Gotta love the near-instant response of the naysayers.
Heaven forbid someone try and bring in a main tenant at a city-owned venue to try and bring sports fans downtown when otherwise there would've been neither a tenant nor any fans.
I'm sure it's difficult to come to terms with the fact that you're not going to see every game open with a bogus fight and it's probably tough to deal with your loss of 20 potential drinking buddies but is it really necessary to just jump right in and say "This will never work! This sucks! I'm not gonna support it!"?
Is that defeatist attitude something our Valley really needs right now?
What I don't understand is why people are looking at this year's Phantoms numbers like they mean anything at all. Let's not forget a couple key points:
1- Like Bill Clinton said, "It's the economy, stupid!" While I know we were swimming in cash here in the Valley from 2005 to early '08, the area's biggest business also was not on Capitol Hill begging for taxpayer money just to avoid going under, either. Entertainment industries are the first to get stung during an economic pinch, so why are people hanging out the Phantoms numbers and directly comparing them to a time when our are wasn't in a dire economic state? And it's not just ignoramus commenters, it's ignoramus columnists like Skolnick who do it too. It's like comparing apples to rotten bananas.
2- Marketing. Thanks to Herb Washington's refusal to give up the ghost in 2008, the Phantoms had exactly eight days to market themselves at the Chevy Centre. I dug through the Phantoms' website and their Chevy Centre press conference was on September 9th while their season started on September 17th. I don't even think the gang from Mad Men could properly market that! Don't you think that if a team had 5 months to market themselves instead of eight days that they'd be able to make a bigger dent in local opinion?
USHL awards team to Zoldan
Gotta love the near-instant response of the naysayers.
Heaven forbid someone try and bring in a main tenant at a city-owned venue to try and bring sports fans downtown when otherwise there would've been neither a tenant nor any fans.
I'm sure it's difficult to come to terms with the fact that you're not going to see every game open with a bogus fight and it's probably tough to deal with your loss of 20 potential drinking buddies but is it really necessary to just jump right in and say "This will never work! This sucks! I'm not gonna support it!"?
Is that defeatist attitude something our Valley really needs right now?
April 28, 2009 at 10:40 a.m. permalink suggest removal
USHL chief cites league’s top quality
I'm sorry, that should read "we were not swimming in cash".
March 27, 2009 at 9:53 a.m. permalink suggest removal
USHL chief cites league’s top quality
What I don't understand is why people are looking at this year's Phantoms numbers like they mean anything at all. Let's not forget a couple key points:
1- Like Bill Clinton said, "It's the economy, stupid!" While I know we were swimming in cash here in the Valley from 2005 to early '08, the area's biggest business also was not on Capitol Hill begging for taxpayer money just to avoid going under, either. Entertainment industries are the first to get stung during an economic pinch, so why are people hanging out the Phantoms numbers and directly comparing them to a time when our are wasn't in a dire economic state? And it's not just ignoramus commenters, it's ignoramus columnists like Skolnick who do it too. It's like comparing apples to rotten bananas.
2- Marketing. Thanks to Herb Washington's refusal to give up the ghost in 2008, the Phantoms had exactly eight days to market themselves at the Chevy Centre. I dug through the Phantoms' website and their Chevy Centre press conference was on September 9th while their season started on September 17th. I don't even think the gang from Mad Men could properly market that! Don't you think that if a team had 5 months to market themselves instead of eight days that they'd be able to make a bigger dent in local opinion?
March 27, 2009 at 9:52 a.m. permalink suggest removal