The Official PayPal Park thread

the Quakes sent us a post-game survey, in which I gave some pretty negative feedbak regarding the food, so today mar-31 they sent us the following announcement.

Based on your feedback, the following changes will be implemented moving forward.

Together with our food service provider Ovations, we have created a new pre-game hospitality area “The Chairman’s Club”. This area will include a buffet and a drink ticket before each game at Avaya Stadium and is located in the enclosed grassy area outside of the Earthquakes locker room. The opportunity to be a part of The Chairman’s Club will be exclusive to Club Season Ticket Holders, Players Families, and a limited number of other VIPs.

This new offering will be available beginning with ourApril 11th match and inclusive of the 16 remaining games played at Avaya Stadium. The price to join is $640 per person this season ($40 per game/per person) and includes access to the private area with a pre-game buffet and one drink voucher. If you are interested in joining the Chairmen’s Club please contact me directly. Space is limited and arrangements must be made in advance.

Additionally, in an effort to speed up the in seat food and drink delivery service, we will be making changes to the menu that was used at Opening Night. Food and drink items offered for in seat delivery will be limited to those that can be delivered in a timely matter.
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At $40 per person per game, and it's the same lousy food service provider (Ovations), well, we're not opening the purse strings for that...

 

I'm sure what he meant was jumping into the construction site. They don't need the roof in place to "visualize" where it will be, and in fact jumping without the roof there will help them practice the approach without the hazards of a fully built stadium.

This group is based in Ohio and does demo jumps all over the county, and in fact were in North Carolina last week. I suspect if they were in Northern California doing a demo jump for a different event they would stop by (with permission from the SJ airport, of course) to do a practice jump into the construction site before heading back home.

 

I think you're right when you consider the club seats are cheaper than the first row midfield seats in the upper deck. That being said, those in the club seats too a HUGE leap of faith considering we had to select our seats well before anyone else and there was very little data to help make that decision.

 

Now that the "contest" is over they should at least change the binary code from GO EQ to SJ EQ... Having two of the only four letters be "go" is a bit ridiculous.
I mean ideally we'd get "San Jose" or "Quakes" or "Earthquakes" spelled out in actual English letters instead of a few seats in freaking binary but since that's not happening "SJ EQ" would at least be a slight improvement.

 

An extra $40 per-person for the privilege of eating buffet food off paper plates while sitting on the dirt (because the majority of the tables are always reserved for various super-VIPs?) Sign me up!

 

But then we wouldn't know whether we want them to "go" or "stop", or what.

 

I think that option disappeared when they went with the three color seat scheme, (not that you couldn't still spell out SJ Earthquakes in red, or white, or black....)

 

To me, this is the biggest disappointment with the new stadium. They announced they were going to have Quakes spelled out in the seats and then abandoned that plan for the multi colored look plus the binary code red seats.

It still seems like a lost opportunity to display the brand to anyone looking at the stadium, partcularly near the airport. Perhaps in a few years they will reconsider and put the team name in the seats. As Earthshaker said, you could do it with white, red, or black (I vote white) and I think it would look good.

 

True... I decoded those seats above "Real Madrid" and it actually says "f***" in binary.

That shouldn't be the case. There may be three colors, but they're all shades of blue. You could still spell out San Jose or Quakes with white seats. I don't see why that would be a problem, the white would stand out from even the light blue seats...

 

Didn't I say it could still be spelled out in white?

 

Look I can't be expected to read complete sentences.

I was responding to the "that option disappeared" part and skipped over the "not that you couldn't still" part...

 

Make it a fans DIY project. The seats are supposed to be easy to install. Get to the game early and move a few chairs each game. Will be done before the season ends.

 

"Standing out" is exactly what you don't want empty seats to do. Watch any game from DSG Park, where the "COLORADO" lettering bleeds into view even when they have a decent crowd. Same with the white maple leaf in Toronto. There's no lettering because it's better to have muted colors that blend in.

 

After having seen what we got, I prefer the multi color deal. It will hide those less than sell out days a heck of a lot better than a bit "SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES" would.

 

We can always say we are sold out if people are at LOBINA, right?

 

Or just simply, "Getting Lobanized."

 

We are going to get an endless parade of trolls in here saying there's no way we sold out and the FO is fudging numbers. Thanks LOBINA!

 

Yeah, I'm ok with the color scheme since it does a pretty good job of "hiding" empty seats, but the "GO EQ" thing is really cheesy.



SJ EQ would be much more respectable.

 

I think the mosaic of three colors of blue have to do with the fact that none of the Blues were close enough to our blue, so the mosaic averages out to be about the right color. I remember when El Prez was soliciting fans for stadium seat ideas and gave us the color options.

 

If we're worried about what people elsewhere will think, have the white seats spell out "IF YOU CAN READ THIS WE'RE AT THE LOBINA"