First off I am baffled that people are dumb enough to wait in line at the box office unless thats the only way to purchase tickets. Use the internet you stupidsonofabiotch! Second, he waited in line for 15 hours to sit in the last row? Ok so you are trying to pimp on a budget and spend less than $30, cool. Why blow your wad on opening night when you could go to 3 lower tier games? He answers his own question really, he made the choice to use his expendable income on tickets and chose to go to opening night rather than "being here" for the team 3 nights. Either that or go wrangle up some beer cans from the garbage to buy a few more games, really it's $9. Regardless the opponent doesn't even matter half the time either. Last year he could have watched us get torched by New Orleans or worked on the pick and roll by Dallas for the same price to watch Roy beat the Knicks at the buzzer. It's not the team's fault people are willing to pay more to see better teams. If anything, him purchasing tickets to opening night for $22 instead of $9 completely defeats the purpose of his argument since he bought into it, right? To top it all off, the flex pricing wasn't a surprise, it was announced well before tickets went on sale, maybe he should be more passionate about his team and quit his complaining! http://www.blazersedge.com/2009/9/29/1060017/fan-review-of-blazers-flex-pricing
This makes me feel pretty good. I'm on a business trip opening night. If face value of my tickets is 3x normal, maybe it'll be a good day!
I'm talkin ON the court. Teams are going to have to outscore them. You can't stop AI, Mayo,Gay and ZBO.
Exactly. Just think of the arguments two super black holes like Z-bo and AI will get into. I'm seriously curious if the fabric of space and time can handle them on the same court and same team at the same time.
This blogger is a moron. The Trail Blazers arent the only team doing it and I'm sure more and more teams will do the same soon. SF Giants http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/sports/baseball/18pricing.html?_r=1 Dallas Stars http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/pu...-scalpers-ready-for-dynamic-ti?urn=nhl,189394
My bold prediction is that this team sets the record low for assists per game and in a season. They are going to jack up a huge number of shots one on one, but that doesn't typically equal high scoring. I also believe this team will lead the league in losses by over 10 points. The Grizz are going to be epically bad.
While I do feel a bit sorry for this guy (he is a fellow Blazer fan after all), he totally went about this all wrong. Waiting in line for 15 hours was just plain nuts. I just bought a bunch of tickets yesterday, on the phone, on my lunch hour. The wait was less than 5 minutes. Guess what, if you buy at least 12 tickets (in any combination - can be one ticket each to 12 games, 12 tickets to one game, or anything in between) at a time, you get special group pricing rates. And, here's the kicker. The Blazes have set aside some of the $10 tan section tickets for the games against the "elite" teams just for those that qualify for group ticket prices. If you buy at least 10 other tickets, to any games, any price level, you are also eligible to purchase two tan section tickets tickets to one of the "elite team" games at the special group rate of $9 per ticket. Since I purchased a total of 38 tickets, I was able to get two tan section tickets to the Lakers, Cavs and Celtics games for $9 a seat. And, I didn' have to wait in line for 15 hours. BNM
