I think you're going a little over board BHF. I think what he is saying is that if you're going to spend that much money to sit down and have a dinner and get a few autographs, then you could use that money towards a trip to spring training. From reading his and and the next post, I don't think he realized that there would be a free autograph session without the dinner part. I don't want to speak for him, but I'm pretty sure thats what he was getting at. A few years ago when they had the winter tour, they would have a dinner, and autograph session for $30. The autographs on that day were, Podsednik, Capuano, Hall, Gantner, Gorman Thomas, and Wayne Franklin. I got about 5 autographs of each player because you could go through line as many times as you like. Doug Melvin was also there. The Brewers have come a long way or something to jump from $30 for a dinner and autos to $175. No thanks to the dinner, but the autograph thing I just might have to get down there for.