Just When You Think They Can't Get Any Cheaper

The Bruins just held open tryouts for the coming season.  Open, meaning anyone was welcome to try out.  200 amateurs turned up, looking for a shot, and the B's will invite the top three to real, honest-to-God Bruins training camp.  It's like fantasy camp, except there's an enormous prize at the end of the tunnel.  Sounds like a feel-good story, right?

Here's what they're really after.

* They charged $100 a head for a tryout.
* A reality series will air on NESN this fall. 
* If one of these schmucks actually makes the team, he'll make league minimum.

What does all this prove?

a) The only way to get Bruins fans to pay the team anymore is to dangle a friggin' roster spot.
b) Only 200 people showed up?  Can you imagine what an analogous contest for the Red Sox would look like?  It'd be another Fenway sellout.
c) What better way to sum up life as a Bruins fan... there's only two hundred loyal fans left, and the team rewarded them by scamming $100 from them and kicking their asses all day.  Nice.
d) All of the above.