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Cheap Seats Daily: Are Snyder’s Redskins Worth Only 17 Cents a Share Now, Too?

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Above is an ad e-mailed out by the Redskins ticket office this week. As you read this, remember, for chuckles, that just a couple months ago Redskins executive Mitch Gershman was claiming in press releases that the team had a waiting list of "over 200,000."

Sure, the Skins waiting list has long been bogus. But this year it's also become apparent that the NFL's blackout rule is enforced as stringently as its steroids policy.

(AFTER THE BREAK: Where's Chris Cooley in that photo? Clinton Tortoise? Lord Farquaad? Lindsay Czarniak cheers on teams that don't pay her? Is the NY Times reporter on Dan Snyder's payroll, too? Another Have-Nots bowl this week?)

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Dan Snyder Dusts Off the ‘200,000 Name Waiting List’!

The Redskins made a bit of news this week by announcing they won't raise ticket prices for next season.

Anytime "Dan Snyder" and "won't raise prices" can be used on the same page, it's news.

But in making the announcement, Skins management again boasted about the size of the fan base.

Mitch Gershman, the team’s chief operating officer, was quoted thusly in the press release: “We have fantastic fan support as evidenced by the more than 200,000 people on our waiting list for season tickets."

Mitch, Mitch, Mitch.

After the debacle of the "Monday Night Football" tilt with the Pittsburgh Steelers, in which a national television audience saw a stadium that looked at least half-full of fans rooting for the visiting team and waving Terrible Towels, and the debacle of the Skins' final home game of the season against Philly, where fans went to Snyder's own message board to complain about not even being able to give away tickets, you still have the stones to throw out that "200,000 people on our waiting list" claim?

Not even readers of your team's own blog want to read that.

Mitch, Mitch, Mitch.

The press release also said "The team’s season tickets have been sold out since 1966."

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