice,) then that will be the end of it." Red Sox VP/Ticketing Ron Bumgarner said that the club will "do whatever is necessary to comply with the law, even if it means dropping the unlimited access to beer, wine, and cocktails and refunding money to those who already purchased the ticket packages." Sullivan reports the all-you-can-drink tickets were available in the Green Monster seats in left field, as well as the "right field pavilion and several premium seat sections." The Red Sox "began removing mentions of the open bars" from its official Web site late last week. The Boston Licensing Board has a hearing scheduled for Wednesday on the ticket package "after learning of the issue from a reporter at CommonWealth magazine," as well as looking at RedSox.com. The state of Massachusetts in '84 banned "free drinks, reduced-price drinks, and open bars at all public drinking establishments" (BOSTON GLOBE, 8/8).
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