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Cranny wrote: ↑28 Apr 2025 15:40 pm

Dazepster wrote: ↑28 Apr 2025 15:32 pm Cards were in NYC for my Birthday, which happened to fall on Easter this year, 4/20.

Friend offered me 2 of his 4 season tickets to the game as a gift.

I passed. It was a good decision. Net Net, I will not be seeing the Cards in person this season. And I couldn't care any less.

I am done contributing a Plum Cent or any other kind of cent as long as the DeWitts, any DeWitt has anything to do with this team.

Really wanted a new cap. I will wait. Years if I have to!!!

That’s a shame, Daze. We’ll miss you as a fan. Hope you come back in the future.

I wouldn't go now if I got free tickets, parking, and got paid mileage for the 400 mile round trip. My last game was 2017l when Mattr Carpenter was their hot rod,

MidMo, I ge to see them on tv only a few times a year in Columbus, but right now, "Perry Mason" reruns trumped watching bad baseball and hearing the Reds' announcers chirp it up about how bad the team is.
I went to a lot of games at Busch I and some at Busch II, because I have lived in Columbus for nearly 55 years. I have never been to Busch III and don't feel that I have missed anything. To go now is to reward intentional dereliction of duty by ownership.

butsir01 wrote: ↑28 Apr 2025 19:51 pm MidMo, I ge to see them on tv only a few times a year in Columbus, but right now, "Perry Mason" reruns trumped watching bad baseball and hearing the Reds' announcers chirp it up about how bad the team is.
I went to a lot of games at Busch I and some at Busch II, because I have lived in Columbus for nearly 55 years. I have never been to Busch III and don't feel that I have missed anything. To go now is to reward intentional dereliction of duty by ownership.

I get that. At close to 77 years old it isn't as easy to make those trips as in the golden years of 67 and 68. I was a not wealthy college student back then, but I made it to every game I could, at times riding the bi-state bus from Illinois and riding it back after the game. I never got the feeling that it wasn't money well spent. What they are providing now is near unwatchable. I watch most games now on directv, but if I have something I deem important I don't mind missing a game here or there. That game is 17 was the first game I had went to since the baseball strike in 1981. Cards got ripped off and they did not go by best overall record and went by first and second half winners and I vowed not to go to another. Went to a few games in San Diego and Oakland while I was in the Naval Reserve, so I got to see Tony Gwynn and Rickey Henderson play. Also Ozzie Smith as a Padre.