It's September. Anybody have their ticket renegotiations with the FO yet? How are they responding to "I'm not buying Buck Shaw tickets"?
As it has been explained to me, the new stadium tickets and the BS tickets are 2 separate sets of season tickets. You will be able to opt of BS if you wish.
Wow. That would be really great. At the risk of being flamed, I'm getting pretty tired of driving 100 miles to watch a middling team at the Buck Shaw experience.
Flamed? Ha... just means you have some sense of taste. (The Buck Shaw experience of course... There are always going to be years of a middling team, but watching the Clash at Spartan was more fun than watching the 2012 'Quakes at Buck Shaw)
Considering the Quakes home record over the past two years, it's a wonder why we don't just make BS our permanent residence. Also, 2011 never happened.
I hope the Quakes will profit from TFC's experience. I could as easily have written these words (which form part of the former Toronto mayor's letter): "As you know, I have been an ardent supporter . . . since you [] first had the vision to bring Major League Soccer [back] to [San Jose]. I have supported the team through thick and thin, defended management, was one of the first season ticket holders, and, in my former capacity, was instrumental in building the stadium . . ." When a business treats its customers disrespectfully, taking them for granted, and giving them an inferior product, or promising things it fails to deliver, then it should expect dissatisfied customers. And when the business goes even further, as in the Quakes' case, by affirmatively (and gratuitously) battling devoted customers, as it did against me and other innocent 1906 Ultras by telling us we were not allowed to travel to support our team, then the business should expect even greater dissatisfaction. I'm still smarting from my mistreatment and it will certainly inform my mid-month conversation about 2014 tickets.
. I'll miss Buck Shaw when it's gone. I'll miss the imposing home advantage, the small but beautiful pitch, the intimate proximity to the players, the small-time funkiness, the big-time memories. Winning is great, and like they say, show me a happy loser and I'll show you an idiot. Still, for me, support for our side is not tied to where we are in the standings or where they play. If there are things I don't like, I'll fight to change them. I'm keeping my tix. I'll be at the Buck, and when the new house is ready, I'll be there too.
Buck Shaw is 68m x 105m the same dimensions mandated by FIFA for WC2010 So I guess that's something you won't have to miss. BTW All the drawings/renderings of the new stadium have all shown a field smaller than Buck Shaw's. So perhaps you'll be missing The Shaw's big pitch?
I have 4 tickets in the new stadium that I split with a "Partner". She has never been to a Quakes game and refuses to go to Buck Shaw. Says it sucked when she played there and she has no desire to go back. I wrote this to refute your point of "Fair stadium fans" but when I reread what I wrote, She's definitely a fair stadium fan. I'll probably be at all the Buck Shaw games, I just don't see the value in locking into season tickets there.
Hey buddy ol' pal, did you miss this part of my post? I was half joking. I will be at Buck Shaw since I am a supporter of the San Jose Earthquakes and it takes more than a homely place like Buck Shaw to keep me away. I can understand the reluctance of some to come to Buck Shaw, hell, I have a difficult time dragging my wife there, but, the new stadium will be even more of a fortress for the team.
Not to pick on your "partner", but I fear these fair-stadium fans are just looking for reasons to be a "fair" anything fan, i.e. once the shininess of the new stadium wears off, and the Quakes lay a couple of eggs at home, then the fair weather fan will come out.
The Buck, The Buck, The Buck, The Buck, The Buck. The Buck. We rag on it, but it's interesting to hear some outsider perspectives. One person in N&A called it the "jewel" of temporary stadiums or something like that- for the quality of the pitch, close to the action seats, food trucks, location, etc. The stadium will be so much better in so many ways but it will also be more "corporate" and I'm not sure that there won't be times that we look back on The Buck with some fondness. Anyway, if the rumors about another stadium delay are true, wow, just wow. I'm embarrassed for the organization. I thought that they would have thought it through such that they were like 99% sure they could meet the new deadline. 'Cause two publicly announced delays, especially so close together - really reflects poorly. I actually think that an opening at the start of the season is much better. You can do more of a big bang launch, and include some brand things as well, and a big bang is what you really need to get people's attention. They should have just bit the bullet and delayed a full year instead of trying to soften the blow of the delay by trying the half and half thing. That's just too complicated to pull off, not to mention that you potentially lose quite a bit of the big bang "franchise restart" effect.
my wife often says how much she'll miss Buck Shaw. there are things I'll miss about it too, for sure...good points Jazzy.
I think it was dumber to try and open mid 2014, than to just punt and say 2015 in the first place... I enjoyed SCU or Blackhawk games at BS more than 'Quakes games at BS... It just made more sense to me...
Kaval said something last night about season ticket holders for next season during the halftime show on TV last night but I tuned him out....