Just about everybody I see coming through the turnstiles these days is clutching a special offer ticket printed at home. As long as these promotions fill seats I think management will spend much more time trying to come up with ever more imaginative promotions than dealing with dissatisfied STH's. Meanwhile, the financial advantage STH's get over folks buying individual tickets evaporates as the promotions expand.
That, and also MLS and teams are hostile (openly) to reporters who question, report, or are otherwise perceived to be negative to the league or team. There was a reporter who lost their credentials and was replaced by a team flak (don't remember which) and the league itself closes rank pretty easily. There is really no in-depth, detailed, critical, organization that covers the league. We tolerate this because we are starved for any news and MLS knows this. James
They're hoping you get abducted by hillbillies and don't return to complain. Or they're giving you an escape plan to avoid watching the next horrendous game. Not sure which. Is the trip during a home match?
Was there any information at all about the specifics of what you're entering to win? I mean, for all I could tell, you could be entering a contest to win a weekend in a Motel 6 in Nitro, WV, just down the road from the old Union Carbide plant.
You mean it's not? Second prize is a whole week in Nitro, WV, just down the road from the old Union Carbide plant!
Of course not, it's free, it's sponsored by DCU management, what could possibly go wrong? I know there was that kid playing the banjo and I thought I heard someone mutter, "squeal like a pig", but I'm sure that was just a flashback.
Hey, that movie was set in Georgia. It's interesting what people think of when they think of WV: some people think of inbred mountain men, I think of chemical plants and toxic waste. Or coal and black lung and coal dust-contaminated rivers. I guess the inbred mountain men could be considered "wild"; but none of that could easily be considered "wonderful".
My son, an extreme kayaker, thinks of West Virginia as a home of some great whitewater rivers and natural beauty, not low sloping forheads.
Ah yes, I-68 into Morgantown, I-79 into Washington, PA, & I-70 into Wheeling. I know it well & it's a more sane drive than the PA Turnpike where the long-haul truckers pass you on both the left & the right and where the toll has spiraled ever upwards.
The genius behind E-Zpass is that it keeps you generally unaware as to how high the tolls actually are.
That's funny, when I think of Ohio, I think of the roads I have to drive through to get to any place more interesting than Ohio.
It can't be worse than how much they charge you in attempting to escape from Jersey. Or what the 5 minutes being in Delaware costs.
I'm beginning to think the front office isn't nearly as incompetent as we all seem to think. Our team puts up a complete and total clunker of a game, exposing perhaps more than ever our lack of talent, our unsophisticated coaching, our crappy TV partnership, and ultimately our who-gives-a-rats-ass-ownership. Frustration seems to be beginning to boil over... And, boom, what crazy email later and we're all talking about West Virginia and a variety of other states. Well played, management, well played...
Our escapism is a natural, ingrained reaction to avoid discussing a painfully distressing subject. I'm sure psychologists have a long name for it, but I call it "DATATALK" (Discuss Anything To Avoid Talking About Loser Klub).
Bootsy, I know, but I was just riffing on the bizarre DCU promotion, which could involve a Motel 6 (or Rodeway Inn) in Nitro. I also agree about WV, mined out, chemically polluted and now left to slowly rot as another place that was exploited, depleted and discarded.
Sorry, I wasn't trying to correct you -- I just find amusing the particular choices of things to make fun of that people pick. Like with MD, the first thing that comes to mind for me is that if you use your turn signal when taking the drivers' examinations, you're docked points for "showing signs of weakness."