If it costs $36 for Phillies hats with the World Series patch on the side, and T-shirts are $25, and locker room hats are $32 or so, how much merchandise will be sold during this weeklong break between series?
If we assume the average Phillie fan buying souvenirs spends $30, and we assume that a half-million people minimum in the tri-state area will buy World Series gear, that is $15 million right there that the Phils never budgeted. That won’t all be profit since they have to make the stuff, but the markup on that stuff is extremely high.
So, Pat can get paid for a year just on T-shirt sales, more or less.
In all seriousness, with the money the Phils are bringing in with record attendance, etc. there is no excuse not to sign Ryan Howard, Cole Hamels and Pat Burrell to respectable deals this offseason.
As a side note, Pat Burrell or Tampa Bay’s David Price will become the fourth No. 1 overall draft pick to win the World Series with the team that drafted them. The other four are Darryl Strawberry, Chipper Jones and Darin Erstad.